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Re: http://clayton.oneill.net/post/1252840574

clayton319 — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:04:52 -0000

Yeah, someone else pointed out that it's in /dev/disk/by-id also. I added this to crontab:

@daily ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ >>/var/log/diskcatalog

That way if a drive completely fails, I have a record.

Re: http://clayton.oneill.net/post/1252840574

Elie Rosenblum — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 02:39:40 -0000

scsiinfo -s will also do the job. Best thing is to either do it in a script that runs on boot or out of cron periodically, so that if the disk fails so badly that the kernel drops it, you'll still have the translation table to work off of.

Re: Better Metacritic RSS feeds

willmac — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:48:13 -0000

I found a better way to get the specific metacritic feeds you want, although it takes a little bit of work. Check out the site feed43.com . I was able to create a custom feed for their albums (their own feed is broken right now), which you can find here: http://feed43.com/metacritic_m...

Cheers,
Will

Re: Better Metacritic RSS feeds

MrXax — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:15:39 -0000

Is it possible to combine all 6 feeds into a single feed? Can anyone give me a hint as to what I'd have to modify in order to do that?

Re: Canceling should be as easy as signing up.

mushgluch — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:32:02 -0000

where did you read this?

Re: Links for 2006-09-18

Internet4Doctors — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:21:20 -0000

Thanks for posting this very helpful information; I happened to come to your blog just searching around the web. Please keep up the good work!

Re: Hiveminder SSB

Ian Cheung — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:45:27 -0000

Hi,
I'm a fellow hiveminder user and have been looking for a fluid icon. Unfortunately I couldn't download your dmg file. Could you post it as a png file I wonder? The reason I ask is although I use OSX but there are other users using mozilla/prism on windows or linux and they wouldn't be able to open the dmg file.

Thanks!

Re: Better Metacritic RSS feeds

Mai — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:49:29 -0000

Hi Clayton,

Did you ever get a chance to look at providing the MetaCritic RSS feeds? I left you a comment on June 9, 2009 above. So, I was just checking to see if you can create a similar RSS script on feedburners for the movie/dvd section for MetaCritic with critic's scores??

Please let me know via email or you can update your blog comments for this post.

Thanks.

Re: Aerogarden Labels

Mackeran — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:50:06 -0000

I really like your blog and i respect your work. I'll be a frequent visitor.

Re: Paul's first 3d movie

3d Movies — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:59:08 -0000

3d Movies are very cool :-)

Re: Links for 2007-02-28

Amateur Fuck Drunk — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:53:56 -0000

now I'll stay in touch..

Re: Better Metacritic RSS feeds

Mai — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:04:03 -0000

hi, thanks for the quick reply. Please do what u can, when u have the time. Their rss for films works but not as good as your script.

Thanks, please keep me posted.
Cheers

Re: Better Metacritic RSS feeds

Clayton — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:26:13 -0000

Doing the Film section is probably pretty doable. Unfortunately this seems to be broken right now, because Metacritic has just stopped updating their RSS feeds. I've got some code in progress to work around this, but I've been pretty slammed at work and haven't had time to finish it up and move it in place.

Re: Better Metacritic RSS feeds

mai — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:08:26 -0000

Hi Clayton,

First off, Great job on putting together these feeds for the Games on Metacritic. Could you PLEASE PLEASE put together the same feeds for their FILM section where they list all their movies (recent movies, as well as DVDs) ALONG with their metacritic scores?? I really like the format you have used in your feeds (i.e. Scores, Title, Date, and a detailed blurb about the review)

Please email me back as soon as you can. I do appreciate it.
Mai

Re: Better Metacritic RSS feeds

Sam — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:25:17 -0000

This is exactly what I've been looking for. Thanks a bunch!

Re: Canceling should be as easy as signing up.

Richard — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:11:39 -0000

I submitted a request to cancel through their customer support email in February. I had also changed email accounts. So I didn't see their their auto acknowledge email saying I had to call them. They didn't deactivate so I got Paytrust charge again in March and April - each time. I finally called and I received the same Bulls--- response you got - I told them that was ridiculous. They said they woudl refund my Paytrust charges. But, I had also changed bank accounts so their debits created insufficent fund charges of $70!. They repeated their ridiculous policy of confirming cancellations by phone. I'm on a mission to expose these practices.

Re: Canceling should be as easy as signing up.

Alan Savoy — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:15:29 -0000

I completely agree. In some cases, especially with banking it is even worse. I'll never do business with Wells Fargo again for a similar incident. After my wedding, they refused to add my wife to my bank account because she had a Louisiana license, so I decided to close the account. I was not allowed to do so from the branch I opened at, which was one of their largest. I had to go about 20 miles away and meet with one guy when he was available. I was in line behind 7 others and it took 4 hours in total.

He still managed to screw up the account closure and left $.03 in my account. They sent me monthly notices that my account was too low. They told me on the phone that I would have to go make an appointment with that guy again to fix it. I hope it cost them lots in postage.

Re: Things you don't expect to see in traffic: Unicycles

Monique — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:33:13 -0000

I actually have a co-worker who rides around town on a unicycle sometimes. He also rides trails, like real burly mountain bike trails, with it (!).

Re: Things you don't expect to see in traffic: Unicycles

James — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:33:17 -0000

That is me! Weird! I was just looking on Flickr for "unicycle commute" on the offchance I saw somebody I knew (there aren't very many unicycle commuters and we tend to know each other haha) and was shocked when I saw a picture of myself. I found your website from your Flickr profile and decided to comment on this. I have random rides and information on my site: dcuni.com

Finding this picture made my day.

-James

Re: Geico vs Progressive, Fight!

rk — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:01:50 -0000

Melissa Selencki is a very nice young woman at Progressive at Allentown, PA.

Re: Geico vs Progressive, Fight!

ProgressiveGirl — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:51:04 -0000

Hi! I'm a services employee from Progressive and I was just searching Google to see what people say about Progressive. I was confident that everything would be good, save for a few odd experiences. I was pretty surprised to read that you've encountered reviews that state our service is bad. I've been with Progressive for four years while attending college, and I can tell you that our company is the most customer-oriented organization I've ever dealt with. Not that you probably care too much about our company's culture (insurance is just another 'required' bill to most people), but Progressive is truly like a family of employees who really care. It's not just some slogan. They hire the best, and anyone who doesn't live up to Progressive's standards of excellent and attentive service are graciously shown the door. We, Progressive, bend over backwards to make sure our customer's are happy! Not only are we extensively licensed and trained on state specific insurance laws, they also give us motivation courses on topics such as empathy. Empathy! How many companies have you called where you were angry and you were greeted by someone who wanted to argue you or simply didn't care? If anyone is caught demonstrating that behavior here, they would have a *very* short career with Progressive! Okay, okay, I know I'm going off on a rant, but I really do care about all of my customers and I absolutely adore my company. I just hope that anyone reading this remembers that online reviews can be either bogus or representative of a very small sampling. I would stake a hefty bet that the vast majority of customers are more than satisfied with Progressive, whether they're calling in for something simple or are experiencing a catastrophic claim. /rant !!

Re: Geico vs Progressive, Fight!

jack — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:18:13 -0000

This was a very helpful review for me. I recently changed from GEICO to Progressive (having previously been a progressive customer). I had origonally switched from Progressive to GEICO because they had raised my rate astronomically after I filed a claim for a single car, no injury, no property damage claim against my Jeep Cherokee. Now they are significantly less expensive. It will be interesting to see what happens as time progresses.
Jack

Re: Are Gamespot spammers?

Clayton — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:10:55 -0000

That occured to me also, but I have a *lot* of spamgourmet addresses, and I've not seen this sort of spam to any of the others that I haven't killed.

Re: Are Gamespot spammers?

Spuby — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:55:01 -0000

Did you think that maybe Spamgourmet is selling your emails :)?
I don't think Gamespot will sell addresses without (at least) including a filter for addresses that contain "gamespot".

Re: Feedlounge Alpha

Clayton — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 08:42:31 -0000

It does, but I'm used to using Bloglines, which does it for me. ;)

I'm using Firefox 1.0.5 with the Tab Mix extension, so if I middle click, it opens the links in new tab, but in the background, unfocused. I'll have to look and see if there is a way to make it focused, but this would still be an issue if my laptop wasn't freakish and only had two buttons. Otherwise I'd have to control-click, which again is a minor issue, but slightly more of a hassle.