WhiteSpade - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Free, open alternatives? (Score 1) 307

by WhiteSpade on Sunday December 19, 2010 @11:35AM (#34607296) Attached to: Dropbox 1.0 Finally Released

There is a project called SparkleShare that is in the works. There is no release yet, but I hope it gains momentum soon. It has the killer feature that DropBox doesn't have: you to host your own repository.

I work in a research lab at a university and we use DropBox all the time to collaborate with researches at other institutions. The 2 GB limit is a problem though, and we don't like relying on an external service run by a company. If DropBox's free 2 GB ever goes away, then we're in a bit of a bind.

Once SparkleShare is ready to go, I'm going to switch all of the labs I cover over to it.

---Alex

Comment Re:Any have a decent Camera? (Score 5, Informative) 378

by WhiteSpade on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @10:10AM (#29807489) Attached to: 50+ Android Phones Expected In Near Future

The newly released (in the US) HTC Hero has a 5 megapixel camera (http://www.htc.com/www/product/hero/specification.html). I just got the Hero and it takes surprisingly good pictures in low light too. The screen lags quite a bit behind what the camera is seeing, but I'm told that Android 1.6 is supposed to fix that (whenever HTC gets around to releasing the update). ---Alex

Maryland Scraps Diebold Voting System 209

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 21, 2008 @05:42PM from the long-overdue dept.

beadfulthings writes "After eight years and some $65 million, the state of Maryland is taking its first steps to return to an accountable, paper-ballot based voting system. Governor Martin O'Malley has announced an initial outlay of $6.5 million towards the $20 million cost of an optical system which will scan and tally the votes while the paper ballots are retained as a backup. The new (or old) system is expected to be in place by 2010 — or four years before the state finishes paying off the bill for the touch-screen system."

Comment The Survey (Score 1) 172

by WhiteSpade on Thursday November 22, 2007 @05:12PM (#21448607) Attached to: Linux Foundation's Desktop Linux Survey Results

For those who would like to take the survey, here's a link. https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/2007ClientSurvey ---Alex

Submission + - How do you build a new internet? | Guardian.co.uk (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by

Kraisch

on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @02:10PM

Kraisch writes: "How do you cut online crime, tackle child pornography, halt crippling viruses and get rid of spam? The answers could lie in a £200m successor to the internet that computer experts are already referring to as the next rendition of the virtual world. Researchers in the US want at least $350m (£175m) to build the Global Environment for Network Innovations (Geni), touted by some as the possible replacement for today's internet. In Europe, similar projects are under way as part of the EU's Future and Internet Research (Fire) programme, which is expected to cost at least £27m."

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