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Skype security flub leads to discovery of Chinese monitoring - Topic Powered by eve com... - 0 views

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secure voip

shared by Mike Chelen on 04 Oct 08 - Cached
  • SRTP usually, ZRTP less often, and VOIP over VPN least often. As long as both sides of the connection support SRTP or ZRTP and are configured to kick it in as needed, usually all I do is check for the lock icon.
  • Any clients which support OTR should be encrypted easily. Adium is pretty standard on OS X; Pidgin or Miranda work fine on the Windows end. And if the other person doesn't support OTR, the system falls back to unencrypted.
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Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - 0 views

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blog information kelly kevin

shared by Mike Chelen on 03 Oct 08 - Cached
  • The fastest growing entity today is information. Information is expanding ten times faster than the growth of any other manufactured or natural product on this planet. According to a calculation Hal Varian, an economist at Google, and I made, world-wide information has been increasing at the rate of 66% per year for many decades. Compare that explosion to the rate of increase in even the most prolific manufactured stuff – like concrete, or paper -- which averages only 7% annually over decades.
    • Mike Chelen
      Mike Chelen on 03 Oct 08
       
      What Mr. Kelly should say is that the amount of information which is measured is growing quickly. It is not possible to know all of the information available, however it is still important that the amount which we successfully record, store, and access is increasing.
    • Mike Chelen
      Mike Chelen on 03 Oct 08
       
      Surely the number of web pages is increasing, but how well does the number of web pages measure information? Perhaps actual network bandwidth usage, or total filesizes, would be a better measure?
  • The number of scientific articles published each year has been increasing in a steady rise for more than 50 years. Over the last 150 years the number of patent applications has increased. By this rough metric, knowledge is growing exponentially.
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  • We see the expansion of information everywhere. Less visible, harder to track, but exploding the same is the expanision of knowledge. The number of scientific articles published each year has been increasing in a steady rise for more than 50 years. Over the last 150 years the number of patent applications has increased. By this rough metric, knowledge is growing exponentially.
    • Mike Chelen
      Mike Chelen on 03 Oct 08
       
      Journal articles may represent an accurate measure of research progress, but both the publishing process and the patent system have many influences besides sheer volume of content.
  • Yet the paradox of science is that every answer breeds at least two new questions. More answers, more questions. Telescopes and microscopes expanded not only what we knew, but what we didn’t know. They allowed us to spy into our ignorance. New and better tools permit us new and better questions. All our knowledge about subatomic particles derived from the new questions generated after we invented an atom smasher.
    • Mike Chelen
      Mike Chelen on 03 Oct 08
       
      This is accurate, just as each question is answered, new questions appear. Here is not the downfall of the pursuit of knowledge, but its glory.
  • Mike Chelen on 03 Oct 08
     
    The fastest growing entity today is information. Information is expanding ten times faster than the growth of any other manufactured or natural product on this planet. According to a calculation Hal Varian, an economist at Google, and I made, world-wide information has been increasing at the rate of 66% per year for many decades. Compare that explosion to the rate of increase in even the most prolific manufactured stuff - like concrete, or paper -- which averages only 7% annually over decades.
Mike Chelen

Mozilla Labs Forum - weave on your own server - newbie question - 0 views

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dav mydisk.se weave web

shared by Mike Chelen on 02 Oct 08 - No Cached
  • 1. In Firefox - Tools/Weave/Preferences/Account make sure you are sign off. This prevents a lot of error messages you may get later. 2. Create new account at www.mydisk.se - for example: mydiskrocks 3. Login to www.mydisk.se using the account and password from step 2 4. Once you are inside mydisk.se make a folder called weave (folder creation make take some time as reported by other users). 5. In Firefox - Tools/Weave/Preferences/Advanced for server location put https://mydisk.se/mydiskrocks/weave/ (last slash is important) 6. In Firefox - Tools/Weave/SignIn - for username put mydiskrocks (mydisk account name) - for password put xxxxxxxxxxx (mydisk password) - for excryption passphrase put whatever you want (cannot be the same as the password) - click SignIn (takes some time since weave will have to create the sync folder structure at mydisk.se) 7. Enjoy 8. If any error messages shows up try to close and reopen the Firefox.
Mike Chelen

QCAD - 0 views

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cad open source

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