If I'm not mistaken, this was one of the goals with the (now dead?) mnet project. From what I remember they split up data into multiple pieces, encrypted it and distributed it over a number of nodes, with some redundancy in it. If you know python and are intrested in p2p I'm sure there's a lot to be learned from that project.
Why isn't there a thefreenetbay.org somewhere that does what thepiratebay.org does? Sharing keys to downloadable material on freenet. God knows there's a lot there, and it's quite easy to find. What would be harder to find though are the ones sharing. Yes, speed is still low but that's being worked on afaik, and for anonymity that might be a low price to pay?
A friend of mine was hired to do an excel training course for some people working in a public school. Teachers and managers who (according to them) had been using excel for a few years. So he put together a course with some things that should be challenging enough, like pivot tables and some simple macros.
When he started all he got was blank stares. He was asked to be a little more basic, so he quickly revised the course a bit and started talking about diagrams and how to create them. Again, nothing but blank stares. He was asked do do it simpler yet and thought that he'd start from the absolute beginning instead.
Him: "Here's the button that automatically sums up your numbers" (Can't be more basic than that, right?) Customer: "It can count automatically?"
A patent lawsuit may be the only option a small guy with an idea stolen by a big corp.
And it seems to work so well too. Like for this guy for example. It's a good thing that he had a patent to lean upon to protect him from the big corporations. It would have been a shame if they could just steal his idea.
Good thing that patents really protect the little guy. Oh wait, they don't.
.haeger
Outlook plugin?
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PGP & GPG
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· Score: 2, Insightful
I've been looking at different plugins for gpg but haven't found anything that's quite what I want. The best one I've found is something that uses the clipboard for encryption/decryption. Works OK for someone who doesn't mind a little work. What I'd like to see is an Outlook plugin (or OExpress) that does the following. (Please note that I wrote O/OE because they are the major players)
* GPG included to make it easy for the user. Just one install for the whole package. * Automatically create keypair during installation * Default option to keep passphrase cached (not safe, yes I know, I know) * Automatically decrypt/sigcheck all incoming emails * Automatically encrypt/sign all outgoing mails. * Attach the pubkey to all outgoing mails where the address isn't in my keyring. * Automatically (just ask for password confirmation or something) addition of incoming pubkeys to my keyring. * GPL:-) * The people who got the pubkey would also get a link to where to download the plugin.
I'm sure someone can expand this list quite a bit and I'm sure I forgot half of what I wanted to put on that list, but it's a start anyway.
Anyone care to write such a plugin? Or is there one already that I don't know of? I do think that if there was something to that effect that you would see a spike in encrypted emails going across the globe. I used to encrypt/sign everything but since I was the only one using pgp/gpg it was kind of pointless.
Relax. Breathe a few times. Now, doesn't that feel better? Not everything you read on the internet is true. I quite enjoy my life as an adult and wouldn't trade my wife and kid away for the world, although I thought the text was quite appropriate considering the topic.
I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult.
I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of a 6 year old again.
I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make ripples with rocks. I want to think M&Ms are better than money, because you can eat them. I want to play kickball during recess and paint with watercolors in art. I want to lie under a big Oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summers day. I want to return to a time when life was simple. When all you knew were colors, addition tables and simple nursery rhymes. But that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. When all you knew was to be happy because you didn't know all the things that should make you worried and upset. I want to think that the world is fair. That everyone in it is honest and good. I want to believe that anything is possible. Somewhere in my youth...I matured and I learned too much.
I learned of nuclear weapons, war, prejudice, starvation and abused children. I learned of lies, unhappy marriages, suffering, illness, pain and death. I learned of a world where men left their families to go and fight for our country, and returned only to end up living on the streets... begging for their next meal. I learned of a world where children knew how to kill...and did.
What happened to the time when we thought that everyone would live because we didn't grasp the concept of death? When we thought the worst thing in the world was if someone took the jump rope from you or picked you last for kickball?
I want to be oblivious to the complexity of life and be overly excited by little things once again. I want to return to the days when reading was fun and music was clean. When television was used to report the news or for family entertainment and not to promote sex, violence and deceit.
I remember being naive and thinking that everyone was happy because I was. I would walk on the beach and only think of the sand between my toes and the prettiest seashell I could find. I would spend my afternoon climbing trees and riding my bike.
I didn't worry about time, bills or where I was going to find the money to fix my car. I used to wonder what I was going to do or be when I grew up, not worry about what I'll do if this doesn't work out.
I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness and loss of loved ones. I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind and making angels in the snow.
So, that means that I'll be buying.mp3 (or.ogg) with no DRM in them? If not I'm not interested. I refuse to buy the same music over and over again. Give me something that's better than the (illegal) p2p-nets out there and I'll use it.
Oh, and on an unrelated note ThePirateBay is back up again.
No, but seriously, this is sad. It takes us farther away from what I'd like to see in a car, namely a self-steering one. I'd prefer one that detects an oncoming truck as oncoming and tries to get out of the way.
So, we should just distribute all the child-porn that we can find through any/all p2p networks to remove the market? If there's no money in it it will go away?
I'm not sure that the free market will fix this problem.
I found this interesting link that talks about something called Global dimming. I've read some about it and it appears as if the global warming is faster now that a lot of countries have reduced their emissions that blocks sunlight, thus making the greenhouse gases even more "effective". It's a scary read. Some evidence seems to support that global dimming might be the cause of famine in Africa. There's a lot about the subject on google.
I know I've asked this before but what about macros. If the documents are to be portable there has to be some sort of macro standard too. AFAIK there isn't a common macro language for the ODF but I'd love to be proven wrong. As it is now they're only exchanging the requirement for MS-Office to OpenOffice.org. Not that this is a bad thing in itself as OO.o is free and documents created for tax dollars shouldn't require a high-cost reader (or OS) to read.
So, what about those macros. Those of us working with spreadsheets rely on them and so far the ODF isn't all that portable.
.haeger
Re:Let's just have one Linux desktop
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KDE 3.5 Released
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· Score: 1, Interesting
Is it really? I was under the impression that it was Open Source. But then I'm not a lawyer and haven't been paying that much attention to it. They seem to mention GPL on that page though. But perhaps that's just the program that you write yourself with the Qt library, not the library itself.
While a common and open document format is nice I'm a bit curious about macros. Many spreadsheet documents use macros to format and calculate things and I don't think there's a common macro language that works in all applications that support the OASIS format. Or is there? And if not, is someone doing something about it? The document aren't really interchangeable unless the macros are there too.
Slashdot Mirror
From what I remember they split up data into multiple pieces, encrypted it and distributed it over a number of nodes, with some redundancy in it. If you know python and are intrested in p2p I'm sure there's a lot to be learned from that project.
"true - do nothing, successfully"
What would be harder to find though are the ones sharing. Yes, speed is still low but that's being worked on afaik, and for anonymity that might be a low price to pay?
So he put together a course with some things that should be challenging enough, like pivot tables and some simple macros.
When he started all he got was blank stares. He was asked to be a little more basic, so he quickly revised the course a bit and started talking about diagrams and how to create them. Again, nothing but blank stares.
He was asked do do it simpler yet and thought that he'd start from the absolute beginning instead.
Him: "Here's the button that automatically sums up your numbers"
(Can't be more basic than that, right?)
Customer: "It can count automatically?"
And it seems to work so well too. Like for this guy for example. It's a good thing that he had a patent to lean upon to protect him from the big corporations. It would have been a shame if they could just steal his idea.
Good thing that patents really protect the little guy.
Oh wait, they don't.
What I'd like to see is an Outlook plugin (or OExpress) that does the following. (Please note that I wrote O/OE because they are the major players)
* GPG included to make it easy for the user. Just one install for the whole package.
* Automatically create keypair during installation
* Default option to keep passphrase cached (not safe, yes I know, I know)
* Automatically decrypt/sigcheck all incoming emails
* Automatically encrypt/sign all outgoing mails.
* Attach the pubkey to all outgoing mails where the address isn't in my keyring.
* Automatically (just ask for password confirmation or something) addition of incoming pubkeys to my keyring.
* GPL
* The people who got the pubkey would also get a link to where to download the plugin.
I'm sure someone can expand this list quite a bit and I'm sure I forgot half of what I wanted to put on that list, but it's a start anyway.
Anyone care to write such a plugin? Or is there one already that I don't know of?
I do think that if there was something to that effect that you would see a spike in encrypted emails going across the globe.
I used to encrypt/sign everything but since I was the only one using pgp/gpg it was kind of pointless.
Not everything you read on the internet is true. I quite enjoy my life as an adult and wouldn't trade my wife and kid away for the world, although I thought the text was quite appropriate considering the topic.
Adult Resignation
To Whom It May Concern:
I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult.
I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of a 6 year old again.
I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant.
I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make ripples with rocks.
I want to think M&Ms are better than money, because you can eat them.
I want to play kickball during recess and paint with watercolors in art.
I want to lie under a big Oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summers day.
I want to return to a time when life was simple.
When all you knew were colors, addition tables and simple nursery rhymes. But that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care.
When all you knew was to be happy because you didn't know all the things that should make you worried and upset.
I want to think that the world is fair. That everyone in it is honest and good.
I want to believe that anything is possible.
Somewhere in my youth...I matured and I learned too much.
I learned of nuclear weapons, war, prejudice, starvation and abused children.
I learned of lies, unhappy marriages, suffering, illness, pain and death.
I learned of a world where men left their families to go and fight for our country, and returned only to end up living on the streets... begging for their next meal.
I learned of a world where children knew how to kill...and did.
What happened to the time when we thought that everyone would live because we didn't grasp the concept of death?
When we thought the worst thing in the world was if someone took the jump rope from you or picked you last for kickball?
I want to be oblivious to the complexity of life and be overly excited by little things once again. I want to return to the days when reading was fun and music was clean. When television was used to report the news or for family entertainment and not to promote sex, violence and deceit.
I remember being naive and thinking that everyone was happy because I was.
I would walk on the beach and only think of the sand between my toes and the prettiest seashell I could find.
I would spend my afternoon climbing trees and riding my bike.
I didn't worry about time, bills or where I was going to find the money to fix my car.
I used to wonder what I was going to do or be when I grew up, not worry about what I'll do if this doesn't work out.
I want to live simple again.
I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness and loss of loved ones.
I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind and making angels in the snow.
I want to be 6 again.
I will most definitly check out emusic. Thanks.
So, that means that I'll be buying
Oh, and on an unrelated note ThePirateBay is back up again.
Let me know when she/(it?)'s availible and I'll be interested.
No, but seriously, this is sad. It takes us farther away from what I'd like to see in a car, namely a self-steering one. I'd prefer one that detects an oncoming truck as oncoming and tries to get out of the way.
If there's no money in it it will go away?
I'm not sure that the free market will fix this problem.
It's a scary read. Some evidence seems to support that global dimming might be the cause of famine in Africa.
There's a lot about the subject on google.
Crash only
Have a look at answer 26
So, what about those macros. Those of us working with spreadsheets rely on them and so far the ODF isn't all that portable.
Trolltech licensing.
Is it really? I was under the impression that it was Open Source. But then I'm not a lawyer and haven't been paying that much attention to it. They seem to mention GPL on that page though. But perhaps that's just the program that you write yourself with the Qt library, not the library itself.
On a pile of cash would be my guess.
It does require some understanding of swedish however.
Aftonbladet.