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IANAL, but how can Audibie possibly be legal? Since the doctrine of inducement appeared (ref Grockster) I can’t see how the DCMA safe-harbor provisions would save them. Perhaps they are relying on the fact that they don’t host the files themselves - although that didn’t save Grockster or Napster.

It’s interesting to think what Facebook’s liability would be over an application like this. Facebook have a currently have a copyright policy which passes responsibility for DMCA takedown requests onto the application author. Audibie have posted their takedown procedures, in accordance with the DCMA.

If I was Facebook I’d be pretty worried that might not be enough.

Solr is good software. Hibernate is good software, and with Hibernate Search it uses Lucene for full text search.

It’s possible to configure Solr to use arbitrary Lucene indexes. I think it would be great if someone (else!) would do the work to configure Solr to work with Hibernate Search.

Regarding Google To “Out Open” Facebook On November 5 - beware the fast follower.

Facebook has a pretty nice API, but depending exactly what Google shares it could be possible to build some pretty impressive applications. Imagine knowing the frequency each Gmail contact was emailed… that would make facebook.friends.areFriends look kind of primitive.

Oh, BTW - I was wrong (or more charitably - misguided) about this stuff. Brad was right - making public data portable is the only safe way to go.

Sometimes it’s difficult to setup Nagios for server monitoring. This is what I do instead.

Firstly, for load monitoring:

#!/bin/bash

FILENAME=< absolute path >/monitoring/logs/load-$(date +%Y%m%d).txt

cat /proc/loadavg | awk '{print strftime("%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S", systime()), $1, $2, $3}' >>  $FILENAME

Run it both from cron, and then I use another cron script and gnuplot to graph the output.

genloadgraph.sh:

DATE=$1
if [ -z $DATE ]; then DATE="$(date +%Y%m%d)"; fi
FILENAME=load-$DATE.txt
cp < absolute path >/monitoring/logs/$FILENAME < absolute path >/monitoring/load.txt
gnuplot < absolute path >/monitoring/loadplot.p
rm < absolute path >/monitoring/load.txt

loadplot.p:

set terminal png large size 800,600
set xdata time
set timefmt "%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S"
set title "Load"
set format x "%H:%M:%S"
set out '< absolute path >/monitoring/load.png'
plot "< absolute path >/monitoring/load.txt" using 1:3 title '1 min average' with lines, "< absolute path >/monitoring/load.txt" using 1:4 title '5 min average' with lines, "< absolute path >/monitoring/load.txt" using 1:5 title '15 min average' with lines
set output

Gives a graph like this:

It possible to do a similar thing for website monitoring:

#!/bin/bash

FILENAME=< absolute path >/monitoring/logs/nicklothian-$(date +%Y%m%d).txt
(time wget -q --delete-after http://nicklothian.com/blog/) 2>&1 | awk '/real/ {print strftime("%Y

/%m/%d %H:%M:%S", systime()), $2}' >> $FILENAME