I was wondering about something like Freenet would work but with the rules all mixed up. In this mixed up version you would have a redundant encrypted network that stores everyones files only the files aren't public. They're private. You can download only your own stuff and your quota size is relative to the space that you make available to the network. You don't know where your stuff is held. You just know that it's safe.
Furthermore, we are looking at content management systems for knowledge base solutions such as TikiWiki or egroupware.
Zope and Plone require a bit of a shift in thinking but I would add them to your short list. Zope provides a rather robust framework and Plone provides a rather well tested CMF solution with plenty of add-ons available. Plus you get the benefit of an open source solution with corporate support if you need it. Note that I have no affiliation with Zope other than I'm a happy user.
Actually it's still all a question of economics. If a programmer or team of programmers can take their investment in time and resources and multiply it by a practically infinite number of spam recipients and spam relays then their work will continue and spam will continue. The day that it takes more money/time/work to send a spam than it returns is the day that spam will stop. Right now it's simply too cheap and easy to send spam. Making that task more difficult and removing some ability to leverage the thousands of open relays will cut down on spam. It will also force spammers to concentrate around the remaining relay resources where they can be more easily identified and stopped. Right now everyone in your neighborhood is a potential spam relay. Annonymous zombie relays provide a virtual jungle for spammers to hide in. Take away a layer of annonymity and the cost of spamming will grow and the flow of spam will slow.
Is this Ask Slashdot or "Screw EFax"?
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I have to admit that I have experienced my share of frustration with EFax but this question rings of retribution more than a real request for answers.
After years of having to learn the same things over and over because I didn't document things as I did them I have come up with a plan that works well for me. The first thing is to document everything. For that I have a set of IMAP mail folders that contains notes that I wrote to myself. If I find something interesting or if I do something that I might do again I just mail myself a little note about it. It's IMAP so I have it anywhere I have an internet connection.
After that I have a wiki that is similar but a bit more organized. This is where I put the stuff that I know someone will be interested in. It's also where I create user docs and FAQs.
Finally I have some critical documents that I created with Scribus. This is the bible for my job. Anything that I have to have in an emergency goes in there.
Beyond that, I keep important code in CVS.
Since this is an afterthought at this point I would go straigt to the wiki and printed documentation.
Most people view hiking as a form of adventure. Most avid hikers know how to be safe and don't want to be tracked. I know that as a member of search and rescue you understand this concept and at the same time have to deal with many clueless or unlucky people.
Just the same, there are many ways to reduce risk in the backcountry. You can tell people where you are going to hike. You can take a cell phone or sallelite phone. You can simply know how to effectively travel and survive in the backcountry.
Your tracking project in my opinion attempts to eliminate part of what entering the backcountry is all about - self reliance. Using technology like this will hurt the backcountry experience far more than it will help search and rescue. Most people who need this type of tracking should not be out anyway. Look at the number of rescues that occur today because people prefer to carry a cell phone instead of foul weather gear. Spend your budget on education, not technology.
I remember a discussion about this a while back and a number of people saying that Subversion should be used but isn't yet ready. I'm certainly ignorant of the nuances of version control systems. Does anyone have an update on how Subversion compares to Bitkeeper especially as it might handle kernel development?
and you can and should do this whenever you want. The releases really are just for the install CDs. Gentoo is constantly evolving and updating. An emerge -UD will always bring you up to date. I would suggest doing this first though:
emerge -UDpv
This will display the ebuilds that will be updated and their use flags whether on or off. For critical packages I would emerge them seperately. I would also always follow with a run through etc-update to be sure your config files are up to date. Also note that you can do:
USE="-mysql" emerge cyrus-sasl
This will merge cyrus-sasl without mysql support. I do this in paticular because I don't use mysql for sasl authentication but I want everything else to compile with mysql support (so mysql is in my USE flags in/etc/make.conf).
Also note that you can do:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -UD k3b
This will update k3b to the "unstable" version of the k3b ebuild. Note that this isn't the unstable k3b but just an untested k3b ebuild. Then using the -D flag will update without downgrading k3b. Note that using -d will likely downgrade unstable packges to the stable version. I had to do this with Win4Lin. I emerged the unstable ebuild, had some problems, ran out of time and simply did: emerge Win4Lin to return to a working version.
It seems that Drobbins could maintain ownership of the trademark and thus profit from the store indefinitely. That said, you obviously have not followed the effort and money that Drobbins has put into Gentoo. From a Gentoo Newsletter:
In addition, Daniel will retain royalty-free rights to use of the "Gentoo" trademark and the "G" logo, allowing him to continue him to run the Gentoo Store if he wants, in order to support his family and attempt to pay some of the $20,000 in debt he accumulated during his tenure as Chief Architect.
I think Drobbins deserves every penny that can be squeezed from the Gentoo store and then some. Thanks Daniel.
Wine if you just want a few Windows apps on your PC. Win4Lin if you really want Windows on your PC. VMWare if you want XP on your PC. TightVNC if you want to access a Windows box from another box. Samba if you want to share your drives back to your Windows box.
Studies like this one may lead to smarter urban-growth strategies in the future.
Right. In most places people know about smarter growth strategies. Rarely does growth hinge on anything but the perceived path toward the greatest short term wealth growth for the land owner. I'm guessing that maximization of soil production will be secondary to air quality, traffic, and many other concerns.
I've asked this before but never received a very good answer.
Why doesn't the FSF and other free software advocates attempt to corner the tech patent market? I know software patents are considered evil and against the basic philosophy of the FSF. I just wonder if the GPL could be modified to allow certain patents held in a FSF trust of some sort. Then there would be incentive to apply for patents and use them in free software with the ultimate goal being the elimination of software patents all together. Right now the big corporate players are locking free software out of certain areas while free software does nothing to lock out non-free software. I just don't see any incentive for the powers that be to reform. However, if the FSF or some other body held a patent portfolio strong enough to lock out one or more of the big guys from a market then maybe one or more of the big guys might begin to understand the benefits of patent reform.
If this has already been discussed over and over then please forgive me. I just haven't stumbled upon it yet.
I think Access is great for most people to get some understanding of what a database is and does. Start them out on Access. The average person will grasp way more from playing with Access than playing with SQL. After that explain why Access sucks and have them port whatever they created to some other platform. This reflects what I and many others do - prototype on something like Access and then build the final product on something a bit more robust. I know Access has many limitations and we could list them all day but the interface is great for prototyping and for teaching students basic database concepts. Teaching only Access would be a huge mistake, however.
A company I worked for a while back had a product that it was testing that could remove all sort of things from the blood. It had been tested in humans a few times removing heprin in people that would have otherwise bled out. The company ditched the product after the higher-ups decided the time and cost to bring it to market was too great. The researcher who championed the technology fought bravely to keep it alive, touting its potential to remove all sorts of toxins, but the short term gains just were not there. Now the technology likely sits in a pile of boxes somewhere instead of saving and improving lives. It makes me wonder how many other stories there are just like this one.
Pay Namesys $25. They wrote ReiserFS so they should know. You'll be getting really great support and helping those who wrote your file system. Look here:
rdiff-backup is:
rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup also preserves subdirectories, hard links, dev files, permissions, uid/gid ownership, and modification times. Also, rdiff-backup can operate in a bandwidth efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back a hard drive up to a remote location, and only the differences will be transmitted. Finally, rdiff-backup is easy to use and settings have sensical defaults.
cvsup is:
CVSup is a software package for distributing and updating collections of files across a network. It can efficiently and accurately mirror all types of files, including sources, binaries, hard links, symbolic links, and even device nodes. CVSup's streaming communication protocol and multithreaded architecture make it most likely the fastest mirroring tool in existence today.
As another has already said, reprocessing aluminum takes about 1/20th the energy that refining ore requires. This is pretty easy to test but unnecessary. Look at the market for recycleable aluminum. People pay handsomely for aluminum cans, doors, siding, etc. If raw ore and the energy to process it were so abundant then there would be no market for aluminium cans. In fact the only reason aluminum is as abundant as it is is because it's mostly produced with very cheap (but not from an environmental perspective) hydro power in British Columbia. Consider the true cost of BC hydro power and the market for aluminum recycling gets even stronger.
It's hard to make such an argument for other materials, however. Paper and plastic just don't command the price that aluminum does. That's why I think that outside of major cities where disposal is very expensive many forms of recycling are more expensive (from an environmental perspective) than disposal. Often recycling does nothing but make people feel better about their over consumption.
This is plain stupid. You can get some encryped USB drives and smart cards or you can change your environment. I can't imagine that this is a real scenario. What pointy haired manager would allow this type of environment to fester, especially when all the management types can think about these days is protecting IP?
the Tribune was a decidedly anti-mormon publication
As a Utah transplant I would characterize the "The Trib" simply a less pro-mormon publication. I wouldn't thik it's possible to have the circulation that The Trib has and be anti-mormon. I can't speak for the first 40 years of its existance but displaying a shred of balance is far from what I would call anti-mormon.
I also would characterize the Trib's coverage as pro SCO. Headlines and first paragraphs consistently tell SCO's side while the very end of an article will have a couple quotes from the other side. I can easily see how someone who wants to invest in good clean profitable Utah companies could read the Trib and fall for the SCO point of view.
Slashdot Mirror
I was wondering about something like Freenet would work but with the rules all mixed up. In this mixed up version you would have a redundant encrypted network that stores everyones files only the files aren't public. They're private. You can download only your own stuff and your quota size is relative to the space that you make available to the network. You don't know where your stuff is held. You just know that it's safe.
I like Firewall Builder for keeping track of complex firewall rules.
Furthermore, we are looking at content management systems for knowledge base solutions such as TikiWiki or egroupware.
Zope and Plone require a bit of a shift in thinking but I would add them to your short list. Zope provides a rather robust framework and Plone provides a rather well tested CMF solution with plenty of add-ons available. Plus you get the benefit of an open source solution with corporate support if you need it. Note that I have no affiliation with Zope other than I'm a happy user.
Actually it's still all a question of economics. If a programmer or team of programmers can take their investment in time and resources and multiply it by a practically infinite number of spam recipients and spam relays then their work will continue and spam will continue. The day that it takes more money/time/work to send a spam than it returns is the day that spam will stop. Right now it's simply too cheap and easy to send spam. Making that task more difficult and removing some ability to leverage the thousands of open relays will cut down on spam. It will also force spammers to concentrate around the remaining relay resources where they can be more easily identified and stopped. Right now everyone in your neighborhood is a potential spam relay. Annonymous zombie relays provide a virtual jungle for spammers to hide in. Take away a layer of annonymity and the cost of spamming will grow and the flow of spam will slow.
I have to admit that I have experienced my share of frustration with EFax but this question rings of retribution more than a real request for answers.
After years of having to learn the same things over and over because I didn't document things as I did them I have come up with a plan that works well for me. The first thing is to document everything. For that I have a set of IMAP mail folders that contains notes that I wrote to myself. If I find something interesting or if I do something that I might do again I just mail myself a little note about it. It's IMAP so I have it anywhere I have an internet connection.
After that I have a wiki that is similar but a bit more organized. This is where I put the stuff that I know someone will be interested in. It's also where I create user docs and FAQs.
Finally I have some critical documents that I created with Scribus. This is the bible for my job. Anything that I have to have in an emergency goes in there.
Beyond that, I keep important code in CVS.
Since this is an afterthought at this point I would go straigt to the wiki and printed documentation.
The only thing that hurts my eyes more than driving is reading a computer screen...
Too bad the FCC can't do anything about Clearchannel DJs inciting violence against cyclists.
Most people view hiking as a form of adventure. Most avid hikers know how to be safe and don't want to be tracked. I know that as a member of search and rescue you understand this concept and at the same time have to deal with many clueless or unlucky people.
Just the same, there are many ways to reduce risk in the backcountry. You can tell people where you are going to hike. You can take a cell phone or sallelite phone. You can simply know how to effectively travel and survive in the backcountry.
Your tracking project in my opinion attempts to eliminate part of what entering the backcountry is all about - self reliance. Using technology like this will hurt the backcountry experience far more than it will help search and rescue. Most people who need this type of tracking should not be out anyway. Look at the number of rescues that occur today because people prefer to carry a cell phone instead of foul weather gear. Spend your budget on education, not technology.
I remember a discussion about this a while back and a number of people saying that Subversion should be used but isn't yet ready. I'm certainly ignorant of the nuances of version control systems. Does anyone have an update on how Subversion compares to Bitkeeper especially as it might handle kernel development?
I think it's just:
/etc/make.conf).
emerge -UD world
and you can and should do this whenever you want. The releases really are just for the install CDs. Gentoo is constantly evolving and updating. An emerge -UD will always bring you up to date. I would suggest doing this first though:
emerge -UDpv
This will display the ebuilds that will be updated and their use flags whether on or off. For critical packages I would emerge them seperately. I would also always follow with a run through etc-update to be sure your config files are up to date. Also note that you can do:
USE="-mysql" emerge cyrus-sasl
This will merge cyrus-sasl without mysql support. I do this in paticular because I don't use mysql for sasl authentication but I want everything else to compile with mysql support (so mysql is in my USE flags in
Also note that you can do:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -UD k3b
This will update k3b to the "unstable" version of the k3b ebuild. Note that this isn't the unstable k3b but just an untested k3b ebuild. Then using the -D flag will update without downgrading k3b. Note that using -d will likely downgrade unstable packges to the stable version. I had to do this with Win4Lin. I emerged the unstable ebuild, had some problems, ran out of time and simply did: emerge Win4Lin to return to a working version.
It seems that Drobbins could maintain ownership of the trademark and thus profit from the store indefinitely. That said, you obviously have not followed the effort and money that Drobbins has put into Gentoo. From a Gentoo Newsletter:
In addition, Daniel will retain royalty-free rights to use of the "Gentoo" trademark and the "G" logo, allowing him to continue him to run the Gentoo Store if he wants, in order to support his family and attempt to pay some of the $20,000 in debt he accumulated during his tenure as Chief Architect.
I think Drobbins deserves every penny that can be squeezed from the Gentoo store and then some. Thanks Daniel.
constitutionally-protected right to advertise
I must have fallen asleep in class. Which amendment is that?
This has been done before. Try:
Wine if you just want a few Windows apps on your PC.
Win4Lin if you really want Windows on your PC.
VMWare if you want XP on your PC.
TightVNC if you want to access a Windows box from another box.
Samba if you want to share your drives back to your Windows box.
Studies like this one may lead to smarter urban-growth strategies in the future.
Right. In most places people know about smarter growth strategies. Rarely does growth hinge on anything but the perceived path toward the greatest short term wealth growth for the land owner. I'm guessing that maximization of soil production will be secondary to air quality, traffic, and many other concerns.
I've asked this before but never received a very good answer.
Why doesn't the FSF and other free software advocates attempt to corner the tech patent market? I know software patents are considered evil and against the basic philosophy of the FSF. I just wonder if the GPL could be modified to allow certain patents held in a FSF trust of some sort. Then there would be incentive to apply for patents and use them in free software with the ultimate goal being the elimination of software patents all together. Right now the big corporate players are locking free software out of certain areas while free software does nothing to lock out non-free software. I just don't see any incentive for the powers that be to reform. However, if the FSF or some other body held a patent portfolio strong enough to lock out one or more of the big guys from a market then maybe one or more of the big guys might begin to understand the benefits of patent reform.
If this has already been discussed over and over then please forgive me. I just haven't stumbled upon it yet.
You don't need to explain. They will know.
Ask a stupid question, get an obvious answer. At least I didn't tell them to teach Postgresql in CS101.
I think Access is great for most people to get some understanding of what a database is and does. Start them out on Access. The average person will grasp way more from playing with Access than playing with SQL. After that explain why Access sucks and have them port whatever they created to some other platform. This reflects what I and many others do - prototype on something like Access and then build the final product on something a bit more robust. I know Access has many limitations and we could list them all day but the interface is great for prototyping and for teaching students basic database concepts. Teaching only Access would be a huge mistake, however.
A company I worked for a while back had a product that it was testing that could remove all sort of things from the blood. It had been tested in humans a few times removing heprin in people that would have otherwise bled out. The company ditched the product after the higher-ups decided the time and cost to bring it to market was too great. The researcher who championed the technology fought bravely to keep it alive, touting its potential to remove all sorts of toxins, but the short term gains just were not there. Now the technology likely sits in a pile of boxes somewhere instead of saving and improving lives. It makes me wonder how many other stories there are just like this one.
Pay Namesys $25. They wrote ReiserFS so they should know. You'll be getting really great support and helping those who wrote your file system. Look here:
http://www.namesys.com/support.html
rdiff-backup is:
rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup also preserves subdirectories, hard links, dev files, permissions, uid/gid ownership, and modification times. Also, rdiff-backup can operate in a bandwidth efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back a hard drive up to a remote location, and only the differences will be transmitted. Finally, rdiff-backup is easy to use and settings have sensical defaults.
cvsup is:
CVSup is a software package for distributing and updating collections of files across a network. It can efficiently and accurately mirror all types of files, including sources, binaries, hard links, symbolic links, and even device nodes. CVSup's streaming communication protocol and multithreaded architecture make it most likely the fastest mirroring tool in existence today.
As another has already said, reprocessing aluminum takes about 1/20th the energy that refining ore requires. This is pretty easy to test but unnecessary. Look at the market for recycleable aluminum. People pay handsomely for aluminum cans, doors, siding, etc. If raw ore and the energy to process it were so abundant then there would be no market for aluminium cans. In fact the only reason aluminum is as abundant as it is is because it's mostly produced with very cheap (but not from an environmental perspective) hydro power in British Columbia. Consider the true cost of BC hydro power and the market for aluminum recycling gets even stronger.
It's hard to make such an argument for other materials, however. Paper and plastic just don't command the price that aluminum does. That's why I think that outside of major cities where disposal is very expensive many forms of recycling are more expensive (from an environmental perspective) than disposal. Often recycling does nothing but make people feel better about their over consumption.
As he said the screenshot shows VMWare Workstation on the Mdk desktop - not a dual boot option, not Win4Lin.
This is plain stupid. You can get some encryped USB drives and smart cards or you can change your environment. I can't imagine that this is a real scenario. What pointy haired manager would allow this type of environment to fester, especially when all the management types can think about these days is protecting IP?
the Tribune was a decidedly anti-mormon publication
As a Utah transplant I would characterize the "The Trib" simply a less pro-mormon publication. I wouldn't thik it's possible to have the circulation that The Trib has and be anti-mormon. I can't speak for the first 40 years of its existance but displaying a shred of balance is far from what I would call anti-mormon.
I also would characterize the Trib's coverage as pro SCO. Headlines and first paragraphs consistently tell SCO's side while the very end of an article will have a couple quotes from the other side. I can easily see how someone who wants to invest in good clean profitable Utah companies could read the Trib and fall for the SCO point of view.