I'd also expect within the next year or two (or less, considering how cheap they are) that police will be documenting crime scenes with "gigapixel" panoramas. Gigapan sells a robotic mount for DSLRs for under $1000, and I'm sure they're not the only ones.

Try the Lite version of the app - if you only need two connections then it may actually do what you need and is free.

If you do need the paid version, Tacit Dynamics (tacit.dk) apparently has it available through Amazon.com and through AndroidPit.com as well if either of those will work for you. The drawback of either is that I believe (as with most competing app markets) you have to keep that app market installed on your device.

I hit Submit too soon on the previous one. Isn't DLNA designed for that kind of in-home streaming of media between devices? If you're rolling your own for the sake of tinkering have at it, but if it's just to stream things around I'd look hard at the existing options first.

There's at least one app that may do what you want (rsync backup by Michal Kowalczuk), but I've never used it.

If that doesn't do the trick, I find that my tablet running Cyanogenmod 10.1.3 has rsync 3.0.7, but I've also installed extra bits and pieces ("Android Terminal Emulator" by Jack Palevich, "Terminal IDE" by Spartacus Rex, "Busybox Pro" by Stephen (stericson)) so I'm not 100% sure that it was originally available. You may be able to script and schedule something of your own based on scripts you use elsewhere, though with a few changes (e.g. "jping" instead of "ping", see Issue 29 on Terminal IDE's code.google.com page though that indicates that it may be fixed).

Yes, the one by Tacit Dynamics

I'd look at the FolderSync app, ~$3. It supports a huge number of backend connection types including FTP/SFTP, SMB/CIFS and WebDAV to cover most of your local server needs. It also covers most of the major and many minor cloud storage providers. You can set it up to sync only on specified wifi networks, to sync on schedules or when files change, etc.

There's also a "lite" version, which only allows 2 accounts, no Tasker support and no sync filters (which I've never fiddled with anyway, so may not be that important).

As Charlie Stross put it in his announcement, ""Halting State" wasn't intended to be predictive when I started writing it in 2006."

/. readers may be more familiar with the second book, or at least with the reference in its title: "Rule 34." The main character in that uses a descendant of Google Glass-like technology.

Did the researchers throw some numbers into an Excel spreadsheet at some point to check something? Is that spreadsheet included? It wasn't saved? This regulation is overturned.

I believe both Crossloop and Copilot are VNC-based.

Copilot is free to use on weekends (their "day pass" pricing is $5 on weekdays and free on weekends).

I see a variety of suggestions of getting another PC, but if your physically at the machine usage and other peoples' won't overlap, just get more memory and a second hard drive. Run VMs stored on that second drive - odds are good that you're not really CPU-bound these days unless there's some serious gaming going on.

You're quite correct, I missed a "who" in the (original) opening of this article: http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/movie-theater-witnesses-no-punches-only-popcorn-thrown-before-shooting/2160911

I also saw it quoted elsewhere originally, so I didn't see the headline at the top.

My post above is incorrect - I missed a "who" when I saw the witness article quoted. There's no indication that the victim did anything except (possibly) throw a bag of popcorn.

I've seen at least one report that indicated that the person shot got up, threw popcorn at the shooter, then pulled a gun himself at which time he was shot.

Until there's more details out there, to my viewpoint in the upper Midwest this is more a "Jerry Springer Show" scenario going too far and less a "killed him for texting" situation.

Did you go to the actual site that I named? Both the "1. Shop" link at the top and the "3-packs (picture) only 9.95" at the top right go straight to their shop page.....

Their shop page is perhaps a little wordy, but mostly because they actually do come out with new "editions" several times a year and part of their business is selling subscriptions to those.

Depending on your number of users, it may be VERY IMPORTANT to increase the number of file descriptors available to the LDAP server. I believe it defaults to 1024, but the server actually uses somewhere around 1500 for intra-process IPv6 connections with ~80 users. If you find errors in your logs about "too many fds open" this is almost certainly your problem.

Instructions for doing these increases are available online, there are several locations that need to be modified.

I haven't dug into whether I have something misconfigured that's causing this IPv6 socket usage, so if you read this and say "that idiot!" please share any more-appropriate fixes.