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I would much rather give my parents a single feed that encapsulates everything my wife & I do.

When I add a new source or remove an existing source, my parents (and any other disciples) now have to edit their descriptions. But if they had used an aggregated feed, I would simply modify that feed, and everyone down the tube would automatically have the information I want.

This is what RSS aggregation is actually useful for.

Now the question is, which do I use? I experimented with several ( http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/RSS+aggregator ) and didn't like any of them. Could someone suggest a better one for my purposes? thanks

Do you like maps ? well check this one : http://www.detaxe.org.nyud.net:8090/map.html This is a map of action against TIED SALES (yeah Try to buy a laptop without software), You too can join, even just to say those OEM licences suck or whatever Talking about this, one guy in france got like 200 EUR refund from asus after a 2 years fight stay tuned on : http://del.icio.us/tag/detaxe

See http://del.icio.us/tag/biodiesel+algae

(I apologize for not being able to explain this better.)

Also -- maybe it wasn't just thermite. Maybe it was something completely different. It's kind of hard to tell when the government disposes of the evidence right away. They carted all the steel out of there and sold it as fast as possible.

One thing I would definitely not agree on is that "the collapsing started where the impact was". That would mean that floors in the middle started falling before the very top floors, and the top floors fell at the same time. The entire thing roughly fell at the same time. Many people think the pancake theory is bogus. Why would a floor collapse, unable to hold up a weight that it had been holding up for decades?. Furthremore, watching the collapse from all angles (i have videos of all angles for both towers) simply doesn't seem to show what you're saying you saw.

If the government was more forthright about things, we would not have any of these questions. But even the 9-11 comission believes the pentagon lied about the events! Damn I wish I'd added that article to my links when I read it ( http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/911 ), so that I could give you a link to it. NOW I'm frustrated!

But anyway, you made some good points about thermite. That doesn't disqualify all the other interesting facts and situations surrounding 9/11...

I've been doing jpeg --> DVD lately on Linux. Don't know specifically about AVI-->DVD or DV-->DVD, but here's the links that let me make a custom animated menu, several chapters and burn it as a DVD on Linux. It took about a week to understand enough about all the tools to put the DVD together properly.

http://del.icio.us/stuporglue/dvd

Upside: All the tools I used were free. The DVDs look really good. They don't look like I used a template from Apple/Nero/whatever
Downside: It takes a good bit of work, time and reading to know what's going on.

Tip: Use a smaller DV or AVI clip until you get the DVD functioning correctly. Use Xine, VLC, MPlayer, Ogle, Apple's DVD player or whatever to test your generated DVD structures and menus.

I did this on Ubuntu 6.06 (stable) with software all from the repositories (including universe and multiverse)

contact: dvd.4.brownbag@spamgourmet.com

No ISP cooperation necessary. This has been tested experimentally a couple of times.

See http://del.icio.us/tag/p2p+locality

Automatically search for lyrics of the song currently playing in Winamp, and display them in a tiny window. You can also store lyrics for offline viewing. This version supports Windows Media Player, Foobar2000, Sonique, iTunes, Winamp, and RealPlayer.

Not only that, but you can display the lyrics with timing -- they are hilighted as they are sung. They can also be sent to MilkDrop as they are sung. About 45,000 "karaoke" files have been created. Creating one is as simple as listening to the song once, and hilighting the lyrics yourself using the down-arrow key. Then they are uploaded and anyone else listening to that song can benefit.

I donated $50 to the author of the program, and more development is really needed. Development has been slow this past year.

His program does not actually store any lyrics; it just searches 50+ search engines for the lyrics, and frequently gets them right in 1 or 2 tries.

No single program has ever enhanced my music-listening experience more. Having a hard time understanding lyrics, I am suddenly finding the true meanings of many songs I have been listening to for 15 years or more. It is like a musical re-awakening...Suddenly being able to know every word of every The Misfits song is really sweet.

I'm a little surprised at the "There is no robotics industry" replies. I just graduated with an ECE degree, wanted to go into robotics, and had three awesome job offers from three awesome companies that are all really competitive in the field. I applied about ten different places in Boston alone that all catered to my interests, and I found many many more outside of the state. One big issue is location -- for robotics, in the US, you should be in Boston, Pittsburgh, or Silicon Valley. I'm in Boston, so I know the most about stuff going on here. Pittsburgh is building up a lot of spinoffs from CMU's Robotics Institute (much as nearly all the Boston robotics companies spun out of MIT). Silicon Valley has a lot of stuff coming out of Stanford. Then you have to decide what kind. Consumer robotics? Someplace like iRobot. Industrial robotics? Barrett Technologies makes ridiculous robotic arms. Places like Honda do pretty awesome things there, too. Military robots? Boston Dynamics makes the BigDog (it was covered on Slashdot a while ago). Places like Boeing have big contracts with the military's Future Combat Systems program. Draper Laboratory here in Cambridge does flying, swimming, and driving robots for military applications. Space robots? NASA, of course, as well as Ball Aerospace, Boeing, and various university labs. Medical robots? Vecna Technologies in Boston does a human-carrying bot for both battlefield and hospital use. Anthrotronix in Maryland makes robots for kids in physical therapy programs. Some company, I don't know who, makes the DaVinci surgical robot. I personally work on underwater robotics at a just-out-of-startup phase company here in Boston called Bluefin Robotics. Join the IEEE Robotics and Automation society to start networking. Google robotics conferences and see which companies attend. My delicious page here has a bunch of links to sites I used during my job search. I do only have my BS, but I plan to get an advanced degree later. As a few of my profs told me, if you want to do the really awesome stuff, or you ever want to start your own company (which I do), you need a PhD for the credibility. I also just feel like there are still other classes I want to take. ;) But MIT, CMU, Stanford, and Georgia Tech are all particularly well-known for their robotics and AI programs. Many other universities are starting to jump on that bandwagon as well -- BU is up and coming in surgical robotics. So do your due diligence on Google, network as much as possible, and ask questions. There's a ton of stuff out there. Don't let anyone tell you the industry isn't there. This is just the beginning of something that will grow with incredible speed over the next couple of decades.

For a compilation for links, I'd rather check a list compiled by a group of people instead of a single blog. A specialized blog may contain links of higher quality over all, but a dynamically-updated list maintained by a large group of users will be updated more often and may contain a larger variety of links. For example, here are del.icio.us links for video+course and online+course tags.

For a compilation for links, I'd rather check a list compiled by a group of people instead of a single blog. A specialized blog may contain links of higher quality over all, but a dynamically-updated list maintained by a large group of users will be updated more often and may contain a larger variety of links. For example, here are del.icio.us links for video+course and online+course tags.

This is coming from that wikipedia entry up there:

"Microsoft Live Labs Relay Service - allows you to expose a Windows Communication Foundation based service to the Internet from behind a firewall or NAT."

What? Ok, so I adopt this library if I'm using the WCF framework to expose a port through a firewall or NAT. I guess it's an understandable MS library like JXTA. But that parent list is really crazy, I don't know how I'm going to make sense out of all of this. I guess it will just take time. It seems I have to relate their stack to stuff that I already use or have seen:

Windows Live Academic - ok this is Google Scholar
Windows Live Calendar - Google Calendar
Windows Live Custom Domains - this is free and easy web / subdomain hosting?
Windows Live Desktop Search - Google desktop search?
Windows Live Drive - This is like the .Mac drive or the GDrive from Google
Windows Live Favorites - This is like http://del.icio.us/, with an integrated IE toolbar, what you could do with Firefox.
Windows Live ID - New Microsoft Passport
Windows Live Local - New MSN Virtual Earth
Windows Live Mail - New Hotmail
Windows Live Messenger - New MSN Messenger
Windows Live Mobile - New MSN Mobile
Windows Live Products - Is like Froogle
Windows Live QnA - Is like Google Answers
Windows Live Search - New MSN Search
Windows Live Spaces - New MSN spaces
Windows Live Toolbar - New MSN Toolbar

I left out a bunch. I hope it's all great. I hope all these services come out and they are useful. I'm going to keep my PC until Mac starts gaming, so Vista and Live might as well be awesome. However, I think the point of agility within MS is driven home here when you see that all of things are only new to you if you only use Microsoft products (blinders on).

How can this be insightful? This must be the biggest collection of web design misconceptions I've ever read.

• You're supposed to separate semantics and style, because it makes the pages more flexible, accessible, and terse. Everything on a web page has some semantics (if marked up properly) and a style which completely depends on the capabilities of the client. If you believe these are inseparable, I bet you've never used a textual or audio browser. Input elements are no different from other markup in this respect.
• An HTML page cannot be XML. At least, it cannot be valid HTML and valid XML, except for trivial cases. XHTML is valid XML, but it wasn't created because of CSS. It was created because of stricter syntax rules (leading to easier parsing). CSS works fine with any XML, but millions of pages use it successfully with old-style HTML. And I'd love to know what kind of positioning can only be handled by attributes - I've never seen a case of this.
• Only uninformed zealots will tell you that tables are always bad. Tables have a well-known semantic meaning, but that does not include layout. DIVs also have a well-defined meaning: Division. DIVs separate the markup into parts, which can then be styled (and positioned) at the whim of the developer. But, being completely flexible with regard to visual representation, they can be difficult to handle for novices - Been there, done that. Positioning is IMO the only really difficult part of CSS, mostly because of client bugs. Oh, and DIVs are block elements, even though you can override this.
• HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are not the same thing! HTML defines contents, and can be used for web pages, help files, presentations (S5), and books. CSS defines style, and can be used for any HTML or XML markup. JavaScript defines functionality, and is a full-fledged programming language. It's a pipe dream that any number of languages with vastly different capabilities and goals can be merged into a consistent whole without adding oodles of complexity.

To answer your question: CSS is not an "elite thing". It's really quite simple, if you run through a tutorial or two. I recommend W3Schools' tutorial to start with and for reference, Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing with Web Standards to learn practical CSS, and searching Digg, Reddit, and especially del.icio.us to learn lots more.

Links? Please add them to: http://del.icio.us/tag/bob+carter

Suprised I didn't see any del.icio.us references in this discussion. How do these to options compare? If you only need bookmark syncing, I'm leaning toward del.icio.us because I don't need to install a browser extension so it is browser agnostic.

Do you mean something like the api:

https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all

or do you mean some software to pull from the api for you?

I have also migrated to del.icio.us and it was actually for the same reason this Google Sync was created... to keep my bookmarks up to date between my _many_ computers I use throughout the day.

I use Foxylicious to pull down my del.icio.us bookmarks automatically. It creates a great hierarchy out of my tags that makes my bookmarks easy to use in firefox.

Give it a whirl,
Friedmud

PS: As a del.icio.us user I think it's funny that people are so up in arms over this Google plugin... I mean thousands upon thousands of people put their bookmarks out on the web for everyone to see everyday... let alone google. What are all these people afraid of showing the world?

My del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us/friedmud

If you are using Mac OS X, you can download your del.icio.us bokmarks into Safari with the freeware delicious2safari.

If you aren't on a mac or don't want to bother with del.icio.us, you can always curl http://del.icio.us/rss/$USERNAME > bookmarks.xml, which will pull your bookmarks down from del.icio.us as an RSS XML file.

Nice idea, but too late. I keep all my bookmarks on del.icio.us now. It would be nice if they offered a better way to make off-line backups, though.

Seriously, the better documented an open-source piece is, the more open it is, commensurately.

E.g. See:

• http://del.icio.us/eric_boutilier/docssuncom
• http://del.icio.us/eric_boutilier/bigadmin

Seriously, the better documented an open-source piece is, the more open it is, commensurately.

E.g. See:

• http://del.icio.us/eric_boutilier/docssuncom
• http://del.icio.us/eric_boutilier/bigadmin

You can do this in firefox now... _and_ have your bookmarks stored on an external server so that wherever you are they are available.

Just go sign up at http://del.icio.us/ and start posting and tagging sites...

Then nab Foxylicious: http://dietrich.ganx4.com/foxylicious/

Fire it up and set it to "use tag combinations to create hierarchies" or whatever... and there you go.

I have been using this system for a while and I love it... because between dual-boots and different labs on campus I will use 6 or so different firefox installations on any given day... it's great to have my bookmarks roam with me.

Friedmud

I'm sorry, but I can't throw any support behind this endeavour at all. After all, I think it's time to go back and look at what was just said:

Hey guys! I'm more than willing to let you redesign this place. Oh, keep that shitty logotype, and that "Slashdot Green", and the crappily-compressed icons of yesteryear. Actually, what we want is you to just change things minimally, and we want to do as little work on the Slashcode backend (and information architecture) as possible.

The point you guys are missing here is twofold: first, a redesign is more than just skin-deep; second, it's hard to even get to the skin-deep side of things when you're stifling creativity to the point of where the only thing you want to see is exactly what you've got now. Just go do a find/replace and change section heads to Helvetica and body copy to Georgia, space out your line-height a bit more, and voila! instant Slashdot "redesign". I wouldn't even call it much of a facelift.

You guys are trying to compete with places that are obviously out of your league from a UI perspective at that. As my friend Stick_Fig said above, Digg works because it's drastically cleaner on the frontend, and the only way to get that cleanliness on Slashdot in a CSS change would be to add a ton of display: none; to the code. This offers no benefit in decreasing load time to the user and just makes the site that more frivolous.

You've already lost some part of your readerbase to sites like Digg (which is a forbidden term around these parts) and quick-access links lists like del.icio.us popular. Asking for a facelift isn't helping your cause.

Anyway, let's get to that point: Changing a CSS file is not a "redesign". Saying so is just fooling yourself. A true redesign would take into account plenty of information architecture, markup optimisation, and a total re-thinking of Slashcode's interface. It's not enough to simply change green to blue and underline your links with dotted borders. A redesign requires changes to the markup both for semantics/accessibility as well as to maintain a coherent architecture across the redesign. A redesign requires thinking outside of the box on comment layout, administrative interface, and site structure.

You should be allowing designers and developers to tweak Slashcode itself as well as the template's markup. This readerbase is more than talented enough to do so. Once the aging Slashcode dinosaur is brought into check and architecture has been optimised, things can move along smoothly on the CSS end of things. And no, that HTML/CSS thing that you guys did a few months back (that CmdrTaco is saying was so snazzy) really doesn't change much of anything. Changing markup and not changing any internal IA structure is useless, and this contest is exactly what designer Khoi Vinh complained about in October.

Slashdot, you're pretty much keeping yourself right on the same track. This is just as short-sighted as the original concept was, and I don't see anything changing drastically here in the near future. From the article on Publish.com:

Without the freedom to rethink, for instance, Slashdot's comment threading, or its presentation of search results, or its topic pages, the net effect of a redesign will be considerably less impactful than one might hope for: prettier but not sturdier. This is because the linchpin of effective online graphic design--a mindful awareness of architecture and usability--will be hampered by the existing code. There may very well be new improvements to these architectural challenges in development, but even the best design based on today's feature set will have difficulty adapting to significant future changes in the user experience. Like a lot of facelifts, this one may be pleasing at first glance, but will likely prove somehow unsatisfactory afte

Slashdot reporting on a typo? Oh the delicious irony! :)

For a detailed analysis of exactly how, see Should Internet Service Providers Fear Peer-Assisted Content Distribution? (PDF Related papers can be found at http://del.icio.us/tag/locality+p2p

While "importing" bookmarks from browsers, del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/api/posts/all), google, ma.gnolia.com, yahoo, etc (does MS have social bookmarking yet?), is a great idea, slashcode is opensource. Hell, it even has its own O'Reilly book.

I'd love to offer a friendly, clean social bookmarking service to my users. Where can I get the del.icio.us source? (I'm a heavy del.icio.us user (del.icio.us/Iaughter) and I resent giving my bookmarks to a multinational corporation.)

Sure, digg's comment moderation sucks (or the majority of digg posters really are idiots), but digg's bottom-up system of "generating" news has alot to offer. A good reason to stick with slashdot is that it's released under the GPL. Walking the walk, as it were.

While most posts will complain that this is too similar to http://del.icio.us/ why not figure out a way to partner with del.icio.us so that there could be something like http://slash.icio.us/ where people could create bookmarks that would appeal to the Slashdot crowd?

I use del.icio.us because it's easy and it works, plus there's already a ton of relevant links to find anytime I'm doing research on something (it's far more tageted and 'prescreened' than google) so I could see it as a natural extention of the "News for nerds" mantra.

While most posts will complain that this is too similar to http://del.icio.us/ why not figure out a way to partner with del.icio.us so that there could be something like http://slash.icio.us/ where people could create bookmarks that would appeal to the Slashdot crowd?

I use del.icio.us because it's easy and it works, plus there's already a ton of relevant links to find anytime I'm doing research on something (it's far more tageted and 'prescreened' than google) so I could see it as a natural extention of the "News for nerds" mantra.

http://del.icio.us/recent is similarly useful, but you have to pick what interests you. It is a little spammy lately.

http://del.icio.us/popular too, but it's a bit more static.

http://del.icio.us/recent is similarly useful, but you have to pick what interests you. It is a little spammy lately.

http://del.icio.us/popular too, but it's a bit more static.

Java for Artificial Intelligence is a resource page for university courses in Java coding and artificial intelligence.

Java.Faqts tells you all about Java -- for when you have problems and need to ask questions.

According to the table (from clicking the image in the article), Windows Live Services will include "Windows Live Favorites" which is listed as having no competitors. Isn't del.icio.us a competitor?

The list:

* Flickr * Vimeo * Del.icio.us * Digg * Bloglines * Netvibes * Writeboard * Google Maps * Google Local * Meebo
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I can usually remember the project I was working on while solving a specific problem. Once I get to that point, it's just a matter of looking through the project enough to either remember exactly where the code is, or doing a 'find' on some random keyword I might remember.

But there's a better way: RDF.

Either RDF or a del.icio.us type of tagging system. Although I haven't seen an application that does so, I'd love to be able to tag code to later search. I'd be able to put kewords/tags *INSIDE* the code, as well as marking files, groups of files, and so on.

For instance if I wrote a really cool recursive function, I could tag it as "javascript, recursive, 'company abc'". Then when I was looking for the code I could search for any or all of the keywords and get a list back. I'd like to be able to search by filename and within files (with regex support of course), please.

I'm sure there are tools out there that have this type of functionality, I just haven't happened across one yet.

You weren't making such a climb up Mount Soapbox - good insights.
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Some of this raised some thoughts of my own. I'm wondering if a good parallel in terms of "skills" or "talent" or "experience", would be in sports - whether they've had a good "hands-on" career, enough of a career to "understand the ropes", had a bad career but came away with enough knowledge, or has no playing experience at all. Also, differing sports require differing skill matches, just as the IT field does. e.g. In baseball, it's essentially hit, throw, catch, run. The various combinations & strengths in those combinations which determine where your position on the team can make the best use of you and how long they need you in that position. Personally, I like being a utility player, not the strongest in any one skill, but able to move around as desired, wanted, or needed. That changes how I match up with opportunities, and if someone asks me, "What are you the best at?" My blunt answer has to be "nothing". And I don't work at being or staying that way and I don't feel out of my league when I deal with specialists who could outcode me in a particular language or use of technology with a pencil in their teeth and blindfolded. I *love* the learning curve. People have a tendency to draw little comfort zones around them and dare only to look beyond it. I'm not afraid to ask stupid questions and those who gague me solely on my early questions frequently regret it in the future (if they want to make it a contest). I like sitting with blank paper beside me, taking notes, browsing deep & wide, frequently finding myself nested deeply in browser tabs as one thing leads to another, not unlike Theseus. With almost twenty years of Internet exposure, I've been able to watch the progression of the global technology framework and I'm happy with when it took place. Any earlier and I might have missed some things yet to come, but any later, and I would have missed the post-Krol explosion. I keep track of my ideas along the way and frequently find others are going to market with similar ideas, but much later. I've got an idea listed as "BookMark Market" or a "BookMarket", from the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we've since seen http://del.icio.us/ come to fruition, along with variations in operation. I got tired of the standard hierarchical system because it was so cumbersome and I got tired of porting my bookmarks around with me. I can't claim the including the element of AJAX^w remote scripting from the onset. That's something Google helped solidify into place.[1]

On that note, that's the only social bookmarking system I've looked at and I waited until Yahoo! purchased it - such that it would be a bit more static - as in not likely to add anything exponentially over the status quo. I've read reviews of the others, but intentionally avoided visiting any of the sites - that way, I know the features I've scribbled over time aren't the result of contamination from outside influence; at least, not directly. I started with a GUI which leaps (a bit ) over where del.icio.us is now. Now, I just have to decide if I want to finish it and compete with the other #2s or grab something else and try to be first on something untried.


[1] Speaking of AJAX, it looks like the "AJAX OpenAPI" and "Eclipse Foundation" are good chase words for staying current with AJAX, and hoping to avoid older (relatively speaking) aspects, as groups are forming to congeal what will be the longer-term direction of the technology.

(I've got two tv series which need some airtime if anyone is interested ;) )

http://del.icio.us/tag/pr0n - OK, it doesn't host the porn, but still...

While some consider Yahoo to be behind in tech, with the purchase of Flikr and del.icio.us Yahoo actually seem to be on the cutting edge of so called Web 2.0 services. I hope Yahoo keeps the names of these services without adding Yahoo to them. Its less sickening then organizations that just add a "G" or "K" in front of every product they offer.

Web2.0 and tagging will evetually dominate the internet searching, here is the ultimate list: website: http://del.icio.us/ photo: http://flickr.com/ news: http://digg.com/ locations: http://www.rrove.com/ video: http://youtube.com/ music: http://myspace.com/ Put them together... how does this compare to what google is heading ...

When I first came across delicious, I didn't get it either. So what if it keeps my bookmarks? But now I see it differently. It's a great resource for finding sites that other people have found useful.

As an example... the other day one of my users asked me if I knew of a good place to get fonts. She said that a lot of the sites she had gone to had all sorts of pop-ups, and some had even put adware in with the supposedly free fonts.

I had no idea where to tell her to go, so I did what I always do and searched Google. The top few results were rather questionable, and I didn't feel comfortable telling her to got to them.

So I went to delicious, and type the URL for the tag "font", and then selected the most popular sites with that tag: http://del.icio.us/popular/font. This gave me a list of sites, some which had over 3,000 other people tag them. I showed her what I was doing to find the sites, and we both felt like if that many other people found the site useful, then it was probably a safe site to check out.

On the same lines, there's a great delicious search engine here: http://collabrank.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/del.icio.us/ which I have been using as much as Google when I want to see sites that people trust.

The real power of delicious is that they allow you to get your tags back in a multitude of ways - HTML, RSS and JSON. This means you can integrate your tags into your content to create a better browsing experience. (JSON is also the preferred data interchange method for Yahoo.)

Delicious also allow you to tap into the "hive mind" by using a generic mode whereby you can see tags/URLs for all users, not just your own account. Somewhat perversely, Joshua announced that they have stopped supporting this mode with JSON - leaving only RSS. In fact, Joshua stated that the /json/tag/* was just an "accident" in the first place!

Anyone got any theories as to why that is? Why publish "socialised content" as (much heavier) RSS feeds but disallow lightweight JSON feeds? Is it to drive users to Yahoo? Or stop third party searches and other add-ons? Maybe it's the more prosaic "we forgot to put it in the specs, now we can't be arsed supporting it 'cause it's someone else's baby now."

The real power of delicious is that they allow you to get your tags back in a multitude of ways - HTML, RSS and JSON. This means you can integrate your tags into your content to create a better browsing experience. (JSON is also the preferred data interchange method for Yahoo.)

Delicious also allow you to tap into the "hive mind" by using a generic mode whereby you can see tags/URLs for all users, not just your own account. Somewhat perversely, Joshua announced that they have stopped supporting this mode with JSON - leaving only RSS. In fact, Joshua stated that the /json/tag/* was just an "accident" in the first place!

Anyone got any theories as to why that is? Why publish "socialised content" as (much heavier) RSS feeds but disallow lightweight JSON feeds? Is it to drive users to Yahoo? Or stop third party searches and other add-ons? Maybe it's the more prosaic "we forgot to put it in the specs, now we can't be arsed supporting it 'cause it's someone else's baby now."

> You can tag a link as 'funny' or put it in the 'funny' folder,
> but if you have 20 'funny' links, you can't split them into
> say, 'visit daily' and 'visit weekly', or 'political' and
> 'general' or 'cartoons' and 'satire'.

Of course you can. You've obviously never used del.icio.us. It's called a "tag intersection." The syntax is simple:

http://del.icio.us/skidooooo/funny+history

de.liro.us seems to have just folded. alternatively, I just ran across scuttle.org which is written in php.
Plus, it appears to support most of the del.icio.us API.

-metric

Jon Udell kindly managed to liberate these feeds. Check his del.icio.us links for the urls:

http://del.icio.us/judell/stanford+podcasting

I know this wasn't your point, but I've always found it interesting that del.icio.us blocks all search engine bots with their robots.txt. They have opted out of search engines (I assume as a precaution against spam).

They may not be most people's idea of a "company" but they have reached rare popularity without Google or any other SEs help.

I know this wasn't your point, but I've always found it interesting that del.icio.us blocks all search engine bots with their robots.txt. They have opted out of search engines (I assume as a precaution against spam).

They may not be most people's idea of a "company" but they have reached rare popularity without Google or any other SEs help.

During the dot-com boom, I forgot search was important and let Google take over my core franchise.

Since when was search ever Yahoo's core franchise? It started off as a way to share the founder's bookmarks online and evolved into a hierarchical link categorization system. Then it added portal features and tacked on a search engine. But http://www.dmoz.org/ is much closer to their original "core business", and even http://del.icio.us/ is much closer to what they do than Google is.

I'm not even sure they had a general Internet search box before they went with Google in that capacity, and they only got into developing such a thing after purchasing Inktomi in 2002 (well after the dot-com boom).

Google's search competitors were other search engines, mainly Lycos and Altavista (Lycos being the older of the two and the first widely used general search engine, Altavista being the predominant search engine by the time Google was in the field).

My partner and I work with video... and we were sick of backing up our projects to tape.

This is what I just set up for our home office.

I had a old server case (Antec) with a p4 2.8Ghz in it. It had previously had a raid5 array of 3 x 40GB disks + a hot spare that was used for video production.

I added a gigabit ethernet card, a cheap 2 port SATA controller and an external sata back plate (to connect one of the SATA channels externally). I purchased 3 x 250Gb seagate HDDs and put 2 of them into these SATA only (no USB no Firwire) external enclosures. Because they have minimal electronics they are very cheap ($AU55) and because it it SATA all the way very fast.

I installed centos and partitioned the drive with 4 partitions (/ /boot /swap /home). I used samba to share a user under /home which we can write to from our Macs, Windows and Linux laptops.

I disconnected the internal drive and installed centos again on each of the external drives to ensure that the partition structure is the same (I know i could have used DD but i didn't). Then I reconnected the internal and left one external connected.

Every 2 hours (it's not left on 24/7) the machine uses rsync to backup the internal drive to the external drive. It writes a log which include a df -h to the share so all users can confirm the backup process is working. Each week we swap the external drive for the spare which we keep in a fireproof box.

If the hdd in the machine ever fails all we need to do is swap it for the most up to date external. As we fill the 250GB we will archive off projects to offline pairs of external drives.

This gives us a double redundant simple to restore file server with true backup.

To do this I mostly used this howto

Cheers

Nick

I still have some issues, especially with speed. It takes WAY to long to backup 100GB over the network... I figured it would take a few hours... but it seems to take closer to a day... not sure if it is the PCI bus not dealing with the back up to disc happening at the same time as the large file transfer over the gigabit network... or a poor configuration of samba/smb...

any hints?

del.icio.us/cicada for more useful links on this topic.

(sousveillance) '... watchful vigilance from underneath ...' [0] and (shootback) turn camera back on them

Steve Mann [1] has a lot of intelligent things to say on surveillance [2], sousveillance [3] and the intersection of technology & privacy. The earliest I can find is in a 1995 paper [4]. In an article predating the Austrians, Mann advocates shooting back (with your own camera) [5].

More links can be found here. [6]

Reference
[0] Steve Mann, 'definition from Sousveillance as an alternative balance':
http://wearcam.org/sousveillance.htm
[Accessed Tuesday, 3 January 2006]

[1] Steve Mann, 'Cyberman':
http://wearcam.org/steve.html
[Accessed Tuesday, 3 January 2006]

[2] Steve Mann, 'Identity Trail - Stream 3 - technologies that identify, anonymize and authenticate':
http://idtrail.org/content/view/47/43/
[Accessed Tuesday, 3 January 2006]

[3] Steve Mann, 'Sousveillance: A Gathering of the Tribes':
http://sousveillance.org/tribesissue/
[Accessed Tuesday, 3 January 2006]

[4] Steve Mann, 'PRIVACY ISSUES OF WEARABLE CAMERAS VERSUS SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS, Feb. 24, 1995':
http://wearcam.org/netcam_privacy_issues.html
[Accessed Tuesday, 3 January 2006]

[5] Steve Mann, 'Shooting back article & pictures':
http://wearcam.org/shootingback.html
[Accessed Tuesday, 3 January 2006]

[6] Delicious 'my delicious links on steve.mann':
http://del.icio.us/goon/steve.mann
[Accessed Tuesday, 3 January 2006]

(sousveillance) '... watchful vigilance from underneath ...' [0] and (shootback) turn camera back on them

Steve Mann [1] has a lot of intelligent things to say on surveillance [2], sousveillance [3] and the intersection of technology & privacy. The earliest I can find is in a 1995 paper [4]. In an article predating the Austrians, Mann advocates shooting back (with your own camera) [5].

More links can be found here. [6]

Reference
[0] Steve Mann, 'definition from Sousveillance as an alternative balance':
http://wearcam.org/sousveillance.htm
[Accessed Tuesday, 3 January 2006]

[1] Steve Mann, 'Cyberman':
http://wearcam.org/steve.html
[Accessed Tuesday, 3 January 2006]

[2] Steve Mann, 'Identity Trail - Stream 3 - technologies that identify, anonymize and authenticate':
http://idtrail.org/content/view/47/43/
[Accessed Tuesday, 3 January 2006]

[3] Steve Mann, 'Sousveillance: A Gathering of the Tribes':
http://sousveillance.org/tribesissue/
[Accessed Tuesday, 3 January 2006]

[4] Steve Mann, 'PRIVACY ISSUES OF WEARABLE CAMERAS VERSUS SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS, Feb. 24, 1995':
http://wearcam.org/netcam_privacy_issues.html
[Accessed Tuesday, 3 January 2006]

[5] Steve Mann, 'Shooting back article & pictures':
http://wearcam.org/shootingback.html
[Accessed Tuesday, 3 January 2006]

[6] Delicious 'my delicious links on steve.mann':
http://del.icio.us/goon/steve.mann
[Accessed Tuesday, 3 January 2006]

  `... Python get some better
  documentation tools as well so that
  it'd be easy to generate documentation
  on par with the Java and .NET
  documentation. ...`
 
I make this same mistake everytime I program in python. If you dont read the docs [1] & other peoples code you can write functional code, but with a third to a half bloat penalty. That is of course unless you read lots of example code or the docs...

So check again. Because PyDoc [2] is a tool that displays the documentation, from the source. It is pretty much on par with Java and .Net.

Reference
[1] google on `PyDoc the module`, `look for Ka-Ping Yee and PyDoc`:
http://www.google.com/search?q=pydoc
[Accessed Friday, 23 December 2005]

[2] PyDoc, `The python documentation module by Ka-Ping Yee and PyDoc`:
http://del.icio.us/goon/pydoc
[Accessed Friday, 23 December 2005]