A weblog about stuff and junk by Jake Sutton
I’ve got to do a server move this weekend, so don’t be surprised if stuff gets all brokerated.
Hopefully nothing tragic will happen.
(The same also applies to Brozo, the Husson boys, and Vedvik, all of whom I give shelter in this wild internet world of ours.)
You may recall that my dearest mommy got me a big ol’ television set for Christmas this past holiday.
Well, I’ve finally got it running at full capacity now that I have a TiVo-HD (got a deal on a refurb from Woot!) and boy is it something.
Of course, the CableCARD install wasn’t perfectly smooth, but at least it turned out to just be a bit of an annoyance while the cable guy fiddled with it for an hour or two. It was definitely not the sort of tragedy I had read about on various TiVo forums, etc.
It’s funny what HD does to you, though. Two words to illustrate my point: Sunrise Earth. My friends (who were all way ahead of me on the HD curve) all told me about this hypnotic show, and I always pointed at them and laughed. Turns out they were right on the money. It’s just mesmerizing. Even beyond that, though, I’ll watch a nature show or rock concert in HD before just about any other option now. Good times.
The Wife’s favorite bit - aside from when I blew her mind by showing her how we can watch shows from our old TiVo unit on the new one - is the dual tuner action we get from the TiVo-HD. Now “Boy shows” don’t automatically trump “Girl shows”. Peace reigns supreme at the Lazy ‘S’ Ranch, though it does give the TiVo twice the opportunity to record one of it’s off the wall suggestions…
Coworker Peter: ooooh, i was just about to ask you something but you answered me in the past!
Coworker Peter: ur THAT good
Jake: fuck yeah!
This post is pure geekery, so never you mind if that’s not your thing…
We use a Ruby on Rails plugin called acts_as_solr for full text search on some of our Rails apps at work. This provides an interface to a Solr search engine, which is based on Lucene technology. Lately I’ve been digging into some of the more advanced features Solr provides, for which I found this QuarkRuby post invaluable.
You’ll notice I posted a somewhat confused comment recently. I’ve been trying to post a follow-up comment to share what I’ve discovered on the topic, but it’s not letting me for some reason, so here it is for the sake of teh intarwebs:
Just to follow up: It turns out AAS doesn’t (yet) support some of the hl parameters, including requireFieldMatch.
FYI, though, requireFieldMatch will only return highlights if you searched the highlight fields specifically, so
q=(test)+AND+type_t:Post&hl=true \
&hl.fl=body_t,title_t&hl.requireFieldMatch=true
will not work, but
q=(body_t:test+OR+title_t:test)+AND+type_t:Post \
&hl=true&hl.fl=body_t,title_t&hl.requireFieldMatch=true
will return the expected highlights.In my eyes, that makes that feature kind of “meh”…
Also worth noting, I submitted a patch for rebuild_solr_index. It was ignoring the :if when batch_size was supplied.
I’m kind of excited about the patch. It’s totally trivial and perhaps not even the best implementation, but it’s my first contribution to an open source project. That’s totally cool in the geekiest way possible!
Checkout FriendFeed if you’re one of those types who has accounts on (and actually uses, at least occasionally) Flickr, Twitter, del.icio.us, Facebook and whatever else (like your’s truly — here’s my FriendFeed, yo).
More to the point, get your over-broadcast friends to get on FriendFeed and save you some clicking.
It’s a one-stop feed shop! 
No, I don’t mean it.
I just wanted to link to a couple online videos that I find completely and inexplicably mesmerizing, so I threw a little pop reference in there for flavor. You know how I do.
Anyway, here you go:
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