Sean O'Connor › Comments

+1 to Sean :( - Katya Rogers

I apply this on a case by case basis based on the actions of that bicyclist. Volations are met by frustration on my part and perhaps some unwanted advice given through a rolled down window. I haven't run anyone over -- yet. - Joe Beda () from iPhone

Why can't we all just get along!? - Moishe Lettvin

IIRC there is one state in the US where a Stop sign is not a Stop sign for cyclists. I can't remember which one it is now. I'll have a search and edit this comment when I find it. IIRC, for cyclists, the Stop sign was more of a Yield sign i.e. if there is nothing coming then no need to come to a complete stop [losing momentum etc] - 1x29

Idaho - http://bicycling.com/blogs... - 1x29

I see a lot more bicyclists cruise through stop signs than I see cars run stop signs. In my neighborhood, it's a rare day that I see a bicyclist ever stop at a stop sign, in fact - Rochelle

Don't get me wrong, I think traffic laws should be enforced on all users of the road. But I am amused at how people become incensed when they notice (after the fact – typically they are unaffected) that a cyclist, previously invisible to the motorist, has squeaked through an intersection, split the lane, or done something else that the motorist wasn't able to do. I'm not attributing that to Joe's situation, and I'm not advocating obnoxious behavior by cyclists. - Sean O'Connor

This particular stop sign was on the Burke-Gilman trail. It is a stop sign actually *on* a bike trail. Here is the intersection: http://maps.google.com/maps... - Joe Beda ()

Is a Stop sign as enforceable (by law) on a bike trail as it would be a public highway? [being UK based, I have no knowledge of the local laws]. - 1x29

The Stop sign on the google map also looks to be positioned for traffic on the road as opposed to the trail crossing the road (if indeed I'm interpreting the image correctly) [although, I have now spotted one further ahead on the right hand side too]. - 1x29

I have a central file server that holds all my data. Most backup services assume you're backing up from a local disk. Do you know if they allow backing up from NAS device? - Brian

Not sure -- I'm going to do the same thing. Worse comes to worse you upgrade to their $5/mo family account to back up everything in your house. Still a good deal. - Joe Beda ()

The limitation I've hit in the past is that the backup client runs on a host and won't backup network mapped drives. - Brian

I'm so close to pulling the trigger on crashplan. I just wish they had a lightweight linux client that I could build for ReadyNAS. - Sean O'Connor

@Sean -- Are you happy w/ ReadyNAS? - Brian

Yes. - Sean O'Connor

This is why I've stayed away from packaged NAS solutions. You can't run custom stuff on them easily. And they don't seem to be a cost savings over building a box from the ground up. - Joe Beda ()

The savings is one of time. You can build a much better box for significantly less money, and I don't know that I'd shell out for the high-end ReadyNAS products. For a boring NAS with a zero-administration RAID controller, the low-end readyNAS is a good turnkey solution. Time I want to spend administering a file server at home: 0 hours / year. - Sean O'Connor

The crashplan client still uses too much CPU and RAM for me. They claim it's scheduled "idle" but my laptop still burns hot when it's going. - Michael Herf

Michael - we run cool as winter on laptops - if it's us burning your laptop up - something else is wrong - that's not normal behavior. We do use CPU .. but you can configure how much in settings (i.e. 10% / 10%) - Matthew Dornquast

You can control how much ram we use too, this is easy on linux. For instance, you can run it with a restricted footprint of something like 20MB of ram on linux, headless. Works awesome. - Matthew Dornquast

@Matthew -- Since you say "we can..." I assume you're speaking on behalf of CrashPlan. Does CrashPlan support backing up a NAS device? - Brian

Yes - we support backing up any NAS - steps required depend on OS. In terms of running "on" the NAS itself - that requires some work on your part. It has and can be done. We don't show you how. Lots of folks have asked to support readyNAS by running on it - we're not currently focused there. We do run on windows home server - if you are using that on top of your storage. - Matthew Dornquast

I've noticed that the "client" portion isn't that bad. However, the "daemon" portion does seem to be pretty memory intensive. On OpenSolaris, I've had it run out of heap (and get into a crash/restart loop that ate CPU). I fixed it by finding the startup script and gave it more memory. - Joe Beda ()

Matthew, any plans for a FreeBSD port? Now that ZFS is stable on FreeBSD 8, it is an attractive base system to use for data storage, and using crashplan to back up that data would be nice. - Scott Ludwig

Personally? I love BSD. Sadly, no plans at this time. I must say BSD 8 looks really really good. Huge kudos to them. We'll get there - lots of C code would have to be done to wire into realtime stuff on BSD. In theory, you could probably get our PRO Server going out of the box without our help on it. And PRO Client (Crashplan) would probably work in a non-realtime manner as well. So if once/day is ok - give it a try if you're so inclined. No official support available as yet however. - Matthew Dornquast

A CrashPlan module (or whatever they call them) for the ReadyNAS would rock. I'd shell out $$ for it. - Steve Lacey

first - Matthew DeVries

Room open at: http://friendfeed.com/andfeed - Tim Hoeck

Sign me up for the beta. Can't wait to test it out! - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

I want in! - Christopher A Carr

Sign me up too - posting from G1 - David K

I'm so in. - Aaron D'Souza

count me in....let me know when the beta is - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Sign me up 4 beta testing. :) - Adrian

I'd like to beta-test it, please! - Christoph Studer

I'd happily pay for such an app. Fiddy sent would be fine. (Once out of beta) - Matthew DeVries

Would love to help test =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I'd love to beta test this too :-) - Christian Cable

I so want in. Would love to beta test this app. - Naomi Williams

Me too! - Eph Zero

hah! It's in the room! It is considered very Pre-beta.. still broken stuff.. but I want to know If I should continue on this path, or make a drastic change.. http://ff.im/4DGzk - Tim Hoeck

good stuff! - Sham Hardy

Hi, I'd like to give AndFeed a try!! Sign me up for beta testing, thanks! - DvD

Hi Daniel, as soon as I have a new version ready to test, I'll include you.. recently, I've been a bit busy, and haven't been able to work on it. - Tim Hoeck

I'd love to beta test too! sign me up... - Dylan Lorimer

+1! - Tassoman

I know guys, I will get there, I promise! I had to put things on hold for a bit, to move and to finish my ADC project.. - Tim Hoeck

@Tim Ok, of course we understand. I'm anxiously awaiting the beta version for testing. - Naomi Williams

If not too late, would like to be a tester. - Tim Rowe

Would love to beta test. :) - Adrian

Looks amazing. I just need an Android device. - Zachary TG

@Tim activated my andriod today (HTC Hero) and would _love_ to be able to try out this app. seems you're busy right now - that's cool. just let me know when you have a beta to test and i'd be happy to give you feedback. cheers! - MikeAmundsen

Yes, I hate that I haven't had time to get back to this.. but I have something a bit bigger planned, we'll see how it pans out... congrats on the phone :) - Tim Hoeck

@Tim: no problem. now tha FF is kinda on the downslide, i can see that something like this project might need to move to the back burner. the "something bigger" tease is cruel, tho<g>. - MikeAmundsen

If you're still looking for beta testers, I'd love to give it a whirl. - James Britt

please count me in! - milus

yes, please! - Sean O'Connor

I'm willing to test it - let me know - Matt Ellsworth

What's the latest on this, anyway? - Andy Bakun

Yes please. - Sean O'Connor

if by chance you still need beta testers, I'd like to be counted in. :) - PaperDoll

I want in - amarquart from Android

Been using it for months. It's getting pretty good. - Sean O'Connor

adblock? when it is as good as ff, i am there - Gregory Lent

I tried to switch from FF a couple weeks ago but it still seemed buggy to me. I couldn't get the bookmark manager to run and I couldn't reorder the icons on my bookmark toolbar which in FF is simple drag and drop. - Ed Millard

There are still a few little hitches here and there, but it's really coming together overall. The only reason I open Safari these days is to run Wave (there is still an irritating scroll-hitching bug in Chrome that affects Wave; I'm sure it'll go away soon). Oh, and I'll take fast over adblock any day :) - Joel Webber

This so screws us over. The current plan puts a new freeway offramp right in front of my house. Grrr. - Joe Beda ()

Sell before all this starts. - Scott Ludwig

I can't tell if I've been seeing higher than avg numbers of for-sale signs around Montlake over the last 24 months or not, but I've wondered if people know something and are trying to bail out. - Sean O'Connor

We don't want to move. I love the neighborhood and the house. This stuff certainly isn't decided yet, but I'm not sure how long we should wait to find out what is going to happen. - Joe Beda ()

Joe, are the other two options any better? - Gary Burd

The other options are much better -- they include a tunnel/bridge from ~Husky Stadium and avoid Montlake altogether. Even the plain Option A would probably be OK as it would end up with a lid/park space in front of my house. The plan the choose sacrifices that for another offramp. - Joe Beda ()

The magic beans are also shrinking, but I was thinking of $s - Gary Burd

As in the stock market is up, but the true value is down? - Cristo

Cristo, yes. - Gary Burd

http://www.nytimes.com/2009... - Sean O'Connor

It also keeps trading down - which apparently has kept Berkshire Hathaway from entering the S&P 500 because there is a minimum trading threshold. I can't really think of a negative to being in the S&P 500. There are probably some short turn positives though (any index fund tracking it would have to start purchasing BRK and drive up the price a bit) - Benjamin Golub

“Were we to split the stock or take other actions focusing on stock price rather than business value, we would attract an entering class of buyers inferior to the existing class of sellers,” Buffett wrote in his 1983 annual report, when the Class A shares traded for about $1,300. “Would a potential one- share purchaser be better off if we split 100-for-1 so he could buy 100 shares?... more... - Ken Sheppardson

...based on what I've read and seen, I think your first impression is right: it's about keeping out the smaller "inferior" investors. i don't think he's exactly a man of the people. two uninformed cents. - .LAG liked that

Yeah I read that too (which is where I got the "inferior" in quotes from). I think at some point you just can't ignore that ridiculous price though. (and I think that point has come and gone long ago :P) - Benjamin Golub

"Buffett has long been opposed to stock splits for Berkshire’s class A shares...Buffett’s opposition to the move stems from his theory that investors should think of themselves as partners in a company and not short-term traders" from http://blogs.wsj.com/marketb... - Shea

Well, keeping the price high keeps volume a whole lot lower and probably dampens out a lot of volatility that really doesn't have any benefit to the company. It's really more of a "private" company with an open pool of investors than a "public" company. - Ken Sheppardson

If I owned a single share I wouldn't feel like a partner. I'd feel like a prisoner. - Benjamin Golub

I'll bet if you owned a share you'd probably have enough money that you'd never actually think about it. ;-) - Ken Sheppardson

...ha! One share, at $100K+ ...yeah, that would make you feel like barging into a board meeting and demanding changes... I mean, the $100K part. And then, you realize: you only hold ONE share. jeez! - .LAG liked that

Holding a BRKA also grants you admission to the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, which is supposed to be awesome. If you want to buy less, there are brokers that let you buy fractional shares, like sharebuilder, and mutual funds that hold a lot of BRK, for example BTF: http://www.boulderfunds.net/BTF%20H... - Casey Muller

Benjamin - Why don't you buy BRK.b? http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/compab.... 1/30th price but 1/200 the privileges :) - Atul Arora

Casey, what's supposed to be awesome about the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting? - Dan Hsiao

IMHO, the liquidity advantages of B shares are a selling point. - Sean O'Connor

Sergey Brin: "As much as some people mentioned that it appears unattractive to investors, it appears it benefits us marketing-wise for our end-consumers to see the financial success of the company by virtue of a higher stock price (...) Google won't rule out a split in the future" http://www.bloomberg.com/apps... - Jérôme Flipo

Nokia purchased Navteq for $8bn. How much did it cost Google to build their own dataset? - Gary Burd

BW noticed: http://www.businessweek.com/the_thr... - Sean O'Connor

TomTom also spent $4b on TeleAtlas. - Sean O'Connor

That said, you're really not missing anything. - Danny Howard

sucky - i still want to try. But i guess you AND other people all need to have access for it to work no? - Matthew Arata

Yeah. It's a fucking sandbox "let's reinvent the wheel with maximum gay suck." - Danny Howard