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    • Google Wave, so far it’s the answer to a question no one asked.

    I want to like it.  I like tons of other Google services.  I’m a Google Fan Boy, but I just dont get Wave.

    It reminds me of online multiplayer games.  It sucks to use alone.  I invited some friends, we got on it.. and it’s a chat client?  Well at least thats how we used it, it was a rather kludgy chat client.  Google Chat group chat is better, using communicator at work is better.

    I dont see how to email to it, how to connect it to my gmail.

    I’m just a bit stumped on what it is good for.  It’s fancy, it’s sexy, but it’s confusing.

    Edit:  I found out at least some stuff to do with it.  Type in “with:public” in the search box, ok now stuff starts to make more sense.

    I am intrigued by the seemingly total lack of security though.  So is this guy, and he has great points.

    Written on October 13th, 2009 , Stuff, Things Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
    Spam, really ?

    On a page I havent showed to anyone, havent linked to from any where.  That’s sweet.

    I am guessing it’s just a case of searching for blog.* on domains, and if it’s got a wordpress, hit it up.  Still, kinda cool.

    So, working hard on Drupal.  I like Drupal, but boy is there a major steep learning curve to go beyond simple site.  I’m working with Organic Groups.  I figure a “Cause” on HFC can be a Group, and a “Need” be a response.  Thing is, when I think about a fully working HFC, I kind of see hackers browsing through a catalog of “Needs” looking for ones that meet their skills.

    So that to me speaks of Taxonomoy.  I think I can go one further.  What if there was a shared taxonomy between Needs and Hackers?  A Hacker selects from a set of skills that they have, or things they are interested in.  When a Cause posts a Need, it fills out the same skills.  We can then match up hackers to needs in many ways.  Show a “New Needs” box to Hackers browsing that only show them Needs that require their skills.  All kinds of possabilities become available. Read the rest of this entry »

    Written on October 4th, 2009 , Stuff, Things Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
    On thin ice.

    We desperately need a server upgrade.  We currently have 2 dedicated boxes, and it’s certainly starting to show it’s age.  Major problem is space.  I need more space to be able to upgrade TR and TF.

    So I am putting the pressure on Aharon to buy us something new.  Looking at this — http://knownhost.com/dedicated-servers.html

    It’s what a site I frequent quite often (tankspot.com) uses, and they have many times our current users, so if it works for them, should work for us.

    We can get a nicely configured quadcore i970 box, 12gb ram, 2x500gb drives, for about $300 a month.  Only caveate is bandwidth, it comes with 2.5TB.  Not sure how much we are currently using.  I should look that up.

    Biggest issue with that is backups.  The drives are not mirrored (ouch!).  so what happens if we have a disk failure? Read the rest of this entry »

    Written on September 29th, 2009 , Stuff, Things Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
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