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Comment: Re:Google said it best.. (Score 1) 356

by maird (#35193282) Attached to: File Organization — How Do You Do It In 2011?

Search, don't sort.

...most files aren't going to have enough data in the filename and tags (if any) to search for pictures from Uncle Bob's second wedding...

How many dates did it take place on and how many other things did you take pictures of on the same date(s)? The date of the wedding should be at least enough to get a search result with a high density of what you're looking for.

Comment: Re:PDF files will render as seamlessly as HTML? (Score 1) 285

by maird (#32628458) Attached to: Google Builds a Native PDF Reader Into Chrome
There is a pretty big "seam" between clicking on a pdf link to it being usable as a document in Firefox (IE too I imagine). It wouldn't require conversion of the pdf to html to close that, just render it in-place, in-process using native pdf rendering code as is being described. Presumably it will also allow for tidy nested references to pdf documents in html where the pdf is rendered in-place. Heck, if google have form input support in their pdf code and provide some access to the field names and contents from the hosting html document's scripts then it might help with reproducible printed output in web apps without leaving the app, a topic that came up in a previous story today. To preserve the intent of pdf I suppose it would still have to be framed in those scenarios though.

Comment: Re:Facebook and privacy is an oxymoron (Score 2, Insightful) 329

by maird (#32584786) Attached to: FBI's Facebook Monitoring Leads To Arrest In England
It's a no win situation for everyone. I wouldn't like to be arrested for an angry rant I _published_ but it would be my own fault if I was. I also wouldn't like for someone saying in public the kind of things that precipitated this to be ignored only because the people that noticed them aren't those with a direct relationship to the one saying them. I assume the kid (and his issues) would have been dealt with using the school's discipline system if it was school staff that had picked up a threat posted on Facebook. Since schools tend not to have the resources to monitor all of Facebook then what was the FBI to do...wait to see if there was a shooting and shrug their shoulders. I assume the kid's school will now use it's discipline system with him. If it's unpublished comments that provoke the response then there is definitely an issue of capable organizations doing the monitoring. Especially for US Citizens (see at least the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments) but I guess you could say, don't do/say something that provocative or at least explain yourself if you don't mean it literally.

Comment: Re:Am I missng something? (Score 2, Interesting) 193

by maird (#32329022) Attached to: Physicists Do What Einstein Thought Impossible
If I understood the article, what you saw at high school isn't all the motion that took place. So you couldn't use what you saw to measure the velocity of a particle. What you saw was limited by the speed of light and there are changes in direction and speed that happen between the instants you observe. That's as far as I can follow it though. I don't see, for example, why it isn't frequency that's relevant to measuring it. After all, you can sample other events occurring every 100ns at only a 20MHz frequency.

Comment: Re:Lightning (Score 2, Informative) 379

by maird (#30428190) Attached to: French Military Contributes To Thunderbird 3
The development builds of Lightning are compatible with Thunderbird 3 (and don't need an add-on for Google Calendar). Install the "Lightning Nightly Updater" extension (available from the TB add-on site). After the TB restart you should have a new Help menu item that will check for Lightning development builds and install the latest if supported. After that you should have Lightning in Thunderbird. Of course, you have to be comfortable using the development builds but you don't have to update every night after you get one that works ok. The 2009-12-08 05:39 PST build is working great for me so far on Linux and Windows.

Comment: Re:..bungle, bungle.... (Score 1) 496

by maird (#27104893) Attached to: UAC Whitelist Hole In Windows 7
For many companies getting "the latest OS when you buy a new computer" _is_ an OS upgrade. I used to work at a very large accountancy firm. They had a standard "load-set". Every new PC that came in the door got the load-set installed on it. I'm sure that's still true there. For many companies with lots of cubicles occupied by people all doing the same job I'm sure there is a pre-built load-set deployed on every PC when it arrives and before an employee gets it. Microsoft will have a hard time denying suport to lots of companies with tens of thousands of XP seats they don't want to...let's call it "replace with the latest OS".

Comment: Re:Maybe good in theory (Score 1) 175

by maird (#26773153) Attached to: OpenDNS To Block and Monitor Conficker Worm

Still better than most Telcos DNS.

I agree. That's the reason why I did my first DNS server install at home. My ISP was a telco and their DNS server was down a lot more frequently than their IP routing. Most of my Internet usage was evenings and weekends. The ISP was a 9-5 business for home users (i.e. not 5 nines). So, I'd have to wait hours, even days sometimes for name resolving to return. I've maintained my own DNS server ever since and never had to worry about it.

It's obviously not for everyone and there are reliable servers beyond many ISPs, like the Level 3 ones referred to in other posts.

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