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skforlee – anti-theft lunch bag "Anti-Theft Lunch Bags are regular sandwich bags that have green splotches printed on both sides. After your sandwich is placed inside, no one will want to touch it." Intel releases Dunnington in all its 6-core glory! …and you can get them today in Dell R900s. Cool. Gotta love socket compatibility. The Intel 7400 series CPUs are definitely the sweetest CPUs around right now. RTFM Education » Blog Archive » VMware leaks staff… Said it as well or better than I would have: "Anyway, you never got a sense that Mendel was another Gates or Jobs. Whatever you think of departures, I think Mendal/Greene kitchen-table story will in years to come be one of those key …

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Slate reviews adult diapers – Boing Boing Off topic but pretty darn funny.

Track Hurricane Ike / Stormpulse / Hurricane tracking, mapping This is a pretty cool web site, at least until I remember my friends in New Orleans. Frickin' hurricanes.

Why you should avoid placing SSDs in traditional Arrays! – Anatol Studler's Blog Four Tweaks for Using Linux with Solid State Drives | Tombuntu SSD basically changes the game, and tuning has to follow. 08-26-2008 Testing Unreleased Processors – Comments – The Dell TechCenter Hmm, four sockets, 24 cores, basic division… 🙂 What I want is a 2U Intel-based Dell that can take 64 GB of RAM cost-effectively, like the R805 can. Color + Design Blog / Colors Of A Cause: Park(ing) Day by COLOURlovers September 19th is Parking Day, as well as Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrrr. Default Logins and Passwords for Networked Devices This is useful from time to time.

Daring Fireball Linked List: Apple Rejects Fart-Joke iPhone App "I’ve already heard from a top-tier developer this morning who, in response to this story, is dropping an idea for a very cool iPhone app out of fear that the work to create it would be for naught as Apple might reject it." Yeah, I wouldn't develop anything for the iPhone at this point. Non-existent debugging tools and lack of objective App Store publishing policies are just some of the reasons why it's a terrible platform to develop for. Preaching to the choir is a waste of time – (37signals) "I think there’s an interesting point here: To create change, you need to reach out to those who don’t already agree …

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Lawson CEO thinks SaaS is going nowhere, from Brian Madden on BrianMadden.com If you've ever tried to run Lawson software A) I'm sorry and B) you'll realize that they can't do it as SaaS because it's so bloated and horrible. Ugh. Giveaway of the Day – free licensed software daily. RoboTask 3.1 – Automate any series of tasks on your computer! RoboTask is pretty cool and free today. Windows only, but there's a lot of Windows admins out there. 🙂 UW alum Maitri Venkat-Ramani comments on the passage of Hurricane Gustav – Isthmus | The Daily Page Go Maitri! And screw Gustav! Cool Tool: Pilot's Flashlight Another device I should get. Has both red and white LEDs. rc3.org — Sarah …

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Solaris 10 with ZFS as NFS target for VMware ESX : Thomas Weyell´s Blog Might have to give this a shot. I'm looking for cheap storage options lately.

Dell introduces ten new laptops – The INQUIRER "On is a flash-based barebones Linux install that gets you up and running, on the Net, and with much of what you need to run the computer in instantly. " That's pretty cool, have your whole OS in flash.

Dell Latitude Laptops – E6400 Holy crap, Dell has a high capacity battery and is advertising 19 hours of life on their new Latitude E6400s. Might have to find a way to get a new laptop a few years before the normal replacement cycle.

Last In – First Out: Patch Now – What Does it Mean? "A failed system or application has known, documented consequences. It is not a game of probability or chance. An unpatched security vulnerability is a game of chance where in most cases the odds against you are not known. " Amen.