Document Management Systems are great - they combine (some of) the benefits of source control, file systems, and email (collaboration).
I would recommend just downloading a VM or cloud image of something like Knowledge Tree or Alfresco (I personally prefer Alfresco), and run it on the free vmwareplayer or a real VM solution if you have one.
I recently setup a demo showing the benefits of such a system, I was able to, in about one day, download and setup Alfresco, expose CIFS interface (ie, \\192.168.x.x\documents) and just dump a portion of my entire document base into the system. After digestion, the system had all the documents full-text-indexed (yes, even word docs and excel files thanks to OpenOffice libraries), and I could go about changing directory structure, moving around and renaming files, etc... and the source control would show me changes. In fact, I could go into the backend and write SQL queries if I wanted to with detailed reports of how things were on date X or Y revisions ago. Was quite sweet. All the while, the users still saw the same windows directory structure and modifications they made there would be versioned and modified in Alfresco's database.
Here is a bitnami VM image, will save you days of configuration. If the solution works for you, but is slow, just DL the native stack and migrate or re-import.
My buddy uses MagicJack and his voice goes in and out constantly. It's like calling someone on a cell phone that is in a dead spot. Anyone else experience this?
Yes, my parents had set this up on one of their laptops, and things were fine for a while, and then they started experiencing these symptoms similar to your buddy (call drops, auto-tune like modulation, random voice drops, etc). On further investigation, I found that they had finally figured out how to use their laptop with wifi, and so MagicJack was routing over wifi (congested in their apt. complex) now whereas the laptop previously was wired directly into the router.
I setup an old core solo MacMini for just this purpose and they run MJ through that, and now call quality is quite excellent (ironically also renders MJ's mandatory advertizing quite useless, as the only way to see content on this device is to switch TV channels, which is only done to diagnose when MJ isn't working).
In fact, now that I remember it, most VoIP providers (Vonage, Lingo) suggest you put their VoIP bridge hardware *in front* of the router for performance reasons.
He has more influence than anyone here would like, understands the net more than many here (he had an ISP in 1993 FFS and has always listened to experts) but doesn't care if he breaks it so long as he can get money from the pieces.
I gather he's rather intelligent and amoral, which should concern the freedom-loving reader, but the question is, is he (and his ideas) capable enough to enact his self-enrichment plan?
Perhaps we're seeing the 1.0 version... and he'll try it again and again until he succeeds?
Harsh judgment, especially in this economy. Blacklisting (totally possible and expected in our consolidated media landscape) is a real threat. How would you like to be forced to change your career because you did the right thing? Ultimately though I agree with you regarding the moral choice, my response was meant to be non-judgemental about the person doing the work... however, the corporate media, it's owners and funders are the main problem. They decry any ideas or attempts to shine a light on their behavior (ie, fairness act is FASCISM!!!) while further consolidating the control of our media landscape.
I always (because I'm like that) wipe down my 3GS (a simple swipe on cotton pant or shirt does the trick) after using it for any period, to remove the marks and make the screen clear. Because of the oleophobic screen coating, with my 3GS, it's completely easy and now a habit. I find I do it even if the screen isn't necessarily dirty, just muscle memory.
This would, IMHO, quite effectively counter smudge attacks as there wouldn't be any smudges on my device.
Do any Android devices have oleophobic screens? If not, maybe something like this would work (not sure in practice how it would fare).
Remote start, keyless entry, and bluetooth are all available for the Corolla (most even below the XLS), and touch screen controls over knobs are a definite preference, not feature.
Sorry, when I meant keyless, I mean RFID, keyless ignition (Toyota calls it the smart key system). I don't think the Corolla has that yet even as an option. More and more cars have this option today, but back in 2005, it was limited to luxury vehicles and the Prius (standard package). Honestly, if you like the Corolla, good for you, it's a decent car, but our Prius has fit us pretty well for the past 5 years (and probably next 5 as well). btw, totally agreed on hatchbacks.
Well in that case, can you show me the Corolla model that has keyless entry, bluetooth integration, touchscreen controls and a hatchback?
You can't because there is none. The Corolla is a great econobox, but you can't compare the prices of the two and assume the Prius is all just "hybrid markup".
This articles are paid-for bullshit. The timeframe is invalid (5 years), the opinion (translation) injected into the "article" about green car buyers is sourced completely from a biased blog (PsyBlog).
Not one of these mentioned any of the reasons I bought a hybrid: HOV lane access, no smog checks for 5 years (I'm in Cali, YMMV), and features found only in higher-end models (keyless entry, bluetooth). If I didn't buy a Prius, I would not have bought a Corolla, but a Lexus, Acura or BMW (ie, cars that hold value and are relatively easy to maintain, but more expensive).
I have owned my Prius for over 5 years, and it's running great with no costly incidents (about to replace stock tires), and I estimate I've saved $3000 in gas... clearly I'm all just about the image.
Bicycles are even cheaper, if you ignore the cost of your time and of becoming a smear on the expressway.
If you live so far away you need to ride your bike via expressway, don't do it. Also, there are benefits gained by riding on even a semi-regular basis (ie, fitness).
The fix is just to go to Slashdot for all your discussion, ever.
FTFY. Slashdot is usually at least interesting w/r/t discussion. Strawman, Ad-hominem, Troll, Flamebait and other forms of Conversational Terrorism (ie, noise) are usually downrated, and many times I learn things here due to the up-rating of signal that's Informative or Insightful. I tried, I mean, really tried to spend more than 5 minutes on almost any other discussion thread... it's a worthless effort.
It's a shame that the moderation system from Slashdot (or some derivative) isn't used more widely.
The last time Democrats in this country had balls, they seceded from the union to keep their slaves.
Ah yes, the Dixiecrats and the Solid South. Funny enough, the voting patterns switched after the Dem party passed the Civil Right bill back in '65... the formerly "I'll never vote Republican" voters switched at the "betrayal". Consequently, Nixon/GOP leveraged this to victory in 68 and 72 using the Southern Strategy... plus ca change (D->R) plus c'est la meme chose (ah, racists).
This is classic monopolistic competition in a standardized market
After this, I pretty much stopped reading your rant. Although Apple does a quiet a few things that piss me off and show poor consumer response, they are NOT A MONOPOLY. What you're saying is that if anyone can charge a higher price because of their brand, then they are using "monopolistic competition"? Yeah, tell that to BMW or Sonoma-Williams or Ethan Allen... yes, they're all *frickin monopolies* because they can extract a higher margin from their brand (despite the fact that they are just making everyday items with higher quality).
Fuck Google. They were our champions, and they stabbed us in the back.
They were your champions? No, you only thought they were. They are a corporation whose main (if not sole) priority is to make money for their shareholders and to survive. Fools who go accepting that a corporation has your back when you are nothing but eyeballs to them deserve what they get... just like the fools who thought for whatever reason that Apple was going to "democratize" the mobile phone industry with the iPhone, or that Facebook really has your privacy in mind... when "user interests" and "company's interests" are in conflict... guess who wins?
Personally I still think Google's interests align mostly with their users' interests, but there are cracks in that alliance forming already.
It's clear this is a SNEP (RIAA equivalent in France) move to "bolster" the music export business (France is a big music/media exporter along with India and USA), and dovetails nicely with the plans of Président Sarkozy (previously Minister of the Interior, in effect head of national security) to make France even more of a nanny and police state.
So much for liberté... we still have egalité and fraternité (until further notice)
Like sharepoint. It's a web framework with some extra features.
Sharepoint is Microsoft's implementation of an enterprise content management (ECM) system. You can do much of the same these days with a large number of open-source projects (Alfresco 3.x is great out of the box), most of which work well with each other due to open standards. I bet you're glad you never had to deal with a sucky SP 1.0 implementation in a windows only shop. It may not suck that bad anymore, but it was great to get away from that hell.
I have a simpler solution to this: tax transactions. Seriously, the London Stock Exchange does it. You don't even have to tax excessively, simply tax each transaction a fixed amount (say $.25) or a very small % (like 0.005%). Why should high frequency trading even be allowed? This tax would also kill automated frontrunning. If churn is the problem, there are ways to slow things down.
What about the ability to re-use a good power supply and case?
As a coder, reuse is part of my work ethic. However there are different types of reuse... and selling or gifting/handing-down your kit is one very good reuse tech. I can't remember the number of times I've done this with tech, and as long as the person recieving it doesn't use it as a paperweight, it feels good (ie, ethically compliant) too.
Like the GP comment, I have graduated from buying components and putting together my own kit to just buying devices and using those (Apple mostly, but lots of others). With a good enough resale/reuse value, the reselling of the completely working product (and buying new version/model) is often just as economical.
Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! The folks in the US got their drawers in a knot, when the Concorde wanted to fly over, "because it was too loud." What do you think they will say, when they have a Hiroshima or Nagasaki flying over their heads?
Stop getting your panties all bunched up... You do realize that the comment you're replying to talked about "electric storage"? Noone is gung-ho about flying nuclear ('cept maybe Emmet "Doc" Brown)... but if you can generate electrical via Nuclear (and Wind/Solar) and store it effectively via batteries, you might be able to replace a good chunk of gasoline that gets burned each flight with renewable and cheap energy. Today's batteries are probably not up to the task, but perhaps by 2030 (given the strong push for electric vehicles and portable electronics), there will be some that will allow significant liquid fuel reduction.
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I would recommend just downloading a VM or cloud image of something like Knowledge Tree or Alfresco (I personally prefer Alfresco), and run it on the free vmwareplayer or a real VM solution if you have one.
I recently setup a demo showing the benefits of such a system, I was able to, in about one day, download and setup Alfresco, expose CIFS interface (ie, \\192.168.x.x\documents) and just dump a portion of my entire document base into the system. After digestion, the system had all the documents full-text-indexed (yes, even word docs and excel files thanks to OpenOffice libraries), and I could go about changing directory structure, moving around and renaming files, etc. .. and the source control would show me changes. In fact, I could go into the backend and write SQL queries if I wanted to with detailed reports of how things were on date X or Y revisions ago. Was quite sweet. All the while, the users still saw the same windows directory structure and modifications they made there would be versioned and modified in Alfresco's database.
Here is a bitnami VM image, will save you days of configuration. If the solution works for you, but is slow, just DL the native stack and migrate or re-import.
Yes, my parents had set this up on one of their laptops, and things were fine for a while, and then they started experiencing these symptoms similar to your buddy (call drops, auto-tune like modulation, random voice drops, etc). On further investigation, I found that they had finally figured out how to use their laptop with wifi, and so MagicJack was routing over wifi (congested in their apt. complex) now whereas the laptop previously was wired directly into the router.
I setup an old core solo MacMini for just this purpose and they run MJ through that, and now call quality is quite excellent (ironically also renders MJ's mandatory advertizing quite useless, as the only way to see content on this device is to switch TV channels, which is only done to diagnose when MJ isn't working).
In fact, now that I remember it, most VoIP providers (Vonage, Lingo) suggest you put their VoIP bridge hardware *in front* of the router for performance reasons.
I gather he's rather intelligent and amoral, which should concern the freedom-loving reader, but the question is, is he (and his ideas) capable enough to enact his self-enrichment plan?
Perhaps we're seeing the 1.0 version... and he'll try it again and again until he succeeds?
Here's your fully functional birth control app.
Harsh judgment, especially in this economy. Blacklisting (totally possible and expected in our consolidated media landscape) is a real threat. How would you like to be forced to change your career because you did the right thing? Ultimately though I agree with you regarding the moral choice, my response was meant to be non-judgemental about the person doing the work... however, the corporate media, it's owners and funders are the main problem. They decry any ideas or attempts to shine a light on their behavior (ie, fairness act is FASCISM!!!) while further consolidating the control of our media landscape.
They are beyond redemption.
This would, IMHO, quite effectively counter smudge attacks as there wouldn't be any smudges on my device.
Do any Android devices have oleophobic screens? If not, maybe something like this would work (not sure in practice how it would fare).
Sorry, when I meant keyless, I mean RFID, keyless ignition (Toyota calls it the smart key system). I don't think the Corolla has that yet even as an option. More and more cars have this option today, but back in 2005, it was limited to luxury vehicles and the Prius (standard package). Honestly, if you like the Corolla, good for you, it's a decent car, but our Prius has fit us pretty well for the past 5 years (and probably next 5 as well). btw, totally agreed on hatchbacks.
Well in that case, can you show me the Corolla model that has keyless entry, bluetooth integration, touchscreen controls and a hatchback?
You can't because there is none. The Corolla is a great econobox, but you can't compare the prices of the two and assume the Prius is all just "hybrid markup".
Not one of these mentioned any of the reasons I bought a hybrid: HOV lane access, no smog checks for 5 years (I'm in Cali, YMMV), and features found only in higher-end models (keyless entry, bluetooth). If I didn't buy a Prius, I would not have bought a Corolla, but a Lexus, Acura or BMW (ie, cars that hold value and are relatively easy to maintain, but more expensive).
I have owned my Prius for over 5 years, and it's running great with no costly incidents (about to replace stock tires), and I estimate I've saved $3000 in gas... clearly I'm all just about the image.
If you live so far away you need to ride your bike via expressway, don't do it. Also, there are benefits gained by riding on even a semi-regular basis (ie, fitness).
Yet, more Democratic representatives and senators voted for it. What's your point?
Sure we do, it was the South (both Dem and Rep), where institutionalized racism and bigotry had never really left.
FTFY. Slashdot is usually at least interesting w/r/t discussion. Strawman, Ad-hominem, Troll, Flamebait and other forms of Conversational Terrorism (ie, noise) are usually downrated, and many times I learn things here due to the up-rating of signal that's Informative or Insightful. I tried, I mean, really tried to spend more than 5 minutes on almost any other discussion thread... it's a worthless effort.
It's a shame that the moderation system from Slashdot (or some derivative) isn't used more widely.
Ah yes, the Dixiecrats and the Solid South. Funny enough, the voting patterns switched after the Dem party passed the Civil Right bill back in '65... the formerly "I'll never vote Republican" voters switched at the "betrayal". Consequently, Nixon/GOP leveraged this to victory in 68 and 72 using the Southern Strategy... plus ca change (D->R) plus c'est la meme chose (ah, racists).
CalTech, based on the web-rankings... seems about what I remember from 15 years ago, too.
After this, I pretty much stopped reading your rant. Although Apple does a quiet a few things that piss me off and show poor consumer response, they are NOT A MONOPOLY. What you're saying is that if anyone can charge a higher price because of their brand, then they are using "monopolistic competition"? Yeah, tell that to BMW or Sonoma-Williams or Ethan Allen... yes, they're all *frickin monopolies* because they can extract a higher margin from their brand (despite the fact that they are just making everyday items with higher quality).
Sounds like a classy guy, but sadly I'm guessing this is par for the course at this level of "leadership" in most companies.
He traded Sammy Sosa. Nuff said.
So the question is, are they still using Mork concurrently? Why are MSF files being updated?
They were your champions? No, you only thought they were. They are a corporation whose main (if not sole) priority is to make money for their shareholders and to survive. Fools who go accepting that a corporation has your back when you are nothing but eyeballs to them deserve what they get... just like the fools who thought for whatever reason that Apple was going to "democratize" the mobile phone industry with the iPhone, or that Facebook really has your privacy in mind... when "user interests" and "company's interests" are in conflict... guess who wins?
Personally I still think Google's interests align mostly with their users' interests, but there are cracks in that alliance forming already.
So much for liberté... we still have egalité and fraternité (until further notice)
Sharepoint is Microsoft's implementation of an enterprise content management (ECM) system. You can do much of the same these days with a large number of open-source projects (Alfresco 3.x is great out of the box), most of which work well with each other due to open standards. I bet you're glad you never had to deal with a sucky SP 1.0 implementation in a windows only shop. It may not suck that bad anymore, but it was great to get away from that hell.
I have a simpler solution to this: tax transactions. Seriously, the London Stock Exchange does it. You don't even have to tax excessively, simply tax each transaction a fixed amount (say $.25) or a very small % (like 0.005%). Why should high frequency trading even be allowed? This tax would also kill automated frontrunning. If churn is the problem, there are ways to slow things down.
As a coder, reuse is part of my work ethic. However there are different types of reuse... and selling or gifting/handing-down your kit is one very good reuse tech. I can't remember the number of times I've done this with tech, and as long as the person recieving it doesn't use it as a paperweight, it feels good (ie, ethically compliant) too.
Like the GP comment, I have graduated from buying components and putting together my own kit to just buying devices and using those (Apple mostly, but lots of others). With a good enough resale/reuse value, the reselling of the completely working product (and buying new version/model) is often just as economical.
Stop getting your panties all bunched up... You do realize that the comment you're replying to talked about "electric storage"? Noone is gung-ho about flying nuclear ('cept maybe Emmet "Doc" Brown)... but if you can generate electrical via Nuclear (and Wind/Solar) and store it effectively via batteries, you might be able to replace a good chunk of gasoline that gets burned each flight with renewable and cheap energy. Today's batteries are probably not up to the task, but perhaps by 2030 (given the strong push for electric vehicles and portable electronics), there will be some that will allow significant liquid fuel reduction.