mileswu

This is very similar to a projected supposed to help the Greek public debt situation. http://www.greecedebtfree.org/

I sign onto my various IM accounts from a variety of locations simultaneously (e.g. desktop at home, laptop in office, phone) and I find it infuriating that every protocol has a different way of handling that.

MSN: Sends incoming message _only_ to the last active computer (where last active seems to be defined by which computer last sent an IM or updated your status)

AIM: Sends incoming messages to all computers

XMPP (Gtalk): Inconsistent behaviour. I think the priorities set by various clients screw things up.

Skype: Does weird chat/history syncing between all your computers (this raises Privacy issues, as many times if I delete a chat on my desktop, it somehow reappears on my phone when I sign in on it. Also although it syncs the chat text, why not also sync whether the messages have been read or not, because at the moment if I sign in on my phone, it constantly buzzes for about 5 minutes as it 'catches' up on a ton of unread messages (which I've read ages ago on my computer).)

What's worse is status fragmentation. I've set my desktop and laptop to auto-away after 5 minutes, so people know if I'm there or if they can leave a message I'll read later. Run through this situation: 1) Signed in on desktop, go away. Pidgin sets Away on my accounts. 2) Some time later, turn on laptop. Adium sets all my accounts as Online. 3) Turn off laptop to go somewhere. Adium signs out and my accounts get left as Online. Desktop doesn't re-auto-away and so people think I'm there when I'm not.

None of these are ideal, and the only 'solution' I've found is to use a service like http://imo.im where their service only signs on _once_ to the accounts, but you access imo.im on any number of devices so it can make sure that every device has the same chat there. Problem with this is I don't like using web apps and would prefer to use native Pidgin/Adium if possible.

Any suggestions?

I believe it depends on the country. I think in Switzerland (and perhaps Canada for music?) downloading copyrighted material was legal, but uploading was illegal. But I am pretty sure that is not the case for the US, and downloading is still copyright infringement.

Perhaps food for thought here http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/p2p-downloading-i...

Kinda OT, but out of interest, why do you use 'slogin' instead of 'ssh'? Just old habits dieing hard from 'rlogin'?

Scientific cluster computing (such as for the LHC or Open Science Grid) uses them all the time for authentication, both in CLI tools and on web pages.

>Each 56kb line with single hub and router (for remote disaster recovery sites only)

Mm good old days of dialup. All yours for $900/month.

I wonder how much it would have cost to do this with mining/tunnelling/etc. modern equipment. And whether it would have been cheaper to pay him $10/hr for 22 years of work, or whether the 'modern' way would have cost more.

Amazon EC2 on the micro plan maybe? It's free for the first year as a trial.

Looking at my email I saw my Textdrive Lifetime hosting account was made in Sept 2005. I'm pretty sure I wasn't in on the first round either and I was second round "VC".

They also offered a lifetime package known as "Mixed Grill" and "3 Martini Lunch" that bundled the hosting, Strongspace (a file storage solution based on SFTP/rsync -- now spun off to a different company) and some collaboration suite (from Joyent).

I believe the cat might be a Ragdoll, renowned for being really docile and letting you do things to it[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragdoll

Perhaps it should ask an additional security question or passphrase for 'dangerous' operations like remote wipe.

Two-factor authentication (using say your phone like Google) wouldn't work however because typically it's your phone that is stolen and you are trying to wipe.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't the actual NeXT he used. That is in a museum at CERN (where I work at the moment). I can check today by going to the museum, but it was there a few days ago when I showed some visitor friends around.

It's now showing in the Mac App Store for me as 4.4, but when I try to update to it, it says my OSX is too new. Hurr...

I grabbed the images from the PDF paper and put them here:

Figure 1: http://i.imgur.com/imfvc.png Figure 2: http://i.imgur.com/xKIOv.png Figure 3: http://i.imgur.com/GevEd.png

Similar for the UK, is http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

The best way to view it is as an an improved CNAME record: faster resolution for clients and ability to use at the apex/root of the domain. As far as I understand it, if the domain that it points to is geo-DNS'd, then it can be geo-friendly too.