Stan Learns NAS

"A key driver for project is the need to access information stored within military mission command systems such as the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) and the Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS), he said. FBCB2 is the Army and Marine Corp's mobile command and control system and AFATDS is the DOD's primary tool for battlefield fire support."

Connecting Soldiers to Digital Applications (CSDA)

http://www.arcic.army.mil/csda.html

avoid being locked into one kind of hardware

{Apple}

http://gcn.com/articles/2012/01/11/motorola-unveils-encrypted-smart-phone.aspx?s=gcndaily_120112

Motorola's AME 1000 Secure Mobile Telephony Solution

Air Force wants wearable computers

http://gcn.com/articles/2012/01/10/agg-air-force-wearable-computers.aspx?s=gcndaily_110112

{unless the is combined to some battle armor or exoskeleton, no way it will work.}

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/air-force-wearing-computers/

{Sure give me some money and I will try to develop it too.}
{Unless the is some sort of battle armor, i.e. protects the solder or helps the move faster, no way.}
list some of the problems the Army had and why they have move to smart phones.

Kinect for Windows, free software kit to drop Feb. 1

http://gcn.com/articles/2012/01/10/ecg-windows-version-of-kinect.aspx?s=gcndaily_120112

$249
free SDK

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/

development kit available today

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012/01/microsoft-bets-big-on-kinect-for-windows-but-splits-its-community.ars

natural user interfaces sensor
18 million devices sold
Xbox 360

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/05/johnny-lee-kinect-hacking/

open source drivers

http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page

free, open source libraries to enable Kinect to work with Windows, Linux and Mac.

http://openkinect.org/wiki/Getting_Started#Please_read_this_before_you_start

nice Ubuntu install instructions

Androids that Support Skype

http://blogs.skype.com/en/2011/08/skype_21_for_android.html

list of phones
Android 2.2 and above

install
"enable video calling"

if the phone doesn't have this option

doesn't meet requirements to make Skype video calls

Skype 2.1

http://blogs.skype.com/en/2011/08/lion_support_hd_video_calls_wi.html

Skype Mobile

work with Verizon Phones

Archos Arnova G2 10" Tablet, ARM Cortex A8 (1.0GHz), 4GB Storage, webcam, microSDHC slot, Android 2.3 Gingerbread - 501766

http://www.buy.com/prod/archos-arnova-g2-10-tablet-arm-cortex-a8-1-0ghz-4gb-storage-webcam/223314208.html

This is what I should have bought for Dolores

Western Digital Elements 2TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive -Refurbished - WDBAAU0020HBK-NESN

http://www.buy.com/prod/western-digital-elements-2tb-usb-2-0-desktop-external-hard-drive/212218326.html?listingid=175709010

a 2TB drive back in the $50 per TB range.
A welcome sight

Linux Kernel 3.2 Officially Lands in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Linux-Kernel-3-2-Officially-Lands-in-Ubuntu-12-04-LTS-245405.shtml

better support of large files

up to 1MB on EXT 4

I/O-less dirty throttling
cross memory attach

Motorola: Carriers 'don't want' stock Android phones

running stock Android

unaltered Android

carriers don't want stock phones
most changes to stock are requested by carrier
different each carrier from the competition
Motorola not shipping unlocked bootloaders

Case Logic VHS-101 Portable Hard Drive Case: $8.84

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Case-Logic-Portable-Hard-Drive-Case/10983394?findingMethod=rr

should fit my new drive

Kinect Sensor with Kinect Adventures (Xbox 360): $119 ($250 for PC)

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Kinect-Sensor-with-Kinect-Adventures-Xbox-360/15066156?povid=cat482412-env193369-module011112-lLinkRR1KinectValue

what are the implications of this technology?
is the camera resolution really good enough to do something with?

How ads undermine Android security

Almost all free aps are major info grabbers.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/how-ads-undermine-android-security/17685

put on system by

manufacturer
carriers

Adds on app have same permission as app.

Virtualization doesn't fix all of Android's ills

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/virtualization-doesnt-fix-all-of-androids-ills/17502?tag=content;siu-container

Problems virtualization might fix:

Android fragmentation
update lag

Problems it wont fix

forward compatibility

{not sure why virtualization would not help for this}

performance

virtualization has a small performance hit

OEM branding and crapware
Carriers branding and crapware

things Google should do

virtualization

expected in 2012

minimum hardware spec

I don't really think this is important
I have changed my mind, this could really help if you know what hardware meets specs and what doesn't.

Get OEMs and carriers out of the picture
discourage locking bootloaders
discourage branding and crapware

so long to the Amazon Kindle Fire and Barnes and Noble Nook

iPhone cannibalizing Android sales

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/iphone-cannibalizing-android-sales/17668

October/November sales of iPones soared from 26% to 43%.

that is huge

Android dropped from 60% to 47%

that is huge also

Does Google need to wake up?

Tech Review: Tuesday, January 10, 2012

2012-01-10T06:52:00.001-08:00

Western Digital 4TB My Book Studio Edition II - Quadruple Interface (USB 2.0, eSATA & FireWire 400/800) External Hard Drive - WDH2Q40000N

http://www.buy.com/prod/western-digital-4tb-my-book-studio-edition-ii-quadruple-interface-usb/211190835.html?listingid=45553526

$331
Guessing that it has 2 TB drives in it

Western Digital My Passport Essential 500 GB USB 3.0/2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Midnight Black)

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Passport-Essential-Portable/dp/B0041OSAZS

bought for $65
hope to install linux on it

DISA OKs secure Android mobile system for DOD

http://gcn.com/articles/2012/01/05/disa-okays-secure-andriod-mobile-system-for-dod.aspx?s=gcndaily_060112

ZAGGkeys Flex Bluetooth keyboard for iOS and Android (review)

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-gadgeteer/zaggkeys-flex-bluetooth-keyboard-for-ios-and-android-review/5384?alertspromo=&tag=nl.rSINGLE

$80
Nice blue tooth key board for both android and iOS

Kingston 16GB microSDHC Card w/Full Size SD Adapter - SDC4/16GB

http://www.buy.com/prod/kingston-16gb-microsdhc-card-w-full-size-sd-adapter/216757949.html

$15
Need the extra space for my Android
Looks like the good deals are about $1 per GB

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820313195&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL010512&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL010512-_-EMC-010512-Index-_-FlashMemory-_-20313195-L09B

Boss Electric 2802 8" Android Tablet

http://www.jr.com/boss-electric/pe/BOE_2802/

$110
I have been very disappointed with the bargain Androids. I wonder if it is even worth buying them at all.
runs Android 2.2

gives access to a large segment of apps

1.1 GHz CPU

should run most apps
really

800 mhz CPU
300 mhz DSP

this could be a problem

Which way is the camera facing?
Can it run Skype?
Another China Android

Why Ice Cream Sandwich won't be able to save Android tablets

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/why-ice-cream-sandwich-wont-be-able-to-save-android-tablets/19584?tag=nl.e539

kind of a dumb article
I didn't know that Android tablets needed saving
His complain about interface in comparison to Apple might be correct, but I don't think his conclusions are

Should Amazon, Google & Wikipedia "nuke" the Web to stop SOPA?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/should-amazon-google-wikipedia-8220nuke-8221-the-web-to-stop-sopa/1848?tag=nl.e539

How big of a threat is the SOPA?

does it hurt us competing internationally?
is there danger of it law being used inappropriately

strong arm for political reasons
?

blocking Web sites that share media

what are the ramifications?
would be use to kill personal use

like iPad

Article simply says it it bad and everyone hates it without saying why is bad and why everyone hates it

Get a 1.5TB external hard drive for $99.99 shipped

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13845_3-57355056-58/get-a-1.5tb-external-hard-drive-for-$99.99-shipped/?tag=nl.e796

I missed the good old days when I could find a 2TB drive for $80.
USB2
eSATA

Dell Precision M4600 Mobile Workstation

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=bwmd33a&m_2=IX72960&m_3=4G2D3&m_6=M5950&m_8=750G72&m_10=HD&m_11=W7PN61E&m_16=8XDVRTN&c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&model_id=precision-m4600

$3009
Extreme Quad Core 2.70GHz
Win7 Pro 64 bit
16 GB memory

32 GB

$5,000 more
slower memory

DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM

AMD FrePro M5950 Pro Graphics
750 GB 7200 rmp Drive
Blue tooth
Camera/mic
Can add Mobile Broadband for $125

Cloud Storage

2011-08-11T04:20:00.001-07:00

http://gizmodo.com/5828035/the-best-way-to-store-stuff-in-the-cloud

Really good article on cloud storage.

May want to take a look at the Google storage.

Tech Review: Thursday, July 21, 2011

2011-07-28T11:24:00.001-07:00

How to build your own 135TB RAID6 storage pod for $7,384

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/90634-how-to-build-your-own-135tb-raid6-storage-pod-for-7384

About $54 per TB
With Raid 6, that is really $63 per TB
This is a single unit.

Speed within it is good
Raid 6: 1-2/15= 85%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
85% of 135TB is about 117 TB
$7384/117 = $63 per TB

Redundant
45 3TB drive
groups of 15 drives grouped together using RAID6 to create 39TB partition
ext4 has a 16TB limit
used logical volume manage (LVM) to access the full 39TB as a unit

IBM's Watson charts new frontiers for computer science

http://gcn.com/articles/2011/07/20/watson-opens-new-horizons-for-computer-science.aspx?s=gcndaily_210711

David McQueeney, VP of software

keynote speech at FOSE

"a long-standing challenge in artificial intelligence to emulate a slice of human behavior"
Understanding unfiltered language hard for computers
Jeopardy

statistical analysis approach

did not work

uses structured data only 15% of the time

built-in temporal reasoning

find data through time and geospatial calculations
weight evidence

pre-loaded data

not connected to internet

Watson in 2007 could only answer Jeopardy questions 50% of the time
DeepQA

massively parallel probabilistic evidence-based architecture

made of off-the-shelf components

not technically a supercomputer
80 teraflops of processing power

Won 71 percent of the time in 55 sparring matches

Mono, open-source .NET for Android, Linux and iOS, lives on

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/mono-open-source-net-for-android-linux-and-ios-lives-on/9265?alertspromo=&tag=nl.rSINGLE

http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

support for SUSE-Attachmates' Linux Branch

given mono new life

minicom

2011-06-22T12:37:00.001-07:00

Using to connect to the serial cable to my test pogobox. Let's me see what is going on in a plugbox boot up.

Referenced in the plugbox link:

http://plugapps.com/index.php5/Hardware:_Pogoplug_Pro_Serial

The log notes on June 6 and 7, 2011 talk about how I used it.

This is being used to work with running iRODS under plugbox for the NARA Advance Language Processing (ALP) work the Bill Underwood.

There should also be something

There are some other links I should have saved that clued me in that the power was coming from Pogoplug and not the USB port.

Not for a Pogoplug, but does go into some good detail: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=11&ved=0CCwQFjAAOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.neolics.com%2Fpdfs%2Fdku-5.pdf&ei=BUECTu2VDJOitge20aHIDg&usg=AFQjCNE6q5HNSrRW58jfsSvfdpOWKMHRqQ&sig2=uPCVDWt6LqxFwlzKb5ARxA

Just a short not at the bottom: http://www.pogoplugged.com/forum/thread/11515/How-To-Find-mkfs-jffs2-and-other-tools-on-Pogoplug/?page=2#1692

I was unable to find the article that I was looking for :-(

3TB Drive for $140 (< $50 per TB)

2011-05-25T11:39:00.001-07:00

http://www.buy.com/prod/western-digital-my-book-essential-3tb-usb-3-0-external-desktop-hard/q/loc/101/217438518.html

The sweet spot seems to be moving to the 3TB drives. With free shipping this is at $47 per TB. Also this would increase our current system from 8TB per plugbox to 12TB per plugbox.

Pics for Mike

2011-05-05T13:37:00.000-07:00

Mike said it didn't happen unless there are pictures. So here are the pictures:

Five Hacked Pogoplugs

24 TB of disk storage

Drive to Buy

2011-04-06T09:29:00.001-07:00

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002BH4ONE/ref=pe_133010_19472470_pe_epc_t7

Seagate Expansion 2.0 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive ST320005EXA101-RK

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Elements-Desktop-External/dp/B002QEBMCI/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1

Western Digital WD Elements 2 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive

Arch Linux: ntpdate 4.2.6-1 / rdate / date

2011-04-06T09:23:00.001-07:00

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19145

Package is flagged out of date.

rdate should be replaced with ntpdate.

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/udate.htm

date

Linux: Creating Hard Disk and ISO images

2011-04-06T08:59:00.001-07:00

http://www.backuphowto.info/linux-backup-hard-disk-clone-dd

dd if=/dev/sda of=~/disk1.img

This work for an win2k disk to pull the ISO. I was able to used the pulled ISO to build a virtual machine.

Pogoplug Mounting a stock Image as RW

2011-04-04T15:38:00.001-07:00

http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5/PlugApps:Pogoplug_Pro_Chroot

The command is:

mount -t ubifs -o rw,remount,relatime /

Re: Pogoplug V2 Hardware Description

2011-03-30T10:28:00.001-07:00

Memory can be found in MB using:

 [root@Plugbox Vault]# free -m              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached Mem:           247         31        215          0          3         13 -/+ buffers/cache:         15        231 Swap:            0          0          0 [root@Plugbox Vault]#

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Stan Hughes <hughes.stan@gmail.com> wrote:

General description of plug type hardware.

http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5/Portal:Hardware

Memory: 256M

Internal Storage: 128M

Description of Pogoplug V2 hardware.

http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5/Hardware:_Pogoplug_2

External

1 Front-Facing USB 2.0 Port
3 Rear USB 2.0 Ports
1 Gigabit Ethernet Port
Regular Power cable (Not a brick)
Power/Activity LED
Internal

256MB RAM
128MB NAND (32MB root partition, 92MB mtdblock3 partition)
Marvell Sheeva CPU, 1.2GHz
Serial port

iRODS seems to be running pretty well on this. Run as server only without iCAT.