Your post is well-worded but I disagree. No program can have a 100% malware recognition rate, when the definition of "malware" is not even objective. Where do you draw the line? Is VNC malware? It can be used to spy on people. Computers were created to do stuff people tell them to, and as long as people tell them to steal other peoples' data/delete their files/etc, we're always going to have that problem. Perhaps the single most important advice you could give a user is "don't run stuff you don't completely trust" and use antimalware programs to help them make an informed decision on that. That "Big Brother watching over me, securing my PC" stuff won't happen, and it won't really work even if it does.
Because Vorbis at 128 kbps is almost transparent (to me, anyway. MP3 isn't, not by a long shot), hence sounds like FLAC does at 1 MBpsish. I do use FLAC for archiving my favorite CDs, but not for the day-to-day listening. I use 212 kbps Vorbis for that (futureproofing never hurt anyone).
Personally, I'd use the OSS gDrive file manager that will be developed, which will in all probability GPG encrypt each file before uploading and decrypt after downloading, rather transparently. It might even go one step further and assign random filenames to the files while keeping an encrypted lookup table to the original filenames so it can display them to you.
I have found the explanation I have been looking for. Now I'll know what to say when everyone is so surprised I use XP as my desktop OS. Yes, Linux's command line is no match for it (that's why I always have a Linux server/tools nearby), but for some reason the Windows environment feels more natural to me. Who said you can't mix and match?
Well, mr. "I live next to the Nokia factory and my stuff is cheap"! In Greece it's like 30 eur for 300 MB and then it's some part of your soul per extra MB. If you aren't signed up for that plan, it's 10 eur/MB, I think. Everyone is like "data? what?" Even if you know how to do it, it's very expensive. Whenever I access the internet from my mobile I pray "oh please don't let that email have an attachment, please please".
I agree that this was a bad example. HD movie playback, perhaps? Processors under 2 GHz can't handle it, from what I've seen, and it's something anyone would do. A 7.2 MPel picture (such as one from a digital camera), even in PSP, would take up 115ish MB of RAM (assuming 16 bits per pixel). All I'm saying is that there aren't only two categories of hardware, "average user" and "hardcore gamer".
It would appear that there are two kinds of PC users, hardcore gamers and normal people. Not so, there are also people who enjoy an occasional game of HL2 or people who work with huge amounts of data or who run extensive calculations on their PCs (or hell, even Photoshop). Lumping PCs into two categories, "Bleeding edge, $2000 PC" and "Everything else" isn't that informative. Maybe he should have said "very good for the average user (web browsing, flash games, office suites)", which I don't doubt it is (average users require fewer resources than even today's cheapest PCs have).
How do you parse the title, when almost each word could either be a verb or a noun?:( And if "Google" is a verb there, why is it capitalized? The answers to these questions still elude me, after minutes of staring at it.
Well, actually it doesn't work that well for me, because I listen from metal to pop to opera, etc etc, so it's really hard for it to find a match. It mostly gives me metal songs, but I only like a particular kind (melodic songs in general), so it doesn't have a great success ratio. But, hey, it's a machine and I'm hard to please, so overall I'm very satisfied with it.
It's on windows, so there isn't that much I can do. However, when I did it on linux, I learnt the hard way to check if the NAS was mounted before copying:(.
First of all, thanks for that link. I've been looking for something like that for quite some time. Secondly, here's my solution: I have three drives at RAID-5 and one where I keep a backup of my most important stuff (since RAID doesn't guard against deletes, I need an archive of some sort). I made a script that runs every night and copies a "current" folder to one named by date and then rsyncs the new stuff onto the "current" one. That way, I have a history of all the files for every day I ran the script, and I only store the duplicates because I hardlink it. This is the script (public domain, since it took me 3 minutes to write), feel free to clean it up a bit since I didn't really feel like coding at 5 am:
Ah, I hadn't used HushMail so I didn't know that, I thought they required you to have your private key with you. This makes more sense, but it's still a stupid way to work (well, disclosing your private key is always stupid) because they only need your passphrase once and your private key would be compromised. You'd need to trust them not to do that, which, apparently, you can't. You were right in your original post, though, if they keep the private key encrypted. I still think Thunderbird + Enigmail on a flash disk is a much better solution.
Since those urls are mostly gotten from verbal sources (where the need for short urls is more pronounced), this problem would be solved if only tinyurl refused to redirect you if you came from another webpage (i.e. the referer header was not blank). Why they should do that, though, is a whole other discussion.
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Your post is well-worded but I disagree. No program can have a 100% malware recognition rate, when the definition of "malware" is not even objective. Where do you draw the line? Is VNC malware? It can be used to spy on people. Computers were created to do stuff people tell them to, and as long as people tell them to steal other peoples' data/delete their files/etc, we're always going to have that problem. Perhaps the single most important advice you could give a user is "don't run stuff you don't completely trust" and use antimalware programs to help them make an informed decision on that. That "Big Brother watching over me, securing my PC" stuff won't happen, and it won't really work even if it does.
Because Vorbis at 128 kbps is almost transparent (to me, anyway. MP3 isn't, not by a long shot), hence sounds like FLAC does at 1 MBpsish. I do use FLAC for archiving my favorite CDs, but not for the day-to-day listening. I use 212 kbps Vorbis for that (futureproofing never hurt anyone).
Eight grey levels should be enough for everyone!
Jack Thompson walks into a bar, and the bartender yells "get out, you!"?
Personally, I'd use the OSS gDrive file manager that will be developed, which will in all probability GPG encrypt each file before uploading and decrypt after downloading, rather transparently. It might even go one step further and assign random filenames to the files while keeping an encrypted lookup table to the original filenames so it can display them to you.
I have found the explanation I have been looking for. Now I'll know what to say when everyone is so surprised I use XP as my desktop OS. Yes, Linux's command line is no match for it (that's why I always have a Linux server/tools nearby), but for some reason the Windows environment feels more natural to me. Who said you can't mix and match?
Aw man, so I need to get both?!?! There goes my christmas budget :(
Well, mr. "I live next to the Nokia factory and my stuff is cheap"! In Greece it's like 30 eur for 300 MB and then it's some part of your soul per extra MB. If you aren't signed up for that plan, it's 10 eur/MB, I think. Everyone is like "data? what?" Even if you know how to do it, it's very expensive. Whenever I access the internet from my mobile I pray "oh please don't let that email have an attachment, please please".
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So yeah, you're the happy exception, I think
I don't know what that sounds like to you, but it sounds like a great idea to me!
As I feared, that calculation was (obviously) incorrect. Calculators will be the death of us all, I tell you.
I agree that this was a bad example. HD movie playback, perhaps? Processors under 2 GHz can't handle it, from what I've seen, and it's something anyone would do. A 7.2 MPel picture (such as one from a digital camera), even in PSP, would take up 115ish MB of RAM (assuming 16 bits per pixel). All I'm saying is that there aren't only two categories of hardware, "average user" and "hardcore gamer".
It would appear that there are two kinds of PC users, hardcore gamers and normal people. Not so, there are also people who enjoy an occasional game of HL2 or people who work with huge amounts of data or who run extensive calculations on their PCs (or hell, even Photoshop). Lumping PCs into two categories, "Bleeding edge, $2000 PC" and "Everything else" isn't that informative. Maybe he should have said "very good for the average user (web browsing, flash games, office suites)", which I don't doubt it is (average users require fewer resources than even today's cheapest PCs have).
Peter North Jameson, is that you?!?!
In Soviet Russia, jokes expect you!
How do you parse the title, when almost each word could either be a verb or a noun? :( And if "Google" is a verb there, why is it capitalized? The answers to these questions still elude me, after minutes of staring at it.
Well, actually it doesn't work that well for me, because I listen from metal to pop to opera, etc etc, so it's really hard for it to find a match. It mostly gives me metal songs, but I only like a particular kind (melodic songs in general), so it doesn't have a great success ratio. But, hey, it's a machine and I'm hard to please, so overall I'm very satisfied with it.
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It's on windows, so there isn't that much I can do. However, when I did it on linux, I learnt the hard way to check if the NAS was mounted before copying :(.
When the summary asks a (rhetorical) question and a bunch of people answer it insightfully, doesn't that mean it was a bad question?
Ah, I hadn't used HushMail so I didn't know that, I thought they required you to have your private key with you. This makes more sense, but it's still a stupid way to work (well, disclosing your private key is always stupid) because they only need your passphrase once and your private key would be compromised. You'd need to trust them not to do that, which, apparently, you can't. You were right in your original post, though, if they keep the private key encrypted. I still think Thunderbird + Enigmail on a flash disk is a much better solution.
His name is "companion cube", you insensitive clod :(
Since those urls are mostly gotten from verbal sources (where the need for short urls is more pronounced), this problem would be solved if only tinyurl refused to redirect you if you came from another webpage (i.e. the referer header was not blank). Why they should do that, though, is a whole other discussion.