When dealing with the Almighty Government, encryption is not the solution. Stop believing in this myth, they can find their way into your crypt vault, one way or another, if they really want to. And no, cracking the encryption is not their only tool.
With that being said, I am going to install Ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop and all my workstations as soon as it's released at the end of October. It has a very neat feature - it allows you to create a Private folder which is encrypted. You can then move things such as your Firefox files into that folder, and symlink them to the original location. Anything you move into Private gets encrypted. Very nice.
Again, this is not to "protect" my data against Three Letter Agencies, but to prevent snooping from nosy sysadmins at work, to prevent data theft if my laptop gets stolen, etc. It's not perfect, there are ways around it, but it's better than nothing.
As far as the Three Letter Agencies are concerned, I have nothing to hide. That's probably the best policy.
This is just like noise reduction. You either shoot with more sensors at the same time, and do an average between them to eliminate sensor noise, or shoot with the same sensor repeatedly and average with itself. The noise and other sensor defects are reduced.
RAID5 does not last forever. If one drive fails, the array survives, provided you replace the failed drive before another one crashes. It sounds unlikely, but it does happen - sometimes there's another failure before you can replace the faulty drive.
RAID6 is better in that it tolerates two simultaneous failures.
any way to do lossless (no video reencoding) authoring with that? source is camcorder-generated AVCHD (Canon HF100), destination is either BD9 (BD files on DVD support) or AVCHD disk.
I was reminded of the novel "Richter 10" by A. C. Clarke and Mike McQuay, where they use a somewhat similar (albeit much more complex) device to predict earthquakes.
You are correct, but remember: despite best efforts, it's sometimes impossible to split an algorithm into independent chunks. It depends on the problem you're solving. Some of them are tough cookies.
That works only if you can split the problem in totally independent chunks. Communication times are still very high with off the shelf components. If the various parts of the problem require quick exchange of data very often, off the shelf computing fails miserably. In that case you need a true supercomputer, as in a single-OS-image machine, like the ones built by SGI, IBM, etc.
Abandoning MIPS was what kept them alive for a while longer. Invest in a new CPU - I don't think they can afford that now. And Sun is their traditional arch-enemy.
I agree. The amount of online documentation that Ubuntu has amassed is amazing. If you stumble upon an issue, chances are it's already solved somewhere in the Wiki, the forums, or the mailing list archives.
Oddly, after investigating Mythbuntu I'm changing my mind. It's based on Gutsy, which will receive package updates for 18 months. After that it's either no updates, or upgrade the OS. 18 months is not too bad. The Ubuntu OS upgrade is not too bad either, from what I've heard.
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We know that already. They are about 60% effective.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/01/08/168814935/can-you-get-a-flu-shot-and-still-get-the-flu
They've been delaying it for a decade now.
These guys also make cerium, right?
"what do you think is the best plan for insurance?"
Move to Europe, or to any other civilized country.
I came here to say the same thing. :-)
Yup, it instantly reminded me of the ridiculous claims of the vinyl proponents.
The power of the almighty habit.
When dealing with the Almighty Government, encryption is not the solution. Stop believing in this myth, they can find their way into your crypt vault, one way or another, if they really want to. And no, cracking the encryption is not their only tool.
With that being said, I am going to install Ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop and all my workstations as soon as it's released at the end of October. It has a very neat feature - it allows you to create a Private folder which is encrypted. You can then move things such as your Firefox files into that folder, and symlink them to the original location. Anything you move into Private gets encrypted. Very nice.
Again, this is not to "protect" my data against Three Letter Agencies, but to prevent snooping from nosy sysadmins at work, to prevent data theft if my laptop gets stolen, etc. It's not perfect, there are ways around it, but it's better than nothing.
As far as the Three Letter Agencies are concerned, I have nothing to hide. That's probably the best policy.
This is just like noise reduction. You either shoot with more sensors at the same time, and do an average between them to eliminate sensor noise, or shoot with the same sensor repeatedly and average with itself.
The noise and other sensor defects are reduced.
Apparently, it's the same with people.
RAID5 does not last forever. If one drive fails, the array survives, provided you replace the failed drive before another one crashes. It sounds unlikely, but it does happen - sometimes there's another failure before you can replace the faulty drive.
RAID6 is better in that it tolerates two simultaneous failures.
As long as the spine is vertical, there can be no perfect chair.
If spine health is a concern, a recline position is very much indicated. 45 degrees angle should be fine, but more is better.
any way to do lossless (no video reencoding) authoring with that? source is camcorder-generated AVCHD (Canon HF100), destination is either BD9 (BD files on DVD support) or AVCHD disk.
what software do you use to author AVCHD?
I was reminded of the novel "Richter 10" by A. C. Clarke and Mike McQuay, where they use a somewhat similar (albeit much more complex) device to predict earthquakes.
You should never click on such a link:
reprap://warez.com/selfdestruct.rr
You are correct, but remember: despite best efforts, it's sometimes impossible to split an algorithm into independent chunks.
It depends on the problem you're solving. Some of them are tough cookies.
That works only if you can split the problem in totally independent chunks. Communication times are still very high with off the shelf components.
If the various parts of the problem require quick exchange of data very often, off the shelf computing fails miserably. In that case you need a true supercomputer, as in a single-OS-image machine, like the ones built by SGI, IBM, etc.
Abandoning MIPS was what kept them alive for a while longer.
Invest in a new CPU - I don't think they can afford that now. And Sun is their traditional arch-enemy.
Funny, I am reading "Rainbows End" by Vernor Vinge these days, and now this article comes out. It's like deja vu all over again.
These are exactly the principles (*) by which bodybuilders and weightlifters organize their diets. See for yourself:
http://t-nation.com/
If it can't self-replicate, it's useless.
I save in ODF, unless the document needs to be seen by M$ users, then I create a DOC copy.
So that means the dinosaurs (huge cold blooded reptiles) were an evolutionary dead end?
No wonder they disappeared.
I agree. The amount of online documentation that Ubuntu has amassed is amazing. If you stumble upon an issue, chances are it's already solved somewhere in the Wiki, the forums, or the mailing list archives.
Oddly, after investigating Mythbuntu I'm changing my mind. It's based on Gutsy, which will receive package updates for 18 months. After that it's either no updates, or upgrade the OS.
18 months is not too bad. The Ubuntu OS upgrade is not too bad either, from what I've heard.
Maybe I'll give it a try.
http://www.schedulesdirect.org/faq
Maybe, if you're doing it by yourself. It ain't gonna be pretty, nor reliable.
HDHomeRun looks very promising. I'm having one delivered to my door today, can't wait to play with it.