What I am doing currently to make my own home file server is to set up a Raspberry Pi (around 35 pounds) mixed in with my external hard drives. I would say that is probably the most inexpensive (and the pi at least doesn't take much power) solution I know about.

Not sure if this works in Mnt. Lion, but I tend to use Ctrl+shift+eject a lot. It actually (as far as I know) turns off the screen.

takes about 1 to 5 seconds on my 2008 entry level Macbook Pro (non-unibody). Heck, it took maybe around 10 seconds to launch it on my original G4 iMac (2002) last time I tried it 1 or 2 years ago. I do agree that iTunes is bloatware, but if it takes half an hour for you to launch that damn thing I really recommend…

Sadly, not many people have the resources, skills and time to do it your way. (although I wish I could). What "normal" people want to ask themselves is to what is important enough so they want to put time aside for to host/manage themselves and what is relatively unimportant enough to trust some company for it. (and…

Thanks to my obsession with digging through highly obscure music, Spotify, Grooveshark or any other similar stream services are usually of no good. (Although I do love Spotify, their library is quite impressive even for a snob like me. sadly, I only have access to it a portion of the year because it's not open in the…

Give a man a fish...

I have considered similar ideas but the thing is I rather need something that I can easily tuck away so it doesn't take space or power. My libraries grow so quickly that I would need to add 1(plus a bigger/extra backup HD) every 1 or 2 years. Plus I won't need to access photos from 2007 everyday so having a huge raid…

I think I would need something between 16 to 64 gigs. :S

thanks for the reply. I like the idea of wireless external drives.

How are you guys planning to help players find the gems (the good games) in the flood of possible crappy games? And in contrast, how are you going to help us discover the interesting underdogs. (as in, the possibly interesting but unpopular niche games)

Ditto. I am both a photographer and a sound designer for video games with an ever growing library of raw photographs and lossless (mostly 24 bit and 48khz, although I have some that go even higher) sound library. I don't keep movies (delete them instantly after I watch them) and I rarely do watch/download them anyway.…

The elven superstition is actually quite strong in Iceland although more of a tradition rather than an actual belief. I guess it's a bit of a tourist trick or our way to feel special. (we need anything we can find to boost our ego given the fact how small our nation is). I, for example was raised up near the highlands…

Remember that it's not really "hearing the difference" that matters to audiophiles that work with sound (sound design, music and such) it's aboutretaining as much of the original quality as possible.

As a sound designer I work a lot with high quality lossless files (48kHz 24bit lossless files usually) and while I can sometimes (although rarely) spot the difference between a lossless file and a high quality mp3 the difference is simply not that grand that sound quality alone is a good enough reason to go all…

classic

Anyone know of alternative icons for the same use? (mac)

wow... that goes into my little book of quotes. thank you!

Roger Callois probably in his 1961 book, "Man, Play and Games" has probably my favorite definition and categorization on games.

Although I can't be sure I still have the feeling that this project is more of a debate on the conditions of chicken at many chicken farms rather than an actual idea.

I've worked at a chicken farm and believe me, I am pretty sure muscle atrophy due to disuse is already a problem.