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Previously: Director of Engineering, Cloud Services at Anki Software Engineer at Splunk Software Engineer at VA Software (Sourceforge, etc)
Having to share screens occasionally via Zoom feels so slow and clunky by comparison to the single-click ability for multiple people to share and interact with windows concurrently as the conversation flows. Can't imagine going back!
Outbound mail is relayed via mailroute too, which solves the tainted IP delivery problem.
The ease at which anyone can share any window and everyone can instantly interact with it is quite game changing for distributed teams IMO.
I note the Keybase github repos continue to receive updates too, so it's not like it's dead.
Definitely recommend checking it out if you're working on a distributed team.
(no connection to the company, other than being an enthusiastic beta tester :-) )
So far, I really like it - But getting it to work at full resolution with my 2013 Mac Pro has been frustrating - It essentially cannot be done at full resolution with a single cable, unless you boot into Windows (also true for Mac Minis, but apparently newer Macbook Pros can drive it) - Despite what you may read, hacks such as SwitchResX will not help here; it's a limitation of the Mac's video card drivers that Apple seem uninterested in addressing.
The "solution", for me, has to drive it using two identical Mini Displayport->HDMI cables as if it were two screens and then have MacOS treat it as a single space. Using identical ports/cables has meant the color temperature on both halves is identical and i cannot tell it is not being driven as a single display, other than the fact the menu bar is only on one half of the screen.
Aside from that, it would be nice it were higher resolution, but the older I get, the less my eyes notice and the extra width is more useful than the DPI.
Others are the same story reported by multiple sources; obvious from the headline.
I leave it open in a pinned tab and when i want to kill a minute or two, i'll scan through a few more posts and open a few to actually read.
The reason i like Bazqux is that it can keep up no matter how fast i hit "j". It's no prettier than Google Reader does, has few more bells/whistles, but if you really want to speed through items, save and search, it's great.
In reality, I would like something that combined Bazqux with some ML to recognize that an item is a dupe, or something i'm really not likely to be interested in and filter those thousand items down to a few hundred, but i've yet to see anything really achieve that.
couple of examples that come to mind:
* Want to test your production/deployed app against a dev/local api server? Have it redirect traffic to a different host and rewrite any headers required (production vs dev api keys for example) - That includes DNS spoofing and re-mapping host names as required.
* Found a bug on a web site and want to test a fix to the javascript without setting up a whole environment? Copy the javascript file in question to your hdd, modify it as desired and have Charles serve that file up when the browser/app requests the original
I don't have any connection to the author; just been well worth its price for me.
A Webpass engineer I spoke to last week mentioned they're rolling out fiber to the building to provide redundancy for the wireless mesh. Surprised me as I could count on my fingers the number of outages webpass has had since I started using them. Perhaps it'll replace the wireless portion in the longer term.
Anyone have servers running 24x7 with hard drives older that that?
Very fast, has search, is consistently up, keeps the familiar UI and has no problem with my 1,000 item/day habit.
Worth the small expense.
Latest version available for download here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/virtualbox/...
Transfers are encrypted, de-duplicated and compressed, supports file versioning and it all works very well.
The only downside I've had is that their Java client uses a lot of memory both on my OS X and Linux boxes (haven't tried Windows) - It's using nearly 600Mb of resident memory right now.
Does make it feel super-snappy though