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I'm in full chortle
- Johnny
from iPhone
Wednesday Morning Bump
- Johnny
from iPhone
Steven Levy's "In the Plex" paints Paul as this youthful angel dropped in to save the Web from an uncertain future...
Sam Harmon, April Buchheit, Private Sanjeev and 7 other people liked this
From page 184: "Paul Buchheit looked like a fourteen-year-old when he joined Google in 1999, his cherubic face crowned with wisps of blond hair..."
- Louis Gray
"He had grown up just outside Rochester, New York, a typical hacker kid driven by silicon and curiosity, and by the time he entered Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, he was full of ideas and projects, one of them being a web-based email program."
- Louis Gray
He forgot to mention that Paul had fancy plans and pants to match. :)
- April Buchheit
from iPhone
Sorry I missed the part about the pants.
- Steven Levy
I'm pretty sure his pants weren't really that fancy.
- Gabe
Steven hasn't commented on FriendFeed since 2009 but he returns for this post? Awesome. However, I don't remember anything about Paul's pants… only his work hours.
- Amit Patel
What were your working hours at Google, Paul ?
- Space Cowboy
I can answer that: His hours were approximately 3pm-3am. Believe me. I know. :)
- April Buchheit
RT @kn0thing: This will be the century of the builders. Nerds, take heart! And everyone else, create or gtfo :)
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"Music is a basic need of human survival. Music is one of the ways we make sense of our lives, one of the ways in which we express feelings when we have no words, a way for us to understand things with our hearts when we can’t with our minds." - http://greenroom.fromthetop.org/2009...
April Buchheit, Martin Kalkuhl, John and 11 other people liked this
I wouldn't say survival. That lessens what you have just described. Say rather it is a higher gift because it elevates, it cries, it praises, it mourns and it rejoices. And it expresses these things when our hearts our too full for just words.
- Melanie Reed
Read the whole thing.
- Paul Buchheit
Niagara Falls ran dry: Photos show moment iconic waterfall came to standstilll - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
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Alyn William, John Mueller, Mathew A. Koeneker and 27 other people liked this
"It's taken 41 years, but a previously unseen set of photos of the mighty Niagara Falls reduced to nothing more than a barren cliff-top have finally surfaced. The stark images reveal North America's iconic - and most powerful - waterfall to be almost as dry as a desert. In June 1969, U.S. engineers diverted the flow of the Niagara River away from the American side of the falls for several months."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
And THAT is why you don't want to fall off the side.
- Eric
Doesn't it freeze up in the winter some times?
- Gabe
Gabe: it can't freeze due to the amount of water flowing, but there have been mitigating factors in the past (like ice dams forming upstream) that have created walkable parts. Trivia: they control the precise amount of water that flows over the falls, and throttle it back at night for hydropower.
- Mark Trapp
Wow looks like Super 8 footage
- Rodfather
Mark: Apparently ice dams can stop water flow altogether, but it hasn't happened since maybe 1848. What happens is that ice ends up covering the river and the falls (such that you were allowed to walk on it up to about 100 years ago), but the water still flows underneath it.
- Gabe
My husband has a new cell phone! And this one actually fits in a pocket!
Morton Fox, Clare Dibble, mjc and 2 other people liked this
Wow, he got rid of the one from 1998? I hope he does not expect this one to last as long.
- Clare Dibble
The 12.5 year old phone stopped being able to access the network. We suspect that Verizon sent out a service update to all the phones and Gabe's was too old to receive/install the update.
- Maggie
That is amazing.
- Clare Dibble
There was a two week mourning period.
- Maggie
So this guy lives in the woods, and is video blogging building a 12ft spider mech. Seriously. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Mariano Chouza, Private Sanjeev, chaz2b and 19 other people liked this
So awesome.
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
"Don't be afraid to love stuff. It's totally cool!" I agree!!
- April Buchheit
How can it be a "spider" if it only has 6 legs?
- Gabe
This guy is amusing and inspiring, not to mention more than a bit daft. How long before he has a show on the Discovery Channel? ;-)
- Keith Pelczarski
Cool fan-made trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Jérôme
Y Combinator announces two new partners, Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar - http://ycombinator.posterous.com/y-combi...
orkunɀ, Paola Bonomo, Published-Articles.com and 159 other people liked this
"We're delighted to announce that Y Combinator is getting two new partners, the first we've added since we started YC in 2005. In case anyone doesn't already know who he is, Paul Buchheit was responsible for three of the best things Google has done: he wrote GMail, built the original prototype of AdSense, and came up with the phrase "Don't be evil." After leaving Google he started FriendFeed, which last year became Facebook's largest acquisition to date. He's a good friend as well as one of the world's best hackers; for years we've considered him an honorary YC partner. We hired Harj Taggar earlier this year to work advising startups alongside me. He wasn't technically a partner, but we quickly realized that he was one de facto—that among us his opinion carried as much weight as any of ours—and that it would be mean of us to delay recognizing this officially. Harj's arrival significantly improved how well YC operated. He's a large part of the reason we were able to fund 36 startups in the summer 2010 cycle."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Congratulations, Paul!
- Ross Miller
Cheers Paul. Awesome partnership.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Congratulations, Paul!!!
- AJ Batac :)
Would love if you guys devised a new concept: 2nd-shift startup. Many of us are working jobs we need and/or love, but are trying to build a new thing in the background. Having a bit of money, support, and networking would make all the difference. We're completely alone until we make the big leap. And many with families and bills can't think about leaping into Paul G's YC experience.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Congrats, Paul!
- Andrew Terry
Congrats!
- Barbara R. S.
Congrats Paul. Are you going to do that *and* stay at Facebook? And have time for the family?
- Joe Beda
You have to stay at Facebook at least long enough to get that damn search fixed!
- Gabe
No, I'll be leaving Facebook to join YC.
- Paul Buchheit
Also, I made some search changes a few days ago so it should be working a little better now.
- Paul Buchheit
Congrats and best of luck to you at YC. Sorry to hear you won't be able to make further FF tweaks in the future, though!
- Stephen Mack
Paul, was one of the changes preventing people who aren't logged in from searching? I can't believe that would have as much of an effect on search as it may have been.
- Akiva
Congratulations!
- Eric Florenzano
Wow. So much for our hope of Buchheit/Taylor running FB!
- Christopher Galtenberg
YC to acquire FB, circa 2013.
- Stephen Mack
Congrats
- Rodfather
This is fantastic news. You're in the right place, Paul.
- Louis Gray
from Android
Congrats Paul!
- DJ Stevie Steve
congrats paul
- testbeta
Congrats!!
- Bindu Reddy
Congratulations Paul!
- Atul Arora
Wow, congrats, but I didn't realize you're leaving Facebook. Wow.
- Robert Scoble
Congratulations!
- Anne Bouey
It's interesting. I remember seeing you shortly after you sold FriendFeed and hearing you advise a startup on what they should do. I thought you were great at that, and I guess that is a real passion. YCombinator is an amazing organization, can't wait to see what you do there.
- Robert Scoble
Congrats!
- John (bird whisperer)
Right on, Robert.
- Bruce Lewis
Congratulations on following your heart!
- Kevin Fox
I'm also wondering if this has any impact on FriendFeed. Certainly there's one fewer voice inside FriendFeed protecting the service. I wonder if Paul can tell the community now what he expects to happen to the service. Already a good chunk of the FriendFeed team has left.
- Robert Scoble
Paul: I doubt you can answer this one, either, but I'd love to know what it is about Facebook that is already pushing away entrepreneurial types. It looks like it's becoming a big company, with all the politics and such. I was expecting you to make a much bigger impact there long term than it looks like you've been able to make. Want to come on camera to explain why things didn't work out?
- Robert Scoble
I second that, I'd like it if he could talk. \o,
- Zu from AOD
Congrats! But who will be looking after the Friendfeed servers now? *sorry to be so selfish*
- Eric
Robert, it has less to do with Facebook and more to do with me. I'm just more excited about helping new entrepreneurs create the next Facebook or Google. I'd be glad to chat sometime.
- Paul Buchheit
Great news on one hand since you could do so much to help others but, sad news on the other since I felt you were a very positive force in Facebook's continuing development.
- AJ Kohn
Awesomeness!!! Congrats Paul!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Now you can create the next Friendfeed.
- Cristian Conti
Fantastic Paul - Y Combinator is becoming a bigger force. Congrats to you.
- Hutch Carpenter
good luck! :)
- salaros
This seems like the perfect job for you - have fun! (and thanks for fixing the search ... I thought that might have been Ben G. ... make sure he knows how to do it mmmkay??)
- Laura Norvig
Congratulations Paul
- Shakeel Mahate
congratulations, this is huge! :)
- Oguz Serdar
Excellent! Nicely done.
- Vicarbott
Congrats Paul!
- Jorge Escobar
Paul, once we get cottages up, we'd love to house start-up guys for free from time to time as part of our artist in residence program.
- SAM
Congratulations, Paul!
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Best news of the day!
- Bo Stern
Congratulations, Paul! Do more good things.
- Mark J Colonel Colonic
Paul, congratulations! The excitement is palpable - we're happy for you that your desire and opportunity can be so well matched.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
I'm ready for the cool.
- Eric
Congratulation and good luck, tell us something about FriendFeed....
- @zaps
Congratulations, Mr. Buchheit.
- Brent
congratulations
- kang
What will this mean for FF? Just curious
- LANjackal
Obi-Ben Kenolub is now our only hope. http://ff.im/pHRhj
- Josh Haley
Paul, now I need to share with you my next world-changing idea (seriously). Congrats! (is this the butterfly? ;-) )
- Jesse Stay
Congrats Paul! Right move. You are going to the right place.
- vivekian
Surprise move, nice move.
- Lizunlong
Congrats Paul - hope it goes well for you
- Martha
Congrats Paul!
- imabonehead
+1
- Thomas Amberg
Good on you Paul.
- Daniel Collins
Cheers.,.
- OT
Well, at least Carly Fiorina won't have a chance to do to the rest of America what she did to HP.
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I find that sometimes it is much easier figuring out what you don't like than deciding what you want.
Sam Harmon, SteVe C, Scoble, Alex Scoble and 4 other people liked this
This post has been Liked by 5 women and one man. No other item in the first page of April's feed has a similar ratio. Is that significant? :-)
- Bruce Lewis
"Is that significant?" I don't want to know.
- Larry Hosken
Bruce, are you saying that women are more thoughtful or more wishy-washy?
- Clare Dibble
There's a stereotype of women being wishy-washy. I was wondering aloud whether the Likes were evidence for that stereotype. This is for amusement only. I neither know nor care whether women are statistically more likely to be wishy-washy, since my interactions are with individuals, not statistically significant samples of people.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
@ Cristo: obviously ;)
- Clare Dibble
@ Bruce, I am not offended. It is easy to seem decisive when you don't see all the possibilities ;)
- Clare Dibble
Clare, that's true. If men have any advantage over women, it isn't physical strength. It's that we think less. ;-)
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Canon develops world's largest CMOS sensor - http://dpreview.com/news...
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At 8"x8", this takes up a full 12" wafer! I'd love to see this thing in a large format camera, but I'd hate to see what it would cost.
- Gabe
from Bookmarklet
Reddit Co-Founder Dips Back Into Y Combinator With Travel Startup Hipmunk - http://techcrunch.com/2010...
Michael R. Bernstein, o.s.m., Robert Felty and 26 other people liked this
"Hipmunk only displays flights that you’ll actually want to take, and it displays them in a user interface that shows you exactly how much you’ll pay and how long you’ll be traveling. When you see the results (see screenshot for example), you’ll never want to see flight results in any other format. It’s one of those that’s so obvious why didn’t I think of that moments. And all results are on one long page, making sorting and comparing much easier."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I wonder how it knows which flights I'd actually want to take.
- Gabe
It hides (under a button) the ones that are obviously bad because they leave earlier, arrive later, and cost more. Orbitz always shows me these dumb flights with 10 hour layovers.
- Paul Buchheit
Any app where I can sort by agony is worth checking out.
- Micah
Yeah, sort-by-agony would be a good feature for email too :)
- Paul Buchheit
O-Yeeeah. :)
- Micah
It would be awesome to be able to sort "by longest layover by city" so I could see if there are any friends or relatives I could visit during a business trip.
- Gabe
Built on Tornado! http://groups.google.com/group...
- Benjamin Golub
The UX is remarkable. Little things like Tabs, Permalink (that remembers all my searches) are very useful! And even though these features may seem "small", I believe that a lot of effort must have been invested to get them working so speedily. Just one last comment is that the prices are a little confusing though.
- Winston Teo
Ben, wow, how cool is that.
- Micah
That *is* cool (that it's built on Tornado). Makes me think about that conversation/debate in Wired today http://www.wired.com/magazin... where O'Reilly says that "Openness is where innovation happens."
- Laura Norvig
A small but brilliant touch: a help file "tip" displayed while a request is processing. For software in general, I almost never want a random tip screen on application open, but having it in place of "Please wait..." makes a lot of sense.
- Micah
Southwest is still way cheaper for the two flights I just booked (like 20% cheaper). And I like swa's UI for playing with dates a lot too.
- Michael Leggett
And while I agree that this display is way better... I *hate* how pricing is displayed. I'm always confused what the price means. It says $378 under price. Is it $378 per leg or for the entire flight? Is it per person or for both people? I'd go so far as to say it is a bug that the final button says "Buy on Orbitz ($378)" and then Orbitz tells me it is in fact $756 b/c the $378 figure was per person (but never explained as such).
- Michael Leggett
Michael: I agree. I never understood why you always have to tell it how many passengers on the search screen, but the the prices are per-passenger.
- Gabe
Just discovered archery and I think I like it.
Andrew David, Maggie, Arlan K. and 21 other people liked this
Cristo: I'll DM you.
- April Buchheit
Archery is awesome! Even though I'm way worse at it them shooting I like it better.
- <3Heather<3
In college, I took an elective class called "Bowling and Archery." I took it for the archery. Never once did I get to hold a blooming bow.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
Ha. I took archery in college too. We have several places near me to shoot. I'm thinking of getting the kids started on it. It's fun.
- Anika
Probably good for college resumes too if they turn out to like it. Not every kid from LA randomly becomes an archer at under ten.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
from iPhone
Sorry if that intrusion from Mrs. PreppyPants was hopelessly obnoxious. I'll have to borrow a lacrosse stick and beat her silly with it.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
from iPhone
I did. As soon as I published my comment. Did it not take? I'll try again.
- April Buchheit
Is it more fun than guitar?
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
I tried it out briefly last year while I was still in the bay area and I liked it alot. I'm thinking of getting into it for real, but I don't really have the money for a bow...and I don't know where any archery ranges are out here in Seattle
- Chieze Okoye
Oh, and did I mention my alma mater's mascot is a BRAVE? And yet they never brought out a single arrow for an archery class? Classic.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
Orchestra Fail - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Not exactly a fail... More like inspired brilliance. Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Otto
Ahh! My ears! My ears!
- April Buchheit
Intentional fail!
- Kevin Fox
And it's still better than Lady Gaga.
- Otto
*Gasp!* Otto, you take that back! Them's fightin' words! :)
- April Buchheit
Otto, those links are awesome, thank you.
- Stephen Mack
Donald Knuth • Why I chose to go to Case Institute of Technology - http://webofstories.com/play...
Private Sanjeev, Benjamin Golub, John and 7 other people liked this
"I had never heard of MIT until several years later, much less Caltech."
- Gabe
from Bookmarklet
I've been slowly watching these for a few weeks now. I think I'm somewhere near part 60.
- Sam Harmon
He chose Case for the same reason I did.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul: You chose Case because Valpo seemed too easy?
- Gabe
Exactly. Actually, if they had also offerend me a scholarship, maybe I would have gone their instead. Music sounds more fun.
- Paul Buchheit
What to do with your millions - http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010...
Zu from AOD, Fabrizio Giordano, Doug Beeferman and 76 other people liked this
Thanks!
- Paul Buchheit
What if you have billions? Any advice?
- Louis Gray
1 billion=1000 millions
- Ashish
Louis, we need to start talking about more than an Advisory position if you have billions ;-)
- Jesse Stay
jet skis and I use hundred dollar bills to light cigars
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Jesse, if the twins have their own individual maids, I'd investigate further.
- John E. Bredehoft
to avoid all the difficulties that sometimes plague those with assets, I am willing to shoulder part of the burden and absorb any excess assets that could tip the balance away from happiness
- RAPatton
That's what I'm thinking, RAP. I'm ready to trade my current set of problems for some new ones... like... having too much money.
- Yolanda
Overall very good. I take issue with this bit, though: "Many people with jobs have a fantasy about all the amazing things they would do if they didn't need to work. In reality, if they had the drive and commitment to do actually do those things, they wouldn't let a job get in the way." Some people are able to make things happen despite all odds but most people can't. And that doesn't...
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- Spidra Webster
Also, it would be nice to have money to hire a full time nurse for my Mom.
- Yolanda
Heh. Yolanda, I had just taken out a couple lines about what could keep someone so busy, stressed, poor and tired that they couldn't do "amazing things" while employed - taking care of severely ill/disabled parents/children/relatives was on that list. :)
- Spidra Webster
I would seriously probably buy a farm in some place really pretty and grow corn and vegetables and other stuff (maybe I'd buy a cow or two). I'd then run a tech business out of my house, probably using other people's investment while I invest in the farm and other resources (leaving plenty aside to decide what else to do with).
- Jesse Stay
WoW is worse than crack? I'll have to try it!
- Gabe
Jesse, a tech business from a farm on pretty land? Good luck getting bandwidth.
- Skyler Call
Skyler, I will have millions - I'm sure I can figure something out :-)
- Jesse Stay
Spidra, of course there are people in super-hard circumstance and the statement is overly broad. The point is just that actually doing stuff is much harder than dreaming about it is.
- Paul Buchheit
Gabe, read the links. The crack addicts has a job and family. The WoW addict had nothing and played 24/7 :)
- Paul Buchheit
So if I have millions of dollars, I can play WoW 24/7 instead of having to put up with a job and family? I don't see the downside...
- Gabe
Last paragraph is so well written.
- Sachin Sebastian
Great post, Paul
- Chieze Okoye
Well done.
- Micah
Nice post. That kind of money would give time to invent and implement the next big thing without having to worry if there is time to do all the unit tests with >100% code-coverage! ;)
- Jemm
Thanks, great post :) Hoping to read this again :)
- deerstep
Forget the farm - I'd get one of these: http://friendfeed.com/guykawa... ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Great informative and level headed post Paul. Thanks for sharing.
- Mark Krynsky
I think there are two groups of millionaires: Those that made their millions through mostly hard work, and those that made their millions through mostly luck or circumstance (inheritance, modest stock options that exploded due to a bubble). I suspect the first group has a much easier time managing their money and lives than the second group.
- Stephen Mack
Great post. I'd travel
- Benjamin Golub
from iPhone
"Explore the opportunity. Do something remarkable. Go for a walk in the park. Appreciate the trees."
- SteVe C
"If you've been institutionalized your entire life (school, work, etc), it can be very difficult to adjust to life on 'the outside'." - lolz
- Ken Morley
Stephen, it's possible for some in the second category to be aware of the fact and wish to live humbly or at least, "go slowly" as Paul suggests.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Talk about an article that does NOT apply to me, lol ...
- LANjackal
A sudden surge of wealth can be a curse instead of a boon. Thanks for sharing your tips Paul.
- Shakeel Mahate
WISCONSIN IN THE HOUSE! Also, you can never go wrong with "Electric Dreams" as a soundtrack: http://vimeo.com/11753807
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Got a phone interview w/the Cleveland Orchestra as a Research Associate!
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good luck :)
- chaz2b
How I make my homemade transistors. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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It's 2010. Why do printers still suck?
Stephen Mack, Penguin, Ricardo J. Valle and 40 other people liked this
I was just wondering the same thing about an hour ago!
- Vicarbott
It's 2010. Why do we still print? Shouldn,t we be generating holograms by now?
- cdogzilla | downgraded
from fftogo
Man, all I wanted was a Memjet printer by now.
- Andrew C (✓)
The smartest guys have gone paperless (or have not, but still feel too good for it) so printer R&D and ultimate product development is left to "B-players". The smart guys think of how we can get the benefits of print without printing: e-ink, tablets, big-ass monitors, displaying barcodes on cell phone screens, that kind of stuff. Oh yes, and digital signatures, digitally sending in forms, etc etc. No-one cares about printing anymore. I suppose you know what I mean with "no-one".
- Meryn Stol
Because you're not using an iPad.
- Roberto Bonini
I work for the Gov't. We do all our work on the computer and then we PRINT IT OUT. On shared printers. We also require bank statements for the past 4 years for every account the client owns or co-owns or a spouse owns. Do you know how big some of our case files can get? Some paperless office.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Paper, stored well, lasts quite well. Bits, well...
- Andrew C (✓)
@Tudor, what did you want from a printer, anyways? Faster? Cheaper? More reliable? Better photo quality?
- Andrew C (✓)
Andrew: my question was spurned by having to install drivers for a printer in the office after I changed desks. Why do I have to install a driver? Why can't this work automatically? Why can't I just select the printer (on the network) and click "print"? Why doesn't the UI tell me that I have to wait 15 minutes for my single-page printout, because someone is printing a 400 page job before me?
- Tudor Bosman
And yes, cheaper to operate would be nice, too. Ink is way too expensive.
- Tudor Bosman
Frankly, I thought postscript or its modern descendants (?) was supposed to have solved the driver problem like, years ago. As for the UI, good point.
- Andrew C (✓)
It's 2010 and we just could get rid of damn floppy disks, what were you expecting ?
- Ozgur Demir
Working with them every day I can say they don't "still" suck, they suck more now than they used to. Today's printers are plastic toys compared to those 10 years ago. All the profit is in the ink.
- Jack&Cleo
Heh I remember the old HP Deskjet 500 was a freaking beast. I miss Okidata dot-matrix printers
- Rodfather
Tudor: are you using a mac? I just had a pleasant experience printing in the FB office. I first added it to my computer (I just did a spotlight search for "print") and it just worked from there. Actually first I had to walk around and find a printer so I knew which one I'd be printing to :)
- Benjamin Golub
hear hear.
- anna sauce
I miss my old Apple Personal LaserWriter. That thing was a workhorse. Unfortunately, I had to buy an ethertalk bridge when tech changed. Still used it for a good long while but the construction dudes somehow messed it up during house construction and it would have cost me more to get it fixed than to move on to something else. But it was a great sturdy machine.
- Spidra Webster
Did they have PrintShop installed?
- Rodfather
Ben: yes, I'm using a Mac; my Mac couldn't download the drivers for that particular printer (I don't know why) so I had to use the internal "add-a-printer" tool, which worked on the second try. The fact that all 3 large companies I've worked at had to build their own internal "add-a-printer" tools helps strengthen my point that printers suck :)
- Tudor Bosman
Try 2M-CSI next time. It worked well for me :)
- Benjamin Golub
I dare you to say that to my Canon MP 560.
- aldenoneil
The reason you need drivers still is that every printer has a slightly different subset of features.
- Gabe
I just plugged the USB cable for my 13-year-old Brother HL-1440 into my laptop and Ubuntu found the right driver. I don't understand why my wife's iBook didn't work the same way; they both use CUPS.
- Bruce Lewis
i hooked up my 1980s Panasonic KXP-1080i and it worked fine. hard part was finding a working ribbon. still had loads of tractor-fed paper in a few boxes, tho it's gotten slightly brittle now.
- Joe The Sausage
I miss my old HP deskjet 720C. Sure the ink was expensive, but it lasted for a long time. That printer never gave me problems, till the carriage belt finally rotted away. The last few pages I printed, I was praying the few remaining threads left on that belt wouldn't snap till I was finished.
- April
This post and all comments above have been dramatically read. http://ff.im/jQfnw
- Josh Haley
@Tudor @bgolub: I don't think the Xerox printers work on the mac at all, so stick with the HPs.
- Jim Norris
Would anybody with an older HP printer like some free ink? http://friendfeed.com/app103...
- April
New blog post: Another ham is licensed: KD8NVW http://blog.vec.com/2010...
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K6GEC
- I like big Botts
from iPhone
First They Came For Hitler... - http://reason.com/blog...
Laura Norvig, Michael R. Bernstein, A. T. and 25 other people liked this
"The legal merits of Constantin's argument are clear: They do not exist. Downfall parodies take less than four minutes of a 156-minute film, and use them in a way that is unquestionably transformative. Maybe Moturk49 was somehow making a ton of money from his or her Xbox-related parody, but it seems unlikely. In any event, the Supreme Court's 1994 decision in the "Hairy Woman" lawsuit established that the commercial nature of a parody does not render it presumptively unfair, and that a sufficient parodic purpose offers protection against the charge of copying."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Perfect headline.
- Paul Buchheit
I disputed my content ID match two days ago, and no action has been taken: even if the content owner deigns to respond to my dispute, they can deny it again for any reason, after which I have to file a 512(g)(3) counter-notice. Content ID is a breathtaking circumvention of the process outlined in the DMCA: amazed how little flak YouTube gets over it.
- Mark Trapp
*nods*
- Chris Heath
More details on Downfallgate http://bit.ly/bNE3N8
- Chris Charabaruk
It's been 6 days since I disputed the ContentID match on my video: still no response from Constantin Film, but the video's still live. Tried getting in touch with YouTube about how long they have to respond, but they never got back to me. As far as I can tell, they have as much time in the world; I can see them responding (and thus, causing a second takedown) once this blows over.
- Mark Trapp
FriendFeed via GoogleTalk (IM/XMPP) is working again! Thanks to Gary Burd for helping us debug.
WoH: Minding her Steves, rowlikeagirl, MORE and 78 other people liked this
FFFTW!
- Bruce Lewis
is now online :D
- Bruno Alex
Thank you.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
phew
- zeroinfluencer
Thanks
- Xitong Liu
Although I have never used this method but good to know that things are getting 'normal' again.
- Ashish
I JUST SAW IT HAPPENED! W00T! THANKS GUYS. :)
- AJ Batac :)
Awesome, didn't realize how much I would miss it.
- DMKrow
Thanks to Gary!
- Anne Bouey
Awesome thanks
- Rodfather
Still no FrF bot online in Gtalk for me =(. Has been so since before New Year.
- Count Caturday
Great
- Ashish
it doesn't send updates to me now :(
- چپق
I stopped receiving updates via the XMPP interface in the middle of March 31
- Nathan Phillip Brink
same situation as Count Caturday over my side.
- JSLeFanu
bump.
- zeroinfluencer
Winning Wild Demo from Blockparty 2010 now up: Wyndham Reality: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Sam Harmon liked this
Meatwad
Clare Dibble, Sam Harmon, Josh Haley and Rah-PM 2012 liked this
Meatwad should have his own show.
- Rah-PM 2012
Ham Radio Growing In The Age Of Twitter - http://www.npr.org/templat...
April Buchheit and Sam Harmon liked this
"Only a few years ago, blogs listed ham radio alongside 35 mm film and VHS tape as technologies slated to disappear.They were wrong.Nearly 700,000 Americans have ham radio licenses — up 60 percent from 1981, a generation ago. And the number is growing."
- Gabe
from Bookmarklet
Even though I'm not a terribly active ham, I keep wanting to upgrade my license again.
- Sam Harmon
That's all well and good, but when will CB's make *their* comeback.
- April Buchheit
from iPhone
1980's iPad
Kol Tregaskes, Aviv, Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど and 39 other people liked this
It even had a keyboard!
- Gabe
Battery life was awesome too, lasted weeks.
- Stephen Mack
We were not prepared in the 80's to type awkwardly on a device resting on our elevated knees mostly because our jeans were way too tight.
- Kelly Norton
It also has an expansion slot and is fairly user-modifiable via circuit-bending :-)
- Sam Harmon
The voice of Satan incarnate.
- Josh Haley
I think it has flash too.
- Faraz Mullick
Love Speak & Spell. OMD had a song called "Genetic Engineering" that used it.
- Spidra Webster
I HAD A SPEAK & SPELL!
- Nakachi
Now I want Reese's Pieces
- Rodfather
Spidra: Now I'm going to have to dig out my copy of "Dazzle Ships" (or just find it online...)
- Sam Harmon
LOVE
- Kelly W.
Michigan got the Upper Peninsula in exchange for giving up Toledo.
Sam Harmon liked this
I'm not sure which state got the better deal.
- Gabe
Battlestar Galacti-car: The Street Legal Viper - Viper - Jalopnik - http://jalopnik.com/5510077...
Sam Harmon, Robert Felty, Lysender and 11 other people liked this
So that's where I parked it.
- Steven Perez
Haha.
- Roberto Bonini
Exotic 'Electroweak' Star Predicted - http://news.discovery.com/space...
Sam Harmon and Maggie liked this
"Although astrophysicists have only speculated about the existence of electroweak stars for a short time, scientists at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, have detailed new predictions about the electroweak star's characteristics in a new paper submitted to the journal Physical Review Letters."
- Gabe
from Bookmarklet
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