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Create a Linux VPN for a Nokia E61 with Openswan
A virtual private network (VPN) allows you to send traffic across an untrusted network without exposing the content of that traffic. Conceptually, this is done by creating a pipe between two hosts where all network traffic transferred is protected by cryptography.
The example in this article is connecting a Nokia E61 device to a home network through a VPN over the Internet. The Nokia E61 is a smartphone that has Wi-Fi support as well as a VPN client. A similar procedure might work for other phone models using the same VPN client software, though the hardware was not on hand to test this. The Linux side was run on Fedora Linux 6; other distros might have slight path and package name changes.
The VPN support on the Nokia E61 uses IP security (IPSec). Openswan is an IPSec server that is configured on the Linux machine to provide the other end of the virtual network.
I should mention one caveat up front: I've been unable to configure the VPN client on the phone to connect to a server that does not have a static IP address.
To keep notation simple, I refer to the phone as e61 and the server running Openswan as vserv. The IP address of the e61 is irrelevant to the article, as you likely will be moving around to different Wi-Fi hotspots with the phone. When a VPN is set up, the e61 gets another IP address, which the e61 refers to as the virtual IP address. Once the VPN is set up, this virtual IP address is where all traffic to and from the e61 is sent. For this article, I use a 192.168.x.x IP address for this e61 VPN address. As the non-VPN IP address of the e61 is mostly irrelevant, unless I explicitly mention otherwise, the e61 IP address will be this non-Internet-routable IP address.
Unlike the other network settings on the phone, you cannot configure the VPN manually using the e61 itself. You have to create a package containing all the information about the VPN and install that package on the phone. These packages are the SIS files. A VPN SIS file also must be digitally signed before the e61 will allow you to install it. Signed SIS files normally have an sisx extension. The most difficult part of setting up the e61 to talk to Openswan is in creating the sisx file to install on the phone.
The SIS file still must be digitally signed, even if you have set the configuration parameter Software installation to All in App Mgr/Options/Settings.
The sisx package is composed of three files. Two of these are boilerplate-type package metadata (the VPN.pin and VPN.pkg files).
Getting the boilerplate files out of the way, the VPN.pin file is mostly uninteresting and is shown in Listing 1, and the VPN.pkg file is shown in Listing 2. Both files should work fine without any changes. Note that the paths shown in Listing 2 are to be interpreted relative to the phone itself and should not be changed.
Listing 1. Some Very Basic Package Metadata
[POLICYNAME] VPN public [POLICYDESCRIPTION] VPN public [POLICYVERSION] 1.1 [ISSUERNAME] Do not edit [CONTACTINFO] Do not edit
Listing 2. Package manifest and description about the application type. You can change the "VPN Policy" string that is right before 0x1000597E to something else.
:"VPN public" &EN %{"VPN public"} ; ; A VPN POLICY PACKAGE ; ; LANGUAGES ; - None (English only by default) ; INSTALLATION HEADER ; - Only one component name is needed ; to support English only ; - UID is the UID of the ; VPN Policy Installer application #{"VPN Policy"},(0x1000597E),1,0,1,TYPE = SA ; LIST OF FILES ; Policy file "VPN.pol"-"C:\System\Data\Security\Install\VPN.pol" ; Policy-information file ; - NOTE: The policy-information file ; MUST be the last file in this list! ; - FM (FILEMIME) passes the file to the ; respective MIME handler ; (in this case, the VPN Policy Installer ; application). "VPN.pin"-"C:\System\Data\Security\Install\VPN.pin", FM, "application/x-ipsec-policy-info" ; REQUIRED FILES ; - The VPN Policy Installer application (0x1000597E), 1, 0, 0, {"VPN Policy Installer"} [0x101F7961], 0, 0, 0, {"S60ProductID"}
The VPN.pol file shown in Listing 3 defines the meat of how to connect to the VPN and what key to use for authentication.
Some things need to be changed in VPN.pol before using it. The main changes are the static IP address of the Openswan server (192.168.0.1) and the password to use to connect. The server's IP address appears more than once in the configuration file. To avoid any confusion about virtual IP addresses mentioned above, this IP address is the one from which vserv can be reached publicly from the Internet. The password is in the last field: the KEY. The number is the string length of the key that follows after a space.
If USE_XAUTH is set to true, when establishing the VPN connection the e61 prompts you for a user name and password with which to connect. This provides an additional level of security. In the event that the e61 is stolen, the thief will have to know your user name and password in order to access your VPN.
Openswan can use either PAM or a separate config file to test the user name and password on the server (more on this later).
Here is an article Going
Here is an article Going mobile with VoIP and SymVPN:
It seems that there is no problem to use PPTP VPN with VoIP on Nokia phone, but I have doubt that IPSec VPN can provide needed speed.
Have you tried to use IPSec VPN with VoIP software on your Nokia E61? Is it actually possible to have normal VoIP conversation over IPSec VPN?
New HOWTO using modern kernel based IPSEC
I just posted a new HOWTO for connecting nokia VPN to linux using the new kernel based IPSec (requires kernel 2.6.20+).
This is a pure linux solution, not needing any windows software. The HOWTO covers everything including setting up the linux iptables firewall.
Uses RSA authentication, XAUTH is trivial to add:
HOWTO connect Nokia VPN to GNU/Linux
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How can I pass the DNS setting to my phone?
Thanks for the great instruction. I have successfully connected my N82 to the VPN gateway. The problem is that the DNS setting is not correctly passed to the phone, I also got DNS error. Could you please give some suggestion?
Thanks again.
my missus thinks I'm a genius with computers and phones but i would need to be Einstein to follow this stuff.
Reading it makes me realise how inadequate I really am.
Isnt there a version u can just click a link and hey presto it's downloaded onto your phone ;)
To complicated, I have installed SymVPN instead.
To complicated.
That is why I am using SymVPN.
It is not IPSec, and it is not Openswan, as it is PPTP based VPN. However it is worth it - 5 parameters to enter and it works in 30 sec.
No headache with policy file.
No headache with signing.
Yes, it is probably less secure then Openswan and IPSec, but at least it is working, but Nokia Mobile VPN it is the dead end road for 98% of all Nokia phone users. Sounds promising in the theory, but nothing works in practice.
Too expensive
SymVPN may be great but I don't see the point in paying all that money for something that I can already do for free.
If SymVPN were $10 or something that might be worth it but currently it's ridiculously expensive for the tiny functionality it provides. Plus, if we're talking easy-to-use-and-secure VPN, I would prefer the more secure OpenVPN over PPTP anyway.
SymVPN all the way and it is not expensive at all.
I would say it is way too cheap for me. Look, with help of SymvPN I have saved just in 1 month on long distance phone charges more money than I have paid for this software. That is why I will buy it even if it will cost 5 time more. I need SymVPN to use it with VoIP. Withour VPN I cannot use VoIP on phone in my country. Just count your money and see for yourself.
Unfortunately on FP2 S60v3
Unfortunately on FP2 S60v3 devices, SymVPN doesn't work properly, pretty much not at all due to the "Destinations" access point settings available in FP2 only devices, that counts my Nokia N96 out :(
SymVPN works just fine with Destinations.
I am using SymVPN v.2.00 on my Nokia 5800 and it works fine with "Destinations". Created VPN Access Point is placed in Uncategorised destination and after that you just have to to move it to any destination where you need it.
Thanks for really good
Thanks for really good article!
Now days everything can be made more simple way with appearance of SymVPN from www.telexy.com
SymVPN is PPTP VPN client for Series 60 3rd phones.
Installation instruction in German WIKI / Update
== '''NOKIA VPN Client mit Open Source strongSWAN''' ==
# StrongSwan mit öffentlicher IP Adresse
# Symbian makesis.exe zum Serstellen von SIS Installationspaketen
# Konfigurationsfiles für SIS VPN Paket
StrongSwan ipsec.conf anpassen und NAT Traversat (NAT-T) aktivieren. Dies ist wichtig, da viele Mobilfunkprovider intern noch einmal natten. Die zugeteilte IP Adresse am Telefon entspricht nicht der IP Adresse, die bei einem Verbingsaufbau beim StrongSWAN ankommt.
config setup
include /etc/ipsec.d/ipsec-conn-e61-mrobichon.fas
include /etc/ipsec.d/ipsec-conn-e61-njaixen.fas
Danach müssen in der ipsec.secerts der PSK Key hinterlegt werden:
'': PSK "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"''
Falls XATH benutzt werden soll, hier wird bei der Initialisierung der Verbindung Username und Passwort abgefragt, dann sollte hier auch noch der entsprechende Eintrag mit Credentials hionterlagt werden:
'': XAUTH User "password"''
Nun kommen wir zu den Verbindungen. Hier wird es interessant. Im oberen Beispiel werden zwei Verbindungen in der ipsec.conf includiert. Die Konfiguration könnte so aussehen:
conn e61-mrobichon
# Key exchange
# Data exchange
# Authentication method PSK
# Modeconfig setting
# LEFT: serverseite
#Internes Netz, falls alles geroutet werden soll dann 0.0.0.0
# leftmodecfgserver=yes
#Falls XAUTH verwendet werden soll, dann diesen Eintrag aktivieren
# leftxauthserver=yes
# RIGHT: clientseite
# Right ID ist absolut wichtig, wenn meherere Verbindungen von
# unterschidlichen Clients aufgebaut werden sollen = FQDN (binär)
# rightxauthclient=yes
# rightmodecfgclient=yes
# virtuelle IP Adresse des IPSEC Tunnels pro Client und Connection
Parameter, die editiert werden müssen:
* leftsubnet=172.16.25.0/24 -- internes Netz
* rightid=@#4d6f62696c6547726f7570 -- in der Nokia pol (später) representiert die ID die FQDN und wird hier binär ausgedrückt. Am besten man lässt das Feld offen und probiert erst mal aus, welche ID übermittelt wird. Die kann man sehen, wenn man eine Verbindung aufbaut und in die messages reinschaut:
"e61-njaixen"[6] 126.96.36.199 #9: Peer ID is ID_KEY_ID: '0x4d6f62696c6547726f7570'
das 0x wird durch @# ersetzt
* rightsourceip=192.168.44.1 -- virtuelle IP Adresse, die dem Client zugeordnet wird dasselbe mit dem rightsubnet (virtuelle Client IP + Subnetz localhost = 32)
Die Konfiguration besteht aus drei Dateien: pin, pkg, pol. Die Dateien müssen denselben Dateinamen haben. pin und pkg brauchen nicht editiert zu werden.
Als Beipiel hier die Konfigurationen:
VPN-Policy for Nokia Mobile VPN Client v3.0.
Do not edit
Do not edit
; - None (English only by default)
; - Only one component name is needed to support English only
; - UID is the UID of the VPN Policy Installer application
#{"VPN-Policy"},(0x1000597E), 1, 0, 0, TYPE=SA
;Localised Vendor name
;Unique Vendor name
; Policy file
; Policy-information file
; - NOTE: The policy-information file MUST be the last file in this list!
; - FM (FILEMIME) passes the file to the respective MIME handler
; (in this case, the VPN Policy Installer application).
"VPN-policy-preshared-Cisco.pin"-"C:\System\Data\Security\Install\VPN-policy- preshared-Cisco.pin",
FM, "application/x-ipsec-policy-info"
; - The VPN Policy Installer application
(0x1000597E), 1, 0, 0, {"VPN Policy Installer"}
; - S60 3rd Edition ID
[0x101F7961], 0, 0, 0, {"S60ProductID"}
sa ipsec_1 = {
encrypt_alg 12
max_encrypt_bits 256
auth_alg 3
identity_remote 172.16.25.0/24 #internes Netz
hard_lifetime_bytes 0
hard_lifetime_addtime 3600
hard_lifetime_usetime 3600
soft_lifetime_bytes 0
soft_lifetime_addtime 3600
soft_lifetime_usetime 3600
remote 172.16.25.0 255.255.255.0 = { ipsec_1(xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) } #internes Netz {StrongSWAN IP}
inbound = { }
outbound = { }
ADDR: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 255.255.255.255 #StrongSWAN IP
FQDN: MobileGrou2 #rightid (binär) in StrongSWAN Konfiguration
USE_XAUTH: FALSE #Falls XAUTH benutzt werden soll
KEY: 20 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx #Secret in ipsec.secrets
Erstellung der SIS Datei mit "makesis VPN-policy-preshared-Cisco.pkg" die SIS Datei wird erstellt. Danach einloggen auf [[https://www.symbiansigned.com/app/page]]
Hier auf den Link "Open Signed Online". Auf dieser Seite muss nun die IMEI des Mobiltelefons eingegeben werden, auf dem die Policy geladen werden soll *#06#. Mailadresse, an die der Link zur Apllikation gesendet wird und natürlich upload der SIS Datei, welche signiert werden soll. Man erhält eine Verifizierungsmail und kurz danach den Link zum Download der signierten Applikation.
Die Aplikation installiert man dann via PC Suite oder ähnliches direkt auf dem Mobiltelefon. Sollten IMEI nicht zusammen passen, dann muss das ganze nochmal erstellt werden. Nun geht man nach
System --> Einstellungen --> Verbindung --> VPN --> VPN Zugangspunkt
Verbindungsname frei wählbar
VPN-Richtline die gerade geladene Richtlinie (VPN-policy)
Internetzugangspunkt Providereinwahl
alle anderen Punkte so lassen.
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Mature Autism - Handwriting & Motor Skills
I have been clumsy all of my life and somewhat inept at ball games – deficient motor skills are not uncommon in people with Aspergers. A consequence of poor motor skills identified by many parents of kids with Aspergers is bad handwriting and often a reluctance to write at all.
I have good handwriting but it was not always so. I was taught to write as a child but my writing bordered on illegibility. When I was about to go to University my father convinced me that in order to have my essays read I would need to be able to write legibly the real clincher was the argument that expecting tutors to mark illegible essays was discourteous. Not long after I started at university I discovered an English translation and facsimile of Arrieghi's Operina - The First Handwriting Manual. Having mastered the ability to write – needless to say I became almost obsessional – I bought books by Alfred Fairbank and George Thompson amongst others, many books. I bought pens, fountain pens, dip pens, calligraphic felt tips, inks, calligraphic paper. The great thing about the obsession is the practice I got before the obsession eventually wore off.
The trick to good handwriting is to take your time and accept that you may need to take longer than other people, be patient. I became adept because the right triggers were fired, my hatred of bad manners, my desire to communicate and because my interest was fired. I don't think I would have been able to have developed the skill earlier because I saw no need to. If you want your child to learn to write you need to find the right hook. Perhaps illuminated manuscripts may inspire or graphic designs, I was inspired by Arrieghi but hooked by need. Good handwriting is a useful and desirable skill but by no means essential in today's world. If you want your child to write make your child want to write, we all have our triggers find your child's. Awkwardness may deter a child from writing the only cure is practice but there are many aids to help with handwriting– laminated practice cards, special pen and pencil grips, shaped pens and nibs, specific left-handed writing implements, stencils – many of which I still find useful. Above all – as I have said – be patient. If your child won't write in the meantime let them use a keyboard most people do nowadays. Personally I find typing is no easier than writing but there are very good dictation programs for the PC like Dragon Naturally Speaking that remove the need to type once they have been trained to your voice.
What is true of writing is true of other motor skills. Patience is key, if we can accept that we may take longer and allow ourselves the time we need we can produce acceptable results in most things. Some skills like hand to eye co-ordination may never come – for some they will – but taking things slowly and carefully can offset clumsiness. The art to improving motor skills is patience and practice. Take your time and also construct strategies that make tasks easier. Use gadgets where you can find ones that will do the job. There are many kitchen gadgets that reduce the need to use sharp knives, these are very useful. Food processors cause less mess than whisks and mixing bowls. Rubber sink mats can prevent broken dishes, better still are dish-washers. People may argue that we should learn the basic skills but personally I think sometimes it's better to be realistic and use whatever we can to get the job done.
If all else fails get someone else to do a task. Employ a secretary or even a virtual assistant for typing and office tasks or operate a skill exchange with someone – their dexterity for your knowledge, mathematical skills, or whatever. At the end of the day does it matter how you get the job done as long as it gets done integrity intact?
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When Scott Kaufman first heard about the FBI's capture of Neo-Nazi supporter Richard Schmidt, his first reaction wasn't fear or panic.
"I thought, Good job, FBI," said Kaufman, chief executive officer of the Bloomfield Hills-based Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
News that Schmidt, 47, of Toledo, had included the federation on a list of potential targets surfaced Thursday.
He is currently charged with a variety of crimes related to his possession of 18 firearms, body armor and more than 40,000 rounds of ammunition despite a previous conviction for the crime of manslaughter.
Schmidt was arrested in December following searches of his home and business. Convicted of manslaughter in 1990 in the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, Schmidt was forbidden from possessing firearms, ammunition or body armor as a result of his conviction, according from information released by the U.S. Attorney's office.
"It is deeply troubling that law enforcement found this man, with a prior homicide conviction, in possession of an arsenal," said Steven Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. "We owe the FBI and our other law enforcement partners our thanks that they caught this man, with 18 firearms — some of them assault weapons — high-capacity magazines, more than 40,000 rounds of ammunition, and a bulletproof vest stored in a locked room in a mall, before anyone was hurt."
The FBI also notified Detroit NAACP President Wendell Anthony of Schmidt.
Kaufman said the FBI visited the federation's offices in January to alert them agents had arrested and charged Schmidt.
"This is the first time in my 3.5 years here we ever had anything like this happen," said Kaufman. "Having said that, we live in a world with Newtown and Aurora shootings and you can go to any comment section online of any story mentioning ethnic minorities, and you often find hateful speech. It's shocking that it's out there."
Kaufman said the federation was referenced on a page in Schmidt's notebook along with other organizations. Continued...
Schmidt was accused trafficking in counterfeit goods and also accused of being a felon in possession of a significant quantity of firearms and ammunition. Ohio authorities filed 176 indictments for federal firearms violations. The average sentence for the violations is more than six years in prison.
Kaufman said security is a top priority at the federation offices, and systems are upgraded on a regular basis.
"We aren't a political organization," he said, "but having said that, knowing a convicted felon could amass 40,000 rounds of ammunition and 18 assault rifles with no red flags going up shows there is something wrong in the system. It's too easy for a violent criminal to get guns."
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On Saturday morning, we went to Newport, RI, following the recommendation of my in-laws. I loved it! I don't know if I could say the same thing for my husband, who had already been there before, but it wasn't something unbearable (I think).
Our (well, my) main intention was to see the mansions, so we didn't have a lot of time to wander around downtown Newport, which I also heard was really nice for sightseeing. With a little research, I had learned that we had to see The Breakers first, and then Rosecliff. (the Breakers is the most famous mansion but my choice of Rosecliff was solely based on appearance!) We also took a self-guided audio tour in the mansions, but photography was not allowed inside, so I only have photos from the gardens. It's a great place to visit if you have the chance —walking in those glamorous rooms and corridors make you feel like you're in a movie set. I was having a hard time believing that people used these mansions only as summer houses. Imagine the house they live in for the rest of the year!
Relevant proverb from Turkish on this issue: Wealth of the rich is a never-ending topic of conversation for the poors!
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It is not often that someone wakes up and knows that the coming day could change everything about her life. Today is just such a day for Erika Powell. No, she is not getting married or bringing a child into the world. Her day is far more public. Tonight, the Greenville resident will compete in the Miss USA contest in Las Vegas, Nev.
While Erika will certainly be nervous, she'll be a little less so than the rest of the competition. That's because she's no stranger to the spotlight. More than just a pretty face, the Easley native spent the last several years in New York City appearing in small roles on television shows and in commercials. She also had a chance to display her considerable musical talent, making her solo debut at the Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall and performing in the New York Philharmonic's production of Janacek's "The Cunning Little Vixen."
Her success in New York allowed her to partner with Palmetto State favorite Edwin McCain, who helped produce her self-titled debut EP last year. It's available for download on Amazon and iTunes.
Not only is Erika no stranger to the spotlight, she's no stranger to the pageant spotlight. She was Miss South Carolina as part of the Miss America competition in 2005 while she was completing her degree at Furman.
She decided to give pageants another go earlier this year. "I talked to people who were close to me and we thought this was a great way to create some buzz and I said 'Hey, I've been successful at this before, so let's give it a shot.'"
Times have changed a great deal since Erika last competed. Facebook was in its infancy and Twitter and Pinterest could have passed for the names of golf courses.
Erika had changed in the intervening years, too. "I lived on my own in New York City, paid bills and managed a budget," she explained. "I met and worked with people from different countries and from different socio-economic backgrounds. Nothing can replace that kind of life experience. That's just given me so much confidence."
That confidence was on display when she won the Miss South Carolina contest in November in North Charleston.
Since then, she's been prepping for tonight. She did a media blitz in May and has been in Las Vegas for the last few weeks, fine-tuning her skills.
Her preparation has been both intellectual and physical. Erika knows that with the prevalence of the aforementioned social media, the slightest slip-up to a question from the panel can spread across the Internet in a matter of minutes. That's not the kind of attention she's looking for. So, she's talked with experts on a variety of subjects as well as former pageant judges.
"You want to know the facts, but you also want to keep your own values," Erika said.
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"I'm wearing not much more than a candy wrapper on stage so it's important to be fit," Erika said.
But she knows tonight represents the chance of a lifetime. "It is such an opportunity and a platform to develop a personal brand," Erika said. "I don't think it's so much what you do to win as what you do not to lose."
She heads into tonight's event with a lot of confidence.
"I'm expecting to wear the crown and you have to think that way because if you don't someone else will pass you by," she said.
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Vieux Telegraph, Chateauneuf du Pape, Rhone wine producer profile with wine tasting notes, wine ratings, a history of the property, information on wine making and terroir, along with wine tasting reviews and images. If you want to read about other important wineries and wine makers from the Rhone valley: Links to all Rhone Valley Wine Producer Profiles
Vieux Telegraph is one of the better known names in Chateauneuf du Pape. The Brunier family has been producing wines at in the appellation for over 100 years. Vieux Telegraph was founded in 1898 by Hippolyte Brunier, the great, grand father of the current owners. They chose the name Vieux Telegraph from an aging signal tower built in 1792 by Claude Chappe. Chappe is the inventor of the optical telegraph, so it's a very fitting name. The first vintage to be produced and bottled at Vieux Telegraph was the 1900.
Vieux Telegraph produces 4 wines from their 65 hectares of vines located in Chateauneuf du Pape. The best parts of their vineyards are situated in the La Crau sector, on very stony soils. While the Domaine make several wines, the top wine from Les Vignobles Brunier is Vieux Telegraph. There are red and white versions of Vieux Telegraph and red and white versions of Le Telegramme. Vieux Telegraph is always produced from the estates oldest vines. Vieux Telegraph comes from fruit planted in La Crau on a terroir that is littered with large and small stones. Vieux Telegraph is usually a blend of 65% Grenache, 15% Mourvedre, 10% Cinsault and 10% Syrah.
The production of Vieux Telegraph and the domaines other wines remain traditional. Stems are removed in the majority of cases, only when destemming could break the skins or grapes are the stems allowed to remain attached. Young and Grapes are hand harvested and moved by gravity flow into the vatting room for fermentation where young and old vines are separated and placed into short, 100 hectoliter, oak barrels for maceration and fermentation. While fruit younger than 25 years is fermented separately from older vines, all the varietals are fermented in the same vats. Next, the wine is moved into concrete vats for 9 months before their being aged in 70 hectoliter fourdres.
A few changes have taken place over the past few decades. The Brunier family added to their holding when they purchased 25 hectares of vineyards in Gigondas in the late 1980′s to produce Domaine Roquete and Domaine Pallieres. In 1994, the labels of Vieux Telegraph changed. From that point forward, the domaine began including the La Crau designation on the labels, but the wine remained the same. Le Telegramme is produced from their younger vines.
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2007 Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau
Dark ripe berries, cherry, jam and spicy aromatics open to a lush, forward styled Chateauneuf du Pape with the structure to age and ample, soft, ripe, red fruits that make it fun to drink today.
93 points - Tasted May 11, 2012
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Tight and hard to get a handle on, with air and intense swirling, spicy black cherry aromatics could be found, Medium bodied and bright, the strawberry filled finish felt light and short. This is not a bad wine. It just lacked excitement.
90 points - Tasted Jan 21, 2011
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2001 Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau
Strawberry, kirsch and earth, rustic and peppery, full bodied and structured, this can be drunk now or held for potential further development.
90 points - Tasted May 11, 2012
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1998 Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau
Dark ruby color with earthy, tar, jammy black fruit and fresh cracked pepper scents. Concentrated, dense but without any special reason to like the wine. At the end of the day, it was dull.
85 points - Tasted Dec 15, 2004
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1995 Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau
Medium weight, simple and boring.
84 points - Tasted Oct 28, 2005
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1988 Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau
Vegetative aromas with green pepper, herbs, mushrooms and white pepper scents. Full bodied with a slightly chalky bitter finish. Some fruit, but mostly disappointing.
83 points - Tasted Aug 4, 2004
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1978 Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau
Filled with fresh cracked pepper, gariggue, kirsch, herbes, fennel and black raspberries with a melange of spice, this rich, full bodied, charmingly, rustic, spice filled wine ends with a long, fresh, powerful, pure, cherry liqueur finish. This fully mature Chateauneuf du Pape remains a sublime tasting experience for lovers of old Chateauneuf du Pape. Believe it or not, this has at least another decade of life to look forward to. This is best vintage of Vieux Telegraph I've ever tasted! It's almost impossible to fathom how young this wine was showing after more than 3 decades of aging.
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From the color, aromatics and taste, I would have thought this wine was at least 10 years younger. The perfume blended garrigue with dark cherries, pepper and earth. The finish was long, clean and pure. While the wine did not improve with air, it remained at the same level for 2 hours. This might be one of the best 78 Chateauneuf du Papes available today.
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Birckish ruby color. Notes of spice, cinnamon, pepper, jammy blackberries, cherries, raspberries and herbs. Full bodied, silky entry. Very Burgundian in style. Soft, elegant plummy fruit on the palate. Continued improving in the glass. Wow, what a treat! Steve Levin purchased this on release for $6.00
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(This isn't addressed at you, Thomas.)
For those who might not understand, Thomas is treating agreement-or-not on each bullet point as a 1 or 0, and stringing them together as a binary number to create a bitmask.
(I'm using the 0b
prefix to represent a number written in its binary format.)
This means that 127 = 0b1111111 corresponds to agreeing with all seven bullet points, and 25 = 0b0011001 corresponds to agreeing with only the 3rd, 4th and 7th bullet points.
(Note that the binary number is read from left-to-right in this case, so bullet point 1 corresponds to the "most-significant" (left-most) bit.)
Anyone else voting for 0?
Most of the opinions in the list sound so whacky that 0 is likely the default position of someone outside Less Wrong. I've been here a few months, and read most of the Sequences, but none of the bits in my own bitmap has flipped. Sorry Eliezer!
The odd thing is that I find myself understanding almost exactly why Eliezer holds these opinions, and the perfectly lucid reasoning leading to them, and yet I still don't agree with them. A number of them are opinions I'd already considered myself or held myself at some point, but then later rejected. Or I hold a rather more nuanced or agnostic position than I used to.
What is the number of the most relevant points from the Sequences? The Grognor's selection of those 7 may not be the best. Let me try:
BitNumber Statement
0 Intelligence explosion is likely in a (near) future
1 FOOM is possible to occur
2 Total reductionism
3 Bayesism is greater than science
4 Action to save the world is a must
5 No (near) aliens
6 FAI or die
7 CEV is the way to go
9 Evolution is stupid and slow
Now, I agree with those from 0 to 5 (first six) in this list I've select. The binary number wold be "111111" or 63 in the decimal notation. They were not new to me, all 10 of them.
Yudkowsky's fiction is just great, BTW. The "Three world collide" may the the best story I have ever read.
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For major publishers though this is a loooong ways off, even on PC. Which is a good thing, because with boxed games you have a lot more ownership and control than with digital sales (try playing your Xbox Live games someday if the service shuts down, or if MS decides you can't).
I imagine Best Buy type retail will get smaller and smaller for ALL games as digital sales take more of a hold, but Amazon and the like will still sell them for years and years to come. Personally I like Telltale's method, digital releases which have the option of a physical package later on if you want to pay shipping.
*ahem* anyway, I think battlefront had the right idea, a combination of mail shipped hard copies ordered online with an instant down loadable version being available simultaneously - so you get the lower prices and convenience with the added security of a permanent physical copy. 2011 is probably too early but the man is right, games in general are getting digital, which imo is a very good thing provided we can have a system that has security for the long term (like steam games being able to be backed up to a hard disc for example)
My only problem with down loadable distribution is the EA/Apple model with limited downloads and installs - the the constant threat of having to re purchase a title because your old system broke - thats the worst case scenario.
If we're gonna go totally digital, we need;
- Infinite number of re-downloads and re-installs without penalty
- Games attatched to an account that can be transferred between systems infinitely
- The ability to back up install files to a physical medium
- Offline capability to run games (steam sucks at this)
I doubt hard copies will completely fade out any time soon, let alone by 2011, but I couldn't care less if they did.
Study: Industry hit by 11,500 layoffs since 2008
New research also tallies record number of studio closures
The global game industry has been hit by as many as 11,500 job losses since late 2008, a new study suggests.
Research by entertainment analyst group M2 Research says that the final count for layoffs since the economic meltdown in late 2008 reached 11,488 worldwide, with the majority of the losses coming in 2009.
The study has identified staff redundancies from 95 individual studios, adding that 52 of the affected studios were situated in the US.
M2 adds that the majority of layoffs come at studio level, with QA staff often being the first to go.
The analysis group adds that 2009 saw a record number of studio closures, including 3D Realms (pictured), various Midway studios and EAs Pandemic Studios.
but come on, the feeling of owning a physical copy of a PC game is why people still buy the cased copy and it will never die out(probably)
lack of a physical product doesn't justify piracy, but since i'm always going to get a digital copy one way or another, it feels like i'm handing over money for something i already have. i honestly like to support developers by buying games, but lets face it, i can have my cake and eat it so a hard copy does tip the scales.
Oh come now, that's hardly even a B.S. justification, that's more like "yeah I'm a horrible person, oh well."
Put some effort into it.
Now, it is kind of odd that a spokesman for 1C, which is a company that primarily makes PC games, and also runs brick and mortar game stores in Russia, would be saying PC's going all digital in 2011 because of brick and mortar stores negligent to the market. I can only imagine the quote's poorly translated and he's talking about Western markets. It would also explain the whole "Digital age to start in 2011", considering it STARTED with the release of Half-life 2 in 2004.
In any case. Some clarification is probably needed. The timeline of Q1 2011 is the tipping point at which I estimate more than 50% of a publishers revenue will come from download sales, NOT the point in time where you will not be able to find a PC box in a Best Buy store. Remember also that we get around 3 times more revenue for a digital sale than we do for a box sale, so this is also not saying that download sales will be as numerous as boxed sales. It is the tipping point where far sighted publishers will consider one method of distribution as more influential than the other.
Some analysts have quoted 2013 and that may be accurate for all games, but my point was, if we have to wait until 2013 for PC downlaod sales to overtake boxed, then the way retail is stocking PC now, the platform will be in big trouble.
Can I recommend that any interested party reads "The Long Tail" by Chris Anderson for a little research on the subject.
Can I also recommend that those people who are dissing our games take a look at the two Kings Bounty releases and the Men of War games to get an idea of the quality games for proper gamers titles that is coming out of our studios these days. If you prefer your horror or FPS, you may also find Cryostasis and Necrovision to be excellent value at the current 12.99 pricepoint.


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the state of Alabama and it's residents should be ashamed to let Roy Moore back in office after he was kicked out.
I hope he rolls the 10 Commandents back in on his first day back. Way to go judge Moore!
Gary... How soon you forget what an embarrassment Moore has been and will be to this state. Is Alabama doomed to continually repeat past mistakes as the country seems to be repeating the mistakes of the rest of the world? Sadly, yes to both counts.
Get your head out of your "faith" and into reality.
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Manga Database FAQ (how we choose main titles, vol count, etc)
Unlike the anime database, the manga database provides a number of challenges. Here at Anime-Planet we prefer quality and consistency over blindly doing what other sites choose to do (especially if the results are not consistent/quality), and manga makes things difficult.
Please note that there isn't a way to have a perfect solution - this is the solution we think works the best for most cases. If you have helpful, respectful or constructive feedback to give, please do so. Flames are not welcome. First, a list of decided-upon policies (followed by a list of unresolved issues): 1. All volume counts will be listed in Japanese tankoubon format. This means that if the US release is different (for example, Parasyte), the volume count may appear to be incorrect. 2. All titles will be split up according to the Japanese release. For example, Rozen Maiden and its sequel were released as 2 titles in Japan, while only one series in the US. Thus, we will use the Japanese version and post 2 entries. A prime example of this problem is the Rose Hip Zero/Magnum Rose Hip/Rose Hip Rose trilogy. Tokyopop (and TP in general tends to be strange in how they deal with manga, so likely their titles will very often be numbered differently than we post them) chose to release RHZ as 5 vols instead of 3 - the last 2 volumes (which technically take place AFTER RHZ's sequel, RHR) being Magnum. So I'll need to change the RHZ entry from 5 to 3, and add an entry for Magnum (annoying, as I already returned the vols to the library -_-) This was a hard decision but since most people read the Japanese versions (or scanlations of them), we have to go with the majority. It's not possible to post several episode dropdowns for each version type, so yeah. 3. Chapters are only posted if there is a definitive source that lists the total number of chapters. This does NOT include extra chapters/specials/one shots included in the volume. This information is hard to find so generally we leave chapters off. 4. Chapters are only posted alongside scanlations if both the Japanese release is still ongoing, and the chapters are relatively close. For example, if a series has 22 volumes released but only 10 chapters are subbed, we will not list the 10 chapters. This is because the count is very highly off of the real chapter count (we'd add the real one if we can find it, but that's unlikely) and if the series suddenly is completed in volumes, we now are unable to mark it as completed (we'd either need a full chapter count at that point, or people would lose their data if they were marking chapters). Note that this is also an 'unresolved issue' below. 5. US volume 1 cover is always used if it exists. JP volume 1 cover if not. Same with main titles - US, then JP. This might seem strange given we use the JP volume count, but we have our reasons for doing so. JP versions are listed as alt titles. 6. Compilation manga will be listed - at least for now - as only the compilation. Individual stories will not be posted as individual one shot entries (note: I know that I posted a few of these in the past that must be removed) 7. Start/end years are listed based on serialization. As this is very difficult information to acquire (especially end date), often we leave end date excluded. As a note, we will likely make some changes to current entries as needed based on these policies, some of which were decided upon on the date of this post. Unresolved issues: 1. Listing one shots that are part of a larger manga 2. How to handle titles that have subbed chapters way behind volumes, so people can still mark them 3. more TBD |
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I think pilot one shots should definitely be listed. If they started as a 1 shot but then became chapter/volume 1 of the ongoing series then they should just be counted as ch/vol 1 of the series. If they're a true 1 shot though (ie a chapter 00), then they should be listed seperately.
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Another question.. is there an actually a large number of Manga that are partially subbed that could be added? or is it within a manageable size? -- I hope I'm clear about what I'm saying... its kinda later here ... night:@_@: |
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the problem is, there's no way of knowing what chapter the vast majority of japanese manga are at. if you have a fully definitive source that is very up to date and reliable, let me know.
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Quick question: Are yaoi and adult titles ok? I noticed a few titles on the site show explicit sex, and there are some yaoi titles I could add if it's ok. I'll make sure to make it clear that the title shows explicit sex when I submit it.
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I, too, think that listing the one-shot and subsequent chapters/volumes would be a good thing to do. For example, I've been reading Oumagadoki Doubutsen which was originally a one-shot, but the mangaka has currently been persuaded to extend it into a series. As far as I know, there are 6+ chapters out in Japan.
Now, it could happen several different ways. You could, obviously, have separate listings for both the one-shot and series, and just make sure they've been distinguished in the database. Or maybe the one-shot could be listed as "chapter 0". Then again, the two could be listed under the same name, but have different bars for ratings, etc. This may be a bad idea, but as far as chapters/volumes go (especially chapters) maybe you could try adding 10 extra from what you know are actually available? Especially with the super-popular stuff, you won't have to update it every week, but be able to wait two or three. Just make sure there's a notice saying that current numbers don't necessarily represent the actual amount of chapters, volumes, episodes, or what have you. |
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Very nice post. Keep it up.
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I'll make sure to make it clear that the title shows explicit sex when I submit it.
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