I tried installing colar app on an Android 2.3.6 (Samsung GT-S5300) phone, but it seems it's not compatible with that device. It's a low-end phone, so I guess I will need something more powerful.
Since Google Play doesn't display the device compatibility anywhere in the store (besides "This application is not compatible with your device") could you please state the application requirements somewhere on your pages?
Have you tried duplicity [0]? It encrypts the archives using GnuPG, uses two separate keys - one for encryption, the other for signing, and can store the backups using a multitude of protocols [1]:
> Currently local file storage, scp/ssh, ftp, rsync, HSI, WebDAV, Tahoe-LAFS, and Amazon S3 are supported, and others shouldn't be difficult to add.
It is libre software and cross-platform. A number of front-ends address the issue of ease-of-use.
I have seen it in another Eastern European country - the sum of all mobile subscribers each operator claimed to have, exceeded the population by 50%. I attribute it mostly to marketing tricks like counting pre-paid cards that have not been explicitly canceled towards the general tally of active users. In general the operators try to appear to have more subscribers in order to entice more new subscribers to choose them.
I seriously doubt that the telecom regulatory bodies in these parts of Europe pay much attention to the coverage/subscription rates claimed by the mobile operators' marketing departments.
Of course some of the people have more than one SIM card, but with at least 3 major operators this simply doesn't add up.
EDIT: added the sentence about the lack of regulation
Here in Portugal, we have 124 active cellphone plans per 100 people, and the numbers are published by a governmental agency, not the carriers.
It's not that odd: even I, who barely makes calls, have two SIM cards (on a dual-SIM phone), for personal and work related calls. My teenage brother has three (one for each carrier).
Almost everyone uses prepaid, so there's really no cost associated with getting another SIM card - you just pay for what you use.
Oracle changed the distribution terms of TZUpdater from free (as in beer) to available only to paying customers at least half a year ago.
It should be noted, though, that this largely affects only users that for some reason can't update their JRE and are lagging behind the latest version. Oracle still provides up-to-date versions of the TZ data with the latest JRE.
It's not a big issue since one could use IBM's TZ updater tool or compile the TZ data from the raw Olson TZ database using javazic.jar available from OpenJDK.
It strikes me that the organizations that can't update to the latest JRE are the really large enterprises still running IE6 and so on. I think one client we worked with was still stuck on Java 1.4. I imagine that's the target of this latest change.
>It strikes me that the organizations that can't update to the latest JRE are the really large enterprises still running IE6 and so on.
Not necessarily. I know quite a few companies that have stabilized their code against a particular version and lack the manpower and/or the money to constantly upgrade and deal with the newly introduced bugs in newer versions. They usually do the upgrades on a schedule (eg. once a year or every 18 months).
For most major deployments changing to a new version of the JVM is a non-trivial task.
Not really. These things are hard to get right and stick to for prolonged periods of time. This requires practice and discipline.
Ordinary people (and even trained professionals [1]), get sloppy and make mistakes. Thus, this line from the presentation is golden:
"Amateurs practice until they get it right, professionals practice until they can't get it wrong.
[1]: Another excellent essay by the same person - grugq (of +HCU and Fravia+ fame) on the major OPSEC fuck-up by CIA in Lebanon and the factors that likely have lead to the full compromise of a big informant network, and possibly the deaths of a number of people [2]: http://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/03/12/anonymity-is-hard/
added: even small things like complaining about freezing your ass off due to the cold weather, accidentally linking two nicknames, emerging at regular times (synced with a specific timezone) could be used to uncover your identitiy. As evidenced, slip-ups like could get you in jail. You can check the discussion from a few weeks back about the hassles of creating a truly anonymous page on Internet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5638988
I personally don't feel comfortable using your service - too much of a security risk giving Databracket LLC unrestricted root access. I guess most other security-minded people would not feel at ease as well.
Having an agent running on the servers would be much better.
First, it will not require unrestricted SSH root access to the servers. Most of the servers don't allow root to login through SSH at all.
Second, an agent restricts the harm that could be done if somebody hacks their servers. This could be achieved with restrictions (specific commands, IP addresses) to the key that is added to root's authorized_key, but there is no mention of that in the FAQ or the other docs.
Third, firewall management - good luck convincing somebody to modify the firewall to allow connections to the SSH service on all of their servers. A restricted agent will be a much easier sell.
Thanks, that's a great point that the agent is an easier sell. We're going to add one soon so people won't feel uncomfortable opening up their SSH ports. We've heard this a lot and really appreciate the feedback on this point.
A really useful extension! Could be the solution to the tab overload.
I would like to have the ability to migrate tabs between projects too. For some reason drag&drop of tabs between Chromium windows (under Ubuntu) has never worked for me. Copying (or moving) bookmarks and tasks would be really useful as well.
One more thing that would be nice is a check for duplicate project names. I've managed to create two projects with identical names and now can't find a way to delete one of them.
I tried installing colar app on an Android 2.3.6 (Samsung GT-S5300) phone, but it seems it's not compatible with that device. It's a low-end phone, so I guess I will need something more powerful.
Since Google Play doesn't display the device compatibility anywhere in the store (besides "This application is not compatible with your device") could you please state the application requirements somewhere on your pages?