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jeromewbrock··on Poll: Do you read Hacker News and not have any programming ability?
I'm in IT and have an interest in the edges. Have minimal programming, some scripting, ability to tie things together, (db's, code, servers and storage).
jeromewbrock··on Dropbox is down
scripting.com is down
jeromewbrock··on [dead]
anybody know where to get a copy of the test?
jeromewbrock··on EFF vs. Facebook: Part 2: "Facebook's Connections"
It's akin to the lobster-in-a-boiling-pot scenario.

Put a lobster in already boiling water and it screams, stick it in room-temp water and heat to boiling and the lobster won't notice it's being cooked until it's too late...

jeromewbrock··on Development Journal for Price of Persia
yep, first fpp, typo, duh
jeromewbrock··on HN: share your unneeded Google Wave invites
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jeromewbrock··on Apple kicks ZFS in the butt
2 things:

1. Sun's shared source license sucks and this is why ZFS isn't natively supported in Linux. 2. btrfs will soon have better features/performance/stability than ZFS, and a better architecture to boot: http://lwn.net/Articles/342892/

jeromewbrock··on Jobs responds to outrage over MacBook's missing FireWire
look up openfiler

http://www.openfiler.com/

put that on a boot cd and you're all set.