Co-worker is on crack. GIMP creates images just fine. It has paintbrush (In the tools palet), line (Hold SHIFT while using paintbrush or pencil tool), circle (Use circle select tool, then click Edit -> Stroke Selection). Circle is the hardest in that it takes two steps, but it's still there and it can be edited before applied. In fact, most of the tools have special modes that are activated by holding SHIFT, CTRL, or ALT while using.
"... as long as it works." Considering that Windows PDAs only sync reliably and smoothly with Windows computers, yeah there are some of us for whom Linux on a PDA is a selling point. Some of us don't consider Windows to be the computer.
For me, the main reason I want Linux on my PDA (Even if it's an after-market mod like some of the Linux on HTC PDA projects out there) is because I get a development environment that doesn't require expensive Microsoft software, and can be extended in any way I want, not just any way they allow me. Right now, my Zaurus syncs via wifi to my computer at home, and via USB charging cable to my computer at work. Yeah, it was a bit of work initially, but it's on auto-pilot now and works reliably and smoothly.
Oh and we hates you for it. I live in a "non-pledging member city", so I have to wait till the final stages of construction (Probably about two years after the sun goes nova).
Correct, but you have to have a way to corrupt that Windows box, then a way of triggering it. Triggering could be on a simple timer, but corrupting has to happen from the outside. Despite what many think, Windows boxes don't generally corrupt themselves. They need a little nudge from the outside.
Encryption doesn't mean anything in this context. They can still see who is calling who, at what time, for what duration. So unless you call random numbers and let the line sit idle for random times, they'll still have the same information.
I could do that, but they get really ornery when I interrupt their work. It would be better to have the login script do it (As soon as I can find out how to do that). Thanks to all who replied.
This is sorta off topic, but relavant because of the new update.
Where I work, I've been pushing hard to get the company to use Firefox instead of IE. I've got most people using it every day. However these are normal office workers, they don't click on the update icon (They don't even wonder about it), and I find that they're running an older version. Does anyone know of a way to add the update to a login script, so it is silently installed when they login? I've googled around, and maybe I'm not using the right search phrases, but I'm not finding anything useful. I'm even willing to download a whole new.exe file for 1.5.0.3 if I can figure out a way to have that auto-installed on the 35 machines here.
Owning a RWD vehicle in any place that it happens to snow or get cold enough for ice to form has been known to quickly change one's opinion of RWD and "fun". Tried climbing a hill in a RWD? Or worse yet, stopping at a traffic light on a hill and then trying to get moving again? How about pulling out of a driveway into traffic? As soon as the back-end breaks loose (Which it does unless there's an inordinate amount of weight back there, which screws over any kind of climbing power) the vehicle fishtails and at the very least kills any sort of acceleration curve you were trying to achieve.
There's a reason truck owners put 200-500 pounds of weight in the back of their trucks in winter. Adding that much weight will turn a 1.8L into a go-kart. At the very least it will cut the transmission's lifetime down.
Pretty much ANYTHING pwnz Outlook when it comes to using disconnected and/or IMAP.
Seriously. The COO at the company I work for is moving all the salespeople to POP3 so they can keep their e-mail local because of how bad Outlook is with IMAP access and its broken offline support.
Methinks someone has been listening to Hollywood a little too much. If the system "screws up", what happens is that I turn the deadbolt control and walk out the door after disconnecting the system from the furnace. Most of the time I wouldn't even have to walk out the door since I can just as easily override any errant setting and bring the system back under control. Just because it's integrated and electronic does not mean it does not have manual overrides or physical keys. I'm not removing any functionality that I have now, I'm supplementing it with an automation system. No bug will lock me out of the system.
As for it getting hacked, my post didn't mention the security on the system, just the security on the house. The entire security system I have in mind would have taken at least as much space to describe as my original post and would have only been tangentially on topic. Suffice it to say that the system would be secure and would implement strong separation, authentication, and encryption.
I'm just a geek, not a home-automation expert, but the house I've been designing (for when I'm rich and/or famous) will have quite a bit of (in my opinion) useful automation (In no particular order):
The entire system will be integrated and each component will communicate back to the central "nerve cluster" either through a hard-wired interface or wirelessly. In turn, this computer system will keep everything running smoothly, coordinate all house functions for optimal occupant comfort and energy efficiency, and will make all its data available to (only) me for analysis.
Remotely controllable as well as having several touch screens at strategic locations around the house. It will have a secure web interface that I can connect to from my desktop/laptop/PDA/smartphone and control all the basic functions. The advanced functions may require a larger screen (e.g. a laptop or one of the touch screens).
Integration with my home network. This will give me the added benefit of integration with the car computer I am designing (I pull into the drive way, the house knows I'm home and begins its nightly routine).
Bluetooth receivers at strategic locations around the house so a bluetooth-equipped PDA or smartphone could be my remote. This gives me the added benefit of being able to unlock the doors and tell the house I am home by being close to one of the external doors.
Intelligent light switches. They will all be controllable from the home system so I can have it turn lights on/off from one of the touch screens scattered around the house, the TV interface, or my remote controls. It will also be able to (de)activate lights as necessary (e.g. Turn on the external lights 25 minutes after sunset, slowly bring up the lights in the master bedroom a few minutes before I wake up).
Integrated door locks. I don't want to have to remember to lock up at night or when I leave the house (It's a force of habit now, but if the house is intelligent, it should look after itself). Also, if I'm away from home, I can unlock the doors for whoever I have bringing in the mail/feeding the pets. Likewise, I want automated window shades, so I can (have it) increase or decrease the amount of sunlight entering the house.
Integration with the HVAC system, with zoned cooling/heating and remote temperature sensing, unlimited temperature schedule, away mode, overrides, etc. Also a small weather station feeding data into the system telling me the outside conditions and giving me alerts (e.g. reminding me to put on a coat if it is raining or snowed overnight).
Insulated, double-paned windows and security doors (and door jams).
Increased insulation in the house, especially the outside walls and ceilings. With the zoned HVAC system, I don't want heat leeching between zones. I'm also looking at insulated concrete for the foundation.
Conduit from every room leading to a specially-designed central server room. This will be the home for the nerve cluster as well as the other servers in the house. Each room will have two Ethernet drops as well as coax cable, but I can add more later if desired.
Integrated security system with cameras watching the doors and the driveway and sensors on all the windows. The system will be intelligent enough to pause the movie I'm watching and show me who's walking toward my doorway; turn on all the house lights if a window is opened after 10pm; if someone comes to my door while I'm not home, the house sends me a picture; or if I'm in the back yard the system can send me a video feed from the porch cam and I can tell the person there to come around back.
Integrated telecomm system. If I'm watching TV, it will have the option of pausing and showing me the Caller ID information for who is calling, and allow me to decide to take the call or go back to what I was doing previously. It will also be intelligent enough to route calls with blacklisted numbers or no Caller ID information to the auto-attendant.
Others may have pointed this out already, but the reason file transfer and direct connect seldom work is because of your (or their) NAT/Firewall blocking incoming connections. This will have no effect on that. You will still have to open specific ports on the firewall (If you can) and forward them to your machine. I actually find GAIM easier since I can specify a range of ports to use and assign blocks of 10 ports to each machine behind my firewall.
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Co-worker is on crack. GIMP creates images just fine. It has paintbrush (In the tools palet), line (Hold SHIFT while using paintbrush or pencil tool), circle (Use circle select tool, then click Edit -> Stroke Selection). Circle is the hardest in that it takes two steps, but it's still there and it can be edited before applied. In fact, most of the tools have special modes that are activated by holding SHIFT, CTRL, or ALT while using.
Interesting, thanks. I wonder why it didn't come up when I browsed through the 3Ware category.
Regardless, this one wouldn't help the situation mentioned in TFA because it doesn't do RAID5.
Cite? I'm looking at Newegg's site now and the cheapest 3ware card I can find is $175 and doesn't even do RAID5.
That's why we have UPSes. It doesn't matter if your RAID controller has battery-backed write cache if the power to the drives dies.
"... as long as it works." Considering that Windows PDAs only sync reliably and smoothly with Windows computers, yeah there are some of us for whom Linux on a PDA is a selling point. Some of us don't consider Windows to be the computer.
For me, the main reason I want Linux on my PDA (Even if it's an after-market mod like some of the Linux on HTC PDA projects out there) is because I get a development environment that doesn't require expensive Microsoft software, and can be extended in any way I want, not just any way they allow me. Right now, my Zaurus syncs via wifi to my computer at home, and via USB charging cable to my computer at work. Yeah, it was a bit of work initially, but it's on auto-pilot now and works reliably and smoothly.
What, you mean give the haters something else to bitch about because it's only similar, not identical?
I have. Whatever you do, stay away from the NVRAM settings. Those aren't cleared by loading a different firmware.
I say we change it to a Borg cube with the Windows logo emblazoned on one side.
That is reason #2 why I won't own a Sidekick, even though they're about the best QWERTY phone available in the American market.
Incidentally, reason #1 is because I can't write my own software for them.
Oh and we hates you for it. I live in a "non-pledging member city", so I have to wait till the final stages of construction (Probably about two years after the sun goes nova).
Correct, but you have to have a way to corrupt that Windows box, then a way of triggering it. Triggering could be on a simple timer, but corrupting has to happen from the outside. Despite what many think, Windows boxes don't generally corrupt themselves. They need a little nudge from the outside.
Except that SAV 9 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack that forced my company to upgrade to SAV 10.
If it's web-based data, yeah. But I still cannot get random data (e.g. ssh session or Jabber clients) to work right.
Encryption doesn't mean anything in this context. They can still see who is calling who, at what time, for what duration. So unless you call random numbers and let the line sit idle for random times, they'll still have the same information.
I'd be right there with you, but there aren't other options where I live and work. It's all a regional monopoly here.
I could do that, but they get really ornery when I interrupt their work. It would be better to have the login script do it (As soon as I can find out how to do that). Thanks to all who replied.
This is sorta off topic, but relavant because of the new update.
.exe file for 1.5.0.3 if I can figure out a way to have that auto-installed on the 35 machines here.
Where I work, I've been pushing hard to get the company to use Firefox instead of IE. I've got most people using it every day. However these are normal office workers, they don't click on the update icon (They don't even wonder about it), and I find that they're running an older version. Does anyone know of a way to add the update to a login script, so it is silently installed when they login? I've googled around, and maybe I'm not using the right search phrases, but I'm not finding anything useful. I'm even willing to download a whole new
No, but I have wondered how to set those options for accessing the website only from my PDA.
Owning a RWD vehicle in any place that it happens to snow or get cold enough for ice to form has been known to quickly change one's opinion of RWD and "fun". Tried climbing a hill in a RWD? Or worse yet, stopping at a traffic light on a hill and then trying to get moving again? How about pulling out of a driveway into traffic? As soon as the back-end breaks loose (Which it does unless there's an inordinate amount of weight back there, which screws over any kind of climbing power) the vehicle fishtails and at the very least kills any sort of acceleration curve you were trying to achieve.
There's a reason truck owners put 200-500 pounds of weight in the back of their trucks in winter. Adding that much weight will turn a 1.8L into a go-kart. At the very least it will cut the transmission's lifetime down.
Pretty much ANYTHING pwnz Outlook when it comes to using disconnected and/or IMAP.
Seriously. The COO at the company I work for is moving all the salespeople to POP3 so they can keep their e-mail local because of how bad Outlook is with IMAP access and its broken offline support.
The Red Hat 5.2 and 6.2 CDs and boxes I have at home disagree with you. Beyond that, you're fairly correct.
I've also heard them referred to as "evil", "bitches", "evil bitches", and some other things I dare not repeat in an open forum.
Methinks someone has been listening to Hollywood a little too much. If the system "screws up", what happens is that I turn the deadbolt control and walk out the door after disconnecting the system from the furnace. Most of the time I wouldn't even have to walk out the door since I can just as easily override any errant setting and bring the system back under control. Just because it's integrated and electronic does not mean it does not have manual overrides or physical keys. I'm not removing any functionality that I have now, I'm supplementing it with an automation system. No bug will lock me out of the system.
As for it getting hacked, my post didn't mention the security on the system, just the security on the house. The entire security system I have in mind would have taken at least as much space to describe as my original post and would have only been tangentially on topic. Suffice it to say that the system would be secure and would implement strong separation, authentication, and encryption.
I'm just a geek, not a home-automation expert, but the house I've been designing (for when I'm rich and/or famous) will have quite a bit of (in my opinion) useful automation (In no particular order):
Others may have pointed this out already, but the reason file transfer and direct connect seldom work is because of your (or their) NAT/Firewall blocking incoming connections. This will have no effect on that. You will still have to open specific ports on the firewall (If you can) and forward them to your machine. I actually find GAIM easier since I can specify a range of ports to use and assign blocks of 10 ports to each machine behind my firewall.