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Scoble, Alex Scoble

Scoble, Alex Scoble

Gamer, home theater enthusiast, IT Security professional with CISSP, lover of cats, married to the always wonderful and compassionate (and passionate) Cassie.
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Pressure Washers: Yet another reason why current American life isn't sustainable. In other news, my sidewalk is now clean!
April 27 - Comment - Share
You guys obviously need some caffeine or something. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
"Karate? The Dane Cook of martial arts? No..." Brilliant!
April 26 - Comment - Share
Checking out the show Archer for the first time...pretty funny stuff.
April 26 - Comment - Share
Mediocrity as a reason for circumstances trumps concerted conspiracies just about every time. Just like when you drop a pile of rope on the floor and it becomes tangled, that's not the universe out to get you, that's your own fault for not winding it up properly beforehand.
April 25 - Comment - Share
I like this, but it doesn't sound like something Alex would say. So confused. - Jimminy IS Everybody
incompetence and stupidity are sufficiently pervasive it could qualify as a conspiracy ;) - WarLord
When I bicycle regularly I get crazy hungry. Kind of ridiculous.
April 25 - Comment - Share
If you only watch one OpenStack related video this year, this should be it https://www.openstack.org/summit... These guys get what IT operations automation and cloud deployment should be...for goats.
April 25 - Comment - Share
This is one of the few live demos that actually worked well at Openstack Summit. Kudos to Boris and Roman and the Mirantis crew. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
If I found a log in our yard infested with termites, should I call an exterminator to check the house?
April 22 - Comment - Share
How close to the house? - Jennifer Dittrich
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20 to 30 feet - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Hmm. That's fairly far away, but I'd still be tempted to get someone in to look. At the very least, you might want to dig at a small amount near your house on that side to see if you see any of them in the soil. I think they'd usually recommend a barrier treatment if you don't find any very near (more than a foot away.) - Jennifer Dittrich
How is the condition of your foundation or footings? Any cracks they could be crawling in through? Do you have a few inches of bare concrete footing separating any wood parts of your house from the ground? (Earth-to-wood contact is the worst) - Brian Johns
This is all talking about subterranean termites. Keep in mind that the airborne kind have a completely different method of infestation, detection, etc. - Brian Johns
Thanks, Brian. As far as I know my foundation is solid and there's no wood touching the ground on the house. I think that one of the main runners for the deck is barely off the ground on concrete though and that's untreated lumber. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Flamethrower - Jeff (Team マクダジ ) from iPhone
Yeah, follow Cristo's advice and then move in with him :) - imabonehead
Happy birthday, Stephen!
April 22 - Comment - Share
happy bday - imabonehead
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Happy Birthday! - Kevin Johnson
Oops, missed this DM. Thank you, Alex, ima and Kevin. :) EDIT: And WoH and Anika. :) - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Happy birthday, Stephen! - Anika
When a site says something like "don't lose this information because support staff can't retrieve it for you" is probably not the best time to accidentally close the page before grabbing the info.
April 22 - Comment - Share
I made it through over 41 years of life without ever watching My Little Pony...Sadly, my streak of good luck has come to an end.
April 21 - Comment - Share
I feel your pain, Alex. :-D - Steven Perez from Android
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I am blessed, never saw a single episode! - Janet:#TeamMonique from FFHound!
Which one? - Eric - seven eleven
So, how much longer do you think till you OWN one of the toys? - April Russo
next thing you know you'll be watching episodes of jem and strawberry shortcake - Sir Shuping is just sir
I still have some Strawberry Shortcake thing on VHS, if you want it. (my daughter won it in some drawing when she was 4) - April Russo
You guys laugh, but MLP is actually is pretty smart show, especially when compared to most kids shows. - Steven Perez
Who else out there wants some champagen?
April 19 - Comment - Share
That's a might fine velour suit, Alex. - WoH: Professor MOTHRA
"What has become your own worst enema?" "Auto Correct" - Jimminy IS Everybody
Yet another example that Facebook is not a private forum. Don't post stuff on Facebook that could be damaging if it got into the hands of a non-friend. #crypticfeed
April 19 - Comment - Share
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They just don't provide good privacy tools or assurances of keeping your stuff confined to who you set to allow viewing to. Not to mention that they can change the defaults at any time and if you don't notice, you can get yourself into trouble. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Even if the privacy controls were great, people could still quote or post screenshots. So yeah. - lris
I didn't post anything, Cristo. Tis not about me. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Why does it matter? - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Context is everything. - Akiva
It's about Akiva. He's causing trouble on Facebook again. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
I'm a troublemaker. I'm makin' trouble. - Akiva
So if I said that you shouldn't speed in Beaverton, because cops are always out patrolling for speeders, you'd want to know who I know that got caught speeding in order to find this information useful? OK. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Okay, now that was funny. - Akiva
How fast were you going? - Jimminy IS Everybody
I was going the speed limit, because this isn't about me. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Who's it about? - Jimminy IS Everybody
This would so be a good time for a "your mom" joke. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Maybe, but I'm not that big of an asshole. - Jimminy IS Everybody
Hey, umm, me neither. :D - Scoble, Alex Scoble
How ironic is it that the guy giving a talk about Windows on Openstack is using a Macbook? #openstack
April 18 from iPhone - Comment - Share
Platform agnosticism FTW? - Victor Ganata
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How do Openstack and Windows intersect? (My openstack knowledge is obviously limited) I thought Openstack was all about server-side stuff. - Brian Johns
And by "server-side" I mean Linux. - Brian Johns
Openstack kind of adds an abstraction layer between an OS and the VM host that it's running on. It doesn't care what the OS is so much. Cares a lot more about the VM host...although Hyper-V support was recently added. - Scoble, Alex Scoble from iPhone
So, you can build an Openstack stack on a machine running Windows? Interesting. - Brian Johns
Or are you saying you can build a Windows instance on top of a Linux VM? - Brian Johns
Ill have to answer this when Im back on a proper PC - Scoble, Alex Scoble from iPhone
You mean a Mac? :-) - Brian Johns
Brian, Openstack is a pretty complicated thing composed of a bunch of different modules that you can choose to use. The main module is Nova which handles the management of compute nodes. So in a typical Openstack cloud (and bear with me as I'm far from knowledgeable here), you'd have multiple systems running as compute management nodes and the bulk of the cloud systems would be running... more... - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Nova also has a web interface that allows users to self-provision new systems. They specify number of CPUs, memory and storage and it sets up a VM for them to use. Of course, depending on what VM hosts you are using it will limit what OS you can run in the VM. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
There's also a module that deals with image storage (users can't build a VM with a particular OS unless there's an image ready for them to use), one that deals with block storage, one that deals with object/blob storage, a key management piece, a networking module and some other stuff that I'm forgetting. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Oh, forgot about the dashboard module, heh. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
And like Nova, each module has a name. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
OK - Thanks. I'm still trying to get fluent in the overall concepts. I figure it will help me eventually. - Brian Johns
Yeah, so am I. :D - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Coworker and I were kind of marveling at the number of layers running on a laptop. OS X with a Fusion VM running Linux which is running KVM which has OpenStack on top of it and is then running Windows. That's like 5 levels of abstraction between the Windows VM and the laptop. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Heh, is that just a proof-of-concept thing, or is there a practical reason to run that many levels of abstraction? - Victor Ganata
The practical reason is so you can do a presentation about OpenStack on your laptop, heh. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Netflix has Futurama on Instant? Can I get a hella yeah?
April 19 - Comment - Share
Inability to generate entropy through noise in various devices is a problem for virtual machines since they have no direct access to hardware. People are looking to make an RFC for a peer to peer protocol to fix this http://www.openstack.org/summit...
April 19 - Comment - Share
Mirantis had the best tshirt of Openstack summit #openstack
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April 18 from iPhone - Comment - Share
In Soviet Union thread kills you! - Scoble, Alex Scoble from iPhone
Dell wouldn't give away a laptop to a dude who won it because he's not American #openstack
April 18 from iPhone - Comment - Share
Was it in the T&Cs - Johnny from iPhone
Who knows...it was just a funny thing to hear about. - Scoble, Alex Scoble from iPhone
It's kind of shocking that the CIO of the NSA looks like he'd fit in just fine in Portland or Berkeley. Mohawk with a swoop of purplish-red hair as well.
April 17 - Comment - Share
Surprising, but not surprising considering that the NSA recruits smart people who can think outside of the box. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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LOL, I think someone was playing a joke, because his title changed to "Computer Scientist, NSA" - Scoble, Alex Scoble
actually, that might should be reassuring? wouldn't we want actual intense hacking competence in such a position? ;-) was fortunate to meet citigroup global CTO yobie benjamin few years ago; incognito at a conference, ponytail and all; you'd have thought the same thing. - michael silverton
#offtopic: what's kind of pleasantly shocking to me is that the friendfeed backchannel continues humming along here, even after many of us entered and emerged from the Facebook black hole. also interesting: the reason i'm commenting is that your FF stream was re-surfaced as salient by Feedly in aftermath of Reader. - michael silverton
I agree, Michael. And good for Feedly. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Well, there is 'Abby' from NCIS, after all. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Yes, but she doesn't run the place, heh...at least not yet. They should eventually spin her off onto her own show. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
PAX tickets sold out once again in about 5 hours. I think it's grown too big for Seattle.
April 17 - Comment - Share
I think you'd have that problem at that size just about anywhere at this point; I wish they'd move more towards a lottery system anyway. That's random, but less likely to have the catastrophic crapshoot that buying passes was today. - Jennifer Dittrich
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Yeah, but they definitely have the problem that they literally need more space than the Seattle convention center has. (Also, purely selfishly on my part, it also makes booking a room for Bumbershoot more of a hassle.) - Andrew C (✓)
Naw, they could do it at Vegas and everyone who wanted to would be able to go. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Is there power in exclusivity? - Johnny
I think it is more a preference for keeping it in their hometown. Vegas comes with its own problems, and at that point I'd cease being interested. They're straining at the seams to keep it friendly and non-antiseptic as it is. That would basically doom it to being just another gaming convention. - Jennifer Dittrich
Yep, I agree with that, Jennifer, then again I'm losing interest for it because of this nonsense of trying to keep track of when they are selling tickets and oh, they are on sale? Hurry! Got to get them now while you can! This will likely be my last year that I go. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Hey Eric, Actually, I would like to hear your take on how Windows is manageable and scalable. Argument not included.
April 16 - Comment - Share
Yesterday I was pretty worn when we had our conversation. Sorry about that. I'd love to get into it. I'll post something later. - Eric - seven eleven
Hey no problem, my behavior wasn't exactly Emily Post either. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
There may be more than a few good ways to start a national conversation about race, but I'm pretty sure that defending the Confederate flag isn't one of them.
April 15 - Comment - Share
I generally like Brad Paisley, but he sure stuck his foot in his mouth on that one. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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Though I bet he sells a lot of records because of all the controversy. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
I bet some of his fans even have electricity AND running water. - c.a.j.
Mark this under things I can't say on Facebook - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Someone once told me water is also wet. Imagine that. - Derrick
Sadly it was not so obvious to Brad Paisley and LL Cool J. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Happy birthday, Derrick!
April 15 - Comment - Share
Thanks! - Derrick
Kong just came out with the greatest squeaky dog toys ever...you can turn them off and on at will.
April 6 - Comment - Share
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It lasted less than a week before she split it open. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Funny isnt it how you are somewhat annoyed at Kong for not being able to make an indestructible toy and yet proud of your pup for being able to destroy it ;-) - Shannon - GlassMistress
Heh, yeah. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
We were at a pet store at the beach yesterday where they had "self healing" squeaky toys, but the toys had the warning of "not for aggressive chewers" on the packaging. That warning saved us $14. :D - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Interested in helping to protect our biodiversity? Michael Bernstein is crowdfunding a project create open data around plant varieties, the first step of which is to build a universal seed catalog. http://openfi.re/project... http://openfi.re/goals...
April 15 - Comment - Share
Guess who I thought of when I saw this while walking around Astoria, OR
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April 13 from iPhone - Comment - Share
Stupid iPhone to friendfeed posting of pictures app - Scoble, Alex Scoble from iPhone
The tapioca pudding the Costco sells is sublime beyond words. This is especially true when one has a sore throat.
April 12 - Comment - Share
Finding a good cycling GPS app for the iPhone isn't easy. I'm currently using Endomondo, but the functionality that's supposed to show a route as you ride is currently not working and it's been three weeks since they borked it with the latest release.
April 12 - Comment - Share
It's hard to figure out which apps show a route so you can follow it as you ride and that also are compatible with BlueTooth heart and cadence sensors. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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One of the guys in my mountain biking group told me about Cyclemeter (I think that is the name. Don't have my phone with me). It does the job. There is also MapMyRide. - Shevonne
I *think* RunKeeper does that - Johnny from iPhone
No, Runkeeper only supports heart rate monitor. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
(The route mapping stuff) - Johnny from iPhone
This http://www.wahoofitness.com/Apps... is helpful for figuring out which apps support what monitors, but not helpful for figuring out the maps part. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
When I used MapMyRide in the past, it did not allow for following a route. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
I'll check out Cyclemeter, thanks. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Also, MapMyRide requires you to buy upgrades for every additional sensor. - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Here's an idea...Apple maps, with a bike app running in the background... - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Alex, just checked my phone. It is called Cyclemeter. I hope it has what you need. - Shevonne from iPhone
You might want to check out one of the MotionX apps. They have live apps and support BT HRMs - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
You could also kill a few hours reading about fitness monitoring tech gadgets here: http://www.dcrainmaker.com/ He covers phone-based apps every once in a while, but is mostly dedicated to dedicated devices. - Brian Johns
And then you can get yourself involved in an ANT+ vs. BT flame war! - Brian Johns
I have MotionX GPS on my iPhone. Just confirmed that it will do live maps and supports both BT and ANT+. - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Huh, what sensors does MotionX support, Kevin? Wahoo only shows that it supports heart rate. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
The running app I use (iSmoothRun) will also do live maps and supports both BT and ANT+. It has a bike mode. It's also just a great app (lots of data and customization) and it syncs to RunKeeper. - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Brian, for me, no contest, the BT 4.0 wins. I get WAY more run time with BT 4.0 than I did with my ANT+ sensors. - Ken Gidley
Alex, I have nothing to add for you on apps that provide route info, I've never found that necessary. - Ken Gidley
So, not sure which sensors MotionX supports. iSmoothRun supports my BT HRM (wahooo) and my Garmin ANT+ speed/cadence sensor. It also supports ANT+ stride sensors. - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
I used both an ANT+ HRM and a Bluetooth 4.0 HRM. Not only does the BT provide more battery life (on the phone), it samples more frequently so I get a better picture of my HR during a workout (and for analyzing data later). - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Ken: I get about a year of runtime from my ANT+ sensors. (heartrate, bike speed/cadence, running footpod, and bike power meter) Are you talking about battery life of the phone when talking to BT vs. ANT+? I record from each of my sensors once per second, which I find to be good enough resolution. for post-analysis. - Brian Johns
Yeah, Ken, I need the mapping functionality, because we do predetermined routes on our Monday night rides here at work and I don't know them or how to get around Vancouver, Washington all that well. Also is useful for riding around home because I can define a route with a specific mileage and follow it. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Yeah, unfortunately, I was planning on getting a Wahoo cadence sensor and it's BT. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
full disclosure: I don't use the phone for monitoring - I use a dedicated Garmin device. So there's a whole world of phone-based battery problems that I'm not exposed to. On the other hand, I have to remember to charge the Garmin... - Brian Johns
Yeah, I confirmed on the MotionX website that it only supports HRM. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Yeah, I have an iPhone, so I don't see the point in spending $250 for a Garmin - Scoble, Alex Scoble
At least not until I can do rides longer than 2 hours. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
If the phone does what you want, then there's no need to get anything else. - Brian Johns
Brian, I was talking about iPhone battery life - using BT sensors (HR and speed/cadence), and playing music via my BT headphones, I have done 3 hour rides with my iPhone5 and used less than 40% of a full charge. 2 hour rides with the ANT+ sensors/case would use 70-80% of a full charge on my iPhone 4. - Ken Gidley
What app do you use, Ken? - Scoble, Alex Scoble
It looks like MapMyRide may work if I get MVP subscription, but it's hard to tell. What's annoying is that they have the free app, an app for $3 and then MVP. What they don't say is whether MVP has all of the features of the Plus app or not. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Yep, MapMyRide works. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
It is really hard to get photos of different people taken in front of a blue background to where the blue background matches from one pic to the next.
April 11 - Comment - Share
Especially when you don't have Lightroom/Photoshop. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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If you go manual, lock exposure and focus it becomes a lot easier - Johnny from iPhone
Yeah, but it's really tough to do that when pictures are taken months apart. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
I think I can create a mask in GIMP pretty easily and replace the blue background with something that's uniform. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Why not just try color correcting if all the photos were taken in front of the same blue background? - Andrew C (✓)
Could you explain more or provide me a link on how to do that? The problem is that the background we have is blue corrugated cardboard, so it's not a uniform blue. The stripes make things a bit difficult. I'm not sure why I'm bothering this much given that the equipment just isn't right for the job. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Oh, I thought it would be a flat blue. Anyways, my thinking was that you'd pick a photo to be the reference color values, then adjust all the others to match it, more or less. Maybe there's a way to do it automatically in Lightroom or Photoshop. In Paint.NET or the GIMP you'd make a note of the RGB values of the blue for your reference, then adjust each other photo, testing a similar... more... - Andrew C (✓)
Liked for Andrews explanation - good idea. - Surprisingly Monstrous
This retiring teacher spells out plainly and eloquently what is wrong with our K-12 system of education in this country. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013...
April 10 - Comment - Share
If you hide the documentation/knowledge base to your enterprise tool (any software really) behind a pay/support wall. You suck. Period. Your products automatically become unworthy of purchase. Any company that doesn't follow Splunk's excellent and praiseworthy example can seriously die in a fire.
April 9 - Comment - Share
Yep, I did one of my famously strident outbursts...sue me. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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YOU'LL BE HEARING FROM MY LAWYER, SCOBLE. - holly #ravingfangirl
If splunk would have a better pricing structure I might like this... - Me
I think an argument can be made for this model, though; especially if the software is FLOSS, and the way you monetize it is by selling the support/documentation - DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
I will say it is tons of fun when you need some Cisco support and forgot your Cisco ID. - Eric - seven eleven
There's nothing wrong with Splunk's pricing model, CW. It is in a class by itself in the logging space and there's plenty of companies that charge far more for what you get. - Scoble, Alex Scoble from iPhone
I don't know of any FLOSS software that uses that model, Mr Noodle - Scoble, Alex Scoble from iPhone
Yep, Eric. Cisco is on my list as is Checkpoint, as is HP Arcsight. - Scoble, Alex Scoble from iPhone
By the way, those companies have in common that they are likely to get killed by newer competitors. - Scoble, Alex Scoble from iPhone
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