mark_ellul

We all now know the news about PRISM, so I was wondering on your thoughts on how we can stop the majority of our data going into PRISM.

So I thought this would be a good Forum to discuss the technical approaches to minimizing our Data making it into PRISM?

There are essential services and tasks that we all use and do and I was wondering what suggests we as a community can provide to minimize the Privacy Invasion.<p>Here are some examples:

Browsing: Tor

Email: Private Mail Server with PGP

Social Network / Media Sharing : Diaspora?

Storage: Mega?

Etc....

Looking forward your comments.

Hi, Last year I bought a 27" iMac with 8 Gig of memory with Lion. The machine is fantastic but Lions memory management has alot to be desired, it would totally stall when the inactive memory was about 3 Gig and the Free Memory around 50 Meg, and running purge would release some memory but less than an hour later I was in the same position.

In my investigations I have finally found a script which clears the inactive memory down from over 1.2 Gig down to about 90 Meg.

I cannot take credit for it, I found it here (http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120410153721860)

Without further ado, the script is below, copy it into a file and chmod +x it and run....

#!/bin/bash

# This script checks the available inactive memory. # Memory is purged if the available number of MB is # greater than the following "msize" variable. Attach # this script to launchd to run it periodically.

msize=1200

VS=`vm_stat | awk '/Pages\ inactive\:/ {print $3}' | sed 's/\.//g'` MM=`echo "$VS/255" | bc`

echo "Testing status of inactive free memory..."

if [ "$MM" -gt "$msize" ]; then echo "You have too much inactive free memory." $MM"MB Releasing now..." purge exit 0 else echo "Memory amount" $MM"MB does not meet purge threshold." exit 0 fi

Hi, I was wondering what the Escrow services you have used and would recommend for software development or graphic design projects.

Regards

Mark

Hi,

I am in the process of mapping out a product for my first Startup.

If you have some time could you post links or comments on tips on the best way to start up?

My aim is to seed fund it, and run it apart from my day job.

Any comments will be appreciated!

Regards

Mark

Hi,

I am starting a new project, and I want all users to be valid users and preferably unique.

I was thinking of using Paypal, and depositing a cent or so into their accounts to validate them, and then as such I know they are most likely unique and valid users.

Does anyone else have any suggestions of different payment platforms to do the same? or another way to validate a user and have a mechanism to pay them at the same time?

Hi,

My company has been burned recently by Flexiscale and GoGrid, having long outages and data corruption. We need a scaleable hosting provider for our windows and linux environments. Amazon do not offer windows yet, so we are at a bit of a loss of who to try next. Our clients are disappointed with the outage times we have had, which have been unacceptable really, Flexiscale was over 1 week outage with our servers corrupted and data lost. GoGrid corrupted our database server. I was wondering if anyone can suggest other providers? We are a SME so 3tera's applogic is out of our price range.

Any suggestions would be welcome,

Regards

Mark

If you got an idea for a software program from a SCI-FI book, and you create that program. Would you be able to patent it?