Hats off to you, sir, for holding out longer than I could with my Palm T|X.
Currently I'm rather happy with CyanogenMOD on my HTC myTouch Slide 4G (and the slide 3G before that). Too bad they haven't updated the myTouch Slide line for a while, since they'd carve out a nice little niche for themselves being one of the only major Android manufacturers that did physical keyboards.
I'm about to break down and just get a Nexus something, and pair it with an external portable keyboard (there are various cases that help make this more portable).
Also, I think you'd enjoy running full ARM linux on an Android device, but look at the forums for https://play.google.com/store/... and check which ROMs support the loopback module (or make sure you can build one for yourself). Not all of my third-party ROMs bothered to do this, so I only have a full chroot Debian distro behind one or two of my Android devices:/
Highlights: In the Thomas Drake case, the administration retroactively marked documents as classified, saying, 'he knew they should have been classified.' In the Bradley Manning case, the jury wasn't allowed to see what information was leaked.
Yeah, this Ask Slashdot should really be about teaching people how to search for packages in aptitude or whatever your package manager is... Here are some others:
findimagedupes Finds visually similar or duplicate images findimagedupes is a commandline utility which performs a rough "visual diff" to two images. This allows you to compare two images or a whole tree of images and determine if any are similar or identical. On common image types, findimagedupes seems to be around 98% accurate. Homepage: http://www.jhnc.org/findimaged...
fslint :
kleansweep : File cleaner for KDE KleanSweep allows you to reclaim disk space by finding unneeded files. It can search for files basing on several criterias; you can seek for: * empty files * empty directories * backup files * broken symbolic links * broken executables (executables with missing libraries) * dead menu entries (.desktop files pointing to non-existing executables) * duplicated files... Homepage: http://linux.bydg.org/~yogin/
komparator : directories comparator for KDE Komparator is an application that searches and synchronizes two directories. It discovers duplicate, newer or missing files and empty folders. It works on local and network or kioslave protocol folders. Homepage: http://komparator.sourceforge....
backuppc : (just in case this was related to your intended use case for some reason) high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up PCs BackupPC is disk based and not tape based. This particularity allows features # not found in any other backup solution: * Clever pooling scheme minimizes disk storage and disk I/O. Identical files
across multiple backups of the same or different PC are stored only once
resulting in substantial savings in disk storage and disk writes. Also known
as "data deduplication".
I bet if you throw Picasa at your combined images directory, it might have some kind of "similar image" detection too, particularly since its sorts everything by exif timestamp.
That said, I've never had to use any of this stuff, because my habit was to rename my camera image dumps to a timestamped directory (e.g. 20140123_DCIM ) to begin with, and upload it to its final resting place on my main file server immediately, so I know all other copies I encounter on other household machines are redundant.
Yes... based on my university library, I'd actually break down a "library" into 4 distict sections, and size them appropriately: individual vs. group, and "unplugged" vs. tech.
Library as a cathedral of knowledge and meditation: (individual unplugged) : your "traditional" view of a library, where silence and sensory deprivation is enforced, stacks of books organized into sections, and isolated nooks and crannies with bean bags and desks for reading / study / sleeping. My most productive study space was a hard desk at the end of a stack in the basement of the engineering library.
Library as a tech center: Need to break out into individual "serious work-focused" computer stations, and collaborative conference rooms. The collaboration environments would need to be scheduled out, but have all the accoutrements of modern conference rooms: wifi, whiteboards (both smart and dumb), projectors, servers and client stations for LAN-parties, etc. But of course encase it in glass so they can be monitored.
That's fine, Verizon indisputably has the best coverage for the wide swaths of exurban / rural America. T-mobile only really has solid coverage in urban / suburban areas and highway corridors. For me and many people, that's fine... I'll spend the rest of the money I save on home internet and wifi.
...and besides... JUST THINK of all the rigorous Lean Management courses that will have to re-certify all of their "Six-Sigma Black Belts" to some kind of "Half-Dozen of the Other" degrees!
But it feels so, so wrong to listen to mod / xm / it files without a FastTracker or at least openCubicPlayer -like interface to visualize the individual channels:P
Even nectarine streams their demoscene music in aac/mp3/ogg format:P
I have no problem with VLC for music, but Winamp has been a favorite for years.
Yeah, its old and funky, and that's exactly why I like it.
Same here... Actually Winamp is my favourite player for Android and probably the only Android app I've plopped somewhat serious money for (including the lyric and album-art download plugin)
Though if you like VLC for music, check out http://www.clementine-player.org/ , which is cross platform, still uses VLC code for the backend, and adds a pretty nice frontend interface with crossfading between tracks and streams. My only complaint is that the interface doesn't shrink down to as small as Winamp / Audacious can.
MSFT is considering working on Cinnamon next since people don't seem to like Unity.
Though frankly I remember how pissed I was the first time I approached Android (in one of the adk VMs). I had an empty homescreen, with nothing to teach me how to swipe or bring up a menu. Didn't touch Android on a real phone until, like v2.2 or something (I was really happy with my PalmT|X at the time... still looking for a half-decent replacement for plucker / progect / handyshopper / pfuel , though some of the android apps are getting sorta close)
"VX Connectbot" for ssh / tunneling setup. It has a few useful fixes from the regular "ConnectBot" app, primarily with keybindings you need to send ctrl keypresses, etc.
I just use androidvnc for occasional VNC access to my boxes. Use UltraVNC server on Windows, and I think "Chicken of the VNC" server for OSX (it's been a few years, there might be better servers now). And play around with tigervnc on Linux.
Of course, VNC doesn't do audio... but I imagine you're using it as a remote control for your settop PC? There's an Android app for XBMC or whatever that you could probably connect to your samba share somehow.
I'm generally opposed to the NSA's actions, but I have to admire the ones who were clever enough to talk their superiors into paying them to play WoW all day in the interests of national security.
Yeah, I built a proof-of-concept to convince my employer to manage our servers via a Minecraft interface, but had no luck there:/ It came out even better than http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URVS4H7vrdU... there were levers and status redstone to bounce services, little sheep flowing in a river across a glass screen to indicate web traffic, even mooshrooms-on-minecarts for automated deployment pipelines...
Well, probably depends on the context in which you meet them. I pretty much always lose courtesy competitions at doors and traffic intersections. They supposedly have a reputation for being awesomely passive-aggressive, but I have yet to hit any examples anecdotally. But I'm from Thailand, which is even more passive-aggressive by any account, so maybe I'm just oblivious to it by now. I know I certainly notice how rude people are in person and in traffic whenever I travel back East now.... what you mean I have to force my way into this merge lane?
I managed to move to Seattle about 2 years ago after "casually" trying for about 10 years. Was in the DC metro area, which was "home" but that I had been desperately trying to escape for something new.
I finally ended up changing my address in monster.com to the Seattle Public Library in an attempt to get monster to honor my location preferences. I still got most of my recruiter calls and emails from DC, SoCal, and various "flyover" states, and I still do today. I figure those are simply places hurting for techs because techs don't want to live there.
Believe everything you hear and read about the culture in Seattle. They're the nicest, most polite, least jaywalking people you'll ever meet. And they probably don't want you here, particularly if you're from California. They work hard. They play hard. They have an internal energy that keeps them warm from within, and drives them through the long, cold, wet, dark seasonal affective disorder (SAD) season.
I took a pay cut and self-relocated my family across the country. I also don't get nearly unlimited overtime like with my federal contracting gig. I bought a bike, then another, and a set of cross-country skis for the family. We get a lot of use out of our annual state and national park passes all year round.
There's a huge cottage industry of tech contracting firms (Volt was extremely nice, Insight Global was more "just business" but had a lot of contacts in industry). All of the people who do real work for MS and others are mostly contractors, just like everywhere else. A lot of contractors at MS would work for 1 year and then take 3 months off to avoid getting paid real benefits like healthcare and vacation. I live in Redmond by work downtown Seattle, which is good, since rush hour traffic actually is worse to/from the MS campus.
I figure we'd hang out here for about a decade or so until the kids go to college, making sure to hit most of the trails and mountains and islands on our ever-growing list of PNW things to do, then probably take a big fat offer with relocation for somewhere else. This has been something of a working vacation for us, but it certainly isn't for everyone.
Hey, speaking of which, is there any way to get the old zoom in/out buttons on the new Google Maps? Pinch-to-zoom is a real, real pain in the ass to use one-handed, even with my phone in a mount. There's supposedly some "alternative" way to make it zoom in/out by holding and then moving up/down, but I can't get it to work. I just want some simple onscreen buttons, dammit!
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Yeah, DoofusOfDeath is the reason we can't have nice things! (erm, I mean, nice human beings with feelings)
It's Nixie Pixel:
http://www.nixiepixel.com/
She's very articulate, and the technical depth is there, if you can keep yourself from getting distracted.
They're not going to actually get rid of /. classic once the new site goes out of beta, are they?
It's in your mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Hats off to you, sir, for holding out longer than I could with my Palm T|X.
Currently I'm rather happy with CyanogenMOD on my HTC myTouch Slide 4G (and the slide 3G before that). Too bad they haven't updated the myTouch Slide line for a while, since they'd carve out a nice little niche for themselves being one of the only major Android manufacturers that did physical keyboards.
I'm about to break down and just get a Nexus something, and pair it with an external portable keyboard (there are various cases that help make this more portable).
Also, I think you'd enjoy running full ARM linux on an Android device, but look at the forums for :/
https://play.google.com/store/...
and check which ROMs support the loopback module (or make sure you can build one for yourself). Not all of my third-party ROMs bothered to do this, so I only have a full chroot Debian distro behind one or two of my Android devices
But let us know how you turn out! My musings were plopped down here:
http://trumblings.blogspot.com...
and maybe a few more relevant posts here:
http://trumblings.blogspot.com...
Yep, this was handled yesterday in: http://news.slashdot.org/story...
http://online.wsj.com/news/art...
Highlights:
In the Thomas Drake case, the administration retroactively marked documents as classified, saying, 'he knew they should have been classified.'
In the Bradley Manning case, the jury wasn't allowed to see what information was leaked.
Yeah, you guys are using the wrong version of VNC / RealVNC.
Look up tightVNC or even tigerVNC if you need something fast enough to do 3D graphics and maybe even full motion video at a few FPS.
Yeah, this Ask Slashdot should really be about teaching people how to search for packages in aptitude or whatever your package manager is...
Here are some others:
findimagedupes
Finds visually similar or duplicate images
findimagedupes is a commandline utility which performs a rough "visual diff" to
two images. This allows you to compare two images or a whole tree of images and
determine if any are similar or identical. On common image types,
findimagedupes seems to be around 98% accurate.
Homepage: http://www.jhnc.org/findimaged...
fslint :
kleansweep : ...
File cleaner for KDE
KleanSweep allows you to reclaim disk space by finding unneeded files. It can
search for files basing on several criterias; you can seek for:
* empty files
* empty directories
* backup files
* broken symbolic links
* broken executables (executables with missing libraries)
* dead menu entries (.desktop files pointing to non-existing executables)
* duplicated files
Homepage: http://linux.bydg.org/~yogin/
komparator :
directories comparator for KDE
Komparator is an application that searches and synchronizes two directories. It
discovers duplicate, newer or missing files and empty folders. It works on
local and network or kioslave protocol folders.
Homepage: http://komparator.sourceforge....
backuppc : (just in case this was related to your intended use case for some reason)
high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up PCs
BackupPC is disk based and not tape based. This particularity allows features #
not found in any other backup solution:
* Clever pooling scheme minimizes disk storage and disk I/O. Identical files
across multiple backups of the same or different PC are stored only once
resulting in substantial savings in disk storage and disk writes. Also known
as "data deduplication".
I bet if you throw Picasa at your combined images directory, it might have some kind of "similar image" detection too, particularly since its sorts everything by exif timestamp.
That said, I've never had to use any of this stuff, because my habit was to rename my camera image dumps to a timestamped directory (e.g. 20140123_DCIM ) to begin with, and upload it to its final resting place on my main file server immediately, so I know all other copies I encounter on other household machines are redundant.
No, but didn't have time to throw in "put a big storytime rug in the group reading center" and "deploy Minecraft in the LAN party room" . fixed!
Yes... based on my university library, I'd actually break down a "library" into 4 distict sections, and size them appropriately: individual vs. group, and "unplugged" vs. tech.
Library as a cathedral of knowledge and meditation: (individual unplugged) : your "traditional" view of a library, where silence and sensory deprivation is enforced, stacks of books organized into sections, and isolated nooks and crannies with bean bags and desks for reading / study / sleeping. My most productive study space was a hard desk at the end of a stack in the basement of the engineering library.
Library as a tech center: Need to break out into individual "serious work-focused" computer stations, and collaborative conference rooms. The collaboration environments would need to be scheduled out, but have all the accoutrements of modern conference rooms: wifi, whiteboards (both smart and dumb), projectors, servers and client stations for LAN-parties, etc. But of course encase it in glass so they can be monitored.
That's fine, Verizon indisputably has the best coverage for the wide swaths of exurban / rural America. T-mobile only really has solid coverage in urban / suburban areas and highway corridors. For me and many people, that's fine... I'll spend the rest of the money I save on home internet and wifi.
...and besides... JUST THINK of all the rigorous Lean Management courses that will have to re-certify all of their "Six-Sigma Black Belts" to some kind of "Half-Dozen of the Other" degrees!
PANDEMONIUM!!!
But it feels so, so wrong to listen to mod / xm / it files without a FastTracker or at least openCubicPlayer -like interface to visualize the individual channels :P
Even nectarine streams their demoscene music in aac/mp3/ogg format :P
I have no problem with VLC for music, but Winamp has been a favorite for years.
Yeah, its old and funky, and that's exactly why I like it.
Same here... Actually Winamp is my favourite player for Android and probably the only Android app I've plopped somewhat serious money for (including the lyric and album-art download plugin)
Though if you like VLC for music, check out http://www.clementine-player.org/ , which is cross platform, still uses VLC code for the backend, and adds a pretty nice frontend interface with crossfading between tracks and streams. My only complaint is that the interface doesn't shrink down to as small as Winamp / Audacious can.
MSFT is considering working on Cinnamon next since people don't seem to like Unity.
Though frankly I remember how pissed I was the first time I approached Android (in one of the adk VMs). I had an empty homescreen, with nothing to teach me how to swipe or bring up a menu. Didn't touch Android on a real phone until, like v2.2 or something (I was really happy with my PalmT|X at the time... still looking for a half-decent replacement for plucker / progect / handyshopper / pfuel , though some of the android apps are getting sorta close)
Oh, just link the image, please
http://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/windows-good-and-shit.jpg
Hmm, well, maybe Microsoft might be interested in funding a new season of Firefly?
https://www.google.com/search?q=firefly+take+the+sky+from+me&tbm=isch
The site that gave birth to the "Nailed It!" meme: http://www.pinterestfail.com/
"VX Connectbot" for ssh / tunneling setup. It has a few useful fixes from the regular "ConnectBot" app, primarily with keybindings you need to send ctrl keypresses, etc.
I just use androidvnc for occasional VNC access to my boxes. Use UltraVNC server on Windows, and I think "Chicken of the VNC" server for OSX (it's been a few years, there might be better servers now). And play around with tigervnc on Linux.
Of course, VNC doesn't do audio... but I imagine you're using it as a remote control for your settop PC? There's an Android app for XBMC or whatever that you could probably connect to your samba share somehow.
I'm generally opposed to the NSA's actions, but I have to admire the ones who were clever enough to talk their superiors into paying them to play WoW all day in the interests of national security.
Yeah, I built a proof-of-concept to convince my employer to manage our servers via a Minecraft interface, but had no luck there :/ It came out even better than http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URVS4H7vrdU ... there were levers and status redstone to bounce services, little sheep flowing in a river across a glass screen to indicate web traffic, even mooshrooms-on-minecarts for automated deployment pipelines...
Anyway, I bow to our NSA overlords.
Well, probably depends on the context in which you meet them. I pretty much always lose courtesy competitions at doors and traffic intersections. They supposedly have a reputation for being awesomely passive-aggressive, but I have yet to hit any examples anecdotally. But I'm from Thailand, which is even more passive-aggressive by any account, so maybe I'm just oblivious to it by now. I know I certainly notice how rude people are in person and in traffic whenever I travel back East now.... what you mean I have to force my way into this merge lane?
Also: http://www.today.com/news/ohio-most-foul-mouthed-state-washington-least-report-says-2D11691625
I managed to move to Seattle about 2 years ago after "casually" trying for about 10 years. Was in the DC metro area, which was "home" but that I had been desperately trying to escape for something new.
I finally ended up changing my address in monster.com to the Seattle Public Library in an attempt to get monster to honor my location preferences. I still got most of my recruiter calls and emails from DC, SoCal, and various "flyover" states, and I still do today. I figure those are simply places hurting for techs because techs don't want to live there.
Believe everything you hear and read about the culture in Seattle. They're the nicest, most polite, least jaywalking people you'll ever meet. And they probably don't want you here, particularly if you're from California. They work hard. They play hard. They have an internal energy that keeps them warm from within, and drives them through the long, cold, wet, dark seasonal affective disorder (SAD) season.
I took a pay cut and self-relocated my family across the country. I also don't get nearly unlimited overtime like with my federal contracting gig. I bought a bike, then another, and a set of cross-country skis for the family. We get a lot of use out of our annual state and national park passes all year round.
There's a huge cottage industry of tech contracting firms (Volt was extremely nice, Insight Global was more "just business" but had a lot of contacts in industry). All of the people who do real work for MS and others are mostly contractors, just like everywhere else. A lot of contractors at MS would work for 1 year and then take 3 months off to avoid getting paid real benefits like healthcare and vacation. I live in Redmond by work downtown Seattle, which is good, since rush hour traffic actually is worse to/from the MS campus.
I figure we'd hang out here for about a decade or so until the kids go to college, making sure to hit most of the trails and mountains and islands on our ever-growing list of PNW things to do, then probably take a big fat offer with relocation for somewhere else. This has been something of a working vacation for us, but it certainly isn't for everyone.
Our Black Friday will be driving out to the middle of nowhere for the long weekend, looking out at the night sky, and freezing our keisters off.
ah, awesome, thanks!
Hey, speaking of which, is there any way to get the old zoom in/out buttons on the new Google Maps? Pinch-to-zoom is a real, real pain in the ass to use one-handed, even with my phone in a mount. There's supposedly some "alternative" way to make it zoom in/out by holding and then moving up/down, but I can't get it to work. I just want some simple onscreen buttons, dammit!