Check out Trello (https://trello.com).
Not FLOSS, but a free cloud-based note-taking, project managing, checklist-managing, attachment storage, team-usable swiss army knife. No clue how this thing is still free (shhhh). I use it for just about everything you mentioned. It supports taking notes (called "cards") in Markdown format, sharing individual notes or entire "boards" with others, organizing and labeling notes, and attaching files. About the only thing it's missing is a drawing/sketching tool and better notification alarm options. If I need to refer to something scanned, written, or otherwise graphics, you can attach unlimited files to each card or paste links in your notes. The mobile apps are identical to the web-app version, so you can take it with you to meetings on a tablet/laptop, and then come back to a workstation and see all of the updates on the web version.
At the research center I work for, we have three mass spectrometers (close to $1M when they were first purchased back in the early 90s or so) that are attached to PC-DOS computers. At least one of the computers has died and I was able to replace it with a Windows-XP based system and newer National Instruments drivers (they also still sell the funky interface cards that are used by it).
Another story, secondhand, a buddy of mine works for a large insurance company and said they have a COBOL program close to 40 years old that is still running. Apparently they haven't pushed to upgrade it as it processes something like $1M/day in transactions for the company... not sure in what capacity. However, they approached my buddy, who is younger than the software itself, to see if he was interested in learning COBOL to port the software, as the original developers are all retired or dead.
Most cars aren't running safety-critical sensors and data over the OBD/body CAN (controller area network) interface. For example, in my '99 Saab 9-3, there are two CAN networks -- the "I-Bus", which runs the body sensors including door lock status, turn signal switches, radio display information, information cluster, and lighting status; the "P-Bus" is completely separate and relays engine sensor, ABS, and such sensors to the car's ECU. The OBD interface cannot connect directly to the P-Bus, although with the CAN tool I have (similar to the popular CAN-USB hardware interface) I could wire into the network if I really wanted to. However, you can query the P-Bus, via the car's computer, to retrieve engine statistics such as RPMs, temperatures, diagnostic codes, etc.
The TDSS rootkit (not sure how many variants do this...) installs itself as a Non-Plug-and-Play device driver. You can often remove the head of the rootkit by going to System Properties => Device Manager => View menu => Show hidden devices Then, click the + sign next to Non-Plug-and-Play devices. If there is a "TDSS*" device, you can delete it. I was able to recover a machine by doing this, then scanning for viruses. Obviously it's best to scan the hard disk externally or wipe the whole machine, but that might help someone in a pinch.
The TypeMatrix keyboard I have at both home and work (Dvorak model highly recommended!) uses a large Shift key in place of caps lock. There is a caps lock but it's deliberately placed on the right side of the keyboard. I just wish it was the CTRL key that was larger instead, but it's still a great design.
One of my favorite statements, and one that people have applied to me. I studied meteorology (and will go back to grad school shortly to get an MS) as well as computer science. This allows for all sorts of applications in computer modeling, natural science (geology, chemistry), remote sensing, astronomy, and a ton of other fields. I've always had a ton of interests of varying levels since I was a kid. We need more parents to allow their children to try different things... let them learn computer programming, give them a camera to take pictures, and a violin to study music. We're pigeonholing kids to follow a specific track -- even if they are interested in it already -- without enticing them to look at problems in new ways or link different interests together.
A previous post mentioned being a "miracle worker" when in essence its just skill in multiple fields -- something past the "general level" courses that most colleges have you take. People still have this mindset that it's great to be specialized -- just because you want to be a "doctor" doesn't mean you shouldn't know how to do programming to, say, data mine disease information -- they never learn how to use technology to actually do problem-solving in that field or in life, they just learn how to paste clip-art in PowerPoint.
Let's see, we're supposed to spend literally trillions of dollars to fix global warming, yet we can't see the raw data the hysteria is based on?
WTF!?!?!
This is a big problem, and in the science community in general (not just climate scientists!). The data is safeguarded for some length of time while the researcher(s) publish their findings, personal gain, or simply because the research itself was a very expensive process and the institution wants to "get its money's worth". I work at a climate research center and we've actually had to take hard copies of data and run them through an OCR program like ABBYY because the original scientist wouldn't send us digital versions of the data or even processed maps.
Along the same lines, when is the source code used for the climate models going to be published and thoroughly reviewed?
If AGW is in fact true, it can withstand the scrutiny.
I'm a sysadmin at Ohio State, and a number of old firewalls (really old OpenBSD version plus badly-written pf scripts, still in use!) have the same problem. The connection through them breaks when any computer using TCP window scaling over "2" (Windows Vista, Linux) tries to connect to a server behind the firewall.
So, yes, window scaling will either make the connection blazing fast, or will block certain users if a bad router/firewall is on the route between the computer and a server.
My favorite keyboard is the TypeMatrix 2030-DV. It's an ergonomic, small, portable, straight-key, Dvorak-layout keyboard (they also sell QWERTY and blank layouts). I'm only 21 and started to have RSI symptoms from typing/programming a lot -- this keyboard has made those go away and I can type even faster than before. They finally started selling them again: http://www.typematrix.com/
I think having this at the state-level would be better anyway. PUCO (Public Utilities Commission of Ohio) could oversee all work done by Time Warner. Some local town kicking out Time Warner is not going to make much of an effect statewide. PUCO, telling Time Warner to clean up their act if something went wrong (similar to what happened to Ameritech who had HORRIBLE customer service) would have a much bigger effect.
The second part of this is already being done. Spamhaus's SBL and ROKSO databases can show a list of recent IP block listings as well as listing by ISP. See here: http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/latest.lasso
Correct; to see this, take a look at the current sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly map, which shows the departure from normal temperatures (I think it's the average of 10 or so years from satellite data): http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/data/anomnig ht.6.14.2007.gif
Notice the cool (blue anomaly) waters off of the coast of Peru. The water was warmer than normal last year (El Nino) and has now switched to a weak La Nina, which is supposedly favorable for Atlantic hurricane formation. However, currently there is a lot of shear in the Atlantic so not much has developed thus far.
I was in the same boat as you. I switched to Linux (on my main desktop at least -- my servers have always ran some form of *NIX) on October 25, 2001, the same day Windows XP was released.
Now this, this is absolutely rediculous. This is going to have huge repercussions; I happened to click over to the "Genuine Windows Forum" and saw all kinds of posts there of NEW Dell desktops, valid CDs, and other licensed systems having problems with WGA. When these systems stop working, people are going to flip. To them, this will be akin to the computer crashing and taking their data along with it.
GAH! My school (The Ohio State University) is not participating in this Live! e-mail program as far as I know, but there have been chalk and flyer adverts all over the damn place for live.windows.com. I laughed my ass off the first time I saw it, but now it's just getting annoying.
Secret lair? We've been waiting for you, Mr. Powers!
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I've started getting a lot of this crap on the few blogs I host and some contact-form pages as well. The best way I found to take care of this was to (a) serve up a cookie on the blog page, then check for this when a comment is posted -- this blocks the basic script spammers, which don't support cookies; (b) only allow comments on a new blog post for 7 days -- I started getting spammers hitting the blog post about 10 days after it was posted. YMMV. What is really needed is some sort of accessible CAPTCHA feature... or the easiest way, just require people to login securely first, with one login allowed in a set time period.
You have a point on the first part, except I have a short rant to make: Every damn MySpace site I've been to has been some horrible page that renders as slow as possible (simple color backgrounds DO NOT need a CSS background-position: fixed!). Background sounds are annoying! I know of nobody who enjoys getting their speakers blasted every time they click back to a page with an audio file embedded. It also wastes a shitload of bandwidth every time the page loads and a 5 MB MP3 file is accessed. Then again, I could be a bit biased being a web developer and all...
Penis patch? Is this for those unlucky times when your penis has sprung a leak? (Yes, I know what a penis patch is... some of these subject lines just crack me up)
Anyway... I actually have any spam caught on my mail server (several hundred per day) forwarded to an IMAP account that my roommate checks. The first thing he does in the morning is to laugh his ass off at spam subject/body lines for about 15 minutes. Some of my favorites from today are:
Penis Launcher up! no down Greetings, white man!:) Re: hobgoblin belong Hardly of age teen cutie taking it deep in all holes. forever Did you have a sex yesterday? real It seems to be an appropriate way to say hello to OOP lovers:) The world is getting bigger; your penis has to get bigger too.
The McAfee Anti-Virus installed on Dell systems is a total piece of shit. As you mentioned, half the time it won't even work to run its own updates (IE, Firefox, or otherwise). I've repaired several systems with this crap on it... and I always install McAfee Enterprise (unlimited copies to OSU students) or install AVG from Grisoft.
I've definitely noticed this too. I leave Firefox open for days at a time sometimes. Actually, I'd guess it to be caching of the pages in memory and not so much as a memory leak... but in that case the developers need to implement a "memory cache" that can be controlled from the Preferences -> Privacy -> Cache. If I knew anything about the FF/Gecko codebase I'd attempt it myself.
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Check out Trello (https://trello.com). Not FLOSS, but a free cloud-based note-taking, project managing, checklist-managing, attachment storage, team-usable swiss army knife. No clue how this thing is still free (shhhh). I use it for just about everything you mentioned. It supports taking notes (called "cards") in Markdown format, sharing individual notes or entire "boards" with others, organizing and labeling notes, and attaching files. About the only thing it's missing is a drawing/sketching tool and better notification alarm options. If I need to refer to something scanned, written, or otherwise graphics, you can attach unlimited files to each card or paste links in your notes. The mobile apps are identical to the web-app version, so you can take it with you to meetings on a tablet/laptop, and then come back to a workstation and see all of the updates on the web version.
At the research center I work for, we have three mass spectrometers (close to $1M when they were first purchased back in the early 90s or so) that are attached to PC-DOS computers. At least one of the computers has died and I was able to replace it with a Windows-XP based system and newer National Instruments drivers (they also still sell the funky interface cards that are used by it).
Another story, secondhand, a buddy of mine works for a large insurance company and said they have a COBOL program close to 40 years old that is still running. Apparently they haven't pushed to upgrade it as it processes something like $1M/day in transactions for the company... not sure in what capacity. However, they approached my buddy, who is younger than the software itself, to see if he was interested in learning COBOL to port the software, as the original developers are all retired or dead.
Most cars aren't running safety-critical sensors and data over the OBD/body CAN (controller area network) interface. For example, in my '99 Saab 9-3, there are two CAN networks -- the "I-Bus", which runs the body sensors including door lock status, turn signal switches, radio display information, information cluster, and lighting status; the "P-Bus" is completely separate and relays engine sensor, ABS, and such sensors to the car's ECU. The OBD interface cannot connect directly to the P-Bus, although with the CAN tool I have (similar to the popular CAN-USB hardware interface) I could wire into the network if I really wanted to. However, you can query the P-Bus, via the car's computer, to retrieve engine statistics such as RPMs, temperatures, diagnostic codes, etc.
The TDSS rootkit (not sure how many variants do this...) installs itself as a Non-Plug-and-Play device driver. You can often remove the head of the rootkit by going to System Properties => Device Manager => View menu => Show hidden devices Then, click the + sign next to Non-Plug-and-Play devices. If there is a "TDSS*" device, you can delete it. I was able to recover a machine by doing this, then scanning for viruses. Obviously it's best to scan the hard disk externally or wipe the whole machine, but that might help someone in a pinch.
The TypeMatrix keyboard I have at both home and work (Dvorak model highly recommended!) uses a large Shift key in place of caps lock. There is a caps lock but it's deliberately placed on the right side of the keyboard. I just wish it was the CTRL key that was larger instead, but it's still a great design.
Let's see, we're supposed to spend literally trillions of dollars to fix global warming, yet we can't see the raw data the hysteria is based on?
WTF!?!?!
This is a big problem, and in the science community in general (not just climate scientists!). The data is safeguarded for some length of time while the researcher(s) publish their findings, personal gain, or simply because the research itself was a very expensive process and the institution wants to "get its money's worth". I work at a climate research center and we've actually had to take hard copies of data and run them through an OCR program like ABBYY because the original scientist wouldn't send us digital versions of the data or even processed maps.
Along the same lines, when is the source code used for the climate models going to be published and thoroughly reviewed?
If AGW is in fact true, it can withstand the scrutiny.
But it is:
http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/download/get_source2.html
http://aom.giss.nasa.gov/code4x3.html
http://www.caps.ou.edu/ARPS/
http://polarmet.mps.ohio-state.edu/PolarMet/pwrf.html
and someone made a nice list of models used in the recent IPCC report and if source code is available here:
http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?p=667
Wow. I'm so glad I moved from NetSol 8 YEARS ago (my first domain name). They were bad then!
I'm a sysadmin at Ohio State, and a number of old firewalls (really old OpenBSD version plus badly-written pf scripts, still in use!) have the same problem. The connection through them breaks when any computer using TCP window scaling over "2" (Windows Vista, Linux) tries to connect to a server behind the firewall. So, yes, window scaling will either make the connection blazing fast, or will block certain users if a bad router/firewall is on the route between the computer and a server.
My favorite keyboard is the TypeMatrix 2030-DV. It's an ergonomic, small, portable, straight-key, Dvorak-layout keyboard (they also sell QWERTY and blank layouts). I'm only 21 and started to have RSI symptoms from typing/programming a lot -- this keyboard has made those go away and I can type even faster than before. They finally started selling them again: http://www.typematrix.com/
I think having this at the state-level would be better anyway. PUCO (Public Utilities Commission of Ohio) could oversee all work done by Time Warner. Some local town kicking out Time Warner is not going to make much of an effect statewide. PUCO, telling Time Warner to clean up their act if something went wrong (similar to what happened to Ameritech who had HORRIBLE customer service) would have a much bigger effect.
The second part of this is already being done. Spamhaus's SBL and ROKSO databases can show a list of recent IP block listings as well as listing by ISP. See here: http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/latest.lasso
Correct; to see this, take a look at the current sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly map, which shows the departure from normal temperatures (I think it's the average of 10 or so years from satellite data):g ht.6.14.2007.gif
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/data/anomni
Notice the cool (blue anomaly) waters off of the coast of Peru. The water was warmer than normal last year (El Nino) and has now switched to a weak La Nina, which is supposedly favorable for Atlantic hurricane formation. However, currently there is a lot of shear in the Atlantic so not much has developed thus far.
Source/more information (and to see older maps from late last season) is available here:
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/climo.html
I haven't purchased a RIAA-related CD since 2000, and I don't plan on doing so anytime soon.
Awesome... I was about to start a group similar to that. I just joined.
I was in the same boat as you. I switched to Linux (on my main desktop at least -- my servers have always ran some form of *NIX) on October 25, 2001, the same day Windows XP was released.
Now this, this is absolutely rediculous. This is going to have huge repercussions; I happened to click over to the "Genuine Windows Forum" and saw all kinds of posts there of NEW Dell desktops, valid CDs, and other licensed systems having problems with WGA. When these systems stop working, people are going to flip. To them, this will be akin to the computer crashing and taking their data along with it.
Also, can't this be considered Slashdoting something physically.
Only if the customers starting using so much electricity that the building started to melt :)
GAH! My school (The Ohio State University) is not participating in this Live! e-mail program as far as I know, but there have been chalk and flyer adverts all over the damn place for live.windows.com. I laughed my ass off the first time I saw it, but now it's just getting annoying.
Secret lair? We've been waiting for you, Mr. Powers!
I've started getting a lot of this crap on the few blogs I host and some contact-form pages as well. The best way I found to take care of this was to (a) serve up a cookie on the blog page, then check for this when a comment is posted -- this blocks the basic script spammers, which don't support cookies; (b) only allow comments on a new blog post for 7 days -- I started getting spammers hitting the blog post about 10 days after it was posted. YMMV. What is really needed is some sort of accessible CAPTCHA feature... or the easiest way, just require people to login securely first, with one login allowed in a set time period.
You have a point on the first part, except I have a short rant to make: Every damn MySpace site I've been to has been some horrible page that renders as slow as possible (simple color backgrounds DO NOT need a CSS background-position: fixed!). Background sounds are annoying! I know of nobody who enjoys getting their speakers blasted every time they click back to a page with an audio file embedded. It also wastes a shitload of bandwidth every time the page loads and a 5 MB MP3 file is accessed. Then again, I could be a bit biased being a web developer and all...
Penis patch? Is this for those unlucky times when your penis has sprung a leak?
:) :)
(Yes, I know what a penis patch is... some of these subject lines just crack me up)
Anyway... I actually have any spam caught on my mail server (several hundred per day) forwarded to an IMAP account that my roommate checks. The first thing he does in the morning is to laugh his ass off at spam subject/body lines for about 15 minutes. Some of my favorites from today are:
Penis Launcher
up! no down
Greetings, white man!
Re: hobgoblin belong
Hardly of age teen cutie taking it deep in all holes. forever
Did you have a sex yesterday? real
It seems to be an appropriate way to say hello to OOP lovers
The world is getting bigger; your penis has to get bigger too.
The McAfee Anti-Virus installed on Dell systems is a total piece of shit. As you mentioned, half the time it won't even work to run its own updates (IE, Firefox, or otherwise). I've repaired several systems with this crap on it... and I always install McAfee Enterprise (unlimited copies to OSU students) or install AVG from Grisoft.
Dvorak keyboard? :)
I've definitely noticed this too. I leave Firefox open for days at a time sometimes. Actually, I'd guess it to be caching of the pages in memory and not so much as a memory leak... but in that case the developers need to implement a "memory cache" that can be controlled from the Preferences -> Privacy -> Cache. If I knew anything about the FF/Gecko codebase I'd attempt it myself.