@adkinn work your dev-igner mojo! There are at least three I consider real contenders so far.

@davebost yep Ubuntu won't work on MS virtualization. Found that out a while ago.

@carnage4life when you play facebook, the only possible outcome is a net loss

@adityavm say hello to my leetle friend! http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2902

@voidspace Google's Matt Cutts references my orange "captcha". Priceless, LOL! http://twurl.nl/xsyzzx

@jongalloway texting a "magic number" as two-factor auth I think has huge potential. Who doesn't have a cell phone with texting?

@dani3l3 WP caching is hugely needed, based on my search results. Most have tiny traffic, so they don't know.

@rickstrahl oh yes, quality is excellent from netflix "watch now"; they're using the latest n' greatest WMV codecs (bandwidth determined?)

@hisshadow "maximize SPDIF compatibility" setting doesn't exist in the latest ffdshow on the HTPC. It is present on this machine however.

@carnage4life yeah, I read about those "microsoft vulnerabilities" via @gruber and just shook my head. Classic ASP SQL Injection.

@carnage4life yep, looks like you'll have to use "Send To" %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

@shanselman oh, you won't be laughing when I get a brand new OLED HDTV one of these days and yours looks old n' busted :) Biding my time..

@timalmond I am a huge SSD fan (for laptops), but honestly, a good 2.5" HDD is perfect for a HTPC and about 5x cheaper.

@kevindente not a huge issue for me as I have an EDTV display anyhow. But DVD/DivX still look pretty kickass at 852x480 compared to SD.

@timalmond the default CPU cooler is temp controlled and utterly quiet. I use cheap $3 fan controllers on the case fans: http://is.gd/9s9

@kevindente ever been to thepiratebay? Amazing the kind of hi-def stuff you can find there. Wink wink, nudge nudge. Also, Blu-Ray +$100.

@omarshahine right now it's IDE with adapter, but I am replacing with native SATA 2.5" drive -- poor IDE performance on this mobo

@mbuckbee the PCs were trying to get to each other through the *external* IP instead of the internal IPs with OpenDNS in charge

@rogerguess if I let my router DHCP give out OpenDNS DNS info, local windows networking gets squirrelly. Removing them fixed it.

@mbuckbee it's coming from the router settings; I added the OpenDNS DNS IPs there

@carnage4life I dunno but this is one *scary* ass photo of Marc "evil genius" Andreessen http://tinyurl.com/5fscos

@wilshipley re: denim http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/7045/mtywtkbf7.jpg

@wilshipley are gentlefolk in your yard? http://tinyurl.com/5gembc

@timbray "Scalability is not your problem, getting people to give a shit is." http://is.gd/97h

@kevindente ICUH8N. I find that the EDTV is perfect for a DVD/torrent lifestyle. Eventually, yeah, upgraydd.

@skrenta what do you recommend instead of the Apple/Google lovefest default of Analytics?

@seesharp you should be writing tweets for your own erudition; that other people (and Google) find it is a happy side-effect

@anandiyer yes, but what if he had two ponytails like this: http://tinyurl.com/5w4kd6

@kevindente remote desktop is awesomely fast and always has been. Kudos to THAT team at MSFT.

@betsyphd I believe it is considered poor Rock Band sportsmanship to sing all Metallica lyrics as varying forms of "metaaaallica suuucks"

@jongalloway check this one out, "how do i put my baby's daddy on child support" http://is.gd/8Pt

@wilshipley typeracer is no typing of the dead, my friend. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000372.html

@jongalloway oh, and you have to buy a $1000+ hardware dongle to run OSX too. Don't forget that. :)

@wanorris "Almost as good as a command line" exactly, the GUI/CLI hybrid of command line is Google, too, isn't it?

@kevindente oh yeah, and MSFT killed their nice little "family pack" deal immediately. So stupid. So shortsighted. http://is.gd/8Nh

@paulwhit If loving Vista is wrong, I don't want to be right. (said between shots of Southern Comfort)

@kevindente MacOS is tied to hardware dongle subsidies, so yeah, it can be more.

@kevindente I hear with enough crazy-ass third-party add ins we can turn any OS into any other OS, too! Defaults, baby. Defaults.

@tehgrumpydude it's a major architectural change. I see why they did it, but I'm ambivalent about it. IE7 multi-.exe model is more flexible.

@kevindente I'm seeing some pretty bizarre behaviors from Firefox 3 beta 5 after extended use. Mysterious pauses while typing.. etc.

@seesharp thanks for lunch! vertigo family <3

@marxidad agree, eegra is quite good as well. Turtle rage. http://www.eegra.com/show/sub/do/browse/cat/comics/id/4

@wilshipley Penny Arcade is no Perry Bible Fellowship. I'm just sayin'. http://pbfcomics.com/

@skrenta you should know that I sometimes say "SKRENTABLOG!" to myself. Repeatedly. Unsure why, but it feels right. SKRENTABLOG!

@precipice protected updates? WTF? http://tinyurl.com/6gjlyh

@theadoguy they re-renamed it back! I agree that "worsethanfailure" was a HORRIBLE name; no idea what went on there

@hci some people, I think, are just angry at the world. "Forgive me, El Guapo" http://tinyurl.com/674dms

@wilshipley take a break, buy and play the Judas Priest RB tracks already. SCREEEEEaaaaming! Screaming for vengeance!

@odetocode "a day without @sbellware is like a day without sunshine" I'm dyin' over here, LOL

@gruber that last one goes out to you, homeslice

@maggieplusplus I'm trying this out in iTunes on my VM as well, with fast forward, etc.

@maggieplusplus wait, I'm still uploading the modified files with the Apple required Xing VBR headers. Give me 5 mins, then try downloading

@maggieplusplus what model iPod? I had no idea Apple couldn't handle VBR correctly. This is a bummer.

@mbuckbee yep, VM test: chipmunks in IE6. Weird. I updated to latest Flash and it works. So that's the rec. Get latest flash.

@mbuckbee I can't duplicate that with IE7 and flash player. Wonder if it's an old Flash version?

@kevindente "I must break you." http://tinyurl.com/5m6v5b

@aanttila as much as I love Rock Band, the default Rock Band guitar is a crime against fake plastic rock, it's really just.. bad.

@betsyphd powerpoint parody comic is too perfect. I was worried that you might have forgotten transitions as well. http://is.gd/8s6

@al3x nice, you DID make Penny Arcade http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/

@siphilp YOU PEOPLE AND YOUR ITUNES! Get a room already! :)

@encosia helped me figure out my wp-supercache problem. it was a weird one. you rock man!

@jongalloway ASP.NET scales kickass. The .NET ecosystem just pales in comparison to the rest of open source. Don't look at me, I gave $5k.

@inaequitas the "super" cache doesn't work on IIS; relies on apache URL rewriting rules

@encosia but the whole point of blog.stackoverflow.com is the podcast, so removing podpress not an option.

@encosia on my other blog (fakeplasticrock) wp-supercache works ok; I think it has to be podpress on blog.stackoverflow.com causing prob.

@encosia with podpress and wp-cache, incorrect pages are cached for each link (!) like the RSS feed will return the home page (!!), etc.

@iflyhigh I tried. I got to a debian command prompt and, uh, I was done. I needs my gooey GUI goodness.

@encosia WP Super-Cache freaks out on IIS/windows. see link in previous twitter msg.

@encosia there might be a business model in ethical takedown services, eh? I'd pay for someone to deal with that for me.

@jongalloway I admire you despite your despicable french heritage http://www.flickr.com/photos/jongalloway/2427351194/

@jongalloway no more weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway ? you're moving up to a big-boy real domain name? All my dreams are coming true at last!

@aidan_walsh I decided to give 99designs a shot for stackoverflow.com logo. http://99designs.com/contests/6774 prize is $2^9!

@encosia have you ever tried to issue a "illegally copied content" complaint with an ISP or Google?

@wilshipley you deserve a rock break today. SCREAAAAming!

@wilshipley buy the new Priest Rock Band tracks. "screaming! screaming for vengeance!" is the new "run tooooo the hiiiills!"

@kevindente trackpoint is THE DEVIL! THE DEVIL! *big* touchpads FTW http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000600.html

@fearphage allow me to introduce you to http://www.fakeplasticrock.com ; I do all my FPS gaming on the PC with a mouse like God intended

@mkellogg my gamertag is the same as my twitter account -- it's rarely taken :)

@betsyphd you should totally go to Ladies Rock Camp! http://tinyurl.com/2j4qcc

@aanttila so you're saying the 2001 OS consumes *more resources* than the 2007 OS! SHOCKING!!!1!@1

@cisellis I've built at least 5 Vista machines, never experienced what you're describing. Vista is way better than XP for new boxes.

@waxpancake happy birthday, lover of Vectrexeses!

@rogerguess I *owned* at Parsec ; and you've seen this, right? http://tinyurl.com/23khlm

@jongalloway bluescreen ain't good. Suspect drivers. Have you tried installing the latest ffdshow pack?

@cisellis Ah yes, the "someone moved my cheese!" contingent. I remember that from 2002 with Windows XP as well. Short memories people have.

@shanselman looking forward to that post on multi-cpu MSBuilding. That is a clear win for devs on large projects.

@robertmiller current HTPC is this, with a few upgrades http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000221.html

@engtech you need the Kitt-In Box! http://tinyurl.com/6dgrnb (via @betsyphd)

@westerveldname the first Charlie was much funnier. sequelitis, I guess. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5im0Ssyyus

@westerveldname I use three: flashblock, adblock, hidemenu. In the future I will install web developer and firebug, but not at the moment.

@jongalloway I just lost all all remaining respect for you.

@barrkel still looking for any kind of benchmarks to back that up other than make -j5 compilation. You willing to provide? :)

@kevindente have you ever had blood sausage? it's pretty disgusting, actually. So.. yeah.

@barrkel Agree. To the extent that you actually DO turn your desktop into a loaded server, then yes.

@eridius it has the same net effect as posting "I am a silly, silly person! With my silliness I stab at thee!"

@carnage4life I do see a lot of those myspace/facebook social networks as tools for getting laid. It's a powerful motivator.

@bradwilson I just *barely* beat "Electric Eye" expert on GH2:80s. My god that song is freakishly difficult.

@bsimser I've RARed it like 50 times and now the file is a single byte!!

@timbray "heavy flashturbation" nice

@asbjornu yeah, *technically* they are optional, but MANY MANY feedreaders choke horribly on unclosed table tags according to my email inbox