More Roku love... You can do local media if you have the right model. Roku 3 has a USB port for local media. You can also stream your entire ripped DVD collection direct to your Roku with Plex (which has a Linux server in addition to Windows and Mac), which will give you a much nicer UI than DLNA.
If you switch most of your billing paperless, then it's not that much work. Download your bank statements, bills, etc. as PDF and save them. Download a digital copy of all the owners manuals you can find online. Then just scan the few hard copies you're left with.
That cost is a bit much for the average home user. I've been scanning my papers as jpeg images and shredding everything for a few years. Of course, that's not searchable... So, I recently installed Tesseract-OCR.... very cool if you're okay putting in some elbow grease. All I need to do is scan to jpeg and the OCR happens overnight when I'm not using my mac mini. I also put together a small PHP app to do search the OCR'd text:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/edocias/
I don't think any of the evidence suggests a "good chance" of catastrophe. Most of the research suggests the chance of catastrophe is very small. Indeed, some portion of research suggests beneficial effects of global warming. More people die from cold weather every year than heat for example.
Your assumption here is wrong. The other teams made use of CRUs data within their data. Of course, they used CRU's "adjusted" data rather than the raw data. And now that the original "raw" data is lost, we have now way to fix the data or even validate the data.
I think we can all agree that clean energy is a good thing. However, don't sign us all up for a hugely expensive TRILLION dollar cap-and-trade scheme based on THEORY... a theory that made predictions that haven't held over the past 5 years. And don't sign us up for programs to track our personal "carbon footprint" either. That's just creepy.
I don't believe you can assume a right to privacy when using your employer-funded email system while working on a government subsidized research program. To assume privacy under such circumstances is foolish.
Also of note.... while it may only be CRU's data that seems to be in the spotlight, the other datasets re-use the CRU data in theirs. See the following:
I particularly like the source code comment that states "Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!!"
You cannot dismiss this as just email bickering. You can see the SOURCE CODE where they artificially change the data to suit their agenda! Why are people not more ticked off about this??? This is an offense to both science in general and programming,
I had Randy Pausch for an undergrad CS class at UVA in either 88 or 89.... so that was either his first or second year teaching there. Without a doubt, he was the best teacher I had in all four years. I can only imagine that he got even better after almost 20 years of practice. He truly engaged the students. I've been in the software business for 17 years now, and I continue to enjoy it today. I have to think he's partly the reason I ended up there (since I was in the EE program).
I've been using Mozy for a few weeks now, and it seems to good to be true. Automated back-ups you can schedule for the middle of the night... and stored off-site? How cool is that?
Mozy offers 2Gb free. So, just burn a DVD (or how ever many you need) of the large files you have that don't change every day.... and setup Mozy to backup the files you actually are changing frequently.... documents, emails, current photos, etc.
FYI.... I am a long-time Linux user who had the misfortunate of a HD crash last month. I didn't have everything I needed backed up because I didn't feel like taking the time to set it up. Yes, I know.... bad, bad, bad... However, with Mozy it was a no-brainer. Your grandparents could use it.
I think Amazon's S3 service offers a similar thing, but I have not looked into it.
People have long know that if you want to protect your privacy, you buy things with cash, not credit cards. If you sign up for a credit card (or a frequent shopper discount card), you purchases are now part of someone else's records. You don't own your credit card purchase history, your credit card company does.
The same is true of your phone calls. You don't own your calling records. The phone company does. So, unless your agreement with your phone company specifically prohibits them from doing this, it's perfectly legal. If you want true privacy, talk in person or build your own phone network.
You can argue about whether or not this is morally right, but legally, it's a no brainer.
What type of "group sheduling" features do you need. There are open source applications that already do this and have for some time. WebCalendar comes to mind...
With WebCalendar, you can schedule events with multiple participants and it will do conflict checking to make sure everyone is available. PDA Sync is still lacking, but it is under development.
This is NOT full iCal (RFC 2445)
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The iCal standard (RFC 2445) contains a lot more features than the Google UI presents. I'm not sure if their import will barf on the unsupported stuff or just ignore it.
VTODO - todo items
VJOURNAL - journal entries
VFREEBUSY - free/busy specifications
RRULE - much more complicated repeat rules (next to last monday of every other month, repeat hourley, etc.)
If I recall correctly, BMW got in trouble for generating different content for the GoogleBot versus normal browsers. How is Google supposed to tell what is valid content if someone like BMW does a bait-and-switch on them? In that case, BMW had it coming...
People will put up sites withing nothing but keywords and advertisements. The site may not even have a complete sentence on it. But, because of the keywords, some search engines will rank it high, and users will end up there.
While this seems morally questionable, it's all fair in capitalism, right? It's up to Google, Yahoo et al to fight it out over who can do a better job of weeding out the crap content. I'll use the search engine that does a better job.
I noticed Yahoo is not sending you directly to your search results. For example, if I do a Yahoo search on "open source event calendar", mouse-over the search results. The first result is my site http://www.k5n.us/, but that's not that URL. Instead it is:
Let's forget that this could be some well-funded company asking for help about this... I've been thinking about a camera system for my home. The prices of cameras at places like smarthome.com have dropped dramatically over the past couple of years. Most of the complete packages do require Windows. And, I don't use Windows, of course... just Linux.
Has anyone started a project like MythTV for security cameras? Something that will record video to my hard-drive. In a perfect world, it would only record when it detects motion. I'm assuming I would need to get as many video capture cards as there are cameras... It seems like this would be a great open source project. Anyone think someone should be working on this?
It's good to know that at least some of the hosting services provide PHP5. Mine offers PHP5, but only as a CGI. The rate at which open source apps adopt PHP5 is somewhat dependent on these hosting services.
Personally, I don't want to have to tell potential users that they will need to switch hosting services to use WebCalendar. I would think about it if there were a real compelling reason to go with PHP5. This particular article doesn't suggest to me that there is. Better exceptions, interfaces and other features borrowed from Java are also nice, but I can still program around those limitations with PHP4.
I'd love to take advantage of some of the PHP5 features. However, most hosting services are still stuck on PHP4. How long has it been now? I am the project manager for WebCalendar, and just like during the transition from PHP3 to PHP4, it's going to be some time before we can drop "legacy" support for PHP4 and take advantage of the cool new features of PHP5. So, for now, WebCalendar and other open source apps will have to stick to PHP4.
FYI.... PHP developer articles updated daily:
http://www.devpointer.net/browse.php?l=p&t1=1
RSS:
http://www.devpointer.net/browse.php?l=p&t1=1&fmt= rss1
You can share calendars with Mozilla Calendar. You just need to setup a remote iCal server of some type (like the PHP-based WebCalendar) and configure Mozilla Calendar to have a subscription.
It is open source and will work on Windows, MacOSX, Linux, etc. You just need PHP and a database (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc.)
You can now use Sunbird as your UI to manage your calendar, and your events will be stored in the WebCalendar server. (Just setup a remote subscription to WebCalendar from Sunbird.) You need the latest code in CVS to do this, but it's pretty cool. You can do this with other ical clients (like Apple iCal), too.
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More Roku love... You can do local media if you have the right model. Roku 3 has a USB port for local media. You can also stream your entire ripped DVD collection direct to your Roku with Plex (which has a Linux server in addition to Windows and Mac), which will give you a much nicer UI than DLNA.
If you switch most of your billing paperless, then it's not that much work. Download your bank statements, bills, etc. as PDF and save them. Download a digital copy of all the owners manuals you can find online. Then just scan the few hard copies you're left with.
That cost is a bit much for the average home user. I've been scanning my papers as jpeg images and shredding everything for a few years. Of course, that's not searchable... So, I recently installed Tesseract-OCR.... very cool if you're okay putting in some elbow grease. All I need to do is scan to jpeg and the OCR happens overnight when I'm not using my mac mini. I also put together a small PHP app to do search the OCR'd text: https://sourceforge.net/projects/edocias/
I don't think any of the evidence suggests a "good chance" of catastrophe. Most of the research suggests the chance of catastrophe is very small. Indeed, some portion of research suggests beneficial effects of global warming. More people die from cold weather every year than heat for example.
Your assumption here is wrong. The other teams made use of CRUs data within their data. Of course, they used CRU's "adjusted" data rather than the raw data. And now that the original "raw" data is lost, we have now way to fix the data or even validate the data.
I think we can all agree that clean energy is a good thing. However, don't sign us all up for a hugely expensive TRILLION dollar cap-and-trade scheme based on THEORY... a theory that made predictions that haven't held over the past 5 years. And don't sign us up for programs to track our personal "carbon footprint" either. That's just creepy.
I don't believe you can assume a right to privacy when using your employer-funded email system while working on a government subsidized research program. To assume privacy under such circumstances is foolish.
http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/a-myth-about-the-surface-temperature-record-analyses-perpetuated-on-dot-earth-by-andy-revkin/
You didn't state how the WSJ article lied. So, I can only assume you are trying to shoot the messenger because you don't like the message.
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1447
I particularly like the source code comment that states "Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!!"
You cannot dismiss this as just email bickering. You can see the SOURCE CODE where they artificially change the data to suit their agenda! Why are people not more ticked off about this??? This is an offense to both science in general and programming,
I had Randy Pausch for an undergrad CS class at UVA in either 88 or 89.... so that was either his first or second year teaching there. Without a doubt, he was the best teacher I had in all four years. I can only imagine that he got even better after almost 20 years of practice. He truly engaged the students. I've been in the software business for 17 years now, and I continue to enjoy it today. I have to think he's partly the reason I ended up there (since I was in the EE program).
Mozy offers 2Gb free. So, just burn a DVD (or how ever many you need) of the large files you have that don't change every day.... and setup Mozy to backup the files you actually are changing frequently.... documents, emails, current photos, etc.
FYI.... I am a long-time Linux user who had the misfortunate of a HD crash last month. I didn't have everything I needed backed up because I didn't feel like taking the time to set it up. Yes, I know.... bad, bad, bad... However, with Mozy it was a no-brainer. Your grandparents could use it.
I think Amazon's S3 service offers a similar thing, but I have not looked into it.
The same is true of your phone calls. You don't own your calling records. The phone company does. So, unless your agreement with your phone company specifically prohibits them from doing this, it's perfectly legal. If you want true privacy, talk in person or build your own phone network.
You can argue about whether or not this is morally right, but legally, it's a no brainer.
http://webcalendar.sourceforge.net/
With WebCalendar, you can schedule events with multiple participants and it will do conflict checking to make sure everyone is available. PDA Sync is still lacking, but it is under development.
Seems to me that you haven't looked very hard...
You can customize the appearance as much as you like. See the Aruba.com site for an example:
http://www.aruba.com/calendar/month.php
If I recall correctly, BMW got in trouble for generating different content for the GoogleBot versus normal browsers. How is Google supposed to tell what is valid content if someone like BMW does a bait-and-switch on them? In that case, BMW had it coming...
There was an article in Wired a month or so ago that had some similar issues. It was specifically talking about fraud relating to Google AdSense.
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/fraud.ht
People will put up sites withing nothing but keywords and advertisements. The site may not even have a complete sentence on it. But, because of the keywords, some search engines will rank it high, and users will end up there.
While this seems morally questionable, it's all fair in capitalism, right? It's up to Google, Yahoo et al to fight it out over who can do a better job of weeding out the crap content. I'll use the search engine that does a better job.
I noticed Yahoo is not sending you directly to your search results. For example, if I do a Yahoo search on "open source event calendar", mouse-over the search results. The first result is my site http://www.k5n.us/, but that's not that URL. Instead it is:
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http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0LaRWK35wVER6YAdQ1XNyo
So, I'm wondering.... Is Yahoo tracking which sites get selected for a given search term???
And, if so, is this a good thing? It would seem like a good thing since should improve the accuracy of the search results...
Has anyone started a project like MythTV for security cameras? Something that will record video to my hard-drive. In a perfect world, it would only record when it detects motion. I'm assuming I would need to get as many video capture cards as there are cameras... It seems like this would be a great open source project. Anyone think someone should be working on this?
It's good to know that at least some of the hosting services provide PHP5. Mine offers PHP5, but only as a CGI. The rate at which open source apps adopt PHP5 is somewhat dependent on these hosting services.
Personally, I don't want to have to tell potential users that they will need to switch hosting services to use WebCalendar. I would think about it if there were a real compelling reason to go with PHP5. This particular article doesn't suggest to me that there is. Better exceptions, interfaces and other features borrowed from Java are also nice, but I can still program around those limitations with PHP4.
I'd love to take advantage of some of the PHP5 features. However, most hosting services are still stuck on PHP4. How long has it been now? I am the project manager for WebCalendar, and just like during the transition from PHP3 to PHP4, it's going to be some time before we can drop "legacy" support for PHP4 and take advantage of the cool new features of PHP5. So, for now, WebCalendar and other open source apps will have to stick to PHP4.= rss1
FYI.... PHP developer articles updated daily:
http://www.devpointer.net/browse.php?l=p&t1=1
RSS:
http://www.devpointer.net/browse.php?l=p&t1=1&fmt
You can share calendars with Mozilla Calendar. You just need to setup a remote iCal server of some type (like the PHP-based WebCalendar) and configure Mozilla Calendar to have a subscription.
What? No one is using WebCalendar? ;-)
It is open source and will work on Windows, MacOSX, Linux, etc. You just need PHP and a database (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc.)
You can now use Sunbird as your UI to manage your calendar, and your events will be stored in the WebCalendar server. (Just setup a remote subscription to WebCalendar from Sunbird.) You need the latest code in CVS to do this, but it's pretty cool. You can do this with other ical clients (like Apple iCal), too.
http://webcalendar.sourceforge.net/
The one area where WebCalendar is lacking is hotsync-ing with a PDA. However, that is on the to-do list, probably using SyncML.
WebCalendar, of course!
http://webcalendar.sourceforge.net/