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Re:LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network on Thursday May 09, 2013 @11:48AM (#5681055)
You can disable the option in your profile settings to not show when you've viewed someones contact info, however, this means you'll no longer know who the people are the view your profile.
Re:Mt. Gox under DDoS attack as bitcoin price surges on Thursday April 04, 2013 @09:15PM (#5496302)
Are there patterns in flow traffic that monitoring tools could help detect/mitigating a DDoS like this?
@josephlord ^ This man gets it.

Shame on you if you walk into something with half/no plan. Price should never be your single (or top) motivator for service selection; ESPECIALLY with something as crucial as a business dependency like IaaS.

Grig Gheorghiu, their VP of ops, just did a great Q&A:

http://boundary.com/blog/2013/03/18/grig-gheorghiu-on-the-mu...

Yes, very hot company.

Re:Bulletproof demos using Chrome's playback mode on Thursday March 14, 2013 @12:26PM (#5375926)
Interesting... I wasn't aware of this, I'll definitely give it a shot.

Thanks for the heads-up!

Re:Introducing Roku 3 on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @09:01AM (#5331137)
I have a Roku and like it but really wish it had better support for playing off of USB and network shares - this is the one reason I still use my WDTV Live as often as I do. Oh, not to mention the WDTV supports every format under the sun and streams my 3DTV with zero issues too.

I know there is a USB app for Roku but it sucks and doesn't work consistently.

I know I could use Plex to retrieve files from my shares but I don't care for navigation in this app much.

Anyway, glad to see Roku continues to make nice updates, I just wish there was a single solution at this point.

Re:Exploring the Abandoned Macy's Midwest Headquarters on Thursday February 21, 2013 @10:00PM (#5262281)
Hello Amnesia.
Re:Ubuntu on tablets on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @11:50AM (#5245311)
One of the benefits of entering late is they're able to learn from the competitions missteps.
Yeah, I spotted that too, it's interesting that this service puts the focus on coordination + orchestration with additional app servers versus leveraging existing AWS services.

I believe the general intent of this is to enable users using non-AWS services (yes, I know that's redundant) to more efficiently work with outside apps on Amazon - the example in their Layers guide is specific to Redis for example. (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/opsworks/latest/userguide/working...).

So this service basically says - "Just because we don't have a Redis Amazon Service for you to snap into doesn't mean you should not use AWS or look to other PaaS, instead, easily integrate other apps with OpsWorks."

Re:What Thomas Edison expected job candidates to know on Friday February 15, 2013 @09:22PM (#5230045)
How I read this: Einstein would have approved of candidates using Google.
Re:First impressions of Leap Motion on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @06:04PM (#5179485)
Very interesting! Let's pair this up with an Oculus Rift and call it a day.
Re:How to create a sales process on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @05:05PM (#5179141)
I'd say it's generally never too early, it all depends on how you frame things.

You can get some good early feedback and validation on what you're working on and trying to solve and then also try to bring them in as an early adopter once you have something ready to market.

Why not take the approach of monitoring it instead and triggering alarms based off specific traffic..? So if you use too much foo vs HTTP, trigger an alert. This is one of the things we use Boundary for.