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Just to chime in here but I've been using Crunchbang lately too and find it a nice choice. I've wanted something stable and lighter that I use as my "desktop/host" and then do all my dev work in Virtualbox or KVM vms.

FYI, the latest ISO now uses SLim instead of GDM.

Thanks for sharing about rcconf. I'd never heard of that Debian tool before.

Thank you for your words and your service. I too was in the enlisted ranks spending 6 1/2 years in the Army in Combat Arms (Scout) and Special Operations (PSYOP) and then was granted early discharge to start fall semester at UNC in 1997.

The article does a great job with the mention of accepting diversity. Understanding ethnocentrism was one of the fundamental teachings from PSYOP and enlightened me in ways like nothing else.

Codeslush's words ring true and reflect what I would say regarding another poster's comments about capitalizing on skills. The Army allowed me to capitalize on life. My sacrifices were miniscule for what I think I gained with my service. We are fortunate that military service today in the U.S. is voluntary and as such is a very personal choice that is often misunderstood by many (even friends and family).

Be a generalist and open to any opportunity. If you are good at what you do and are dependable you'll make great connections with all ranks whether their enlisted or officer(commissioned/non-commissioned or warrant). And if you really excel there will be plenty of opportunities to work directly for (and yes with) O-6s and higher and see an entirely different military. If you're able and willing, the world by way of the military can be simply amazing.

I have always been a techie and still remember being playfully bashed for carrying around my Sharp 286 laptop after rotation back to staging at Hohenfels in Germany. The next hot startup, the successor to Geocities -> Friendster -> Myspace -> Facebook and the next bubble will be waiting for you to provide your date of birth and phone number whenever you're ready. Social media will still be around and solutions will still need to be solved. What won't wait for you is your youth and the opportunities that are tied to it.

I would choose the same path all over again today if I was 18 (or even 30) and wondering about what life might have in store for me. Toujours Pret!

Would it be possibly to also identify sites that share your information?

A great example: facebook.com Does not sell your private information.

But they obviously do share information and while this is apparent to most users, how many sites practice the same and users are not aware of it?

Also, any plans to capture change in privacy policies over time? Often times, site owners do not proactively notify users when their policies or legalese has changed.

It is meant to be used mostly as a configuration tool for the monitoring host. If the developer has recently updated/deployed then they are probably working on the site and can ensure monitors.txt is available.

Fantastic idea. I see humans.txt (http://humanstxt.org/) was an influence. Why not stay in a concise format like that?

I think Zed has found a great place to call home as I just realized he's created his own brand with LxTHW. I can envision LxTHW having a bright future with a lot of great topics awaiting his "Programming, Motherfuckers" attitude and amazing productivity.

Has anyone taken his teaching his online course?

Is there an equivalent of foobar2000 for Mac?

The only player I've used on a regular basis on Mac is Vox ( http://www.voxapp.didgeroo.com/ ).

Thank you for the link. I stick to my original question though and the reason is that I'm not in favor of domainers or "domaining as a business."

This is innovation?

"Also today, professional domain name trader Winged Media, based in Australia but now with an office in the US, announced a $3 million investment from the Carnegie Innovation Fund."

If you're interested in Haskell then yes it is a good presentation. In my opinion, Bryan is one of the more thoughtful speakers around.

Slides are here: http://bos.github.com/strange-loop-2011/talk/talk.html#%281%...

Navigation uses keyboard arrows.

He had a similar/same talk about a month prior and here is the video on Vimeo if you're not a fan of InfoQ's format:

http://vimeo.com/27192476 (Bryan O'Sullivan - Building Solid Distributed Applications with Haskell and Riak)

Tv(with no Nielsen surveys/monitoring), phone(with no dinner marketing calls) and mail(with no catalogs or AOL cds) works wonderfully. Let me pay for my services and be a hermit. I understand not everyone wants to pay for services and having that choice is great. Not everything has to be social.

To put things into better perspective, here is the letter from the B&N CEO that was sent out some weeks ago informing Borders' customers of the acquisition of some assets. The sale was approved by a federal bankruptcy court.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/container/stores.asp?PID=39742

I think that they've done a fine job with disclosure and much better than many companies have done.

"Trusted and Dependable" and "Bank grade AES-256 bit encryption"

Does that mean client-side encryption yet? Businesses are expected to use this without it?

Any comments from Dropbox staff here?

Am I the only one who's never heard of Klout until now? To me, they've failed at their own service.

So for an individual, Klout just reaffirms one's ego and then rewards with special opportunities for consumerism?

Truecrypt is not an option for the majority of users. You've gone from a slick user experience to one of..."Why not just keep things on my USB stick again?"

These are solved problems as evidenced by other providers like Spideroak and Wuala where encryption happens by default on the client's device.

At the very least, Dropbox can offer this as an option. With the recent funding, if they are planning to offer business plans...surely encryption will be default there at least?

Yes it does. The problem is explaining the purpose of Truecrypt and it's use to the audience of those who read mainstream press articles such as written by Pogue. If the incorporation of encryption is not as slick as the rest of the product experience then it won't be used.

I don't mind my recipes for oatmeal cookies falling into the wrong hands. But the new junior food scientist at Coca-Cola who decided to store a copy of the secret recipe on their Dropbox folder so they can do some testing at home might be forewarned of this problem. Or for a real world example, the poster a few comments below who stores student grades on a Dropbox folder. I cringe.

Each time a prompt for an alternative news reader appears, this one seems to get some attention: http://www.newsblur.com/

I personally just use the newsreader built into Opera now. Just good enough for my needs.

From the article...

"I realize that not everybody works on such elaborate file-shuttling projects. But try Dropbox for its ability to keep your important files everywhere at once. Or try it as an automatic, silent, encrypted backup of your essentials. Or try it so that you can get at your computer’s files from your phone."

When will Dropbox implement client-side encryption? Dropbox is a pleasure to use. Recommending Dropbox as a backup of certain documents is fine. Recommending Dropbox as a backup for important/essential documents where privacy is a concern is not ok.

A common use of Bluetooth with mobile phones has been for a wireless headset or handsfree operation in a car. This is another example of that but it happens in your home using cordless phone sets as the extension.

Substitute space with "Google space", add in Google becoming an online/offline identity provider without the same access(or oversight) as your local County Clerk of records, add in shareholder value and the the innocent concerns of networking with friends and co-workers(oh, Google is considerate enough to add companies and other entities to the mix to increase the fun party factor because nothing is free right?) becomes apparent.

Yah, nothing could go wrong. Joe user's medical practice's patients, his frat buddies, the parents of his children's soccer league, his NRA buddies and the local chapter of Curious Men all are interested in the exact same photo of Joe? As I said, perspective is interesting. Lack of understanding is less interesting.

Trust is ever-changing. For instance, if you trust sane thoughts or actions from an entity only to one day perceive that the same source creates not so-sane thoughts or actions, do you lose trust in that entity? Perspective is an interesting thing just as is your pseudonym here.

As bad_user said, who said Facebook is getting a pass? Facebook started out with very limited reach requiring a university affiliation. Seemed pretty safe and close-knit at the time. Membership has grown to anyone and privacy has slid ever since.

Must be a Manhattan thing. Life moves fast there huh?

Yes, they support multiple phones. Check the Amazon link that portman provided. It appears that all the major cordless manufacturers have sets that support this now. It's been pleasant to use since it (I'm using a Uniden set) has "just worked" for me since day one.

I'm actually going to set this up for my elderly mother for Christmas who has a regular landline but also a "dumb" cellphone. Her hearing is not that great so if the cellphone is not in her immediate proximity, she'll miss the call. In this case, I'm just interested in the redundancy for phone service in case of emergencies. It doesn't change how she will use the cordless phone at all but does provide us(her children) with more piece-of-mind. It really is this good.

Maybe not everything has to be a purely "for-profit" endeavor. There are alternatives and there are plenty of people willing to support change.

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/10/to_reform_capitalism_ceos_sh...

That is correct. I also couple it with a VOIP service but cordless phones can be used with only cell phone if you want that. I'm using Uniden but I know AT+T and Panasonic also have cordless sets that offer this "cell link" feature as well. The key is just ensuring you've got compatible versions of Bluetooth. If you're on a fairly recent cellphone, it's almost a given it will have Bluetooth.

1. I use a cordless phone at home with stations in every room. The base unit has bluetooth which when paired with cellphone(s) is able to receive calls. I drop the cell phone off at my charging station when I get home and never pick it up again until I'm ready to leave the house.

4. Isn't this the Peek(getpeek.com) device?

6. Doesn't Windows have to work first before a working clone can even be fathomed? I kid.

Remote wipe is starting to appear on Android devices. Check the Samsung Stratosphere that was released this week. It also has Cisco's SSL VPN client on it.

http://www.talkandroid.com/65998-verizon-wireless-officially...

That funny word "enterprise" to me means that in fact the employee is not trusted so here's the device that's been chosen for you and your app market has been provided by the IT staff. If you need assistance, contact the help desk but be forewarned they they are fully engaged supporting Windows 95 and NT because the budgeteers have decided IS is a scary cost center.

Replace "phone" with a channel in unified communications and you have what is already happening in the post pc era. Look at tablets that use something like Totkumi's Line2 for a soft VOIP device over 3g/4g/wireless/voice and this is where we're headed. The small, handheld device that is currently called a phone(now smartphone) will in short order be the single device we use. Plug the phone into your dock and you've got your computer(such as current Motorolas).

Laptops and tablets are already being used in certain school districts and required as such. Convincing the mobile phone providers that we only need IP access and not expensive monthly phone bills is going to be one ugly battle. Hence, my asking who's going to cover the subscription costs until this becomes settled and normal. And relying on someone like Google to make this "free" while becoming my child's identity provider is not OK.

So for the parents who are already struggling to keep their own phone(or perhaps unable to afford one) they now have to purchase one for their child(ren)?

It would seem we're into some kind of transition phase where digital education for K-12 will have to be completely furnished by school districts or this is another class divide. Many can't afford phones or laptops for their children. Where will the responsibility lie for this?