I found this article on Geekpreneur called “10 Cool Uses of Twitter”. The most useful one to me is the traffic alerting via Commuter Feed. For Orlando there are currently 12 incidents posted. Cool. Florida Highway Patrol has a site that shows traffic incidents. Be interesting to convert these to Tweets or SMS messages.
Thanks to mydigitallife for the hints on how to do this.
In my case bilbo.some.net was renamed to kinscoe.somenewplace.com.
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'http://bilbo.some.net',
'http://kinscoe.somenewplace.com') WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'http://bilbo.some.net',
'http://kinscoe.somenewplace.com') WHERE option_name = 'home';
UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, 'http://bilbo.some.net','http://kinscoe.somenewplace.com');
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, 'http://bilbo.some.net', 'http://kinscoe.somenewplace.com');
show tables;
+---------------------------+
| Tables_in_bilbo_wordpress |
+---------------------------+
| wp_categories |
| wp_comments |
| wp_link2cat |
| wp_links |
| wp_options |
| wp_post2cat |
| wp_postmeta |
| wp_posts |
| wp_usermeta |
| wp_users |
+---------------------------+
10 rows in set (0.02 sec)
SHOW FIELDS FROM wp_options;
+---------------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+---------------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| option_id | bigint(20) | | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| blog_id | int(11) | | PRI | 0 | |
| option_name | varchar(64) | | PRI | | |
| option_can_override | enum('Y','N') | | | Y | |
| option_type | int(11) | | | 1 | |
| option_value | longtext | | | | |
| option_width | int(11) | | | 20 | |
| option_height | int(11) | | | 8 | |
| option_description | tinytext | | | | |
| option_admin_level | int(11) | | | 1 | |
| autoload | enum('yes','no') | | | yes | |
+---------------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
11 rows in set (0.04 sec)
select option_value from wp_options WHERE option_name = 'home';
+---------------------------+
| option_value |
+---------------------------+
| http://bilbo.some.net |
+---------------------------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)
Note that in this case I was only renaming the virtual host not actually moving the site to another server. If you do that then you also need to backup your database and restore it to the new server as well.
I kind of get twitter now. The recent SXSW made me see the light. it’s not just micro blogging as I had been using it for. It’s a global irc chat. So the point of following someone is the point of being able to talk to them in a safe way. So then whomever follows you you may as well follow them. Of course when you reply to (”@”) someone you don’t really have to be following them to send them a message. The weird thing is if you use the twitter web site you won’t see replies unless you are following the sender. The other day I installed twitter on my blackberry and it had a feature to see replies and I found people were replying to my posts but on the public timeline I suppose. I just was not seeing them on the web site. Now to find a web app that will.
According to the Twitter settings:
“Always: all @ replies
I receive all @replies from people I follow, even if I don’t follow the person to whom the @reply is directed.”
Notice it does not say “@replies from people I do not follow”.That is a problem so how do I do this from the web? The only way I have now is to either use the Blackberry app. or scrape the public timeline.
There was a lot of interest in having another lunchp yesterday at the Linux show so I am setting up one for downtown Orlando in the first week of March most likely. Mean while if you know someone who wants to come to a lunch but does not want to join the mailing list because of the traffic tell them to subscribe to the lunchp list:
Thought this would be of interest to someone. Saw an article today in Mother Earth News written by Cop Macdonald.
Which got me searching around and stumbled upon this gem on VSST:
“VSSTV uses broadcasts from this historic public domain television system available anytime over freely accessible frequencies and regular bubble wrap to construct an analogous system in which the packing material functions as the aperture mask. Just as a Cathode Ray Tube mixes the three primary colors to create various hues, VSSTV utilizes a plotter-like machine to fill the individual bubbles with one of the three primary CRT colors (red, green, and blue), turning them into pixels on the VSSTV screen. Observed from a distance, the clusters of pixels/bubbles merge into the transmitted image. Large television images are the result, images that take the idea of slow scan to the extreme.”
Novel idea.
I will be at Orlando Hamcation Saturday starting at 8:30 am ET. Mostly be at Gil’s table. Cell 407-230-3057. Ham radio be monitoring 147.570 Mhz the CFGEEKS frequency. Twitter: KE3VIN
On Monday I will be at the Florida Linux Show in Jacksonville. I will be monitoring the ham radio calling frequency 146.520 MHz FM in on the drive up and back. I will be podcasting both events for The Morning Report.
Listener feedback. Some random bits about laptops vs. smaller gadgets also commentary about social networking.
Although I have no interest in the product myself I find amusing the debate on what Apples newly announced MacBook Air does and does not have. For instance John C. Dvorak thinks it’s critical drawback is a lack of a PC card. Others are complaining about a lack of an Ethernet port yet others are just plain unhappy with the cost/feature ratio period. And then of course all this dredges up the usual lack of features in all laptops threads.
“Unlike Asus’ Eee PC, the MacBook Air may sell slowly because of its high price point and overlapping functionality with the existing MacBook and MacBook Pro lines, said Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research, in a research note. However, Apple is adept with product placement, as shown by the iPhone and iPod, where there has been minimal cannibalization despite overlapping functionality, Wu said.”
I have basically decided to go with an Eee PC myself to replace my aging lapbook since I have decided to move to webtops for my portable productivity. The Asus has all the aforementioned missing components. However I am not going to rant about the Air but rather about the use of ports. First of all folks keep in mind these devices are meant to be highly portable. That means for the most part leaving wires behind. Now I do have the occasional need to connect the serial port of a legacy server to a portable device (traditionally a laptop) for diagnostic purposes (I have been known to boot a Sun server from a Palm hand held in my day) most of the time we just don’t want to carry around a bunch of wires. I am one to talk since every work day for the last 10 years I lug in (in my arms no less) two laptops, all sorts of serial port adapters, gender-benders and all cross connectors known to man, radios, gadgets, PDAs, GPS, tools, power adapters and other bits of miscellany for just so any occasion of need. But that’s sooo 1990’s any more with prevalent, fast, and inexpensive wireless (Bluetooth included) available not to mention the proliferation of network connected consoles and so-called “Lights-out management” the need for serial connectors, Firewire and USB ports are quickly diminishing. In fact I would be surprised if we are still using wired connections five years from now. By the way this brings up an important point: security. Yes security is absolutely imperative in a wireless connected world. However be careful in what security model you choose for your communications. For instance I read with interest a blog that was basically deriding Linux for not better supporting WiFi protocols (which BTW are often closed source drivers issues hardly the fault of Linux) and the over use of wrappers such as NDISWrapperwhich generally do not support WEP encryption but if you are trusting your security to easily broken encryption models your already at risk. Instead you should be securing your connections with SSL and SSH wired or wireless then you can operate freely in wireless space without encrypting your channel at all. To sum all this up we have adapters available for virtually any kind of port of hardware out there. So don’t be critical of a device because it does not support your favorite and beloved and probably by now legacy) hardware connection instead embrace it’s improved replacement or if your like me go buy an adapter! 
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
- H. G. Wells