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Saint Macarius the Great was from the Thebaid of Egypt, a disciple, as some say, of Saint Anthony the Great.
He was born about 331 and struggled in asceticism in the desert at Scete. Although young, he was called "the child elder" because of his great wisdom and austere manner of life. He was ordained presbyter and reposed in 391, at the age of sixty.
There are fifty homilies ascribed to him.
It is said of Saint Macarius that he became as a God upon earth, for even as God protects the whole world, so did he cover the faults he saw as if he did not see them.
Once he came back to his cell to find a thief taking his things and loading them on a camel. Macarius' non-possessiveness was so great that he helped the thief load the camel. When the camel refused to rise, Macarius returned to his cell and brought a small hoe, said that the camel wanted the hoe also, loaded it on, and kicked the camel telling it to get up. The camel obeyed Macarius' command, but soon lay down again, and would not move until everything had been returned to Macarius.
His contemporary, Saint Macarius of Alexandria, was so called because he came from Alexandria and was therefore of that Greek-speaking colony; while Saint Macarius the Great is also called "of Egypt," that is, he belonged to the ancient race native to Egypt, the Copts.
Apolytikion of Macarius the Great of Egypt
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Thou didst prove to be a citizen of the desert, an angel in the flesh, and a wonderworker, O Macarius, our God-bearing Father. By fasting, vigil, and prayer thou didst obtain heavenly gifts, and thou healest the sick and the souls of them that have recourse to thee with faith. Glory to Him that hath given thee strength. Glory to Him that hath crowned thee. Glory to Him that worketh healings for all through thee.
Kontakion of Macarius the Great of Egypt
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The Lord God established thee, O great ascetic, in the house of abstinence, like an unerring star that lit the farthest regions with guiding light, Father of Fathers, O righteous Macarius.
~Website of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOA), Macarius the Great of Egypt, https://www.goarch.org/chapel/saints?contentid=392&PCode=14LT&D=T&DT=01/19/2021.


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Hat tip to Graham Young editor of Online Opinion.
"That is worse than anything Alan Jones said. " Follow Graham Young on twitter.
A bad-taste joke by Alan Jones in October created a national storm. These comments in the "science" show were supposedly considered, deliberate and researched.
This morning on the "science" show Robyn Williams equates skeptics to pedophiles, people pushing asbestos, and drug pushers. Williams starts the show by framing republicans (and skeptics) as liars: "New Scientist complained about the "gross distortions" and "barefaced lying" politicians come out with…" He's goes on to make the most blatant, baseless, and outrageous insults by equating skeptics to people who promote pedophilia, asbestos and drugs.
"What if I told you pedophilia is good for children, or that asbestos is an excellent inhalant for those with asthmatics, or that smoking crack is a normal part and a healthy one of teenage life, to be encouraged? You'd rightly find it outrageous, but there have been similar statements coming out of inexpert mouths, distorting the science."
"These distortions of science are far from trivial, our neglect of what may be clear and urgent problems could be catastrophic and now a professor of psychology at UWA has shown what he says is the basis of this unrelenting debauchery of the facts…"
Stephan Lewandowsky goes on to defame
This is degradation and a malicious attack on skeptics with misinformation:
"They were rejecting the science not based on the science... but on other factors…
what we basically found was the driving motivating factor behind their attitudes was their ideology.
People who endorse an extreme version of free market fundamentalism …
They are also rejecting the link between smoking and lung cancer, and between HIV and AIDS…
Ladies and gentlemen it's time to get serious. Both Williams and Lewandowsky are ignoring the scientific evidence, denigrating their opponents, destroying rational conversation and honest discussion before it can even start. We can't let them get away with this.
They are paid public servants who use taxpayer funds to push their personal ideology. It has to stop.
Robyn Williams, what you do is not science. It's crass tribal warfare.
Stephan Lewandowsky, skeptics base their arguments on evidence. You are in denial. We don't deny AIDS or that smoking causes cancer, and we never have. Your tactic of deliberately seeking out a few nutters (or fakes) to interview, then besmirching the names of serious commentators is blatant, obvious and documented.
Name-calling in order to suppress debate
The class of people who use regulations to control others, rather than persuasion and voluntary competition, have resorted to name calling for years to suppress the free and fair debates that they cannot win. Now they are employing that technique in other areas.
What they road-tested on skeptics, they now use in the wider political debate against their political opponents — such as Tony Abbott and Alan Jones. With each success they are becoming more loud, aggressive, and obnoxious.
The mainstream media makes this cheap tactic successful. As long as they promote these anti-science, baseless smears as if they were serious commentary the media is the problem.
When are the MSM going to stop treating the names as serious content, because they are so transparently untrue and designed simply to smear opponents? Indeed, when are the MSM going to stop being complicit or even active partners in the name calling? Perhaps we could start with demonstrations at ABC offices…
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Anthony Watts calls them the Merchants of Hate in Climate Ugliness goes nuclear.
Thanks to Mike the bot. Complain to the ABC here: http://www.abc.net.au/contact/complain.htm
Graham Young posts his thoughts here: The upstanding Maurice Newman (former ABC chairman) was named in the interview.
It is hard to believe, just at a moment of heightened sensitivity about offensive speech, and only a week or so after the commonwealth government announces a royal commission into the sexual abuse of children. Even harder to believe is that he specifically links former ABC Chair Maurice Newman into his comments and refers to his ideas on climate change as "drivel".
But this is what you get when federal ministers like Greg Combet, licence abusive attacks on sceptics by referring to the Leader of the Opposition's scepticism as "complete bull shit".
Indeed it is worse than that. The government, via the Australian Research Council is involved in suppressing dissent.
Heads must roll over this, including Williams'. But the problem is obviously more widespread and involves the University of Western Australia, where Lewandowsky holds his chair, the ARC, the ABC, and possibly even the government.


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A man left work one Friday afternoon. But, it being payday,
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When he finally appeared at home on Sunday night he was
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Finally his wife stopped the nagging and simply said to him,
"How would you like it if you didn't see me for two or three days?"
To which he replied, "That would be fine with me."
Monday went by and he didn't see his wife. Tuesday and
Wednesday came and went with the same results.
Come Thursday, the swelling went down just enough where he could see her
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Finding it hard to concentrate on things, to keep my attention focused. Hell, it's hard to sleep. Dreams filled with work, work, worries and more work. I woke this morning after a dream of struggling to find something for work.
And then, I had a revelation. An epiphany of sorts. I've seen what I need to do. I need to disconnect. To take a time out from the world - to quote Goldfrapp. I realised where I had been going wrong all these many years. I've been trying to be something I'm not.
I'm not a film reviewer. I've dabbled in it, used to blog for the SyFy Channel's site back when it had blogs, but it's all just marketing movies and TV series that are being covered by every other site out there anyway. I loved going to the press conferences and screenings in London, but it's all at my expense and funds are tight at the moment. So I'm going to withdraw from that for a while. If I see something I really like, I'll write something about it, but it has to be a personal connection. You'll have noticed that in my past film reviews, I've tried to make it about how it made me feel - rather than a review of the film.
I'm not a Youtuber. I've dabbled in that too. Wrote a webseries, hosted some vidblogging events. I mean, let's face it, what's the point? I'm not hip, young or attractive, so it's hard to get casual viewers. And no one really cares. The one thing I've done on Youtube that I'm happy with was launching #RPGaDAY. Trying to get people talking in a positive way about gaming. I doubt I'll be doing that again this year, and #RPGaDAY is in very capable and safe hands with Anthony Boyd and the RPGBrigade. They'll keep it going and spread the spirit of what it's about far and wide. Thank you Brigaders.
I'm not a famous game designer. Sure I've worked on a lot of books, and designed the system that's used for the Doctor Who RPG. But in the end, I'm just some guy who played a lot of RPGs as a kid, and wrote a bit, but my dayjob is a normal retail one. I'm not famous. I'm not hugely successful. I'm not a "bankable name". I'm not making huge amounts of money out of it.
I need to reassess everything.
I need to get away from Facebook, Twitter, and all that nonsense. I need some "me" time.
Maybe it's a sign of my age, or our surroundings. The desire to pack up, move to the middle of nowhere with the wife and cat, and hide from the world is pretty strong at the moment.
Maybe it's the emotional punch of another family funeral this year, putting everything into context.
Maybe I'm just having a midlife crisis.
Sorry if I'm quiet. Sorry if I'm going to continue being quiet for the time being. I just need to get my head in a better place.
Meanwhile, may I take this opportunity to wish you all a better 2017.
Peace and Long Life.


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Scammers are notorious for capitalizing on fear, and the coronavirus outbreak is no exception. Showing an appalling lack of the most basic morals, scammers have set up fake websites, bogus funding collections and more in an effort to trick the fearful and unsuspecting out of their money.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published on its website a warning against email scams connected to the coronavirus. The agency claims it has received reports from around the world about phishing attempts mentioning coronavirus on an almost daily basis.
Closer to home, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning against a surge in coronavirus scams, which are being executed with surprising sophistication, so they may be difficult for even the keenest of eyes to spot.
The best weapons against these scams are awareness and education. When people know about circulating scams and how to identify them, they're already several steps ahead of the scammers. Here's all you need to know about coronavirus-related scams.
How the scams play out
There are several scams exploiting the fear and uncertainty surrounding the virus. Here are some of the most prevalent:
The fake funding scam
In this scam, victims receive bogus emails, text messages or social media posts asking them to donate money to a research team that is supposedly on the verge of developing a drug to treat COVID-19. Others claim they are nearing a vaccine for immunizing the population against the virus. There have also been ads circulating on the internet with similar requests. Unfortunately, nearly all of these are fakes, and any money donated to these "funds" will help line the scammers' pockets.
The bogus health agency
There is so much conflicting information on the coronavirus that it's really a no-brainer that scammers are exploiting the confusion. Scammers are sending out alerts appearing to be from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or the WHO; however, they're actually created by the scammers. These emails sport the logo of the agencies that allegedly sent them, and the URL is similar to those of the agencies as well. Some scammers will even invent their own "health agency," such as "The Health Department," taking care to evoke authenticity with bogus contact information and logos.
Victims who don't know better will believe these missives are sent by legitimate agencies. While some of these emails and posts may actually provide useful information, they often also spread misinformation to promote fear-mongering, such as nonexistent local diagnoses of the virus. Even worse, they infect the victims' computers with malware which is then used to scrape personal information off the infected devices.
The phony purchase order
Scammers are hacking the computer systems at medical treatment centers and obtaining information about outstanding orders for face masks and other supplies. The scammers then send the buyer a phony purchase order listing the requested supplies and asking for payment. The employee at the treatment center wires payment directly into the scammer's account. Unfortunately, they'll have to pay the bill again when contacted by the legitimate supplier.
Preventing scams
Basic preventative measures can keep scammers from making you their next target.
As always, it's important to keep the anti-malware and antivirus software on your computer up to date, and to strengthen the security settings on all of your devices.
Practice responsible browsing when online. Never download an attachment from an unknown source or click on links embedded in an email or social media post from an unknown individual. Don't share sensitive information online, either. If you're unsure about a website's authenticity, check the URL and look for the lock icon and the "s" after the "http" indicating the site is secure.
Finally, it's a good idea to stay updated on the latest news about the coronavirus to avoid falling prey to misinformation. Check the actual CDC and WHO websites for the latest updates. You can donate funds toward research on these sites as well.
Spotting the scams
Scammers give themselves away when they ask for payment via specific means, including a wire transfer or prepaid gift card. Scams are also easily spotted by claims of urgency, such as "Act now!" Another giveaway is poor writing skills, including grammatical errors, awkward syntax and misspelled words. In the coronavirus scams, "Breaking Information" alerts appearing to be from health agencies are another sign of a scam.
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Of all the holidays we celebrate, Thanksgiving is the one most defined by food. And, for most of us that food is based on tradition. My own family looks forward to a big bird with crisp golden skin served with rich pan gravy. They know there will be homemade cranberry chutney, and since our family DNA harbors deep Southern roots, cornbread dressing is a must at our table. However, when it comes to the sides—those special recipes that play supporting roles in this holiday menu—my clan is open to new creations.
I often include new accompaniments like the delectable one featured here. A glorious mélange of the season's robust vegetables, including butternut squash, Brussels sprouts, brown mushrooms, and leeks, this dish pairs fabulously with the traditional bird and dressing. The vegetables are sautéed, scented with rosemary, then sprinkled with toasted pecans, and Parmesan.


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This post will take a look at Wrathcalcs. Future posts will take a look at Rawr and SimCraft. These are the primary tools that I know about. If you have suggestions for other tools I should look at post them in the comments.
What: Wrathcalcs is a formulation based Excel spreadsheet that models Moonkin DPS. It was originally created by Adoriele to be the successor to Efejel's very popular TBC Moonkin spreadsheet. It doesn't have all the functionality of the original Moonkin Spreadsheet, but the guts of the calculations are still there and have been improved upon. The spreadsheet is now being maintained and updated by Hamlet.
Where: The best place to pick it up is from the Moonkin PvE Think Tank post on the EJ forums. It is at the bottom of the post. You can find it here.
How to Use: The novice user only needs to worry about two tabs in the spreadsheet, but both tabs provide both input sections and results outputs.
- Character Sheet (Inputs): This is the primary input section of the spreadsheet. There are multiple sections you need to fill out.
- Current Stats: Input your stats as you would view them on the Armory. These are your base stats without buffs and not in moonkin form.
- Gear: Allows you to select set bonuses and idols. Make sure you don't select more than two set bonuses.
- Other Sections: They are fairly self explanatory. Select the talents, buffs, and debuffs you use in a raid
- Character Sheet (Outputs): The Character Sheet also displays the Marginal values of Stats, Buffs, Talents, and Glyphs. This can be very handing when making quick gear choices.
- Rotations and DPS (Outputs): This is the output section of the spreadsheet. It gives you the expected DPET of each spell as well as the DPS and DPM of several sample rotations. It also gives you the marginal value of each stat for each spell available to you.
- Rotations and DPS (Inputs): There aren't many input fields on this tab, but two of them are very important. The "Eclipse Rotation Type:" is set to Lunar Truncation. This means you are using WiseEclipse or are canceling Lunar Eclipse in a similar method manually. The "Moonfire (Eclipse):" is also set to refresh MF during Eclipse. If you don't do this then you will want to change it.
- Constancy: The big advantage of formulated results is that given the same inputs the out puts will always be the same. Therefore it is very easy to see how changing those inputs can impact the results.
Want to know how much of an improvement a new piece of gear would be? By changing the stat section you can get a quick estimation on how it will affect your DPS. - Availability: The other tools available require you to download executable files and such. This can be a little confusing for some people and will cause some to worry about viruses and keyloggers. The nice thing about Wrathcalcs is that it comes in a format that a lot of people are familiar with. Also, it is very easy to find and start using.
- Open source: All of the calculations are open to be viewed by the user. Assuming you have a basic knowledge of Excel, you can follow the cell references and figure out how the calculations are done. This makes it easier for you to understand and modify the results if you so desire.
- Documentation: Other than the original forum thread there is very little documentation in or about Wrathcalcs. Most of it is self explanatory if you have an understanding of Excel, but I would like to see a better explanation of the spreadsheet from the authors. I don't think it needs to be extensive, but a quick guide on how to get started would be helpful. I would also like to see some explanation of the output fields on the Character Sheet tab.
- Unuser Friendly: Making changes in the spreadsheet is not quick and simple. Trying to evaluate several pieces of gear requires you to do the math personally and then modify the stats accordingly. This can get complicated if you're making several changes and this will increase the probability of mistakes.
- Formulated Results: Formulated results are great, but they are not the most accurate results available. Formulated results are based averages and expected behaviour, but have a hard time measuring actual behaviour with the inclusion of random events.
For example, we don't know when Eclipse is going to proc. We can determine how long it will take us to proc it on average, but actual results are going to vary. That variance will average out on its own, but our spells and abilities don't operate in a vacuum. There will be times when we have we won't extend Moonfire to 24 seconds because we couldn't cast Starfire while trying to proc Eclipse. The precasting phase of an Eclipse rotation will be extended because you have to refresh DoTs. The buff phase of Eclipse will be limited at other times because you have to refresh DoTs or go with out the buff they provide.
We over come these obstacles by making assumptions, but those assumptions are not correct 100% of the time and affect the results.
Wrathcalcs is a great tool for giving you a ballpark figure when evaluating high level DPS questions. It is also great at giving you definitive and directionally correct answers to those questions. If it says a change is a DPS increase or decrease you can be reasonably confident in the results, and it is widely available on a platform that is well known to many players. As long as you have some experience with Excel you shouldn't have any big issues with using it.
That said it is not the most user friendly method of evaluating more specific questions like which piece of gear is better, and you can find more accurate information on stat valuation using SimCraft.
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In this entertaining review, Savanna takes us through her discovery of JuK, a new pearl in the treasure trove of KDE applications. Expect to see JuK ship with KDE 3.2 since it has already made an appearance in the KDE Multimedia module. Kudos to Savanna for taking the time to contribute the review and, of course, hats off to the developers of JuK!
A User's Perspective on JuK
by Savanna
"Juk? What the heck is that?"
"You really should try it."
"But I use XMMS. I love XMMS."
"Well, give it a try. It's sort of like iTunes - a very nice playlist editor."
"Okay, okay...I'll try it out."
And so I did.
That is approximately how the conversation went a few weeks back on the #debian-KDE IRC channel. A person there named "grepper" told me to try it. Grepper knew one thing: I like pretty things. In fact, that is why I like KDE and have since around a year.
I first experienced it when I got a copy of Debian installed on my backup machine. From there, I booted up KDE and started to play around. In about ten seconds flat, I had one of the nicest looking desktops I had ever seen, and I was hooked.
I'm a user, not a programmer. I don't know what makes most things tick in Linux and KDE, nor do I really want to. Only recently, I learned how to upgrade to the latest CVS packages and install an Nvidia driver Debian package without seeing anything but a console line - and without freaking out because I couldn't see a mouse cursor.
Okay, I admit it: I'm a blonde who isn't a techie. I'm learning because it is kind of fun, but I'll only go so far. I know most people who will read this will probably chuckle because this is for a techie site, but it is worth noting that I am a user who has switched her desktop from Microsoft to Linux with KDE. That is a pretty big jump.
So when Grepper talked about my switching from XMMS (comfortingly like a windows application) to Juk (something like a Mac application with lovely KDE tidbits - from my point of view), he knew that I would do so reluctantly.
What a surprise!
Juk is easy. Juk is elegant. Juk is simple.
Juk is awesome.
It opens up as a simple collection list with a space for icons in the left to make more custom playlists with. Nice big icons at the top make it very hard to miss the start/stop/skip functionality of the program. It looks friendly, and it is. Big columns on the right tell you everything you need to know. A search function at the top lets you instantly select things live from the collection list to make your playlist the way you want. A nice little icon in the tray on the Kicker lets you control the application from there as well. You right-click on the left area, create new playlist, name it, and then drag-and-drop from your collection list to your playlist.
You don't need to do anything else: it is that simple.
Every time it opens, it scans your MP3/OGG/Music directories (which you add very easily whenever you like) for any new music files. Alternate light gray and white rows make spotting songs a breeze. A "jump to currently playing song" button on the bottom right makes it really easy to go to where you are, even while you are building more playlists and listening to another. A pop-up track announcement from the Kicker tray with a forward and backward skip button on either side comes up (if you want it) at the change of every song. I find this particularly useful. Right-click on the Kicker tray icon and you get a selection of the standard music player functions. Click on it with the left mouse button, and the entire program pops up. Another click minimizes it once more. There are no flashy player skins from outer space, or separate player displays. This is a simple program which doesn't need many bells or whistles.
Everything is big and friendly.
Big friendly icons make for happy users.
I was hooked. In fact, I was so hooked that after I got the stable version from orth's CVS debs, I switched everything to Juk and no longer use XMMS.
Now, I do miss the XMMS skins, and I had quite a collection, I'll tell you. And I miss the plugins feature for falling asleep and waking up with music - but wheels assures me that this is going to be coded in relatively soon so I'm no longer worried about that.
Other than that, it is a dream come true. There is something to be said for a Mac-design where things are supposed to be friendly and simple for regular users. Juk hits that on the head. I love XMMS but it was sort of tiny on my screen and making a good set of playlists accessible was, at times, kind of annoying. I also like Noatun, but I have some issues with it at the moment - though with the Hayes playlist feature, it was as close to Juk and about as friendly and intuitive as I've ever seen it before (and does have its own very nice merits).
But Juk is...perfect. Well, so far. It screams: "non-coders will use me happily", and that is a good thing.
I love KDE because it is easy to use. Juk follows that example and reminds me, once again, why I run KDE in the first place.
I've seen a lot more people switch to music players that aren't winamp clones (xmms), recently. The move from winamp/xmms/audion, to itunes/juk/rythybox is great-- the former is way harder to use than the later. I think most people still use xmms because they are simply used to it and winamp.
Well, they are used to it, that's right, but I think, it was mostly performance reasons. I used a half year ago an AMD Athlon k7 500 (slot-a :) ) with epox board and had win xp installed. This OS was not very fast on my system. what should I do? Yes, install winamp, it executes fast and plays almost instantly. Then the board wished no more to work. Now I have an asus with athlon xp 2200 (is about 1900MHz) and now I use itunes and love it, because I have got enough performance to use hugher programs. so I do not wonder of the new trend. :)
I just want to say that I am using noatun with Hayes playlist for about one year now. I want to thank the authors for their work :)
And now I am trying Juk but it doesn't have the same advantage / disadvantage of Hayes. I will stay with noatun and Hayes for now but thank you to the Juk author too/
There is also something to be said for a playlist player like JuK to be packaged, easily available and ready to go in KDE instead of requiring advanced plugin knowledge of Noatun from the user... JuK really has a chance to shine here.
BTW is it planned to have a meta-data view (artists, albums etc). That would be more interesting than playlists for many purposes, IMHO. Having a playlist for each album should not be neccessary.
IMHO, such a meta-data view should exist at the konqueror level... a search-folder like in the next kmail, but for the filesystem, sothat the result can be used in all kde applications (open file dialog for exemple).
Yes, it was there as of about a week ago. I decided to refactor that code and so at the moment it doesn't work again, but I'm hoping to get that done by this weekend.
i tried both noatun+hayes and juk, and i still prefer hayes (altough juk is nice) (http://www.freekde.org/neil/hayes/hayes.png), but that is probably a matter of taste. I really like the filesystem-based concept of hayes..
juk also has some problems that need to be sorted out: 'add directory' takes a loong time here (it takes more than a minute, xmms loads the same directory in a couple of seconds). xmms only loads id3 tags when they are shown, maybe that has something to do with it (but i don't think its the only reason). but kde3.2 is not released yet offcourse
Actually really the slowness for adding directories is because JuK:
- does a recursive scan of that directory
- adds playlists and audio files
- reads all of the tags at once and collects more information than i.e. XMMS
- optimizes for fast loading by doing all of the dirty work up front
Basically the idea behind JuK is to make the thing that you do infrequently (adding files) slow and make the things that you do more often (i.e. start the program) fast. As such, it caches all of the meta information and only updates it if the file is modified. I can load up my playlist of about 2400 files in about 3 seconds -- and aparently there are some people (hi Ian) using JuK with up to 50,000 items. Also I've tried to ensure that the GUI stays responsive while loading files so that JuK can still be used while loading files.
There will be some optimizations before 3.2 (I won't go into the details unless requested), but I would expect things to get 2-3x faster, not say 10-20x.
As compared to Hayes the main difference is that JuK is playlist / collection oriented and assumes that playlists and meta-data to be the primary way of organizing music; Hayes on the other hand assumes that the file system is being used for this. They're both valid takes on the problem and cater to different folks.
(D'oh, I guess I blew the cover; yes, JuK is for geeks too, though a significant motivation is keeping the interface simple and hiding the details that I'm talking about.)
I wonder, do you have anyone using JuK over NFS?
Hayes delays as much as possible, and does as little as possible, and I still get NFS complaints.
It's not significantly worse over NFS on a 10 MB/s LAN than on the local file system (Daniel and I did a good bit of testing with this.). The initial scanning is slow -- but after that on load JuK just stats files on start up (and even that is delayed until after the GUI is up and usable in CVS). With stating files over NFS, your bottleneck is still a hard drive's seek time somewhere.
So while if you're loading 10,000 items over NFS it won't be exciting, you only have to do it once. After that you can read all of the items back in a few seconds.
Ian, who to my knowledge has the record for biggest collection in JuK (50k files) is on NFS.
I do. I have my home directories and MP3s on NFS. Nothing special, a 700MHz P3 with a big disk and a half-gig of RAM. I'm using 2.4.20 with the kernel nfs server on a 100m switched network.
It's perfectly usable. I've been using this setup (with various hardware/disk changes) for many years now without complaint.
Worth noting that the iTunes interface is patented.
http://jriddell.org/patents.html iTunes patent details linked from that page.
Like all software patents the problem is probably best ignored until/unless they come after you.
See now thats the funny thing, as someone who has actually _used_ iTunes and Juk, they are not the same thing. In a static screen shot they may look the same, but they act VERY VERY different. Try to run them side by side and you will see :) I mean just because KDE has windows dosent mean its a copy of GEOWorks :)
Lets stop compairing Juk to iTunes... Its probibly the same as compairing Juk to Windows Media Player.
Just my 2c
-ian reinhart geiser
True, but I think the main components of the iTunes interface that can be reasonable supported as new and unique are the artist/album drop downs, and it's unique device integration capabilities. Also it's (now) media purchasing interface. However, playlists in a column with a list of tracks in the other window is hardly unique. Just my $0.02. =)
I bumped into Juk yesterday when I was trying to get a decent playlist manager. Compiled and installed it. It searched and added the files to the playlist, but when I clicked on the songs, KDE gave error. I don't know what is the problem with it. It did not even form album lists. :(
Have you submitted a bug report? Scott's usually pretty quick to reply, and now that I've got a bit more free time I'm going to get back into JuK development.
Just a "meeeee toooooo", but Juk is so much better than anything else on Linux for messy people like me who have songs spread about everywhere, not just in nice neat file hierachies. Id rather just throw the files at Juk and let it sort things out for me. "Search All Visible" is simply brilliant, I dont even have to think to get the songs I want, I just type whatever comes into my head first. Forget skins, they would only get in the way.
I notices that juk uses doubleclick to play a file - I thought KDE is per default single click?
So, what about
point: single select
point&drag: multi-select
shift/ctrl+click: multi-select
click: play
So far juk looks nice!
... is how easy it is to connect to various parts. Start Juk, open your favorite terminal, and type:
"dcop juk Player"
You get a nice list of available controls.
"dcop juk Player play" starts playback, and so on... It makes scripting a breeze. DCOP rules ! :)
2nd that!
let's see apple do something THAT open!
One word: AppleScript. It doesn't have to be open-source to provide a clean, scriptable interface, and AppleEvents (the interface) has been around since Mac OS 7.0 came out in the early 90s.
I don't really understand how it can "output" to both aRts and GStreamer. They are multimedia frameworks both, they do the whole thing apart from the user interface.
So, how does it use both?
Well, it doesn't use both at the same time. ;-)
Better said, if you have GStreamer installed when you're compiling JuK, you can choose between using aRts and GStreamer at runtime.
Couldn't aRts be made a gst sink (I think it already has been..), and can't gst be made an artsplayobject (I think it already has been)
Maybe, but I thought the main target group for GStreamer were those who do not have arts installed (or deactivated it, or have arts-incompatible hardware, or...).
or... prefer alsa for the speed.
There is a sink for arts. I don't think anyone is using it though... JuK output with GST is currently hardcoded to OSS.
GST could be made an artsplayobject, but why bother? For pure playback it does not have any features that Xine does not have... GST shines when you do more complex things. One possibility that I am thinking about is to multicast the sound that JuK plays so other systems in the network can attach to it.
If my "User's Perspective on JuK" is negative and I reflect why in this topic, will my post be removed?
If the answer is no, why was my negative perspective removed? Last time I checked, I was not a trolling.
What's even more disturbing is that no-one has picked up on the fact that the dot was hacked today.
Why did this happen?
I even have the webpage source to prove it :)
s/hacked/ISP was screwed up/
I discovered Juk recently as well, it's a great app and simple to use. A big thanks to the authors. Can't wait for the lastest version in KDE 3.2.
I tried Juk today, but my experience with it wasn't potent enough to warrant a change from Noatun. I've never really been a mouse and click person, so perhaps Juk isn't for me to begin with. I've grown accustomed Noatun's 'global' keyboard combinations, skins and inumerable plugins(hayes playlist inclusive). Juk is great, but Noatun is better. And Xmms is just old.
But for Noatun and aRts control, kde multimedia is an embarrasment, an abomination and an abberations. I hope exciting changes are been made to Noatun for KDE-3.2 because I don't yet find Juk as worthy replacement. I also hope (K)mplayer becomes KDE's default media player. It will be interesting to integrate Noatun, Kscd and K(m)player into a single application.
Otherwise, kde multimedia is just a joke. Are there any exciting features we can look forward to in KDE-3.2, with regards to kde multimedia? A thumbs up to both the Noatun and Juk team. To the kde multimedia team; we support you but we are yet to see the best from you guys.
Note kmplayer is no mm framework like arts, just a frontend for mplayer/xine/ffmpeg for people how know what they are doing (and have broadband internet). Its main focus is playing inside konqueror/khtml. So I don't expect kmplayer becoming the default media player ever.
I very much like Kplayer. Like Kmplayer it is a frontend to mplayer, but its interface rocks! Even though it is only at version 0.2, it is very stable already and has a great GUI, check it out: http://kplayer.sourceforge.net. There is no playlist support yet, but for films it's just great!
You know something? I just tried this (umm, over nine months later. LOL.)
Kplayer is at version 0.5 now (from CVS) and I like it. It compiled fine and worked quite well, once I upgraded GNU automake as it required.
I guess I'll have to try Kmplayer too, at some point.
Maybe it doesn't make much sense to reply after this long a time, but on the other paw, let's hear it for archives :O)
Just to be clear -- a lot of people are trying the CVS version and coming away saying, "Hey, this isn't stable at all. This isn't release quality."
Simply put, you're right. It's not. That's why it hasn't been released. JuK has been under heavy development for the last several months -- there have been thousands of lines of changes and additions to JuK's code since 1.1. There are crashes and bugs that I am well aware of and will get to before the next release with KDE 3.2, which is many months away.
That said, if you're using the stable version - 1.1 and still experiencing problems, *please* report them. JuK 1.1 has very few known bugs; If more are reported I'll backport my fixes and release a 1.2.
HEAD is where a lot of the cool things happen, but at this point in the release cycle (several months before we even hit the feature freeze) things will be broken on a regular basis; this is just the nature of software development.
I haven't noticed it in any of the feature lists, but a requirement for any media player for me is the ability to play FLAC files. I'm sure other people have other formats they want to play - does juk have input plugins?
I do not think that the Arts backend supports it, but GStreamer should.
KDE's lack of FLAC support is the only thing keeping me using XMMS. This is something that needs to happen at the aRts level. If that happen, any media player in KDE should "just work."
Vote for bug #54394 in bugs.k.o - http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54394
I would love to use Juk, or any arts based player. If it wasn't for the sound click when I either:
- start a compile.
- switch virtual screen.
- in fact, do anything other than staring at the player window (yes, this is a troll)
My box is quite decent (1.2Ghz 256Mhz) and XMMS plays audio without any problem. I have tried to increase the arts buffer, but it didn't work. Any interesting settings someone want to share?
One day, I'll try Juk with gstreamer :-)
you should enable "realtime priority" in KControl, this ends this problems. But maybe you also have to set the '+s' bit of the arts executeable; turn the error messages on (also in KControl) to find this out.
artswrapper is the binary to set the bit on.
After that + enabling realtime priority it's quite hard to get arts playback to skip except if you have IRC problems or you try playing files from a hdd that is currently busy with other things (you know, buffers aren't infinite *g*).
You're brilliant =D
Finally, I can use juk, an average of 4% cpu-time on a XP1800 for a sound server is still ridiculously high (mplayer can play mpeg4 videos using less =/ ) but at least it delivers
juk ownz u
Try this:
Go to kcontrol --> Sound --> Sound System --> Sound I/O --> Sound I/O method.
Change this to Threaded Open Sound System.
See if that helps at all.
Thanks for your answers. I'll try these settings when I'm back home.
Hmm, juk runs fine over here, even if i compile something in the mean time.
What the hell is wrong with that site designer?! I'll be seeing green stripes for weeks. Oh the pain...
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Hi Ron,
I have to let you know how much I got a kick out of the Timeline. Not only is it a fun piece of audio jewelry, but works better than advertised. Within three minutes we had the new VPI HRX up to speed, or "correct" speed I should say. No strobe disc, and light, etc, just a few minutes staring at a bright red led light. What could be easier, and I now have a perfect speed locked into my speed controller for our turntable, dynamite.
We are constantly playing with trials to see what we can drag up from the depths of an old piece of vinyl and have just pulled out a Crosby Nash, "Whistling Down the Wire" LP that must be at least 25 years old. Two minutes on the VPI 16.5 cleaning machine and on the table. This was a seriously warped disc, but the platter rim weight and center weight put the LP into a seemingly flat position. Dropped the needle and nothing in our digital front end can give so much satisfaction. You don't have to be a kid to keep finding new ways to enjoy 25 minutes.
I have rarely been able to achieve the level of quality jump in a new digital front end as we have now with the new VPI running through the Hubble, it is just amazing and very satisfying. Great work all the way around. Well back to work, oh wait, this is work. You gotta love it, thanks again.
I have the pleasure of listen through your Hubble for many weeks now, and it has been enjoyable. Definitely, a BETTER PHD!!
— Regards, Mike
Yesterday I unpacked my Sutherland Phd after moving from Hawaii to the mainland back in the end of Sept. 2012. This is April 8. When I packed the amp I removed the batteries for fear they would leak and make a mess of things. The unit was packaged in the original shipping box it arrived in. When I unpacked it, it looked pristine. After inserting brand new batteries and anxiously hooking it up to the turntable (it'd been 6 or 7 months since I heard music through my system) it wouldn't turn on. Disappointment You bet. I sent an email to Ron Sutherland asking for help. To my surprise, an hour or two later, Ron replied to my email with a couple of helpful suggestions. I followed the instructions, but unknowingly to me, I made a mistake in understanding them. In another email I asked Ron if I could call him and included my phone number in the email. Viola! The phone rings and Ron was on the phone! Nice guy. The kind of guy you wish you could sit down at a bar and have a drink with. We discussed the problem, and in a second Ron had the issue isolated and the remedy all in one. There was a faulty battery holder. We jury-rigged it in a way that will last for years to come, and the unit works perfectly and I listened to music the rest of the day.
Kudos for Ron on a number of things. First and foremost, designing the Phd. I spent my whole life waiting for this thing and didn't know it until I bought one and have been using it ever since. Next kudo is just the kind of man Ron turned out to be – pleasant, helpful, uplifting and smart! Next, I swear he was as happy as I was that his "baby" the Phd was all fixed up and ready to go. As it turns out, this whole experience was a positively memorable in my audiophile life. I had a good time. Way to go Mr. Sutherland!
Dear Ron,
I became another happy PH1P user 🙂 For me your phono stage is magic…I can not stop re-listening and re-discovering my vinyls…hours and hours…details that the phono amp is finding in the groove, the stage, the stereo image, the punchiness, the smoothness, the good reproduction of bass…everything that I expect from a musical reproduction is there…So the new Clearaudio Performance DC (with Maestro Ebony V2 cartridge) + PH1P is the musical nirvana for me…at least for today… Thank you again for this product and supporting me during the decision phase…
Very best regards from Brussels,
I love the Sutherland Phono Blocks that I purchased. I am currently using an inexpensive cartridge (Denon 103R) and they put out amazing sound. To fully take of their abilities I have decided to buy a better cartridge, power cables. I will email you a review when I have had a chance to listen to everything after the break ins are all done. Even if nothing changes in it the best sounding phono preamp I have heard.
Joe O.
Good Morning Ron,
The DUOs arrived and were perfect. I changed the gain to 100, I have about 5 hours on them. All I will say right now is detail, detail and smooth without having to use a lot of volume, I will be having quit a few late nights this week, I will get back to you in a couple of weeks.
Thanks from a very happy customer,
Hi Ron,
I have been busier at the office than usual and have had a limited amount of time to listen to records, unfortunately. The amazing thing happened only last friday. Up until that point, every record had had the same two-dimensional brightness to the sound. At some point last friday night, I put on Something Else by The Kinks and it was mind-blowing. Unbelievably holographic-sounding, striking image placement and overall, a rich and dynamic sound with loads of texture. Quite a transformation. Very impressed!
Hello Mr. Sutherland,
I picked up a 20/20 just to audition and fell in love. It's resolution and clarity are a continuing source of complete musical satisfaction. It showed my xxx Special Edition to be quite inferior.
Thank you for a wonderful, very enjoyable phono preamplifier.
Kind Regards,
Jerry S
Hello, I just purchased your 20/20 phono pre. I'm hearing my records in a new light and I am very happy.
Just have to write "wow". I love my new 20/20. It is married to my VPI classic and Grado statement sonata cartridge and pumped through my AR tube preamp. The sound is bright and crisp without the rough edges. And as stated on the website, "dead quite". Thanks for such a brilliant design. I am a big fan.
Hi Ron – Thought you might like to see the 20/20 with the Mapleshade brass footers, on their maple platform. Sonically, this was a real upgrade. The preamp was a stellar performer even without the footers, but this was quite a significant enhancement. I played a London FFRR recording of Solti and the CSO doing Mahler's 7th over the weekend, a composition that I never really appreciated. It had me pinned to my seat – audiophile craziness at its best. ;<)
Best, David
There's an old saying "you don't know what you don't know".
After auditioning the Sutherland 20/20 with some material that I am very familiar with, what I thought was "normal" is certainty not "normal" anymore when the 20/20 is patched into the signal path.
The robust design, dual mono configuration, and lots of high quality discrete components would translate into the expected sharper focus and detail, with less compression/increased dynamic range. Yes, the 20/20 had all of the above. What surprised me at how differently it conveys complex or dynamic information. Or, more appropriately, how little the content changes in texture and detail when the "rush hour effect" takes place. You know about "rush hour". It's when traffic increases and too many things are trying to fit thru the "pipe". Generally, the most aggressive and obnoxious get thru leaving the articulate and delicate elements stuck in traffic, not to be heard from. Not so with the 20/20. Things remain intact regardless of how much complexity in the content. Those "mangled masses" of sound of the "original" that I heard year after year, in system after system, actually don't sound that way at all. They are distinct sounds in their own spaces with their own unique chord structure and timbre. Audio 101: don't always believe what you don't hear. Or, something like that.
The 20/20 had a lightness about it. Never heavy or bloated. But, it never lacked power and authority when summons to do so. The bass was powerful, deep, and controlled. Once again, what I thought the bass "sounded like" with other phono stages was different with the 20/20. Deeper, tighter, more defined and coherent.
If the goal of the 20/20 is to trigger an emotion response, it certainty got one.
Nice job.
Wow…what can I say, thank you so very much for upgrading the shipping. Don't know what to say other than thank you, but that seems a little like I am under-representing our complete email dialogue over the past few weeks. This is what drew me to your products in the first place, and all I can say is you have exceeded any expectation I had.
One day I hope to shake your hand and thank you for developing some of the finest…and affordable audio products in the world…but also for the person that you are.
Take care,
Russ (& Paula) L


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Wireless LAN Fundamentals: Mobility
- Characteristics of Roaming
- Layer 2 Roaming
- Layer 3 Roaming
- Summary
This chapter covers the following topics:
Characteristics of roaming
Layer 2 roaming
Layer 3 roaming and an introduction to Mobile IP
This book covers the major components of 802.11 wireless LANs (WLANs). Fundamental concepts such as medium access mechanisms, frame formats, security, and the physical interfaces build the foundation for understanding more advanced and practical concepts.
In keeping with this theme, this chapter covers mobility. Mobility is the quality of being capable of movement or moving readily from place to place. 802.11 WLAN devices provide this kind of untethered freedom. But there's more to mobility than the lack of a network cable. Understanding how mobility is implemented in 802.11 arms you with the knowledge you need to support or facilitate mobile applications. Many terms describe mobility, but this chapter uses the terms mobility and roaming to describe the act of moving between access points (APs).
Characteristics of Roaming
Defining or characterizing the behavior of roaming stations involves two forms:
Seamless roaming
Nomadic roaming
Seamless roaming is best analogized to a cellular phone call. For example, suppose you are using your cellular phone as you drive your car on the freeway. A typical global system for mobile (GSM) communications or time-division multiple access (TDMA) cell provides a few miles of coverage area, so it is safe to assume that you are roaming between cellular base stations as you drive. Yet as you roam, you do not hear any degradation to the voice call (that is what the cellular providers keep telling us). There is no noticeable period of network unavailability because of roaming. This type of roaming is deemed seamless because the network application requires constant network connectivity during the roaming process.
Nomadic roaming is different from seamless roaming. Nomadic roaming is best described as the use of an 802.11-enabled laptop in an office environment. As an example, suppose a user of this laptop has network connectivity while seated at his desk and maintains connec-tivity to a single AP. When the user decides to roam, he undocks his laptop and walks over to a conference room. Once in the conference room, he resumes his work. In the back-ground, the 802.11 client has roamed from the AP near the user's desk to an AP near the conference room. This type of roaming is deemed nomadic because the user is not using network services when he roams, but only when he reach his destination.
What happens to application sessions during roaming? Many factors influence the answer to this question. Consider the following:
The nature of roaming in 802.11.
The operation of the application. Is the application connection-oriented or connectionless?
The roaming domain. Does roaming occur with a single subnet or across multiple subnets?
Roaming duration. How long does the roaming process take?
The Nature of Roaming in 802.11
802.11 roaming is known as "break before make," referring to the requirement that a station serves its association with one AP before creating an association with a new one. This process might seem unintuitive because it introduces the possibility for data loss during roaming, but it facilitates a simpler MAC protocol and radio.
If 802.11 were "make before break," meaning a station could associate to a new AP before disassociating from the old AP, you would need safeguards in the MAC to ensure a loop-free topology. A station connected to the same Layer 2 broadcast domain via simultaneous network connections has the potential to trigger broadcast storms. A "make before break" architecture would necessitate an algorithm such as 802.1D spanning tree to resolve any potential loops, adding overhead to the MAC protocol. In addition, the client radio would have to be capable of listening and communicating on more than one channel at a time, increasing the complexity of the radio (and adding to the overall cost of the devices).
Operation of the Application
The way the application operates directly correlates to its resilience during the roaming process. Connection-oriented applications, such as those that are TCP-based, are more tolerant to packet loss incurred during roams because TCP is a reliable and connection-oriented protocol. TCP requires positive acknowledgments, just as the 802.11 MAC does. This requirement allows any 802.11 data lost during the roaming process to be retrans-mitted by TCP, as the upper-layer protocol.
Although TCP provides a tidy solution for applications running on 802.11 WLANs, some applications rely on User Datagram Protocol (UDP) as the Layer 4 transport protocol of choice. UDP is a low-overhead, connectionless protocol. Applications such as Voice over IP (VoIP) and video use UDP packets. The retransmission capability that TCP offers does little to enhance packet loss for VoIP applications. Retransmitting VoIP packets proves more annoying to the user than useful. As a result, the data-loss roaming might cause a noticeable impact to UDP-based applications.
Roaming Domain
Chapter 1, "Ethernet Technologies," defines a broadcast domain as a network that connects devices that are capable of sending and receiving broadcast frames to and from one another. This domain is also referred to as a Layer 2 network. The concept holds true for 802.11 as well. APs that are in the same broadcast domain and configured with the same service set identifier (SSID) are said to be in the same roaming domain. Recall from Chapter 2, "802.11 Wireless LANs," that extended service set (ESS) is similarly defined as multiple basic service sets (BSSs) that communicate via the distribution service (wired network). Therefore, a roaming domain can also be referred to as an ESS.Why are 802.11 devices limited to a Layer 2 network for roaming? What about roaming between Layer 3 subnets? Remember that 802.11 is a Layer 1 physical interface and Layer 2 data link layer technology. The 802.11 MAC protocol is Layer 3 unaware. That is not to say that Layer 3 roaming is impossible because it is not. It means that Layer 2 roaming is natively supported in 802.11 devices, and some upper-layer solution is required for Layer 3 roaming.
The distinction between whether a device roams within a roaming domain or between roaming domains has a large impact on application sessions. Figure 5-1 depicts a Layer 2 roaming domain. The roaming user can maintain application connectivity within the roaming domain and as long as its Layer 3 network address is maintained (does not change).
Figure 5-1 Roaming in a Layer 2 Roaming Domain
Figure 5-2 illustrates roaming across roaming domains. The roaming user is roaming from an AP on Subnet A to an AP on Subnet B. As a result, the Layer 3 network address must change to maintain Layer 3 connectivity on Subnet B. As the Layer 3 address changes, the station drops all application sessions. This scenario is described later in this chapter in the section, "Mobile IP Overview."
Figure 5-2 Roaming Across Roaming Domains
Roaming Duration
Roaming duration is the time it takes for roaming to complete. Roaming is essentially the association process that is described in Chapter 2; it depends on the duration of the following:
The probing process
The 802.11 authentication process
The 802.11 association process
The 802.1X authentication process
The cumulative duration of these processes equates to the roaming duration. Some appli-cations, such as VoIP, are extremely delay-sensitive and cannot tolerate large roaming durations.


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Net Effect B601 Nova
Net Effekt® is a carpet tile collection that pays tribute to the sea, not only because of its appearance, but also through the unique and concrete project Net-Works®.
Net-Works offers small fishing communities in the Philippines an additional source of income. Fishermen paid discarded nets from the beach to collect and get out of the water, while their livelihood and the very rare double coral reef offshore protection. Discarded fishing nets are collected and sold our yarn to reliable suppliers and partners, Aquafil. Since 2011, they have been offering recycled nylon material for interface carpet tiles. As a raw material they use wastes from discarded nylon fishing lines and other sources, such as yarn obtained through our ReEntry® program.
Net Effect One is a collection of three textures in square tiles of 50 cm, which can be intertwined, thus mimicking the border between sea and beach. Net Effect Two is a collection of three thin boards of 25 x 100 cm, which is also reflected in a linear pattern that reflects the movement of water and waves.
This design has an elegant effect on the soil and social responsibility in a fragile economy. The net effect is certainly positive.
Let the quality of our carpet tiles convince you:
High quality ✓ Easy maintenance ✓ Many colours ✓ Durable ✓
These tiles meet all the requirements of project class 33 and fire class S1


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The Good News
Label: Sub Pop
Catalog #: 71280
After spending years writing and recording music by himself in various bedrooms and basements, Andrew Carter hit his stride with the debut Minor Poet album, And How!. Made on a creative whim with no outside expectations, the eleven-song collection combined Carter's love of carefully-crafted pop with a loose, fun, off-the-cuff recording aesthetic. The album was released in 2017 and developed a small but loving fan base, and Minor Poet has grown from a passion project into a cross-country touring band with write-ups in publications such as American Songwriter, Magnet, The Wild Honey Pie, Impose, and more.
Minor Poet's second album, The Good News, is a six-song collection that expands the boundaries of what constitutes the band's sound. In just twenty-two minutes, the songs take apart the standard formulas of guitar-based rock and infuse them with vibrance and energy. On opener "Tabula Rasa," interlocking guitars and a Farfisa organ carry the song through until everything drops suddenly into a doo-wop section that wouldn't be out of place on a 1950's greatest hits compilation. Warped noise envelops a tropicalia-flavored Casio beat in "Tropic of Cancer" before a slick groove and sliding bass line lead into the chorus' pure pop bliss of of horns and vocal harmonies. "Museum District" begins with a drum intro reminiscent of an off-kilter "Be My Baby," and "Bit Your Tongue/All Alone Now" features a midsection with a glam-rock guitar solo amidst trumpet fanfare. These are a just a few of the infectious moments on an EP filled with many more.
The Good News was made over four days at Montrose Recording, in Minor Poet's hometown of Richmond, VA. In the past, Carter played all the instruments and handled all the production, but he knew he that he had to reach outside himself to do justice to these songs. "I couldn't capture the sounds I heard in my head," Carter explains. "I wanted something that was vast and expansive but that at the same time could hit you immediately in the gut." Paying homage to the "wall of sound" techniques made famous by Brian Wilson and Phil Spector, Carter and co-producer Adrian Olsen (Natalie Prass, Foxygen) overdubbed layer after layer of Carter playing an array of guitars, pianos, organs, synths, and percussion, as well as singing all the harmonies. The members of Minor Poet's touring band were brought in to perform the core rhythm section, and local musicians stopped by to add crucial flourishes, such as the harmonizing guitar riffs in "Reverse Medusa" and the saxophone solo that closes out "Nude Descending Staircase."
At the center of everything is Carter's voice, singing lyrics that seamlessly mix allusions to religion, mythology, art, and philosophy as he questions himself, his place in the world around him, what he owes to his relationships, and, in turn, what he needs to ask of others in order to stay healthy. Tabula Rasa is a concept that argues that humans are born blank slates, shaped through experience and environment. The last two years couldn't have felt more applicable for Carter, who started out as a fresh face with little-to-no experience in the music industry and slowly grew into himself as a stage performer and bandleader through both good and bad times. During this period he began to come to terms with lifelong struggles, such as the depression that permeates "Tropic of Cancer" and the social anxiety that runs through "Museum District." Rather than be one-dimensional, however, Carter dives deeper into himself and his motivations, such as in "Reverse Medusa" when he sings, "Hide my love in poetic half-truths/never was one to dwell on my issues." Carter's ability to balance emotional honesty with a tongue-in-cheek self awareness adds to the richness and originality of the music. Short but memorable, catchy yet meaningful, The Good News is another promising step forward for Minor Poet.


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Yet another new ransomware family has been found in the wild, discovered independently by researchers at two separate security firms, Anomail and Intezer. The new strain has been dubbed "QNPCrypt" by Intezer and eCh0raix" by Anomail and is written in the Go programming language. When it encrypts files, it chances the file extension to ".encrypt" via AES encryption.
The fact that the strain was written using Go is interesting. What makes it truly unique, though, is that it primarily targets Linux-based NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices made by a specific company. It only seems to impact devices made by Taiwan-based QNAP Systems.
Worst of all though, is that the devices targeted by this new malware strain seldom have antivirus programs on them. Even if they did, there are only a handful of products currently capable of even detecting the strain. By the time you know it's there, it's already too late to matter.
The good news though, is that the security researchers found a flaw in the code. Like most ransomware, after it encrypts your files, it demands payment in Bitcoin in exchange for un-encrypting them. The authors of the malware designed the software to connect to a command and control server prior to the encryption step in order to receive a unique Bitcoin wallet address. It relays this address information to the victim after their files are encrypted in order to facilitate payment, but there's a catch.
The server only had a finite number of wallet addresses available, and if there are no wallet addresses, then the encryption step never occurs. The researchers created many "fake victims" and simply ran the command and control server out of unique Bitcoin wallet addresses. It's a temporary fix, to be sure, but it buys time.
Researchers from both companies offered the same advice in terms of minimizing your risks:
- Never unnecessarily connect your NAS devices directly to the internet
- Always enable automatic updates to keep firmware up to date
- Use strong, unique passwords to secure your devices
- Make frequent backups just in case.
Those are all good pieces of advice generally. If you make a habit of all four, you'll be miles ahead of the game.