Re: [Discuss] Qualcomm's Gimbal context awareness SDK

2012-07-15 Thread Tom Metro
Stephen Ronan wrote: > Perhaps relevant to future functionality where Apple may or may not play > a leadership role: > http://scobleizer.com/2012/07/11/mobile-3-0-arrives-how-qualcom-just-showed-us-the-future-of-the-cell-phone-and-why-iphone-sucks-for-this-new-contextual-age/ The gist of this is t

Re: [Discuss] cloud storage

2012-07-15 Thread Jay Kramer
I always wondered how well rsync would work at mirroring if the files were encrypted prior to syncing. jay ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] XBMC ported to Android

2012-07-15 Thread Jay Kramer
Tom, Thanks for the post Jay ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] cloud storage

2012-07-15 Thread Eric Chadbourne
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Jay Kramer wrote: > I always wondered how well rsync would work at mirroring if the files > were encrypted prior to syncing. > > jay I use rsync at work to back up stuff like the shared drive and it works great. Fast too. Thousands of files. Some encrypted but

Re: [Discuss] cloud storage

2012-07-15 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: > > If you put everything into a directory, tarred and then say gpg > --symmetric, and then rsync'ed that would be a mistake I think because > it would have to copy the whole huge file. You are probably right, but I can't tell if you thi

Re: [Discuss] Tired of unreliable external drives... recommendations?

2012-07-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Tom Metro > > It would be interesting to get an expert's opinion on this, backed up > with some long term statistics, to see if drive reliability, at the > higher capacities, is in

Re: [Discuss] cloud storage

2012-07-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Tom Metro > > Steve dismissed out of hand a few products that met the security > criteria, but where implemented in Java (like Wuala). His take is that > Java is fine for a free pro

Re: [Discuss] cloud storage

2012-07-15 Thread Eric Chadbourne
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote: > Rsync does chunk at a time > checksumming on both ends of a transmission before sending anything > for a modified file. Excellent clarification Bill. Thanks. - Eric ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [Discuss] Tired of unreliable external drives... recommendations?

2012-07-15 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >... > As an IT guy and Computer Engineer, and EE, working for CS/EE / chip > companies, I encourage companies to stick with big name brands where they've > sold millions of the same drive under warranty (such as ... buy your Dell > and App

[Discuss] astronomy suggestions?

2012-07-15 Thread Eric Chadbourne
Hi All, I'm looking for a new hobby and astronomy looks perfect. Low entry barrier, amateurs can actually assist real scientists and it's fascinating. I just downloaded stellarium and omg is it excellent. Works great on my terribly under powered laptop with an amd c-50 cpu. Any astronomy geeks o

Re: [Discuss] astronomy suggestions?

2012-07-15 Thread Betsy Schwartz
There's a fellow who runs free public Astronomy nights in Arlington http://arlingtonastronomy.org/ http://www.wickedlocal.com/arlington/news/x919526023/Eyes-on-the-night-sky#axzz20jKh6YpV I bet he knows where the local astronomy geeks hang out, and if Arlington is in your orbit you could drop by

Re: [Discuss] astronomy suggestions?

2012-07-15 Thread ninurta2005
As far as Astronomy applications go, I would recommend Celestia. It's free, open source and runs on multiple OS platforms. http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/ ~Paul --- On Sun, 7/15/12, Eric Chadbourne wrote: From: Eric Chadbourne Subject: [Discuss] astronomy suggestions? To: "BLU" Date: S

Re: [Discuss] Agile Programming OT?

2012-07-15 Thread David Kramer
On 07/14/2012 02:27 PM, Mark Woodward wrote: > We sort of had a little dust-up about agile programming techniques. > Ruffled feathers and I hope no hurt feelings. Hop on over to Slashdot > http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/07/14/1242237/new-analyst-report-calls-agile-a-scam-says-its-an-easy-o

Re: [Discuss] cloud storage

2012-07-15 Thread Tom Metro
Jay Kramer wrote: > I always wondered how well rsync would work at mirroring if the files > were encrypted prior to syncing. Lousy, though with modern hardware and fast networks, you might not notice that full files are being transferred any time a minor portion is changed. There are projects to

Re: [Discuss] cloud storage

2012-07-15 Thread Richard Pieri
On 7/15/2012 10:11 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Lousy, though with modern hardware and fast networks, you might not notice that full files are being transferred any time a minor portion is changed. Yep. Encrypt a file with 'gpg -c'. Encrypt it again with 'gpg -c' using the same pass phrase. You'll

Re: [Discuss] astronomy suggestions?

2012-07-15 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm looking for a new hobby and astronomy looks perfect. Low entry > barrier, amateurs can actually assist real scientists and it's > fascinating. I just downloaded stellarium and omg is it excellent. > Works great on my terri

Re: [Discuss] encryption and rsync

2012-07-15 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: > I just started experimenting with client-side EncFS and running rsync or > unison on the underlying native file system. ... Sync underneath EncFS > compares encrypted file to encrypted file... According to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encfs Two directories are involved i