- Okay, for the first time in years, I’m going to try another Linux distro. I’m installing Ubuntu on my desktop. #
- Due to trying to preserve an existing LVM, no GUI install for me. BOO. However, the text install is awesome compared to what I’ve used b4 #
- @ddribin Not that its an issue for you, but it also rocks hard and kid photos. I no longer feel bad about only having one in my wallet. #
All posts by Keith Garner
Twitter Updates for 2008-01-12
- @maigrey no stress, you have no job today! #
Twitter Updates for 2008-01-11
- @maigrey has seen the face of real estate and has not run away screaming. Now wait until she starts her new job! #
- Hooray, the Internet connection at the hotel seems to be down. #
- @maigrey no! That is for the weak! I must keep up my sick baby no sleep powers! #
- Overheard: "35 years in the business and the last place I want to be is an NAR conference. They’re long, they’re boring, they are too rosey #
- "web 2.0 has opened the Internet to 2 way communications" k-what?!? #
- articles on real estate get as many clicks as Britney coming out of rehab according to Yahoo. #
- information free-radicals by Mark in the panel. #
- @bkmcae he cites Harold Innis all the time. (among others.) #
- has others have already cited, mark mentioned the ‘cure’ of Technology anti-oxidents. #
- @dbt as there us a downturn in the market I can see it. Its not a historical thing, but recent #
- @mwurzer Shocking that a yahoo guy would say that. When we look at things like rss/syndication, I say portals won’t be as needed in future #
- panel agrees there is too much focus on transaction and branding and not on the home. #
- yahoo says brokers/agents need more tech talent. He basically suggested you need an IT and dev staff. #
- Marty says 2008 will show vendor/tech innovation high, but we will have a market low #
- whee RESO mention. #
- I don’t know if you should say you want to be a ‘player’ in the facebook arena. That phrase does not mean what you think it means there. #
- Mark says ‘monitizing Rock Band’ will happen before you will make money off Second Life. @maigrey ftw! #
- Question is ‘what is the killer app for 2008 for the realtor® in the trenches. Marty says Video. #
- Real estate is more popular than prom on On-Demand. I don’t know if I buy that. #
- someone mentions open source and its not Lesswing, my mind asplode. She really means wisdom of crowds. #
- THEEZ ARE MAI BRANDZ, LET ME SHOW THEM TO YOU. #
- @dbt but she many it in the dork way since she went on to mention wikipedia and some other things #
- @dbt also, she did say software #
Twitter Updates for 2008-01-10
- @dbt Dammit! Oh well, already transcoding at home for later iPhone viewing. #
- @zemote Pretty good, how about yourself! I saw you on the public feed when I was bored yesterday. Sorry to hear about your aunt. #
- Craigslist vs NY Times: FIGHT #
- Craigs starts out by endorsing Obama ad then Colbert’s WristStrong movement. Awesome. I tend to avoid those jokes in this crowd. #
- @bkmcae the listing standard that was mentioned was the RETS Schema. Kudos to @mwurzer for organizing it. Sadly that was mentioned. #
- Craig is a total activist, I don’t think the room fully gets it. He’s like a more socially adjusted RMS. Not much more, but more. #
- @zemote yeah, I realized it had been awhile since I saw you. Life is keeping me away from most in person things, so I’m list and IRC boy. #
- We don’t really have any ads, so we really don’t track eyeballs. — Craig #
- ‘the paper times is a treat, but the comics leave somthing to be desired’ — Craig #
- Craig pimps OGO. Go Erik Gilling (a friend at OQO.) #
- @bkmcae RMS is Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Federation. The personal behind the GPL. I’ve seen him a few times. #
- "I’m the George Constanza of the web." — Craig #
- "We have the advatage of few resources and no MBAs…" Craig is of my people. #
- Wireless is flakey in this room, I keep dropping off EDGE. Twittering via SMS. I’m gonna burn through my monthly usage here. #
- @zemote well, the site and list are there, but the core group all had kids and now are boring. (I was of the first to get old and boring,) #
- @ddribin I’m "twittering the conference." I think someone here bit me and gave me super twitter powers to annoy. #
- @zemote Have you cruised Podiobooks.com? #
- sitting with Mark at meet the leaders. As many people want total to me. LOL HAI I AM AT UR CONVERNCE, LEEDING UR INDUSTY! #
- information free radicals will have a large impact on data consolidation. #
- Mark lights a fire in the room by mentioning the gateway. "Is a gateway even needed?" FWOOSH. #
- @mattlavallee also eneighborhoods. #
- @mattlavallee preaches the word of the aggregators jumping on RETS that happened this morning. #
- "Data sharing delays the inevitable." David says that its a stepping stone to consolidation. It doesn’t really bring new efficiencies. #
- @mattlavallee goes for a jugular. #
- @mattlavallee gets the expected non-answer. #
- Front-end agnostic backend. Is FAB the new acronym? #
- a giant elephant just walked into the room. #
Twitter Updates for 2008-01-09
- To alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s probems. #
- the Mean Fiddler in Hell’s kitchen is like my 4tu or 5th home #
- @maigrey Think TDS! #
- @maigrey I have a Zillow keychain/bottle opener for you. #
- My twitter login, now smaller and sexier for your convenience. #
- @ddribin awesome, you accidently answered a question for me. Lesswing was wondering a good way to print envelope stuff on the mac for wife. #
- @maigrey wrong answer! No tablet for you. #
- In line for A Daily Show. #
- damn! Didn’t make it in. 12 people too many in line. #
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Where’s Santa?
Gone are the days of radio updates of where Santa is, now we can get REAL-TIME on your fat-man tracking ass.
First, you can visit NORAD’s web site for tracking Santa that is in 5 languages and features a map that updates every few minutes. Second, they have a link to a kml file for Google Earth so you can track Santa in 3D. I had fun with my daughter this morning showing her the difference of where we are vs where Santa is right now using Google Earth.
Not following Santa, but fun just the same… For those of us around Chicago, if you’re jonesing for some Holiday lights check out Chicagoloand Christmas Lights. Its main feature is a color coded Google map of 216+ well decorated houses around the Chicago area.
Sledding!
Dave Dribin once again rocks
Dave is having a rocking week. He started with the 1.0 version of his QLEncript plugin to get QuickLook to show color syntax highlighted code files. Here’s a quick screenshot of it in action on my laptop.
Today, to continue his rocking, Dave posted on Leopard’s ssh, ssh-agent, keychain interaction and ways to make it a bit more secure. I was confused about this and he took the time to figure out. I think, though, I will probably stick with using SSHKeychain for now.
Place shifting action 2
I’ve been working on a command-line oriented TiVo2Go downloader so I can automate getting items off my tivo, or at least do it when I’m on the road via ssh (and then kick off that other script…)Â I’ve written a quick and dirty TiVo library, and a sample script called TiVo2Disk which uses the library.
On its own, the TiVo library stuff I whipped up will just download the content from the TiVo still locked up in TiVo’s DRM. If you pair it with tivodecode (like the sample script does) you can get the video as an MPEG-2 stream. Beware, HD content is HUGE.
I’ve only tested with my Series 3, and I’ve run it under both OS X and Linux, but it should work on any . The UI on the sample script is pretty bad, but its an early version. I’m interested in an feedback, patches, etc anyone might have. I still need to do some rdoc as well.
This works for me, but I’d like it to be more useful for more people.  In any case, feel free to checkout tivo-ruby-0.1.tar.gz.