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I'm sorry, but I refuse to eat any "meat" product that comes out of a can or packet and is not kept refrigerated.
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Do you eat tinned fish?
- Mellissa
boo
- Rodfather
I have had tinned salmon once.
- Bryce Roney
You don't eat tuna? I'm not a huge fan of tinned meat. Tinned ham is okay. But it generally has a lot of preservatives and sodium. Dehydrated mince is quite good. And I like jerky.
- Mellissa
Gotta love hospitals that have free wifi and signs that say it is OK to use your cell phone. Sequoia FTW!
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- Jay Cuthrell
What NOT to do while the President is taking an awesome pic. - http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2009...
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i like this guy.. :)
- Roshan Ramachandran
heh! I had to look at it three times before I saw.
- Jim the Blatant
great 'pic'
- Mike Nencetti
"I was just scratching! Honestly!"
- caj
Hehe!
- Kol Tregaskes
nose picking aside, i like the notion that Obama is a Jedi.
- Joe Silence
There's a lot going on this pic. Like the expression on Michelle's face.
- Stephen Mack
Deadeye, hehe. Yeah great pic, I mean photo. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hadn't noticed the nose picking the first time I saw this picture. Still an awesome photo all the same.
- John (bird whisperer)
That pic is damn funny.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Someone needs to Photoshop in a 'real' lightsaber. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
i just did.
- Joe Silence
Link? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Fail.
- Burcu Dogan
Haha! I had to read the hint to see it :)
- Julia
LOL! He'll go down in history for that! Next time, use a tissue, Dude!
- Kimber Scott
Is that Chicago Mayor, Richie Daley off to the left?
- PLUGOLA
How long before Oba Ma Wan Kenobi becomes the next macro meme?
- Nine Ferdinand
Hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
I like the fact that his light saber is blue. Now we know that he hasn't been drawn into the dark side. :)
- Ha3rvey (F please!)
Pulitzer?
- Will Higgins™
he picked a winner
- Matt G
Darth Doofus!
- Spencer
Yo Mario, I m really happy for you... - http://meme.yahoo.com/rahshee...
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Except the meme is 'I'ma let you finish' not 'I'd'. It just doesn't have the same ring to it.
- Will Higgins™
True, Will, but this is still *awesome*. Someone go in there and edit that, mkay?
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
How To See A 130 MPH Tennis Serve - http://blog.80percentmental.com/2009...
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For most of us mere mortals, if an object was coming at us at 120-150 mph, we would be lucky to just get out of the way. Players in this week's U.S. Open tennis tournament not only see the ball coming at them with such speed, but plan where they want to place their return shot and swing their racquet in time to make contact. At 125 mph from 78 feet away, that gives them a little less than a half second to accomplish the task. How do they do it? Well, they're better than you and I, for one. But science has some more specific answers to offer. Swiss researchers have concluded that expert tennis players, like their own Roger Federer, have an advantage in certain visual perception skills, while UK scientists have shown how trained animals — and presumably humans — can rely on a superior internal model of motion to predict the path of a fast moving object. For any sport that involves a moving object, athletes must learn the three levels of response for interceptive timing tasks. First,...
- Dan Peterson
Munchin on some mini champagne grapes! They explode in your mouth! Nom nom http://twitpic.com/hdfhz
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Physics WIN - http://twitpic.com/508qo
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awesome
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
I want to do that on my exercise balls.
- Anika
How many tries (and broken bones) did that take?
- Johnny
Homygorsh
- Martha
I just don't know how you figure out you can do that.
- caj
I'm sure if I tried it I would be in traction right now.
- Kevin (barely visible)
Really Awsome!
- Pierotaglia
süper :)
- Göksel Şirin
O_o
- Bluesun 2600
THAT IS CRAZY AWESOME!
- Chieze Okoye
wow. gotta reshare that!
- Nicķ
very cool...perfect landing too
- Jeffrey Marsh
Are you serious? No way!
- Andrew Trinh
I seriously just bought one of these today. but I'm with pea♥ fierce as a woozle. no attempts for me.
- Nathalie
wow that is sweet
- (jeff)isageek
Dude!
- BEX
Usually stomping on balls makes me uncomfortable, but this is pretty awesome.
- Phronk
I expect this move to be all the rage in Rhythmic Gymnastics in the next Olympics.
- Jeanine W.
Very impressive :0
- Adval
boy, if you messed that up it could really put a damper on your day. Some doof needs to try it and put up their fail-flip on youtube. Absolutely amazing, though.
- Rick Cogley
totally awesome!!! wow! how fun!
- Susan Beebe
Was waiting for the neck snapping moment....was pleasantly surprised
- Toby Graham
If I taught Physics, I'd show this to my students for open discussion
- Bwana ☠
wow
- Gökmen Karasu
wtf :))
- Batu
Thought he was going to munch it, clearly, he's not human.
- Will Higgins™
How many times did he try that until he got it right?
- Louis Gray
Not sure how many - but my guess would be that this guy is a competitive gymnast (based on the body and the setting) - things like this often come easy (when you have trained for a dozen years to develop muscle, balance and body awareness),
- Brian Sullivan
holy wow
- Mattb4rd
easy? If you're Jesus maybe.
- Mattb4rd
I would love to see the out takes on this
- Josh Haley
I really would like to try it
- delbo
Otherwise known as the orthopedist's full employment act.
- Tom Landini
win
- Jeremiah Owyang
ZZZOMG! That is such a PHYSICS WIN. A new way to use an exercise ball!
- Sean
It was amazing when he did it once, but how does he do it non-stop over and over? I lost count already.
- Josh Haley
yeah and how does he teleport back to where he started?
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
bah to science, +many for physical fitness, :O
- chaz2b
hogeeee! fugeee! fugaaa!
- Ken Okabe
WOW! Even I am impressed.
- Shawn Whitmire
I can't get enough of this. Of course it should carry the "don't try this at home disclaimer". I'm sure they could run a whole episode of Amerca's Funniest Home Videos of people trying to do this.
- Mark Krynsky
Awesome !
- DAL
wow
- orionstarr
Is it possible that there are some hidden cables here? His form seems too perfect as his feet swing around at the end.
- Brian Sloane
nope. no cables
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Youtube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Andrew C (✓)
nice.
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
I'd like to see the blooper reel
- Abbas Haider Ali
i wanna try, it's awesome!
- tibetsong
I am going to try this next time I go to the gym wish me luck heha.
- Jason
Next time I 'm at the gym, I'm gonna give this a try! :)
- burdr
burdr, did you try it out?? 8^)
- Chieze Okoye
The sequel: http://friendfeed.com/nathanc...
- Nathan Chase
This thread was discussed on the FFundercats (http://www.ffundercats.com/2009...)
- Josh Haley
BTW no longer on YouTube. Bummer.
- Jill Hurst-Wahl
Bump.
- Kol Tregaskes
Much as I like using the iPhone, I'm still baffled why Apple won't let me customize sound alerts.
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It will never let you.
- Alp
Huh? You can't customize your own ringtones??
- Justin Long
It's easy to focus on the negative
- Bwana ☠
Apple hate attracts - I talk about the positive and the negative... all the time
- Bwana ☠
If you have trouble finding threads about what people love about the iPhone, you're not looking hard enough :)
- Bwana ☠
well there's also the seeming paradox that people say they want more choice, but if you give them more choice and control, they're usually *less* happy. (hyper-tweaking geeks like us, not withstanding :) )
- mikepk
Who said anything about the G1?
- Bwana ☠
Matthew - well let me fill you in. Apple prevents developers from customizing sound alerts. It requires a jailbreak.
- Bwana ☠
So in this particular case, the complaint towards Apple is warranted.
- Bwana ☠
Granted, push notifications will allow custom sounds
- Bwana ☠
But I can't customize SMS alerts and Email alerts.
- Bwana ☠
It's baked into the phone..I must choose from their lame sounds :)
- Bwana ☠
That, to me... is baffling. It's a downfall of the iPhone
- Bwana ☠
The only thign I can think of is that Apple can't figure out a UI for sound management without giving us a file manager.
- Bwana ☠
They seem to want to avoid a file manager
- Bwana ☠
Apple, with all of their strictures, shouldn't be surprised at people like me who jailbreak right out of the box.
- Josh Haley
I can only speculate that something is coming and it's not ready....like cut/copy/paste
- Bwana ☠
Judging by the polish of cut/copy/paste, I doubt it was a last minute decision... so maybe a file manager is somewhere on their massive project plan
- Bwana ☠
Custom sounds was my primary reason for jailbreaking in the past
- Bwana ☠
True, maybe Apple wants to build a garageband like app for iPhone as well?
- Bwana ☠
Maybe some smart developer can write something to utilize push notifications to get around this lame limitation
- Bwana ☠
They need a feature for iPhone OS 4.0
- Paul T Maurer
Paul - that's my line of thinking for the project plan statement.... some features have to get pushed..maybe this was one of them
- Bwana ☠
And if you want to find positive iPhone discussions look up 3.0 hidden features that ppl keep finding. It's all "oooh" and "aaah" ;)
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from BuddyFeed
Time to wait for 4.0 update.
- Black Dot
Once Apple does this, I won't have much reason at all to jailbreak. They've taken care of all my other shortcomings.
- Bwana ☠
doesn't 3.0 firmware allow you to hide icons?
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from IM
You can change SMS alerts (to the extent that you change the sound - I had to change mine, since the default falls into my "I can't hear that but everyone else can" hearing loss range.)
- Jennifer Dittrich
I totally agree with you Bwana!
- All Mac All Mike
When people talk about the iPhone positively, it's about abstract, non-quantifiable, relative, subjective things like "ease of use"; when the talk about the iPhone negatively, it's about concrete things like lack of customization and other things Matthew DeVries mentioned.
- Andy Bakun
It's pretty shocking it's not available for such a basic requirement
- Joe Dawson
Mind control
- Rodfather
There,there
- Kevin J Hatton
Don't you know, Apple knows what kind of ring tones you need. Apple knows better than you. How could you ever doubt that? :)
- Alex Luft
Wish friendfeed would add some identifier to a Twitter feed so I can see what non-friendfeed Twitter user posts via my @ stream http://www.jasonn.com/use_fri....
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Our data center, SVColo (http://svcolo.com/), lost power (and apparently all generators as well) this afternoon, causing our site to be completely unavailable for a couple of hours. We apologize for the extended outage.
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Did you miss us?
- Paul Buchheit
This outage impacted our site as well as a number of other web sites hosted at SVColo. We are obviously fairly frustrated by the incident, and we are working hard to get everything else back online now.
- Bret Taylor
I was worried it was the End of Days!!!
- Rochelle
That's ok not your fault, great work and yes we did miss you
- Kim Landwehr
World productivity just went back down.
- Amit Patel
Just don't let it happen again. ;)
- Derrick
Did we miss you?! You just wanted to make sure we appreciated you, right? *whew*
- Jandy
yeah!
- Nathan Chase
I thought you got infected by Twitter-Flu
- John Spyers
Holy crap, I never thought I'd miss FF as much as I did. It was like the sun vanished from the sky. Thanks for returning, phew :)
- LANjackal
Hmmm are you guys thinking about DR? Dual homing? Failovers?
- EricaJoy
so much for SVCOLO's "All power is conditioned by facility-wide redundant UPS systems to assure 100% reliability.", eh?
- Nathan Chase
OMG that is all
- BEX
yay! you are back!1!
- Lindsay
Welcome back Bret. Heard there was a run on anti-compulsive meds worldwide. Whew
- Charlie Anzman
It sure seemed like a LONG time. I'd be wanting some money back from my provider for not meeting the contract!
- caj
Good to have you back!
- Sam Grover
It amazing how lost I am without Friendfeed. Nice that you're back!
- Rahul Das
Glad you're back...and most importantly still in one piece. Do you anticipate any issues with feed importing? I just manually refreshed Twitter and all seems well.
- Mark Krynsky
Great to have you guys back. Lots of weblinks/posts from surfing the past 3 hrs.
- Mitchell Tsai
#fffail was no fun. Glad you're back!
- Bill Sodeman
funnily enough this is not the first time i have heard of a datacenter with supposedly highly available N+1, A-side and B-side, UPSed & diesel-generated power just going totally offline because someone tripped over a plug.
- Karim
Yes, I missed FriendFeed! And what happened to the SVColo emergency generator plan? Jeez.
- AJ Kohn
Glad they and you are back online!
- Andrew
The FriendFeed Outage caused me to get hooked on the #annoyatrekkie topic of Twitter. Glad to see you back!
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
YES we missed you! ;-) Glad you are back up, and that as soon as I was back I could look here and see the explanation. Things happen, but I love it that there never seems to be a question that you'll give us the low-down. Thanks! :-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
And double thanks for the Tweet to announce the outage ;) (a tweet announcing restoral would be uber-cool)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Desktop application is still not working.
- Madhav Tripathi
Thanks, Madhav, we are fixing right now. Sorry for the trouble.
- Bret Taylor
nah, they knew we'd just be F5ing until they came back up ;)
- metalerik
Search still down?
- Jesper Lind
The IM bot doesn't seem to be up either.
- Rahul Das
I guess this will convince investors of the need for a second datacenter site
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Karim: the generators almost never work for anything short of telcos carrying 911 traffic..
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Cool, some people were saying it was a different power system, thanks for the update.
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
Rob, that gibes with my anecdotal experience :-) but why is that? what is the point of telling customers you don't have single points of failure in your datacenter when you do...? mishegoss.
- Karim
Karim, there are ALWAYS single points of failure. If nothing else, Earth is a single point of failure :). As for the generator, supposedly that's what's powering things right now!! (which has me somewhat frightened)
- Paul Buchheit
Paul: very true....And Karim, it's probably because the generator backups are rarely tested, certainly not regularly, and partially for this reason...the failovers don't work and they don't want to take customers down because a test went wrong
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I hope, Paul, that this will cause you guys to be able to go to the investors and get things happening on two or three sites, so we only see performance degradations in future calamities (since disaster will always strike)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
yay!
- MikeAmundsen
We need double-likey's for posts like this
- Charlie Anzman
A likely story, Bret.
- Steven Perez
Yes, we missed you!
- Anne Bouey
We podcasted about you in the dark!
- Josh Haley
This is what you get for not subscribing to me. Don't trifle again, Mr. 'Taylor'.
- Akiva
Fess up Bret ... this was just a test to see how starved we'd get without our hourly toke ;)
- AJ Kohn
If the colo facility isn't testing their generators on a weekly basis, someone needs to lose their job.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
and I was gonna suggest that it went down because I was AFK... I guess I don't qualify for the 'I survived the great FF outage of '09 and all I got was this lousy t-shirt' t-shirt.
- grant fox
During the Twitter planned outage I thought, "well, at least I still have FriendFeed". Ouch! Glad you're back. I've lived through several outages on both sides of the equation - don't wish it on ANYONE.
- Robert J Taylor
Very sad test of how addicted I've become. I was jones-ing pretty hard. Glad you're back.
- Ken Gidley
Paul, yeah, we can't eliminate SPOFs completely, but i've seen these places brag about how they have N+1 power systems, UPS, diesel generators that can run for days at peak load, priority contracts to have more diesel fuel delivered if necessary, etc. etc., and something happens and the whole data center just dies. you realize that you might be screwed in the event of Global Thermonuclear War :-) but you don't expect to be down for hours because somebody pushed the wrong button...
- Karim
Nice to have you back.
- Ignace Rodriguez de R,
strangely enough, a transformer blew up outside earlier tonight and now my lights just flickered. going to make sure my UPS is charged :-D
- Karim
Alex: Where have you ever been that they actually tested gens on a weekly (or regular even) basis. I've been around colos and CLECs for many years, and this happens all the time because there's never a test
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
and Alex: That's where I'm going to put my next project ;-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
glad to have ff back. What will happen to updates which were made during that time? will they appear on my ff site?
- Okeane
Supposedly the generators worked ok, but there was a ground-fault elsewhere in the system that blew out all the breakers. Murphy wins again.
- Paul Buchheit
I am guessing they may have to update this page: http://www.svcolo.com/power... ;-)
- Brian Sullivan
It is a fact of computing...sometimes the power just quits. IP is great - we can always rely on RFC2549 for a no-electricity transport protocol.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Where you gone....I hardly noticed....OKAY! YES! Yes, I missed you! Satisfied?!
- WoH: Minding her Steves
glad FF is back!
- (jeff)isageek
My browser reload button is exhausted. But all systems are go now—thanks for calming all the passengers by simply telling us what's really going on—awesome. *climbs out of search.twitter dingy and back onto the mothership*
- Micah
guruvan: Most hospitals I've been to test their backup systems on a regular monthly schedule. Ironically, that makes the emergency power system in general less reliable than utility power.
- Gabe
So it that not a fail whale but a school of fail whales??
- Amani
Gabe: ok..never worked in a hospital, but most of them do in fact have proper working backup power to my understanding. why can't the telcos and datacenters? this is a very common problem for them.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
@Rob, not everything is that simple. did someone drive their car into the generators? :P
- mjc
Does sitting for 2 hours watching all mentions of FriendFeed on Twitter search qualify as missing you?
- Sharon McPherson
Have a fail-over version of Friendfeed on Google App Engine. I know it will take time and effort, but then it will mean built-in redundancy. And failing of both together will be a highly imbprobable event
- Varun Mahajan
Michael, I know it's not all that simple, but you would be amazed at how often this happens in professional datacenters and at CLECs and without something as understandably disastrous as cars through buildings or bombs.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob: when I first met Rackspace's chairman, Graham Weston, we talked about a failure they had when a truck knocked out power there. Turned out the chillers and generators had a flaw in their design that kept the generators from kicking on for a few seconds. This sounds exactly like what happened here. Rackspace worked with the chiller and generator companies to design a fix, but he told me that most data centers haven't upgraded (Rackspace's have). I wonder if this is the flaw that hit friendfeed yesterday?
- Robert Scoble
I read somewhere that it had been mathematically shown that a computer program can never be 100% error-free because the error routines will have errors... Maybe it's the same type of thing here.
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
Robert: That's very interesting. Don't know if that's what happened, but I do know that most of the time when I've seen this happen in a CLEC CO it's been much more simple than that. Usually attributable to human error (and lack of testing). I am curious to how, and how often Rackspace performs tests. Finding the design flaw you mention speaks highly of the company IMO.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob: they run tests on the power system very often. Unfortunately nothing tests a system like real life.
- Robert Scoble
No, there are factors that just don't come into play in a "controlled" test scenario, no matter how thorough you try to make the test.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
It was the severity and length of the outage that was the surprise - but we have had electricity outages over a vast part of the continent that lasted days and caused by small flaws so this isn't out of that realm. But this is or should have been a much smaller more controlled situation. I am guessing there may be some adjustments in contracts and some heads rolling. Who else was affected by the situation? I get the impression that svcolo is a fairly large operation.
- Brian Sullivan
Brian: if a data center goes down for two seconds it often takes an hour or longer to turn everything back on and get it all working properly again.
- Robert Scoble
In this case it was definitely "longer"
- Brian Sullivan
Very true...and often longer than that to get data systems working again, as they're often overloaded as soon as they come online (causing great difficulty in getting them to run correctly). I was very impressed with how quickly FriendFeed was able to have everything back to fully functional
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Brian: yup. I bet that the power came on pretty quickly, but bringing up a rack of equipment and getting everything talking to each other again can take quite a while.
- Robert Scoble
I guess they will have to adjust their power uptime claims to read 100% (except for strange circumstances) ;-)
- Brian Sullivan
no company anywhere should ever try to claim 100% uptime of anything. it's just not realistic. there's always some scenario that causes that to be off - if only by 0.0001%
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
maybe time for a pv solar third-tier backup
- Matt Weeks
*points at th Tier 1 Colo data center with dual 10GigE core links on the first floor of the building he works in*
- matthew john ernisse
I've been with Hurricane Electric 5 years and never experienced significant downtime. Luck? Maybe. Maybe not.
- Jason Nunnelley
The good news is downtime seems an essential element of a social's' success.
- Jason Nunnelley
When this happens I always wonder if someone hit the EPO: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archive...
- Phil Glockner
Brian, the SVcolo page you linked to is funny. love the part where they "assure 100% reliability" for the electrical power, with a "100% facilities uptime SLA." guaranteed to never fail or you get your next pizza free? guessing their hull is also 100% impervious to icebergs. +1 Phil. though day of week is also suspect. am superstitious about planned maintenance windows on Friday afternoons -- like standing in open field with a lightning rod during a thunderstorm. ;-)
- Karim
matthew, i thought the Tier 1 data centers sucked? :-D with diversity, it sounds like you are in a Tier 4...
- Karim
I think it is bound to happen with anywebsite specially when it is growing faster than expected.
- Ashish
ashish: it's bound to happen to just about any website. until a site is the size of google, yahoo etc, it;s not only possible, but probable that it will happen. -a definitely nice link there Phil :-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I think some people got frustrated as if they paid to use Friendfeed. I wonder what would happen if websites like this eventually start to charge the users or would they be ad supported. I think the newness of the social networking will eventually fade as that of email.
- Ashish
In a sense, a lot of us do pay to use friendfeed. We pay with our time, we pay with our words and we pay with our content.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
No customers = no job, Alex?
- caj
The data center that I audited for 3 years switches to generator power on a weekly basis to test that it's working.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Unfortunately, we only host online banking sites.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
lol Alex, I was going to mention, the centers that house banks come as close to never going down as possible. it's not unheard of, but it sure is the end of someone's world if they do go down
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
you move gradually towards Livejournal path - they had same once big, and even became annual tradition... yes, power losses became regular once-a-year thing, no matter what datacenter they were to use. And then they sold itself to Russian SUP :D
- Отборнейший бред
welcome back :p
- healingkid
URL Shortening Wars: Twitter Ditches TinyURL For bit.ly - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... (via http://friendfeed.com/louisgr...)
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big screen kindle coming as soon as this week? rats. Just got my kindle2 http://www.engadget.com/2009...
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Of course Amazon's coming out with a new, bigger, Kindle. I just bought one for my mom for Mother's Day. -sigh-
- Leo Laporte
You never fail to push companies into their next gen product releases. It's almost eerie. You're purchases have become a bellwether for the rest of us to put our wallets away!
- Gregg Scott
Since Leo is famous for for purchasing stuff the day before it's replaced. I usually wait a WEEK after he makes the announcement to purchase the same item just to be safe. ; P
- CT Raider
Thanks to everyone who suggested the free Sun Virtual Box for running Windows on OS X. Works great! http://www.virtualbox.org/
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How well does it do with Boot Camp partitions?
- midnightgolfer
Been thinking about using Virtual Box to run Windows on Ubuntu: http://lifehacker.com/367714...
- Jason Heppler
Jason, you should -it works really well
- Robert Johnson
I don't know if it works with Bootcamp partitions (like VMWare and Parallels do) but I'm using it with XP right now and it seems every bit as fast as either Parallels or VMWare.
- Leo Laporte
Is there any way to run Linux like that?
- Kyle
If I already have a license to run VMWare Fusion, what does Virtual Box do that VMWare doesn't?
- Paul Grav
@Daan. VMWare does this too.
- Paul Grav
How to quit and start a company. http://adjix.com/8es7 Please mark "found useful" if you did.
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FriendFeed Blog: View your FriendFeed in real-time - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...
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I am going to spend all evening in the real-time version of the debate room at http://friendfeed.com/rooms.... You can view your real-time feed at http://friendfeed.com/realtime
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
MG: you can also embed a real-time feed for a room in other web pages, so you can embed a real-time view for your next liveblog event (we thought of you when enabling that feature).
- Bret Taylor
Amazingly awesome. If friendfeed were a person I'd have the hugest crush on it.
- EricaJoy
gotta say it's immensely satisfying to use the share bookmarklet in one page and see it pop up instantly on the mini window
- Karl Rosaen
I LOVE this new feature: http://scobleizer.com/2008... but damn, now I'm really not going to get any work done!
- Robert Scoble
Time to watch FriendFeed scroll on ... and on ... and on ...
- Great Scott!
Nice work guys. You've re-invented crack.
- Ryan Kuder
+1 Ranjit
- Great Scott!
Popping out the live window is really useful because you can click through and see the original post in it's entirety.
- Frankie Warren
interesting to see the debates in RT. only problem is that i couldn't deal with twitters election site because it moved so fast.
- Anika
@scoble, re:"This is also functionality that Facebook or MySpace does not have" facebook does have a "live feed" feature
- Karl Rosaen
Really? Where? I never have seen Facebook's live feed.
- Robert Scoble
i just noticed it last night, tab next to 'posted items' on the home page. it has 'log mode' and 'full stories'
- Karl Rosaen
On your home screen Robert, News feed, status updates..... live feed
- Simon Wicks
It's called live... not so sure it actually is. it's on the homepage up in the tabs for the newsfeed.
- Frankie Warren
It is live. Stuff I posted right now appears within a few seconds.
- Robert Scoble
The comment link isn't big enough. I have too many Friends. Keeps scrolling.
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pardon my language but this is fucking crazy...
- Zee.
Sorry Robert, I was referring to Facebooks "Live Feed"
- Frankie Warren
Agreed, I've had to chase the Comment link down 3-4 times already.
- xero
all about the lists Chris
- Zee.
This is AMAZING, and FAST.
- Dave Gilbert
Yah, chasing the comment link is annoying. I am working on something for that now. The update rate was not exactly this high during a lot of our testing ;)
- Bret Taylor
Am I missing how to embed the realtime somewhere?
- Ryan Kuder
You can use an iframe!
- Gavin
True, good point
- Sherif Mansour
Although, it would be nice if the comments appeared in-line tot he initial post, instead of a new post
- Sherif Mansour
Ryan: on any room you can see the embed link: http://friendfeed.com/rooms... for instance.
- Benjamin Golub
to keep congruence with the normal page, i'd like to see 'likes' show up here too
- Karl Rosaen
can u imagine the redraws if that were the case? I was thinking about this myself and it seemed a good idea till I actually implemented it.
- Prolific Programmer
yeah, i suppose so, glad to hear it was tried out (i assume u work at ff?). maybe 'most liked' graph on the side or something that would update as the votes came in... or not
- Karl Rosaen
FF Team, you guys rawks!
- AJ Batac (/-_-)
Thanks, Benjamin. I've now got a realtime feed embedded in a post on my blog. It looks awesome: http://ryankuder.com
- Ryan Kuder
crikey- that is cool...
- Zee.
Is there a way to just watch one persons feed in realtime? not their friends just them.
- Shawn McCollum
I have to respectfully say I'm not a fan. While I suppose it could be interesting for live blogging, etc... I'm a proponent of thoughtfulness over speed and quantity. We already have enough twittering in the world, enough 24-hour live news coverage. We don't need to know more sooner. We need to understand more better.
- Adam Lasnik
Fantatic.
- Russellreno
@Adam Atleast it's there in case you ever want it
- Gordon Swaby
You guys are the cats pajamas.
- j1m
But wait, how do I flip it? I want new things to arrive on the bottom, like in all my other chat clients. I have a much easier time reading from top to bottom. (Also, can it auto-pause when I'm not scrolled to the live end of the feed? And if not, can the pause button stay in view when I scroll?)
- j1m
I didn't see the real-time update here,maybe my office computer is too slow,or maybe it is the issue with IE6.
- Steve Chou
Now it is working,and it is awesome...
- Steve Chou
Also, why no list of accumulated Likes? And I miss the More button. (As you can tell, I'm completely addicted.)
- j1m
WOW! WOW! I like it ;)
- Kyle Weller
Mine doesn't seem to be updating... is it possible it can only handle a couple of feeds at a time. The room I'm embedding probably has 3 or 4 dozen feeds. I know it's gotta update more often than once an hour. Ugh.
- Patrick
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