This was common at one of my previous employers. They were so cheap, they would not buy fans for the servers. The admins, including myself, would have downtime on the servers at night, and literally have an "oiling party". Not as fun as it sounds. Pull 1/4th the servers and oil the fans. Bring them back up, rinse and…

@japzone: Search for "Gawker layout fix" if you use Greasemonkey or Chrome. Puts it back to the beloved style we are familiar with and love.

@yokocar: It's not like he went bat shit crazy with the chalkboard paint. They are doors on cabinets. They can be resurfaced or repainted. Even replaced. And are not that expensive to do any of the above. Compared to replacing the cabinet boxes themselves. Be a "lifehacker" and use that to your advantage. Or just…

@TyroPrate: I didn't know the Android would do that. I have yet to overpower my car charger (done through my Kenwood Headunit or a generic usb charger I use with the iphone cable) Using iTunes and Waze turn-by-turn or just on showing me a rolling map at the same time. I have also "multi-tasked" with 3-4 other…

@mrjeremiahross: To add to your discussion, I was torn between the 2, but went with ESXi, as it had better support for my raid card at the time. I could boot ESXi off the card, where with Xen I would have to run another disk, which I didn't have room for in the server, to run the host OS.

@mikeparkie: Reread a2h's post. It is past tense. As in, he saw VMWare Player could make VMs, and jumped ship to VMWare Player.

I can only comment on my own experiences as a mail admin. I see blasts of random usernames in the form of firstname.lastname or first initial last name (like bsmith for Bob Smith) directed towards the domains I run. Or blasts to every system account you could think of, like root, toor, admin, apache, mail, exim,…

Vote: VMWare

I had a really old password (6 characters only alpha numeric) I wanted to change it to my new password schema (something like " (*g04d2r$#@( " but the system does not like this. When you try to use it, it complains that your original password is incorrect. If I use my correct old password, and use another alpha…

@PrairieMoon: One of my daughters now has an iPhone. I use Whereoscope for "tracking". I can setup an alert that tells me she arrived at school, or arrived home (she is a "latch key kid" some times). I have one for the wife, so I know she got home from work safely. I can setup alerts for peoples houses, where my…

@Matt Barker: So he isn't up to date on how many slots which Mac has. Big deal. The big tower Mac on the desktop takes up many times more space than that mini glued to the underside of the desk. That is hte point of the comment, and it stands on it's own even if he isn't a Mac Hardware Geek.

Here is a tip if you drink drip coffee at Starbucks. Get a "grande in a venti cup" cup of coffee. The 3 I frequent will fill it up 3/4 to the top. Venti coffee for a grande price. On top of that, if you don't like black coffee, you usually ask for room at the top for milk. It ends up being a venti with room at the top.

@Trowble (XBL/PSN): I'm not seeing it here, I have run Windows 7 32/64 from Pro to Ultimate since the RTM on ~15 machines of different specs and manuf without any issues other than a couple did not have good drivers that were supported in Windows 7.

@Skeetz: Fancy that. I am doing exactly that this week.

@michaelfurman: Wow. Your using different channels? Why? WDS those guys together and make a mesh.

VOTE: Daemon Tools Free/Lite

@rusdin: In reality, your creating 2 bands "flowing" down to your basement. You may have spots where you have no wireless. However, this seems best for your house, so your doing what the spirit of the article says to do.

@bobkoure: ANY wireless repeater will sacrifice half your bandwidth (wireless bandwidth, not internet). That is how it "repeats".

I wonder if this service is used by spammers.

Didn't know they made shipping pallets out of expensive wood. The only ones I have seen are made of cheap pine, or fur, and have knots and cracks in them.