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Happy Holidays!
*renklerin içinde, Sheila Taylor, MK35540 and 149 other people liked this
Dead programs don't get snow logos.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
Dead programs don't let you make comments
- Ozgur Demir
*ZING*
- Jeremy (on vacation)
dead programs don't let you like things
- Roberto Bonini
Dead programs don't..... work.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
Yay! The graphic has officially been flipped! No need for nostalgia.
- Louis Gray
Kenndy actually makes a good point here... :)
- Roberto Bonini
Merry Eggnog! ... and jeez, what's with the rude comments? It's the holidays. #relax
- Mona Nomura
Maybe I was misunderstood. I was commenting that the snow logo is proof that FF wasn't (and isn't) dead.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
I think everyone knew exactly what you meant jeremy :)
- Roberto Bonini
ok. I was trying to find the "rude" comments...
- Jeremy (on vacation)
Jeremy, perhaps there's a misunderstanding. As a rule, FriendFeeders celebrate Festivus - maybe someone mistook this thread for the Airing of the Grievences ceremony. In any event, I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you're gonna hear about it!
- John Craft
Hehe
- Roberto Bonini
Bring it on, old man.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
*gets popcorn*
- Roberto Bonini
FIGHT!
- Jason Huebel
A little goes a long way around these here parts. *picks teeth with straw*
- Josh Haley
^^^ :)
- Micah Wittman
:)
- Shandiz
Happy :))))))))))))))))))))
- ★ Soner Gönül
Happy Holidays!
- A**
Happy Holidays everyone! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
Merry Christmas
- Xitong Liu
Merry Christmas
- victed
from iPhone
Bump.
- Kol Tregaskes
like for the bump, ;)
- chaz2b
ta...
- nef
Thanks much Bret. Happy Holidays to you too!
- RON08
The Perfect Billboard - http://imgur.com/3hB19
Robert Felty, Meryn Stol, April Russo (app103) and 54 other people liked this
My God, it even has a watermark.
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Impossible to read from the passing car, but perfect for blogging. Strange there is no contact information in the text, so people seeing it online would know where to find these creative guys. Couldn't imagine it's really a TV Show ad. Looks like an agency showing off. Paul, do you know where the billboard is located?
- earlyadopter
Looks photoshopped to me, i.e. nice idea but not real.
- Miriam
I'm guessing that this was in England, NZ, or Australia.
- Gabe
It's a shame that it doesn't use true small caps, instead using reduced-sized capitals.
- Mistletoe Glen
Mistletoe: I was thinking the same thing. :(
- Gabe
Bumpy whale fins set to spark a revolution in aerodynamics - http://www.gizmag.com/bumpy-w...
Ryan Moulton, Private Sanjeev, Tristan Hambling and 17 other people liked this
"Current theory would state that the leading edge of a fin, fan or turbine blade should be absolutely straight and smooth for best effect - a 'fact' that has been taken for granted for decades. But the more Fish studied the odd leading-edge bumps, or Tubercles, the more it became apparent that evolution's work on the fin was far ahead of man's best efforts. Airfoils fitted with tubercle bumps showed much higher lift efficiency and greater stall resistance than identical airfoils without them. Turbines fitted with tubercles to the leading edges of each blade are able to produce more power at low fluid speeds, are quieter, and perform much better in turbulent fluid streams. It seems the bumps have the effect of channeling air into smaller areas of the blade, resulting in a higher wind speed through the channels and a number of rotating airflows on top of the blade which increase lift. Furthermore, the bumps eliminate the tendency of air to run down the length of the blade's edge and fly...
more...
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Hey, if dimples make golf balls fly farther, then why not?
- Gabe
Vortex generators have been used on aircraft wings for decades and work by introducing energy into the boundary layer thus making it more difficult to detatch the flow (like http://www.mauleairinc.com/cd...) but these seem quite interesting. Haven't used any of my aeronautical engineering degree until just now :)
- Alex Lomas
For all my camera's megapixels... Most of my photos are only seen at 604px high (Facebook) and 500px high (Flickr)
Tony Ruscoe, Chatsohbet and Benjamin Golub liked this
Microsoft Bing - Bellevue
Roberto Bonini, Chatsohbet, Andrea Contino and 12 other people liked this
Bonus points if someone hacks it to say "bong".
- Joel Webber
You have to admit that Bing is pretty nice though.
- Paul L. McCord Jr.
actually, no.
- Joe Silence
I think it needs a ".com" at the end--just in case for the people who have been living under a no-tech rock for the last year or so.
- Robert Sanchez Jr
or for people whose search needs are better met by a search engine that doesn't sell search rankings (i.e. 99.9999% of internet users)
- Mr. Gunn
or for people who are named Bing (like a cousin of mine). As far as I know there's no one who's named Google...Still it's a nice shot.
- Robert Sanchez Jr
Haircut time!
VAL D. Zone, (1)Bebekvegebelik, HealingBrush and 38 other people liked this
My wife cuts my hair too.
- Mike Nencetti
I see you've upgraded the Flowbie!
- Gabe
fresh....and handsome.....
- Henny Susilawati
from email
April's a keeper, I'm tellin' ya. :)
- Josh Haley
i do this too, except its in a salon and cost $70
- sean percival
I do this for myself, once a month, in front of the mirror. it comes out so great that people often ask me "where do you go to take an haircut?". I usually say: "I am the only customer of my barber ;-)"
- Tzury Bar Yochay
Who took this picture?
- Clare Dibble
Camilla?
- Ruchira S. Datta
cute!
- Myrna
Tzury, how do you know they aren't asking to avoid going there? ;)
- Cristo
Interesting. You look 20 years younger here than your Friendfeed avatar.. :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
@christo LOL. handsome people are self aware!
- Tzury Bar Yochay
I took the picture Clare :). See-ming, how old do I look in my FriendFeed avatar?
- Paul Buchheit
I cut my own too, not that you could tell.
- JSLeFanu
I just noticed that my 8-month-old has the same haircut!
- Gabe
Sometimes I cut Ken's hair, fun times indeed. He has to do everything I tell him or else! haha!
- Susan Beebe
I think I have those same clippers. Using them with no guard buys quite a bit of time.
- metalerik
You are a smart fellow Paul, that's probably why you are a millionaire. I am not sure why anyone goes to the barber any more. $ 50.00 and a couple of hours is not worth the trouble. One trip to the barber costs as much as a new Shaver or Hair Trimmer. I have been cutting my own hair for over a decade, though recently my sweetheart has been cutting it and she does an amazing job in about half an hour.
- Iggy Mwangi
Have no idea why haircut is so damn expensive in the US, it is so cheap in China.
- Steve Chou
Ha! $16 at chinese barber in Arlington, VA ;)
- vovasty
You are going to a Salon, not a barber. It's Guy Hair, compromise.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
You can get a haircut something like $70 cents in China.
- Steve Chou
You guys are like my parents.
- Daisy
Mango dessert epicness
Myrna, Derrick, Michelle Martinez and 5 other people liked this
Yum!
- April Buchheit
Fwd: Wrote an api library for php (api version 2). You can download it at http://funny15.com/friendf... (via http://friendfeed.com/friendf...)
Marco Balzerani, Premasagar Rose, Kaan Şengül and 5 other people liked this
Any chance of putting it up on Google Code or some other place to make it easier to download and keep up to date? Great job!
- Benjamin Golub
Perhaps you could add it to your library repository? If this is not possible, i will create a friendfeed-api-v2-php project on Google Code.
- Nikolai Kordulla
It's best to keep in your own repository so you can keep it up to date. I do plan on showcasing popular libraries though by linking to them from our repository :)
- Benjamin Golub
uploaded on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p...
- Nikolai Kordulla
Nikolai, could you include some examples of basic use of the library?
- Zackatoustra
ok i will add a small example, today.
- Nikolai Kordulla
Love to see an example on how to use this
- Greg
Still no example for use of the php version in the wild?
- beersage
kjkj
- Nagy Istvan
up!
- Sercan Virlan
My Christmas present!!!!!
Clare Dibble, ravi karandeekar, Eric Borisch and 74 other people liked this
OMGCOOL! w0000t!
- AJ Batac
wow
- mohammadk
Jealous!
- Joe Pierce
gosh! :)
- BraGiu aka Beppe Bravi
Congratulations. Santa loves you!
- Louis Gray
YAY!!!!! I want that too! Let me know what you think of it!
- Susan Beebe
م.ب.! ..دی
- کاوشگر
Thanks for my awesome new laptop, Paul! I love it!! xoxoxoxoxo
- April Buchheit
Cool!
- Mycaptain
nice gift
- Mehmet Fatih YILDIZ
vaoww )
- Me fallit ஐ
Congrats - I got one too :) Love it.......
- Tyson Williams
اینم دلش خوشِ ها!
- کاوشگر
Merry Christmas!!!
wchs, Benjamin Golub, Karen Padham Taylor and 19 other people liked this
looks like a lot of booty
- amelia arapoff
Happy Holidays!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Merry Christmas, Ross!!
- April Buchheit
What a mess!
- Rochelle
Merry Christmas, Ross! Hope it was happy!
- Anne Bouey
Merry Xmas, Ross! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
C&H Inspired Snowmen - http://imgur.com/qGTLh
Daniel Dulitz, Kol Tregaskes, Richard Chen and 12 other people liked this
Yawn!
Stephen Mack, Maggie, guruvan (Rob Nelson) and 11 other people liked this
The aftermath of all that eating, drinking, and unwrapping.
- April Buchheit
from email
That looks a lot like us after a day at O' Hare.
- Bryan Entzminger
It wouldn't be a startup if @cw & I weren't IM'ing on Christmas Eve at 1:20AM. Merry Christmas to all you other insomniac startup founders.
Dan Hsiao, George Moga, Benjamin Golub and 6 other people liked this
Having a country christmas!!!
Mona Nomura, Kol Tregaskes, April Buchheit and 18 other people liked this
Hell, yeah. THAT is Christmas. In these parts, at least.
- Chris Baskind
Chris and SAM- this is where I grew up and I just loved that they decorated the tractor! We count lights on our way home from my Aunt and Uncle's and this was my favorite of of the 972 we counted!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
from iPhone
:-)
- wchs
Gradually converting all my subversion repositories to mercurial.
Adewale Oshineye, Jon Parise, JoeCamel and 8 other people liked this
I still haven't quite fully gotten the hang of hg, but I so much prefer accepting patches and doing code reviews via hg clones that it is worth the short-term unfamiliarity with the tools. May I never run 'patch < your_changes.patch' again.
- DeWitt Clinton
Hg and Rietveld are two accelerants to the pace of httplib2, which should have another release in a day or two. Makes me wonder what affect they have on the other projects that adopt them. Also makes me wonder what hg+rietveld+rst2rfc could do for standards development...
- Joe Gregorio
Good choice indeed! May I ask why not git? :)
- directeur
Shrinkage...
April Buchheit, SAM, Skye Miller and 6 other people liked this
I was in the pool! I was in the pool! I was in the pool! /George
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I can see your auntie is teaching you how to cook spinach!!
- Skye Miller
New sign at Twitter HQ http://twitpic.com/ty0w9
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joergkurtwegner, chaz2b, TobiasVerhoog.com and 39 other people liked this
So if the team makes "better mistakes tomorrow", what do they have planned? :)
- Louis Gray
It's hard to get the taste of irony out of my mouth.
- Kevin Fox
I really feel bad for these guys
- Mehmet Aydin
iRan
- Will Higgins™
I do to, and I'm sorry to even kid. I'm sure Twitter is being attacked constantly from various directions, from hackers to script kiddies to governments. I'm impressed they hold up as well as they do.
- Kevin Fox
I think we all share Kevin's views. The timing of Ev's share was very unlucky. But nobody wants this kind of trouble. They have been stressed to the limit with growth, which in theory is a good problem to have, and they are maturing. Tonight was a rare exception to recent continued good news.
- Louis Gray
Do the have a huge whale on top of their office?
- Jemm
LOLLLLL Onwards + Upwards to IRIDIUM!!
- Billy Warhol
FriendFeed should be faster again. We were had some network issues which caused a lot of slowness this past week, but I think it's fixed now. Let me know if you are still encountering any extreme slowness.
(1)Bebekvegebelik, Adriano, Jeremy (on vacation) and 121 other people liked this
Will this mean I'll be able to upload pictures again? EDIT This does not mean I can upload photos now.
- Admiral Anika
Thanks for the update Paul! ;)
- AJ Batac
Mainly just had problems with email posting and the bookmarklet. The rest seemed fairly okay.
- Jason Huebel
I've been told that I'm extremely slow much of the time, but I don't think that's what you meant. Thanks for taking care of the issue, Paul.
- Jim Will Miss SP
Does seem very zippy, thanks team!
- Stephen Mack
Time to time, it's slow. Overall fast (again), however.
- Ozkan Altuner
I think the issues were directly related to Cristo's 11 MB PDF upload.
- Louis Gray
Thank you, Paul!
- Holly Rae
it looks faster now. thanks
- Hakan İyice
I still see Twitter updates coming in here 10 -15 minutes later
- Jorge Escobar
Thanks Paul. Much better.
- Roberto Bonini
Im experiencing extreme slowness ,,,, but then again , Im 53
- johnpiercy
nice also to know your not Boarding up the Windows
- johnpiercy
It did seem a little faster this afternoon.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
The Twitter issue is a separate problem Jorge -- our realtime feed from them is gone, but we hope to get it restored soon.
- Paul Buchheit
The Twitter feed went entirely???? o_O
- Roberto Bonini
It would be great if you could speed up importing of Twitter feeds. The slowness has been an issue for me lately.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Got it, Paul. Thanks!
- Jorge Escobar
Nice to know that there is indeed a problem with Twitter importing being slow, and I'm not just going crazy.
- Tyson Key
Awesome news!
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Sweet
- Josh Haley
Meanwhile, Dad's kids with his new wife get what kind of toys?
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, FriendFeed users have no reason to complain about our toys. And even if we did, bitterness doesn't help.
- Bruce Lewis
FriendFeed is dying for me. In fact. it's just about gone. I use it as a control room and discussion space for my Twitter feed, and a searchable archive. Discussion threads are down about 80 percent. "Likes" are off about 90 percent. There's no real time feed in from Twitter any more. Sad.
- Jay Rosen
Agreed, Jay. My personal life is in a bit of an upheaval right now, which hasn't helped, but the FB acquisition took the wind out of the sails for me. It feels like there's no future, or worse, a future wired up to the "friending" criteria of my Facebook account. I use the services COMPLETELY differently, however. Inbound updates continue, since they're automatic, but this is the first comment I've posted in weeks. Sad, indeed.
- Ken Kennedy
+1 Jay
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I am using Twitter and FB more and more lately. On the plus side, it's strengthening some real world connections. I'm missing out on the cool new stuff but I think I had gone overboard on that front.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I like FriendFeed, but I happen to find myself using Twitter and IRC more as of late. I guess I've probably just burnt myself and others out, given that I don't seem to have much in the way of compelling content and commentary these days, and that I just don't feel as motivated as I'd like to. :(
- Tyson Key
Thanks
- zizukabi
Thanks for the info and the update.
- giuseppe c. | markgreene
Still seems to be some slowness. The Innovation Management Room (er...Group) hasn't updated for several hours: http://friendfeed.com/innovat...
- Hutch Carpenter
Thanks for throwing some love over to FF :)
- Susan Beebe
Is there currently an issue with posting from FF to update Facebook -or is Facebook broken after the re-design ? i dont get anything posted to FB anymore which worked fine before yd
- Del_
Hi Paul, I know it has been a while since this post. But over the last 48 hours my Twitter updates have quit showing up in FF. I tried manually refreshing. Then I removed the account so I could just add it back in. When trying to do that I get the following message: "We could not find the given account" I haven't changed anything. Any thoughts on why this is happening? I haven't had any trouble until now. Thanks.
- Mary-Lynn
My Twitter feed is coming into FF much faster now - thanks! *Edit - Blog feed, too!
- Kurt Starnes
Ah, yes, search is much faster now. Thank you.
- April Russo (app103)
Avatar was awesome! Tip: do splurge for IMAX 3D, it's worth it.
Chieze Okoye, Mona Nomura, Joel Webber and 3 other people liked this
Thank you for this voicemail transcription, Google Voice:
"Bitkisel diyet", ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,, Khader Shameer and 51 other people liked this
Wow. What was the actual message?
- Michael R. Bernstein
I love Google Voice, but the transcription skills are uh lacking
- Bryan R. Adams
Well, in this case the last three quarters is some kind of busy signal, so it's a trick question :-)
- Casey Muller
Hillarious :-)
- Shahaf Abileah
Yeah their transcriptions are atrocious
- LANjackal
I've found them to be just awful or spot-on. Then again, I've seen the same with Gmail's spam filter. Some accounts are terrific at blocking spam and others are pretty bad.
- Kevin Fox
It's fascinating what comes out of statistical learning when something goes wrong. I just got a transcription that said "Hi. See you later." The audio was just a couple of clicks. But those phrases make sense statistically, if you assume the caller must have said *something*. The good news is that it will most likely get a *lot* better over time, as more training data becomes available.
- Joel Webber
Someone forgot the "!" before the isStopWord(...)
- Manas Tungare
Joel: sounds like a pretty accurate translation to me.
- Jim Norris
Secret lover trying to spit it out
- Will Higgins™
"Please take your name off your phone number, my wife went through my messages. I'm in deep doo doo"
- Bryan R. Adams
lol lol lol lol *BREATHE* lol lol LOL LOL
- Kamilah Gill
Don't forget to donate bad voicemail transcriptions: http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2009... Given that Google Voice respects your privacy, providing voicemails as training data has to be an opt-in decision.
- Matt Cutts
Dogs 101 clips! - http://animal.discovery.com/videos...
Benjamin Golub liked this
I mostly watch this for the puppies...
- Megen Vo
from Bookmarklet
Prediction for 2010: FriendFeed is going to see a resurgence.
ravi karandeekar, Adrian, Flavio and 80 other people liked this
What's the rationale?
- Pavan
Really?!
- Michael Liss
I think this prediction's outcome might fall into the hands of Facebook. We'll see what they do with the property this year.
- Andrew Dobrow
Funny that this comes from Twitter. =D
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
ROFL.
- Derrick
So is RSS if we're going to follow Robert's logic.
- Jimminy Fuller
HOW TO SPOT COMMENT BAIT IN 100 EASY STEPS — STEP 1: DID IT COME FROM ROBERT SCOBLE? STEPS 2-100: REPEAT STEP 1.
- Akiva Moskovitz
already happening, yo
- Josh Haley
it started surging (again) after ppl let the knowledge of fb purchase fall into the bits of history pages
- chaz2b
Lets cross our fingers
- polou/indigo_bow
This is SO an experiment on Scoble's part.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
WTF is FriendFeed?
- David Cohn
Rational, Twitter usage is flattening, people are finally figuring out that Twitter sucks for having a conversation. People though Friendfeed was hard to use, try having to install several software 'crutches' to be able to use Twitter productively without even half the functionality as Freindfeed.
- Jeff P. Henderson
if you say so...
- MobilAdam
Either this is tounge in cheek or Robert really hasn't gotten over our breakup... Robert, I hope we can still be friends but we have to move on and grow... FriendFeed will always love you, but we need some 'us' time to find out who 'we' are... *cues The Bodygaurd soundtrack*... *walks out into the rain, adjusts collar, walks off down the road*... *fade to black, credits*
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
LOL Johnny!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Best Christmas present ever!
- Jemm
Comment bait. Even Robert can't generate interest these days.
- Russellreno
I agree. Friendfeed is for those who need more from a 2d interface. Until there spatial interface is there, Friendfeed is on top of the pyramid (especially when one knows how to use it best).
- Kirill Bolgarov
Up
- Luca Perugini
from iPhone
*slow-mo head shake*
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
Too funny! Johnny and Akiva -- you guys crack me up.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I would agree with a few here and say that FriendFeed is already resurging, Robert. #friendfeed
- Kol Tregaskes
AMEN!
- zʍıɔ
The stats don't agree though: http://thenextweb.com/2009...
- Kol Tregaskes
it's like drunk dialing an ex-girlfriend...
- Aron Michalski
from BuddyFeed
i guess so too..
- Daniele - Viralavatar
so too :)
- ★ Soner Gönül
Agreed wholeheartedly Robert
- Roberto Bonini
Akiva: lol, Kol: that article only looks at unique visitors, and doesn't consider user hours.
- Mike Chelen
:) @ Aron - sums it up perfectly...
- 1x29
Lets hope so ... Miss some of my old peeps :)
- Charlie Anzman
I'm surprised Robert made this statement but I find it very interesting in the change of view and wonder what has changed his mind or if he knows more info.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
The unpredictably erratic Scobot is at it again...
- Ciro
Well, after glancing at his Twitter timeline, he's just making a bunch of joke predictions. I'd like to think that there's some truth in this one though...
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Sniffs... Do you smell that? It's what we used to call a troll. Robert is getting dangerously close to becoming irrelevent.
- Jason Williams
from iPhone
Robert is waiting until 2010 to respond to this thread. :)
- Louis Gray
I told you so
- Jesse Stay
Kol: the *stat* doesn't agree (note the singular)
- Jesse Stay
Well, since I'm ready organizing the elections for the best Dutch blogs I can say the resurgence already started last week. ;-)
- Ton Zijp
Kol: Here are many more stats that imply the contrary: http://staynalive.com/article...
- Jesse Stay
Excellent idea.
- Richard A.
from FreshFeed
Scoble - I disagree ONLY because I think that FriendFeed activity is already migrating to Facebook via deeper integration over there but I'm wiling to hear you out (as are the other 40+ people commenting here). Do share why you think this is true?
- Aaron Strout
I wrote this tweet for Twitter, not for FriendFeed. But nice to see you all! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Jason: I'm definitely irrelevant if the people calling me irrelevant don't even have 1,000 subscribers. Sigh.
- Robert Scoble
I actually see FriendFeed growing instead of slowing and there will also be new enhancements. A testing ground for Facebook. Just to expand, Robert's still the man!
- amarquart
Akiva wins the internets with this mathematical formula for spotting comment bait.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
You think we're fighting, I think we're finally talking! -all in one page
- Tim Jones
Funny, when I write, I write for everyone, everywhere
- Johnny Worthington
Beat ya to it Robert: http://friendfeed.com/jhuebel... And the resurgence is already happening.
- Jason Huebel
@Jason Williams, wow that's the pot calling the kettle black, doncha think? Robert's not a troll.
- Jason Huebel
@Kol, somebody mentioned that those stats often only consider US visitors (why that would be, I don't know). FF's non-US contingent has grown tremendously, so that graph may not show the whole picture.
- Jason Huebel
Akiva wins the thread.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
let's hope so - I love the darn thing
- Arthur Coleman
I'm finding that FriendFeed is fiendishly sticky. On Twitter lists do help, they make twitter better and all but but but-but I think a lot of users are getting more sophisticated in their web usage faster than Twitter can evolve their tech. Louis Grey recently postulated that even if there is no interaction on FriendFeed it makes complete sense to stay riding this horse. That got me...
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- JSLeFanu
Dude..... I totally hope you're right, but not too sure about this! LOL Explain your rationale please :)
- Susan Beebe
i agree with the original prediction. by the way, what's a resurgence? is it different than insurgents? :-)
- Morgan Haley
Morgan - the insurgents never left ... ;-p
- Robyn Hawk
Jason, OK. Good. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I'll stay one faithful user, for those "outside the US" stats. Still feature plenty, still enjoyable. Still effective. Thanks for rallying the troops again Robert. Bring the hopes, and forget the ropes! 8)
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
like Elijah
- maxilprof
I like this whole thread. ++Akiva, Johnny, JSLeFanu, Jason Heubel, Mike Chelen . . . Robert, Twitter may have geeks and famous people, but you can actually do things here. Oh, wait - I'm not here. I'm in a widget on a blog in someone's Posterous whom I don't even know, that I'm searching through to find FF peeps to subscribe to over here. Now, that's just mind-blowing!
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
It's a day of cars for me. California drivers license this morning and then I just bought a BMW 135i for an awesome price before the holiday
Louis Gray, MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) and Benjamin Golub liked this
The realtime connection from Twitter to FriendFeed is back! (thanks to Twitter's "birddog" api)
Nicholas James, Garin Kilpatrick, (1)Bebekvegebelik and 151 other people liked this
Awesome news!
- Jorge Escobar
Very good!
- Kurt Starnes
Sweetness!
- Alex Scrivener
34 secs flat for my latest tweet. Thanks Paul and team for this!
- Jorge Escobar
wow, that makes actually want to use Twitter. I may just go tweet something.
- Mike Nencetti
It should be even faster than that Jorge, but our systems are getting near their limit. I hope to have it down to 1 sec sometime next month.
- Paul Buchheit
Thank god!
- Miguel Caetano
@Paul, believe me, 34 secs is a charm compared to what we had before!
- Jorge Escobar
Great news!
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Is the birddog api open to all developers, or is it only to you guys?
- Jorge Escobar
Jorge, everyone can access the streaming api, but you need an agreement to follow a large number of ids. See http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streami...
- Paul Buchheit
Thanks Paul.
- Roberto Bonini
that cool. Thanks Paul
- Peter Dawson
Yay! That's fantastic! I was getting really bored of manually refreshing it every time I tweeted. Especially from my phone. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Does this mean that Scoble can get smarter on FriendFeed again?
- Crutis
NICE!
- Jason Huebel
Thanks Paul, nice work :)
- LANjackal
wow no posts on the majors yet - usually within mere moments of an announcement we'd have posts.
- Allen Stern
Thank God.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
cool!
- barbarars
What was the problem?
- Ozkan Altuner
Now....if you could just get rid of the @ replies again. I would be very happy.
- Chris Nixon
relief ! :)
- asli subasi
You are still working on Frienfeed (: how nice !
- Murat Can Demir
whoa, it took less than a minute. i accdently tested it but it's great :) thnx
- asli subasi
awesome, keep it up guys, i knew you would not let us down
- Iggy Mwangi
Great news, love the efforts still put in to FF.I use Google Reader to share into FF (PubSubHubBub) then FF to Twitter (now Real-Time). The URL shortener is great (ff.im), and so FF is central to my social lifestream. I don't care what Scoble says, FF is technically better and feature-rich.
- Keith Rowland
P.S. Conversations are still better here than on GReader, and you just can't have one on Twitter.
- Keith Rowland
You didn't break the FF Facebook app while you were at it, did you? It hasn't worked since.
- Tim Tyler
Oh, awesome!!! 12 seconds :) I can finally go back to Twitter (...okay no I can't I've turned into a Friendfeed junkie..) but prior it took hours upon hours for me to see a feed. Dumb I am, I never suspected a problem LMAO.
- H0llywoodWh0re
Thank you!
- Micah Wittman
Awesome news :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
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- Mücahit Yılmaz
Cool. Haven't tried it but yay!
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Yippee! I love real time
- Sandra Large
Paul ?? Twitter updates facebook status and then facebook creates a new feed here on friendfeed. So we have same entries both from twitter and facebook on friendfeed. Could you guys please work on how we can avoid duplicate entries? Thank you. ( If there's already a way to avoid this, pls let me know)
- Murat Can Demir
Cool, thanks, Paul! :-) RT Twitter updates have been missed. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
And just as I say that, I see my tweets are not coming into FF in real-time. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol. I just tweeted and it was here before I could get out of Tweetie and launch Safari... It's working :)
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
awesome.; thank you a lot..
- Jaap Willem
Nice! Thank U Paul :)
- zʍıɔ
:)
- ★ Soner Gönül
Oh, so nice to have that back again.
- Hutch Carpenter
Johnny, cool. Just me then. It's still slow. Maybe it's FriendFeed then?
- Kol Tregaskes
It truncates retweets, even in the middle of a link...
- Raphael, Raphael
seems that there are only 140chars allowed for a tweet (on FF) and the new twitter retweets are being translated on the way through to old RT @name style - thus are too long.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
fuse-gae is a "drive in the cloud" using App Engine's Blobstore API. The goal is maximum rsync performance. Open source: Contributions welcome! - http://www.onebigfluke.com/2009...
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That was fast.
- Scott Ludwig
from iPhone
FreeBSD / ZFS box is up!
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Now installing Samba and MediaTomb.
- Tudor Bosman
Yay! Now clean up the office. :)
- Jeanette Bosman
I'm doing the same thing this weekend.
- Scott Ludwig
Does it have a time-slider equivalent? The integration into nautilus is a nice touch in opensolaris.
- Eric Borisch
s/MediaTomb/Firefly/ as I wanted something that iTunes recognizes.
- Tudor Bosman
8.94T: 5 * 2TB drives (- 40GB reserved for the root fs), raidz1.
- Tudor Bosman
@Tudor What is Firefly? Got a link?
- EricaJoy
http://www.fireflymediaserver.org/ although the site seems down at the moment. Search for "Firefly media server" (formerly known as mt-daapd)
- Tudor Bosman
sweeet
- Logan Lindquist
Also, I love the FreeBSD ports collection (which Gentoo tried to imitate). cd /usr/ports/devel/git; make install will fetch git, build it, and install it, and automatically deal with any dependencies as they arrive.
- Tudor Bosman
Another option is pkg_add -r git which will install a binary package compiled with default options, and resolve dependencies.
- Scott Ludwig
from iPhone
Okay, nested dependencies work just fine until you find a package that depends on TeX. Why does my little storage box need latex and amstex and mkfontdir and dvips and...?
- Tudor Bosman
Because you need PDFs of the documentation, of course!
- Eric Borisch
In many languages, apparently. /usr/ports/print/latex-cjk/scripts/installt1enc.sh arb5sung arb5sung.ttf Bg5 Generating Type 1 subfonts arb5sung from arb5sung.ttf [Bg5 planes: 1-55]:
- Tudor Bosman
This is apparently all caused by updating the freebsd-doc-en package, which regenerates all forms of documentation from scratch.
- Tudor Bosman
One of my disks appears bad, hopefully it's the cable.ad8: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 timed out LBA=766744255
- Tudor Bosman
Yep, RMAing now.
- Tudor Bosman
Two more disks are showing read errors, including the boot disk. This is not good at all. Maybe WD actually qualifies RAID-level drives, and rebrands the crappy ones (with bad sectors which auto-remap) as consumer-level. With auto-remapping turned off, errors start creeping in within days.
- Tudor Bosman
I'll investigate this more, of course, by mounting the bad disks into a different machine and looking at SMART output, but so far it smells of a bad batch of drives.
- Tudor Bosman
How hot are they getting? (It's in the SMART data) ... We had a fan go out on a drive tower (and the 'dead fan' alarm didn't sound -- wonderful) and we smoked at least three drives before figuring out what was going on.
- Eric Borisch
Eric: While trying to stress the disks with a few dd commands running in parallel, I can't get them to heat up above 26 degrees Celsius. I'd say that cooling inside my box works well. The two newly failed disks have 5 UNCorrectable sectors each -- and that's just because the SMART buffer only remembers the last 5 errors.
- Tudor Bosman
Maybe I just got a bad batch, but at this point I would recommend against using WD20EADS drives for anything.
- Tudor Bosman
yeah, the EADS aren't so good. The ABYS series have been super reliable in comparison, but I don't think they go up to that many TB.
- Private Sanjeev
incidentally the drives are physically different (the mechanicals are more vibration-resistant on enterprise drives), so WD doesn't just rebrand flaky drives.
- Private Sanjeev
Any opinions on the new, 4-platter WD RE4 RAID edition drives? They're 2TB, expensive as hell, but there may be deals to be had. Alternatively, the Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB.
- Tudor Bosman
I have a bunch of EADS drives (4x1TB, 4x1.5TB) and I haven't seen any problems. Might just be a bad batch.
- Joe Beda ()
Currently leading the pack: Hitachi 7K2000.
- Tudor Bosman
I only have experience with ABYS and EADS in production :(.
- Private Sanjeev
I have 24 A7K1000s that have been going great for over a year. (Knocks on wood)
- Eric Borisch
Okay, I ordered 5 7K2000s. Let's see how this goes.
- Tudor Bosman
The box is back up with the 5 Hitachi 7K2000 drives. I copied all the data over again, and "zpool scrub" now completes without errors. I'll update this post after 2 or 3 days of burn-in.
- Tudor Bosman
Hint: Read the man page. The "--batch" option to portupgrade is supremely useful. portupgrade -vaP --batch: upgrade all installed FreeBSD packages, prefer to use precompiled packages if available (-P), don't ask questions (use default configuration options).
- Tudor Bosman
A few scrubs later, still zero errors, and normal smartctl output. I now deem the box ready for production use (that is, the main storage device in the Bosman household).
- Tudor Bosman
Does anybody sell a BSD/ZFS raid box that is all ready to go?
- Peng-Toh
For small boxes, you could consider a self-contained box like a MSI Wind PC ($139).
- Scott Ludwig
from iPhone
I mean something that comes with all software (BSD/ZFS) installed, an UI and no "hacking" required. Something for a non-techie.
- Peng-Toh
my EADS results: 2/6 failed so far (free RMA replacement). no data loss though.
- Michael Herf
Tudor: FWIW, random activity is much more stressful (and power consuming = heat producing) than the contiguous reads/writes you get from dd. Try bonnie++ or iozone if you'd like to really hit the system. Glad to hear you're up and running - ZFS is fantastic stuff.
- Eric Borisch
Michael: Yes, I had 3 out of 5 EADS drives fail within a week. I returned all 5 and got Hitachi 7K2000.
- Tudor Bosman
Peng-Toh: There's FreeNAS, http://freenas.org/, but I'd wait until they upgrade to FreeBSD 8, probably in a couple of months (the FreeBSD folks didn't consider ZFS to be production quality until FreeBSD 8.0).
- Tudor Bosman
OAuth WRAP support in FriendFeed for feedback - http://bret.appspot.com/entry...
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Awesome work, Bret. Thanks for the writeup!
- DeWitt Clinton
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