I got to play a small but fun part in OpenX opening up a new data center in less than 60 days. From not knowing the people to serving production traffic including structured network wiring, cage buildout, rack construction and shipping, and all of the other “little things”. Apparently it takes most people 3 times this long. What are they spending their time doing? :)
So open source world, regarding that $2B value I’ve received, well now I’ve paid back $1. Cool? Links chicks-net’s profile on GitHub Shared with: Public +1’d by: John McWade Update 2025-12-16 I feel I have given a few dollars since then and I have a few more to give. It is strange and neat to be looking back on this after 14 years, during a year where I have ramped up my rate and quality of contributions to the free software and open source communities. ...
This could be pretty cool. I always wanted a PSP with a screen bigger than a postage stamp. Links GameStop to bring Android-based gaming tablet to market Shared with: Public +1’d by: Nathan Weinberg
Interesting. Originally shared by Sulamita Garcia http://www.go-gulf.com/blog/60-seconds Links http://www.go-gulf.com/blog/60-seconds 60 Seconds - Things That Happen On Internet Every Sixty Seconds [Infographic] Shared with: Public
With lots of pictures! Originally shared by Guido van Rossum Awesome Lego models of cranes etc.: http://www.genuinemodels.com/ Links http://www.genuinemodels.com/ Lego Construction Site - Original Technic Models by Jennifer Clark Shared with: Public +1’d by: John McWade
Lots of good information in one place. Originally shared by Alan Liddell [CoW Information Post] Things you might not have known about City of Wonder! (Please share this with others, there seems to be many people who do not know this information. This post has been made Public, so shares should work now.) TL;DR Ask for things or send things once a day. Refresh your notifications by muting and refreshing your screen. Ask for goods once a day. Reset timers by not asking for two days. See #1. (UPDATED) We can accept only one building OR one legend, and one workshop good per ally per day. See #1. Mess halls are valuable. Sell them. See #1. Certain bonuses can only be clicked once. Don’t spam embassy bonuses or expedition bonuses. Hate “Too many goods” pop-ups? Put away your workshop! (UPDATE) Gift timers appear to be based on the time the gift is sent, not when it is received! Details NOTIFICATIONS WINDOW: The notifications window is (sort-of) fixed! Before they fixed the problem, you could not go back beyond one page of requests because the “More” button did not show any results. (it still doesn’t! lol) Well, now you can mute any post that you have fulfilled, and once you have muted your entire page, you can refresh your tab and another page of requests pops up! This means that you don’t have to spam notifications or requests, hoping that they stay on the first page long enough to get clicks! You can send out a request once and know that people will be able to get to it! Spamming requests only (a) frustrates you for not getting the things you want, and (b) causes more unnecessary clicking for your allies. GOODS REQUESTS: After a lot of testing and discussion, we have come up with a pretty good reasoning/solution to the workshop goods problem. We believe that there is an internal City of Wonder timer that is started when you receive an item from an ally that lasts 24 hours. Each ally has their own timer, and there is no way of synchronizing them because people click requests on their own time. Each ally can successfully gift you one workshop item in a rolling 24-hour period. Sending out more than one request per day is not beneficial and will actually hurt your workshop numbers (see #1). It is even recommended that if you are having problems getting items, you can reset everyone’s timer by not requesting anything for two days. GIFTS (UPDATED!): Each ally is allowed to receive ONLY one building OR one legend, and in addition one workshop request in a rolling 24-hour period! The first gift that you send is the one that registers in the system. The second gift returns an error screen. (Thanks +Rob Barnes!) Sending out multiple gifts results in the same errors we are all used to seeing: “Oops! Unfortunately, you cannot accept gifts at this time!” This also ties in with #1 above. GIFTS CAN BE SOLD: Each item in the game has a purchase price and a selling price that is a fraction of the purchase price. Some items are worth more than others. The Mess Halls that are currently in our options to gift SELL for 20,000 coins each! This means that those who need an economic boost can request Mess Halls and make hundreds of thousands of coins very quickly! Great for starter cities and established cities! Remember to build it before you sell it, each build grants you 200 XP! Also remember to follow rule #1 for this as well. BONUS REPETITION: Many people post every exploration bonus, thinking that more bonuses equals more coins for our allies. Certain bonuses cannot be collected more than once, and it seems that Playdom has tightened the grip on this quite a bit. Here is a short list of what can be collected repeatedly and what cannot: Embassy Expansion Bonus: Can only be collected once (post only one) (EDIT: There seems to be a bug and certain bonuses can be recollected while other times they can not. Further testing will be done to validate this behavior.) Trade/Culture/War: Each can be collected once (post one of each) Assisting with Goods: One click per person (post the one you need the most) Assisting with Wonders: 30 per day regardless of who asks for it (post them all) (Note: unless is a multi-part wonder, in which case you can help in every phase, even if you have already helped 30 people!) Collecting Gifts: Unlimited, but repeat gifts will not be collected (post them all) Achievement Bonuses: Unlimited (post them all) NO MORE GOODS POP-UPS!: (This one courtesy of +Chris Nichols ! Thanks!) I know some of you have experienced this already. You go to collect your 5-minute goods, and get the annoying pop-up, “Too many goods!” Well, Chris found out a really slick way of getting rid of those popups! Simply put away your workshop prior to harvesting! You will not lose any goods previously earned, you will not gain any more, and you can put your workshop back down when you are done harvesting! Brilliant! GOODS TIMER UPDATE!: It has been discovered that gifts can be repeatedly collected from the same ally over and over as long as the time stamp for each gift is past a rolling 24 hours! This was discovered when collecting gifts sent to a temporarily inactive player. We were able to collect 30 Mess Halls from the same 5-6 people sending gifts! We believe the same rule applies to Workshop goods, but this has not been confirmed. ...
Via +Annie Jennings. This is sweet on so many levels. waaaa! Originally shared by Nikhil Saluja Credit Cards can be hacked by Mobile phones Square Mobile Credit Card Reader App Makes a Great Simple Money Launderer Square Mobile Payments Square A simple tool that can turn any iPhone into a credit card machine can also be a simple way for crooks to steal cash, hackers demonstrated this week. Square can eliminate the hassle of money laundering. Instead of stealing credit card numbers, buying items and then selling those items for cash, Square can deposit money directly into a user’s account. Computer security experts from a firm called Aperture Labs described the process at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. Square enables mobile credit card payments by inserting a small dongle into the headphone jack of an iPhone or iPad. A user swipes the credit card’s magnetic stripe through a slit on the dongle, and credit card information is sent to the seller’s Square account. Hacker Adam Laurie realized using the headphone jack meant the device was converting the magnetic strip information into sound waves that were interpreted by the app, according to a writeup by AFP. He realized he could trick the system into falsely reading audio data, so it would enter a transaction using a stolen credit card number. He inserted a different wire into the iPad’s headphone jack, so the software thought a dongle was plugged in. Then he modified some software he had already written for translating magnetic stripe data (we mentioned he’s a hacker, right?) and then typed in a credit card number. The data was converted to sound, and the app read the information as if a real card had been swiped. Then he could deposit funds into his Square account, which are delivered within a day. Laurie and co-hacker Zac Franken said they notified Square of the threat, but were told credit card traffic analysis would spot such malfeasance. Meanwhile, they have since learned the company is planning to release new dongles that encrypt data — which they currently do not. Looks like further motivation to keep your personal data secure. ...
Californians have a year left of tax free Amazon. Enjoy. Originally shared by Violet Blue This is a really surprising development. (I’m following this story pretty closely: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/amazon-drops-california-in-growing-e-commerce-affiliate-tax-law-war/485 ) Links http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/amazon-drops-california-in-growing-e-commerce-affiliate-tax-law-war/485 Amazon.com cuts California sales tax deal in stunning turnabout - San Jose Mercury News Shared with: Public
Via Cake on FB. “They have perverted medical science and our legal system to such an extent that deadly street drugs like marijuana are now decriminalized and available to our children at any bus stop. [… …] Hipsters fetishize clothes above drugs, while for hippies it’s the opposite.” I was certain this was an Onion-worthy spoof for the first half of it. But when I started looking into the rest of their site I find the headline/blurb on the home page states: ...
This is beautiful and brilliant and something you can participate in. Help fill those gaps in the modern world revealing the universe’s inner LEGO! Links Jan Vormann’s Best Lego Installations Shared with: Public