+1 for Picasa. I like that it is cross platform. Only draw back for me is there is no easy way to share its database. If you could have the database synced across multiple machines it would be an instant win.
I also use pixfer to transfer the files from the memory cards to the pc. Its abandonware now and released free of charge but it reads the exif data from the files and renames them to suit. So my files are always placed in a director of the date the photo was taken and then the file is also renamed with the date. So I end up with/yyyy-mm-dd/yyyy-mm-dd-img###.jpg
I then append a description to the directory and the file.
There is a blacklist in Australia that the Govt is open about the existence of. The problem is you dont get to know what is on it and there have been numerous cases of sites being taken down for being incorrectly put on there.
The checked luggage goes through a screening process between the drop off point and being loaded on the plane. So they would have been able to see exactly what was inside it. Every piece of checked luggage goes through that screening process. That is the thing I don't understand about the US system. Real security happens in the background, not in front of people. Once a bag goes on the conveyor it is easily controlled and inspected.
As for transporting a pc - cases are fairly susceptible to crush damage and they dent easily. The fact they are hollow makes it even worse. That is why the boxes that the cases come in have so much foam in them. When it comes to loading bags onto a plane it is a case of stack them deep stack them fast.
Back in 2004 I was doing a motorcycle camping trip around europe with my wife. I crashed the bike in Croatia and my wife got a little hurt. So she flew from Split back to London and I rode the bike back to fix it up before leaving again. When she went through security with all the crap we had been carrying they put it through the scanner, then reversed it, put it through again, a couple of times over. Then they said to her "do you have metal rods in your bag?" Her reply was oh that would be our knives and tool kit for travelling, spanners and screwdrivers. At that they just went, ok and put it through.
Domestic flying in Australia is almost like catching a train. I often do flights from Brisbane to Sydney as a commute - down in the morning, back in the evening. I book online, and check-in online. Then on the day of the flight I usually arrive 40 minutes before departure time, walk in, throw my carry-on on the scanner conveyor pick it up the other side and be sat at the gate with 15 minutes to spare before the gate closes 20 minutes before departure. Total time from walking in the airport door to the gate, 5-7 minutes.
When it comes to boarding I just hand the person at the gate my home printed boarding pass. Done. No ID required. No groping, no pat downs, no real queue. Worst case scenario is I time coming out of the xray process at the wrong time and get held up for another minute by the guy who swabs my bag for explosives residue.
To be honest the only reason I give myself that much of a window to get there is because unlike trains they don't let you get on the next one if your miss yours.
I've been using freenas for years now and have never had any issues with stability or anything like that. That said I only use it as a nas running samba & nfs.
Since I started using freenas I have grown my system to a 15 drive multi redundancy zfs setup with differing drive sizes. It has never missed a beat.
If I had to pick, I prefer Nexenta's feel. But a 4tb limit on the free option doesn't work for me and I had lots of issues with it's stupid cut down command line when you ssh in.
Probably theoretically it's possible. However reality I'd say not. You would have to predict the path of the laser to do it. And given it's ship mounted you have a lot of movement to take into consideration.
Honestly I would suggest a form of chaff is probably the most effective way of preventing laser strikes from any distance. If you knew where the laser was going to come from a screen of relatively heavy particles between you and the source will probably stop it delivering enough energy. In particular if your material would refract a % before vaporising.
Basically I called my ISP. They made me unplug everything only have modem in etc etc. Then when I still had problems they said they would call a tech but if there was no fault I would have a bill for $70.
The tech came out - went to where my phone line entered the house, opened the panel and actually cut the line at that point. Then he plugged in this device which showed a graph. I think it was showing voltage but I'm not sure. It shows peaks and troughs and from that he could tell where the joins were and where the problems were.
So I had two problems, 1 about 50m from the cabinet and one at the street. So he plug a different device in at the house end which he said would inject a signal and then went to the cabinet end to trace the fault more accurately.
Then finally, once he had fixed the problems he did a line sync at the house. Basically he said at that point there would be no charge, but if he stepped inside the house it immediately started billing me. He said the line was perfect up to the junction and if I still had problems it would be my internal wiring. FOrtunately I don't have any problems.
Upstream Downstream Current Rate (Kbps) 1020 24575
Max Rate (Kbps) 1097 26580
SNR Margin (dB) 7.3 5.9
Line Attenuation (dB) 6.7 12
Best thing for me is I now know I am on just 430m to the cabinet. Which is frankly awesome since I live on acreage.
Missiles are right on the border line of blowing up in flight already. At the moment speed is the key thing to get you past other point defence systems. Any laser counter measures that are added will inevitable increase weight or reduce payload. If you reduce speed then the existing vulcans are more likely to hit it.
Also you wouldn't mount the lasers on the the ship you were trying to protect. They would be on the surrounding ships. So the laser can hit the control surfaces or even the engine. All you need to do is get it to miss, not destroy it outright so overheating the engine, changing the burn rate or melting a control fin will suffice.
Absolutely agree. Where I see lasers being useful is in point defence. The tracking speed and their "instahit" nature make them excellent for shooting down incoming missiles.
If they can get the weapon manoeuvrable enough and have a fast enough rate of fire expect to see these deployed around carrier groups.
I still think we are more than a few years away from GDI's Ion Cannon.
A reflector will become seriously non reflective very very quickly. Mirrors don't reflect 100% of the energy, otherwise every hall of mirrors in the world would be unbearably bright.
So if you do manage to get something reflective in the path of the laser the amount of energy it will absorb rather than reflect will have two effects. One it will cause the reflector to ablate and become useless, the second is it will absorb so much energy that the resultant laser reflections will have been robbed of most of its power.
Also I don't see these types of weapons as something that is used to target another ship. There are far more effective weapons than that already in service (ie ships don't move that fast so harpoon missiles are probably more effective). It would however make an excellent point defence system. Basically if you can track it you can hit it. Include 4-5 of these in a carrier group and your ability to stop incoming missles from taking out your carrier just went up a mile.
If you are getting drops from crappy copper do you not have some recourse to the telecoms utility?
I'm in Australia and was having some issues. I spoke to my ISP they saw too many disconnects so the sent a tech out. He plugged this thing into the line that sent a signal back to the rim and it showed him where the problems were on the wire. Was actually very cool as it would say - problem at 243.2 meters. He then went and fixed them all. Admittedly all the problems were at joins with my connection at the road being the worst because of a blown water main a couple of years ago had buried it in mud. But I went from lots of drops and a sync of 7500 to no drops and a sync of 22000.
This is exactly what it means. And to be honest what you have is unusual.
Every connection has to come back to a main trunk line. That main trunk will have a current max bandwidth which has to be split between all users on that trunk. So if your main trunk is 10gig the combined speed of everyone on that trunk cannot exceed 10gig no matter how big their fast their final connection is. An easy way to control this is to limit the speeds of the final pipe. If I give you all 20mbit I can fit lots of customers onto the trunk.
They also however model average user behaviour. So they know that shortly after the kids get home from school the demand will peak and users at that time will be most sensitive to latency as they all jump into COD. From this they will know that their peak demand equates to on 40% of their sold bandwidth so they will then oversell their capacity. So instead of only selling 10gig of bandwidth they will sell 22gig and be reasonable confident that they will not hit the pipes limit too often. That is call a contention ratio of 1. Most isps however, and certainly the more dodgy ones will oversell WAY past a ratio of 1. Meaning at peak times your internet will crawl.
So in the end you having the ability to suck at the system limits is unusual because of the implications that has on the rest of the network. You may decide to grab an entire debian repository mirror and in the process completely clog the back haul pipe.
I'm sorry what?!?!? You get charged for caller id?????
Isn't called ID just stamped on the call by default? Well I know the data is there by default, so why the fuck are you having to pay for something that they would actually have to be actively stripping?!?!?
Oh? And what would you suggest he should do differently?
Let me guess? Change tax laws with no consultation? Would you suggest Tax laws that were on the very edge of constitutional legality?
Mineral resources are owned by the states. Environmental policy is lead by the states with Federal environmental law being able to be MORE strict not less. The federal government has no ability to ban mining, no ability to ban certain types of power stations, or ability to shut a power station down. So how exactly is he caressing parts of their internal digestive system?
I would suggest that you back away from propaganda that comes from people who are either caressing or being caressed in a similar fashion.
But they do have to build more infrastructure to handle solar. They may not have to build more plants but they have to change the design of the network to handle inputs from different locations at fluctuating rates.
That said I don't read anything that shows the energy companies here in Australia are overly concerned by solar. In fact most of them push it to their customers. Solar allows them to get electricity at a cheaper price to sell to someone in a different spot. There is money in moving electricity around, not just in burning coal to make it.
And my 4 year old girl swaps between wanting to be a princess, a doctor, a unicorn, a hippo and a spaceman. This can happen in the space of 5 minutes.
That said she understands the world is a ball and that gravity keeps us stuck to it. She particularly likes the fact that we are upside-down being in Australia. She knows that stars are made of gas and fusion makes them shine.
She also drives a mean tablet and I need to make sure she isn't off youtubing some person opening blind bags (Seriously WTF - 30 minute videos of people opening boxes of toys!) So I will wait to see what she ends up being.
Yeah it's not the greatest song in the world. But watching your 2&3 year old daughters trying to dance gangnam style really does push the cuteness factor into the "so fluffy I'm going to die" category. So I'm pretty sure I pushed the view count up.
It is the regulatory environment that is different. I'm basing this on what I read here so it could be miles off. But the US seems to have given monopoly status to companies to service an area. And then when someone wants to come along and build a second line they are blocked in the courts.
S.Korea has actively worked against that situation. There will still be monopoly holders in the sense of 1 company owning the only physical connection but they are required by law to allow access to their network at the same cost they provide it to themselves.
Of course S.Korea has an internet capability funded by the government with multiple low cost loans provided to infrastructure builders over the past 20 years. In addition they have actively blocked any moves towards monopoly status.
There is a huge difference between the relationship between the public and police in Australia and the public & police in the US.
I think this video from the recent G20 will give you an idea. It is a video of QLD police spontaneously dancing to the song "Nutbush" outside a pub in central Brisbane. This was at the height of the security operation for the G20.
Rubbish. I am a Queenslander, but I have also lived in multiple places around the world. There is very little corruption in our police forces, certainly relative to the rest of the world.
There will always be corruption, in the end they are people. There will always be links between senior police and criminal organisations. But there is a reason when it does happen it makes the news here. It's because it happens so rarely. I mean seriously, the copper who had a hooker in his speed camera van ended up front page news for a week. That only happens BECAUSE it is rare enough to be news.
At any one time a snap shot of the data of offenders will be a representative cross sample of the people who are offending at any one time. That means if the "overwhelming majority", your words, of drink drivers were habitual and unlikely to stop drink driving at one offence then re-offenders would represent a much higher % people caught then they do.
And this is the attitude I was referring to. You may think that top posting is an abomination but it is the way that email is used by the non techie world. I receive something in the vicinity of 250 emails a day. Do you know how many of those are top posted? All of them. If I was to reply to those emails with a bottom post people would assume I had screwed up and either miss my reply entirely or think I was being weird.
Evolution was meant to be a drop in replacement for Outlook. Outlook is THE business tool that keeps people in the microsoft world. Yet they, and obviously you, wont allow an option for people to use it the way they want. Even though the chances of it having ANY impact on you is basically zero.
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+1 for Picasa. I like that it is cross platform. Only draw back for me is there is no easy way to share its database. If you could have the database synced across multiple machines it would be an instant win.
I also use pixfer to transfer the files from the memory cards to the pc. Its abandonware now and released free of charge but it reads the exif data from the files and renames them to suit. So my files are always placed in a director of the date the photo was taken and then the file is also renamed with the date. So I end up with /yyyy-mm-dd/yyyy-mm-dd-img###.jpg
I then append a description to the directory and the file.
To add - the Australian list is called the ACMA Blacklist - it was leaked in 2010 by wikileaks
There is a blacklist in Australia that the Govt is open about the existence of. The problem is you dont get to know what is on it and there have been numerous cases of sites being taken down for being incorrectly put on there.
The checked luggage goes through a screening process between the drop off point and being loaded on the plane. So they would have been able to see exactly what was inside it. Every piece of checked luggage goes through that screening process. That is the thing I don't understand about the US system. Real security happens in the background, not in front of people. Once a bag goes on the conveyor it is easily controlled and inspected.
As for transporting a pc - cases are fairly susceptible to crush damage and they dent easily. The fact they are hollow makes it even worse. That is why the boxes that the cases come in have so much foam in them. When it comes to loading bags onto a plane it is a case of stack them deep stack them fast.
Back in 2004 I was doing a motorcycle camping trip around europe with my wife. I crashed the bike in Croatia and my wife got a little hurt. So she flew from Split back to London and I rode the bike back to fix it up before leaving again. When she went through security with all the crap we had been carrying they put it through the scanner, then reversed it, put it through again, a couple of times over. Then they said to her "do you have metal rods in your bag?" Her reply was oh that would be our knives and tool kit for travelling, spanners and screwdrivers. At that they just went, ok and put it through.
Domestic flying in Australia is almost like catching a train. I often do flights from Brisbane to Sydney as a commute - down in the morning, back in the evening. I book online, and check-in online. Then on the day of the flight I usually arrive 40 minutes before departure time, walk in, throw my carry-on on the scanner conveyor pick it up the other side and be sat at the gate with 15 minutes to spare before the gate closes 20 minutes before departure. Total time from walking in the airport door to the gate, 5-7 minutes.
When it comes to boarding I just hand the person at the gate my home printed boarding pass. Done. No ID required. No groping, no pat downs, no real queue. Worst case scenario is I time coming out of the xray process at the wrong time and get held up for another minute by the guy who swabs my bag for explosives residue.
To be honest the only reason I give myself that much of a window to get there is because unlike trains they don't let you get on the next one if your miss yours.
I've been using freenas for years now and have never had any issues with stability or anything like that. That said I only use it as a nas running samba & nfs.
Since I started using freenas I have grown my system to a 15 drive multi redundancy zfs setup with differing drive sizes. It has never missed a beat.
If I had to pick, I prefer Nexenta's feel. But a 4tb limit on the free option doesn't work for me and I had lots of issues with it's stupid cut down command line when you ssh in.
Probably theoretically it's possible. However reality I'd say not. You would have to predict the path of the laser to do it. And given it's ship mounted you have a lot of movement to take into consideration.
Honestly I would suggest a form of chaff is probably the most effective way of preventing laser strikes from any distance. If you knew where the laser was going to come from a screen of relatively heavy particles between you and the source will probably stop it delivering enough energy. In particular if your material would refract a % before vaporising.
Basically I called my ISP. They made me unplug everything only have modem in etc etc. Then when I still had problems they said they would call a tech but if there was no fault I would have a bill for $70.
The tech came out - went to where my phone line entered the house, opened the panel and actually cut the line at that point. Then he plugged in this device which showed a graph. I think it was showing voltage but I'm not sure. It shows peaks and troughs and from that he could tell where the joins were and where the problems were.
So I had two problems, 1 about 50m from the cabinet and one at the street. So he plug a different device in at the house end which he said would inject a signal and then went to the cabinet end to trace the fault more accurately.
Then finally, once he had fixed the problems he did a line sync at the house. Basically he said at that point there would be no charge, but if he stepped inside the house it immediately started billing me. He said the line was perfect up to the junction and if I still had problems it would be my internal wiring. FOrtunately I don't have any problems.
Upstream Downstream
Current Rate (Kbps) 1020 24575
Max Rate (Kbps) 1097 26580
SNR Margin (dB) 7.3 5.9
Line Attenuation (dB) 6.7 12
Best thing for me is I now know I am on just 430m to the cabinet. Which is frankly awesome since I live on acreage.
Missiles are right on the border line of blowing up in flight already. At the moment speed is the key thing to get you past other point defence systems. Any laser counter measures that are added will inevitable increase weight or reduce payload. If you reduce speed then the existing vulcans are more likely to hit it.
Also you wouldn't mount the lasers on the the ship you were trying to protect. They would be on the surrounding ships. So the laser can hit the control surfaces or even the engine. All you need to do is get it to miss, not destroy it outright so overheating the engine, changing the burn rate or melting a control fin will suffice.
Absolutely agree. Where I see lasers being useful is in point defence. The tracking speed and their "instahit" nature make them excellent for shooting down incoming missiles.
If they can get the weapon manoeuvrable enough and have a fast enough rate of fire expect to see these deployed around carrier groups.
I still think we are more than a few years away from GDI's Ion Cannon.
A reflector will become seriously non reflective very very quickly. Mirrors don't reflect 100% of the energy, otherwise every hall of mirrors in the world would be unbearably bright.
So if you do manage to get something reflective in the path of the laser the amount of energy it will absorb rather than reflect will have two effects. One it will cause the reflector to ablate and become useless, the second is it will absorb so much energy that the resultant laser reflections will have been robbed of most of its power.
Also I don't see these types of weapons as something that is used to target another ship. There are far more effective weapons than that already in service (ie ships don't move that fast so harpoon missiles are probably more effective). It would however make an excellent point defence system. Basically if you can track it you can hit it. Include 4-5 of these in a carrier group and your ability to stop incoming missles from taking out your carrier just went up a mile.
If you are getting drops from crappy copper do you not have some recourse to the telecoms utility?
I'm in Australia and was having some issues. I spoke to my ISP they saw too many disconnects so the sent a tech out. He plugged this thing into the line that sent a signal back to the rim and it showed him where the problems were on the wire. Was actually very cool as it would say - problem at 243.2 meters. He then went and fixed them all. Admittedly all the problems were at joins with my connection at the road being the worst because of a blown water main a couple of years ago had buried it in mud. But I went from lots of drops and a sync of 7500 to no drops and a sync of 22000.
This is exactly what it means. And to be honest what you have is unusual.
Every connection has to come back to a main trunk line. That main trunk will have a current max bandwidth which has to be split between all users on that trunk. So if your main trunk is 10gig the combined speed of everyone on that trunk cannot exceed 10gig no matter how big their fast their final connection is. An easy way to control this is to limit the speeds of the final pipe. If I give you all 20mbit I can fit lots of customers onto the trunk.
They also however model average user behaviour. So they know that shortly after the kids get home from school the demand will peak and users at that time will be most sensitive to latency as they all jump into COD. From this they will know that their peak demand equates to on 40% of their sold bandwidth so they will then oversell their capacity. So instead of only selling 10gig of bandwidth they will sell 22gig and be reasonable confident that they will not hit the pipes limit too often. That is call a contention ratio of 1. Most isps however, and certainly the more dodgy ones will oversell WAY past a ratio of 1. Meaning at peak times your internet will crawl.
So in the end you having the ability to suck at the system limits is unusual because of the implications that has on the rest of the network. You may decide to grab an entire debian repository mirror and in the process completely clog the back haul pipe.
I'm sorry what?!?!? You get charged for caller id?????
Isn't called ID just stamped on the call by default? Well I know the data is there by default, so why the fuck are you having to pay for something that they would actually have to be actively stripping?!?!?
Oh? And what would you suggest he should do differently?
Let me guess? Change tax laws with no consultation? Would you suggest Tax laws that were on the very edge of constitutional legality?
Mineral resources are owned by the states. Environmental policy is lead by the states with Federal environmental law being able to be MORE strict not less. The federal government has no ability to ban mining, no ability to ban certain types of power stations, or ability to shut a power station down. So how exactly is he caressing parts of their internal digestive system?
I would suggest that you back away from propaganda that comes from people who are either caressing or being caressed in a similar fashion.
But they do have to build more infrastructure to handle solar. They may not have to build more plants but they have to change the design of the network to handle inputs from different locations at fluctuating rates.
That said I don't read anything that shows the energy companies here in Australia are overly concerned by solar. In fact most of them push it to their customers. Solar allows them to get electricity at a cheaper price to sell to someone in a different spot. There is money in moving electricity around, not just in burning coal to make it.
Seems to be a lot of very similar articles at the moment.
If you would like to know how this thread will turn just go here - http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...
And my 4 year old girl swaps between wanting to be a princess, a doctor, a unicorn, a hippo and a spaceman. This can happen in the space of 5 minutes.
That said she understands the world is a ball and that gravity keeps us stuck to it. She particularly likes the fact that we are upside-down being in Australia. She knows that stars are made of gas and fusion makes them shine.
She also drives a mean tablet and I need to make sure she isn't off youtubing some person opening blind bags (Seriously WTF - 30 minute videos of people opening boxes of toys!) So I will wait to see what she ends up being.
Yeah it's not the greatest song in the world. But watching your 2&3 year old daughters trying to dance gangnam style really does push the cuteness factor into the "so fluffy I'm going to die" category. So I'm pretty sure I pushed the view count up.
It is the regulatory environment that is different. I'm basing this on what I read here so it could be miles off. But the US seems to have given monopoly status to companies to service an area. And then when someone wants to come along and build a second line they are blocked in the courts.
S.Korea has actively worked against that situation. There will still be monopoly holders in the sense of 1 company owning the only physical connection but they are required by law to allow access to their network at the same cost they provide it to themselves.
Of course S.Korea has an internet capability funded by the government with multiple low cost loans provided to infrastructure builders over the past 20 years. In addition they have actively blocked any moves towards monopoly status.
There is a huge difference between the relationship between the public and police in Australia and the public & police in the US.
I think this video from the recent G20 will give you an idea. It is a video of QLD police spontaneously dancing to the song "Nutbush" outside a pub in central Brisbane. This was at the height of the security operation for the G20.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Rubbish. I am a Queenslander, but I have also lived in multiple places around the world. There is very little corruption in our police forces, certainly relative to the rest of the world.
There will always be corruption, in the end they are people. There will always be links between senior police and criminal organisations. But there is a reason when it does happen it makes the news here. It's because it happens so rarely. I mean seriously, the copper who had a hooker in his speed camera van ended up front page news for a week. That only happens BECAUSE it is rare enough to be news.
At any one time a snap shot of the data of offenders will be a representative cross sample of the people who are offending at any one time. That means if the "overwhelming majority", your words, of drink drivers were habitual and unlikely to stop drink driving at one offence then re-offenders would represent a much higher % people caught then they do.
And this is the attitude I was referring to. You may think that top posting is an abomination but it is the way that email is used by the non techie world. I receive something in the vicinity of 250 emails a day. Do you know how many of those are top posted? All of them. If I was to reply to those emails with a bottom post people would assume I had screwed up and either miss my reply entirely or think I was being weird.
Evolution was meant to be a drop in replacement for Outlook. Outlook is THE business tool that keeps people in the microsoft world. Yet they, and obviously you, wont allow an option for people to use it the way they want. Even though the chances of it having ANY impact on you is basically zero.