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Smallest PC packs a punch, runs Windows 7 | DVICE - http://dvice.com/archive...
Smallest PC packs a punch, runs Windows 7 | DVICE
Smallest PC packs a punch, runs Windows 7 | DVICE
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"We're big fans of tiny PCs, and this CompuLab fit-PC2i is the smallest one yet. Even though it's just 4 inches wide and slightly over an inch tall, it can still run Windows 7 and blast 1080p video all day long. It's made out of aluminum, so it's super light at 13 ounces, just right for hanging on the back of a flat panel display for complete Web freedom in the home theater." - Ken Sheppardson from Bookmarklet
FFholic - Most Active English Users on FriendFeed - http://ffholic.com/Users...
FFholic - Most Active English Users on FriendFeed
I just scanned down the list of the 100 "most active" users on FriendFeed, and I think I recognize no more than 7 or 8. Who are all these people? - Ken Sheppardson from Bookmarklet
Turks - Jesse Stay
It's like some sort of quantum mechanics thing where there's the parallel service occupying the same space that I never see... - Ken Sheppardson
Yeah, they all look like Turkish or Italian FF'ers, a few of other countries sprinkled in - Itachi
We need a Large Hadron Colider to find it...... - Roberto Bonini from iPhone
The lower you go in, the more Italians and English FF'ers you'll find - Itachi
In America, you stop using a service because Scoble or Techcrunch says its dead. In those countries, you just keep using the service because you think its a good service. - Jesse Stay
like @Jesse - Valeria Maltoni
1UP Jesse! - Derrick
1UP indeed! - Akiva Moskovitz
Who's the Turkish Scoble? - Ken Sheppardson
"Sad to announce The LunaPod Project is now dead. My mass-produced $7 rocket to the moon was undermined by suppliers, lawyers, and reality." - http://twitter.com/hotdogs...
The End Of The CrunchPad - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
The End Of The CrunchPad
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"Bizarrely, we were being notified that we were no longer involved with the project. Our project. Chandra said that based on pressure from his shareholders he had decided to move forward and sell the device directly through Fusion Garage, without our involvement..." - Ken Sheppardson from Bookmarklet
I can't believe this, I'm outraged, hopefully they can do something to revive the project. - Jimminy
If you want a great example of the mess you get when you try to pull together all the different conversation threads generated by a single blog post, look no further than the comments on http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009....
As an exercise, try to look through the comments there and fill in the blank: "federation is a myth perpetrated by _________" - Ken Sheppardson
I'm to busy clicking More to begin the exercise. - Micah Wittman
Of course, I'm the kind of guy who wrote an "Expand All Comments" hack ;) http://friendfeed.com/ffhacks... - Micah Wittman
That thread needs a "Hide All Automated Tweets of the Post's Title" hack. - Ken Sheppardson
That's why JS-Kit calls it Echo! - Louis Gray
Echo-Echo Under my umbrella-ella-ella-ella-eh-eh... - Micah Wittman
Watching "The West Wing" Season 1, Episode 1. I wonder if Josh will get fired...
Can we all just agree now that if Michigan doesn't finish better than 6-6 next year, Rodriguez is out and Jim Harbaugh takes the job?
Better yet, 8-4 - Ken Sheppardson
Do not mention the R word. I'm still pissed at him for leaving in the middle of the season. - Jimminy
We should be so lucky. - Ken Sheppardson
I don't understand why the federal government doesn't mandate more distinctive packaging for Cumin and Cinnamon.
Fox News Makes the Best Pie Chart. Ever. | FlowingData - http://flowingdata.com/2009...
Fox News Makes the Best Pie Chart. Ever. | FlowingData
oh damn - Richard Lawler
Their support reaches into other dimensions!! - Internet's Tad
LOLz. - Jason Toney
How 'bout a hat with an LCD screen and voice recognition that displays targeted ads based on the conversation you're having.
Google Reader needs filters, particularly for shared items. For example, I subscribe to both Louis and Jesse so I really don't need to see when they share each others' posts. Every. Single. Post....
NTTAWWT - Ken Sheppardson
... or is there? ... - Chris Heath
That feature would help a lot with duplicate shares from Rob Diana and Louis. - Polly Potter
So Jimmy Johnson says regarding the Patriots 4th and 2 "Based strictly on the percentages, Bill Belichick made the wrong call."... then he gives the numbers and fumbles the math:
His numbers: Pats conversion rate on 4th and 2: 77% - Ken Sheppardson
Manning's chances of scoring from 70 yards: 33% - Ken Sheppardson
Manning's chances of scoring from 29: 58% - Ken Sheppardson
Noting that if the Pats make it, they can run down the clock, going for it gives them an 87% probability of winning (23% chance they don't make it, 58% chance the Colts can score if they do.). Punting only gives them only a 67% probability of winning. Picking the option that gives you the higher probability of winning is the right choice "based strictly on the percentages", no? My guess is Johnson just looked at 58% > 33%. - Ken Sheppardson
Maybe I'm just numb, but it seems the landscape's full of me-too search, filtering and dashboard apps. Where's today's "Visicalc"? #crunchup
@chrismessina Oh *appstores*. I read that as *apostrophes*, which also made sense.
Too bad everybody couldn't have just stuck with Morse code. Just think how interoperable everything would be.
We have distinctions in open source re "free", i.e. "speech" vs "beer". Seems like it's time for the same thing re "open" #crunchup
#Open door vs EH! #Open this can for me, kid. - Micah Wittman
Oh, look. I just saw a batch of tweets from the Real Time CrunchUp show up in my FriendFeed stream. The oldest is from 47 minutes ago. #fail
Brizzly seems like it's in an incredibly tenuous position, what with building a business around a web interface to a service with a web interface.
Especially when a) Service changes features and b) when service steals features from you. - Johnny Worthington from iPhone
Yeah, if you're a [Twitter|Facebook] UI product manager and you're not taking the best features from Brizzly and incorporating them into your own UI, [Twitter|Facebook] needs a different product manager. - Ken Sheppardson
They should be doing what Apple used to (still does?) where they fold all the coolest 3rd party fixes into the next OS release... - Aron Michalski
'Paul is Dead!' (said Fred) | Michigan Today - http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2009...
'Paul is Dead!' (said Fred) | Michigan Today
"Beatles experts say this Michigan Daily article by Fred LaBour catapulted the 'Paul is dead' rumor from fringe weirdness to mainstream frenzy." - Ken Sheppardson from Bookmarklet
And now we know... the rest of the story. - Louis Gray
The walrus is Paul. - Gary Burd
Kookoocachoo - Curtiss Grymala
But @leolaporte, did you *pay* for the Droid?
With shares of Sweat Equity ;) - Micah Wittman
ha ha ha ha ha - Chris Heath
I think I can speak for Leo when I say, "Screw you, Sheppardson!" - Laura Norvig
What's your "TL;DR Threshold" for FriendFeed comments? If you see the dreaded little italicized "124 more comments" message, how many of them will you actually read before you comment yourself?
I'll admit I tend to read the first 10-20 and the last 10-20, but those 100 in the middle...oy. - Ken Sheppardson
at that point, I generally won't comment at all. after 50+ comments there is rarely anything that I can add that hasn't been said already. - chrisofspades
In general, threads like that are political enough that I wouldn't want to get involved anyway. *Usually* I prefer to read all of them before making a comment, which is why I don't jump into too many threads that long. - i80and
If it's something I'm interested in or care about, I'll read/skim most of it. Otherwise tl;dr - Itachi
It's tough being a latecomer to a thread like that, however interesting it may be. - LogEx
I don't think the comment count itself has ever dissuaded me from expanding comments, but the content of the first few comments will sometimes stop me from reading further. - Victor Ganata
*placeholder lest I get trapped in middle* - Micah Wittman
*This comment has a high probability of being read in this thread even if the relative substance approaches zero* - Jemm from fftogo
____*eye-catching placeholder*____ - Itachi
The more comments there are on a post I find interesting, the more likely I am to expand them. - Slappy Line
After only eight years of reliably running 24x7 my faithful Sony SAT-T60 DirecTV+TiVo box is now rebooting every five minutes. It'll be sad to see it go, but it probably deserves to be put to rest.
Well, it's dead. Time to revist that whole DirecTV vs TiVo vs Comcast thing again. Sigh. - Ken Sheppardson
I dunno if this helps at all: http://www.engadgethd.com/2009... I'm waiting to see how much those Ceton cablecards end up costing. - Richard Lawler
Nice, Richard. And timely :-) I so dread the thought of going to Comcast, and I don't know what's worse... waiting for the past five years or so for DirecTV and TiVo to get their act in gear and make up or waiting for a cable card tuner I can drop into my own W7 Media Center box. Heaven forbid DirecTV and Microsoft do anything this century that'd bring satellite to Media Center. - Ken Sheppardson
I suspect I'm probably going to end up slinking into Best Buy and picking up whatever the absolutely cheapest choice is from DirecTV to hold me over until I figure this all out again. - Ken Sheppardson
One spare hard drive, $25 for the latest InstantCake image, and 15 minutes with a torx driver later, the SAT-T60's back up and running. You've got another six months to get your act together, DirecTV/Microsoft. - Ken Sheppardson
ffcheck Bookmarklet - http://ffcheck.com
ffcheck Bookmarklet
The ffcheck bookmarklet gives you a quick way to find out if there are any existing items on FriendFeed related to the web page you're viewing. Simply drag the bookmarklet onto your bookmarks toolbar, then whenever you click the link a list of FriendFeed items will be overlaid onto the page you're viewing. - Ken Sheppardson from Bookmarklet
coooooooooool - Dobromir Hadzhiev
perfect! - Patrik Johansson
is there a way to go through my contacts only? - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Dobromir: Not that I know of. It's not authenticating at all, i.e. it has no idea who you are. In fact, you don't even need to be a FF user to use it. I don't know if the API allows you to retrieve a filtered list. - Ken Sheppardson
Also, that sort of circumvents the intent. [ Well.. my intent at least :-) ] The idea is to promote discovery and connect you with folks you might not know otherwise. Rather than have 30+ people all start threads on an item (as shown in the screen shot), this lets you join the existing conversation instead of resharing something. Your Like or Comment will put it in your followers' stream without you having to reshare it. - Ken Sheppardson
so I though, I asked because feedly can do something very similar, but again it searches the whole friendfeed instead of the users home feed, anyway cool enough :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Just made a quick fix. Should work with Chrome now. - Ken Sheppardson
Brilliant thanks, Chrome needs it :) - M F
Another fix, and it works on Safari as well (all on Windows XP). IE7's being a bit more temperamental... - Ken Sheppardson
took me a minute to find the close 'button' maybe also a [X] in the upper right? - Chris Heath
Chris: Yeah, Micah suggested that earlier today. Just swapped the [close] out for an [x] in the upper right. - Ken Sheppardson
cool... i like ... this bookmarklet will come in handy - good work @kshep! - Chris Heath
I just grabbed ffcheck.com and moved this over to http://ffcheck.com, so if anyone is so inclined they can delete the bookmarklet that points to kshep.net and grab it again from there. - Ken Sheppardson
sweet! - laura
Great tool for discovering other FFers who are interested in a topic. You can click on entries within the page ffcheck produces. Or you can print the page. Well done, Ken Sheppardson. - Polly Potter
Thanks for posting this. It will come in useful to see who else on FF is talking about a link I find interesting. BTW, I like it better than the Feedly function. - Alexander Grundner
[edited] FF Share code can be found here: http://chrisheath.us/friendf... (this can also be found on friendfeed itself) - Chris Heath
[edited] FF Check code can be found here as well: http://chrisheath.us/friendf... (also can be found at http://ffcheck.com thanks to Ken) - Chris Heath
to clarify: the FF Share is the bookmarklet that the ff team developed (i guess) and the 'FF Check' is Ken's great bookmarklet - Chris Heath
and don't you love it when the code doesn't really make it in the comment box? - Chris Heath
ok so i went thru the trouble to make a page with both ff bookmarklets on it - totally 1990's html but here goes anyways: http://chrisheath.us/friendf... - Chris Heath
not sure why i did all that or when thru the 'trouble' to do it... if you're reading this years from now don't expect my links to be valid - Chris Heath
Does ffcheck still work? Just asking because I haven't gotten it to work in a few days, even after dumping cache (which usually fixes weird transient JS errors.) - Andrew C
I hope so. It's still useful to me. kshep, did you intentionally pull it down? ffcheck.com/javascript/ is 404'ing. Also is the code here: http://userscripts.org/scripts... a current or an old version? - Micah Wittman
No, I didn't pull it down... it's needed two clicks in my dev channel version of Chrome to work, but other than that it was cranking away... or so I thought... let me take a look... - Ken Sheppardson
nice! - .LAG liked that
Should be back. Sorry about that. - Ken Sheppardson
I should note that in Chrome 4 (My default browser...I'm on the dev branch) you have to click the bookmarklet twice. I've been putting off resolving that in the ffcheck code, but it's probably time to dig into it. - Ken Sheppardson
Great! Thanks, Ken. - Micah Wittman
The code at userscripts.org is pretty old. I branched off from that for the version that's hosted at ffcheck.com. As it says in the "About" page there on userscripts, it really just demonstrates how the API works. Honestly, I haven't touched this in forever. Y'all are going to make me try to remember how it works, aren't you? :-) - Ken Sheppardson
I always thought it should be a core part of the tool because it worked so well, too many fragmented discussions get started without it!! - Chris Myles
I think that in chrome you've had to click twice for a long while... since version 2 of chrome or something (i think) - oh and if you do mess with the code a bit of animation would be nice while it's loading... even if it's the most simple of blinking periods - just to indicate that it is working and not stuck - Chris Heath
Thanks Ken! - Andrew C
So what's the most efficient way to split a Windows 7 install between a 30GB SSD and a pair of 1TB drives in RAID1? Is it worth using the SSD? Hm.
Just start the install onto the SSD but move the Program Files and Users directories to the array? - Ken Sheppardson
Do you have a large hadron collider on hand to perform a split like that? - Micah Wittman
Heh. Shouldn't really be that hard. Seems like somebody online must have done this before. Googling is in order. - Ken Sheppardson
I'm sure ken could get one. He just needs a country the size of swizerland and 15 Billion smackers. - Roberto Bonini
pagefile.sys could certainly live on the SSD. Adobe scratch disks... maybe the browser cache files... there must be a FAQ for this... - Ken Sheppardson
Cool... "Windows 7 Move the Users and Program Files Directories To A Different Partition" -- http://tuts4tech.net/2009... - Ken Sheppardson
Just found one of those "OMG, I can't believe I never caught this before" bugs. I'm an idiot.
aren't those just lovely! but I don't think you can call your self a working coder without at least one of those a year :) - bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Yeah, this one's particularly embarrassing. Folks had been asking "Why isn't this doing X?" and I kept saying "Probably because A. Let me tweak that". Time would pass... "Why is it still not doing X?" and I'd say "Must be B. I'll take a look". Time would pass, etc. Turns out it's 'cause I'm an idiot. - Ken Sheppardson
*solidarity* - Micah Wittman
I hate those and love them at the same time. They're the type that just make you feel better once you realize it. - Jesse Stay
Video: 'Numa Numa Guy' takes over Spartan band - NCAAF - Yahoo! Sports - http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa...
"If you would have completely comprehended this clip on its own, with no introduction to Brolsma or "Numa Numa," I humbly suggest that you should seriously reexamine your life. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to calculating Kirk Cousins' completion percentage on third-and-long." - Ken Sheppardson from Bookmarklet
Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) - Merlin Mann - http://vimeo.com/7192517
Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) - Merlin Mann
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I guess I should stop watching this one and go watch the other one first :) - bear (aka Mike Taylor)
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