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Milestone: 20 Million Hits - http://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new...
Piaw Na liked this
Dang. Google says I've had 1 million page views on my blog since 2005, so 20M is huge.
- Piaw Na
Write more pages. The bots think that they need to crawl them all; the hits pile up.
- Larry Hosken
Clearly 1809 posts isn't enough. Oh wait, I think google analytics drops all bot crawls and doesn't count them as visits!
- Piaw Na
hits != visits
- Michael Herf
Analytics indeed doesn't see bots. Hits indeed aren't visits.
- Larry Hosken
Should first sale doctrine die? - http://snarfed.org/2011-11...
I disagree, of course. Much of the value of buying media (like buying a book, movie, or game) comes from the pleasure of being able to pass it on and lend it to a friend or family member. Creators get a lot of value out of it, as the generation of new fans can only help creators.
- Piaw Na
Agree! Reading books after my wife does is the easiest thing possible with a real book. But the Kindle loaning feature is awkward indeed. I also give books to friends sometimes, and it doesn't do that at all.
- Michael Herf
Rat trap just went off. I thought those things were supposed to kill cleanly, but I can hear it screaming in the attic. Sadface.
Jeanette Bosman liked this
:(
- LB so u no it's real
from YouFeed
Yeah, some traps are super painful. The one with the gooey stuff actually rips their bodies apart. :(
- Shevonne
We had mice at work this spring, so we set classic spring-traps for them everywhere. Boss' wife came in next day, saw them, walked out, came back a couple of hours later and replaced them all with non-harmful maze traps. Didn't have the heart to tell her that when she called the number on the traps, the guy would come and take them, then gas the mice.
- Slippy
the one and only time i set a trap it was after all other options had failed (including a live capture device). i resorted to a glue trap. ended up having to take the rat out, still stuck to the trap, and dispatch it in the back yard with a cast metal rake to the skull. i blubbed like a schoolboy. still feel bad about it 8 years later.
- Joe The Sausage
Yeah, my aunt used a glue trap once and when it caught the mouse she asked me to come by and release it. Using heavy gloves I really did try to separate them but I knew I would break its legs in trying and eventually had to resort to drowning it in a garbage bag of water. I felt awful. I used to keep mice as pets and breed them. Just last month I found that vegetable oil (or something else, I forget what) could be used to release them from glue traps. Too late.
- Kevin Fox
Ah well. All things die. Many suffer. Many don't. All we can do is try, learn, try again.
- Slippy
Hark at me waxing philosophical.
- Slippy
:( One time there was a mouse in our dorm and my roommate bought a no-kill trap. The year before I used a Pop-Tart box. But house mice are a little different then dorm mice.
- <3Heather<3
Actually, before the traps, my supervisor had put his work gloves on and spent an hour chasing one of the little blighters. He caught it eventually, and put it in some bushes at the end of the street (about half a mile away). Bloody thing was back the next day.
- Slippy
10 years ago when I was living by myself there was a mouse in my apartment. It would wake me in the morning when it jumped in to my trash can looking for pizza crusts. After a few weeks I saw it in the corner of the living room and walked nonchalantly to the closet where I got a broom. I stalked it slowly and when it bolted I gave it one swift thwack with the broom and knocked it out...
more...
- Kevin Fox
Sad to say, but ratzapper is amazing.
- Michael Herf
:(
- SteVe C
Getting ready for bed when I read about the tragic passing of Googler Steve Lacey, before ascertaining that it was *not* our Steve Lacy. I don't feel good about being relieved, But it's harder to grieve for people you know. Crap crap crap. http://www.king5.com/home...
:(
- Stephen Mack
So sorry, Gary.
- Michael Herf
:( So sorry Gary!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
from iPhone
I'm so sorry, Gary.
- Kevin Fox
Same here, Kevin, and I'm so sorry Gary.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Just horrible, horrible, horrible. I have no words. I'm sorry.
- Vicarbott
Yeah, this is really sad news.
- Steve and 3 other people
By the way, gives me a warm fuzzy to be known as *our* Steve Lacy. :)
- Steve and 3 other people
Gary, I'm so sorry.
- Anne Bouey
Updated Time Capsule opened, server-grade hard drive nowhere to be found? - http://www.engadget.com/2011...
Ouch.
- Michael Herf
Next generation photo lighting
- Michael Herf
Online storage company Mozy acquired by VMware - http://www.techflash.com/seattle...
Woah. Right after I canceled my Mozy as well!
- Piaw Na
Me too. I expect the business is enterprise not consumer.
- Michael Herf
from iPhone
The Best Android Phones You Can Buy This Month (GOOG) - http://www.businessinsider.com/the-bes...
Thunderbolt outselling iPhone on Verizon. So much for theories that the iPhone lost marketshare because it wasn't on Verizon.
- Piaw Na
Outselling *at Verizon stores*. I bought my iPhone at an Apple store, where iPhones are outselling Thunderbolts.
- Michael Herf
Google, if you're removing h.264, you have to make webM work everywhere. Not for consumers yet: http://code.google.com/p...
JSLeFanu, Jimminy, CoG of FF, Alex Scrivener and 3 other people liked this
Seems like removing h.264 is the most powerful way Google could make webM work everywhere.
- Kevin Fox
I don't think Google has the marketing capital to pull it off: outside of search, it's not like they're the Wal*Mart of the internet, where you have to do what Google says or else. As Gruber noted, it'd be just as easy to give Chrome folks the Flash fallback like IE gets, especially since Flash works in Android.
- Mark Trapp
If Apple can kill Flash, Chrome may be able to kill h.264. Not that Apple's killed Flash yet, but they may have started the ball to that destination.
- Kevin Fox
Weird that Google would want to remove the main format that Youtube seems to prefer. http://www.google.com/support...
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
It's a bad move. h.264 is everywhere. In web video, Blu-ray, flash video. AFAIK, the license fees for h.264 have been dropped. This is bad for consumers. The reason WebM is decent is because On2 created it. It was VP8 at one time. Google bought them and made VP8 open. It still isn't as good as h.264.
- Rodfather
Unilaterally switching YouTube to exclusively WebM or pulling an Apple by only supporting WebM on Android are the two moves I don't think Google has the ability to make. The Android move is impossible in the near and medium term due to the "open" nature of the platform, and the YouTube move would mean severing a huge section of their audience (namely, every IE user). Apple's play worked because it could start from scratch with a new device; Google would have to renege on partner agreements.
- Mark Trapp
Looks like they're betting the disruptive effect is worth the risk of possibly having to backpedal. We'll see.
- Micah
Also, they could transcode everything on the server. But generally, I think video is a whole set of devices: mobile, set-top, browser, and desktop. They've made decent inroads in the browser, and not much else (including multi-channel audio, TVs, etc.)
- Michael Herf
I don't want to sound cynical, because I very much like this direction and its long-term effects. I just want it to actually work...that means people who produce video should be able to use WebM instantly. Desktops should be able to play it, etc.
- Michael Herf
My Friends And I Are THRILLED About Falling Housing Prices - http://www.businessinsider.com/my-frie...
No sign of this in Silicon Valley.
- Piaw Na
Nor west LA!
- Michael Herf
from iPhone
Many people seem to be confusing "instant on" with "boot time". My MacBook Air wakes up instantly and can sleep for 30 days on battery. Boot time is largely irrelevant because I very rarely reboot any of my devices.
alexandra, ali yasar, Brome and 37 other people liked this
See http://twitter.com/gaustin... for one such confused individual.
- Paul Buchheit
Boot time is only irrelevant until you have to reboot.
- Gabe
Correct. Boot time is no longer an issue.
- Louis Gray
How often are you rebooting Gabe? For me, it's rare enough that I don't even know how long it takes. Is it 5 sec, or 30 sec? I don't care. 30 hours would be a problem, but it's nowhere near that.
- Paul Buchheit
My cable box is "instant on", largely because it doesn't actually turn off. But when it crashes (or there's a power glitch), it's really annoying to have to wait several minutes before getting back to your show. How often is that? It's rare, but when it happens I certainly wish that it actually turned on instantly.
- Gabe
There's never been a short supply of confused twitterers.
- Micah
I think boot time (not wake time) is still a prevalent issue (and a holdover) for Windows users, not everyone else. I don't know why there's such a distinction between the user-bases, though: there's nothing to suggest that computers running Windows (or any computers) need to be rebooted on a regular basis, but people still do it.
- Mark Trapp
I haven't seen 'instant on' since the old Sharp Wizard PDA's. I don't consider SplashTop to be instant on either.
- Rodfather
My TV is also "instant on", but only in the "sleep" mode where it consumes 40W! Since I don't want it to waste electricity all the time I actually turn it off, meaning I have to wait 20 seconds for it to boot every time I watch TV.
- Gabe
It takes my light bulbs 30 seconds to boot.
- Brian Sullivan
Your lightbulbs clearly need to be replaced with ones running Chrome OS.
- Mark Trapp
That'd be one hawt! touch interface.
- Micah
Ironically, many of the lights in Paul's house aren't "instant on". They take long enough to turn on that you start wondering whether you pressed the right button.
- Gabe
I wish my boots were instant on. I hate having to feed the laces through the top two hooks!
- Vicarbott
Mac OS boot time and wake from sleep were a huge focus in OS X - there was a dedicated team who profiled the entire boot and wake processes, and went round each dev team making sure they were faster or deferred more things.
- Kevin Marks
That said, I really like this CR-48. Simple, instant on by your standards, and I easily get eight hours battery life.
- Nathan Snyder
Jim, did you see http://www.power-laces.com/about ?
- Kevin Marks
Replacing compact fluorescents with LEDs helps with instant-on for lights...
- Kevin Marks
Relevant: http://prog21.dadgum.com/index...
- Eric Florenzano
Windows requires lots of rebooting, and it is extremely slow to boot. I hate Windows, but I have to use it for work now.
- Robert Felty
Rob: How long does it take your computer to boot? My new Win7 laptop takes about 35 seconds from when I swipe my finger on the fingerprint reader turn it on to being logged in and ready to use. It's not exactly "instant on", but it's faster than most other computers I've used.
- Gabe
PowerLaces vid officially added to my YT favourites, Kevin.
- Micah
Worst part about Windows restore from sleep is connection to WIFI! The Mac does a fantastic job...3x faster?, and then somehow the browsers all load the page they were waiting on. Windows makes the browser show a failure page, etc.
- Michael Herf
Windows7 on my new machine boots in 45 seconds. Snow Leopard on my new machine boots in 30 seconds. Very big deal. I could prepare a cup of coffee in that 15 seconds. Or count the white hair on my head.
- İlter Kalkancı
My company still uses WinXP. They are planning on doing a rolling upgrade to Win 7 over the next 3 years. Three Years! By then there will probably be Win 8. I haven't actually measured how long it takes to boot, but there are a bunch of other things too. It has to log in to the VPN, and do a bunch of anti-virus stuff. So by the time I can open Microsoft Outlook to check my e-mail, it is 3-4 minutes easily.
- Robert Felty
Rob, you should consider yourself lucky that your company actually has plans for moving off of XP. Some of my clients only recently upgraded to XP and I don't know of any that actually has plans to move off of it.
- Gabe
Rob, I'm on XP at our company, also. I very rarely turn my computer off (yeah, I'm an environmentally incorrect monster), but IT has to run some processes once a week so whether or not I turn it off I have to reboot once a week. I have never actually timed it but I'm pretty sure it takes about five minutes.
- Laura Norvig
I keep hearing how Windows "requires" lots of rebooting...and I don't see it. I choose to boot from full power-off every morning; takes 75 seconds to full-on (with all apps, etc., operational). From sleep mode, 5 seconds. From hibernate, maybe 10. Required reboots outside of old-program installs: Zero since Windows 7 installed.
- Walt Crawford
Does Windows 7 not require a reboot for almost every software update? That seems like a nice improvement. I have to say that Mac 10.6 got worse with software updates. There seem to be more that require a reboot, and they don't get installed in the background anymore.
- Robert Felty
Robert: It varies. I haven't found them disruptive; once a month or so, going to sleep mode initiates patch sets, which finish installing on restart. So, in that sense, yes. Most other (newer) software, in my experience, no longer requires restarts. Then again, I don't consider 75 seconds once a day to be burdensome, and prefer to have the PC completely off overnight.
- Walt Crawford
don't you see some performance drop?
- testbeta
yuck.
- Michael Herf
Ouch
- Private Sanjeev
from iPhone
What drives were you using? and how come you lost data in your ZFS pool with one bad disk?
- Tudor Bosman
I didn't lose data with ZFS. I was able to replace the drive (WD Green, I think). The problem is that I had it unmounted while the whole thing resilvered and CrashPlan decided that I deleted it. Now that it is back, it thinks it needs to upload it all again over my broadband connection.
- Joe Beda
That is awful. Don't they have old versions?
- Michael Herf
Do you think that Tron is a good movie or simply ground-breaking?
Turkish Delight, Nils Sandin, Kol Tregaskes and 4 other people liked this
On a side note I think that it's pretty sad that it's taken so long for a sequel to get made.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
How about this: Tron is a waste of time :P
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
Tron came out at a time when a lot of people didn't know much about computers at all. It's definitely ground-breaking. I haven't seen it in a long time so I can't say if it's good or not by my current sensibilities, but I certainly enjoyed it when it came out.
- Stephen Mack
I think it is a good movie - it was fairly complex for a movie marketed for kids, and had pretty good special effects.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Ground-breaking and visionary in a way that isn't obvious to people who didn't see it until 10-20 years later.
- Kevin Fox
I watched it a couple years ago because it was a friend's absolute favorite movie. I didn't even make it through the whole thing. I'm old enough to have been around when it first came out and I definitely remember the huge step forward it was in effects. But the story didn't do much for me. Even the Jeff Bridges eye candy couldn't carry me through.
- Spidra Webster
We met (writer) Bonnie this week....apparently she based a bit of it on things she learned from her husband, Alan Kay.
- Michael Herf
What CW said.
- Derrick
Minor quibble: The new Macbook Airs drop the backlit keyboard of previous models.
Roberto Bonini liked this
You should know how to type by now. ;)
- Seth
I always found the Thinkpad's front-lit keyboards distracting (with a little LED at the top of the screen shining down on to the keyboard) but wouldn't it be cool if there was a tiny UV led that shone down and the lettering on the keys phosphoresced?
- Kevin Fox
Yeah the backlight is really useful on the MBP. My newer thinkpad has a backlit keyboard, but it turns itself off after a half hour or so!....very annoying. Maybe I shouldn't use a laptop in bed, and I wouldn't need a backlight at all.
- Michael Herf
Saw a Prius on 280 with the plate 'PIOUS'. Holier than thou, to be sure.
Scoble, Alex Scoble, Chieze Okoye and Stephen Mack liked this
♪ I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art ♪
- RAPatton
Dude, and I thought you were the pious guy the little Amlettes wanted be like!
- RAPatton
I always thought this was part of the branding, but I was afraid to say it.
- Michael Herf
Same here. When the car was first launched, I initially thought it was pronounced "pry-us" (similar to "primary", "price", "private", etc) so that it would rhyme with "pious".
- Simon
Wattvision Energy Sensor: Now shipping! - http://blog.wattvision.com/wattvis...
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"Wattvision is now shipping the Wattvision Energy Sensor for digital and analog meters. We've graduated from our beta hardware to what you see in the photos above. For the next two weeks, we're offering the complete wattvision system (Gateway + Sensor appropriate for your meter) for just $239 with free 2-3 day shipping in the United States."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Just sent them a message to see if this will work with my solar system (E7 net metering). Looks like a cool product!
- Steve and 3 other people
I want the kind where I have to open up my electrical panel. Do they have one of those?
- Gabe
Try Google Powermeter or "TED" http://www.google.com/powerme... http://www.theenergydetective.com/ Neither of those work with Solar PV systems, though.
- Steve and 3 other people
Steve: The TED 5000 claims it's "Solar/Wind Compatible". Is that not what you're looking for?
- Gabe
I got a "Blue Line" electrical meter reader awhile ago...my meter reader guy keeps taking it off (maybe he can't read the meter). Would be much more inclined to use a hard-wired TED sort of thing next time.
- Michael Herf
Apple iPad blamed for plunging laptop sales - http://vator.tv/news...
You say blamed, I say credited.
- Kevin Fox
I think they need to account for the mainstreaming of smartphones too - an email device is an email device! Also, it's not at all clear from these articles if the shipping volumes are similar...I wonder?
- Michael Herf
Retraction: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31...
- Stephen Mack
Vezquex, Mark Trapp, Robert Felty and 6 other people liked this
Hmmm, sounds familiar. Think they are paying royalties on that? :)
- Ken Gidley
Apple has had that voice for a long time, since MacInTalk 2 in the early-'90s.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Have it say "Word to your mother."
- Jonathan Hardesty
I giggle so hard when I make it say "kitty". "KIH-TEE"
- Penguin
say -v "Cellos" "dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh"
- Tinfoil 2.0
Oh this is amusing me greatly.
- Penguin
You can alter the volume as follows (0-10, including decimal values)... osascript -e 'set volume 10'; say -v "Cellos" "dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh" ...it's great fun to remote login to someone else's Mac, turn the volume up, and have their computer talk to them ;)
- Tinfoil 2.0
LogEx, I think you won 2 internets with that one.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
say -v "Cellos" "the voice is coming from inside the house drop your pants"
- Kevin Fox
Umm works over ssh too. WHOOPS.
- Michael Herf
Gotta make these ringtones: say -v "Cellos" "My name is monkey" and "Wassup"
- Arlan K.
From a recruiter's email: "I will give you $1,000 or 2 iPads for every successful referral." How many Nanos for a successful phone screen?
Ozgur Demir, Yolanda and Rachel Lea Fox liked this
The tweet here alone should be worth a track download or two.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
If you could get enough iPads you could make a supercomputer.
- Michael Herf
or an awesome virtual wall art display.
- Kevin Fox
How much longer before we see iPads in kiosks or check-in counter at airports or grocery stores?
- Shakeel Mahate
GCreep: Google Engineer Stalked Teens, Spied on Chats (GOOG) - http://www.businessinsider.com/google-...
vympelov, cdogzilla | downgraded, Benjamin Golub and 4 other people liked this
Woah.
- Piaw Na
Not good.
- Private Sanjeev
There should be logs for this that are visible to someone's whole team. Yuck.
- Michael Herf
Whoa. Not good, indeed. This is the kind of thing where I hope Google takes legal action.
- Tudor Bosman
Looks like they're trying to bury this incident, but this is really awful. I can't believe this sort of thing isn't logged.
- Mr. Gunn
OMG! :)
- Oguz Serdar
from Android
I can't comment on this very much without risking running afoul of my Google NDA, but I can say that I would personally have punched him in the face if this had happened while I worked on Gmail.
- Tudor Bosman
I generally don't believe in profiling..... but...
- Geoff Schultz {TF}
It would be interesting to know the security policies for accessing this data. Usually when there's SSNs or other sensitive data involved there's an escalation of process. Is that in place at Google?
- Todd Hoff
Todd: I can't comment on that (and my information would be 2.5 years old anyway).
- Tudor Bosman
Ooh, let's rent a movie on iTunes! [5 minutes later] "Your movie will be available to watch in 6 hours"
imabonehead, Louis Gray, Morton Fox and 2 other people liked this
Now the download is 1% complete and it says it'll be available in 7 hours. This doesn't bode well.
- Kevin Fox
I use iTunes to rent movies pretty regularly. They typically download faster than realtime, so I usually can start playing them almost instantly while they buffer.
- Simon
We usually can too. This is a first. Now it says it's downloaded 2% and the movie will be ready to watch in 8 hours. In the words of the transatlantic passenger on the delayed plane that's lost 3 of 4 engines, "If we lose the fourth one we'll be up here all night!"
- Kevin Fox
Wow, something else must be using your Internet connection. It's almost always within a couple of minutes for me.
- I like big Botts
You maybe need to open a port?
- Geoff Schultz {TF}
Speedtest gives me 20.59Mbps downstream right now (while the transfer is going on, even). I think this is more likely something on Apple's end. Sunday night is probably a heavy time for their servers.
- Kevin Fox
They usually use akamai to serve data. I've seen occasional tcp window shrinkage (probably when too many connections come in?) which limits bandwidth as a side-effect...but that was a couple years ago, not recently. Are you downloading to an appletv or laptop?
- Michael Herf
Windows Phone 7 team buries iPhone and Blackberry in effigy http://www.neowin.net/news... Such arrogance, and yet they omit Android?
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I'm all for team celebrations, but shouldn't the point be that they built something they're proud of, instead of the arrogant statement that their unreleased product has killed the competition?
- Kevin Fox
Certainly the burials are premature, but I don't have a problem with their celebration. Doesn't seem arrogant to me.
- Stephen Mack
Wow, I kind of feel sorry for them.
- Paul Buchheit
Like I said, I'm all for celebration, but celebration at the expense of (and in the form of an attack on) another group of people is in poor taste. Reminds me of what Yahoo did a few years back: http://fury.com/2005... In that case, such a ruckus was raised (oops, my bad) that the plaque was removed.
- Kevin Fox
Windows Phone 7 will rule for a 1000 years!
- Paul Buchheit
This reminds me of people talking about how much better Google TV is than some other existing products.
- Brian Johns
On come on...it's just the team having a bit of fun, right? Let's not be so serious cat. http://www.seriouscat.com/
- Mr. Gunn
Let me get this straight. They finished WP7 on Sep 1, are only announcing a release date on Oct 11 and are currently celebrating an RTM. Clearly they missed the memo about the internet :)
- Private Sanjeev
I was totally amazed by the tone in this memo from last July (no humble, no cool at all): http://www.techflash.com/seattle...
- Michael Herf
Apparently, the reason when they omitted Android was because it was taking the photos: http://techcrunch.com/2010...
- Simon
The Thriller video at the bottom of that looks really good. Makes the parade seem even more like good-natured fun.
- Stephen Mack
It's funny how so many suggested alternative iTunes 10 icons get inspiration from the new icon they don't like. http://dribbble.com/search...
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If I were redesigning the iTunes icon I wouldn't just eliminate the antiquated CD. I would acknowledge that iTunes is about TV, movies, apps and books as much as it's about music.
- Kevin Fox
I think you'd basically have to invent a new symbol and imbue it with those meanings over time. I'm not a professional designer but I can't think of any symbol that means "media".
- Spidra Webster
I don't like the new icon. And I don't like the ones on Dribbble. Agree it is weird to keep it just about music. The new icon w/ the big stroke looks especially bad at small sizes (like in spotlight).
- Michael Leggett
How about a vacuum sucking money from a wallet?
- DGentry
For a symbol that means 'media', how about the triangular 'play' icon?: http://www.iconfinder.com/search...
- Michael R. Bernstein
@Michael: That's the Windows Media Player icon, basically: http://www.google.com/images...
- Otto
I was going to suggest a play icon, but it doesn't represent the device hub and app store iTunes has become. And it is a hub/market to many more than it is a place to buy anything in video format.
- Michael Leggett
You could iconify the CD and keep the silhouette intact. The new "note" looks so crammed in.
- Michael Herf
Woah @googlereader, you went and changed your favicon again! I don't know if I can keep up with it!
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I think the white "3rd page" is intentional, but it keeps looking like an accident.
- Michael Herf
Yeah - the white thing in the background drives me crazy
- Jesse Stay
With the thin, almost non existent lines between the rss rings, it looks like a Northface logo. And the northface favicon looks like a bad rss icon: http://thenorthface.com.
- Michael Leggett
And Google promised that they wouldn't do evil. THIS is evil.
- Akiva
Flickr's mouseover zooming on the location map is the most elegant 'treat' interaction I've seen in a long time. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Simon, Amit Patel, Stephen Mack and 6 other people liked this
Very nice, slightly better if they did a little zoom to help the continuity.
- Michael Herf
I love this interaction too. Though, that's a fade between two images... no zoom. At least not on Chrome. And they could also pulse the pin or something. I discovered the zoom from region to city pretty early... but it took me a while to find the zoom to intersection.
- Michael Leggett
Canon unveils PowerShot S95 premium compact: Digital Photography Review - http://www.dpreview.com/news...
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Impressive. They've fixed most of the complaints people had, and added HD mode.
- Piaw Na
Anyone want to buy my S90? :)
- Benjamin Golub
I wish Nikon was keeping up in the high-end compact market. As it is, I'm likely to pick up the S95 when it comes out.
- DeWitt Clinton
I am very pleased with the S90, so I think I'll keep it and wait for the next generation.
- Piaw Na
This is what I've been waiting for! I almost got the S90. And my current camera broke last week. Perfect timing on Canon's part :)
- Amit Patel
Did anyone see a ship date?
- Piaw Na
still has tiny ring around the "func" button (the one that always randomizes my settings)
- Michael Herf
did you read the description, michael? The tiny ring now clicks and has indents, so you won't randomize your settings without knowing you did so. :-)
- Piaw Na
Dewitt: Nikon is a much much smaller company than Canon. They have to be very selective about which market they enter.
- Piaw Na
I'm interested to see how effective the image stabilization and high sensitivity systems are. Besides those two features and the 720p vid it's a rather small upgrade to the S90. I prefer the lens and the controls of the LX5 but the portability of the S95. Will be interesting to see if the differences in image quality remain compared to the LX3/S90.
- ronin
Opinions vs. Data - http://ignorethecode.net/blog...
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Is being usable the same as being better, though? I agreed with the part about not liking the new widget, and had to ask myself why. It may be knee jerk resistance to change, but it may be two clicks versus one.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
I've always thought that "do this task" usability fails to capture how often people *want* to do that task. If your 1000th most popular feature appears in the top-left dominant spot in the UI, that's an issue too...but this UI element does work quite well.
- Michael Herf
My biggest beef with this new UI element is that it's too small, and dangerously close to the Archive button (a fairly disruptive accidental click). So, I have to gently mouse over there instead of some brazen mouse swipe that I used to do to click on "select unread" which was in the middle and not near anything that really mattered. Thankfully, I'm still mostly just sticking with the keyboard shortcuts for these bulk selection operations.
- Steve and 3 other people
FreeBSD 8.1 is out with new ZFS zpool v14 integrated. I'm thinking of trying it out. Note @herf still not happy as OpenSolaris is still pretty far ahead.
Ooooh! Can it boot from a zpool without hackery now? If so, I'll need to reinstall my home server: http://friendfeed.com/tudor...
- Tudor Bosman
That's the same as 8.0, then. Oh well.
- Tudor Bosman
I'm using an SSD as ZIL, which makes my NFS performance quite a bit better. But yeah it probably doesn't matter as long as you never add a log device.
- Michael Herf
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
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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
For small boxes, you could consider a self-contained box like a MSI Wind PC ($139).
- Scott Ludwig
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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
7 months later, still going strong. My recommendation for Hitachi drives stands.
- Tudor Bosman
I've had several EADS drive failures as well. I was thinking the failures were partly due to heat, but no definitive proof.
- Scott Ludwig
Just went to A7k2000's and a new enclosure (posted today): http://www.nerdblog.com/2010...
- Michael Herf
SENSOR_CATEGORY_MECHANICAL (Windows Driver Kit) - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us...
windows 7 sensors, including lots of light sensor types
- Michael Herf
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