Technically its a bit more complicated. You have to both have the drive plugged in for several hours (I recommend at least 12) *AND* the data needs to have changed on the drive within the past 30 days.
If the drive contains your family's photos from 2004-2012 (for example) - they will delete the drive and you will have to re-push (which WILL push you over your data caps on most ISPs/plans).
To prevent this, you have to do something like create a small text file on the drive and edit it each time you re-connect.
Still, I recommend them, but they could make life easier by either not requiring this or better documenting.
Source: Backblaze customer for many years.
Here's what I do, I use Firefox with NoScript installed for all browsing & I block all Javascript from Facebook (and their cdn domain). I use Safari or the iPhone app when I (rarely) use Facebook. (and no cookies since I don't login using this browser -- plus I blow away all cookies regularly). Trends to paranoid side, sure, but the tracking thing creeps me out. I don't care if its just for aggregation -- that's the intent, but there is far more power there.
I use the m-audio Transit, from looking at their site it hasn't changed in the 5 or so years since I purchased it. Its worked fine, I used it while converting some old vinyl 80s music that never made it big enough to enter the digital era. Hardest problem was post-processing the audio, but that was more due to my turntable & needle. Kids, I'll tell you a story about shopping for turntable needles someday when I have time.
Be sure to check out Amrita2 at http://amrita2.rubyforge.org/>. To quote their page: "Amrita2 is a a xml/xhtml template library for Ruby. It makes html documents from a template and a model data."
I like the very clean separation of code from the HTML. You can prototype view the HTML, and you're not sticking bits of logic that will baffle your designers.
I've been using Eclipse with the RDT + Sublipse + RadRails plugins for a week or two on Windows. Its really quite nice. I didn't see an easy way to convert an existing Rails project into one that loads up nicely in the UI. I ended up creating a test project in Eclipse, taking that projects.project file and modifying it, then sticking it over in my existing project's directory. Load the.project file and voila, the IDE shows all the directors (M, V, C, etc). Very nice, and no surprise that.2 doesn't have a migration yet.
I've been trying to live more in more in the other half of my dual-boot machine, especially now with Ubuntu's Breezy Badger release that has solved some of my issues such as notebook suspend. *Anyway*, when trying to install the RDT plugin, I am getting error messages. It all just worked in Windows and I was hoping for the same experience for Ubuntu.
I backup to DVD, but I burn at a slower rate than the maximum, usually 2.4X rather than 4X or 8X. Some studies I've read have correlated higher burn rates with less longevity.
I also burn a second identical DVD every time and label them 'a' and 'b'. I then take one over to my parent's house so that my second set is off-site.
Its not a perfect system, but I don't trust important content to a HD even for a day. And to me, pictures & video of my daughter's birthday are important. I do the same with the FLAC backups of my CDs.
I have a plan to re-archive the content in 4-5 years with whatever the best technology seems to be at that time. I'll cross that bridge in 2010 or so.
Cheers.
Yes, Bill Nye did get his TV start on Almost Live, which ran from 1984 to 1999. I regret its passing. They tried to go national if I recall, but much of the humour was very Seattle area specific. Bill Nye was one of the best regular bits they did.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149413/
MSFT did own Expedia, but it was spun off years ago as EXPE, which was then purchased by IACI a couple of years ago or so. IACI has announced the intention of spinning Expedia (and all their travel properties) into a separate company.
Although the concept of zero was in use in India (to what extent I don't know) before the West, my understanding is that it was first recorded as being used by the Sumerians, later by the Babylonians. Note that I say the concept of zero, not the number/character 0 as we know it.
This article overrides my understanding in that the Babylonians added the concept of zero to the Sumerian counting system.
It was the Indians (particularly Brahmagupta) who really formalized zero in arithmetic and the use of zero in the Western world seems to follow from that (via the Arabs, who were most advanced in these mathematic areas).
After all, the term algebra is from the Arabic al-jabr.
Yes, and I believe that's exactly what the ET's will be thinking.
What can I do to make myself lest palatable to the alien palate? I'd take up smoking but I'm afraid then I'd just taste more like smoked turkey.
Sign me,
Not on the menu
I find point 12, "Portability is for canoes" either self-serving to Microsoft interests or an interesting insight into their thinking process.
I fight this idea all the time in terms of supporting more than just IE on a web site's design ("it has 95% market share, etc"). I've seen it in the past on supporting Macintosh platforms, and now I observe it in the industry as a whole in driver support, applications, games, etc., when it comes to Linux.
Maybe I'm taking it too far. Portability can be hard to manage and achieve, but somehow I think if this was coming from the purveyor of a non-dominant OS platform player it would sound a little different.
Overall, I liked the article. Nice to see some more analysis of success factors in project management.
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Technically its a bit more complicated. You have to both have the drive plugged in for several hours (I recommend at least 12) *AND* the data needs to have changed on the drive within the past 30 days. If the drive contains your family's photos from 2004-2012 (for example) - they will delete the drive and you will have to re-push (which WILL push you over your data caps on most ISPs/plans). To prevent this, you have to do something like create a small text file on the drive and edit it each time you re-connect. Still, I recommend them, but they could make life easier by either not requiring this or better documenting. Source: Backblaze customer for many years.
Here's what I do, I use Firefox with NoScript installed for all browsing & I block all Javascript from Facebook (and their cdn domain). I use Safari or the iPhone app when I (rarely) use Facebook. (and no cookies since I don't login using this browser -- plus I blow away all cookies regularly). Trends to paranoid side, sure, but the tracking thing creeps me out. I don't care if its just for aggregation -- that's the intent, but there is far more power there.
Am I the only one who does this kind of thing?
I use the m-audio Transit, from looking at their site it hasn't changed in the 5 or so years since I purchased it. Its worked fine, I used it while converting some old vinyl 80s music that never made it big enough to enter the digital era. Hardest problem was post-processing the audio, but that was more due to my turntable & needle. Kids, I'll tell you a story about shopping for turntable needles someday when I have time.
Be sure to check out Amrita2 at http://amrita2.rubyforge.org/>. To quote their page: "Amrita2 is a a xml/xhtml template library for Ruby. It makes html documents from a template and a model data." I like the very clean separation of code from the HTML. You can prototype view the HTML, and you're not sticking bits of logic that will baffle your designers.
What could possibly go wrong?
I've been using Eclipse with the RDT + Sublipse + RadRails plugins for a week or two on Windows. Its really quite nice. I didn't see an easy way to convert an existing Rails project into one that loads up nicely in the UI. I ended up creating a test project in Eclipse, taking that projects .project file and modifying it, then sticking it over in my existing project's directory. Load the .project file and voila, the IDE shows all the directors (M, V, C, etc). Very nice, and no surprise that .2 doesn't have a migration yet.
I've been trying to live more in more in the other half of my dual-boot machine, especially now with Ubuntu's Breezy Badger release that has solved some of my issues such as notebook suspend. *Anyway*, when trying to install the RDT plugin, I am getting error messages. It all just worked in Windows and I was hoping for the same experience for Ubuntu.
I backup to DVD, but I burn at a slower rate than the maximum, usually 2.4X rather than 4X or 8X. Some studies I've read have correlated higher burn rates with less longevity. I also burn a second identical DVD every time and label them 'a' and 'b'. I then take one over to my parent's house so that my second set is off-site. Its not a perfect system, but I don't trust important content to a HD even for a day. And to me, pictures & video of my daughter's birthday are important. I do the same with the FLAC backups of my CDs. I have a plan to re-archive the content in 4-5 years with whatever the best technology seems to be at that time. I'll cross that bridge in 2010 or so. Cheers.
Gartner hype curve Nice. I plan to use that in converstation, thanks.
A picture of the new brain computer can be seen at:b rain/brain018.jpeg
http://homepage.mac.com/m5comp/trekbits/trekpics/
Looks strangely familiar.
Yes, Bill Nye did get his TV start on Almost Live, which ran from 1984 to 1999. I regret its passing. They tried to go national if I recall, but much of the humour was very Seattle area specific. Bill Nye was one of the best regular bits they did. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149413/
MSFT did own Expedia, but it was spun off years ago as EXPE, which was then purchased by IACI a couple of years ago or so. IACI has announced the intention of spinning Expedia (and all their travel properties) into a separate company.
I'd like to see more heavy-hitter funding and support for tools for writing cross-platform applications like the mono project (http://www.mono-project.com/) and wxWidgets (http://www.wxwindows.org/.
See: http://secunia.com/advisories/12526/
Yet I see no mention of it on the Mozilla home page and the downloads look the same. Is there a patch is is there not a patch?
From Secunia:
Highly critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Manipulation of data
Exposure of sensitive information
System access
Affects all versions.
Although the concept of zero was in use in India (to what extent I don't know) before the West, my understanding is that it was first recorded as being used by the Sumerians, later by the Babylonians. Note that I say the concept of zero, not the number/character 0 as we know it.
I just Googled it up and found this article to be relevant:
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/zero.jsp
This article overrides my understanding in that the Babylonians added the concept of zero to the Sumerian counting system.
It was the Indians (particularly Brahmagupta) who really formalized zero in arithmetic and the use of zero in the Western world seems to follow from that (via the Arabs, who were most advanced in these mathematic areas).
After all, the term algebra is from the Arabic al-jabr.
We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will be adapted to serve us.
Yes, and I believe that's exactly what the ET's will be thinking. What can I do to make myself lest palatable to the alien palate? I'd take up smoking but I'm afraid then I'd just taste more like smoked turkey. Sign me, Not on the menu
I find point 12, "Portability is for canoes" either self-serving to Microsoft interests or an interesting insight into their thinking process.
I fight this idea all the time in terms of supporting more than just IE on a web site's design ("it has 95% market share, etc"). I've seen it in the past on supporting Macintosh platforms, and now I observe it in the industry as a whole in driver support, applications, games, etc., when it comes to Linux.
Maybe I'm taking it too far. Portability can be hard to manage and achieve, but somehow I think if this was coming from the purveyor of a non-dominant OS platform player it would sound a little different.
Overall, I liked the article. Nice to see some more analysis of success factors in project management.