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Tips for Linux Explorers
Posted 25 May 2003 - 02:21 PM
How to kill a programmer: Give him a shampoo bottle. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
Posted 25 May 2003 - 02:34 PM
'freedom...is actually the reason that men live together in political organisations at all. Without it, political life as such would be meaningless. The raison d'Être of politics is freedom, and its field of experience is action'.
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Posted 25 May 2003 - 02:38 PM
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Posted 25 May 2003 - 02:48 PM
'freedom...is actually the reason that men live together in political organisations at all. Without it, political life as such would be meaningless. The raison d'Être of politics is freedom, and its field of experience is action'.
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Posted 25 May 2003 - 03:06 PM
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Posted 25 May 2003 - 03:20 PM
Peachy, on May 25 2003, 12:34 PM, said:
How to kill a programmer: Give him a shampoo bottle. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
Posted 25 May 2003 - 03:47 PM
With a long weekend like this one, only one thing is super important: no rain and lots of sunshine !
For anyone interested in the weather outside whilst sitting at his computer, the Gkrellm Weather plugin is easy to configure.
( Gkrellm, my favorite system-monitors, see link at bottom of this tip. )
Get the 4 letter station ID at http://www.nws.noaa....g/siteloc.shtml of your regional weather station. Choose the way you want the wind speed to show ( km/h, m/s or beaufort ).
And it will show :
- Temperature, Relative Humidity
- DewPoint, Pressure (altimeter)
- Wind Direction, Wind Speed
- Sky Condition (if available)
- The Name of the Station
If you´re ever stuck for things to talk about, the weather sure is a topic.
PS: You will find the Gkrellm system monitors and plugins on your CD or Here
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Posted 27 May 2003 - 02:22 PM
If, after going through all the pain of installing your Nvidia drivers, your system boots up and shows you the Nvidia splash, you have that feeling: ¨YES, I did it !¨ It then you would like to know the actual numbers, the Frames Per Seconds ( FPS ) here is the trick to do it.
In a console as normal user:
$ glxinfo | grep rendering
This should return: ¨direct rendering: Yes¨
Now type:]
$ glxgears
( If you get an error message you have to install ¨MESA¨ and the ¨MESA demo package¨ it´s on your CD )
If gears is installed a window will pop up with turning wheels in it, just drag it a bit to the side and watch your console all kind of numbers will appear:
From my GeForce FX 5200 card:
13553 frames in 5.000 seconds = 2710.600 FPS
13569 frames in 5.000 seconds = 2713.800 FPS
13594 frames in 5.000 seconds = 2718.800 FPS
Without 3D acceleration your FPS would be around 60.000 FPS
Sit back, see those numbers and finish that sixpack with a grin on your face !
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Posted 28 May 2003 - 02:51 PM
Posted 28 May 2003 - 02:58 PM
Bruno, on May 27 2003, 01:22 PM, said:
Posted 28 May 2003 - 03:01 PM
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Posted 28 May 2003 - 03:03 PM
Prelude76, on May 28 2003, 01:58 PM, said:
Posted 28 May 2003 - 04:22 PM
Here are the results of a thread that invited everybody to send in their favorite keyboard shortcuts.
I started off myself to give an example:
Ctrl+F1 to Ctrl+F5 = to change desktops I am using at the same time
Ctrl+r = to refresh Mozilla or Galeon
F9 = to get mail in Evolution
Ctrl+r = to reply a mail in Evolution
Ctrl+Enter = send mail in Evolution
Greengeek did send us:
For lefthanders with arthritis one click and hit enter is easier than a double click. Only works well for leftys unless you can get a lefty keyboard.
OK it's a piece of useless information but if you've ever tried a double click on a cold morning you'll know exactly what I mean.
Havnblast knew that the old windows ones work in Linux to:
Ctrl + C ( copy )
Ctrl + V ( paste )
Or even more convenient are the ones Philippe showed me:
CTRL + INSERT ( copy )
SHIFT + DEL ( cut )
SHIFT + INSERT ( paste )
twistedcranium came up with only one, but a very good one:
CTRL-N opens a new Mozilla (and likely Netscape too) browser window!
Chr1s offered us his input:
CTRL+SHIFT+N - New Tab in konqueror (KDE Web Browser/ File Manager)
CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE - Restart "X" (GUI)
Windows Key - Opens KDE Menu (on my system anyway - Mandrake 9.1)
ALT+TAB - Switch between open applications (yes, it works in Linux too!)
Greengeek also gave us two links to sites that have far more of them:
pc-tecky posted:
Alt+F2 will open the "run command" dialog
From Jodef:
Alt + F1 : K menu
Alt + F3 : Active window menu ie maximize,minimize etc.
Alt + F4 : Close active window
And closing of the series myself again:
F11 = fullscreen ( in Mozilla browser)
Ctrl+w = close tab ( in mozilla browser )
ctrl+d = bookmark page ( in mozilla browser )
Ctrl+s = save ( in OpenOffice.org, press it from time to time if you don´t want to be retyping your text all the time ! )
I had to come to the conclusion, that keyboard shortcuts are not as popular as they used to be, people just love their mouse and the more buttons it gets, the less they start to use the board that has ALL the buttons on it.
*anyone wishing to see his name added to the list above, just send me a PM with your shortcuts and I will edit them in
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Posted 28 May 2003 - 09:43 PM
Posted 29 May 2003 - 03:16 PM
Here is the full official list of Knoppix cheatcodes and other useful information.
For all of you still having troubles running this unique distro from CD.
Most of you will never need this, just because on most hardware Knoppix does not need anything else then: ¨ knoppix lang=en¨ to get the English version.
knoppix lang=cn|de|da|es|fr|it|nl specify language/keyboard
knoppix lang=pl|ru|sk|tr|tw|us specify language/keyboard
knoppix alsa (or alsa=es1938) Use ALSA sound driver (at your own risk)
knoppix desktop=fluxbox|icewm Use specified WM instead of KDE
knoppix desktop=kde|larswm|twm Use specified WM instead of KDE
knoppix desktop=wmaker|xfce Use specified WM instead of KDE
knoppix screen=1280x1024 Use specified Screen resolution for X
knoppix xvrefresh=60 Use 60 Hz vertical refresh rate for X
knoppix xserver=XFree86|XF86_SVGA Use specified X-Server
knoppix xmodule=ati|fbdev|i810|mga Use specified XFree4-Module (1)
knoppix xmodule=nv|radeon|savage|s3 Use specified XFree4-Module (2)
knoppix xmodule=radeon|svga|i810 Use specified XFree4-Module (3)
knoppix 2 Runlevel 2, Textmode only
knoppix floppyconfig Run "knoppix.sh" from a floppy
knoppix myconf=/dev/sda1 Run "knoppix.sh" from a partition
knoppix myconf=scan Try to find "knoppix.sh" automatically
knoppix home=/dev/sda1/knoppix.img Mount loopback file as /home/knoppix
knoppix home=scan Try to find knoppix homedir automatic.
knoppix no{apic,agp,apm,audio,ddc} Skip parts of HW-detection (1)
knoppix no{firewire,pcmcia,scsi} Skip parts of HW-detection (2)
knoppix no{swap,usb} Skip parts of HW-detection (3)
failsafe Boot with (almost) no HW-detection
knoppix pci=irqmask=0x0e98 Notebooks, if PS/2 mouse doesn't work
knoppix pci=bios Workaround for bad PCI controllers
knoppix ide2=0x180 nopcmcia Boot from PCMCIA-CD (transmeta notebooks)
knoppix mem=128M Specify Memory size in MByte
knoppix dma Enable DMA for ALL IDE-Drives
knoppix noeject Do NOT eject CD after halt
knoppix-txt No framebuffer at startup
knoppix vga=normal No-framebuffer mode, but X
knoppix blind Start Braille-Terminal (no X)
knoppix brltty=type,port,table Parameters for Braille device
knoppix wheelmouse Enable IMPS/2 protocol for wheelmice
knoppix nowheelmouse Force plain PS/2 protocol for PS/2-mouse
fb1280x1024 Use fixed framebuffer graphics
fb1024x768 Use fixed framebuffer graphics
fb800x600 Use fixed framebuffer graphics
knoppix keyboard=us xkeyboard=us Use different keyboard (text/X)
knoppix testcd Check CD data integrity
expert Interactive setup for experts
Hint: Using the default DE-bootimage, SYSLINUX boots with german keyboard
layout. The '=' letter is located at Shift-0 on this keyboard (just in
case you want to change keyboard and language with lang=us).
If your KNOPPIX CD makes strange noises during boot, or you see
frequent errors like "cloop: read error", or programs on your KDE
desktop keep crashing randomly, then your CD image is probably defective
or incomplete, or your CD-burner created a defective CD due to wrong
writing speed or bad media. This is the most common error reported.
Please boot with "knoppix testcd" to check if the CD is OK, and/or even
better, verify the MD5 checksums that are present on the mirrors before
writing the CD. Also, please read the KNOPPIX-FAQ.
In case of a failing hardware autodetection, try booting with any of
the "no-" options as shown in the table above, like in
knoppix noagp noddc noapm noapic nodma nopcmcia noscsi nousb
to skip some critical parts of the autodetection system.
The "noswap" option is useful for a forensic analysis without touching
existing swap partitions.
Some Boards apparently don't pass the proper memory size to the
linux-kernel. It may cause the message "Panic: cannot mount root file
system" and the system hangs. Use "knoppix mem=128M" to solve that
problem if your system has 128MByte memory for example (caution:
you MUST use a capital "M" here).
Try "knoppix pci=irqmask=0x0e98" if (you have a notebook and) your PS/2
mouse doesn't work. (Possibly caused by a BIOS-flaw on your board.)
The "expert" mode provides a very simple and not yet well tested interface
to loading additional Kernel modules from floppy disks (ext2 or vfat),
plus interactive configuration of mouse/keyboard/soundcard/xserver.
"expert" mode supports the same boot options as "knoppix".
The "floppyconfig" or "myconfig=/dev/partition" options allow you to
reconfigure the system after autoconfiguration by running a bourne
shell script called "knoppix.sh" from the root directory on the given
device (or floppy). There is a GUI to create such a configuration
floppy disk calles "saveconfig" (also located in the KDE menu under
"KNOPPIX", but experts also know how to do this by creating their own
shellscripts. From Version 2.1 and up, a file called "knoppix.sh", if
located in the toplevel KNOPPIX directory on CD, will also be executed
at startup. This makes ist easier to create customized versions without
having to change anything on the compressed filesystem KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX.
Starting from Version 2.0, SCSI-Emulation is active for all CD-Roms,
so IDE CD-Writers should work with the installed versions of cdrecord
and cdrdao (or the graphical frontends thereof, cdbakeoven, xcdroast
and gcombust).
If your BIOS does not support el torito booting from CD, you can create
a bootable floppy disk by issuing (on Linux)
dd if=mounted_cdrom_directory/KNOPPIX/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k
or, in case of DOS, use the rawrite.exe program provided in the
KNOPPIX directory on CD.
If you wish to remaster the CD, please don't forget to specify
-b KNOPPIX/boot.img
for the german version of the bootfloppy, or
-b KNOPPIX/boot-en.img
for the english version, as option to mkisofs. Otherwise your CD
won't be bootable. The directory KNOPPIX, containig the compressed
filesystem file "KNOPPIX", must be located in the top level
directory of the CD.
Caution: X-Screensaver: Don't start xlock or any screensaver that
requires a password. There are no default passwords on KNOPPIX,
i.e. all accounts are LOCKED unless you explicitly set a password.
See also README_Security.txt about this issue.
If you accidentially hit the screensaver button in KDE,
switch to one of the textconsoles by Control-Alt-F1 and kill
the screensaver (or just set a password for the knoppix user).
If you would like to edit your X-Server configuration manually
(/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for XFree86 V4.x), use "knoppix 2" to boot
into runlevel 2 (textmode only) and type "ls /usr/X11R6/bin/XF*"
to see a list of all available X-Servers. Once you verified
that your X-Server is working correctly, you can run the X startup
script with "/etc/init.d/xsession start".
Have fun with your Knoppix !
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Posted 29 May 2003 - 04:34 PM
Posted 29 May 2003 - 04:39 PM
My Hometown ~ Registered Linux User #299965 ~ LFS User #11450
Posted 30 May 2003 - 06:06 PM
For those of you who first want to check if their hardware is supported under Linux, before trying to install a distro: Check out a ¨Live CD¨.
Live CD´s are distro´s that run completely from CD, nothing is written to harddisk, no real install, but a fully functional operating system.
You have to see it to believe it, in less then 10 minutes, you´ll have a Linux desktop.
The really BIG advantage of a Live CD is the checking of supported hardware, once you see that your internet connection, monitor, keyboard, mouse, sound etc. are functioning, you can be sure that the distro you will choose after will support those items as well.
Here is a few of the major ones:
Based on Mandrake/Mandriva: PCLinux OS, The absolute best Live CD Homepage ( Includes Nvidia drivers, dvd codecs, browser plugins like flash, java etc. 700 MB )
Based on Debian: Good hardware support and well known is Knoppix, Homepage, ( 700 MB )
Based on Slackware: Really nice is Slax, Homepage ( 200 MB ) ( Read the doc´s ! )
Based on SUSE: There is SuSE Live evaluation, Homepage, ( 700 MB )
Based on Slackware: VectorLinux suited for ¨old¨ PC´s Homepage ( 180 MB )
Based on Debian: The smallest of them all, D*** Small Linux Homepage ( Only 50 MB and you get a Fluxbox GUI !! )
Have fun with your Linux testflight !
NOTE: For a long list of Live CD's and their homepages see FrozenTech.com
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Posted 31 May 2003 - 02:55 PM
Ryan did send us some useful info about the checksum of ISO´s in Windows:
You want to copy the file to the proper directory:
Windows 95/98/Me: Download md5sum.exe to c:\windows\command
Windows NT/2000/XP: Download md5sum.exe to your c:\winnt\system32
Then open a command prompt:
Windows 95/98/Me: Start -> Run... -> command
Windows NT/2000: Start -> Run... -> cmd
Then browse to wherever you downloaded the .iso file:
ex: c:\downloads
type the following command: md5sum [filename].iso
it will then spit out the check which you can compare to the check listed at the download site.
*NOTE* Make sure you do this with the .iso file before you burn it!
Now there is no more excuse not doing a checksum . . . .
Thanks Ryan,
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Posted 01 June 2003 - 02:28 PM
( not really for beginners )
Wheelmouse in Slackware
(This works also on other distro´s, but the location of your xorg.conf file might be different ! Do a ¨locate xorg¨ to find out where to find it.)
Do not start X stay in text mode.
Login as root ( not typing ¨su¨, but ¨root¨ )
First back up the old xorg.conf file for as things go really wrong:
(NOTE: In Slackware versions before 10 the file is /etc/X11/XF86Config !!)
# cd /etc/X11/ # cp xorg.conf xorg.conf-OLD
# vim xorg.conf
Find the mouse pointer section, and change/add :
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" ( add IM ) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" ( # /dev/mouse, uncomment /dev/psaux ) Option "Resolution" "300" ( add full line ) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" ( add full line ) Option "Buttons" "3" (add full line )
Note: Space between the "4" and the "5" !
Save the file: ¨Esc¨ and ¨ZZ¨
exit ( to logout as root )
Login as normal user
Now your mouse scroll wheel should be functional !
GUI login in Slackware
As root:
# vim /etc/inittab
Change the default runlevel in /etc/inittab from 3 to runlevel 4
NOTE: other disto´s runlevel 5 !
Shutdown / power off in Slack
On some hardware: Slackware does not power off by default as you give the command ¨shutdown -h now¨.
To address that problem:
# vim /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
Look for the APM section and
uncomment the line ¨# /sbin/modprobe apm¨ ( delete the # )
Save the file ( give the command /sbin/modprobe apm if you don´t want to reboot ) and next time you do ¨shutdown -h now¨ as root your computer will power off as usual.
Slocate in Slackware
SonicDragon did send us the following addition:
After running "slocate -u" first, the "updatedb" command should work normally.
That might be helpful to have added to the Slackware and Searching tips, (if this is happening to other users and not just me).
Happy Slacking !
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Posted 02 June 2003 - 04:08 PM
Let´s say you are browsing Scot´sNewsletterForum using your brand new Firebird in Linux.
And suddenly you would like to have some nice music in the background, but all your favorite music is stored on your Windows C:\My Music . . . .
No problem, just start ¨xmms¨ ( the Linux ¨winamp¨ ) click on the top left corner and select ¨play directory¨. You will get a window where you can browse /mnt ( will take a bit of time, just be patient ) /win_c and then My Music or any subdirectory in there, click OK and the music will start: you can play ¨London Calling¨ from the Clash and read ¨The Tips¨ from Amsterdam at the same time !
With the same trick you can also use that nice background picture stored in MY Pictures on your Windows partition as background in Linux.
Or open a document.doc (or .xls ) stored in My Documents in OpenOffice and work on them, copy them to Linux /home/bruno, drag and drop, any trick in the book.
Linux allows you full access to your C D E F etc. windows partitions, if they are Fat32 you can read and write them, NTFS formatted partitions sometimes do not allow writing to them, reading is however always possible. ( only remember as you click on /mnt it needs some time to ¨automount¨ the partitions. )
A pity it´s a one way street; from windows you can´t even see the Linux partitions, I think that they just prefer to ignore them
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are doing these things on the command line and have to type "My Documents", Linux will read that space in the name as the end of the command (Linux has no spaces in names)
To avoid this we use the "escape sign" "\" . . so we type "My\ Documnets" . . this way Linux knows the next character is to be seen as part of the name of the file/directory and not as a space.
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Posted 03 June 2003 - 03:58 PM
Sure you want to go on the internet with your Linux computer, here are however a few things you will have to take in account:
- - - Dial-in modems:
High on the list of incompatible hardware in Linux are dial-in modems, winmodems or so called software-modems.
( printers and scanners take a good second place )
Software modems are internal PCI card modems that fully depend on Windows-drivers to make the connection. These drivers are not Open Source.
An external modem is the thing you want to be able to dial your ISP.
But even not all external modems will run 100% in Linux, most of them do, however there are exceptions.
The site explaining this issue is Winmodems are no Modems ( Also have a look Here )
The best advice is, before buying a modem check the Modem Database of tested modems.
Also USB modems have issues with Linux so always do check the list !
More info on on Linux drivers for winmodems you can find: Here
For PC-tel and Conexant there are sometimes experimental Linuxdrivers available, but installing them can be extremely hard and in most cases they are only compatible with older kernel versions. So do yourself a favor and stay away from them, because every time you´ll upgrade your disto you will run into the same problems over and over again.
- - - Cable and ADSL modems:
If you´re on cable or have an ADSL ethernet-modem, all these problems won´t affect you.
( WARNING: Conexant PCI ADSL modems are incompatible ! The Speedtouch USB is supported but needs work to be done before you can get online. )
Next I will give you a list with compatible NIC´s ( fast ethernet cards )
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Posted 03 June 2003 - 09:26 PM
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Posted 04 June 2003 - 12:46 PM
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Posted 04 June 2003 - 03:31 PM
In addition to the story about modems yesterday, here is list of Linux supported Ethernet Cards ( NIC´s):
3Com 3c501 - (avoid like the plague) (3c501 driver);
3Com Etherlink III Vortex Ethercards (3c590, 3c592, 3c595, 3c597) (PCI), 3Com Etherlink XL Boomerang (3c900, 3c905) (PCI) and Cyclone (3c905B, 3c980) Ethercards (3c59x driver) and 3Com Fast EtherLink Ethercard (3c515) (ISA) (3c515 driver);
3Com 3ccfe575 Cyclone Cardbus (3c59x driver);
3Com 3c575 series Cardbus (3c59x driver) (most PCMCIA cards should be detected);
AMD LANCE (79C960) / PCnet-ISA/PCI (AT1500, HP J2405A, NE1500/NE2100);
ATT GIS WaveLAN;
Allied Telesis AT1700;
Allied Telesis LA100PCI-T;
Allied Telesyn AT2400T/BT ("ne" module);
Ansel Communications AC3200 (EISA);
Apricot Xen-II / 82596.
Cabletron E21xx;
Cogent EM110;
Crystal LAN CS8920, Cs8900.
Danpex EN-9400;
DEC DE425 (EISA) / DE434/DE435 (PCI) / DE450/DE500 (DE4x5 driver);
DEC DE450/DE500-XA (dc21x4x) (Tulip driver);
DEC DEPCA and EtherWORKS;
DEC EtherWORKS 3 (DE203, DE204, DE205);
DECchip DC21x4x "Tulip";
DEC QSilver's (Tulip driver);
Digi International RightSwitch;
DLink DE-220P, DE-528CT, DE-530+, DFE-500TX, DFE-530TX.
Fujitsu FMV-181/182/183/184;
HP PCLAN (27245 and 27xxx series);
HP PCLAN PLUS (27247B and 27252A);
ICL EtherTeam 16i / 32 (EISA);
Intel EtherExpress;
Intel EtherExpress Pro.
KTI ET16/P-D2, ET16/P-DC ISA (work jumperless and with hardware-configuration options);
Macromate MN-220P (PnP or NE2000 mode);
NCR WaveLAN;
NE2000/NE1000 (be careful with clones);
Netgear FA-310TX (Tulip chip);
New Media Ethernet.
PureData PDUC8028, PDI8023;
SMC Ultra / EtherEZ (ISA);
SMC 9000 series;
SMC PCI EtherPower 10/100 (DEC Tulip driver);
SMC EtherPower II (epic100.c driver).
Sun LANCE adapters (kernel 2.2 and newer);
Sun Intel adapters (kernel 2.2 and newer);
Schneider and Koch G16;
Western Digital WD80x3;
Zenith Z-Note / IBM ThinkPad 300 built-in adapter;
Znyx 312 etherarray (Tulip driver);
Further sources of information: The hardware database of your favorite distro´s : Mandrake/Mandriva, Redhat, SuSE
For general hardware info: Linuxhardware has an archive of reviews on all kinds of Linux compatible hardware.
Checking hardware support is always wise, either you run a ¨Live CD¨ either you check the databases, these are the best ways to be prepared for the ¨big step¨.
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Sux is an umbrella nickname for the results of my fiddling with the implementation of basic succinct data strucures.
The resulting code is rather sparse. The main highlights are:
- a novel, broadword-based implementation of rank/select queries for up to 264 bits that is highly competitive with known 32-bit implementations on 64-bit architectures (additional space required is 25% for ranking and 12.5%-37.5% for selection);
- several Java structures using the Elias–Fano representation of monotone sequences for storing pointers, variable-length bit arrays, etc.
- Java code implementing minimal perfect hashing using around 2.2 bits per element (also using some broadword ideas);
- a few Java implementations of monotone minimal perfect hashing.
- a few Java implementations of static functions and compressed static functions.
Sux is free software distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
Why C++?
C++ sucks. No, that's not the reason. The problem is that if you want to compare experimentally your rank/select implementations you need a language that puts you in control—every single computational aspect, including cache misses, perturbs the result.
The C++ code in Sux just uses C++ for namespace handling. No object-oriented or otherwise bizarre feature of the language is used.
Why Java?
Writing in Java code that (essentially) has to roll bits over and over may seem a Bad Thing™. However, one should take into consideration the following points:
- Improvements in JVMs makes low-level code written in Java faster and faster; often, the performance penalty w.r.t. an equivalent C/C++ application is relatively small.
- Succinct techniques can be mixed in several different ways, and an object-oriented language makes it very easy to play with different implementations of the same interface.
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A world lit only by fire, full of superstition, of moral certitude, and unequivocal evil: early 17th century England seethed in folklore and spirits. Monarchs drank potions of bone dust to increase their longevity, alchemists sought arcane elemental knowledge, giants and monsters roamed the wilderness, and witches soared through the darkened skies on magical brooms.
Based on real events which occurred in England in 1621, The Witch of Edmonton follows three storylines: the isolated, ridiculed, lonely Mother Sawyer who turns to the devil (in the form of a dog), seeking revenge on those who hurt her; Frank Thorney-a bigamist and wife-killer; and the incorruptible Young Cuddy Banks, in love with a woman beyond his reach.
One of the most sophisticated treatments of domestic tragedy in Jacobean drama, The Witch of Edmonton, takes a startlingly modern view of the nature of evil: only when we choose immoral actions and have malice in our hearts are we susceptible to diabolical, supernatural influences.
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Peralta's production only surprising part of his return
DETROIT -- The guys on the Red Sox grit their teeth when he comes to the plate and rips a base hit, and that has happened surprisingly often in this American League Championship Series.
This is not an opinion expressed publicly, because a couple months back, when Jonny Gomes and John Lackey voiced displeasure over Alex Rodriguez's ability to play while appealing his 211-game suspension, they caught a lot of flak. There is such a thing as due process in this country, and that's a fact Gomes and Lackey were thoroughly reminded of in the wake of their A-Rod comments.View Full Game Coverage
DETROIT -- The guys on the Red Sox grit their teeth when he comes to the plate and rips a base hit, and that has happened surprisingly often in this American League Championship Series.
This is not an opinion expressed publicly, because a couple months back, when Jonny Gomes and John Lackey voiced displeasure over Alex Rodriguez's ability to play while appealing his 211-game suspension, they caught a lot of flak. There is such a thing as due process in this country, and that's a fact Gomes and Lackey were thoroughly reminded of in the wake of their A-Rod comments.View Full Game Coverage
Ask around, however, and the reports about some consternation and frustration on the part of the Red Sox while watching Jhonny Peralta at the plate this postseason are true. There is, indeed, a sentiment among some that Peralta has no business playing a part in the postseason in the near-immediate wake of the 50-game suspension he served for violations of the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.
To this notion, though, Peralta provides a voice of reason.
"There's nothing they can say," he said. "That's how the rules are. The rule is that I can come back here, so there's nothing for me to worry about, what other players are saying."
Those players all serve under the same binding collective bargaining agreement, after all, so any displeasure over Peralta's playing time is purely pointless.
Now, Peralta's situation might very well prove to be a talking point should the league and the union revisit the penalty structure for offenders of the drug program. Several players, including Peralta's teammate, Max Scherzer, have indicated an increasing willingness on the part of the players to stiffen that structure.
But that's another topic for another day.
In the here and now, Peralta is a man who served his time under the terms of his negotiated suspension -- remember, he didn't fail a drug test, but his name appeared in documents from the Biogenesis clinic -- and was welcomed back into the Detroit dugout because of the teammate he is and the performance he can provide.
Realistically, though, the Tigers could not possibly have envisioned that performance would be this impactful after so much time away.
Through nine games in the Division Series and LCS, Peralta is batting .367 with a homer, four doubles and six RBIs. Other than Victor Martinez, he's been the Tigers' most consistent hitter.
That's a strong showing in any small sample, but it's especially prominent given the strength of the pitching we've seen this month. It has been timely for the Tigers and timely for Peralta, a pending free agent.
"I don't know how this is happening," manager Jim Leyland said. "The thing that's surprised me is the timing he's had at the plate has been so good. He got very few at-bats in the instructional league, which is where we sent him to work out and play a little bit. His timing offensively has been so good."
Perhaps the output ought not be a total shock. Peralta had a solid .816 OPS with seven homers and 18 RBIs in his first 35 career postseason games. Far from an emotive player, Peralta's calmness has often been mistaken for disinterest from critical fans, but it's his steady heartbeat that is a strength in this setting.
Desperate for any kind of offensive strength from left field, the Tigers took the bold step of placing Peralta in that position after a brief trial period in instructs.
Suffice to say that hasn't always been the smoothest experiment, as evidenced by the two fly balls Peralta misplayed in Game 5 at Comerica Park. But the Tigers, frankly, will take the trade.
What seems strange, in hindsight, was that there was any debate whatsoever over Peralta returning to the Tigers' active roster. Knowing his name was linked to Biogenesis and bracing themselves for a suspension that seemed inevitable, the Tigers traded for his immediate and long-term replacement at short, Jose Iglesias.
"I know they needed to do something," Peralta said. "They needed to bring in somebody, and the decision was to bring in Iglesias. It was the best decision for them."
The Peralta decision was trickier. The Tigers knew this wasn't a Melky Cabrera-like situation, in which the suspended slugger immediately became persona non grata in the Giants' clubhouse. But they didn't know whether a guy who missed such a significant stretch of the season would be worth thrusting back in the lineup when he became eligible for reinstatement for the last series of the regular season.
Peralta, though, did what he could to stay sharp in his native Dominican Republic, hitting the field with a couple of friends, fielding grounders, taking swings. When he got the call to meet the club in Chicago and start working out with the Tigers pregame (under the terms of his suspension, he was allowed in uniform until the gates were opened), he was shocked to learn they wanted to try him out in left, but he was willing to give it a shot.
Here in October, Leyland has made Peralta a constant in the middle of the order, bouncing him between left and short, depending on the matchup. Peralta certainly doesn't expect his newfound "versatility" to play much of a part in his free-agent pursuits -- in fact, he acknowledges that his future might be back at third base, where the Indians employed him in the final season of his Cleveland tenure -- but he views what's happened here these last few weeks as a rebirth, of sorts.
"I have a new life," he said. "A new opportunity for me is important. Detroit gave me the opportunity to be back here, and I appreciate everything."
But this wouldn't have happened if his Tigers teammates didn't buy in. Peralta addressed them collectively upon his return, and he also made a point of speaking to a select few players one on one; it would not be a surprise if Scherzer, an outspoken critic of drug cheats, was involved in one of the latter conversations.
"Everybody welcomed him back," Ramon Santiago said. "That doesn't happen everywhere, but we've got a good clubhouse. Everybody welcomed him back, and that was a key. Torii [Hunter] made a good point. He said, 'He paid his dues, so we've got to forgive people.' That's the way this country goes."
Alas, not everybody looks at it that way. In Boston, there is certainly some bitterness that Peralta is here on the October stage.
The surprise is that Peralta has provided so much production to be bitter about.
Anthony Castrovince is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his columns and follow him on Twitter at @Castrovince.


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Improperly substantiated horsepower designations on pool motors and other appliances may resize many circuit elements without increasing safety.
We received a question from an inspector about a listed swimming pool filter assembly. The 115V motor was marked 1 1/2 hp, but the full-load current on the motor nameplate was much lower than one would expect based on the usual ratings of those motors. Then, three days later, this editor inspected a different brand of 115V filter assembly personally in his official capacity as a part-time electrical inspector. It was also marked 1 1/2 hp, but with a nameplate full-load current rating of 12.4A. The horsepower label was paper, printed with a dot-matrix printer and glued on, whereas the current rating was stamped on the metal nameplate riveted to the motor. That nameplate had no horsepower notation, but did show that the motor was thermally protected. We will focus on this motor since we have direct information about it.
It came from the factory with a 3-ft 123 SJT W-A cord assembly, including a 20A 125V locking cord cap molded on to the end of the cord. The installer matched the receptacle configuration to the cord cap (125V, 20A), which in turn was installed on a 20A branch circuit using No. 12 THHN supplied through a 20A GFCI circuit breaker marked for 75 [degrees] C terminations. The cord assembly was included in the listing evaluation for this equipment. The question is, are the elements of this branch-circuit in accordance with the Code?
The EC&M Panel's response
We think the horsepower marking on the motor creates a violation of the literal text of the NEC, but we question whether there is an actual safety problem because we doubt the validity of the marking itself. Assuming, for the sake of argument, that the marking is valid, then the rule in Sec. 430-6(a) will apply to this motor:
(a) General Motor Applications. Other than as specified for torque motors in (b) below and for ac adjustable voltage motors in (c) below, where the current rating of a motor is used to determine the ampacity of conductors or ampere ratings of switches, branch-circuit short-circuit and ground-fault protection, etc., the values given in Tables 430-147, 430-148, 430-149, and 430-150, including notes, shall be used instead of the actual current rating marked on the motor nameplate. Separate motor overload protection shall be based on the motor nameplate current rating.
This provision overrides nameplate information for determining all elements of a motor circuit other than running overload protection. In this case, the Table 430-148 value for this motor is 20A, which is over 60% higher than the nameplate rating of 12.4A! To see where all this leads, let's size the circuit elements based on a 20A motor load.
* The branch-circuit conductors. The conductors must have an ampacity of 125% of the motor full-load current, in accordance with Sec. 430-22(a):
(a) General. Branch-circuit conductors supplying a single motor shall have an ampacity not less than 125 percent of the motor full-load current rating.
The No. 12 THHN has an ampacity, as determined from Table 310-16, of 30A. The obelisk note at the bottom of the table doesn't apply to motor circuits. The note doesn't apply if the Code specifically allows connections based on full ampacities, and Sec. 240-3(f) leaves all responsibility for sizing motor circuit protection to Art. 430. In this case, 125% of the motor full-load current (20A) is 25A, and in motor circuits, this is the value that you must check for excessive terminal heating, per Sec. 110-14(c). A No. 12 conductor running at 25A will reach, but not exceed, an operating temperature of 75 [degrees] C.
You determine this by looking in the second ampacity column (75[degrees] C) of Table 310-16. We simply assume that a No. 12 conductor carrying less current (below 25A) must reach some temperature below 75 [degrees] C, and vice-versa. Therefore you could use No. 12 conductors for this motor. For design reasons you might want to increase the conductor size to counteract voltage drop, but since that is design criteria, you would be free to use the nameplate value of 12.4A in making that decision.
* The cord. The 12-3 cord will only have two conductors carrying current, and therefore column B of Table 400-5A applies, resulting in a cord ampacity of 25A. Therefore the cord is large enough for the motor. The cord is also marked "W-A." When you have an application where flexible cord will be left outdoors, as is typical for swimming-pool equipment, the listing restrictions on cord require that it be marked "Outdoor" or "W-A" to indicate suitability for this use. This cord was so marked, and its other markings indicated suitable mechanical strength for the environment.
* The plug and receptacle. The plug is a disconnecting means covered in Sec. 430109 Ex. 5 which provides in part:
For a cord- and plug-connected motor, a horsepower-rated attachment plug and receptacle having ratings no less than the motor ratings shall he permitted to serve as the disconnecting means.
In order to find the horsepower ratings for plugs and receptacles, you need to look in the UL Electrical Construction Materials Directory. This is the same place we found the information about how the cord needed to be marked. It bears repeating, that you cannot design and properly install electrical systems without the general information in either this publication (the "Green Book") or the shorter "White Book," which covers the same material but omits the specific listee data.
In this case, a 30A receptacle and mating cord cap would be required. We think the motor should not have been listed with the 20A cord cap, unless the horsepower marking was evaluated and then changed so as not to exceed 1 hp, which is the maximum permitted for a 20A 125V configuration. Note that the configuration rules in Sec. 210-21 don't apply here, because pure motor circuits are beyond the scope of Art. 210. The listing restriction is the only governing factor on the receptacle configuration.
* The overcurrent protection. In this, as in almost all motor circuits, the overcurrent protection is split. The running overload protection for the motor is, in this case, integral with the motor. You determine this by looking for the "thermally protected" notation on the nameplate. Short-circuit and ground-fault protection uses a separate device, which must be provided in the field, again based on the table values and not the nameplate.
An inverse-time circuit breaker such as the one in question must be able to start and run the motor, and could be as large as 250% of 20A, or 50A, per Table 430152. Indeed, if the motor wouldn't start, the protection could go all the way up to 400% (or 80A for this motor) without needing to increase the wire size or receptacle configuration. As a practical matter, however, we suspect this motor would run very nicely on a 20A circuit, and it certainly would run on a 30A circuit.
Believe the horsepower label?
Unless the inspector is willing to entertain an allowance under Sec. 90-4, we think the horsepower label must be observed. We would, however, encourage the inspector to entertain a variance in cases where the horsepower label doesn't appear to remotely correspond to the nameplate current. At the present time, UL and other testing laboratories aren't policing horsepower claims on appliances. The nameplate current rating is carefully checked, but the horsepower label can be freely used to advertise the product, with only the faintest basis in reality. In this case I would say that this filter motor is probably a 1 hp or even smaller motor based on conventional standards.
This is a recurring problem. For example, we are aware of some 120V garage door openers marked 3/4 hp, but with a 6A nameplate full-load current. According to Table 430-148, this is a 13.8A motor. Since this appliance is fastened in place, Sec. 210-23(a) won't allow it to be more than 50% of a multioutlet branch circuit supplying other receptacles and lighting. If you believe the horsepower label, you need an individual 20A circuit; if you believe the current rating, you can put it on the customary lighting circuit in the garage.
In my capacity as an inspector, since UL saw both the cord cap and the horsepower label at the same time, I have asked UL to review the listing on the pool motor, and they are doing that as of this writing. The larger question, however, is whether installers and designers should be at the mercy of appliance manufacturers' advertising departments in working out circuit designs. Remember that the specific appliance data is usually unknown at the design stage.
We understand UL's reluctance to intervene in advertising campaigns. However, as long as Sec. 430-6(a) applies, something needs to be done. Either the product standards need to prohibit ridiculous horsepower designations, or the Code needs an escape clause for these appliances. I was fortunate. The Massachusetts Electrical Code includes an additional exception to Sec. 430-6(a) that does exactly that, and I used it here.


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Cleaning for a Reason
Merry Maids of Saskatoon takes pride in cleaning your home just the way you like it. Helping our customers get what they want is very important to us. In the spirit of helping, we are once again a part of the Cleaning For A Reason program.
Cleaning For A Reason was created to help those who are fighting cancer and stretches across North America. This organization partners with maid services, offering cleaning to those who are undergoing cancer treatment. To date, this program has supplied 17,000 cleanings (a value of 4 million dollars) and worked with more than 1000 maid services.


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From the look of the damage sustained by a charter bus after it crashed into the Eagle Avenue Bridge on the Southern State Parkway in early April, the incident should have been a mass tragedy. We should be thankful that all of the students and adults on board escaped with their lives, though three dozen of them were injured — six seriously.
The students were returning home from a trip to Europe. The bus driver, who was from out of state and unfamiliar with Long Island's parkways, was using a non-commercial GPS to guide him.
The incident should, at the very least, have been a wake-up call for state transportation officials. The roof of the bus was nearly shorn off. We can only imagine — and shudder at the thought of — the terror that the young people and their chaperones must have felt at the moment of impact.
Trucks and buses are prohibited on New York's parkways, which were built with private cars in mind in the 1920s and '30s as part of developer Robert Moses and the Long Island State Parks Commission's vision of connecting all residents and visitors to Long Island's parks by way of scenic thoroughfares. The parkways were actually designed to be "linear parks," acting as grand entrances to iconic gems such as Jones Beach State Park. They were never intended for commercial traffic.
This year, after much public outcry, the state has begun taking down a slew of unsightly "I Love NY" tourism signs that dotted the parkways and, officials and drivers contended, were distractions for motorists. That was a start. However, last month's horrific bus crash signaled the need for the state to do more to make the parkways — where speeding and dicey merges already make for harrowing rush hours — safer.
According to the state Department of Transportation, highway signage keeps commercial vehicles off parkways. Clearly, the signs aren't working to the degree they should be. Year in, year out, there are reports of commercial vehicles that crash into bridges. The Meadowbrook Parkway, which extends from the Northern State Parkway to Jones Beach, is notorious for such crashes, most often involving tractor-trailers. In fact, earlier this month, only weeks after the Southern State bus crash, a Walmart tractor-trailer slammed into a Meadowbrook overpass, tying up traffic for hours.
The existing signage clearly isn't enough.
The state has also installed infrared over-height detection systems at five sites, which will indicate on flashing screens when a vehicle is too tall to drive on a parkway. In the days after the Eagle Avenue crash, officials said that eight more of these systems were yet to be installed. As State Sen. John Brooks noted, they need to be a priority.
Additionally, the Herald has heard reports of systems that have been installed but are not functioning properly. Given the threat posed by crashes like the one in April, if the systems don't work 100 percent of the time, they might as well not work at all.
Brooks also asked the DOT to install low-clearance bars at the entrances to parkways — a simple warning system that, according to the senator, would cost all of $80 per bar.
Finally, we have to wonder why a commercial driver was on a parkway with a non-commercial GPS. The state should move to require commercial navigation systems for commercial vehicles.
Whatever the DOT's next steps might be, we urge that they be swift and comprehensive. When lives are on the line, half measures and vague timelines are just not enough.


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#1 Celebrated Birthdays 13, 10 and 4. Happy girls, lucky mama.
#2 July: Yosemite: Breathtaking - Paige and Ashlee were airplanes on most downhills.
#3 Yosemite in early July - retire here? Yes please !!!!!! Breathtaking.
#4 More Yosemite, every stream was overflowing, water everywhere!
#5 More Yosemite - snowball fights in July, on this walk/hike Paige kept yelling "Quick, get more ammo."
#6 Later in July, trip to Seattle to see Chris's brothers. So good to see everyone and have the cousins meet!
#7 May- down to San Diego, Sea world with entire population of city one day. Fun trip - lost one set of keys in the Pacific.
#8 End of year events: choir concert for Maggie, looking so grown up.
#9 May - trip to Long Beach Washington for me with my sisters and mom. So fun, so relaxing, also the scariest bridge I may have ever been on!
So, that's pretty much it. School has started - not sure I took any pictures, Paige is in pre-school 3 days a week and loves it. She is still the best buddy to have around and I'm going to miss her next year when she goes every day (but still only half-days - yay!) Ashlee just finished soccer, Maggie finished cross-country a few weeks ago (no pictures) But I did manage to take one picture of Halloween when everyone was dressed up and ready to go - so I'll have to download that and post it later. Now on to Thanksgiving - maybe I'll try and locate a camera sometime this week!


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With catch limits on Atlantic menhaden being tightened to end overfishing, a new study is getting under way to look at just how many of the little oily fish need to be left in the water to maintain the health of other fish in the Chesapeake Bay and along the East Coast.
Under a $320,000 grant from the Lenfest Foundation, fisheries scientists from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science plan to investigate where the balance needs to be struck between fishing for menhaden and preserving them for their value in the ecosystem.
"Management of menhaden has become very controversial because of different views of how we allocate menhaden between commercial and bait fisheries and those left in the ocean to serve as prey for striped bass and other predators," said the study's lead researcher, Tom Miller, director of the center's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons. "We're trying to estimate from a scientific viewpoint how much we need to leave for the predators to fulfill other important roles in the ecosystem."
More than 300 million pounds of menhaden are caught annually and processed at a plant in Reedville, Va., into meal and oil for livestock and fish food, and for Omega-3 fish oil supplements. Many also are harvested for use as bait in crab and lobster fisheries
But the fish are a vital food source for larger fish such as striped bass and bluefish, for marine mammals and for birds. They also feed on phytoplankton, the microscopic aquatic plants that cause algae blooms every summer, though the significance of their role in maintaining water quality is disputed.
With the coast's menhaden stocks said to be at their lowest level in more than 50 years, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission last week imposed its first-ever coastwide catch limit on the fish.
Though fishermen said the 20 percent catch reduction was onerous and unneeded, officials said at the time they were acting out of concern for ensuring that menhaden continue fulfill their role in the ecosystem. But uncertainties remain about what size population would be ideal under those circumstances. The commission plans to conduct a new full-scale scientific assessment of its status in two years.
The UM scentists's research is independent of that assessment, but still meant to help fisheries managers. They aim to get a better hanlde on menhaden's value as a forage fish and as a filter feeder, and give fisheries managers some guidelines on where to set commercial catch limits to ensure that those other two roles are not given short shrift.
"In short our work will try to provide a common currency on which the fishery value, forage value and ecological values of menhaden can be compared and evaluated," Miller said in an email. "In particular we want to try and quantify the trade-offs among these three "uses" of menhaden."


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The in-house video for ROMER took less than 2 weeks to complete. Hexagon Metrology used Pinnacle Studio for the production of the video, Swishmax for the animations, and Swishvideo to covert the video to a standalone projector for the web. They combined some of their own original digital footage with digital still photos, flash animation, stock photo and video. To help promote their product they turned to YouTube which made the video easily accessible to the public.
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The latest release of Skyfall marked the 50th anniversary of the James Bond 007 film franchise. Currently Daniel Craig is starring as the legendary 007 British Spy. Adventure, intrigue, cars, women/men, futuristic gadgets, "saving the world" are all part of the James Bond "cloak and dagger lifestyle".
This week I started to wonder what it takes to be a real spy. So in the tradition of James Bond I based this Celebrity English feature on a mixture of MI5 and MI6 security services.
Here are some of the highlights I found.
Need to be a British citizen of the home country; however there are some exceptions.
21 years old (+).
Able to pass a high Security Clearance.
Pass the medical test; physical and mental.
Personal Attributes
Personal Integrity
Working with Others / Teamwork
Planning and Organizing
Analysis and Problem Solving
Leading and Decision-Making
Strong Desire to make a difference in the world!
Recruiting Areas
"The roles for which we recruit fall into the following areas:
Degrees ranging from Architecture to Zoology from 36 different universities have joined us as Intelligence Officers over the last two years. We also have opportunities for people with a range of technical, vocational or professional qualifications, from IT or Electronics to Carpentry or Accountancy."
Common Jobs in the Secret Service
Intelligence Delivery Officers - Collecting, analyzing and reporting global secret intelligence.
Administrators - Assisting with the essential daily running of the organization, through a broad range of administrative tasks.
Technology - ensuring we have secure, innovative IT systems to communicate internationally.
Corporate Services - Working with a range of departments such as HR and Finance.
Language Specialists - Translating raw intelligence in many different languages and dialects from both written and spoken sources.
Continued training in your field.
Salary similar to many other organizations. Depends on skill, experience, and performance.
Pension scheme comparable with the Civil Service.
Maternity and paternity leave.
25 days' annual leave rising to 30 days after five years service (even a spy needs a few days off!)
Current Employment Vacancies
Business Analysts
Business Relationship Managers
Data and Information Professionals
Forensic Speech & Language Specialist
Internet Investigation, Exploitation and Cyber Security
Portfolio Managers
Speech Technician
Strategy, Architecture, IT Security and Testing Specialists
IT Technical Operations roles
IT Service Management roles
Intelligence Officer
Project Managers
Service Desk Analyst
Information Specialist
Application Support Analysts
Network Systems Engineers
Language Specialist
Transport Supervisors
Facilities Assistants
So now can you pass the test to become like James Bond?
Here are a few to try out:
(1)Try our Intelligence Officer challenge, which will test your ability to maintain a simple cover story.
(2)Investigative Challenge - Intelligence Officers and Intelligence Analysts
(3)Listening Challenge - English Language Analysts
(4)Digital Intelligence Challenge - Internet Investigation, Exploitation and Cyber Security Specialists
Language Learning Section
Here are some common words you will hear in Spy Movies. Test Yourself for Fun! What do the following words mean? Just put a few notes or ideas beside each word.
A spy
A terrorist
To do/conduct surveillance
A bug
Cloak and dagger
Answers and More Espionage Vocabulary!
to be classified: something that is considered confidential or secret information; need a high level security clearance to view the information.
to do/conduct surveillance: the act of carefully watching someone or something especially in order to prevent or detect a crime.
to stake out: to do surveillance.
to spy : to watch secretly usually for hostile purposes.
to have one's cover blown: you have been exposed as being a spy.
to keep/maintain a low profile: to behave in a way that does not attract attention.
to sabotage: something: the act of destroying or damaging something deliberately so that it does.
to destroy something : to cause (something) to end or no longer exist : to cause the destruction of.
undercover: acting or executed in secret; specifically : employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation <an undercover agent/police officer>.
clandestine: done in a private place or way : done secretly. <clandestine activities/organization>.
Espionage: ,or spying, involves a government or individual obtaining information that is
considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information.
a spy: (1)one who keeps secret watch on a person or thing to obtain information (2) a person employed by one nation to secretly convey classified information of strategic importance to another nation; also : a person who conveys the trade secrets of one company to another.
an operative: a secret agent; a person who works toward achieving the objectives of a larger interest <political operatives>.
a bug: a small hidden microphone (listening device) that is used to secretly listen to and record people.
a conspiracy: an agreement by 2 or more people to commit a crime.
a covert operation : a plan made in a way that is not easily seen or noticed : secret or hidden.
a threat: an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage.
a bomb: a device that is designed to explode in order to injure or kill people or to damage or something.
terrorism: the use of violent acts to frighten the people in an area as a way of trying to achieve a political goal.
a terrorist: a person who uses or supports the use of terrorism <terrorist activities/attacks/bombings/threats> <a terrorist organization/group/network>.
a sleeper (agent): A sleeper agent is a person who is recruited to an intelligence service to wake up and perform a specific set of tasks or functions while living under cover in an area of interest.
a double agent: a spy pretending to serve one government while actually serving another.
MI5: Military Intelligence, Section 5 - the United Kingdom's internal counter-intelligence.
MI6: Military Intelligence, Section 6 - the agency which supplies Her Majesty's Government with foreign intelligence.
FBI: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a governmental agency belonging to the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency (counterintelligence).
CIA: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an independent civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence.
Military: of or relating to soldiers or the armed forces (such as the army, navy, marines, and air force)
behind closed doors: in private; only the people in the meeting know the information.
cloak and dagger: dealing in or suggestive of melodramatic intrigue and action usually involving secret agents and espionage <a cloak–and–dagger novel>.
Until next week! Enjoy the Skyfall trailer and the original Dr No.
More James Bond!
Skyfall a Big Hit at the Oscars!
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2014 Toyota Tundra Limited and 1794 Edition First Drive
Conservative Party: Toyota Focuses on Improving the Little Things
The 2014 Toyota Tundra represents the Japanese giant's second stab at the fullsize truck market. The first was hamstrung by timing -- shortly after the upsized and dramatically restyled Tundra came out in 2007, the Great Recession hit and threw the truck market into turmoil. Sales never reached the 200,000 annual mark the automaker hoped to hit and, on top of that, Ram, General Motors, and Ford have upped their game. So, where did Toyota go from there?
We learned part of the answer at the Chicago Auto Show. While Ford has opted for a turbocharged V-6 engine, Ram went with innovative features like air suspension and grille shutters, and GM opted for a combo of direct injection and cylinder shutoff, Toyota took the most conservative route, making just minor mechanical changes for 2014. What the company did, though, was fine-tune details, revise the styling, improve materials, and add a new trim level.
All three engines -- 4.0-liter V-6, 4.6-liter V-8, and 5.7-liter V-8 -- return, but for our drive, Toyota supplied a variety of 5.7-liter Double Cabs. Trim levels are SR, SR5, Limited, Platinum, and 1794. We started our drive in the Limited, which is likely to be the heart of the market for the truck.
After a brief walkaround, we could finally see the Tundra's new looks in natural light. The changes are more apparent here than they were under the fluorescent lights of the auto show floor. The lines are crisper, and telltale signs that the styling has changed can be seen in the new grille and nose (different for each trim level), squared-off fender wells, and the word "Tundra" embossed into the tailgate. The front-end styling is perhaps the weakest part of the Tundra's new look -- it has gone from bold to gaudy on the premium trucks, almost looking like change for change's sake. Overall, the outside difference between the 2013 and 2014 is subtle.
Things are more substantial on the inside, where the Tundra's cabin looks more technical. Materials on the dash, seats, doors, and steering wheel all look and feel like they're higher quality than before and the gauges are more modern and are easier to read. There are still little odd quirks -- the front passenger seat had manual controls, which is strange in the midlevel truck, and for me, the seat bottom was almost too long. I'm not short, but it would be nice if the bottom cushion length could be adjusted. Not everyone who drives a truck is 6'3".
On the road, the truck feels as good as we remember the Tundra feeling the last time we drove one. The 381-horsepower V-8 and six-speed automatic continue to work well together. While it may seem like an odd decision for Toyota to stick with the same powertrains as before, Toyota is happy with the combination of fuel efficiency, power, and reliability the trio offer. The DOHC 5.7-liter uses dual VVT-i and has plenty of torque, with its peak 401 lb-ft on tap at 3600 rpm. That's more horsepower than the EcoBoost, but less torque -- and it comes at a higher rpm. The Tundra is quick off the line, with touchy throttle tip in, and easily gets to speed. Braking is confident (like the throttle, it was also slightly touchy), and the front discs are almost 14 inches in diameter. Noise levels are better than before, and both steering and ride are excellent. Engineers did a great job of improving on the driving characteristics of the truck without making massive changes. Entune contains a lot of cool innovations, but we still find some elements of the system to be counterintuitive. For example, making the map fill the screen should have been easier.
We then moved up to the new 1794 Edition. It is named in honor of the year the Walsh Ranch, which is near the San Antoinio, Texas factory that builds the Tundra, was founded. It is Toyota's answer to the F-150 King Ranch, Ram Laramie Longhorn, and upcoming Silverado High Country. This Toyota's interior was very different from the rest of the Tundra line. It pairs butterscotch leather with coppery wood accents to black and silver gauges and center stack. It's a color scheme that looks surprisingly attractive. The seats were wrapped in Lexus-quality leather, but there are a lot of different textures here: two different types of perforation, suede inserts along the sides, and solid leather at the top. And, similar to the Laramie Longhorn, the 1794 has unique embossing on the seats plus its own take on floor mats. In this case, each mat is ringed with what looks like black rope, and the inset material is durable carpet with bolts. The mat material looks tough enough for someone to scrape cow "dirt" off the bottom of a pair of boots, yet I don't think that anyone who buys a 1794 will be eager to get a cabin this nice that dirty. Considering this grade comes with a bevy of standard equipment, we wonder just how much the 1794 is going to cost. This is one of the nicest-looking Western truck interiors out there, but for those that don't like the "hey, y'all" looks of the 1794, yet still want a premium interior, there is the Platinum, which uses a techy, black and silver motif.
Off-road, the 2014 Tundra is just as capable off-road as before. Engineers did chose to have the transfer case made from even more durable materials than before, and revised the four-wheel-drive system so it takes less time to shift into 4WD -- and it does. Towing capacity is 10,400 pounds, and that is J2807-compliant (Toyota is the only truckmaker to adhere to it).
Yes, this Tundra redesign is a conservative one that doesn't add a lot of bells and whistles, like the ones that are available on Rams and Fords, but the truck is highly capable and comfortable. The 2014 Tundra probably won't pull a lot of people away from Ford, GM, and Ram, as those buyers are often very loyal to their respective brands, but it will make Toyota buyers very happy. And it's possible that's all Toyota has to do to reach its almost-certainly less-ambitious sales goals for the new truck. Sales begin in August, with pricing to come shortly.
|2014 Toyota Tundra Limited 4x4; 1794 4x4
|$42,000; $51,000 (TT est)
|Front-engine, 4WD, 5-pass, 4-door truck
|5.7L/381-hp/401-lb-ft DOHC 32-valve V-8
|6-speed automatic
|5675; 5750 lb (est)
|145.7 in
|LENGTH x WIDTH x HEIGHT
|228.9 x 79.9 x 76.4 in
|6.6 sec (est)
|13/17 mpg
|259/198 kW-hrs/100 miles (est)
|1.33 lb/mile (est)
|August 2013


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Mike Bruns' Pin Wag'n Sedan
This is the same '29 Model A sedan that Alex Loper's dad remembered seeing on the streets of Beloit, Wisconsin, back in the early '60s. It wasn't a hot rod then, just an all-original car, modified only with a strip of reflective tape running along the beltline of the body. That's just before it disappeared into storage. Decades later, when Alex bought the Model A and dragged it back out into the world, it had a bad case of surface rust all over it, and a remaining fragment of the reflective tape across the back.
When Mike Bruns heard his friend Alex had bought the sedan and was planning to build the complete and completely original A into a highboy, he tried to convince him to leave the fenders in place. "Alex said if somebody wanted to buy the fenders, he'd sell them," Mike remembers. "I told him I'd buy the whole car from him." When Alex finally agreed to the deal, Mike ran over and bought it before Alex had time to change his mind.
Mike grew up around hot rods and race cars. He got his first car, a '57 Chevy, when he was 14. When he was 16, his father, Al (who built drag race cars) helped him build his first small-block Chevy. Since then, he has owned several cars, but the '29 is the first one he built completely from the ground up.
When he got the untouched sedan home to Janesville, Mike tore it completely apart. The factory sheetmetal was media blasted in preparation for metalwork, and the remaining inner structure was replaced with new wood. Al let him use the sheetmetal equipment in his race car shop for building a new firewall and floors. His friend, Tony Bumbar, helped him chop the top 3 inches and taught him how to do lead work. Sadly, Tony passed away before the car was finished, but Mike says his memory provided the motivation for him to get the car done.
The completed body was torn apart again for Bob Grossenbacher's old-timey paint job. The finished sedan was dropped onto a traditionally styled Cornhusker chassis and loaded with a crate 350ci Chevy engine. After Mike was done with the wiring, Portage Trim in Ravenna, Ohio, added the rolled 'n' pleated Naugahyde interior. The nickname, Sin Wag'n, was contributed by the Cheaters car club from Milwaukee, after seeing photos of the "evil-looking" flamed A. Mike liked the moniker and it stuck.
When Mike took it around the block last Easter weekend, it was the first time the Model A had seen the street in 40 years. Since then, Mike has been making up for lost time, keeping the sedan on the road, and showing it off at hot rod shows.
Mike Bruns
Janesville, Wisconsin
'29 Model A Sedan
The 350 Chevy crate motor gets fed through a 6×2 Offy intake and a six-pack of Classic Gas/Mooneyes EFI Strombergs, built for Mike by Ken Farrell. The stacks are capped with chrome helmet air cleaners. Valve covers are Mooneyes' finned version, and homebuilt header pipes handle the exhaust duties. A 700-R4 automatic backs up the small-block, with a Halibrand Champ quick-change differential with 3.50:1 gears at the rear axle.
The chassis is built around a Cornhusker boxed frame, raised 3 inches in the rear with box tubing, to make room for the quick-change. The drilled 4-inch dropped I-beam axle with Magnum spindles hangs on POSIES springs and chrome shocks. Coilovers are used in the rear. Other components include hairpin radius rods, front Panhard bar, and a Mullins aluminum Vega box. Brakes are SO-CAL Buick-style front discs and rear drums.
Wheels & TiresAfter saving the factory-original fenders, Mike had to fill them with the right rolling stock. He did all right by selecting Coker bias-ply whitewall rubber (measuring 5.60×15 and L78x15, front and rear) to roll on 15×5 and 15×8 steelies, dressed up with '42 Ford caps and ribbed trim rings.
Body & Paint
Mike handled the initial metalwork and lead work on the factory-original sheetmetal, with help from Tony Bumbar. Tony and Mike brought the top down 3 inches and filled the roof with a '64 Ford wagon roof with an original-style vinyl top glued over it. Bob Grossenbacher sprayed the PPG black basecoat and clear, before adding some airbrushed flames. The gold leaf art on the rear is the work of Randy Russell (Edgerton, Wisconsin). Mike made the hood straps using a Limeworks kit.
I know it's only tuck 'n' roll, but we like Portage Trim's white Naugahyde with red piping, wrapped around some Wise Guys buckets, modified by Mike. The color combo carries over to the '40 Ford wheel, handbuilt by Dennis Crooks at Quality Restorations (Poway, California), and turning a Limeworks column. Stewart Warner gauges look great in the Brookville '32 dash. The Hidden Audio system includes a 10-disc changer, and detracts minimally from the traditional look. Speaking of looks, the shifter gets a few. Mike added 7 inches to the Gennie Shifter, capped by one of Norm Grabowski's hand-carved skulls, "to scare the pants off the asphalt."


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Place wagers as low as $1. Bet on the go anywhere in the state of Nevada.
Experience our new HD thrill-ride paired with special effects that will make your adrenaline pump!
The unique "7-D" experience adds 3D HD visuals, wind and lightening effects combined with 360-bi-directional rotation.
Ride it today in the Atlantis Fun Center!
Fun Center Hours
Sunday to Thursday: 10 am - 10 pm
Friday & Saturday: 10 am - midnight
Chicago Dogs! Eatery Hours
Sunday to Thursday: 10 am - 10 pm
Friday & Saturday: 10 am - midnight
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