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  1. Re:ticket system on Book Review: Drupal Intranets With Open Atrium · · Score: 1

    Try this module-group: https://drupal.org/project/support

  2. As a Drupal/OpenAtrium fan, this book review fits on Book Review: Drupal Intranets With Open Atrium · · Score: 1

    I develop in OpenAtrium nearly 100% and it is good to know about this book, and to read such a good review. Based on this review, I'm comfortable recommending it to the non-technical stakeholders I develop the intranets for. We need a book like this.

    Front-end Drupal serves a similar purpose for these same non-technical stakeholders managing their content using Drupal. This book discusses only general drupal content, and not how to work with OpenAtrium at all.

  3. America has the best government money can buy... on FCC To Require TV Stations To Post Rates For Campaign Ads · · Score: 2

    ...so it is only logical someone needs to be there to sell it. Google. Fox News. And so on. The U.S. Government (U.S. capitol-ism) is a business with all the implied stakeholders that defines capitalism.

  4. Re:The copyright law has been broken. on WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    It does not matter where the disks with counterfeit unlicensed IP on them came from, they should have been destroyed then and there, and they should not have been distributed by the military chaplains because now we're talking about distribution of 300,000 counterfeit dupes of licensed IP.

    Who should be accountable for what, exactly? Is this a case of justice turning a blind eye in a war zone, or are we fighting a war for something meaningful and leading an example as we do it?

    Then again, does it make sense or is it fair to our soldiers or the taxpayers that ELECTRONIC FILES are not made available, rightfully from the Hollywood studios with many of those folks earning serious money from their otherwise efficient global marketing machines (and the lobbyists they employ)?

    If I was the judge, at that point I'd get disgusted with Hollywood for not providing downloads in the first place and presenting this case to me as a result. And I'd go on to remark on what a miserable position they put army chaplains in as they must serve of our soldiers under stress and real risks with a need to enjoy a little 'escapism' that FILES can easily be afforded to our modern warriors IN the field, but now certainly the law would take over and IANAL.

  5. The copyright law has been broken. on WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And the US Military is guilty of receiving 300,000 counterfeit disks. It isn't as if the guy had an address book of a lot of soldiers to distribute disks to directly.

    And if the military accepts reel-to-reels from Hollywood when DVDs or better-yet downloads will do, that's gotta be another crime right committed there. And thus a quandary to consider.

    But if I was the judge, Mr. Strachman wouldn't even get a slap on the wrist from me because those soldiers deserve everything we can give them; while reel-to-reel is idiotic in 2012, in a war zone. But those chaplains, oh they'll have Hell to pay for distributing discs with IP far and wide.

  6. Re:Mensa is the problem on Is Stanford Too Close To Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    I used to feel that way about Mensa too, until I found out Geena Davis was in it. (But then again, she can do anything.)

  7. Think of the children! on Russian City Ever Watchful Against Being Sucked Into Earth · · Score: 1

    Russian baby dies in sewer after pavement collapse

    (Reuters) - A toddler was swept to his death down a sewage pipe in the western Russian city of Bryansk on Sunday after a pavement gave way while his mother was taking him for a walk.

  8. Re:Netflix on MythTV 0.25 Released, New HW Acceleration and Audio Standards Support · · Score: 1

    I watch Netflix, Hulu, etc. on all my Linux devices which means several Ubuntu, including an Asus netbook that I adore, along with my Nokia N900. I won't publish all my tricks regarding the N900 aside from explaining the main one, which is I use PlayonTV UPnP media server, running in a windows virtual machine, which is what the linux UPnP clients access. www.playon.tv Playon keeps adding new channels all the time too, I am happy with my on-demand content setup and costs.

    Previously I used Totem on Ubuntu with the Coherence plugin, but the new XBMC works so much nicer and smoother on the netbook than previously and now I prefer it.

    In fact my recipe calls for spending 250 on a nice Asus netbook with long battery life, and this makes a nice and realistically portable, cordless TV for the kitchen, etc. However before I even power up the new hard disk, I've already imaged it and subsequently virtualized it and configured as described. Mods please don't feel a need to move up this post at all, but I'll add that including a normal windows proxy assists in some foreign situations which is otherwise hard to do when Wii or XBOX is doing similar UPnP duty. FWIW, I also have this windows VM operate as a server for my eye-fi (ww.eye-fi.com) card to automatically download images and videos from my camera, but I digress. The idea is to run Ubuntu with XBMC via UPnP on a newly purchased netbook, using the windows license as a server for Playon and the eye-fi software for 250 budget. For me, this is good enough and it works today. Now if my Playon setup gets broken in some way, I'll be upset as a linux user, because I am so happy with things as they are now. Sometimes I'll bork windows updates and whatnot on my own accord, but no problem when I revert to a known-good state using a VMware snapshot.

    Since this isn't the only virtual machine I run on fairly solid hardware, the hardware cost to me is negligible; and I need something that supports a dual-display workstation anyway. VMware all the way FWIW.

  9. Re:Mutual backup. on Data Safety In a Time of Natural Disasters · · Score: 3, Informative

    I understand you might be TooMuchToDo for a reason, so let me show you how few lines are required to set up SparkleShare.

    ON THE SERVER:
    git init --bare EXAMPLE.git

    DO THISLOCALLY FROM Sparkleshare, attach to account:
    field 1:
    ssh://you@example.com:12345

    field 2: /home/you/EXAMPLE.git

    NOTES: 12345 = your random SSH port
    It helps to know a little about GIT and bash (terminal) commands.
    Tested using Ubuntu, I used terms like 'field 2' because I am too lazy to actually consult the SparkleShare GUI which looks a lot like dropbox and is just as easy to use in real-life. Some folks also have more data than they can afford using Dropbox, and multi-terrabyte disks are relatively cheap.
    Happy Saturday morning.

  10. Re:Mutual backup. on Data Safety In a Time of Natural Disasters · · Score: 2

    How about something more realistic like encfs and ssfhs, along with any cloud provider like Dropbox?
    http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=encfs+ssfhs+dropbox
    Or skip Dropbox because it costs a lot and host your own disks using SparkleShare, which is based on GIT, and all your GIT/rabbitshare experience with repos is applicable to their management, should you care to.
    http://sparkleshare.org/

  11. Try free, open-source SparkleShare on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Personal Data? · · Score: 1

    SparkleShare looks and works like Dropbox, but is actually just a fancy automated self-hosted GIT repo, (which you can interact with using GIT commands on a remote repo if that is what you want to do).

    The wiki explains how to encrypt things (and the encfs recipe doc'd on the wiki also works with Dropbox, etc.)

    I think the project has matured really well, but still isn't really well-known, and doesn't even get mentioned much on the slashdots, although that's where I heard about it.

    www.sparkleshare.org

    https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare/wiki

  12. The current White House uses Drupal/OpenAtrium on White House CIO Describes His 'Worst Day' Ever · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/02/11/

    http://developmentseed.org/blog/2011/feb/14/white-house-using-open-atrium/

    www.openatrium.com

    For civilians trying to avoid another HBGary-type SQL-injection cascading breach, building a PHP website using the Drupal framework means benefiting from the eyeballs that watch sites like whitehouse.gov, and others. These same eyeballs, and many others contribute their security patches back to drupal.org. Although I imagine their OpenAtrium groupware is behind a firewall.

    OpenAtrium is 100% free open-source server software, that reaches out really well to tables and other mobile devices too.

  13. Re:I for one have new hope... on Rep. Darrell Issa Requests Public Comments On ACTA · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hey AC, I googled a citation for what you're talking about, because I honestly had no clue. This is very interesting also.

    “It was just crushing to hear the chairman’s reason to not allow my testimony,” Fluke told ABC News. “I can understand that [the issue] is connected to religion, but I don’t understand how you can have an open conversation without hearing from the women who have been personally affected by this.”

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/rep-darrell-issa-bars-minority-witness-a-woman-on-contraception-2/

  14. I for one have new hope... on Rep. Darrell Issa Requests Public Comments On ACTA · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...and his name is U.S. Congressman Darrell Issa. Darrell Issa is kicking ass and taking names out there 'in the open' and he deserves your support too.

  15. Re:An easy solution on Why Making Facebook Private Won't Protect You · · Score: 2

    If you were to ask for a citation, then I'm too lazy to comply (because we're talking about Facebook after all) but I do believe the Facebook Corporation Terms of Service (TOS) forbid this sort of activity. Your suggestion makes a lot of sense from your own personal perspective, but the Facebook Corporation doesn't care. The Facebook Corporation cares much more about the quality of the DATA for which the Facebook Corporation can (very profitably) charge advertisers.

  16. The answers are out there on Redheads Feel Pain Differently Than the Rest of Us · · Score: 1

    Finally science can explain Carrot Top.
    http://www.google.com/search?q=carrot+top

  17. Re:Since when is JavaScript an unorthodox choice? on Khan Academy Chooses JavaScript As Intro Language · · Score: 2

    Seriously though, people were learning programming before "installing" was something you could do on your personal computer.

    Oh yes! I was forced to take a freshman high school (or maybe even earlier) computer programming course that I hated and still fail to see The Point. We had to learn Fortran code and punch cards, send them away, and wait for them to be returned to us, later. Like, weeks later, or so I recall.

    You don't mind if I water that last grassy patch, do you?

  18. Re:GNOME 3.4 team on GNOME 3.4 Preview · · Score: 2

    Try Pinguyos, it is my new best Ubuntu-ish friend. Comes in two flavors. The 1.1Gb deluxe Original flavor comes with all the apps installed nicely as if your uncle gray beard took the time and patience to give you a Christmas present. It is so good, that by popular demand a newer 2nd flavor was introduced, more like Ubuntu itself is, just the few basic apps setup nicely, (but not everything, certainly not everything, because that's the Original Pinguyos).
    http://pinguyos.com/

  19. Re:How about... on Children Used To Steal Parents' Data · · Score: 1

    In American America the internet minds your children for you.

  20. Re:I typed in my symptoms and it says on Are Smartphones Starting a Boom In DIY Medicine? · · Score: 2

    Doctor, we've got a 404, Stat!

  21. Re:Glad to hear they've figured it out on Hotmail's Spam Filter: The Best In the Business? · · Score: 2

    People were making fun of them for years after that.

    Have we stopped already? Heck, every time I encounter either a hotmail or aol email address, a part of me giggles at least a little bit.

  22. Re:IT did warn them on Hacked Syrian Officials Used '12345' As Email Password · · Score: 1

    The leaders of Russia and China want to retain such abusive powers for themselves, which is why they veto'd the UN resolution condemning Assad for doing it. Case in point: Tiananmen Square (and please don't google that from inside China).

  23. Re:Depression on Water Droplets In Orbit On the International Space Station · · Score: 1

    This is exactly the news to make my point. Our resources are best spent on sending instruments into places where man can't go, because that's where the science is happening. That is exploration.

    Stupid human tricks belong on the David Letterman show. Or the Guinness book of world records.

    Thank goodness we could get up there to fix the space telescopes though. You know, that kind of thing is important too.

  24. Re:Large Deployments on LibreOffice Developer Community Increasingly Robust · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Microsoft Outlook is a massive organisational security risk that is also used as an email client.

  25. Re:And we care because... on Firefox 10 Released · · Score: 1

    No wait, have you ever been to France. They have Minitel that can do everything!