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You really never wanted to get involved.
No, you were staying out of it. Whatever it was, it was big, that was for sure, but it wasn't really your issue, after all, and nothing good would come from opening your mouth and opining. And yet, everyone seemed intent on dragging you into the fray.
This thing was none of your business.
You didn't want to get involved… but it was inevitable that you would.
Making his father-in-law's business his business was part of Paul Ross's job description. But in the new novel, "The Darlings" by Cristina Alger, involvement like that could get a man arrested.
For a poor North Carolina boy, Paul Ross had done well.
Married to the beautiful eldest daughter of Carter Darling, one of New York's wealthiest men, Paul had everything money could offer: A nice home, vacations, rare art and — after escaping a sticky situation at his old job — a new position at Delphic, an investment firm co-owned by his father-in-law.
It was Thanksgiving, and Paul had lots to be thankful for.
Then Morty Reis jumped off the Tappan Zee Bridge.
Morty and Carter Darling had been friends for decades so, when Carter started Delphic with Alain Duvalier, they naturally invited Morty, one of New York's most brilliant money men, to be an outside manager with their firm. Over the years, Morty had brought good clients to Alain, who was completely in charge of Morty's business. Now, about a third of Delphic's total assets under management were held by Morty's company, RCM.
And Morty was dead, floating somewhere in the Hudson River.
There had been so much good in Morty's life: A lovely wife, a car-collecting hobby he enjoyed, and the money to indulge both. RCM was doing consistently well, despite the recession. It just didn't make any sense.
But then an old friend presented Paul with shocking news: RCM wasn't what it seemed to be and neither was Morty Reis. Alain Duvalier surely knew what was happening, and Carter Darling was up to his ears in trouble.
The question was, would he take Paul Ross down with him?
So your IRA is still smarting. You're just now seeing black numbers on the plus side of your investments and bank accounts. Do you really want to read a book about some rich people and their financial scandals?
Well… yeah, you do.
In 'The Darlings," author Cristina Alger brings her readers some surprisingly likeable characters to balance out the nasty guys (most of which, curiously, we barely get to meet). Even the secondary players in this book are fleshed-out well, which plays with our sympathies just right and makes us really care about what happens. I can't say I didn't see the ending long before it arrived, but Alger's way of getting there — as well as the ending itself — was plenty satisfying.
"The Darlings" is anything but, yet I liked it anyhow. If you're looking for some good ripped-from-the-headlines scandal for your reading pleasure, this is a book to get involved with.
Terri Schlichenmeyer has been reading since she was 3 years old, and she never goes anywhere without a book. She lives on a hill in Wisconsin with two dogs and 11,000 books.
• "Lone Wolf" by Jodi Picoult (great novel, due out Feb. 28)
• "Uncommon Service" by Frances Frei and Anne Morriss (very good business)
• "The Mighty Miss Malone" by Christopher Paul Curtis (good enough middle-schooler novel, African American author)
• "Sophie" by Emma Pearse (good enough book about a castaway dog)
• "Freeing Yourself from Anxiety" by Tamar E. Chansky, PhD (health)
• "Our Black Year" by Maggie Anderson (in which one family Buys Black for 12 months)
• "GrowGirl" by Heather Donahue (memoir about a former movie star who now grows weed)
• "Surviving the Hindenburg" by Larry Verstraete, illustrated by David Geister (kids book)
• And – if I don't run out of time – "The Man Who Quit Money" by Mark Sundeen (memoir about a man who lives without money)


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As Lent approaches, I have been trying to make a plan for nightly devotions with my children. My children love doing this during Advent, and so I've been looking for resources to continue this practice. As much as I love handmade, creative ideas, my life is not conducive to creating right now! It's either beautiful, handmade crafts or school work and a clean house!
Thankfully, I've been able to find some easy ways to incorporate nightly readings, and hands-on activities that will capture the interest of my children. Here are a few ideas:
Paidea Classics sells a wonderful Lenten calendar. It has numbered doors for each Sunday of the Triodion, and then each day during Great Lent. It also comes with a booklet that contains short readings for each day.
We will also be using our Advent wreath, just redecorated! There are 7 Sundays in Lent, so we have 7 purple candles, plus a white candle for Pascha.
The highlight of our nightly devotions during Advent was our Jesse Tree. Paidea also sells shrink plastic ornaments for Lent! There is a pack for the seven Sundays in Lent, and another that has an ornament for each day of Holy Week. We will be using our Jesse Tree, with a spring-time tree skirt.
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SAINT-NAZAIRE, France (AP) — Five things to know as the Tour de France enters its 10th stage on Tuesday:
1. ZZZZZZZZZ — After nine torrid days of riding, on the 10th day they rested. In hotels in and near Saint-Nazaire on France's western coast, the 182 riders who survived the Tour's bruising first week were sleeping, eating, and sleeping some more Monday to recharge their batteries for the middle section of three weeks of racing. Smart riders know that to stop riding altogether is a recipe for stiff legs, so many wheeled out their bikes for a few hours to keep their engines ticking. How times have changed. Three-time winner Greg LeMond recalled in a recent interview with French sports newspaper L'Equipe that he used to play golf on a rest day. Perhaps the most legendary rest day episode involved Jacques Anquetil. The story goes that he overindulged on roast mutton and booze after crashing a radio station's barbecue party during the 1964 Tour, and paid the price the next day. He initially struggled on a mountain ascent, but with some prodding from his team and a little luck — his top rival blew a flat — Anquetil went on to win his fifth Tour, a record since matched but never beaten.
2. BACK IN THE SADDLE — You can bet Chris Froome will not have been so devil-may-care. The Kenya-born Briton will wear the leader's yellow jersey in Tuesday's 10th Stage. It shouldn't be too rude an awakening for riders as it's a mostly flat 197-kilometer (122.4-mile) ride across Brittany from Saint-Gildas-des-Bois to Saint-Malo. The next test to Froome's grasp on the leader's shirt comes Wednesday with the first individual time-trial, up to the majestic island citadel of Mont-Saint-Michel.
3. TIGHT-LIPPED BRAILSFORD — Dave Brailsford, the manager of Froome's Sky squad, insists his riders won't collapse again in the mountains like they did in Sunday's ninth stage. Paris-Nice winner Richie Porte and several other Sky riders were dropped on the first big climb. That left Froome, the pre-race favorite, to fend for himself for the next 125 kilometers and over three more monster ascents. But he held on, solo, to keep the yellow jersey. "(Using) a boxing analogy, he's taken the biggest right hook he could face, and he didn't flinch," Brailsford said. "You learn more from adversity." Asked what Sky's plan would be to avoid a repeat scenario, he said: "I'm not going to spell it out. I'm not going to go into the details of the changes we're going to make."
4. DUELLING MANIFESTOS — The candidates to run cycling's governing body used the Tour's rest day to publicize their visions for the future of a sport trying to move beyond its doping past. UCI boss Pat McQuaid, who is seeking a third four-year term, insisted the sport has changed for the better during his tenure as he unveiled his manifesto for cycling's future. He wants to "preserve the new culture and era of clean cycling," develop women's cycling, and authorize an independent audit to look into the UCI's actions between 1999 and 2005, the period when Lance Armstrong won seven Tour titles before they were stripped for doping. Brian Cookson, the head of British Cycling who put out his own manifesto last month as part of his own candidacy, retorted Monday in a statement that he believed people will "ask why those things haven't been done in the last eight years" under McQuaid.
5. RIDERS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN? — Cyclists know about pain, sweat and hard work. The Orica GreenEdge team proves they know how to have fun too. The Australian squad and some filmmaking-savvy helpers have put together an online video tribute to legendary rock 'n' roll band AC/DC in which the riders don wigs, strum on floppy toy guitars and even play air guitar on a Tour podium to the tune of the Australian band's classic, "You Shook Me All Night Long." Simon Gerrans and Daryl Impey do their riffs while in the yellow jersey that they both wore last week. Others played along, too. BMC's Philippe Gilbert and fellow Belgian Eddy Merckx, a five-time Tour champion, get cameos. You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAl1-mBhFpU
AP Sports Writers John Leicester and Jerome Pugmire contributed to this report.


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David McCandless and the team from Information Is Beautiful recently released both static (seen above) and interactive versions of the new World's Biggest Data Breaches visualization.
This weekend, Apple's developer site was hacked. 275,000 logins, passwords and other records potentially compromised. Two days before that, popular open-source operating system Ubuntu had its forums hacked. 1.82 million records stolen.
Are those big data breaches? Or just pin-points in the big data universe?
We've pulled out the interesting and funny stories out of the data. Click on the bubbles to read.
A fantastic design, the interactive version allows you to adjust the sorting, circle size and color-coding parameters. It's very easy for the reader to understand how one data breach fits into the overall history of stolen data.
In a move for transparency, the entire data set gathered and used in the design is available publicly to anyone through a Google Docs Spreadsheet. Anyone can access the source data to verify the visualization or to create their own.
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Airlines are no place for conservative investors, as the dramatic rise and fall of AMR Corp. shares in recent years illustrates.
Oil prices, economic trends, and fare wars are among the issues that have taken the stock of American Airlines' parent company, and other carriers, on a wild ride.
For AMR shareholders, the journey is almost certain to end at zero now that the company has filed for federal bankruptcy protection. The shares lost 84 percent of their value with Tuesday's announcement. They fell to a mere 26 cents each and are expected to be worthless when the company emerges from Chapter 11.
American Airlines owned the title of world's largest airline for much of the past decade, yet overall, it was a bad time to own shares. That was true even before this final descent into bankruptcy.
Priced at $21 a decade ago, AMR shares plummeted to $1.25 in the wake of 9/11. Momentum shifted in 2003, and shares climbed all the way to $41 by January 2007. The economy was booming, demand was soaring, oil was comparatively cheap and the industry had stabilized after a series of bankruptcies from 2001-05.
Then crude oil rocketed from $55 a barrel to $145 by mid-July 2008, sending AMR shares from $41 to $4 in just 18 months. Most other airline stocks crumbled too: Delta Air Lines Inc. fell from $22 to $4, United Airlines' then-parent UAL Corp. sank from $51 to under $3, US Airways Group Inc. from $62 to under $2.
The stocks of top-performing low-cost carriers also have had a poor decade. Southwest Airlines Co. was relatively stable during the run-up in oil prices but its shares have shed 62 percent in 10 years.
Some experts see a less volatile future for airline stocks as the slimmed-down industry settles down again. "Planes are getting fuller, the pricing model is changing, the industry's getting rational and our capacity to put planes in the air is getting maxed out," says Sterne Agee analyst Jeff Kauffman. "These are the types of things that lead to higher profit margins -- and higher stock prices."
The takeaway for investors based on the past decade-plus is clear, however: Airline stocks are much riskier than those of other industries. High fixed expenses, heavy labor costs and a vulnerability to soaring jet fuel prices as well as various calamities leave their shares prone to surges that can wreck an investment if they're in the wrong direction.


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Philanthropy's impact on teaching, research addressed at Benjamin Bates Society gathering
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Reflecting on her participation in the recent Leaders in Philanthropy program in New York City, Associate Professor of Biology Rebecca Sommer explained the rarity of her professional situation.
""What I am most proud of as a Bates professor," she says, "is that I can conduct significant research daily, teach daily, and involve students all the time. Research, teaching and student learning are integrated. That's rare, and it really distinguishes Bates."
The dinner program, held at the Asia Society in September, offered Bates' top donors a chance to hear about the intersection of philanthropy, teaching and research, and the Bates mission. It was sponsored by the Benjamin Bates Society, the College's recognition program for donors who have given $1 million or more to Bates in their lifetimes.
Featured guests also included Ischemix R&D head Steve Kates '83, recently featured in Bates Magazine; Spelman College professor and Bates Trustee Alison Bernstein P'09, a former Ford Foundation vice president; and Lumina Foundation head Jamie Merisotis '86, also a Bates Trustee.
In terms of teaching, the close interaction that characterizes teaching at Bates, Sommer says, "makes all the difference, in terms of taking students from not knowing how even to approach a question on their own, to taking a problem on and solving it."
Sommer also recalls how her fellow panelist, Steve Kates, impressed upon the audience that he begins with Bates when he talks publicly about his professional path. Sommer explains that "the norm in the scientific community is to start with your graduate program, as if that's where your life as a scientist started. But Steve starts with Bates. That makes it clear that you only get into the best graduate programs if you have a great undergraduate program."
The Leaders in Philanthropy program also featured a visit to the Asia Society exhibition Nobody's Fool, the first major New York exhibition by the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara, as Dan Mills, director of the Bates College Museum of Art, offered comments on the installation.


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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
Mathematicians have a great sense of humor. Perhaps that's why Pittsburg State University Professor Yaping Liu titled his upcoming lecture "Life of π (Pi)."
PSU will honor the mathematical symbol Pi with a lecture at 1:59 p.m. on Thursday, March 14, in 2:15 Yates Hall. Liu said listeners don't need to be math nerds to enjoy his talk.
"It should be accessible to anyone with a minimal knowledge of geometry," Liu said.
Liu will talk about one of the most interesting numbers in mathematics and share facts and personalities from ancient and modern times associated with Pi.
Pi is the Greek letter that mathematicians use to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, which is approximately 3.14159, hence its observance on 3-14. Pi has been calculated to more than a trillion digits beyond its decimal point and its infinite nature keeps mathematicians and computers busy trying to test the limits of their calculations. For typical calculations, however, only a few digits are required.
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It's been a whole day since we last supplied you with an update on the nascent political career of George Prescott Bush. But there's more to tell you. Today's report was written by our buddy Ross Ramsey, distinguished executive editor of The Texas Tribune.
George P. Bush's political plans were partially unveiled Wednesday by his own father, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, in a fundraising letter that said the younger Bush was looking at a race for Texas land commissioner in 2014.
That wasn't the last word. It's true he's looking at that race, according to his campaign, but that's not the only race he is considering. Bush wasn't available for comment, but Trey Newton, a spokesman for his campaign — which filed its startup papers with the state last week — issued a statement:
As Gov. Bush stated, George P. is considering running for Texas Land Commissioner, however no firm decision has been made.
We have said from day one that George P. is looking where he can best serve the State and people of Texas which includes considering Texas Land Commissioner as well as Attorney General, Texas Comptroller and other Statewide positions.
Right now the organization is in an exploratory process where George P. is travelling the state meeting with Texans about how best to serve.
Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson has said he wants to run for lieutenant governor in 2014, which would leave his current position open. The same is true of Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples, but the younger Bush doesn't have the farming interests required of candidates seeking that position. While other statewide officeholders have talked about running for other jobs, none has said outright that they'll be running or that their current positions will be open. Bush is apparently trying to avoid a direct challenge to a sitting Republican officeholder, at least for now.
Here's his father's fundraising letter, as reported by the Tampa Bay Times.
Dear Jeb Alumni member:
Last week, George P. opened a campaign account to explore the opportunity to run for statewide office in Texas. I am writing to ask that you consider making a personal contribution as he begins his quest for public service.
While the election is in 2014, it is important to show early financial support, particularly in a state as big as Texas. The office that George is considering running for is Land Commissioner which overseas the mineral rights, commercial real estate owned and sovereign submerged lands of the State of Texas as well as veterans affairs and historic archives.
George's experience and skills match the job. In business, he has helped build a successful real estate fund business, and practiced law. In addition, he currently serves as an Intelligence Officer in the Navy Reserves. In that capacity, he served in Afghanistan for nine months last year.
Politically, George has earned the right to run by being Chairman of MAVPac, which is now a national organization, Chairman of Hispanic Republicans of Texas, an active surrogate of the Romney/Ryan ticket and Deputy Finance Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas.
Ok, what can I say? I am proud of my son. I hope you will write a personal check to George P. Bush Campaign, 604 E. 4th St., Suite 201, Ft. Worth, TX 76102.
This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2014-statewide-elections/bush-looking-land-commission-hasnt-settled/.


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My favorite harbingers of change this season are in now bloom: Joe Pye weed, goldenrod and ironweed. I consider these plants the brassy, colorful dance-hall girls of late summer.
The days are growing shorter, and on my evening walks, I notice very few fireflies. I feel a sense of loneliness each year as I imagine one last firefly, blinking all by his lonesome, and never getting an answer. But that's what this season is about — transitioning from the fullness of summer to the starkness, eventually, of winter.
Even so, I look forward to cooler days and nights and all the glory autumn brings. I have a few hikes in mind and have started to pull out light jackets and sweaters — just in case.
I hope we'll soon have some "open window" weather so I can turn off the air conditioner and sleep with fresh air flowing through the house. It's been a rough year on the weather front. A beautiful autumn would go a long way toward helping me forget the long. cold winter and steambath of a summer we've suffered through. (Spring? If you blinked, you missed it.)
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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - The South Dakota Department of Transportation is asking farmers and ranchers to remove hay bales from the highway right of way.
State regulations require that hay be removed from the right of way within 30 days of being processed, but no later than Oct. 1.
Officials say the bales or stacks can be a safety hazard for cars and trucks forced to leave the road. In some cases they can restrict a driver's sight distance and late in the year they can cause snowdrifts.


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The release preview of Windows 8 was unveiled by Microsoft last week, with a final version expected around October. Besides Asus, Acer, and Toshiba are unveiling Windows 8 tablets this week.
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Asus had a busy day, also revealing a new Windows 8 tablet based on ARM processors. While Asus's new tablet/laptop hybrids are Windows 8-only, Asus will continue supporting Android with an 18.4-inch desktop PC that dual boots both Windows 8 and Google's mobile OS, according to Engadget. We'd think a Windows 8/Android dual-boot would be more useful in a handheld tablet, but with Computex just getting started, there should be many more devices on the way.


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Instead of a firestorm, President Barack Obama's gun policy executive orders produced little more than a fizzle among gun advocates.
For days leading up to the announcement, conservative websites and media outlets stoked fears of what Obama was planning to do unilaterally. But when he unveiled his proposal Wednesday — even though the list of executive actions had grown from 19 to 23 — he'd stayed so modest that they didn't do much but shrug.
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Instead of a mass gun round-up or finding ways to extend existing gun restrictions through clever legal maneuvering, Obama didn't even sign a single paper with the dreaded "executive order" label. The closest he got were three "presidential memoranda."
But most weren't even that: The remaining 20 were nothing more than less formal instructions he gave to aides or administration officials.
Obama's pressing a large legislative package as well, calling on Congress to pass major new laws to institute universal background checks and new bans on high-capacity magazines and assault weapons. He's promised a big fight over these, and vowed to throw all his weight behind them.
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"My first glance of them was, phew, there was nothing horrible in any of them. They actually put some things in there that I talked about during the meeting with the vice president," said Richard Feldman, a former NRA official who had a falling out with the group and now runs the New Hampshire-based Independent Firearm Owners Association.
A former Justice Department official who studied many of the same issues for the Obama administration after the shooting spree at Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's event in 2011 said the executive actions were sensible and restrained.
"Despite the worries that the president was going to confiscate all long guns, I think they've actually been pretty cautious," said Christopher Schroeder, now a law professor at Duke University. Many, but not all, of the executive measures announced were among those he proposed but the administration largely shelved a couple of years ago.
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I'm in China, teaching in China, trying out fluxbox on my laptop. XFCEvsFLUX I'm still a novice so fluxbox will prove to be a steep learning curve. Hoping to find reasons to stay with fluxbox when I install on an SSD based PC. I love customisation and I'm going to break out conky for a try too.
Hello and welcome to the wired.
Hi there Admetus - Fluxbox is grand - hope you get into it. Used it happily for years before succumbing to the seductions of E17.
Fluxbox is full of character, configurable via text files, light and fast too. My favourite trick was showing off all the personalised bling with pseudo-transparency, intriguing disappearing widgets (amongst others - wmmoonclock, wmsun, wmspaceweather) etc
...and then opening the man pages for the widgets - to show that some of them were written in the 1990s!
XFCE is good too - but not quite as light. It is quietly elegant with an optional lightweight compositor.
Not certain what GUI I'll end up with on Arch, might start with LXDE? Hmmm...
I'm still having fun getting Arch up on the Raspberry Pi - and learning about systemd in the process....
Hi folks! I'm new here too...
Hand~crufted code since 1977
Hello world!
Hi everyone!
Hi everyone
Lenovo Thinkpad X230/12.5' Flexview IPS/Samsung 830 256Gb SSD/16GB DDR3/Intel HD4000/Intel 6205 Wifi
after trying a lot of distributions I was between debian (stable and testing) and Arch. I preferred Arch because it is a rolling distribution with updated packages of programs. Everything OK till now!
Hello All, first post here!
Hello everyone! I've been using arch for over 6 months now (switched from ubuntu), and I love it. I figured I might as well join the community here.
Hello everyone!
I been using Arch for a few months and i feel very confortable with it, specially because of the great documentation and community.
So now its time to join the forums and try to learn more about Arch (and if i can help others).
See u!!
PS: Sorry for my crappy english.
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Hello world. In the past, I've put off installing this due to constantly hearing that it's for the 'advanced user,' but I've been rather unhappy with the customization in other distros. As a result, I've kept switching them out every few weeks, when I became too frustrated to deal with their inner workings anymore. After reading the Arch Way and some pages on the glorious Arch Wiki, I look forward to what this distribution can offer.
Just finished the installation! I have to say the whole procedure took ~8-10 hours, though I'd say the first 3 hours or so was preparation (determining what partitions, in what order, how to dual-boot with W7, etc.). The actual installation took quite a bit longer than I expected, since I really installed the thing three times. There were a few crucial idiosynracies to my system which forced me to do steps in the Beginner's Guide out of order; of course, it would take trial-and-error to find that correct order. Nevertheless, I succeeded, and I'm quite excited to have such a sleek operating system. I look forward to the "tweaking the system" fun now.
Shortcuts can be configured though ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml assuming you followed the wiki and copyed the files over. Openbox is just a WM, which could be considered the 'core' of a x gui. Thus, docks and transparenticy would have to be added via oter software (ie a-w-m and xcompos or what ever its called) basiclly chosing a plain WM like Openbox means setting stuff up your self- most archers use a standalone WM. personnlly, I use Openbox (or sometimes DWM) with few other things, no docks, transparenty, etc. just feh for the wallpaper, gtk-engines to make it look nice and tile-windows.
Thank You Very Much for your reply JLloyd13. Yes, I have followed the wiki. And I understood your point. I'll give another try to Openbox. However, as a "little" exercise for my programming skills I am thinking of experimenting with Clutter, Wayland and mx (Meego UI (wm) for netbooks which is based on clutter) and currently I am in a research stage - studying their codebase. In my opinion it would be nice if we had a lightweight compositing wm (compiz and mutter are slow and stacking, tiling wms are "old style-ish"). I don't think it will grow to something "big" but at least I will improve my prog.skills . If you or someone else interested in "this stuff" feel free to contact me . Thank You.
-- espirit
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Hello World. :-)
After working a lot with gentoo and debian I stumbled over archlinux which looks very promising because of the rolling release system. I just noticed that I started with the first systmd start system which makes it quite a bit of 'fun' because most of the wiki pages still refer to the old init system.
Hello world! Very excited to get started with Arch
Hey there! I've been using arch for over 4 months now but only just signed up on the forums, should I feel ashamed? I came on here because the support is nice and I have some questions and things to share, so good day everyone!
Welcome Seditio... don't be ashamed. I prowled these forums, unregistered for quite some time before I actually felt I needed to do it. Once I did though, I found that I really love contributing to these threads. It is really great having many like minded people all contributing here. I figure, since I am not a developer, I can contribute in other ways, like helping here.
Hi everybody! I come from Ubuntu and so I'm really new to Archlinux.. but hope to find my way!! And I know this forum will contribute enormously, since I won't ever feel alone!
Hello i am just about to install Arch Linux and begin my quest into learning Linux. Ive had ubuntu for quite some time but want something new.
I here arch is good to learn with/on.
My USB is ready see you all when i return on Arch!
Wish me luck
Pharaoh's thread merged
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
Hello i am just about to install Arch Linux and begin my quest into learning Linux. Ive had ubuntu for quite some time but want something new.
I here arch is good to learn with/on.
My USB is ready see you all when i return on Arch!
Wish me luck
Yes, personally I think that Arch is the best teacher you can find out there.
Couple of friendly advices:
1) If you don't have experience with more advanced distros and CLI start learning Arch in comfort of virtual machine (VirtualBox for example). You'll have your working current OS to do real work, you'll have web browser with opened wiki/forums. You can't do any damage while partitioning etc. Then when you'll get familiar enough with Linux/Arch/CLI move to next step which is real installation (for installation on USB thumbdrive/HDD you'll probably gonna need "usb" HOOK in your /etc/mkinitcpio.conf)
2) Wiki! Arch wiki is just extremely thorough, your job is to follow it, read and learn.
3) Don't be afraid of CLI, don't expect you can run Arch Linux without it, learn your tools.
4) Make yourself a favor and before you post something on the forums please search it first. Also don't expect people here will do things for you. We're very helpful community but we can't do all work for someone. Arch is DIY distro - basic knowledge is most welcome. In case of newbies - will to learn is required.
5) Read about Arch, understand what it is and what it's not. Read about concepts behind Arch, especially - KISS. See this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way
6) Learn pacman, don't use GUI for it (there is none officially supported) - having an eye on pacman's output is extremely important. Pay attention to any warnings, take care of .pacnew files. If something won't go smooth, don't act tough, go to archlinux.org news section, check forums. Don't ever use --force switch reckless! unless you were told how to exactly do it in archlinux.org official news.
7) Either you'll fall in love with Arch or not (it's a matter of personal character I'd say) it will be very educative trip.
That's from the top of my head. It's enough for the start. Good luck.
[edit] This also aply to marcopus and other padawans
Last edited by masteryod (2012-10-24 20:40:50)
Hello everyone! I came from Windows, then decided that my computer sucked and used Ubuntu for about a year or so. After having problems with my web server and Googleing on how to fix it, these forms came up constantly so I looked around the wiki (BTW the website is excellently designed!) and I was HOOKED! Now my server and my desktop run ArchLinux without any problems I can't fix by either looking on the wiki or these forms. It is amazing how bomb the community is here with it's support!
Last edited by aus4000 (2012-10-25 05:03:15)
Hi everyone !
I'm not really new, but I just got back to "vanilla" Arch after 2 years (was Crunchbang, Archbang and Mint XFCE in between) and felt like a total noob when I discovered rc.conf and the installer were gone !! But with the help of the install guide and the all knowing Arch wiki (read on the phone) I could still install Arch and set up working X in roughly 2 hours last night.So I went to sleep with the comfortable feeling of having achieved something, and the anticipation of loads of fun ahead of me ...
Missed you, Arch, glad to be back
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"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."
(Mitch Ratcliffe)
Hi All,
Been using arch for about a year now, the wiki and forum are great and have solved all my issues.
Hi everyone ! ... with the help of the install guide and the all knowing Arch wiki (read on the phone) ...
Missed you, Arch, glad to be back
Welcome back! In case you were not back yet when this was posted, check out this thread for an Arch Wiki reader for Android. He did a great job
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature -- Michael Faraday
Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine. -- Alan Turing
How to Ask Questions the Smart Way
Hi everyone !
Missed you, Arch, glad to be back
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Arch who?
Arch you glad you came back?
I may have to CONSOLE you about your usage of ridiculously easy graphical interfaces...
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Wilson says summer is the time of year when you'll most likely encounter rattlesnakes in Utah.
Eight rattlesnake subspecies live in Utah. The most common is the Great Basin rattlesnake, which is found across the state.
Rocky, talus slopes are the places in Utah where you'll most likely encounter rattlesnakes. In fact, Wilson says there's a good chance you've been close to a snake while hiking and never knew it. "A snake's camouflage allows it to blend into its surroundings," she says. "They're tough to see."
If you encounter a rattlesnake, the way you act will likely determine the experience you have. Like most animals, rattlesnakes fear humans. "They'll usually do everything they can to avoid us," Wilson says.
Respecting the snake, and giving it plenty of space, are the keys to avoiding problems. One thing you don't want to do is approach the snake.
"I can't overemphasize how important it is to give snakes space, to watch where you step, to watch where you place your hands when you sit down, and above all, to resist the urge to harass or kill a snake," she says.
Wilson also reminds you that rattlesnakes are fully protected by Utah law; it's illegal to harass or kill one.
Hiking tips
If you encounter a rattlesnake while hiking, Wilson says you should do the following:
Remain calm. Do not panic.
Stay at least five feet from the snake. Give the rattlesnake plenty of space.
Do not try to kill the snake. Doing so is illegal and greatly increases the chance the snake will bite you. Wilson says most venomous bites happen when untrained people try to kill or harass a snake. "Usually, the snake is simply moving through the area, sunning itself or looking for a place to hide," she says. "If you leave the snake alone, it will leave you alone."
Alert people to the snake's location. Advise them to use caution and to respect the snake. Keep children and pets away.
Keeping snakes out of your yard
Rocky, talus slopes aren't the only place in Utah where you might encounter a rattlesnake. Depending on where you live, you could find a snake in your yard.
Aside from building a fence that rattlesnakes can't penetrate, Wilson says the following are the best ways to keep rattlesnakes out of your yard:
Reduce the number of places where snakes can find shelter. Brush, wood, rock and junk piles are all items you should get rid of.
Control rodent populations. Bird feeders and water are two of the main items that attract rodents to yards.
Avoid scaring away harmless snake species, such as gopher snakes. Having other snake species on or near your yard may deter rattlesnakes from wandering through it.
Wilson says she's heard of people using "snake repellents." But she isn't aware of any scientific testing that shows these products are effective.
For more information, call the nearest Division of Wildlife Resources office or the DWR's Salt Lake City office at 801-538-4700.


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Miami killer Thomas Knight, one of Florida's longest-serving prisoners on Death Row, will be executed Dec. 3 at 6 p.m., the governor's office said Monday.
Gov. Rick Scott signed the death warrant for Knight for the 1980 fatal stabbing of state corrections officer Richard Burke.
When he killed Burke, Knight was awaiting execution for the 1974 murders of Bay Harbor Island's Sydney and Lillian Gans.
Only two inmates have been on Death Row longer than Knight, 62. His death warrant was signed one month after a federal appeals court in Atlanta restored his death sentence in the Gans murders.
Although the warrant was signed for the Burke murders, Gans relatives will likely be allowed to attend the execution at the Florida State Prison in Starke. Knight will be executed via lethal injection.
Gans, a successful paper-bag company owner, had hired Knight, a parolee, in 1974. Ten days later, Knight kidnapped him and Lillian at rifle-point, forcing Gans to go to a downtown Miami bank to withdraw $50,000.
Afterward, FBI agents covertly tracked Knight and the two hostages to a secluded wooded area at Southwest 132nd Street and 117th Avenue, where Knight shot each of them with a bullet to the neck. Officers later found Knight, who had buried himself in mud, along with the money and his rifle.
While awaiting trial, Knight escaped from the Dade County Jail and was involved in a fatal robbery before his capture. A jury convicted Knight of the Gans murders in 1975. A judge sent him to Death Row.
While there in October 1980, Knight thrust a sharpened spoon into the chest of corrections officer Burke, 48. The reason: the prison would not let Knight see his mother, who was making her first visit.
Then-Gov. Bob Graham signed his death warrant for the Gans murders. The execution was set for March 3, 1981.
The prison system's superintendent later remembered Knight's reaction to the news: "How can you execute me when I haven't even had my trial yet about killing the guard?"
A federal judge later stayed the execution. Jurors in 1983 convicted Knight of Burke's murder.
His convictions have been bogged down in the legal system.
In 1987, a federal appeals court threw out the Gans death sentence, ruling that Knight should have been allowed to present character and background witnesses during a penalty hearing. He was again sentenced to death in 1996.
But then late last year, U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan ruled Knight's constitutional right to confront and cross-examine witnesses had been violated at the 1996 sentencing.
But the U.S. 11th District Court of Appeals last month disagreed and restored the death sentence.
"To learn about the gridlock and inefficiency of death penalty litigation, look no further than this appeal," the opinion said.


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WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said Sunday Virginians "are ready to go to the polls" even though Hurricane Sandy could knock out power until after Election Day.
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AT&T is trying to help customers understand why its data network is overtaxed but its throttling policy isn't winning them over.
The carrier's data traffic has doubled each year since 2007, according to John Donovan, a senior executive VP for AT&T technology and network operations. Over the past five years, data traffic has grown by 20,000 percent.
And who's the main culprit? The smartphone, of course. The iPhone likely factors into that equation quite heavily since it debuted in 2007.
"The growth is now driven primarily by smartphones," Donovan said in a blog post yesterday. "Add to that new customer additions and the continuing trend of upgrades from feature phones to smartphones, and you have a wireless data tsunami."
The use of the term "doubled" may be open to interpretation, according to The Wall Street Journal, since AT&T recently said that it was seeing 40 percent growth in data on average each year.
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However you count it, AT&T's network continues to be overtaxed by data.
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I think most people can understand AT&T's dilemma. The company needs to keep spending money to beef up its network as the demand for data increases. But it also needs to find ways to keep that data under control. And that brings us to the throttling policy.
AT&T recently made good on its promise to start throttling heavy data users. The company first broke the news in July that it would need to slow down the network connections of such users starting October 1, 2011. The policy affects only subscribers who still have an unlimited data plan.
But as implemented, the policy is vague and inconsistent. Offending users are told that "Your data usage is among the top 5 percent of users. Data speeds for the rest of your current bill cycle may be reduced."
So it's not necessarily your own personal data usage that determines your guilt or innocence. It's how much data you gulped up in comparison with your fellow users and people in your location. TechCrunch, Boy Genius Report, and other blogging sites have related tales of angry users who consumed anywhere from 1.5GB to 2GB of data during a billing period and still received the stern warning from AT&T.
The irony is that the company offers a $30-per-month plan that guarantees 3GB of data. As TechCrunch notes, the throttling policy seems to be the carrier's way of pushing customers away from its unlimited plan toward the tiered plans, which start at $20 a month for 300MB and go up to $50 a month for 5GB of data.
AT&T clearly wants its smartphone users to appreciate the ramifications of a network overloaded with data. But at the same time, pushing a throttling policy that's unpredictable and imprecise at best isn't the way to curry favor with your customers.
Correction 10:52 a.m. PT: This story initially misidentified the publication that questioned AT&T about the use of the term "doubled." It was The Wall Street Journal.


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(Thanks to Lyoug For highlighting us first-posters for those busy in the present)PacMan wrote:<snip>
Thanks to Lyoug for warping my firstpost from page 441 to the present.
You're most welcome. As a worried-that-I-would-never-be-read first time poster myself, I thought I'd do this favor to us all
So that's it, the complete white. The next few Newpix will be impatiently Waited for.
I often go back and look at firstposts, but I don't know to go back until there is a secondpost. And I'm just the one person, but don't feel completely ignored. If you posted at least twice there's a good chance I read it. (And, Blitzgirl will have read them, of course.)