Thankfully, Lifehacker came to the rescue and reccomended OutSync. as a way to sync peoples photos between Facebook and Outlook.  The download was simple, and it worked like a charm with Outlook 2010 beta on windows 7 64bit.

Now Outlook has become a whole lot more personal.  I find that I do give more attention to friends now because of their picture at the bottom of messages, but I’m fine keeping annoying vendor messages face-less, literally.

File this under Smart Thinking.  Take a picture of both sides of a check with your Iphone.  While it uploads, void the check.  Access deposited funds asap.  This is the smartest Iphone app this year.  Now citibank needs to get in on it.

Bank Lets Customers Deposit Checks by Taking Pics with an iPhone - Banking - Lifehacker.

After spending the weekend with a tiny wood chisel fitting an air conditioner into a window frame circa 1890, I got to feeling crafty.  My days in the wood shop may be done, but this great little project from GideonTech will be a techy excuse for keeping the chisel out.

GideonTech.com Case Modification - Mahogany USB Drive.

This server was poorly created using VMware server version 1.1 a long time ago.  Everytime we tried to move to ESX lots of problems like missing VMDK files and Kernel Panics.  Two things wrong: 1) ESX doesn’t support IDE drives and 2) most P2V converters do not support LVM.  I’ve seen some P2V workaround that netcat piped dd commands over the network as a workaround.  But that requires a bunch of “fdisk”ing and a bunch of luck.  Thankfully the new VMware converter can handle non-standard linux filesystems (even though they are not approved).  The trick is root access.

1. Make sure to install the latest VMware tools on the Linux host.  Ubuntu will require kernel source and removal of the sudo command.  Fedora can use the RPM.  Redhat and Suse can use the Upgrade tools menu from ESX console.
2. Have source server running and ensure root access logins.
3. Using Vmware converter version 4+ (free download), connect to the source server, the target destination ESX server and supply root login information.
4. The VMware converter will create a new, empty, linux VMware on the target ESX server.  This blank tank needs access to DHCP for it to boot and once it turns on, it creates mirror partitions.  (screenshots)
   • My source server was an 8GB IDE drive partitioned with a 256MB /boot EXT3 and a 7000MB /root LVM.
   • The Target Host server created a 256MB EXT3 /boot and a 7000MB /root EXT3 partition on ESX using SCSI Bus Logic drives.
5. It will then copy individual files from the host to the target (why Root access is so crucial) and serve up a shut-down, but ready to go ESX compatable server.
6. Check target ESX server for any extra setting changes and get going.

The noise as people try to find someone by screaming over heads would be deafening.  The technical implications of all the wireless connections would cause premature balding.  Fights for the window bean cushion would be bloody.

Still, I would love it over the cruddy cube culture of today.

… It is often forgotten that money is to be made by leveraging the
collective long tail, however, making money while being part of the
long tail is very difficult. Specifically, in the blogosphere, the vast
majority of blogs have very few readers. It is not realistic to expect
these blogs to make money.
As the enthusiasm and the incentive in the long tail begin to wear off,
what would be the impact on the businesses
that depend on them? Likely, the impact is going to be large.