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Comment Elon Musk's SolarCity - great deal if u can get it (Score 1) 1030

SolarCity installs solar panels on your house for free and then you pay them for your electricity at a greatly reduced rate from what you used to pay your local electric company. Solarcity tho' is not licensed to do business in every state yet but it is in a lot of States... check if yours is. http://www.solarcity.com/

Comment IaaS clouds will charge for storage & I/O $$ (Score 1) 121

You might be able to utilize something like AWS S3 storage which is low cost for the storage but AWS will also charge you for I/O to/from S3. This can become very costly if you transfer alot of data into/out-of AWS S3.

Remember with a Cloud provider you have to pay to transfer the data IN and to transfer the data OUT.

Have you priced what a faster internet connection would cost you?
Or a 2nd Internet connection just for this video traffic?
Look beyond the Cable MSO's also, what is a FIOS based service's top speed?

You mention you BMP images being ~5MBytes (I assume mb = Meg Bytes and not Meg bits). Your current Internet is 100Mbps so one of your images takes 40% of your entire internet connection when being transfered (5MB x 8 bits = 40Mbits).

It takes an image every 3 to 5 seconds.

It seems to me that your problem may be more the bursti-ness of this traffic that cause you problems not necessarily the amount of data. Your internel "work" network is being hit every 3-5 seconds. Assuming your internal lans are 1Gbps ethernet this still shouldn't be a problem unless its your co-workers complaining that their "internet" access is too slow when 40% of the BW goes away every 3-5 seconds while transferring the image.

Lastly, you might want to make sure that your network Routers are not dropping pkts during those bursts because that will just be retransmitted packets which will only exacerbate your problem.

Submission + - Canonical's Edge phone is still the first attempt to get Mobile carrier's attn (indiegogo.com)

bmullan writes: There are a LOT of linux users that have a beef with Canonical over Ubuntu. Some of those folks have technical reasons and some are just PO'd at Unity or whatever is the soup-d-jour complaint.

Ubuntu Edge is the first attempt I've seen to get some serious looks by the Mobile Carriers at ANY Linux implementation on a Phone .. and yes I know Android is related to Linux but Ubuntu Edge could really open a door for Linux in general here. Opening opportunities for future mobile phones that the Mobile Carriers will allow to have Ubuntu or "other" Linux implementations on them.

I am an ubuntu user and I have bought one of the Edge devices. My hope was that enough of the non-Ubuntu ... Linux community would see this as an "opening" for linux that everyone should try to support whether they are an Ubuntu user or not ... we are all Linux users... just sayin'

Comment Couldn't get Splashtop v2 to work (Score 1) 96

I installed Splashtop on Ubuntu
then
installed splashtop clients on my Windows 7 and my 2 Android tablets and on my Samsung Skyrocket android phone.

I could not get the connection to work. I'm technical but there is little to no documentation available online other than
a few FAQs. If you need help you have to submit a ticket online and I suppose you wait until someone gets back to you via
email...

I guess I'll wait 6 months and let it bake and then try it again.
Ubuntu

Submission + - Seamless Windows Apps use on Linux Desktop (youtube.com)

bmullan writes: "I put a 10 min video on YouTube showing how to enable seamless Windows App use on a Linux desktop using:
1) Linux (I use Ubuntu) and KVM
2) a Win7 Ultimate/Enterprise VM dedicating only a single cpu core to the Windows VM
3) Microsoft's RemoteApp protocol
4) FreeRDP — a Linux CLI tool implementing support for the RemoteApp & RemoteFX Protocols
5) WinConn — a linux GUI front-end to FreeRDP

Pros:
1) will run ANY windows app so no Wine limitation
2) unlike using Rdesktop you don't have to see the entire Windows Desktop environment
3) only need to "publish" on Windows a single RemoteApp ... to enable all Win Apps on the Win7 VM to be run on Linux
4) file share to/from your Linux filesystem/apps and the Windows filesystem/apps
5) FreeRDP does support Sound Redirection
6) FreeRDP does printer redirection
7) FreeRDP does support Microsoft RemoteFX
8) FreeRDP does compression but not needed here.

Cons:
1) you do have to keep the Windows 7 VM running but minimized on your system
2) FreeRDP has not yet implemented ClipBoard
      redirection to/from or from/tom Linux/WIndows
      although the Developer has that targeted soon."

Moon

Submission + - Space Elevator idea - rev 2.0 - why not twist the concept a bit (spaceelevator.com) 1

bmullan writes: ""I am aware of many people having looked at implementation of a "Space Elevator" concept tied to the Earth and reaching to a counter-balanced, geo-synchronized base station in orbit.

However, the earth's gravity and especially atmospheric conditions create huge engineering problems.

WHAT IF... the concept were done from the Moon's perspective?

There are estimates of enormous mineral deposits on the Moon. There is NO atmosphere and less gravity. If a Space Elevator were anchored to the Moon and extended 3/4 of the way to Earth then minerals could be mined there, shipped up via the Space Elevator, picked up at the end-point way-station by earth launched spacecraft/barges which then deliver the minerals to Earth.

This would save enormous amounts of time/fuel etc and provide Earth with a vast new repository of mineral wealth that could eleviate alot of Environmental destruction here on Earth where we all live?

Has anyone thought of this approach?"

Space

Submission + - Space Elevator idea - rev 2.0 (spaceelevator.com)

bmullan writes: "I am aware of many people having looked at implementation of a "Space Elevator" concept tied to the Earth and reaching to a counter-balanced, geo-synchronized base station in orbit. However, the earth's gravity and especially atmospheric conditions create huge engineering problems.
      WHAT IF... the concept were done from the Moon's perspective? There are estimates of enormous mineral deposits on the Moon. There is NO atmosphere and less gravity. If a Space Elevator were anchored to the Moon and extended 3/4 of the way to Earth then minerals could be mined there, shipped up via the Space Elevator, picked up at the end-point way-station by earth launched spacecraft/barges which then deliver the minerals to Earth. This would save enormous amounts of time/fuel etc and provide Earth with a vast new repository of mineral wealth that could eleviate alot of Environmental destruction here on Earth where we all live?
      I just sent this idea to Elon Musk since he seems to think out of the box to see what he thinks."

Comment I can top orig post - Just don't drive to Canada (Score 3, Informative) 545

Hahaha... this made me laugh.
My father-in-law had undergone a medical treatment for colon cancer where they implanted a dozen small pellets of radioactive material around his tumor.

Well he & his wife drove to Canada on a trip and crossing the border INTO Canada was no problem.

However, upon trying to re-enter the U.S. at the Border some radioactive detection system went off, an automatic barrier went up in front of their car and soon a dozen armed police were surrounding their car.

Needless to say a 78 yr old man and his wife were a bit shaken by the experience and my father-in-law was questioned for an hour and their car searched/scanned before they were permitted to continue.

I am grateful that our Border can detect this kind of stuff down to the microscopic levels because a terrorist would certainly have more on them than what was in my relative's butt...

Good thing my father-in-law is a totally funny guy and his retelling of the incident had me in stitches for hours.

Comment Re:We're NOT talking (Score 1) 315

Documentation always suffers for most software and x2go is no different I guess.
x2go's website has been both in migration to a new site, a new platform all while the x2go server/client architecture has been under a rocketing development of new features & capabilites in the past 12 months or so.
Best advice is to join either the x2go user or x2go dev mailer's until the new website gets more updates.
- x2go-user@lists.berlios.de
https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/x2go-user
- x2go-dev@lists.berlios.de
https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/x2go-dev

Comment meetings fail because... (Score 1) 445

in my experience usually meetings fail for basic fundamental reasons...
1) no agenda
2) no agenda sent in advance so people can come prepared to speak to and understand issue(s) and goal of meeting
3) due to #2 most of the meeting becomes a learning session of Q&A to understand the issues at hand
4) no review of previous meeting action items -or- progress to complete them so the wheels start spinning
5) meeting minutes aren't recorded by someone
6) action items aren't put into meeting minutes
goto #1

It really is like Dilbert.

Submission + - Shipwreck hunters make unusual find (cnn.com)

bmullan writes: "salvage team in Baltic Sea finds a mysterious round disk on the Sea floor. Its diameter is bigger than the length or width of a Boeing 747. It has rigid tail more than 400 meters long. They are going to do another dive and get more closeup pictures. But the crew in the interview is describing the circular disk is huge."

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