I was mugged a block off of Commonwealth Ave. I had been reading some
promo material from Model Mugging, a program designed to train women how to
deal with the unfortunate situation. A group of three youngsters
approached me. The best strategy is one used by all the animals: look for
any chance
Say the thug Bob has a fidelity statement of Carl. It says there is
$434,211.12 in Carl's account (this is certainly not my situation). Bob is
going to keep Carl kidnapped for a week, so long as the money gets
transferred to Bob's island account.
Carl has been worried about this type of situatio
fired
because security is that important. "Marshmellows 4 God? Bad, Bad."
2. I would like to hear more about " tools for plausible-deniability of the
existence of secondary access codes". I don't quite know what that means.
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>> The first three were set with a length of 4 and made pronounceable. The
>> later three are 19 characters long. I recall an article that said quite
>> specifically that length
My bad, here was my not-intended-to-be-private reply:
My passwords are 19 characters long (if possible). Size is the important
issue for making passwords strong. I don't type them in. Instead I use
lastpass. If I had to keep things secure, I would consider their
enterprise service.
"Letter c
postgres rocks in my opinion. But I still have a fear: triggers. It is
triggers that blur what I view as a database - place for my data, with
programming, which is to transform the data. There is no universal trigger
language. In postgres, there are a bunch. The trigger code is not so
pretty.
The python bridge to postgres is the module psycopg2. Also use
psycopg2.extras because it allows data to be return as dictionaries. I
have seen almost criminally stupid databases designed by Java programers
who refused to look at the database that resulted from their bridge to the
scary database.
A variation on Gordon's suggestion...
What about an ethernet cable between the laptop and the Roku 3 in a subnet
(different from the wifi connection)? In the subnet, the laptop would have
to assign the address for the Roku (fixed addresses for both eth0 and the
Roku would be fine). I don't know
your $ENV_BEAST apache setting?
And so on. The Downside to the smart list is one I'm prone to:
speechlessness.
me/doug> (chirp) (still waiting for someone to ask something I'm really up
on,
like linux-based-carburetors, ok,, I made that up)
God bless us every on
What the phone did so far today:
Upcoming snow storm report
email check
twitter check
calendar for dental exam
Oops, bad data in the calendar
street and office # for said exam
GPS to get to auto body place
car tunes while doing GPS
Useful stuff,
Doug
hangout with an event.
The one problem I had was I forgot I had set up the hangout in another
browser. I inadvertently closed it when the system appeared to be
hanging.
I believe the hangouts also can be recorded and uploaded to YouTube.
I have not done that before.
Doug
h a small Perl or Python
script, I could export the data into gnucash to maintain my decade+
data warehouse. I am interested in letting the machines automatically
record all this data so I don't have to type it in.
Something to consider...
Doug
or me).
If you had the choice, which of those two licenses would you choose
and why? You may get me to change my mind.
Doug
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/QProcessing/0.3.3
Visual Physics App to see the math of Nature
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So if we don't rely on either Wikipedia or the EF:
DRM = Digital Rights Management
MS has given the user the license to use the operating system on one
computer. They have some software in place to try and make sure that
is exactly what happens. It sounds like the claim is:
Digital Rights Mana
> work. I can't stand anything related to DRM including software
> locking, especially when since I've already got myself over the
> learning curve in Linux. I hate installing activation-requiring
> software, and I hate having to avoid pissing off the DRM and resetting
> the activation workflow.
A
after the original writer has left can be tested. There are so many
hidden dependencies, it is hard to tell if a new fix breaks something
else.
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They just launched an app store according to slashdot:
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/12/17/1353255/raspberry-pi-team-launches-pi-store
Should run on the laptop version.
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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_S.M.A.R.T._tools says...
GSmartControl
smartmontool
Now my more targeted question: does any use these two programs and
would like to share their opinions?
Just trying to be a sometime responsible home system admin,
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above the cost. Otherwise I would
say T-Mobile prepaid. My wife and I spend $400 every year for the
service, effectively for 4000 minutes. We do not text often.
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ood,
videos on the main site are helpful and seem to apply equally to
a cloud user/customer, versus my-localized-installation,
though I'm having import problems at the moment.
Just thought I'd throw this out there in case it's useful (and/or I get or
share some
feedback/tip
echnology skeptical wife).
Has anyone "cut the phone cord" by using this or similar devices?
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HDTV for their computer monitor? I have a mac mini.
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t one never knows. If it does take off, then the costs
jump.
The project of course involves quaternions, thinking about making
animation software using the multimedia Java platform known as
processing (http://processing.org/) for web sites and android phones.
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There is a bit of obscure knowledge. Worked on my phone though.
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> What about texting?
$0.10 a text. I think that is both to send and receive. If I do 10x
per month, that's a lot. The situation is different for the chatty
younger set.
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ail except at home or
the office.
I don't Verizon wants to talk to you unless you show up with $50+$10
taxes per month, and they easily push things to a $100 or more. Data
in the car is not worth the cost.
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I thought there were studies that said that in an interview, the
interviewer felt better if the interviewer talked more than the
interviewee. That does jibe with my observations of human nature.
"Great discusion [because I said most things].&q
There is this 650k viewed video of a hundred year old woman with an iPad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndkIP7ec3O8
She had vision issues and was unable to read books. They made the
font large enough, and she got back to reading. So this is my answer
to question 2.
Don't know how well Apple/K
o the drive from the MyBookLive if it is good.
Let's hope the Time Capsule has a longer shelf life. The video library has
has 2 hard disk back up, so I can recover again if need be.
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My default has been:
rsync -av user_1@machine_1:foo/ user_2@machine_2:foo/
from the man page:
-a, --archive archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X)
Lots, but no u. So I should be doing -avu, or rsync with a view?
That might be remembered.
Doug
on Sunday, I live out in Acton.
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I can see how this could be of interest to the group! But the first
two lines end in exclamation points, which makes it look like spam!
UNIX sysadmins appreciate a more subtle pitch.
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2.3M 48M 5% /tmp
/dev/sda4 924G 533G 391G 58% /DataVolume
Looks good now. Thanks,
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ommit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on md1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with writeback data mode.
Doug
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>> /dev/md1 1.9G 1.9G 0 100% /
> [...]
>&g
cache or logs? I guess I am not much
of a sys admin.
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I just added 32G of memory to my phone. I wonder how many years back
you need to go before that was the global amount of memory in all
computers.
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look for errors on the next restart.
I feel like I can run this disk until its death. Should I expect its
demise soon?
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of making real inroads. It is just silly that I
pay for 3 types of ways to play phone tag: land line, cell phone, and
the Internet.
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I ran the smartctl commands that Jerry Natowitz suggested using the
Linux box (no enclosure). Time to get a RMA.
~ 8% sudo smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc
ubuntu
[sudo] password for doug:
smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10
read on /dev/sdb
Input/output error during write on /dev/sdb
Error fsyncing/closing /dev/sdb: Input/output error
Not so good.
Am I missing something, or is this drive Dead On Arrival + 8 months?
Doug
Not related, but I will be doing my MIT IAP course again:
http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap
$100 / month
4000 MB $200 / month
http://dreamhost.com/servers/vps/
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7;
alias gp='git push'
alias gd='git diff'
alias gc='git commit -v'
alias gca='git commit -v -a'
alias gb='git branch'
aliases:alias gba='git branch -a'
alias glog='git log'
alias gre='git rebase' # sync up branches
a
Based on comments here, I gave "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment",
lxde.org a try. I don't have to learn a whole new set of tricks to get
things done. Glad I listened to someone here :-)
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Are any photo managers altering tags within the photo file itself? Or
do any have options so you can keep information within the file or
not? I am pretty sure iPhoto does not alter the original file, great
is someways, but also leads to lock in.
Doug
e had worried about the issue for more than a year. I
doubt most people have more than 4G of sensitive material.
Security folks would not be fans of the solution, since putting data
on an easily removed media is not the sort of behavior they want to
encourage.
/year. If you want to get
your device to make a sound immediately, that requires a payment.
Otherwise, wait 10 minutes for the chirp.
I am pretty sure my wife will get on board, so that covers 6 devices,
should be enough.
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The credit car will stay in the wallet until the misses votes up or
down on the project.
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r the bedroom. We
are going to change the locks, but this person appears to be a lock
checker, not a lock picker.
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he right solution...
This makes some sense to me: lawyers, guns and money people should be
using encryption. How do you get the key from them? I doubt they
attend the BLU meeting :-)
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Every September, I have skipped the meeting. Since I am just a nerd
with a few public web sites and an open source project, I don't feel a
need to encrypt anything. I would be interested to hear why people in
BLU uses encryption.
Doug
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nd of task?
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Once you "go pro" and provide storage, then only the $30/year plan
makes sense. Nice.
Does Wuala do any better with conflicting files, or have you been luck
enough to avoid the problem?
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storage. There is
the cost of running that box 24/7 which I don't know how to estimate.
The security looks better. All files are encrypted, then shipped around.
Is the UI that different? I have been impressed by the simplicity of Dropbox.
How might people in Blu use the Genesi's Efika MX Smarttop on a home
network? I always power down all my boxes when not at home. When I do
boot up, I have a bigger box with a screen and keyboard.
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feeding these folks.
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If it downloads mp3's, and you have cgiwin, I would do
find main_quickvoice_dir -name "*mp3"
Listen to the results.
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Hello Bill:
I try to avoid GoDaddy like the plague. They have a horrible control
page that is focused on selling me more of their crap. Next time I
will let dreamhost take over. To each their own poison.
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Hello Dan:
Have you set up such a system in your house? If so, have people who
do not go to blu meetings used the system to play tunes?
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for Android, iPhone, iPad that look neat (go into party
mode, turn off tunes in kids room).
Alternatively, has anyone done a similar thing using all open source tools?
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Watson did not win at this point.
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access your free Dimdim account.
I think dimdim is local, but the outsourced their product managers to
India. Got a call the next day, quite irritating. Hope they got well
paid in the sale to salesforce.
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Github makes it easy to work with a public project. I watched a git
screencast on peepcode to gain confidence about how to use the
software. I now prefer it over svn.
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