Posts by JanMeijer

It would also be a colder world for some people, that one planned data center around Hamar is capable of consuming 1% of annually generated power in Norway. This type of development combined with the effects of connecting the Norwegian power market with the European mainland one through some big new cables the last years, ensures our power prices are equalising with those in Europe, meaning they also double, triple etc. Lucky for us it's usually light and warm over here, thanks to all the cat dancing videos.

Re: Am I missing something...

Putting a large number of directable projectiles in orbit, what could possibly go wrong all the time there is not an extinction level event helping us sort out our political differences?

All jokes aside: iirc there's a treaty regarding not militarising space. Having a large number of projectiles up there might be considered a bad idea by those not holding the controls over them.

Aside from the other arguments regarding cost, and our unwillingness to consider anything other than our next summer holiday to be of paramount importance. The latter could perhaps be countered on a political level by introducing 20 year election terms, but that solution would come with its own set of well-demonstrated challenges.

Re: Magnanimity

Iirc his work wasn't progressing because he was sidelined professionally due to his private life preferences.

Re: Pleeeease.....

Given that it would control ICMBs, shouldn't that custom system be called SkyHAI?

Re: AIS

VHF and 5 watts sounds remarkably similar to what I remember of the specs of personal locator beacons, the signals of which also are picked up by (receivers on) orbiting satellites.

I'm guessing that's not a coincidence, you wouldn't have any knowledge of (pointers about) that, would you? Curious!

Re: Spaceship Moon?

I thought the Dwarf was parked on an asteroide

That was the Mars Climate Orbiter which in a fit of identity crisis caused by competing measurement units decided to become a Lander

According to Rimmer it's always aliens.

Re: So obvious, why doesn't everyone do it?

Perhaps people are simply following the example of others? Besides, creating a legal-administrative home for your open source project is hard work. That's why I'm happy my project is at a European software conservancy foundation incorporated in the Netherlands.

The local politicians gave permission & were all for it. It's the national road authority, division "Østfold", based in Oslo, that displayed a lacking sense of humor and perspective. Norway has a wide and diverse geography, maybe humor is equally diversified over the country? ;)

Pictures of happy test subjects:

http://www.smaalenene.no/nyheter/article7252484.ece

Google translate is your friend

Re: filesender

The FileSender project is working to overcome these limitations. We have code we plan to release in Q1 2014 as a usable 2.0-alpha version featuring multi-file support and fine-grained control over email receipts. The code will be undergoing a code security review about a week from now, our planning assumes no major dramas in that review.

The 2.0 version also includes the high-speed upload module, although that might be less interesting for organisations outside Research & Educational networking. Although the primary target for FileSender is the research and higher education community we welcome any feedback from (and obviously use by) other sectors. The major advantage we see with FileSender is the complete control you can have by running your own instance. We strive to make it easy to use and easy to setup/operate. Any reasonably capable Linux sysadmin should be able to have it up and running in about an hour.

If you want to give the multi-file version a try proceed to terasender.uninett.no and pick the one that has multi-file in its name. Get yourself a self-registered account and off you go. It's a test box so no guarantees. Feedback is appreciated.

Jan Meijer

Project lead FileSender

Re: Banks and Government

Fokus bank, now Danske Bank. Uses a Java applet. I guess I should take it as good news to be unable to spend any money on frivolous bill paying until Oracle decides to fix java.

Re: About time. Now how about...

Within the current SMTP protocol framework there no obstacles to deploy a global x.509 certificate authenticated MTA infrastructure using TLS. Implemented by most popluar MTAs. Allowing only legit (white-listed) MTAs into the infrastructure.

There's the little practical detail of the current problems with SSL CAs, the slightly bigger problem of large scale SSL certificate deployments being stubbornly difficult (or the deployment of the PKI-understanding mutation throughout the human population taking longer than expected) but other than that, it's a piece of cake.

What it'll give you though until large chunks of the Internet start refusing mail from other large chunks is authenticated spam. Happy happy happy, joy joy joy. Maybe if harbouring spam senders would slap sanctions or an invasion on a country might it help but even then I have my doubts.

Re: Still none the wiser

Check their products list: looks like it sells all the software, hardware and services a telco needs to guide surgical strikes at customers' wallets. "A bit more lock-in there.....neh, not that customer group, them we can pillage without trickery".

nice to see someone

still believes in hones peer-review ;)

my point exactly

having something up there with the capability to create instant 1km diameter cropcircles anywhere sounds not unequal to having nucleair warheads up there. Stuff like "large things that are easily turned into serious weapons" up there is nice when we've solved this little detail of warring nation states.

Who would be in control of said station? If it's not me (all hail your future dictator) I won't trust it ;)

Been there, done that, got the t-shirts, moved on

I tried nearly all on the desktop over the last 13 years. Various versions of Windows, NetBSD, FreeBSD, various Linux distros. Never on hardware older then 2.5 years. Windows? Usually works, also with the new thingamajig you just bought and plugged in. At least audio with skype worked flawlessly. Linux? There was and is always something that needs some days of fiddling. I grew especially tired of the audio not working out of the box with Skype.

1 year ago I converted. Mac. It gives me what I need for my job. A gui layer that Just Works. Not perfect, but it works. And when I need more? Unix underneath with all my favourite goodies, partly delivered by Apple, rest delivered by mac ports.

Open source fundamentalism is all nice, but at the end of the day it has to *work* and allow me to Get On With It. I like to use my tools, not be my tool's tool.

And that's where many open source projects go wrong. "Then you just fix this, do that, twist and turn here". Right. Or I could go skiing rather then working out how to pottytrain my desktop.

Apple does that, making sure the tool doesn't get in your way, most of the time. Open source desktop products should get their act together. Tormenting people out of their spare time doesn't entice the masses.

Possibly La Palma

Spanish island, in front of Marocco's coast. Check the wikipedia article for the tsunami scaremongering stories. They appear to have been debunked though.

it was still usable

Ah, my apologies. The source article actually mentioned that "Leni" (iPhone user) said she could use it but that because of that use the cracking had increased. It actually took *me* quite a while to read through all the comments to make sure no-one had already stated the obvious ;)