Hey - I'm still experimenting with tagging features so this room isn't a full blown chaotic mess. In a day or so, I'm going to change it, so everyone / anyone can share. But until we come up with a good organizational method (with input from everyone in the room), I'm leaving it as is. :)
- Mona Nomura
I think I figured out a system (at least for this room), until FriendFeed sup-s up the search engine. ;)
- Mona Nomura
I'm actually for having some rooms with admin posting, it's nice to have little/no noise
- Majento
Aw. I had a few wallpaper site contributions, was wondering why this room didn't show up in the bookmarklet. Now I know.
- Phil Glockner
How about adding a [TAG] prefix in post title, for example "[MAC] How to...", [WINXP] Blah", "[PHOTOSHOP] Blah", "[TWITTER] Blah" or [GMAIL] Blah" ?
- LouCypher
Lou: That's a great idea. The strangest thing about search is, it doesn't pull up partial key words. For example, "icon" and "icons" pull up separately. Searching "Win" doesn't pull up "Windows" posts. "Window" and "Windows" come up separately. I automatically assumed Boolean Searching worked. LOL Perhaps if we came up uniform keywords and if everyone stuck to that format it would be somewhat organized (until FriendFeed improves the search and archiving). What do you think?
- Mona Nomura
[MONA] Good point Mona, the idea is actually pretty good too! 8D (Yeah, posting back on FF yeeha! Have to get back at ya in an hour though... :(
- Zu from AOD
Ack, was just wondering why I couldn't post. Thanks for the heads up
- Mo Kargas
delicious has a pretty good tag matching/suggestion process. Not sure if that can be leveraged in some way here.
- Amir Gharaat
Amir: Good idea, I'll check out delicio.us. I don't use it. LOL @Christopher: Do you prefer less posts?
- Mona Nomura
Chris: Thank you, I hope everyone feels the same as well. :)
- Mona Nomura
Mona, this has answered a few of my questions about the Goodies room but one thing it hasn't. Why doesn't this room appear on any of my friends lists?
- Kol Tregaskes
It should, Kol. Will you take a screen shot so I can see what you're seeing?
- Mona Nomura
Typical it's started to work now. All I did was unjoin and join, not sure what effect that would have. Thank you Mona, problem appears to be solved.
- Kol Tregaskes
If I find something that might be a nice addition to the room how can I get it to you?
- Michael Fidler
@Michael: send it to goodieroom@gmail.com
- LouCypher
I can't say how much I hate Word. And, to be honest, every time I've used OO, I feel like it's a clone, and just as clunky. Now I'll go back to writing Latex in Vim :)
- Michael C. Harris
JDarkroom on a flash drive... or Q10, depending on my mood and need for wordcount/stats onscreen. Just words. No bullshit. Word properly set up, though, -can- rock hard for more complex documents, but at some point you gotta move on to, say, Framemaker....
- abacab
Hell. Yes. I'm pretty much a Notepad (or at worst Wordpad) user unless I need advanced features. And then I've turned off most of Word's auto formatting things I can find.
- Jandy
What's wrong with Google Docs? @Jandy: Notepad LOL I TOTALLY still use that haha
- Mona Nomura
I use GoogleDocs when I think about it; but it prints kinda funky, so I never used it for school, which was when I mostly used word processing anyway. LOVE Notepad. It doesn't frak up html. :)
- Jandy
EPIC WIN. Candace's friend's chart would be awesome, too. That's another EPIC WIN: "Making the %)*%@#$ site work in IE". So I'm not the only one who uses Google Docs now? (OpenOffice isn't really necessary yet... Word 2003 and I have reached an understanding, but it's not my go-to program at all.)
- dgw
That used to be true in the days of office 2003 and older. I don't have any problems with office 2007.
- Alexandru Savu
Mona, so true and one reason why I now use Pages or G Docs, life is more efficient these days
- Sally Church
I absolutely despise Word. Working on getting my entire company switched to Google Docs via Google Apps. I either use Google Docs or, when on my mac, Pages.
- Robert DeBord
If have to use Word on a regular basis, it's worth reading up on the automatic formatting as there some commands that you *must not* use otherwise you'll start to descend into formatting hell. Come back Lotus Wordpro! All is forgiven!
- Stuart Woodward
Lotus Wordpro...i was too stupid to even get that. I used to write all my term papers in Lotus 1-2-3.
- Anika
oh goodness stagekid, surgery? that's not cool.
- Anika
I guess I have to be the one to do it. Fence hop FAIL! Oh, wait, he wasn't hopping?
- a runcible MiniMage
Ok, so the surgery comments just registered. Yeouch. That hurts just thinking about it.
- a runcible MiniMage
Brenda++ The real question is, who just sat there and took a pic of it...whoever it was needs a hug, and maybe some Jesus....just sayin
- Rahsheen the Dream
Kids don't drive your tanks over iphones. They crack :D. Or "It must be the new iphone 3G".
- Alexandru Savu
Buy for $120. Mount on a yard sale foot stool painted black. Sell it as $1200 art piece that "makes a statement about our voracious consumerism and idolization of technology". Profit!
- Paul Reynolds
@Paul: that idea of art item is hilarious. :D
- Daniel Schildt
Mac OS X at home because I love Unix but got tired of trying to make my soundcard work correctly with Linux. (I've since come to love OS X in its own right: it's a very well designed, consistent OS. And I heart Objective-C/Cocoa). Windows XP at home. Because we're a Microsoft shop through and through.
- James (@willia4)
Windows XP because it came with my laptop and I already had Linux desktop when I got it. I also do music, so I had Pro Tools on here at one point.
- Rahsheen the Dream
Vista. 'coz Visual Studio rocks, and I can run pretty much every app on earth :D Digging for dlls ftl ('coz, in my 8 year stint with Windows, that has never happened) :D
- Yuvi
Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. As long as I can run K-Meleon and Vim, I'm happy.
- Morton Fox
Vista on my desktop computer, OS X on my laptop, and XP/Topologilinux dual-boot on my secondary desktop computer.
- Vincent X
Yuvi: so when you uninstall programs.. you just... trust everything's removed???
- Mona Nomura
Linux. Because I believe in Free Open Source Software philosophy, and it's a great OS, sometimes I use windows in a VM for university stuff.
- Hassan Ibraheem
@Mona - besides, I ain't rich :D (Edit - Stupid Argument. WTF was the author thinking?)
- Yuvi
Windows XP at work, XP and Tiger at home. Building a box to run Ubuntu at home, too.
- Ha3rvey (F please!)
I use the drag-to-the-trash method for uninstalling apps, but I'm sure there's stuff lingering in the Library. I just don't care much.
- James (@willia4)
@Mona - besides, I don't think Drag and Drop does what it is supposed to do. *Tells himself to stfu 'bout Mac OS X 'coz he hasn't even seen it*
- Yuvi
Laptop<XP), UMPC (Linux), DeskTop(XP), TigerBox(BSD/Unix)
- Peter Dawson
Vista at home on desktop and tablet, Server 2008 configured to look and feel like Vista at work. Why? Because of what Yuvi said. Also, Server 2008 makes for an awesome workstation.
- Jordan Hofker
Ubuntu.. For the flexibility, the community & the security
- embee
OS X on personal laptop, WinXP on work laptop, WinXP/Vista dual-boot desktop at home when I need to do .NET dev.
- ronin
I use Linux because I believe in open-source, and because I don't like digging for DLLs. Instead, I dig for RPMs!
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
@possible248: Digging for RPMs ftl :P Heard apt was good? (curious, I like the concept of centralized repositries, and love easy_install for python)
- Yuvi
Various Linux distros with KDE. Linux is great for my relatively older machines, supports a wide variety of hardware that is no longer supported by other OSes, has much customizability, is great on RAM usage, the KDE desktop is much more usuable than any other I've tried (much more than Explorer), freedom, it has the applications that I love, and so on and so on.
- Jake (aka Jawee)
Actually, I only really need to dig for RPMs on OpenSUSE. Fedora and Ubuntu have the repositories that I need.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
I only use DOS 6.1 cause I'm badass like that.
- iTad
@possible248: OpenSUSE has the worst selection in the repositories. Ubuntu and Mandriva are both great (my main Linux distros atm).
- Jake (aka Jawee)
Ubuntu because its simpler than Mona N :)
- Fred Grott
Vista Ultimate and XP because that I'm a Microsoft chick. But I want a Macbook Air for when you need a little internet machine. Can't afford it though. Buy me one?
- Sarah Perez
Vista x64 at work, XP at home on the desktop, Leopard/XP on my MacBook at home.
- Jonas, Leper of FF
Vista x64, eh? Are the driver issues gone? Is it safe? :D (I seriously want to know)
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Vista came on the laptop. OpenSuSE on desktop. Thinking about KDE 4.1
- Victor Ryden 美久太阿
got KDE 4.1 running on Fedora 9 ... all I can say is wow! very very nice
- John Blanton
from twhirl
OS X at home and Vista at work. OS X is much better! :)
- Peter
I use Mac OS X and Vista on the PC. OS X is much better
- Scott
Ubuntu, because it works better on my old dinosaur of a computer than XP ever did.
- Steven Perez
The basic idea behind KDE is choice. GNOME's philosophy is that the user cannot be trusted with decision. KDE still isn't that tough to use. I love it. :D
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
As a work at home freelance software developer and tech writer, I have to go where there is demand or else I go unemployed. So I use Win XP, Vista, Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS and SuSE), Solaris and Mac OS X. For my day to day personal use, I choose Mac OS X.
- Dread Pirate PJ
I just don't get how Mac OSX users use the dock. A task bar just makes more sense (to me).
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
MacOS X, with a RedHat Enterprise system to ssh into.
- DGentry
@possible248: I'll ignore your flame bait and mention that on Linux, I prefer KDE over GNOME, for the same reason you mention. :-) I haven't tried 4.1 yet, probably will try to upgrade this weekend.
- Dread Pirate PJ
Oh, and I don't use the dock, I use Quicksilver.
- Dread Pirate PJ
OS X. Lazy...it's preinstalled on my Mac.
- Mitchell Tsai
Linux (Ubuntu) primarily, but also some OpenSolaris. I won't get into the GNOME/KDE debate -- those of us in what is sadly the OS minority need to unite for the greater good. :-) I have to use Windows for some of my DayJob tasks.
- Joanmarie
XP, Vista, Ubuntu. Vista because it came with the laptop, XP by choice, Ubuntu for server or network play.
- xero
Hehe. Flamebait. I think Linus Torvalds backs up my point pretty well (http://mail.gnome.org/archive...). I find the responses of the Mac users interesting. I love the shiny look of Apple hardware, but haven't been able to bring myself to cough up the change for one.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Linuxes, Windows, OSX, as different needs arise.
- John LeMasney
Ubuntu Linux (desktop) and Debian GNU/Linux (server) because I love apt-get. Windows XP inside of a VMWare-Player guest... does that count? lol
- Czar
vista... work-related and it's great for gaming.
- Alan Le
"A company called Creative Coffins offers a service where you can choose themed caskets designed however you like, leading the nerds at T3 to mock up some interesting with the concept. Would you want to be buried in an iPhone casket? A Vista casket? How about GTA4, Halo, or an SNES one with an eject button on the side?"
- Victor Ryden 美久太阿
from Bookmarklet
"I know you're there asshole" <---most common
- Mona Nomura
I always enjoy talking to people. Maybe some of my friends are using these techniques against me. :D
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Depends. For me, IM = New Voicemail + text. Mine are up 24-7 so most people leave messages. If I respond, they understand since.. well.. that's me ;)
- Mona Nomura
If i'm online, I don't feel obliged to carry on long conversations, most of my contacts do though. So I'm away a lot.
- Todd Jordan
My confession: I do pretty much the same but have a utility for Windows live messenger that tells me if u r really 'idle' or just pretending to be away. Still looking for one for Google talk so I can find my traitor friends on gtalk.
- The Fat Oracle
I "Liked" this on FF cause Mona N wrote it, thats it ... thats the whole reason.
- Cody Heitschmidt
Kamath: LOL!! @Cody..... you don't have to obligatory like ;)
- Mona Nomura
I wont on everything... Just did on that one cause it felt right and I have made this rule that I am gonna explain all my likes so I had to have a reason and that was a good one
- Cody Heitschmidt
I was the same way - sadly, my friends were smart enough to figure this out. So now I need to sign out...
- George Smith
Yea, no one buys when I'm away anymore. Not even worth the effort.
- Steve Spalding
My IMs are always set to "Away" as of recently 2 weeks ago or so. Same reasons as Mona stated before.
- imabonehead
I don't do this, but I will confess to hardly ever actually initiating an IM. I don't mind if people IM me, though.
- Phil Glockner
Used to talk/ytalk, but guess I'm too old to do much IM. Works well though the few times I've tried.
- Mitchell Tsai
I have patience, but do you really believe that after all these hours there will be any other fixes? I am pretty sure their backup is couple of months old and atm that's all they can do. If it doesn't get completely fixed, I'm off Twitter forever. I don't have the time and energy to rebuild everything from scratch just to see it screwed in the end.
- Alex Popescu
from twhirl
@Alex: That's the major problem with the missing followers issue: many people claimed they stay on Twitter instead of moving anywhere for the sake of the community they have here and unwillingness to build it elsewhere.
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
This is getting a wee bit ridiculous, I agree. The only reason for staying on Twitter was the community and quality of the circle of friends built up over time. Now that is completely f**ked up and if they cant get this right, even with all the new engineers from the Summiza buyout, I really will start to lose my Mojo for Twitter and just not care anymore about community and just let if fade out of my consciousness. This Stockholm syndrome is bullshit!!!
- Mario Olckers
I'm wondering how many screwups will it take to kill twitter.
- Alexandru Savu
Ok, well there was supposed to be an 8:35 a.m. embargo on this news but since Engadget's already running the story here's my article on Drobo 2.0. This looks hot!
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas, the Drobo 2.0 looks great, but did they mention when we might see a unit with integrated ethernet? That is really what is stopping them from getting my $$$. Nice post.
- Jordan
Jordan haven't heard anything about ethernet.
- Thomas Hawk
When on earth are they gonna add GigE on this and finally make it useful? NAS is far more useful than DAS. :(
- Don MacAskill
Thanks for sharing Thomas! I was really hoping they were going to upgrade the DroboShare as well. Seems that the USB connection between the share and the Drobo itself would be a bottleneck (though I am speaking out of ignorance as I don't have one).
- Justin Korn
Matt: No worries. I *think* Drobo does something similar to RAID 5, but not exactly since, with the Drobo, you are able to use different size drives. Technically, with RAID 5 you can only use the the same size drives or else the larger drives will not be used to their full capacity.
- Justin Korn
Okay, i understand the need of backup and so I solved a small Math Problem. If one has two hard drives (in my personal case my MBPs hard drive and a WD MyBook, my backup) each with a Million Hours as the MTBF and 3% as the AFR (most claim 1% but CMU says 2 to 4%; so I'm taking 3). These figures give me - assuming a Gaussian Curve for the MTBF - insignificant probability that both the drives will fail simultaneously. Aren't 8 discs (in 2 Drobos) seriously Over-kill? The probability will never be zero anyways
- Parth Awasthi
Parth, yes, it's probably pretty likely that 8 drives in 2 drobos won't fail. But don't forget about the probability of things like getting robbed or having your house burn down. By keeping one drobo at your home and another offsite somewhere you seriously diminish risk by theft, fire, natural disaster, etc.
- Thomas Hawk
@ Parth: Thomas is a Photographer. Each one of those thousands of images are unique - will never happen again quite simply becuase we can't travel back in time. In a word, they are priceless. Is 8 drives overkill, probably. Piece of mind? Priceless. (with thanks to Mastercard for the phrasing :) )
- Roberto Bonini
Thomas: I Understand completely the reason for distributing them in two places. my point of over kill was 8 drives; probabilistically speaking, we are good with two drives over two physical locations. Again, just a thought; by no means questioning your backup suggestion. Roberto: Agreed, peace of mind over all else; I understand the value of each of those brilliant shots of his, totally agree that it is only natural to desire as many measures as possible for safety.
- Parth Awasthi
Vaguely annoyed because I bought a Drobo the day before this came out. Annoyed that the sales rep hasn't managed to get back to me in two days, but I understand. Would be extremely annoyed if I couldn't return my still-unopened Drobo 1.0, since it was still in the mail when they came out with the new one.
- Ryan Brenizer
RAID helps improve reliability but does not address recoverability should one entire Drobo fail. That's how I usually make the distinction to people.
- jho
@Thomas, with you storing your photos in RAW, how full is your Drobo? How many are you going to need for a million images?
- Bryan Clark
@Bryan Clark - Assuming each RAW is ~10MB, a million images should be around 10TB.
- jho
from twhirl
From now on, I'm taking a screenshot of my Friendfeed stats page every day. After 30 days, I'm going to put them in a slideshow format and watch my progression.
Going to set the default Flickr privacy to Only Me on Jing Project, so I don't piss anyone off. :)
- Hao Chen
Problem is my FF stats have NOT changed on FF in a LONG time?!! so not sure this will work, unless you have another tool to pull this data dynamically.
- Susan Beebe
sounds like fun...I was thinking of doing something similar on a weekly or monthly basis...daily is bit extreme, but all the power to you (kind of agree with Czar :))
- Justin Korn
@Susan I don't have this problem. My likes might be small enough in quantity and diverse enough that my stats haven't 'leveled off' yet. Anyone else having that issue, especially the earlier users?
- Hao Chen
Perhaps we should create a group on Flickr. My plan is to take it every month, though
- LouCypher
That would be a very interesting study. Better yet, the data should be integrated with Google Docs and spreadsheets. Use the pie graph gadget to demonstrate the changes.
- Franklin Naval