My condolences to his family for their loss. We were both in the Slackline and Climbing scene and while we didn’t see eye to eye on many things and had only met a couple times, it’s always a tragedy to lose someone that way.

Note in the video at 1:10, he has the alternative names noted, including wash, corgi, chemmy...

Maybe they are right. Born in ‘81 and yes, I’ll spend more money for certain tech features. I drive around 30,000+ miles / year and I’ve already ruled out buying a car without adaptive cruise on my next car.

Broomball would be a safe one to add to the list of unusual sports. For those unfamiliar with it, take hockey, remove those sissy skates, heavy pads and sticks that work. Replace them with tennis shoes, whatever helmet you can find and a little plastic flipper on a half length broom stick that gives you no control.…

I used to use SnagIt a lot, but you should check out GreenShot - it has all of the features of SnagIt, a giant list of additional features, is currently supported and freeware.

You have been lucky, be content with that.

(Disclaimer: Secunia is a solution partner with my company, they have given me free demos and I've had one on one training with their engineers and reps. I don't have any prior affiliation with Patch My PC. Personally, I think they fit similar situations, but there are cases where I might recommend one over the other.)

I already use Secunia PSI (Free), which is more of a security focused product that does much the same, but I'll have to check this out. I occasionally deploy Secunia's enterprise tools (CSI) for work and love it, but their consumer version PSI is a little buggy in spots (hangs occasionally).

Just up front, I take my packs seriously. I've hiked a couple thousand miles with my current couple packs. I would have no use for a generic pattern that has no fitment. Besides for the squared off generic build they have the materials will cost more than just buying something similar. Just to clarify, something like…

As someone who has professionally sewn outdoor gear, I cannot recommend sewing a backpack for anyone as a surprise gift. If you have great skills, have extensive fitting measurements and access to quality materials, sure it could turn out, but custom backpacks done right are not a project to start mid-December. A good…

If that's the case, they aren't kept very long as mine were all empty. If they don't stick around indefinitely or at least at a prescribed interval, that makes for a pretty poor backup strategy. Like I said, I love the tool, as I synchronize my entire stack of lab VMs across multiple hosts with it and it's one of the…

I love BTSync, but it's pretty useless as a file backup. If it's deleted at one location, it automatically deletes it at the other. It also doesn't have versioning so if you need to roll a file back to before you screwed up, it won't help.

It's a light source that can pass through a metal detector and emits no detectable signals.

I've been building systems since it was a big deal to upgrade to a 40mhz. That said, what everyone forgets to calculate is the value of a warranty. Sure, you might sit on a support line for 3 hours (or worse), but now days the really bad builders have gone out of business and those still out there have decent warranty…

While most of my projects are per-project with actionable goals, I occasionally get a staff augmentation gig that's just we need 200 hrs of someone with the following skills. Either way a more appropriate way of wording this is that a Contractor is employed for a defined term, whether that term is by activities or…

Just a heads up, many of the built in tools trigger Malware and Antivirus warnings. More or less the hackey nature of some of the tools being included such as Browser password crackers and such.

They have added a Google Docs Mirror for those who weren't able to download earlier.

Sorry, but this is pretty generic gear. I'm sure they are a SalesForce Admin, but that position is essentially saying "generic IT drone" especially judging from the gear. Two sets of headphones are now required?

I can't remember the exact statistic but out of the top 100 web sites (by traffic) something like 30% do not lock after any number of set attempts.

Regarding the users who mentioned biometrics: