I want to make milk this IPV4 bubble before it pops. Someone out there must be stockpiling and securitizing addresses. Is there a fund or trust out there?
Google Analytics tells me that I got 20k visitors yesterday. Four of them used NS4. 1500 of them used IE6. There are few NS4 users that I honestly don't care how my site renders in their browser. There are enough IE6 users that I do have to care how my site renders in their browser.
How can I get Google Analytics to tell me how many of my visitors are blind and using screen-readers?
One oddity of film photography was that people would shoot Christmas, New Years, and then the following Christmas on the same roll of film, and then suddenly want the film developed in under 1 hour.
When I was an intern working at Eastman Kodak a VP told us that at around 1980, Kodak had a billion dollars to invest in research and the choice was between digital imaging and instant photography. They chose instant photography.
By 1990 Kodak spent another billion dollars just on lawyers fighting Polaroid over patents.
This sounds like a good move for government IT. Governments IT shops (especially unionized shops) suffer badly from the dead-sea effect. The more productive IT workers who keep their skills up will tend to stay for a few years ago go. The less productive are free to stay for 30 or 40 years because they can't be fired and have no potential of finding a job that pays as well. Over time the IT department becomes heavy with unproductive employees.
Medium-term employment provides a methd for the government IT organization to turn its staff over frequently enough to keep healthy.
This is good news. I've been looking at speech-to-text and audiomining for a while. My goal was not captioning, but search, so in a long video or large set of videos, a user can quickly find snippets of video mentioning a word or phrase, and replay the found snippets. I found a bunch of options but budget was always in issue.
Google Audio (Gaudi) was free (cool!) but seemed like a dead-end project after the 2008 elections. Blinx- spinoff from BBN focused on media companies. $$$$$$. Autonomy- enterprise search/monitoring company bought tech from Virage. $$$$$$. Virage- sold their tech to autonomy, then redeveloped it. Coveo- audiomining software using Nuance SDK and Silverlight front end. $$$$$ . TVeyes- does a lot of real-time monitoring. $$$$$. Nexidia- audiomining software uses their own phoneme tools. $$$$$$.
Is this YouTube service an incarnation of Gaudi? Either way, it's nice that it's finally out there.
I manage a.gov domain for a non-federal entity. Last year I pursued DNSSEC and hosted DNS to improve availability and diversity over our on-premise DNS. Windows DNS and BIND seemed okay for DNSSEC secondaries, but signing and key rollover are high-maintenance. Maybe in the near future that will change. There are appliances I could buy for $10-20k to manage master zones and do DNSSEC, but they were out of budget. I worked with a hosted provider (dynect) for DNSSEC singing with.GOV, but that turned out to be out of budget too. So eventually I just settled on dnsmadeeasy for nominal cost, with anticipation that they'll support DNSSEC sometime in mid-2010. Basically DNSSEC for the masses doesn't seem to be there yet.
The low-budget solution: buy one server (like a Poweredge 2970) with like 16GB RAM, a combination of 15k and 7.2k RAID1 arrays, and 4hr support. Install a free hypervisor like Vmware Server or Xen, and P2V your oldest hardware onto it.
Later on you can spend $$$$$ on clustering, HA, SANs, and clouds. But P2V of your old hardware onto new hardware is a cost-effective way to start.
The stuff that comes out of upper floors of the Media Lab generally don't commercialize well. Anyone remember Charmed Technologies? A couple of grads from the same group tried to commercialize wearable computers - the company didn't survive the bubble collapsing.
The first floor of the Media Lab is different; they're more like traditional researchers and work on things like e-ink. But the upper floors generate demo after demo, that look cute and generate press, but not much commercial value.
I'd like to know what commercial CMS the white house dropped... Tridion, Interwoven, Fatwire, Windows Notepad? It's kind of weird that's not being mentioned.
Iran has bad the bomb since 1991, if I had to guess.
Imagine it's 1991 and the USSR is busting apart at the seams. You're a Soviet general in the Turkmenistan area, managing a bunch of nuclear bombs and missiles. Are you going to:
1) do nothing, and watch the missiles fall into the hands of whatever small country gets created in the area
2) sell the missiles to a stable government nearby that has the desire to buy them and can pay cash
Anyone sane would go for option #2. Iran has probably had bombs for almost 20 years. They're just an unannounced nuclear power, rather than an announced nuclear power.
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capitals matter. and don't WPA2 phrases have to be at least 8 characters?
Did Microsoft just manage to pull an OpenOfficeXML with the HTML5 standard?
Quote Yoda next they will.
IPV6 never caught on, like Windows Vista caught on. Better to wait for IPV7.
I want to make milk this IPV4 bubble before it pops. Someone out there must be stockpiling and securitizing addresses. Is there a fund or trust out there?
It will be the "Saffron Screen of Death"
Google Analytics tells me that I got 20k visitors yesterday. Four of them used NS4. 1500 of them used IE6. There are few NS4 users that I honestly don't care how my site renders in their browser. There are enough IE6 users that I do have to care how my site renders in their browser.
How can I get Google Analytics to tell me how many of my visitors are blind and using screen-readers?
Yellow and blue make green.
Have you ever looked at the recipes on the back of a box of Saltines crackers? It's stoner food.
Lasagna: Saltines, Velveeta, ketchup.
I never paid attention to the stickers on my laptop before. Now after reading this post I suddenly notice them and feel violated.
Fuck you, slashdot!
One oddity of film photography was that people would shoot Christmas, New Years, and then the following Christmas on the same roll of film, and then suddenly want the film developed in under 1 hour.
When I was an intern working at Eastman Kodak a VP told us that at around 1980, Kodak had a billion dollars to invest in research and the choice was between digital imaging and instant photography. They chose instant photography.
By 1990 Kodak spent another billion dollars just on lawyers fighting Polaroid over patents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek
Now, does this vulnerability apply to java's Bing toolbar, their Yahoo! toolbar, the MSN toolbar, or their Google toolbar?
This sounds like a good move for government IT. Governments IT shops (especially unionized shops) suffer badly from the dead-sea effect. The more productive IT workers who keep their skills up will tend to stay for a few years ago go. The less productive are free to stay for 30 or 40 years because they can't be fired and have no potential of finding a job that pays as well. Over time the IT department becomes heavy with unproductive employees.
Medium-term employment provides a methd for the government IT organization to turn its staff over frequently enough to keep healthy.
This is good news. I've been looking at speech-to-text and audiomining for a while. My goal was not captioning, but search, so in a long video or large set of videos, a user can quickly find snippets of video mentioning a word or phrase, and replay the found snippets. I found a bunch of options but budget was always in issue. Google Audio (Gaudi) was free (cool!) but seemed like a dead-end project after the 2008 elections. Blinx- spinoff from BBN focused on media companies. $$$$$$. Autonomy- enterprise search/monitoring company bought tech from Virage. $$$$$$. Virage- sold their tech to autonomy, then redeveloped it. Coveo- audiomining software using Nuance SDK and Silverlight front end. $$$$$ . TVeyes- does a lot of real-time monitoring. $$$$$. Nexidia- audiomining software uses their own phoneme tools. $$$$$$. Is this YouTube service an incarnation of Gaudi? Either way, it's nice that it's finally out there.
If a company uses Active Directory and Exchange, I try to set them up with DirectoryUpdate to keep AD updated with names, phone#'s, org chart, photos.
THIS is how we make stealth car in India
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7eOVpBCtPo
I manage a .gov domain for a non-federal entity. Last year I pursued DNSSEC and hosted DNS to improve availability and diversity over our on-premise DNS. Windows DNS and BIND seemed okay for DNSSEC secondaries, but signing and key rollover are high-maintenance. Maybe in the near future that will change. There are appliances I could buy for $10-20k to manage master zones and do DNSSEC, but they were out of budget. I worked with a hosted provider (dynect) for DNSSEC singing with .GOV, but that turned out to be out of budget too. So eventually I just settled on dnsmadeeasy for nominal cost, with anticipation that they'll support DNSSEC sometime in mid-2010. Basically DNSSEC for the masses doesn't seem to be there yet.
The low-budget solution: buy one server (like a Poweredge 2970) with like 16GB RAM, a combination of 15k and 7.2k RAID1 arrays, and 4hr support. Install a free hypervisor like Vmware Server or Xen, and P2V your oldest hardware onto it. Later on you can spend $$$$$ on clustering, HA, SANs, and clouds. But P2V of your old hardware onto new hardware is a cost-effective way to start.
The stuff that comes out of upper floors of the Media Lab generally don't commercialize well. Anyone remember Charmed Technologies? A couple of grads from the same group tried to commercialize wearable computers - the company didn't survive the bubble collapsing. The first floor of the Media Lab is different; they're more like traditional researchers and work on things like e-ink. But the upper floors generate demo after demo, that look cute and generate press, but not much commercial value.
Where can I buy one of these massive grapefruits from Florida? Or are they talking about Ricky Williams' head?
I'd like to know what commercial CMS the white house dropped... Tridion, Interwoven, Fatwire, Windows Notepad? It's kind of weird that's not being mentioned.
Iran has bad the bomb since 1991, if I had to guess.
Imagine it's 1991 and the USSR is busting apart at the seams. You're a Soviet general in the Turkmenistan area, managing a bunch of nuclear bombs and missiles. Are you going to:
1) do nothing, and watch the missiles fall into the hands of whatever small country gets created in the area
2) sell the missiles to a stable government nearby that has the desire to buy them and can pay cash
Anyone sane would go for option #2. Iran has probably had bombs for almost 20 years. They're just an unannounced nuclear power, rather than an announced nuclear power.
The Obama/Kennedy socialists are trying to take us one step closer to government-managed car-care.