dan_the_welder

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by dan_the_welder 16y ago
FreeNAS is awesome and extensible. Out of the box it's quite functional and it's open source. It's the backbone of my work/home network. All the Linux boxes have it mounted in the home directory, so all the machines with Rhythmbox think it'
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TechCrunch curates Youtube HomePage(youtube.com)
4 points by dan_the_welder 17y ago|0 comments
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
How about a response instead of a downvote? This is getting stupid. I asked a legitimate question, which given the fact y'all want to be millionaires selling software deserves an actual response.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
That's great. Can't both co-exist?
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Well, on the other side of it. It only takes one bad customer having a bad day to shit all over your business. Some people are crazy and vindictive. Like the guy who reported me to the Consumer Product Safety Commission on fictitious ground
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Yeah, this is perfect for an April's fools gag. It's still pretty good. It's weird they did not put in a more visible link to their real service. http://www.macminicolo.net
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
As a big fan of the GPL I don't mean to come across as totally flippant. However, I just don't see a problem with people selling themes. In a hurry, not enough skills, buy a theme. Skilled with the time to make your own, then roll your own.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I think the barriers to entry in many business fields are just getting higher and higher.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Is the Wordpress founder annoyed somehow that he has helped create a thriving marketplace?
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I was enthusiastically commenting on a healthy niche market and then I used a metaphor point out that it's not just a hobby or a toy that these people are working on. It's a sophisticated tool that interfaces with the outside world much lik
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Metaphor: "It's train CNC!" Simile: "It's like CNC for trains!" Literal truth: "It's called DCC actually" If your point was to add information, then there was a better way to do it.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
It has been said that what the current patents issue creates is a landscape where you can only be the one winner or among the many losers. If there was a different solution, then there could be many small players filling different niches. T
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I just took a look at the JMRI page and it's very a very cool little niche market ecosystem. Software and hardware both. Yet another advanced peripheral system, Train CNC!
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
It's an analogy. A tool to further understanding. On many levels software is just like many other businesses, Just like many other businesses are like software on some levels. I own a restaurant and I release early and often!
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I just put Evince on all my Windows machines and I am very happy about it. I was able to remove all the Adobe Air bonus arterial sclerosis. I tried Foxit and was not very impressed. I thought it was interesting that the Evince windows port
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Right with you on the custom furniture thing. Most skilled crafts-people are booked for months ahead. The ones that I know don't want to scale because then they would not be making furniture, they would be running a business. Interestingly,
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
The I want it now crowd make me want to quit what I used to love doing. The fallout from the last decade has been, an inability to discern quality, often using price as the yardstick, and a voracious impatience. I make physical goods though
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
It's a catchy name. They were smart to jump on it. One of the bands I linked is pretty heavy grunge metal and the other is an international singer songwriter, so I think their net is pretty wide.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Not my personal company, the one I use... which is tiny. They have treated me well, I have not noticed any downtime, but I am not very sensitive to that. They also allow virtual domains, so I have three websites, two very low traffic, for
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
My tiny hosting company Varialhosting offers POP and Imap. I did a quick search and there are tons of providers that offer Imap.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Yet another point in support of my new adage, " Live in the Cloud, die by the cloud." Got Buzzed? Got Blogger DMCA'd? Tired of having targeted ads in your email, tired of worrying about data retention policies? Then I encourage you to spen
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Not to be sarcastic, but there is the whole internet full of tools to point people at your Bandcamp or MySpace page, in fact that's what people are doing for their MySpace music pages, promoting them on Facebook and in some cases writing th
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
That's a really well done page, unlike most of the eye-pain clutter people generally do.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Take a look at Bandcamp, it's the last nail in MySpace's coffin. Main page, http://www.bandcamp.com/ Random couple of artist pages for an indication of the customization available, never mind the billing and music serving back end. http:
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Microsoft makes productivity software, games, embedded OSes, hardware, business software, commercial suites.....etc etc etc. They can't focus with so many irons in the fire. Apple makes well designed prosumer products....and thats it. They
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
You have to please everyone. From the morons to the tech savvy. It's a thankless job, because unless you get it exactly right, someone is gonna be pissed off.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I'm still looking :(
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
This is where I live. I am a small business or two. I have been building my own CNC machines. I manufacture a niche product. The comments on this article are mostly regurgitated economist speak, efficiency figures prominently. The fact of t
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
A friend who can switch with you is the best.

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