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Hi. I have just purchased the app and e-mailed the author asking for the source code. I got a prompt response that he is away from his desk and that he will forward the code to me tomorrow. He also asked me to forward my google play order reciept, which I did. I will update everyone when I get the source code. Is there a particular place that you would like me to put it? Sourceforge? somewhere else? Suggestions are welcome. ~Randy

Attached is a link to the source code that he sent me. I just installed dropbox, so I am not sure how long this will take to be synchronized to the web site. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/19038556/dosbox_151.tar.bz2

Hogwash.

Chromium and VLC have been working just fine on Ubuntu ARM for years (as well as Ubuntu PPC). No need for virtualized processor. They're compiled for ARM. Dropbox and Jungledisk should also compile just fine if the source is available. That's the beauty of free software.

There's a source tarball for Dropbox here.

Jungledisk (never heard of it before) appears to be propretary, so fsck 'em.

IE10 does pass the acid 3 test:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/48490966/webhost/ie10acid3.png

IE9 was getting 95/100 two and a half years ago. IE started getting 100/100 with rendering errors over a year ago. IE10 started getting 100/100 with no rendering errors half a year ago.

It's been a long time since anybody could legitimately blame Microsoft for standards compliance in IE.

So some iOS app is interacting with the Dropbox app in some way (either via API or just throwing files into a folder that Dropbox must have all permissions open on).

Most likely they're using Dropbox's iOS SDK. That would have required you to give permission however.

Check Dropbox's My Apps to see if any 3rd party apps have access.

So some iOS app is interacting with the Dropbox app in some way (either via API or just throwing files into a folder that Dropbox must have all permissions open on).

Most likely they're using Dropbox's iOS SDK. That would have required you to give permission however.

Check Dropbox's My Apps to see if any 3rd party apps have access.

I messed up my images:

Manual by hand:

step 1: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/58565/Web/Kubuntu%2012.10-2012-11-09-18-22-34.PNG
step 2: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/58565/Web/Kubuntu%2012.10-2012-11-09-18-22-44.PNG

Search:

Step 1: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/58565/Web/Kubuntu%2012.10-2012-11-09-18-23-36.PNG

I messed up my images:

Manual by hand:

step 1: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/58565/Web/Kubuntu%2012.10-2012-11-09-18-22-34.PNG
step 2: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/58565/Web/Kubuntu%2012.10-2012-11-09-18-22-44.PNG

Search:

Step 1: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/58565/Web/Kubuntu%2012.10-2012-11-09-18-23-36.PNG

I messed up my images:

Manual by hand:

step 1: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/58565/Web/Kubuntu%2012.10-2012-11-09-18-22-34.PNG
step 2: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/58565/Web/Kubuntu%2012.10-2012-11-09-18-22-44.PNG

Search:

Step 1: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/58565/Web/Kubuntu%2012.10-2012-11-09-18-23-36.PNG

*every* tutorial said

Much like a Windows user, I don't use tutorials.

and for all my searching I could not find the "Driver Manager"

So, I did a fresh install of Kubuntu.

On Kubuntu by hand:

Step 1
Step 2
Step 3

Searching 'driver' in Kubuntu:

Step 1

To be sure, ubuntu was horrible for actually finding

I don't really use Ubuntu, I spend more time in Kubuntu, hence why my posts have been more Kubuntu centric.

also what's with everything having firefox to start?

It's not included with Kubuntu by default, but starting it from the menu should bring the installer up?

Which pretty much just uses the system package manager to automatically download and install it. The initial start was relatively instant too.

but all the instructions for normal ways to do things which I could find were mostly for older versions and couldn't be followed or assumed that I could find things that weren't plainly on the screen such as they should have been if they were important.

I don't know how putting the drivers manager in the system menu, at the top, really could be any more on screen importance when looking for it. Really. On Windows, it's buried in:

Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager

The work flow is practically the same for accessing the system's driver management.

And I should have just changed the bootflags to turn off KMS?

It's harder on Windows, try disabling the signature verification on the bootloader so you can use unsigned drivers on a 64bit Windows Vista+ system. No GUI to do so like on Kubuntu and on top of that.

And your "the open source drivers are good enoguh" argument is crap.

Sir, you are putting words into my mouth. You stated that you had no 3D acceleration, in which case, I determined that you verified there was NO 3D ACCELERATION ON YOUR SYSTEM. Considering that the opensource drivers OFFER 3D ACCELERATION, perhaps not great, but still SUPPORT does not equal NO 3D ACCELERATION. I didn't say it was good enough, I called you essentially a liar in regards to using the opensource drivers, no where did I state "the open source drivers are good enoguh".

*every* tutorial said

Much like a Windows user, I don't use tutorials.

and for all my searching I could not find the "Driver Manager"

So, I did a fresh install of Kubuntu.

On Kubuntu by hand:

Step 1
Step 2
Step 3

Searching 'driver' in Kubuntu:

Step 1

To be sure, ubuntu was horrible for actually finding

I don't really use Ubuntu, I spend more time in Kubuntu, hence why my posts have been more Kubuntu centric.

also what's with everything having firefox to start?

It's not included with Kubuntu by default, but starting it from the menu should bring the installer up?

Which pretty much just uses the system package manager to automatically download and install it. The initial start was relatively instant too.

but all the instructions for normal ways to do things which I could find were mostly for older versions and couldn't be followed or assumed that I could find things that weren't plainly on the screen such as they should have been if they were important.

I don't know how putting the drivers manager in the system menu, at the top, really could be any more on screen importance when looking for it. Really. On Windows, it's buried in:

Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager

The work flow is practically the same for accessing the system's driver management.

And I should have just changed the bootflags to turn off KMS?

It's harder on Windows, try disabling the signature verification on the bootloader so you can use unsigned drivers on a 64bit Windows Vista+ system. No GUI to do so like on Kubuntu and on top of that.

And your "the open source drivers are good enoguh" argument is crap.

Sir, you are putting words into my mouth. You stated that you had no 3D acceleration, in which case, I determined that you verified there was NO 3D ACCELERATION ON YOUR SYSTEM. Considering that the opensource drivers OFFER 3D ACCELERATION, perhaps not great, but still SUPPORT does not equal NO 3D ACCELERATION. I didn't say it was good enough, I called you essentially a liar in regards to using the opensource drivers, no where did I state "the open source drivers are good enoguh".

*every* tutorial said

Much like a Windows user, I don't use tutorials.

and for all my searching I could not find the "Driver Manager"

So, I did a fresh install of Kubuntu.

On Kubuntu by hand:

Step 1
Step 2
Step 3

Searching 'driver' in Kubuntu:

Step 1

To be sure, ubuntu was horrible for actually finding

I don't really use Ubuntu, I spend more time in Kubuntu, hence why my posts have been more Kubuntu centric.

also what's with everything having firefox to start?

It's not included with Kubuntu by default, but starting it from the menu should bring the installer up?

Which pretty much just uses the system package manager to automatically download and install it. The initial start was relatively instant too.

but all the instructions for normal ways to do things which I could find were mostly for older versions and couldn't be followed or assumed that I could find things that weren't plainly on the screen such as they should have been if they were important.

I don't know how putting the drivers manager in the system menu, at the top, really could be any more on screen importance when looking for it. Really. On Windows, it's buried in:

Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager

The work flow is practically the same for accessing the system's driver management.

And I should have just changed the bootflags to turn off KMS?

It's harder on Windows, try disabling the signature verification on the bootloader so you can use unsigned drivers on a 64bit Windows Vista+ system. No GUI to do so like on Kubuntu and on top of that.

And your "the open source drivers are good enoguh" argument is crap.

Sir, you are putting words into my mouth. You stated that you had no 3D acceleration, in which case, I determined that you verified there was NO 3D ACCELERATION ON YOUR SYSTEM. Considering that the opensource drivers OFFER 3D ACCELERATION, perhaps not great, but still SUPPORT does not equal NO 3D ACCELERATION. I didn't say it was good enough, I called you essentially a liar in regards to using the opensource drivers, no where did I state "the open source drivers are good enoguh".

*every* tutorial said

Much like a Windows user, I don't use tutorials.

and for all my searching I could not find the "Driver Manager"

So, I did a fresh install of Kubuntu.

On Kubuntu by hand:

Step 1
Step 2
Step 3

Searching 'driver' in Kubuntu:

Step 1

To be sure, ubuntu was horrible for actually finding

I don't really use Ubuntu, I spend more time in Kubuntu, hence why my posts have been more Kubuntu centric.

also what's with everything having firefox to start?

It's not included with Kubuntu by default, but starting it from the menu should bring the installer up?

Which pretty much just uses the system package manager to automatically download and install it. The initial start was relatively instant too.

but all the instructions for normal ways to do things which I could find were mostly for older versions and couldn't be followed or assumed that I could find things that weren't plainly on the screen such as they should have been if they were important.

I don't know how putting the drivers manager in the system menu, at the top, really could be any more on screen importance when looking for it. Really. On Windows, it's buried in:

Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager

The work flow is practically the same for accessing the system's driver management.

And I should have just changed the bootflags to turn off KMS?

It's harder on Windows, try disabling the signature verification on the bootloader so you can use unsigned drivers on a 64bit Windows Vista+ system. No GUI to do so like on Kubuntu and on top of that.

And your "the open source drivers are good enoguh" argument is crap.

Sir, you are putting words into my mouth. You stated that you had no 3D acceleration, in which case, I determined that you verified there was NO 3D ACCELERATION ON YOUR SYSTEM. Considering that the opensource drivers OFFER 3D ACCELERATION, perhaps not great, but still SUPPORT does not equal NO 3D ACCELERATION. I didn't say it was good enough, I called you essentially a liar in regards to using the opensource drivers, no where did I state "the open source drivers are good enoguh".

*every* tutorial said

Much like a Windows user, I don't use tutorials.

and for all my searching I could not find the "Driver Manager"

So, I did a fresh install of Kubuntu.

On Kubuntu by hand:

Step 1
Step 2
Step 3

Searching 'driver' in Kubuntu:

Step 1

To be sure, ubuntu was horrible for actually finding

I don't really use Ubuntu, I spend more time in Kubuntu, hence why my posts have been more Kubuntu centric.

also what's with everything having firefox to start?

It's not included with Kubuntu by default, but starting it from the menu should bring the installer up?

Which pretty much just uses the system package manager to automatically download and install it. The initial start was relatively instant too.

but all the instructions for normal ways to do things which I could find were mostly for older versions and couldn't be followed or assumed that I could find things that weren't plainly on the screen such as they should have been if they were important.

I don't know how putting the drivers manager in the system menu, at the top, really could be any more on screen importance when looking for it. Really. On Windows, it's buried in:

Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager

The work flow is practically the same for accessing the system's driver management.

And I should have just changed the bootflags to turn off KMS?

It's harder on Windows, try disabling the signature verification on the bootloader so you can use unsigned drivers on a 64bit Windows Vista+ system. No GUI to do so like on Kubuntu and on top of that.

And your "the open source drivers are good enoguh" argument is crap.

Sir, you are putting words into my mouth. You stated that you had no 3D acceleration, in which case, I determined that you verified there was NO 3D ACCELERATION ON YOUR SYSTEM. Considering that the opensource drivers OFFER 3D ACCELERATION, perhaps not great, but still SUPPORT does not equal NO 3D ACCELERATION. I didn't say it was good enough, I called you essentially a liar in regards to using the opensource drivers, no where did I state "the open source drivers are good enoguh".

*every* tutorial said

Much like a Windows user, I don't use tutorials.

and for all my searching I could not find the "Driver Manager"

So, I did a fresh install of Kubuntu.

On Kubuntu by hand:

Step 1
Step 2
Step 3

Searching 'driver' in Kubuntu:

Step 1

To be sure, ubuntu was horrible for actually finding

I don't really use Ubuntu, I spend more time in Kubuntu, hence why my posts have been more Kubuntu centric.

also what's with everything having firefox to start?

It's not included with Kubuntu by default, but starting it from the menu should bring the installer up?

Which pretty much just uses the system package manager to automatically download and install it. The initial start was relatively instant too.

but all the instructions for normal ways to do things which I could find were mostly for older versions and couldn't be followed or assumed that I could find things that weren't plainly on the screen such as they should have been if they were important.

I don't know how putting the drivers manager in the system menu, at the top, really could be any more on screen importance when looking for it. Really. On Windows, it's buried in:

Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager

The work flow is practically the same for accessing the system's driver management.

And I should have just changed the bootflags to turn off KMS?

It's harder on Windows, try disabling the signature verification on the bootloader so you can use unsigned drivers on a 64bit Windows Vista+ system. No GUI to do so like on Kubuntu and on top of that.

And your "the open source drivers are good enoguh" argument is crap.

Sir, you are putting words into my mouth. You stated that you had no 3D acceleration, in which case, I determined that you verified there was NO 3D ACCELERATION ON YOUR SYSTEM. Considering that the opensource drivers OFFER 3D ACCELERATION, perhaps not great, but still SUPPORT does not equal NO 3D ACCELERATION. I didn't say it was good enough, I called you essentially a liar in regards to using the opensource drivers, no where did I state "the open source drivers are good enoguh".

*every* tutorial said

Much like a Windows user, I don't use tutorials.

and for all my searching I could not find the "Driver Manager"

So, I did a fresh install of Kubuntu.

On Kubuntu by hand:

Step 1
Step 2
Step 3

Searching 'driver' in Kubuntu:

Step 1

To be sure, ubuntu was horrible for actually finding

I don't really use Ubuntu, I spend more time in Kubuntu, hence why my posts have been more Kubuntu centric.

also what's with everything having firefox to start?

It's not included with Kubuntu by default, but starting it from the menu should bring the installer up?

Which pretty much just uses the system package manager to automatically download and install it. The initial start was relatively instant too.

but all the instructions for normal ways to do things which I could find were mostly for older versions and couldn't be followed or assumed that I could find things that weren't plainly on the screen such as they should have been if they were important.

I don't know how putting the drivers manager in the system menu, at the top, really could be any more on screen importance when looking for it. Really. On Windows, it's buried in:

Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager

The work flow is practically the same for accessing the system's driver management.

And I should have just changed the bootflags to turn off KMS?

It's harder on Windows, try disabling the signature verification on the bootloader so you can use unsigned drivers on a 64bit Windows Vista+ system. No GUI to do so like on Kubuntu and on top of that.

And your "the open source drivers are good enoguh" argument is crap.

Sir, you are putting words into my mouth. You stated that you had no 3D acceleration, in which case, I determined that you verified there was NO 3D ACCELERATION ON YOUR SYSTEM. Considering that the opensource drivers OFFER 3D ACCELERATION, perhaps not great, but still SUPPORT does not equal NO 3D ACCELERATION. I didn't say it was good enough, I called you essentially a liar in regards to using the opensource drivers, no where did I state "the open source drivers are good enoguh".

Nate had Obama winning from the beginning. This is his first post unveiling the model. The mean result was 290 EV for Obama, as it would be if Obama had lost Florida and Virginia. As we know, both states were extremely close and the model did eventually come around to calling them for Obama.

Drew Linzer at Votamatic.org arguably did better than Nate, calling the electoral vote count essentially dead on in June and never moving far from that prediction. Just look at this graph. Linzer used a different Bayesian method that was more resistant to short-term fluctuations in the polls and didn't place as much weight on economic factors.

This screenshot?

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6237043/applesucks.png

What was that about dishonesty?

In case you missed this:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6237043/applesucks.png

What now?

Lord Remus

Second test, two fingers, correcting typos as I go: 75.2 wpm. If my girlfriend wasn't giving me grief at having to film such a ridiculous dick-measuring experiment (her words, not mine), I'd beat that again. ;)

On a full size physical keyboard I can easily get over 100 wpm with two fingers. Mind you, I've had years of practice after an accident left two of my fingers semi-crippled.

I'm sure I'm not the fastest at that either. This guy achieves 81 wpm on an iPhone, although doesn't look like he's using capitalisation or punctuation like I am.

Ok, just recorded a very sketchy video, typing with one finger so I can hold the camera (not very well!) with my free hand. Typing pretty much what ever came into my head and then counted the words and typos and worked out typing rate from there. In the video, I have the tablet on a table but I think this is fairly representative of holding it with the other hand seeing as I'm balancing a camera anyway.

Words per minute: 41
Typos: 6 (couple spelling mistakes and 4 missed spaces)

I honestly don't normally make typos like that and if I didn't have to concentrate on holding a camera at the same time, I'm sure I could have done that typo free at ~50 words per minute. Maybe faster if I had planned what I was going to write.

If I was typing anything lengthy, I may put the tablet down on a surface and use two fingered pecking method. I think I'd be up to at least 60 words per minute then and with less typos. I'm sure there must be much faster tablet typers out there though!

I was going to upload the video to Youtube but it was pushing me to setup a Google+ account for that so I'm afraid I could not be bothered. You can play / download the MP4 from my Dropbox though.

Before anyone replies to this saying how crap 40/50 words per minute is compared to a physical keyboard typer, I am not disagreeing! I just wanted to point out that using a tablet for firing off emails, even IRC and document editing, is not much of a problem. You get used to typing on a tablet screen just as you had to get used to typing on your clunk-clunk Cherry. ;)

http://www.dropbox.com/s/dfyk2j55b4ew1fa/waldo.jpg

I'm confused, is $100 == 61GBP or is $300?

Sorry, managed to miss the word 'three' in your original post. I'd say that's a decent saving to make. 100? Not so much.

I don't know why you haven't seen these things. They are common, as is the market for smaller off-brand replacements.

The off-brand stuff I've seen are a bit larger than the originals, but not overly so and for some absurd reason, incredibly light (like, it just feels like the weight of the plastic) against the originals which leads me to suspect they're probably missing something quality wise.

I will say from a personal preference, I prefer the bricks over the 'all in one' plugs, since the plugs are difficult to plug in to sockets that are right on the floor, desk sockets or on a strip with other bulky plugs as well as likely to fall off under certain plugs like the CEE 7/16 (fortunately I live in a country that uses BS 1363).

Ummm... ten years, right? Starting from laptops made in 2002? Are you sure you would know 'washed out' if you saw it? I mean you can just go down the aisle in Best Buy and see a ton of them today, not to mention back in 2002.

We don't have bestbuy here, in PC World, Dixons, ASDA (which absurdly for some reason are selling Dell systems in supermarket), I only see glossy screens and no indications of washed out colors on any monitors.

Double the thickness is double the thickness, even if it is flat. That means less space in the bag. I'd go more into detail but I have serious doubts about your laptop experience, here.

I carry "The new iPad" (in a case that has a bluetooth keyboard), an "Acer Aspire One 521" and a "Lenovo T420s" in a smallish backpack on a daily basis, all together and I still manage to fit documents, cables, pain killers, notepad (the writing kind) and a roll up raincoat (since rain likes to appear at a moment's notice) in that bag. If my iPad, netbook and laptop were thicker, I could still fit it in without much worry. I honestly haven't noticed laptops to be thicker than my Lenovo, although my iPad with it's bluetooth keyboard case is thicker than that.

It's not unwieldy or hard to carry them around. I don't fumble really at all. I just slide them in and out and unwrap cables as needed (since I roll them up before putting them in the bag instead of just tossing them in). That's why I don't believe you.

As for experience, I can't prove the past laptops I've owned, but you can at least see my picture of what I currently do which should hopefully suffice.

... is that if you click through to the graph, on page 2, you can see that the US is stagnating, whereas pretty much every other country is bettering itself.

The US started at a relatively high position on the graph, so the educational issues haven't been too much of a problem, but the US is being rapidly overtaken by a whole host of other countries. It is disingenuous (see one of the articles between the summary and the graph) to claim that it has never mattered that the US's educational system is poor, so everything is peachy. Sure, it hasn't mattered *until* *now*... How does it go ? Past performance is no guarantee of future success...

Simon.

I'm going to assume you're managing a large XP network with roaming profiles, because none of your complaints make sense otherwise. I'm also not a Windows admin, so forgive some lack of familiarity.

* I can't set the local cache size (what browser in their right mind saves 1GB(sic!) on the local hard drive?)

Did you redirect the entire Application Data folder onto a network share? If you did, stop it--it's huge even without Chrome's cache. If you didn't, stop worrying about a gig of local disk.

* It saves it's EXE in the Windows profile. I thought Program Files existed for a reason....

This is so non-administrators can install and update Chrome.

* We have re-routed MyDocuments to a home directory. Chrome default saves downloads in Downloads under MyDocuments. EVERY single file! Attachments from mail or not doesn't matter. 99% can be deleted but I still need to check with the user for the of chance that he/she has edited something in the folder.

So go change Chrome's download folder. This isn't rocket science. Google also provides an MSI installer and group policy objects, which I'd imagine makes that easier.

And do you really spend time deleting individual files out of other users' Documents folders? Windows has supported disk quotas since NT, and it probably costs more to pay you for an hour of download deleting than just buying a new disk for the file server.

I found a python script online and hacked it a bit to work on a larger scale.

The script originally scanned a directory, found files with same size, and md5'ed them for comparison.

Among other things I added option to ignore files under a certain size, and to cache md5 in a sqlite db. I also think I did some changes to the script to handle large number of files better, and do more effective md5 (also added option to limit number of bytes to md5, but that didn't make much difference in performance for some reason). I also added option to hard link files that are the same.

With inodes in memory, and sqlite db already built, it takes about 1 second to "scan" 6TB of data. First scan will probably take a while, tho.

Script here - It's only tested on Linux.

Even if it's not perfect, it might be a good starting point :)

I did some trawling of the Wayback Machine and this seems to be the study that the GP is referring to: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/83383916/4873_PickupSurveyReport.pdf

Found at http://web.archive.org/web/20070713221433/http://www.edf.org/documents/4873_PickupSurveyReport.pdf

The stats are what he claims, and I don't have a spin on them. Decide for yourself.

That was fixed back in Dropbox 1.2.48 (October 31, 2011)

https://www.dropbox.com/release_notes

The article mentioned being able to pull it into a tight spot where you normally wouldn't be able to open the doors after you parked.
But what about the cars beside you, who also wont be able to open their doors now?!

That's what these are for. Combine one of these with appropriate force, and simple attrition will take care of the problem.

What are you doing, Usagi-chan? You don't know how to use computers.

More curious is the fact that Dropbox, SugarSync, the MS solution, Google's new solution etc seem to be thriving and providing exactly the kind of services that you'd expect third party S3 clients to provide.

Dropbix IS a consumer interface to S3.

https://www.dropbox.com/help/7/en

"Once a file is added to your Dropbox, the file is then synced to Dropbox's secure online servers. All files stored online by Dropbox are encrypted and kept securely on Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) in multiple data centers located across the United States."

-Isaac

You've never used TextMate, it seems. Here is what TextMate looks like when you open it plain (i.e. before loading a file):

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9638874/tm.png

It's simple, elegant and doesn't contain any crap icons I won't need anyways. If you can't get a GTK+ app built without that butt-ugly crap on the top, then GTK+ isn't the proper toolkit for things like this.

Until the coders of Linux apps realize that and a few other similarly simply truths, the "year of the Linux desktop" will remain several years in the future forever.

There's a great picture along those lines: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2124177/internet-memes-he-was-the-first.jpg.

For those that don't wish to look at it it has Bill Gates introducing the tablet PC in 2002 and says "no one cares", in 2010 Apple introduces the iPad and "the world pisses itself like and excited dog." In 2012 MS rolls out the surface and "People claim they stole the idea from Apple." The final frame is a picture of Patrick Stewart in ST:TNG holding a PADD with the caption "Bitches, please."

Apple is rarely first on something, they rarely invent something. Nothing wrong with that, it is true of most companies. They just want to sell it like they are.

What Apple really does is sell fashion. The iPod wasn't amazingly successful because it was an MP3 player, it was amazingly successful because it was a fashion accessory. To own one was to be cool, and thus everyone wanted to own one. Suddenly the style for earbuds was bright white (something Shure, Etymotic, etc had never had demand for before) with the cable hanging down the front of your shirt to proclaim ownership to all (just like in the commercials).

Apple makes products people want as status symbols, as fashion, regardless of need for them. That is a great market if you can get it because not only is it big, but fashion is very price insensitive, indeed higher prices can be better. Consumer electronics is extremely price sensitive and charging a premium is hard. However in fashion, no problem.

Part of that image is convincing people they were the first in the world to ever do something and that because of that it is really cool.

Diversionary tactic or not, how many Dropbox users would understand, or even care about, the privacy implications of Dropbox's security policies? I'm guessing just the ones in this thread, so, by far, the minority. What the email they sent out (I got one, I've read it, I know what it says) does, that you're ignoring, is educate users who don't know better, including the employee whose account was hacked.

Now, I'm not supporting their securfity practices; certainly, that information should not have been stored in an employee's dropbox, but that's not the point here. Ask yourself, and answer realistically, if Dropbox had sent out an email explaining that one of their employees had a list of email addresses in their dropbox, how many people would have just been like "Oh? See? I knew I was on to something when I started doing that!".

I don't think Dropbox is trying to get users to blame themselves, I think they're speaking to their largely non-technical audience, in plain terms, and relaying a lesson they just learned, without including details that may confuse those same users. As evidence of this, I present the link from that email, which takes you to their blog, on which the most recent post explains exactly what happened, including all the juicy details you insinuate they're trying to hide.

To summarize what Dropbox has done here: They sent an email, to their largely non-technical userbase, with some very worthwhile security advice that is (sadly) not common knowledge. In that email, they provide a password change link, a link to a tool to make it easier to keep track of multiple passwords, and a link to the explanation of why they are doing this and a real-life example of exactly why the user should follow the advice. That's pretty powerful stuff; one has to wonder, if every company were as proactive in cleaning up their security messes as Dropbox is being in this instance, would the number of idiot users be reduced?

Now, I understand the point of view you're probably coming from. If Dropbox, and other companies, were more proactive in preventing these types of security issues altogether, idiot userd would be less of a problem. Here's where that point of view fails: The security issue here was an idiot user, not a Dropbox policy or a flaw in their system. There wasn't anything Dropbox could have done to prevent this, except to educate their users (and employees), it was entirely under the control of an idiot who didn't know better. User education is the correct response. Yes, they could have educated their users before this incident, but without a clear example to answer the "why are you shoving this in my face?" question, those who didn't simply ignore the advice would get pissed off or offended, then ignore the advice. And who's to say their policy hasn't been, from day one, "don't use the same password here that you use elsewhere"? How would they enforce it? They can't.

Sadly, if it means more work for the user, the user will ignore it. Even with this incident, and a clear explanation of what can happen, you know as well as I do that 90% of users are going to change their Dropbox password, then promptly change all their other passwords to match it. At least we won 10% of users, today.

According to the Dropbox's own report, there was no breach at Dropbox, but user accounts were grabbed from some other websites and the passwords matched.

It's not that bad. Word 2010 uses ~95 MB of memory for an 11,461 page document. I sincerely doubt Word 2013 is much worse.

Really? Unemployment seems to have an inflection point every election. Source: BLS.

The Allwinner A10 has an incomplete 72 page summary of features that calls itself a datasheet compared to a fairly nice 205 page peripheral datasheet for the Broadcom BCM2835 SOC in the Raspberry Pi.

The Allwinner A10, like the BCM2835, uses closed source proprietary libraries to access 3D features of its GPU. The MALI 400 GPU is being reverse engineered which is why there is a preliminary open source GPU driver.

The Allwinner A10 CPU/GPU are faster but less efficient and use more power than the Raspberry Pi's BCM2835.

The Rhombus Allwinner A10 has no final cost yet unlike the Raspberry Pi. They are hoping to hit a $15 price point if they purchase 100,000 units. The Raspberry Pi is available today at $35 which was achieved with only an initial 10,000 units purchased.

I am all for passphrases. We've been supporting them in our passwdqc password/passphrase strength checking and policy enforcement tool (initially just a PAM module, then more) since I wrote it in 2000.

Implementation detail: when enforcing passphrase policy, we need to insist on some separators between words being present. passwdqc does, in order for the string to quality as a passphrase rather than password. Apparently, Dropbox does not, and I think that's a flaw. No wordlist can be comprehensive, and a separator-less passphrase is indistinguishable to a password/passphrase strength checker from a long and somewhat obscure dictionary word. Indeed, any passphrase (or a multi-word portion of it) can happen to be found in a dictionary (or on the web, etc.) as well - or just be reused by the user across multiple sites - but that's a somewhat different issue.

Issue 1 - Accretion disks
There are dust rock/disks around stars, one example is pictrous beta, Which to my knowledge is the best example yet even in this it shows a fully formed plant that has already cleared its area of rocks. It does not show a forming planet but an already formed plant.
Note that when I say disks I am not saying those disks are the same in the nebular theory.
A counter example would be our every own Sun. Our Sun has 99.8% of the mass but only 2% of the angular momentum. If the Sun was made out of the nebular theory then just like how a ice skater spins faster when her arms are pulled in, then the Sun should have the bulk of the angular momentum. Yet the evidence shows otherwise.

Issue 2 - Star Nurseries
We see at best are cloudy areas that are getting brighter. We have not observed any stars forming, only glowing gas. The clouds in question are are glowing indicates that they are hot - thousands of degrees.
Problems with star formation from gas is that Gas is too hot to condense by gravity. That is, once you get the gas compressed enough, it becomes too hot and expand out because the particles are bouncing around too fast. This is a basic law of gases.
To get around this problem, it is claimed that you need a nearby super nova to compress the gas to trigger it from the gas's primed state to get it to the critical point of gravitational collapse. There are an observed 200 super novas in our galaxy, there should be been at least 5000 if the universe was old. Also from each of the observed 200 super novas, there are no stars being formed.

Issue 3 - Layered Sediments
The evolutionist view is that the sedimentary layers are millions of years old.
The creationist view is these layers are a result of a global flood covered all the land. (not a local flood)
It is fact that water deposits will form into layers, this is repeatable in labs.
The grand canyon layers are all sedimentary. The "geologic" column is only in the text books. That is no where on earth do you find the fossil record in the order in the textbook the fossil. i.e. Triobytes -> dinosuar -> birds ... .
An example of the fossil record supporting creation, is that you never find a transition record of humans or any phylum. (Phylum is roughly how we would describe "Kinds" in the Bible.) There is no dino bird (the archaeopteryx was a fully formed bird with the 2 of the 5 sacks that birds have, yes it had teeth so what several old birds had teeth.) I recommend the book "Evolution: the fossils still say no".

Issue 4 - Moon Craters
I just recently happen to got into an argument with a local preacher here and he wanted to know about the moon cratering supporting a young age. So I written a document around it around 6 pages long
I installed drop box so I could share the document I written if you want to read it, my file
To summarize:
The argument is the moon is old because there are lots of creators. The marinas (dark areas) are lava filled areas. Theses are located roughly in one corner of the moon, yet if the moon was evenly bombarded the dark spots will be all over the moon, not just in 1 corner.
There are ghost craters which are lava filled creators which must of happen after the first impact. but since there are so many of these, this musst of happen 500million years after the first impact. why wait so long to be filled in?
In the document I also talked about how the moon as a 1.3Billion year age limit otherwise the Earth would of destroyed it before it assembled.

Issue 5 - Distance of Light
There is a creationist cosmology, look up Russell Humphrey, he had several ideas, basically the stars/galaxies was created very close to earth. This would of put earth below the event horizon of a black hole. The size of the black hole's event horizon was very large, think no like a vortex but a pan pressed down and earth in the c

Just in case anyone is too lazy to look it up, instructions for adding the repo and installing mate are here:

http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download

Scroll down to "fedora" and follow the instructions. It's very simple.

yum install http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/fedora_17/mate-desktop-fedora/noarch/mate-desktop-release-17-1.fc17.noarch.rpm

yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop

People keep saying it's "buggy," but it's really not, any more than Gnome 2 was. It is quirky, though, as a result of a fork in progress. What I mean is that most mate apps have migrated to mateconf instead of gconf, but some things like compiz are still going to be using gconf, so you have to use both gconf and mateconf at times. But this is no worse than Gnome 3 which is half ported to gnome-settings and half still gconf.

I still haven't found a password strength checker as good as this one. It takes into account 1337 speak and concatenations of dictionary words in a really nice way.

Regarding your request for STEM materials, you are welcome to use my Chemistry screencasts (http://www.youtube.com/user/WSCCCalomeni). The 18 screencasts are not lecture videos, but instead designed for an online Community College Introductory Chemistry Course. They are not as popular as (and different than) Khan’s work (I have not advertised them), yet they have still had over 20,0000 views in a year and a half. I have also authorized their use for school systems in India.

You are also welcome to use any of my various periodic charts, periodic tables, and handouts (Dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0y957p0tpiork8z/g0-SxImEKa). All of the materials are FREE. They are licensed to the public and commercial domain under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. (Disclaimer—I am not trying to profit off of any of the above material).

The screencasts were produced a year and a half ago; I am currently working on producing updates. Any constructive feedback is welcome. The creation of any successful online STEM course is a lot of work. While developing courses at a university, I developed 29 design courses in six months. The development (and teaching) of one online chemistry course took two years of half-time work. A lot of the work consisted of making the course highly resistant to the cheating/plagiarism common in online courses (the solution is easy—make the assignments unique and challenging enough such that cheating/plagiarism is more work than the course assignments).

As far as STEM courses go, I consider chemistry and discrete math, two of the best course which teach critical thinking. A course which focuses on the weekly solution of problems will be of greater long-term benefit.

My background is software development and engineering. I completed my first “online” course (Statics) in Fall of 1984 using an Engineering University’s internal network of Unix computers.

Best regards and professional success.

Dropbox probably isn't going to work.

Yes it will. Perfectly, actually, in my experience.

And it won't delete photos when you delete them from the camera upload directory.

Check it out here: https://www.dropbox.com/help/288

Further, it will chew on each image file till it gets a successful upload.

now a zip file at the bottom of the directory, can also be downloaded as a zip file here

I haven't listened to them all yet, but the Ishizaka's recordings sound really good. I think the Goldberg Variations can tolerate a range of styles.

I few years back I wanted to know what the Goldberg Variations might sound like "uninterpreted", at least as far as that is practically possible. I downloaded Dave Grossman's midi files and the Blanchet 1720 Harpsichord soundfont. I played a little with the registers and cleaned up the midi files a touch. Then I recorded them with timidity using a dash of reverb and used lame to turn out some mp3s (so all done with open source tools on linux).

Download: The Goldberg Variations realized on the Blanchet 1720

I'm biased, but I *really* like them, far better than any of my other recordings. Case in point, compare the 13th variation with Ishizaka's. While I enjoy different interpretations (I like her version, too), I also think the uninterpreted version keeps any one melody from being emphasized too much, thus preserving a balanced polyphony a little more.

They are also CC0 license, so copy them or sell them, or whatever. If you like them, drop me an email (in the license).

my company blocked the ports for dropbox so it won't sync while i'm at work.

No browsing at work? Too bad, as Dropbox uses standard HTTP/S ports.

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/android-roms/45504-updated-droid-rom-links-kernels-themes.html "but not touch the kernel" Wrong. "KERNELS: (please read developer's posts carefully on installation instructions, ROM compatibility, and notes) - ChevyNo1(see ROMS above for other kernels): http://www.droidforums.net/forum/chevyno1/32272-update-new-kernels-low-voltage-medium-voltage-3-25-2010-a.html - Bekit: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1123576/Android/bekit_kernels/0.8/bekit_boot-links.html - P3Droid kernels: http://www.p3designs.info/kernels/ - P3Droid kernels for Koush ROM: http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/p...ur-flavor.html - Team Chaos kernels: Kernels Thread - Jake's kernels: http://ninebysix.com/page.cfm/android-dev/droid-dev - Dave12308's kernels: http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/dave12308/" You simply have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.

Again, it sounds like you're just assuming "Oh, they could never do something that stupid, of course that's allowed." When it looks like that's exactly why apple is rejecting apps.

I'm a registered developer with an app in the store. Which gives me access to the current rules and the forum. I'm not assuming anything. Again creating free accounts is common in Apps in the store. Always has been.

I'll give you another quote from the dropbox forums.

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=59350&page=3&replies=72

Not all posts on forums are to be relied upon as indicators of what the rules are. Individual reviewers can make mistakes. Individual developers can be confused about what reviewers have rejected for. Maybe an app reviewer was aware of the DropBox problem and didn't realise that app was using the previous SDK that didn't break the rules.

From the same page you'll see that Brian S a DropBox employee, and seems satisfied that whilst everything isn't OK yet, they have an SDK ready for release tomorrow that does remove all remaining issues.

. . .though still proprietary

Nope. The Linux Dropbox client in licensed under the GPL. Zmanda, rsync.net, jungledisk and spideroak are other services that also work with linux.