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This pattern is a familiar one in markets for digitised products like computer software and music. Those industries have long been dominated by both a winner-take-all dynamic and high turbulence, as each group of dominant innovators is threatened by succeeding waves of innovation. Consider how quickly Google supplanted Yahoo, which supplanted AltaVista and others that created the search engine market from nothing. Or the relative speed with which new recording artists can dominate sales in a category.
Most industries have historically been fairly immune from this kind of Schumpeterian competition. However, our findings show that the internet and enterprise IT are now accelerating competition within traditional industries in the broader US economy. Why? Not because more products are becoming digital, but because more processes are: Just as a digital photo or a web-search algorithm can be endlessly replicated quickly and accurately by copying the underlying bits, a company's unique business processes can now be propagated with much higher fidelity across the organisation by embedding it in enterprise information technology. As a result, an innovator with a better way of doing things can scale up with unprecedented speed to dominate an industry. In response, a rival can roll out further process innovations throughout its product lines and geographic markets to recapture market share. Winners can win big and fast, but not necessarily for very long.
In this article, we'll explore why the link between technology and competition has become much stronger and tighter since the mid-1990s, and we'll clarify the roles that business leaders and enterprise technologies should play in this new environment.
Technology and competition
The mid-1990s marked a clear discontinuity in competitive dynamics and the start of a period of innovation in corporate IT, when the internet and enterprise software applications — like enterprise resource management (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and enterprise content management — became practical tools for business. Corporate investments in IT surged during this time — from about US$3500 spent per worker in 1994 to about $8000 in 2005, according the US Bureau of Economic Analysis. At the same time, annual productivity growth in US companies roughly doubled, after plodding along at about 1.4 per cent for nearly 20 years. Much attention has been paid to the connection between productivity growth and the increase in IT investment. But hardly any has been directed to the nature of the link between IT and competitiveness. That's why two years ago we set out to compare the increase in IT spending with various measures of competition, focusing on three quantifiable indicators: Concentration, turbulence and performance spread.
In a concentrated or winner-take-all industry, just a few companies account for the bulk of the market share. For our study, we focused on the degree to which each industry became more or less concentrated over time. A sector is turbulent if the sales leaders in it are frequently leapfrogging one another in rank order. As well, the performance spread in an industry is large when the leaders and laggards differ greatly on standard performance measures such as return on assets, profit margins and market capitalisation per dollar of revenue — the kinds of numbers that matter a lot to senior managers and investors.
Were there economy-wide changes in these three measures after the mid-1990s, when IT spending accelerated? If so, were the changes more pronounced in industries that were more IT intensive — that is, where IT made up a larger share of all fixed assets within an industry?
In a word, yes.
We analysed industry data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, as well as from annual company reports, and found that average turbulence within US industries rose sharply starting in the mid-1990s. Furthermore, after declining in previous decades, industry concentration reversed course and began increasing around the same time. Finally, the spread between the highest and lowest performers also increased. These changes coincided with the surge in IT investment and the concurrent productivity rise, suggesting a fundamental change in the underlying economics of competition.
Looking more closely at the data, we found that the changes in dynamics were indeed greatest in those industries that were more IT intensive — for instance, consumer electronics and auto part manufacturers. Further, we considered the role of merger and acquisition activity, globalisation and R&D spending in our analysis of the competitive landscape and found some minor correlations — but none strong enough to override our measures.
One interpretation of our findings might be that IT is, indeed, inducing the intensified competition we've documented — but that the change in dynamics is only temporary. According to this argument, the years since the mid-1990s have seen a one-time burst of innovation from IT producers, and it's simply taking IT-consuming companies a while to absorb them all. Businesses will eventually figure out how to internalise all the new tools, proponents of this theory say, and then all industries will revert to their previous competitive patterns.
While it's true that the tool kit of corporate IT has expanded a great deal in recent years, we believe that an overabundance of new technologies is not the fundamental driver of the change in dynamics we've documented. Instead, our field research suggests that businesses entered a new era of increased competitiveness in the mid-1990s; not because they had so many IT innovations to choose from, but because some of these new technologies enabled improvements to companies' operating models and then made it possible to replicate those improvements much more widely.
Although modern commercial enterprise systems are relatively recent — SAP's ERP platform, for example, was —introduced in 1992 — by now, companies in virtually every industry have adopted them. According to one estimate, spending on these complex platforms already accounted for 75 percent of all US corporate IT investment in 2001. More recently, Gartner Group predicted worldwide enterprise software revenue would approach US$190 billion in 2008.
To understand how this profusion of enterprise IT is changing the broader competitive landscape, imagine that a drugstore chain like CVS that fills prescriptions has a number of rivals, most of which also have multiple stores. Before the advent of enterprise IT, a successful innovation by a manager at one store could lead to dominance in that manager's local market. But because no firm had a monopoly on good managers, other firms might win the competitive battle in other local markets, reflecting the relative talent at these other locations. Sharing and replication of innovations (via analog technologies like corporate memos, procedures manuals and training sessions) would be relatively slow and imperfect, and overall market share would change little from year to year.
With the advent of enterprise IT, however, not just CVS, but its pharmacy competitors have the option to deploy technology to improve their processes. Some may not exercise this option because they don't believe in the power of IT. Others will try and fail. Some will succeed and effective innovations will spread rapidly.
The firm with the best processes will win in most or all markets. At the same time, competitors will be able to strike back much more quickly: Instead of simply copying the first mover, they will introduce further IT-based innovations, perhaps instituting digitally mediated outsourcing or CRM software that identifies cross-selling and up-selling opportunities. These innovations will also propagate widely, rapidly and accurately because they are embedded in the IT system. Success will prompt these companies to make bolder and more frequent competitive moves, and customers will switch from one company to another in response to them.
As a result performance spread will rise, as the most successful IT exploiters pull away from the pack. Concentration will increase, as the losers fall by the wayside. And yet turbulence will actually intensify, as the remaining rivals use successive IT-enabled operating-model changes to leapfrog one another over time. Thus, despite the shakeout, rivalry in the industry will continue to become more fast-paced, intense, and dynamic than it was prior to the advent of enterprise technology. These are exactly the changes we see reflected in the data. In this Schumpeterian environment, the value of process innovations greatly multiplies. This puts the onus on managers to be strategic about innovating and then propagating new ways of working.
To survive, or better yet thrive, in this more competitive environment, the mantra for any CEO should be, "Deploy, innovate, and propagate": First, deploy a consistent technology platform. Then separate yourself from the pack by coming up with better ways of working. Finally, use the platform to propagate these business innovations widely and reliably. In this regard, deploying IT serves two distinct roles — as a catalyst for innovative ideas and as an engine for delivering them. Each of the three steps in the mantra presents different and critical management challenges, not least of which have to do with questions of centralisation and autonomy.
The deployment challenge
Since the mid-1990s, the commercial availability of enterprise software packages has added a new item to the list of senior management's responsibilities: Determining which aspects of their companies' operating models should be globally (or at least widely) consistent, then using technology to replicate them with high fidelity. Some innovative teams have pounced on the opportunity. Many more, however, have embraced this responsibility only reluctantly, unwilling to tackle two formidable barriers to deployment: fragmentation and autonomy.
Historically, the regional, product and function managers have been given a great deal of leeway to purchase, install and customise IT systems as they see fit. But bitter experience has shown that it's prohibitively time-consuming and expensive to stitch together a jumble of legacy systems so they can all use common data, and support and enforce standardised processes. Even if a company invests heavily in standardised enterprise software for the entire organisation, it may not remain standard for long, as the software is deployed in ways other than it was originally intended in dozens, or even hundreds, of separate instances. When that happens, it's almost certain that data, processes, customer interfaces and operating models will become inconsistent — thus defeating the whole competitive purpose of purchasing the package in the first place.
That's what initially happened at networking giant Cisco. In the mid-1990s, Cisco successfully implemented a single ERP platform throughout the company. Managers were then given the green light to purchase and install as many applications as they wanted, to sit on that platform. Cisco's IT department helped the various functions, technology groups and product lines throughout the world get their desired programs up and running, without attempting to constrain or second-guess their decisions.
When newly arrived CIO Brad Boston assessed Cisco's IT environment in 2001, he found that system, data and process fragmentation was an unintended consequence of the company's enthusiasm for technology. There were, for example, nine different tools for checking the status of a customer order. Each pulled information from different repositories and defined key terms in different ways. The multiple databases and fuzzy terms resulted in the circulation of conflicting order-status reports around the company. Boston's assessment also revealed that there were more than 50 different customer-survey tools, 15 different business-intelligence applications and more than 200 additional IT projects in progress.
Deployment efforts heighten the tensions — present in every sizable company — between global consistency and local autonomy. As the Cisco example shows, however, this conflict often exists by default rather than by design. Ultimately, the top team's focused efforts to manage this tension reaped tremendous benefits.
Responding to the CIO's assessment, senior managers decided to upgrade Cisco's original ERP system and other key applications to support standardised data and processes. The upgrade was budgeted at US$200 million over three years. Cisco identified several key business processes — market to sell, lead to order, quote to cash, issue to resolution, forecast to build, idea to product and hire to retire — and configured its systems to support the subprocesses involved in each stage. The software updates and the strategy discussions the technology bought about, eventually resulted in greater consistency throughout the organisation and contributed to Cisco's strong performance over the past few years.
IT-enabled opportunities
Data analytics drawn from enterprise IT applications, along with collective intelligence and other Web 2.0 technologies, can be important aides not just in propagating ideas but also in generating them. They are certainly no replacement for brilliant insights from a line manager or a eureka moment during a meeting, though they can complement and speed the search for business process innovations.
Part of the attraction of enterprise systems has been the opportunity for management to impose best practices and standardised procedures universally, as CVS did to great advantage, and so eliminate the chaos of inconsistent homegrown practices. There's really no competitive advantage in having each department develop and use its own idiosyncratic process for inventory control, for instance, especially when best practices already exist.
While an ERP system is an obvious tool for propagation, other technologies are also important — and they show that innovations do not necessarily emanate from headquarters. For instance, Web 2.0 applications can help process changes emerge organically from lower levels in an organisation. Within Cisco, for instance, a community of about 10,000 Macintosh users was dissatisfied with the level of support they were receiving from the company's central IT group. But instead of complaining, they created a wiki to share ideas about how to use their Macs more effectively. They posted information, files, links and applications that could be edited by any user — tips and tricks that ultimately became huge productivity enhancers. In this case, process innovations flowed through the company to its great benefit without central management direction.
Maximising return on talent
As corporate IT facilitates the implementation and monitoring of processes, the value of simply carrying out rote instructions will fall while the value of inventing better methods will rise. In some cases, this may even lead to a "superstar" effect, as disproportionate rewards accrue to the very best knowledge workers. Human resource policies and corporate culture will need to evolve to support this type of worker. An effective leader and a well-designed organisation will aggressively seek out and identify such individuals and the innovations they generate, as well as develop and reward them appropriately.
The arrival of powerful new information technologies does not render obsolete all previous assumptions and insights about how to do business, but it does open up new opportunities to executives. Our research has led us to three conclusions: First of all, the data shows that IT has sharpened differences among companies instead of reducing them. This reflects the fact that while companies have always varied widely in their ability to select, adopt and exploit innovations, technology has accelerated and amplified these differences.
Second, line executives matter: Highly qualified vendors, consultants and IT departments might be necessary for the successful implementation of enterprise technologies themselves, but the real value comes from the process innovations that can now be delivered on those platforms. Fostering the right innovations and propagating them widely are both executive responsibilities — ones that can't be delegated.
Finally, the competitive shakeup brought on by IT is not nearly complete, even in the IT-intensive US economy. We expect to see these altered competitive dynamics in other countries as well, as their IT investments grow.
It is not easy for most companies to deploy enterprise IT successfully. The technologies themselves are complicated to configure and test, and changing people's behaviour and attitudes toward technology is even more challenging. Enterprise IT typically changes many jobs in major ways; this is never an easy sell to either employees or line managers. As the performance spread, concentration and churn increase, management becomes a distinctly less comfortable profession — more unforgiving of mistakes and faster to weed out low performers. Even those executives who are prepared will not necessarily survive the inevitable turbulence. But those who do can expect greater rewards — at least until another player comes along and uses IT to propagate a business innovation that's even better. Harvard Business Review
Andrew McAfee is an associate professor at Harvard Business School and Erik Brynjolfsson is the director of MIT's Center for Digital Business.
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STC's chapters sponsor competitions through which technical communicators have the opportunity to receive recognition for their work. Each entry is judged against criteria that measures the degree of technical content, achievement of purpose, and technical execution, whether online or in printed deliverable. Entries are not limited to members of STC or the chapters hosting the competitions. Here is a list of competitions that are still open to receive entries:
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I would like my guest to be able to a) talk to the host while the host is not connected to an outside network, and b) talk to the host and the outside network when the host *is* connected to an outside network.
As near as I can tell (I only installed VB today, but I've read the networking section), I can do (a) with host-only networking, and (b) with NAT, but not both at the same time, and switching back and forth requires a reboot of the guest.
Host: Mac OSX 10.6.2
Guest: Debian Linux
The sticking point seems to be that if I'm not connected to an outside network, none of the host's NICs have IP addresses, so (surprise) the guest can't talk to it.
Hmmm ... I suppose I could do both? One guest NIC is NATed, a second guest NIC is host-only. That might work.
So, any suggestions? Is there an easier way?
Update: The two NICs does work for this use-case. Still curious if there's a better way.


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Please do not cross-post to multiple users lists with questions like this, it's considered quite rude. Take the time to find the appropriate list and post to that one. Erick On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Ranjith <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > Hi all, > Hi all, Unicorn just provide a URI and push the button. It will call a > series of validation services and report the results.I have already > downloaded and installed Unicorn. To Download the source code it is only > available for download from the Mercurial repository. To download it, use > the command "hg clone https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/unicorn" > > To compile Unicorn, Apache Ant and Ivy are required. From Unicorn's > directory, run: "ant retrieve generate_observer generate_tasklist > default_conf war" > > It works fine in apache-tomcat, what I want is how to make the unicorn as > console application. The input should passed through command line arguments > and output should displayed at console itself I don`t want to use any web > server to deploy it. > > -- > Cheers, > Ranjith Kumar.K > http://ranjithtenz.wordpress.com >
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Taiwanese Leader Tsai Says Beijing Reverting to Coercive Tactics
Relations with China are becoming more fraught as Beijing increasingly reverts to threatening and intimidating its neighbour, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said while vowing not to return to "the old path of confrontation."
Tsai's frank comments during a New Year's Eve address in Taipei come at a sensitive time, weeks after US President-elect Donald Trump angered Beijing by accepting a protocol-breaking phone call from the Taiwanese president.
The 10-minute conversation on December 2 was the closest a Taiwanese leader has come to getting formal recognition from Washington since the US established ties with the Communist government in Beijing almost four decades ago.
"Step by step, Beijing is going back to the old path of dividing, coercing, and even threatening and intimidating Taiwan," said Tsai, 60, according to a translation of her remarks. "We hope this does not reflect a policy choice by Beijing, but must say that such conduct has hurt the feelings of the Taiwanese people and destabilised cross-strait relations."
"The Republic of China is an independent, sovereign country," Tsai said, referring to Taiwan's formal name and calling for "new models for cross-strait interactions."
Relations between Taiwan and China have soured since Tsai became the island's president in May following a landslide electoral win. She has declined to endorse the One-China policy, a longstanding acknowledgment that the two are part of the same China, even if they disagree on what that means. China considers Taiwan a breakaway province, while the Taiwanese constitution claims its territory includes mainland China.
Much of Tsai's briefing was devoted to her plans for the economy, including an effort to spur domestic demand with a mid- to long-term public-works blueprint. "Next March, the cabinet will unveil a comprehensive, forward-looking infrastructure development plan," she said.
Tsai's cabinet, led by Premier Lin Chuan, earlier proposed a budget that included only moderate increases to overall spending and about $6 billion for public works. As the economy stagnated, central bank Governor Perng Fai-nan stressed the need for government investment in areas such as infrastructure while Lin was more focused on the deficit. The budget is still being debated in Taiwan's legislature.
'Most Important Mission'
Tsai said Saturday that additional spending could be added to the current budget for infrastructure development, or a special budget could be approved. The government will work to encourage private investors to follow suit, the president said.
"The most important mission in 2017 is to stimulate Taiwan's economy by all means," she said.
Taiwan's economy was set to grow by 1.35 percent in 2016 and 1.87 percent in 2017, the government forecast in November. The central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged in December and predicted mild economic growth in 2017. A new Apple iPhone model may bolster Taiwanese electronics makers, while rising oil prices will boost the export of petrochemical products, according to economists.
Wild cards include Trump's comments after his call with Tsai that the US acceptance of the One-China policy should be contingent on better trade-deal terms, which has fueled uncertainty over world-power relations. In the meantime, Taiwan lost a West African ally to China, as Beijing continues to warn countries around the world not to challenge the One-China principle. China on December 29 also urged the US not to allow Tsai to pass through airports in the US en route to Central America in January.
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Amid global uncertainties – both geopolitical and economic – Tsai is returning to the economic vision she laid out in her campaign. It addresses longer-term issues that plague Taiwan's economy, including the task of pushing its contract manufacturing industries higher up the value chain. She is also championing innovation in key industries such as the Internet of Things, biotechnology and national defense. An office to promote Taiwan as Asia's Silicon Valley opened in December.
Tsai said Saturday that her government remains committed to ending the use of nuclear power as an energy sources as well as reducing carbon emissions. Other types of infrastructure projects under review include integrating public transport, cloud infrastructure, drought and flood resistance, hardware and software for an aging population, and basic science research.
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Garbage Islands - great... :-( We have two of them, and will have to clear out both this year. By a quick estimate of volume, this will take at least two of the largest garbage removal containers you can hire... and this stuff builds up so quickly, it's almost depressing. We'll recycle what we can, but I already know that this takes about ten times the effort, and is essentially non-productive from a company point of view so it's not exactly encouraged...
I didn't know it until today: my goal in life is having a job describable as "nobody knows what he does, but he sure does a lot of it"
I used to work at a place like that! Our garbage island was right outside of my cube!
We print a lot of D-size (24x36) plan sheets and if we go a few weeks without emptying out the 10 1/4 gallon recycle bin, we end up with telescoping rolls of plan sheets that resemble a small bamboo shrub. Fortunately, we've only once come to the point where it was 5' tall and trying to grow "branches"...
So what DO you guys do? (Within the bounds of the confidentiality agreements, of course)
And congratulations on launching the third book (according to the timer).
I can relate, although most of my "garbage islands" tend to be virtual....code snippets, log files, whiteboard snapshots. I totally believe that the mother of all innovation is in trying and discussing. You never know whether two pieces will fit together - logically or physically - until you actually try it. :)
The pile of delivery boxes and half-built prototypes in the centre of our space is what we lovingly refer to as "garbage island".


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Today, Google has unveiled about the third generation of its all-new Pixel Smartphones. The name of the smartphones is Google Pixel 3 and Google Pixel 3 XL.
Google has launched its brand new smartphone at an event that was held in New York along with other cities like Tokyo, London, Paris, and Singapore. These two new smartphones are said to be successors to the old Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 Xl smartphones.
The 2018 launch of Google Pixel shows that the smartphone will be running on Android 9.0 Pie out of the box. This flagship smartphone will be coming with a 5.5 inch FHD+ flexible OLED screen. The phone has got an aspect ratio of about 18:9 with the Corning Gorilla Glass 5 that is present on front and back. The density of the Pixel is said to be around 443 ppi with Always on display. 100,000:1 contrast ratio as well as HDR support.
The device will get a body of about Aluminium frame which comes with a Hybrid coating, soft touch glass that is present at the back. It comes with the IP68 dust as well as water resistance. Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor will power the phone. It will come with 4GB RAM with Adreno 630, Titan M Security Module and Pixel Visual Core.
The camera of Pixel will be 12.2 MP dual Pixel single rear camera with autofocus with optical+electronic image stabilization. The selfie camera is of dual camera setup with an 8MP sensor with an 8MP secondary sensor. It will have a 2915 mAh battery. It has also got 18W fast charging with wireless Qi-certified charging support.
The next phone from the company is Pixel 3 XL. It has got 6.3-inch QHD+ flexible OLED along with and 18.5:9 aspect ratio with HDR support and 100,000:1 contrast ratio. The phone will get a battery capacity of about 3430 mAh along with the fast charging support.
The main thing in this phone is it will be supporting eSIM. This means that users can go for single SIM and can swap between different carriers.
The company has launched its new smartphones along with some unique colour variants for two smartphones. The phone will be coming with Black, and clear White. It will not come to be available in Pink colour variants.
The company has said that the pre-order for the smartphones will begin from October 11th and the sales for the same will start from November 1st, 2018.


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Distribution and logistics management is a critical company function. Professionals in this field play a key role in fulfilling customer demands, ordering and managing inventory, controlling inbound and outbound shipments, reducing costs, saving time, and meeting company objectives. This course will not only show you how to create and operate a logistics function, but it will also show you how to achieve success through a combination of strategies and tactics. You'll discover the key elements of a logistics system, including physical distribution, warehouse selection, material handling, packaging, order fulfillment, customer service, receiving, production stores, and returned goods. You'll also find out how to manage inventory, effectively use technology, manage a logistics department, and complete and control transportation documents.
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A medical marijuana store owner whose prosecution by the federal authorities highlighted vast disparities in how California and the Justice Department are responding to the medical marijuana industry abandoned a six-month battle against Washington on Friday and pleaded guilty to 10 charges of marijuana cultivation and distribution. The man, Matthew Davies, 35, had argued that his store in Stockton operated in accordance with California laws, after working extensively with accountants and lawyers before opening the business. But Benjamin B. Wagner, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of California, said, "Our investigation showed that it was all about the money." Mr. Davies will serve a minimum of five years.
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How to play flash videos with the media player of your choice
Notice: This method will probably not work on all YouTube videos.
Remember the good old days when you could pause a flash video, let it buffer and play the video with the media player of your choice by opening the corresponding file from the /tmp directory?
Well that's still possible. However the video-files are deleted from the /tmp directory. So you need to find the PID of the flash plugin-container to open the video from /proc/PID/fd/.
get the PID:
ps x | awk '/libflashplayer.so\ /{print $1}'
Use the PID to move to the corresponding folder in /proc:
cd /proc/$(ps x | awk '/libflashplayer.so\ /{print $1}')/fd
improvement to list only the video-files:
cd /proc/$(ps x | awk '/libflashplayer.so\ /{print $1}')/fd && ls -la
| grep /tmp/Flash
- Or simply use this shell script to play all videos with VLC:
#!/bin/bash cd /proc/$(ps x | awk '/libflashplayer.so\ /{print $1}')/fd ls -la | grep /tmp/Flash | vlc $(awk '/\ /{print $8}')
Posted on April 22, 2012, in Audio / Video, Bash-Scripts and tagged /proc, Browser, buffer, flash, Flash Video, flashplayer, linux command line, Linux M0nk3ys, Linux Monkeys, Multimedia, video, vlc, VLC media player. Bookmark the permalink. 10 Comments.
hi, I have no idea about any of the things you are talking about, but after many hours searching the web, I found your thunderbird pdf thingy!! you seem to know your stuff! I cant get a pdf to attach to an email without it hanging (not responding) sometimes til it s
huts down, other times for a minute or two. I tried to send via outlook, but had the same problem! im net very tech savvy, but can follow instructions, any ideas?? thank, have a good one, jo xx cheers
Excellent information. Thanks for the post. I've been trying to find the best command to see if flash is running. Yours seems the best (ps x | awk '/libflashplayer.so\ /{print $1}') but it doesn't care if the process is running, sleeping, or zombied. I'm trying to write a script that will check if flash is active and toggle the power manager settings based on that. Any suggestions?
flash_check=$(ps x | awk '/libflashplayer.so\ /{print $1}' | grep -v ps)
FLASH_USAGE=$(ps aux | grep $flash_check | grep -v grep | grep -v ps | awk '{print $3*100}')
In case anyone wants to use the solution I came up with.


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Scientist Repeats Swine Flu Lab-Escape Claim in Published Study
Posted by seumasach on November 25, 2009
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) — Adrian Gibbs, the virologist who said in May that swine flu may have escaped from a laboratory, published his findings today, renewing discussion about the origins of the pandemic virus.
The new H1N1 strain, which was discovered in Mexico and the U.S. in April, may be the product of three strains from three continents that swapped genes in a lab or a vaccine-making plant, Gibbs, and fellow Australian scientists wrote in Virology Journal. The authors analyzed the genetic makeup of the virus and found its origin could be more simply explained by human involvement than a coincidence of nature.
Their study, published in a free, online journal reviewed by other scientists, follows debate among researchers six months ago, when Gibbs asked the World Health Organization to consider the hypothesis. After reviewing Gibbs' initial three-page paper, WHO and other organizations concluded the pandemic strain was a naturally occurring virus and not laboratory-derived.
"It is important that the source of the new virus be found if we wish to avoid future pandemics rather than just trying to minimize the consequences after they have emerged," Gibbs and colleagues John Armstrong and Jean Downie said in today's eight- page study.
Gibbs and Armstrong are on the emeritus faculty at the Australian National University in Canberra and Downie is affiliated with the Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services at Sydney's Westmead Hospital, according to the study.
While the exact source of the new H1N1 strain is a mystery, their research has "raised many new questions," they said. The authors compared the genetic blueprints of flu strains stored in the free database Genbank and found the pandemic virus's nearest ancestors circulate in pigs.
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While migratory birds may have acted as conduit for their convergence, human involvement in bringing them together is "by far the simplest explanation," Gibbs said in a telephone interview today.
Gibbs wrote or coauthored more than 250 scientific publications on viruses, mostly pertaining to the plant world, during his 39-year career at the Australian National University, according to biographical information on the university's Web site.
"Knowing Adrian Gibbs, he will have thought through it pretty logically and come to that conclusion," Lance Jennings, a clinical virologist with Canterbury Health Laboratories in Christchurch, New Zealand, said in a telephone interview. "It's up to someone else to try and prove it or disprove it."
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He was recently unsuccessful in his bid to get the court to overturn the planned dismissal of Central Bank Governor Dr DeLisle Worrell.
However, attorney-at-law Gregory Nicholls will be hoping that the second time is a charm, after appearing in court today in defence of the President of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW), Akanni McDowall, who was unceremoniously removed from his senior acting post in Government last October.
The matter came up before Justice William Chandler in the No. 10 Supreme Court around 10:30 this morning, after Nicholls filed the lawsuit back in February challenging the Public Service Commission's decision to remove McDowall from the acting positition of Health Planning Officer 1 and revert him to his substantive junior post of Environmental Health Assistant 1.
An hour later McDowall and Nicholls emerged from the court room, telling reporters that there was very little they could say at this stage, since the matter was now going through case management.
However, while acknowledging that his client's appointment was "temporary", he took issue with "how they [Government] purported to fill the post".
"So that is being challenged before the court," the attorney said.
Insisting that the action taken against him was "illegal" and a case of political victimization, McDowall, whose union had previously called out Customs and Immigration officers in protest of his controversial removal, told reporters today that the union was not prepared to give up the fight. In fact, he warned that the NUPW would be addressing the matter on two fronts.
"We are fighting the matter on . . . the industrial front and the legalistic front," he explained, while lamenting that all efforts to date to have the issue amicably resolved have been unsuccessful.
"Unfortunately we have not received all of the decisions that we wanted to in a timely manner, so therefore we have to
fight on both fronts," McDowall told reporters on the steps of the Supreme Court Complex.
However, when asked by Barbados TODAY whether the country should expect further industrial action over his removal from the post, he declined to comment.
"We took industrial action in December last year when we called out Customs and Immigration officers . . . and then there were things going on behind the scenes that we were doing.
"Now the National Council has decided that we would try to fight it on both fronts
. . . there is no conflict between the two, both can happen together," the union leader said.
In the meantime, McDowall, who is scheduled to return to court on March 31, said the Council would issue a formal statement on the matter in the coming days.
Earlier this month, Nicholls took the fight to his former political opponent Chris Sinckler, challenging the minister's right to fire the head of the island's monetary authority. However, after a two week legal battle the application was dismissed by the Court of Appeal, clearing the way for Worrell's sacking, even though the substantive case is still to be heard.
It is therefore left to be seen how the court will rule in McDowall's case.
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The Elections Commission (EC) says it will not provide recognition to any political party primary or congress held with the involvement of anyone sentenced to prison.
Speaking at the press conference held by EC on Wednesday to provide the latest update on preparations for the upcoming Presidential Elections; President of EC, Ahmed Shareef said many of the conflicts between the commission and political parties stem from interpretation of the law.
Shareef said that when the commission ordered the disbandment of Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP)'s primary, which was contested by former President Mohamed Nasheed, MDP had claimed Nasheed had the right to participate in the Presidential Elections because the Supreme Court's order on February 1 had ordered his release.
He noted that the order has since been overridden by the Supreme Court itself.
Shareef said that MDP has not officially informed the commission of plans to hold a congress, the commission has heard of it from unofficial channels. He said EC urges MDP to hold its congress after consulting with the commission.
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After five lonely years out west, Chad Butler spots a curvy beauty in the crowd at his hometown honky-tonk and knows he has to have her. He's going to lasso this little filly straight into his bed – and into his life.
Rachel Sweeting enjoys the peace she's found in the middle of miles of cornfields with her Aunt Jessie. Her new life keeps her safely tucked away from the pain and embarrassment of her past. But, when her truck breaks down in the middle of the night and a hunky cowboy rides to the rescue, she's knocked straight out of her boots.
Her romance books have told her love-at-first-sight is real and for the first time, Rachel is a believer. But when a dangerous past connection threatens their ride into the sunset, will Chad's devotion to his woman be enough to save the day?
Author's Note: This cowboy hasn't touched a woman in years, and when he falls, it's hard and fast, making for an instant love connection and obsessed alpha hotness. If you're looking for love-at-first-sight, NO cheating and filthy sweetness, come sit a spell but bring a fan, it's hot.
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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
So…before I start writing this review let me just explain some of the things that you might see in my review, such as terrible spelling mistakes, poor judge of character and so on. Well…here's the thing. I blame it all on my three hours of sleep, since I stayed up so late to finish this book. It's all your fault book! Look what you did to me, making me so hyped up to read you and now look at me! Am a walking freaking zombie. Shame on you, SHAME ON YOU!!!
But seriously, all jokes aside, I liked the story! It's an insta lust/love story for Chad and Rachel, or as Chad likes to call her his Dove, she's not that far behind from developing feelings for him. You could say she is the 'normal' teenage girl who falls for the guys charms. Chad on the other hand, he's broody and bossy and just a man who knows what he wants from the get go. His POV is so fun to read, he's got the alpha act down to the t! God help anyone who looks at his woman in a wrong way. There is one scene, more at the beginning, where that side of him comes to life like a hurricane and I loved every second of it. The hero is so completely gone for his girl, it's sometimes hard to believe what his thoughts are like. He's a hot piece I wouldn't mind taking a bite off. And don't even get me started on his animal lover side. Just, too perfect, really. Thank you writers for making such great book Boyfriends that we can't ever find in real life. It's the small tings that count in life, right, right?
Now, as for Rachel. She comes of as this timid mouse but with moments where she's the cat and her pray is the mouse. I have mixed feelings about her. I don't know if I liked her enough to deserve Chad or if I just simply didn't care that much for her character. I don't know, so don't hate me. I'm sleep deprived, damn it! Anyway, yeah…but I did love her aunt, she's a cool persona for her age (not that she's that old or anything). but I didn't like Chad's friend, 'the manwhore' as I like to call him. I just felt nothing likable about him, especially after the first scene. Yuck…
The plot is great, flow is kinda also great but the pacing and some scenes…well…this is not a short book (over 200 pages), so it's safe to say some things I could have gone without. At times it almost bored me to read about things that had little importance to the story as a whole. But everything besides that was quite enjoyable.
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"Lean back. I just want to see something. I won't hurt you. You know that, don't you?"
"I don't know anything about you," she stutters but she leans back, her hands moving to support her body as she settles against the cotton feed sack behind her.
"Yes you do. You know a lot about me." I flip the final few inches of her skirt up to her waist, my eyes dropping from her parted, pink lips to see the matching hush of cotton panties covering what's now mine. "You watched me tonight as much as I watched you. You can learn a lot about someone from watching."
"I wasn't watching you." She does her best to sound indignant and I stifle my chuckle.
"See, like right now." I drag my fingertips over the slip of fabric between her legs, feeling the warmth and the wetness that's seeped through. "You're watching me." I give her a little grin. Even under my thick beard, I know she sees me.
Fuck, her panties are soaked through and I rasp my fingers over where her clit is hiding under there, listening to the way her breathing hitches and catches with each slight movement of my hand.
I keep my fingers moving, my eyes on hers as I groan the words that fill my throat. "That feels good. So good." Even my crazy ass knuckles are happy right now just because they get to touch her. That's how good she feels. My eyes move from her face to watch my hand and the sight makes another few drops of cum drip out of my dick.
"I shouldn't do this." Her words don't match the needy shiver in her voice.
"You're not doing this, I'm doing this. You're thanking me. And I told you what I want."
"What?" Her voice shakes as my fingers trace around the elastic between her pussy and the sensitive crease of her inner thigh making her twitch under my touch.
I push the offending fabric away, slipping the backs of my fingers inside. When my touch meets the first soft brush of her hairless lips I think I might lose my shit right there.
"I said, I want to know how you taste. And that, my sweet Dove, is going to require you spreading your legs and my tongue licking right here." I dip a fingertip into her folds. She's hot and dripping as I caress just inside her juicy cunt.
"These have to go," I mutter, my other hand pulling her panties down a bit more, then reaching into my pocket and flipping open my knife. In one swift motion, before she even knows what's happening, I slice the blade through the soft fabric and it falls free, still caught under her luscious ass but her slick bare pussy is on full display and I'm captivated.
I snap the blade closed and slip it back into my pocket as her wide eyes look down to see her naked flesh exposed to me.
She shudders, her head falling back and her hair cascades off her shoulders and down her back as she loses the last few inches of her upright position and melts against the feed sacks.
When I do put my cock inside her where it belongs, she will own my ass forever, but I'm pretty sure she already does. "You're going to cum on my fingers, Dove, so I can taste you on them for the rest of the night. Then, it's going to be my tongue. You want that, don't you? You want my tongue inside this pretty cunt."
I massage her hard little button and she collapses the rest of the way, boneless onto the sacks of feed. Her hands fly to her face, her palms pressing to cover her eyes as her mouth opens. She likes my filthy talk, and that's good, because I'm going to tell her exactly how much I want her and all the things I intend to do to her. I may be a soft spoken country boy, but she's released every filthy, depraved thought I've stored up and in my mind and it's poetry.
I explore, shifting my thumb to rub in easy, smooth circles around her clit, reaching two long fingers low to scoop out the nectar that is already streaming from her. "Jesus, you're so wet. It's so fucking beautiful." A little more pressure from my calloused thumb and I slip a finger into her heat. She's tight as fuck, and my mind can't stop playing over and over how she will feel the first time I sink my dick into her.
My hard-on is painful, but I know I would lose all control if I let him out, and my little dove isn't going to have her first time with me in the back of a pickup truck on the side of the road. No, she deserves so much more, and I'm the man who is going to give it to her, just not tonight.
She presses herself upward into my fingers and lets out a whimper, throwing her hands off her eyes and above her head. Her body is tight, like a bow string ready to release.
"Spread your legs, Dove. Wider." I push my finger into her until she gasps. "Let me see how pretty that pussy is in the moonlight." Her breath halts, then she does as I say and that bow string pulls back tighter and tighter. When she finally opens her legs to me, I give her what she needs.
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There are several ways to analyze network traffic, but the best and most accurate method is to utilize a tool called a network analyzer. Among the simplest and most ubiquitous of these tools is a utility that is built into all flavors of Windows servers called Network Monitor. The Network Monitor utility gives detailed insight into traffic on a network segment and can detail broadcast traffic and specific packets transmitted to or from a machine. There are also several other third-party products such as Ethereal (free), as well as commercial analyzers such as Network General Fast Ethernet Sniffer, Cinco NetXray, AG Group EtherPeek, Novell LANalyzer for Windows, and Intel LANDesk Traffic Analyst among many others. It is important to note that when using a network analyzer to monitor your current network's bandwith usage, that you sample data over the course of several days (or even weeks), and that you do so throughout different times of the day. Doing this will ensure that you make the most accurate assessment of your network's bandwith requirements.
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In lieu of a final review, we decided it would be best to break down the "Hannibal" season finale by its five most shocking moments. For a show that dedicated itself to never being dull, the finale was no exception, and these five scenes are ones fans are sure to remember forever. (Warning: if you haven't seen the show, spoilers are below).
Death of the Great Red Dragon
After demanding awe from blind ex-girlfriend Reba last week, Francis Dolarhyde (a.k.a. the Great Red Dragon) tested her to see if she was trustworthy, instructing her to find her way downstairs and lock the door. Reba, of course, tries to make a run for it but is caught and Dolarhyde punishes her, setting the house around them on fire before committing suicide. The scene itself is breathtaking, as fire envelops the whole of the screen. Ultimately, Reba manages to escape and reports to Will Graham what transpired inside the house.
Resurrection of the Great Red Dragon
Except that Dolarhyde didn't actually kill himself. He took advantage of Reba's visual impairment to leave a false body in his place. Eventually Will is able to reason with Francis and convince him that killing Hannibal would be far more satisfying than killing him, and the two set about making a plan for such events to take place. Their interaction is gritty and tenuous and it's always unclear who's manipulating whom, but that Francis was alive at all was shocking enough to the audience. (That is, the audience unfamiliar with the source material.)
Actual Death of the Great Red Dragon
When Dolarhyde meets his end in earnest, it's at the hands, or, rather, blades of both Will and Hannibal. While it's not shocking that the two men are able to get the better of the serial killer, the way the events played out were so precisely choreographed and the fight scene that ensued so visually stunning, that they transformed the death of a legitimate monster into something balletic and moving. Though a strange testament to the quality of the series, it's possible that no series used blood spray as poetically as "Hannibal" did.
Over a Cliff
Though going over a cliff is typically seen as a bad thing, "Hannibal" found a way to take its final moments over a cliff in the best possible way. Knowing that the only way that Hannibal can be stopped is by giving up his own life and, perhaps, overwhelmed by his own emotions when it comes to the manipulative sociopath, Will takes Hannibal over the bluff that the two are standing on, into the rocky waters below. Though the two are locked in an embrace at the time, it's impossible to tell precisely what's going through Will's mind when he makes his choice. What's easier to discern is the operatic beauty of the gesture and the sad inevitability that no matter what the future held for Will and Hannibal, they would be entwined.
The Future is Now
It wouldn't be right for "Hannibal" to give its audience no hint about what the future held for the characters beyond the end of the show, so fans who were patient enough to wait around through the credits, were rewarded with a scene of Bedelia Du Maurier, former companion of Hannibal Lecter, sitting at an impeccably decorated dining table. But that's not particularly shocking. What's shocking is that apparently what's being served for dinner is Bedelia's leg. There is an empty place setting at the table and as the camera pans down, we see Bedelia clutching a fork, readying herself for whoever took her leg to come back. This brilliant moment implies so much, including the fact that Hannibal Lecter lives to fight another day and wreak his vengeance on those who wronged him. Fans can only hope that showrunner Bryan Fuller can find a way to tell more of this story at some point in the future.
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- January 17: this month's Composers in Performance Series concert at the Canessa Gallery
- January 19: this month's program curated by Ben Tinker at Adobe Books
- January 19–20: busy-weekend offerings from San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Community Music Center, and The Lab
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Wednesday, January 17, 7:45 p.m., Peacock Lounge: Activities will resume in the New Year at this venue following the usual four-set format. Sets will be taken by the duo of guitarist Bruce Anderson working with the electronics of A.C. Way, the electronically enhanced group that calls itself Cube, Frank's Tina Takes (a solo performance), and another solo set by violinist and vocalist Christina Stanley. The Peacock Lounge is located in the Lower Haight at 552 Haight Street. Admission for all will be $5.
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'Steps 2 Hope' kick-starts fundraising efforts
CHATTANOOGA, TN (WRCB)-- A local organization kicked-started its efforts to help young people who have experienced major life-changing events.
The organization, 'Steps 2 Hope,' was formed in response to local soldier, Andrew Smith, who lost both of his legs in March, shortly after deploying to Afghanistan.
"The battle we went through when David was hurt was just really brutal," says Mark Wilson.
Mark Wilson's son, David, was badly injured in 2008 when a tornado hit his university campus in Jackson, Tennessee.
He says at times the road to recovery was tough.
When he heard about Andrew Smith and the road he was facing, he felt compelled to do something.
"I felt immediately drawn to his parents and to the pain that they had to be going through and the fear and the unknown," says Wilson.
He and his family are launching 'Steps 2 Hope.'
Community members came together Saturday evening to kick-start fund raising efforts to help young people like Andrew who have endured life-altering injuries.
"I've got a real burden for this guy. Not only does he not have his legs, all of life is going to be different. He's lost his career. He's going to need a job. He's going to need a special house."
And that is Steps 2 Hope's first project, to have a new home built for Andrew and his wife Tori, so they can get a fresh start when they return home from Walter Reed Medical Center sometime next year.
"To have a group of people that wants to do this for them, it's just humbling," says Andrew's mother, Cathy.
"I started crying, and I don't cry a lot," says Andrew's wife, Tori. "I haven't cried through this whole thing, but someone wants to build us a home! They have a vision to gather the entire city of Chattanooga and build us a home."
"It's incredible. It's the only way to describe it," says Andrew.
"Every time you see people like this come together and you see what good has come out of what was the most horrible thing we could imagine, it makes us say, 'You know what? They're just scars,'" says Wilson.
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The GED Social Studies test gives you 65 minutes for the question-and-answer section. Although questions come in several formats (multiple-choice questions, fill-in-the-blanks, drop-down menu, and drag-and-drop), they're all basically multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blanks. A typical question looks like this:
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Call me to see this beautiful townhouse, High quality Kitchen Cabinets, Beautiful Stainless Steel Appliances. The Potomac Model is an expansive layout with large windows allowing for lots of natural lighting. Riverwalk at Crofton is one of the Newest developments in the area. HOA includes all exterior maintenance, which includes a Playground and Community Park. Close to DC, Fort Meade and major highways, easy to travel to Baltimore too! This is a great opportunity to buy you NEW home now!
Whoever coined the phrase ~Location, location, location~ had the address of this single family home in mind. The home is located on a cul-de-sac. There are no neighbors directly behind the lot, increasing privacy and quiet. It is situated within walking distance of both Crofton Swim and Tennis Club and Swan Park. This neighborhood also feeds into the favored Crofton Woods Elementary, Crofton Middle, and the coming Crofton High Schools. Front and back yards have been meticulously landscaped with flowers or plants blooming in every season. What sets this house apart from others is first, the back yard~large, flat, shady and lush with grass; fenced on all sides. There is both a deck and a patio, a swing-set and a hot tub~entertainment for all ages. A full-dug basement~an extra 263 sq ft dug at extra cost when the house was built. Easy maintenance~aluminum soffits, gutter covers and a 50 yr roof. A staircase from backyard to basement~enabling a home office, workshop, mother-in-law apt., or just to carry in furniture. Last, but still important, is the little porch that covers the front steps, providing shelter for visitors knocking on the door in the rain, or for packages dropped off--remaining dry.Make an offer we cannot refuse; home is priced to sell !!!
Great 4 Bedroom, 2 1/2 Bath Rancher in the Crofton Triangle. Features two car garage, gas fireplace, updated kitchen, deck off family room and more. Freshly painted, new carpet and recently landscaped. Located on a quiet Cul-de-Sac. this home is ready for a new owner today!
Located within the Crofton triangle. This is a well established sidewalk community with mature trees just off the parkway. This charming townhouse style condo is move in ready! The kitchen has new granite counter tops, a large walk in pantry & a dining area. The back door leads out to the brick patio within the fenced yard space. Powder room on main floor. Upstairs has two spacious bedrooms with the full bath between them. Hardwood floors on both the main level & upstairs. Front bedroom has new windows. Unit has been freshly painted inside & out! The lower level is partially finished with built-in shelving. The back half is the laundry area & extra storage. Convenient to multiple grocery stores (including Wegman's), great shopping & dining are just minutes away!
Walden 3 bedroom 2.5 bath garage townhome in the golf course community of Walden. The main level features hardwood floors, an open floor plan with living room and dining room combo. The kitchen has a stainless steel refrigerator and granite counters. The living room has a gas fireplace and a slider opening to a large deck. The master suite has a full bath and walk-in closet. House updates; roof and gutters (2019), refrigerator and garbage disposal (2018), hot water heater and carpet (2017), new windows, door and sliders (approx 5-7 years old). This house is all updated and ready for a new owner. Conveniently located to major roadways Route 3, 97, 32 and 50!
Stately Brick End Unit Townhouse with 3 level bump out nestled in the heart of Crofton * This home is turn key and has been fully remodeled * Gourmet Kitchen with granite counters, 42" cabinets, tile backsplash, & under cabinet lighting * Elegant Dining Room opens to Living Room with Gas Fireplace * Gleaming Hardwood Floors on Main Level * Den/Office on Main Level looks over Lake Louise * All Bathrooms have been remodeled * Fully finished basement w/ family room, recessed lights, and fireplace, workroom, & storage * Fenced Backyard * New Brick patio * New Roof * Upgraded Attic Insulation * New AC exterior unit * Enjoy Summer Concerts, the Swim and Tennis Club, Farmer's Markets, Parades, and more! * Ideal location for commuting to Baltimore, Washington DC, and Annapolis * New Crofton High School Fall of 2020 * This home is a must see!
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This Quick Move-in home is already under construction and will be available in January. . .New Year-New Home. This spacious condo is over 2,300 sq. ft. and features a 1-car garage! Enjoy an open kitchen that overlooks the breakfast area, dining room, and great room, as well as, an impressive owner's suite and spa-inspired bath with a shower and soaking tub. The Taylor Plan is a two story condominium that features a one car garage and your choice between a center or rear kitchen layout that overlooks both the large family room and dining room. . You can also enjoy the oversized, walk-in laundry room located conveniently near the bedrooms. The community offers a tot lot and is close to shopping and dining..
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