REally quick test I'm going to delete.

HA HA, let's see if I delete it before anyone sees it!

A week of Twitter updates: 2010-01-31

• For old media, iPad is not The Answer? Posted for irony as I am reading it on an iPod - http://bit.ly/bLHH1F #

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A week of Twitter updates: 2010-01-31

• For old media, iPad is not The Answer? Posted for irony as I am reading it on an iPod - http://bit.ly/bLHH1F #

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A week of Twitter updates: 2010-01-03

• http://yfrog.com/4a10biwj Arrr!!! #

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Request for comments: 2010 Hackintosh Dream Setup

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I'm putting together a spec for the world's greatest Hackintosh desktop system. This won't be a guide on how to install a Hackintosh, or a list of all available and supported components. That's covered in much greater detail elsewhere.

This guide will conver my own sick twisted fantasy Hackintosh dream system.

What is a Hackintosh??

A Hackintosh is an Intel based white-box PC that has had a modified version of Mac OS X 10.[4-6] installed on it. It's legally dubious, frankly, and Apple pretends to care, but I don't think they do... Much.

Why don't they care very much? Building a Hackintosh is a pain, and then you don't get the premium commercial support from Apple. So basically you won't be able to use your Hackintosh in a stable commercial environment. I'm sure there are people out there that use Hackintosh systems for commercial purposes, but I don't think this is a segment that is taking significant market-share away from Apple. Hell, from what I can see a lot of the people that build Hackintosh computers are already Apple fans and own Apple hardware/software.

tl;dr, a Hackintosh is an Apple computer without any of the benefits of Apple hardware. It's an expensive toy.

If you love Mac OS X, and you are a PC hardware gearhead with a penchant for modding, AND you're not using the system you're going to build to do anything you need to rely on, a Hackintosh could work for you.

The criteria for my Hackintosh dream system will be as follows;

• Reasonable price (considering what I want)


• Most optimal performance available.


• 100% compatability with MacOS X 10.6.x

So, question time!

What components would you put in a high-end Hackintosh system?

What components would you like to see?

What case would you use??

Points of Interest

• Lifehacker: Install Snow Leopard on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required


• This just incredible Lego Hacintosh case!

Adam Savage rides his electric unicycle thingee

Via Bikes and the City. This is a video of a motorized unicycle called an SBU, by Focus Designs, with Adam Savage behind, or on, the wheel. These are cool! I had never heard of them.
I can never personally justify electric bikes and light EV's. I can ride faster, all day, with my own power. So it stays at "neato" for me, not a must have.

A week of Twitter updates: 2009-12-06

• http://yfrog.com/4ekquej We got some SmartStor DS4600s in.. #

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A week of Twitter updates: 2009-11-29

• http://twitpic.com/r913y Test! #


• Testing openbeak from my new Blackberry 9700 Bold #


• How Greens could take office - http://bit.ly/5MqqRM #


• Harper heads for Copenhagen after all - http://bit.ly/4Zr5Pn #

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A week of Twitter updates: 2009-11-22

• I just got Voice Candy for Mac for free from tap tap tap. They're celebrating the release of Voices on the iPhone http://bit.ly/i56Un #

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Samsung Luxia 7000 and 8000 series white screen problem

We just had a 46" LED HDTV (UN46B8000) sprung upon us for Christmas, which is a nice but dizzying surprise!  We were worried though when we initially set it up, because when we turned it on, our image was almost entirely washed out.  Playing with the settings did nothing, and even the self-diagnostic said to contact Samsung.

The support rep at Samsung was helpful, but couldn't do anything for us because the TV was a refurbished model (we knew this before hand, I just called Samsung first to find out if there was a trick we could pull to fix it).  So we called the outlet that we got the TV from, and they had the answer to solve the problem.

When you mount the TV on the supplied stand, Samsung gives you screws to attach the stand at the back.  These screws are seemingly too long.  When you put the screws in all the way, it tweaks some component, and you lose all color!  Loosening the screws fixed the picture immediately.

So if you've got a new Samsung Luxia, and the picture is washed out and you can hardly see anything; check your stand, and loosen the mounting screws!  I get the impression from Samsung that if I had not found out about the screw thing, they would have just made me replace it.

A week of Twitter updates: 2009-11-15

• RT @rossrader: yay! public bicycling in toronto is almost here! http://rossrader.com/torontobixi #


• Et tu, Toronto? Traffic a problem Caesar couldn't solve - http://bit.ly/17owKW #


• Read George Smitherman's statement - http://bit.ly/1gFWZr #toronto #


• The Social Ideology of the Motorcar http://bit.ly/3T3Zz0 #


• Complete Streets Update Public Meeting http://bit.ly/2Hvk5p #


• Empty MySpace office blow for News Corp. - http://bit.ly/3vdstq #


• Grits caving on climate - http://bit.ly/40Ptp #


• Copenhagen already a success - http://bit.ly/1F0ssU #


• Smitherman resigns, will run for mayor of #Toronto - http://bit.ly/3QLQb5 #


• Big Oil makes case for carbon-capture subsidies - http://bit.ly/1PXrgN #


• RT @SteveCase: Why Doesn’t Exercise Lead to Weight Loss? (NYTimes) http://bit.ly/4sFdh3 #

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What will #biking in #toronto look like by 2015? [#PanAm #green]

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There are interesting things happening in Toronto if you're a cyclist. I'm hoping in this case, "Interesting" means good, and not bad.

So let's begin! Speculation on George Smitherman's possible Toronto mayoral candidacy has been a hot topic since mayor David Miller announced he would be stepping down. Today George Smitherman made it official.

That's one interesting thing. Even if Mr. Smitherman doesn't make it all the way to mayor, the ripple and excitement his running has created hints at (hopefully) a push towards a more progressive and dynamic future for Toronto.

I don't know how strong an advocate of bicycling George Smitherman is, but as a senior Liberal party member, and the former Ontario minister of Energy and Infrastructure he has had exposure to what the energy landscape is going to look like in the coming decades. If you do some research on this topic it can range from slightly depressing to panic inducing. With his working background on the provincial level, I'm going to assume he's a progressive when it comes to transportation matters.

The next interesting thing? Look at this article on the 2010 City Budget [Toronto Star].

The city's total capital spending for 2010 will be $2.4 billion - expected to rise to $2.5 billion in each of the next two years.

...

Among the items on the city's shopping list:

- Next year Toronto will spend $217.6 million on new subway cars that will hold more passengers - the beginning of a 10-year program to buy a total of 360 new subway cars;

- The city will spend $72 million on new buses, part of a 10-year program to buy 390 new buses.

- Construction of the Sheppard East light rail line will gather speed, with spending of $163 million.

- Plans call for $22.6 million of spending next year on new bike lanes and paths.

- A new radio communications system for police, fire and ambulance services will get $28 million, the first stage of a three-year, $69-million upgrade.

My personal obsession of course is with improved bicycle infrastructure, and as highlighted by Joe at BikingToronto, the budget for bike lanes and paths is more than double that of 2009, and eclipses previous years! Right on. I'm very eager to see how that pans out.

One last interesting thing; The upcoming Pan American (Pan Am) Games in 2015 will be hosted in Toronto. It's a decent sized multi-sport event - and yet another turbo boost to Toronto tourism and international exposure. As a city, we have five years to further shape our metropolis into a progressive showcase for sustainable living.

Bicycle infrastructure projects from places like New York City, Portland, Chicago, and Copenhagen (where the UN climate change conference is going to be held in December) might give us some pointers as to where we should be headed.

To give you some ideas of what is possible; recently, Roger Geller, Bicycle Coordinator in Portland's Office of Transportation came to town to overview what Portland Oregon did to become a Platinum-level Bicycle Friendly Community. The PDF of this presentation is here, and it is well worth the read. (via, again, Joe at BikingToronto)

I expect European cities to be progressive and open towards bicycle transit but places like New York City and Chicago, putting Toronto's (arguably weak) bicycle infrastructure to shame? Amazing. Considering we Canadians are supposed to be the big progressive socialists in North America, I'm very surprised at how stuffy and resistant Toronto has been towards expanding bicycle infrastructure in the last decade.

It doesn't help that some of our local councillors have been shamefully characterizing extending our bicycling infrastructure as a "war on the car". These flames have been fanned by goofy, sensational editorial pieces in our local newspapers as well.

Hopefully, with what I'm seeing on the horizon, we'll witness an even more bike-friendly turn around in 2010, and we'll make some amazing changes in the next decade. I love this city, and watching it evolve into a progressive and future-proof human transit leader would make Toronto complete for me.

Points of Interest

• George Smitherman at Wikipedia


• Tory and Smitherman set the stage for battle to come and Tory V. Smitherman (video)


• 'Furious George' Smitherman has to form a campaign identity


• The Toronto PanAm Games 2015 site and the Ministry of Health Promotion site


• Complete Streets Update Public Meeting - Mon, Nov 23


• New York City lessons and Toronto’s fairy tale War on the Car

Blogging with Ecto 3, and a quick tip.

I was a prolific user of Ecto when I first stumbled upon it back during the version 2.4 days. Ecto is now up to version 3 and it is as awesome a blogging tool as ever. It looks like http://ecto.kung-foo.tv no longer works, but that's ok, because the Ecto software and forums are now hosted at IllumineX.

If you are an Ecto 2 licensee, your license for Ecto 2 will get you access to Ecto 3 free of charge.

One snag I came across when I started using Ecto 3 was an error coming back from both the Amazon Helper and the Flickr Helper.

For the Amazon Helper, the error was;

"The request must contain the parameter Signature."

For the Flickr Helper, the error was;

"Failed to get data from Flickr!"

So a quick search rendered the following forum post at IllumineX, which led to the following page explaining how to install the new plugins.

So basically both Amazon and Flickr have updated their API, and therefore the plugins need to be updated.

Here are the quick links to both.

• Amazon Helper



• Flickr Helper

Follow the instructions here and you'll be rolling again within a minute.

Ok let's test the plugins;

Amazon

"Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies" (Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff)

Flickr

That's really nice!!

Yes, you can get the new MacBook in different colors

Via Apartment Therapy Unplugged.
Colorware will apparently take several different types of electronics and skin them in different colors. The service is prohibitively expensive, for me, but it's probably for the best that I can't get this done to my new MacBook.

ColorWare

How we anonymize you

Cute video via Core77 that animates how Google Street View attempts to shield your privacy.



Of course, as anyone who has had their license plate displayed in plain view in Google Street View can tell you (ahem..), it's not a perfect system.

Cool Tools: Rescue CD 3.11

Thanks to F-Secure for putting out this cool tool;

Now it is time to release the new Rescue CD for which we put out the beta some time ago. We decided to update the version number to 3.11 since we added a couple of useful utilities to the CD image. Otherwise this is the same version as is available on our Internet Security 2010 installation CD.

Take a look a the release announcement and download here.

Quick impression of the new Macbook

As you are probably aware Apple recently released a new line of low-end Macbooks with updated specs and an updated body mold. I picked one up today to replace my amazingly loyal but aging Powerbook 12". Actually to be more accurate, this Macbook will take the place of three different systems that I use. My Powerbook, an ancient Ubuntu Thinkpad 600E, and a Windows/Ubuntu desktop.

Since this is the low-end, I don't have a Firewire port, or an SD card reader, but to be frank I won't miss either of those features. If I was a professional photographer or videographer that might get in the way.

I opted for a 4GB RAM upgrade, since I do a lot of "multitasking" and I sometimes work with Parallels, simulating Linux and FreeBSD installs. The 4GB of RAM has paid off, I think. If you get a Macbook, opt for the RAM upgrade. People always say "Macs love RAM", and it's still just as true.

So far I'm very impressed with the horsepower this laptop packs. Even as Apple's lowest-end portable offering, it's taking everything I can throw at it. The fan is pretty quiet despite my running of flash videos and Second Life in the background. It's staying fairly cool overall although there are some hot spots.

I notice when the graphics card kicks in to high gear, the keys (WSAD in particular) start to heat up, but so far it hasn't been a big deal. I can't comment on how much it might cook my groin, because I've got a laptop lap-table thing that I swear by.

The physical build quality feels sturdy, considering it's not aluminum like a Macbook Pro. But it's still plastic, there's no doubt about it. As much as I loved my aluminum Powerbook, I couldn't justify the $800+ premium for another Aluminum bodied laptop, at least in this generation of Apple computers. Let's see what happens in a couple of years.

I've popped the back off of it to take a look inside (had to, I couldn't help it!) and you can get to pretty much all of the components with little fuss. This is a huge change from most Apple laptops I've dealt with in the last decade. I changed out the hard drives on both my Blueberry iBook and my Powerbook, and each time was a huge production requiring documentation of every step, and of which screws went where.

When the time comes, I'll be able to drop a 500GB SATA drive into this MacBook without giving myself any new wrinkles in the process.

Let's see how I feel in a month, but at the moment, I'm more than happy with this Macbook as a replacement for my Powerbook AND desktop systems.

Rogers (finally) Introduces the New BlackBerry Bold 9700 Smartphone

Update: According to MobileSyrup, dummy devices are showing up and being readied for display at Rogers retail outlets.  Awesome!

Yay! After weeks of teasing us, Rogers is about to drop the BlackBerry Bold 9700 on it's users.

I'm looking forward to getting one of these at work to replace my now rancid (but faithful) 8700r.

Via PRNewsWire, quote the Raven...

Newest 3G BlackBerry smartphone will arrive at Rogers in the coming weeks

TORONTO, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Rogers Wireless today announced that it will be offering the BlackBerry(R) Bold(TM) 9700, the latest 3G smartphone from Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM), in the coming weeks.

Running on Canada's most reliable network, the BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone offers top-of-the-line performance, functionality and features with support for 3G HSDPA networks around the world, a next-generation (624 MHz) processor, 256 MB Flash memory, built-in GPS and Wi-Fi(R), 3.2MP camera and sharp, dazzling display. Cutting edge engineering and premium finishes extend to the exterior of the handset as well. The new model integrates a touch-sensitive trackpad and the highly tactile, distinctive, fretted keyboard found in RIM's premium full-QWERTY handsets. Chrome highlights and a leatherette back add to the new smartphone's sleek and elegant look, while the narrow profile, balanced weight and soft-touch frame allow it to sit comfortably in one hand.

"The BlackBerry Bold 9700 is certainly a sight to behold," said John Boynton, Executive Vice President, Marketing, Rogers Communications. "Rogers is pleased to add this stylish, high performing device to our lineup of leading-edge smartphones, just in time for the holiday season."

"The new BlackBerry Bold 9700 delivers state-of-the-art features and performance in a compact and beautifully designed handset," said Don Morrison, Chief Operating Officer at Research In Motion. "This sleek and powerful 3G smartphone offers an incredibly refined mobile experience that is ideal for both personal and professional use."

Features of the BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone from Rogers include:

    -   Sleek design measuring 109 mm x 60 mm x 14.1 mm and weighing only 122
        grams
    -   Sharp and dazzling 2.44" light-sensing display (480 x 360 resolution
        at 245 ppi)
    -   Highly tactile, full QWERTY keyboard - with finely sculpted keys and
        chrome frets - for fast, accurate typing
    -   Innovative touch-sensitive trackpad that allows intuitive and
        responsive navigation
    -   Built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g)
    -   Access to applications including TeleNav GPS Navigator, SalesNOW
        Mobile Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Momentem Time and
        Expense Tracker, and the unique to Rogers Name Display and WhoCalled
        features
    -   BlackBerry(R) Internet Service and BlackBerry(R) Enterprise Server
        support, with customers having dedicated access to Rogers 24/7
        technical support in Canada and worldwide
    -   Access to Tier 2 Enterprise Support Centre for Rogers BlackBerry
        Enterprise Server customers
    -   Access to the Rogers urMusic application, which allows users to
        sideload music for free and discover, browse and download songs.
        urMusic also gives access to the best LiveNation(R) concerts with
        Wireless Box Office(TM), a mobile ticketing service where Rogers pays
        the service charges
    -   3.2 MP camera with variable zoom, autofocus, flash and video
        recording
    -   Built-in GPS for maps and other location-based applications, as well
        as photo geotagging
    -   256 MB of Flash memory
    -   microSD/SDHD memory card slot that supports up to 16 GB cards today
        and is expected to support 32 GB cards when available; a 2GB card is
        included
    -   Media player for videos, pictures and music, plus support for
        BlackBerry Desktop Manager for both PCs and Macs, and BlackBerry(R)
        Media Sync for easily syncing iTunes(R) and Windows Media(R) Player
        music with the smartphone*
    -   A 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, dedicated volume controls, Lock and
        Mute keys seamlessly integrated across the top of the handset
    -   Access to BlackBerry App World(TM), featuring a broad and growing
        catalog of mobile applications developed specifically for BlackBerry
        smartphones. Categories include games, entertainment, IM and social
        networking, news, weather, productivity and more.
    -   Premium and easy-to-access phone features, background noise
        suppression technology and high quality speakerphone
    -   Bluetooth(R) (2.1) with support for Secure Simple Pairing, hands-free
        headsets, stereo headsets, car kits and other Bluetooth peripherals
    -   HSDPA and quad-band EDGE support for global roaming
    -   BlackBerry(R) OS 5.0, offering users email management and calendar
        enhancements** as well as a better browsing experience with faster
        JavaScript and CSS processing
    -   BlackBerry(R) Internet Service and BlackBerry(R) Enterprise Server
        support
    -   Removable, rechargeable 1500 mAhr battery that provides approximately
        6 hours of talk time and 17 days of standby time in 3G mode

Pricing & Availability

The new BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone will be available from Rogers in the coming weeks for $299.99 on a three-year voice and data activation with a minimum monthly service plan of $45.

Check www.rogers.com for availability or www.blackberry.com/Bold9700 for product information.

    *    Certain music files may not be supported, including files that
           contain digital rights management technologies.
    **   Some features require BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0

About Rogers Wireless

Rogers Wireless provides wireless voice and data communications services across Canada to more than 8.2 million customers under both the Rogers Wireless and Fido brands. Proven to operate Canada's fastest mobile data network as well as the most reliable network for voice with the clearest reception and fewest dropped calls, Rogers Wireless isCanada's largest wireless provider and the only carrier operating on the global standard GSM and highly advanced HSPA technology platforms. In addition to providing seamless roaming in more than 200 countries/areas with its GSM based services, Rogers Wireless also provides wireless broadband services across Canada utilizing its 2.5GHz fixed wireless spectrum. Rogers Wireless is a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX: RCI; NYSE: RCI), a diversified Canadian communications and media company. For further information, please visit www.rogers.com.

The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited. All other brands, product names, company names, trademarks and service marks are the properties of their respective owners. RIM assumes no obligations or liability and makes no representation, warranty, endorsement or guarantee in relation to any aspect of any third party products or services.

SOURCE Rogers Wireless

Use Synergy to share a keyboard between an Ubuntu desktop and an Apple laptop

Oy vey. How do I explain this one without sounding like a total alien?

Ok, so I'm using a program called Synergy to share a keyboard between an Ubuntu desktop system and an Apple Powerbook. The program is made up of a "server" and a number of "clients". Since the Ubuntu desktop isn't going anywhere, I am using it as the server and the Powerbook is the client.

It works great. Much easier than having a zillion keyboards on my desk, or in this case reaching over to my laptop to answer an IM or e-mail. BUT, please note the SECURITY CONCERNS at the bottom of this article.

So here we go;

Step 1) Download Synergy2 for the Mac and install.

Download Synergy2 for the Mac and decompress synergy. The binaries come out as synergyc and synergys. synergyc is the binary we want to use on the Powerbook. I have mine in /opt/local/bin/.

Example; decompress the binary package via Apple's Terminal

scarr@awesome:~$ cd tmp && tar zxvf ~/Downloads/zxvf synergy-1.3.1-1.OSX.tar.gz
...etc... output of file...
scarr@awesome:~/tmp$ cd synergy-1.3.1/
scarr@awesome:~/tmp/synergy-1.3.1$ ls -al
total 2888
drwxr-xr-x 3 scarr scarr 4096 2006-04-02 16:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 scarr scarr 4096 2009-10-13 21:57 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 scarr scarr 293309 2006-04-02 16:17 ChangeLog
drwxr-xr-x 2 scarr scarr 4096 2006-04-02 16:17 doc
-rw-r--r-- 1 scarr scarr 861 2006-04-02 16:17 README
-rwxr-xr-x 1 scarr scarr 1029440 2006-04-02 16:17 synergyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 scarr scarr 793 2006-04-02 16:17 synergy.conf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 scarr scarr 1593984 2006-04-02 16:17 synergys

Step 2) install the Synergy server on to our Ubuntu box.

From the command line, do the following;


scarr@awesome:~$ sudo aptitude search synergy
[sudo] password for scarr:
i quicksynergy - GUI for easy configuration of Synergy
i A synergy - Share mouse, keyboard and clipboard over the network

scarr@awesome:~$ sudo aptitude install synergy

You can use the other app in that list, QuickSynergy, to quickly set up the server config. If you do, the config that QuickSynergy generates will be in ~/.quicksynergy/synergy.conf. The downside of QuickSynergy; it doesn't seem to allow much customization, which you may need.

Step 3) Configure the Synergy server.

Configuring Synergy can be a bit confusing but once you've got the layout visualized it makes a lot more sense.

Here's my example config on the server side for reference, which is on the Ubuntu desktop;


section: screens
awesome:
codebook:
meta = alt
alt = meta
end
section: links
awesome:
left = codebook
codebook:
right = awesome
end


awesome is the Ubuntu desktop. codebook is the Powerbook.

So in "section: screens" we define what systems will share awesome's keyboard and mouse. If you'll notice, under codebook's example I've defined a swap of the alt and meta keys.

I've got an Apple keyboard hooked up to awesome, but when I enter codebook's screen, awesome sends an alt in the place of the command key and vice versa for alt. To fix that, I just swapped 'em. Depending on the keyboard you're using, you can mix and match. It's very handy to be able to do that. A list of the keys is in the synergys man page, but here they are below for reference.

· Modifier keys:
shift = {shift|ctrl|alt|meta|super|none}
ctrl = {shift|ctrl|alt|meta|super|none}
alt = {shift|ctrl|alt|meta|super|none}
meta = {shift|ctrl|alt|meta|super|none}
super = {shift|ctrl|alt|meta|super|none}

In "section: links" we define how these systems are configured.

So awesome is to the right of codebook.

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Step 4) Run the client and the server

- On awesome, the server, from the command line I run

synergys -c /home/scarr/.synergy/synergy.conf


This is pretty straight forward. I am running the daemon with the configuration we just wrote. It should slip into the background and you can close the terminal.

- On codebook, the client, from the command line I run

/opt/local/bin/synergyc -n codebook 10.10.10.10


In this instance, I am defining the name to send to the server as codebook. The IP address of awesome is 10.10.10.10, which is where codebook will connect.

If everything has gone according to plan you'll be able to slip between the two systems, taking the clipboard with you, which is astonishingly handy!

Step X) some automation

To get the server to start up when I log on to the Ubuntu box, I have asked Ubuntu to run it under System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications

To run the client on the Powerbook, I used Automator to make a shortcut to the terminal command.. This part is still somewhat messy, but it's easy and works.

SECURITY CONCERNS

Synergy is unencrypted and mostly passwordless (if you don't count obfuscating your computer name, which is already sketchy security since it is, once again, unencrypted). Do not use synergy on a network you do not trust implicitly. Because it is unencrypted, all communications between the synergy server and synergy client will be readable in plain text in TCP/IP packets.

There are ways around this, like tunneling synergy through SSH, but that's just one shelf above what I'm willing to explain. If you want to start down this road, you can look at http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1816 which is a good starting point.