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I've got the opposite problem, tons of ideas and not the coding skills to make them happen. I also have a knack for taking half-baked ideas and turning them into something viable.

That aside, my ideas come from observing things I and others do frequently (or want to do) that can be improved. Read rags, ask your peers what they do online,

Some examples from my list, I hope they spawn some ideas for you

My current attempt is for online book/paper editing spawned by my writing of a Security Handbook I want online and in deadtree format. Simple really: importing of documents (Word, ODF, RTF), browsable/readable display by chapter/section, WYSIWY{G,M} editor with revision/track changes, layout templates, exporting of content to to PS, ePUB, PDF. For monetization being tied in with publishers.

buying a house? tired of collecting addresses, realtor names and those MLS numbers? Geolocation + "bookmarking" and tie in to MLS database

"What is that song?" Recording song sample, identify unique artifacts (fingerprinting) and compare to database of known songs. Crowd sourcing would help here.

HTML5 Darknet. Websocket P2P network for a website, connect visitors and (selectively) allow chatting, sharing of bookmarks, play list, calendars

One more based on your question: a place for sharing of ideas that connects experienced developers to people with challenging ideas. :)

AS you can see, these come from common issues that people run into. Best of luck!

~/.ssh/authorized_keys:

from="proxy.thimbl.net",command="finger-wrapper" ssh-rsa AAAA...

Very doable.

Based on what tricknik has said so far, this strikes me as an HTML5 WebSocket spawning SSH. Similar to what was discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1694607

Great idea, I had awesome .plan files way-back-when and spend most of my time in my shell.

Updating my micro-blog with cat >> .plan ... ^D would be enjoyable. I am looking forward to your work!

The question was "What do you do to stay (somewhat) healthy?"

Nice to see such constructive responses. I'll keep lurking from now on.

I'm founder of penetration testing laboratories. Site isn't launched yet, so I fall into the pre-launch founder status.

The idea is based on providing a tool box for auditors and n00bs to do security testing from. So far the environment is setup and development is slow coming but I expect it to launch in some form by the end of the year.

rsync.net has been fantastic over the years, I use them and several of my clients do as well. No first level support, straight to an engineer. Plus discounts for open source projects, students, etc.

In addition to their own backup agent; they support rsync, scp, sftp, ftp, rdiff-backup, Unison, duplicity, svn+ssh, WebDAV and any other combination or concoction you can come up with.

Plus, they have a ToS agreement that can't be beat: http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/tos.html

Do you watch television shows in a manner which actively avoids commercials?

As a follow-up question, would you use a post-transfer model of payment to compensate for the lack of commercials?

I have a small functioning television that sits in a corner gathering. During a local disaster (bridge collapse) local news has much better coverage than the intertubes. There are some things I can't get online and guests will from time to time move it to a more convenient location to watch the news or advertising laden shows. Otherwise, it gathers dust and someday will short circuit when turned on and go poof, I am looking forward to that day.