"At each board meeting I tell them we have not been served by any (search warrants)," she said. "In any months that I don't tell them that, they'll know."
I wonder if this technique could be used in other ways.
An ISP could use automation to send its customers some sort of message once a day as long as
It's already been used for quite long time. Check out rsync.net http://www.rsync.net/philosophy.html "Warrant Canary". They've started this practice long ago. (Perhaps 2006 as stated in the page copyright..
Additionally there are other software enabling one to use topo/bitmap maps on Garmin, but I have not found one which would be completely free (as beer). Haven't been looking that much though as I'm relatively happy with OSM maps. They have theyr limitations but one definately gets more than what one paid for , which is rarely the case with commercial maps.
No, not in a tool. I mean - pop-up warning "Hey, your hard drive is failing" without your intervention. Like the battery warning.
After my first HD failure I installed smarmontools ( http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ ). The next time I got advance warning about the oncoming failure. I had dropped my laptop from about 1 meter and less than week from that incident, I got the popup. About week from that my system would not boot any longer. There are other smart monitoring software also, but this one is open source, thus you are getting good bang for the buck.
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.