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| Indispensible Colaboration Tool! ^_^ |
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Posted by: Black Aeronaut - 12-05-2007, 06:47 AM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction
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I have found the ultimate tool for online collaboration. It is not a chat client or instant messenger (though these can help). It is not Google Docs or any online service.
It is a beautifully simple tool called CoOffice Tools and it turns your Microsoft Word and PowerPoint softwares into real-time online collaborative tools.
Sit there and watch in amazement as your friend on the internet fixes typoes for you in Word in real-time. Take joy in having an "OH OH OH! How about this!" moment as you suddenly jump in and write in a plot twist.
The only way it can get better would be if your writing partner was right in the room with you.
Here is their website: cooffice.ntu.edu.sg/coword/index.html
SET
CoOffice Tools is a small download, quick to install, and easy to setup. It will work with all versions of Word and PowerPoint (I don't know about 2007 versions, though).
First of all, you're going to need a server to connect to. This is actually not as hard as it sounds. Sure, there is the provided public server, but you don't really want that. You want a secure location to save your stuff.
Luckily, the folks that made CoOffice also made an equally simplistic Server program that lets whatever computer you install it on into the host for the 'Repository' that will hold your files.
Here's the one oddity: in order to work on the same files, two people have to use the same account/login. In that respect, it's kinda like file-sharing in a Windows environment - you need to have so-and-so's username and password to access his files.
Other than that, setting up the accounts is simplicity in itself. Just set the name, password, the rights the account has (which is kind of a moot point I think) and the folder on your machine you'll be working out of.
NOTE: Don't change the name of the folder or else you'll ahve to set the accounts up all over again. Granted, it's an easy enough fix if you only have one or two, but what a bother!
Once you set everything up, all your friends on your LAN or in Internet Land need is CoOffice Tools (They won't need the Server if you're the one hosting the party) your IP address, the account name and password.
CoOffice tools is loaded with useful features like a radar to help you track down where your co-author is in the document, highlights to show who made what changes, and other nifty toys.
I can guarantee that you'll love this wonderful piece of software. I already do and it is proving to be just the thing to help me realize my goal of being part of my own team of writers. ^_^
Black Aeronaut Technologies Group
Aerospace Solutions for the discerning spacer
"But first, let's test it on the penguin."
"Meep?" O.o
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| [Available Toy]Wrist-coms |
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Posted by: Cobalt Greywalker - 12-04-2007, 03:14 AM - Forum: Fenspace
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OK, after the conversation Noah and A.C. have over the field-com system I put together this for open use. Rob's had a look and, other than the Sat-com stuff I've recently added after looking up some info, he felt it was OK.
Have fun.
In April 2013 when it emerged that the Boskonian threat was far more dangerous than had been previously assumed Noah Scott and his old friend A.C. Peters got together and had an idle chat. One of the things that emerged was the fact that the Operation: Great Justice fighters had not got a standardised field communications system. A.C. offered her help and Noah instantly agreed to 500 individual units and associated equipment.
June the 1st saw the first delivery of the Mk I wrist-com system, which went down so well that a civilian wrist phone version was produced as well as a far more capable Mk II 'Patrol Watch' version.
Mk I Wrist-com
The Mk I is essentially a wristwatch video communicator. It has two built in cameras (one for the video communication link just above the screen, one facing out from the top of the watch to take pictures), a high fidelity microphone, and about 4 Gb of memory to allow it to record up to 3 hours of video with audio. It had a micro USB connector and micro SD card slot for expansion and back up. As it was intended for secure and covert operations, each came with a matched pair of wireless ear-buds that were powered by body heat and picked up speech from the vibration of the jawbone allowing the user to sub-vocalise to speak without otherwise being heard. The casing is vacuum-proof and waterproof to 100 metres. The battery is good for a week before recharging.
The effective transmission range on the Mk I is 5 miles/8 Km in atmospheric/terrestrial environments and 0.5 light seconds in space. It could auto-establish a relay network and had the ability to act as a locator beacon allowing the teams equipped with them to know where their fellows were.
This first design had several noticeable quirks, in that its default operation language was Klingon, and it told the time in an obscure dot notation. This could be changed, but any external update of its data (new pictures and music for example) caused it to revert. Its most helpful quirk was the fact that it changed colour to be annoyingly noticeable to its user. This normally meant that while the point directly in the eye-view of its user could be an eye-catching reflective neon pink, the rest blended into the background.
The design proved very popular with those who used them, so much so that A.C. started work on a Mk II version within a week of first delivery.
The Wrist Phone
When People say the phrase 'Wrist-com', they probably mean one of these. In essence a 2012 3G Smartphone shrunk to be a wristwatch, with far more secure Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capability built in. The only added extra is a battery life of two weeks idle and 72 hours of talk time.
Mk II Wrist-com, a.k.a The Patrol Watch
The Patrol Watch, as the Mk II design became known, is standard issue for Space Patrol field personnel, Blue Blazers, and the various factions Rapid Action Forces.
The Patrol Watch is a combination of the wrist phone and tactical radio with many additional functions over and above the Mk I. It has all the functionality of the following:
A wrist phone with boosted range on the Wi-Fi
A bio-monitor
A GPS receiver
An inertial compass
A magnetic compass
A homing beacon with a range of 5500 miles/8855 Km or 6 light minutes in space
A secure military radio with a range of 500 miles/805 Km or 5 light seconds in space
A very short range scanner (5 metres max)
A 'waved and hardened PDA (non-AI capable) with 10 Tb of memory and Tactical Network functionality.
Power for the Patrol Watch comes from body movement and feeds a battery with a power capacity of a month, and the casing is hardened for vacuum and 200m/20 Atmospheres. The ear-buds have also been upgraded, and act as audio managers (damping loud sounds, amplifying quiet ones).
There are some additional quirks in that the voice recognition system requires about 3 hours of training to understand its user, then is always active. Depending on what is loaded into it, an idle question directed at no-one specifically (e.g. "What is wrong with these people?") may bring up the scanner function, a psychology text, or medical information. The watch is also possessive of its owner, and will growl, hiss, scream, and swear (it has an extensive vocabulary) if used by anybody but its owner (along with screaming on every communications band it can use). It also clings like a barnacle to its owner, making it very difficult for anyone but them to remove it. Finally, the Watch is a fitness fanatic, and will constantly prompt its owner with menu suggestions and point out exercise routines to make its owner fitter. To some embarrassment, it also prompts its owners on 'intimate' exercise. (No one's said anything about what happened when the advice was followed, so its effectiveness is up for debate.) Initial testing with the prototypes led to the range being boosted from 50 miles to 500 at the request of the Blue Blazers for Sat-com capability. The bulk for this was shifted to the wrist-band, which increases the weight and makes the band itself armoured.
Given demand, A.C. has licensed the Mk I design to the main factions, and Helios Holdings controls the license for her on the Wrist Phone design. However, A.C. tightly controls the Patrol Watch design, such that only Stellvia, The Blue Blazers, and the Federation have the means to produce them outside herself. The Republic is still in negotiation for production rights, but doesn't have the secure production site capability A.C. demands.
A.C. also has an advanced custom version of the Patrol Watch she only allows specific people to have, but specific capabilities over the standard Patrol Watch are unknown.
Base Stations
Of course even with secure communications, if it can't get to the people who need it it's worthless. A.C. supplies various modules for the Mk I series (as the Mk II and above have Wi-Fi and Cellular access built in) that plug into standard networks to allow the signals to be carried over existing lines of communication. She also has booster packs for the Mk I that magnify their range by ten times, but these are bulky and require direct connection.
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| I'll ask a question and you ask me one |
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Posted by: Murmur the Fallen - 12-03-2007, 09:01 PM - Forum: General Chatter
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Because, man, I know I ask a lot of tech questions. I feel guilty about that. So I'll ask a tech question and you guys ask me a question about . . . well, anything, really. Why is the sky purple? Who named all the colors of the rainbow? How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Anyway: question: mIRC-related.
When the server notice: "This server is using an alternate send method, please make sure your DCC Server is active and set to port 6060. /dccserver +sc on 6060" shows up and you do indeed type in /dccserver +sc on 6060, and the screen responds with "DCC Server is on (6060,Send,Chat,Fserve)." Yet when you go to get the file you wanted it gives you the same server notice "this server is using blah blah blah" . . . What do you do? What's wrong? Why oh why oh why is it so difficult?
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| Evel Knievel's last jump -- RIP |
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Posted by: Logan Darklighter - 12-03-2007, 08:20 PM - Forum: General Chatter
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Damn.
Some videos and retrospective.
The following quote from a poster at the above site pretty much says it all for me:
Quote:
Sigh. I miss him, and I probably havent thought of him in years. Superman cant just die. Not of natural causes.
I guess God needed a headliner for his Christmas show. After Steve Irwin wrestles Cerberus, Evel is going to attempt to jump right over Hell.
Should be a good show.
RIP, EK. You the man.
-Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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| {RoundRobin-ish} And Justice, For Real |
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Posted by: Foxboy - 12-03-2007, 06:39 PM - Forum: The Legendary
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((I thought I'd get some common ground for the SI group started, so we all agree on SOME of the events that led to us being in Paragon.))
It all started with Some Random Con in New York City.
After much discussion and planning, several of the players from the City of Heroes global channel, The Legendary, decided to set up a face-to-face meeting. Surrounded by writers, fans, actors and various sundry sci-fi types, the channel mates met in the lobby of one of the hotels connected to the convention center.
After introductions were passed around, they got down to a typical gabfest when a hole in reality opened before them. Well... more accurately below them. Newtonian Laws of Motion being what they were, the gathered throng of gamers began to accelerate at 32 feet per second per second into the portal. Several shouts of dismay and startlement rang out, then one-by one, they blacked out...
... and woke up in a hospital. A strange hospital to be sure. What's that structure of rings over in the corner? It kind of looks like... no it couldn't be a medical teleporter like in-game, could it? A few seconds of disorientation pass, and an official-looking person with a clipboard is standing by the privacy curtains in each ward. As if reading from a script, or a prepared speech, each of them begins....
"Welcome to Paragon City! Would you mind answering a few questions?"
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
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| Riktirolled |
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Posted by: Acyl - 12-03-2007, 07:08 AM - Forum: The Legendary
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Concerning Skye's character:-
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[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: He's a very nice Rikti.
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Officer K'Mira, formerly Chevalier K'Mira, Rikti traitor, Longbow Officer.
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[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Woohoo!
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: K'Mira has his cape!
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: yay cape!
[The Legendary] Atlantea: Grats!
[The Legendary] Atlantea: That must have been kind of weird though. I mean, you're going up against the Lost or (at higher levels if you put it off long enough) Rikti. A little irony there?
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Much irony
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: But K'Mira considers them his responsibility, at least in part
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: It was his people who created them
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: He's a very moral, upstanding, and honorable Rikti.
[The Legendary] Stormgear: Gratds!
[The Legendary] Stormgear: Traditionalist, I assume?))
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: You've met K'Mira
[The Legendary] Stormgear: I have.
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: He serves Longbow
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Only
[The Legendary] Stormgear: ...But like...
[The Legendary] Stormgear: Why?
[The Legendary] Acyl: Chicks dig the uniform
[The Legendary] Stormgear: XD
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: always a good reason
[The Legendary] Acyl: Status: Da Ladiesman
[The Legendary] Acyl: Location: In Da House
[The Legendary] Atlantea: ROTFLMAO
[The Legendary] Atlantea: That. Is. WRONG! XD
[The Legendary] Paradoxe: pahahahahahahaha
[The Legendary] Acyl: This: Cannot Touch
[The Legendary] Acyl: Na: Na: Na: Na
[The Legendary] Atlantea: Status: Cannot breath
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: well, I gotta stop now, it's hammertime.. *rimshot*
[The Legendary] Paradoxe: Baby: Ice, Ice.
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: Stop: Collaborate & Listen
[The Legendary] Atlantea: (Please tell me someone is SAVING this convo! ![[Image: happy.gif]](http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/happy.gif) )
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Salutations mes amis!
[The Legendary] Paradoxe: Quit: Denied. Rational: Too Legit.
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: hiya fox!
[The Legendary] Kaeda: Foxy.
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: On my knees: every night, you know I'm pray
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Are we doing Rikti Pop Music now?
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: Affirmative: Yes, Meatbag
[The Legendary] Atlantea: It's worse than that.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: So who's the new guy that EML is bringing in?
[The Legendary] Acyl: Location: Shady, Slim, verification
[The Legendary] Acyl: Shady Slim: Request vertical orientation
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Stop before I hit my head.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Oh ghod RAP
[The Legendary] Acyl: Well, see, Stormgear asked why Skye's Rikti character would join Longbow.
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: Reason For Action: Because I am a Criminal
[The Legendary] Acyl: And my reply was 'Chicks dig the uniform'
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Because he discovered the truth behind the Lineage's actions, and the truth behind the war.
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: And when he discovered they didn't actually -care-
[The Legendary] Acyl: The Man: Keeping me down
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: the rikti are really here for our music
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: And that they were just killing out of hatred, and humans didn't deserve to be treated that way
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hehe
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: Mars Needs Rhythm!
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: He turned traitor, because he's a very honorable soldier.
[The Legendary] Stormgear: ...Zentraedi?
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-- Acyl
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