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3 Reasons to Move Your QGIS Plugins to the New Repository

  1. Since the release of QGIS 1.8, Plugin Installer no longer includes the “add 3rd party repositories” button. This was an intentional design choice!
  2. The new official plugin repository at plugins.qgis.org keeps everything in one place making it easier for users to find documentation and report issues. It will also provide many long-wanted features such as a rating system for plugins. You can already sort by number of downloads to discover the most popular plugins.
  3. Last but not least: New users will not be able to discover your plugin if it is not in the repository.

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  1. pcav said:

    And if you don’t, please let us know why: if there are issues, we’ll solve them.

    • Please be more specific about what you are looking for.

  2. anil said:

    is there any geography plugin which uses koeppen climatic classification where we can enter temperature and rainfall and get desired output

    • I don’t know of such a plugin.

    • I recommend contacting the author and/or the QGIS mailing list to find out if somebody is working on it or if there are other plugins addressing the same issues.

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I would like to view the Moon in Stellarium on particular dates and times and see its natural phase. When I use the search button to find the Moon at specific dates/times it always appears "full", but without topographical detail. I would like to know if the program supports being able to view the Moon in its natural phase, given a specific date and time and if the program would allow the details to identify certain topographical features such as dark patches like the Maria or Seas as well as other major lunar craters.

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Monday, September 15th

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Tuesday, September 16th

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Wednesday, September 17th

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Coffee prices are up +52.5% YTD and +39.5% YoY.

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Recent News Flow

Monday, September 8th

  • BAGL appointed Frank G. Paci as President and Chief Executive Officer.  Interim CEO Michael Arthur will continue to serve on the company's Board of Directors.  Mr. Paci most recently served as President and CEO at McAlister's Deli and has held prior roles at The Pantry, Pizza Hut and Burger King.
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Tuesday, September 9th

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  • BJRI increased its existing unsecured revolving line of credit to $150 million from $75 million and announced the opening of its newest restaurant in Denton, TX.
  • KKD announced a greater Maryland and Washington DC area development agreement with Monument Restaurant VII for the development of 20 new Krispy Kreme shops over the next several years.

Wednesday, September 10th

  • YUM increased its quarterly dividend by 10.8% to $0.41.

Friday, September 12th

  • DRI Starboard released its transformation plan for Darden Restaurants in a 294 page slide deck.  If enacted, the activist believes its plan could unlock $19-38/sh in value.  This excludes the potential value that could be unlocked through an Olive Garden turnaround.
  • SBUX 6.2 million share block trade was priced at $75.15 through BoA.
  • LOCO celebrated the grand opening of its newest restaurant in Sacramento, CA.

Sector Performance

The SPX (-1.1%) outperformed the XLY (-1.3%) last week.  In aggregate, casual dining and quick service stocks outperformed the SPX.

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Hugh Pickens writes "'I think it's going to be horrendous,' said Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak when asked about the shift away from hard disks towards uploading data into the cloud. The comment came in a post-performance dialogue with audience members after a performance in Washington of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, monologist Mike Daisey's controversial two-hour expose of Apple's labor conditions in China. 'I think there are going to be a lot of horrible problems in the next five years.' The engineering wizard behind the progenitor of today's personal computer, the Apple II, expanded on what really worried him about the cloud. 'With the cloud, you don't own anything. You already signed it away through the legalistic terms of service with a cloud provider that computer users must agree to. I want to feel that I own things,' Wozniak said. 'A lot of people feel, "Oh, everything is really on my computer," but I say the more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the cloud, the less we're going to have control over it.'"
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  • by crazyjj ( 2598719 ) * on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:08PM (#40897083)

    ....but, sadly, doesn't.

    • by swanzilla ( 1458281 ) on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:15PM (#40897207) Homepage

      ....but, sadly, doesn't.

      (The other one isn't saying much)

    • by Kenja ( 541830 ) on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:22PM (#40897305)
      He's not at Apple and has not been for a long while.
    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      Yea. Three days after Apple gives an attacker access to an iCloud account that then wipes several of the owner's devices (and deletes his Google account among other damage), the Woz "predicts" that horrible problems may happen. I've been avoiding "the cloud" and telling my friends to do the same. He's smart, I'm paranoid.
    • by sycodon ( 149926 ) on Monday August 06, 2012 @04:46PM (#40898947)

      "the shift away from hard disks towards other people's hard drives"

      I hate the term "the cloud". It's fucking remote servers is all. I can just see some guy with 20 years experience managing network server applies for a job and HR screens him because he doesn't have "Cloud" in his resume. It's a stupid marketing term that people are taking for a technology.

  • Creator vs. Consumer (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Gothmolly ( 148874 ) on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:11PM (#40897151)

    Woz is a creator. So was Jobs. But they both needed Consumers - Jobs was more aware of that than Woz obviously.

    Woz wants to build something, own it, and carry it around in his pocket. Most modern IT stuff is designed to give you a means to consume content.

    • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 ) <(mojo) (at) (> on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:22PM (#40897313) Homepage

      User generated content has been a revolution. People get news and information from each other instead of central news agencies and big content providers. The whole attraction of things like Twitter and Facebook, and of course Slashdot, is the user generated content.

      People are no longer consumers of content, they are creators. The shift now is that instead of creating on your PC and uploading you can create online directly. I have documents that I made entire in Google Docs, web pages and blog posts written entirely in a CMS, G+ posts that never touch my HDD. I back what I can up locally but a lot of people use them as their only storage medium, trusting that they will never go away or steal their work or otherwise abuse it. And as Woz says, no-one reads the T&Cs.

      • by cpu6502 ( 1960974 ) on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:28PM (#40897397)

        And what happens when the cloud provider decides to start "messing" with your online creations? Just last week Amazon announced they were converting people's stored-on-the-cloud songs to higher quality 256kbps versions.

        In theory that sounds okay, but what if Amazon makes a mistake and replaces a personal song (perhaps you singing David guetta's "Titanium") with the official song release. Ooops. You just lost your creation.

        You can't trust other people with your data, anymore than you can trust a random stranger to borrow your CD or car and return it unscratched/clean.

        • Just goes to show you that there isn't one pure solution to all problems.

          That's a central tenet to detecting bullshit. There is no man made system that can solve all problems. When someone comes at you with the phrase like "the cloud is the perfect solution" then you should detect bullshit.

          Nothing is ever going to replace your own local backup copy. Your own local backup copy supplements your online backup copy and vice versa.

        • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

          That was exactly my point. I keep backups of all of it because I don't trust the cloud providers. Google Docs could randomly change the UI to make it unusable, Picasa could device to ditch the original resolution versions of my photos, Twitter could device my weather station isn't a real person with tweeting rights.

          It's damn convenient, but you can never trust them with anything valuable.

      • There is a difference of "content" between then and now. The average user is easily creating or distributing textual or photographic content only. They are not creating anything of new complexity or functionality, which used to be the "content" of computing of yesteryear.

        There are many things from graphic design to webserver programming and mobile apps that the average user is only a Consumer of, not a producer, because the barrier is not technology but skills. These devices are not intended for creation

    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      by osu-neko ( 2604 )

      Woz is a creator. So was Jobs. But they both needed Consumers - Jobs was more aware of that than Woz obviously.

      Woz was his own consumer. He probably would have lived a perfectly happy life with none beyond that and maybe a few fellow enthusiasts.

  • He's right (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Jailbrekr ( 73837 ) <> on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:13PM (#40897181) Homepage

    you *should* be concerned. It started with hotmail when they disabled the ability to download email to your home computer, and its only going to get worse. I literally cannot archive my email to an offline store and it is, in effect, owned by Microsoft. They can do with it as they wish, and I can't stop them.

    • Screen scrape 'em 'til it hurts. I'll bet there's a script floating around somewhere that makes it easy.
    • pop (Score:5, Informative)

      by slashmojo ( 818930 ) on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:32PM (#40897453)

      Hotmail provides pop3 access so you can certainly download your mail.

    • This is why I still run my own mail server.
    • Don't rely on freebies then. It's only a couple bucks per month to use rackspace's email services and a couple bucks per year for a domain and you can use it how you want. It's acessible to most people. For those with more ability run your own server. But if you're using a free service don't be surprised if they want you going to the site and looking at ads.
    • Then why use Hotmail? YOU are the reason they're doing this - because you do nothing!

  • by Kenja ( 541830 ) on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:14PM (#40897191)
    Only people who are really in favor of the cloud are in management.
    • by Jailbrekr ( 73837 ) <> on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:24PM (#40897341) Homepage

      I disagree. there are some valid applications for the cloud, such as outsourcing low volume or low priority services such as FTP or fax. But once you cross the line into storing office documents then the business risk grows exponentially. It is all about finding a balance.

    • by mlts ( 1038732 ) on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:29PM (#40897407)

      There are a number of people who gain from moving stuff to the cloud:

      Cloud providers for one. They can charge rates near the cost of a full fledged data center [1], and they really have no responsibilities for security or backups. Security breaches can be hushed with the finger pointed at the client. Legal action? If someone finds something sue-able, good luck getting past the binding arbitration clause which essentially sue-proofs the cloud provider. Of course, don't forget that if/when that cloud provider goes under, the next owner has full and unrestricted access to the server data (the data from Borders being bought out by B&N comes to mind). Far less scrupulous organizations can buy the servers too. PII? Here is the magnet link, hope someone cares enough to keep the seed going.

      PHBs without any ITIL or other basic IT experience love the cloud. It means that someone else shoulders things and keeps staff small. Plus, it isn't their responsibility should data get lost or a security breach happen. By the time blame actually gets assigned, the breach would be forgotten about.

      Blackhats love the cloud. Imagine having access to the backend hard drives of hundreds of businesses, all at once. Just sit back and copy anything relevant, or if bored with a business, start altering some figures on stored documents so that company faces big penalties from the IRS or the EU. If an intruder really hates the cloud provider, it doesn't take much to drop all backend LUNs, stored snapshots, and replications.

      ISPs love the cloud. They can also watch the bits fly past, not to mention the bandwidth costs for businesses relying on the cloud.

      Of course, the cloud has its uses. However, once someone gets an encryption key management framework in place, an ability to have known good backups, yadda, yadda, with the bandwidth charges and charges for fatter pipes to and from the cloud service, it might be far cheaper to just have a data center.

      [1]: Regardless of where the servers are located, a company has to buy them to host locally, or is going to pay someone else's cost to have them in their facility. The cost of the server will be paid for, somehow.

    • by MickyTheIdiot ( 1032226 ) on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:45PM (#40897615) Homepage Journal

      I wish I could attribute the quote, but someone said that, as far as us old IT farts are concerned, "the cloud" is just a synonym for "someone else's server."

      There are people that know stuff in IT and there are bullshit marketing artists. The latter category are the ones that think "the cloud" is something new. People will put too much data to "the cloud" and get burned and the pendulum will swing back the other way again to local storage.

  • by oakgrove ( 845019 ) on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:16PM (#40897213)
    My Cloud recipe for success: encrypt all data you upload and use local apps to open/consume/create it all. Don't forget to use your own meatspace backup system of choice from time to time. All the taste none of the fat.
    • Still the issues of access. Ask WikiLeaks about that. All the encryption in the world doesn't matter if you can't access your files. And, if your files are backed up locally, aren't you just mirroring on a remote server?

  • by neokushan ( 932374 ) on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:16PM (#40897217)

    We've already seen what can happen when a cloud service goes down. Amazon and Microsoft's Azure have both went down recently, causing havoc for many businesses. When Megaupload went down, it caused a huge loss for many legitimate customers as well. If your Steam account gets suspended, or you disagree with the new TOS - you're shit out of luck, all that you "own" is gone for good and you can't do shit about it. Dropbox lost a shitload of emails due to a security breach, Sony lost the details for 70million+ customers for a similar reason. Every single example of a cloud operation that I can think of, be it a service or a product, has had issues and it's not going to change.

    The cloud is a wonderful idea in principal, but we need a completely different outlook on it. And possibly a hell of a lot of new laws governing ownership of the content.

    • Hey, I got a free The Daily WTF mug out of Microsoft Azure, so I consider it a net gain.

    • If your Steam account gets suspended, or you disagree with the new TOS - you're shit out of luck, all that you "own" is gone for good and you can't do shit about it.

      It every time sends me cold shivers through my spine when someone talks about his Steam library of hundreds of games, which they cherish in a same way like some bookshelf collection.

      • I actually have quite an extensive Steam collection myself, despite the above rant. I mean, the cloud certainly has its uses and I love that I can install a new PC, download steam and have all my games ready to download whenever. If something happens to my account, I will be pretty pissed off but it'll give me complete legitimacy in pirating every game I own - once again, the cloud to the rescue.

        Suffice it to say, I like steam, but their recent TOS change and the ever looming threat of account bannage do pi

      • It's funny, too. After railing about steam and their horrible TOS for so long and being shouted down by world + dog, I actually started thinking that maybe, just maybe, I was wrong and I was being a little unreasonable. So I bit the bullet and bought my first Steam game.

        It was Borderlands GOTY, on sale, on July 29. 2 days later, they came out with that new "We're above the courts" TOS and I had to try[0] to cancel my account. I'm only out 8 bucks, but that was seriously a facepalm moment. I hate being right

    • by oakgrove ( 845019 ) on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:52PM (#40897719)
      All of your points are correct but the risks are certainly manageable with due diligence and planning.

      Amazon and Microsoft's Azure have both went down recently, causing havoc for many businesses.

      We don't use either of these services since we don't really need the scale but I would imagine that provided they didn't go down too long, money is still saved in the aggregate. You have to look at the numbers and strike the right balance. What is the likely downtime of $CLOUD_IAAS_PROVIDER? Will that much downtime cost us more in money, goodwill, and customers than just building and maintaining our own gear? What hurts is just jumping on the bandwagon with both eyes closed. We use Google Apps here but we also keep copies of all of our documents and emails on the premises. The value adds like collaborative editing, etc. are nice but we could go a few hours without them. And we might not be able to get new emails during an outage but we can definitely read the old ones and send what we need to with different accounts temporarily. Running our own mail server isn't really something we're interested in getting into but so far Google's been pretty reliable and they'd be damn fools to misuse the little amount of strategic info they could glean from our communications as the goodwill fallout if something like that came to light would destroy them.

      When Megaupload went down, it caused a huge loss for many legitimate customers as well.

      A stack of blank DVDs is like 10 bucks at the walgreens down the street. There is no way I would make the mistake of thinking that something like or is some kind of legitimate back up service. That's pretty much laughable. Hopefully the word got out to people that don't realize this and they won't be making the same mistake again.

      If your Steam account gets suspended, or you disagree with the new TOS - you're shit out of luck, all that you "own" is gone for good and you can't do shit about it.

      I've never bought anything through Steam but as far as I can tell, the only thing you actually have to pay for is the games and DLC for the games you have. The social features are just added stickiness keeping people there but you aren't directly paying for them. I have a Steam account but only as a test of installing the client on Linux. It works, I can browse stuff and participate but I've never spent a dime. I say that to say this, if I lost access to my games, I'm pretty sure I could find some backups [] somewhere. I paid so I wouldn't feel bad at all doing that.

      Dropbox lost a shitload of emails due to a security breach

      That didn't have anything to do with their cloud stuff though as that was chalked up to an employee's stupidity of having a weak password on a laptop or something. It could have happened to anybody that happened to have some personal info about users. I think the UK lost a bunch of data a while back by some goof being careless.

      Sony lost the details for 70million+ customers for a similar reason

      Heh. Sony. No sympathy. Their customers didn't deserve that though. My suggestion is use a different email for all of your online stuff. Maybe use some pattern like or whatever floats your boat. Same thing for passwords. Of course nobody does that but it is a solution.

      Every single example of a cloud operation that I can think of, be it a service or a product, has had issues and it's not going to change.

      Yeah, if it's a server hooked up to the 'net, it has the potential to be hacked. Act accordingly and encrypt your data if you're uploading files, make backups, don't use the same credentials across different sites as you are trusting the security of the person you gave those credentials to and always assume that the provider will go under at some point or be bought out. Personally I use "cloud" services like its going out of style but I keep my wits about me and have had no problems yet.

    • The cloud is a wonderful idea in principal, but we need a completely different outlook on it. And possibly a hell of a lot of new laws governing ownership of the content.

      That is what will happen.

      Do you keep your money in a bank, or do you feel safer with cash (or gold nuggets) under your bed? People happily transfer their life's work into the cloud every day when they deposit their paychecks. There is trust, both in the banks and the government defining and enforcing rules. As people increasingly rel

  • by Moheeheeko ( 1682914 ) on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:16PM (#40897221)
    Use iCloud! no need for external harddrives! []

  • That Mike Daisey? (Score:5, Informative)

    by Hatta ( 162192 ) on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:16PM (#40897223) Journal

    Why would Woz legitimize the work of that liar []?

  • Everyone runs a cloud storage service (CSS) on their own computer(s). This service functions as a repository of all things yours, but has peer functionality, so my laptops can replicate what is on my SAN. So the same laptop does not always need to be on. Services (applications) can be assigned read/write permissions.
    Every cloud application provider (facebook etc) functions as a proxy. I tell the CSS to peer to facebook, and they use a mechanism similar to DHCP to negotiate the current location of the CSS. F

  • by SuperKendall ( 25149 ) on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:19PM (#40897263)

    An expose would reveal, well, reality.

    Mike Daisey was found to have fabricated all of the issues he raises against Apple.

    • by Xawen ( 514418 )

      Key clarification here. Mike Daisey was not found to have fabricated any issues. The issues he brought up have mostly been revealed to be real.

      What he misrepresented was his actual experiences on his trip to the Foxconn and other manufacturing facilities. He included embellishments and some fabricated facts in the original version of his monologue. After the media issues following the NPR broadcast, he modified his monologue to remove the problematic content and discuss his original mistake.

      Having been

  • This is a no-brainer. Because they offer you pre-built solutions, for a monthly recurring fee that's cheaper than what you would have to pay (amortized over 5 years) to go it alone, they get to dictate the terms of the contract. They also get to fail and provide no "real" restitution for their failure. Your Virtualized Data Center is gone because we had a power outage in Bangladesh. Oh, you didn't buy the "Value Add Package", that means we don't have to provide any discounts or recompense for lost business

  • by alen ( 225700 ) on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:20PM (#40897269)

    for years car dealers pushed monthly payments to clueless buyers to scam them into higher prices. same with the cloud.

    dropbox, only $100 a year
    cloud storage of music? $25 a year via itunes or amazon
    remote backup? $50 a year
    virtual server? $xxxx a month. oh you don't like the service, OK just buy your own for $15000 plus hosting

    dollar here and dollar there and soon its real money

    when you think about it a machine at your location is a consumer class CPU/hard drive. cloud provider will have multiple machines with enterprise class CPU's, overpriced enterprise hard drives, precious metal support contracts, etc. I bet the hardware vendors love it and are pushing the cloud hype through the tech media

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      I bet the hardware vendors love it and are pushing the cloud hype through the tech media

      Actually, long term it isn't such a good prognosis for hardware vendors. The big winners (EC2 for example) do not bother investing in low-level resiliancy, meaning machines can fail at will without breaking Amazon promises. The guidance is that you, as service architect, should architect your solution for failure anyway, so why should amazon bother paying more to cover a risk that is best handled at app level? The bullet proof hardware configurations have very high profit margin.

      The other high profit mar

  • by John3 ( 85454 ) <john3&cornells,com> on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:20PM (#40897277) Homepage Journal

    Moving to the cloud, whether Apple or Microsoft or any of the other players, has two main purposes:

    - Guarantee ongoing profits through subscriptions and micro-payments to the providers for storage, use of cloud-based applications, or viewing or listening to cloud-based media.

    - Control of digital media, making DRM easy to enforce since your audio and video files will all be on their servers to be scanned, audited, and confiscated.

    Even with the fluctuating prices for hard drives the cost to store media locally is lower than ever, and there are plenty of options for sharing your media over the web yourself due to the low cost of high speed Internet access.

  • that without something else that allows everyone to easily store, sync and backup their data "owning" your data is a mostly meaningless feature.

    What we need is some kind of peer-to-peer cloud and syncing *protocol*, with distributed storage. Back in the good old days email and Usenet offered something like that.

    But just requiring people to run their own servers will never work. Because 99% of people just lack the knowledge, motivation and time to implement and use anything like that. Not seeing this problem

  • This story has buried the lead. All anyone's going to talk about is Woz this and Cloud that, when the real news should be that somehow people are continuing to pay money to go see Mike Daisey put on his one-man show that, despite coming across as if he's telling a true story about what he did, has in fact been proven to be largely false []. It became quite the embarrassment for the radio show This American Life when they aired portions of it as being true after he lied to them about specifics of the story.
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    I think Steve has been asleep for the past decade or so, here a few services that we spend 99% of our time on and don't own: Ebay Paypal Webmail Webdisk / Webstorage Photobucket et al YouTube Facebook, myspace et al Netflix We don't own squat...
  • by Junta ( 36770 ) on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:59PM (#40897827)

    So long as it's trivial to sync to your own privately held computer infrastructure.

    For storage, I love the concept of a provider keeping bits (that I have pre-gpged) for my reference. The problem is the trend seems to be more and more limited and convoluted storage capability in favor of more exploitive pricing and schemes (e.g. Amazon changing from a modest capacity to a pathetic song count on their cloud).

    For compute, so long as you own the DNS name and all the data needed to reconstruct your presence elsewhere, it gives smaller businesses a chance to have a presence without a lot of up-frot cost. Too bad the trend is overwhelmingly fewer and fewer businesses making this benefit moot.

  • The issues one will see with the cloud are the very same, if not worse, as those experienced with main-frames. What got people off main-frames was the low cost of mini and micro computers and the fact that organizations need control over mission-critical equipment and processes. Those who operated main-frames had become uncontrollable entities unto themselves. They had no accountability for corporate success but had every control over the means of success. That situation had to end and the new, smaller, and
  • Predictions come before the event in question. At this point, Woz is just stating a fact.
  • by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 06, 2012 @04:40PM (#40898889)

    Hasn't RMS already warned us all about this?

  • by xs650 ( 741277 ) on Monday August 06, 2012 @04:55PM (#40899067)
    There is nothing wrong with using the cloud as long as you don't care about privacy and have everything on the cloud backed up where you can easily retrieve it if the cloud blows away.
  • by Hazelfield ( 1557317 ) on Monday August 06, 2012 @07:13PM (#40900201)
    Today's word: The cloud.
    Explanation: Someone else's computer.
  • by Just Brew It! ( 636086 ) on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @01:03AM (#40902265)

    For a few years now I've been telling people "letting other people store your data for you means you don't control your data any more". I'm willing to use "the cloud" for some things, but any data I really care about is stored on hard drives and/or optical media that I own.

    You would think the loss of legitimate users' files in the Megaupload takedown, and the near-weekly reports of user databases of various online services getting broken into would drive this point home, but most people still seem to be blissfully ignorant of the issues.

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A new friend came to live with me! She is a Bosworth Spindle made from purpleheart. She weighs about 34 grams and spins like a tornado.

We are getting along together pretty well. She is even helping me spin this month’s spindler challenge. The theme is time travel. I have appropriately decided to spin a yarn inspired by the Back to the Future trilogy. The fiber is BFL in the Pulsar colorway from CorgiHillFarm.

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I’ve been enjoying my spring break! I’ve been spinning and crocheting. I’ve been working on several spinning projects. I’m also crocheting a baby blanket for a friend, which I haven’t taken pictures of yet.

Targhee fiber on my wheel. The colors remind me of the Joker from the Batman comics

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I’ve even done a little shopping after taxes.

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I have a spinning WIP to share. I’ve been navajo plying on the fly on my Threads Thru Time Turkish Spindle. Nothin’ like instant gratification =)

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I’ve always wondered, “Can you Navajo ply-on-the-fly on a Turkish spindle?” After pondering a way to do this, I have done exactly that. I came home from work today and after watching a video on this technique, I figured it out! I incorporated some of the basic steps, but altered some to work with a half hitch instead of a hook. I had asked around on ravelry to see if anyone else knew how to do this, and I couldn’t get a straight answer anywhere. If anyone is interested I could post pictures of how to do it or make a video maybe. I’m still new at it, but I think it could be really helpful.

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Yesterday, I ran into some problems with knitting socks on my addis. The only cure to my sock fever was to go back to my double pointed needles. I am working on some vanilla cuff down socks using the basic sock recipe (rav link) from Knitting Rules! by the Yarn Harlot. I using knitpicks Stroll Tonal sock yarn in the Canopy colorway. Cheers!

Good News: I figured out my gauge for the Opal yarn. That would be 6 stitches per inch.

Bad News: One of my addi size #3 circs has tarnished. Yes tarnished.

Why is it that whenever I get the inspiration to start a new project I am faced with hiccups such as this? I tried to clean the needles with toothpaste (recommended by a fellow raveler), but that did not really work. I’m really considering buying a new set tomorrow at my LYS, but I am strapped for cash.

Other good news: I stood up for myself today at work. My kindness and eagerness to help had been misconstrued as weakness. Today I set the record straight(in the most respectful and tactful way) with my boss. It felt really good.

Gauge Swatches

Like most knitters I usually just jump into a new pattern and I don’t give the gauge swatch any consideration. One of my biggest pet peeves, in general, is wasting my time.

I’m trying to change my ways. I’ve noticed that every time I’ve knit a pair of socks, they never came out the way I expected. Guess what? My gauge was off. I couldn’t wear the socks and ended up giving them away. I have one pair, out of 6 that I have been able to keep for myself. I’m sure no one else sees a problem with this.

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I’ve been thumbing through the Yarn Harlot’s Knitting Rules book and I’m going to try her basic sock recipe with some sport weight yarn. I’m also doing two at a time from the toe up. So there are some conversions that will happen with that, but the biggest thing is getting to know my gauge. With the help of the Yarn Harlot’s book and this article from knitty I am going to give it a shot.


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Abstract: Bosonic colored group field theory is considered. Focusing first on dimension four, namely the colored Ooguri group field model, the main properties of Feynman graphs are studied. This leads to a theorem on optimal perturbative bounds of Feynman amplitudes in the "ultraspin" (large spin) limit. The results are generalized in any dimension. Finally integrating out two colors we write a new representation which could be useful for the constructive analysis of this type of models.
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Phishing scams may still be one of the most rudimentary examples. Through email or a phone call, a malicious party can pretend to be someone else—an IT administrator, coworker, etc.—and simply ask questions to retrieve sign-in credentials. This may sound too simple to work, but it’s one of the most effective forms of hacking. Nonetheless, the majority of companies are content to simply warn their employees about this type of thing, despite the fact that it keeps happening over and over.

On the other end of the spectrum, you have brute force attacks. These are generally the preferred method of attack for those who have a bit more technical acumen. This involves using software that is decidedly less refined. Once set to its task, brute force software will simply try combination after combination of characters until one of them finally works.

That might sound hard to believe, but it’s very possible, especially when you consider how simple most passwords are. Many hackers put a Python script to work and leave it for a day or two before returning to find the access they wanted.

Even that hardly scratches the surface of what is possible though. The point is that if you don’t have comprehensive security measures in place, your business’ entire digital infrastructure—from your website to the records you keep on customers—will become an irresistible target. Worse still, you could get hacked and not even know it.

There’s good news though. As long as you understand the three-pronged security approach currently available to companies like yours, you’re unlikely to make a very appealing target to cyber attackers.

Single Sign-On (SSO)

The first security measure you should know about is single sign-on. SSO has become a necessity for most companies because of how many passwords employees need to use these days.

A decade or so ago, they may have only needed one or two. Now, though, most people’s jobs involve signing onto multiple platforms throughout the day. They could easily need a dozen different passwords just to do their job.

Is there any chance they’re going to simply remember them all? Of course not! Not if you want them to pick strong passwords of at least six characters that include uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters and not if you insist, as you should, that they don’t pick anything easy like a version of their last name or favorite movie.

These demands are why so many employees end up choosing “Password” or just “123456” for passwords and then, predictably, get hacked with little effort. With SSO, your employees only have to remember one password. Even if they each need to use 100 throughout the day.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

This is where multi-factor authentication (MFA) comes in. With MFA, no one factor of identity (like a password) will be enough to get into your company’s most protected area. Instead, at least two will be required.

Where MFA takes things a step further, though, is by requiring different factors of identification. This is how you avoid the problem of an employee picking “Password” and “123456” for their two passwords and calling it a day.

The three factors used for MFA are:

  • Something you know (a password)
  • Something you have (a keyfob)
  • Something you are (your fingerprint)

Use any combination of these three factors and you have multi-factor authentication!

A hacker may be able to get a user’s password, but they won’t get their smartphone at the same time (if they do, presumably this won’t go unnoticed, making it possible to change the other password immediately).

Password Management

With a good password management system, virtually the entire process can be automated. Not only do they provide a central hub to your employees for managing their passwords, but this also gives you the opportunity to easily audit how they’re being used to.

By themselves, any of the above resources would prove effective at keeping hackers away from your company’s sensitive data. Combined, though, they will prove to be too formidable a force for any cyber attack. No hacker wants to waste their time trying to battle the Power of Three when there are easier targets out there relying on tired practices for protection.

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Four Ways to Know Your Business' Passwords are Safe

Four Ways to Know Your Business' Passwords are Safe

Passwords are your business’s first line of defense (and sometimes only line of defense) against a data breach. With only a single stream of characters protecting your company’s sensitive data—or the sensitive data of your clients if you work for an IT provider—from the nefarious forces that want to exploit the data for their own purposes, keeping your passwords safe at all times should be an extreme priority. But for many businesses, it isn’t. Or, and I see this more frequently, businesses think their passwords are safe, but they really aren’t.

To help you determine if the passwords that protect your business’s data, systems, and applications are secure, consider the following four checkpoints. If all four are true, then you’re on the road to password security. If one or more aren’t true, or you’re not sure, your data or your customers’ data could be at risk, and now is the time to reconsider your password security practices and look into implementing a more robust password management system.

1. Are former employees out there with your passwords?

Not every businessperson thinks about this question, but often when they do, it becomes obvious. Whenever someone leaves your employ, they take with them all the passwords they knew to access your shared systems and applications, social media accounts, network devices, and so on. Perhaps you trust your former employees not to use their knowledge for personal gain. Perhaps you don’t. Either way, those former employees are not under your control anymore, and once they let slip one of your passwords, it can be very hard to put that genie back in the bottle. Every time an employee leaves your company, you need a quick way to see what passwords he or she had access to and if those passwords were revoked, as well as a system for detecting when a former employee tries to gain access after he or she has left.

2. Is your password management system built for that purpose?

I’ve seen many different cobbled-together solutions that pass for password management systems in the companies I work with: spreadsheets, Word documents, smartphone apps built for single users. The unifying factor is none of these so-called “systems” were built with the password security requirements of a business in mind. That is, they don’t account for multiple users with multiple authority levels. They also don’t automate many of the password management best practices required for maximum password safety. And, as you’ve probably learned from your years in business, any system that requires manual human interaction introduces the potential for human error.

3. Can team members access only the passwords they need to access?

There is no reason for a junior technician to have administrative access to your most valuable customer’s systems. I am a big promoter of role-based access to passwords. I believe your team members should only have access to the passwords they need to do their job. This prevents them from either deliberately or inadvertently making destructive changes without permission from those in authority. Without a system that provides role-based access to passwords, however, it’s hard to prevent lower-level employees from seeing passwords they don’t need to see.

4. Do you have a way to audit your password management system?

When I talk about auditing your password management system, I mean having a way to monitor whether or not everything is working the way it should. That means your password security policies are being followed, all passwords meet your complexity and compliance requirements, and, perhaps most importantly, that the passwords stored in your system match those that are actually being used. After all, the most secure password management system is useless if it’s not storing the correct passwords. You should not have to wait to discover a password safety problem until someone manually checks for one, either. Your password management system should have a way to alert you automatically when something isn’t right.

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Our First Taste of Summer

We’ve had a few days of beautiful weather, and have been enjoying them very much.

We MAKE Micah wait until the thermometer reads 70-degrees before he can get out the pool … because we’re mean parents like that … and because he asks to get the pool out the first sunny day in February.

Last Wednesday, our thermometer read 77.  Pool time!  All 3 boys had so much fun, I had no choice but to put aside cleaning, chores, and other tasks, and spend the afternoon just soaking up the sunshine and my 3 beautiful boys.  And, there is nothing I’d rather do!

They took turns going down the slide, each time cheering for the brother whose turn it was.  For over an hour, my backyard was filled with gleeful cries of “Yea, Micah!  Yea, Matthew!  Yea, Jesse!”

Even when Matthew got cold, he continued to cheer from the sidelines.  I can’t tell you how much I loved hearing that little guy cry out, “Yea! Kia-ka!  Yea! Yeh-Yee!”

The sunshine did us all a lot of good.  It’s going to be a fun summer.

After these pictures were taken, I decided to try to plant a few things in our back “garden.”  Jesse decided to combine my gardening project with their pool fun … and the result was quite a muddy mess.  Fun, though!

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Gallagher reappointed as financial advisor to mayor

Rawlings-Blake has been hiring an array of consultants.

Above: Finance Director Edward Gallagher, with his successor Harry E. Black, shortly before his retirement last year.

Baltimore’s retired director of finance, Edward J. Gallagher, will continue as a senior advisor to the mayor, part of a growing team assisting Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on financial matters.

Gallagher’s reappointment to the same consulting job – with pay up to $54,480 – he was awarded last year is part of the Board of Estimates’ routine agenda this morning.

Gallagher, who used to sit in the front row at Board of Estimates meetings and take the place of the mayor when she was absent, has not been publicly visible at City Hall since his retirement from the $181,472 post in February 2012.

According to board documents, Gallagher’s duties over the next year “will include, but are not limited to” providing general advice and assistance to the mayor, the mayor’s office and to his successor, Harry E. Black.

Gallagher is also tasked with helping the mayor’s office present its capital budget and long-term finances to bond-rating agencies on Wall Street.

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Gallagher is not alone in the advice department.

In January, the board approved an agreement to pay up to $95,000 to William S. Ratchford II, retired director of the Maryland Despartment of Fiscal Services, to advise the mayor on the fiscal impact of legislation before the General Assembly. He will also advise the mayor “on various fiscal matters concerning the Baltimore City Public School System.”

Ratchford’s contract is in effect through December 31, 2013.

Last month, a new $100,000-a-year position was created specifically to direct the mayor’s 10-year financial plan, which was developed by a bevy of consultants led by The PFM Group, a Philadelphia-based financial advisory group.

In addition to a $461,000 report by PFM – which formed the basis of the mayor’s current proposals to curtail employee health benefits and increase firefighter hours to stave off long-term budget deficits – the mayor’s office has retained the Hay Group, a Philadelphia human resources consulting firm, and two Baltimore area consultancies, Walker Benefit Services and Advanced Benefit Solutions.

These groups are expected to advise and direct studies for the mayor for the next two years under a 2011 contract approved by the Board of Estimates. Already, the city has made a $125,000 supplemental payment for PFM’s advice.

The mayor’s office says the consultants have developed ideas that will help lower property taxes and place municipal government on a solid fiscal footing.

A recommendation by the PFM-Hay team, which reduced up-front premiums for municipal employees but higher out-of-pocket costs, are expected to save the city $10 million during the current fiscal year and $20 million next year, according to City Budget Director Andrew Kleine.

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Bluer than Deep Blue

Today I felt utter rejection. And no amount of banana fruit shake from Mister Kabab can make it possibly better. Long story but the bottom line is that I found out that I am still on the brink of NOT graduating. My thesis adviser affirmed of it. There’s still a chance that I’ll get myself delayed with the horrors of thesis. My mom called a while ago to ask when will I have my gradauation barong sewn. I just madly answered, “I’m in the middle of finals. That barong won’t rush.” And so…

I really want to escape. To be wild. To be free once more. My last semester in college has been a theme park and I hope it will be really my last in the first place. I can’t afford to not graduate. Not now, please, not now. I’m not trying to be an attention magnet here but I really need support. Especially yours.

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Hi, I'm Barry Viloria, 21 and not a blogger. I occasionally bitch about what's hot, what's not, what's life-threatening and what's Blake Lively wearing but I refuse to be called a "blogger." That's it.

Posted on March 26, 2010, in Hate Letters and tagged , , , . Bookmark the permalink. 12 Comments.

  1. Hey Barry! Matagal na kong di nakakadaan sa blog mo, tapos ito. The entry may not present the whole picture, but for all it’s worth, I know of at least 2 people who were at the risk of not graduating not because of grades but because of thesis. They made it in the end. So hold on and shake off those BVs. You just might come out victorious. 🙂

    • Hey welcome back! yeah, I’ve been really depressed with the rejection that I’ve received. Charming my thesis adviser may work but not all the time. Lol. But I can do this, thanks again!

  2. Aw, good luck, Barry. I know you’re all nerves right now. But I really hope for the best for you. Keep positive!

  3. when i am in these kinds of funks i use this prayer: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things i can; and wisdom to know the difference.

  4. gee… kaya mo yan.

    be positive… hehe…

    just include u in my prayers.. wag ng maging blu…

  5. karumal-dumal talaga ang thesis period. dati rin, muntikan ko ma-bitchslap lahat ng members ng panel nung pina-revise nila sa akin yung thesis ko , though minor revision lang naman.

    be strong! go graduate! positive energy, come on!!!

    (and yes, napadaan lang ako dito. hello!)

  6. kung hindi ka man makagraduate then be it. nobody wants it pero ganun talaga e. move forward, learn, fuck bitches.

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The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library at San Jose State University seeks an innovative and creative student-centered librarian to provide leadership in the area of Business Librarianship. The Business Librarian will collaborate with faculty, library staff, and campus staff, and on the development of innovative services and support for instruction and research.

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  • Experience and/or coursework in collection development, reference service/research consultation and information literacy/instruction
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  • Awareness of and sensitivity to the educational needs of diverse populations, as gained through cross-cultural study, training, teaching or other comparable experiences, for the provision of user-centered services, systems and programs
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