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Same reason as SSH - it's a convenient platform. It'd be nice, if I needed to do something work related (or access something on my home machine) to have an available X session.
> What can you do with X that you can't do with ssh?
Are you really that in the dark? Ssh can't do X. It can *forward* X11, but using ssh, I would have access to only a command line and text based applications. With an Android Xserver, I can display any app on my Android tablet that is running on my desktop machine, and do it efficiently (unlike vnc). I could even use XDMCP and login to a full session on a remote machine.
And later, this can open the door to porting Linux/BSD GUI applications (and wind
What can you accomplish with X11 that you can't do better with ssh?
If you want to run a full desktop linux stack on an android device, that's another thing (and it's been done), but why would I want to remote manage a machine over X?
I don't know why *you* would. But I have lots of useful things I do remotely with X. I have some management stuff that is much easier to do with a GUI. I can remotely even remotely run my mail client. Certainly, it is not for everyone, though (or even most people).
If your solution for delivering mail is to run a remote client, you're really doing it wrong.
Don't be so judgmental! Actually, there is absolutely nothing "wrong" with the way I do it.... it is exactly what I need and want. I have to log into that server several times a day when I am not at work, anyway, to maintain it and I have been running Claws remotely for many years. It is fast and efficient.
I don't mean to be judgemental, it's just... It's like reading your neighbours paper with a telescope. Sure, it works, but there's a better way. Like an IMAP server.
What can you do with X that you can't do with ssh?
How about browing web pages on intranets? Text-mode web browsers suck. I love the UI of links2, and can't imagine why nobody else is copying the keyboard shortcuts it uses. However, I can't even get past the login prompt on most web pages. I love being able to pop out my Android slider wherever I am and SSH in and do real work, but not being able to get in to the company Wiki, where all my notes are, or fire up the Nagios web interface and just see what
These are all things that would be better done with a local app, perhaps via a ssh tunnel.
These are all things that would be better done with a local app, perhaps via a ssh tunnel.
WTF is a local SSH tunnel?
Anyhow, I have no idea what you're disagreeing with... How would you suggest running these GUI apps over an SSH tunnel without this X11 port to Android?
There are simply NO NATIVE ANDROID APPS that can do what I've listed. X11 is strictly required. Before this port of X11, there were NO OPTIONS AT ALL, so I'm very happy to see it coming along.
There are lots of native email and instant messaging apps.
Trying to run a desktop app on a smartphone screen isn't going to work very well. If what you need is access to an internal network, tunnelling into it with ssh works a lot better. You can use the native applications as if you were on that network.
So I can launch Rhythmbox on my HTPC, display the GUI on my phone, and have a decent audio remote on my phone, just like that.
Quite. X is just a remote graphics framework. The app could be created with a tablet in mind. It doesn't have to be a conventional desktop app. You can treat the phone as a peripheral for your TV or or PC without dealing with the nonsense of IR transmitters.
Run any app you like. Skip the nonsense with walled gardens.
Why is the North Korea of text editors, the most patriotic?
Have you ever seen a North Korean parade or other choreographed event? They seem to be the most ridiculous over the top displays of patriotism on the planet. North Korea is almost the very definition of extreme patriotism.
Or are you one of those that think patriotism is something that only applies to Americans?
Read the post that was in reply to again. Note why I would mention a communist state...
To run the most patriotic of text editors, vim.
Bah, real vi doesn't use X
You guys and your "almost vi" with your namby pamby file menus and clicky buttons.
... it just requires a console.
Pfst....Not if you know what you're doing. Back in my day we didn't have that fancy vt100 and we liked it.
Pfst....Not if you know what you're doing. Back in my day we didn't have that fancy vt100 and we liked it.
Maybe we're using the term "console" differently
My first year of university I had to use a line editor over a 300 baud modem
However, I still love to see some poor schmuck that needs Emacs with all of their
there was no emacs, and he wasn't allowed to install it
Good times indeed.
Maybe we can run a Linux desktop environment. And then add some common apps that are used among many POSIX-compliant operating systems. And then get rid of all the stuff that requires Google services, and add a compiler so we can run whatever we want.
We could call this flavor of Android the Generally Normal User-environment Linux, or GNU/Linux for short.
An IM client such as pidgin that I can trust to not passing my messages to some third server would be awesome. All the current Android IM options feel kind of dubious somehow, I am using Meebo because it's at least familiar-sounding and used them in the past without getting loads of spam or something. I'd love pidgin...even Finch would do.
I know libpurple has been ported, but nobody has stepped forward to write an interface to it (or an OTR plugin)
I know libpurple has been ported, but nobody has stepped forward to write an interface to it (or an OTR plugin)
I've been intending to do just that for so long now, but never have the time. Alas...
I'd love you forever.
That is great. Oh, and good luck with that job!
I rewrote the pidgin-otr plugin to use plain libpurple a few months ago. It will work on anything that libpurple works on, including finch. You can read about it here
http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-dev/2011-December/001226.html [cypherpunks.ca]
and grab the code here
https://gitorious.org/purple-otr#more [gitorious.org]
There's already a package for it in Arch Linux.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=55511 [archlinux.org]
Suppose these people had devoted their time to producing something useful.
Connect your phone to an external screen, keyboard and mouse, configure XDMCP - and you've got yourself a nice X terminal.
NCD used to charge thousands of $ for them back in 199x...
It's actually very useful. For a long time now, it was possible to run full fledged Linux distros such as Ubuntu in a chroot inside Android (note, this also neatly works around the Xlib problem - chroot has its own userspace libraries for everything). This, in turn, lets you run things like LibreOffice on your Android tablet - particularly handy when you have a BT keyboard, or own an Asus Transformer or Lenovo Thinkpad tablet.
The catch was that you then had to use a VNC client to work with graphics apps, wh
Um, dalvik isn't Java(TM) - the whole point of Larry Ellison's lawsuit.
Blame Google, rather than Oracle for any laggy performance. In fact, benchmarks comparing Hotspot to Dalvik (froyo) some time ago showed Google had some catching up to do.
Doing what the article says requires you to use "xhost +" as the magic cookie requirements will not have been met.
Second, even with the magic cookie, all transmissions to/from the X server are unencrypted - which means your magic cookie (the password to the X server) is passed in cleartext for anyone to see.
Having an X server on android is usefull, but also get ssh. That will securely route the X protocol (with encryption) from a remote (to the android display) system and with proper display.
Well, the article implies that he hasn't implemented xhost security yet so it's kind of a moot point right now
Note this is not X.org, but a new implementation of an X11 server in Java. Which is pretty neat if you ask me.
-Y Enables trusted X11 forwarding. Trusted X11 forwardings are not subjected to the X11 SECURITY extension controls.
Of course that assumes that everything is going via ssh, which is probably a fair assumption for nearly anything that isn't on the same local network. If the point is to get it on a phone/tablet then it's fair to assume that it's not on a local network and those
I miss the insecure days of trolling my co-workers with an app that made their mouse move one pixel in a random direction (was great on one guy who used hot edges to switch desktops and the mouse got stuck in the corner constantly switching desktops). Alternatively my office mate had a pop up window come up that would stay a few pixels away from their cursor. The scary part was the SA that was half through ordering replacement hardware before we came clean...
It's a crime. A crime that comments like this haven't been modded up to +5. What's wrong with
>I hope that nobody would actually consider a remote X session without tunnelling over ssh...
It depends on your network and environment. If you are on a local, secure, wired, switched network, it doesn't matter that much if the X11 traffic is not encrypted. And without encryption, it will be much simpler, faster, and more efficient.
But yes, if you plan on doing this over WiFi or the Internet, then I would strongly recommend running it through ssh or some other encrypted transport.
And without encryption, it will be much simpler, faster, and more efficient.
Some X11 data compresses quite well so in some cases ssh actually improves performance.
>Some X11 data compresses quite well so in some cases ssh actually improves performance.
That is also true...(as long as you can take the even more CPU hit on both sides... which is not a good thing on a multiuser application server) but I was speaking only about encryption, not compression.
Also note that most implementations of ssh have compression off by default- it must be requested (-C). And compression can actually *hurt* performance on a fast/local network, because it will increase latency/jerkines
I suppose this should be interesting, but mostly it strikes me as dumb. Mostly as a result of Google having reinvented the wheel by creating an entirely new and no more efficient or effective rendering and windowing subsystem for Android, then having the rest of the open source community chase along behind them. I suppose that's not terribly surprising, seeing as how Android was proprietary out of the gate until Google bought them.
In other news, I'll hope that my N900 holds out and that another device, probably one from Samsung running Tizen, comes along before it fails.
If only Maemo could run on a Droid 4 I wouldn't have to worry so much about my N900...
Actually, X11 has been tried before on mobiles and was often found lacking. Android's rendering and windowing is just better than X11.
Works fine on Ubuntu for Android.
Actually, X11 has been tried before on mobiles and was often found lacking
Really? You see, I had OpenBSD with X11 on a Zaurus a few years back and it worked very well indeed. Have you actually had any experience wiht mobile X11?
OpenMoko, OLPC. Both had (and I believe still have) issues with memory usage and partial redraws.
>Actually, X11 has been tried before on mobiles and was often found lacking. Android's rendering and windowing is just better than X11.
[citation needed]
(Or are you just talking out of your bunghole, user 1,698,922?)
Their rendering and window subsystem has already proven to be laggy and inefficient unless you throw overwhelming hardware at it. Why even continue do it in Java and on Mobile!? There's neither memory, cpu/gpu, nor battery, to feed that mess properly.
Even Windows Phone moved their rendering engine to native. Why not a proper port of Wayland (or just switch to Qt) instead?
Because Wayland has no support yet. Because millions of machines already support and use X11 applications. Because X11 works just fine.
As for running X on a "mobile"- phones are already more powerful than machines that ran X just fine a decade ago. And modern Android tablets and phones have plenty of memory and CPU to do it... even in Java.
There is absolutely nothing crazy about wanting to run X on a mobile device. Having more options is a wonderful thing. Now- I will agree that trying to do it in Java
Well, as I understand it, embedded SoC vendors only provide basic drivers for the linux framebuffer and apis to access stuff like embedded opengl. So historically Google was forced to kludge software based rendering.
Linaro and TI, through its Beagleboard/Pandaboard communities may have developed suitable drivers to power X11 on the OMAP-based Maemo devices such as N9 but have other vendors like Qualcomm, Nvidia, Samsung, etc?
So the scenario for accelerated X11 and Android seamlessly integrated on the same d
Hopefully this will enable the implementation of the NX technology ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology [wikipedia.org] ) on Android, since using the X protocol directly over the public Internet is terribly slow.
I already use my Android phone to do some light remote work. I use ConnectBot http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/ [google.com] to SSH into a remote workstation. For graphical apps, I set up port forwarding for VNC (there's a menu option for it in connectbot) and use AndroidVNC http://code.google.com/p/android-vnc-viewer/ [google.com]
I have my VNC server set to only accept connections from localhost (and it's firewalled, too), so that only connections which are forwarded and encrypted via SSH wind up being accepted. This way I get secure remote access, the VNC protocol tends to be less bandwidth-intensive than raw X, and it preserves my session in case I get disconnected.
Don't get me wrong, an X server on Android is a cool technical achievement, but existing SSH and VNC clients for Android are a more practical and secure way of accessing your workstations/servers on the go.
X Protocol does not use more bandwidth than VNC. If anything, the opposite is (typically) true.
However, there are more round trips when starting an application when using X Protocol as compared to VNC. Latency is the performance killer for X Protocol, not bandwidth. This means applications may/will launch faster on VNC. NX (based on dxpc) short-circuits some X protocol requests, avoiding the latency issue. Typically, NX (FreeNX) performs as well as VNC.
With the "usual" X Servers in use these days, typically
the VNC protocol tends to be less bandwidth-intensive than raw X, and it preserves my session in case I get disconnected.
Now that we have X11 on Android, there's no reason an NX client can't (FINALLY) be ported to Android. NX completely blows away VNC on bandwidth, as well as responsiveness, redraw times, etc. It also preserves sessions like VNC, and has many features VNC lacks. Also, SSH is fundamentally built-in to NX, so you don't need to set up any port forwarding yourself.
Hell, I sometimes watch vid
Not sure if the author is talking about running port 6000 on a public IP but that's scary if so.
While pure, unadulterated X11 might not be the thing you'd want to run on your phone or tablet because of the chatty network protocol, there are some X11 derivatives which can make this fly. Have a look at the x2go [x2go.org] project for an example of what I mean. Having X11 on Android means the x2go app is only a short development cycle away, and that is good news for those of us who like to move around while still needing access to something which only wants to run a gui.
I'd like to say, congratulations! Android has very nearly caught up with where Maemo was when it was released in 2009. Also, suck it Wayland!
I'm curious - what does Android (and WebOS) use in place of X as their Windowing system? For desktops, I understand that X is the default, although there are ongoing attempts to bring Wayland into the picture. Also, for Plasma Active - the Spark tablet that was discussed here some weeks ago, does that sit on X, or something else?
The other thing about setting the phone's display to DISPLAY ____:0, are they now using IPv6 addresses? If not, what do they do if it is IPv4 and NATed? Do they do DISPLAY 10.
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Recreational Vehicles, or RVs, also known as motor homes, motorcoaches, and "land yachts" celebrated 100 years of existence last year.
One could easily kill a day on the web by using the search terms "weird," "strange," or "crazy" plus "RVs". Do-it-yourself seems to be a favorite ethos for the RV crowd, so there are too many customized motor homes to consider showing them all here. Instead, we've selected some of the most odd and unusual standouts, and present them in order from the smallest on up to the ones with more square footage than some non-mobile homes.
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Home > Home, Garden & Office > Tools & Home Improvement > US Plug 24 Hours Program Timer Energy Conservation Savers Electronic Intermittent Plug-in Timer 110-125V
Product Details
- Mini Mechanical Timer
- 24h Operation
- 15 Minute Segments
- Ideal for home security - timer can be set to switch lights and stereo equipment ON/OFF.
- Convenient - timer operates electrical appliances automatically as required
- Suitability - timer operate on light fittings and appliances that fall within the maximum safe inductive and resistive loads
- Plug: US Standard
- Max. Work Load: 1800W
- Voltage: 110 -125V /AC, 60Hz,
- Align present time to pointer
- Push segments down for required "ON" time
- 1. Plug in socket, and connect this facility with the home appliance
- 2. Push down the joint slices according to the working duration of home appliances as expected (15 min, for one slice, adjustable for 24hr.)
- 3. Turn the disc following the arrow's direction till the mark pointing to the current time.
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As your PBS station, it is KLRU's mission to bring people together around important issues. KLRU does this through various educational and outreach initiatives. This year, KLRU will present 2nd Half of Life project. Created for one of the best-educated, healthiest, and most privileged generations in American history — the Boomers — the series aims to help people reinvent life after the age of 50. In the coming months, 2nd Half of Life presents episodes of The Seasoned Traveler.
September 5
Often overlooked by tourists, Michigan is a treasure trove of quaint communities and colorful festivals, and it touches four of the five Great Lakes. In the season premiere, host George Bauer introduces viewers to attractions including the Tulip Time Festival in the aptly named town of Holland; lovely Mackinac Island, where glorious old hotels take visitors back in time; the Bavarian-style town of Frankenmuth; and the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, America's largest indoor/outdoor museum.
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New York State is much more than just The Big Apple and Niagara Falls. George Bauer's visit includes the eastern end of Long Island, home of the Hamptons but less known for its beautiful, bucolic countryside and quaint villages; the spectacular Finger Lakes district, with its picturesque communities and numerous wineries; the majestic Adirondacks; and Lake Placid.
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In Canada's largest province, George Bauer explores Montreal, whose many attractions include the Vieux Montreal historical district and Mont Royal, an extinct volcano that offers an unparalleled view of the city. In the regal capital, Quebec City, George's stops include the Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac, a grand hotel on a bluff overlooking Old Quebec, and the Grande Allee, a charming promenade lined with restaurants and clubs. Capping off the tour: breathtaking Montmorency Falls, Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area and #le d'Orleans, a tiny agrarian paradise in the St. Lawrence River.
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In this Eastern European country, George Bauer stops in two enchanting alpine resort areas: Bled, with its perfect lake and stately 16th-century castle, and Bohinj, located in Slovenia's only national park. Other highlights include Skofja Loka, which boasts a charming town square and centuries-old inn; the capital city of Ljubljana, whose ancient roots are evident in the ruins and relics found in its Old Town district; the amazing rock formations of 4 million-year-old Postojna Caves; Predjama Castle, carved into the mouth of a rock cliff; and Lipica, birthplace of the famous Lipizzaner Stallion tradition.


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Rich with the heritage of its colonial towns, thrumming with the rhythm of its vibrant capitals, and overflowing with the beauty of its tropical coasts – Colombia is a modern South American wonderland.
Once famous for cocaine and cartels, this South American hotspot has so much more to offer. No longer the infamous warzone that it was just 20 years ago, Colombia is blossoming into a haven of culture, history and natural beauty. Coastal towns like Cartagena are a beach-goer's paradise, and the Los Nevados National Park offers spectacular rarely seen sights. Colombia's cities too are brimming with sights and sounds to tantalise travellers, from the African beats of Cali to the ultra-modern streets of Medellin.
Colombia travel highlights
Drive through the greenery of the coffee region
Colombia's coffee growing region is not just the best place to source your organic coffee beans, it's a rolling lush area rife with beautiful views.
Articles on Colombia
Colombia holiday information
Colombia facts
Local culture of Colombia
Geography & environment
Shopping guide to Colombia
Colombia festival calendar
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Tipping is definitely a part of Colombian culture. Restaurants include a 10% surcharge, and although it's optional, it's probably a good idea to pay this as everyone usually does. It's also customary to tip porters and tour guides. The exception to tipping culture is taxi rides, which has a metered fare.
Colombia has good internet access in its major cities and towns, however internet service may be less common in rural and remote places.
Mobile phone service is good in big cities and towns, however may be unreliable outside of these areas. Remember to activate global roaming with your provider if you wish to use your mobile while traveling.
Colombia has western-style toilets across most of the country. Soap and toilet paper aren't always provided so you may like to carry some with you.
Soft drink = 1,500 COP
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Simple meal in a local restaurant = 6,000 COP
Meal in an international restaurant = 15,000-20,000 COP
Drinking tap water is not considered safe in Colombia. For environmental reasons, avoid buying bottled water and bring a bottle or canteen with you. Ask your leader where you can access filters to refill your supply, or carry your own purification tablets with you.
You may be able to use your credit card in tourist establishments, large shopping centres and hotels. However you'll require cash when purchasing from small local businesses.
Bogota and Medellin have plenty of ATMs, however ATMs are harder to find in rural and remote areas.
Yes. All peregrine passengers are required to purchase travel insurance prior to their trip. Your insurance details will be recorded by your leader on the first day.
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lol @ lumping in scrubs like Sanchez and Tebow with the likes of Martin, Namath, and Chrebet.
Some fans just don't want to criticize ANYTHING with the team. They live in this delusional world where everything is great and the rest of us just don't see how great things are. Absolute delusion.
I'm so tired of people portraying Sanchez as some kind of victim.
The Jets made him a multi-millionaire, he was put in a situation his first two years that most young QB's could only dream of, he's never had his starting job put in jeopardy until now in his 5th year, he's constantly had his HC rush to his defense and offer continuous support, etc.
Again, when the hell have you heard about a QB being given a color coded "green, yellow, red" wristband to diagnose plays? Is this standard practice for young QB's or is Sanchez just truly that inept? I've sure as hell never heard of it.
And once again, what the hell does his supporting cast have to do with the completely boneheaded decisions that he makes week after week after week...after week?
Chucking the ball off his backfoot into double and even triple coverage, sailing the ball over open receivers heads or bouncing it at their feet, running around like a chicken with its head cut off everytime a defender comes within 6 feet of him, flatout not noticing wide open receivers in the endzone, pouting and hanging his head like a pathetic pu$$y everytime something goes wrong, etc.
You know what this is? It's the worlds smallest violin playing a sympathy song for Mark Sanchez.
And quit taking any comments on Sanchez and construing them to mean that I or we think Sanchez has done nothing wrong, and everything is just fine, it's wrong, and it's crap.
You are very correct about all the newbs that have flooded JI in the past two years when we were good, lots of room on the bandwagon. But now that we're a terrible team, these children know nothing but the rah-rah stuff, think that stepping on chalk lines is bad for the team, like what they think and do has any impact on what Idzik and Ryan are doing.
Exactly. As always, they blame Mark Sanchez because the alternative is blaming Rex Ryan and the Rex Ryan Apologists can't stand for that.
It's the Rex Ryan Strategy that destroyed our team. "Ferocious defense". Since when? "Ground and pound rushing dominance". Since when? It's ridiculous.
If there is a single scapegoat on this team that fans want to point a finger at, it's Shonn Greene. But, no, can't have that because that's also pointing a finger at Rex Ryan, tsk tsk, no, can't have that.
sanchez is a one dimensional qb still trying to figure out what that dimension is. for those who remember he had to be taught how to slide and avoid contact but yet we wasted a 1st round draft pick on a kid who was a 1 year starter at usc. what did anyone really exect, johny u.
the 2009-2010 team was loaded with talent when it was sanchezs turn to be that talent he failed.
I think he high side can be a average NFL QB if he is surrounded by superior talent.
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With no QB on the roster after Pennington/Favre departed and with no good QB in free agency, the Jets decided to go after the best QB available in the 2009 draft. If they'd have lost out on Sanchez they'd have blown the offseason as he was their only option.
Stop looking at the draft position and the contract. That means nothing. The Jets had no other option but to choose the best QB in that year's draft. No one said Mark Sanchez was the next Peyton Manning. They said he should have gone lower in Round 1. We had to have him. They traded up out of desperation, not ability.
And then Rex Ryan promised a victory, we got blown out, Tomlinson got hurt, Keller got hurt, Burress got old, Greene couldn't run. The wheels came off the bus. Why? Not because Mark Sanchez got bad. Because the weapons that our HC and GM gave him fell apart due to age, injury, and inability.
1. You confuse his draft position with the fact that the Jets were desperate to trade up. You might feel better about Mark Sanchez if he were drafted #20 overall, but the Jets needed a trading partner and had to have the guy.
2. There were no QB's on our roster in 2009 after Favre and Pennington left and the free agent class was awful. Taking Sanchez was the right move. In spades.
3. In his first two seasons, he had lots of veteran playmaking help but was too young himself to take full advantage. In this second two seasons, he had no veteran playmaking help when he was mature enough to take full advantage. Bad GM and bad HC putting him in a terrible situation. Not Mark's fault.
4. The Jets were on a Sanchez-led 18-9 run with 5 huge wins over elite teams going into that 2011 Patriots contest. "The Battle For The AFC East" after we smoked 'em in the playoffs a few months prior.
Since that game, the New York Jets are 9-15 with a 1-11 record against teams that end the year with a winning record.
What changed at that halfway point of 2011 was that the defense lost its swagger, the head coach lost his team, and the quarterback lost all his weapons. And none of those three things, not a single one, was corrected or improved for 2012 which leaves us as the smouldering mess we are.
Mark Sanchez was good once. Very good. The Jets ignored him, abandoned him, and ruined him. And here we are, yet again, discussing Mark Sanchez over and over when we should be discussing the pathetic head coach, the pathetic defense, the pathetic running game, and the pathetic special teams as they were all bigger villains than our quarterback.
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Personally, I think it's simpler to understand than things like OpenID which are convoluted and not standardized from the user point of view. Where is the standard account management protocol for OpenID?
An older Slashdot article on BrowserID for reference: http://www.yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/15/1216222/Mozilla-BrowserID-Decentralized-Federated-Login [slashdot.org]
Not heard of Enigform but will look into it!
Am I understanding this correctly? The client sends a login request to the server. The server sends an email to another server. If there is a response to the email the user is then approved?
If there is a response to the email the user is then approved?
That's the technique for the "interim"period, in which browserid.org will implement user control verification through an e-mailed link. For each e-mail address that you wish to use as an identifying token you'd have to prove that you control it through that mechanism, until your e-mail provider ( which may also be you ) implements BrowserID.
Unfortunately the end-state to which we are all supposed to move is to have our e-mail providers act as the Primary Identifying Authorities for us. browserid.org would
I hope they are planing PGP (pretty freakin rare) or SMTPS (really freakin rare) to protect the content of emails. It wouldn't be very difficult to snarf "mailto:" out of an email for an ISP, or anyone [cough]NSA[/cough] else managing to get a SPAN port on an ISP's router.
You should be using Microsoft certified Passport/Windows Live ID for all your cloud authentication needs.
I have an RSA SecureID token for logging in to my company VPN and we all know how rock-solid RSA is.
What you need to understand, no security is absolutely perfect. There is no such thing, unless you disconnect the computer from all outside sources and influences, and allow no access to the computer, what that breaks down to is, unplug the computer, disconnect it from the internet, and lock it in a vault. And even that's not 100% secure.
Bottom Line:
Locks only keep honest people honest.
Locks, and security in general, are intended to raise the cost of unauthorized access beyond the utility of that access. Success by that measure is effective security.
This submission looks like typical content farm / blogspam junk so here's some useful links instead:
I was going to post something similar but you beat me to it. Many thanks!
- It is widely adopted among many providers
- It does not share any of your information cross-site unless you allow it
- It works
Why do we need yet another standard? I do not see anything in this article, on browserid.org, or anywhere else that breaks down why Browser ID is superior.
Also, I don't see Google Chrome adopting this, since Google backs OpenID, and I don't see Microsoft adopting it either. So really this is going to end up a Firefox only scheme that will never gain enough penetration to make sites want to go to the effort to implement it.
I think BrowserID and OpenID solve slightly different problems. BrowserID standardized the process of you logging in through your web browser while OpenID is about authenticating yourself through some authority (be it a server controlled by you or some third party). So that's a user-website interaction for BrowserID or website-website for OpenID.
They could actually be used together, any service that accepts OpenID logins could expose a BrowserID interface too.
OpenID is for logging in too, and BrowserID also authenticates through an authority (the Primary Identity Authorities).
Why not use XMPP? See my two-year old sig below.Unfortunately, OWS, a working social network, was run over by Diaspora, which was vaporware at the time. XMPP+ extensions would give you federated social for free.
I think the main differences are that it uses email addresses instead of an URL (which people don't "get" as being your identity token) and it doesn't give the authorities full power to access your accounts (since the private key for authentication is stored on the browser).
An email address is exactly what I do NOT want to provide to every second website where I just need some simple customization/profile. And where I do provide an email address, I always use a unique address (essentially allows me both automatic organization into folders but also to get less than 1-2 spam mail per year, simplify by blacklisting aliases which either leaked or obviously have been sold to some spammer (happens usually about a year after some web service/sites shuts down)). This works very well w
since the private key for authentication is stored on the browser
Sounds like a safe place to keep my one password to everything. [/snark]
I think the main differences are that it uses email addresses instead of an URL (which people don't "get" as being your identity token)
Once it's ready (supporting primary IdP's), the ID doesn't need to be an email address (just an ID with an email-like structure).
and it doesn't give the authorities full power to access your accounts (since the private key for authentication is stored on the browser).
I don't think so. That key is only accepted because it's signed by your IdP, which can just as easily sign another one if the authorities request it. The main advantages I see are:
- Verifying a login doesn't tell you're IdP who signed in to the site. The site only requests the IdP certificate, not your personal one.
- It's designed for browser support, which is necessary to pre
- It's designed for browser support, which is necessary to prevent phishing attacks and improve ease of use. It's hard for your browser to log in to OpenID sites (e.g. the Firefox OpenID plugin(s) fail on several sites which use fancy login UIs).
Auto-login is always problematic in security terms, even if it is exceptionally convenient.
- Putting more of the logic in the browser simplifies the protocol (although they seem to be adding extra complexities quite fast).
- It's designed for browser support, which is necessary to prevent phishing attacks and improve ease of use. It's hard for your browser to log in to OpenID sites (e.g. the Firefox OpenID plugin(s) fail on several sites which use fancy login UIs).
Auto-login is always problematic in security terms, even if it is exceptionally convenient.
I don't think anyone is suggesting auto-login (the browser logs the user in without action from the user). The issue is whether the browser can provide a login button in the chrome which, when clicked, allows the browser to handle the rest of the process securely (e.g. not displaying any random phishing site that the web-page tries to send you to). If you need to authenticate, the browser needs to ask for the password in a way that clearly shows it's OK to enter it (e.g. in a clearly-marked popup).
Here are some old mockups:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/azaraskin/4128966575/sizes/l/ [flickr.com]
It is just mockups ofcourse.
I think you spotted what's wrong with openId with item #2, at least as far as big corporations like mozilla are concerned.
Why do we need yet another standard?
We don't have a standard for signing in, yet. OpenID is certainly not universal. BrowserID is yet another option, and a pretty good one, IMHO. Let them compete.
Two things wrong with OpenID --
1) It was a pain to implement. It is not widely adopted among sites I want to log in to.
2) It tells my OpenID provider (say, Google) every site I log in to. This is unacceptable to me as a solution. BrowserID only let's Google know that SOME Google user is logging in.
Google and Microsoft don't have to adopt this. The system is designed such that browsers that have no native support can still work with it via a JS polyfill. So sites can deploy this right this second, even though no browser (and that includes Firefox) has native support yet.
I'll wait for BrowserID v9 in 6 months
It is easy to implement, with your own provider if you want.
It is not cross browser nor noscript friendly so the usual login methods will have to be kept, but that's not a big problem, one is offering a shortcut, just like openID or logins through FB, openID...
OTOH the browser acquires new functionality and an internet world ruled by a bunch of www browsers, instead of the multitude of clients of the internet 1.0, means that security issues will turn into catastrophes, like it happened with a windows monoc
The official site just says "you choose your email-adress to use and you're logged in". So, now assume i am a attacker, and i choose YOUR e-mail address
so please some good links to the techniques behind it, especially:
- why it is decentral (is it?)
- how it is secure (is it?)
- how to set up my own server to use for myself (can i?)
- why not use openid (why?)
It stores a private key in your browser that you need to auth yourself (transparently to the user).
okay, so its one of the solutions, i cannot use when using multiple computers/devices/browsers. Lets wait for the next solution, if its any better.
Actually it works fine with multiple devices/compters/browsers.
One finished it will work like this:
If you have not used the adress before the browser generates a cryptographic key pair. It contacts your email provider. If you are already signed in the provider simply signs the browser's generated public key (which includes the email address). A signed public key is also known as a certificate
The bigger issue today is how not to be ID'd on the internet. This is where I feel Google crossed the line to the darkside with their insistent request for phone numbers and attempts to force their "new and improved" UIs on people. Everybody and their brothers are working on getting identifying information from users. Google used to be different before they switched from focusing on aggregating "anonomys" data to gathering personal information.
Everybody and their brothers are working on getting identifying information from users.
This is probably related to the US government starting to monitor [theblaze.com] what you are saying on the Internet.
In such conditions the only prudent thing to do is to use many different logins, and use one login for one site only. This still allows an observer to use your unique writing style to suspect authorship - but that would be far weaker than the certain knowledge that all these @posts are written by the same individual.
There really isn't any new news about this. [slashdot.org]
I would have thought the more appropriate Mozilla news is that they have released Rust 0.1 [mozilla.com] or general browser news that natively supported WebM browser share exceeds natively supported H.264 share [hsivonen.iki.fi]
natively supported WebM browser share exceeds natively supported H.264 share
Which matters not one bit, as long as Flash exists and supports H.264.
a new browser-based system
The only problem I have with OpenID is that it's so web-centric it's a pain in the ass to implement for native apps. Could we please have a distributed ID system that *can* use a web browser, but doesn't *require* one?
If only Mozilla Foundation had some sway with browser makers... wait... they are a browser maker.
BrowserID is being user tested as a standalone, but incorporating it directly into Firefox is explicitly their end game. Once there, others will follow.
I completely misunderstood the parent. Native apps. Derp derp derp.
I'm pretty sure SAML can be used in native apps - just that almost no-one does. Ditto for OAuth (the problem with OAuth is that although it can be used for native apps, the OAuth-using services all seem to demand you open a web page so they can display their pretty auth UI).
Mozilla actually wants to solve that problem I hear. They are exploring ideas and haven't created a framework for it.
The fundamental problem is that the user needs a trusted channel between themselves and the authentication provider. The only common & cross platform communication channel is a web browser. Native apps work around this by embedding a web browser, which is insecure in that they might be stealing your password. But the user experience is sucky, and most opinions seem to be that the existing systems have sacrificed too much usability for security.
Now it is supported by Google & Facebook, XMPP might be
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seems the site dosen't have a 'Hardware' forum, so i will have to post here.
I'm finally puting a new box together A Cooler Master Praetorian PAC T01-E (not their latest) with an Antec-480W PSU. Along with some periferal Cooler Master fan/temp control/sensing additions.
I walked into a shop in the city today to enquire about AthlonXPs' and Giga byte boards, along with 1gb Kingston ram.
A got a bit of a chastising from the attendant (grin). He suggested, though didn't state directly, that i would have to be a 'half wit' to build something like that. What he called using "dinosaur" technology
Hey, he's probably right, as i haven't really had much to do with box builds and hw in general. Though i have enquired here a few times on basically the same theme. It's a pity the old data base isn't available.
So, he got me thinking ... for a few hundred dollars more ... it does make dense.
So now i'm thinking of a 64 bit Athlon and an Asus board with possibly a Giel or Cosair 1gb ram module.
A few confusions have cropped up.
On the spec page for the ...
"asus A8V Delux"
it states ...
Storage South Bridge
- 2 x UltraDMA 133/100/66/33
- 2 x Serial ATA, support RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD
Promise 20378 RAID controller
- 1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66/33
- 2 x Serial ATA
- Support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and Multiple RAID
Does the seconf reference to UltrDMA 133/100/88/33 refer to the RAI Controller mentioned above it ?
And the first is just the standard ide controller. Which mean it has two different disk ide facilities. I guess it does but i'm not to clear there.
and for the
Delux WiFi
Storage South Bridge
-2 x ATA133
-2 x SATA, RAID0, RAID1
Promise R20378 RAID controller
-1xUltraDMA133 supports two hard drives
-2xSerial ATA
Again, i guess it's similar to the first one. That is, the second ide references are for the RAID controller. If not, whats the difference between 2 X ATA 133 and 1XUltraDMA 133
Are they saying there that the standard ide controller dosen't support DMA, it must if it's ATA 133.
I'm a little unclear on that.
The bloke wasn't very impressed with my idea for "Kingston" ram either. He suggested that they were ok a few years ago but therv'e dropped back on the quality of materials they use and now just trade on their name ???
What do folks think on that, and what might be your thoughts on Cosair and Geil modules.
Strangely, Kingston is the only site iv'e found that has a compatability list for different Mobo chipsets. At least, on Cosairs site i couldn't find anything. And on Giels' it was even worse.
Another thing, when it comes to 64 bit Athlons ... what kind of cooling strategy have people been using. In the kind of fans used.
The actual price difference for all of this compared to my original dinosaur plane, only amounts to a few hunfred dollars extra. Except for the ram. There is a big jump in price on the Geil and Cosair, compared to the Kingston. But, i can delay a little longer if needed.
Any ideas people may have on this would be much apprieciated
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President Barack Obama's campaign could be in trouble in Florida.
His lead over Mitt Romney among likely Hispanic voters is evaporating according to The Miami Herald.
President Obama is ahead of his Republican challenger by just 7 points among Hispanics – 51 percent to 44 percent – a new Florida International University/Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald poll says.
The Democratic incumbent's lead among Hispanics is much larger nationwide, at 66 percent to 31 percent, the poll said.
A top reason for the difference is Romney's strong support among Cuban-Americans in Florida.
Young Cuban-Americans are as conservative or more conservative than their parents, and Florida Senator Marco Rubio has a lot to do with that, said Eduardo Gamarra, an Florida International University professor of Latin American studies.
"I think Marco Rubio, Senator Rubio, is kind of emblematic of that young generation of conservative Cubans," Gamarra said.
He conducted the state and national surveys on Wednesday and Thursday with his political research firm, the Newlink Group.
Traditionally Cuban Americans in South Florida have lined up behind the Republican Party, in part because of its hard line and very vocal opposition to Fidel Castro.
Take away Cuban voters, and Obama would be beating Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, by 31 points in the Sunshine State, at 64 percent to 33 percent, according to the Herald.
Gamarra described what he calls a second Latino voting bloc in the state.
"An other Latino Florida, meaning Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and so on, who are very, very similar to the rest of the Latinos in the United States," he said.
Cuban voters disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy, immigration and foreign policy, while Dominican and Puerto Rican voters give him a thumbs-up in those areas, the paper said.
Obama continues to hold a small lead over Romney on those three issues among Hispanics in Florida.
But 54 percent of Florida Hispanic voters said they were not better off than four years ago, while 46 percent said they were better off, according to the Herald.
"In the rest of the country Latinos say the country is going in a good direction," Gamarra said. "Latinos in Florida say the country is not headed in the right direction."
A Herald/Tampa Bay Times poll from last week showed Romney with a 51 percent to 44 percent lead over Obama in Florida, while the latest NBC News/Marist/Wall Street Journal Poll has the two candidates in a virtual tie here.


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Gainesville, FL--The Gators and their legion of fans are gearing up for another conference game, the first to be played this season in the Swamp.
Florida hosts Kentucky in a midday game Saturday. That yet another chance to watch the maturation of Florida quarterback Jeff Driskel, who was this week's SEC player of the week.
That sounds funny to say, given Driskel barely edged out Jacoby Brissett to win his starting job. Driskel's numbers in Knoxville, 14-20 for 219 yards and two touchdowns.
Overall he's 37-52 for 497 yards and three touchdowns with no picks. It seems as if he's locked that job up quite nicely, but not to Jeff!
"I still say there's competition, we're both out there every day in practice making each other better. I mean the experience of being out there and getting game reps has really helped out a lot. I mean it's happened a little fast, coming out of camp we were even, and then Bowling Green, and Texas A & M happened, took 8 sacks, then I thought I progressed there, and then played well against Tennessee."
Jeff and the Gators host that Kentucky game Saturday just after 11 central time. That game on our CW network. Check your listings for that channel.


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The Vendor Hall in Loveland was SO crowded and hard to maneuver. It looks like this one is much roomier! Nice pic!ReplyDelete
Becky, the vendor exhibit room really is huge and plenty of room to move around - even if people are clustered around a vendor, you can still get by. This is really a good location for this kind of conference. Check out Dr. Bill Smith's photos on Facebook for more of the vendors.ReplyDelete
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For this quarter TPF has three grant proposals that were not funded in 2009Q3 round and that will be discussed and voted again in this round, and four new grant proposals:
- Creating a ctypes-Like Interface for Perl to External Subroutines by Shlomi Fish
- Enhancing CPANHQ by Shlomi Fish
- perl core memory improvements by Jim Cromie
- Enhancing Perl 6 Pattern Matching by Morris M. Siegel
- Perl Compiler by Reini urban
- CPAN Reviews by Alexandr Ciornii
- Improve Dist::Zilla by Ricardo Signes
Please take some time to comment on these proposals. TPF Grants Committee is very interested in community feedback on these projects relevance. Please be polite.


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Ocean Associates Inc. (OAI) is seeking a candidate who will provide professional support to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Pacific Islands Regional Office (PIRO) related to application and database development. Primary duties will be to analyze programmatic data requirements and develop applications and databases in support of PIRO's mission. OAI conducts research, offers policy advice, and provides personnel to government and industry clients for marine fisheries and protected resources.
Responsibilities: The objectives are to provide centralized application and database development services for the entire Regional Office, provide a standardized methodology for application and database development, and provide a standardized application and database development platform, environment and tools. Specific duties include:
Design, write, test, and document application code to successfully completeproject-based work.
Demonstrate sound understanding of Service Oriented Architecture principles and best practices to write application code following project design and architecture.
Utilize problem-solving skills to identify areas of improvement and turn them into solid areas of development.
Write SQL queries, create databases and tables, stored procedures, and triggers for SQL Server 2005 and 2008 to produce custom web-based applications for our clients.
Interact with other members of the development team and project managers in a positive manner to deliver on-time and above standard applications.
Minimum experience or background requirements:
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5+ years of experience with C#, Visual Basic, Visual Studio, ASP.NET VBScript, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, SQL, HTML and CSS, to create innovative business solutions.
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DETROIT >> The U-12 unlimited hydroplane celebrates human effort, even as mechanical failure threatens its run for the Gold Cup.
Several Macomb County sponsors joined the Miss DiJulio for the DYC Detroit APBA Gold Cup on the Detroit River this weekend.
The enterprise those businesses coupled with is rooted in the Pacific Northwest, a region whose public is euphoric over the Super Bowl-champion Seattle Seahawks.
Indeed, Miss DiJulio�s number is no accident.
Centurion Unlimited Racing of Burien, Wash., purchased the boat in the spring of this year from Go Fast Turn Left Racing.
The craft was painted blue and green, the Seahawks� colors.
�The first thing that came to mind was, we should do something with the Seahawks,� owner Denise Garl said Saturday.
So what had been the U-14 became the U-12.
In Seattle and surrounding area, 12 is emblazoned on buildings and stitched onto flags.
The number is a reference to �the 12th man,� crowds that cheer so loudly at Seahawks home games they�re believed to give Seattle a �home-field advantage.�
�We�re all really proud 12th men out there,� Garl said.
In 1984, the Seahawks retired jersey number 12 in honor of their fan base.
Since 2003, a 12 flag has been raised at every Seahawks home game.
�There�s an incredible amount of loyalty,� Garl said. �We�ve been accused of being fair-weather fans for years and years, but I don�t know anybody who isn�t watching football on Sunday, having little parties, backyard barbecues.�
In the Seattle area, which is home to many unlimited hydroplane teams and drivers, Centurion has plans for Seahawks players to do promotional activities for the U-12, Garl said.
She welcomes any help to get the boat in the water and keep it running.
�It all takes funds,� Garl said.
This weekend, SERVPRO Damage Restoration, which has a franchise in New Baltimore; Red Roof Inn of Roseville; Total Sports of Harrison Township and Bell Forklift of Clinton Township are on the U-12 as sponsors.
�We survive on local sponsorship,� Garl said. �There are quite a few people in the Detroit area who love boat racing.�
Tom Farrell is one of them.
The New Baltimore resident helped the local companies align with Centurion.
The racing season started the first weekend in July in Madison, Ind.
Centurion didn�t have long to get its boat and a team together after the spring acquisition of the U-12.
�We put our program together really fast,� Garl said. �The people on this team busted their tails.�
The U-12 was damaged on the Ohio River course at Madison.
A quick repair job got it ready for Detroit, and the boat was trailered to the Detroit River at about noon Friday.
Then more misfortune struck.
The U-12�s gear box failed during testing and qualifying.
�We also lost the compressor section in our engine,� Garl said.
Those problems sidelined the U-12 and driver Greg Hopp.
�The guy�s a helluva driver,� Garl said. �I just wish I could keep a boat under him.�
There�s never too much �12th man� spirit in boat racing, and Garl hopes local connections and, perhaps, a flight from Seattle will provide the U-12 with parts it needs.
�We haven�t given up,� she said. �I�m crossing my fingers we�ll be in the water (Sunday).�


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Boston Bruins legend Phil Esposito is in Toronto for a couple reunions with his 1972 Team Canada teammates. Chris Young of The Star caught up with him and, of course, Espo didn't mince words when talking on a few topics including the Hamilton/Jim Balsillie situation.
Here's Esposito's take on Hamilton:
"I don't think Hamilton's the right place to put a team. Toronto can afford another team, I have no doubt, but not Hamilton. It's too close to Buffalo, for one thing, and that arena (in Hamilton) needs $200 million of upgrades? Ridiculous. You can't play there."
And on Balsillie:
"What he's done is ridiculous. You've gotta go through the rules. Buy the team first, then follow their rules. That's the way it works. That's what we did in Tampa. They gave us a book and we followed the book."
Good to see Espo is still an All-Star when it comes to speaking his mind.


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Several things recently caught my attention regarding a person's early teaching.
Several things recently caught my attention regarding a person's early teaching. I heard a man being interviewed on radio about his youth as a Mormon. Even though he has left the church, he is still influenced by it. The interviewer asked if when he left the church did he "go wild" and break all the rules of the church. He said he didn't do that. He thought that he could now drink alcohol, smoke and do the other things that Mormon's teach against, but he didn't. He said no doubt his upbringing stayed with him, and he still enjoys going back home and attending church services with friends and family.
Although it is a different story, I find I have been molded by my youth in so many ways. That was brought home to me this week when I read about the death of Maria Tallchief.
Maria Tallchief was a wonderful ballerina who was born in Oklahoma. She lived there until she was about eight years old, and then her wealthy family moved to California, where they sought better training for their dancing daughters.
Maria's father was an Osage Indian who gained great wealth with the discovery of oil on his land. With that money, he was well able to afford his daughters an opportunity to pursue their dancing. In fact, two of his daughters gained acclaim as ballerinas, although Maria was the most prominent.
As a child growing up in Oklahoma, I immediately latched on the story of Maria Tallchief and made her one of the women I truly admired. And, of course, it was solely a result of her being born in Oklahoma as I was.
Another effect of my childhood was an attachment to Mickey Mantle, a fellow Oklahoman. I was just a young kid when Mickey and the New York Yankees were on top of the baseball world. I didn't know a thing about New York. I had never been there and didn't dream of ever going there, but Mickey Mantle was an Okie and that was good enough for me.
I am influenced by so many things Oklahoma related, that I am beginning to wonder if my seventh grade social studies teacher isn't a big part of that.
In my school, we attended "grade school" up through the sixth grade in one building. When we became seventh graders, we went to the three-story "high school" which probably sat 50 yards to the south of the grade school. The younger you were, the lower your classroom, so I had seventh grade social studies in the basement. Mrs. McAdoo taught Oklahoma history. She made us kids so proud of our state. We learned about all the prominent people from Will Rogers to Alfalfa Bill Murray. We had colorful maps on the wall which had symbols for almost every town in the state. I went to school in Rush Springs and the symbol was a watermelon, since we fancied ourselves as the "Watermelon Capital of the World," and the town still does.
In school I was taught to be proud of being an Okie and of being an American. That has stayed with me ever since. And I'm glad for the lessons and now I am equally proud to be a Missourian.
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If that means that he actually wrote THE truth or if he just invented several "what if scenarios" that are all equally possible...I think we'll never know unless somebody forces him to say so.
And admit it everyone, who wouldn't like playing a role like Beato (EP1-4 that is) once in your life?!
I found it entertaining, because I'd rather have an author who appears to be full of himself than somebody who obviously wavers at everything the readers say. In the end Umineko-Ryûkishi was a mixture of both...but at least it didn't show that much during Umineko's run. Basically my position is: "Why the heck do I need to like an author to enjoy his work?"
And he even said that he wanted to return back to being modest for his next releases...which I don't know why we shouldn't believe that.
I'm not asking about the chances being slimmer or broader than your average mystery novel, I'm talking about things that were actually impossible to infer, reason or guess before EP7 and 8 came out?
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I think he comes off arrogantly because he's trying really really hard to get us to "get" his message on our own. In fact, I think he's desperately trying to get people to appreciate his work.
He's not arrogant. He's insecure.
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Guess to give another example of my theories, it's like arc 8's Bernkastel arc.
There is no way of finding an absolute answer as the variety of theories and ways to twist Bern's game Ive seen here showns.
So you cannot find an objective truth about it. Anyway even if you did, it probably wouldn't be based on the "prime truth" about the characters involved within Bern's theorical scenario.
However the one thing you can very clearly get is Bern's intents in making this game, and what message she wanted to send to Ange (and us) through it. That you can find out with absolute certainty.
Exploring a Rokkenjima prime to me is akin to exploring a "Bern's scenario's Prime" while my theory is the same as trying to get what prompted Bern to show us such a game. Only Bern is easy to understand.
At least to me, what prompted Bern to make that scenario is a lot more the "truth" of it, then the answer she wanted us to reach or any other theorical answer any fans could reach out of it.
Again, I believe the whole event existed to make us think about exactly that.
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For example, one could be unfriendly in disposition to Roman Polanski over his sexual dalliances and not like him as a person, yet still like the works he's directed because his sins have no bearing on his artistry.
Conversely, one could personally dislike Upton Sinclair for being a heavy-handed politically-minded socialist, and therefore dislike The Jungle because it employs its writing techniques to bludgeon the reader over the head with the author's political agenda. If I wasn't aware that Sinclair was actually only writing the book to convince me of a political point, I might enjoy it more as a stark portrayal of the early 19th century industrial machine. And many people did! Indeed, that's pretty much what his work is more famous for now.
If one believes Ryukishi is arrogant, condescending, and hypocritical, then when he says that his work has a deep and important message one might come to suppose that in fact his work is (1) not as important as the author thinks it is, (2) not as deep as the author thinks it is, and (3) not even the actual message the author thinks he's conveying.
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While the truth behind Beatrice can help us reason towards the truth of Ange's reality. And when we consider that Umineko has the perspective that there is nothing like "absolute, objective, everlasting truth".
Yes, we are not able to flawlessly solve what happened on "Rokkenjima Prime" (though I'm starting to dislike that name because it somehow ignores the fact that the first two stories preceded said "first event") or rather "The Rokkenjima of Anges reality", but we are able to reason towards the truth of the fictions and from there we can construct our own theory of what happened on the island.
That is also an integral part of Umineko.
I'd still like to know if the only thing you regard as unsolvable is "the real Rokkenjima" or anything else...
He never implied that Umineko had a deep or important message that had to be accepted by its readers. And while of course he takes a certain standpoint concering his perception of reality, he doesn't really comment on culpability...
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Umm... okay, so... what did we figure out? Because I'm pretty sure that Ryukishi being arrogant, insecure, or whatever doesn't get us anywhere.
On another note, if Bernkastel is supposed to represent us in some way then what does Lambda represent? I always assumed that Lambda was supposed to be Ryukishi because its his job to act as a "buddy" throughout the story.
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Lambda gave Beato her powers, she made her a witch. At the end of EP3 she even threatens her that she would take away all her powers if Beato wasn't ready to fight a real battle and in EP4 she wanted Ange to join her as well as it would have meant that she could be with the illusion of her brother forever.
Bern became the companion for Battler as long as he pursued the goal of crushing the fantasy side...she even said again and again that she would stop doing that if the person she joined forces with didn't give their everything.
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I figured Lambdadelta was symbolic for the certain will to find out the truth, even though Beato gave up in EP 5, certain willpower still dragged Battler along because giving up was not an option, or something to that extent, idk enough about the author theory to guess more on that.
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They offer him the chance to reach the readership ("giving Beatrice her status as a witch")
They SHOULD be both knowledgeable about the mystery genre, and at least enough in the know regarding Tohya's intended solutions to decide it's worth the investment ("Lambda can see the underside of Beato's game, and knows it's workings")
Tis a thought, anyway.
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Possibly both of them represents the Good and the Bad of the game or literally shows the inner conflict of yasu since we know she have issues with her own decisions. I have the feeling that it's no a big deal after all.
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I know that these ideas aren't exactly all that different from what many have said already, but I'll weigh in anyway:
Bern and Lambda do not represent anything concrete. They are metaphorical laws of nature; Bern is probability and Lambda is personal determination. It's how the two interact with each other that produces the outcome of things. Of course it's implied that there are other "witches" (metaphorical laws) of Bern and Lambda's level. Meanwhile, Featherine could be thought of as fate itself. Their scope of existence is not in any way limited to the events of Umineko; it just happens to be the context we see them in. And any of them could end up playing the good guy or bad guy depending on the circumstances.
I just finished reading episode 8 (it was very hard work at my level of Japanese). Here are some thoughts:
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Britt will begin her senior season of competition when the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's golf team opens its season today at the Cardinal Cup at the Cardinal Club just west of Louisville.
"I turn 22 in less than a month, but it doesn't feel like it's been three years already because they've flown by," Britt said. "I want to graduate with a good year, a good season, and put everything into the fall and the spring seasons so I can graduate satisfied with my college career."
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A major complaint about Google's Chrome web browser has been that so far, it is still not available on anything other than Windows. Google promised to deliver Chrome to Mac OS X and Linux as well, but as it turns out, this is a little harder than they anticipated, Ben Goodger, Google's Chrome interface lead, has explained in an email. It has also been revealed what toolkit the Linux version of Chrome will use: Gtk+.
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They didn't say that QT was bad... they said they wanted to use the native toolkit. So the question is: what is the native toolkit on Linux?interestingly, the answer is none, since unix' (and then linux') gui system has been designed the way it is (i.e. as modular as it can be, with widget look and feel implemented at the toolkit level) just to avoid being tied to a single toolkit, thus to have no "native", privileged, toolkit
if there's a native toolkit on unix/linux, that may have been AWT, but nobody has used it for ages and it has afaik been deprecated in 7.x Xorg releases -
apart from that, the next layer in the stack, ie the X11 protocol binding (Xlib or XCB )used to be considered the native gui library
but at a time high level widget libraries are designed to be crossplatform, and are given non-X11 rendering backends even on linux, that doesnt hold true any longer
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The report addresses a number of issues that may affect consumers of telecommunications services and antitrust analysis in this industry, including the development of new facilities-based competition, wireless technologies as alternatives to wireline networks, price and non-price consumer benefits from competition, the significance of bundled products, and obstacles to competitive entry. The focus of the report is on telecommunications services provided to residential consumers, rather than business users.
"The symposium report highlights the extraordinary changes that have taken place in consumer telecommunications services, including expanded product offerings, increased quality of products, and, most important from an antitrust perspective, increased competition from separate technology platforms," said Thomas O. Barnett, assistant attorney general in charge of the Department's Antitrust Division.
The report is divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 describes recent trends and developments, including numbers and shares of consumers served by cable companies, telephone companies, direct broadcast satellite, wireless services, and other technologies. New developments are highlighted, such as facilities-based entry by telephone companies into video, and the growth of cable telephony and consumer broadband services offered by multiple providers.
Chapter 2 begins with an overview of basic economic principles applied to telecommunications competition, then analyzes: wireless substitution for wireline telecommunications services; challenges faced by new broadband providers, such as wireless operators; the competitive implications of "triple play" service bundles; and consumer benefits from competition.
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Chapter 4 summarizes the findings of the report and implications for the Department's future enforcement activities and competition advocacy. In particular, to aid its ability to enforce the antitrust laws efficiently, the Department will continue to monitor industry trends and developments, paying particular attention to the effects of convergence and increasing substitution among services. The Department will also continue its role as an advocate for sound competition policy.