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Brian Sullivan
Zope/Python enthusiast, open wheel racing fan, wannabe photographer, ELearning developer
I'm a tighty whitey man myself (what do you call them if they are not white?). My mother still buys me underwear for Christmas. I have no other underwear secrets.
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And for no reason at all, I love this post.
- Derrick
YouTube
- Feist on Sesame Street - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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First time I ever understood the words of something she sang.
- Brian Sullivan
from Bookmarklet
I borrowed one of her CD's from a friend last year, and it's been a long time since I've had to actually eject a disc before it finished playing, but it was the sound of her voice I couldn't stand. I rarely walk out of films or eject DVD's, but I've had to do that recently as well.
- Kittyburgers
The file upload procedure is just plain broke -- is anybody at FriendFeed even interested? About 9 out 10 attempts end up with an endless "processing" cycle.
Kol Tregaskes, Eric Logan, Tyson Key and 10 other people liked this
For the longest time I couldn't even upload. Then all of a sudden, it started working again.
- Anika
I had this issue with an mp3 I tried uploading today as well. Couldn't they just play from another source without actually having it on their servers? If the link points to a valid file on the internet, it should still be able to play fine.
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
I think they decided to not respond to this group. See profile: "If you're experiencing a bug or issue, please see our <a href="http://friendfeed.com/about...">Contact page</a> to get in touch with us directly."
- NaHi
from f2p
Aye, same thing with spam. More time/effort is being dedicated elsewhere..understandable.
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
We're investigating. Are you experiencing this with all file types?
- Paul Buchheit
there's paul :)
- Holden Page
That's really interesting because I've not experienced this trouble at all. I only upload image files though.
- pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
Seems to be working for some people: http://friendfeed.com/ff-muzi...
- Jason Huebel
I don't know, might just be on and off thing. Worked yesterday fine though: http://friendfeed.com/random-...
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
I've had problems with the photo upload also. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
- Jill is sugar free
I haven't had any problem with anything other than mp3 files but I haven't tried any others either.
- Brian Sullivan
The most infuriating part of this is that the failed upload counts against your upload quota.
- Brian Sullivan
I had problems with it this evening, however, I was on mobile broadband. Worked perfectly when I got home and used wifi.
- Keith Bennett
Happened to me a couple weeks ago with an *MB mp3 file.
- beersage
Whats the upload quota?
- beersage
@Brian, upload quota?
- Jason Huebel
Images generally work for me. An mp3 file took several attempts though.
- Todd Hoff
Apparently you can only upload 3 mp3 files per day (I am guessing per 24 hour period) -- at least that is what the message I got seems to imply. It gives you this message at the end of the upload process -- and you have to wait until the quota is replenished ( though you have no way of knowing when that would be unless you remember when all the upload attempts happened).
- Brian Sullivan
I had some issues uploading .mp3s a while ago (finally just sent them to Posterous and had done with it) - Paul, is there a file size limit? The ones I had were encoded at like 320kpbs, so they were about 9 or 10mb. The smaller ones I did (4-5mb) seemed to have a greater success rate, but I couldn't really test because of the upload limit that counted the failed ones against me.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
From what I can tell, the upload problems are caused by S3 errors (we store the files using Amazon S3). I've put in a little more logging and more retries. If you still have trouble uploading files, post the filename and I'll investigate.
- Paul Buchheit
What is really happening during that "processing" cycle? The "upload" part appears to work -- at least the progress bar and time taken is in line with the size of the file. For me it is the "processing" part that has failed.
- Brian Sullivan
Magic ;)
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
The "upload" part is uploading to the FriendFeed servers. The "processing" part is the FriendFeed server uploading to Amazon S3, which is where there are sometimes problems.
- Paul Buchheit
Ah, thanks for clearing that up, Paul.
- Micah Wittman
This is still occurring. Not uploading to Amazon apparently.
- Eric Logan
Hmm -- bad enough that IE8 has to be massaged to run Wave but it doesn't work correctly -- attaching files fails. Getting Wave into most enterprises is going to be tough if it doesn't work on IE.
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Heh... Who should we blame, Brian?
- directeur
I don't know directeur -- who should be blamed?
- Brian Sullivan
It seems just not to work -- lots of issues. Unless Google can get this straightened out it will be difficult for Wave to penetrate many large companies that for better or worse are committed to IE.
- Brian Sullivan
Brian, I too don't know. I just have a feeling that IE8 is. Why? Opera, Safari and Firefox are well supported and knowing IE's history I wouldn't be surprised.
- directeur
IE8 is massaged by installing "Chrome frame" -- it is in "Chrome frame" (which is essentially Chrome ActiveX installed in IE) that it fails -- it is in the Google product that it fails. Assigning fault though is moot -- if it doesn't work on the browser used by the largest percentage of potential users then it will fail.
- Brian Sullivan
Techniques for avoiding form submission spam -- Captcha is one -- anybody got any other strategies or ideas?
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Questions with easy answers that a bot can't find?
- directeur
I guess that is similar to a captcha in that it involves some sort of session machinery and the preservation of state and identification of user across pages? Anything else ?
- Brian Sullivan
How about what scr.im does with emails? You click on the most similar image to the captcha, instead of typing it out.
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
Ah yes! M inspired me this: What about sending an email to activate a comment (or any input) ?
- directeur
Blood test
- Cristo
USB key
- Cristo
Some of the text captchas are getting impossible (I'm talking to you, Google). What ever happened to the rotated pictures that were next to impossible for bots?
- LogEx
Complete first level of Lode Runner
- Cristo
I wouldn't really bother, not with the human captcha busting networks. Just moderate them.
- Todd Hoff
I was about to say about sorting/identifying things in pictures but I see, it is already mentioned by @LogEx.
- ashish
Answer random questions from a small json file. Answers are judged one by one by fat guy in a cubicle somewhere. Sample question: Who *is* John Galt?
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
A common idea is to create a text input field that gets hidden with JavaScript. Then, if your processor finds any value in that field, it assumes that a bit filled the form (since bots will generally fill all fields and can't tell that this one's supposed to be empty).
- Curtiss Grymala
from iPhone
Curtiss -- hiding with Javascript is a critical part of this? Hiding form fields can be done with just HTML.
- Brian Sullivan
Brian - That's true, but if it's set as a hidden field rather than a text field, the bots are generally smart enough not to fill it in. That's why Javascript or CSS is generally used to hide it.
- Curtiss Grymala
OK - I think I understand -- I could just as well add an extra field via Javascript on submission button click then and assume it is a bot if the extra field doesn't appear?
- Brian Sullivan
Require completion of well-known quotes from your favorite pop culture sources? That would weed out spam AND squares!
- Lo
"Squares"? Is that a pop culture reference from the '50s?
- Brian Sullivan
check this out: http://lemurcatta.org/ :-)
- alieb
I once saw a captcha-like system that had a font with animals on each letter, and it said to type only the letters with mammals on them, or something like that.
- Brad Greer
You could use the method CSSquirrel uses for comments on his blog. Someone mentioned a similar idea above. http://www.cssquirrel.com/
- Curtiss Grymala
@Brian - Yeah, my slang is odd at times... read too many old children's books I guess. @Brad, wouldn't that be too hard for some people? :P
- Lo
Of course, a lot of this depends in the implementation. For instance, if the form is generally not directly accessible (the user has to come from another page on your site to get there), you could just check the referrer and that would weed out a lot of bots (as, once they get ahold of the direct URL, they'll generally go straight for it rather than coming from the referrer)
- Curtiss Grymala
from iPhone
Lo: I only remember it because it was so over-the-top and ridiculous. So yeah.
- Brad Greer
So I have gone ahead and implemented the text input field deleted in Javascript idea suggested by Curtiss and am crossing my fingers that it will solve my problem.
- Brian Sullivan
Michael Arrington's CrunchPad still not available, maybe never will be? - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
All those connected SV people out there and nobody knows the real status of this?
- Brian Sullivan
The lack of information strikes me as mighty strange.
- Brian Sullivan
Dodge Viper logo is an upside-down Daffy Duck. - Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
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LOL
- ronin
Really. I don't see it. Oh...meh.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
It's hard to see with the normal logo right next to it, but I'd say it's closer to Darkwing than Daffy.
- Neal Krummell
Tutivillus -- what are the upper teeth on the left become the eyes on the right. The nostrils stay nostrils.
- Stephen Mack
I see it now.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Thanks Stephen, even with your instructions I need to concentrate to see it.
- Dario Gomez
The App Garden on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/service...
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML and CW™ liked this
This seems new - at least I haven't noticed it before.
- Brian Sullivan
from Bookmarklet
Thanks for the find! Definitely new. Can even fave + tag! Awesome. Shared: http://friendfeed.com/smluniv... #flickr #tools #hacks
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
MEC Bikes - Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC). Free Shipping Available - http://www.mec.ca/Product...
Bikes now on website for your viewing pleasure.
- Brian Sullivan
from Bookmarklet
Hm. Interesting that they now make bikes.
- cecily
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Saudi paedophile to be beheaded - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
Kol Tregaskes, Alex Scrivener, Joe Silence is not dead and 6 other people liked this
"A Saudi court has ruled that a man, convicted of raping five children, will be beheaded and crucified, a Saudi newspaper has reported."
- Brian Sullivan
from Bookmarklet
Sometimes justice in foreign places can seem unjust, but this seems to be an exception.
- Will Higgins™
What Will said.
- Eric Logan
Good.
- Derek Coward
I would say that is barbaric. I'm not a supporter of the death penalty no matter what the crime (and this was a horrible one), but putting the body on display after the beheading? I wouldn't want to live in a society that uses those kind of scare tactics at least.
- Eivind
Gotta be consistent, especially if you want to protect innocent people -- executions by governments are a greater evil than individual crimes. What's right feels even better than what feels good.
- Christopher Galtenberg
"One of the victims, aged three, died after being left in the desert after the abuse." - Just for this I'd prefer they did the beheading last.
- 1x29
Sometimes these types of "scare tactics" are needed. Especially when the killing of children is getting out of control.
- Spencer
if i was one of the parents i would petition the government to be allowed to perform the execution.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Maine Gay Marriage Law Repealed - ABC News - http://abcnews.go.com/Politic...
Will Higgins™ liked this
"Voters rejected a state law Tuesday that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed. The repeal comes just six months after the measure was passed by the Maine legislature and signed by the Democratic Gov. John Baldacci."
- Brian Sullivan
from Bookmarklet
Sad.
- Anika
Er, when I 'like' I mean 'don't like'.
- Will Higgins™
Mountain Equipment Co-op raises ire of bicycle industry - The Globe and Mail - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-...
Do worms really come in cans? And if they do does the can require opening?
Joe Silence is not dead and FFing Enigma (aka Tina) liked this
only if the worms sealed them afterward.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Let's talk about the DFW power outage... // Slicehost - VPS Hosting - http://www.slicehost.com/article...
Alex Scrivener liked this
Sometimes I wonder how this can happen. My company has our server running on a dsl line in my partner's basement with a small UPS for power. It has been there for 5 years through many power outages and has never been down due to a power outage -- not once. It seems like Rackspace has had more power problems than should be even statistically reasonable. I think they are a big FAIL.
- Brian Sullivan
from Bookmarklet
I thought one of the big selling points of this type of data center was power management?
- Brian Sullivan
BBC NEWS | Business | General Motors cancels Opel sale - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
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"GM had agreed to sell Opel and Vauxhall to Canadian car parts firm Magna. The Magna deal had the backing of the German government, which had pledged 4.5bn euros ($6.7bn; £4bn) of loans. GM added that it had also come to its decision because of the importance of Opel and Vauxhall to its global strategy. It said it would now "initiate a restructuring of its European operations in earnest" and seek aid from the German government, and other European states. However, its decision is likely to cause much anger in Europe, where the planned sale of Opel has been dragging on for months." -- do I smell lawsuit?
- Brian Sullivan
from Bookmarklet
So it seems that hiding a post prevents updates for the post from coming via the FF desktop notifier? If so that is a great feature.
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autosport.com - Race of Champions, Beijing 2009 - http://www.autosport.com/roc/#
"Live: Race of Champions Beijing 2009 AUTOSPORT.com has once again teamed up with Freecaster.tv to bring you live coverage of the 2009 Race of Champions. The traditional end-of-season event brings together some of the top names in motorsport to compete over two days in the spectacular Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing, home of the 2008 Olympic Games. Drivers confirmed for this year's event include 2009 F1 world champion Jenson Button, seven-time champion Michael Schumacher, eight-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Tom Kristensen and five-time MotoGP champion Mick Doohan, among other stars. The ROC Nations Cup takes place today, Tuesday 3 November, while The Race of Champions itself takes centre stage on Wednesday 4 November, when all the drivers will compete against each other to see who is crowned the "Champion of Champions"
- Brian Sullivan
from Bookmarklet
Streaming video. Strange event -- seems like there are 3 different cars -- a mini Le Mans type car, a dune buggy style car and a 4 wheel drive rally type car. Track is an indoor track with two interwoven lanes. Drivers go head to head for two laps but you never really know where they are are in relation to each other except at the end of the first and last laps because they don't race side by side.
- Brian Sullivan
Yeah I've seen them on speed. It's pretty fun to watch
- Richard Lawler
:( Wembley will miss this
- Phill Price
from iPhone
Apple rejects Macworld iPhone Superguide from App Store... for using the word 'iPhone' - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
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Jehovah! That's so Monty Pythonèsque!
- directeur
Bikes at MEC - Mountain Equipment Co-op - http://www.mec.ca/Main...
"MEC bikes are built to our specifications. There are twelve models in four categories: mountain, urban, road, and specialty (including a kids' model). The line was designed to appeal to members who ride for recreation, who commute to work and around town, as well as those who cycle tour or ride off-road. Complete details about the bikes will be added to the website in November 2009"
- Brian Sullivan
from Bookmarklet
Something tells me you're going to get ones of these. Am I right? ;-) There's a shop not too far from me in Burlington. I'll have to check them out. I wonder if they carry any good running gear. It's going to get colder, and I run all Winter.
- Kittyburgers
I certainly am interested -- but my wife and I have bikes now that suit our needs. I am big MEC proponent/customer -- for skiing, biking, canoeing, camping and trekking stuff though and when then need for bike replacement comes up this is probably the first place I would look.
- Brian Sullivan
I am not sure if it is a sign of an improving economy or if it just the artificial stimulus of the (Canadian) government income tax rebate for home renovations -- but everybody in my neighbourhood seems to be starting, ending or in the middle of significant home improvements.
Christian (Simply X) liked this
Many people are opting to just remodel instead of move due to the current economy, been happening for a while now.
- Christian (Simply X)
It's the rebate programme for sure.
- Kittyburgers
For me a number of things drove my recent heating installation-- it was mostly driven by the fact that I couldn't go the winter without a working boiler -- but the tax credit and the government Eco grants certainly drove me to do/spend more than I would normally have done.
- Brian Sullivan
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