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Brian Sullivan

Brian Sullivan

Zope/Python enthusiast, open wheel racing fan, wannabe photographer, ELearning developer
Report: Microsoft may help News Corp. delist sites | Digital Media - CNET News - http://news.cnet.com/8301-10...
Report: Microsoft may help News Corp. delist sites | Digital Media - CNET News
What a bunch of bullcrap -- Google has already said that it will remove from their results any content from Murdoch's sites -- all he has to do is ask. How is Microsoft going to "help"? - Brian Sullivan from Bookmarklet
Crazy On You (live 1976) HQ version - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Crazy On You (live 1976) HQ version
Play
The whole "Computer Browser" service thing on my Windows (XP/Vista) based home network machines still has me totally confused. Is there anywhere a lucid explanation of how this works and how to prevent machines from seemingly randomly dropping off and coming back on the network list.
This from someone who was (at least nominally) a Microsoft MVP for networking. - Brian Sullivan
I wish I could help you, but I have no idea what you mean. We've only had issues with our external drives not being visible at times on the network. A quick run through of the network wizard usually fixed it. Now, our only problem is that the Win 7 machine allow the XP machine to "see" it. - Anika
From what I can determine the list of computers on an ad hoc network is maintained by the "Computer Browser" service that runs on all computers. Through some sort of arbitration magic that I am unable to understand one of the computers on the network becomes the master -- and other computers use it to determine the current list of network machines. The ugliness seems to happen when machines (maybe the master?) come and go from the network (we have 3 laptops that are in and out all the time). - Brian Sullivan
Once the network list gets into a state where machines are missing nothing that I can do(at least nothing that I can determine) seems to get it back to a steady state. - Brian Sullivan
Twitter / Juan Pablo Montoya: had a horrible day today, ... - http://twitter.com/jpmonto...
Twitter / Juan Pablo Montoya: had a horrible day today,  ...
"had a horrible day today, i hit the fence in practice and the car its a handfull......." -- we all have bad days but hitting the fence with your car at speed is definitely not the best - Brian Sullivan from Bookmarklet
CTV News | The Liberation Treatment: A whole new approach to MS - http://www.ctv.ca/servlet...
CTV News | The Liberation Treatment: A whole new approach to MS
"Amid the centuries-old castles of the ancient city of Ferrara is a doctor who has come upon an entirely new idea about how to treat multiple sclerosis, one that may profoundly change the lives of patients" - Brian Sullivan from Bookmarklet
I am sure most people know somebody with MS - this offers a potential new treatment. - Brian Sullivan
I have a SIL and neighbour that could possibly benefit. I know at least one other for whom the disease sadly has probably progressed too far. - Brian Sullivan
Large Hadron Collider - LHC Livecam - - http://www.lhc-live.com/
LHC Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Webcams - Brian Sullivan from Bookmarklet
What problem is Google attempting to solve with the Chrome OS? A lot of talk about 7 sec boot up time -- is that all? I don't really see a lot of other advantage? It seems to me they are taking a lot away for not much gain. Am I just thick?
So you get a seven second boot time but get to do nothing offline at all in exchange - thats not a good deal. They should have all that too to win. I am sure thay have something in mind. - Gaurav Bansode
Brian: No, you just haven't been infected by Google Fever (this is a compliment). Chrome OS is actually a step BACKWARD for the most part as it's even less flexible than regular Linux, Windows or Mac. Android was and continues to be revolutionary. Chrome OS will be an academic curiosity at most. - LANjackal
@lanjackal agree that it is a step backwards. I think chrome os will segregate the pc market again into noobs and nerds ;) when ur needs are limited to what u do on the cloud, it is not a bad idea. ( and except for things like Photoshop or video encoding or soft dev, most of it can be done or have alternatives on the web) - Shivanand Velmurugan from Alert Thingy
So the consensus so far is that other than than the fast boot up plan (and the simplification of use) there is no other advantage? - Brian Sullivan
On this end, yes. Among the Google Zealots, not so much - LANjackal from IM
YouTube - Sperm Bank Holdup - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube
				- Sperm Bank Holdup
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Firesign Theatre. - Brian Sullivan
Sam's Back: 1910 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive - http://www.shorpy.com/node...
Sam's Back: 1910 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive
What is that on his leg? - Brian Sullivan from Bookmarklet
Does anybody know what those relief doorway keystone thingies (often gargoyle like faces) are called?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... suggests "ornamental keystone" but I'm no architect. - Stephen Mack
I've always just called them keystones. - Anika
Yeah I thought they had a particular name though when they were relief gargoyle statues. - Brian Sullivan
Divorce now, while you can still can - thestar.com - http://www.thestar.com/news...
Divorce now, while you can still can - thestar.com
"Growing tired of your spouse, but worried about an expensive divorce settlement? Act now, while the economy is still in the dumps, local divorce lawyers advise." - Brian Sullivan from Bookmarklet
This is a bit perverse I think. - Brian Sullivan
Canadians only. I'm not sure most US state laws apply the same way. - Rob H.
Just back from getting H1N1 shot - relatively painless process.
You'll be all tired and groggy tonight. That's what all people here felt 8 hours after. - AJ Batac
That's OK I expect to be tired and groggy tonight anyway at some point. ;-) - Brian Sullivan
I didn't notice any effects from it myself. - Jen (SquirrelGirl)
My wife (who got needled at the same time) just went for a nap -- a slight headache and a bit woozy. - Brian Sullivan
My arm is a little sore -- no other effects that I can determine. - Brian Sullivan
Evangelical Christian proselytizers (is that redundant -- if so I use it for emphasis) bug the hell out of me.
Search is failing again. I guess fixing FF is not very lucrative.
CBC News - Toronto - Toronto's ROM crystal on ugliest buildings list - http://www.cbc.ca/canada...
CBC News - Toronto - Toronto's ROM crystal on ugliest buildings list
"The website said in a Friday posting that although "many praise that glass structure, just as many are troubled by the incongruity to the original, more traditional museum that still sits directly beside it." - surprised it wasn't higher. - Brian Sullivan from Bookmarklet
I used to go to the ROM as a kid. I'm a big fan of this kind of architecture, and I really like this building. The list is somewhat questionable, with this and the Pompidou in Paris on the list as well. But one building I really do agree with is Melbourne's Federation Square. Damn that place is ugly. - Will Higgins™
I like the ROM as well -- on the inside it seems the changes are quite nice but to me this thing looks like a wart on the building from the outside. The Gehry AGO mods I find quite pleasing though inside and out. Maybe it is just a matter of taste. - Brian Sullivan
:::: fly swatter :::: - http://majman.net/fly_loa...
Day waster. - Brian Sullivan from Bookmarklet
Latest Jungle Disk update (3.01) seems to lose all network mappings on every reboot making the product useless for normal use
Hmm this only seems to happen if you try to log in immediately after reboot -- wait a little while and the network connections are restored. What can I say -- I am impatient. - Brian Sullivan
Blogger outs back-end Google tech • The Register - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009...
Blogger outs back-end Google tech • The Register
"Very long, soft, smooth. Of high vacuum, because you always!" - Brian Sullivan from Bookmarklet
Large Hadron Collider is online, Higgs boson be damned -- Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
Large Hadron Collider is online, Higgs boson be damned -- Engadget
""We have captured it! First circulating beam of 2009!" And with that tweet, researchers at CERN announced that they did in fact activate the Large Hadron Collider, after quite a long delay and despite warnings of a looming, nefarious Higgs boson. Whether or not we will have had total destruction as an unfortunate result of the device remains to be seen, but should the future find a way to either cease to exist or travel to the past in some time-bending paradox, we only hope linguists and physicists can work together and figure out the proper verb conjugations for this brave new world." - Brian Sullivan from Bookmarklet
@jungledisk 3.01 appears to lose all network mappings on every reboot making it almost useless for normal use
U.S. dollar's role safe: Mark Carney - The Globe and Mail - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-...
U.S. dollar's role safe: Mark Carney - The Globe and Mail
"Bank of Canada governor says greenback will remain world's reserve currency for some time yet" - Brian Sullivan from Bookmarklet
Except it isn't up to him. Let's check back in on this statement in 3 years. - Cole Jolley
No it isn't up to him -- but he is in a position to have more insight than others. - Brian Sullivan
So is Soros. So is Zoellick. And an alternate reserve currency is what they see. - Cole Jolley
BBC News - Twitter urges Murdoch to be open - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
BBC News - Twitter urges Murdoch to be open
"Newspapers should become "radically open" if they want to make money in the online world, the co-founder of social networking site Twitter has said." - a tinge of irony there? - Brian Sullivan from Bookmarklet
Very much so - Mo Kargas
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