Again, I'm lazy, and I don't want to willy nilly open ports that may in the future overlap with other services. Yes, I could research this now, and wheneven I think about adding services to my internal and/or external network, but I don't care enough about it. Opening thousands of ports is sloppy, and offends my need for tidyness.
For those making cracks about the whole idea of an Air America Archive:
1) I was more interested in playing with streaming/encoding/torrents when I started the archive than in the content of Air America per se.
2) Beyond wanting to play with audio, I have a stong aversion to commercials (a very early Tivo adopter), and having the these shows available makes it tolerable for me to listen to.
3) There is actually a huge demand that has led me into the world of bandwidth throddling techniques (which again if it was not for the hacking fun of learning new things I would just shut the whole thing down).
Has anyone tested this? Is this backwards compatible with existing bittorrent clients?
I maintain a tracker and seeds for my Air America Radio archive. I'd like to offer more seeds (like a whole week's worth of shows), but I don't want to open hundreds of ports in my firewalls.
I also don't want to be so on the bleeding edge that no one can download the files - and of course I'm too lazy to test it myself....
Earthquakes can be fun (i.e, interesting natural events like snow) if we engineer our lives properly.
Of course, I was dumb/ill informed and was almost crushed by my filing cabinet a few years ago in an earthquake (note the crushed chair that I was sitting in just before diving under my desk).
Thankfully they do drill us from an early age in the northwest to hide under our desks (where I immediately went) at the first shake. Drills work, even though they seem dorky at the time. They just need to tell us more about not having tall heavy unsecured object nearby....
I'm actually hoping to get a few more RSS/Bittorrent subscribers, because a few more (in the long term) would actaully save me even more bandwidth.
As it is, I serve up hundreds of bittorrents a day. Unfortunately, because most of the downloads are not concurent, my bittorrent seeds (hence my bandwidth) are doing most of the work. I need more people that not only download the bittorrents, but then actually leave their downloadres open.
Here is a better link: bigelow-springs.net/airamerica/
I wanted to mess around with Bittorrent and RSS, so I added a feed (or whatever the officail lingo is) for my Air America Radio Ogg Vorbis Archive.
It has saved me a lot of bandwidth, because now people are leaving their bittorrent clients open longer (due to the automated downloads leading them to passively leave their downloader open).
Here is a link:
http://bigelow-springs.net/airamerica/
"Clever" as in "takes a real issue, and pushes it one step further into an uncomfortable area."
This was obviously written by someone who works with homeless programs. PATH is a real program, funded under the McKinney grant, and they are actually deploying Palms to collect data on mentally ill homeless persons.
On any other day, I would actually have believed this for half a second. Clearly, there are big privacy issues with collecting any sort of information on people. The current requirements make me any many others very uncomfortable. The federal government has actually received quite a bit of push back over this issue, and the final rule has been delayed for more than a year as a result of the privacy concerns.
Thankfully, it look like HUD will be making significant concessions to address community concerns, that will result in a final requirement that better protects client privacy.
As someone who manages state homeless grant programs, I have to salute this as very clever. The federal government (HUD/HHS) is acutally pushing these types of tracking systems, albeit in the form of the somewhat less invasive new requirment for Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS).
I am invloved in an effort to produce an open source HMIS, so that if we are required to have tracking systems, at least they will be inexpensive and under the control of non-commercial entities. You can see a demo of the open HMIS at: homeless-mis.net It uses PHP and Postgres (or MS-SQL if you like that sort of thing....)
The idea of integrated information systems actually started with homeless advocates that wanted to improve services through coordinated service delivery. But, like any tool, HMISs can be mis-used, and sometimes you wonder what motiviates these federal requirements.
I agree that marching off to program with no planning would be silly. But I am a big believer in pathfinding programming, where you spend no more than a day building just enough of an application to illustrate the underlying design and/or interface.
Then, come back and demontrate your idea to the larger group, with the expectation that more than likley you will throw the whole thing away.
After a basic model has been developed that makes sense, only then sit down in meeting to flesh out the spec.
As a developer, I do the intial system administration of the deployed system on a dedicated network, including configuring the firewall.
This pushes me to take responsibility for having an overall understanding of how the application fits into a larger security context, and that the application works in the real world/under load.
Only then is the app dumped onto the larger network. I think all developers should do some real-life system adminstration, and system administrators should do some development.
I agree. Developers should have their own network, so they can fearlessly experiment.
I have my own network to do development on, AND initial deployment. I do the admin until I'm satisfied it is stable/secure under load in an actual deployment.
Only then does it go on the larger network maintained by system administrator/DB administrator types.
The most important point the article makes is that the people running the systems are no longer current/former developers.
Because these "adminstrators" know little to nothing about development, I spend hours in meetings working on stifling buzz-word compliant "Enterprise Architecture" plans.
If we all just sat down and coded first, our productivity would soar.
In the time it takes to argue about how we might want to do something, I could literally have implemented betas of each ideas considered.
Communities have been implementing these systems for years, and now HUD is requiring it.
HMIS systems are a key piece of the "Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness", which although it may be unrealistic, is an interesting read.
An open soure HMIS can be found
here
The field of HMIS software is dominated by commercial entities. I have been
working on an open source HMIS, that is rapidly being modified to fulfill the
new federal requirements.
A very updated version of the demo can be found here.
Use the login/password 'dorytildon' and 'droppingblue'
Like any tool, HMIS systems can be used for good or ill. Many grass roots,
homeless advocates have pushed for the implementation of HMIS systems in thier
communities, because they can significantly improve the services delivered to
homeless persons, while honoring thir privacy. The motivations of HUD requiring
this HMIS implementations may not match the advocates, but that does not mean
HMIS's are inherently bad.
I know that using SSH on a keypad phone would be very difficult, but I want a small phone that I could use to hook into my servers in a pinch, (i.e., one every two years, maybe never).
With java support, is there a a java ssh client that would work on this phone (or any other small java phone)?
There is scant online documentation about using ssh on a java phone.
Proven/Useable Home Designs with Character?
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If I can put together a useable, attractive home using "standard components" via a webiste (i.e., Dell) that look like a classic basic craftsman era home, I'm all for it.
But given how ugly new homes are, I have doubt MIT will come up with anything that is worthwhile.
It may be possible, because their are design patterns/proportions that they understood in the past (and some understand now) when building a home. But the idea that you can just tack on a kitchen willy nilly has resulted in the mass of ugly, community-destroying garage-scapes we have today.
The City of Olympia, Washington did this in 1937 (maybe a Depression jobs program?). I got the photo of my house last week, which will help us restore our 1926 bungelow to its original condition.
Every city should do this every 20 years; it's great when you are trying to learn about the historyof your community.
Try "the DVI Switcher"
.
I've been looking for just this sort of thing. This is the only one I can find, it only handles two computers, it is expensive, and it looks like the resolution is not so great.
I hope they come up with competing solutions soon, so I can build put the ugly "borg" of multiple computers into the basement and just have a keyboard/monitor/mouse upstairs in the living room.
Re:Pay? @Home Does Allow Linux
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Although @Home has done pleny to piss me off, they do allow Linux. In fact, just last night I received yet another letter asking me to change from a static IP to DHCP , unless I am running Linux (or a Mac). Sine I run Linux, I won't be making any changes.
They are condesending, but they do allow you to run other operating systems.
As someone who actually had the unfortunate experience of being one of the people responsible for making "drug war" policy (which I generally thought was wrongheaded and immoral), I can tell you that you cannot make the argument that people are getting rich on the drug war.
As with any "war", there are some people that make money as a result. But I can tell you that our wrongheaded democracy is giving people exactly what they want.
I have (since a young age) thought that our frug laws are wrong. When I ended up being assigned to participate in the "war" as a public servant I thought the war was a simple matter government misinformation.
I now know that although the government has played a role in misinformation (dating back to the 1900's), that our democracy gives people what they want, even if it is wrong.
Believe me, when I got out and met with people, it is clear they support purtanical "banning" of things.
Government gives "the people" exactly what they want. If rarely gives an individual everything he/she wants, but as a group people get what they ask for.
The ruling says "[Publishing DeCSS] is analogous to the publication of a bank vault combination in a national newspaper. Even if no one uses the combination to open the vault, its mere publication has the effect of defeating the bank's security system, forcing the bank to reprogram the lock."
It seesm very clear to me that publishing a bank vault combo would be legal as long as I obtained the info legally. I.e, all bank vaults by a particualr manufacturer come with a defalt combo. I buy a vault, and publish the combo. This is clearly protected.
The courts have ruled that publishing a how-to build a nuclear bomb article is legal, so clearly the much lower stakes publication of De-Css is also legal.
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For those making cracks about the whole idea of an Air America Archive:
1) I was more interested in playing with streaming/encoding/torrents when I started the archive than in the content of Air America per se.
2) Beyond wanting to play with audio, I have a stong aversion to commercials (a very early Tivo adopter), and having the these shows available makes it tolerable for me to listen to.
3) There is actually a huge demand that has led me into the world of bandwidth throddling techniques (which again if it was not for the hacking fun of learning new things I would just shut the whole thing down).
I maintain a tracker and seeds for my Air America Radio archive. I'd like to offer more seeds (like a whole week's worth of shows), but I don't want to open hundreds of ports in my firewalls. I also don't want to be so on the bleeding edge that no one can download the files - and of course I'm too lazy to test it myself....
Of course, I was dumb/ill informed and was almost crushed by my filing cabinet a few years ago in an earthquake (note the crushed chair that I was sitting in just before diving under my desk).
Thankfully they do drill us from an early age in the northwest to hide under our desks (where I immediately went) at the first shake. Drills work, even though they seem dorky at the time. They just need to tell us more about not having tall heavy unsecured object nearby....
Here are some images of the signs in Washington State: Sign images
As it is, I serve up hundreds of bittorrents a day. Unfortunately, because most of the downloads are not concurent, my bittorrent seeds (hence my bandwidth) are doing most of the work. I need more people that not only download the bittorrents, but then actually leave their downloadres open. Here is a better link:
bigelow-springs.net/airamerica/
It has saved me a lot of bandwidth, because now people are leaving their bittorrent clients open longer (due to the automated downloads leading them to passively leave their downloader open).
Here is a link: http://bigelow-springs.net/airamerica/
This was obviously written by someone who works with homeless programs. PATH is a real program, funded under the McKinney grant, and they are actually deploying Palms to collect data on mentally ill homeless persons.
On any other day, I would actually have believed this for half a second. Clearly, there are big privacy issues with collecting any sort of information on people. The current requirements make me any many others very uncomfortable. The federal government has actually received quite a bit of push back over this issue, and the final rule has been delayed for more than a year as a result of the privacy concerns.
Thankfully, it look like HUD will be making significant concessions to address community concerns, that will result in a final requirement that better protects client privacy.
I am invloved in an effort to produce an open source HMIS, so that if we are required to have tracking systems, at least they will be inexpensive and under the control of non-commercial entities. You can see a demo of the open HMIS at: homeless-mis.net It uses PHP and Postgres (or MS-SQL if you like that sort of thing....)
The idea of integrated information systems actually started with homeless advocates that wanted to improve services through coordinated service delivery. But, like any tool, HMISs can be mis-used, and sometimes you wonder what motiviates these federal requirements.
Then, come back and demontrate your idea to the larger group, with the expectation that more than likley you will throw the whole thing away.
After a basic model has been developed that makes sense, only then sit down in meeting to flesh out the spec.
This pushes me to take responsibility for having an overall understanding of how the application fits into a larger security context, and that the application works in the real world/under load.
Only then is the app dumped onto the larger network. I think all developers should do some real-life system adminstration, and system administrators should do some development.
I have my own network to do development on, AND initial deployment. I do the admin until I'm satisfied it is stable/secure under load in an actual deployment.
Only then does it go on the larger network maintained by system administrator/DB administrator types.
Because these "adminstrators" know little to nothing about development, I spend hours in meetings working on stifling buzz-word compliant "Enterprise Architecture" plans. If we all just sat down and coded first, our productivity would soar.
In the time it takes to argue about how we might want to do something, I could literally have implemented betas of each ideas considered.
I am guessing you can pull up a virtual keyboard, and use an SSH client on this phone. Am I right? Details (i.e., SSH v.2, open source?).
HMIS systems are a key piece of the "Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness", which although it may be unrealistic, is an interesting read. An open soure HMIS can be found here
The sourcefoege site can be found here: here
A very updated version of the demo can be found here.
Use the login/password 'dorytildon' and 'droppingblue'
Like any tool, HMIS systems can be used for good or ill. Many grass roots, homeless advocates have pushed for the implementation of HMIS systems in thier communities, because they can significantly improve the services delivered to homeless persons, while honoring thir privacy. The motivations of HUD requiring this HMIS implementations may not match the advocates, but that does not mean HMIS's are inherently bad.
Does Debian Woody support it? I need to find a new distribution for a critical server before Redhat drops support for 7.3 in December.
I know the keypay would be less than optimalk, but i don't want a huge phone.
Maybe a ssh via a Java program on this phone?
With java support, is there a a java ssh client that would work on this phone (or any other small java phone)?
There is scant online documentation about using ssh on a java phone.
It may be possible, because their are design patterns/proportions that they understood in the past (and some understand now) when building a home. But the idea that you can just tack on a kitchen willy nilly has resulted in the mass of ugly, community-destroying garage-scapes we have today.
Every city should do this every 20 years; it's great when you are trying to learn about the historyof your community.
Try "the DVI Switcher" . I've been looking for just this sort of thing. This is the only one I can find, it only handles two computers, it is expensive, and it looks like the resolution is not so great. I hope they come up with competing solutions soon, so I can build put the ugly "borg" of multiple computers into the basement and just have a keyboard/monitor/mouse upstairs in the living room.
Although @Home has done pleny to piss me off, they do allow Linux. In fact, just last night I received yet another letter asking me to change from a static IP to DHCP , unless I am running Linux (or a Mac). Sine I run Linux, I won't be making any changes. They are condesending, but they do allow you to run other operating systems.
As someone who actually had the unfortunate experience of being one of the people responsible for making "drug war" policy (which I generally thought was wrongheaded and immoral), I can tell you that you cannot make the argument that people are getting rich on the drug war. As with any "war", there are some people that make money as a result. But I can tell you that our wrongheaded democracy is giving people exactly what they want. I have (since a young age) thought that our frug laws are wrong. When I ended up being assigned to participate in the "war" as a public servant I thought the war was a simple matter government misinformation. I now know that although the government has played a role in misinformation (dating back to the 1900's), that our democracy gives people what they want, even if it is wrong. Believe me, when I got out and met with people, it is clear they support purtanical "banning" of things. Government gives "the people" exactly what they want. If rarely gives an individual everything he/she wants, but as a group people get what they ask for.
The ruling says "[Publishing DeCSS] is analogous to the publication of a bank vault combination in a national newspaper. Even if no one uses the combination to open the vault, its mere publication has the effect of defeating the bank's security system, forcing the bank to reprogram the lock." It seesm very clear to me that publishing a bank vault combo would be legal as long as I obtained the info legally. I.e, all bank vaults by a particualr manufacturer come with a defalt combo. I buy a vault, and publish the combo. This is clearly protected. The courts have ruled that publishing a how-to build a nuclear bomb article is legal, so clearly the much lower stakes publication of De-Css is also legal.