frontwheeldrive has an interview with Dominic Giampaolo that in part covers his thoughts on the world of open source software, and the difficulties of building a profitable company around it. His concerns about how to they can make money echo my own. (I had never seen frontwheeldrive.com before, it’s very nice. I found it through Wes Felter’s Hack the Planet.)
So the other day my wife calls me on the phone and tells me our hub is unplugged and that she can’t print. I tell her to just grab the unplugged cable off the floor that fits and plug it into the hub. Unfortunately, there were three things that I did not know. The first is that the power supply for an IBM ThinkPad has the same connector as the power supply for a NetGear hub. The second is that I had the power supply for an IBM ThinkPad from my old job plugged into the wall for when I brought my laptop home. The third is that ThinkPad power supplies provide a lot more power than hub power supplies (although I could have guessed this one). Anyway, after a bad incident involving heat, I had to order a new hub from buy.com yesterday.