I'm a huge fan of the IceBreaker wool products - they have a lot of stuff which breathes well, doesn't smell even if you wear it for days backpacking and looks good. The lighter weight stuff stayed in our wardrobe except for the warmest part of the San Diego summer.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamsc at 8:10 AM on May 18, 2008

I'll second the recommendation for Julie Sahni's regional indian vegetarian cuisine - it has a ton of recipes which you won't have encountered before (which came in handy repeatedly when our CSA box deluged us with large quantities of veggies we had tended to overlook when shopping). They range from simple lentil stews to complicated multi-course dishes which take a couple hours to prepare.

The only thing I'd add is that you might want to increase the quantity of spices... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamsc at 2:51 PM on March 26, 2008

I'm a big fan of the layering approach - that way you don't need a coat which is too warm much of the year; it's also handy if you're into snow sports since you can get double-duty. Icebreaker makes some very nice merino long underwear.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamsc at 3:14 PM on December 3, 2006

Chuao has some rather good dark chocolates which are available in sugar free versions (the founders' father is a diabetic).

posted to Ask Metafilter by adamsc at 7:46 PM on December 1, 2006

They've just updated the official DreamHost blog in their characteristic fashion: Anatomy of an ongoing disaster
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamsc at 5:17 PM on August 1, 2006

For years they were great but the last month or two has been terrible. I don't know if they've just had an unlucky coincidence on failures or have underfunded operations but it's definitely been unusually bad.

One note, however: the dreamhost status page sounds worse than it actually is. They have a ton of machines and most of the ones listed there are systems which I've never heard of because non of my sites use them. The failure which was catastrophic was the recent... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamsc at 4:12 PM on July 30, 2006

The argument against is simply that if you aren't running a pirated version of Windows it provides you with absolutely no benefits and the potential risk of running pre-release software which is hard to uninstall (According to Ed Foster), reduced performance if it's poorly written and the risk of having it become a nuisance if it malfunctions and claims that your copy of Windows is bootlegged when it's legit (this isn't hugely common but it does happen).

Summary: no... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamsc at 1:35 PM on May 7, 2006

Do you have another account on the system (this is an excellent idea for many reasons)? I'd login to that account and use either the Terminal command "sudo du -xk / | sort" or OmniDiskSweeper (they're functionally equivalent - it's just a question of your command-line comfort-level) to see where most of your space has gone.

If it is FileVault's usual memory leaks one way to trigger the reclamation prompt might be to delete a bunch of files within your home... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamsc at 8:15 PM on January 1, 2005