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Yay, something useful. And something I'd like to see Google+ do, too. It's been a feature all along on Multiply, which I used for, gosh, 7 years? But it was hamstrung by their less-than-slick implementation of friend lists.

XP (x64) users here too. On a desktop, it was stupid easy. The mainboard and video card both had XP-64 drivers, which covered most of the hardware. (One thing that nVidia got right). Setting up XP-64 on my laptop took a bit more work, substituting Server 2003 drivers where the XP drivers did not do the trick.

Only a very small set of apps have issues, and most of those can be fixed by removing a brain dead installer restriction on the version of NT. Fixing ITunes was a real treat... Someone at Apple deserves a good beating for that one.

Most of my games are supported as well. A couple games, out of a very large steam collection, have issues. The worst is probably Dirt 2, where the stupid games for windows live client does not work, disabling the auto save. When I benchmarked COH, TF2, and a few of the other games I play - XP64 was faster than Win7 on the same hardware. Tis a shame that more people don't know about XP64, other than folks with an MSDN subscription or a workstation.

The 2.8ghz i7-930 is $199 vs $342 for a 2.93ghz i7-875K, so almost double the price for 0.13ghz more.

To be fair, the Microcenter price is a bit of a loss leader. Trying to get a 930 just about anywhere else, and it goes for ~$288. While the multiplier is locked, the FSB on both the 920 and 930 can be bumped up to some crazy amounts. My experience with the 920 let the x21 multiplier clock up to a stable 4.6ghz using a H50 cooler. Same sort of overclocks folks are seeing with the $1000 975 Extreme Edition version.

It will be nice when the stock multipliers start hovering around 4ghz by default, rather than everything dabbling around 3.

I did not try baking anything, but it did turn the top of the computer into a nice coffee cup warmer.

Surprised at the XP64 hating out there. When it was first released, drivers were in rough shape. Today, I've found most of the motherboards and video cards I buy have Server 2003/XP64 support - that covers 99% of the drivers I normally bump into. Heck, I even got my laptop running XP64. That was a bit of a treasure hunt compared to the typical build, but still.

Anyhow, had a different point to bring up... There are a few games and apps that don't - but for the most part it just works. For those that don't, many cases it is just a brain dead installer. (Hey Apple iTunes developers, I'm looking at you!) Turns out you can fix an installer where the people did not think to test/support XP64 by modifying the MSI installer to not rule out a properly patched version of XP64.

Download Microsoft's Orca MSI editor. (Find it in this CAB, or google for it) Look for a "LaunchCondition" property, probably set to "VersionNT64>=600" and modify it to "VersionNT64>=501". Shazam! Very good chance it will just work - at least the installer will not stop you from trying to run it.

Some people (Apple) still need to update drivers, etc... but more often then not it works.
   

Oh lordy... one of the dangers of drinking and posting without an edit button. V6... get the rope...

To your point, they do make it tricky to do your own work. I bought a ODBII reader to sort out what the computer was trying to tell me beyond the normal 'codes'. In the end, it was just a MAF sensor that was failing, but I wanted the actual engine data to narrow it down. None of the parts were going to be cheap, and I did not want to guess. I do work on my own car. Other than brakepads, rotors, and an alternator, the mechanical systems have not needed any work. Wish all onboard computers came with a USB port...

Oh lordy... one of the dangers of drinking and posting without an edit button. V6... get the rope...

To your point, they do make it tricky to do your own work. I bought a ODBII reader to sort out what the computer was trying to tell me beyond the normal 'codes'. In the end, it was just a MAF sensor that was failing, but I wanted the actual engine data to narrow it down. None of the parts were going to be cheap, and I did not want to guess. I do work on my own car. Other than brakepads, rotors, and an alternator, the mechanical systems have not needed any work. Wish all onboard computers came with a USB port...

Oh lordy... one of the dangers of drinking and posting without an edit button. V6... get the rope...

To your point, they do make it tricky to do your own work. I bought a ODBII reader to sort out what the computer was trying to tell me beyond the normal 'codes'. In the end, it was just a MAF sensor that was failing, but I wanted the actual engine data to narrow it down. None of the parts were going to be cheap, and I did not want to guess. I do work on my own car. Other than brakepads, rotors, and an alternator, the mechanical systems have not needed any work. Wish all onboard computers came with a USB port...

My understanding is that thus far the shuffling has been largely done by Whedon, despite a lot of claims to the contrary. Whedon rejected the pilot, for example, as it just didn't fit together. The major issues with Dollhouse are that Fox has been, apparently, very heavy handed with the first few episodes (and given thus far we've had one good one, one OK one, and two dreadful ones [2, 4, 1 and 2, respectively], it's safe to say they've not done so to the show's credit. Supposedly Ep6 or 7 is where it starts getting "good".

BTW, does anyone else have problems with the notion that Fringe is "Sci-fi"? To my mind, paranormal investigations are anti-sci-fi. But, whatever. I hope Fringe dies. And T:SCC, well, I think Friedman's entirely to blame what happened to it, not scheduling. The show has been utterly awful this season, seventeen shows (well, minus that cool one with Cameron spending her evenings in the library investigating the robot from the 1920s) of utter, unrelenting, depression. Unfortunately, I can't see how this could have turned out better, given that if Fox or WB had decided to take it over, we'd probably have a Ted McGinley terminator chasing the Connors by now, with the Connors defending themselves using their hilarious new canine terminator.

Someone give Friedman some anti-depressants.

It is tiny and that sucks.

You can, unless you're using an ISP that specifically blocks it, use IPv6 now however. Either use 6to4 (if you've rolled your own router, then check the web for implementation specifics - start here if you can't find a better page. Another possibility are the Apple Airport routers, that generally have this built in. But before spending time on 6to4, ensure your ISP doesn't block it by ensuring you can ping 192.88.99.1. If you can, go right ahead), or use a Tunnel Broker. Hurricane Electric is a good example.

If you can't ping 192.88.99.1, please let your ISP know.

at least in my experience, the connection afforded by PDAnet is very limited in what you can use it for

In my (admittedly somewhat limited) experience with it so far, it's handled every sort of traffic I've thrown at it. The only bit of weirdness is that links at Multiply often don't load on the first try, but a refresh gets it working. Web browsing, mail reading (over IMAPS), and SSH all work. That covers pretty much everything I do on a regular basis (I tunnel SMTP and VNC traffic through SSH).

You mentioned not being able to pass UDP traffic; since your iPhone (or whatever device you're using to run PdaNet) is acting as a router, inbound UDP traffic to your computer gets blocked the same as it would if you put something like a WRT54GL or an old PC running LRP between your net connection and your computer. If there's a way to tweak the phone's routing tables to pass UDP traffic through to your computer, that might work. (That might be doable on an iPhone...haven't mucked around enough at its command line yet. On something like a CrackBerry or a Treo? Things get a bit more iffy.)

(Come to think of it, that means a videoconferencing app I wrote a while back that sends audio and video over UDP wouldn't work through PdaNet either. I had it half-working over a 1xRTT connection provided by a cellphone tethered by USB; bandwidth (or lack thereof) was the main problem.)

I've heard rumors that XP 64 can only address something like 8gb of ram is this true?

Windows XP x64 is limited to 128 GB of physical memory and 8 terabytes of virtual memory per process. Good luck finding hardware that will let you test this. I'm running 8G on both my laptop, 8G on my gaming box, and 16G on one of my workstations. The x86-64 workstation has 4x4G as a mainboard limitation, the gaming box (4x2G) and laptop (2x4G) have an 8G limitation. Tis not the OS, however, limiting things to 8/16G.

Using the MAC address is one way of allocating IP addresses, and it works similarly to how you describe.

What you get from the ISP when you connect to the Internet is not a single IP address but a "network prefix". This looks something like 2001:1234:5678, or 2001:1234:5678:9abc.

The former is used when you have multiple networks (and right now is also given to you if you use 6to4 routing - 6to4 is a way for people on IPv4 networks to use IPv6), the ISP sends you all packets beginning with those 12 digits, and then you use the next four for routing internally to one of 64k networks. The second is more typically what you'd get if your DSL or cable operator offered IPv6. It assumes you have one network.

So you end up with a prefix that's 16 digits, however you prefer. To that, you devise IPv6 addresses for all your devices by appending 16 digits of your chosing. And the most common easiest way to do this is to use a kind of mangled version of the MAC address (which isn't normally 16 digits long, hence the mangling.) This is my not terribly easy to understand "IPv4 address + MAC address to IPv6 address convertor":

printf "2002:%02x%02x:%02x%02x:0001:%s%s:%sff:fe%s:%s%s/64\n" $(echo $IPLOCAL | tr "." " ") $(cut -c1 < $E)$(cut -c2 < $E | tr "0123456789abcdef" "23236767ababefef")$(cut -c3- < $E | tr ":" " ") > /var/run/eth0.ip6

The 2002: at the beginning is common to all 6to4 addresses. The :0001: is my local network prefix (because the IPv4 address turns into a 12 digit prefix, see above.) And the convoluted thing involving ff:fe and translating a digit to set one of the bits is how you convert a MAC address. Why it's like that I don't know. Slashcode has probably inserted spaces, for the original check here.

The massive advantage of this scheme is static IP out of the box. As long as your network prefix never changes, the IP addresses of your devices will not change and always be predictable - just check the MAC address on the box, and use that to convert into a local address. This also means DHCP is unnecessary, and indeed DHCP is rarely used with IPv6. Something called RADV (route advertisements) are used instead, which tell devices what their IP addresses are and how to route. RADV is more slimline than DHCP as it doesn't need to record a network state, it just takes the external information and tells clients what's essentially static information.

I've been using IPv6 for a few months now, and I have to say it's a very clean system. And it's nice having a system where everything works without hacks. I have proper reverse and forward DNS. I don't have to play with port redirection every time I start something like BitTorrent. It's very clean, and very elegant, and what it needs now more than ever are routers that support it.

That's exactly right. To get IPv6 working on my system at home, I just set up the router. My Powerbook, my Ubuntu machines, and my wife's Windows Vista machine, all automatically picked up IPv6 and can all connect to http://ipv6.google.com/

For those rolling their own router boxes, you can see what I did here (caution - it's my blog and this is a tag that brings up a bunch of articles, start reading at the bottom...) I used 6to4 as well. It's worth getting a static IP address if you plan to use 6to4, and it's also worth noting that some ISPs, notable BellSouth/AT&T FastAccess, actually block use of 6to4, for reasons I don't really understand. Before wasting any time on it, try to ping 192.88.99.1 from a machine directly connected to the Internet. If you get responses, you can do 6to4. If you don't, you're going to have to try one of the IPv6 tunnel brokers, which is a supremely inefficient way of doing everything and makes you dependent upon the goodwill of a third party.

I admit it, this is an attempt by my cat to get venture-capital funding for his amazing system to pass air through water, causing the CO2 and nitrogen in the air and hydrogen and oxygen in the water to react, creating oil. I'm going to have to lock him up in the bathroom to punish him.

A large table dominates the room. Sleek metal chairs are located around the table, all of which sits on a raised platform above a large pool full of sharks. Various nervous looking henchmen sit in the chairs, watching their beloved leader. A squeaking whiny voice speaks:

  Bill Gates (for it is he): Now, I've been thinking about our advertising, how we get the message out that Vista is the best operating system ever written, and I was watching TV last night.

Why does this seem vaguely Shavian to me??

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The link works, without registration, if it was linked correctly (no https).

A large table dominates the room. Sleek metal chairs are located around the table, all of which sits on a raised platform above a large pool full of sharks. Various nervous looking henchmen sit in the chairs, watching their beloved leader. A squeaking whiny voice speaks:

Bill Gates (for it is he): Now, I've been thinking about our advertising, how we get the message out that Vista is the best operating system ever written, and I was watching TV last night.

Steve Ballmer: Oh, excellent my master! Excellent!

Steve chortles uncontrollably

Bill Gates: Shut up number 2. Now, I noticed two things. First of all, there is a hilarious comedian on the television called Jerry Seinfeld.

Various flunkies nod.

Number 8: Oh yes, he's very funny

Number 9: I agree my master. We were all talking about his hilarious show around our water cooler earlier today.

Number 5: Indeed. In my department, I couldn't get to the water cooler because of the number of people talking about his show. It is the funniest show on television. You are so right number one, you are...

Bill Gates sighs

Gates: Silence! Now, the other thing I noticed was a theme to many of the advertisements. Let me show you.

The table turns around, with the chairs parting to form a straight line parallel to and facing a giant unfolding screen. The lights dim, and an image appears on screen.

McCain: I'm John McCain, and I approve this message. Barack Obama says he's for the common man. But he's actually just a typical liberal elitist.

Obama: Poor people suck. I'm a big dofus. Look at me with my big car and fancy house.

McCain: Do you really want this person becoming President, or would you rather that a real American be in the White House?

The screen changes to show a new ad. This time the word "Hope" appears in big letters on the screen.

Obama: I know what it's like to be at the bottom. I grew up in a family so poor we used to have to live in a paper bag. Every morning, we used to have to get up before we went to bed, lick road clean, and every night our parents would beat us, bury us, and dance on our graves. But my opponent John McCain was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, listen to his real world experience:

McCain: Look at me, I'm an old person who doesn't even know how to use an Interweb. I have sixteen houses because I keep forgetting where they all are and so have to keep buying new ones to live in.

Obama: Do you really think that guy can relate to us? Do you really want him to become President? Vote for me, change you can believe in. I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message.

The lights come back on and the table and chairs go back into position.

Gates: You see, I'm noticing a common theme. What the common people want is to know their leaders aren't elitist, whatever that means.

Number 17: Er, Mr Gates. I don't want to talk out of turn, but those are election ads, they're not trying to sell computer operating systems.

There is a deathly hush. Gates motions to Balmer:

Gates: Number 2...

Balmer picks up a chair. Number 17 gets up and starts to back away.

Number 17: Please! I meant no disrespect! I was just trying to help! No! Please!

Balmer coldly follows 17 and carefully aims the chair. Finally, with a single thrust of the arms, the chair is thrown. All four legblades hit 17 together. He staggers backwards, bleeding profusely, and falls off of the platform into the shark tank, screaming as he goes.

Gates: As I was saying. The people want to know that their leaders are not elitists, that we can relate to the comm

I can't expand on it here because Pudge thinks that 4k is a really big message, and I really can't be bothered any more to navigate through the unholy fuck-up that is Slashcode today.

However, I did write something on Multiply that essentially explains the whole issue. If you understand why KVM and Xen are entirely different explanations, you understand why a desktop system like Ubuntu was never going to "choose" Xen as a "virtualization solution", and probably shouldn't have even considered it back when they were. Likewise, the only reason a sysadmin would run KVM (or its predecessors such as VMWare) to replace a host of server machines is either out of desperation because a specific Xen issue, or out of ignorance. Xen has no competitors (thus far), but it has a narrow focus of application, and much of the bad-mouthing it gets is because of people who use it when something like KVM or VMWare would be much more suitable.

You might be pleasantly shocked by XP-64. I've got an MSDN subscription, so have pick of the litter when it comes to operating systems for kicking around. When I tried XP-64 June of 2005, it was a bit rough. I had 4G of RAM in my work / gaming box and figured it was worth just running the 32-bit version of XP and letting the OS round down to 3.5G.

Parts for my new box showed up this week. This time, 8G of RAM, a dual core (E8400) CPU, nVidia 780i SLI mainboard, and nVidia 8800gts (512M). Since I went nVidia for chipset and video card, all of the 'box' hardware had drivers for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of XP, Vista, and Server 2003.

Gave Vista64 (ultimate) a try. Gah...

First, while I'm sure SP1 will probably fix this, the installer failed with 8G of RAM. Pulled out three 2G modules and all extra HDD's, and was able to continue on. OS installed, drivers picked up all of the mainboard/graphics hardware in a reasonable default mode. Had wired network access at that point, so downloaded the current drivers, which picked up all of the 'core' hardware. Plugged in the other HDD's and changed the SATA cabling. Blue screens again. Pull out the drives, put the SATA cables back in for the main drive, blue screen again. Took several reboots before I realized the Plextor DVDR (PX-712A) would cause a blue screen when the tray closed with a disk. Popped in a standard IDE DVDR, and got the rest of the system up and running.

All the development tools and apps worked. Games (CS:Source, Supreme Commander, BFME2) worked OK. A few glitches in BFME on a long game.

The final nail was USB devices. Figured I would blog about he new kit, so I plugged in my USB cord into my camera. Vista recognized it was a camera, but failed to do anything else. No drivers. Same went for *every* USB thumbdrive I owned. (Pics here)

Gave up, after much messing about.

XP-64 installed with 8G of RAM installed. Did not get the Ethernet running, but did mount a thumbdrive without issues. Installed the core set of mainboard/graphics drivers, did a windows update, and everything just worked. Not a single blue screen or crash under XP-64 so far.

Server 2003-64 is also running rock solid. Just work stuff on that drive, however....

Maybe we forgot to shutter the laser again...

I *thought* I was getting a hell of a deal on a mini-itx form factor mainboard/cpu... that is what I get for pulling the trigger on a 'hot deal' and not doing my homework. (as well as browsing on a cell phone in text only mode).

Anyhow - my pics and notes about the development board and CD...

http://heelix.multiply.com/journal/item/53/Ordered_a_walmart_special..._gOS_dev_board

Seems like the C7 is an i586 architecture, rather than i686. The Ubuntu distribution (including gOS, which is based on Ubuntu) worked just fine. Other distributions would barf on the i686 bits - including Centos (4 & 5), Gentoo, and a couple others. Goofy. I did not expect to have to work hard on hardware that 'shipped' with Linux.

I'm a netflix cusomter - 4 CD's in three queues (child, bride, me). As a perk, they also let you have an hour/usd of streaming content each month. For me, that works out to ~24 hours a month. Great, right? Well, it only works in the States, so any gigs in Canada are right out.

The chink in the armor is the selection. While they have a massive collection of DVDs, the streaming selection is really poor. I would not pay extra for it as it stands. At home, It looks about the same as a DVD on a high bandwidth connection - here for example, is a movie getting piped to a TV via my laptop. Bandwidth in hotels works better than I expected, and it is good enough for watching on a computer. I hear Blockbuster might have better selection... they should embrace the streaming!

Well, here are a few screen shots of how the OOTB browser renders /. in simple design, low bandwidth, and no icons.

While buying a new browser would fix the surfing issues, the 'smart phone' is just as deficient in other areas - email, phone, alarm, etc. It would be good money after bad. I'm done with it. Going back to a Blackberry is an easy decision for someone who is on the road as much as I am. I talked about the other issues here.

Well, here are a few screen shots of how the OOTB browser renders /. in simple design, low bandwidth, and no icons.

While buying a new browser would fix the surfing issues, the 'smart phone' is just as deficient in other areas - email, phone, alarm, etc. It would be good money after bad. I'm done with it. Going back to a Blackberry is an easy decision for someone who is on the road as much as I am. I talked about the other issues here.

Several years ago I tried making a linux to windows cross compiler and failed. I think I put a decent amount of effort into my attempts and I definitely knew how to produce a standard linux hosted linux targeted instance of GCC that would produce working binaries.

A while back, I needed to do that at work. This is what I ended up doing, which was derived somewhat from this. In case Multiply doesn't let you in without registration, I'll copy the message here. (Newer versions might also work; what's given here is just what was current at the time. These instructions also assume you're using Gentoo. Step 2 in the toolchain setup would be sufficient by itself for cross-compiling Windows command-line apps or (maybe) for writing directly to the Win32 API.)

toolchain setup

1. build KDevelop 3.4.0:
   emerge \>=kdevelop-3.4
2. build Windows cross-compile toolchain:
   echo sys-devel/crossdev ~amd64 >>/etc/portage/package.keywords
   emerge crossdev
   crossdev i586-mingw32msvc
3. download wxWidgets 2.8 from www.wxwidgets.org
4. revised again: build wxWidgets for Linux (assumes GTK2 and libgnomeprint are already installed):
   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --with-gnomeprint && make && make install
   echo LDPATH=/usr/local/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib >/etc/env.d/80wxWidgets-2.8.0
   env-update
5. build wxWidgets for Windows:
   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/i586-mingw32msvc --host=i586-mingw32msvc --target=i586-mingw32msvc --with-msw && make && make install

KDevelop build configuration (common)

1. create a new wxWidgets project
2. exit KDevelop
3. load foo.kdevelop into a text editor
4. copy "debug" configuration XML block to a new "debug-win32" config block (need to do this because the "add configuration" button is always grayed out...grr)

KDevelop build configuration (Linux)

• configure arguments:
  --enable-debug=full --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
• build directory:
  debug
• linker flags:
  `/usr/local/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/wx-config --libs`
• environment variables:
  PATH=/usr/local/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin:${PATH}
• CFLAGS:
  `/usr/local/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/wx-config --cflags`
• CXXFLAGS:
  `/usr/local/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/wx-config --cxxflags`

(The loader config that was previously given here is now taken care of during wxWidgets installation in a more Gentoo-compatible manner.)

KDevelop build configuration (Windows)

• configure arguments:
  --enable-debug=full --host=i586-mingw32msvc --target=i586-mingw32msvc --with-msw
• build directory:
  debug-win32
• linker flags:
  `/usr/local/i586-mingw32msvc/bin/wx-config --libs`
• environment variables:
  PATH=/usr/local/i586-mingw32msvc/bin:${PATH}
• CFLAGS:
  `/usr/local/i586-mingw32msvc/bin/wx-config --cflags`
• CXXFLAGS:
  `/usr/local/i586-mingw32msvc/bin/wx-config --cxxflags`

will need to copy DLLs from /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/usr/bin and/usr/local/i586-mingw32msvc/lib into same directory as foo.exe

When I went to try out the wxWidgets printing demo, the Linux build wouldn't print properly at first. Using libgnomeprint instead of direct PostScript fixed that problem. If your Linux box uses CUPS (and it probably does), libgnomeprint will enable users to tweak printer settings from within the app. Without it, wxWidgets will just (incorrectly) generate PostScript and hand it off to lpr. On Windows, I'm guessing wxWidgets just uses GDI calls, so that config is unaffected.

Of course you can get the content to people outside FB by other means, but that means a duplication of effort. Otherwise they have to join FB.

I think that the reason that FB and some other social sites can claim such high membership numbers is that people are joining just to see their friends' pictures, but then never post anything themselves.

I have a blog, but my pictures go on http://multiply.com./ I happen to like the degree of control they give me over who can see what I post. I'm also on Facebook, but only because some friends were there. I quite like the look of http://mugshot.org/ as it seems to be closer to what the author is suggesting.

What I would like to see is something I can host myself that combines a blog with FOAF and OpenID. FOAF would list the people who I want to allow access and they would log in with OpenID. It could also include XFN. I don't really want to run a full CMS.

Why do yo think they just passed 30 million 'members'? How many only joined so they could see a friend's profile and then never used it again?

I'm on FB with a mere 5 friends who I all know well IRL. There's plenty of others I know, but don't socialise with and so won't add.

They do have a few nice toys, but probably not much that other social sites don't offer. I've only played with a few. My favourite is http://www.multiply.com/ It's not so well known, but is very user friendly and offers easy control of access to your profile and posts.

Well, this is because all-in-one devices are almost universally shit. They're an example of cut-rate hardware/software engineering. They almost always tend to use proprietary interfacing schemes, making them inseparable from their Windows drivers, and usually the drivers are genuine turd piles anyway. The world would be a better place if they just went away.

Most (all?) of the current HP all-in-ones are fairly easy to set up with either Mac OS X (with the included driver CD) or Linux (with hplip). Mine is fully functional with both.

I'm not sure why you'd choose HP.

Maybe because their inkjet printers don't clog up like Epsons. My DeskJet 450 is still running on its original color cartridge after nearly two years. My Stylus Photo R200, OTOH, needed its head replaced after less than a year because it had clogged so badly that the cleaning cycle was ineffective. Both are used on an infrequent basis; the Epson gets used to print on DVDs, while the HP is used maybe twice a year at homebrew competitions.

Maybe because their Linux support is more complete than nearly anyone else's. Try this for some recent experience.

Those are just a couple of reasons I can think of offhand. If you don't want to be modded down as flamebait, you might try presenting evidence to support your claim, as I have done above.

Computing with Bubbles: Video 1: http://rvincoletto.multiply.com/video/item/104/ and video 2: http://rvincoletto.multiply.com/video/item/103/

Computing with Bubbles: Video 1: http://rvincoletto.multiply.com/video/item/104/ and video 2: http://rvincoletto.multiply.com/video/item/103/

People who can't stand MySpace's (or for that matter Orkut's) errors and general suck, and thus scout around to find the social-networking/media sharing site that sucks least, but leave a little something behind on MySpace as a "pointer" for their herd-behaving acquaintances. (I'm in this category)

MIT belongs to this Consurtium, in the following link you can see a list of of institutions and organizations participating in OpenCourseWare Consortium: http://rvincoletto.multiply.com/journal/item/371

I'm on a mailing list about blogging and I send a message for the group talking about this case.

They reject my message (Message not approved: Online Store to Sue Blogger Over Google Ranking):

Renata, I'm going to reject this email from being published in the group since I am concerned about the group injecting itself into someone's legal affairs. Your connection with the topic is not explained, which is also a possible problem.

I am concerned that accepting it for publication to the group without a more thorough description of the situation might cause some problems down the road for us by appearing to take sides.

If you think I am misreading this situation please let me know.

[edited], co-moderator

OMG!!! It's just news...

http://rvincoletto.multiply.com/journal/item/314

http://rvincoletto.multiply.com/journal/item/289

I know a lot of recent ex-Yahoos. My husband is a recent ex-Yahoo. I know several likely soon-to-be ex-Yahoos. you can read my opinion about this here: http://rvincoletto.multiply.com/journal/item/284

• When dolphins go bad
• This guy's got a picture (though it's tough to tell who's attacking whom...)
• KILLER DOLPHIN

I could say, it was really funny.
Look at the pictures of the auction http://www.flickr.com/photos/fernandomohr/13512673 3/in/photostream/
And this is Stallman receiving the donation http://smyows.multiply.com/photos/photo/5/99 . They said there was a hundred coins of one cent of real(0,24 of cent of dollar).
He do whatever he wants to do with his pictures and autographs. And we do whatever we want with our coins. So, we made this "donation" for him.

Totally agreed with your focus on quality. I see two ways that a website can provide quality content. One are the /. Digg LiveJournal types where I want to read about interesting stuff that the community recommends or writes. The other is where you want to consume the content because it was generated by people that you know care about. On Multuply every person in the community has an exact relationship to you, like Dana, your brother Tim's friend Anna's roommate.

So I guess http://pantsonfire.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/5/1? xurl=%2Fphotos%2Fphoto%2F5%2F1my version of Andy Warhol's Marylin Monroe painting is copyright infringement too.

1. Life means suffering.

And that is well said in the book The Road Less Travelled by Scott Peck. Like me, it has changed the life of many readers.

I've been using Multiply, which does everything you described, and lets me specify my relationships to people, so I can have content that's only available to relatives, or to friends, or to colleagues (or to relatives, their relatives and their relatives, for example.)

But I wonder what Bastian thought s/he was doing by "befriending" whiskey, a bar, and a giant Citgo sign, if not wasting time?

I'm one of those people who won't be friends with someone unless I'm actually friends with them. Nor will I be friends with places, things, intangibles, etc. The concept of social networking, in and of itself, wasn't a bad thing, but the various "fakesters" et cetera basically trashed any chance of it actually being useful.

My favorite social networking site at present is Multiply, largely because it lets me specify how I'm connected to someone, and weights different sorts of relationships differently - "friend" is worth more than "online buddy," for example.

(Plus it's got a nice interface and lots of useful features.)

While there is obviously revenue to be had in reimplementing standard distribution models under the rubric of blogging, as is mentioned in the parent post, but there's plenty of fertile ground in the lower end of the scale, where individuals get to enjoy material produced by their associates, relatives, and friends. I'm thinking in particular about social communication sites like Multiply.com which effectively integrate RSS-style mechanisms (new stuff appears at the top of a message list) with blogging.

Most blogging sites are exactly that samael, and you've hit the nail on the head.

Multiply.com is a bit different though; they've integrated blogging with social networking and basic communication (like e-mail), so the people in your life who might actually care to read your blog, get automatically notified. Between that and it's support for Photo Albums, it might have a leg up on basic blogging sites like blogger and LJ.

Check out my Multiply site or start your own.

Disclaimer: I work for Multiply.

Most blogging sites are exactly that samael, and you've hit the nail on the head.

Multiply.com is a bit different though; they've integrated blogging with social networking and basic communication (like e-mail), so the people in your life who might actually care to read your blog, get automatically notified. Between that and it's support for Photo Albums, it might have a leg up on basic blogging sites like blogger and LJ.

Check out my Multiply site or start your own.

Disclaimer: I work for Multiply.

Mod parent up. He understands what is the kind of blogging that really makes sense from a business perspective: everyday people uploading pictures of their trips, writing reviews of restaurants they discovered or discussing last week's Apprentice. Multiply is one company that's kinda like it where blogging is married with social networking. Just look at my homepage. If you're not registered, you only see stuff I posted for the whole world. People in my network see more; then there are photos that only my friends can see but not my family... You get the idea. This kind of approach makes business sense because it reaches so many people. You're a potential user as long as you have friends or family you care about.

Mod parent up. He understands what is the kind of blogging that really makes sense from a business perspective: everyday people uploading pictures of their trips, writing reviews of restaurants they discovered or discussing last week's Apprentice. Multiply is one company that's kinda like it where blogging is married with social networking. Just look at my homepage. If you're not registered, you only see stuff I posted for the whole world. People in my network see more; then there are photos that only my friends can see but not my family... You get the idea. This kind of approach makes business sense because it reaches so many people. You're a potential user as long as you have friends or family you care about.