I have to sometimes make long calls for my work and I *really* don't want to do it on a tinky winky little mobile phone, its bloody uncomfortable. And if I want to use a speakerphone then i'll need the mobile plugged into the wall anyway so the battery doesn't die halfway through and how is that any more convenient that having a landline with a cable? Also our Cisco deskphones have the entire company phonebook available on them which is very convenient. Their only downside is being IP phones , when the local LAN goes down so do all the phones.
We're a small company with people working for us worldwide. We give them a VOIP phone, and we have an Asterisk phone server, hosted by Amazon. Now what can happen? Amazon can go down, our server at amazon can go down, our own ISP can go down, our own LAN can go down, and the phones can simply break (and they do). Of course, when we have a problem at our LAN, that has no effect for the other phones. For incoming calls we use another service provider, who links a public phone number to the VOIP network. If they go down, no incoming calls from public numbers. So there are quite some points of failure, and still it works pretty OK most of the time.
Document everything in your personal wiki. I prefer JSPWiki because of all the plugins and the markup, but that needs Tomcat and may not be the choice of most people. The best alternative is Dokuwiki, which needs no database and has user handling, so standard login features, compared to Mediawiki. Make pictures, make notes, put it in your wiki, and keep it for later use. You don't necessarily need to share it with other people. I keep a personal one for everything I want to remember that is not relevant for my employer.
Ergo: you need a decent smartphone to take pictures, make notes, and make sure to install some apps that calculate whatever needs calculating. Yeah and network tools of course.
- a rubber hammer (for failing hard drives without visible traces) - a cattle prod (for failing "visitors" without visible traces) - a sledgehammer (for failing anything if you don't mind visible traces) - thermite (to get rid of visible traces)
Take some network cables home, put them in a box with a bunch of mice, and use those cables to explain network failing whenever you screwed up elsewhere.
It should be branded iPadV6 and then sold in clean stores all over the world. I bet it would be commonplace in no time, especially when the Chinese try to copy it.
See this: Reflecta 5000. Not a caroussel, but I guess if you buy a set of magazines, it's a matter of minutes to change a caroussel to magazine and back. That will be way faster than the V700.
I'm using an Epson V700 scanner, which can scan 12 slides or 4 negative strips, or 2 6x9cm negatives or even bigger transparencies. For batch scanning this is much more convenient than a Nikon scanner, which can only handle one strip or four slides at a time. The Nikon gets slightly better reviews for image quality but for most of my images that really is irrelevant.
I use Vuescan professional with a free upgrade because of the software that came with de V700. Scanning one slide takes up to 15 minutes at maximum resolution, 6400dpi, 64bit including infrared, which doesn't really work for me to be honest. This results in 500MB RAW DNG files for color slides, which can later be used again as if it's the scanner, but then 10x faster. The 6400dpi scans show the grains of the slide for most older slides (1985 and before), and for some excellent sharp and bright slides from the 1990s you can see all details at that dpi.
I've scanned about 5000 images in one year, so that's why I need a 4TB disk. Another 2TB disk is a backup for most of the scans, but sometime I'll need a second 4TB disk.
it was a cheap buy and they will be sorely disappointed when it runs like crap a year from now.
I know several people who bought very cheap netbooks and were very happy with them for a number of years. Heck, I still use my ageing eee 900 daily.
Cheap doesn't mean bad or badly built. Not everyone needs a 64 processor monster to surf the web.
At home I have a nine year old Dell P4 that was average at the time. It runs Ubuntu 12.04 now, serves as backup host and for my scanning project, batch scanning my slide collection. Browsing the internet is not a problem. Yes it's a lot slower, but still acceptable. Converting a 500 MB DNG image to JPEG takes 5 minutes, but who cares if it's a batch job. I added 3GB RAM and a new videocard four years ago, and just added a 4TB drive. If necessary I can start Virtualbox with XP and run Photoshop and Illustrator CS4 inside. For not too extreme images, it's OK, although that can be sluggish.
'We are creating a cure by uniting the contributions of surgeons, homeopaths, oncologists, Chinese doctors, nutritionists and spiritual healers.'
Homeopaths? Chinese doctors? Spiritual healers? "Uniting their contributions" is going to drag the net worth of the resulting mess down to below zero...
Reading your comment, it appeared to me that you rejected these alternative methods right away, but after reading it another time it's more about the "uniting" part. I have tried many alternative cures for my fatigue problems, like acupuncture, haptotherapy, ayurveda and more. I always try to find an explanation for things that work. I've tried Ayurveda, and although I have no idea what happened, it worked for me like nothing else. I didn't have to do anything, no herbs or pills, no difficult conversations, just laying down and let the therapist do the work.
Normally these alternative therapies work one day, because you relax, somebody pays attention to you, and after a day most of it is gone. With ayurveda, the first time I noticed barely an effect when I left, but the next four days were much better. For the next three months I went weekly, and by then the effect spanned a week. I kept on doing it at a lesser frequency for about two years, and it helped me a lot. Many times I tried to analyse what the therapist did, but I couldn't explain it.
In this sense, it could help cancer patients, as well as any patient, if they are open to this kind of therapy. Not by curing the cancer, but by making the patient stronger, and that could just be enough to support other treatments like chemo.
"I'm sorry Hassan, I can't let you take that plane"
But to make it up a little, all your personal info is uploaded to the cloud, so imagine - you are safe here, and still you can fantasize about being up in the air somehow.
So the lesson to be learned is one of conformity then?
Isn't that what school is? Conform to what we want you to know? And someone please explain what expectation of privacy a child should have on public property. Does she complain about security cameras too? What is she going to do when she graduates and she has to swipe a badge to get into work or her work PC requires her login? Unless she plans on flipping burgers she better get use to badges and logins.
School is partly about conforming. And about growing up, and going your own way. It won't take long before parents can login to the school camera system and see what they do all the time. That might seem innocent and useful for a one year old, but not for teenagers.
He was just downloading stuff, it's not like he was smoking cigarettes or drinking.
Jesus.
Piracy for personal use = total worth ignoring
I totally agree. However, he was not just downloading, he was "sharing", uploading as well. So he stole a pack of gum, and gave a few away. That's the size of this case. Give him a good spanking, and let it go.
These laws are stupid. How in hell are parents able to tell what a kid is doing on his/her computer? How many parents are able to tell the difference between two icons that don't look like Word or IE? After this ruling, all kids know to delete these icons from their desktop. Or they learn how to change the icon into something else. There is probably an app for that.
All these "commuter" cars are ugly as sin. Why can't we get "commuter" cars that aren't straight chairs with wheels? Get something sleek and futuristic looking and I'll consider buying it. (Like that Lamborghini in the icons above... a single seat, well performing low slung vehicle.)
This is where it went wrong - if it was still Dutch it would have been properly protected against flooding, and all those electricity lines would have been underground by now. It's absolutely unbelievable that a country that is so technologically advanced still has all those cables hanging in the air. And then those cardboard houses!
I've created one Hello World app, just to see how it works. I've followed directions, didn't do anything to snoop around. The result is that it needs Phone ID somehow. I suspect that many app programmers do nothing to snoop around, but automatically request more permissions than actually needed, probably because the programming IDE does this automatically.
Can you not just use the ANDROID_ID which doesn't require any permissions?
Yes! Well to be honest I wouldn't know - but I suppose you do. This app does nothing but display the text Hello World. So it doesn't need any permissions. Still the app requests them. I'm an unexperienced android app developer, don't know this alternative, and I suppose I'm not the only one.
I personally swear by LBE Privacy Guard, as I use it on all my Android devices.
Wearing my tinfoil hat, I do have a concern about a free product from China that requires root and handles all the vital security info on a device.
Same here! I really like this app. I've tried several of these privacy apps, and most are a hassle to work with. This one is easy and user friendly. I trust it in limiting other apps, and I see many notifications in the status bar about apps trying to get certain info. But do they have a hidden agenda somehow? Then again, what will it bring them, needing root access, and then a user who knows what to do. It's not that hundreds of millions of people will install this app, like the Facebook app. But if they want to snoop, they have a really nice target group: pro users!
If only there were some way for me to tell which permissions an app will use when I install it!
I've created one Hello World app, just to see how it works. I've followed directions, didn't do anything to snoop around. The result is that it needs Phone ID somehow. I suspect that many app programmers do nothing to snoop around, but automatically request more permissions than actually needed, probably because the programming IDE does this automatically.
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I have to sometimes make long calls for my work and I *really* don't want to do it on a tinky winky little mobile phone, its bloody uncomfortable. And if I want to use a speakerphone then i'll need the mobile plugged into the wall anyway so the battery doesn't die halfway through and how is that any more convenient that having a landline with a cable? Also our Cisco deskphones have the entire company phonebook available on them which is very convenient. Their only downside is being IP phones , when the local LAN goes down so do all the phones.
We're a small company with people working for us worldwide. We give them a VOIP phone, and we have an Asterisk phone server, hosted by Amazon. Now what can happen? Amazon can go down, our server at amazon can go down, our own ISP can go down, our own LAN can go down, and the phones can simply break (and they do). Of course, when we have a problem at our LAN, that has no effect for the other phones. For incoming calls we use another service provider, who links a public phone number to the VOIP network. If they go down, no incoming calls from public numbers. So there are quite some points of failure, and still it works pretty OK most of the time.
How about Windows 95 with Microsoft Bob?
I think that's a violation of the Geneva Convention.
Yeah and the Windows Search Puppy is not safe either in China when it ends up on the menu (thanks to Clippy).
Document everything in your personal wiki. I prefer JSPWiki because of all the plugins and the markup, but that needs Tomcat and may not be the choice of most people. The best alternative is Dokuwiki, which needs no database and has user handling, so standard login features, compared to Mediawiki. Make pictures, make notes, put it in your wiki, and keep it for later use. You don't necessarily need to share it with other people. I keep a personal one for everything I want to remember that is not relevant for my employer.
Ergo: you need a decent smartphone to take pictures, make notes, and make sure to install some apps that calculate whatever needs calculating. Yeah and network tools of course.
Don't forget:
- a rubber hammer (for failing hard drives without visible traces)
- a cattle prod (for failing "visitors" without visible traces)
- a sledgehammer (for failing anything if you don't mind visible traces)
- thermite (to get rid of visible traces)
Take some network cables home, put them in a box with a bunch of mice, and use those cables to explain network failing whenever you screwed up elsewhere.
The year of IPv6 on the desktop!
It should be branded iPadV6 and then sold in clean stores all over the world. I bet it would be commonplace in no time, especially when the Chinese try to copy it.
problem is that patriot act actually covers eg an ibm dataserver in brussels, no need fir the data to be on American soil...
If hosted by IBM, not made by IBM.
See this: Reflecta 5000. Not a caroussel, but I guess if you buy a set of magazines, it's a matter of minutes to change a caroussel to magazine and back. That will be way faster than the V700.
I'm using an Epson V700 scanner, which can scan 12 slides or 4 negative strips, or 2 6x9cm negatives or even bigger transparencies. For batch scanning this is much more convenient than a Nikon scanner, which can only handle one strip or four slides at a time. The Nikon gets slightly better reviews for image quality but for most of my images that really is irrelevant.
I use Vuescan professional with a free upgrade because of the software that came with de V700. Scanning one slide takes up to 15 minutes at maximum resolution, 6400dpi, 64bit including infrared, which doesn't really work for me to be honest. This results in 500MB RAW DNG files for color slides, which can later be used again as if it's the scanner, but then 10x faster. The 6400dpi scans show the grains of the slide for most older slides (1985 and before), and for some excellent sharp and bright slides from the 1990s you can see all details at that dpi.
I've scanned about 5000 images in one year, so that's why I need a 4TB disk. Another 2TB disk is a backup for most of the scans, but sometime I'll need a second 4TB disk.
it was a cheap buy and they will be sorely disappointed when it runs like crap a year from now.
I know several people who bought very cheap netbooks and were very happy with them for a number of years. Heck, I still use my ageing eee 900 daily.
Cheap doesn't mean bad or badly built. Not everyone needs a 64 processor monster to surf the web.
At home I have a nine year old Dell P4 that was average at the time. It runs Ubuntu 12.04 now, serves as backup host and for my scanning project, batch scanning my slide collection. Browsing the internet is not a problem. Yes it's a lot slower, but still acceptable. Converting a 500 MB DNG image to JPEG takes 5 minutes, but who cares if it's a batch job. I added 3GB RAM and a new videocard four years ago, and just added a 4TB drive. If necessary I can start Virtualbox with XP and run Photoshop and Illustrator CS4 inside. For not too extreme images, it's OK, although that can be sluggish.
Homeopaths? Chinese doctors? Spiritual healers? "Uniting their contributions" is going to drag the net worth of the resulting mess down to below zero...
Reading your comment, it appeared to me that you rejected these alternative methods right away, but after reading it another time it's more about the "uniting" part. I have tried many alternative cures for my fatigue problems, like acupuncture, haptotherapy, ayurveda and more. I always try to find an explanation for things that work. I've tried Ayurveda, and although I have no idea what happened, it worked for me like nothing else. I didn't have to do anything, no herbs or pills, no difficult conversations, just laying down and let the therapist do the work.
Normally these alternative therapies work one day, because you relax, somebody pays attention to you, and after a day most of it is gone. With ayurveda, the first time I noticed barely an effect when I left, but the next four days were much better. For the next three months I went weekly, and by then the effect spanned a week. I kept on doing it at a lesser frequency for about two years, and it helped me a lot. Many times I tried to analyse what the therapist did, but I couldn't explain it.
In this sense, it could help cancer patients, as well as any patient, if they are open to this kind of therapy. Not by curing the cancer, but by making the patient stronger, and that could just be enough to support other treatments like chemo.
"I'm sorry Hassan, I can't let you take that plane"
But to make it up a little, all your personal info is uploaded to the cloud, so imagine - you are safe here, and still you can fantasize about being up in the air somehow.
So the lesson to be learned is one of conformity then?
Isn't that what school is? Conform to what we want you to know? And someone please explain what expectation of privacy a child should have on public property. Does she complain about security cameras too? What is she going to do when she graduates and she has to swipe a badge to get into work or her work PC requires her login? Unless she plans on flipping burgers she better get use to badges and logins.
School is partly about conforming. And about growing up, and going your own way. It won't take long before parents can login to the school camera system and see what they do all the time. That might seem innocent and useful for a one year old, but not for teenagers.
Thanks Europe. Your debt crisis and failing economic system are a shining star for all the world.
Our debt crisis? Look at that big pink elephant behind you. Oh and it might be red with many golden stars, you know, like from communist China?!
He was just downloading stuff, it's not like he was smoking cigarettes or drinking.
Jesus.
Piracy for personal use = total worth ignoring
I totally agree. However, he was not just downloading, he was "sharing", uploading as well. So he stole a pack of gum, and gave a few away. That's the size of this case. Give him a good spanking, and let it go.
These laws are stupid. How in hell are parents able to tell what a kid is doing on his/her computer? How many parents are able to tell the difference between two icons that don't look like Word or IE? After this ruling, all kids know to delete these icons from their desktop. Or they learn how to change the icon into something else. There is probably an app for that.
All these "commuter" cars are ugly as sin. Why can't we get "commuter" cars that aren't straight chairs with wheels? Get something sleek and futuristic looking and I'll consider buying it. (Like that Lamborghini in the icons above... a single seat, well performing low slung vehicle.)
Like the Renault Twizy?
could be killed off by a puny volcano!
They probably have set it off themselves.
This is where it went wrong - if it was still Dutch it would have been properly protected against flooding, and all those electricity lines would have been underground by now. It's absolutely unbelievable that a country that is so technologically advanced still has all those cables hanging in the air. And then those cardboard houses!
Whats the difference between a prostitute and a politician?
A prostitute will leave you poor and happy. A politician will just leave you poor.
Ergo: to fuck, or be fucked.
paging DVD Jon
You better call the RIAA. I bet they can get all those weapons back and trick these guys (the terrorists I mean) into paying them for the favor.
I've created one Hello World app, just to see how it works. I've followed directions, didn't do anything to snoop around. The result is that it needs Phone ID somehow. I suspect that many app programmers do nothing to snoop around, but automatically request more permissions than actually needed, probably because the programming IDE does this automatically.
Can you not just use the ANDROID_ID which doesn't require any permissions?
Yes! Well to be honest I wouldn't know - but I suppose you do. This app does nothing but display the text Hello World. So it doesn't need any permissions. Still the app requests them. I'm an unexperienced android app developer, don't know this alternative, and I suppose I'm not the only one.
I personally swear by LBE Privacy Guard, as I use it on all my Android devices.
Wearing my tinfoil hat, I do have a concern about a free product from China that requires root and handles all the vital security info on a device.
Same here! I really like this app. I've tried several of these privacy apps, and most are a hassle to work with. This one is easy and user friendly. I trust it in limiting other apps, and I see many notifications in the status bar about apps trying to get certain info. But do they have a hidden agenda somehow? Then again, what will it bring them, needing root access, and then a user who knows what to do. It's not that hundreds of millions of people will install this app, like the Facebook app. But if they want to snoop, they have a really nice target group: pro users!
for using iPhone apps.
Iphone apps just use you
FTFY! ;-)
I have an S3 and downloaded a few apps. Before installation you're told what permissions the app wants on your device.
E.g. the Facebook app seems to want every permission it can get it's grubby hands on thus I've chosen not to install it.
Unless app developers are using workarounds.
Funnily enough it is no surprise that many of the "free" apps seem to want the most permissions.
For facebook I use Firefox. Works great although maybe a bit less fluent, and no worries that it will upload my contact list.
If only there were some way for me to tell which permissions an app will use when I install it!
I've created one Hello World app, just to see how it works. I've followed directions, didn't do anything to snoop around. The result is that it needs Phone ID somehow. I suspect that many app programmers do nothing to snoop around, but automatically request more permissions than actually needed, probably because the programming IDE does this automatically.