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0x21 and still just trying to figure it out...
SBV, Anton, SuezanneC Baskerville and 30 other people liked this
Jesus I feel old (0x22)
- Christopher Galtenberg
Halfway to 0x42, when the answer will be yours!
- Eric Borisch
That's normal. An article earlier this year said your brain peaks at age 39 (0x27), so the best is yet to come.
- Bruce Lewis
thats the trouble with being 0x2B - the hex doesn't help the denial any more. I should go octal with 053
- Kevin Marks
I wonder if that means you can drink [G33K B33R] http://www.bawls.com/product... legally now...
- Eric Borisch
Happy Birthday, Paul
- Bret Taylor
I have no idea what that means but, it looks like you need a Happy Birthday.
- Jim Hearts FF
Happy Birthday, Paul!
- Anne Bouey
Happy Birthday, Paul!
- Tudor Bosman
from email
Happy Birthday
- Eric Logan
Happy Birthday :) <insert CAKE>
- Susan Beebe
HBTY**2 HBDP HBTY!
- Mike Koss
Happy birthday!
- Ovidiu Predescu
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- Ozgur Demir
I'm really 0x30, but I don't feel a day over 0x2F
- Glen Mistletoe
After signing the papers :)
Ozer Wrzl (EN), can catalyurek, Pelikan® and 495 other people liked this
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- jcunwired
What's with the fists, Paul? :)
- April Buchheit
congrats Paul
- Zee.
I thought it would make a funny picture April.
- Paul Buchheit
Secret backyard meetings FTW. :)
- EricaJoy
What? No lawyers in suits? Mark's setting a pretty low bar on the dress code for this sort of thing...:)
- Tomas Remotigue
Our lawyers were wearing shorts actually -- no air conditioning at their office on Sundays I guess.
- Paul Buchheit
Zuckerberg's the only one from FB who could be bothered to show up?
- Andy Bakun
American big business such a formal affair
- Robert Higgins
Contrary to popular misconception, lawyers don't actually enjoy wearing suits. Haul us into work on a Sunday, and we'll definitely be dressing comfortably. :)
- Brian Chang
Andy, the person on the left is Vaughan Smith from Facebook. Sanjeev (the fourth FriendFeed founder) is not pictured because he was boarding an airplane.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, that's so awesome. FB's an awesome company to do business with.
- Jesse Stay
Congrats. Happy for you guys.
- Tsega Dinka
Must have been exciting, congrats.
- sean percival
Congrats, and thanks for having us here. Much success in whatever comes next.
- Chris Baskind
Yeah, wishing you guys all the best, its been good fun hanging around here thanks!!
- Mel Buckpitt
Congrats to you guys!
- Jack Wilson, K4SAC
Congratulations you guys!!!! I love the Teak Conference Room table :)
- Susan Beebe
:-(
- Jim Hearts FF
Hey Paul congratulations - FriendFeed has been leading the way since its inception. Are the photos you've posted copy-protected or could I use them in a story on the deal?
- Mitch
Mitch, feel free to use the photos.
- Paul Buchheit
where's the ...friendfeed shirts then?? ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
SWEET!!! Congratulations!
- Chad Lester
...congrats.can't wait to see what happens with both FF and FB as a result of this.
- .LAG liked that
Please try to keep Friendfeed like it was if they let you. Either way, congrats on the financials!
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Congrats and best wishes for the future.
- Jeff Stannard
For $50m you could at least have hired a photographer who doesn't shake so much. :)
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
FF was the cutting edge whereas FB is quickly becoming the mainstream. Unfortunately, the mainstream does not necessarily equal innovation and pushing the envelope. We all suffer when innovation is chilled. But on the other hand, congrats to the FF crew. They made their money!
- laosan
Congratulations guys!
- Diego Barros
I think the Tiger suit would have been more appropriate! But hey....shorts in a backyard is pretty cool too.
- Drea Lester
Congrats!
- Christopher Golda
Whatever the outcome, Friendfeed is terrific. Congratulations.
- ashish
LOL, click through if you want to see pics of newly rich geeks in casual wear.. ->
- Alex Schleber
Hahaha! Funny Alex..
- Bill Heslin
congratulations! keep the innovation coming...
- ozlubling
VERY happy for you guys. Possibly even owe you one or two. Are we getting FriendPhone next?? Think Mark should seriously think about 'Friendbook' :)
- Charlie Anzman
Congratulations to you and your team.
- Maria Niles
just showed the pictures to my students and they were like, "they look like normal people!" Congrats on the deal, onward and upward!
- xxx xxxxx
Congratulations, Paul -- to you and everybody at FF.
- Eric Johnson
Congrats Paul, Bret and the rest of the team, this is awesome news! The big question on everyone's lips is: Who gets to have http://facebook.com/paul? :)
- Fenn
Congrats, and thanks for taking us all on such a terrific ride! Big ups. :)
- Pete Delucchi
You've done a great job! You deserve this and more... Congrats!
- Ricardo J. Valle
now this is what a deal term meeting should look like - file under inspirational -
- mediaeater
Congratulations to everyone at FF. Whose house was the deal made?
- seman
I am sad .. !!! I do not know .. why .. for me its not good news
- Nayan
Congratulations!
- Made Adi
*cough cough* Douchebags!
- Mark Wilson
++Mark
- David Cook
Awesome! Congratulations!
- michael silverton
Ouch . . . just a tad bit of salt in the wounds of some of your more loyal users. I've got a poker if you want to inflict a little more pain
- Lindsey is Fierce!
hey, congratus Friendfeed team!!!
- K.D.
+Lindsey
- Kamilah Gill
I call this pic... "Six Happy Dudes & 1,000,000+ Pissed-Off FriendFeeders"
- Brad Williamson
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Looks like Mathew™ has found a UI bug by flooding contiguous characters.
- Jay Cuthrell
I don't get the negativity - did no one realize FriendFeed was a business? The object of a business is to sell eventually (either privately or publicly). We should be celebrating their success. This is a huge win for them, as well as Facebook. I personally think it's a huge win for the "loyal users" as well. So now we stab them in the back when they do something huge?
- Jesse Stay
Not to mention we know *nothing* about what this will mean for both services. These guys haven't let us down yet, have they?
- Jesse Stay
Congratulations to all of you!!
- Steve de Mena
The FB/FF deal rocks. Total win for users and developers.
- Steve Gillmor
My comment is because they can see by the flood of responses people are not happy and this post is just a smidge tacky. People are upset and feel betrayed and they haven't addressed that, not that I expected them too. This is pretty much inline with the way they've handled every other major change but before you only had a handful of disgruntles users whereas this time I'd say the majority are upset.
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Facebook announces the acquisition of FriendFeed http://facebookmania.net/en...
- Vincenzo Piromalli
Congratulations guys.. and good luck! ;)
- Vincenzo Piromalli
Congratulations Paul. I hope for nothing but the best for you and FF.
- Martha
We should start a PhotoShop meme on this.
- Ben Hanten
Millionaire meme
- Bill Heslin
Lindsey, I'm with you completely. Bad timing. Too bad there weren't photos of money being thrown in the air.
- Ben Hanten
++Ben
- David Cook
Congratulations Paul, you should have got more, but I guess $50m is nothing to sneeze at. Have a great wedding anniversary too, I'm sure you both deserve it. Much happiness - :)
- Chris Loft
Congrats! The hard work paid off
- Becca
Those are the kind of business meetings I could get used to - no suits... but selling to Facebook? Hmmm... Good for someone of course but I suppose we'll see where this ride takes us.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
congrats on building an amazing product and incredibly passionate community! I was mad at first, but then realize that the technology was most likely sold, not the community. I'm hoping ff community will stay somewhat untouched and features that have been built into ff will be ported to fb.
- Derek Coatney
Congratulations, FriendFeeders! I'm anxious to see what changes this will bring. FriendFeed is my favorite site to visit, so hopefully y'all will find a way to maintain the FF spirit somehow.
- Keith Pelczarski
No matter the type of big change, there are those who will not like it, often simply because it's change. I for one am very pleased that two of the services I use most are joining forces, and am eager to see the new developments that come of this acquisition. Congrats to EVERYONE on the FriendFeed team. You all deserve it! You've done a great job with a small company. Now lets see what you can do with a large one :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Nicely put, guruvan.
- Anne Bouey
What I wonder is ... a 50-million dollar deal and no one has a camera capable of taking a clear photo? :P
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Congratulations
- Steve C
@Jesse Stay re: "the objective of business is to sell eventually" : Ummm, the objective of many businesses is to become profitable by providing a valuable experience to their users. Businesses that feel they can't do that are the ones that sell.
- Shane Gibbons
LOL! ♫ ♫ "ooh, take the money and run"!! ♫ ♫ ;)
- Vincenzo Piromalli
Congratulations to everyone involved. Well done.
- Darius Dunlap
This is a very sad day in friend feed history. It is horrible because I like friend feed for how it's different from face book. I use facebook but I find it really annoying and I wouldn't use it if my friends and family weren't using it. So if Friend Feed becomes another facebook then i donno if I will keep coming to friend feed.
- Colide81 (James)
from iPhone
Grats. :)
- Joshua Schnell
Congrats to the FF staff, but you'll have to pardon my lack of exuberance. I have mental pictures of being forced to use the FB UI and it makes me sad =(
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Very happy for the Friendfeed team. These pictures say it all.
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Congrats -- may the FF UI stay alive!
- RateBrain
Where are the photos of everyone celebrating? No beer or champagne?
- Shane
Great match-up guys ! The Fabulous Friender Boys ! - Let's see some integrated mashups and extensible apps and FF UI. Given Google and Twitter a run for their money... Looks like they are going to have to "hook-up" now !
- Mike Schmidt
Congratulations Paul and the team! Hopefully we'll still get the same simple UI for FriendFeed. I'm sure however that no matter what you do, things will turn up nicely.
- Ovidiu Predescu
Enjoy!
- Paul Mayne
NOOOOO! I _LOVE_ friendFeed and this will change it forever. Yeah - this will improve Facebook. Great deal guys - I can not wait to see how this works out
- Ric Johnson
Congratulations! :)
- İdris Cin
hayırlı olsun
- Sinan İŞLER
:O :(
- ★amin.m★
congratulations to both parties. intuitively, it feels like the right move.
- ray
Congratulations guys :)
- Yalcin Parmaksiz
So the deal was done at night in someone's back yard. Weird.
- Andy C
Congrats Paul, Bret and the rest of the FF team. Your smiles are priceless!!
- Mohamed J
Hayırlı işler...
- Onur Selek
Congratulations gentlemen!
- Mutimba
Congratulations Paul. Yes, I do hope Friendfeed users and community are "treated right".
- Paola Bonomo
shit all FF VC's and CO-FOUNDERS! YOU DID THE SHIT! you can safely accept all spam "app" invitations on FB.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Ahmet: I'm disappointed to even be on the same service as you and I really can't wait until you leave.
- Robert Scoble
Congrats! Maybe you'll make FB usable again...
- Eran Kampf
from iPhone
cngrtlti.ons I hope you will understand what i mean!
- Atif UNALDI
Great vibe :)
- Sharel
from FriendFeed API Example
@Scobleizer: Come on you're a genius and can not realize future of FF? Turkey was one of important countries which is using FF! They asked no one about this! We hate fcking morons and stupid people on facebook, and I'm sure that this post will be real, just read it: http://ff.im/6pRmM
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
But Ahmed you are still being an ass about it, trying to rain on their good times. Go find a hole under the bridge where you belong. You can be sad and not have to come out all bitchy about stuff. Clear thoughtful comments instead of going all into "fuck you" mode.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
OK, that's great. I hope you can be successful at Facebook Dev Team and enjoy spending that money.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Ahmet: I hope this helps with your inquiry -> http://friendfeed.com/about...
- Clifford Kennedy
@Clifford, haha LOL.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Bilseydik biz alırdık :)
- Hamdi Yaman
wohoo, lets celebrate that ff owners for selling the land they have hired us - now we have to find another place
- MobilAdam
very nice FF! Amazing team! - @RecruitingDiva
- Sangeeta Narayan
valla kelepire gitmiş, fotoğraflardan belli..
- Mücahit Yılmaz
Who took the pic?
- Marco Massarotto
from iPhone
@MobilAdam + 1.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
@Mücahit +1 :D
- Hamdi Yaman
böyle önemli bir iş için fiyat açıklanmadı ama 50 milyon $ deniyor. Bu kadar lakayt bir ortam olur mu yau. Uzaktan baksan gençler eğleniyor dersin
- Fatih Hayrioğlu
Şİmdi yorumları okumadım ama çok kişisel bişi söyleyeceğim. Bu gençlerin milyon dolarları çeviriyor olması durumuna şaşıyorum. Bizim memlekette bu seviyeye gelecek mi veya? Kaç sen uzaktalar bizden bu gençler?
- mustafa can
Bizim şirket sahipleri konunun belli saatler arasında, belli kıyafetlerle ofiste oturmak değil, yapılan işin niteliği olduğunu analdıkları zaman gelir tabii. Ama bence bu gavurların dediği gibi "When the hell freezes over".
- özlem ercan
bu postu türkçe commentlerle doldrmak süper fikir.. sarcasm diil ciddiyim
- MobilAdam
Bakmayın böyle güldüklerine arkada buyuk yatırımcılar olmasa batar gider bunlar..Adamların yatırımcıları işi biliyor...
- Zeki Pehlivan
tebrikler.congratulations.gratuliere !!!
- muratt
Sorry but as an FF user, I've just tried to express my thoughts about this acquisition: http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs46...
- İbrahim Özdemir
Congratulations! :)
- Ruben Sanchez
Great result Paul. In such a short time, millions of users, 1 new interface and a marriage with internets' celebrity. This is a period which you should write down to make it as an on-line business case. You people are really wise businessmen. Nice job, congrats! :)
- Olcayto Cengiz
Not happy happy congrats bullshit from me-I used FF.
- frankiecarl
Frankie, a lot of us use FriendFeed and are concerned about where things are going from here. As I said in my comment above: I'm happy for the staff but displeased with who they chose to sell to. I'm perfectly capable of feeling both emotions at the same time.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
@Tina ++++
- Shevonne
wonderful so normal so ordinary so simple
- Thomas Power
MZ looks like he has just returned from the gym
- Joe Dawson
These guys represent the most talked about entreprises (Ok even more so by geeks in the case of Friendfeed) and they're still in their 20s. We're talking millions of dollars and look how relax they look and casually they're dressed.
- lelapin
Awesome, nice to see they are actually in fact human still.
- Robert Schultz
Congratulations, Paul!
- Bill Sodeman
Great photographs showing the very reason why 99% of all people start their own business - money! Well done and good luck for the future.
- David Jagger
this is so great! congrats paul! im really happy for u guys!
- Jason Pollock
congratulations guys!
- Liam Daly
congratulations from me, too! mind to stay (y)ourselves. ;)
- Valentina*
L-O-V-E the attire, guys. Did you end the evening with a nice barbecue and a dip in the pool?
- Giulia B.
Yeah yeah, you worked hard, you got the payout, well done guys. Now. Down to business....where's OUR share? ;-)
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
"Hi my name is Mark, I do $50m deals in my shorts!"
- Simon May
Congratulations. I'm sad for us and extremely happy for you and your team.
- Arleen Anderson
congratulations...can't wait to see the success of the collaboration!
- Katy Barrilleaux
We better run away!
- Constantine
Congratulations. I'm sure that this acquisition will be beneficial for both parties.
- Volkan Özçelik
the one in the green shirt is hawt. just sayin'.
- Jessie
eew, that causes diseases
- Jim Norris
congrats Paul & evereyone !
- Thomas Mader
Is that Mel sitting on Paul's left? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- j1m
CHA CHING!!!!!
- sofarsoShawn
congrats guys - well done!!!
- Gerd Leonhard
supper!
- Ahmet Koldaguc
Business is Business and we can only move forward with social-media applications as we herald a new interactive platform. Albeit thanks to the Mothers of all Mothers, Google. Frank Burns
- frank burns
Ben Darnell joins FriendFeed: Ben++! - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
Aliha, Adriano, Andrew Terry and 23 other people liked this
Congrats!
- Brandon Titus
Congrats, Ben. Your joining a great group of smart talented people.
- Daniel Brusilovsky
Have fun, Ben! It was great working with you at Google back in the day. FriendFeed sounds like a great place to be, enjoy it :)
- Ovidiu Predescu
need a "like but sad" button.
- Jenna Bilotta
We're slowly getting the band back together! :-)
- Kevin Fox
BMW CCA AutoX spin - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Was that you? Low speed spin, no fun :)
- Peng-Toh
Yep, that was me. I was coming out of a turn, entering the second slalom in the map below. I stepped on the gas instead of keeping the throttle constant, and ended up spinning. Speed was maybe 30mph. http://www.justracing.com/ggc_bmw... I was actually surprised to find out that the photographer was able to capture the shots in quick succession and assemble the video you saw. Ovidiu
- Ovidiu Predescu
from email
Isn't it standard operating procedure to shoot action in continuous mode and then pick the best shot afterwards?
- Peng-Toh
I don't shoot like this usually, maybe I should.
- Ovidiu Predescu
from email
For action shots, your reaction time isn't fast enough. I usually switch to manual exposure and shoot continuous. Works for kids too.
- Peng-Toh
I don't like continuous mode, there's just too much work involved after the fact. I'm used to shooting landscape, where you work on composition and press the shutter button only once. For action shots like in autocross, I evaluate the composition I want to end up with by watching several cars pass by, then follow the car as it arrives at the spot. Here are some of the shots taken this...
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- Ovidiu Predescu
from email
I guess for auto-x, you get cars into the same position repeatedly, so your method works. Won't work for kids or soccer or other high speed sports.
- Peng-Toh
For some reason I always have my camera set to continuous mode by default, even when I'm shooting landscapes or static scenes. I think it's because I often exposure bracket, and I also sometimes play the what-is-the-longest-exposure-I-can-get-away-with lottery.
- Simon
YouTube - MagLev Toy Train ENGLISH VERSION - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Awesome video showing a toy maglev and how it works
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
Wow, impressive technology! It would be cool to somehow apply it to cars...
- Ovidiu Predescu
It seems to require more liquid nitrogen every few minutes…
- Amit Patel
I'm now a daddy twice over! Our little boy *Finn Staveley Parker* was born Sunday June 14th at 7:30PM. Everyone is healthy and happy.
AJ Kohn, Jason Shellen, Bren, Not Grinchy and 58 other people liked this
So cute! Congrats again, Dylan!
- Kevin Fox
Congrats!
- Shevonne
Thanks Kevin! Thanks Shevonne!
- Dylan Parker
I've never seen such a bright orange diaper. Is he making a fashion statement?
- Gabe
That's a really cute baby!! Congrats Dylan =)
- Praveen Vasudev
That diaper is totally stylin'.
- Mona Nomura
Congrats =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
We have some bright orange diapers, but I don't think we have any pictures of Spencer with just a diaper on. Maybe when it gets warmer this summer.
- Robert Felty
Huzzah!
- Paul Wilcox
Thanks for your nice comments everyone. The diaper is a 'gDiaper' which boasts biodegradable, flushable inserts.
- Dylan Parker
Congrats! He's adorable.
- Ayşe E.
Congrats!
- AJ Batac
He's beautiful!
- joey
congrats!
- imabonehead
Aw, congrats!
- Carmen
Hooray!
- Ron Bailey
Hello, little one.
- Glen Mistletoe
Congrats!!!
- jamar78
On first reading I thought his name was Finn Slayer Parker. *air guitar!*
- Internet's Tad
Congrats! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
What a little tuppence! Congrats to all!!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Hello Finn
- Warren Butler
Congrats dad, so cute baby :)
- Zack Brandit
Welcome to Planet Earth, Finn :) Congrats parents!
- Mario Olckers
Congratulations!
- Ruchira S. Datta
Hey - congratulations to you guys! I guess that means we won't see you Sunday... No worries, another time. Hope everyone is well.
- Shea Phillips
Congrats!
- Daryoosh (داريوش)
Congrats!!
- Mo Kargas
Cute! Congrats. :)
- Rochelle
Thanks everyone. @SheaPhillips: Sorry I didn't call you back today. I have a mountain of correspondence to respond to and I'm letting it slide at the moment. Catch you at the next bbq.
- Dylan Parker
Wow, major congratulations! Your time off is now going to be put to good use :)
- Ovidiu Predescu
The Buchheit Boys
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Which one's which?
- Gabe
Nice shot! :)
- Ovidiu Predescu
Netgear Fail - http://piaw.blogspot.com/2009...
They should at least send your 1gb stick back!
- Peng-Toh
It was already dead. :-( I tried swapping it before returning it, but whatever killed my power supply also killed my 1GB stick!
- Piaw Na
Time to switch to your eSata RAID + mozy solution. May be you can sell your nv+ and buy a 4 harddisk eSata enclosure.
- Peng-Toh
I have a ReadyNas as well. Recently however I built an additional computer for backups and video encoding. It is a Xeon-based system with ECC memory, with a massive RAID 5 array of disks. It runs Ubuntu 9.04 server and backup on it all the Macs in my house. Let me know if you're interested in specs, I can give you a list of the components I got.
- Ovidiu Predescu
I can't switch to eSATA whole sale, since the NAS serves as a file server as well, and I'd rather have a low power machine be always on. Ovidiu, how much power does your Xeon-based system suck down?
- Piaw Na
eee pc? :)
- Peng-Toh
eee pc has no esata port. :-( I'm not worried, I still have 3 years of warranty left on my system.
- Piaw Na
About 60W with 4 disks, 75W when I do video encoding.
- Ovidiu Predescu
Ovidiu, that's very impressive! OK, send me your specs. Though my guess is I think I'll run OpenSolaris and ZFS instead of Ubuntu.
- Piaw Na
Wow, nice. That's not more than the NV+.
- Peng-Toh
Just checked out ZFS. I like the checksuming, copy-on-write and snapshots. Why isn't zfs more popular?
- Peng-Toh
It's very popular, but there are no commercial implementations for it other than from Sun. Linux has a port, so does BSD, but they have a reputation for being buggy ports. When it comes to file systems, you want to be very conservative. Apple was supposed to have it in Snow Leopard, but they pulled it at the last minute. My guess is that getting all the details right on ZFS is hard.
- Piaw Na
MPL license on ZFS is incompatible with GPL license on the Linux kernel. No hope of ever seeing it on Linux except through Fuse. btrfs is the oracle sponsored alternative. Great trick on Sun's part to keep Solaris independent of Linux :)
- Peng-Toh
Yeah, but that wouldn't stop Apple (or any other hardware vendor) from implementing it.
- Piaw Na
And to think Bush was about to bomb this country! People are genuinely angry at what is going on, very likely massively rigged election results.
- Ovidiu Predescu
"Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who wields ultimate power, urged all Iranians "including yesterday's competitors" to support the re-elected president." - Jeez, this is a sure way to lose the respect and trust of your people. It is also very suspect that Ayatollah, as Supreme Jurist, didn't investigate the other candidates' contestations about the results.
- Ovidiu Predescu
Service appt with AT&T 8-12 last Monday. Never showed up. Another one today 8-4. Never showed up. Who do you bribe to get a phone installed?
Forget the landline, get a cell phone!
- Ovidiu Predescu
If only my cell phone worked properly at my house... My cell service is also from AT&T. Hmmm...
- Benjy Weinberger
A farm in woodside?
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There are many farms along highway 84, nestled among multi-million dollar homes.
- Tudor Bosman
Until not long ago there was a huge farm on Grant Rd, in the middle of Mountain View. I haven't seen it running lately, I wonder what happened.
- Ovidiu Predescu
I was sold on the idea of potentially starting our own farm by seeing a chicken riding on top of a goat. So cute!
- April Buchheit
That and watching a chicken chase after some ducks. Again, so cute!
- April Buchheit
See there on the right, in the distance? I think that's a llama.
- April Buchheit
yep, llama! :)
- Susan Beebe
Paul is enough of a geek to feel good about grabbing /haahr.
Yay!
- Ovidiu Predescu
Kerah unusual name pays off: facebook.com/kerah.
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Congratulations! :)
- Ovidiu Predescu
Man, I rebooted my router and missed out on getting http://facebook.com/kekoa.
- Kekoa Proudfoot
Bad time to reboot your router...
- Ovidiu Predescu
MVI 1546 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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LED display on your bike wheel. You can render text and images, a small on-board computer controls a set of LEDs placed on the spokes of the wheel.
- Ovidiu Predescu
Norcal UFO autocross at Marina, May 3rd, 2009 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Nice! Are you trail braking through those turns? Toe-out? The car doesn't seem eager to turn.
- Peng-Toh
Most of the time I break on a straight line. I'm running on street tires, and the car understeers a lot.
- Ovidiu Predescu
You can tune your suspension. Add some toe-out for oversteer. Stiffen the rear. Higher air pressure on the rear.
- Peng-Toh
I ordered some camber plates, and I'll try to increase the toe-out. At the BMW autocross last Sunday (May 17, 2009) I actually decreased the rear pressure by 5 psi compared to the front (40psi front, 35psi rear), and got the car to turn much better. Counter-intuitive, but worked.
- Ovidiu Predescu
Tire pressure is very hard to tune. It depends on your driving style. I like my rear suspension and tire pressure hard and slide around the track :) I think you are not doing much sliding. Instead, with a softer rear, you get a faster forward weight transfer when you brake for the turn and that gives you better grip in front. More camber is good, up to a point. For auto-x, how do you determine your best camber setting?
- Peng-Toh
Talking about sliding, my s2000 used to do perfect 4 wheel controlled slides on fast sweeping corners when it was stock from the factory. Very well tuned suspension. Very impressive for a stock car. After a bunch of mods, it now understeers a little. Trying to get it back again for the next trackday. Too bad, Honda discontinued the car.
- Peng-Toh
Peng Toh, where do you do your racing?
- Private Sanjeev
I take my car to the Malaysia Sepang F1 track regularly. No racing. Just trying to improve my driving skills.
- Peng-Toh
How does that work? You just show up, pay a fee and use the track on a track day?
- Private Sanjeev
There are a few clubs locally that runs track days. The biggest one is Traction Circle Club. You need to sign up in advance. There are also open track days run by the Malaysia side.
- Peng-Toh
Sliding in autox makes for a fun course, but doesn't give you good times ;) I like to do slight oversteers in sharp turns, just to reposition my car for the following straight. The stock M3 however is hard to control.
- Ovidiu Predescu
On the stock e46 M3, the camber cannot be adjusted, which is a major bummer. On the camber plates I got, I can adjust the camber to a maximum of -3 degrees. I suspect I'll set the camber at that level and keep there even on the street. I also need to increase the toe-out, the front tires wear out too little on the inside compared to the outside.
- Ovidiu Predescu
Your front tire wear shows that you don't have enough camber in front.
- Peng-Toh
The fastest way through the corner is with a little bit of sliding, keeping all four tires at the optimal slip angle for maximum grip. The sliding also keeps the momentum up. But you need the car to have neutral handling. It is very hard to consistently push all four tires to the limit if your car is not neutral. At Sepang turns 7 and 8, with stock RE050 tires, if I get it right, I hit...
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- Peng-Toh
itivo - Google Code - http://code.google.com/p...
Mac/TiVo software that can transfer shows from the TiVo into iTunes.
- Amit Patel
Sounds like an awesome tool, thanks for pointing it out! However on my MacOS X 10.4.11, it keeps asking me for GrowlHelperApp.app. What is that and why does it need it?
- Ovidiu Predescu
Everyone should have Growl! iTivo isn't working for me for some other reason that I haven't figured out. Oh well.
- Amit Patel
I found it at http://growl.info and installed it, thanks!
- Ovidiu Predescu
You auto-x it? How is it?
- Peng-Toh
Yes, I did drive it for one run. It has fantastic acceleration when driving in a straight line. For autocross and the course we had on Sunday in particular, the car felt heavy in turns with a tendency to over-steer. In my only run I did a 46.650 seconds, while in my car (BMW e46 M3 convertible) my best time was 45.585 secs. I guess with some more practice I could have easily done under 46 secs.
- Ovidiu Predescu
1238kg isn't heavy. It is no Elise but is way lighter than an m3 :) More importantly, is the weight at the right place? Is it between the axles near the CG? Is it low?
- Peng-Toh
The car is very low indeed. The batteries are in the trunk, as you can see in one of the photos in the album, but I'm not sure what the weight distribution is. Overall it's extremely fun car to drive.
- Ovidiu Predescu
I guess the problem is that the batteries are in the trunk. You are feeling the tail heavy nature of the car. Not the weight. Your future GT3 will have the same feeling. Great for people who likes to slide around the track :)
- Peng-Toh
President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete of Tanzania - http://picasaweb.google.com/chademe...
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Good job and keep up the good work!
- Ovidiu Predescu
No photo info? Nice pics though. Makes me want to travel again.
- Peng-Toh
The Lightroom Picasa exporter must have screwed up the EXIF info. Most of the shots are taken on Velvia 100 slide film. My film camera (Canon EOS 1V) records info about shots in an internal memory. I wrote a program to extract the info and apply it as EXIF to individual scanned pictures, so I'd very much want the info appear :)
- Ovidiu Predescu
Atom-based with Intel US15W chipset - http://fit-pc2.com/wiki...
"fit-PC2 to run Windows XP or Ubuntu Linux at just 6W and to play full HD 1080p H.264 video using less than 7W."
- Ovidiu Predescu
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Google Native Client - architecture and security issues - http://www.matasano.com/log...
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Great article explaining Google NaCL and some of the problems discovered.
- Ovidiu Predescu
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Yeah, awesome article. I'm really glad that Matasano participated in the contest. I hope Google holds more contests like that (but not so many more that they become boring).
- Daniel Dulitz
"Second, as anyone who’s ever written overflow shellcode knows, X86 programs can execute out of data. So even if you verified the instruction stream perfectly, the program could use innocuous instructions to create malicious instructions in data that the verifier couldn’t reasonable check." JIBBAJABBA. Was that just Mr. T using my computer or somebody's noop sled smashing my stack?
- Tracy
Software RAID 5 in Ubuntu with mdadm - http://bfish.xaedalus.net/...
Excellent tutorial on how to setup a RAID-5 disk in Ubuntu.
- Ovidiu Predescu
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Comcast is now forcing us to use cable boxes. Trying to decide between buying new HD TiVos, using horrible Comcast DVRs or moving to France.
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Boxee.
- Dylan Parker
France ftw!
- Rich
France
- CW™
What is their reason? (Why, yes, I do work in the industry.)
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
hey
- chandler
Are you talking about the digital transition? If so, if you have a cable hook-up to your tv you won't need the box.
- Sarah Peterman
Odd. Maybe I'll have to switch someday but for now I'm happily free of cable boxes (and I use Comcast).
- Amit Patel
Seriously, CableCards are the way to go with (Comcast + TiVo)!
- Jeff Eddings
In my area Comcast are converting all but the most basic channels to digital. I ended up getting a TiVo HD and CableCards. It was really straightforward to install, and is so much better than the Comcast DVRs. Here's a related article about a similar thing Comcast are doing in another part of the US: http://www.oregonlive.com/busines...
- Simon
It's now come to my house. I've lost channels 40 through 60. I haven't decided what I'm going to do about it. TiVo HD with my 17" TV seems like overkill.
- Amit Patel
I think we are going to suck it up and use comcast's boxes. I'm tired of fighting.
- Michael Sippey
tivo hd all the way, dual tuners and many extras, plus it's only a little bit more than the hd box rental.
- Paul Lindner
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- Cristo
When people talk about this, I always ask. Add up how many shows you watch regularly, then figure out how much it would cost you to *buy* those shows on Amazon VOD/Roku or iTunes/AppleTV. Then figure out how much you spend per year on Comcast ($50/mo? $75/mo?). Subtract. Does it still makes sense for you to rent your TV service from Comcast rather than just buying what you want? I'd be curious what your costs on both sides would be.
- Kevin Kuphal
get rid of liveTV, plonk in a small and silent machine to use the internet. problem solved ;)
- alphaxion
Cablecards or just cut the cord and go Boxee/iTunes/Netflix Instant Queue/Amazon/Bittorrent/HD Antenna
- Kevin Fox
There aren't many shows I watch regularly. I discover lots of good shows because the effort of changing channels is so low. Right now I'm watching a show about pyramids in Egypt. Would I ever discover this show on my own? No. Would I bother buying it even if I discovered it? No. When renting (TV, Netflix, local library), I'm *much* more willing to try out new things. I get to browse and...
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- Amit Patel
Did this just show up for everyone? I posted this back in March. We ended going with new HD Tivos. Good stuff but expensive.
- Jason Shellen
Internet only is great if you don't watch financial news or sports. Unfortunately, I do watch them. We've had this conversation before on FF though.
- Cristo
I mainly get Comcast so my kids can watch some cartoon channels, and for some shows I cannot get on the Internet immediately after the TV showing. Some 2 years ago I was so frustrated with Comcast's box, I decided to buy the Tivo Series3 recorder and go with CableCards, which was the only option available at the time. I never looked back: the interface is so much better, the system works as expected and without random crashes and slow-downs. Yes, it's more expensive, but well worth my time.
- Ovidiu Predescu
TiVo works great in the main viewing areas. Not so great for other places like in the kitchen where there's not much room.
- Cristo
So Long, GeoCities: We Forgot You Still Existed - PC World - http://www.pcworld.com/article...
After 15 years, GeoCities is shutdown. Yahoo payed US$ 4.7 billion for it in 1999!
- Ovidiu Predescu
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