I have two NASes, one at home and one off-site. I've recently learned that when a drive fails, in order to keep using your NAS, you have to have spare drives on hand. Even if you report the failed drive to the manufacturer immediately, it takes time for the new drive to arrive. In that time, your data is unprotected by the redundancy of RAID unless you have a spare drive to take the place of the failed one. Otherwise, it's best if you take the NAS offline or use it read-only.
In two months, I've had three drives fail under warranty. First, a pair fo them failed, then one of the replacements failed. In each case, because the failure happened mid-week, it took until the following week for the new drives to arrive from the manufacturer. In this period, I've been without the full use of my NAS for two weeks because I didn't have and wouldn't buy extra drives.
I use rsync between a pair of ReadyNAS NVXes. I make backups to the local one and let rsync take care of the rest. Not all of the ReadyNAS line supports rsync over SSH but this model does.
I love my N900. It took me a while to understand that the N900 was never intended to be a phone for most users. It was a platform for hackers and early adopters to play with and teach Nokia about FOSS. I was plenty disappointed when I figured this out about Nokia. If Nokia had made it a product for consumers, I'd have bought one for my elderly father.
FWIW, I use DigiKam to organize my pictures. It's nice.
I keep the originals on my laptop. After I catalogue them with DigiKam, I copy them to the RAID on my network. Every night, the RAID rsyncs with another RAID that I keep at a friend's house. This gives me redundancy at home in case I delete a picture by mistake and an off-site backup in case of theft, fire, or flood.
I use a pair of Netgear ReadyNAS NVXes.
Oh, stop whining. You taught yourself how to program a computer in N languages. Now go teach yourself how to have a conversation in your native language. I taught myself. You can, too. It's just another skill. Bootstrap it and get on with your life.
Precisely! The FB ToS permit FB to compete against you with your own intellectual property.
As a semi-pro photographer, I've made beautiful portraits for friends for free because I wanted to. When I read the FB ToS, I had to ask my friends to take down those portraits. No artist should have to compete against any company for sales of his own work. The FB ToS make that possibility quite clear.
Flickr and Picasa Web have better ToS. Their use of your work is strictly limited to promoting the web sites. They will stop using your work when you take it down.
I'd miss having my cameras the most. I'd have to find another artistic outlet. If I gave up the digital cameras and kept the film cameras, I'd have a harder time sharing my work with people. Maybe that would give me more incentive to have shows. That wouldn't be bad. The cameras aren't as much gadgets for me as they are tools.
I'd probably miss the convenience of the mobile phone but it wouldn't be the end of the world.
I'd start listening to CDs again instead of MP3s. Maybe I'd read more books.
I don't have many other gadgets. I gave away my Sharp Zaurus PDA at the end of 2006 and replace it with a pocket calendar and some index cards for my TODO list. That works better for me. I get more done and I spend less time fiddling with the system.
Like you, I've been in a computer related field for 20 or more years. I've worked in academic computing, in startups, as a free-lancer, and most recently as a researcher for the military-industrial complex. It's all been satisfying for the most part but I started to feel burnt out. My burn out came from a number of things, not just from work. Once I realized that, I learned to change some of my environment and some of my behaviors that were hurting me. I kept my job and I'm happy about that.
One of the best things I did recently was to promise myself that I'd make my photography hobby pay for itself. Since June 2006, I've had work in four shows. I sold a photo in one show and had a nibble in another. I bought a ledger book and am keeping track of my photography expenses and income. So far, I'm in the red. However, the reaction to my new series of photos is encouraging and if I sell five or six prints I'll recoup the cost of the medium format camera I bought to do the series. I feel confident that I'll be able to show more of them and sell some and eventually have a show of the entire series. I don't know if or when I'll switch to photography full time. I think I'd like to.
My advice to you is to look at your whole life and change what's not satisfying, not just your work. Get help with that if you don't have the skills to do it by yourself. If you have a hobby through which you can make money, try it. Maybe you'll be able to switch to it full time.
Use your iPod for storing your photos. You can get one of the camera-iPod adapters reviewed on ilounge.com or just bring your cables and drag 'n' drop whenever you can borrow someone's computer.
For your internet connection, if you can't get by with what's in a cafe, try Nokia's Internet Tablet 770 or 800. They're tiny, have high resolution screens, and work reasonably well with most web sites. The 770 is (or will be) discontinued, and so cheaper, but you'll probably like the 800 better. It's getting the software updates that the 770 isn't.
Otherwise, I agree with most of the other posters: travel light!
Why would I *want* to have a fold-out keyboard (one more moving part to break) to access itty-bitty keys (more breakable things)?
Because having a fold-out keyboard rocks. My Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 has both handwriting recognition and a fold-out keyboard. Often, it's more convenient for me to use the keyboard than handwriting. E.g. when using the shell or making little text files for things too big for the ToDo list application.
I'm happy with Filecloud for file sharing. It has a couple of free versions and a "premium" version that's $4.95/month. The quota isn't as large as I might like, only 500MB on the premium version, but it uses the open standard WebDAV, so I can mount my folder on my KDE desktop. My friends and family don't have to have any account in order to download my pictures and stuff. Filecloud works as advertised. I didn't know I needed it until (1) I bought a digital camera and (2) I found that the premium subscription is included in the monthly fee I pay Speakeasy for broadband service.
2) The amount of radiation received is portrayed as being low. What they neglect to mention is the dosage per UNIT TIME. Sure, you get more on an International flight, but it is amortized over a number of hours, not minutes or seconds.
I looked at the Rapiscan Secure 1000 brochure and did the math. The device subjects you to "less than 10" microrems per scan. One scan takes about 8 seconds. That's 7.5 scans per minute. Rounding the dosage up to 10 microrems per scan, in a minute you'd receive 75 microrems. In an hour, 4500 microrems.
Compare that to the 500 microrems per hour you get on an airplane flight, according to the Rapiscan Secure 1000 brochure. That's 8.3 microrems per minute.
Compare that to the 600 microrems per day you'd get from the background radiation in Denver.
Yeah, that's the ticket! An XM receiver in a Compact Flash card with an xmms-embedded plugin. Hello, Zaurus radio!
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You have two choices. You can choose a solution that lets you carry your stuff around or you can choose one that lets you get at your stuff without carrying it around.
To do the former on the cheap with large capacity, why not get a small, lightweight, obsolete laptop like one of the Sony VAIO PCG-505 series or the original Toshiba Libretto? I had a wonderful PCG-505g for years until I accidentally spilled coffee on it, letting out the magic smoke.:-( Stick in a bigger hard drive and you're good to go. Both of them run Linux and *BSD.
To do the latter, you need on-line storage at the end of a broadband connection. I found a colo for $25/month, so I keep some of my stuff there. You could rent 800MB of disk from http://www.dreamhost.net/ for $10/month. I'm about to open my home box to outside connections, too. In either case, SSH and Kerberos are your friends.
Sometimes, I both carry my stuff and access my stuff with my Sharp Zaurus. It has two 256MB flash drives.
How about a
HomePod? It's not a tablet but you can mount it on the wall. It feeds your stereo your choice of analog or digital audio. It's also hackable. I have one and it sounds pretty good.
The general technology is called "In-Band, On-Channel." The implementation in the US is different from the the one in the rest of the world.
In the USA, DAB technology is controlled by a company called
iBiquity. It's incompatible with the world standard.
In the rest of the world, the standard is
Eureka 417.
I found this
explanation
helpful.
Just because something is legal today doesn't mean that it will be legal tomorrow. So, today they record and monitor voice and data traffic "for our safety". Tomorrow, suppose it is illegal to read something like slashdot, or that it becomes illegal to say certain words. The most likely example is that fair use rights will be minimized until they are practically non-existant.
You're implying that a law will be passed making that behavior illegal retroactively. That's an
ex post facto law and the U.S. Constitution prohibits it. If it happens in the U.S., it's only a matter of time before someone challenges it and the federal courts overturn it.
Slashdot Mirror
The project runs on Linux and on Nokia's N900 and N9 phones. I'm looking for help to port it to Symbian, Android, and iOS devices.
I have two NASes, one at home and one off-site. I've recently learned that when a drive fails, in order to keep using your NAS, you have to have spare drives on hand. Even if you report the failed drive to the manufacturer immediately, it takes time for the new drive to arrive. In that time, your data is unprotected by the redundancy of RAID unless you have a spare drive to take the place of the failed one. Otherwise, it's best if you take the NAS offline or use it read-only.
In two months, I've had three drives fail under warranty. First, a pair fo them failed, then one of the replacements failed. In each case, because the failure happened mid-week, it took until the following week for the new drives to arrive from the manufacturer. In this period, I've been without the full use of my NAS for two weeks because I didn't have and wouldn't buy extra drives.
I use a Mac Mini for my media player. I get some content using Miro (http://www.getmiro.com/). I play video content with either Miro or XBMC (http://xbmc.org/). For audio, I use Music Player Daemon (http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki) and control it with my phone or a laptop. It just works.
I use rsync between a pair of ReadyNAS NVXes. I make backups to the local one and let rsync take care of the rest. Not all of the ReadyNAS line supports rsync over SSH but this model does.
I love my N900. It took me a while to understand that the N900 was never intended to be a phone for most users. It was a platform for hackers and early adopters to play with and teach Nokia about FOSS. I was plenty disappointed when I figured this out about Nokia. If Nokia had made it a product for consumers, I'd have bought one for my elderly father.
FWIW, I use DigiKam to organize my pictures. It's nice. I keep the originals on my laptop. After I catalogue them with DigiKam, I copy them to the RAID on my network. Every night, the RAID rsyncs with another RAID that I keep at a friend's house. This gives me redundancy at home in case I delete a picture by mistake and an off-site backup in case of theft, fire, or flood. I use a pair of Netgear ReadyNAS NVXes.
OSSIMPlanet is OSS and it talks to OGC-compliant servers. OMAR is a scalable OGC-compliant WMS. You can build your own Google Earth system with them.
See the OSSIM web site for OSSIM itself and OSSIMPlanet. OMAR is harder to find than OSSIMPlanet. Try here.
Oh, stop whining. You taught yourself how to program a computer in N languages. Now go teach yourself how to have a conversation in your native language. I taught myself. You can, too. It's just another skill. Bootstrap it and get on with your life.
I have one of those phones. It's beige. It has a rotary dial. It works just fine, thank you. I got it from a friend who bought three on EBay.
If you're into that kind of thing, you might like SparkFun Electronics Bluetooth rotary phone and GSM rotary phone or ThinkGeek's retro Bluetooth handset.
Done!
Precisely! The FB ToS permit FB to compete against you with your own intellectual property.
As a semi-pro photographer, I've made beautiful portraits for friends for free because I wanted to. When I read the FB ToS, I had to ask my friends to take down those portraits. No artist should have to compete against any company for sales of his own work. The FB ToS make that possibility quite clear.
Flickr and Picasa Web have better ToS. Their use of your work is strictly limited to promoting the web sites. They will stop using your work when you take it down.
I'd miss having my cameras the most. I'd have to find another artistic outlet. If I gave up the digital cameras and kept the film cameras, I'd have a harder time sharing my work with people. Maybe that would give me more incentive to have shows. That wouldn't be bad. The cameras aren't as much gadgets for me as they are tools.
I'd probably miss the convenience of the mobile phone but it wouldn't be the end of the world.
I'd start listening to CDs again instead of MP3s. Maybe I'd read more books.
I don't have many other gadgets. I gave away my Sharp Zaurus PDA at the end of 2006 and replace it with a pocket calendar and some index cards for my TODO list. That works better for me. I get more done and I spend less time fiddling with the system.
Like you, I've been in a computer related field for 20 or more years. I've worked in academic computing, in startups, as a free-lancer, and most recently as a researcher for the military-industrial complex. It's all been satisfying for the most part but I started to feel burnt out. My burn out came from a number of things, not just from work. Once I realized that, I learned to change some of my environment and some of my behaviors that were hurting me. I kept my job and I'm happy about that.
One of the best things I did recently was to promise myself that I'd make my photography hobby pay for itself. Since June 2006, I've had work in four shows. I sold a photo in one show and had a nibble in another. I bought a ledger book and am keeping track of my photography expenses and income. So far, I'm in the red. However, the reaction to my new series of photos is encouraging and if I sell five or six prints I'll recoup the cost of the medium format camera I bought to do the series. I feel confident that I'll be able to show more of them and sell some and eventually have a show of the entire series. I don't know if or when I'll switch to photography full time. I think I'd like to.
My advice to you is to look at your whole life and change what's not satisfying, not just your work. Get help with that if you don't have the skills to do it by yourself. If you have a hobby through which you can make money, try it. Maybe you'll be able to switch to it full time.
Use your iPod for storing your photos. You can get one of the camera-iPod adapters reviewed on ilounge.com or just bring your cables and drag 'n' drop whenever you can borrow someone's computer.
For your internet connection, if you can't get by with what's in a cafe, try Nokia's Internet Tablet 770 or 800. They're tiny, have high resolution screens, and work reasonably well with most web sites. The 770 is (or will be) discontinued, and so cheaper, but you'll probably like the 800 better. It's getting the software updates that the 770 isn't.
Otherwise, I agree with most of the other posters: travel light!
Because having a fold-out keyboard rocks. My Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 has both handwriting recognition and a fold-out keyboard. Often, it's more convenient for me to use the keyboard than handwriting. E.g. when using the shell or making little text files for things too big for the ToDo list application.
I'm happy with Filecloud for file sharing. It has a couple of free versions and a "premium" version that's $4.95/month. The quota isn't as large as I might like, only 500MB on the premium version, but it uses the open standard WebDAV, so I can mount my folder on my KDE desktop. My friends and family don't have to have any account in order to download my pictures and stuff. Filecloud works as advertised. I didn't know I needed it until (1) I bought a digital camera and (2) I found that the premium subscription is included in the monthly fee I pay Speakeasy for broadband service.
"Kid who used to pick on you became CFO of a major telecommunications company then went to jail for fraud. Advance your token to GO. Collect $200."
If it has to be web based, you can use KDE's fish kioslave and konqueror for remote file access. It's built on top of ssh.
I looked at the Rapiscan Secure 1000 brochure and did the math. The device subjects you to "less than 10" microrems per scan. One scan takes about 8 seconds. That's 7.5 scans per minute. Rounding the dosage up to 10 microrems per scan, in a minute you'd receive 75 microrems. In an hour, 4500 microrems.
Compare that to the 500 microrems per hour you get on an airplane flight, according to the Rapiscan Secure 1000 brochure. That's 8.3 microrems per minute.
Compare that to the 600 microrems per day you'd get from the background radiation in Denver.
What I want for Christmas is some HeroScape expansion packs!
Yeah, that's the ticket! An XM receiver in a Compact Flash card with an xmms-embedded plugin. Hello, Zaurus radio!
You have two choices. You can choose a solution that lets you carry your stuff around or you can choose one that lets you get at your stuff without carrying it around.
:-( Stick in a bigger hard drive and you're good to go. Both of them run Linux and *BSD.
To do the former on the cheap with large capacity, why not get a small, lightweight, obsolete laptop like one of the Sony VAIO PCG-505 series or the original Toshiba Libretto? I had a wonderful PCG-505g for years until I accidentally spilled coffee on it, letting out the magic smoke.
To do the latter, you need on-line storage at the end of a broadband connection. I found a colo for $25/month, so I keep some of my stuff there. You could rent 800MB of disk from http://www.dreamhost.net/ for $10/month. I'm about to open my home box to outside connections, too. In either case, SSH and Kerberos are your friends.
Sometimes, I both carry my stuff and access my stuff with my Sharp Zaurus. It has two 256MB flash drives.
How about a HomePod? It's not a tablet but you can mount it on the wall. It feeds your stereo your choice of analog or digital audio. It's also hackable. I have one and it sounds pretty good.
The general technology is called "In-Band, On-Channel." The implementation in the US is different from the the one in the rest of the world. In the USA, DAB technology is controlled by a company called iBiquity. It's incompatible with the world standard. In the rest of the world, the standard is Eureka 417. I found this explanation helpful.
Just because something is legal today doesn't mean that it will be legal tomorrow. So, today they record and monitor voice and data traffic "for our safety". Tomorrow, suppose it is illegal to read something like slashdot, or that it becomes illegal to say certain words. The most likely example is that fair use rights will be minimized until they are practically non-existant.
You're implying that a law will be passed making that behavior illegal retroactively. That's an ex post facto law and the U.S. Constitution prohibits it. If it happens in the U.S., it's only a matter of time before someone challenges it and the federal courts overturn it.