The way you describe it makes it sound quite useless. We need full as well as incremental backups (who wants to upload 10 GB every night???) that can be automated to run nightly. Manual backups are worse than useless.
A good Open Source encrypted back up solution that makes use of this in an intelligent way would be great. I really want to automatically store my photo's and important document outside my house. Houses do burn occaionally, computers get stolen by burglars. No need to loose all your important data in the process.
Sunbird is just another client just like any of the mobile devices. If Google's Calendar works as the SyncML server you sync your mobile device with Google Calendar over wireless Internet. Then you fire up your laptop and start Sunbird which also automatically syncs with Google, downloading all the changes you made on your mobile. It's really quite intuitive. The server holds the authoritative state of your calendar and changes are synced to each of the attached clients whenever they connect. A bit like IMAP, really.
I already use this with the free Mobical service and mobile syncs (calendar & contacts) are very fast and low-bandwidth. I've also tried Sunbird SyncML support, but that one's not quite there yet...
I don't think many people are aware of it but a 'new' standard is finally emerging that allows mobile devices to synchronize over the internet. A great number of mobile phones and smartphones (like my Nokia 9300) support this. See the website below for a list of devices that support SyncML. So does the Mozilla Sunbird Calendar...
The ITMS music is unacceptably expensive and crippled by DRM. I don't particularly like the idea that people get the impression that this is the way music should be distributed in the 21st century. Transport and packaging costs have been reduced to next to nothing, the music itself is well payed for by $1.76 if a large part of that goes to the artist.
AllOfMP3 should be the way music is sold on the Internet. We - as buyers - should flock to that site in droves to let the music companies know that that's what we want. No DRM, fair prices and quick downloads. Let them figure out the legalities amongst themselves.
I hope that whoever invented this cure (if it's as good as they say it is) becomes filthy rich on the profits. People who invent cures for diseases like this should be rewarded like rock stars, or lottery winners.
Anything to give others the best incentive to find similar cures for cancer, malaria and whatever's still out there lurking.
lircjb is a 'junction box' for LIRC. It can be inserted between the 'real' lircd socket and a second one. It then allows input form other sources to be added to the stream of LIRC commands.
Since I don't use LIRC itself, I have the following line in my rc.local:/usr/local/bin/lircjb -p 12345 -a/dev/lircd &
Input is accepted on UDP port 12345 and output on/dev/lircd which is read by the LIRC aware applications.
The Mythbox.pm SlimServer plugin is preconfigured to transmit to UDP 12345 on localhost. Use irw (comes with LIRCD) to see the button strings arriving on the/dev/lircd socket when you activate the plugin and press remote buttons. Then adapt ~/.lircrc to your whishes.
Contact me on xenna@myown.mailcan.com if you have further questions.
Imagine filling up a 60G iPod with $1 iTunes tracks. Suppose each track is 10 MB (to be on the safe side), you'll end up with $6000 worth of music on the thing. No wonder real thieves and robbers are attracked to these tell tale white earplugs...;)
I have had a MythTV box running for a few months (after earlier unsuccessful attempts with freevo and older MythTV versions.
I boght a Hauppauge PVR350 card (analog TV) and used the "MythTV on Fedora" howto (google) and I was very satified with the results. So satisfied that I bought another Hauppauge PVR500 card so that I ended up with 3 tuners.
My setup is non-standard for two reasons:
1. My HTserver (HTSRV) is located in my server room. This considerably improves the WAF and keeps the living room nice and clean and quiet. I transport the A/V signals over CAT5 (using two baluns) to the point where the cable-TV enters the house. There a modulator mixes the signal with the regular cable channels so I can watch my MythTV HTserver's TV-Out anywhere in the house.
2. Now I needed a way of controlling my MythTV server from behind any of my TV sets. To solve that I used my SqueezeBoxes ( http://www.slimdevices.com/ ). I wrote a Slimserver plugin (Perl) that taps into LIRC and allows me to control the MythTV server with the remotes from the Squeezeboxes.
I'm thinking of replacing my living room audio system with a pair of powered speakers so that I'll end up with 'just' a TV, a small Squeezebox and two speakers. No 5.1 speaker setups for me, I just can't stand all that clutter.;)
There's another interesting project that I plan to look into. It uses Hauppauge's small and inexpensive $69 MediaMVP boxes (miniature diskless computers that run linux with Remotes and TV-Out) to build MythTV and SlimServer frontends:
This is nice because it allows you to watch different programs & recordings on different TV-sets, which my current setup doesn't allow you to do. Worth looking into if you're interested in a distributed media network rather than just a boring HTPC or HTSRV;)
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Yes, that's what annoyed me as well. my girlfriend had to install a quicktime viewer for a university course recently and ended up with iTunes.
I already hated quicktime for various reasons and now I hate it even more. And iTunes with it:(
Why don't you get a new hard drive for your iRiver instead. I have an even older generation H140 and it's still going strong. It seems pretty indestructable to me. Only reason to get an iPod would be better car stereo integration.
This Misticriver thread mentions replacing the 20GB harddisk with a 30GB Toshiba disk for $125:
Realistically, how much of our current power can we expect to be able to get out of these PC alternatives of yours? That and the costs associated with them are important factors. The issue is preserving our way of life, which, unfortunately will require lots of energy. The prospect of running a world with 6 billion inhabitants on wind power seems a bit unrealistic to me.
IMO, we need nuclear fission energy to bridge the time we need to develope fusion. We can't afford to let society collapse in the meantime.
I should probably have said it differently. 99% of Tbird/OE users haven't even noticed that it has encryption on board. No reason why fixing this bug would change that percentage much.
That's the fun thing about OTP encryption. The decrypter can never be sure he got the right key, since the mere fact that a certain key decrypts a certain readable message doesn't mean that it was the right message. It's trivial to construct a key that decrypts 'Start operation Alpha now' to something else altogether.
"Man, your mother must be some sort of super-elite computer whiz in her own right.
I don't think I could successfully explain one-time pads, security, geiger counters, or random numbers to my mother. At least not in anything but the most vague descriptions."
You don't get it;)
Mum, just gets the CD and copies it on her hard disk.
Provided there is sufficiently smart OTP software in her mailclient she wouldn't have to do anything special except sending you a mail. The client would notice the recipient and start encrypting automatically.
When someone says something's not an urban legend, chances are it probably is.
I guess the NSA must hae at least a 100 million Americans in their terrorist DB by now. No wait, they're of course monitoring all worldwide communications, so they must be counting billions by now...
Geez, man. This feature is available and has been available in all Mozilla mail versions I have been using for years and before that it was in Netscape. It is also in every Outlook Express I've ever seen. And guess what, thay all work together!
Why 99% percent of users have never noticed this is beyond me. Get a free Thawte mail certificate and start playing. Now!;)
The idea is that you generate the public and private keys yourself (actually the mail client does that for you). The Trusted Third Party is just for certifying your public key as genuine (belonging to you - or at least your e-mail address). The s/Mime clients automate this very nicely, unfortunately they also make you lose sight of what's going on.
The public key (used to encrypt) can be safely given to anyone. The private key is known only to you and is the only way to decrypt messages encrypted by the public key. Not even the public key can decrypt messages that it has encrypted itself.
This is the basic principle of public key cryptography.
I have a Squeezebox myself and I've thought about doing this. Actually, I'd like to get rid of my stereo system as a whole and just use the Squeezebox with powered speakers.
I've asked this question on the Slim Devices list and the answer was that, no, the slimserver doesn't do this (that would be best), but it can be done with IceCast (or any other package that does shoutcast streams). The Squeezebox and most other systems can play shoutcast MP3 streams so that would be the solution.
You could write a nice Perl plugin for SlimServer to do the tuning.
As a client for computer systems I'd use the excellent SoftSqueeze (Multi-platform Java).
Agreed, that would be helpful. I would be interested in quickly documenting some things I figured out myself, but to do that I would like to have some Wiki or Blog service that allows uploading files as well.
Yeah, that's what I meant. I'm certainly happy to see that there's a lot of cancer research going on. Inevitably all of us will end up being grateful of that sooner or later. I see more and more people beating cancer amongst my family and friends these days. I'm glad you're one of them!
You're all reading me wrong so it must be my explanation skills. Apparently they're so bad I even get modded off-topic to my great surprise.
I understand that cancer has no evolutionary advantage but is the (unwanted) byproduct of mechanisms that do.
My point (or rather question) here is that for a cancer to have such skills in spreading, these particular skills (that I see as being too complex to evolve in the life span) must have some original evolutionary advantage in the healthy organism. I wonder where this advantage lies.
I've had a slimp3/squeezebox for years and I've noticed that slimserver runs a lot better - esp. with a large collection - on a fast machine with enough RAM. I just upgraded my server from a 1Ghz P3 to a 3000+ amd64 and everything runs a lot smoother. (and I'm not even transcoding)
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The way you describe it makes it sound quite useless. We need full as well as incremental backups (who wants to upload 10 GB every night???) that can be automated to run nightly. Manual backups are worse than useless.
A good Open Source encrypted back up solution that makes use of this in an intelligent way would be great. I really want to automatically store my photo's and important document outside my house. Houses do burn occaionally, computers get stolen by burglars. No need to loose all your important data in the process.
X.
Sunbird is just another client just like any of the mobile devices. If Google's Calendar works as the SyncML server you sync your mobile device with Google Calendar over wireless Internet. Then you fire up your laptop and start Sunbird which also automatically syncs with Google, downloading all the changes you made on your mobile. It's really quite intuitive. The server holds the authoritative state of your calendar and changes are synced to each of the attached clients whenever they connect. A bit like IMAP, really.
I already use this with the free Mobical service and mobile syncs (calendar & contacts) are very fast and low-bandwidth. I've also tried Sunbird SyncML support, but that one's not quite there yet...
X.
I don't think many people are aware of it but a 'new' standard is finally emerging that allows mobile devices to synchronize over the internet. A great number of mobile phones and smartphones (like my Nokia 9300) support this. See the website below for a list of devices that support SyncML. So does the Mozilla Sunbird Calendar...
;)
List of devices: https://www.mobical.net/mobical/phonesetup/
What use is an online calendar if it doesn't support online synchronisation?
I know that Gmail has ignored the wonderful imap standard, so I'm not entirely cnvinced they won't ignore this one.
So: Please Google, don't be evil, and use the open SyncML standard
X.
The ITMS music is unacceptably expensive and crippled by DRM. I don't particularly like the idea that people get the impression that this is the way music should be distributed in the 21st century. Transport and packaging costs have been reduced to next to nothing, the music itself is well payed for by $1.76 if a large part of that goes to the artist.
AllOfMP3 should be the way music is sold on the Internet. We - as buyers - should flock to that site in droves to let the music companies know that that's what we want. No DRM, fair prices and quick downloads. Let them figure out the legalities amongst themselves.
X.
You want a higher bit rate?
Then why don't you shop at http://www.allofmp3.com/ instead?
You get the Coldplay X&Y album for $1.76, you choose your own encoding format and bitrate and it gets encoded on the fly. It's legal.
But hey, 1 billion lemmings can't be wrong, right?
I'm not pimping AOM, I never bought anything there. In fact I never bought a single music track online in my life. Just a few CD's in the old days.
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I hope that whoever invented this cure (if it's as good as they say it is) becomes filthy rich on the profits. People who invent cures for diseases like this should be rewarded like rock stars, or lottery winners.
Anything to give others the best incentive to find similar cures for cancer, malaria and whatever's still out there lurking.
X.
OK, it still lacks documentation, though ;)
/usr/local/bin/lircjb -p 12345 -a /dev/lircd &
/dev/lircd which is read by the LIRC aware applications.
/dev/lircd socket when you activate the plugin and press remote buttons. Then adapt ~/.lircrc to your whishes.
You'll need these 2 Perl scripts:
http://213.84.196.8/slim2lirc/lircjb
http://213.84.196.8/slim2lirc/Mythbox.pm
lircjb is a 'junction box' for LIRC. It can be inserted between the 'real' lircd socket and a second one. It then allows input form other sources to be added to the stream of LIRC commands.
Since I don't use LIRC itself, I have the following line in my rc.local:
Input is accepted on UDP port 12345 and output on
The Mythbox.pm SlimServer plugin is preconfigured to transmit to UDP 12345 on localhost. Use irw (comes with LIRCD) to see the button strings arriving on the
Contact me on xenna@myown.mailcan.com if you have further questions.
Imagine filling up a 60G iPod with $1 iTunes tracks. Suppose each track is 10 MB (to be on the safe side), you'll end up with $6000 worth of music on the thing. No wonder real thieves and robbers are attracked to these tell tale white earplugs... ;)
X.
I have had a MythTV box running for a few months (after earlier unsuccessful attempts with freevo and older MythTV versions.
;)
;)
I boght a Hauppauge PVR350 card (analog TV) and used the "MythTV on Fedora" howto (google) and I was very satified with the results. So satisfied that I bought another Hauppauge PVR500 card so that I ended up with 3 tuners.
My setup is non-standard for two reasons:
1. My HTserver (HTSRV) is located in my server room. This considerably improves the WAF and keeps the living room nice and clean and quiet. I transport the A/V signals over CAT5 (using two baluns) to the point where the cable-TV enters the house. There a modulator mixes the signal with the regular cable channels so I can watch my MythTV HTserver's TV-Out anywhere in the house.
2. Now I needed a way of controlling my MythTV server from behind any of my TV sets. To solve that I used my SqueezeBoxes ( http://www.slimdevices.com/ ). I wrote a Slimserver plugin (Perl) that taps into LIRC and allows me to control the MythTV server with the remotes from the Squeezeboxes.
I'm thinking of replacing my living room audio system with a pair of powered speakers so that I'll end up with 'just' a TV, a small Squeezebox and two speakers. No 5.1 speaker setups for me, I just can't stand all that clutter.
There's another interesting project that I plan to look into. It uses Hauppauge's small and inexpensive $69 MediaMVP boxes (miniature diskless computers that run linux with Remotes and TV-Out) to build MythTV and SlimServer frontends:
http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/idx.php?pg=main
This is nice because it allows you to watch different programs & recordings on different TV-sets, which my current setup doesn't allow you to do. Worth looking into if you're interested in a distributed media network rather than just a boring HTPC or HTSRV
X.
Yes, that's what annoyed me as well. my girlfriend had to install a quicktime viewer for a university course recently and ended up with iTunes.
:(
I already hated quicktime for various reasons and now I hate it even more. And iTunes with it
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Why don't you get a new hard drive for your iRiver instead. I have an even older generation H140 and it's still going strong. It seems pretty indestructable to me. Only reason to get an iPod would be better car stereo integration.
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This Misticriver thread mentions replacing the 20GB harddisk with a 30GB Toshiba disk for $125:
http://www.misticriver.net/showthread.php?t=34516
X.
Realistically, how much of our current power can we expect to be able to get out of these PC alternatives of yours? That and the costs associated with them are important factors. The issue is preserving our way of life, which, unfortunately will require lots of energy. The prospect of running a world with 6 billion inhabitants on wind power seems a bit unrealistic to me.
IMO, we need nuclear fission energy to bridge the time we need to develope fusion. We can't afford to let society collapse in the meantime.
X.
So are you saying we could just grind the waste up in very small particles and blow it into the atmosphere/ocean?
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I remember the guy who was behind the Gaea hypothesis actually proposed dumping it in forests. Seriously...:
http://www.prototista.org/E-Zine/GaiaTheoryMother
The problem with losing 12 kilos, these days, is that it could be used to produce a dirty bomb.
X.
I should probably have said it differently. 99% of Tbird/OE users haven't even noticed that it has encryption on board. No reason why fixing this bug would change that percentage much.
X.
That's the fun thing about OTP encryption. The decrypter can never be sure he got the right key, since the mere fact that a certain key decrypts a certain readable message doesn't mean that it was the right message. It's trivial to construct a key that decrypts 'Start operation Alpha now' to something else altogether.
X.
"Man, your mother must be some sort of super-elite computer whiz in her own right.
;)
I don't think I could successfully explain one-time pads, security, geiger counters, or random numbers to my mother. At least not in anything but the most vague descriptions."
You don't get it
Mum, just gets the CD and copies it on her hard disk.
Provided there is sufficiently smart OTP software in her mailclient she wouldn't have to do anything special except sending you a mail. The client would notice the recipient and start encrypting automatically.
X.
IANAP but AFAIK the randomness of Geiger counters is ensured by Quantum Mechanics.
There's actually a site somewhere on the net where you can order chunks of random data similarly generated. Couldn't find the URL, sorry.
X.
When someone says something's not an urban legend, chances are it probably is.
I guess the NSA must hae at least a 100 million Americans in their terrorist DB by now. No wait, they're of course monitoring all worldwide communications, so they must be counting billions by now...
X.
Geez, man. This feature is available and has been available in all Mozilla mail versions I have been using for years and before that it was in Netscape. It is also in every Outlook Express I've ever seen. And guess what, thay all work together!
;)
Why 99% percent of users have never noticed this is beyond me. Get a free Thawte mail certificate and start playing. Now!
X.
You don't get it. ;)
The idea is that you generate the public and private keys yourself (actually the mail client does that for you). The Trusted Third Party is just for certifying your public key as genuine (belonging to you - or at least your e-mail address). The s/Mime clients automate this very nicely, unfortunately they also make you lose sight of what's going on.
The public key (used to encrypt) can be safely given to anyone. The private key is known only to you and is the only way to decrypt messages encrypted by the public key. Not even the public key can decrypt messages that it has encrypted itself.
This is the basic principle of public key cryptography.
Correct me if I'm wrong, anyone...
X.
I have a Squeezebox myself and I've thought about doing this. Actually, I'd like to get rid of my stereo system as a whole and just use the Squeezebox with powered speakers.
I've asked this question on the Slim Devices list and the answer was that, no, the slimserver doesn't do this (that would be best), but it can be done with IceCast (or any other package that does shoutcast streams). The Squeezebox and most other systems can play shoutcast MP3 streams so that would be the solution.
You could write a nice Perl plugin for SlimServer to do the tuning.
As a client for computer systems I'd use the excellent SoftSqueeze (Multi-platform Java).
X.
Agreed, that would be helpful. I would be interested in quickly documenting some things I figured out myself, but to do that I would like to have some Wiki or Blog service that allows uploading files as well.
Do any of those exist?
X.
Yeah, that's what I meant. I'm certainly happy to see that there's a lot of cancer research going on. Inevitably all of us will end up being grateful of that sooner or later. I see more and more people beating cancer amongst my family and friends these days. I'm glad you're one of them!
X.
You're all reading me wrong so it must be my explanation skills. Apparently they're so bad I even get modded off-topic to my great surprise.
I understand that cancer has no evolutionary advantage but is the (unwanted) byproduct of mechanisms that do.
My point (or rather question) here is that for a cancer to have such skills in spreading, these particular skills (that I see as being too complex to evolve in the life span) must have some original evolutionary advantage in the healthy organism. I wonder where this advantage lies.
X.
I've had a slimp3/squeezebox for years and I've noticed that slimserver runs a lot better - esp. with a large collection - on a fast machine with enough RAM. I just upgraded my server from a 1Ghz P3 to a 3000+ amd64 and everything runs a lot smoother. (and I'm not even transcoding)