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Re: Rethinking the Value of OpenSolaris

mridley — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:52:57 -0000

Phillip-

Perhaps very early in the world of UNIX what you've said was true. But not any time recently, and I'm not sure that Linux really had anything to do with vendors developing for specific platforms. In the open source/freeware world it's true that you should be able to cross-compile from one variant of UNIX to another relatively easily. And perhaps Linux has broken that with its multitude of libraries (which you COULD compile on other *NIX platforms, but which are not often there by default).

As far as commercial software support, there are plenty of applications that have been supported on only a subset of the commercial UNIX variants. For a long time, high-end video and graphics apps were available for SGI's IRIX but those same tools were not compiled or supported under Solaris/AIX/HPUX/etc. In the chip design world the primary platforms were Solaris SPARC and HPUX. The tools were not available for Solaris x86/AIX/IRIX/etc. Those are the two verticals I'm most familiar with, but I think my argument is pretty true across the board.

Of course certain classes of apps like database management systems are more widely compiled and supported.

-m

Re: 64-bit Mac OS X

mridley — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 06:25:07 -0000

Yeah, I just think it's interesting that from the Intel roadmap they aren't going to have their new chips out until after Apple says they're planning to be almost done with the transition of their product line.

Today the only 64-bit chip Intel has is the Itanium2 and I don't see that fitting well into any of Apple's product lines, except maybe the Xserve. Guess we'll see what happens.

-m

Re: Google AdSense Getting More Relevant

mridley — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:06:08 -0000

Hm..not sure about that. As far as I know, nobody pays attention to me :-) but maybe my PageRank has gone up a little. In any case I'm glad Google thinks I'm important enough now to deserve relevant ads. That's a bonus.

-m

Re: Bush’s New Deal

mridley — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:20:22 -0000

agreed.

-m

Re: RSS Feeds from MediaWiki

mridley — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:59:44 -0000

Amos-

I agree with you, except that it seems like Adam doesn't want to do shownotes himself at all. So that's where it gets tricky...

-m

Re: Wiki Editing Etiquette

mridley — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:59:18 -0000

Hm..that's an interesting point. I saw that someone added the RSS link for the Recent Changes page to the Main wiki page and I didn't really get why. I know that people want a proper podcast RSS feed, but that's definitely not it. So I was wondering what people use it for.

I hadn't really thought about general readers keeping track of the recent changes. I know I typically go over the recent changes page because I want to make sure that none of the pages are getting trashed, etc. (hasn't happened yet, knock on wood) but I hadn't really thought about general readers wanting to do that.

Now that you point it out it makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the comment! Keep 'em coming!

-m

Re: Wiki Editing Etiquette

mridley — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 01:44:59 -0000

John-

Thanks so much for your input. I completely agree that formalizing it is not a good idea at all. I think nothing kills a community effort more quickly than excessive and unnecessary formal structure. I'm just trying to get a sense of other people's opinions so we can come up with an informal "best practices" or wiki etiquette so that everyone continues to feel included. That's the point of my soliciting input.

-m

Re: Wiki Editing Etiquette

mridley — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 01:47:54 -0000

Yeah, on the subject of locking old pages...that's something that's sort of been in the back of my mind. I haven't done it yet, and so far there hasn't really been a need as far as vandalism, etc.

I think if we can get away without locking pages that's better since, again, the point of a wiki community is communal editing. Also it may be that six months down the line something in today's podcast becomes very topical and a lot of people are going back and re-listening to it and rereading the shownotes and there may be additional discussion or information at that time. I don't know. That's a hypothetical. I just take the opinion that I know I cannot forsee every possible future outcome so I'd like to lean on the side of flexibility.

Nevertheless, I do agree that you make a very valid point regarding content stability. Thanks so much for your input!

-m

Re: From an uptown apartment to a knife on the A Train, it’s not that far

mridley — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:33:31 -0000

Yes, that's a fantastic cover. I like it a lot.

-m

Re: shownotes.info Launched!

mridley — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:01:24 -0000

Hey Dossy-

You know, we never did end up getting that drink when you were in town on business.

-m (mike-ff aka Michael Ridley)

Re: Aston Martin DB7

mridley — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:06:54 -0000

Ah...I live in the DC area but I've not seen an Aston here that I can recall. Just as well I think, I don't need to be teased and taunted in that way.

-m

Re: Updated Currently Reading

mridley — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:19:17 -0000

Hey Dutch-

Good luck in your conversations with Brother Love. As far as bios go, I'll check it out! Thanks for the suggestion!

-m

Re: Keep the Change

mridley — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:36:01 -0000

Hm, I'm not familiar with that..I'll check it out. Thanks for the pointer!

-m

PS - I suspect they will keep their customers just fine. While I'm not familiar with the scandal you're refering to, it seems that most companies are pretty teflon with respect to malevolent online behavior. Unfortunate but true.

Re: Arrested Development

mridley — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 09:39:44 -0000

Oh come now, Jill. There are at least like...37 of us.

-m

Re: Jog and Shuttle for iTunes?

mridley — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:48:53 -0000

Does it work with the position in the track or just the volume in iTunes? Guess I need to do some googling, but this may work for me. Thanks for the heads up!

-m

Re: Jog and Shuttle for iTunes?

mridley — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:01:36 -0000

Hm...well maybe it's worth a try. I mean, I don't know if iTunes lets you jog back and forth with a keystroke or not. Not as far as I know. Plus I'd like a little more "intelligent" behavior like allowing me to spin it slowly to shuttle through a few audio frames at a time, and then spin it faster to jog. Oh well. Worth a shot maybe.

-m

Re: Best Coverville Ev-ar

mridley — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:45:13 -0000

I'll definitely give it a listen, C.C.

-m

Re: Dave Winer: Good or Goblin?

mridley — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 10:47:13 -0000

Dave-

I have no particular reason to believe you aren't being honest. I just find the whole debate to be very distasteful. I realize that many of the inflamitory comments have not come directly from you, but this whole discussion just annoys me. I don't like double standards, and I don't like people jumping to conclusions about situations when they don't have all the facts.

Of course you could argue that that's exactly what I did in writing this blog post, but frankly that's fine- I'll take that critisism since it's basically the point I'm trying to make. I don't know what Adam was getting at in editing the wikipedia, but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

I just find it frustrating that two very similar situations are seen in very different lights, simply by virtue of the populist perspective.

-m

Re: Yahoo! Has Acquired del.icio.us

mridley — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:00:24 -0000

Thanks for the link - I'll check it out. It does suck that furl hasn't had any updates in quite a while...it's still such a great service though.

-m

Re: Dreamhost Customer Newsletter

mridley — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 23:20:41 -0000

This is some very odd comment-spam...perhaps I'll leave it here for my amusement.

-m

Re: Networking

mridley — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 02:27:17 -0000

Jack-

Thanks for the comment! Yeah I haven't been aggressive at all lately on the networking/social development front. Been in very much hermit mode myself, and somewhat enjoying it (or at least enough not to be motivated to go out and pound the pavement).

Do let me know if you hear of anything cool, though.

-m

Re: Grooming Lounge Coming to Tyson’s

mridley — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:12:17 -0000

Yeah...the thing is, I'm not sure if a "grooming lounge" really even counts as "metrosexual". All the K Street lobbyists have were getting manicures long before Queer Eye for the Straight Guy or any of that silliness.

On the shaving front - I've never been too particular about that. I just use the Gilette shaving gel and a Gilette Mach 3 disposable razor. I don't use after shave or anything like that. But the larger point about skin care is well taken. I'm a big believer in exfoliating early and often. Helps me keep from breaking out.

-m

Re: On Demand

mridley — Mon, 29 May 2006 14:40:23 -0000

well, as liesure activities go, I'd say yes I would like television to excite me. I mean, if my alternatives are strippers, vodka, and big piles of cocaine, I think I'd rather go with HBO for some wholesome Saturday night entertainment.

-m

Re: Social Bookmarking Decisions…Input Requested

mridley — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:23:34 -0000

Thanks for the suggestion - will check it out!

-m

Re: Richard Stallman on Pedophilia

mridley — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:39:15 -0000

I was not taking a position on the matter, I was just stating that I find it interesting when people of some notability take such a public and unpopular stand.

Although, if I were to take a position on the issue, I'd have to say I am generally against pedophilia.

-m

Re: Where Social Networking Needs to Go

mridley — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:12:31 -0000

Interesting points. I left my comments on your post.

-m

Re: Home Networking over Power Lines

mridley — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:21:49 -0000

@jigsaw- I liked it a lot actually. More than I expected to. I'm going to write up a little review piece on here shortly. Stay tuned!

-m

Re: Second Life + Amazon EC2

mridley — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:27:19 -0000

@Martin- thanks for the pointer. Was not familiar with that company. Will check it out.

-m

Re: More Thoughts on Joost

mridley — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:25:26 -0000

@Anil-

I would be happy to invite you but it seems they just redesigned the Joost web site and I can't find where they put invitations. It looks like they might have disabled invitations temporarily. Not really sure. If they pop back up again I'll send you an invite.

-m

Re: TiVo Mobile

mridley — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:34:20 -0000

Hm..I haven't had as much time to read as I'd like to, but I actually like it so far. What about it didn't you like?

-m