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Re: Scripting News: City streets bike ride

btucker — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:53:56 -0000

The Apple Store is in a box because they're spending $6,600,000 to replace what's currently 90 panes of glass with 15. What other company... LOL

Re: Scripting News: Nirvana for a public writer, circa 2012

btucker — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:16:36 -0000

Perhaps I don't understand, but doesn't this just move the haystack & you still have to find the needle?

Re: My New Setup

btucker — Sat, 21 May 2011 14:55:12 -0000

I think most people include their time in the value equation for devices. So even if you're paying more up front (which really is arguable these days), you're far making it up over the 3 years you're using the device.

Re: Scripting News: Here comes the "social camera"

btucker — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:36:35 -0000

It sounds like Color sure is close to what you were describing. Unfortunately, I bet they'll try to argue that because their implementation is different (GPS + Internet) from what you described (wireless P2P) it's a new idea. :-(

Re: Keep Controllers Organized: The Shared Helper method

btucker — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:59:28 -0000

Not that many of us are still using default routes, but making the methods like require_current_user protected is probably a good practice.

Re: A Now A Word From Our Sponsor

btucker — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:32:25 -0000

I want so badly to love Boxee-- unfortunately, I run into issues nearly every time I use it.
1) Some locally stored TV shows inexplicably never show up in the TV section while others do
2) The Netflix app has a lot of catching up to do to get to the polish of the one in the new Apple TV. Two specific issues: Episodes aren't listed in order, browsing categories results in very jumbled results
3) Flash video from online sites seems to work only about 50% of the time. I know this is a really touch problem.

Re: A Now A Word From Our Sponsor

btucker — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:09:05 -0000

Have you tried Air Video ( http://www.inmethod.com/air... )? I've been using this for this purpose for awhile and absolutely love it!

Re: Scripting News: The beautification of wikiriver.org

btucker — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:55:30 -0000

Here you go:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipe...

Re: Scripting News: The beautification of wikiriver.org

btucker — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:33:31 -0000

Looks like the Le Monde feed may not be getting converted into UTF8 before display. This is what it looks like to me: http://i.imgur.com/rn6ym.png

The feed proclaims to be iso-8859-1, which looks accurate.

Re: Scripting News: I want a server rack in a (small) box

btucker — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:37:44 -0000

How permissive is Verizon on what they'll let you do with the connection? Do they block any incoming ports, etc? Are there hidden bandwidth caps?

Re: Scripting News: Playing with Pogoplug

btucker — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:51:34 -0000

Did you go through the activation process?
https://my.pogoplug.com/act...

Re: http://tumble.brandt.kurowski.net/post/676887240

btucker — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:21:03 -0000

NOOoooo! You can't sell the RX-7!! Crazy talk.

Re: The havoc the XML purists wrought. (Scripting News)

btucker — Wed, 19 May 2010 08:54:24 -0000

The thing is that JSON is pretty close to what you'd describe as "simple XML" with the added benefit that there's really no way to add the gobbledy gook. So it's self-enforcing in a way that the flexibility of XML is not.

I agree it'd be really nice if all API vendors provided the maximal choice for their consumers. But I also know that maintaining multiple formats takes effort. So if there's a tiny market for XML (when JSON's available), it's probably just not worth it to them to serve a handful of people in obscure environments.

Re: How to (really) turn off Mac screen? (Scripting News)

btucker — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:01:33 -0000

I'd put my money on saying it's bluetooth signals waking it. That's be easy to test, though (provided you have a usb mouse kicking around): Disable bluetooth one night and see if that fixes the problem.

Re: My Ideal Phone System

btucker — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:10:37 -0000

My experience is anything you connect to a sip provider is going to suck. VOIP just can't compete with POTS. At work we tried going VOIP and had to reverse course after a year & tons of dropped calls w/ frequent bad sound quality. We still use all our SIP phones (snoms) connected to an asterisk box which has cards in it which just connect it to the regular phone lines. Not a single dropped call in the last year that I know of & the quality is always constant. We also pay just a little more than we used to with our top-tier sip provider.

When setting up the asterisk box (a trixbox appliance) it gives you this message if you try to add a sip provider. Exactly our experience: http://stream.btucker.org/p...

Re: peace out, bad weather!

btucker — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:36:55 -0000

For the record, that was Anna hijacking my account. I though the weather was fantastic!

Re: http://ben-anna.com/post/409316300

btucker — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:44:39 -0000

who said anything about waking up?

Re: Wow, Here's Something No One Will Ever Use

btucker — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:57:04 -0000

what? actually follow directions.. that'd cramp my style a tad too much. :-P

Re: Wow, Here's Something No One Will Ever Use

btucker — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:21:39 -0000

Actually, I've got to say this worked really well for me & was pretty slick. Has seriously no one tried this yet today?

See the result (shot out my office window): http://btucker.phanfare.com...

II'm pretty impressed with the polish on the photon app. My only complaint is I couldn't figure out how to rotate an image in the iPhone app.

-Ben

Re: Zee is spelled Zed Eee Eee (Scripting News)

btucker — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:01:11 -0000

Many people I know with uncommon names tend to explain them using a similar, more customary name. The corollary here would be to say "Like Zeke, but without the 'k'".

Re: amandalynferri - factsaboutbarracudas: 2 out of 5 BT employees have...

btucker — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:00:24 -0000

Busted^2

Re: What's New in Edge Rails: Nested Object Forms

btucker — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:03:00 -0000

@John Davos, I think I ran into a similar issue. I wrote up my solution here: http://stream.btucker.org/p...

Re: YouTube's Chad Hurley: "We Have The Largest Library of HD Video On The Internet."

btucker — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:28:23 -0000

Your Vimeo count is wrong it two ways:

1) As stated very clearly on http://vimeo.com/hd, "This channel is curated by the Staff of Vimeo and represents some of the best HD videos we see on Vimeo."

2) The 178 number at the bottom refers to pages (note how there are 4 videos on the page). So even if you were to incorrectly assume that the HD channel was all the HD videos on vimeo, the number would be 712.

I'd suggest dropping Vimeo an email. I bet they'd give you the true number of HD videos users have uploaded there.

Re: Actual Conversations On Twitter Not Possible Until Twitter Lets Us

btucker — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:49:32 -0000

Rudolf, I do intend to release the Quotably code one of these days (honestly, though, it's not like it's a whole lot of special code and it's mostly useless now due to the limitations imposed by Twitter). I agree about preventing data loss, but really there was no user data stored in Quotably (it was all stored at Twitter) so I'm not sure what you mean in this case.

-Ben

Re: Tweetree (Scripting News)

btucker — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:15:25 -0000

I hope they have better luck keeping it going than I did with quotably.com (which was basically the same thing minus doing the smart stuff with links-- which is awesome!).