I'm doing alot of research into this topic as I want to organise my docs at home and also at the office. Finding affordable solutions one can actually test drive is quite hard. Some that I've downloaded just don't seem to work (testing on brand new Vista PC). I've seen some software on Amazon but not really sure what they're like.

For home I'd like something to organise files, full text search, good scanner integration, nice interface etc.

But for the office it seems harder. I need something that does proper workflow and keeps versions. So I have the latest version of a document for a given year for example and I can roll back to another version. It will have an audit trail. Documents can be approved, checked in/out etc.

Seems like something that more people should be using but apparently aren't. My Google/twitter searches lead back to the same tired and vague webpages. I have only two leads that look interesting so if you can augment my knowledge with something useful that would be cool.

And I might even drop some promotes your way

Hear ye Hear ye. All sifter who have been wondering what has happened to the owner of the Geek Channel, ok so maybe you didn't even care, but I've come back from the dead to transfer ownership over to demon_ix, who will be the new proprietor. That is if Dag and Lucky are willing to change that. Just keep your fingers crossed that when they do they don't erase all the votes from every video on the sift.

I just haven't been nearly as active on the sift as I was about a year ago so I feel it's time to pass the torch. Just remember, wherever stupid video create unstoppable memes on the interweb. I will be there, lurking... and occasionally posting things.... and such.... I'm batman!

Snap shot:

[NoScript XSS] Sanitized suspicious request. Original URL [googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?


I cant post the whole request because it is presumed to be malicious, and someone might follow the link. I am trying to find a way to navigate to the malicious link with out running the risk of damaging my browser or my box.

Looking into it now, and I'm not sure what is suspicious about it. This is the first time Ive been notified of this, and thus posting it here so other people can verify if its a false positive or not.

The request is originating From chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

I can see other adds fine, but every time I try out the URL No script blocks that add request, and sanitizes the URL.

http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:Y32sB_B4RhUJ:forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php%3Fp%3D2940752+XSS+chrome://browser/content/browser.xul&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

I'm sure there are plenty, but I was wondering who out there plays MMOs and what you are playing?

I've been playing Vanguard lately and BF2 every once in a while.

Heh, a few of these made me laugh.

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2009/10/top-11-windows-7-features.html

11. Blue Screen of Resurrection
10. Classic Vista compatibility mode
9. Richard Stallman quote of the day on boot up
8. Minesweeper 2: This Time It's Personal
7. Personal apology from Bill Gates for Me, Vista and IE 6
6. Brad Pitt wife's head in every box.
5. Complete collection of "I'm a Mac" ads.
4. Setting up a botnet wizard
3. One of five golden tickets to tour the Microsoft compound in Redmond
2. Money back guarantee if not fully satisfied
1. Google Apps integration

etherpad.com
This is real-time text editing with 2 or more people. It has a chat box on the right so you can discuss what you're doing. It is absolutely superb and the timeline feature lets you play back the creation of the text as it happened. Of course it also stores all your versions.

The reason I'm raving is that I had to help my sister complete a job application while I was at the office. We dumped the job spec into a pad and started editing. In a few hours we achieved what I'm absolutely certain would have taken at least double that (extra time for viewing changes and approving them via email or wiki-style product).


thymer.com
I use various apps for work but this is the one that promises to spice up productivity. I love the way this is focused on tasks, getting them in quickly and allows you to type invocations that remind me of life on Videosift. Your tasks naturally fall into a timeline and you can filter and edit quickly. You can start timetracking on any item, discuss and group tasks into very easily accessed projects.

It has a colourful look and feels nimble and refreshing. I'm using a mixture of Basecamp and Highrise for my needs but Basecamp seems like overkill as it doesn't see much use. This would be worth the 4 euros a month but there is a free account. I'd love to see them extend the concept to includes notes and files but these things evolve over time.

I wanted to recommend to sifters online backup services, like Mozy and Carbonite. They backup your files as soon as you make changes.

Mozy offers 2 gig of backup free. If you want unlimited storage space, Carbonite costs $55/year and Mozy costs a little more, but Mozy lets you pay on a monthly basis.

There's probably software for external harddrives that does the same thing, which probably protects your data from most risks, but there are still the risks of theft, freak electric events, natural disasters, and extraterrestrial invasions.


My main computer is a little damaged right now (http://geek.videosift.com/talk/Uninterruptible-power-supply-Advice), so I'm glad I recently started a backup subscription.

My computer recently sustained damage because I wasn't using an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and we had a momentary power outage.

Does anybody have experience with calculating the wattage needed for a UPS? I just need the UPS for my monitor and computer.
---My monitor is listed as having power consumption of <105W.

---My computer's power supply unit (PSU) is a 450W.

---Does that mean I need a UPS of >555W? (105W + 450W) (I'm considering this one.)


BTW, the damage my computer sustained from the power outage is that it won't turn on anymore. I'm hoping replacing the PSU will fix it, but I don't really know much about this. I do know I'll be unplugging my harddrives before I test the new PSU: http://wtf.videosift.com/talk/So-what-makes-a-hard-drive-light-on-fire


Thanks in advance if anyone can offer advice!

Gwiz665 and I are playing Horde on Lightning Hoof, US! We'd love for any Sifters to join us.

I've got a fancy guild with fancy bank tabs and fancy mats for your leveling pleasure.

I would be willing to help you out with my fancy level 80!

My main's name is Lallu. She's a lonely troll priest looking for someone to hold hands with and take long walks on the beaches of Darkshore, admiring the corpses of newly dead night elves.

See you there, hopefully!

[WoW=World of Warcraft, but if you didn't know that, chances are this Sift Talk isn't for you.]

Ok, so so check it out.

Awesome, eh?

Check it out - VS may want to revisit it's no-flash policy.

Don't know if any of you have run across this fun anomaly.

Here's some light humor for ya - if you click on "Members" then click on any of the page numbers, say, 2, 3, 4. It doesn't matter.

Then you can pretty much type anything after that and it will be recognized as the new page you're looking at.

For example:
http://www.videosift.com/topusers?pg=8brycewi19rocksthesift
or
http://www.videosift.com/topusers?pg=8yes,brycewi19isagreathumanbeing
or even
http://www.videosift.com/topusers?pg=8allhailthehypnotoad

Go ahead, have fun with it.

Until its novelty wears off after a few minutes.

I have a bookmarked collection of music videos that I regularly venture to on youtube. I've noticed in the last week or so that I am sometimes redirected to be rick rolled. It was funny once, but now it's annoying. Is this a youtube initiative? From the comments on youtube it's happening to others as well. Does anyone know more about this?

It's lately been necessary for me to organize my emails in Gmail into different folders/labels, but I really need to have folders in a hierarchy (nested folders), instead of just a long list of folders.

Does anybody have any recommendations for email programs or plugins they use to manage their messages?


Thanks in advance if you can recommend any!

You better brace yourselves, because if this is the truth - and I'm inclined to think so -, it is equally hilarious and agitating.

The Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN is pushing a more than questionable trial against TPB in Dutch courts and now appears to have forged evidence to link the blokes of TPB to the company officially owning TPB. Brokep aka Peter Sunde blogged about todays hearing at the Dutch court and presents rather convincing arguments that almost inescapably indicate forgery by BREIN.

Excerpt:

And the question is, why would Experian make a false credit report? A company that does one thing for a living, with hundred of employees all over the world, give out trustworthy credit reports. They would of course not risk it to help a small antipiracy agency out in their high profile political game! And as you all can clearly see from the overwhelming evidence, the credit report is fake. Backed up by evidence from the lawyers of Mossack Fonseca & Co. Backed up by the government of Seychelles, times two – First by their company registry. And I actually called and asked if Fredrik was a citizen of their country. The answer was, as expected, Neij. He’s not.

It’s also clear that the government does not keep the data of the CEO nor the directors of companies.
It is clear that the previous inquiry is bullshit, at least on that date.
It is clear that the date of registration is taken from the whois of thepiratebay.org
It is clear that Fredriks name is taken from the same whois;
… and it’s clear that Reservellas name is taken from there (or from the air, it doesn’t really matter).

It is very clear to me what has happened. My well educated, well established, well founded hunch is that BREIN realized that they were going to lose hard and in order to win, they themselves had to create false evidence and hand that over to the court!

Source: brokep's blog

I think the charter price for having a blog is a bit too steep for me. But on my own blog I made a post where I shared a range of neat addons for the FireFox status bar. Here's the link. *Warning* my collaborative blog looks very kiddy with its nice care bear theme, but some of the content we post is absolutely not child friendly.

If this post constitutes a breach of self promotion guidelines then please delete it.

Really confused.

I find myself getting squeezed between the idea of returning to the 9-5 grind (which does not appeal) and getting weary of the self-employed lark. But I have this one idea which might make some bucks.

It is of course a web application and one that I know would appeal to my clients. Importantly I would find it useful as well. Now like most of you I'm a veteran of using and signing up to web services and have a pile of buzzwords floating around my head, things like java, ruby-on-rails, frameworks, perl, python, oracle, google web toolkit, Microsoft bizspark etc etc etc. But I'm not a web developer and having a little bit of knowledge can be dangerous. I worry about the choices I might make.

I'm also building up a collection of links on how one might proceed but I'm starting to drown in the information. I need clarity.

Links like this have helped - http://blog.huddle.net/developing-a-web-application-on-a-shoestring-budget

To be a little more specific the app is involved in document management so issues of managing versions and backups would be critical. Other than that it's going to be designed for a non-techy audience so simplicity is key. I've done a cool looking mockup and have a good idea of what I want. I know I want to start small, get a few clients to test it and then scale up gradually. And I have precious little money to do this with.

I just wonder if anyone has thoughts on this and what things I should be watching out for.

ta!

Digg shares an Unreality article on ten fan-made trailers, with their embedded YouTube videos to video game movies -- "It's pretty obvious that pretty much every movie that has ever been based on a video game has been utter crap. When the best of the genre are Silent Hill and the Resident Evil series, you know you're in trouble. Quite simply, movie producers and directors don't 'get' the games they turn into movies, and if they do, those games should have never been adapted into movies to begin with. Video game fans, it seems, have a much better idea about what the genre should be -- if it's bad arse, make it bad arse, and if it's silly, well, make it silly. After the jump, take a look at the work of said fans, and enjoy ten awesome trailers to fan-made video game movies..."

Ever since 4.0 launched I've been seeing this error periodically and I've heard others mention it too.

It so happens I was perusing old comments and found my way to pinky's infamous Porn Myths post. I've been periodically reloading the page for the last 2.5 hours and not once has it loaded, failing every time with the above captioned error message. While this holds true, perhaps it can be used to diagnose the problem.

http://www.eatmedaily.com/2009/09/the-top-ten-food-based-rube-goldberg-machines-videos/ from http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/the-top-ten-food-based-rube-goldberg-machines/ ...

Recently (probably since 4.0) I've noticed an unusual trend going on the front-page list. At around page 6-7 some videos will stay, regardless of how long it's been since they expired. Examples:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Personal-Video-of-the-Rifleman-at-Presidential-Rally
http://www.videosift.com/video/Stunning-HDR-Time-Lapse-in-HD-1-05
http://www.videosift.com/video/Nose-Maggots-Seriously-they-are-in-her-nose
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Archer-Fish-And-The-Velvet-Worm-Natural-Sharpshooters

I'm guessing it has to do with the * quality they all received, I'm just wondering, is it working as intended, or an unfortunate byproduct?


Also, http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Girl-In-The-Window-Horrific-Discovery-Of-Feral-Girl will appear in most video searches I run, but I sort of tune it out by now...