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8 Movies that Inspire Travel | BootsnAll Articles
8 Movies that Inspire Travel | BootsnAll Articles
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Ah, Under the Tuscan Sun. Loved that movie and yes, makes me love Italy more. - Trish R
i would love to Winter in Tuscany with Diane Lane* ;)) - Billy Warhol
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Heavens-Above Home Page
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ISS just flew over. I wasn't expecting it, but the darn thing is so big and bright you immediately know what you're seeing. Passed high and to my southwest before winking out right next to Jupiter. - Chris Baskind via Bookmarklet
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Wish I could take a nap right now. - Brandon Titus
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Duncan Riley posted an entry on The Inquisitr
Wednesday at 7:43 pm - Link
if this isn't accurate, then Im going to spend the rest of the day laughing based on the amount of intrigue and non traceability put in place from the source. However, it's a good source, it's not an outlandish claim, and I'm betting that it's exactly what we've written up. - Duncan Riley
no way! man i hope you're right and you've got the exclusive! - Zee from WeDoCreative
Exciting news--fingers crossed. (p.s., did you get the scoop from Obama?) - jeneane 'This One' sessum
It would have to be so naked that it's charged with indecency & for enticing minors:) - Roney Smith
This would be pretty sweet if you're source is right. When are they going to show these though? Kinda late for an event on the 14th and they must have a public event for such an announcement. - Brandon Titus
I hope this is true, both for you and for Apple. The spyshots going around are seriously lame, though. :-) - Louis Gray
Gruber said it's happening the 15th, so the timing seems to fit. Am interested to see what the take-apart is going to be like for these things. - flammable
@flammable I wonder if the "block of aluminum" approach is to make sure there is no take apart for them. at $800 a pop, maybe apple thinks you can just buy a new one if hardware fails. - Erica Baker
I just wish they'd hurry up with it. I've been holding out for a new MacBook Pro for months. - Richard Crocker
This would be really awesome. Can't wait til tuesday. - Patrick Kempf
As long as the new pro does not have the same keyboard as the current macbook / macbook air. those keyboards look good but really suck to use in my opinion. - Daniel Harman via twhirl
Wow. I pretty much got told by Apple. Guess they can invite people to events however far in advance they see fit. - Brandon Titus
@Erica You might be right, though I suspect that they'd rather swap out a part than replace the entire thing each time (even if it's replaced more often than a regular MacBook). - flammable
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"You might have noticed that iPhone applications like Mail or Contacts seem to load "instantly", while other apps (3rd party don't). Here's the secret: it has been determined that Apple is using a screen shot of the last known state of an application as a "splash screen" for the next reload" - clarke thomas via Bookmarklet
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Good News Network
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Thanks Jeremy Toeman for suggesting this website on his blog. http://jeremytoeman.com/why-im... - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet
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John McCain's Rage is a National Security Concern
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Wednesday at 4:21 pm - Link
Scary...even more scarier to see him as the big boss - Gordon Swaby
Yes Gordon... That is scary... :D - AJ Batac ♘
Wow, he back-handed a lady. - Rodfather
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“my "new" locker sticker ...”
my "new" locker sticker ...
October 4 at 7:18 am - Link
One of my favorites. I had a flag like this. - Brandon Titus
I may go and buy more of these stickers at Margaritaville , before I go home - johnpiercy
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Why We Need Obama: Man Shot for Wearing Obama T-Shirt
Tuesday at 12:54 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"A man told today how he was shot three times in a London street for wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt." - Ruth Ferguson via Bookmarklet
While this is a tragedy I am unclear how Obama is supposed to be a factor in race relations in London. Is he really supposed to be a messianic figure on that level now? "I can't be racist anymore, the USA has a black president!" isn't really going to happen. The violently hate filled idiots hate for internal reasons and external forces rarely change them. - Soulhuntre
Uh, there may be more to this... - eggsy
Why would anyone in London give a shit enough to shoot someone? That is ridiculous. Not to mention I thought they had some pretty hardcore gun control over there. Obviously this person was up to no good before an Obama shirt was involved. I am not being Anti or Pro anything here. - Not Not Geoff Schultz
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Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret
Monday at 6:59 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind?" - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
Too bad I don't have Labs in my workplace's hosted domain Gmail account - that's where I really need it! - Chu Yeow
Like!!! Uber-Geeky. - AJ Batac ♘
hilarious ! - Ron Shoshani
I'm still too good at math at the bottom of the bottle - Amber aka SDA
Maybe it should measure your reaction times instead of forcing you to do math. I'm thinking, "punch the monkey". - Paul Buchheit
=Amber -- need to be able to choose how difficult your math problems are. - j1m
the interesting thing is, the most powerful part is just the second-guess: it doesn't have to be a math problem. just a simple "do you really want to send this" reminder might do... - Taylor Davidson
How about letting my Gmail friends review my Drafts, only drafts that get liked will be sent out :-) - Majento™
@Taylor: I think the math problem -- or something like it -- is essential. Don't know about you, but I've "permanently deleted" countless files just because I reflexively hit "Okay" when the warning dialog box popped up. Without the math problem to keep one honest, one will end up clicking past warnings in an unconscious, mechanistic manner. *I* would, at least. - Chester
@Chester: I'll buy that. Needs to be more than just a reminder... but the question doesn't have to be math. The key, as you point out, is for the question to require you to answer something... - Taylor Davidson
+1 Majento - Raymond
Stooopid-O-Meter FTW! - Susan Beebe
Brilliant - Bwana McCall
Ditto Bwana - About 10 years overdue - Charlie Anzman
whoa, this could've come in handy... - sami
Chester, have you learned not to reflexively click buttons yet? :P - Tanath
When will they come out with "delayed sending"? I want to have 60 seconds after I click send before the email is actually sent. That little bit of time would stop a lot of confusion. - Benjamin Golub
These are all half-assed suggestions. What we all really need is for our e-mail app to read our minds *and* know better than ourselves whether or not a message should be sent out before further review. - Chester
Is this for real? - Jamelle
Two problems with this gadget, a) I want to make it trigger on every email, but after you solve the problems successfully, there's a window during which you can send more outgoing emails unchallenged; b) even at max difficulty level 5 the problems take only 15 seconds to solve sober - it seems unlikely that they'd take more than twice as long to solve when drunk - though I will have to verify that experimentally, I guess. - ƃuɐʞ
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PC are more productive, new feature from Windows Vista. - Andrew Trinh
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Chelsea Football Club Owner Building $400 Million Mega-Yacht with Submarine, Missile Defenses
Sunday at 8:09 pm - Link
Russian billionaire and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich is building a $400 million mega-yacht. Yawn, you say? You have two? OK, well, this yacht has its own submarine. And armor plating with bulletproof glass. And little boats that fit inside the bigger boat. And a frickin' missile defense system that will alert he and his crew of 70 former SAS soldiers that there be pirates in those waters. It should be noted that Abramovich's other yachts—the 377 ft. Pelorus, 282ft Ecstasea and 160ft Sussurro—all pale in comparison to the 550 ft. Eclipse, and do not include missile detection systems. You can never be too safe, right? - Morgan
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QLPlugins - Quick Look Plugins
October 4 at 10:55 pm - via Mento - Link
Very handy collection of QuickLook generator plugins. BetterZip and TextMate integration is great! - Chris Messina via Mento
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Leaked: Apple Genius Position Hiring Documents, Process Revealed
October 4 at 8:35 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Hmmm. An ex genius I know said he made like $12 uncertified and 14 w/certification. - Brandon Titus
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Perhaps a better plan for getting the ring into Mordor... (animation behind link)
October 4 at 9:20 pm - Link
I remember these haha do you have the other ones? - Andrew Trinh
I know of one other, it's here: http://tinyurl.com/6mlua - xero
Ahahaha, haven't seen that one. - Mladen Srdić
I loved these, I think there was one more haha. - Andrew Trinh
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“Mr. And Mrs. Fox!”
Mr. And Mrs. Fox!
October 4 at 1:47 pm - via mail2ff - Link
Is this the Rochester event? - Paul Buchheit
yep! Still going on! - Kevin Fox
congrats! - Pete Delucchi
Congratulations Kevin!! :) P.S. Where are you guys? (I think i spot some Highland Park trees) Rochester NY is the East Coast hub of FriendFeed! hehehe! - Susan Beebe
Congrats you guys - Charlie Anzman
We were at Mendon Ponds Park, specifically the Cobblestone house in the park. Its about 15 minutes from where I grew up (and where my parents still are) Bloomfield, NY. Basically right at the beginning of the fingerlakes. And thank you everyone!! - Rachel L Fox
Man....getting married twice is cheating! I shoulda thought of that! And heck, if I'd known I'd get to wear my dress again, I might have had to rethink my travel plans! Glad you guys are having such a great time! - Alessandra Novak
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Netflix 'Watch Instantly' finally available for Mac users
October 4 at 2:42 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
finally... - Brandon via Bookmarklet
i highly recommend the 1967 version of "Bedazzled" (with Peter Cook & Dudley Moore) if you are looking for something to Watch Instantly - Karim
Wait. Is it really out now or is this blog just restating the announcement that it will be "out by the end of the year" - Brandon Titus
I just tried on a MacBook. It's not working yet. - Rodfather
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October 4 at 2:05 am - Link
I'm surprised the blade number isn't even higher. We started deploying blades at the end of 2004 and never looked back. I would say we are closer to 50% blades, 25% virtual, and 25% standard rack servers in the data center. Now that there are dual and quad quad core blades, power 6 blades and quad 6 core servers for virtualization I would expect our blade and virtual numbers to increase at the expense of the standard racked server. When you have thousands of servers it really does make a huge difference in physical footprint. Thanks for sharing the article. - Michael Pardee
Excuse my ignorance but why would you not just use more and more virtual servers rather than blades? - chet
Chet, we will. Our decision path is virtual, then blade, the "regular" server. But we use a ton of Citrix and arecjust now starting to see some respectable performance when running it virtually, but it is still not as fast as running it on it's own box. Same with SQL server, we run multiple instances on the largest iron we can buy and cluster it for availability. We are just starting to play with SQL on VM. We'll get there some day, if not for space and power gains we'll get their for the ease motion brings for recovery and transparent failover. - Michael Pardee
Thanks Michael. Makes total sense. What's interesting to me is how virtualusation totally changes the make up of data centers and remote offices requiring very different strategies. The flexibility it gives you is awesome as you mention. - chet
Chet: There's nothing stopping a customer from putting a virtualization on blades too! I work for HP as a Sales Architect, and most of my time is spent teaching customers how blades and virtualization (not just hypervisors) can all be integrated together. Moving virtual workloads from hardware to hardware, and moving the hardware OS from blade to blade are all part of the plan for a dynamic datacenter-what we call Adaptive Infrastructure. - Michael Saul
Michael Saul - great point. I am an Infrastructure Architect and agree completely. On of the reasons we tend to go with bigger boxes for virtualization is all the additional slots for various ports. The HP blades are definitely making some big pushes to change our minds about that. So who will get the conversation started about VDI next? - Michael Pardee
James Hamilton of MS has good stuff in this area. Particularly: Why Blade Servers Aren't the Answer to All Questions (http://perspectives.mvdirona.c...). It seems to have something to do with power density and cooling. - todd
I lead a Virtualization solutions practice for a $ 17B solutions distributor (http://ats.avnet.com/virtualiz...). Blades, Virtualization, green all fit squarely in our wheelhouse. In addition to the key trends mentioned. We are seeing significant increase in VDI solutions being developed in VAR's. Additionally, we are seeing in increase in mgmt and security focus. - Tim FitzGerald
Todd: I took a look at what James Hamilton is saying, and for the most part I agree with him, but I think he is missing some of the most important aspects that blades bring to the table. He is correct in saying that DC managers need to start looking at cooling and power with a more careful eye, but if they are monitored and tracked, they can be controlled and planned for more effectively. Power and cooling are just 2 resources that should be monitored and migrated around the physical space. - Michael Saul
Tim, security is a big reason we are looking at VDI as I'd like to see data never leave the facility unless we specifically want it to. Flexibility is next. Provisioning on the fly looks interesting as well. - Michael Pardee
@Michael Saul, what has been your experience with PolyServe, and what do you think of the LeftHand acquisition? - Louis Gray
(cont.) Just as memory, processor, etc. are relocated to balance loads in a virtualization layer. What is gained in ongoing management and a servers understanding of it's physical location are well worth the relatively small premium payed (especially when you begin to factor in port count in the core fabrics). - Michael Saul
Louis Gray: I have not worked directly with any of the Polyserve products, but I have heard from one customer who is using the NAS product with a very large NAS application that it is absolutely essential to their success. The corporate customers that I work with are mostly focused on FC SAN and are more eager to transition to FCoE as a single fabric solution; though that is still at least 2 years away. As for LeftHand, I am still researching the products and haven't really formed an opinion yet. - Michael Saul
the increase in virtualization is a no-brainer. not sure about blades. as for linux, the question is projected 8% "adoption rate" at the expense of what -- are they eating market share out of some other OS (e.g. Solaris) or just growing? - Karim
@Louis Gray, we use polyserve and are extremely happy with it. Finally a distributed lock manager fir windows. Why MS didn't listen to DEC all those years ago about this I'll never understand. No more spending time trying to tune pagepool, etc. The only flaw we have found so far is the time it takes for the entire env to recover if you lose a node varies on how large you make your poly cluster. Since we centralize as much as possible in the DC we can't afford outages and polyserve has brought us a level of availability that windows clustering will never match as long as it is totally dependent on a simple heartbeat. We rarely lose the heartbeat and almost always lose rpc communication so we had to manually get windows clusters back online anyway. They are fine for hardware failover, planned maint, and rolling upgrades, but we're all about performance and availability and we had to go to polyserve to get there. - Michael Pardee
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"* If you can’t find some obvious command, like Delete in a photo program, try clicking using the right-side mouse button. (On the Mac, you can Control-click instead.)" - edythe via Bookmarklet
at first i thought, jeesh, this is pretty basic and just for moms and dads. But i often see my coworkers--people in their 20s, 30s--working slowly and inefficiently on a computer because they don't know what i consider to be basic shortcuts. - edythe
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Alan Le posted a link
Great video visualizer from last night's debates
October 3 at 10:04 am - Link
I missed the debates last night. This visualization is a great way to watch it after the fact. - Alan Le
I didn't get to watch it all, so this is a great resource. Thanks for posting it. - James Williams (willia4)
This is a great site! - Aaron Krug
Very cool. - Jordan Hofker
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Mona N. posted a link
10 People From Your Past Who Will Haunt You On Facebook
October 3 at 9:56 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Hahahahaah - J. Abdul-Qahhar
It's hilarious because it's true. HAHA - Mona N.
briliant - Dobromir Hadzhiev
So, which one are you? - Mark VandenBerg
#10: "What They'll Say: Hi there! Long time no see! Just over here in Liverpool and killing time before the Premier League match - downing a few pints, you know? - and spotted you on the internet. I might have found you earlier, but there's no internet in South America (at least, not worth using ;) and the net cafes were too expensive in Japan. I'm moving around a fair bit at the moment, so here's a link to my travel blog so you can keep track of where I am. Be sure to take a look at the pics I took while trekking in Nepal. It's an amazing place. Have you been? How's it going? Drop us a line. What They'll Really Mean: Look at how many countries I've been to. I'm better than you. - Mona N.
I wish I could repeatedly hit the "like" button..... - George Smith
I've read nothing more true today than this. - Shawn Farner
10. not much better. - Mathieu Ayel
haha.. I love how the ONE person that actually cares about you is the NUTJOB! :) - Tim Hoeck
I'm #6. LOL - Phil Glockner
Oh, I love cracked.com - Bonnie "That One" Dean
That should be Ari Gold :) - /(bb|[^b]{2})/ (Kamath)
I can relate ;) - wiredgnome
Goodness, I love Cracked. - Pete Delucchi
perfect - everybody is "better than you"... ha, ha! - Susan Beebe
hahhahaha this entire list made me LOL. Which one are you, Susan? ;) - Mona N.
I'm #11 on the list -- I'm the "I saw, listened to, or heard of, so-and-so band before you, so I'm better than you." ;) - Pete Delucchi
Mona - none of those losers that's for sure!! I've seen those jerks LIVE for too long! - Susan Beebe
#2 is the best :D - Brandon
"Unfortunately, people from your past are looking for you. People you had hoped would stay forgotten. And your internet listing has made it very easy for them to find you. - jfayel
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