Re: [FRIAM] [1st-mile-nm] Friedman on Chattanooga's fiber network

2012-11-21 Thread Owen Densmore
I sure wish I know who in Santa Fe to send this to: And that brings me back to Chattanooga, where, Mayor Ron Littlefield says, city elders looked themselves in the eyes 15 years ago and realized that “we were a dilapidated city going the way of the Rust Belt.” But, by coming together to make the c

Re: [FRIAM] (Prime) Numbers

2012-11-21 Thread Steve Smith
J - This is very entertaining. I found myself speeding it ahead and trying to identify any analytic or insight-giving value it has. My son-in-law tutors math and helping people find insight into simple mathematical concepts is a big part of what he does... this shows some promise. Thanks.

[FRIAM] (Prime) Numbers

2012-11-21 Thread Jochen Fromm
This animation looks cool http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization/animated-diagrams/ -J. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe,

[FRIAM] Vocabulary word

2012-11-21 Thread Victoria Hughes
This from Rob Breszny, (whom some of you may secretly read without ever acknowledging it) "Sapiosexual" is a relatively new word that refers to a person who is erotically attracted to intelligence. Urbandictionary.com gives an example of how it might be used: "I want an incisive, inquisitive, i

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: Amazon S3 Now Supports Archiving Data to Amazon Glacier - odensm...@gmail.com - Gmail

2012-11-21 Thread Barry MacKichan
FWIW, the Arq program encrypts using a password you enter. They claim Amazon never sees the encryption keys. I have no knowledge of the strength of the encryption, other than the key length can be quite long if not unbounded. --Barry On Nov 21, 2012, at 9:55 AM, Parks, Raymond wrote: > Remembe

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: Amazon S3 Now Supports Archiving Data to Amazon Glacier - odensm...@gmail.com - Gmail

2012-11-21 Thread Parks, Raymond
Remember, when you say cloud in various contexts you need to make the mental if not vocal substitution - "Cloud" = "Somebody else's computer" "Cloud Storage" = "Somebody else's hard drive" "Cloud Privacy" = "Share your data with anyone who can convince the hard drive owner to give it to

Re: [FRIAM] Amazon S3 Now Supports Archiving Data to Amazon Glacier - odensm...@gmail.com - Gmail

2012-11-21 Thread Barry MacKichan
I am using Arq ($29, I believe), which is a Mac-only backup program which uses S3 for storing your backups. Beginning about a week ago, it now supports Glacier. You choose normal S3 or Glacier on a folder-by-folder basis. It's taken a few days to back up 195 GB, but I have been quite happy with