After that, though, you need to create appropriate symlinked versions in the run-level directories (those are the directories like /etc/rc0.d, /etc/rc1.d, etc.). The way to go about doing this is (in the most basic and default fashion):

update-rc.d <SCRIPT_NAME_FROM_INIT.D> defaults

E.g.

update-rc.d cijoed defaults

Your script should now run on boot.

For a bit of context, he states:

Do you include the half-baked stuff, or hold it until it’s fully-baked? Apple wasn’t going to include a front-facing camera until they had software that made it useful in an iPhone-caliber way. HTC is happy to include a front-facing camera and leave its utility (and user experience) in the hands of third-party developers.

And from here – he carries on to state the following:

Android and iPhone fans will read the preceding paragraph very differently. Android fans will read it and say, “Exactly — give us the hardware and let developers figure out what to do with it.” iPhone fans will read it and say, “I can’t wait to get an iPhone 4.”

My first thought, reading the above paragraph wasn’t “I can’t wait to get an iPhone 4″, but rather “Thank you for saving me from having to deal with mediocre implementations of video calling that will no doubt increase my blood pressure and shorten my life. Thank you that I don’t have to give a flying crap what Qik or Fring are. I can’t wait to get an iPhone 4.”

Planning is not just guessing, it’s harmful guessing… 37 Signals has been around for 10 years, you know how long we usually worry about? Two weeks. Sometimes, when it really gets crazy, we worry about two months. We absolutely do not worry about what next year is going to look like.

I’m not always the hugest DHH fan (although, I am a Rails fan ) – but watch the lecture.

This needs to be re-posted on the Interwebs every now and again, especially when you just finish having one of “those” moments.

Linksys WRT610N: Looks pretty. Admin interface is dated and aggravating. It had ongoing issues handing out IP addresses to my network attached printers, and after about 3 days, I wanted to smash it with a hammer (I returned it to Future Shop instead). Conclusion: FAIL.

D-Link DIR-825: Probably one of the most aggravating pieces of hardware I’ve ever had. Required constant reboots. The wireless range (especially of the 5GHz band) was so pitiful that it might as well not exist (or, optionally, you can cozy up to the router in the closet). That being said, even if you wanted to work right next to this thing in the closet – you’ll have to contend with the aggravating number of horrendously blue lights that could quite easily cause you to bleed out of your eyes. It was so aggravating, in fact, that I gave it away (I was too late to be able to return it). Conclusion: FAIL.

Apple Airport Extreme: This thing just works. I set it up once, and have since forgotten it even exists. It has never required a reboot, or any other babysitting since I bought it. Conclusion: WIN.

When jQuery gets ahold of invalid JSON data on a $.getJSON call, it fails silently, which can leave you with a head-scratcher, until you fix your broken JSON data.

I’m hoping a few people who use it decide to take it and run with it – or at least enjoy the open sourced version.

I first heard of Sonos back in 2006 from none other than Joel Spolsky. His words in describing Sonos back then are pretty much the exact words that I would use to describe it 3 years later:

…laptops have lousy speakers, and I had been looking for a way to pump the music from the computer into other rooms of the house, so last January I finally got a Sonos system, which is probably the coolest piece of technology I’ve ever bought. Ever.

So what we’ve got ourselves here is 4 pairs of speakers installed in our place: Office, Master Bedroom, Living Room and Kitchen. All 4 pairs of speakers terminate at a central location, so it feels a little bit strange, but all 4 of the Sonos units I bought are all sitting right next to each other, even though each one is responsible for controlling a different set of speakers (or different ‘zone’) within the house. It doesn’t make any difference from a control perspective, since you can control everything wirelessly (is that even a word?) from either a Sonos Controller, the Sonos iPhone/iPod Touch App, or the desktop software.

So from there, you basically set up each player to be responsible for a specific “zone”. Here’s a partial screenshot of the Sonos Desktop Controller app:

You basically select whatever “zone” you want to play music in, and then choose what you want to play, and blammo – you have music. You can easily link/unlink zones in the event that you’d like a few zones to be playing the same thing.

I’d try to talk more about how cool it is, but the video on the Sonos site can probably do a better job, given that I’m recovering from a flu, and about as coherent as an illiterate monkey hopped up on too much Dayquil.