https://pcloud.com/ - they have end-user encryption, currently in the desktop versions, working on getting it in the web and mobile versions. The encryption sources are open and available at their github account ( https://github.com/pcloudcom ), and they recently got an audit of the whole software and encryption schema.
(disclaimer - i worked there and helped design it)
There is a small shell script called gwping, which can be used to do the exactly same thing, easier and simpler. It's ~150 lines (with comments and everything) and takes 10-20 minutes to setup with the policy routing and everything, we don't need an overbloated runtime to do something so simple.
If you use a second keyboard layout and switching, don't upgrade, this still isn't fixed and it's hell, at random points in time it starts rapidly changing the layout, leading to weird results in what you type.
Also there are two problems with the NVidia driver - one is that the text is horribly slow with the included driver, you need to install the beta from the site, and the other is that the nouveau driver fucks up the card and makes it impossible to use the card, so I had to revert to an older kernel. There's a bug for this too somewhere, can't remember the ID.
... to crap like web control panels and GUIs. They might be great for some brain-dead users and other office furniture, but when your actual work is in making sure something works, the CLI is just better - fast to work with (everyone has tab completion these days, and if you haven't learned to type, go sit in irc for a while), can be easily scripted and automated (even windows has something useful right now), can easily be scheduled, and you can see the results pretty easy.
All GUIs I've seen plainly suck. There's ONE general idea that the programmer had how everything should be used, and that's wrong all the time. There's never something like "do this to these N selected objects", there's nothing like pipes, they're slower (navigation-wise) and they tend to fuck up horribly, having to restart the whole interface (I've managed to break too many of these).
(I'd say I'm sorry, but I don't know you, her, anyone around you and I although it's bad, I can't really make myself feel anything).
In short. You're not the one that's dying, it's just not up to you. Let her do whatever think it's appropriate (telling her anything about it would be just imposing), and keep your own memories, however you want them (blog probably, although your head would suffice). Don't overdo it - otherwise your risk killing parts of you and your daughters in the process.
And, you seem too depressed to ask on Slashdot. Please, please, please, talk to someone, even a professional (even with the related social stigmata related to that). Don't try to offload this on a bunch of strangers, that's not going to work well anyway. We suck. Even though a lot of us lost someone dear sometime ago (me - about a week ago), it still doesn't make us any good in offering good advice on anything like this.
Seriously. Please 1) don't be an idiot 2) do what's right instead of using strangers to thing for you. Yes, you might fuck up, so what? You'll still remember her for what she was.
Can we please have a tag "moronswithnobasicunderstandingofthetechnologyproposestupidsolutions" ? The article is mostly fear-mongering and a a waste of time. Should we be looking at what every idiot on the planet thinks about something he doesn't understand?
If so, can I write something on how bad particle physics is, because there are always problems with the accelerators and they carry a lot of energy and can open black holes?
As on the BGP hijacks, etc. - there are BGPmon and a ton of other projects that track the internet. There are established ways to stop all leaks/hijacks within a hour or two, and there's the way of making the person responsible NOT do that again. Go read on NANOG or a similar list the discussions on the topic, they're far more useful.
This is getting bloody ridiculous. Everyone releases a piece of binary crap for 32bit linux and that's - OK, are you saying your code is so crappy you can't recompile it at least for x86_64 (which is starting to get comparable in size to the ix86 crowd). Heck, our stuff (which is about 300MB of source) got recompiled for x86_64 in 6 hours (took two-three compilations and some tweaking, the diff was less than 30k).
So, please, people that release binary stuff for Linux, etc., take a bit of time, compile for something else, or you'll start looking really bad.
What kind of air-conditioning is that? Here the rule of thumb looks like this - 10KW of electricity produce 7KW of heat, and it takes one-third of that (2.333KW) in electricity to move it out. Do you have any sources on this?:)
The standard replacement cycle is about three years, so until they try that, this doesn't mean a lot. Also, what was the density of the data center? I still love the story of a datacenter with some DSLAMs that cooled left to right which were put next to each other in about 12 racks and the rightmost one caught fire once a week...
Also, I don't know the climate there, but in the regular climate here where it goes between -10 and +35 celsius (that's between 14 and 95 fahrenheit) and there's a good dose of humidity, the failure rate might be somewhat bigger...
Excuse me? Penrose's "The emperor's new mind" was published in 1989 and is one wonderful book on AI - so great that I've read it a few times (I was 14-15 the first time I read it, it took pretty long to come to my country). Maybe EW should concentrate on the mindless entertainment?
I read so many comments on being unable to read through the Cryptonomicon and Quicksilver that I'm a bit baffled. I mean, WTF, we're talking of about a thousand pages that have a lot of information, nicely written, challenging, fun, etc. (well, I also have a hard time reading his sex scenes, but I think he writes them this way on purpose...). I haven't seen anywhere anything like the talk between Newton and Leibniz on the free will, for example...
A lot of people here probably like J.R.R.Martin's stuff - which is also big and not-so-interesting. It's also the same size, just not that full of facts (if any:) ) and not really challenging. Also, I bet a lot of people have gone through bigger textbooks which are far harder to digest... So I don't get the whining.
(you want something bigger - go for Erikson's "Malazan Book of the Fallen". He still hasn't gotten boring (on book 7/10), has a humongous world and so many stories that connect in some way that for most people it's hard to keep track of even half of them:) )
A chaotic system is one related to the outcome of particular parameter. The boiling water is chaotic based on how bubbles are going to form, not on their quantity. In the climate system you have much more than that to base the results on, it's not as simple as the boiling water.
And my point isn't about is there or isn't there a global warming trend, it's about the bloody crappy story, where the first five entries I read were so laughable and badly written that nobody would believe them.
(as for my direct opinion - there is some change that's making at least my part of the world warmer. But I don't think I know enough to give a qualified opinion on that.)
I mean, how can someone read those and not think 'okay, those people are twisting everything they could'? I've read better FUD by microsoft, FFS...
"These studies show X, but Y seems far better for us" and similar things are used through this, I can't imagine that anyone can believe them. For example, the 'myth' on chaotic systems - the whole definition of chaotic system is that if you have two very similar sets of input data, you can get two very different sets of dissimilar outputs - so using the kind of prediction that the global trend in a chaotic system will remain the same is bullshit.
What the hell is the 'New scientist', a place where everyone can get crap published?
As a lot of people suggested - SVN, one repository per type of server (so you can merge changesets even internally, although using diffs is also easy), the only problem we've got is that everyone uses root@ on that machine, and the repository is checked out by servername@svn-server, so everyone has to write his name when commiting changes. If it was possible to auth users based on ssh keys on the svn server, it would be perfect.
Is there a transcript of the video available (e.g. just the subtitles pulled out)? It's a bit tedious watching this when reading it will take 1/10th of the time of the video...
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I gave some talks on different books that'll be interesting for technical people, and in the end compiled them in a list in goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/list...
Most of this seems fascinating to read, and a some of these have interesting implications :)
https://pcloud.com/ - they have end-user encryption, currently in the desktop versions, working on getting it in the web and mobile versions. The encryption sources are open and available at their github account ( https://github.com/pcloudcom ), and they recently got an audit of the whole software and encryption schema.
(disclaimer - i worked there and helped design it)
There is a small shell script called gwping, which can be used to do the exactly same thing, easier and simpler. It's ~150 lines (with comments and everything) and takes 10-20 minutes to setup with the policy routing and everything, we don't need an overbloated runtime to do something so simple.
The word in cyrlillic ("") is "site", not "sale".
In the announcement he did abot the cancer there was something about one more book from the Culture, are there any news about it?
Three minutes with a DNS resolver, traceroute and whois will show that hotfile is actually in the US.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/625793
If you use a second keyboard layout and switching, don't upgrade, this still isn't fixed and it's hell, at random points in time it starts rapidly changing the layout, leading to weird results in what you type.
Also there are two problems with the NVidia driver - one is that the text is horribly slow with the included driver, you need to install the beta from the site, and the other is that the nouveau driver fucks up the card and makes it impossible to use the card, so I had to revert to an older kernel. There's a bug for this too somewhere, can't remember the ID.
... to crap like web control panels and GUIs. They might be great for some brain-dead users and other office furniture, but when your actual work is in making sure something works, the CLI is just better - fast to work with (everyone has tab completion these days, and if you haven't learned to type, go sit in irc for a while), can be easily scripted and automated (even windows has something useful right now), can easily be scheduled, and you can see the results pretty easy.
All GUIs I've seen plainly suck. There's ONE general idea that the programmer had how everything should be used, and that's wrong all the time. There's never something like "do this to these N selected objects", there's nothing like pipes, they're slower (navigation-wise) and they tend to fuck up horribly, having to restart the whole interface (I've managed to break too many of these).
Long live SSH :)
$3,5 per mbps is pretty close to the wholesale prices - and it would be pretty hard to get that for just 1 gbps. Where's the catch ?:)
Sorry, why is the opening of a boring site by some wanker "news for nerds"?
(I'd say I'm sorry, but I don't know you, her, anyone around you and I although it's bad, I can't really make myself feel anything).
In short. You're not the one that's dying, it's just not up to you. Let her do whatever think it's appropriate (telling her anything about it would be just imposing), and keep your own memories, however you want them (blog probably, although your head would suffice). Don't overdo it - otherwise your risk killing parts of you and your daughters in the process.
And, you seem too depressed to ask on Slashdot. Please, please, please, talk to someone, even a professional (even with the related social stigmata related to that). Don't try to offload this on a bunch of strangers, that's not going to work well anyway. We suck. Even though a lot of us lost someone dear sometime ago (me - about a week ago), it still doesn't make us any good in offering good advice on anything like this.
Seriously. Please 1) don't be an idiot 2) do what's right instead of using strangers to thing for you. Yes, you might fuck up, so what? You'll still remember her for what she was.
Does anyone have a link to the original document? Most of the FA is useless drivel.
Can we please have a tag "moronswithnobasicunderstandingofthetechnologyproposestupidsolutions" ? The article is mostly fear-mongering and a a waste of time. Should we be looking at what every idiot on the planet thinks about something he doesn't understand?
If so, can I write something on how bad particle physics is, because there are always problems with the accelerators and they carry a lot of energy and can open black holes?
As on the BGP hijacks, etc. - there are BGPmon and a ton of other projects that track the internet. There are established ways to stop all leaks/hijacks within a hour or two, and there's the way of making the person responsible NOT do that again. Go read on NANOG or a similar list the discussions on the topic, they're far more useful.
This is getting bloody ridiculous. Everyone releases a piece of binary crap for 32bit linux and that's - OK, are you saying your code is so crappy you can't recompile it at least for x86_64 (which is starting to get comparable in size to the ix86 crowd). Heck, our stuff (which is about 300MB of source) got recompiled for x86_64 in 6 hours (took two-three compilations and some tweaking, the diff was less than 30k).
So, please, people that release binary stuff for Linux, etc., take a bit of time, compile for something else, or you'll start looking really bad.
It goes into spinning hard drives :) It should be pretty obvious.
What kind of air-conditioning is that? Here the rule of thumb looks like this - 10KW of electricity produce 7KW of heat, and it takes one-third of that (2.333KW) in electricity to move it out. Do you have any sources on this?:)
The standard replacement cycle is about three years, so until they try that, this doesn't mean a lot. Also, what was the density of the data center? I still love the story of a datacenter with some DSLAMs that cooled left to right which were put next to each other in about 12 racks and the rightmost one caught fire once a week...
Also, I don't know the climate there, but in the regular climate here where it goes between -10 and +35 celsius (that's between 14 and 95 fahrenheit) and there's a good dose of humidity, the failure rate might be somewhat bigger...
Excuse me? Penrose's "The emperor's new mind" was published in 1989 and is one wonderful book on AI - so great that I've read it a few times (I was 14-15 the first time I read it, it took pretty long to come to my country). Maybe EW should concentrate on the mindless entertainment?
I read so many comments on being unable to read through the Cryptonomicon and Quicksilver that I'm a bit baffled. I mean, WTF, we're talking of about a thousand pages that have a lot of information, nicely written, challenging, fun, etc. (well, I also have a hard time reading his sex scenes, but I think he writes them this way on purpose...). I haven't seen anywhere anything like the talk between Newton and Leibniz on the free will, for example...
:) ) and not really challenging. Also, I bet a lot of people have gone through bigger textbooks which are far harder to digest... So I don't get the whining.
:) )
A lot of people here probably like J.R.R.Martin's stuff - which is also big and not-so-interesting. It's also the same size, just not that full of facts (if any
(you want something bigger - go for Erikson's "Malazan Book of the Fallen". He still hasn't gotten boring (on book 7/10), has a humongous world and so many stories that connect in some way that for most people it's hard to keep track of even half of them
A chaotic system is one related to the outcome of particular parameter. The boiling water is chaotic based on how bubbles are going to form, not on their quantity. In the climate system you have much more than that to base the results on, it's not as simple as the boiling water.
And my point isn't about is there or isn't there a global warming trend, it's about the bloody crappy story, where the first five entries I read were so laughable and badly written that nobody would believe them.
(as for my direct opinion - there is some change that's making at least my part of the world warmer. But I don't think I know enough to give a qualified opinion on that.)
I mean, how can someone read those and not think 'okay, those people are twisting everything they could'? I've read better FUD by microsoft, FFS...
"These studies show X, but Y seems far better for us" and similar things are used through this, I can't imagine that anyone can believe them. For example, the 'myth' on chaotic systems - the whole definition of chaotic system is that if you have two very similar sets of input data, you can get two very different sets of dissimilar outputs - so using the kind of prediction that the global trend in a chaotic system will remain the same is bullshit.
What the hell is the 'New scientist', a place where everyone can get crap published?
As a lot of people suggested - SVN, one repository per type of server (so you can merge changesets even internally, although using diffs is also easy), the only problem we've got is that everyone uses root@ on that machine, and the repository is checked out by servername@svn-server, so everyone has to write his name when commiting changes. If it was possible to auth users based on ssh keys on the svn server, it would be perfect.
Is there a transcript of the video available (e.g. just the subtitles pulled out)? It's a bit tedious watching this when reading it will take 1/10th of the time of the video...
http://www.vix.com/personalcolo/
It started from a thread on the NANOG list, and seems like a good starting point.