I recently got some data from a health agency, and they sent it using Voltage SecureMail.
Not sure of the exact specifics, but it seems that when they send an email with a secure attachment the file is stripped, stuffed on a repository, then I get a link. I have to register and sign in, then I can download the attachment. Personally I'd rather all attachments worked this way rather than people sending individual multi-megabyte files over SMTP to multiple recipients, most of which wont bother reading them... But I digress.
So I had a look at the Voltage web site and it seems they may be a solution provider who can synergise your workflow experience management:
They're doing none of that. They are paying to get a degree. Some don't even seem to understand that paying their fees isn't sufficient to get a degree, and that they have to do work as well. Really.
Looked at the CKAN software (www.ckan.net)? They run their own knowledge archive,a nd the software also powers the UK data.gov.uk site. RESTful API and python client.
I had some back pain once, and a friend suggested healing crystals. Suddenly I became aware of a pain in the region just below my back and above my legs.
Our University only keeps its general Unix server running because some staff and faculty members still use 'elm' (or maybe 'pine') to read their email.
I think everyone is off the BSD command line mailer now though.
1. And Microsoft Office looks aged compared to anything I've seen on CSI. I'm not sure I want my office software looking like something I've seen on CSI, so being aged isn't a bad thing. Oh, and get off my lawn.
2. It takes a while to load because Office has probably already pre-loaded most of itself and just pops up a main window when you open a document. Ever wonder why Windows is so slow to boot?
3. Yeah, I wish I could do python scripting in Open Office, or save straight to PDF from my OpenOffice Writer, or create equations with LaTeX in my OpenOffice Impress presentations. Oh wait...
4. Educational Institutions are normally the first to try new things, since they have a higher proportion of geeks in the place. There's also well documented cases of local governments switching to OO.org and Linux. And some switching back after getting sweeteners from MS, but that's the point of the original article. MS sees a threat.
5. What do you want it to develop into ffs? Emacs?
I can give you perfect IT systems. It will cost you Infinite Dollars. Or I can give you a totally failing IT system for nothing. Somewhere along that line is the break-even point, and if we assume the market is working the way it is supposed to, we are riding that break-even point.
If you really think you can do this for less than the price of comparable commercial thin clients, then I suggest you quit your job and go into the thin client business.
As I see it, they made the current votes public. As any fule kno, if you don't want to bias your election/survey/popularity contest you don't publish the votes as they come in since that will either encourage the losing parties to have to rally their troops or lose heart and give up, or cause the winning parties to get over-confident. Sure, these effects may cancel each other out but it's no longer a simple question of how do the people who can be bothered to think independently want to vote.
See that last slashdot poll that asked 'How do you choose your answer to the slashdot poll?' when the most popular option was 'vote for the current leader'. Or something like that. Someome find the URL...
Don't go for a single user solution. The fact that you are spending so much time managing your tasks tells me that it's nearly time your group got another one of you. And then you need a task management system that scales to more than one techie.
We use RT. Everything I and my two techies do gets logged into RT. Sometimes these are tickets from users, sometimes they are things we've put in (systems work). You can have priorities, due dates, assign tickets to techies, etc etc etc.
I don't think it has the hierarchical concept where you might break up a task like "Get Fred a new PC" into "Spec PC : Buy PC : Install PC : Setup OS" or whatever, but hmmm maybe it does... I think you can have tasks dependent on other tasks and so forth... Check it out.
We don't use periods (full stops) to separate decimals - we use a decimal point, which is a small dot half-way up the base-height of a piece of text. I'd love to type one for you but there isn't one in ASCII. I'm sure it's there in the Unicode tables somewhere.
This wasn't a problem on typewriters, when you would just shift the roller half a line space and hit the full stop. Technology eh? We need a 0.5LF character. Or Unicode everywhere. Or \LaTeX everywhere.
E = mc^2, hence m = E/c^2. How much energy is there in a running computer compared to one switched off? Convert to mass, multiply by the number of computers on the internet to get... well, yet another meaningless figure, but it might be fun to estimate.
Step 1 is nearly here for you - it's "wait for 3d to go mainstream".
I'm left-eyed, which makes cameras tricky to use since I can't look through the viewfinder and wind the film on - the winding mechanism is under my right eye. In the old days, that is! But there's a lot of things can't be done with just one eye, so start suing - guns, bow and arrows, cameras - are there left-eye versions?
My implication was that The Beatles aren't on Spotify or iTunes and so they are suffering from lower exposure to the people who are getting their music from these sources. I can only think that whoever holds the rights these days still looks down on digital distribution for some reason. Idiots.
Did you see the reply from the troll saying 100% of The Beatles was 'ephemeral'? I bet he's not listened to 100% of The Beatles, probably just the odd track on Classic 60's radio shows. It wasn't until I had access to pretty much every Beatles album and listened to them in sequence, made some kind of sense of them, and then studied them thanks to Alan W Pollack's thorough treatments:
that I realised what absolute musical geniuses they were. Even Ringo. Maybe! Before then I thought they were a bunch of early vocal harmony love songs that made 60's teens wet themselves and another bunch of later songs written by drugged-up hippies with more Rolls-Royces than sense (Revolution #9). That was my dismissal of The Beatles until I had a chance to go through all their albums for nothing (hooray for friends' CD collections).
I'll see your 1920s big band jazz and raise you some JS Bach:)
I suppose technically it's "Musique pour Supermarche" (with an accent on the last 'e'). Wikipedia says it was played on Radio Luxembourg once and that bootlegs exist, so I guess the pirate bay torrent is one of those.
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We don't have "Grand Theft Auto" in the UK. We have the slightly politer-sounding "Taking without owner's consent".
TWOC: London
doesn't seem right.
I recently got some data from a health agency, and they sent it using Voltage SecureMail.
Not sure of the exact specifics, but it seems that when they send an email with a secure attachment the file is stripped, stuffed on a repository, then I get a link. I have to register and sign in, then I can download the attachment. Personally I'd rather all attachments worked this way rather than people sending individual multi-megabyte files over SMTP to multiple recipients, most of which wont bother reading them... But I digress.
So I had a look at the Voltage web site and it seems they may be a solution provider who can synergise your workflow experience management:
http://www.voltage.com/products/
I'm sure they'll love to hear from you.
They're doing none of that. They are paying to get a degree. Some don't even seem to understand that paying their fees isn't sufficient to get a degree, and that they have to do work as well. Really.
Looked at the CKAN software (www.ckan.net)? They run their own knowledge archive,a nd the software also powers the UK data.gov.uk site. RESTful API and python client.
I had some back pain once, and a friend suggested healing crystals. Suddenly I became aware of a pain in the region just below my back and above my legs.
You forgot to add 'unelected (twice)' in your description of Peter Mandelson. He shouldn't be anywhere near government, let alone at the heart of it.
Who said "Time is nature's way of stopping everything happening at once"? Was that Douglas Adams?
TED's subtitle is 'Ideas Worth Spreading'. Al Gore's ideas, Jane Goodall's ideas, yes. But Microsoft's ideas?
I'm sure Microsoft get 'worth' by spreading them at a prestigious conference like TED. Masses and masses of 'worth'.
Is TED just a big marketing opportunity now?
Our University only keeps its general Unix server running because some staff and faculty members still use 'elm' (or maybe 'pine') to read their email.
I think everyone is off the BSD command line mailer now though.
Of course - and commercial electricity production from nuclear fusion is only 20 years away. Just as it was in 1960...
Rebuttals:
1. And Microsoft Office looks aged compared to anything I've seen on CSI. I'm not sure I want my office software looking like something I've seen on CSI, so being aged isn't a bad thing. Oh, and get off my lawn.
2. It takes a while to load because Office has probably already pre-loaded most of itself and just pops up a main window when you open a document. Ever wonder why Windows is so slow to boot?
3. Yeah, I wish I could do python scripting in Open Office, or save straight to PDF from my OpenOffice Writer, or create equations with LaTeX in my OpenOffice Impress presentations. Oh wait...
4. Educational Institutions are normally the first to try new things, since they have a higher proportion of geeks in the place. There's also well documented cases of local governments switching to OO.org and Linux. And some switching back after getting sweeteners from MS, but that's the point of the original article. MS sees a threat.
5. What do you want it to develop into ffs? Emacs?
I can give you perfect IT systems. It will cost you Infinite Dollars. Or I can give you a totally failing IT system for nothing. Somewhere along that line is the break-even point, and if we assume the market is working the way it is supposed to, we are riding that break-even point.
Live with it.
If you really think you can do this for less than the price of comparable commercial thin clients, then I suggest you quit your job and go into the thin client business.
As I see it, they made the current votes public. As any fule kno, if you don't want to bias your election/survey/popularity contest you don't publish the votes as they come in since that will either encourage the losing parties to have to rally their troops or lose heart and give up, or cause the winning parties to get over-confident. Sure, these effects may cancel each other out but it's no longer a simple question of how do the people who can be bothered to think independently want to vote.
See that last slashdot poll that asked 'How do you choose your answer to the slashdot poll?' when the most popular option was 'vote for the current leader'. Or something like that. Someome find the URL...
Don't go for a single user solution. The fact that you are spending so much time managing your tasks tells me that it's nearly time your group got another one of you. And then you need a task management system that scales to more than one techie.
We use RT. Everything I and my two techies do gets logged into RT. Sometimes these are tickets from users, sometimes they are things we've put in (systems work). You can have priorities, due dates, assign tickets to techies, etc etc etc.
I don't think it has the hierarchical concept where you might break up a task like "Get Fred a new PC" into "Spec PC : Buy PC : Install PC : Setup OS" or whatever, but hmmm maybe it does... I think you can have tasks dependent on other tasks and so forth... Check it out.
RequestTracker, RT, from BestPractical.
And it's open source and written in perl.
There's a storyline on Doonesbury in a studio where they are recording celebrity SatNav voice-overs. What we really need is James Earl-Jones on our SatNav. http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20091207
Why is this linked from a bible site? Are you trying to save NASA's bandwidth costs?
Original here:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-129/html/iss021e032919.html
We don't use periods (full stops) to separate decimals - we use a decimal point, which is a small dot half-way up the base-height of a piece of text. I'd love to type one for you but there isn't one in ASCII. I'm sure it's there in the Unicode tables somewhere.
This wasn't a problem on typewriters, when you would just shift the roller half a line space and hit the full stop. Technology eh? We need a 0.5LF character. Or Unicode everywhere. Or \LaTeX everywhere.
E = mc^2, hence m = E/c^2. How much energy is there in a running computer compared to one switched off? Convert to mass, multiply by the number of computers on the internet to get... well, yet another meaningless figure, but it might be fun to estimate.
Or has nobody here seen Die Hard 4?
You've misunderstood my disability! I'm suing you!
I'm left-eyed, but right-handed. Can I use a right-handed bow with my left eye? (Some googleing says 'possibly').
Maybe I'll just invent some kind of prismatic spectacle system so my left eye can see out of the right hand side...
Step 1 is nearly here for you - it's "wait for 3d to go mainstream".
I'm left-eyed, which makes cameras tricky to use since I can't look through the viewfinder and wind the film on - the winding mechanism is under my right eye. In the old days, that is! But there's a lot of things can't be done with just one eye, so start suing - guns, bow and arrows, cameras - are there left-eye versions?
My implication was that The Beatles aren't on Spotify or iTunes and so they are suffering from lower exposure to the people who are getting their music from these sources. I can only think that whoever holds the rights these days still looks down on digital distribution for some reason. Idiots.
Did you see the reply from the troll saying 100% of The Beatles was 'ephemeral'? I bet he's not listened to 100% of The Beatles, probably just the odd track on Classic 60's radio shows. It wasn't until I had access to pretty much every Beatles album and listened to them in sequence, made some kind of sense of them, and then studied them thanks to Alan W Pollack's thorough treatments:
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/awp-alphabet.shtml
that I realised what absolute musical geniuses they were. Even Ringo. Maybe! Before then I thought they were a bunch of early vocal harmony love songs that made 60's teens wet themselves and another bunch of later songs written by drugged-up hippies with more Rolls-Royces than sense (Revolution #9). That was my dismissal of The Beatles until I had a chance to go through all their albums for nothing (hooray for friends' CD collections).
I'll see your 1920s big band jazz and raise you some JS Bach :)
I suppose technically it's "Musique pour Supermarche" (with an accent on the last 'e'). Wikipedia says it was played on Radio Luxembourg once and that bootlegs exist, so I guess the pirate bay torrent is one of those.
The real test is finding Music For Supermarkets by Jean Michel Jarre.
[he made one vinyl copy then destroyed the multitrack tapes and the masters]