Comment Re:Come on! (Score 1) 583
Justice Minister Vic Toews [...] is a divorced philanderer and has fathered children outside his own marriage.
Source?
Comment Re:IPv6 and 4G (Score 2) 209
Some sources:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_deployment
* http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090609_verizon_mandates_ipv6_support_for_next_gen_cell_phones/
* https://www22.verizon.com/opendev/Forum/LTE_Document_Archives.aspx
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion#Regional_exhaustion
Comment IPv6 and 4G (Score 4, Interesting) 209
One thing that is not mentionned here is that the 4G specs actually mandate IPv6 and deprecate IPv4 support - something that should really push IPv6 adoption forward, especially with providers that offer both cell phone and traditionnal internet connectivity...
Good thing too. Getting those suckers in would have been difficult otherwise. With IPs running out in Europe this year, we are really starting to feel the pressure now...
Comment system administration basics (Score 1) 114
First, read the PSNA if you haven't already, it features good ideas on documentation and especially process and how to deal with "layer 8" (management, users, whatever is the "real world" for you).
Next step is the wiki. You seem to already have that, good. People here have suggested SemanticWiki, but I'll point you towards Ikiwiki as it has the advantage of (a) being git based so completely decentralised (have a copy of your files on your laptop during a downtime!) and (b) written in perl so you can probably extend it.
Make sure people know where your wiki is and *use* it, so it doesn't become this rotten piece of outdated documentation out there. You have only started to understand how this is going to be a pain: documenting is hard long-term work. there's a (bad) reason why people don't do it effectively: it takes time and dedication.
Next you can consider using dedicated tools for certain things like inventory or issue tracking. We have used Request Tracker with good success. It's a very solid product that does a lot, also in Perl, coincidentally enough. It also has the Asset Tracker plugin to follow inventory, but i haven't personnally used that, although I had good feedback from peers that used it successfully in an heterogeneous environment. An alternative is OCS inventory, which I haven't used either.
So, just bite the bullet: you're going in the right direction. Just consider the right tool for the right job is your next step, i guess.
Comment Some reviews and suggestions: calibre or gcstar (Score 1) 188
I happened to have scanned my modest book library here (~500 items) with GCstar, which works pretty well. It can download covers and details from Amazon and so on, based on the ISBN (although the latest version in Debian fails to do that properly for some reason). Before deciding on GCstar, I had evaluated multiple solutions, including Koha and custom-based solutions, none of which being simple enough for my uses, which made me settle on GCstar... The full details of the evaluation are in the Koumbit wiki.
Since then I have started looking into e-book readers, and family have pointed me to Calibre, a e-book management software. Now it's not necessarily very good with real libraries, but since I am likely to get such a device in the near future (and therefore accumulate digital books), this looks like a very good choice, especially since it seems to have a more complete interface (especially for batch entering ISBN numbers) and a more robust engine to talk with Amazon and friends. It also seems to be better maintained and have a stronger community.
I am not sure that is so helpful in your case, but I thought I could chime in since, well, I have a small library and most of the work is automated.
Comment i am + STEED (Score 1) 601
... and while i won't go as far as signing this comment (i admire the dedication folks, but really...), i try to use it as much as possible. I have done PGP trainings for the masses (see this and this, in french) and I'm doing my best to strenghten the web of trust.
I am also very curious to see where the STEED project leads us, it looks like a nice way to popularize PGP.
Submission + - Swiss Government Okays Piracy for Personal Use (businessinsider.com)
coffeemm writes: "Downloading music and movies without authorization will remain legal in Switzerland after the conclusion of a government study found that the practise doesn't cause enough damage to copyright holders to warrant making it illegal."
Submission + - A Robot (QBO) Recognizes Itself in a Mirror (i-programmer.info)
mikejuk writes: Robots are often cute and they can work on human empathy to place themselves into a position of a pet or, perhaps more worryingly, a small child. This can go to the point where we are fooled into thinking that they are a concious entity similar to, but perhaps lesser than, ourselves. We can be fooled into thinking that they are self aware.
Now we have a video "QBO and the Mirror" that places this claim to self awareness clearly to the public. A small robot, Qbo, was placed in front of a mirror and after some learning algorithms had run their course it utters
"Oh. This is me. Nice."
So we have proof that robots can be self aware.
Watch the video and see what you think.
Does this demonstrate self-awareness?
Or is it just a gimmick?
Now we have a video "QBO and the Mirror" that places this claim to self awareness clearly to the public. A small robot, Qbo, was placed in front of a mirror and after some learning algorithms had run their course it utters
"Oh. This is me. Nice."
So we have proof that robots can be self aware.
Watch the video and see what you think.
Does this demonstrate self-awareness?
Or is it just a gimmick?
Submission + - The Personal Computer is Dead
theodp writes: Richard Stallman rankled many with his good riddance to Steve Jobs' 'malign influence on people's computing.' But now RMS gets an amen-of-sorts from Harvard Law School Prof Jonathan Zittrain, who explains in The Personal Computer is Dead why you should be afraid — very afraid — of the snowballing replicability of the App Store Model. 'If we allow ourselves to be lulled into satisfaction with walled gardens,' warns Zittrain, 'we'll miss out on innovations to which the gardeners object, and we'll set ourselves up for censorship of code and content that was previously impossible. We need some angry nerds.' Searchblog's John Battelle, who's also solidly in the tear-down-this-walled-garden camp, adds: 'I'm not a nerd, quite, but I’m sure angry.' Are Stallman's views on their way to becoming positively mainstream?
Submission + - Last Lunar Eclipse until 2014 (nasa.gov)
althanas writes: The action begins around 4:45 am Pacific Standard Time when the red shadow of Earth first falls across the lunar disk. By 6:05 am Pacific Time, the Moon will be fully engulfed in red light. This event—the last total lunar eclipse until 2014—is visible from the Pacific side of North America, across the entire Pacific Ocean to Asia and Eastern Europe. For people in the western United States the eclipse is deepest just before local dawn. Not only will the Moon be beautifully red, it will also be inflated by the Moon illusion.
Submission + - My most hated environment
An anonymous reader writes: My most hated environment is:
Unity
Gnome3
Kde4
Gnome2
Kde3
The world
Unity
Gnome3
Kde4
Gnome2
Kde3
The world
Submission + - MPG of a human (ucsd.edu)
InterGuru writes: "Tom Murphy, blogging from UCSD in his Do the Math blog asks
' I am curious to know how potent human fuel can be. How many miles per gallon do we get as our own engines of transportation? '
He finds, after accounting for the energy intensity of American agriculture, which uses ten units of energy to get one unit of food energy, walking consumes 18-34 MPG of oil equivalent, and biking comes in at 70-130 MPG.
Maybe if we switched to a more vegetarian diet, we could improve on this."
' I am curious to know how potent human fuel can be. How many miles per gallon do we get as our own engines of transportation? '
He finds, after accounting for the energy intensity of American agriculture, which uses ten units of energy to get one unit of food energy, walking consumes 18-34 MPG of oil equivalent, and biking comes in at 70-130 MPG.
Maybe if we switched to a more vegetarian diet, we could improve on this."
Submission + - Voyager Probes Give Us ET's View (discovery.com)
astroengine writes: "For the first time, scientists have been able to measure a type of radiation streaming out from the Milky Way that in other galaxies has been linked to the birthplaces of young, hot stars. There was no way to make our own galaxy's measurement of the radiation, known as Lyman-alpha, until the Voyager probes were about 40 times as far away from the sun as Earth — any closer and the solar system's own emissions drowned out the fainter glow from the galaxy."
Submission + - TV Ownership Declines 2
bs0d3 writes: Every year, the estimated number of U.S. households owning TV sets goes up. Until now. This year, for the first time since 1970, tv ownership has gone down; by about 1%. TV ownership among the key adult 18-49 demo also declined even steeper, down 2.7 percent and percentage of homes without a TV is at the highest level since 1975. The reasons behind this appear to be online media content and the recession.
Submission + - Aleph One 1.0 Released (sourceforge.net)
treellama writes: Nearly 12 year since Bungie released the source code for Marathon 2, the Aleph One team is thrilled to release version 1.0 of the Aleph One game engine. Aleph One is a Free software, cross platform game engine that supports all three original Marathon games with enhancements such as OpenGL and Internet play; as well as numerous third party mods known as "scenarios"
Easy to install full versions of Marathon, Marathon 2, and Marathon Infinity, now featuring high resolution graphics and modern widescreen HUD support, can be downloaded for free from the project website!
Easy to install full versions of Marathon, Marathon 2, and Marathon Infinity, now featuring high resolution graphics and modern widescreen HUD support, can be downloaded for free from the project website!
