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The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures « OkTrends Very interesting analysis of what works and what doesn't with profile photos. Personally, I always hate finding a profile photos, but now I know I need a photo showing my abs and my face while I'm holding a cute animal and playing the guitar while hanging around with friends indoors. Number Resource Organization – Less than 10% of IPv4 Addresses Remain Unallocated, says Number Resource Organization Those organizations that have responded to the IPv6 call with "uh, whatever" are going to have a rude awakening pretty soon. If you aren't thinking about IPv6 right now you're going to have serious problems in 5 years. typewar A game to identify fonts… I …

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Schneier on Security: $3.2 Million Jewelry Store Theft This reminds me of the break-in at the CIHost colo facility in Chicago, where they had fancy security systems but the attackers just cut through the drywall from the hallway and stole a ton of stuff. Inside Enterprise IT – Inside Enterprise IT – DELL COMMUNITY "The introduction of solid state hard drives in 2009 was widely welcomed by the OEM community, but adoption of SSDs did not take off due to price and the immaturity of the technology." Yeah, Dell, a 50 GB SSD ordered with a server is $1200, it isn't surprising people aren't buying them. For that price I can buy a bunch of Intel SSDs & spares, and …

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Silverstat7 Zigbee-packin' thermostat to debut this fall for $600? — Engadget This looks sweet. $600 is a lot for a thermostat, but as a home automation controller it'd be awesome. I'd really like to do more home automation, especially temperature control on my hot water heater and HVAC. I'd love it if I could do better occupancy-sensing and be able to turn down the hot water heater automatically, for instance. OiNK Admin Found Not Guilty, Walks Free | TorrentFreak This is good news. I wish the music industry would realize that people like myself don't listen to the radio, and as such forgo the classic method of previewing music. I'll tell you the reason I miss OiNK, though: I have …

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Google Has Played The China Situation Brilliantly "If Google forces any change at all in China, it will have done more for China's 1+ billion citizens than it would have if it had boycotted the country from the beginning." Amen. It seems to escape people that the most effective change can sometimes come from the inside, and for that to happen you need to be on the inside first.

Laid-Off AOLers: DON'T SIGN ANYTHING! Good advice for anybody losing their job. Especially the part about not negotiating while you're in shock. Typotheque: Gore’s choice Hey, fonts are products, too, and if you don't like something there's no reason you shouldn't ask for a change. Mark McGwire admits steroid use – MLB – SI.com "Mark McGwire has admitted taking steroids in 1998 when he broke Roger Maris' home run record." A) Nice story (what I quoted is it), B) surprise, surprise.

RISKS Digest: Y2K+10: what's underlying? "Expressing the problem as though a two-digit year were in use, the problem was that 9 was followed by 16, not 10. But in hexadecimal, $09 was followed by $10 – but it should have been $0A."

Two Gentlemen of Lebowski The Big Lebowski, done as if Shakespeare did it. OMG, this is amazing. I normally dislike Shakespeare but this would just be funny. Marco.org – Destroying perfectly good retail merchandise When I worked at CompUSA back in high school I was exposed to the credit & destroy system for returns & unsold merchandise, and just floored by it. It would be cool if some of that could be donated, but it would be tricky. Look at it from the manufacturer's point of view: 1. You don't want to dilute your product's market with free stuff in another channel. 2. You don't want to encourage corruption by retail employees. 3. While it's mean (and there might be …

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Kodak Easyshare Wireless Picture Frame – How to show everyone whats on your frame « Casey Halverson Dear Kodak, hire a 7 year old to code this stuff. They'll do a better job. WineBottler Turns Windows Programs into Standalone OS X Applications – Wine – Lifehacker Dear VMware, it would sure be nice if you did something like this, a ThinApp for Fusion. I'd love to be able to give a single executable to my Mac people, and have them run a Windows app. That'd be sweet, a win for me, a win for them. Connections & Ports in ESX&ESXi -v4 I love you guys. This is quite handy for figuring out what I need to open up on firewalls. …

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Intel Forced to Remove "Cripple AMD" Function from Compiler? "…by changing the CPUID of a VIA Nano processor to AuthenticAMD you could increase performance in PCMark 2005's memory subsystem test by 10% – changing it to GenuineIntel yields a 47.4% performance improvement!" Lame. Certainly makes the case for compilers & software from other manufacturers, like Microsoft or GNU.

Apache SpamAssassin Y2K10 Rule Bug – Update Your Rules Now! "If you're running SpamAssassin 3.2.x you are encouraged to update you rules (updates were released on sa-update around 1900 UTC Jan 1, 2010)." If you're running SpamAssassin you are encouraged to tell your users to check their spam folders for things they care about. fred design » Simple rules for good typography Some useful tips for using different fonts. I've found that knowing just a little about typography really helps my cause when I'm doing written proposals, presentations, or even the organization's talent show program. 🙂 (hat tip to Ross Mayfield for the link) WordPress Search Based DOS Attack « Weblog Tools Collection "So at the end of the day, …

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