Comments on: Where’s the 450GB coming from? http://eyeonwiner.org/archives/2008/wheres-the-450gb-coming-from Keeping an eye on Dave Winer Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:41:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: zaphodim http://eyeonwiner.org/archives/2008/wheres-the-450gb-coming-from/comment-page-1#comment-1295 zaphodim Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:44:54 +0000 http://eyeonwiner.org/?p=384#comment-1295 <p>Knowing dave's consummate skills at programming, he's probably downloading the entire photo feed library continuously, the same pics over and over again. dave doesn't understand why his programs should be efficient, he has no concept that his applications might be a burden.</p> Knowing dave’s consummate skills at programming, he’s probably downloading the entire photo feed library continuously, the same pics over and over again. dave doesn’t understand why his programs should be efficient, he has no concept that his applications might be a burden.

]]> By: Bullshit Mancuso http://eyeonwiner.org/archives/2008/wheres-the-450gb-coming-from/comment-page-1#comment-1289 Bullshit Mancuso Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:35:35 +0000 http://eyeonwiner.org/?p=384#comment-1289 <p>LOL.</p> <p>It's gotta be piracy. Dave Winer's so self-entitled that he's raising a public shitstorm against Comcast to defend his right to pirate TV shows.</p> LOL.

It’s gotta be piracy. Dave Winer’s so self-entitled that he’s raising a public shitstorm against Comcast to defend his right to pirate TV shows.

]]> By: Jon http://eyeonwiner.org/archives/2008/wheres-the-450gb-coming-from/comment-page-1#comment-1288 Jon Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:35:55 +0000 http://eyeonwiner.org/?p=384#comment-1288 <p>The AFP feed is busier, but he's still got a lot of unaccounted bandwidth. Not to mention that it's beyond ridiculous to run five instances of FlickrFan in the same house (I can't even stand 1 instance of the OPML Editor because it's such rubbish).</p> <p>OS X's screensaver allows you to choose a network folder for screensaver photos, so there really is no need to run more than one or two instances (perhaps one on the machine you take out and one on a stay-at-home desktop). With public folders it's all really easy and you don't even have to configure auto-mounting disks and what not. It's actually far easier than making sure your five computers running OPML Editor don't crash.</p> <p>Another fun nugget was when he couldn't get Google's AppEngine working. The reason was because he was editing his Python code in OPML Editor and it didn't use UNIX newlines. Literally everything he does is with the OPML Editor. It's like Richard Stallman and Emacs except that Emacs is actually used by other people.</p> The AFP feed is busier, but he’s still got a lot of unaccounted bandwidth. Not to mention that it’s beyond ridiculous to run five instances of FlickrFan in the same house (I can’t even stand 1 instance of the OPML Editor because it’s such rubbish).

OS X’s screensaver allows you to choose a network folder for screensaver photos, so there really is no need to run more than one or two instances (perhaps one on the machine you take out and one on a stay-at-home desktop). With public folders it’s all really easy and you don’t even have to configure auto-mounting disks and what not. It’s actually far easier than making sure your five computers running OPML Editor don’t crash.

Another fun nugget was when he couldn’t get Google’s AppEngine working. The reason was because he was editing his Python code in OPML Editor and it didn’t use UNIX newlines. Literally everything he does is with the OPML Editor. It’s like Richard Stallman and Emacs except that Emacs is actually used by other people.

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