Bluetooth/3G? So I could either transfer the files from my camera VERY slowly while being in a 30 ft radius of my computer, or pay up the wazoo to get them through the cellular network to my pc. This is useless to me, I would much prefer this WiFi card, especially if it used SCP or some kind of encryption. There's an open access point in every neighbourhood!
That's very true, I have loaded it with plugins that do everything I ever wanted and I still can't get used to the fact that windows open AS SOON AS I click on the contact. This never happened with Trillian...
I've found that not even this is necessary, I run a site with about 1000 visitors per day and the spam messages fell to zero when I included a field that said "Type in the box to prove you're human:".
I would like to retract some of what I said. I just downloaded the latest Miranda version to see how far it had gone and I must say that I am impressed. There are many plugins and it loads in under half a second on my 5 year old machine. I am confident that once I wade through the hundreds (literally) of options, I will have it working just the way I like it. I urge you all to try it. There is even a tabbed windows plugin, it looked good in the default install, I changed an option and now it looks like crap (literally, it's light brown).
Well, MSN doesn't support tabs, which is very annoying. Trillian is better than MSN by leaps and bounds, and Pidgin did crash for me in the beta but the final version seems to run well...
I am quite disappointed by the choice of clients. MSN's client is bloated and I've asked them to add an option to STOP THOSE STUPID WINDOWS FROM BLINKING when you get a message when it was back in version 4. It's something like 11 now, and I have yet to see that little option.
Miranda IM is small and fast, but lacks in features and it has this annoying thing where the send control is disabled for a while after you send a message.
Trillian is the best of all but still has many bugs (slow, can't disable video/audio plugins which I never use, it doesn't update MSN names, it doesn't use upnp or let you forward ports yourself, etc etc).
Pidgin is rather nice but it lacks many features as well (ctrl+tabbing through windows never worked for me, pressing escape doesn't close the window, it constantly gets moved to the second screen, is rather slowish, etc).
It's too bad that with this many clients there isn't a great one. Trillian comes close, but it does need a bit of improvement still.
Actually Freud's "penis envy" doesn't mean what you think it means, but we managed to attach the label to something else! Bonus points to Freud for a catchy name.
It originally meant the supposed reaction of a girl when she finds out she does not have a penis. I don't see what the big fuss is, though, most girls get penises later on in their lives, if only part-time. Mod me interesting for starting this post with psychology and ending with porn!
Ah, thank you very much for this information. I was actually thinking of RAID5 because it's cheaper than the mirrored solutions, and I haven't had a drive fail yet (let alone two drives in quick succesion). By the way, do you know offhand if it's easy to see when a drive has failed (Command/logfile/email alert)? I wouldn't want to find that out when my data is inaccessible:)
Software RAID looks quite good, thanks for the clarification.
Yes, the article I read talked about the hardware/software RAID found on motherboards. I didn't know there was a pure software RAID solution, so I assumed that was it, thank you for clearing that up for me. I'll be sure to look more into linux's md, since this enables me to have a home fileserver without even needing extra hardware. Does anyone know of a good software RAID solution for Windows, by the way?
Well, on the contrary, I think this (or, well, something like this) could spur more person-to-person interaction, because of multitouch sensing. Imagine tabletop games you could gather round the table and play with your friends. It could also greatly help UIs, imagine having your windows lying around like you do pieces of paper, only you could zoom them in and out by using both hands. There would be no more switching in the traditional sense, if you don't need a window you just shrink it and push it aside, and get another one.
Hmm, really? I just want this thing for home/office storage, so throughput is of little importance, but reliability is paramount. I had no idea software RAID was this good, I was under the impression that a bug in the program or a cold reboot could mess with the RAID in the disks. I have never tried it, but I had read an article on installing linux on a software RAID (fakeraid) which basically bashed it. I will be sure to have my next motherboard include RAID, since it is good.
Basically I was worried about the reporting capabilities, since the machine would be a fileserver (I would have to check the logs vs the card beeping or giving off other notifications). Interesting comment, thank you very much for giving me some insight on this. I wish I had mod points.
You don't have to transmit anything to verify a public key. Hell, you could put its hash out on the internet. It only serves to tie an actual person to the key one has, to make sure there hasn't been a man-in-the-middle attack. As for speed, that's why you encrypt one-time keys with PKC and then use symmetric cryptography with that key. It's how PGP/GPG work.
I have been trying to convert an old PC to a fileserver, and I haven't yet found a good RAID solution. Some motherboards do provide RAID, but that's software RAID with hardware support. I need a pure RAID 5 solution, does anyone have anything to propose (motherboard/PCI/whatever?). It would help me very much.
Hey, if the two offices want to communicate very securely, why don't they just generate a key of sufficient length and send it across town on a physical medium? They could even just use PKC and call each other to verify the hashes. I think this is too much trouble for too little gain...
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You got it wrong, that's Uranus.
Damn you, HTML characters. Take three: "Type in the box to prove you're human:"
This time with more preview button!
It's that no spammer will pay the millions needed for sending their e-mails.
Erm, I don't understand why this was modded funny, it's totally true. Also, I messed up, that should read "Type in the box to prove you're human:"
Bluetooth/3G? So I could either transfer the files from my camera VERY slowly while being in a 30 ft radius of my computer, or pay up the wazoo to get them through the cellular network to my pc. This is useless to me, I would much prefer this WiFi card, especially if it used SCP or some kind of encryption. There's an open access point in every neighbourhood!
That's very true, I have loaded it with plugins that do everything I ever wanted and I still can't get used to the fact that windows open AS SOON AS I click on the contact. This never happened with Trillian...
I heard that it's at the 2.0b stage, so it should be released any century now!
:(
Seriously, unless you're planning on making a minor revision on a planet, you could just call it Earth 2 and not sound geeky
I've found that not even this is necessary, I run a site with about 1000 visitors per day and the spam messages fell to zero when I included a field that said "Type in the box to prove you're human:".
Haha, I pity you :P I found a great theme on the Miranda site, and now I'm a convert.
I would like to retract some of what I said. I just downloaded the latest Miranda version to see how far it had gone and I must say that I am impressed. There are many plugins and it loads in under half a second on my 5 year old machine. I am confident that once I wade through the hundreds (literally) of options, I will have it working just the way I like it. I urge you all to try it. There is even a tabbed windows plugin, it looked good in the default install, I changed an option and now it looks like crap (literally, it's light brown).
Well, MSN doesn't support tabs, which is very annoying. Trillian is better than MSN by leaps and bounds, and Pidgin did crash for me in the beta but the final version seems to run well...
I am quite disappointed by the choice of clients. MSN's client is bloated and I've asked them to add an option to STOP THOSE STUPID WINDOWS FROM BLINKING when you get a message when it was back in version 4. It's something like 11 now, and I have yet to see that little option.
Miranda IM is small and fast, but lacks in features and it has this annoying thing where the send control is disabled for a while after you send a message.
Trillian is the best of all but still has many bugs (slow, can't disable video/audio plugins which I never use, it doesn't update MSN names, it doesn't use upnp or let you forward ports yourself, etc etc).
Pidgin is rather nice but it lacks many features as well (ctrl+tabbing through windows never worked for me, pressing escape doesn't close the window, it constantly gets moved to the second screen, is rather slowish, etc).
It's too bad that with this many clients there isn't a great one. Trillian comes close, but it does need a bit of improvement still.
(or at least as much from scratch as you can get when you already know how other life works)
You're talking about programs, aren't you!
Actually Freud's "penis envy" doesn't mean what you think it means, but we managed to attach the label to something else! Bonus points to Freud for a catchy name.
It originally meant the supposed reaction of a girl when she finds out she does not have a penis. I don't see what the big fuss is, though, most girls get penises later on in their lives, if only part-time. Mod me interesting for starting this post with psychology and ending with porn!
Backup copy!
Hmm, yes, it's called "Dynamic disks" in XP. So THAT's what that was. Very useful bit of information...
Ah, thank you very much for this information. I was actually thinking of RAID5 because it's cheaper than the mirrored solutions, and I haven't had a drive fail yet (let alone two drives in quick succesion). By the way, do you know offhand if it's easy to see when a drive has failed (Command/logfile/email alert)? I wouldn't want to find that out when my data is inaccessible :)
Software RAID looks quite good, thanks for the clarification.
Yes, the article I read talked about the hardware/software RAID found on motherboards. I didn't know there was a pure software RAID solution, so I assumed that was it, thank you for clearing that up for me. I'll be sure to look more into linux's md, since this enables me to have a home fileserver without even needing extra hardware. Does anyone know of a good software RAID solution for Windows, by the way?
Well, on the contrary, I think this (or, well, something like this) could spur more person-to-person interaction, because of multitouch sensing. Imagine tabletop games you could gather round the table and play with your friends. It could also greatly help UIs, imagine having your windows lying around like you do pieces of paper, only you could zoom them in and out by using both hands. There would be no more switching in the traditional sense, if you don't need a window you just shrink it and push it aside, and get another one.
Hmm, really? I just want this thing for home/office storage, so throughput is of little importance, but reliability is paramount. I had no idea software RAID was this good, I was under the impression that a bug in the program or a cold reboot could mess with the RAID in the disks. I have never tried it, but I had read an article on installing linux on a software RAID (fakeraid) which basically bashed it. I will be sure to have my next motherboard include RAID, since it is good.
Basically I was worried about the reporting capabilities, since the machine would be a fileserver (I would have to check the logs vs the card beeping or giving off other notifications). Interesting comment, thank you very much for giving me some insight on this. I wish I had mod points.
This isn't something you can't do with a screen and a stylus. This thing's strength is the multitouch capability...
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Am I the only one who finds this sentence disturbing?
You don't have to transmit anything to verify a public key. Hell, you could put its hash out on the internet. It only serves to tie an actual person to the key one has, to make sure there hasn't been a man-in-the-middle attack. As for speed, that's why you encrypt one-time keys with PKC and then use symmetric cryptography with that key. It's how PGP/GPG work.
I have been trying to convert an old PC to a fileserver, and I haven't yet found a good RAID solution. Some motherboards do provide RAID, but that's software RAID with hardware support. I need a pure RAID 5 solution, does anyone have anything to propose (motherboard/PCI/whatever?). It would help me very much.
Hey, if the two offices want to communicate very securely, why don't they just generate a key of sufficient length and send it across town on a physical medium? They could even just use PKC and call each other to verify the hashes. I think this is too much trouble for too little gain...