It's not perfect, and I'm skeptical of the business behind the operation, but it allows any host to backup to any other host. On top of this it offers encryption, deduplication, and snapshots, though the free version limits you to a daily backup - though that's most enough for most needs.
Choose your most trusted host, add the 2TB drive to that computer, install Crashplan, configure the inbound backups and point the software at the external drive.
Now from the rest of the hosts, choose to backup to the trusted host.
This may not do 100% of what you want, but I'd recommend looking into it. With some massaging you should be able to get what you want. The best feature is teaming up with a friend: let them backup to your house, and you backup to theirs. Simple.
Anyway, the way these ports inter-operate kind of, sometimes, but not all the time, is going to become a real cluster-fuck. We won't be able to tell what a port does or supports just by looking at it, and it feels like getting the technical specifications for computer hardware is becoming harder and harder.
A port that has multiple roles and identities doesn't actually help the consumer, especially when they want to do something new and don't know if their port is DisplayPort of Thunderbolt.
This isn't specific to Apple hardware.
My Lenovo laptop has a mini DisplayPort monitor port and I want to know what version of DisplayPort is supports as there are major differences between v1.1, v1.2, and v1.3. However, this crucial tid-bit of info never made it into the specification sheets. Lenovo can suck it. Never again.
Start with Wealth Inequality since this is a useful proxy: if you own all the wealth you can just buy all the land. But I wouldn't be surprised to learn of some discrepancies, perhaps related to old land holdings that can't be sold, typically "owned" by royal families, etc...
It's also one of the few colonies that has not eradicated the culture of the indigenous people. Yes, the Maori have suffered and have a lot of social problems, but compared to the US, Australia, and Canada, I've always been so impressed by the strong representation and respect for, and from, the Maori.
Now that the UK is fucked, Australia is a political joke (and the mining downturn is going to continue to get worse) I think I might move to NZ.
Plus they scrapped their offensive air force capability, which I thought was a really grown up thing to do.
"This strengthens and is a crucial element of UK democracy and I would be distraught if we lost this purely because some people want an elected House. I do support reform, but nobody's offered a superior option."
Yes they have.
Just do what Australia and Canada do: elect your upper house using a different political system and a different set of values. It even works well in practice, where most Australians being prepared to even vote for different parties for the Senate from the House of Reps, since most people understand the different roles the different houses play.
Of course this only works if you have a strong civics course at High School, and Australia goes one step further and subsidizes nearly every school child in the country to take a budget trip to Canberra and learn about the Parliament first hand.
"Now we can get a better relationship with the UK"
Very funny.
Of course there is no guarantee that any new arrangement will be better than the current one. Since every indication is that the UK plans to clamp down hard on immigration, how exactly will this work out better for Australians wanting to live and/or work in the UK?
If the alternative is for the drug addict to prostitute themselves, and expose themselves to violence and life-destroying STDs, then yes, I'd gladly give an addict some money. If the alternative is for them to commit violent crimes, enter into debt with violent criminals, or go to goal, then yes, I'll gladly give them some money.
In the media there was a lot of xenophobia about the "immigration crisis" and so most people have voted accordingly. The debate, of course, was fixated on the "unwashed masses" of refugees coming to Britain, and this really got everyone's attention.
In practice, however, many skilled and able people have come to the UK from abroad, or have relationships (such as your own) that cross borders and cultures. I think this is actually what we want in our society, to create tolerance and acceptance.
As a result of leaving the EU, all the smart and educated and able people who are now on sketchy ground (either themselves, or loved ones) with whatever the new immigration policy becomes, will simply leave for greener pastures. How is that going to lead to a strong and productive UK?
Yeah, that was one of the Brexit arguments. Smelt like BS then, and it still stinks. I think the UK is in for a really tough time of it. Time to leave me thinks...
You're absolutely right, but I thought this was a solved problem? From memory (aka wrong) the old Skype client used to operate in a number of modes, and if a client found it could accept inbound connections it would act as a relay server and help hosts to find each other. I read a paper on the protocol once and it seemed very clever. This work is from 2006, and there is much more available. Anyway, keep in mind that's all for the old original Skype protocol, the new stuff under Microsoft is all centralized and different.
So anyway, I wonder if an entirely decentralized, fair, simple, protocol exists for hosts to locate each other. I guess the BitTorrent guys have done a lot of similar work, yet I believe their system definitely does not route connections through other hosts, mostly because no one wants to foot the bill for TBs of bandwidth.
But VOIP and instant messaging are quite different beasts, with considerably less bandwidth requirements.
"The can be contacted is the part that is missing for many networks today."
This comment of yours keeps bugging me...I grew up believing that this *was the internet* and perhaps today's network is a rather different beast indeed...
I'm not picking on you in particular, there is a whole rash of posts in this thread going "der, dynamic IPs, der, P2P lol" and no one is thinking at all.
Yes, a distributed server infrastructure is probably (weasel word because I'm not a computer scientist) required for randomly distributed hosts to discover each other across a NAT-heavy dynamic IP internet.
However, the host finding protocol is entirely different to the P2P messaging protocol.
Once the hosts are knows and can be contacted then the P2P protocol can do its thing.
"travel, parking, bathrooms, concession prices, unpleasant staff, nasty crowds filled with multitudes of other people (the definition of hell)"
In my experience the #1 reason people attend concerts is so they can brag to their friends (online or in person) and acquaintances that they attended the concert.
So I think the truth behind all of this comes from the shady back-room negotiations that go into putting on a concert. The band is probably super keen to get their cut of ticket sales, so the promoter reluctantly agrees that they can have 10% (say) of ticket sales. But others want to make more money on this, so the promoter and ticketing company team up and decide to devalue the tickets and sell them below market value, say $50 when they should be at $100. The band then only get their 10% of deflated ticket sales. If the ticketing company, or their subsidiary, can buy most of the tickets and re-sell them at a higher price, they can pocket the difference and no longer have to worry about the 10% cut for the band.
Of course every scenario may be different, and in the example above I used "band", when it could have been "venue" or the "owner" of the music being performed. Perhaps a 10% cut isn't worth the hassle, but what if they had negotiated 50%?
In other words, whenever a disparate group of people come together to negotiate a deal concerning money: nearly everyone is trying to rip off everyone else. Call me a cynic, I'm old, I'm allowed to be...
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And when has *anyone* been reassured by the CEO's speech during an "emergency meeting in the conference room"?
Crashplan.
It's not perfect, and I'm skeptical of the business behind the operation, but it allows any host to backup to any other host. On top of this it offers encryption, deduplication, and snapshots, though the free version limits you to a daily backup - though that's most enough for most needs.
Choose your most trusted host, add the 2TB drive to that computer, install Crashplan, configure the inbound backups and point the software at the external drive.
Now from the rest of the hosts, choose to backup to the trusted host.
This may not do 100% of what you want, but I'd recommend looking into it. With some massaging you should be able to get what you want. The best feature is teaming up with a friend: let them backup to your house, and you backup to theirs. Simple.
"I know USB does audio"
USB does pretty much anything it has the bandwidth for.
Hi Sexconker I miss your spam posts.
Anyway, the way these ports inter-operate kind of, sometimes, but not all the time, is going to become a real cluster-fuck. We won't be able to tell what a port does or supports just by looking at it, and it feels like getting the technical specifications for computer hardware is becoming harder and harder.
But that doesn't actually help with the problem.
A port that has multiple roles and identities doesn't actually help the consumer, especially when they want to do something new and don't know if their port is DisplayPort of Thunderbolt.
This isn't specific to Apple hardware.
My Lenovo laptop has a mini DisplayPort monitor port and I want to know what version of DisplayPort is supports as there are major differences between v1.1, v1.2, and v1.3. However, this crucial tid-bit of info never made it into the specification sheets. Lenovo can suck it. Never again.
I assume for personal defense you'd want the SCSI 1 interface leads.
But I always thought there was something sexy about the 80-pin SCA connectors. Very nice.
Just wanted to point out that Display Port supports chaining.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Multiple_displays_on_single_DisplayPort_connector
Start with Wealth Inequality since this is a useful proxy: if you own all the wealth you can just buy all the land. But I wouldn't be surprised to learn of some discrepancies, perhaps related to old land holdings that can't be sold, typically "owned" by royal families, etc...
If you blame the EU for the flooding then you're being moronic.
Yes, EU legislation resulted in a higher cost of dredging. This is a fact and can be verified.
But the decision not to dredge lies with the UK/England. Even if it does cost more, it makes sense to do it right and not just dump it at sea.
Er, there is a massive difference between visiting for a holiday and working.
I think NZ is awesome.
It's also one of the few colonies that has not eradicated the culture of the indigenous people. Yes, the Maori have suffered and have a lot of social problems, but compared to the US, Australia, and Canada, I've always been so impressed by the strong representation and respect for, and from, the Maori.
Now that the UK is fucked, Australia is a political joke (and the mining downturn is going to continue to get worse) I think I might move to NZ.
Plus they scrapped their offensive air force capability, which I thought was a really grown up thing to do.
"This strengthens and is a crucial element of UK democracy and I would be distraught if we lost this purely because some people want an elected House. I do support reform, but nobody's offered a superior option."
Yes they have.
Just do what Australia and Canada do: elect your upper house using a different political system and a different set of values. It even works well in practice, where most Australians being prepared to even vote for different parties for the Senate from the House of Reps, since most people understand the different roles the different houses play.
Of course this only works if you have a strong civics course at High School, and Australia goes one step further and subsidizes nearly every school child in the country to take a budget trip to Canberra and learn about the Parliament first hand.
"House of Lords (basically powerless)"
You're fucking kidding, right?
For the uninformed, here is a starting point for bills the House of Lords has blocked in the UK.
I am supporting your statement, FPTP is broken.
For a really good explanation I highly recommend this video by "CGP Grey".
I posted it above, but it should be repeated here.
Voting in the UK is not secret.
I grew up in Australia and believe that a secret ballot is an integral part of any democracy.
"UK democracy isn't perfect (e.g. voting isn't proportional, and the unelected House of Lords can delay legislation)"
And, very importantly, voting isn't secret.
"Now we can get a better relationship with the UK"
Very funny.
Of course there is no guarantee that any new arrangement will be better than the current one. Since every indication is that the UK plans to clamp down hard on immigration, how exactly will this work out better for Australians wanting to live and/or work in the UK?
Sometimes you do.
If the alternative is for the drug addict to prostitute themselves, and expose themselves to violence and life-destroying STDs, then yes, I'd gladly give an addict some money. If the alternative is for them to commit violent crimes, enter into debt with violent criminals, or go to goal, then yes, I'll gladly give them some money.
It's not always black and white my friend.
I feel for you guys, good luck working it out.
In the media there was a lot of xenophobia about the "immigration crisis" and so most people have voted accordingly. The debate, of course, was fixated on the "unwashed masses" of refugees coming to Britain, and this really got everyone's attention.
In practice, however, many skilled and able people have come to the UK from abroad, or have relationships (such as your own) that cross borders and cultures. I think this is actually what we want in our society, to create tolerance and acceptance.
As a result of leaving the EU, all the smart and educated and able people who are now on sketchy ground (either themselves, or loved ones) with whatever the new immigration policy becomes, will simply leave for greener pastures. How is that going to lead to a strong and productive UK?
Yeah, that was one of the Brexit arguments. Smelt like BS then, and it still stinks. I think the UK is in for a really tough time of it. Time to leave me thinks...
You're absolutely right, but I thought this was a solved problem? From memory (aka wrong) the old Skype client used to operate in a number of modes, and if a client found it could accept inbound connections it would act as a relay server and help hosts to find each other. I read a paper on the protocol once and it seemed very clever. This work is from 2006, and there is much more available. Anyway, keep in mind that's all for the old original Skype protocol, the new stuff under Microsoft is all centralized and different.
So anyway, I wonder if an entirely decentralized, fair, simple, protocol exists for hosts to locate each other. I guess the BitTorrent guys have done a lot of similar work, yet I believe their system definitely does not route connections through other hosts, mostly because no one wants to foot the bill for TBs of bandwidth.
But VOIP and instant messaging are quite different beasts, with considerably less bandwidth requirements.
"The can be contacted is the part that is missing for many networks today."
This comment of yours keeps bugging me...I grew up believing that this *was the internet* and perhaps today's network is a rather different beast indeed...
I'm not picking on you in particular, there is a whole rash of posts in this thread going "der, dynamic IPs, der, P2P lol" and no one is thinking at all.
Yes, a distributed server infrastructure is probably (weasel word because I'm not a computer scientist) required for randomly distributed hosts to discover each other across a NAT-heavy dynamic IP internet.
However, the host finding protocol is entirely different to the P2P messaging protocol.
Once the hosts are knows and can be contacted then the P2P protocol can do its thing.
"travel, parking, bathrooms, concession prices, unpleasant staff, nasty crowds filled with multitudes of other people (the definition of hell)"
In my experience the #1 reason people attend concerts is so they can brag to their friends (online or in person) and acquaintances that they attended the concert.
You nailed it.
So I think the truth behind all of this comes from the shady back-room negotiations that go into putting on a concert. The band is probably super keen to get their cut of ticket sales, so the promoter reluctantly agrees that they can have 10% (say) of ticket sales. But others want to make more money on this, so the promoter and ticketing company team up and decide to devalue the tickets and sell them below market value, say $50 when they should be at $100. The band then only get their 10% of deflated ticket sales. If the ticketing company, or their subsidiary, can buy most of the tickets and re-sell them at a higher price, they can pocket the difference and no longer have to worry about the 10% cut for the band.
Of course every scenario may be different, and in the example above I used "band", when it could have been "venue" or the "owner" of the music being performed. Perhaps a 10% cut isn't worth the hassle, but what if they had negotiated 50%?
In other words, whenever a disparate group of people come together to negotiate a deal concerning money: nearly everyone is trying to rip off everyone else. Call me a cynic, I'm old, I'm allowed to be...
Hasn't Lynx been updated to include an image to ASCII art renderer? Can't it even render HTML5 video to live streaming ASCII art?
Sigh, no? Must have been a dream I had once...