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Paper vs. Screen

I arrived at the Knoxville, TN airpot a bit ago for my slightly delayed flight back to San Jose via Dallas. Since I finished my book on the flight(s) out, I stopped by one of the shops to do something I rarely do: buy print media. Well, I still buy books now and then. But today I bought a couple of magazines: Disocver and Business Week. I sat in the Ruby Tuesday's at the airport and managed to read a few articles in Business Week. After a bit I noticed that I was reading stories that I'd probably never read on-line. My on-line reading tends to be a lot more focused and directed. Reading for at a relaxed pace for pleasure is a whole different feeling. It makes me wonder what I'd do with a Kindle or iPad if I had one. Would I use it the same way I read on a computer? Or would it be more like reading a magazine? Hard to say. I have no plans to buy either device, but in a few years when I replace my existing portable computing devices, odds are that I'll have something tablet-like. I'm not sure I'd want to be in the magazine business a few years from now. I feel like it's following the "lead" (if you can call it that) of the newspaper industry. Interesting times. (comments)
Publication date: 2010-01-30 more

Athna on "How to convert Flip Mino camcorder MPEG-4 AVI videos to MP4 on Mac OS X?"

The Flip camcorders like Flip Ultra, Flip Utra HD, Flip Mino HD usually record videos in MP4 file format with H.264 video compression, AAC audio compression. However, if you happens to be a Flip Mino users, you may find the video format that Flip Mino outputs is Advanced Profile MPEG-4 AVI. AVI format has poor compatibility on Mac. To edit your Flip Mino footage with Apple's iMovie or further transfer them to Apple's popularplayer: iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, iTunes, you are devoted to convert Flip Mino AVI videos to the most popular MP4 format. Flip Mino to MP4 Mac(http://flip-video-converter.for-mac-os.com/tutorials/11-flip-mino-to-mp4-converter-mac.html)is the unique application customized to be applicable with Flip Mino camcorder for Mac users. It enables you to convert Flip Mino camera recorded MPEG-4 AVI to MP4 with super-fast conversion speed and astonishing output quality. The output MP4 format can work well with Apple's professional edting software: iMovie, Final Cut Express and popular media player: iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, etc. How to convert Flip Mino camcorder MPEG-4 AVI videos to MP4 on Mac OS X? 1.Download the free trial version of Mac Flip Mino to MP4 Converter and install it on Mac. 2.Load Flip Mino videos. Add Flip Mino MPEG-4 AVI camcorder videos to Flip Mino to MP4 Converter after launching the program. 3.Output setting. Select the output format according to the devices you designed to transfer to, for example, to transfer the Flip Mino videos to your PSP, you can choose "PSP Video Excellent Quality(*mp4)" as the output format. 4.Apply effect. Click "Edit", an editing window will pop out, you are allowed to brightness, contrast, saturation of the Flip Mino videos or apply some special effect like old film, gray, emboss to make your Flip camera videos more amusing. 5.Start converting. Click "Convert" to convert Flip Mino MPEG-4 AVI to MP4 with Flip Mino to MP4 Converter. Flip Video Converter Mac(http://flip-video-converter.for-mac-os.com/?serves a brilliant way for Mac users to convert Flip Utra, Flip Utra HD, Flip Mino, Flip Mino HD video to multiple popular formats such as: MP4, MOV, MPEG, MPG, DV, AVI, WMV, FLV, MP3, WAV, WMA, M4A, etc. Mac Flip Video Converter(http://flip-video-converter.for-mac-os.com/?also enable you to adjust the output settings with different parameters such as resolution, frame rate, bitrate, etc for importing to your editing software such as: iMovie, Final Cut Express(Pro), Adobe Premiere and other portable players like: iPod, iPhone, PSP, Creative Zen, Blackberry, Zune, etc.
Publication date: 2010-01-18 more

oliviasmith on "How to download free iPhone games"

thru online, i go for big fish games particularly the mystery games; i don't usually play on my cellphone though.
Publication date: 2010-01-16 more

on "How to edit Flip Utra?Flip Mino videos and HD camcorder videos without conversio"

When people have shot some great sceneries with their handheld Flip video camcorder, they are more likely to do some editing with the footage to make them looks more perfect. Though there are various editing softwares such as iMovie(free on Mac), Final Cut Express(Pro), Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas are avaiable, however, you may can't import them directly to these editing software before converting the flip videos to the acceptable format. Flip Video Converter Mac(http://flip-video-converter.for-mac-os.com/) is the fantastic editing software supplied with Mac users. With the application, you can edit Flip Videos Mac(http://flip-video-converter.for-mac-os.com/tutorials/8-edit-flip-videos-mac.html) freely directly without any conversion by trimming the flip video length to select your favourite video clips, cropping the video size by removing the black sides in the frame, applying some special effects like brightness, contrast, saturation. You can also merge separate flip video clips into one single video files.
Publication date: 2010-01-14 more

on "How to edit JVC Everio camcorder TOD videos with iMoive?"

Wish to enjoy your JVC Everio camcorder footage on portable players such as iPod, iPhone, PSP, Blackberry, Creative Zen, Zune, etc. However, the video format that JVC Everio records is usually in .TOD format, which can not be accepted by Mac or directly played on many consumer video equipments. Therefore, to maximize the use of your JVC camcorder, you will need to convert the uncompatible TOD format to the most popular MP4 format. TOD Converter to MP4 Mac(http://tod-converter.for-mac-os.com/tutorials/19-tod-converter-to-mp4-mac.html) is an excellent Mac TOD Converter to MP4 with high conversion speed and outstanding output quality. It enables you to convert JVC Everio camcorder .TOD to MP4 format to playback on many portable players such as: iPod, iPhone, PSP, Gphone, Blackberry, Creative Zen, Zune, Palm, etc.
Publication date: 2010-01-14 more

on "How to transfer iPod photos, music, videos and playlists to iPod on Mac OS X?"

i had the same problem not long ago but with microsoft windows the only way i got the music to transfer off my ipod to my pc was by downloading a torrent file off piratebay with the most seeds ! be carefull though because i wouldnt totally recomend downloading off a torrent site if you were to download offf a torrent site use simply http://www.piratebay.org and see from there but other than this you would have to pay for a software to do soo unless theres one out by now which is free good luck !
Publication date: 2010-01-14 more

applenokia99 on "Wholesale 2010New style Tshirts and Hoody Polo,Christina Audigier,Edhardy,Gucci,"

Global Apparel Trading Co.,Ltd. (http://www.nikejordanshoe.com) was established in 1995. As a manufacture supplier, we have more than 15 years experience in this business. Our company main products are all styles of Men's T-shirts,Lingerie sets,Women's T-shirts,Men's polo shirts,Polyester fabric,Lace trims,Brassieres,Men's casual jackets,Women's panties,Clothing accessories,Bikinis,Women's blouses,Cotton fabric,Men's dress shirts,Embroidered patches,Ribbons, Safety vests,Bridal gowns,Women's sweaters,Women's tank tops,etc. We have reputation all around the world for our high quality products with low price. Our business is not only wholesale but also retail and we can accept mix order and OEM. Welcome to our web: http://www.nikejordanshoe.com , if you are interesting in some products, please fell free to contact with us, we will give you the best price and service. URL: http://www.nikejordanshoe.com Email: nikejordanshoe1@gmail.com MSN: nikejordanshoe@hotmail.com
Publication date: 2010-01-13 more

Athna on "How to take MP3, M4A, WMA, WAV, etc audio off DVD movies on Mac OS X?"

DVD Audio Converter Mac(http://dvd-to-audio-converter.for-mac-os.com/) is the advanced DVD to Audio conversion software with swift conversion speed and excellent output quality. It is capable of ripping various audio tracks such as: MP3, M4A, WMA, WAV, MKA, AAC, AC3 from encrypted DVD and DRM free DVD. With Mac DVD Audio Converter, you are free to enjoy or make original music audios from your favourite commercial and home DVD movies. DVD to Audio Converter Mac(http://dvd-to-audio-converter.for-mac-os.com/) has provided some distinctive editing functions. You can trim any part of the DVD movie to get the audio clips you need and merge several audio clips into one complete file. You are also available to improve the output audio quality by setting the output audio parameters, such as: sample rate, channel, encoder and bit rate. Key functions: 1.Mange all models of DVD including commercial DVD, home DVD, encrypted DVD and DRM free DVD. 2.Extract DVD to various audio formats. Rip encrypted DVD and DRM free DVD to all common audio tracks like: MP3, M4A, WMA, WAV, MKA, AAC, AC3, etc. 3.Supports many MP3 players and audio players. You can output the audio tracks to many MP3 players and audio players like: iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Creative Zen, Blackberry, etc. 4.Great editing functions. You can trim the length of the DVD to select your favourite audio clips and merge the audio clips from several titles or chapters into one file. 5.Audio output settings. You can set audio sample rate, channel, encoder and bit rate to improve the output audio quality. 6.Easy to use and time-saving application. The intuitive interface and the batch conversion mood enable you to take audios off DVD easily in a short time.
Publication date: 2010-01-13 more

Athna on "How to put Youtube music, movies onto iPod on Mac OS X?"

RMVB is a variable bitrate extension of the RealMedia multimedia container format developed by RealNetworks. This format is increasingly used for its smaller file sizes and lower bitrate with good quality. It is supported by RealPlayer SP and the open-sourced Media Player Classic, using an appropriate DirectShow filter or Real Alternative. However, it is not an open video format, many media players can't support RMVB format like iPod, iPhone, etc. So if you want to enjoy your RMVB files on your iPod, you shoud convert them to the iPod supported formats first. Mac RMVB to iPod converter will give you a simple and funny converting experience. RMVB to iPod Mac(http://ipod-video-converter.for-mac-os.com/tutorials/18-mac-rmvb-to-ipod-converter.html) enables you to convert RMVB to iPod supported formats like MP4, MP3, H.264 which are compatible with all the iPod family members like iPod Touch, iPod Classic, iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle. The Converter also offers a friendly interface, so you can accomplish the whole conversion smoothly. Besides, RMVB to MP4 iPod Mac support batch conversion which allows you to import multiple videos at a time to save your precious time.
Publication date: 2010-01-13 more

Athna on "How to copy or backup DVD to Mac Hard Drive with Mac DVD Copy?"

DVDs are are fantastic yet costly instrument. However, people are often frustrated that DVDs will become eternal unusable once over-scratched. Therefore, to maintain some classic DVD movie collections or precious materials, people will need to copy or backup old DVD. The problem is that DVDs have built-in copy protection and regional lockout. Is there a shortcuts to remove the copy and region restrictions? Copy DVD to blank DVD Mac(http://dvd-copy.for-mac-os.com/tutorials/9-copy-dvd-to-blank-dvd-mac.html) through the powerful software DVD Copy Mac. It supports to copy DVD to blank DVD Mac including DVD9 to DVD9, DVD5 to DVD5 without any loss of quality. With the program, you can completely copy DVD to Blank DVD in a 1:1 ratio with titles, menus, subtitles and audio tracks.
Publication date: 2010-01-12 more

Athna on "How to rip and convert Blu-ray M2TS to MPEG-4/H.264/HD MP4 format on Mac OS X?"

You have lots of HD movies in your Blu-ray Disc and want to transfer them to your mobile devices so that you can enjoy them on the move. The problem is that Blu-ray can not be opened or copied directly. To open it by a specific Blu-ray Drive or an extra Blu-ray player like PS3 or xBox. It is really a waste of time and money. Blu-ray to MP4 Mac(http://blu-ray-ripper.for-mac-os.com/tutorials/56-blu-ray-to-mp4-mac.html) is the fantastic Blu-ray to MP4 Converter for Mac users. The software supports to convert Blu-ray Disc(BD) M2TS to MPEG-4 /H.264/HD MP4 format with superfast conversion speed and excellent output quality. The output format are playable on Mac's Apple TV or many portable devices, such as: PDA, Nokia, Sony Erission, Sony Walkman, etc. Blu-ray Ripper Mac(http://blu-ray-ripper.for-mac-os.com/index.html) can rip or convert Blu-ray(BD) to all sorts of formats with high conversion speed and excellent output quality. The formats can be in MOV, MP4, MPEG, AVI, WMV, MKV, FLV, SWF, ASF, RM, 3GP, MP3, WAV, WMA, M4A, AAC, AC3, OGG, etc. And the converted formats have good compatibility with both Mac and many portable devices such as: iPod, iPhone, iRiver, PSP, Blackberry, etc.
Publication date: 2010-01-11 more

Pcgeek2010 on "How to transfer iPod photos, music, videos and playlists to iPod on Mac OS X?"

Athna on "How to transfer iPod photos, music, videos and playlists to iPod on Mac OS X?"

As we know, iPod supports to copy music from iTunes. However, only music and videos purchased from the iTunes store can be transferred from the iPod back to iTunes. In addition, when transferring music or movies from iTunes to iPod, the old music or movies on the iPod might be deleted during the process of synchronizing. How to successfully transfer all the music or movies from one iPod to another without overwriting the original content on the iPod? iPod to iPod Transfer Mac(http://ipod-to-mac-transfer.for-mac-os.com/tutorials/16-ipod-to-ipod-transfer-mac.html) is a truly user friendly and very helpful iPod to iPod Transfer application for Mac users. It lets you directly transfer music, movies from one iPod to another iPod by drag-and-drop without replacing the original content on the iPod. iPod to Mac transfer(http://ipod-to-mac-transfer.for-mac-os.com/) is the great application designed for Mac users to copy/transfer/backup all your music, videos, photos, podcasts between iPod and Mac. It also serves as the role of iTunes to mange all the files on your iPod. With Mac iPod Transfer, you can easily create, edit and delete all the play list of your iPod or transfer the files among different iPod at the same time.
Publication date: 2010-01-09 more

Athna on "How to edit Flip Utra?Flip Mino videos and HD camcorder videos without conversio"

proposals on "Top100 Bollywood Buster"

Latest Hindi Songs on iPhone. * Available on Apple Store * Webpage * http://www.bollybuster.webtechies.us * Bollywood Buster is an easy to use application that lets you play top 100 bollywood blockbusters on your iPhone in a single, constantly updated list. Bollywood buster also lets you add your favourite songs to your to a favourite list and get detailed song information within the application. Options to read song lyrics and look for related videos on YouTube are also provided. just for $1.99
Publication date: 2010-01-09 more

proposals on "iRadio Global"

iRadio Global iPhone app on iTune Store Webpage * http://www.iradio.webtechies.us * iRadio Global is an easy to use, internet radio based application that plays online radio from several countries across the world at the palm of your hand. iRadio Global also allows users to maintain a list of their favorite stations and suggest new streams if not available already. With a simple and jazzy interface, iRadio Global is a perfect music application and happens to be a must have for all music lovers. Just for $0.99
Publication date: 2010-01-09 more

LaurentB on "How to convert DVD, free videos, flash to iPhone?"

I perfer iPhone Mate which can: * Create iPhone compatible videos/audios from DVDs * Convert videos/audios to iPhone * Make iPhone M4R ringtone from any video/audio sources * Transfer iPhone to iPhone, iPhone to PC, PC to iPhone
Publication date: 2010-01-08 more

Athna on "How to edit JVC Everio camcorder TOD videos with iMoive?"

Apple's new editor iMovie '09 has gained some distinctive features to differentiate it from the '08 version. The precision editor and advanced drag-and-drop capabilities will make your editing process more pleasantly. Are you eager to edit your JVC Everio footage with this fantastic editing software? It is well known that JVC Everio usually record video in TOD format which is not supported by iMovie '09. Then how to successfully import the uncompatible TOD format into iMovie '09? TOD Converter Mac(http://tod-converter.for-mac-os.com/)provides more access for you to Edit JVC Everio TOD with iMovie '09 Mac(http://tod-converter.for-mac-os.com/tutorials/21-edit-tod-with-imovie-09-mac.html). It supports to convert JVC Everio TOD to iMovie acceptable MOV, MP4, DV formats. So that you are available to edit TOD with iMovie '09 on your Mac computer with no limitation.
Publication date: 2010-01-07 more

mariarita on "How to Make a Copy of DVD Movies on Mac OS X"

hi! If you want to copy your DVD videos for Mac then wondershare DVD for Mac is very useful but today you must think about backup for mac data. If you have thousands of DVD videos on Mac and due to virus all of them get corrupted then what you will do. You must use Mac Backup Software for that.
Publication date: 2010-01-05 more

Remembering Barnes

Yesterday was a very sad day for us. Barnes, one of our four cats, had to be put to sleep after we took him to the pet hospital because he was having trouble breathing. A bit over a year ago, Barnes was diagnosed with Diabetes and he'd been getting regular insulin injections (2 per day) and vet visits. In fact, his most recent visit (3-4 weeks back) was very good. The doctor was happy with his progress and he generally seemed peppier. His blood test results were all very positive. But yesterday when we noticed he seemed to be working harder to breathe, I knew something was very wrong. He was placed into a 100% oxygen environment to make is breathing easier while they conducted some tests and gathered information. After some X-rays, we learned the extent of his troubles. He had an enlarged heart, fluid in his lungs, and cancer. In a way, it's good we didn't see this coming. His brother Noble seems to be taking it better than we are, and they'd been together their entire ~12 years. His newer brothers Timmy and Thunder will surely miss him as well. His favorite activities in the world were eating chicken (and fish), exploring our catnip plants and toys, getting belly rubs, and napping on his favorite fuzzy blanket. Barnes was the most loving and strong cat we'd ever known. He was probably hiding his illnesses for a long time, hoping for a few more belly rubs with us and visits with the catnip plants we grew. We'll really, really miss him. Here are a few of the pictures and videos we'll use to remember him... Barnes as a Kitten Barnes and Noble as Kittens Banes on the Bed Barnes Stretches Barnes and Noble Cuddle More Recent Barnes Photos Barnes on the Floor Barnes Barnes and Noble Barnes and Noble Videos of Barnes Barnes with a Catnip Toy Our cats eating Chicken Please remember to get your pets regular checkups with a good vet. They deserve it. (comments)
Publication date: 2010-01-05 more

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Publication date: 2009-12-27 more

on "How to convert video for iPhone Free?"

This holiday I have been asked often how to watch videos on iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. Most people that own an iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS know they can enjoy videos on their iPhones but they don't know how to exactly. So I wrote this tutorial to help you to watch videos on your iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. To watch the holiday videos on your iPhone 3G you need to convert the videos to the iPhone MPEG-4(MP4 for short) format. So you should convert the video files to .mp4 (H.264 encoding) format files before transferring them onto your iPhone 3G using some video converter tool. There are lots of free tools on the Internet, the one I'm using is Free iPhone Video Converter from Aneesoft. Don't know how to convert videos to iPhone mp4 format? It's not that difficult, let me show you step by step. Step 1. Download and install Aneesoft Free iPhone Video Converter Download and install Aneesoft Free iPhone Video Converter, which is easy to use and completely free! There is no spyware or adware. It's absolutely safe to install and run! You can convert videos for your iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S. Step 2. Add videos that you want to convert to iPhone MP4 format Click the button "Add
Publication date: 2009-12-27 more

Sphinx and Gearman: A Distributed Computing AH-HA! Moment

A week ago I decided to finally get serious about putting gearman to use for search indexing. I had been batting the idea around in my head for a long time (too long, really) but figured I should just write the code and see what happens. It took less than a day to get a prototype working in our development environment, but the end result made me very happy. Today, in our production deployment, when a sphinx cluster pulls new content to index, the master does all the work. It fetches the new and changed postings, massages them into the XML format that sphinx expects (and makes a lot of small changes along the way), invokes the indexer, and makes the new indexes available for the slaves. The second step is usually the most CPU intensive. Processing the raw data into XML involves a lot of other tweaks and changes that are very specific to Criagslist. What I did was turn that into a gearman client/worker pair. The client (or master) simply submits processing tasks and then waits for each of them to complete. The workers fetch the data from the master, transform it, and make the transformed data available. When each task completes, the master grabs the transformed data an informs the worker that it can delete the file. So instead of being stuck at using only the 4 CPU cores on a single box, I can run 4 workers on each of 3 machines and get 12 CPU cores involved. The end result is that I have a solid foundation for a system that can easily scale to many machines. AH-HA! Linear scaling rocks! So does relatively seamless distributed computing. As time allows I'll have to work on deploying this in production. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-12-24 more

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On the MyBlogLog Shutdown

Marshall Kirkpatrick is reporting that Yahoo! will shut down MyBlogLog next year. Well, color me unsurprised. The service has languished for years. I removed it from my site a long time ago. It made me a little sad to do so, but it was just slowing things down and not really "adding value" as they like to say. It's sad because I was involved in the MyBlogLog acquisition at Yahoo! and believed in what they were doing. I worked to help get the team on board, nag the right people to make sure they got reasonable hardware on which they could grow, interviewed their first post-Yahoo engineer, and made the trek up to the Berkeley office a few times a week to help them transition into Yahoo and work on plans. I genuinely had high hopes for what MyBlogLog could do both inside and outside of Yahoo. But as I wrote in Watching Yahoo's Transformation: MyBlogLog has all but died on the vine, right? Is there anyone left of the original team of 5 or 6 engineers still working on it? No, I think it fell victim to Yahoo's larger social strategy. FAIL. On the one hand, it's sad that our collective time was wasted, but the members of the MyBlogLog team have all gone on to bigger and better things outside of Yahoo. And I suspect everyone involved learned some important lessons along the way. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-12-24 more

Merry Christmas!

Publication date: 2009-12-21 more

Trust Oracle? Why?

In a 10-point press release issued today Oracle has listed a series of "commitments" regarding their acquisition of MySQL by way of acquiring Sun. I am not impressed. As a former employee of a large Internet company (the largest at the time, in fact) that used both Oracle and MySQL, I'm utterly puzzled by this. I can't think of why we should trust Oracle to do right by the users of MySQL--especially the non-paying users. You see, for years Oracle worked agressively behind the scenes to discredit MySQL and tried hard to understand how their customers could ever consider using such a "toy" instead of their flagship product. In fact, it was so important to Oracle that they offered some very substantial discounts to customers who were using MySQL and Oracle. In some cases the discounts were so impressive that their motivation was clear: cut off the opportunity for MySQL to grow and spread in such organizations. (Remember what happened to Netscape when Microsoft gave away Internet Explorer for free?) The funny thing is that it really didn't work. MySQL was already a fast moving train with lots of momentum. And it was still accelerating. It was clear that Oracle saw MySQL as a threat to their business. When they eventually bought Innobase (the company that makes the InnoDB storage engine), many of us got more than a bit nervious. That put Oracle in a position of having a choke hold on the one componenet that was critical to MySQL's future success. They could have just shut down development entirely. But that may have made their motives a bit too clear. Since then they've continued to develop InnoDB. However, the pace hasn't exactly been agressive and their openness around that has left me (and others) wondering what their longer term plans really are. The few tidbits we get seem to be overly vague. Could they have been throttling development of InnoDB? Or not providing the same resources that MySQL (and now Sun) would have? It's hard to say. But here's the thing that continues to bug me... Back a few years ago when Oracle dismissing MySQL in public while working hard against it in private, I realized that they were simply trying everything they could to protect their crowned jewels: public denials and classic FUD paired with hush-hugh backroom deals. Nobody has managed to explain, in even a mildly convincing way, what has changed since then. Why should we suddenly trust Oracle? Their crowned jewels are still threatened by MySQL. Convince me. See Also: Monty's appeal is selfless! (comments)
Publication date: 2009-12-15 more

Weird Email People Send Me

I really have no idea what prompted this: This is Rev.Willson and am interested in some of your Barrel. I need the Barrel in the specifications of 55 Gallon Barrel. Blue Plastic.So what will the total cost of the Barrel with the dimensions i gave and i need 100 quantities of the Barrel.So i will like you to go ahead and quote me the total charges of 100 quantities of the Barrel + tax without shipping charges included.Because i will be picking this up as soon as it is ready from your location.Please if you don't have the type of barrel that am interesting kindly email me back with the types that you have.And i will be very glad if you can also email me back with the types of credit card that you will accept for payment. Please advice. Thank You. It's so random that it's funny. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-12-14 more

Pesto on "Paragon NTFS for Mac 6.5 is free for today ($39.95 worth)"

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Publication date: 2009-12-04 more

on "Garage band slow disk space?"

I only have about 25 songs recorded and my IMac tells me that it has "slow disk space".....what is the matter? Anybody know about this stuff??
Publication date: 2009-11-29 more

jamarshall on "Garage band slow disk space?"

I only have about 25 songs recorded and my IMac tells me that it has "slow disk space".....what is the matter? Anybody know about this stuff??
Publication date: 2009-11-22 more

Washington DC Digital Agency Teams up with Economic Systems

Washington DC - November 11, 2009: Janmedia Interactive, INC, a leading Washington DC new media agency is excited to announce a recently initiated collaboration with Economic Systems, Inc (EconSys). Janmedia has been tasked with implementing its User-centered design approach to compose an effective, usable client interface for EconSys's web based applications.
Publication date: 2009-11-20 more

DC Based Digital Agency Deploys New BridgeSpan Financial

Washington DC - October 30, 2009: Janmedia Interactive, INC, a Washington DC based New Media Agency, has collaborated with BridgeSpan Finacial in launching a new website for one its flagship products, SafeStart.
Publication date: 2009-11-20 more

AliceA on "How to convert DVD, free videos, flash to iPhone?"

There are a lot of converters now and I like TuneCab, it has many features such as audio conversion, video conversion, extract sound from video, remove DRM, download and convert video from YouTube etc. Easy to use all in one software! http://www.tunecab.com
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Washington DC Digital Agency Collaborating with the Futron Corporation on New Website

Washington DC
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Speaking at San Francisco MySQL Meetup

I'll be speaking Tuesday night at the San Francisco MySQL Meetup. Here's the blurb from the announcement: Jeremy Zawodny will talk about Craigslist's current use of MySQL, where it's painful, and how things are being re-architected to make the pains go away. This includes hardware changes, sphinx, redis, memcached, and some custom Perl work. Despite not living too far away from the SF MySQL Meetup venue, I'm a little annoyed at myself for never having attended. So this will be my first time and I'm really looking forward to meeting local like-minded folks. Thanks to Mike and Erin for recruiting me. If you're coming and have specific things you'd like me to talk about, drop me a note in the comments or on Twitter. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-11-17 more

01F150 on "Don't Buy Apple"

You Bought a lemon, It Happens...
Publication date: 2009-11-16 more

Beaubeau on "Don't Buy Apple"

I have also had a hard time with my Macbook. The wireless access is spotty - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I actually set up my three year old Dell next to the Macbook once to see how they compared - the Dell connected, but the Mac did not. I also lost my HD within the first year - had to pay for data recover. Get a more reliable machine.
Publication date: 2009-11-14 more

Fixing Poor MySQL Default Configuration Values

I've recently been accumulating some MySQL configuration variables that have defaults which have proven to be problematic in a high-volume production environment. The thing they all have in common is a network blip or two can trigger some very undesirable behavior. max_connect_errors If a client is having trouble connecting to MySQL, the server will give up waiting after connect_timeout seconds and increment the counter which tracks the number of connect errors it has seen for the host. Then, when that value reaches max_connect_errors, the client will be locked out until you issue a FLUSH HOSTS command. Worse yet, if you have occasionally network blips and never need to restart your MySQL boxes, these errors can accumulate over time and eventually cause you middle of the night pain. See Host 'host name' is blocked in the MySQL docs. Sadly, there is no way to disable this check entirely. Setting the variable to 0 doesn't accomplish that. Your only real solutions are (a) setting it to a very high value (max_connect_errors=1844674407370954751), and (b) running an occasional FLUSH HOSTS command. connect_timeout This is related to the above problem. In situations of network congestion (either at the client or server), it's possible for an initial connection to take several seconds to complete. But the default value for connect_timeout is 5 seconds. When you trip over that, the max_connect_errors problem above kicks in. To avert this, try setting connect_timeout to a value more like 15 or 20. And also consider making thread_cache_size a non-zero value. That will help in situations when the server occasionally gets a high number of new connections in a very short period of time. skip-name-resolve MySQL does a reverse DNS lookup on every incoming connection by default. This sucks. It seems that no matter how good your infrastructure is, there are blips in DNS service. MySQL's host cache exists to keep those lookups to a minimum. Yet I've seen this cause pain off and on for eight years now. I can only assume there's a bug in the host cache or the resolver library when this happens. I recommend adding skip-name-resolve to your /etc/my.cnf to skip DNS entirely. Just use IP addresses or ranges for your GRANTs. It seems that slow replies from DNS servers can also help you to trip over connect_timeout as well. Imagine having 2 or 3 DNS servers configured but the first one is unavailable. slave_net_timeout When the network connection between a master and slave database is interrupted in a way that neither side can detect (like a firewall or routing change), you must wait until slave_net_timeout seconds have passed before the salve realizes that something is wrong. It'll then try to reconnect to the master and pick up where it left off. That's awesome. However, the default value is 3600 seconds. That's a full hour! FAIL. Who wants their slaves to sit idle for that long before checking to see if something might be wrong? I can't think of anyone who wants that. My suggestion, if you're in a busy environment, is that you set that to something closer to 30 seconds. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-11-09 more

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hey well i got my ipod nano 5th generation the one with the video camera. i have heaps of videos that i have taken with it, but i dont no how to get those videos and put them in my computer. they wont show in my itunes wen i plug it in i dont get it, how do i get those videos and put them on my comp. I also want to upload a home movie from a DVD to my PC and put it on my IPOD. Can anyone please walk me through the steps. I have no clue what I am doing!
Publication date: 2009-11-08 more

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Publication date: 2009-11-07 more

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Publication date: 2009-11-03 more

Recent Sphinx Updates

If you use the Sphinx search engine and have been watching the development branch (0.9.10) and wondering when to upgrade, I'm here to tell you that "now" is a great time. As of r2037, the last major issue I regularly saw has been fixed. The other big bug was fixed in r2031. Late last week I began testing those fixes in a "burn-in" test I've developed that makes liberal use of indextool --check. Instead of seeing index corruption within an hour, I saw none. After 3 days of no failures, I deployed it to a subset of our search back-end servers. Yesterday we deployed it to half of the remaining servers. So far, so good! I should note that all our index corruption was merge related. Sphinx wasn't building corrupt indexes out of the box, but the merges (usually filtering merges) could produce corrupted indexes. We were upgrading from a lightly patched version of r1894. That meant rebuilding our indexes to use the new and more compact format. Some of the obvious benefits of the upgrade: smaller disk and memory footprint pre-fork support to spawn searchd children at start up more reliable shutdown and pid file handling kill lists mysql protocol support lots of small optimizations and fixes Thanks to the Sphinx team for their excellent work. I look forward to the release of Sphinx 1.0. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-10-30 more

Oracle and MySQL

In The EU and MySQL, Tim Bray treads lightly on the topic of Oracle's pending ownership of MySQL if the Sun acquisition goes through. I left a comment on his post, but he's likely to be heavily moderating what appears there since he works for Sun. So here's what I posted on his blog. I haven't yet seen anyone explain what motivation Oracle has for pouring resources into MySQL, especially if it eats away at their DBMS business on the low end. I've been puzzling over this since their acquisition of Innobase Oy (the makers of InnoDB) years back. Is Oracle serious about seeing MySQL grow and succeed, or was that just a way to get a strangle-hold on a critical piece of MySQL? I've never had the chance to ask Ken Jacobs that. Actually, I have but it would have been kind of rude. And even if I did, I'm not sure I could trust the answer. I doubt this comment will get published, but as a MySQL long time user, supporter, advocate, and author I'm really glad to see things like PBXT, MariaDB, and Percona's XtraDB out there. Really, we need that kind of diversity in Open Source. A MySQL/InnoDB "monopoly" wouldn't have been healthy in the long run. A reporter contacted me today to ask, among other things, if I think Oracle was/is threatened by MySQL. Oracle claims that they serve two different markets, etc. He wasn't so sure. Sadly, there's some background information that I should not publish here, but suffice it to say that Oracle was and probably still is threatened by MySQL. Their sales/marketing tactics made this quite clear long ago. But those deals were rarely public--for good reason. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

on "Various ipod charging/connection problems"

My wife has thew same type issue. She tried to transfer a CD to her ipod nano and it tottaly crashed. She also tried the softboot with no resolution. No matter what it will not get past the freek'n apple icon. HELP!
Publication date: 2009-10-19 more

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Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

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Lazy Shopping Carts

What's with all the lazy shopping carts? It seems that through the years, shopping carts have become progressively more lazy. Years ago, when a shopping cart was done with its duty, it had to find its way all the way back from your car to the store entrance--either just inside or just outside. But, apparently as the result of an aging population of shopping card, grocery store designers started scattering "cart corrals" around the parking lot so that the poor carts only had to scoot a few dozen yards before coming to rest. But even that is starting to seem inadequate. I was at Trader Joe's earlier today and noticed quite a number of carts that could only make it as far as the little curbs that surround the trees that in the parking lot. And at Safeway, where there seem to be cart corrals every 15 parking spots, I still see carts that aren't able to make it even that far. Modern technology has done so much to our modern food system in the last 20 years (a fair amount of it quite questionable, I'm sure), yet so little has been done to help these carts! Why is that? Who are the cruel people that insist on keeping these carts in service long after they're able to perform up to very basic expectations? What is this world coming to? It's sad, really. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-10-12 more

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Publication date: 2009-10-04 more

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Publication date: 2009-10-03 more

on "Microsoft Office 2008 or iWorks?"

Depending on what your functionality requirements are there is always the option of using Google Docs, Zoho, or one of the other free cloud-based solutions.
Publication date: 2009-10-03 more

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I too use a few Apple products, here are my answers. 1. b & e 2. 7 3. 5 4. 5 5. 4 6. 2 7. Yes 8. No
Publication date: 2009-10-03 more

on "Rumor or not? iPod Touch 3rd generation will launch"

I found this on website today, http://www.uxsight.com/category/168541/ipodtouch3rdgencases.html and I have no idea if it's a rumor or reliable. It is said some place had started to sell the case of the new generation iPod Touch. I still haven't got any news of the new generation Touch, or this is only a rumor?
Publication date: 2009-10-03 more

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Hi I'm having trouble with vista 64 loading on the bootcamp partition. The screen turns black after logon for way too long. I want to use easybcd from neosmart to rescue the boot sector since I think this is where the problem lies. Does anyone know if doing this will interfer with the normal loading of holding the option key down or booting directly into osx. I'm desperate for an answer. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks Alan
Publication date: 2009-10-03 more

on "How to Get Back my Deleted Mac Mail ???"

This forum posting process bites - It took me about 15 attempts before my post took (And it loses everything you typed in if you don't copy it before hitting the post reply button)
Publication date: 2009-10-03 more

on "How to download free iPhone games"

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Publication date: 2009-10-03 more

on "iphone downloads"

hi rags, there is no such virus that delets the contents on your iphone or any other memory devices. you do one thing you just connect your phone to pc chose the data storage mode. go to search files option and enable searching of hidden files in the advanced option, if you know the name of your file or a folder which you think is deleted and hit search. then you will find them hiding on your iphone. rightclick on them and uncheck the hide option
Publication date: 2009-10-03 more

on "How to convert DVD, free videos, flash to iPhone?"

Great! I'd still prefer using Clone2Go DVD to iPhone Converter, which helps me to convert DVD to iPhone, convert video to iPhone and even download YouTube (HD) videos onto iPhone.
Publication date: 2009-10-03 more

on "safari 4 browser"

Well, it's been a couple of months now, & I've gotten used to the new Safari configuration .... and it really isn't causing any problems for me. So I'm really OK with it for now. But I do want to thank all of you for your feedback !
Publication date: 2009-10-03 more

on "How to Make a Copy of DVD Movies on Mac OS X"

In fact there are many tools can realize that function in copy DVD for mac, like Handbrake, but on my side, I more prefer to use this DVD converter for Mac
Publication date: 2009-10-03 more

on "Don't Buy Apple"

I don't know what to tell you man. They are usually pretty good about replacing stuff if you bring it in to a store. The warranty's last only a year because they want you to purchase the extended warranty for all their products. Lame, i know, but almost every retailer does this. I'd switch to a PC, much cheaper than Apple products, 99% of the software is written for PC's and can be easily fixed. + Windows 7 is coming out pretty soon.
Publication date: 2009-10-03 more

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Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

Watching Yahoo's Transformation

Having not worked at Yahoo in a bit over a year, it's interesting, amusing, and frustrating to watch what's going on over there. Some of their moves confirm feelings I've had for some time, while others are more puzzling. The Search deal with Microsoft was basically inevitable. You could see even two years ago how out-gunned Yahoo was compared to Google and to what Microsoft was rumored to be thinking of doing. Based on what I knew, Yahoo was spending less than 20% of the money on search that Google was and they were trying to do the same worth with about 1/10th the hardware and less mature infrastructure software. Meanwhile, the web kept growing and became more and more real-time. It seems that Yahoo wants to sell Zimbra. I remember when that acquisition happened. I thought it was cool technology and would be great if we actually wanted to compete in the on-line "office suite" market (or whatever), but that never happened. Instead it remained as one of those "enterprise" products that Yahoo has a history of trying and failing at. Remember Yahoo's enterprise instant messaging product? FAIL. Now comes news that Yahoo wants to sell Small Business which includes their web hosting and domain registration businesses. This makes good sense to me. While it's a business that I think has usually made money, it simply wasn't competitive in a day and age when you can get a full virtual machine, storage, and bandwidth from any number of vendors who aren't scared to offer good remote access (ssh anyone?) to the server: Slicehost, Rackspace, Server Beach, Amazon, and so many others. Yahoo's offering may have made sense back in the year 2000 or so when it really competed on price, but this is one of those race-to-the-bottom commodity business and has been for years. People picking on Carol for selling some stock recently? Well that's just dumb. Yahoo is a public company and she really didn't sell that much. I hope that Carol is able to trim the parts of Yahoo that no longer make sense and help bring some focus to the company. I really do. But to be honest, I've seen it before. Terry Semel tried to do something similar when he came on board. But that was a wandering effort that ultimate lacked focus and wasn't ambitious or forward-thinking enough. Jerry and Sue tried this when Terry left, but I really think they were too "Yahoo" to transform Yahoo into what it needs to be. I see how Carol is trying to be smart on the business side, but I'm not sure how Yahoo plans to wow its users. And coming from the Yahoo! Developer Network, I wonder if Yahoo will ever get serious about outside developers. Conferences and Hack Days are great, but I suspect they still haven't figured out how to offer buisness-class APIs (with an exchange of money and an SLA). Aside from YUI and Hadoop, can you really go beyond a prototype with this stuff? It could simply be that I never really drank the YOS/YAP kool-aid and never will get it. Oh, and what about those smaller startups? Should I start to worry that del.icio.us or Flickr is going to go away? What about Upcoming? When their founders start to worry, I feel like I should too. At least Flickr has a business model and appears to still be kicking some ass. MyBlogLog has all but died on the vine, right? Is there anyone left of the original team of 5 or 6 engineers still working on it? No, I think it fell victim to Yahoo's larger social strategy. FAIL. I hope that Carol can be clear, focused, and agressive in re-shaping Yahoo. The half-measures attempted over the last few years simply haven't been enough and never will be. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-09-22 more

How my netbook taught me to love xmonad

I've had this low-level urge to try a new window manager for a few months now. I work on a Linux box (Ubuntu) daily and mostly run a number of terminals, GNU Emacs, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome. Nothing too fancy, really. Oh, and a shitty VPN client. Background Most of the time I'm doing this in front of a 24" (or larger) monitor running at 1920x1200, so there's a lot of screen real estate. Yet I was always annoyed by how much time I spent moving windows around or trying to find the optimal layout--always reaching for the mouse. Years ago when 1024x768 was the norm, I ran a heavily customized fvwm2 and enjoyed it. But then I made the move to Windows for a few years and came back to Linux with Ubuntu/Gnome as my "desktop." The Netbook Months ago I wrote about how I love my Samsung NC10. When I'm not at my desk, I'll often use PuTTY to login, resume my screen session(s), and continue working. For what it's worth, I find that the free DejaVu Fonts (specifically the Monospaced one) works exceptionally well. What I realized is that my method of having one terminal in full-screen mode on each "desktop" (thanks to the VirtualWin virtual desktop manager) is surprisingly productive, even on the little 10" screen. At first I considered this a fluke and attributed it mainly to the novelty of working this way. But after a while I realized that it was the focus that this setup enforces. There simply isn't enough room to have a browser on screen to distract me while I'm coding something, reading email, etc. I really need to focus one or a few tightly realted tasks. The cognitive overload of having the whole Internet available really gets pushed off-screen and mostly out of mind. Trying xmonad After a discussion in our chatroom at work the other day, I finally decided to give a new window manger a try: xmonad. A big help was Tom's Introduction to the xmonad Tiling Window Manager which gave me just the information I needed to get started. I used it most of Friday and a bit off and on Saturday, both on my primary work computer and my "home" Linux desktop machine. The experience has been surprisingly positive so far. Most of the hassles have revolved around re-training my hands to learn some new keyboard shortcuts and finding replacements for the few GUI things that Gnome provided on my previous desktop. On thing I particularly like is that most of the keybindings seem very sane out of the box with xmonad. I haven't really needed to customize anything yet. I have found that a couple keystrokes that I use in GNU Emacs appear to be intercepted by xmonad and I haven't found an easy way to undo that or at least discover what they're supposed to do: Alt-w and Alt-q are the two I've noticed. I also needed to resurrect an old xmodmap file that I could use to turn my CAPS LOCK into a Control key and re-discover the right xset command to set my key repeat rate higher than the default: xset r rate 250 30. Other than those few nits, it's been pretty smooth sailing. I definitely feel like I'll be more productive in the long run a result of switching. Have you tried a tiling window manager? Did you stick with it? (comments)
Publication date: 2009-09-20 more

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Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

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Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Pandora vs. CDs

I've been using Pandora for streaming music on-line for a while now. I enjoy it so much that I pay the roughly $5-$6 per month for a higher quality stream and because I want to do my part to make sure they stay viable as a business. What's so great about it? Pandora is unobtrusive, easy to use, and really good at finding similar and related music that I'm likely to enjoy. I'm always amazed at how good it is when I create a new station. Just a few weeks back, I told Pandora to create a "U2" station. A few hours later, I realized that I'd been listening to an excellent selection of tunes. I never get bored of the music on Pandora. It's just a part of my day, always playing good music to keep me happy while I'm coding or fixing things. I feel like an idiot for the thousands of dollars I spent on CDs years ago, not to mention all the time and effort that went into digitizing that library multiple times (my own code, iTunes, WinAmp, etc.). If I thought I could get any real money for my 550 CDs, I'd just sell 'em all and send the Pandora crew a nice check with a note: "Keep up the great work." If you've not yet used Pandora, I highly recommend it. You'll be surprised by how often it plays music you like, even with the most minimal input from you. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-08-25 more

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Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

ICI Launches New Website Featuring Janmedia Design

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Publication date: 2009-08-12 more

Firefox vs. Google Chrome Revisited

Last week, in Google Chrome is the New Firefox, and Firefox the new IE, I ranted a bit about how slow Firefox 3 (notably tab switching and the "awesome" bar") was on my Ubuntu 9.04 machine. Needless to say, I got some good feedback from that post and it prompted it me to do a few things. I've since been running both Firefox 3.5 as well as the Firefox 3.6 trunk code and can say that both are notably faster than Firefox 3.0.xx. The difference between 3.0.xx and 3.5 was substantial and really helped to close the gap with Chrome. Going to the 3.6 alpha nightly builds made it even faster in some places and slower in others--not surprising since it's still in development. Scrolling was drastically worse, but I'm told that's currently in flux. I have to hand it to the Firefox team. They're not taking Chrome lying down. I've found no real issues with running 3.5 so far and it's a bit of mystery to me (which is to say "I haven't researched at all...") why Ubuntu 9.04 isn't upgrading folks to it. I'm really looking forward to seeing 3.6 stabilize. The Javascript and layout performance seems really good in my use so far. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-08-10 more

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hi guys, i've come to download a cd to my iphone and on doing so it's gone and deleted everything i had on my phone, pictures, videos, other music, i'm gutted. anyone else had this issue with the iphone? cheer, steve
Publication date: 2009-08-09 more

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Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

Washington DC Interactive Teams up with CRDF for Research Portal Redesign

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Janmedia Deploys Strayer University's 2009 Virtual Commencement Site

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Publication date: 2009-08-06 more

Google Chrome is the New Firefox, and Firefox the new IE

I spent too long on Friday screwing around with stuff on my work laptop in an effort to make Firefox's apparent performance not SUCK ASS. Ever since I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 I've been somewhat unhappy, mostly as a result of the well publicized issues with Intel Video on Ubuntu 9.04. I read about possible hope with upgrading the driver which also required a kernel upgrade, so I did both and rebooted. And, as I hoped, video seemed a bit snappier. But Firefox still SUCKED ASS. At this point I was REALLY PISSED. Sure my new video was nice and all but making new tabs (or switching between them) was still slow, and the disaster known as the "awesome bar" (how to disable) still sucked. So on a whim I went and installed Google Chrome. It totally rocks on my Samsung NC10 netbook (running WinXP), so I figured what not give it a try. It turns out that Chrome on Linux is DRAMATICALLY FASTER THAN FIREFOX!. It's been quite stable on Windows, so I'm hoping the same is true on Linux and I can just switch over to it. As of now, Firefox is my primary browser on only half my computers. Chrome seems to be slowly displacing it, just like Firefox replaced the bloated pig known as Mozilla years ago (and the long since stagnant IE on Windows). It's funny. Browsers seem to be like Internet companies. Every few years a new, small, faster one comes along to kill off some (or all) of the previous generation. I guess this is just the latest in that constant evolution. It'll be interesting to see how this new competition really affects Mozilla Firefox. I spend most of my day in gnome-terminal (to screen, mutt, irssi, etc.), GNU Emacs, and a browser. When they're not fast and stable, my life sucks. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

Flying an Ultralight Trike or Weight Shift Control Aircraft

On Saturday Kathleen and I took advantage of the chance to take a short class in Trike flying and then go up for introductory rides. This was an event organized by AreoDynamic Aviation (formerly Amelia Reid Aviation) at the Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose. We arrived to find Pete Marsh's Antares MA-34 R912 Ranger with an 80 horsepower Rotax 912 engine sitting outside the hangar. So I took several photos of the engine, cockpit, and wing while we got a good look at it. A view of the cockpit. Beefy landing gear! The Rotax 912 Engine Glass Cockpit After checking it out, Pete spent about an hour telling our class about Trike flying in Alaska, answering our questions about the sport and the machines, and giving us a little bit of an idea what to expect. For the record, this Trike has electric trim and will cruise at about 70-75mph while burning 2.5 gallons of high octane auto gas per hour. So mileage is comparable to most cars. But the ride is a hell of a lot more fun! And with a 15 gallon fuel supply, you can fly a lot longer than your bladder will let you. Several of us had reserved times to fly 1 hour $99 introductory rides with Pete, and before I knew it my time had arrived. I was really looking forward to the experience. Pete helped me get strapped in and I took a few pictures and a vide as we taxied over to the run-up area for runway 31R. My turn! Strapped in and ready! View out the front. Engine running and we're taxiing! We sit close together. Here's a short taxi video: After a couple other departures, we were cleared to take off! Takeoff video: Check out that view! Look, Ma. I'm flying the Trike! And before I knew it we were in the air and flying. The first few seconds were kid of freaky, given how open the cockpit is. But that quickly faded away and I began to really enjoy the flying. We headed a bit south and then over the first ridge toward the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton where we could play around a bit and I could get a better feel for flying the Trike. Heading for the hills... Me again. All those houses... Another great view. Back there I got to try various flight maneuvers, really get a feel for the air, and even did some soaring in thermals. I was really impressed by how well we could feel the air as the wing tried to move and the distinct changes in temperature as we flew into different pockets. Turns were easy once I got over the idea of forcing them. We also performed a few stalls (though they hardly compare to stalls in a larger airplane or glider)--very benign. I was impressed by how stable the aircraft was too. Let go and it'll pretty much fly straight and level if you're in calm air. The view was, of course, amazing. And being able "feel" the air more directly makes you feel a lot more connected to the atmosphere you're flying in. All in all it was a much more "raw" experience then the glider flying I'm used to. I really enjoyed it. After almost an hour of flying, it was time to head back in and land. Heading in to land. Landing video: After landing, we taxied back to the hangar so that Pete could pick up his next victim passenger. Next up was Kathleen... Strapped in. Ready to go! The took for for a similarly fun 1-hour flight. Takeoff video: I was there to grab a few pictures as the taxied back to the hangar area. Thumbs Up! What a blast!!! Time to let someone else play... Conclusion We both had an absolute blast flying the trike. It's a little like flying a power plane and a little like flying a glider, but it's a very different experience from both. It's a very raw and natural form of flying that really puts you in touch with your surroundings and gives you an amazing view of the area you're flying in. Thanks again to AeroDynamic Aviation for organizing this event. Not only do they provide excellent flight training and aircraft maintenance, Owner Zdravko Podolski has consistently organized events to help pilots expand our flying horizons. We're both very tempted to get a weight-shift control add-on for our pilot certificates. It's worth noting that many Trikes make it easy to swap out the wheels on the landing gear for floats (land on lakes!) or skis (land on snow/ice). Pictures and Video I have the whole set in this Picasa album: Trike Flying at RHV Or you can see a subset in my Trike Flying album on Flickr. The videos are in my YouTube channel as well. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

Loose Fuel Cap and Losing Fuel In-Flight (with Video)

While our flying trip to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons was great, we had a few problems along the way. Like they say, bad things often come in groups of three. This was our third one. (The other two involved a hiding cat and a blown tail wheel on the airplane). On our way home Saturday, we flew from Jackson, Wyoming (JAC) to Burley, Idaho (BYI) to get a bit of fuel, grab a snack, and take a restroom break. A few minutes in the air after leaving Burley, Kathleen looked back at the left wing and saw fuel streaming back. And it didn't seem to stop. Uh oh! She shot this video. We were closer to Twin Falls (TWF) at this point, so I called up the tower and began our descent down from 9,000 feet to land and check it out. We fully expected the fuel cap to be completely missing. Unlike the fuel caps on a Cessna, there is no chain that keeps it connected to the fuel tank. So if the cap comes off in flight (or was never put back on), you've lost it. The tower cleared us for a straight-in on runway 25 and we landed shortly after a Turbo Ag Cat came in on the opposite runway. We landed, taxied over to the full service fuel and FBO, and parked. I borrowed a a bucket (no ladder handy) from the guy who came over, climbed up, and was astonished to find the fuel cap was there and it felt tight! There are two flanges on the fuel cap that serve to lock it to the neck of the fuel tank. Normally both of them are fitted tightly below the rim. But the guy who fueled it in Burley manage to put the cap on in such a way that only one of the two flanges was engaged below the rim. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

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Publication date: 2009-07-25 more

delta1149 on "design metal detector"

<div>Dear Forum,</div> <div> </div> <div>I am looking for someone to design me a state-of-the-art, sleek and ergonomically <span class="yshortcuts">shape metal detector</span> for <span class="yshortcuts">treasure hunting</span>.</div> <div> </div> <div>I was told to call a student at mit or caltech that maybe they would be interested , but no they weren't. I even called an engineering department at a Singapore University and they wouldn't call back.</div> <div> </div> <div>I know there are people out there that would be excited about designing a <span class="yshortcuts" style="cursor: hand; border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed;">metal detector</span>. Maybe you lead me to someone.</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks,</div> <div> </div> <div>Peyton Jones</div>
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Sunset over the Grand Tetons

Our trip to the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone is going very well. We've been pretty busy, so I haven't had a lot of time to write. But here's a picture of the sunset from tonight. We're taking lots of pictures and video with the Flip and enjoying the scenery. Weather looks good for the next several days too. Not a bad vacation at all. :-) (comments)
Publication date: 2009-07-20 more

Flying to Yellowstone and Grand Tetons

We're heading out on a little summer vacation flying trip this morning in our Citabria. We'll be visiting Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. We'll be flying from San Jose to Twin Falls, Idaho today. Then tomorrow we'll fly from Twin Falls to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. For those pilots or aviation buffs out there, here is our list of waypoints for both days. Day #1 RHV - LVK (Livermore) LVK - L53 (Lodi) L53 - PVF (Placerville) PVF - TVL (Lake Tahoe) TVL - MEV (Minden) MEV - CXP (Cason City) Rest/Fuel CXP - LOL (Derby) LOL - BAM (Battle Mountain) via V6 airway BAM - EKO (Elko) Rest / Fuel EKO - LWL (Wells) LWL - 06U (Jackpot) 06U - TWF (Twin Falls) Rest / Fuel / Spend Night Day #2 TWF - BYI (Burley) BYI - U01 (American Falls) U01 - U02 (Mc Carley) U02 - U56 (Rigby Jefferson) U56 - DIJ (Driggs Reed) DIJ - JAC (Jackson Hole) And you can see our day #1 navigation log as well as our day #1 flight plan (though we filed each of the 3 legs separately with the FAA). Pictures and video to come! We just got a Flip camera for the trip (test video here). (comments)
Publication date: 2009-07-17 more

Washington DC Digital Collaborating with the Futron Corporation on New Website

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Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Washington DC Digital Agency Deploys New Washington Gas Website

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Publication date: 2009-07-15 more

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Jim Andrews on "How to Get Back my Deleted Mac Mail ???"

I need serious help ... !!! I accidentally deleted a folder (with lots of folders inside!) of very important e-mail containing years of research ... !!! Is there any possible way to get it back? I was trying to change the names of folders, from lower case to upper case, and I got a message telling me that I couldn't do that, because there was already a folder like that. I saw an extra folder, and clicked on it, but there appeared to be nothing in it, so I chose Delete from the menu. Only to find out it was the real folder with many other folders inside. I’m using Mac Mail, OS X 10.4.11 -- I did NOT choose Erase Deleted Messages from the menu yet ... !!! Is there still hope to recover all those deleted messages .... ??? I need to get that e-mail back somehow .... Any suggestions ... ??? Help !!!
Publication date: 2009-07-10 more

geekmaster on "How to download free iPhone games"

I found great articles for finding and installing free games into iPhone at a Zimbio wikizine here: Free iPhone Games.
Publication date: 2009-07-07 more

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fishup2008 on "How to Make a Copy of DVD Movies on Mac OS X"

If you Want to Make a Copy of your DVD Disc on Mac Intel, I share you the resource as below: http://www.infopirate.org/_how-make-copy-your-dvd-disc-mac-intel
Publication date: 2009-07-05 more

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ActiveSenior on "safari 4 browser"

I recommended you take the time, and switch to Google Chrome. It is an incredible browser. Really fast, they dont just say it, they mean it! Also, my connection isnt the greatest, and I sometimes would have problems such as, if 10 tabs are open, and if 1 would freeze, the rest would as well. In Chrome, even if one tab freezes, the rest do not. This really saves a lot of time. Instead of always restarting everything, I can just start a new tab, and I am good to continue to do what I was doing. Anyway, I never liked Safari. I mean for iPod its OK, but for computer, not really. Switch to Firefox ASAP, or even better, try Chrome.
Publication date: 2009-06-29 more

Matthew Humphries on "safari 4 browser"

pennwood, importing your bookmarks from Safari to Firefox should be as simple as: File -> Import... -> select Safari -> OK. Do that once Firefox is installed and all your bookmarks shopuld magically appear in Firefox.
Publication date: 2009-06-29 more

ActiveSenior on "How to convert DVD, free videos, flash to iPhone?"

As you see, there are many software's to convert. All of them have their pluses and minuses. It depends on what you will be converting mostly. For example, if you will be converting .avi to iphone format, then you want a software that slacks off in converting other formats, but will be very good (ex. speed and quality) in converting .avi to iphone.
Publication date: 2009-06-29 more

thumb on "short survey"

I too use a few Apple products, here are my answers. 1. b & e 2. 7 3. 5 4. 5 5. 4 6. 2 7. Yes 8. No
Publication date: 2009-06-24 more

thumb on "How to convert DVD, free videos, flash to iPhone?"

DVD and Video to iPhone Converter suite is another choice. It can convert DVD to iPhone video, AVI to iPhone, MPEG to iPhone, WMV to iPhone, VOB, DivX, XviD, MOV, RM, RMVB, Dvr-ms, etc. to iPhone video MP4 format.
Publication date: 2009-06-24 more

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Publication date: 2009-06-19 more

Distributed Parallel Fault Tolerant File System Wanted

After re-thinking and re-tooling some of the work I've been doing to take advantage of Gearman, I've started to wish for a big file system in the sky. I guess it's no surprise that Google uses GFS with their Map/Reduce jobs and that Hadoop has HDFS as a major piece of its infrastructure. The Wikipedia page List of file systems has a section on Distributed parallel fault tolerant file systems that appears to be a good list of what's out there. The problem, of course, is that it's little more than a list. Do you have any experience with one or more of those? Recommendations? I should say that I'm only interested in something that's Open Source and have a minor bias against big Java things as well as stuff that appear as though it would cease to exist if a single company went out of business. I'm not too worried about POSIX compliance. The main use would be for writing large files that other machines or processes would then read all or part of. I don't need updates. The ability to append would probably be nice, but that's easy to work around. More specifically, these three have my eye at the moment: CloudStore (was KFS) by Kosmix, a C++ clone of GFS MogileFS from Danga, what can I say--I'm a Perl guy HDFS the Hadoop file system It's interesting that some solutions deal with blocks (often large) while others deal with files. I'm not sure I have a preference for either at the moment. But I'm open to hearing about everything, so speak up! :-) (comments)
Publication date: 2009-06-18 more

Matthew Humphries on "Microsoft Office 2008 or iWorks?"

Depending on what your functionality requirements are there is always the option of using Google Docs, Zoho, or one of the other free cloud-based solutions.
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

BobbyBluehen on "Microsoft Office 2008 or iWorks?"

Hi: I want to buy a MacBook Pro, but am confused concerning comments I’ve been reading about what software to buy — iWorks or Microsoft Office 2008. Many say MO2008 is not good, yet some say iWorks is good, but not as good as how MO2008 works on a PC. My question is this: Does Microsoft make an inferior MO for Macs and a better one for PCs. Also, is it true that iWorks doesn’t transform documents into Word very well.
Publication date: 2009-06-16 more

awesomeo on "Microsoft Office 2008 or iWorks?"

I don't know as I've never used either version. You should give OpenOffice.org Aqua before buying anything. It's free and pretty comparable. http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua.html
Publication date: 2009-06-16 more

My Drizzle Article in Linux Magazine (XtraDB and Sphinx too!)

After a few years off, I've been doing some writing for Linux Magazine (which is on-line only) again recently. First off, my just published feature article is Drizzle: Rethinking the MySQL Database Kernel. As you might have guessed, it looks at Drizzle and some of the reasoning behind forking and re-working MySQL. I'm also writing a weekly column that we've been calling "Bottom of the Stack" (RSS) which started a few weeks ago. Recent articles are: Sphinx: Search Outside the Box XtraDB: InnoDB on Steroids The State of MySQL The basic idea is that I'll be writing about back-end data processing and systems--the sort of stuff that lives in the bottom half of the traditional LAMP stack. If you have ideas of stuff you'd like to cover, please drop me a line. As a side note, I wrote my first article for Linux Magazine back in June of 2001: MySQL Performance Tuning. Those were the MySQL 3.23 days. How time flies! An amazing credit to some of the folks involved with Linux Magazine, all of my past writings are available there. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-06-16 more

franklino on "How to convert DVD, free videos, flash to iPhone?"

to view dvd and video on iphone, you can get clone2go dvd to iphone converter to get the dvd and video converted to the iphone compatible mpeg4 format and then transfer the output files to iphone with the sync of itunes library. This dvd to iphone converter can 1) convert dvd to iphone 2) convert video to iphone 3) be used as youtube downloader.
Publication date: 2009-06-16 more

Washington DC Interactive Agency Premiers New National Training Center Website

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Publication date: 2009-06-16 more

pennwood on "safari 4 browser"

I really (REALLY) don't like the pretty pictures on my bookmarks pages that came with the latest update. I surf (A LOT), have over 500 bookmarks, and Apple just made it a whole lot harder for me to look 'em over. (I'm steamed about this) I already know what the websites look like and who my favorites are, thank you. I'd like my bookmarks back ! Anybody else feel this way too ?
Publication date: 2009-06-12 more

pennwood on "Don't Buy Apple"

My wife bought a Dell desktop & we spent as much on security & service as the Dell cost in just 2 years ($600) before the 'bad guys' trashed it. My Apple cost a little more but I haven't spent a dime on either security or service .... and it's trouble free for almost 4 years. Easy choice for me.
Publication date: 2009-06-12 more

pennwood on "short survey"

Hi Beth. I bought my Apple for security reasons. No viruses. I surf, a lot. Everything works good for me. I'm not addicted to my Mac - I may be addicted to the internet .....
Publication date: 2009-06-12 more

Hulu Desktop vs. Hulu in Browser vs. Nexflix (Flash vs. Silverlight?)

For a while now we've had a computer hooked up to our large screen television and stereo system. A couple months back I upgraded the motherboard, CPU, and memory so that we could start using the Windows 7 release candidate and Windows Media Center on it. The new hardware also meant we could play back high definition video. Aside from playing back photos in Picasa and various video files, we also stream music using Pandora or play from our library using WinAMP or Media Center. For streaming video, we'd been using Hulu a bit (which is Flash based) and Netflix (which is Silverlight). Yesterday we tried out Hulu Desktop and attempted to watch the Glee pilot. Hulu desktop crashed on the first run after install (could be a Windows 7 issue) but then ran fine upon restarting it. But the video quality was low and quite jerky. It used a lot of CPU too. This made me wonder if it was really taking advange of the video capabilities of our system. It was bad enough that we switched to watching the show using the browser-based streaming. Hitting the full-screen high quality version acually played better there and used less CPU. So the desktop application clearly needs some performance tuning. I compare all of this with Netflix streaming which uses Silverlight and the difference is clear, even in 720p resolution we tend to keep our display set to. Microsoft has done a good job of tuning Silverlight for video. If I recally, they have very good H264 support built-in. That said, I'm glad to see Hulu Desktop out. It makes a lot of sense to have an app that can be controlled via IR remote instead of the wireless keyboard we had been using. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

The Big ALTER TABLE Test

As previously noted, I've been playing with XtraDB a bit at work. Over a week ago I decided to test compression on one of our larger tables and it took a bit longer than I expected. (root@db_server) [db_name]> ALTER TABLE table_name \ ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED KEY_BLOCK_SIZE=4; Query OK, 825994826 rows affected (8 days 14 hours 23 min 47.08 sec) Records: 825994826 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0 Zoiks! It's too bad we couldn't use all the cores on the machine for the ALTER TABLE, huh? On the plus side, the file sizes aren't too bad. Before: -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 1638056067072 2009-05-24 09:23 table_name.ibd After: -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 587617796096 2009-05-27 07:14 table_name.ibd I'll have more to say about XtraDB and the compression options in a later post. But given the interest that my Twitter messages about this big ALTER TABLE generated yesterday, I figured I'd share a bit more detail here. For anyone doing the math at home, that's going from rougly 1.5TB to 500GB (the new file size is slightly inflated, since this slave managed to replicate about a week's worth of data before I caught it). I was hoping for 4:1 compression and managed about 3:1. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

awesomeo on "Wireless Filght Simulator Control"

Something like this is about the cheapest you'll be able to do: http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=209708411&listingid=32657468&dcaid=17902 Also, a long USB cable won't work since the maximum length is 16 feet. You need to use special "active" cables or an Ethernet extender.
Publication date: 2009-05-22 more

grampa on "Wireless Filght Simulator Control"

Good afternoon, I would like to know if there is an inexpensive wireless usb device that is capable of transmitting approx 50 ft to my PC with out having to use a long usb cable. Gefen, Belkin and Iogear have them [wireless usb hub] available but are rather expensive. I have a contoller for a Remote Control flight simulator program but it requires to be connected directly to my PC via a usb connection. Thank you for any consideration. grampa
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

Washington DC Interactive Agency Deploys New ARA, INC Website

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Publication date: 2009-05-19 more

Our CEO Tells It Like It Is

I haven't said a lot about the ongoing battle between Craigslist and certain overly-agressive politicains, but after reading his most recent blog post, An Apology Is In Order, I have to say that I'm really proud of Jim. Having a CEO standing up to politicians and media for what he believes is right and true really reaffirms my decision to join Craigslist last year. Better yet, he's outdone most of the media by, *gasp*, actually linking to relevant information in his post. Many prominent companies, including AT&T, Microsoft, and Village Voice Media, not to mention major newspapers and other upstanding South Carolina businesses feature more “adult services” ads than does craigslist, some of a very graphic nature. For a small sampling, look (careful NSFW) here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here. Have you fully considered the implications of your accusations against craigslist? What’s a crime for craigslist is clearly a crime for any company. Are you really prepared to condemn the executives of each of the mainstream companies linked above, and all the others that feature such ads, as criminals? craigslist may not matter in your world view, despite our popularity among your constituents, but mightn’t you want an endorsement from any of the SC newspapers for your gubenatorial campaign, whose publishers you’ve just labeled as criminals? Do you really intend to launch a criminal investigation against the phone company? What about potential new jobs connected to big data center buildouts in SC by Internet companies? Are you *sure* you want prosecute all of their CEOs as criminals??? Keep it up, Jim. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-05-18 more

Smoked Tilapia with Honey Glaze

Tonight we tried smoking Tailpia for the first time and it came out very well. The full recipe is below the before and after pictures. The fish in the smoker, before adding honey and spices: The fish after smoking: Dinner! Recipe This recipe is very simple but surprisingly tasty. It has some sweet, some smoky, and some spice. Arrange the fish on the smoker grate and coat liberally with honey. Then sprinkle on a bit of each of the following: Salt Pepper Garlic Powder Cayenne Pepper Then smoke for 18-20 minutes with hickory chips. The resulting mix of honey, cayenne, and smoky flavor is truly excellent. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-05-15 more

MySQL 5.1.34 and XtraDB 1.0.3-5

For a couple weeks now, we've had a MySQL server at work running MySQL 5.1.34 and the Percona XtraDB 1.0.3-5 plug-in. I'm testing an upgrade path for our current MySQL 5.0.xx based servers. Aside from some confusion about the initial setup (getting the built-in InnoDB to stay out of the way), things have gone very well. All of our largest and most active tables have been converted to the new Barracuda file format and I tested compression on the two largest. The first didn't fare so well, but it's a fairly over-indexed table with small rows. The second, however, contains a decent sized TEXT column (classified posting bodies) and it compresses quite nicely. Any change in CPU utilization is not significant. I hope to soon get a second server running and try to increase the compression ratio, going from KEY_BLOCK_SIZE of 8K to 4K to see if we can squeeze some more out of it without much penalty. I love all the extra stats provided by the InnoDB plug-in and the Percona (and Google) enhancements. There are a lot of knobs that I've not yet tried to turn, but it's good to know they're available when that day comes. More to come... See Also: Is MySQL 5.1 a compelling upgrade? (comments)
Publication date: 2009-05-15 more

MoonRiver on "How to Make a Copy of DVD Movies on Mac OS X"

You can also finish your work through Disk Utility . Just follow this guide : How to Copy DVD with Disk Utility to DVD on Mac
Publication date: 2009-05-07 more

I love my Samsung NC10 Netbook

A couple months back I got a Samsung NC10 Netbook. I had been on the fence for a long time, trying to decide between the an Eee PC from Asus, the MSI Wind, and the Samsung NC10. Right about the time I was going to finally do it, the ASUS Eee PC 1000HE was announced. I read a lot of reviews from folks who'd bought those netbooks and eventually settled on the NC10. The main deciding factors, in order, were: keyboard layout, build quality, ease of upgrade (mine as 2GB RAM and a 320GB disk, twice the standard in both departments), and Linux support. The MSI Wind was okay in most of those areas, but based on the many reviews I read, the NC10 was a little bit better across the board. So I ruled the MSI Wind out on that alone. The Eee PC 1000HE had just been announced and would have required waiting a few more weeks. Plus, its keyboard had a few quirks--notably the right shift key being too small and offset. Keyboards are really important to me. It had the advantage of a claimed 9.5 hour battery life vs. the 7-8 claimed on the NC10. However, I picked the NC10 and couldn't be happier. Running Windows XP, I routinely get 7 hours of battery life with Wifi on and the screen brightness set low (don't need it any higher most of the time). They range is excellent, keyboard feels right, and it's surprisingly snappy. Building a computer this small and light is really an exercise in design compromises and I thing Samsung nailed it perfectly. I've traveled with it a few times and used it all day at the MySQL Conference without having to worry about being near power outlets. The 2GB RAM is more than enough for anything I'm likely to throw at the Atom processor and 320GB is enough space for all my music, pictures, and pretty much everything except my extensive video collection. I use the NC10 a bit day to day. I think of it as a "couch computer" in addition to use in travel and at a conference. But I've also hooked it up to a HDTV to show off pictures to family and that worked just as well. I could easily see doing a day's worth of work on it with an external monitor and mouse. A couple weeks ago, I grabbed the latest Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) and booted the NC10 off a USB stick to see how it worked. Much to my surprise, it seems that everything worked well without any tweaking. I'll probably stick with XP for now, but it's good to see that Ubuntu would work for me too. If I was looking to buy now, I'd look really hard at the Samsung NC10, ASUS Eee PC 1000HE, and the Samsung NC20 (the 12" model). (comments)
Publication date: 2009-05-02 more

neil on "configuring DHCP for OS 10.1.4 on G4 eMac???"

can anybody help. i can't seem to get my Mac on-line. i am using 10.1.4 on a G4 eMac, (it's all i have right now). i did manually insert the IP address from my provider, but still no luck. they suggested i try forums for help. cheers to all Neil
Publication date: 2009-05-02 more

beccagal on "configuring DHCP for OS 10.1.4 on G4 eMac???"

Hi. Try going to your Network settings in the System Preferences and make sure the modem is not checked. Becca
Publication date: 2009-05-02 more

Is MySQL 5.1 a compelling upgrade?

Of the many things I noticed last week at the MySQL Conference, one of the most notable was how many companies have not upgraded from MySQL 5.0 to 5.1 yet. Craigslist is in that camp and it seems that we're joined by the likes of Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and about half a dozen other companies that use MySQL heavily. Come to think of it, SmugMug are the only folks I've talked with who've made the jump (video). So it's not much of a surprise that Percona is asking if they should backport 5.4 fixes to 5.0. Given our usage of MySQL to date, the only really compelling reason to upgrade is to get access to the InnoDB plug-in (and XtraDB). I'd like to get compression, some of the various performance patches, and tuning options, so plug-in support is a requirement. But beyond that, I just don't see anything new in 5.1 that we need. As I noted in The Real or Official MySQL? Does Not Matter!, the storage engines matter more than the various add-on features in the server itself. Have you upgraded or are you thinking about it? If so, why? If not, why not? (comments)
Publication date: 2009-05-01 more

DC Based Digital Agency Deploys New Office Paper Systems Website

Washington DC
Publication date: 2009-04-30 more

MySQL and Drizzle Tip: Checking configuration file syntax (faking configtest)

In the Apache world, you might be familiar with tweaking your config file(s) and then running $ apachectl configtest to see if the config parses. We've been discussing this on the drizzle mailing list and talking in general about configuration handling and management. Well, it turns out that you can fake it in MySQL and Drizzle too. If you have a new configuration in /tmp/new.cnf, try this: $ mysqld --defaults-file=/tmp/new.cnf --verbose --help And it'll run mysqld (or drizzled), parse the config, report any problems, print help, and exit without initializing storage engines or trying to grab a port. Neat trick! Thanks to Baron Schwartz, Arjen Lentz, and Sheeri Cabral (book) for helping to demonstrate this. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-04-30 more

Slides from "MySQL and Search at Craigslist"

Last week I delivered a talk titled "MySQL and Search at Craigslist" as part of the 2009 MySQL Conference and Expo. I talked about some of the good and bad of our MySQL work and also talked a lot about our recent Sphinx deployment. The slides are embedded below and here, thanks to SlideShare. (Anyone know why Google Docs doesn't yet handle OpenOffice presentations?) MySQL And Search At CraigslistView more presentations from jzawodn. I gave a copy to O'Reilly but don't yet see them on the conference site. The usual disclaimers apply: I said a lot that's not well reflected in the slides, and I'm sure they're less informative without the audio or video that may or may not have been captured. Either way, hopefully they're useful to folks who saw the talk and even a few of those who did not. I also delivered a condensed version of this talk at the Percona Performance Conference and those slides are available too. Thanks to everyone who provided useful feedback and discussion before and after the talks. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

cloris on "How to Make a Copy of DVD Movies on Mac OS X"

Movie DVD Copy is also a good choice. Never miss backing up a DVD with Movie DVD Copy. And if you just make copies to your computer, DVDSmith is freeware and can meets your requirements. Both these software can be found at http://www.movie-dvd-copy.com
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Azymov on "Don't Buy Apple"

NetBSD 4 with OpenBox window manager is a good option--lightning fast, even on hardware deemed 'slow' for Windoze. Apple OS X is a beautiful system--it should be, since it's based on freeBSD, another FREE operating system. Nevertheless, Apple sells their hardware for TOO HIGH A PRICE, being that they essentially use hardware primarily sold to the PC market. (Putting it plainly, Apple loves profit--with little effort on ingenuity. They're not so ingenious as their marketing department wants you to believe.)
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Hack on Drizzle Full-Time for Rackspace!

Given the current state of the economy, here's a quick job plug for anyone interested and qualified. At the Drizzle Developer Day on Friday, I got to meet Adrian Otto from Rackspace. Rackspace has a cloud offering (think Aamazon EC2) that's called Mosso and is willing to employ full time developers who spend all their time working on Drizzle. Here's what he sent to the mailing list. I was speaking with Eric Day at the developer conference, and I mentioned that Rackspace is wiling to employ full time developers for the specific purpose of furthering the Drizzle project's mission. He suggested that I email you on this list becuase he expected there would be interest in this offer. If you work on the project now part time, and want to make it a full time job working exclusively on the Drizzle project, let me know. The Rackspcae Cloud believes in open source, and we want to do our part to make Drizzle a wild success. Talking with him a bit, the rationale is simple: Rackspace wants to offer the best cloud resources they can. Part of that means having infrastructure that their customers need and works well. They're betting the Drizzle is part of their future, and hiring a few people to work on it makes that future a reality sooner than later. It looks like Mark Callaghan likes the idea too. Anyway, ping me if you're interested and I'll put you in touch. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Slides from What Craigslist wants and needs from Drizzle

As I previously mentioned, on Friday I attended the Drizzle Developer Day at Sun in Santa Clara. While there I had the chance to speak to the group while everyone ate their salad, pizza, and cookies. The talk was titles "What Craigslist wants and needs from Drizzle" and is available as a Google Docs presentation here. I've also embedded a version of the slides below. I should note here, as I did at the talk, that this presentation is neither comprehensive or completely representative. That is to say that I'm sure there are things I've forgotten. Plus, the fact that I was working with MySQL in other high-volume web shops before coming to Craiglist means that there's definitely some personal bias and pet peeves addressed in there too. Anyway, that's what I presented. Thanks to the fine folks at Sun (soon to be Oracle) for hosting and organizing the day. And special thanks to the Drizzle developers for getting together and showing the rest of us how things work and taking time to talk about their plans. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-04-27 more

MySQL and Percona Conferences Rocked

Now that it's Friday, I can finally come up for air and say that both the MySQL and Percona Conferences (which I wrote about earlier) surpassed my expectations. Having the two going on semi-concurrently worked out pretty well. At no time did I find myself without at least two sessions I wanted to see. Often times I had to really cut lunch short to make sure I didn't miss anything. Other MySQL Conference veterans I asked has very similar responses. There's a ton of other stuff to digest, and I hope to write up some thoughts in the coming days and weeks. As usual, a big part of the conference for me was being able to meet up with people I don't see often or who I've never met face to face. Meeting up with people solving similar problems at places like Facebook, Google, Mixi, and other high-traffic sites is invaluable. Being able get a good sense of what new storage engines are out there and how modern hardware is changing database systems (SSDs, multi-core servers) proved to be very educational in ways I didn't expect. All the politics and posturing around the Oracle/Sun buyout weren't as significant as I'd expected. People really wanted to get down to business and technology. I enjoyed giving my talks and answering questions about problems that we have and haven't solved yet at Craigslist. I'm heading over to Drizzle Devloper Day in a couple hours. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

MySQL and Percona Performance Conferece Lineup

Amidst all the Oracle/Sun/MySQL news today, the MySQL Conference kicks off this week. So I just spent a few minutes putting together my picks for the sessions I'd like to attend at the MySQL Conference and the Percona Performance Conference (schedule). There's quite a lineup and I have some hard choices to make. Both groups have put together excellent events. And, wow, there are a lot of new storage engines and appliances coming out. To make my life easier, I'm putting the list of interesting sessions from both conferences here so I can try to decide where to spend my attention. Sessions I'm Presenting or Part Of I'm presenting MySQL and Search at Craigslist on Tuesday morning and am part of The Great Open Cloud Shootout on Wednesday morning. On Friday, I'll be at the Drizzle Developer Day to talk about "What Craigslist Needs from Drizzle." Tuesday Sessions: MySQL 8:30am - State of the Dolphin - Karen Padir 9:15am - This is Not a Web App: MySQL at Google - Mark Callaghan 10:50am - MySQL and Search at Craigslist - Jeremy Zawodny 11:55am - InnoDB: Innovative Technologies for Performance and Data Protection - Ken Jacobs, Heikki Tuuri 2:00pm - Falcon Storage Engine - Designed for Speed - Kevin Lewis, Ann Harrison 3:05pm - The PBXT Storage Engine: Meeting Future Challenges - Paul McCullagh 4:25pm - Solving Common SQL Problems with SeqEngine - Beat Vontobel 5:15pm - Hadoop and MySQL: Friends with Benefits - Frank Mashraqi Wednesday Sessions: MySQL 8:50am - The Great Open Cloud Shootout - panel 10:50am - Build Your Own MySQL Time Machine - Chuck Bell, Mats Kindahl 11:55am - Using Q4M: A Message Queue Storage Engine for MySQL - Kazuho Oku 11:55am - libdrizzle: A New Client Library for Drizzle and MySQL - Eric Day 11:55am - libdrizzle: A New Client Library for Drizzle and MySQL - Eric Day 2:00pm - Maria: The New Transactional Storage Engine for MySQL - Monty Widenius 2:00pm - SAN Performance on a Internal Disk Budget: The Coming SSD Revolution - Matthew Yonkovit 2:00pm - Crash Recovery and Media Recovery in InnoDB - Heikki Tuuri 3:05pm - MySQL Performance on EC2 - Mark Callaghan 4:25pm - Perl Stored Procedures for MySQL - Antony Curtis 4:25pm - High Availability and Scalability Patches from Google - Ben Handy, Justin Tolmer 5:15pm - Optimizing MySQL Performance for ZFS - Allan Packer, Neelakanth Nadgir 5:15pm - Redundant Storage Cluster: For When It's Just Too Big - Bob Burgess 5:15pm - Inserts at Drive Speed: Designing a Custom Storage Engine for Write-Mostly Applications - Ben Haley Wednesday Sessions: Percona 9:00am - Maria In Depth - Monty Widenius 9:55am - The Return of Gearman - Eric Day 11:15am - Fighting Replication Lag - Peter Zaitsev 12:45pm - Evaluating Disk Backends for MySQL Servers - Ewen Fortune 1:35pm - Database Performance with Proxy Architectures - Robert Hodges 2:00pm - Covering Indexes: Orders-of-Magnitude Improvements - Dr. Bradley C. Kuszmaul 5:00pm - Sphinx and MySQL: A Perfect Match - Andrew Aksyonoff 6:15pm - InnoDB Performance Tuning - Peter Zaitsev 7:05pm - CouchDB: Behind the Buzz - Jan Lehnardt 7:55pm - Linux Filesystems: Who, What, and Where - Stewart Smith 9:10pm - Open Q&A: Performance - panel Thursday Sessions: MySQL 8:30am - The SmugMug Tale - Don MacAskill 10:50am - SQL is Dead - Monty Taylor 10:50am - Map/Reduce and Queues for MySQL Using Gearman - Eric Day, Brian Aker 10:50am - Dormando's Proxy for MySQL - Alan Kasindorf 11:55am - Memory Management in MySQL and Drizzle - Stewart Smith 11:55am - Improving Performance by Running MySQL Multiple Times - MC Brown 2:00pm - MySQL Row Change Event Extraction and Publish - Gene Pang 2:00pm - InnoDB Performance and Usability Patches - Vadim Tkachenko, Ewen Fortune 2:50pm - Make Your Life Easier with Maatkit - Baron Schwartz 2:50pm - BLOB Streaming: Efficient Reliable BLOB Handling for all Storage Engines - Barry Leslie 3:50pm - Database We Can Believe In: Stories from the Front Lines (of the Obama Campaign) - many speakers Thursday Sessions: Percona 9:55am - Pushing the Envelope - Don MacAskill 10:50am - The Life of a Dirty Page - Mark Callaghan 1:35pm - High Performance MySQL from a Boring Architecture - Baron Schwartz 3:15pm - Hypertable - Doug Judd 4:30pm - Drizzle's Approach to Improving Performance of the Server - Jay Pipes 7:50pm - MySQL Replication: Getting The Most From Slaves - Peter Zaitsev 9:05pm - Open Q&A: Feature Request Bonanza - panel Friday: Drizzle Developer Day Drizzle Developer Day is on Friday at Sun in Santa Clara. I'm looking forward to many of the talks (some of which will be completely over my head but interesting anyway). Back To Work! And, with that, I need to go work on my presentation! See you at the conference... I'll try to post interesting tidbits on Twitter and tag 'em with #MySQLConf like others appear to be doing. I just found out that I can share my public MySQL Conference Schedule. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-04-20 more

Oracle Buying Sun, Gets MySQL

Interesting news this morning, just as the 2009 MySQL Conference is starting. As is being reported all over the place, Oracle has agreed to buy Sun at $9.50 per share, giving them to a ton of great technology (Solaris, ZFS, MySQL, DTrace, etc.). One one of the biggest threats to Oracle's core database business (at the low end, at least) for a while now has been MySQL. And now they're poised to own MySQL after Sun bought it not long ago. (It seems like yesterday that Oracle bought Innobase.) As I noted a while back, the MySQL landscape is changing. This news is sure to make the conference more... interesting. Oracle, please get the InnoDB team together with the MySQL team and see about GPLing ZFS. (comments)
Publication date: 2009-04-20 more

yanyouyu on "How to convert DVD, free videos, flash to iPhone?"

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Publication date: 2009-04-18 more

Lim Bangla John on "How to download free iPhone games"

You gotta either "jailbreak" your iphone or install a special software for that.Jailbreaking can be done at your own risk for free or by a professional ,the jailbreak will allow your iphone to install third-partysoftware for free.;) But with everything there is a price to pay!! GOOD LUCK.
Publication date: 2009-04-16 more

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