Hoosgot

http://krow.livejournal.com/595518.html asks Hoosgot,

Dear Lazyweb, I am tracking three different proxies for MySQL today: http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Proxy http://consoleninja.net/code/dpm/README.html http://spockproxy.sourceforge.net/ Would someone please do a write up on which is best, which is moving forward, and synopsis the differences? I don’t expect a front runner just yet, but it wou …

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http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=605 asks Hoosgot,

lazyweb, poll time! When you sleep, how do you use your pillow ? the middle part of the back of your head rests on the lower end of your pillow, your neck floats freely, your shoulder blades rest on the bed the middle part of the back of your head rests on the pillow, your neck rests lightly on the lower end of your pillow, your shoulder blades …

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http://doenietzomoeilijk.nl/archief/orange-kiest-voor-de-gemakkelijke-weg/ asks Hoosgot,

Ze hadden het al eerder aangekondigd, maar vandaag ontving ik de LAATSTE! WAARSCHUWING! OMG! in de mail — met een SMS erbij om me op dat mailtje te wijzen: Met deze e-mail informeren wij u dat de gratis Orange webmail dienst in combinatie met uw mobiele telefoonabonnement per 15 mei 2008 niet meer beschikbaar is. Dit betekent helaas dat uw emailadres wordt opgeheven. U kunt dus geen e-mails meer versturen en ontvangen via orange.nl en via uw telefoon met Orange World. Ook aanverwante diensten zoals de online agenda, adresboek en takenlijst kunt u vanaf deze datum niet meer gebruiken. Heeft u naast uw mobiele telefoonabonnement ook een Orange ADSL of kabel abonnement? Dan behoudt u wel het emailadres dat behoort …

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http://www.lesjones.com/posts/005287.shtml asks Hoosgot,

Dear Lazyweb, The mystery PC beep has been solved. It was the NetGear WiFi card after all. I didn’t see any settings in the program for sounds, but my wife discovered that if you right-clicked on the menu bar icon there was a check mark next to “Enable ‘Internet Connected’ Notification.” Once she unchecked it the problem went away.

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http://www.cottonrohrscheib.com/blog/2008/05/07/twitter-applications-mashups-and-tools/ asks Hoosgot,

I have seen a lot of trends come and go over the past ten or so years that I have been working with the web but I don’t think that I have every seen anything pick up as much momentum as Twitter has. Even MySpace and Facebook took a little while to get off of the ground initially. This is an impressive list of applications that are currently being used either in tandem with or added onto twitter, just amazing, I had no idea. Also, I am pretty sure this list is only partial, I have heard of a few more that aren’t listed… Alpha Twitter, shows the top links shared on Twitter Autopostr.com, Autopostr.com lets your twitterfriends automatically know …

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http://freezerpants.com/2008/05/07/bribes_for_code_osx_carputer_crowdsourcing asks Hoosgot,

I’ve been following the Mac based carputer scene for a while, and I’ve gotten quite frustrated that there hasn’t emerged a well polished, complete system. There are several projects out there, but most seem to get as far as “Playback music”, then sort of die on the vine. Or they succumb to feature-creep, with a million great ideas and none implemented well (or at all). Since I am not a capable enough dev to “roll my own”, I’ve done the next best thing. I’ve put my money where my mouth is. If you go to Superimposable.org you will see that I’ve created a site with Milestones and High Level architecture for an OSX based carputer application. The catch with crowdsourcing …

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http://jessenoller.com/2008/05/06/lazyweb-question-python-video-manipulation-libraries/ asks Hoosgot,

So here’s a question for the lazyweb - I’m looking into doing some command-line/scripted video manipulation and I am looking for pointers to current/well-documented modules/libraries to use. Specifically - I am looking to be able to stream-edit movies programmatically for a variety of formats (one of which is quicktime for a personal project) - ideally I would be able to load the video file and edit the stream (insert bit from other videos, append videos, etc) inside of Python. The simplest use-case I can think of is building a montage of various videos, for example - say I downloaded non-flv (or flv formatted) videos of funny-baby scenes from youtube and wanted to chain them together into one big funny-baby montage. …

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http://www.lesjones.com/posts/005277.shtml asks Hoosgot,

Dear Lazyweb, My new PC beeps pretty frequently. (It sounds like bing-bing or ching-ching - two pleasant notes.) OS is Windows XP Home Edition SP2. I have a Netgear wireless card with a mildly hyperactive status bar icon. I checked its prefs but didn’t see any sound settings. It happens when nothing is running except Firefox. It isn’t happening …

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http://bahumbug.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/mailer-for-solari/ asks Hoosgot,

The new solaris box came with Thunderbird installed as a default mailer.  It works for mail once I’ve disabled crap like pseudo-HTML composition.  At least, while online and its IMAP servers are responding.  And so long as you post everything through one SMTP host. OK, yes, that’s pretty limiting.  But the real killer is how it falls about in a ghastly heap when trying to access an IMAP server that’s offline or responding slowly. I’m used to Apple’s mailer - on the mac laptop - which makes a decent job of it.  Once it’s synced with the IMAP server on the (linux) desktop, I can access its local cached copies of my mail, no fuss.  And it’s pretty good at …

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http://www.lafferty.ca/2008/05/05/hyperic-zenoss/ asks Hoosgot,

Sysadmins on the lazyweb: I’ve used Nagios for years, accompanied by either a homebrew trending/graphing package or Munin. Recently I’ve had a few people draw my attention to Hyperic, and from there I’ve been looking at Zenoss Core as well. If any of you have experience with Hyperic or Zenoss, and especially if you’ve left Nagios for eith …

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