Re: [FRIAM] NIJ Challenge: Cost-Benefit of Sex Offender Registration Law
Hmm- Ok so here's a semi-philisphical question: Crime stinks- but aren't there better ways to adress these issues than the system we have developed? On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com wrote: Looking for a creative programming project? -tom johnson -- *From: *newsfrom...@ncjrs.gov *To: *doro...@dorothybracey.com *Sent: *Tuesday, July 2, 2013 2:32:33 PM *Subject: *NIJ Challenge: Cost-Benefit of Sex Offender Registration Law [image: National Institute of Justice: Research, Development, Evaluation] *Let the games begin: NIJ latest SORNA Challenge* Are you up for the challenge? Enter NIJ's first-ever SORNA Challenge! NIJ is seeking innovative ways of developing strategies to measure the implementation costs and public safety benefits of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA)—part of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006—by improving the effectiveness of sex offender registration and notification programs in the United States. Notification and registration programs have multiple public safety purposes, and empirical research on sex offenders has grown over the past decade. No study to date, however, has examined the multifaceted effects of SORNA, specifically the wide range of costs incurred in implementing the rules or the public safety benefits achieved. A cash prize of $50,000 is available. Deadline: Oct. 31. Learn more.http://nij.gov/funding/2013/sorna-challenge.htm Stay Connected [image: Twitter] https://twitter.com/OJPNIJ [image: Facebook] https://www.facebook.com/OJPNIJ [image: YouTube] http://youtube.com/OJPNIJ [image: RSS Feed] http://www.nij.gov/about/rss.htm [image: Podcasts] http://nij.gov/multimedia/podcast.htm DOJ link policies apply. http://www.justice.gov/legalpolicies.htm#other -- In lieu of the NIJ Conference, we are partnering with professional associations and participating in their annual events. See our panels at IACP, IACA, and NAPSA. Learn morehttp://www.nij.gov/nij/events/nij_conference/welcome.htm . -- Stay Connected with NCJRS! Register Now! Free registration with NCJRS keeps you informed about new publications, grant and funding opportunities, and other news and announcements. To register, visit: https://www.ncjrs.gov/subreg.html -- Unsubscribe https://puborder.ncjrs.gov/secure/register/optout.asp to periodic e-mail notifications from NCJRS or any of its sponsoring agencies. -- == J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USAhttp://www.analyticjournalism.com/ 505.577.6482(c)505.473.9646(h) Twitter: jtjohnson http://www.jtjohnson.com t...@jtjohnson.com == FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
[FRIAM] Fwd: Google Reader – Google
Just in case folks forgot http://www.google.com/reader/about/ The data will be available until noon July 15 via TakeOut. Just curious: Did many of us just move on and stop using RSS? I found myself considering that but after using a few of the alternatives, realized that I really depend on RSS! Google (see site above) claims RSS usage has declined. My guess that's right, its a somewhat older tech and predates social. Not sure I can think of a social RSS replacement. -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Google Reader – Google
I moved to Freedly, which I like a lot. Much prettier and with good functionality. On Jul 3, 2013 8:27 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Just in case folks forgot http://www.google.com/reader/about/ The data will be available until noon July 15 via TakeOut. Just curious: Did many of us just move on and stop using RSS? I found myself considering that but after using a few of the alternatives, realized that I really depend on RSS! Google (see site above) claims RSS usage has declined. My guess that's right, its a somewhat older tech and predates social. Not sure I can think of a social RSS replacement. -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] NIJ Challenge: Cost-Benefit of Sex Offender Registration Law
Gil - Good perspective. Optimizing the system in place isn't always anywhere near the ideal solution. I also want to add that my work with the DoD a few years back underscored the risks of even hinting at balancing human lives or harm against expense is a very sticky-wicket. We were building a multi-variate optimization tool because all of the existing methodologies and tools involved putting a value on human life which might have worked for the Generals and the Executive Branch of the moment but on average people don't like making those tradeoffs (openly?). I find the topic a bit creepy myself, so it is hard to consider engaging in this project (both the fact of child abuse of all kinds and the misuse/abuse of the stigma of that offense that occasionally gets leveled against innocent people), but I do think a multivariate optimization approach would be very important, allowing the bean counters and the bean counters alone to do the soul-sucking work of deciding how much a life is work. Others can simply balance the many factors against eachother according to their own relative values and work with more complex valuations than simple linear combinations. - Steve Hmm- Ok so here's a semi-philisphical question: Crime stinks- but aren't there better ways to adress these issues than the system we have developed? On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com mailto:t...@jtjohnson.com wrote: Looking for a creative programming project? -tom johnson *From: *newsfrom...@ncjrs.gov mailto:newsfrom...@ncjrs.gov *To: *doro...@dorothybracey.com mailto:doro...@dorothybracey.com *Sent: *Tuesday, July 2, 2013 2:32:33 PM *Subject: *NIJ Challenge: Cost-Benefit of Sex Offender Registration Law National Institute of Justice: Research, Development, Evaluation *Let the games begin: NIJ latest SORNA Challenge* Are you up for the challenge? Enter NIJ's first-ever SORNA Challenge! NIJ is seeking innovative ways of developing strategies to measure the implementation costs and public safety benefits of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA)---part of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006---by improving the effectiveness of sex offender registration and notification programs in the United States. Notification and registration programs have multiple public safety purposes, and empirical research on sex offenders has grown over the past decade. No study to date, however, has examined the multifaceted effects of SORNA, specifically the wide range of costs incurred in implementing the rules or the public safety benefits achieved. A cash prize of $50,000 is available. Deadline: Oct. 31. Learn more. http://nij.gov/funding/2013/sorna-challenge.htm Stay Connected Twitter https://twitter.com/OJPNIJ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/OJPNIJ YouTube http://youtube.com/OJPNIJ RSS Feed http://www.nij.gov/about/rss.htm Podcasts http://nij.gov/multimedia/podcast.htm DOJ link policies apply. http://www.justice.gov/legalpolicies.htm#other In lieu of the NIJ Conference, we are partnering with professional associations and participating in their annual events. See our panels at IACP, IACA, and NAPSA. Learn more http://www.nij.gov/nij/events/nij_conference/welcome.htm. Stay Connected with NCJRS! Register Now! Free registration with NCJRS keeps you informed about new publications, grant and funding opportunities, and other news and announcements. To register, visit: https://www.ncjrs.gov/subreg.html Unsubscribe https://puborder.ncjrs.gov/secure/register/optout.asp to periodic e-mail notifications from NCJRS or any of its sponsoring agencies. -- == J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA 505.577.6482 tel:505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646 tel:505.473.9646(h) Twitter: jtjohnson http://www.jtjohnson.com http://www.jtjohnson.com/ t...@jtjohnson.com mailto:t...@jtjohnson.com == FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Google Reader – Google
I moved to Feedly. I might change to one of the paid services for the extra features and also paranoia because Feedly still uses Google's sign-in, and I dislike being signed into Google all day./paranoia --Barry On Jul 3, 2013, at 9:26 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Just curious: Did many of us just move on and stop using RSS? FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] perplexed by trader joes
maybe he meant hot like picante or spicy. I hope it's not radioactive.
Cody Smith
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Patrick Reilly patrick.rei...@ipsociety.net
wrote:
Hi Gillian,
II advise laying off the hot Oolong tea until after the 4th, and then
revisiting this issue.
Pat
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Gillian Densmore
gil.densm...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi all I go to trader joes to get stuff being single they have a history
of selling stuff at a so-so cost but might (theoreticly) be a little
better quality than smiths, the atmosphere definitely is. I got some eggs-
and wanted some Oolong tea I thought they caried at one point. I asked one
of the workers there this person said while I am welcome and encouraged to
ask for it back he noted they had been getting hot asian influenced
products that include the tea. Would they realy get stolen groceries? Or is
this a fear of the stuff potentially have been eposed to radiation as some
one I know (and I swear she wears a tinfoil hat) claimes
This is indeed a complex question that also speeks a little to feers of
radiation if the food comes from japan.
coments?
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Re: [FRIAM] perplexed by trader joes
I suspect he meant hot as in selling so fast that they need to be
restocked all day, since that's the only kind of hot a worker would send
you to ask for in the back, where they keep whatever stock hasn't been
placed on the shelves.
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On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:13 PM, cody dooderson d00d3r...@gmail.com wrote:
maybe he meant hot like picante or spicy. I hope it's not
radioactive.
Cody Smith
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Patrick Reilly
patrick.rei...@ipsociety.net wrote:
Hi Gillian,
II advise laying off the hot Oolong tea until after the 4th, and then
revisiting this issue.
Pat
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all I go to trader joes to get stuff being single they have a history
of selling stuff at a so-so cost but might (theoreticly) be a little
better quality than smiths, the atmosphere definitely is. I got some eggs-
and wanted some Oolong tea I thought they caried at one point. I asked one
of the workers there this person said while I am welcome and encouraged to
ask for it back he noted they had been getting hot asian influenced
products that include the tea. Would they realy get stolen groceries? Or is
this a fear of the stuff potentially have been eposed to radiation as some
one I know (and I swear she wears a tinfoil hat) claimes
This is indeed a complex question that also speeks a little to feers of
radiation if the food comes from japan.
coments?
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Re: [FRIAM] Google Reader – Google
FWIW: I'm using Old Reader. On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Barry MacKichan barry.mackic...@mackichan.com wrote: I moved to Feedly. I might change to one of the paid services for the extra features and also paranoia because Feedly still uses Google's sign-in, and I dislike being signed into Google all day./paranoia --Barry On Jul 3, 2013, at 9:26 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Just curious: Did many of us just move on and stop using RSS? FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Mini: Replace Hard Disk w/ SSD (Solid State Drive)
Owen - Good to hear... I *almost* gave over to putting an SSD into the (used) 15 MacBook Pro I just bought to replace my (worn to a frazzle) 13 MPB. I talked myself out of it because I *also* wanted to increase the amount of onboard HDD space from my exisTing ~350GB and the priciness of a ~512G SSD was too shocking. I have 2TB in my NAS and don't use *any* cloud (except Flickr and Blog and conventional Website), but I depend too much on having *everything* at my fingertips whether in the office or in the field and the field is often literally in the field despite now having iPhone/Cell tethering. I don't fully understand the OSX (previously 10.6, now 10.8) memory and I/O management strategies as I would expect generous memory to go a long way and for hybrid HD/SSD technology to give 90% of the results at a fraction of the cost. Do you, or others here have any experience with the Hybrid HD/SSD technology, in particular in the context of Mountain Lion? - Steve My 2010 Mini was getting pretty slow, and the problem was clearly the hard drive and swapping. I also have an Air with SSD which is really, really snappy .. especially for being the first generation. So SSD it was. The video I followed was OWC (Other World Computing): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=XrlN0tAeY2U I also followed the advice to pre-install a bootable copy of my existing disk onto the SSD via SuperDuper. http://blog.danielna.com/2012/12/09/upgrade-macbook-pro-with-superduper.html One additional upgrade: because there are multiple screw head types in this exercise, I bought the OWC screwdriver kit so I'd have the Torx 6 8 as well as a really odd Hex driver from the current iFixIt kit floating around. The SSD is a Samsung from Amazon .. 256 GB. That seem small by today's standard, but with the cloud and a local NAS (Network Attached Storage) with RAID (redundant storage), I felt I could manage the somewhat reduced size (the hard drive being replaced wast 500GB). No major problems other than finding the Mini had an unconnected heat sensor (decided it was for the disk so just taped it on), and the video having a few errors in terms of size screws. Man has it been worth it! The old Mini has a new life .. and I can wait on a replacement for another couple of years. Seriously, SSD replacement is a great way to improve your computer. And with the good video and the toolset we've got, I'd say most of us could perform the procedure. No where near is difficult as changing an iPhone cracked screen. -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Mini: Replace Hard Disk w/ SSD (Solid State Drive)
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: Owen - Good to hear... I *almost* gave over to putting an SSD into the (used) 15 MacBook Pro I just bought to replace my (worn to a frazzle) 13 MPB. I talked myself out of it because I *also* wanted to increase the amount of onboard HDD space from my exisTing ~350GB and the priciness of a ~512G SSD was too shocking. Agreed, the sweet spot is 256GB today at least, $174. The gorilla in the room for me is iTunes, at around 90GB. I'll push that to the NAS. I have 2TB in my NAS and don't use *any* cloud (except Flickr and Blog and conventional Website), but I depend too much on having *everything* at my fingertips whether in the office or in the field and the field is often literally in the field despite now having iPhone/Cell tethering. I don't fully understand the OSX (previously 10.6, now 10.8) memory and I/O management strategies as I would expect generous memory to go a long way and for hybrid HD/SSD technology to give 90% of the results at a fraction of the cost. Apple has always had poor swapping, have no reason why. But after experiencing Lion on both the Mini and the Air, it was clear that was the problem. Even with 8GB RAM on the Mini, the system was always sluggish. No longer! Do you, or others here have any experience with the Hybrid HD/SSD technology, in particular in the context of Mountain Lion? I've not upgraded to ML, sticking with Lion until the Mavericks release. Apple is in a bit of chaos in terms of new OSs, mainly due to the Back to the Mac strategy, which basically is sound. But keeping phones, tablets, and computers aligned is non-trivial. None the less, I'm going to upgrade a 5-year old laptop to SSD just to see how it works. Its mainly used for music/news while exercising so I can take a risk. -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Andre Gide
+1. No. +10. -- Owen On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com wrote: Thanks to Alicia. Click on the attachment if you can't see the cartoon. -tom -- Forwarded message -- From: Alicia Juarrero aliciajuarr...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:28 PM Subject: Andre Gide To: aliciajuarrero aliciajuarr...@gmail.com No se pierdan este adjunto... no conocia esta cita del frances. -- Alicia Juarrero, PhD Visiting Scholar, Philosophy Department University of Miami (FL) Professor of Philosophy emerita Prince George's Community College (MD) www.aliciajuarrero.com -- == J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USAhttp://www.analyticjournalism.com/ 505.577.6482(c)505.473.9646(h) Twitter: jtjohnson http://www.jtjohnson.com t...@jtjohnson.com == FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Mini: Replace Hard Disk w/ SSD (Solid State Drive)
Just wanted to +1 the SSD as a restorative for old laptops. Put one in my 5? year old macbook pro. Really makes a difference! I also took the failed dvd drive out. Haven't had the urge, but they do sell hard drive kits that fit in that space. Might be a compromise for those who want to take everything with them… --joshua On Jul 3, 2013, at 7:53 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: Owen - Good to hear... I *almost* gave over to putting an SSD into the (used) 15 MacBook Pro I just bought to replace my (worn to a frazzle) 13 MPB. I talked myself out of it because I *also* wanted to increase the amount of onboard HDD space from my exisTing ~350GB and the priciness of a ~512G SSD was too shocking. I have 2TB in my NAS and don't use *any* cloud (except Flickr and Blog and conventional Website), but I depend too much on having *everything* at my fingertips whether in the office or in the field and the field is often literally in the field despite now having iPhone/Cell tethering. I don't fully understand the OSX (previously 10.6, now 10.8) memory and I/O management strategies as I would expect generous memory to go a long way and for hybrid HD/SSD technology to give 90% of the results at a fraction of the cost. Do you, or others here have any experience with the Hybrid HD/SSD technology, in particular in the context of Mountain Lion? - Steve My 2010 Mini was getting pretty slow, and the problem was clearly the hard drive and swapping. I also have an Air with SSD which is really, really snappy .. especially for being the first generation. So SSD it was. The video I followed was OWC (Other World Computing): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=XrlN0tAeY2U I also followed the advice to pre-install a bootable copy of my existing disk onto the SSD via SuperDuper. http://blog.danielna.com/2012/12/09/upgrade-macbook-pro-with-superduper.html One additional upgrade: because there are multiple screw head types in this exercise, I bought the OWC screwdriver kit so I'd have the Torx 6 8 as well as a really odd Hex driver from the current iFixIt kit floating around. The SSD is a Samsung from Amazon .. 256 GB. That seem small by today's standard, but with the cloud and a local NAS (Network Attached Storage) with RAID (redundant storage), I felt I could manage the somewhat reduced size (the hard drive being replaced wast 500GB). No major problems other than finding the Mini had an unconnected heat sensor (decided it was for the disk so just taped it on), and the video having a few errors in terms of size screws. Man has it been worth it! The old Mini has a new life .. and I can wait on a replacement for another couple of years. Seriously, SSD replacement is a great way to improve your computer. And with the good video and the toolset we've got, I'd say most of us could perform the procedure. No where near is difficult as changing an iPhone cracked screen. -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Mini: Replace Hard Disk w/ SSD (Solid State Drive)
I'm finding my older macs provide superb server services in my house: basically older devices that are always-on and provide local web, ssh, storage, music and other services through the firewall. Generally use ssh keys for pub key crypto, thus turn off all logins from the internet. Amazing how robust these critters are. Legacy is now back to a good word in computing as it is in culture and life. Nice to hear the SSD works in older MBPs. I'll definitely do it. -- Owen On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Joshua Thorp jth...@redfish.com wrote: Just wanted to +1 the SSD as a restorative for old laptops. Put one in my 5? year old macbook pro. Really makes a difference! I also took the failed dvd drive out. Haven't had the urge, but they do sell hard drive kits that fit in that space. Might be a compromise for those who want to take everything with them… --joshua On Jul 3, 2013, at 7:53 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: Owen - Good to hear... I *almost* gave over to putting an SSD into the (used) 15 MacBook Pro I just bought to replace my (worn to a frazzle) 13 MPB. I talked myself out of it because I *also* wanted to increase the amount of onboard HDD space from my exisTing ~350GB and the priciness of a ~512G SSD was too shocking. I have 2TB in my NAS and don't use *any* cloud (except Flickr and Blog and conventional Website), but I depend too much on having *everything* at my fingertips whether in the office or in the field and the field is often literally in the field despite now having iPhone/Cell tethering. I don't fully understand the OSX (previously 10.6, now 10.8) memory and I/O management strategies as I would expect generous memory to go a long way and for hybrid HD/SSD technology to give 90% of the results at a fraction of the cost. Do you, or others here have any experience with the Hybrid HD/SSD technology, in particular in the context of Mountain Lion? - Steve My 2010 Mini was getting pretty slow, and the problem was clearly the hard drive and swapping. I also have an Air with SSD which is really, really snappy .. especially for being the first generation. So SSD it was. The video I followed was OWC (Other World Computing): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=XrlN0tAeY2U I also followed the advice to pre-install a bootable copy of my existing disk onto the SSD via SuperDuper. http://blog.danielna.com/2012/12/09/upgrade-macbook-pro-with-superduper.html One additional upgrade: because there are multiple screw head types in this exercise, I bought the OWC screwdriver kit so I'd have the Torx 6 8 as well as a really odd Hex driver from the current iFixIt kit floating around. The SSD is a Samsung from Amazon .. 256 GB. That seem small by today's standard, but with the cloud and a local NAS (Network Attached Storage) with RAID (redundant storage), I felt I could manage the somewhat reduced size (the hard drive being replaced wast 500GB). No major problems other than finding the Mini had an unconnected heat sensor (decided it was for the disk so just taped it on), and the video having a few errors in terms of size screws. Man has it been worth it! The old Mini has a new life .. and I can wait on a replacement for another couple of years. Seriously, SSD replacement is a great way to improve your computer. And with the good video and the toolset we've got, I'd say most of us could perform the procedure. No where near is difficult as changing an iPhone cracked screen. -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Mini: Replace Hard Disk w/ SSD (Solid State Drive)
Owen - I'm finding my older macs provide superb server services in my house: basically older devices that are always-on and provide local web, ssh, storage, music and other services through the firewall. Generally use ssh keys for pub key crypto, thus turn off all logins from the internet. Amazing how robust these critters are. Legacy is now back to a good word in computing as it is in culture and life. Showing my FanBoi side, I can attest that when I occasionally spin up my Circa 2004 12 G4 Laptop it is still quite useful (though not with anything newer than a 2008 OS on it) for some limited tasks. I am considering making it the image and control workhorse for our Multiplex Hologram recorder. It is this very legacy capability that had me buying a used 2010 vintage laptop instead of a new one when my existing 2011 one failed (too many drops, water/wine/coffee spills, tear-down/rebuilds). As Josh pointed out, there are systems for replacing the DVD/combo drive with a HD (or SSD) and plenty of people seem to drop in a 128G or 256G SSD in their primary location and move their existing HD into the location where the DVD/CD was. I still have enough use for CD/DVD to be willing to move to an external (I have one from when the CD/DVD went out on my first MBPro). Soon such media will be as obsolete as floppies! I think it has been 10 years since I tried to read a floppy OR a Jazz or other removeable media from the 90's! - Steve FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
