My profile with a pseudonym, Drew from Zhrodague, is blocked by Google+, despite my repeated requests. I've been posting on the Internet for a long time as such, and even my resume, business cards, printed authorship credits, and other online profiles identify me as such.
I'd love to use Google+, but there is currently no way for me to do that. I do not use my real birth name online, for obvious reasons.
They specifically state it does not need to be your real name.
Except that I am blocked because my name, Drew from Zhrodague, does not fit their Terms of Service. Google+ has my profile blocked:
Hi,
Thank you for contacting us with regard to our review of the name you are
trying to use in your Google Profile. After review of your appeal, we have
determined that the name you want to use violates our Community Standards.
You can review our name guidelines at
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If you edit your name to comply with our policies in the future, please
respond to this email so that we can re-review your profile.
Sincerely,
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The Google Profiles Support Team
Huh. Facebook doesn't let me use my real online name, Drew from Zhrodague. LinkedIn allows this just fine.
I am still blocked by Google+, since I use the name Drew from Zhrodague, and not my birth name. They've ignored my contributions to O'Reilly and Associates as Drew from Zhrodague, two other mentions on Google Scholar, and countless years and accounts posting also as such.
So far, I can't enter the town of Google+, can't +1 anything, and can't post pictures or other stuff. Other (more famous) people can get into Google+ with their chosen names. I will either have to wait for them to unblock me, or I will simply lose interest - my bazaars and cathedrals must be elsewhere.
Hopefully, during the post-mortem after their upgrade, they will read this article on Slashdot, and use it and the other sites talking about this to positively update their website.
Also, I'll bet some of the usability people were given the smackdown over someone's ego-trip. It shows in the design. I know they have usability people there. Let 'em do their thing -- they already know how it is supposed to work.
With competition like this, I'm starting to think Netflix producing its own content is a great move.
Is this how Sci-Fi, Bravo, A&E, TBS, etc., all started to produce their own shows? I welcome this from Netflix, Hulu, Microsoft, or any other vendor -- give us more science-fiction. How do I tell them this with my dollars?
If they're planning on using bands within or nearby the current digital channels, I suspect that folks may be able to hack the current lineup of WRTs to spit out an ATSC signal. This would actually be really good thing for the diy crowd. Everyone needs their own pirate TV station. I haven't seen any F/OSS ATSC modulation code in the wild yet though.
I'm a long-time Skype user, and while it isn't my favorite application, it certainly works, and connects me to people around the world (for work).
Good luck, Skype. I do hope this brings plenty of improvements and functionality. If not, we'll use something else!
Y'know, this guy can make back his $90 and then some by putting ads on the site. The PD must have already setup links everywhere, all he has to do it set it up, sit back, and collect a check.
What are the chances this guy will be sued?
geolocation, which is what Google obviously wants them for
Bingo. A neat idea made almost moot with GPS chips in cell phones. If you know where the WiFi is, you can look up the location of the WiFi via Google -- without a GPS. I mentioned in a similar/. article about placelab.org which I think maps whichever radio they're able to get data from.
I experimented with this stuff back in 2002 when I created wifimaps.com, which is a wardriving map application, which harvests data from wardrivers. I'm not a math guy, so I used a weighted average for estimating the WIFi signal source. Mapserver is kinda neat too, which I used since Google Maps didn't exist yet.
I was wondering how Cacti relates to Nagios. Do the both do the same job or compliment one-another?
In four words the post you're complaining about answered that question nicely.
I am a longtime user of cacti, and dealt with MRTG before then.
Nagios is designed for simple on-off monitoring. It does this very well. If you need pager rotation schedules, nagios is prolly your best bet.
I like wowing the executives with pretty color graphs, and that is a job for Cacti. You can visually see the impact on the system of jobs running on your MySQL servers. You can see when script kiddies attack your Apache hosts and then get blocked by your scripts. And it looks great printed full-page on the new color laser printer you should be taking advantage of.
Unless you need something expressly wacky, or a difinitive pager rotation, cacti and related modules (thold) can monitor your whole computing environment, and page you when there are problems.
I've had trouble handling cloud management, mostly due to new machines spawning, and old machines dying. I'm sure others have had similar issues. It is a pain to run scripts to add new hosts, and manage removing hosts that have been terminated.
You were doing great up until that "it works on everything" part. Plenty of folks have pulled their hair out with Myth in the past and you make it sound like a breeze. Look at the numbers of folks posting here that have given up on it and you can plainly see it's far from easy. I for one hope that this version is VERY good but please, the rah rah it works great stuff can be saved - most of us know better having tried it already.
In my experience, it does work on every PC I've run it on. It even works on my OSX work laptop.
I have had trouble getting crappy hardware to work, but I can hardly blame MythTV. Once it works, it just keeps working. I think some people may have a hard time figuring out how to install drivers and getting their machine to work in the first place. This is when I switched from Centos over to KnoppMyth. Installed, detected my new PVR-150, and worked until successive upgrades.
Now I have three and a half computers dedicated to MythTV. One is a recording-only host that connects to the CableTV HDHomerun. One was driving my analog projector until the projector power supply went -- it recorded from the Antenna HDHomerun. Then I have another one with my old PVR-150, which also drives the old TV downstairs. The other half is the master backend and MySQL database with no tuner. I am using Centos, and the atrpms yum repositories.
I just did a channel-scan after my upgrade, and I seem to have more channels, and also the audio channels from my sub-basic Comcast cable feed. I think I get more enjoyment out of harvesting television shows than I do by watching them. Think Captain Kirk's head on a 6-foot screen.
I've been using MythTV for a bunch of years now, and I find it an absolute blast. It works on every PC I can find, and even on my work OSX laptop, which still lets me watch The It's Alive Show while I'm hacking away. It even eats the commercials, and does a better job with digital television signals. I can't wait for multirec support for my HDHomeRun.
If you haven't tried MythTV recently, check it out again.
Is it possible that these mafia people are stupid? Imagine we can reprocess nuclear waste, in many of the ways that slashdotters will include below. Now this nuclear waste conveniently stored underwater, is fuel that we can use to power our toys with. This is assuming that there wasn't any damage to the containers, and a big cleanup isn't required. Hopefully, when the world comes to its senses, and makes better use of its resources, we won't have these kinds of problems.
(It always drives me crazy that there are organizations that will burn or throw away or sequester potentially useful materials. Sure mercury is poisonous. Extract it from your waste, and sell it to someone that needs it. The same with CO2, and even radon. I wonder about gold production from mining landfills.)
no filesystem, just raw writes and reads to that card. and no I don't need JFFS to wear level it, SD cards have that built into their hardware.
You still have an operating system, which interfaces with the hardware, and tells it how to write. You must be working with tiny specialized robots.
When you do something like this, you'll realize that we do in fact need more of a modular operating system and environment to work with in order to do some of the larger tasks. And you'll still need logs from each device.
Honestly, most robotics does not need ANY OS. I dont need my super Roomba 40000 to have a filesystem and keep detailed records.
You either don't work with robots -- or don't need logs. How do you know when your robot is working properly if you don't have any logs? In any but the smallest systems, you need logs of some sort, even if it is just a there-was-an-error flag.
I worked for a robot company recently, and while they did collect logs, they didn't collect all of the logs, which made it hard to debug certain things. I suggested and put together something as simple as syslog, and an NFS share to receive proprietary binary logs, and a method of moving them into a tarball per run. This is now part of all of their robotic systems because they can now find out *why* something isn't working right.
I for one welcome our human brain on a microchip overlords.
My wife is a grad student in anatomy neuroscience. Her work is like figuring out what a computer system does by analyzing the components inside one of many chips. We still have no idea how the brain works, where consciousness comes from. I hope projects like this (simulations, modeling, wild crazy speculative experiments) increase our understanding of how it works.
Slashdot Mirror
Keep appealing, and answering the name changer thingy. After a bit of complaining and reporting, they now allow me to use my official pseudonym.
My profile with a pseudonym, Drew from Zhrodague, is blocked by Google+, despite my repeated requests. I've been posting on the Internet for a long time as such, and even my resume, business cards, printed authorship credits, and other online profiles identify me as such. I'd love to use Google+, but there is currently no way for me to do that. I do not use my real birth name online, for obvious reasons.
They specifically state it does not need to be your real name.
Except that I am blocked because my name, Drew from Zhrodague, does not fit their Terms of Service. Google+ has my profile blocked:
Hi, Thank you for contacting us with regard to our review of the name you are trying to use in your Google Profile. After review of your appeal, we have determined that the name you want to use violates our Community Standards. You can review our name guidelines at http://www.google.com/support/+/bin/answer.py?answer=1228271 If you edit your name to comply with our policies in the future, please respond to this email so that we can re-review your profile. Sincerely, Duyen The Google Profiles Support Team
Huh. Facebook doesn't let me use my real online name, Drew from Zhrodague. LinkedIn allows this just fine. I am still blocked by Google+, since I use the name Drew from Zhrodague, and not my birth name. They've ignored my contributions to O'Reilly and Associates as Drew from Zhrodague, two other mentions on Google Scholar, and countless years and accounts posting also as such. So far, I can't enter the town of Google+, can't +1 anything, and can't post pictures or other stuff. Other (more famous) people can get into Google+ with their chosen names. I will either have to wait for them to unblock me, or I will simply lose interest - my bazaars and cathedrals must be elsewhere.
Hopefully, during the post-mortem after their upgrade, they will read this article on Slashdot, and use it and the other sites talking about this to positively update their website. Also, I'll bet some of the usability people were given the smackdown over someone's ego-trip. It shows in the design. I know they have usability people there. Let 'em do their thing -- they already know how it is supposed to work.
With competition like this, I'm starting to think Netflix producing its own content is a great move.
Is this how Sci-Fi, Bravo, A&E, TBS, etc., all started to produce their own shows? I welcome this from Netflix, Hulu, Microsoft, or any other vendor -- give us more science-fiction. How do I tell them this with my dollars?
If they're planning on using bands within or nearby the current digital channels, I suspect that folks may be able to hack the current lineup of WRTs to spit out an ATSC signal. This would actually be really good thing for the diy crowd. Everyone needs their own pirate TV station. I haven't seen any F/OSS ATSC modulation code in the wild yet though.
I'm a long-time Skype user, and while it isn't my favorite application, it certainly works, and connects me to people around the world (for work). Good luck, Skype. I do hope this brings plenty of improvements and functionality. If not, we'll use something else!
Y'know, this guy can make back his $90 and then some by putting ads on the site. The PD must have already setup links everywhere, all he has to do it set it up, sit back, and collect a check. What are the chances this guy will be sued?
This is Slashdot not 4chan.
Oh, I thought this was SPARTAAAAA!!!!
geolocation, which is what Google obviously wants them for
/. article about placelab.org which I think maps whichever radio they're able to get data from.
Bingo. A neat idea made almost moot with GPS chips in cell phones. If you know where the WiFi is, you can look up the location of the WiFi via Google -- without a GPS. I mentioned in a similar
I experimented with this stuff back in 2002 when I created wifimaps.com, which is a wardriving map application, which harvests data from wardrivers. I'm not a math guy, so I used a weighted average for estimating the WIFi signal source. Mapserver is kinda neat too, which I used since Google Maps didn't exist yet.
There is the Placelab.org project, but their mailing list has died down over the years.
"Good news, everyone -- it's a suppository!"
Sorry, I had to, please forgive me mods!
That was my thoughts. And mobog, and a few other experiments. Glad to see the guy still kicking, if it is the same Phil.
I was wondering how Cacti relates to Nagios. Do the both do the same job or compliment one-another? In four words the post you're complaining about answered that question nicely.
I am a longtime user of cacti, and dealt with MRTG before then. Nagios is designed for simple on-off monitoring. It does this very well. If you need pager rotation schedules, nagios is prolly your best bet. I like wowing the executives with pretty color graphs, and that is a job for Cacti. You can visually see the impact on the system of jobs running on your MySQL servers. You can see when script kiddies attack your Apache hosts and then get blocked by your scripts. And it looks great printed full-page on the new color laser printer you should be taking advantage of. Unless you need something expressly wacky, or a difinitive pager rotation, cacti and related modules (thold) can monitor your whole computing environment, and page you when there are problems. I've had trouble handling cloud management, mostly due to new machines spawning, and old machines dying. I'm sure others have had similar issues. It is a pain to run scripts to add new hosts, and manage removing hosts that have been terminated.
You were doing great up until that "it works on everything" part. Plenty of folks have pulled their hair out with Myth in the past and you make it sound like a breeze. Look at the numbers of folks posting here that have given up on it and you can plainly see it's far from easy. I for one hope that this version is VERY good but please, the rah rah it works great stuff can be saved - most of us know better having tried it already.
In my experience, it does work on every PC I've run it on. It even works on my OSX work laptop.
I have had trouble getting crappy hardware to work, but I can hardly blame MythTV. Once it works, it just keeps working. I think some people may have a hard time figuring out how to install drivers and getting their machine to work in the first place. This is when I switched from Centos over to KnoppMyth. Installed, detected my new PVR-150, and worked until successive upgrades.
Now I have three and a half computers dedicated to MythTV. One is a recording-only host that connects to the CableTV HDHomerun. One was driving my analog projector until the projector power supply went -- it recorded from the Antenna HDHomerun. Then I have another one with my old PVR-150, which also drives the old TV downstairs. The other half is the master backend and MySQL database with no tuner. I am using Centos, and the atrpms yum repositories.
I just did a channel-scan after my upgrade, and I seem to have more channels, and also the audio channels from my sub-basic Comcast cable feed. I think I get more enjoyment out of harvesting television shows than I do by watching them. Think Captain Kirk's head on a 6-foot screen.
I for one welcome our MythTV .22 Overlords!
I've been using MythTV for a bunch of years now, and I find it an absolute blast. It works on every PC I can find, and even on my work OSX laptop, which still lets me watch The It's Alive Show while I'm hacking away. It even eats the commercials, and does a better job with digital television signals. I can't wait for multirec support for my HDHomeRun.
If you haven't tried MythTV recently, check it out again.
Is it possible that these mafia people are stupid? Imagine we can reprocess nuclear waste, in many of the ways that slashdotters will include below. Now this nuclear waste conveniently stored underwater, is fuel that we can use to power our toys with. This is assuming that there wasn't any damage to the containers, and a big cleanup isn't required. Hopefully, when the world comes to its senses, and makes better use of its resources, we won't have these kinds of problems. (It always drives me crazy that there are organizations that will burn or throw away or sequester potentially useful materials. Sure mercury is poisonous. Extract it from your waste, and sell it to someone that needs it. The same with CO2, and even radon. I wonder about gold production from mining landfills.)
...or beta blockers or digitalis or any commonly prescribed drug...
Boy do I wish they gave out digitalis as a commonly prescribed drug. And cyanide.
no filesystem, just raw writes and reads to that card. and no I don't need JFFS to wear level it, SD cards have that built into their hardware.
You still have an operating system, which interfaces with the hardware, and tells it how to write. You must be working with tiny specialized robots.
When you do something like this, you'll realize that we do in fact need more of a modular operating system and environment to work with in order to do some of the larger tasks. And you'll still need logs from each device.
Linux shits all over the chests and faces of the MS-loving ignorami and fucks their wives and sisters.
So is that like a uh... Cleaveland Steamer?
Honestly, most robotics does not need ANY OS. I dont need my super Roomba 40000 to have a filesystem and keep detailed records.
You either don't work with robots -- or don't need logs. How do you know when your robot is working properly if you don't have any logs? In any but the smallest systems, you need logs of some sort, even if it is just a there-was-an-error flag.
I worked for a robot company recently, and while they did collect logs, they didn't collect all of the logs, which made it hard to debug certain things. I suggested and put together something as simple as syslog, and an NFS share to receive proprietary binary logs, and a method of moving them into a tarball per run. This is now part of all of their robotic systems because they can now find out *why* something isn't working right.
Doomsday Devices come in all shapes and sizes. Like this paper mache cone.
What does Rupert Murdoch, of all people, know about Quality Journalism?
Who cares? He's got lots of money, and he can (try) to do whatever he wants.
Rupert Merdoch
I for one welcome our human brain on a microchip overlords. My wife is a grad student in anatomy neuroscience. Her work is like figuring out what a computer system does by analyzing the components inside one of many chips. We still have no idea how the brain works, where consciousness comes from. I hope projects like this (simulations, modeling, wild crazy speculative experiments) increase our understanding of how it works.