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benstrawbridge.com » geek http://benstrawbridge.com/wp Ben Strawbridge's weblog. Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:21:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 en Surfing at Splunk http://benstrawbridge.com/wp/2006/10/26/surfing-at-splunk/ http://benstrawbridge.com/wp/2006/10/26/surfing-at-splunk/#comments Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:13:10 +0000 benstraw http://benstraw.com/wp/2006/10/26/surfing-at-splunk/

A day in the life at work…

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ONOES ZOMG!

]]> http://benstrawbridge.com/wp/2006/05/26/funny-little-geek-graphic/feed/ Be careful with Gmail pop access and plugins. http://benstrawbridge.com/wp/2006/05/12/be-careful-with-gmail-pop-access-and-plugins/ http://benstrawbridge.com/wp/2006/05/12/be-careful-with-gmail-pop-access-and-plugins/#comments Sat, 13 May 2006 01:39:49 +0000 benstraw http://benstraw.com/wp/2006/05/12/be-careful-with-gmail-pop-access-and-plugins/ I installed Larry’s Gmail indexer today. It recommended that I reset the pop settings on gmail so it would be able to index all of my mail. What I didn’t realize was that it would do so in a way that google considers abusive… Here are the logs from Larry’s indexer:

[04:52:40 PM] Larry’s Gmail Indexer 1.00 by Larry Gadea
[04:52:41 PM] ‘benstraw@gmail.com’ is the active account.
[04:55:26 PM] Successfully received 455 new message(s).
[04:57:11 PM] Successfully received 448 new message(s).
[05:00:30 PM] Successfully received 399 new message(s).
[05:02:13 PM] Failed to add email to GDS (Subject: ‘April Email Blast’)
[05:02:13 PM] Failed to download new Gmail messages: ”
[05:08:51 PM] Successfully received 365 new message(s).
[05:09:48 PM] Successfully received 258 new message(s).
[05:12:14 PM] Successfully received 521 new message(s).
[05:14:42 PM] Successfully received 470 new message(s).
[05:17:59 PM] Successfully received 418 new message(s).
[05:20:07 PM] Successfully received 450 new message(s).
[05:22:54 PM] Successfully received 410 new message(s).
[05:24:30 PM] Successfully received 387 new message(s).
[05:29:41 PM] Successfully received 425 new message(s).
[05:31:26 PM] Successfully received 349 new message(s).
[05:33:03 PM] Successfully received 302 new message(s).
[05:35:01 PM] Successfully received 299 new message(s).
[05:37:57 PM] Successfully received 342 new message(s).
[05:39:45 PM] Successfully received 309 new message(s).
[05:44:58 PM] Successfully received 394 new message(s).
[05:47:28 PM] Successfully received 374 new message(s).
[05:49:47 PM] Successfully received 411 new message(s).
[05:51:19 PM] Successfully received 273 new message(s).
[05:52:42 PM] Successfully received 303 new message(s).
[05:54:32 PM] Successfully received 332 new message(s).
[05:55:59 PM] Successfully received 345 new message(s).
[05:59:43 PM] Successfully received 320 new message(s).
[06:01:21 PM] Successfully received 386 new message(s).
[06:03:12 PM] Successfully received 336 new message(s).
[06:05:59 PM] Successfully received 326 new message(s).
[06:08:32 PM] Successfully received 327 new message(s).
[06:10:41 PM] Successfully received 337 new message(s).
[06:12:13 PM] Failed to download new Gmail messages: ‘No data was received.’
[06:17:13 PM] Failed to download new Gmail messages: ‘Invalid username or password.’

Every 2 - 3 minutes it was grabbing 300 messages! I don’t delete from gmail, so I have thousands of messages in my inbox (not sure if this thing is indexing spam too, in which case there are 10’s of thousands of messages…)

So I got the infimous “Lockdown in Sector 4″ Gmail screen *(see below) which states that my access has been disabled for “Up to 24 hours…” we’ll see how long that is.

Good thing G-Mail is my primary email client… good thing it’s Friday afternoon!


Lockdown in Sector 4

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“Even if you’re not a genius, you can use the same strategies as Aristotle and Einstein to harness the power of your creative mind and better manage your future.”

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below is my open letter to the Real Time Strategy gaming cartel. I want a War Simulation. A real one… …I want an RTS game that will give me a stress headache after an hour and an ulcer after a week. I want to identify experienced players on the street by their Thousand-Yard Stares.

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SolarDeathRay.com: The #1 Death Ray On The Internet!

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#1 and #2 are no surprises with Firefox as product of the year and gmail #2. It is good to see skype in the top 10, and Treo 650 snuck in at #10, but #1 for it’s category.

]]> http://benstrawbridge.com/wp/2005/12/04/pcworldcom-the-100-best-products-of-2005/feed/ Y!Q integrated with title for search terms http://benstrawbridge.com/wp/2005/11/23/yq-integrated-with-title-for-search-terms/ http://benstrawbridge.com/wp/2005/11/23/yq-integrated-with-title-for-search-terms/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:58:35 +0000 benstraw http://benstraw.com/wp/2005/11/23/yq-integrated-with-title-for-search-terms/ I have added Yahoo!’s Y!Q search service to every post. It does an inline search on the site based on the blog post title.

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