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We are doing kanban and have a whiteboard with colored stickers. As sometimes the team is distributed (like home office) we need to have another visual access to that board. We want to do this with stationary webcam everybody can access.
Our requirements:
good quality picture
making stickers notes readable (description etc.), either by physical zoom or enlarging parts through high resolution
access to the camera by browser-webapp, alternatively instant-messaging
hardware/software setup compatible with linux OS
Did somebody of you setup such a thing? What are your lessons learned?
Having a physical wall with real notes is important. Going for another project-management webapplication is not an option for us.
Have you considered using an electronic story board? I know it's not as good as the real deal, but with a distributed team that's the only viable option I think.
A good post about that:
http://agiletools.wordpress.com/2007/11/24/task-boards-telling-a-compelling-agile-story/
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I wonder if it is possible to write a program which would limit the battery charge of a laptop. I know some manufacturers like Asus, Lenovo etc. have such build-in software, but I am curious if anyone had tried creating a universal software for that and if you would share some starting points. Not sure if that is even possible since I am unable to find such software. Thanks!
There is an almost generic tool for Linux: TLP. You find it's homepage (including a link to the source code) on https://linrunner.de/tlp/. It works as power saving utility and also can adjust the battery charge levels, BUT that feature is only for ThinkPads.
To my knowledge there is no universal interface to set the charge levels of laptop batteries, so a generic utility would have to know all that vendor specific settings probably.
A short research showed, that Linux supports more than Lenovo inside some kernel drivers, so maybe that code could help you to also write software for a different OS. My advice would be to research the possibilities for Linux to then think about a generic utility for another operating system.
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I'm trying to create a "virtual monitor" in Windows (XP & newer). For example, let's say my desktop looks like this:
I want to add a monitor virtually so it looks like this without any change in hardware:
How do I do this? Do I add a virtual driver? Or trick Windows into thinking there is new hardware?
Well, once upon I was in same problem and someone reccomended to me to override EDID data.
The EDID (Extended display identification data) data structure have all the info of your graphic card and other video sources.
You can see a tutorial for how modify EDID here.
The tutorial only applies to Win 7, Win server 2008 and Win Vista...
I don't try the following because I'm a bit afraid of manipulating these data, but... if you're average in these stuff you could try ;)
If you prefer a hardware solution, perhaps DVI Detective may help you. In his website they claim that DVI "provides a virtual EDID". Also, this hardware protects the EDID data, so, there's lower risk to do very much damage...
Hope this helps :)
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Here are the couple of things we are trying to achieve
Our staff currently uses a bunch of desktops and laptops. Around 30-5o of the staff, most of them are laptops (mix of HP and Lenovo). Most using Win 7 professional , a minority using XP. What is the best way to
Manage pushing the windows updates to everyone's computer since not every one installs the updates by themselves.
Managing inventory through a software so that we know how many computers are there, who is using which one, which are currently being used and which ones are in repair.
Good to have feature would also be able to install software remotely and perfom maintenance remotely.
I am fine with a solution that may not solve all the above so would love to know which one can help with most of these issues.
Thank you.
You need a Software Management Solution, and Microsoft provides just such a server/client infrastructure.
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/configurationmanager/en/us/sms.aspx
Google also launched an open source effort last year to reduce the cost of software licenses by allowing employees to visit the tool, and uninstall apps. Not quite what your looking for, but you could likely extend their offering to get some use.
http://code.google.com/p/appreduce/
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Given toolkits like Linux-HA and cluster layers on top like Corosync; file-system replicators like DRBD and other various bits and pieces there are the components available to developers to build highly available, robust systems.
High-availability architecture-level patterns are often fairly easy to describe, but I'm looking for the level(s) below that.
While each of these toolkit-parts seems to be fairly well documented, and some of them show how to use them in a robust application, they don't show examples of an end-to-end or multi-resource-using application.
So, what are the concrete steps, patterns, recipes, etc. that should be followed in order for developed code to play nice in an environment like this?
What books, web-tutorials, etc., should I point a team to in order to refactor a working single-box custom TCP server (for example) and make it run under cluster control, writing to shared file system space, and working in such a way that when it fails over, it has a chance to recover and keep working.
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if you have to choose between two image application on a mac Drawit ($38) or Pixel ($46). Drawit is similar to Adobe fireworks while Pixel is like PhotoShop. Which will you choose and why.
thanks in advance.
Because i mainly do web-design or graphics for the web my application of choice is Fireworks. It loads up quickly, supports vector design, exports for web and it's what I'm used to!
I think you need to decide what you are going to be using it for and what if any experience you have with either product.
Hope that helps.
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Depends on what you want to do with them. I don't know either of them, but I have always worked with Fireworks for things as web design, as seemingly opposed to a lot of people who prefer Photoshop. I mostly use Photoshop for some more advanced image editing.