OpenVPN is Free (in both senses), fairly fast, cross-platform, but most of all easy to setup. Tunnel all traffic through a single, CONFIGURABLE port. My IT department is also often inept & they're packet-shaper makes most VPN traffic crawl (as if it were P2P or something). We require fast remote control software to be run, so we put it on port 80 & watched the traffic finally fly along.
A former colleage is working on Office for Mac...in Redmond. I haven't asked him about how removed he is from the win32 developers.
It is fine if codebases diverge, but it would be nice if the positive improvements on one platform would eventually be back-ported to the other. I don't see that happening. Seems like such a waste.
If Entourage+IE on Mac are better for the reasons cited in this thread, I guess you believe that Mac consumers have stronger demands for apps that comply to standards?
Why is it that Entourage's IMAP implementation is so much better than the one in Outlook and Outlook Express? The win32 software doesn't store sent mail on the IMAP server, do not properly IDLE, and do not have server-side IMAP searching,
I confess to being a bit of an IMAP snob: I used PINE and Mulberry until Thunderbird became "good enough" and I switched because of the preferable license. But I am not usually one to bash MS products, even if I choose not to use them.
But REALLY! How screwed up is development over in Redmond that they got it right on the Mac & got it wrong on their own OS?
I chose an IBM Thinkpad over an Apple Powerbook because of how much bang I could get for my buck. If Apple had already been on Pentium-M, for a similar price, I'd have been happy to purchase from them instead. Not paying the Windows tax & dual-booting OS X with my primary OS (Linux) would have been great.
I have the following script cronned once daily on a FreeBSD box. It bans attempts at logging in with illegal users. My hosts.allow already has the hosts which should never be banned white-listed.
Once a month or so, I check the list of banned IPs & manually report U.S. ones to the relevant abuse@ email addresses (figuring that they can de-zombify the boxes.
#!/bin/sh cd/usr/local/sbin #remove old file entries rm./sshd_block/block.txt rm./sshd_block/new_block.txt #This will parse the messages file and extract the sshd lines grep sshd/var/log/all.log* | grep 'Illegal user' >>./sshd_block/block.txt grep sshd/var/log/auth.log* | grep 'Illegal user' >>./sshd_block/block.txt #This line will cut only the IP addresses out of that file cut -d \ -f 10./sshd_block/block.txt | uniq >>./sshd_block/new_block.txt #This line will add The references from new_block.txt to the ssh.blacklist target=`cat/usr/local/sbin/sshd_block/new_block.txt` for i in $target; do
echo \ \ ALL:$i:deny >>/etc/hosts.allow done #remove duplicate entries from ssh.blacklist cat/etc/hosts.allow | sort | uniq >/etc/hosts.allow.new mv/etc/hosts.allow.new/etc/hosts.allow
That's great! My hometown has a 'Coliseum' with an ice rink. While they love to have community outreach with youth skates and similar, I don't think they yet have a program for the physically challenged. I'll definitely suggest it.
I just appreciate humor, as do other Canadians, who I borrowed my jokes from. Sorry that you and the mod who dinged me as a troll don't agree. I didn't mean to offend.
Re. Supreme Court. I just pasted the quote. In my ammended post, I said "really B.C.".
Clearly the article didn't quote THAT much...Corrected:
I've heard of worst protests than the one Richard proposes...
a request for his readers to 'Don't Buy Harry Potter Books,' in protest of the Canadian Supreme Court ruling forbidding the purchasers from reading the books they paid for.
But, quote the article:
But readers will be unable to share their knowledge after Raincoast Books, the book's Canadian publisher, was granted a "John Doe" injunction prohibiting the buyers from even reading their copies before the publication date.
You need to hurt Raincoast Books and the Canadian Supreme Court [sic--really B.C.], not J.K. Rowling, or the U.S. publisher of her books, Arthur A. Levine Books, or anyone else.To protest the publisher, don't buy ANY Raincoast Books. If you are a.ca resident who wants to protest, but also wants to read Harry Potter, grab it from you library or pick up an import copy. If you want to protest the Supreme Court, don't obey this mandate, write protest letters, and work on getting better justices picked.
If you aren't in Canada, laugh at them. What else do you expect from a counyty where a pizza can get to your house faster than an ambulance, there is handicap parking places in front of a skating rink, and people leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put useless junk in the garage?
I've heard of worst protests than the one Richard proposes...
a request for his readers to 'Don't Buy Harry Potter Books,' in protest of the Canadian Supreme Court ruling forbidding the purchasers from reading the books they paid for.
But, quote the article:
But readers will be unable to share their knowledge after Raincoast Books, the book's Canadian publisher, was granted a "John Doe" injunction prohibiting the buyers from even reading their copies before the publication date.You need to hurt Raincoast Books and the Canadian Supreme Court, not J.K. Rowling, or the U.S. publisher of her books, Arthur A. Levine Books, or anyone else.
To protest the publisher, don't buy ANY Raincoast Books. If you are a.ca resident who wants to protest, but also wants to read Harry Potter, grab it from you library or pick up an import copy. If you want to protest the Supreme Court, don't obey this mandate, write protest letters, and work on getting better justices picked.
If you aren't in Canada, laugh at them. What else do you expect from a counyty where a pizza can get to your house faster than an ambulance, there is handicap parking places in front of a skating rink, and people leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put useless junk in the garage?
If your network is good enough, there wouldn't be a need for rogue WAPs.
Supply your users with a better wireless network! Make sure there is connectivity EVERYWHERE & then lock your own network down (through VPN, WPA+Radius, or whatever).
If even facility-provided wireless is absolutely verboten everywhere, just put up jammers & be done with it.
Or change your AUP and internal network security so that you wouldn't care about WAPs.
If you decide to go hunting for them, you'll have to do it more than once. There is employee turnover & machine turnover & anyone can bring in a new WAP.
Once the data is scanned, letting google do the indexing (either online, through Desktop Search, or through a Search Appliance isn't a bad idea.
If there is significant enough value, pawning off some of the work to Google or the Internet Archive or something similar isn't a bad idea. In particular, many libraries and Universities already do this kind of work.
Archive it the same way most organizations still do: RAIDed (possibly networked) hard disks with (offsite) backup to tape. Probably still the cheapest & one of the most dependable ways to store all of this.
As for organization, just come up with a simple, sane way to name things (like/smith/binder1/page1.tiff and/loosepage/page3.pdf (TIFF and PDF being two damn-fine formats for you to use--TIFF for lossless archives & PDF for the graphics+OCR-ed text) & rely on your indexing to actually make this more useable (knowing that if indexing ever fails, you will be no worse off than you are now until you rebuild the index.
I would personally write a minimalist webapp to navigate through everything, but I'm sure there's already relatively good software to do this with genealogical data.
I know you asked for flatbed scanners, but if you are seriously going to feed in 10,000s of pages, an actual document scanner would be better. Even the document feeders available on many flatbeds are deoptimal--they are slow and jam all of the time. Scanners which are meant to be used by workgroups to actually scan in documents typically dont curl the paper over itself, so are both quicker & jam less. But they are more expensive.
I am extremely happy with my Canon Canon DR-2080C. Note: It is the only piece of hardware I've bought, knowing that it won't work with Linux. I ran windows SPECIFICALLY to use this document scanner. It looks like it has been discontinued & the DR-2050C is the model to get now. Looks like it does larger documents, which is nice. These do duplex scans in one pass, so you can get about 40 sides (so 20 2-sided pages) per minute. These will probably set you back ~$600 new.
If you have more money to spend, there are even better document scanners available.
Go ahead and spend a hundred or more on a good quality flatbed for anything that needs better than 600dpi or is awkwardly sized/bound, but a document scanner will save SO much time.
Hopefully most geeks know of the late, great physicist, Richard Feynman. In addition to coming up with QED, helping to make the A-bomb, winning a nobel prize, and figuring out why the Challenger blew-up, he gave lectures to college freshmen on physics. They're great. The books are often suggested texts, but it is a treat to hear them in his voice. I bought mine on audio-tape and pain-stakingly recorded them on my PC to dump onto CDs. Thankfully, official CDs have started to trickle out.
Vol 1-2 are on Quantum Mechanics. 3-4 covers crystal structure, electricity, and magnetism. 5-6 goes through energy, motion, kinetics, and heat. 7-8 does classical and relativistic mechanics (and gravity and a bit more electromagnetism). More should be coming. I think they are up to volume 20 of the tape sets. Each volume has about six chapters from the books. I think there are 129 chapters all-told.
There are, of course, many other programs I haven't been able to listen to yet. Learn of others at ipodder.org or the various other podcast directories that have sprung up.
I've heard that OpenVPN is the best software-based VPNIt is & it has replaced an odd mish-mash of PPTP, IPSEC, and services-which-run-over-SSHD for me. If I were ever to buy a hardware VPN again (not likely), I'd probably buy one with OpenVPN support. I think CheckPoint and NetScreen do this.
This is a niche product for a niche line of computers.
or if those chips are all 64-bit.
All of the UltraSPARC (v9) line is 64-bit. I don't see the point of a 64-bit laptop, unless you need binary compatibility with specific 64-bit apps (like ones you develop for use on 64-bit desktops). The Suns only support up to 2 GB of RAM (as are the AMD Turions). Limited battery life, more heat, and larger form factor make either chip lose the geek-appeal fast.
The pricetag and the userland apps will keep the Sun machines out of consumers hands (and, perhaps the Intel monopoly will keep many Turions out of there hands too).
But that's OK, as the two lines are bad anyway. Linux on a Pentium-M or OS X on a (ewww) G4 are enough to make most "UNIX-using, mobility-desiring scientific and technical colleagues" happy. OS X on a Pentium-M will probably make them happier still.
I'd prefer not to break the law! But one law can hurt developers and users in ANY country. Just ask Skylarov!
Furthermore, laws and litigation isn't a good argument for choosing software over hardware--you can import hardware which would do it from other countries.
While GTK+ is written in C, they have always used the object-oriented paradigm. There are, of course, wrappers which make both branches of GTK+ easier to use in whatever language you choose.
I have built PVRs. I still watch TV through my Matrox G400TV quite frequently. However, I am happy with my ReplayTV. Mainly because:
1)Uses less power than most PC solutions.
2)Cheaper. I got it for $250 with lifetime subscription. Admittedly, the MSRP is much higher. But it still isn't as much as putting together a system, even if you get one of the $200 Dells to start it.
3)It just works. No messing with drivers, LIRC, etc.
Now, some of your points for DIY just don't hold.
1)I hate monthly fees.
You can purchase PVRs with lifetime subscriptions. You can't rely on Zap2It to always give you free listings for MythTV!
3)No comercials- Tivo is playing with adding commercials. My number 1 reason for buying one would be to kill commercials.
My ReplayTV 5040 still has Commercial Advance. Newer models don't, but they have "Show|Nav." You press a single button & it skips the commercials.
4)More (and easily expandable) storage.
Ditto most PVRs. You can network them & pull content onto a computer or you can drop in a larger harddrive or two.
7)The ability to network it and add a file server. You may now watch your movie collection anywhere.
Both ReplayTV and Tivo have this.
8)The ability to use 1 program for all media- music, video, and images.
ReplayTVs store images. You can upload video. It is space-inefficient, but you can upload audio encoded as video with whatever moving images you want.
9)No loss of features- you won't see disappearing features like 30 second skip.
This is a good point. But I think the bottom-line is that features may become illegal (which could take them out of the project's trunk). You can also prevent firmware upgrades on PVRs you buy.
The bottom-line is that we need to promote legislation to keep the features we want LEGAL.
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OpenVPN is Free (in both senses), fairly fast, cross-platform, but most of all easy to setup. Tunnel all traffic through a single, CONFIGURABLE port. My IT department is also often inept & they're packet-shaper makes most VPN traffic crawl (as if it were P2P or something). We require fast remote control software to be run, so we put it on port 80 & watched the traffic finally fly along.
A former colleage is working on Office for Mac...in Redmond. I haven't asked him about how removed he is from the win32 developers.
It is fine if codebases diverge, but it would be nice if the positive improvements on one platform would eventually be back-ported to the other. I don't see that happening. Seems like such a waste.
If Entourage+IE on Mac are better for the reasons cited in this thread, I guess you believe that Mac consumers have stronger demands for apps that comply to standards?
Why is it that Entourage's IMAP implementation is so much better than the one in Outlook and Outlook Express? The win32 software doesn't store sent mail on the IMAP server, do not properly IDLE, and do not have server-side IMAP searching,
I confess to being a bit of an IMAP snob: I used PINE and Mulberry until Thunderbird became "good enough" and I switched because of the preferable license. But I am not usually one to bash MS products, even if I choose not to use them.
But REALLY! How screwed up is development over in Redmond that they got it right on the Mac & got it wrong on their own OS?
I chose an IBM Thinkpad over an Apple Powerbook because of how much bang I could get for my buck. If Apple had already been on Pentium-M, for a similar price, I'd have been happy to purchase from them instead. Not paying the Windows tax & dual-booting OS X with my primary OS (Linux) would have been great.
SubEtha's collaborative editing is cool, but I like other editors. Fortunately, you can also have collaborative editing in many other text editors.
DocSynch is a plugin for jEdit which used IRC for collaborative editing.
SangamPlugin adds collaborative editing to Eclipse.
Old school? Use VimSynch or Emacs or any text-mode editor with screen.
Once a month or so, I check the list of banned IPs & manually report U.S. ones to the relevant abuse@ email addresses (figuring that they can de-zombify the boxes.
That's great! My hometown has a 'Coliseum' with an ice rink. While they love to have community outreach with youth skates and similar, I don't think they yet have a program for the physically challenged. I'll definitely suggest it.
I don't hate Candadians. Far from.
I just appreciate humor, as do other Canadians, who I borrowed my jokes from. Sorry that you and the mod who dinged me as a troll don't agree. I didn't mean to offend.
Re. Supreme Court. I just pasted the quote. In my ammended post, I said "really B.C.".
I've heard of worst protests than the one Richard proposes...But, quote the article:You need to hurt Raincoast Books and the Canadian Supreme Court [sic--really B.C.], not J.K. Rowling, or the U.S. publisher of her books, Arthur A. Levine Books, or anyone else.To protest the publisher, don't buy ANY Raincoast Books. If you are a
If you aren't in Canada, laugh at them. What else do you expect from a counyty where a pizza can get to your house faster than an ambulance, there is handicap parking places in front of a skating rink, and people leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put useless junk in the garage?
If your network is good enough, there wouldn't be a need for rogue WAPs.
Supply your users with a better wireless network! Make sure there is connectivity EVERYWHERE & then lock your own network down (through VPN, WPA+Radius, or whatever).
If even facility-provided wireless is absolutely verboten everywhere, just put up jammers & be done with it.
Or change your AUP and internal network security so that you wouldn't care about WAPs.
If you decide to go hunting for them, you'll have to do it more than once. There is employee turnover & machine turnover & anyone can bring in a new WAP.
Once the data is scanned, letting google do the indexing (either online, through Desktop Search, or through a Search Appliance isn't a bad idea.
If there is significant enough value, pawning off some of the work to Google or the Internet Archive or something similar isn't a bad idea. In particular, many libraries and Universities already do this kind of work.
Archive it the same way most organizations still do: RAIDed (possibly networked) hard disks with (offsite) backup to tape. Probably still the cheapest & one of the most dependable ways to store all of this.
/smith/binder1/page1.tiff and /loosepage/page3.pdf (TIFF and PDF being two damn-fine formats for you to use--TIFF for lossless archives & PDF for the graphics+OCR-ed text) & rely on your indexing to actually make this more useable (knowing that if indexing ever fails, you will be no worse off than you are now until you rebuild the index.
As for organization, just come up with a simple, sane way to name things (like
I would personally write a minimalist webapp to navigate through everything, but I'm sure there's already relatively good software to do this with genealogical data.
I know you asked for flatbed scanners, but if you are seriously going to feed in 10,000s of pages, an actual document scanner would be better. Even the document feeders available on many flatbeds are deoptimal--they are slow and jam all of the time. Scanners which are meant to be used by workgroups to actually scan in documents typically dont curl the paper over itself, so are both quicker & jam less. But they are more expensive.
I am extremely happy with my Canon Canon DR-2080C. Note: It is the only piece of hardware I've bought, knowing that it won't work with Linux. I ran windows SPECIFICALLY to use this document scanner. It looks like it has been discontinued & the DR-2050C is the model to get now. Looks like it does larger documents, which is nice. These do duplex scans in one pass, so you can get about 40 sides (so 20 2-sided pages) per minute. These will probably set you back ~$600 new.
If you have more money to spend, there are even better document scanners available.
Go ahead and spend a hundred or more on a good quality flatbed for anything that needs better than 600dpi or is awkwardly sized/bound, but a document scanner will save SO much time.
Since those, he's come out with Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel and The Joy of Work.
Hopefully most geeks know of the late, great physicist, Richard Feynman. In addition to coming up with QED, helping to make the A-bomb, winning a nobel prize, and figuring out why the Challenger blew-up, he gave lectures to college freshmen on physics. They're great. The books are often suggested texts, but it is a treat to hear them in his voice. I bought mine on audio-tape and pain-stakingly recorded them on my PC to dump onto CDs. Thankfully, official CDs have started to trickle out.
Vol 1-2 are on Quantum Mechanics. 3-4 covers crystal structure, electricity, and magnetism. 5-6 goes through energy, motion, kinetics, and heat. 7-8 does classical and relativistic mechanics (and gravity and a bit more electromagnetism). More should be coming. I think they are up to volume 20 of the tape sets. Each volume has about six chapters from the books. I think there are 129 chapters all-told.
- IT Conversations has IT-related conferences, interviews, round-tables, and more.
- Science Friday is the weekly NPR segment, with science interviews, news, and discussion.
- This Week in Science is college radio at it's finest. Informative and funny.
There are, of course, many other programs I haven't been able to listen to yet. Learn of others at ipodder.org or the various other podcast directories that have sprung up.The pricetag and the userland apps will keep the Sun machines out of consumers hands (and, perhaps the Intel monopoly will keep many Turions out of there hands too).
But that's OK, as the two lines are bad anyway. Linux on a Pentium-M or OS X on a (ewww) G4 are enough to make most "UNIX-using, mobility-desiring scientific and technical colleagues" happy. OS X on a Pentium-M will probably make them happier still.
One of:
UltraSPARC IIi (550 MHz or 650 MHz)
UltraSPARC IIIi (1.28 GHz)
Up to:
2 GB SDRAM
Either
80-GB IDE HD
73-GB UltraSCSI HD
802.11
Solaris 10
JDE
I'd prefer not to break the law! But one law can hurt developers and users in ANY country. Just ask Skylarov!
Furthermore, laws and litigation isn't a good argument for choosing software over hardware--you can import hardware which would do it from other countries.
No argument from me, but it is already legal to litigate developers of machines which skip ads out of business. EFF summary on Newmark (Craig of Craig's List), et al. v. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. et al.
While GTK+ is written in C, they have always used the object-oriented paradigm. There are, of course, wrappers which make both branches of GTK+ easier to use in whatever language you choose.
1)Uses less power than most PC solutions.
2)Cheaper. I got it for $250 with lifetime subscription. Admittedly, the MSRP is much higher. But it still isn't as much as putting together a system, even if you get one of the $200 Dells to start it.
3)It just works. No messing with drivers, LIRC, etc.
Now, some of your points for DIY just don't hold.
You can purchase PVRs with lifetime subscriptions. You can't rely on Zap2It to always give you free listings for MythTV!My ReplayTV 5040 still has Commercial Advance. Newer models don't, but they have "Show|Nav." You press a single button & it skips the commercials.Ditto most PVRs. You can network them & pull content onto a computer or you can drop in a larger harddrive or two.Both ReplayTV and Tivo have this.ReplayTVs store images. You can upload video. It is space-inefficient, but you can upload audio encoded as video with whatever moving images you want.This is a good point. But I think the bottom-line is that features may become illegal (which could take them out of the project's trunk). You can also prevent firmware upgrades on PVRs you buy.
The bottom-line is that we need to promote legislation to keep the features we want LEGAL.