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Clickable - http://www.uzvy.com/

White noise is a common synthetic noise source used for sound masking by a Tinnitus masker.

White noise machines are sold as privacy enhancers and sleep aids and to mask tinnitus. White noise CDs, when used with headphones, can aid concentration by blocking out irritating or distracting noises in a person's environment. In open plan offices, large corporations such as ExxonMobil apply white noise to reduce the reach of speech, thus, by preventing office staff from being distracted by conversations in the background, safeguarding productivity.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise

http://www.simplynoise.com/

http://www.simplynoise.com/download.html#soundscapes

Well, you can do the same thing for lot less by developing a facebook/opensocial application.

Thanks for the excellent follow up! It sure helps.

It'd be great if you can share it.

This is excellent advice. But would it give an edge if you are starting a product on the lines of http://basecamphq.com/ ?

37 signals does have customers outside the US but I suppose its a small figure.

http://www.omnisio.com/startupschool08/david-heinemeier-hans...

I agree with David that no amount will ever keep programmers from programming. So instead of sweating out 14+ hours a day in hope that you can retire in 5 years, why not live your life as you go.

http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/ is a useful tool too.

http://domainsite.com/ works really well. Simple UI and full domain control is what I look for. It also has a simple 1 click integration with google apps.

We could automate all these steps using scripts. A very good example is the scripts by RightScale - http://github.com/rightscale/right_link/tree/master

Google's press release: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/ir_20090805.htm...

You can always use http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

I use this script for similar purpose - http://www.inetbase.com/scripts/ddos/install.ddos

The advantage of this script is that it directly monitors the IPs using netstat so one could stop bots from hammering things other than your webserver, say socket connections.

It is customizable to use APF or iptables and worked quite well when one of my friend's site was hit.

Perhaps it is difficult to define an attribute such as consciousness/self-awareness let alone measure it. How does one know he is self-aware? Perhaps one who says he is self-aware never is.

Not to mention the size. A HTML + CSS + JS (jQuery) implementation of a simple component such as a menu would end up being ~50KB. In flash it turns out to be less than 1KB.

Interesting discussion about this over on reddit with comments from one of the developers - http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8svh8/opera_uni...

Looks like all the names with the string "php" in them are disallowed.

What a misnomer! I thought the article was about horizontally scaled servers.

Please correct me if I am wrong but doesn't using a global sequence mean all the threads wanting to insert a record have to queue up and wait for the db to provide the auto increment id? I am not sure what time this takes but may be it creates a bottleneck for really large, write heavy applications.

Looks like they started with something like http://www.swftools.org/ and developed a custom viewer for the swf files.

For doc and other formats, one can use openoffice commandline tools to convert them all to pdf.

edit: Some history - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9874527-2.html Scribd initially used the now discontinued flash paper.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infosys_BPO

http://www.infosys.com/BPO-services/default.asp

Infosys is not a call center. But its not a "pure" software company either.

Probably the same bug. It says "Thank you, invitation sent." on the home page.

Intelligence beyond earth.

I am very interested in photography. Can you please suggest a good D-SLR and a good book for a newbie? Thanks!

Shell - http://www.kionic.com/tools/dbbackup.sh.txt

Python - http://www.techieinsights.com/2008/12/recursive-mysql-dump-w...

PHP - http://www.sematopia.com/?p=61

Create a free RightScale account and check out their shell scripts. One can get good ideas of automation from them.

I've used EC2 for running web servers as well as database server with the db servers being replicated to rackspace for backup.

I have always wondered about how EBS as disk will affect database as it is essentially a network drive. Any info on that would be great.

The question has been answered already but if you'd like to see it for yourself, you can right click on the image and hit "View Background Image".