Adam Zwakk

If you don’t already know, I have a Usenet/Sickbeard setup that works like a dream. I can set up Sickbeard to watch for new shows for pretty much any series old and new, and it will find and auto-download (and auto-rename and put in a user specified folder tree). Great stuff, I’ve pretty much abandoned torrents for any video content for how well this works. So then I got to thinking, why don’t “actual” companies start delivering content this way. Usenet has been around well before Torrents existed, and transfers aren’t based on a P2P concept. I understand that companies don’t want to use torrents or P2P methods, but why don’t companies release a commercial version of Sickbeard and deliver their content through their own Usenet server? Here are 5 reasons why I think this could work.

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I’ve started a new job as a programmer/analyst at a forensic agency. It’s only about a 15min walk away from me, so it works out pretty well. Right now I’m tasked with getting a Flash file working that (seems) half completed.

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I used to scour Kijiji and Monster.ca for freelance web developer jobs. I like working from home (who doesn’t), but I hate how inconsistent the pay can be when you need it. So I frequently replied to postings for pretty much any web dev postion.

Company 1:

So one time, I go to this start up company for an interview. They just do basic sites with PHP/CSS, basic stuff that I’ve done for years. I go to the place, and they ALL the staff are graduates from the same program as me (except a year ahead of me) and they even recognized me. I thought this would be an easy interview and everything was win win.

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Let’s face it, C&C is pretty much dead right now (unless Bioware brings it back). To me it was dead right around C&C Generals, and the last true C&C games were Red Alert 2 and Tiberian Sun.

This is OpenRA, a port of the FIRST Red Alert game. Red Alert was one of the first games I played on Windows 95 (though it also supported DOS), and I used to play a TON of skirmishes against the AI. It had a bunch of features going for it at the time that weren’t really seen in any other games.

OpenRA

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I’ve been using Notepad++ since high-school. I’ve been using it so much that I don’t even install Adobe Dreamweaver with my Creative Suite installs anymore. I know there are free IDEs like Aptana Studio and Eclipse, but if you want a barebones text editor that you can customize how you want, Notepad++ is the ideal solution (at least for Windows). I recently discovered some custom plugins that just blew my mind how much time I was wasting. Plugins that make me way more productive. These can all be found on the Notepad++ Plugins page.

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