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DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. (AP) - Dale Earnhardt Jr. sat on the podium between Mark Martin and Danica Patrick.
He was right in the middle, for sure, but far from center stage at Daytona _ again.
Earnhardt used a last-lap charge Sunday to finish second in the Daytona 500 for the third time in the last four years, another runner-up performance that left NASCAR's most popular driver clamoring to get back to Victory Lane at one of auto racing's showcase events.
"It's like a drug, I assume," said Earnhardt, who also finished second in 2010 and 2012. "It's such a high. You just don't know when you'll ever get that opportunity again or if you'll ever get that opportunity again. I knew before I won in 2004, I was reserved to the idea I may be trying to win this race my entire career because I knew all too well how that was for my father."
Jimmie Johnson held off Earnhardt to win the Daytona 500 for the second time. Martin was third, a solid showing for a part-time driver. Patrick was eighth, the highest finish for a woman in 55 years of NASCAR's premier event. She also became the first woman to lead laps in "The Great American Race."
Earnhardt sat between them during post-race interviews, listening to Martin talk about his relationship with 50 Cent and hearing Patrick answer countless questions about making history as a female driver.
Earnhardt's run was just another oh-so-close finish at Daytona, where his family name is forever linked because of triumph and tragedy.
"I felt so much relief when I did win it," Earnhardt said. "I'm ready to do it again. It's been too long. Running second over and over is great and all for our team, a good start to the season. Even having to go through all the hassle that Jimmie is about to go through this week, it's worth it."
The second-place finish turned around what had been a lackluster Speedweeks for Earnhardt, whose famous father died during a final-lap crash at the Daytona 500 in 2001.
Junior qualified 19th for the race, his lowest starting spot in 14 years at the Daytona 500. His confidence remained high, though, possibly because he was glad to be rid of the clunky Car of Tomorrow and the tricky tandem racing that came with it at repaved Daytona.
So it was no huge surprise to see him near the front late in the race.
But instead of taking risks and pulling out of line in hopes of taking the lead, he simply waited for the right opportunity to make a move.
It came during the final 2 1/2 miles. And with help from Martin.
Their crews agreed to team up on a late restart with six laps to go in the 200-lap race. They swerved under Patrick and sped past Greg Biffle, but couldn't get by Johnson.
"Obviously I knew Junior had a fast car and is one of the masters here, certainly would trust his judgment," Martin said. "If things would have got crazy enough, maybe we could have got the big trophy."
They settled for the podium.
"I think it's important to get a good start points-wise," Earnhardt said. "It's important to put a good foundation of points together. If you get behind early, it seems like you're still chasing that Chase spot at Richmond."
Earnhardt made the Chase for the championship last year, but finished 12th after missing two of the final six races because of post-concussion symptoms.
Nonetheless, running in the top five in points most of the season and spending a few weeks atop the standings provided a big boost for an ultra-popular driver trying to win his first Cup championship.
"We're a good team," he said. "Hopefully we can keep the pressure on them and stay up in the top five in the points and win some races. I want to really try to win some more races this year. That's our focus."
The redesigned car could be the key to making it happen. Earnhardt managed just two wins over the last six years in the previous car.
Of course, it could be weeks, maybe months, before Earnhardt knows how his No. 88 Chevrolet will stack up in 2013.
Eventually, though, he would like to drive it back to Victory Lane at the Daytona 500.
He hated the racing at Daytona in recent years, first complaining loudly that the track needed to be repaved and then really hating the resulting tandem racing after it was resurfaced in 2010.
Now, though?
"I liked it," he said. "I think that the package is really good. The surface is still relatively new, which provides tons of grip. If we had the old surface with this car, it would have been an incredible race, people sliding around, wearing tires out, just trying to dig as hard as they could. We'll get to that as the track ages. I'd hate to see them messing with the car to get a better package because the track is in good shape.
"It's down here next to the beach. It will wear out and age quite rapidly compared to some other tracks that have been repaved. As the track changes, the tire will ultimately change and be able to wear and you'll see guys moving around, different things happening."
Maybe Earnhardt even will end up taking center stage.
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Saturday Recap of LAMC
The last day of LAMC is always the most relaxed for us. The conference is almost done, the panels are over, and no running between venues and the studio. Just one ultimate show on what turned out to be a gorgeous NYC city summer day in Central Park. And ultimate is the word.
LAMC 2012 was capped off with sets by last nights guest in studio - DJ Raff — who spun between the acts and kept the crowd dancing. Still it was DJ group and the Latin Billboard smash outta Mexico - 3BallMTY, that proved so popular people were literally begging these young guys to kiss their babies and autograph their bodies.
All day everyone wondered who was walking around filming the show in metallic-reflective silver jeans. Those in the know kept yelling "Cucho" at him all day, as it was Gustavo Parisi - one of the many members of the Argentine supergroup Los Auténticos Decadentes - who next filled the stage. Their signature sound of traditional music and mixed into a non-stop Ska party — as witnessed, got EVERY generation dancing.
Seems only fitting that a great week of music be capped by a KCRW friend we've been missing — Kinky! The Mexican band out of Moneterrey spoke with Raul backstage about how gracious it felt to come back and headline the closing show of LAMC where years ago they won the Discovery Award. Needless to say the crowd became a riot and it was an amazing close-out to a fantastic week at LAMC.
Longtime KCRW favorites Kinky close out LAMC 2012 at Central Park Summerstage!
Quick Recap of Friday at LAMC
A number of panels happened this morning, the first of which featured former KCRW music director and MBE host Nic Harcourt — both an established music supervisor and promoter of Latin Alternative — discussing "Licensing in 2012: Are Advertising, Games & Synchs the New Radio?"
But as ever, Friday's all about the big show in Prospect Park and this time the LAMC/Celebrate Brooklyn Show was HUGE!
The line to get into the show stretched for miles… literally, and the park reached capacity so quickly many hundreds of people couldn't get in. It was the most crowded we've ever seen it in all the years of LAMC.
There was a reason for this however…an awesome line-up! Cypress Hill percussionist Eric Bobo and Chilean DJ Bitman form the duo Ritmo Machine and they got the show off to a bang and had a crushed audience dancing in unconscious synchronous swell the only way they could.
Chilean Hip-Hop and skyrocketing star Ana Tijoux opened her act to a crowd roar as she took the stage. Tijoux's stage presence manages to somehow balance graciousness with dominance and there is no denying she is fast becoming a global talent and respected lyricist and artist.
It makes sense such a socially and politically conscious act opened for the headliners — Puerto Rican legends Calle 13! Their multi-instrumental genre-defying urban style ruled the evening and all of Brooklyn with their performance and capped an incomparable night of music.
As the crowd took their time dispersing Prospect Park on a gorgeous NYC night, we hurried back to our balcony studio — we had live interviews with Chilean's prodigious talent Alex Anwandter, the entirety of L.A.'s latest and greatest party band - La Santa Cecilia to cram into our room for a chat, and finally a live set by DJ Raff — another talent coming out of Santiago. There is no doubt Chile is really representing the serious talent in Latin Alternative of late! One more day to go!
Quick Recap of Thursday at LAMC
Wednesday night didn't prove so punishing that Raul couldn't start the morning introducing a unique Q&A with René Pérez Joglar and Eduardo José Cabra Martinez, Residente and Visitante of Calle 13.
Later Raul was a panelist himself discussing the ever-changing national landscape of Latin Alternative music on terrestrial, internet, and satellite radio.
An acoustic showcase at SOB's kicked off the music for the day with sets by La Santa Cecelia, Carla Morrison, Alex Anwandter, and No Te Va Gustar amongst others.
We couldn't see too much because we were headed to The Gramercy Theatre for the LAMC Showcase, where Adrianiqual and Javiera Mena opened the show before a very enthusiastic and welcoming crowd cheered for Carla Morrison taking the stage.
After her set Raul kept Carla on stage to announce she was the LAMC 2012 Discovery Award recipient and presented her with gifts from sponsors Gibson and Shure amongst other great loot, and I wasn't sure who was more gleeful - Carla or her screaming fans.
The boundless energy of Venezuela's La Vida Bohème got everyone dancing again as soon as they took the stage and only kept on going with Mexico's synthpop JotDog, before the hip-hop group Psycho Realm straight out of Downtown L.A.'s Pico-Union closed the night with their raucous beats and rambunctious stage act.
The parties kept going but we were headed back to our makeshift studio to bring you live interviews with Carla Morrison and Alex Anwandter for Raul's Thursday night show. Thank goodness for that 3 hour time difference. Only half-way done and lots of great music and interviews to come.
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Adam Sandler Throws Wrap-Up Party at the Sound Stage
Farewell party drew about 150-200 production people, actors and featured extras — a number of whom ended up in the pool.
The last hurrah for the sound stage at Phillips Park was a party, a Grown Ups 2 wrap-up party Friday from 7 pm to shortly after midnight.
It was an appropriate place for the event.
After all, the movie makers spent the last three weeks in the sound stage. They were filming scenes including those from a wild party featuring live music by the J. Geils Band, the entire movie cast and hundreds of extras.
Geoff Blass, who lives in Swampscott and played a featured extra in the movie's 1980s wild party scene, went to Saturday's wrap-up party.
It was an interesting juxtaposition. The movie party became a real party, he said. Movie hors d'oeuvres became real hors d'oeuvres. Empty movie beer kegs became real kegs.
"All the fake stuff we were seeing for three weeks became reality for two hours," he said.
But while the movie party aimed for wildness, the wrap-up's was a social occasion tinged by sadness, said Todd Flannery of Swampscott.
Todd, who plays the character Luigi in Grown Ups 2, said he told his wife the evening was like a senior prom, the last shindig.
After 2 1/2 months in town, the circus pulled up stakes and left.
The people there had spent a lot of time together, and some might not see each other again, and the mood was bittersweet, said Todd, owner of Flannery's Handymen in Swampscott.
"You could feel it in the room," he said.
He said the evening's highlight was when people gathered around two flat screens on the patio below the movie set's house.
They watched bloopers from the filming, scenes memorable for their humor but not the kind that will end up in the final product.
There was a Dj and dancing.
Todd said he worked late Friday at his regular job and thought he would just stop in at the party about 10 pm and say goodbye. Instead he stayed for a couple hours and had a good time, a time he will remember.
No one went away hungry.
There was lobster and lamb, cheese and chocolate tables, dessert tables, all kinds of beverages including beer, wine and booze.
"I'm telling you they filled the place with food," he said.
The guests arrived in a bus and left in a bus. There were about 200 people there, mostly crew members but some actors including Adm Sandler and featured extras.
And like what happens in the movie, a bunch of people ended up in the sound stage pool.
Only this was for real.
"After all this work it was nice to be able to celebrate with people I met," said Geoff. "It was a great little party."
4:42 pm on Monday, August 13, 2012
Cool, I didn't know beer was allowed at Phillips Park. Now I know!
Citizen Swamp
7:52 am on Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Anybody know if Grown Ups 2 had to apply for a one day liquor license for their wrap party? All other groups such as Patrons of Library, League of Women Voters have had to apply for them in the past.
Florence Hagen
11:09 am on Friday, August 17, 2012
They were having a party in a place that they had built.
lighten up. and maybe they did have a license, why not contact those who
can answer your question, since you seem to have time on your hands.
brian condon
1:46 pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Reference Adam Sandler: he and his family sat at the next table from us for lunch at Edgartown yesterday. I watched his behavior closely. He is a great dad with two little well behaved little children. He was clowning with them very discretely in his own unique style. his wife was very loving and gracious. No fan fare...no arrogance...just a mom and Dad enjoying a few days on the Vineyard.
He was cordial to the wait staff, who were excited to serve him. Only one patron interrupted their lunch , everyone else respected his privacy in an appropriate Old school New England manner.
He gets an "A"from me for personal conduct and parenting
brian condon
1:53 pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Most likely a liquor license would be required if they were selling. Beer. Not sure what kind of special permit would be appropriate to serve beer on the premises as a part of the complimentary festivities . The event was not open to the general public....
Citizen Swamp
1:07 pm on Friday, August 17, 2012
The big difference here is that this is public property. They should have had to jump through the same hoops other groups do for wine tastings etc.
My point is not to raise revenue or stop parties that serve alcohol, but to see why the elected officials who executed this agreement pretty much gave free reign.
As to whether I should have to ask for details: what happened to the buzzword transparency. The details of this whole project leaked out a little bit at a time. why not post some of the docs relating to this project, issue press releases and most importantly have open discussions about how our "windfall" will be spent.
brian condon
7:17 pm on Friday, August 17, 2012
Once again a private party . Nothing sold...what does the Town require for such events. Most wine tastings I attend are fund raisers and charge admission fees in the form of contributions for tickets.
Swamp Donkey
9:13 am on Sunday, September 16, 2012
Citizen Swamp, you're a clown. Do something more productive with your time. Condon, stop being a creeper.


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These decisions are excerpted from the "Final Decisions, Recommendations & Conclusions" documents (produced at each PCB).
The Programme Coordinating Board adopts the decisions, recommendations and conclusions of the 18th UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board meeting.
Further decides, in principle, that the 20th meeting of the PCB will be held on 26–27 June 2007 in Geneva, the 21st meeting will be held on 24–25 June 2008 in Geneva, the 22nd meeting will be held on 9–10 December 2008, location to be confirmed and the 23rd meeting will be held on 23–24 June 2009 in Geneva.
Decides that the 19th meeting of the PCB will take place on 7–8 December 2006 in Zambia; and
Requests the UNAIDS Secretariat to share with the Board the results of the Geneva and field staff survey conducted by the UNAIDS Secretariat as well as a report on the follow-up of concerns raised by staff.
Takes note of the statement by the UNAIDS staff association representative.
Encourages donor governments and others to make available their contributions towards the Unified Budget and Workplan for 2006-2007 as soon as possible, if they have not already done so.
Approves the Executive Director's proposal to utilize US$ 20 million of the 2004– 2005 carried-over funds to cover the costs of additional investments in information technology and information gathering, and for strategic priority activities of the Global Joint Problem Solving Team, UNAIDS Technical Support Facilities and UN system support to scaling up towards universal access; and
Notes the opinions of the External Auditors that the financial statements included in the Financial Report for the 2004-2005 biennium accurately reflect UNAIDS accounts and the results of its operations and are consistent with Financial Regulations and Legislative Authority;
Noting with satisfaction the financial report and audited financial statements for the financial period 1 January 2004–31 December 2005 and the report of the external auditor, and taking note of the interim financial management information for the 2006–2007 biennium and the financial update as at 30 April 2006, the Programme Coordinating Board:
Requests the Bureau to further enhance its visibility and transparency by preparing an annual workplan and making it available to PCB Members and Observer States; and making available to PCB Members and Observer States the outcomes of its meetings.
Endorses the continued functioning of the Programme Coordinating Board Bureau, with no changes to its role, functions or membership; and
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In the second bombshell to be dropped from a sports car racing series organizer this week, the Automobile Club de lOuest and Peter Auto announced Friday that it has canceled the two remaining European rounds scheduled for this season. Following continued struggles of reaching an acceptable grid size, the ELMS has pulled the plug on the races at Brno (Sept. 7-9) and Algarve (Nov. 2-4) and has instead reached an agreement with the American Le Mans Series to invite its full-season competitors to the Petit Le Mans in October. It's believed up to 14 ELMS teams, that were registered for the full-season, will receive transportation assistance for the 1,000-mile/10-hour enduro at Road Atlanta, where theyll join an expected field of up to 40 ALMS cars taking part in its season finale. The latest development comes as a major boost to the race, which was not picked up as a round of the FIA World Endurance Championship for 2012 after a two-year stint as a joint Intercontinental Le Mans Cup/ALMS race. The Petit Le Mans is expected to serve as a double points-scoring round for the ELMS, which will still award auto-invites to the 2013 Le Mans 24 Hours for its class champions in LMP2, GTE-Pro and GTE-Am. Like the FIA GT1 World and GT3 European Championships, which were axed by the SRO this week, the ELMS has also struggled with car count issues, notably this season, which saw 21 cars, across four categories, take part in the season-opener at Paul Ricard in April. While the second round of the season at Zolder was canceled due to grid concerns, a series-low field of 13 cars competed in last weekends Six Hours of Donington. It prompted a series of internal meetings between the ACO, series promoter Peter Auto and eventually the ALMS late this week, to come up with a short-term solution. The most recent ELMS outing saw nine LMP2 cars joined by two GTE-Am machines along with single LMPC and GTE-Pro entries. The influx of prototype machinery would come as a positive development to the ALMS, which currently features three full-season P1 cars and four P2 entries. "This situation is the result of the current economic climate and a very competitive GT market with numerous championships that have led to the dispersal of cars of this type in Europe," a statement from the ACO read. "The organizers of the European Le Mans Series are working flat out on the future of the series, which is one of the essential competitions for training teams and drivers for the top level of endurance racing, the FIA World Endurance Championship and the Le Mans 24 Hours. This work will result in a proposal for the coming seasons and will be announced in September." |
Pretty crazy to think about bc just a couple yrs ago it looked like the ELMS was going strong while the ALMS was slowly petering out. Also interesting is the fact that the ALMS is still going in a nation infatuated with NASCAR and what i feel has little knowledge about sports car racing. The competitive GT market is very true but i feel like Audi along with the economy really killed prototypes. Maybe they can pool their resources and make a single GT series attractive enough to draw in all of the teams that were scattered throughout.
The WEC has killed both series.
"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting, but it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously." Douglas Adams |
I think GT1 was on the way out anyway for a variety of reasons.
Cobra, the BES looks to be a pretty successful GT championship. I am interested in seeing if a world championship (as in the WEC) can survive. |
There doesn't seem to be much coverage in mainstream media, is there? I mean is WEC broadcasted on the telly? I seem to recall GT1, GT3 even the International GT Open or DTM were/are much easier to see on TV.
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It seems a consolidated worldwide GT championship would be a good idea at this point, even if they at least started as a support category for F1 races.
Life's too short to drive bad cars. |
Motors TV covers WEC, the Le Mans 24 Hours was covererd by one of our commercial TV stations (RTL). I have no idea about other stations.
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Le Mans was on Europsport, but I don't know if they cover the entire WEC as well.
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RE[4]: Desktop space is a scarce resource
by gustl on Tue 20th Nov 2007 09:13 UTC
in reply to "RE[3]: Desktop space is a scarce resource"
I did not yet try out katapult, but it seems to be a very good app launcher interface. For people who know what they are looking for (know the name of the app), that is.
On the other hand, give a Windows user (or a complete newbie) the task of burning some data on a CD with a KDE desktop. What does he do? Right: Launch the "start" menue, look for "archiving" or "CD/DVD", or maybe even "multimedia", all sane places where you could find a CD burning application. It will take him some time, but he will be able to complete the task without having to ask for help.
But set him in front of katapult, and he will try to type "CD", "DVD", "Nero", ... . none of which will bring him closer to "k3b". Or did I miss some ability of katapult there?


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too many models
They seem to have taken the "too many models" complaint to heart. This year they have done the opposite and released too few,. Extra frustrating since former Desire Z owners like me now have no upgrade path and are left looking for a new manufacturer when replacement time comes.
Re: HMRC system is the worst I've encountered...
For me it's a tossup between Telefonica Spain and UPS.
UPS because it demands I speak the 18 Character and I know it will fail be cause the system chokes on my Canadian accent every time. It will repeat the number back to me in a monotone artificial slow speaking voice with the digits wrong and when it realizes it has failed it will ask me to repeat the process twice more before giving up and passing me to an actual human to sort it out.
Telefonica because of their chipper First verse (and only the first verse) of Be Ok by Ingrid Michaelson in a tight loop.
"I just want to be ok, be ok, be ok
I just want to be ok today
I just want to be ok, be ok, be ok
I just want to be ok today "
Ask yourself how long you can stand to hear that before homicidal urges become irrepressible and consider that their hold times are well over half an hour. Picture half an hour to an hour of hearing that stupid verse repeatedly. Even the BOFH was never so sadistic.
Re: Concert spending
There is a missing category: people like me who download what they can't buy. I'm here in Spain and where can I even pay for the shows I like to watch? Most video streaming services lock me out for being in Spain. anything on TV will be badly dubbed into Spanish (Spanish voice actors are terrible).
And here is the best part. I believe authors should be compensated. I have an extensive DVD/Blue-Ray/CD collection and I try to grab whatever series I like that come out on DVD but more than half the time there is no one willing to even take my money.
Re: Riiigghhtt
Because they've gotten fat and lazy doing it? In the case of Cisco, they are overpriced, the command set changes according to the model, security updates are a pain to get your hands on, and worse yet some basic features are insecure by default and require extended options to make them secure. (SSH1 by default, SSH2 requires the Advanced encryption pack)
Re: Available in all good shops?
I have yet to see reasonably priced hardware with multiple ports. The last time I needed something along these lines I ended up building my own.
Re: I don't get it.
IT people don't mind change for the right reasons, it's the end user that absolutely hates it. Just look at the noise Facebook gets every time it revamps it's interface.
Now consider how upset users get with each minor change and you wonder why on earth Microsoft thought changing everything was a good idea. Users like familiar and tend to want retraining on each little change. They want those little step by step "click here now click there" guides they depend on to be accurate.
With Windows 8 I'm hearing more noise from the people I know who least understand computers than I do from the IT pros. IT people just change settings and install addons until they have what they want.
Re: Outstanding
There is no need to go through all DDs that got declined, just the ones with messages the system didn't manage to parse on it's own.
Re: What the task says about the asker.
No longer speaking to IT? You act like this is a new problem when it's been happening for pretty much as long as we have had IT departments.
The real issue is that managers often don't like to hear dissenting voices even if they are completely correct. The results are predictable: Ask one of my previous employers about the kit he bought and based an entire business model on that ended up being useless because it simply wasn't designed for the distance he needed it to work. Guess who got blamed for it not working? The very IT people they didn't bother to consult in the first place.
Re: Its true.
I'm in the "have no idea camp". I used to be a happy HTC Desire Z user but that phone is just getting old and HTC is discontinuing phones with keyboards in favor of "me too" touch screen only devices and it seems like all of the good keyboard phones with Android are for the US market only.
Re: connection comes with a 99 per cent contract guarantee
As someone with several years experience connecting servers to both networks and power sources with 99.999% uptime guarantees I can tell you exactly what they are worth: nothing. When the connection goes dead they pro rate the time you were down and refund that amount.
Out for an hour? lets say you pay $1000 a month for your rack. Assuming 30 days that is 720 hours in the month $1.30 an hour. Your refund after an hour of being off-line? $1.30. And that is standard operating practice for the industry. I have yet to see 99% actually ever be 99%
You mean the XFS that, comes with everything except an online FS repair? I have had to boot far too many XFS systems with Linux rescue CD just to run the FS repair to have any love for that FS.
"I tend to find though after a couple of years you need to ditch an old email and sign up for a new one as eventually no matter how hard you try to keep it off the radar it will become full of spam."
Hurray for Bayesian filtering. I've had my email address for 13 years now where it's been on websites and posted to mailing lists that forward to newsgroups. Since my last anti spam upgrade I only get a few spam emails per day.
Re: Still a fail...
It actually does require them to stump up a bond.
The main problem is that most registrars haven't implemented support for uploading the needed DS keys needed for DNSSEC yet. Other than that, there aren't many downsides. On my system I had to switch Registrars and implement some changes to how I update my zone files but since then it has been working flawlessly.
Re: DNSSEC and GSLB
It's not that difficult to sign zone files. I have scripts that I've tested on my personal server that handle the resigning after zone file updates and am about to roll them out to my employer's servers.
Not a lot of money?
If they split evenly (unlikely) That's €90909 each or €7575 monthly. Given that the median wage in Spain is €1400 they should be able to live pretty well off of that. Of course, if they aren't living anywhere near Madrid, the money will go even farther.
> As to the other points, it's about 100% compatibility.
No such thing. There is a problem now where we get Power Point slides for guest speakers that work prefectly on their system with their version of Office but load mangled or refuse to even load on our version. In the end, I installed LibreOffice on the machine as well to at least read the worst cases.
Worst case procedure:
1. Import in LO and resave.
2. Read the presentation with our version of office and edit so it looks roughly how it is supposed to.
3. Load the fixed presentation into our presentation software (uses MS Office to render the slides)
Don't talk to me about 100% compatibility.
Re: But at what price
>I suppose you would just buy the USB drive and pull it out of the case for a sata-III install.
Be careful trying that these days. I have had at least one drive come to me for repair that had the USB3 connector built into the drive's electronics directly rather than the USB -> SATA adapter were all used to.
@DanceMan Re: Sorry, wrong.
Last month I had 2 infected machines in my office so I downloaded a bootable Anti Virus CD from one of the more popular companies and was shocked that it was a bootable Linux CD.
Re: No surprise, I predict that there will be more to come
An extended header would have left us in pretty much exactly the position we are in now only with slower header processing (a big deal for routers), no one would have bothered to implement them until the last moment.
One of the main reasons they chose 128 bits was because the designers couldn't see a way to extend the addressing and they knew the transition would be painful so they decided to make it large enough that there wouldn't need to be another transition in the foreseeable future. That's hardly "ivory tower"
Re: No surprise, I predict that there will be more to come
Well you know what they say: "anything is easy if you don't know what you are talking about". IPv4 is a fixed length header field so there was no way to just expand the address length. DNS allows both address formats and IPv6 addressable machines can also have an IPv4 address. The ideal plan was for IPv6 to coexist with IPv4 and then phase out IPv6 when IPv6 was ready. The problem was that everyone waited for everyone else to go first so the ISPs didn't bother because there was no software support and the OS providers didn't bother because there were no uses yet.
To put it simply: we had over a decade to do this the easy way but everyone waited until the last possible moment and now the transition will be painful. Don't blame the IPv6 designers for stupid people who can't see the benefit of spending money on anything that doesn't bring a result before the next quarter.
Re: Like this
The sad thing is I bet a lot of people would happily pay $100 for an attempt at selling him ideas to invest in.
Windows isn´t the largest downside
It is the fact that they feel compelled to tell you what addons you can use with your device. Just try swapping the WiFI card sometime. It will fail to boot with an "unauthorized device" error.
I am the unhappy owner of an E520 and I will never buy another Thinkpad until they get it into their heads that if I pay money for the machine than it is MY machine and I am the only one who can decide what is authorized or not.
@Loyal Commenter
Much easier if your language of choice has a library function for it in PHP it's:
filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)
Re: Even worse; trying to change email...
I try to unsubscribe once if I know it is a store I signed up with and if that fails their IP gets moved to my mail server's black list with an SMTP error message explaining exactly why I added the block.
Life is so much less annoying that way.
Re: Erm...
>On another (kind of related) note, I can't wait to ditch Windows for gaming. Come on Mr Newell, get your >bloody finger out!
Steam for Linux is in open beta with Team Fortress 2 available for download.
@illiad Re: h.264
Unless you are downloading in high definition (720P or better) in which case the dominant container is MKV.
Re: Comment wisdom
@Mark Honman
I agree with 90% of what you wrote but you lost me at the less than 20 lines bit.
1 short functions can be great for things you have to do 50 times and as stated previously the compiler can just inline to improve efficiency.
2. In C they are great for forcing type safety around generic libraries that lose type safety. A good example of this is the function pointers in one of the products in our office. The code has certain options depending on where the calls happen in the protocol so short wrappers can be used to ensure that only the correct functions are added to the list of options. (before anyone brings this up. The items also depend on what modules are loaded so switch() wouldn't even work.)
Re: Standardisation.
There already is a single method of bypassing DPI. It's called SSL/TLS.
Re: All eggs in one basket
Aside from the problem handing every customer an easily duplicated way to open the door in the future, most mechanical locks can be easily circumvented with a bump key.
Re: I've been using Linux since mid-late 1993 (Slackware).
>"By the way, what do you do when someone sends you a .doc or even a .docx file?"
>manolo@quokka:~$ strings foo.doc
Use "catdoc" instead. The output tends to be much more readable.
Re: The problem with autoconf...
Except that autoconf doesn't really work in a frightening number of examples. In many cases, if the library is new, the programmer who set up autoconf won't have known to add a check for it causing a compile failure rather than the helpful error message it was designed for. The other common mistake is for autoconf to be set to export the report on what libraries exist and then not handle any of the possible results.
I would say most of the time autoconf does nothing except run a ridiculous tests and everyone just assumes it is working because it spends a lot of time doing things and displaying cryptic output and that's why I end up just using shell scripts for my projects.
Re: Simple solution
Better than that, buy an actual keyboard designed for industrial use. You can get washable keyboards that actually feel like a proper keyboard. Mine for instance is an HP and I stick it under the tap once a month or so just to keep it clean. It costs a bit (but not much) more but the investment is worth it.
If we all stopped tolerating crap keyboards the manufacturers would have to actually start producing quality again.
I love android but I would never want that interface on my desktop so I don't see the connection.
It could have been worse.
Imagine if there had been a business critical EC2 instance attached to that account rather than just ebooks.
Re: "community" "open source".. just smoke screens...
Businesses often find it easier to pay a developer on an open source project than pay for a support contract and several of the databases (postgresql for instance)get their development payed for that way. The advantage to that is that since the developers will be the first to suffer if there are any bugs, the releases tend to care more about performance and stability and prefer feature additions that are useful rather than flashy.
they came back in my office
Not long ago one of my co workers sold my boss on the tablet concept and he went out and bought a tablet for everyone in the office. Once he tried his for a bit he discovered he didn't like it so he replaced it with another and then another. Now he has tried tablets from pretty much ever vendor and guess what he uses? None of them. He went back to his desktop machine and got a netbook for when he is travelling. None of my co workers use their tablets much anymore, they all went back to their desktops.
When you need to do a lot of data entry you really need a keyboard and if you spend hours on your computer you really need a desktop since it's more ergonomic. Personally I have a home PC, a work PC, A notebook for when I'm on the road and a smart phone to look things up if I'm on the train or bus(well that and play games/ listen to music while I commute).
Re: Just one question
The real problem was that the PDF reader had the rights to install a rootkit to begin with. The best case result with a fully authenticated boot and system files is that the malware would then be sitting in memory until the next phone reboot and that could be months away in some cases.
Re: Go away
Th reality though, is that Google is doing exactly what their customers wanted when they started downgrading "vertical search engines".
Do you have any idea how annoying it is to search for some product only to have the first page return a bunch of sites that only show links to other sites? To top it off some of the vertical search engines only showed filler pages because they didn't have any info on what I'm looking for.
If I want to use another search I can (and sometimes do) go right ahead and use one rather than use Google but when using Google I'd rather not even see them.
Re: Building regs!
Indeed and Spain takes it to absolutely hilarious levels. A couple of years ago I had an American friend who was living illegally in Spain while working as an English teach for the Spanish Interior Ministry. She even showed me her building access card and parking pass to prove it.
Re: This article is pish
Some developers? That includes Cisco.
A couple of years back a simple Java security patch made my browser incompatible with the firewall's web interface.
Re: Presumably the next stage
You need to put those dishes up against the Paella de Pato Picante that I've had one of the local restaurants in Torrelodones - La Colonia inflict on the local populace. It is always fun to watch the Spanish suffer through two helpings of that.
Re: MUCH worse than WindowsME.
Windows ME's problem was that it was not designed to benefit the consumer.
Windows 9x had a feature that allowed DOS programs to suspend Windows and take over the system. It was there to keep compatibility with some old DOS based software but was primarily used by games. The problem for MicroSoft was that BEOS discovered that it enabled a workaround to MS' "no dual boot" cause in the OEM agreements since BEOS was simply being loaded as an app from the desktop (then reboot back into windows when you are done).
I doubt it was any coincidence that right after several OEMs started installing BEOS on the desktop that MicroSoft rushed out a new version of Windows whose only real change was to disable that feature and since OEMs can only install the latest version of Windows the BEOS loader was effectively dead.
Re: @postfix or something else?
It sounds like postfix was using system accounts for delivery. That is the default and good for small setups but far from ideal when it comes to larger setups. I am not an expert on LDAP but I dug this up for you and I hope it helps.
Re: For [Insert Diety here] sake
Using standard ports as a honey pot only works if you have total control over who connects to your system and over what links. The idea fails badly if you ever have offices in more than one country or have people who work from home.
Do you want to be the guy to explain to a paying client why their whole office can't connect just because someone ran some software on it's default settings?
@storner Re: For [Insert Diety here] sake
I have an office full of web devs that use SCP with key to transfer files to the server. That's 6 people running SSH connections through our single outgoing IP so take a guess what blindly allowing only 2 connections attempts per minute would do to their ability to get work done.
Fail2ban is a better option since it only punishes the bad users rather than everyone equally.
@Re: postfix or something else?
In more modern distros "apt-get install postfix" is enough to get a running mail system hosting whatever domain you want with a local mail store and an external mail server for sending if you so desire.
I don't see how you consider it hard to use postfix with LDAP since postfix supports it natively and it's mostly just a matter of putting "LDAP:" instead of whatever other store you could have used.
It also has some nice config items I use to restrict message size, ban certain attachments etc before the message reaches my mostly perl based filters.
@Rampant Spaniel
Indeed, and the same goes for Spain. Madrid is tourist crap and you are better off hopping on the Cercaneas and going north to a place like Torrelodones where the locals don't tolerate bad food.
something has been going wrong with google lately
I can't add to my serch block list either so I'm thinking someone really bungled a site upgrade.


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Playing poker is not only about the rules of the game and its strategies but also about the norms associated with the game, especially in the context of accepted behavior and conduct that is to be respected and followed at all times. In this article we shall discuss some behavioral conduct and procedures that are associated with a poker game.
One of the first norms of the game is that players cannot carry and place cash on the table. Many people mistakenly believe that the game is played using actual cash. In reality, the cash is not allowed at the table and in order to be able to play poker one has to exchange the cash for playing chips. Sometimes individuals who are not in the know about this rule may carry cash to the table without the dealer realizing and may try to use the cash in the game. In the event of such a happening, in case the round is already under way, the dealer can allow the cash to be used provided that the other players in the game do not raise any objections. Once the particular round has been completed, the cash remaining with the player has to be changed for playing chips and counters.
Another procedure involves banning the use of playing chips and counters from any other casino. The use of casino chips from another establishment is prohibited and in the event that a player carries such pieces to the table unnoticed they are to be categorized in the same variety as that of cash. In other words, the player will have to forfeit the chips in favor of chips of the home establishment.
Using the chips of another player is strictly prohibited. Also a single hand can only be played by an individual and players cannot exchange their position with others and one cannot "fill in" for another player.