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Star Trek has shown us the future of cuisine is food replicators that make amazing dishes based on our personal preferences. But what is the future for what happens once our body is done with the food. Probably not explored because it’s not exactly a glamorous topic but we were thinking that future tech in the bathroom might analyze our visits and test for a huge array of things. We use blood/urine/stool sample tests for so many things it would be amazing if such tests were performed on a daily basis and recorded. We’d have a history of vitamin and mineral levels, hormone levels, warning signs and who knows what else. Then what if your home would adjust your diet based on this information, or schedule a doctor appointment. In my mind that’s what a real smart house means, one that does the things we can’t easily for ourselves.

The Good
The mouse has a feature with the scroll wheel where if you press it down far enough, it “unlocks” the wheel so instead of the typical behavior of a mouse where it clicks as you scroll, it enters a free-spin mode where I can basically spin the mouse-wheel and remove my finger while the wheel will continue to spin until it loses momentum. Kinda cool and useful for some of the longer tickets that get passed my way at work. The mouse also has more buttons than I know what to do with so I have to look at how I want to remap many of them.

The LCD screen doesn’t show all the things it can when you’re running linux, but it does have a keypress counter so I can literally see how many characters I’ve typed every day, not really useful but neat.

I LOVE how quiet the keyboard is, I’m a bit sensitive to sound and this keyboard is awesomely quiet.

It’s very comfortable which is something I was hoping would turn out to be true since I went to 5 stores that claimed to have them in stock and couldn’t actually find one to try, so I had to order it on-line from Tiger Direct.

The Bad
So far the biggest problem which is a biggie for me until I decide on my work around is that nearly ALL ways you would normally paste from your clipboard/buffer have been altered in some way. Clicking the scroll wheel does not result in a paste, clicking both mouse buttons does but I don’t like the idea of wearing out two buttons when one will do.

The insert key has moved, up to the same row as the function keys, WTF? I have to remap this somehow because that’s killing me, since they changed the layout of where home, delete, pgdn,pgup,etc. normally are I will probably remap the home key to insert because I can’t think of any time I use the home key.

Overall I’m in love with the new gear and I’m very happy with the purchase but I do wish I had known about the insert key/mouse paste before I might have kept looking awhile longer.

I’d also like to give points to someone for one of the most creative RTFM’s I’ve stumbled across in awhile:

+1 to Scientica for his response in this thread

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Gift for Shawn

My mom called about my little itchy dog and we chatted for a bit about how things were going at home and how things are going here. After the phone call I left my beautiful wife and headed back down stairs to mingle with the people in the exhibit hall.

What followed is entirely my fault in retrospect. I’m not much of a drinker, and since I watch what I eat I don’t really nibble off trays so really for me this was a chance to get down to business and try to get the exhibit hall done with early. Problem is everyone else was interested in drinking, eating, and mingling and I really can’t blame them. Many people use these conferences as a business reason for a vacation and while I can understand that, it was my expectation that was out of line, not what was going on.

So I spoke with HP for a time, and with a company named Trusted Computer Solutions that has some really interesting software. Then I started  to head back to my room and was grabbed by a large group of Rackspace people and talked to them for over half an hour, they seem like a great group of people, then I headed back up to the room and the wife and I went off to grab some food before bed.

This morning I’m going to be taking the following break-out sessions:

10:50 – Kickstart Tips and Tricks
1:00 – Understanding the performance of industry standard benchmarks on RHEL
2:10 – Data Center on a Stick: The Reality of Data Center as a Service
3:20 – Red Hat Virtualization Leadership Series: Breaking Performance and scalability barriers
4:30 – SELinux for Mere Mortals

Should be a very interesting day

for Hannah

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It’s on.

Reblog This Concert, featuring The Urgency, Bamboo Shoots, Shinobi Ninja, and DJ sets by Bearbot and DJ Machine.

August 10th at NYC’s Gramercy Theatre.  Buy your tickets in advance for a $3 discount!

More info and tickets available here.  And BIG thanks to Bianca for pulling this together!

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This is one of my favorite new food shows. I can’t say that I really “dig” any of the people competing but I do enjoy Marco in action. For Details check out the NBC website, can’t wait for the finale.

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