You should look closely at Photo Mechanic. It's not free or OSS, but it works very, very well. It is more of a metadata manager than a photo management database - it doesn't maintain its own database; it uses your existing folder structure.
It doesn't do any retouching, but it is flexible in letting you edit (select/reject), sort, and manage metadata for tons of photos. This sounds like the sort of software you're looking for.
It's practically the standard in the news/media photography industry, and it's widely used in other pro photographers' workflows.
Floppy drives are also still used in many low-end lighting control consoles (for theatre/dance/music/entertainment) which are still widely used and even sold today. The ETC Express line is the first that comes to my mind, but there are many, many others.
The mid- and high-end controllers nowadays have USB ports, but these consoles will be around for a very long time (especially in schools, etc. where replacing [relatively] expensive pieces of equipment like this happens once every twenty years or so..)
Once you have a network of contacts on Twitter, it can actually be useful (and fun). My "Twitter-isn't-actually-useless" example is that I found my current job through my Twitter network.
For example, the enterprise agreement for the Adobe CS4 suite was a big deal. They spent millions purchasing the software before anyone had actually tried running any of it on an actual laptop. Only after the government had signed the contracts did they bother, only to find out that the screens were too small. All of the Adobe dialog boxes were designed for a vertical height larger than the physical screen resolution, so the OK/Cancel buttons are cut off. The workaround was to install a driver that supports a larger virtual desktop and pans the screen around. It's hideous.
My first thought when reading the story was, "unhackable...yeah, that'll last long."
My second thought was, "wait, Adobe CS4 on a netbook?!?!" To use Photoshop comfortably, I need a fast multicore processor and several gigs of RAM, not to mention a big screen. Trying to use it on my netbook would just be absolute torture.
I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that police chiefs in Britain can now prohibit photography (and confiscate cameras) if they deem it necessary for security, or something like that.
Anyone who needs to override DNS should know how to do so themselves
Simply overriding DNS will not work in this case - sites served through vhosts can only be accessed by domain name. See my reply to Mr. Slippery, below, or Google 'apache vhosts' or similar.
a IP-based address is useless for long-term use, so you wouldn't be able to use them in stable links either.
Most Web servers, excepting home servers, have static IPs, which are in fact pretty stable. How else would DNS work - IP changes can take 24hrs to propagate over the Internet? Also, we're not talking about stable link shere, we're talking about temporarily circumventing DNS-based blocks of Web sites by governments or other people/organizations.
Many Web hosts, mine included, use virtual hosts to put multiple sites on a single server. The IP is used to route traffic for multiple domains to that server, and the server decides which site to serve based on the domain which was requested.
Ex. a computer at 192.168.1.5 serves three sites: example1.com, example2.com, example3.com. If you just enter 192.168.1.5 in your browser, what site do you get? The server looks at the domain name to decide what to serve. Thus, just putting an IP in the hosts file will not work.
I know several others have commented on this, but here are the basics of this type of encryption (called public-key encryption): - You have two keys, a public key and a private key - The public key can only be used to encrypt email sent to you - The private key is needed to encrypt email - It would take tens of years, and probably much longer, to derive the private key given only the public key, therefore you can freely share the private key.
Think of the public key as an unlocked padlock. You keep the key and give away the padlock. Someone else puts a message in a box and locks it with your padlock, and then only you can unlock the box and read the message.
I bought an Acer laptop ~2 years ago, and the first thing that popped up when I started it was a wizard that let me burn a recovery disc (actually, a 4-disc set).
As I understand, RAM is essentially a ton of tiny capacitors. If they're charged, they're ones. Otherwise, they're zeros. The charge goes away pretty much instantly after you take away power. The court won't find anything in any RAM the plaintiff turns in.
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You should look closely at Photo Mechanic. It's not free or OSS, but it works very, very well. It is more of a metadata manager than a photo management database - it doesn't maintain its own database; it uses your existing folder structure.
It doesn't do any retouching, but it is flexible in letting you edit (select/reject), sort, and manage metadata for tons of photos. This sounds like the sort of software you're looking for.
It's practically the standard in the news/media photography industry, and it's widely used in other pro photographers' workflows.
Floppy drives are also still used in many low-end lighting control consoles (for theatre/dance/music/entertainment) which are still widely used and even sold today. The ETC Express line is the first that comes to my mind, but there are many, many others.
The mid- and high-end controllers nowadays have USB ports, but these consoles will be around for a very long time (especially in schools, etc. where replacing [relatively] expensive pieces of equipment like this happens once every twenty years or so..)
Once you have a network of contacts on Twitter, it can actually be useful (and fun). My "Twitter-isn't-actually-useless" example is that I found my current job through my Twitter network.
For example, the enterprise agreement for the Adobe CS4 suite was a big deal. They spent millions purchasing the software before anyone had actually tried running any of it on an actual laptop. Only after the government had signed the contracts did they bother, only to find out that the screens were too small. All of the Adobe dialog boxes were designed for a vertical height larger than the physical screen resolution, so the OK/Cancel buttons are cut off. The workaround was to install a driver that supports a larger virtual desktop and pans the screen around. It's hideous.
My first thought when reading the story was, "unhackable...yeah, that'll last long."
My second thought was, "wait, Adobe CS4 on a netbook?!?!" To use Photoshop comfortably, I need a fast multicore processor and several gigs of RAM, not to mention a big screen. Trying to use it on my netbook would just be absolute torture.
The "Amiga hand" is the Amiga bootscreen. Whoever wrote this probably meant "Guru Meditation".
Isn't being older than 14 (or knowing how to use wikipedia) required to be a slashdot editor?
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I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that police chiefs in Britain can now prohibit photography (and confiscate cameras) if they deem it necessary for security, or something like that.
Crap. My roommate disappeared this morning, and now I'
42forty-two42 already corrected me on that.
Please accept my apologies!
Hmmm. I hadn't considered that - I was still thinking that putting it in the hosts file was akin to typing in the IP. Now your suggestion makes sense.
You're probably right. Please disregard my post(s) and accept my sincerest apologies!
I am definitely going to try this when I get home, though. Now I *have* to see this for myself.
(crap. I feel stupid right now)
Anyone who needs to override DNS should know how to do so themselves
Simply overriding DNS will not work in this case - sites served through vhosts can only be accessed by domain name. See my reply to Mr. Slippery, below, or Google 'apache vhosts' or similar.
a IP-based address is useless for long-term use, so you wouldn't be able to use them in stable links either.
Most Web servers, excepting home servers, have static IPs, which are in fact pretty stable. How else would DNS work - IP changes can take 24hrs to propagate over the Internet? Also, we're not talking about stable link shere, we're talking about temporarily circumventing DNS-based blocks of Web sites by governments or other people/organizations.
Your point about phishers, though, is legitimate.
That's not what OP is talking about.
Many Web hosts, mine included, use virtual hosts to put multiple sites on a single server. The IP is used to route traffic for multiple domains to that server, and the server decides which site to serve based on the domain which was requested.
Ex. a computer at 192.168.1.5 serves three sites: example1.com, example2.com, example3.com. If you just enter 192.168.1.5 in your browser, what site do you get?
The server looks at the domain name to decide what to serve. Thus, just putting an IP in the hosts file will not work.
I usually hate to defend Bush, but I have to point out that he was probably suffering from an extreme case of jet lag at that point.
I know several others have commented on this, but here are the basics of this type of encryption (called public-key encryption):
- You have two keys, a public key and a private key
- The public key can only be used to encrypt email sent to you
- The private key is needed to encrypt email
- It would take tens of years, and probably much longer, to derive the private key given only the public key, therefore you can freely share the private key.
Think of the public key as an unlocked padlock. You keep the key and give away the padlock. Someone else puts a message in a box and locks it with your padlock, and then only you can unlock the box and read the message.
I bought an Acer laptop ~2 years ago, and the first thing that popped up when I started it was a wizard that let me burn a recovery disc (actually, a 4-disc set).
I have the exact same file on my Windows box.
As I understand, RAM is essentially a ton of tiny capacitors. If they're charged, they're ones. Otherwise, they're zeros. The charge goes away pretty much instantly after you take away power.
The court won't find anything in any RAM the plaintiff turns in.
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