A few coworkers swear by the Synology DiskStation as home media servers.

Cloudera has Ubuntu packages which include Apache Hadoop. This is a configuration guide.

LifeHacker lists two techniques to perfect a french press brew: 1) Don’t cover the press during the brew, and 2) skim the grounds off the top before pressing. I don’t usually cover the press, but I have been known to stir the grinds so they don’t collect at the top, unbrewed. A comment in the … Read more