I think the whole fiasco is going to convince a lot more companies located outside of the U.S. to stay away from U.S. based cloud-providers and SaS. As a Canadian, I'm looking for a Canadian cloud provider that guarantees data is located in Canadian data centres, is Canadian-owned (U.S. law treats subsidiaries of U.S. companies as U.S. companies), and is only subject to Canadian laws.
I suspect many non-U.S. companies are going to do the same- I'd rather be subject to laws I have some influence over.
I've been doing this for a while now. Like others here, I have a Fujitsu Scansnap 1500- it's one of the best investments I've made for cleaning up my office/workflow.
When something comes in, I immediately scan it to the filesystem. My structure is:
2013/Banking/BankName/2013-01-31-14h32.pdf (or something like that- it's the default Scansnap filename.)
I then place the original in a filebox- keeping one filebox for each year. No sorting, organizing, just keeping originals.
At the end of each year, the filebox goes to the crawlspace, and I start a new one. After 7 years, intention is get the box securely shredded (costs about $10/box around here.)
I back the filesystem up nightly to two separate local NASs, and upload the whole filesystem (as a series of encrypted files) to Amazon Glacier (this is a recent addition to my workflow- has stopped me worrying about a fire etc. wiping out both NASs).
All of my documents go in there- it's really easy to find stuff (depending on how good your folder organization is- you can add depth for those kinds of documents that need it, while other ones that aren't likely to be needed can be put in a less descriptive folder hierarchy.)
Someday, countries like Canada with lots of wheat will want something besides debt instruments in exchange for their goods. So too will countries like Saudi Arabia want something of tangible value in exchange for their oil.
e.g. the shuttle is detached - dropped from the bottom of the plane and falls at least 100m before launching its own engine
According to the article, they want to use a modified 747. Can't imagine them being able to modify one so much that they can hold something below the fuselage- it would be very hard to take off.
You'd need a specially built aircraft for that, similar to the one that launched StarShipOne.
that content has to be accessible on a Mac, on Linux (any distro, my choice), on a PC
good thing that I'm currently listening to BBC Radio on my linux PC.
Too bad I'm listening it in Switzerland, so the BBC doesn't get any revenue from me. (But I pay the Swiss equivalent of the License fee, and don't listen/watch any of the Swiss Media, so I guess it evens out.
As mentioned in a previous slashdot story, Google often tries new features on a subset of users. Depending on how they work and feedback from users, they may or may not include them in the standard interface.
For those too lazy to click through to the original article referenced by the above story, the relevant line is:
Google makes changes small-and-often. They will sometimes trial a particular feature with a set of users from a given network subnet; for example Excite@Home users often get to see new features. They aren't told of this, just presented with the new UI and observed how they use it.
But that ishuffle thing? blechhh. I'm sure it will do well 'cause of the fanatics, but I think it's just silly. Around 15 albums worth of music and no navigation? Anyone who wants a gumstick sized mp3 player should see the iaudio U2
Except that the U2 costs more than twice as much than the new ipod.. I'm ordering one tomorrow, as soon as the apple store calms down.
Canada is culturally more similar to America than Europe is
Actually, as a Canadian living in Europe, I think the opposite is true. We're far closer to the European approach on many levels- i.e. taxation, governance, human rights, militarism, etc..
There's a book out that explores how Canada, which used to be very similar to the U.S. culturally, has gradually been moving farther and farther away from the U.S. (or, perhaps, that the U.S. is moving farther away from Canada)
I'm currently a Mozilla Mail user, and the one thing that I want is an indexed message search. I have about 500mb of mail from the past 4 years, and trying to find old messages in my Mozilla client are a pain, and very, very slow.
My interim hack is to upload everything to Gmail, and search for it from there. I'd much rather keep the mail locally (for security reasons), but I can't find a search client that works for me.
I'm eagerly awaiting Google Desktop's support for Linux and mbox formats..
There are also strong hints that SGI plans to bring its clustered ATI graphics to Altix in the near future.
I thought that SGI sold a lot of their graphics IP (including many of their top graphics engineers) to NVIDIA a while back, and still have agreements with them. Their IRIX systems sell with VPRO graphics cards, which I believe are repackaged NVIDIA chips with a few extras..
I just finished reading a very good dystopian novel on this subject - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (runner up for Booker and Giller, if I'm not mistaken.) It describes a world where genetic manipulation has moved a bit beyond current technology, and its somewhat nasty consequences. I suspect it could be another '1984' type classic.
I was still in a state of horror from the book, thinking that what it described couldn't really happen, until I read the news this morning.
I've always thought that the killer app for RFID tags was for sorting socks- each type of sock would have a separate ID tag, and you buy a little handheld reader that beeps when you get near one that matches.
I have way too many socks that almost match, but not quite.
Not sure how well the current tags would handle repeated washings however.
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Already in use in Switzerland..
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It's called 'CASH', and for the most part, you use your ATM card as your 'CASH' card. You fill up the cash portion at an ATM, and you can use it anywhere, with no PIN. Works great for vending machines, and at small cafes.
As someone who just (10 seconds ago) changed the default password on their DSL router, I'm actually rather surprised. I had assumed (wrongly, I guess) that the routers would only allow telnet sessions from IP addresses that it manages (via NAT i.e 192.68.x.x..).
Wouldn't this be a lot easier and safer for the average user if it were implemented in the firmware? For 99% of DSL users, what possible use is there of having the router configurable from the 'net?
I'm not sure if that's true. Looking over SGI's website, they don't seem to sell ANY linux based workstations any more. Only the Fuel and the Octane2 (both IRIX/MIPS machines.)
They do have a yet-to-be-released NUMA Linux system based on Itanium, but it probably shouldn't be thought of as a workstation.
I'm guessing you're probably right though that "SGI barely sells Irix machines". Not sure how many they're selling, but they're still cettainly losing money.
In Vancouver, BC, a company called SPUD has been doing online orders for a long time.
As far as I know, it's been profitable for a long while, and has been constantly expanding outside of the 'downtown' areas to the suburbs. Great food, good service, decent prices and very convenient.
I actually think these kinds of small local/regional operations are the most interesting successes of the dot-com era- it allows a very small company with a very targeted niche to be able to compete with larger supermarkets. Things don't always have to be national/global to take advantage of the internet.
No mutant goldfish that are plotting world domination because of rensentnment from being flushed down the toilet?!
Actually, they did find some weird mutant fish:
(from the article) There were cockroaches everywhere and albino fish spawning in the water by the thousands; they looked like deformed goldfish. Some of them were six inches long and too big to fit completely in the water, unable to swim and flopping slowly through the murk.
Hard to know if they were plotting world domination. Maybe they just started planning..
Really- people should read the article. It's rolling on the floor funny. It must be a hoax though. No one could be this funny without it being on purpose.
My favorite quote: (right near the bottom)
ADDENDUM IV (4/21/2002): Apparently anti-Christian zealots -- as well as shocked Christians who have unwittingly become Mac owners -- are linking to this article, which explains the large number of emails we have received on this topic. More clues have come in showing the dark nature of Apple Computers. According to one of our readers, the new MacOS X contains another Satanic holdover from the "BSD Unix" OS mentioned above; to open up certain locked files one has to run a program much like the DOS prompt in Microsoft Windows and type in a secret code: "chmod 666". What other horrors lurk in this thing?
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As I had to RTFA to figure this out, thought I'd pass on that VirtualBox is still going to be actively developed.
I think the whole fiasco is going to convince a lot more companies located outside of the U.S. to stay away from U.S. based cloud-providers and SaS. As a Canadian, I'm looking for a Canadian cloud provider that guarantees data is located in Canadian data centres, is Canadian-owned (U.S. law treats subsidiaries of U.S. companies as U.S. companies), and is only subject to Canadian laws.
I suspect many non-U.S. companies are going to do the same- I'd rather be subject to laws I have some influence over.
I've been doing this for a while now. Like others here, I have a Fujitsu Scansnap 1500- it's one of the best investments I've made for cleaning up my office/workflow.
When something comes in, I immediately scan it to the filesystem. My structure is:
2013/Banking/BankName/2013-01-31-14h32.pdf (or something like that- it's the default Scansnap filename.)
I then place the original in a filebox- keeping one filebox for each year. No sorting, organizing, just keeping originals.
At the end of each year, the filebox goes to the crawlspace, and I start a new one. After 7 years, intention is get the box securely shredded (costs about $10/box around here.)
I back the filesystem up nightly to two separate local NASs, and upload the whole filesystem (as a series of encrypted files) to Amazon Glacier (this is a recent addition to my workflow- has stopped me worrying about a fire etc. wiping out both NASs).
All of my documents go in there- it's really easy to find stuff (depending on how good your folder organization is- you can add depth for those kinds of documents that need it, while other ones that aren't likely to be needed can be put in a less descriptive folder hierarchy.)
Someday, countries like Canada with lots of wheat will want something besides debt instruments in exchange for their goods. So too will countries like Saudi Arabia want something of tangible value in exchange for their oil.
Actually, Canada exports more oil and gas products to the U.S. than Saudi Arabia. We're your number one source for oil imports, which is one reason our dollar is so strong.
e.g. the shuttle is detached - dropped from the bottom of the plane and falls at least 100m before launching its own engine
According to the article, they want to use a modified 747. Can't imagine them being able to modify one so much that they can hold something below the fuselage- it would be very hard to take off.
You'd need a specially built aircraft for that, similar to the one that launched StarShipOne.
that content has to be accessible on a Mac, on Linux (any distro, my choice), on a PC
good thing that I'm currently listening to BBC Radio on my linux PC.
Too bad I'm listening it in Switzerland, so the BBC doesn't get any revenue from me. (But I pay the Swiss equivalent of the License fee, and don't listen/watch any of the Swiss Media, so I guess it evens out.
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but does it run on linux?
As mentioned in a previous slashdot story, Google often tries new features on a subset of users. Depending on how they work and feedback from users, they may or may not include them in the standard interface.
For those too lazy to click through to the original article referenced by the above story, the relevant line is:
Google makes changes small-and-often. They will sometimes trial a particular feature with a set of users from a given network subnet; for example Excite@Home users often get to see new features. They aren't told of this, just presented with the new UI and observed how they use it.
But that ishuffle thing? blechhh. I'm sure it will do well 'cause of the fanatics, but I think it's just silly. Around 15 albums worth of music and no navigation? Anyone who wants a gumstick sized mp3 player should see the iaudio U2
Except that the U2 costs more than twice as much than the new ipod.. I'm ordering one tomorrow, as soon as the apple store calms down.
d.
Canada is culturally more similar to America than Europe is
Actually, as a Canadian living in Europe, I think the opposite is true. We're far closer to the European approach on many levels- i.e. taxation, governance, human rights, militarism, etc..
There's a book out that explores how Canada, which used to be very similar to the U.S. culturally, has gradually been moving farther and farther away from the U.S. (or, perhaps, that the U.S. is moving farther away from Canada)
It's quite interesting.
Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values by Michael Adams
d.
I'm currently a Mozilla Mail user, and the one thing that I want is an indexed message search. I have about 500mb of mail from the past 4 years, and trying to find old messages in my Mozilla client are a pain, and very, very slow.
My interim hack is to upload everything to Gmail, and search for it from there. I'd much rather keep the mail locally (for security reasons), but I can't find a search client that works for me.
I'm eagerly awaiting Google Desktop's support for Linux and mbox formats..
Anybody have any other suggestions?
There are also strong hints that SGI plans to bring its clustered ATI graphics to Altix in the near future.
I thought that SGI sold a lot of their graphics IP (including many of their top graphics engineers) to NVIDIA a while back, and still have agreements with them. Their IRIX systems sell with VPRO graphics cards, which I believe are repackaged NVIDIA chips with a few extras..
Or did I miss something?
d.
I just finished reading a very good dystopian novel on this subject - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (runner up for Booker and Giller, if I'm not mistaken.) It describes a world where genetic manipulation has moved a bit beyond current technology, and its somewhat nasty consequences. I suspect it could be another '1984' type classic.
I was still in a state of horror from the book, thinking that what it described couldn't really happen, until I read the news this morning.
Shudder.
I've always thought that the killer app for RFID tags was for sorting socks- each type of sock would have a separate ID tag, and you buy a little handheld reader that beeps when you get near one that matches.
I have way too many socks that almost match, but not quite.
Not sure how well the current tags would handle repeated washings however.
d.
It's called 'CASH', and for the most part, you use your ATM card as your 'CASH' card. You fill up the cash portion at an ATM, and you can use it anywhere, with no PIN. Works great for vending machines, and at small cafes.
d.
As someone who just (10 seconds ago) changed the default password on their DSL router, I'm actually rather surprised. I had assumed (wrongly, I guess) that the routers would only allow telnet sessions from IP addresses that it manages (via NAT i.e 192.68.x.x..).
Wouldn't this be a lot easier and safer for the average user if it were implemented in the firmware? For 99% of DSL users, what possible use is there of having the router configurable from the 'net?
I'm not sure if that's true. Looking over SGI's website, they don't seem to sell ANY linux based workstations any more. Only the Fuel and the Octane2 (both IRIX/MIPS machines.)
They do have a yet-to-be-released NUMA Linux system based on Itanium, but it probably shouldn't be thought of as a workstation.
I'm guessing you're probably right though that "SGI barely sells Irix machines". Not sure how many they're selling, but they're still cettainly losing money.
In Vancouver, BC, a company called SPUD has been doing online orders for a long time.
As far as I know, it's been profitable for a long while, and has been constantly expanding outside of the 'downtown' areas to the suburbs. Great food, good service, decent prices and very convenient.
I actually think these kinds of small local/regional operations are the most interesting successes of the dot-com era- it allows a very small company with a very targeted niche to be able to compete with larger supermarkets. Things don't always have to be national/global to take advantage of the internet.
Wouldn't a better solution just be to log into your ADSL machine at home, and run mozilla over an X session?
Shouldn't be that slow for text heavy sites.. For pictures, maybe not.
No mutant goldfish that are plotting world domination because of rensentnment from being flushed down the toilet?!
Actually, they did find some weird mutant fish:
(from the article) There were cockroaches everywhere and albino fish spawning in the water by the thousands; they looked like deformed goldfish. Some of them were six inches long and too big to fit completely in the water, unable to swim and flopping slowly through the murk.
Hard to know if they were plotting world domination. Maybe they just started planning..
It's actually commonly known as a "toonie".
Never heard of a "tooter".
Would anyone actually 'play' this who wasn't interested already to know the entire content of the game?
Content of the Game:
That's about the extent of the game.
Why not just send out a press release?
I thought that the PDF specification was public. Which at least means you can write import/export filters for it.
d.
Really- people should read the article. It's rolling on the floor funny. It must be a hoax though. No one could be this funny without it being on purpose.
My favorite quote: (right near the bottom)
ADDENDUM IV (4/21/2002): Apparently anti-Christian zealots -- as well as shocked Christians who have unwittingly become Mac owners -- are linking to this article, which explains the large number of emails we have received on this topic. More clues have come in showing the dark nature of Apple Computers. According to one of our readers, the new MacOS X contains another Satanic holdover from the "BSD Unix" OS mentioned above; to open up certain locked files one has to run a program much like the DOS prompt in Microsoft Windows and type in a secret code: "chmod 666". What other horrors lurk in this thing?
The same article was posted on Friday.
Glad to see that Slashdot editors read slashdot.