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Re: Small bundle of sluggy joy

edumbill — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:24:59 -0000

If you can borrow a hub or a switch from somebody, try putting that between the AEBS and the NSLU2. Though I'm pretty sure I used an AEBS directly hooked up to the NSLU2...

Re: Load-balancing Mongrel with Apache 2.0

edumbill — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:43:39 -0000

Well, in theory you could write a program to generate maps.txt from some kind of availability information.

Re: Web 2.0 Excellent

edumbill — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:50:13 -0000

Thanks Dan. The attendee networking is "just enough" social network to make the conference work harder for attendees who want to meet each other, tell other attendees about themselves, and use direct messaging. The relationships persist over all Web Expo/O'Reilly events.

Future enhancements will likely include linking to FB and other social networks. We don't want to be a social network in our own right, as much as to help the normal process of networking at a conference.

Re: Web 2.0 Excellent

edumbill — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:07:27 -0000

I think that is an artifact of my i-photography. The color scheme worked out pretty great as a whole, but you're right about how the photo looks.

Re: OSCON: what are your must-see talks?

Francis — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:28:49 -0000

Thx for summarize the things up, this was a really important event.

Re: A new way of linking in tweets (Scripting News)

edumbill — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:41:39 -0000

Nifty! That's what we did with the Chump bot from IRC, see my writeup at http://www.ddj.com/184412325 (not my original idea, derived from work by Bijan Parsia). There are many parallels between IRC and Twitter.

Re: Load-balancing Mongrel with Apache 2.0

Mathieu Jobin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:44:04 -0000

from what I can understand, since your example is setting ProxyRequests to Off, it is less critical to limit the proxy access.

Re: Load-balancing Mongrel with Apache 2.0

edumbill — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:58:38 -0000

See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy....

Re: Turn your world LDAP-tastic

edumbill — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:54:08 -0000

The Administrator account is created as part of the Samba LDAP
initialization process.

Re: Tolling the bell for the gatekeepers

bradyk — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:13:24 -0000

It needs something that it's missing... maybe a "real world" crowd?

I don't know, but if it keeps up as-is we'll just end up with the next Twitter- tech world loves it, it's useless, and the real world laughs at it.

--Kyle

Re: Tolling the bell for the gatekeepers

edumbill — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:39:07 -0000

I'm rapidly coming round to your point of view on FF. It needs careful pruning to ensure it doesn't descend into dross

Re: Why Identi.ca is important

exador23 — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:37:49 -0000

Amen Edd. Check out a major difference between Twitter & Identi.ca: http://twitpic.com/348r/full

This is the kind of transparency we've ~Begged for~... begging that resulted in ~blogs~ of meaningless talk about load balancers and database failures. That's politician-speak. Here's a man who stayed up all night tweaking things, responding to questions, and letting everyone know what he was doing.... You know, the PURPOSE of micro-blogging.

"What are you doing?" It's the question that lured me to Twitter. Ironically it's the question we've been asking of Twitter for aeons. and we're still waiting for an answer. To me, it looks like @evan has an answer, and has given you the software to create your own answer if you don't like his.

@evan makes full use of the service he's created and ~gifted~ to the world through Open Source. Take a look at @Ev's "with others" Twitter timeline http://twitter.com/ev *** and compare it to @evan's http://hewitt.controlezvous.ca/evan/all. Up to date information about what he's doing! sometimes even why, and what to expect. That's decidedly NOT "just like twitter" - that's working towards "winning" by allowing every user to contribute and be a part of a collective WIN.

My money is on ~social~ venture capital investments in identi.ca FTW.
Money alone isn't going to unbeach a bloated fail whale.

peace,
http://identi.ca/exador23

The journey is more important than the destination - it's where the course corrections happen.

***Oh right, they took that feature away - I guess insight into what kinds of information a person is swimming in is of no use. Who would want to know that before deciding to follow? Who would find "with others" a great way to discover new people to add to your social network? Who would want to see what might have triggered that strange post from a friend or see the full context of a conversation?

Re: Why Identi.ca is important

edumbill — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:58:28 -0000

Sorry, that's just not helpful. Take a look at what I wrote, what it means. Identi.ca's slow right now because a one-man company is funding and scaling EC2 instances from his own pocket, and going without sleep to do it since a bunch of Twitter-refugees jumped on the site over the last 24 hours.

Re: Why Identi.ca is important

edumbill — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:19:55 -0000

Try again a bit later. The attention spike has meant Evan's moving servers around, with some DNS snags in the process.

Re: Why Identi.ca is important

edumbill — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:12:28 -0000

Seems to me it's the same principle as using GPL software. In which case, we may remain ideologically irreconcilable.

Also, see the bug list. There's enlightening explanation at http://greyowl.controlezvous.ca/PITS/00068

Re: Why Identi.ca is important

edumbill — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:40:26 -0000

Fixed, thanks!

Re: OSCON: what are your must-see talks?

edumbill — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:45:25 -0000

I cannot believe I missed that! Added, thanks!

Re: Web 2.0 gas prices (Scripting News)

edumbill — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:54:14 -0000

Jim, true. But American cars are significantly less efficient than in the UK. A better comparison might be in terms of $ per mile. The last time my American friend filled up their fuel tank it came to about the same price as it costs me in the UK to fill mine.

Re: Secure LDAP replication

edumbill — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:29:03 -0000

Personally, I'm inexperienced with Java in production, so I don't
follow that space. Also, I don't need something "enterprise" size for
my small business. Thanks for the pointer though!

For other readers, DSEE is here http://www.sun.com/software/products/directory_...

Re: My OSCON 2008 picks

edumbill — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:33:07 -0000

No, I've only played with Puppet so farearly days. I'll take a look
at bcfg2, a brief look at the bcfg2 website looks as though it's a lot
less flexible than Puppet, but that can be both positive and negative.
The XML format of bcfg2 configurations is a bit offputting, too.

I'm not entirely sure that Puppet and bcfg2 are the same kind of tool,
so a direct comparison may not be useful.

Re: We're all ops people now

edumbill — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:34:32 -0000

http://twitter.com/littleidea/statuses/842830185

From the Velocity conference: "We have developers who think like operations" -- John Alspaw, Yahoo

Re: The BBC, microformats, RDFa and Resig

markbirbeck — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:28:24 -0000

@data-* is not intended to provide 'global' data, it's specifically about giving authors a convenient place to put their own 'local' data.

In other words, the idea is *not* to come up with @data-surname="Dumbhill", and then for everyone to agree that this is equivalent to a FOAF surname (or whatever). It's much more about you using @data-borders="true" to indicate that you want the DISQUS JavaScript to put borders on all of your threaded discussions, and me using @data-borders="portugal france" to indicate to my mapping JavaScript that Span has borders with Portugal and France.

In other words, you can use it for whatever you like, and so can I, because the data is for consumption within the web-page itself.

RDFa on the other hand is all about globally recognised data, and as such is trying to solve a very different problem to the @data-* one. As you can see, they can easily co-exist, since they deal with different value-spaces.

Re: The BBC, microformats, RDFa and Resig

edumbill — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:31:09 -0000

Thanks for your further clarifications, I think that's a great contribution to the debate. I'd not seen the "data-" thing before. Now to see if some RDFa folk want to comment on that...

Re: The BBC, microformats, RDFa and Resig

edumbill — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:00:36 -0000

Some context on why this makes me weary... in the XML world we had another one of these wars between RDF and Topic Maps. Though more complex than microformats, TMs played a similar counterpoint in a tedious tech tribal war for a long while. In the end most people figured out the obvious isomorphisms and a way to live together. I don't want to see smart people waste their time on the whole thing all over again.

Yes, the W3C can be arrogant, impenetrable and annoying. But that doesn't mean everything they do is bad.

Yes, microformats are limited in scope. Deliberately, to achieve their ends. And that doesn't mean that observing these limitations is a threat. It's just a fact.

Let's not waste the energy of good brains on this. Everybody's done great things for the web. Mozilla, and the W3C both. In neither case is it a good excuse for dumb tribalism.

Re: Social area networking please

edumbill — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:11:07 -0000

That seems like a decent chunk of the machinery there and then.
Ideally only the peers of my choice would have access to the service
records.