Grabbing Hanuman's Long Tail – Jacob Singh online

I know this blog is about 99% work focused, but I just have to rant in the hopes that my measly page rank will make it known to the world that nba.com’s International League Pass (you pay $200 to watch NBA games on the internet) is a total scam.

They use a player called RayV which is basically crowd sourcing bandwidth using a really badly made p2p player and running the games back on a schedule.

I’ve been fiddling with it for 5 months now with zero support. This product is a piece of garbage. Not even a piece, I can’t insult garbage because at least garbage can, at times be recycled and be of use. Hell, if I had a pile of garbage, I would spend an additional $200 to fedex it to the CEO of RayV and the idiot at nba.com who decided this was a good company to partner with.

I have all the system requirements met and get a 1mbps connection, but constant buffering and studdering (especially during crunch time in the 4th quarter) has made it the worst $200 and 20hrs I have spent this year, and I still can’t watch my beloved Celtics!

Aparently, I’m far from alone in thinking that RayV and NBA’s League pass sucks

Just want to make a quick update and say that at long last my search project is on the internets and getting decent uptake.

Peter Wolanin and I presented at DrupalCon (don’t laugh too hard at me).

I think the reception so far has been great, and the servers have been champs We’re getting more and more signups every day.

One really cool one is Bryan from the CMS Report:
http://cmsreport.com/search/apachesolr_search/Drupal%20Search

If any of you out there want to find out how search can change how you build your sites and bring more people together with pages they need. Just click this link now:

http://acquia.com/products-services/acquia-search

A lot of people are excited but worried about trying out the free beta because we haven’t released any pricing, and something this cool will certainly cost more than a few pesos.

Well, fear not Drupalers, we’ve heard your call and are working on releasing some preliminary pricing soon. We wanted to wait until the beta got rolling a bit before we did this, but we want people to know we have a commitment to making this technology available to as wide an audience as possible. Stay tuned to my blog and/or the planet/acquia.com for more updates on this.

In the meantime, signup for the beta, it really only takes 15 minutes to setup and won’t break your site or lock you in at all. Please give us feedback! We know there are a few usability hiccups still in the signup process, and we’d love your input so we can fix ‘em. Thanks!