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Ecio78on Kato.im Launches Kato Teams, a Free Chat Platform for Businesses

We use both because both have reason to exist. Since I started working in a multinational company spread across different sites (and continents) I have appreciated both approaches: sometimes the chat is a quick way to ask something, to verify that something is working etc.. compared to mail (that is not always seen "in time") or using the phone (as a bonus points, IMHO for non-english speakers it is easier to chat than to talk...)

Ecio78on Chromecast Rooted

I think there's probably not a device with the same set of capabilities of the chromecast at the same price, but on the other hand the chromecast is missing features that you can have on other devices that cost more or less the same (take rPi or one of the thousands of android usb stick) e.g. being able to play avi/divx files (it supports h264 in mp4 and mkv) or audio tracks in ac3 or dts (it supports mp3, vorbis and aac) without transcoding, or use some android apps like p2p streaming apps (sopcast). So the problem is that you can some things really easily (e.g. netflix or sharing from phone) but you miss some other that somebody is looking for (e.g. use it a good mediaplayer having quite an old pc and phone that can't be used for transcoding sources).

I've found some of these here[1] but owning no chromecast I can't do any test by myself.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/1umk7t/lets_make...

Ecio78on WRTnode Opened for $25

uhm I checked if this could be a good solution for mediaplayer usage, but it seems not: http://openelec.tv/forum/124-raspberry-pi/71202-banana-pi

Ecio78on WRTnode Opened for $25

AFAIK in British English, yes, in American English, no.

Ecio78on Google Web Fundamentals: Monetization

I was going to suggest it, even though I had zero success using it (as a buyer, not as a seller)

Ecio78on Introducing Yahoo Stores

..that was cofounded by PG:

Viaweb was a web-based application that allowed users to build and host their own online stores with little effort and technical expertise, directly from their own web browser. The eponymous company was started in July 1995 by Paul Graham, Robert Morris, and Trevor Blackwell. Graham claims that Viaweb was the first application service provider.[..] In 1998, Yahoo! Inc. bought Viaweb for 455,000 shares of Yahoo! stock, valued at about $49 million, and renamed it Yahoo! Store.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb

Ecio78on Sysmon – Log system activity to the Windows event log

before Process Monitor (procmon), those features where split between File Monitor and Registry Monitor (filemon and regmon). And they also have tcpmon for network connections, so maybe that why you think that it was already around before. I'll also add that I am a big fan of Russinovich and his tools (including of course Process Explorer, Autoruns and Pstools like psexec pslist pskill etc..) so if he releases something new, it should be interesting for sure!

Ecio78on Sysmon – Log system activity to the Windows event log

LogParser[1] is not that bad for querying event log (and other types of log), even though I've never used to to be really quick querying the system. I was using it in the past on a scheduled basis to process event files and save relevant info in a SQL Server database.

Recently I found this agent: http://nxlog-ce.sourceforge.net/ but I haven't yet the occasion to try it. Probably a good approach would be using this kind of agent plus something like Logstash.

On the other hand sometimes it happened to me to find servers with event log corrupted, so log was lost (and it was not possible to log other info before doing a reset of the log). That's not nice..

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2465...

Ecio78on The man who can see the Internet

It's also an article like this how much journals' titles could be sensationalized...

Ecio78on Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in America

I completely agree with you (even though you're French and I'm Italian ;)). I am used to metric system, but for some thing it's normal to use other measure we are used to. The example is exactly the one you're making, screen size for me it's normal to think about it in inches because it was always like this, and when sometimes I see TV screen sizes expressed in centimeters here in Luxembourg/Germany, I have to look for the conversion (or guess it sometimes from the model name) because I was thinking "42 is not enough, 50 is ok, 55 could be the right size for me, 60 is probably too much).

At the end it's mainly a matter of being used to, and being afraid of changing too

Ecio78on Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in America

Actually feet is the plural of foot :)

Ecio78on Neuromancer, 30 years old this month

I have always had this problem with Sprawl Trilogy books: I started, abandoned and then restarted and finished each of them..

Ecio78on Neuromancer, 30 years old this month

I remember having at home Mirrorshades, a cyberpunk antology[1]. It contains short novels by Gibson and others and it was edited by Bruce Sterling. Unfortunately many years have passed so I don't remember if it was good..

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Mirrorshades-Cyberpunk-Anthology-Greg-...

Ecio78on The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate (1992)

Partially related, if somebody is interested The Linux Foundation together with edX MOOC platform are offering a free Linux course since few days[1]. It seems to be quite basic (I've just started it, knowing already something-but-never-enough of Linux) but considering that is provided by The Linux Foundation, "sponsored" by Linus Torvalds and it was normally done in real/virtual classroom for 2400$, it's probably worth doing it ;)

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/linuxfoundationx/linuxfoundationx...

Ecio78on CloudFlare enabling free SSL by mid-October

you are right, I read the wrong line!

Ecio78on CloudFlare enabling free SSL by mid-October

just checked now, Gandi is 40€/yr, not that expensive compared to big names like Verisign & co. I have used in the past RapidSSL, but it is same price, 50$/yr. I've just checked Namecheap and it's reselling other SSL like Comodo or Geotrust, but it looks less expensive, so yes, probably it's the best price.

Ecio78on Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011)

It's funny that just today I was visiting Cloudflare Our Team page[1] and I noticed that "our" dear jgrahamc is the only one listed as "Programmer" compared to dozens of XYZ Engineer :)

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/people

Ecio78on Ask HN: What should I save for offline reading during 5 weeks without Internet?

+1 for Wikipedia, not just for reading something but as a reference if you want to verify something as the old Encyclopedias we used to use. To just fill the hours, I would suggest some nice book, even better good series, like Foundation and Robot Series by Isaac Asimov, A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) by George R.R. Martin etc.. With those I think those 5 weeks will fly..

Ecio78on Welcome to the public AS/400

Do you really need to do something "after" if you earn 450k$/yr for few years?

In an ideal work I'll probably take that job, ask for 80% part-time and use the remaining 20% of the time to maintain my brain active :)

BTW in my previous companies (banks) we were using banking software running on AS/400 (and DB2) and interfacing from IIS/SQL Server via OLEDB for querying the data / executing stored procedures. Actually the service was hosted, but I'm quite sure the AS/400 developers were taking 1/10 of that amount... ;)

Ecio78on Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more

If you have an Android phone I'll suggest you to try the app called Series Guide: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.battlelanc... I use it exactly for that purpose. According to the page you can sync the info with https://trakt.tv/ (so maybe you're more interested in it than the app) but I found the app really handy, you finish an episode and you flag it on the app, that's it!

Ecio78on Stellar

Registered, verified with FB, it says I'm in the queue and I should receive my Stellar tomorrow. On the other hand verifying the email with the code received raises an error saying that I need to login before via FB (and I did it). Maybe it expects to see before the Stellar gained via FB login before releasing the other 1000

Ecio78on Poorly Managed HealthCare.gov Construction Cost $840M, Watchdog Finds

Each time I read about this I think about our dear Italian tourism portal www.italia.it that costed us more than 58mil€ in 2004-2008 and was a huge failure. According to wikipedia[1] we have then spent additional 10mil for redoing it, plus 20mil for managing it in these years. Interesting for the HN designers is probably the "nice" logo[2] that won a 100.000Euro logo competition in 2006 (it was created by Landor, a US or UK brand design company...) There were jokes about the green "t" that looked like a cucumber (and in Italy the cucumber - "il cetriolo" - has sometimes a double meaning)..

[1] http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italia.it [2] http://www.marcosansalone.com/creativeantblog/?p=310

Ecio78on Show HN: An app that alerts you when your favourite product has a price change

I have used https://pricenoia.com/ to compare prices between different Amazon sites and alert me of price drops

Ecio78on Show HN: Contactive API – Turn telephone numbers into full profiles

Direct question: are you using the app to collect info about the users to you can enhance your database also based on that data?

Ecio78on Russia offers $110,000 to crack Tor anonymous network

I submitted this one as well but was not very successful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8083790

Ecio78on Microsoft laid me off after 15 years of service. Life after Microsoft?

After 15 years at MS, this guy is probably unemployable anywhere else unless he is open to learning new things and retraining.

I've not seen the video so I don't know what he was really doing in Microsoft, but you know that there are other places where Microsoft software is used outside Microsoft, right? I don't get whz he should be unemployable anywhere else..

Ecio78on Show HN: Neptune.io, A self-healing platform to fix server alerts automatically

It will be interesting to know what kind of integration is planned for Nagios as it already supports Event handlers[1] for executing script when there's a state change.

[1] http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/eventhandlers.html

Ecio78on The Benefits of Failing at French

I was having the same expectation in French, hoping to survive with only present, passé composé, future proche and "en train de" and avoid more complex things :) And it will probably be enough, if I'd master them, but I still don't remember tons of verbs, words and the pronunciation, oh my god.. As an Italian it shouldn't be that difficult, many things are almost the same, and in some situation it is (e.g. reading it) but the pronunciation is not easy and false friends are everywhere, so most of the time I don't know if I'm saying something that is sort-of French or I'm just mimicking French by removing some vowels and consonants here and there from Italian words...

Ecio78on Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk

Yes, but I meant, with all the details, and with all the nations involved taking their own responsibilities. Who knows, maybe in 50 years they will unveil the state secrecy and we'll know it for sure..