Today we bring you yet another bad driver of NJ, though it appears he’s really from NY.
Please people, remember to check your blind spots. Using the rear view and side view mirrors is not enough. You can seriously injure people and create a backlog of traffic, and no one wants that.
via ▶ December 17th’s Idiot Drivers of New Jersey – You Have Blind Spots! – YouTube.
▶ December 16ths Idiot Drivers of New Jersey – YouTube.
Today we bring you another edition of Idiot Drivers of New Jersey!
This time we have a school bus driver running a red light to make a left turn.
The lead up (which you can’t see of course because it’s out of frame) is the approaching a yellow light at 35-40mph in order to run the light.
Very safe for the children, don’t you think?
This is a recipe I shamelessly stole from Steve Caruso from Facebook during a power outage last week. I modified it slightly because I had a surplus of apples. It’s a delicious breakfast pudding that can be modified to be sweet, savory, or a base for other things. Enjoy!
Kitchen Stuff Needed:
– Cast iron pan
– Range top
– Oven
Ingredients Needed:
– 3 large eggs
– 1 cup milk
– 1 cup flour
– 1/2 teaspoon salt
– Enough oil to coat bottom of pan and then some (I used olive oil, about 2 Tbsps initially and then poured out about half of it)
Optional Ingredients (used for the apple version):
2 teaspoons sugar
1 tsp cinnamon / pumpkin spice
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 medium apples, sliced to medium thickness, then chopped into 4ths
Alternative Ingredients:
Or herbs and spices
Finely chopped prosciutto or porkroll
Veggies
If you use whole sausages in it it makes Toad-in-the-Hole. It’s versatile. The one above is “plain.”
How To:
Nutrition Information:
Recipe Totals:
Per Serving (1/8th of recipe):
There have been a lot of changes to Youtube over the years. Early users of Youtube may remember that, for a time, Youtube was all but free of advertisements. It was a place of sharing content (both legitimate content and illegitimate content alike).
And then the great copyright wall fell. Ads became prevalent on almost every video. People started to get takedown notices and copyright ‘marks’ resulting in videos and channels being shut down.
Surely, the commercialization of Youtube has had a marvelous effect for people who spend their time making content available to the masses. People now make channels dedicated to gaming and get to monetize their hard work. This is a good thing! I review games too. I review technology in general. But there’s big changes happening recently, and it’s killing the very core of Youtube.
Angry Joe rants about this here (a little over 18 minutes long; NSFW — LOTS OF CURSING – this is Angry Joe’s style):
The problem in a nutshell is this: If I review a game, who is entitled to whatever monetary gains are generated by this review? Me, as the author of the review? <Game Developer House>, as the big name behind the game itself?
It seems that the answer is now <Game Developer House>. Youtube is placing copyright claim marks against users who place reviews of video games, movies, and music online – and then monetizing the content for the original artists instead of the people who have put in the effort to make the reviews.
Forbes has an interesting article about it here as well. Forbes Article
It’s kind of disheartening to see what Google is turning Youtube into. It’s not at all encouraging. There was a spectacular backlash during their ‘enhancement’ of Youtube by forcing linkage to your Google+ profile:
Violet Blue via ZDNet wrote an awesome piece about this.
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing had a bit of a response – but it wasn’t helpful at all (though they have since ‘rectified’ the spam issue).
Paul Tassi via Forbes notes this uproar as well.
So, is Google trying to kill off Youtube with tons of ‘bad’ changes to the site? Possibly. Likely? No. They make a shit ton of money from it.
Are the changes lately for the better? Only for big wigs and big execs at companies.
“You can make money without doing evil.” || “Don’t be evil.”
Hah.
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A few months ago I successfully deployed and configured an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server Edition for the purposes of installing Nagios and doing on-site monitoring for key servers. Yesterday I did a bunch of security and hotfix updates to the server, since it was VERY behind (talking >20 security updates and what not) on a lot of packages. Following a reboot (I know, I know, not necessary but I’m still firmly rooted in the land of Windows where updates and reboots go hand in hand; for shame) I noticed a surge of alerts from Nagios and was thoroughly annoyed to see that the load on the server was consistently way too high – I was getting Warning / Critical alerts nearly every 15 minutes. Uh oh!
***** Nagios *****
Notification Type: PROBLEM
Service: Current Load
Host: localhost
Host Alias: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
State: CRITICALDate/Time: Wed Dec 4 23:48:58 EST 2013
Additional Info:
CRITICAL – load average: 5.89, 4.95, 4.04
Status Details: https://nagios/nagios/cgi-bin/extinfo.cgi?type=1&host=localhost
This continued for a day until I got fed up with it. I told Nagios to stop paying attention to that service and to ignore it completely. I basically shit-canned the project and ignored it for about 24 hours until I realized it was going to be a slow day today. So I SSH into the box and load up top, and I wait. I wait and I wait and I wait. Every 15 minutes I would see a surge of spawned processes for ping, check_snmp, and a few other ones. I started to get a clear picture of what was going on.
The reboot of Nagios reset the next check period to be the same for all devices, which was a big problem. We have 360+ devices in our monitoring scheme, and of that nearly 760+ services being monitored (with more coming in the future, I need to setup Windows device monitoring for our DCs and file servers). They were all trying to run at the same time. All 760. This isn’t a ridiculously beefy server we’re talking about here.
srv-nagios: Virtual Machine Details
VMware Virtual Platform
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz
1GB RAM
20GB SCSI Virtual HDD
So after sitting on it a bit I decided to do some research and found that I could limit the number of simultaneous checks in Nagios. This is of course noted in the documentation. I must have glossed over it.
| Maximum Concurrent Service Checks |
| Format: | max_concurrent_checks=<max_checks> |
| Example: | max_concurrent_checks=20 |
This option allows you to specify the maximum number of service checks that can be run in parallel at any given time. Specifying a value of 1 for this variable essentially prevents any service checks from being run in parallel. Specifying a value of 0 (the default) does not place any restrictions on the number of concurrent checks. You’ll have to modify this value based on the system resources you have available on the machine that runs Nagios, as it directly affects the maximum load that will be imposed on the system (processor utilization, memory, etc.). More information on how to estimate how many concurrent checks you should allow can be found here.
Our setting was of course 0, meaning that Nagios tried to run as many checks as it wanted at the same time. After thinking on it a bit, I figured out what I wanted to do. We have 760 someodd checks. We have 15 minute intervals. I did 760/15 and it came out to be about 51 checks per minute. I started there. I set max_concurrent_checks to 51 and BAM load immediately dropped down to a more stable level.
OK – load average: 0.00, 0.13, 0.19
As I add more devices and services to Nagios I will tweak the value. Checking 60 things at a time should be easy enough to handle, it works out to about 1 a second and since the vast majority of my checks and services are pings and simple snmp queries it shouldn’t be too bad.
Here’s hoping.
A happy Nagios is a happy Mike.
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I am ashamed of my country. I really am.
Freedom. hah.
This morning I woke up feeling pretty great. It’s the day before Thanksgiving, which is my all-time favorite holiday of all time. None of this pretentious marketing and monetization (excluding Black Friday and how it’s creeping into Thanksgiving) that comes with major holidays. Just family, food, and relaxation.
I had to go to one of the K-3 schools this morning to help a teacher with a projector, and as part of the process I had to climb onto a chair and reach my hands above my head to grab the projector cables and pull it down. In the process, my shirt rode up a bit and you could see my stomach and sides (which are nothing to be thrilled about, but still far better than I used to be at 4XL and now a L/XL). Soon after, I heard lots of kids giggling, I turned around to get off the chair and saw a few of them pointing. A few others were whispering things like “gross” and “disgusting” while pointing at me. And it hit me. They’re talking about me here.
After almost 2 years of working at losing weight and getting in shape, it doesn’t matter.
And now I just feel completely broken. Like all my work was for absolutely nothing.
I just want to disappear.
So just remember: your words and actions can destroy how someone is doing. Be mindful.
Check it out! Amazing how oblivious people can be.
As it says in the video description, this person ran a stop light (where I had a green turn arrow). You may not be able to see it from the video, but she’s on her cell phone chatting away the entire time.
A very cool feature. Almost enough to make me get one.
Almost.
News: Microsoft Confirms PS4 Can Be Connected To Xbox One | MegaGames.
If it had backward compatibility, I would have bought it already.
But it doesn’t.
For whatever reason.
(the reason being, that way they can make you buy the Xbox One version of your old games for full price, thus double charging you for content you already own)
