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We've had really nice weather all week in the UK and come the weekend... its dull and miserable! I wanted to capture some blossom but the tree outside my house hadn't quite got there yet. I went round to my friends and took my camera in case I saw something I could use for the challenge while I was out. I got there and outside was some daffodils which had sprouted up. I think daffodils are one of the things which are synonymous with spring so I took a couple of pics! I used my Canon 500D with 18-55 lens, 1/60, f/8, ISO200 tweeked in Lightroom. - Robert Newitt
While the snow in Edmonton, Canada has melted, spring hasn't really arrived yet. Everything is still brown and muddy while we wait for the flowers to bloom. What better represents spring than new flowers? Puppies. This baby Mastiff is only 12 weeks old but he's already 40 lbs. My friends picked him up the day this photo was taken and this was his first real experience outdoors; all he wanted to do was run. My friends had hoped that I could take a few good photos of him but he wouldn't sit still, so I said why don't we just let him run. Canon 1D Mk IV Canon 70-200 2.8L IS USM II f/2.8 1/1600 sec 125 ISO - Ryan Kane
This is the classic Spring scene in Seattle at the University of Washington. While most people enjoy the cherry blossoms up close, I have always fancied the view from the third floor of the Art Building. I opened up the window, tied my tripod down to the windowpane, composed, screwed on my ND filter and shot. Nikon D300S Lens: Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Focal Length: 11mm Exposure: 30 sec at f/11 ISO: 100 B+W #110 Neutral Density (10 stops) Manfrotto 709B Table-top - Sang Cho
I shot this picture at Maymont Park in Richmond, VA on Friday afternoon. It was a beautiful clear day. I tell people that taking pictures is a lot like fishing, you need to have a lot of patience. That held true on this day. The park was packed and I was trying to take a picture of one of it's most visited attractions. I had to wait 20 minutes for this picture. While waiting for another picture, I ended up catching a guy proposing
to his girlfriend. I spoke with them afterward (she is from Zimbabwe of all places) and I ended up sending them the other attached picture. They loved it and are going to be using it for their "Save the Date" cards. What a cool way to start the weekend. Enjoy! Canon T2i with Canon 24-70L lense and a Tiffen Variable Neutral Density Filter F11 ISO 100 10 seconds Spot Meter Manual Mode - Sean DeWitt
While I was relaxing after a long day of running errands with my Father,I hear him yelling for me. He just finished up planting his Double-Knockout Rose. Once I stepped outside,the sun blinded me. I felt the heat against my brown skin,while hearing birds chirping. I stood there for a couple of minutes,enjoying the scenery. When it comes to my camera,I always carry it with me. Suddenly,I walked off my porch to feel the grass underneath my bare feet. "I'll be back,I need something to drink." - My dad said as he walked into the house. I took that time to get random shots of his newly planted rose and when that's when I noticed Spring was finally here. The smell of the flowers,the honey bees buzzing in my ears,and even my father working in the yard. That's how I knew Spring was finally here. Taken with my Nikon D40 with my 18-55MM lens,F/5.6,ISO Speed at 200 at 1/100 of a second. - Shateria Davis
When I read this challenge I immediately thought of the pink blossoms popping up all over town as they always signify spring to me. The house next door is vacant so I took this opportunity to take some shots in their yard. I had been wanting to get some shots of this pretty pink tree they have out front, but when I went back to the computer the images felt a little static. The shot of the berries is the only one I took, but in the end I found it the most intriguing. The berries look like they have so much potential and have been waiting on spring to arrive. The thin thread connecting in the lower right corner was just a happy accident and left me wondering what little critter created it. I took this shot with my Nikon D90 using the 18-105mm kit lens at 105mm for shallow depth of field. Settings: f/6.3 for 1/80sec at ISO 200. - Sonal Patel
I was at the Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden hoping to capture the beauty of some gorgeous tulips, but they were completely damaged from the rain. I found some poppies growing along the sides of the garden and conveniently a bee was gathering pollen in one of them. I am so scared of bees, but I decided to just go for it. I took several angles and decided that this was the best one. Shot using a Nikon D40 with an ISO of 800, f7.1, 1/2000 seconds, @200 mm. - Stacy Repin
Here's my entry for the Photo Challenge; taken with a Nikon D700, AF-S Micro Nikkor 105 mm f/2.8G ED, ISO 200, stopped down to f/9 to maintain a certain depth of field. There's no big story to this shot: I was looking for a subject, and the one I decided for was all over the lawn of our house: daisies! So I picked one and placed it on a tree covered with moss. I made some Adjustments in Lightroom afterwards, and this is the result. - Stefan Janisch
This was shot in Scotland beside Stirling Castle. The hills in the background hold The Wallace Monument. There are daffodils blooming all around, this one in particular stood out for some reason. Scotland has enjoyed a week of unseasonable warmth - unfortunately, while I've been working. I wanted to enjoy my days off in the early Summer sensation before the rain comes back to ruin the fun. Canon T2i Lens Canon EF-S 18-55mm 1/2000 sec F3.5 ISO 100 - Steve Giblin
It was the first day that it hasn't been rainy since you've posted the contest here. Me and my wife were driving her route to her new job and checking out the local shops and places of interest. I just got done going around a tiny roundabout in a parking lot really fast for the third time when she told me to stop and she was going to be sick. I parked in a spot, let her gather herself, and noticed that there were a bunch of fully bloomed tulips in the middle of the roundabout so I grabbed my Nikon D7000 that was in the back seat and put on a 50mm 1.8 and hopped in the middle of it. A couple cars drove by and probably wondered what I was doing laying down in the middle of a parking lot circle, but oh well... Settings were 1.8 for 1/3200s at ISO 320. - Tony Adams
Thinking that the challenge is going to be flooded with macro shots of flowers, I thought I'd try and get some spring colors from another source - the first really colorful, beautiful sunset of the season. This was shot on my Canon Rebel TI and a Rokinon 35mm lens with one of my last frames on my last roll of Kodak Ektachrome E100VS and thought it was very apt - the first sunset of spring as Kodak is sunsetting Ektachrome. I set up my tripod on Alki beach in West Seattle, hit the 10 second timer and scrambled for the very relaxed pose you see there. - Tony Case
Spring in DC is my favorite time of year. The cherry blossoms are in full bloom and the tulips have come out to say hi. I shot this with my Canon T3i using a 50mm lens at ISO 100, 1/800sec and using f-1.8. - Tracy Miller
I happened to have the fortune of having great spring weather come early where I live. It had been a warm winter so I wasn't surprised. I had been very stressed in school since we are coming up to the end of the semester, so all my projects are coming up. For stress relief, I started taking shots of all of the cherry blossoms and flowers that were starting to bloom on campus. Spring flowers have come to be such a great comfort to me. Seeing the campus in green, pink, yellow, purple and blue is a stark contrast from the all white winter. It almost makes finals and projects ok, until I realize that I have spent all of my study time shooting... Shot with my Canon T2i 50mm f/1.8 lens at f/8 ISO 100 1/320 sec - Trey Mortensen
I was working on a project where I was shooting both the beautiful Texas Bluebonnets in the foreground and capturing the sign of the business behind them. The Train just happened to be there when I went, and the car with the hole in it perfectly situated for the sign to be seen through it, so I rolled with it! In this shot, the sign was too blurry to be used for the business, but this shot still looked great in my opinion. I took this with my Canon T1i with the Canon 55-250 f/4-5.6 IS lens attached. Focal Length: 55mm SS 1/250 f/8 ISO 100. - Ty Tamlyn
It just finished raining here in Milwaukee, WI. So I decided to hop outside with my Nikon D7K/D7000 and my Nikon 50mm 1.8D and do a little testing with my speedlight, I look down and I see these beautiful tulips that just had just sprung up, and had to be captured!! So I'm there with my camera and mud soaked shorts trying to get this shot and finally captured this! I call this picture "The Water Tulips" NIKON D7000 Lens: Nikon 50mm 1.8D Speedlight: Nikon SB-700 Focal Length: 50mm Shutter Speed: 1/250 sec Aperture: f/5.6 ISO/Film: 200 - Vallen Gillett
I had just borrowed my friends extension tubes to introduce myself to macro photography for a weekend. (I didn't even know about this contest at that point.) I was frustratingly trying to shoot flowers in the backyard and this guy lands right next to me! I slowly move into position and start popping shots hoping one of them would come out. One did! Canon T3i, 50mm lens, ISO 320, 1/250 second, extension tubes. No touching up. - Wade Bishop
I'm sitting at my desk on a sunny Friday afternoon browsing Gizmodo (hey who isn't?) and see the Shooting Challenge. "I should do some of these," I think to myself. Usually I am too lazy or forget about the challenges. Not today, because the subject is Spring and there is a tree with purple/pink stuff all over it outside my window. If a blossoming tree isn't Spring, well, what are any of us doing here? I wanted to use my 50mm 1.4 because it makes great images, but the field of view would be too wide. So it'll have to be the Tokina, a relic left over from my first camera, the EOS Elan. Which means it doesn't always work on newer camera bodies (lots of ER99). It's the zoomiest thing in my bag right now, though. So a little bit of error frustration later, I find a setting that both camera and lens are willing to use and get in on the blossoms. I like abstraction. The closer I can make a real life object look like a Pollock painting while still looking like a recognizable object, the better. Balance and movement, color and flow. Sweet, I got the shot. It's RAW so I fiddle with it a little in PS. Nothing dramatic, just a little basic house-keeping. I believe in the sanctity of the original image. And there it is. Canon 30D Tokina 70-210mm (used at 210) ISO 250 A/V: F/5.6 1/500s - Wesley Schulze


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This coat has a story behind it. This was my first winter coat that I ever bought. I saw this jacket back in the day when Banana Republic first launched their petites line. At the time, there were only two stores in the US that carried petites, New York City and San Francisco. I was too scared to order online, so it was quite serendipitous when one of my old high school friends emailed me and asked if I wanted to come visit her at Rutgers University up in New Jersey. What a perfect opportunity to stop by the Banana Republic store right?
On my second or third day up in New Jersey, we took the train into the city and walked into the two-story store. At the time, it was the first time I had walked in to a two-story store of any kind and it was definitely more than impressive. I found my jacket and it was just like it looked online! I was super excited and tried it on instantly. It fit like a glove. You can imagine my excitement! I think I ended up wearing it non-stop the rest of the weekend. Surprisingly enough, this jacket is only a XSP. I don't think BR had XXSP at the time even! So I suppose this is vanity sizing at its best. Either way, call me little red riding hood (minus the hood). ^_^
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Around every corner is a new grief. A fresh loss, a new way to feel the tragedy. When he left, a whole world went with him. Scenes from what might have been keep playing in my mind's eye, like an outtakes reel, the alternative ending. A baby boy's coat cuts my breath. The realization that they will do an autopsy sickens.
Thursday, March 27, 2014
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Around every corner is a new grief. A fresh loss, a new way to feel the tragedy. When he left, a whole world went with him. Scenes from what might have been keep playing in my mind's eye, like an outtakes reel, the alternative ending. A baby boy's coat cuts my breath. The realization that they will do an autopsy sickens.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
What Came Before
The ultrasound -- the anatomy scan -- was last Tuesday. It was supposed to be today. We moved it up a week because a scary test result told us to. I guess this was our clue.
At my 16-week OB visit, just two short weeks ago, I waited an hour for a five-minute visit with the doctor. She told me to stop worrying about miscarriage. We scheduled a c-section. She listened to the galloping heartbeat. It was the last time we'd hear it.
She asked me if my MFM was doing an AFP (alpha feto-protein) test. Since this was a PGD embryo, we'd decided not to do the chromosomal testing. But the AFP was for neural tube defects. So I agreed to it, and although I always welcome something new to google, I didn't think a single thing of it. Until I got a call, late Friday afternoon, from my MFM.
The call was odd because the OB had run the test, but it turned out my OB had called my MFM about the result -- which didn't seem like a good sign. She told me my AFP was high. How high, I said. She launched into some explanation about medians and multiples, that mine was 3.6 and they want to see below 2.5, and I wanted to scream that I am an English major and I do not speak Math. By then, I was shivering like a small dog, which is my body's natural response to hearing possibly scary news about my baby at 4:30 p.m. on a Friday afternoon, when there is nothing to do but google and worry all weekend.
I was told it could be a neural tube defect, like Spina Bifida, or another anatomical defect. Or a placenta issue. Or absolutely nothing. I researched the heck out of it. Learned about Multiples of Median. Read medical journal articles and MFM texts. I found out that early bleeding from a subchorionic hematoma or placental lakes, both of which I had, could contribute to a high AFP. That felt hopeful, but also a little too easy. I chose to ignore the part about high AFP pointing to fetal demise.
I couldn't sleep Monday night. By the time I walked into the ultrasound on Tuesday, I thought we'd hear some kind of news. Maybe some correctable stomach issue, or a minor form of Spina Bifida (which seemed incredibly unlikely given my religious folic acid consumption). Maybe, and this seemed much more likely given my history, a placental issue that could be scary but somehow manageable. Here's the paradox: Although I always, always expected, every time I walked into any appointment, that they might tell me the worst had happened, the truth is that last Tuesday, no heartbeat was the last thing I thought we'd hear.
The doctors seemed surprised that I was so anxious about the high AFP. It was confusing, because they told me it was probably nothing, even as they felt the need to alert me before the weekend, when we couldn't verify anything until the following week. Maybe they didn't get it because these doctors are new to me and my story -- they haven't previously been along for the tough slog, when too many times I have fallen squarely on the wrong side of the odds in my favor.
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Sunday, March 23, 2014
F You, Universe
My milk is coming in.
I am told to bind with two sports bras, use frozen peas or ice in my bra, and take Motrin. Apparently the drug they used to give women to turn off the milk made for no one ended up giving some of those women strokes.
I don't know if I can ever trust anyone or anything again -- can ever accept that there is real beauty, or pleasure, without pain -- knowing that such a betrayal can be allowed to exist in this world.
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Saturday, March 22, 2014
Fetal Demise
I wanted her to stop scanning. I almost stood up and had her start over. It seemed like if she did, maybe something would change and she wouldn't say the words I knew were about to come out. Maybe we'd stop hurtling toward the cliff we were all about to fall off, together. It didn't look right. The screen was still. She looked too long.
I said, "Is there a heartbeat?"
She said, she gasped, "No."
And even though I expected her to say it, the room turned, slowed. It was a dream, a reel of film. It couldn't be real life.
I said, "Take H. out of here." I begged her to look again. Even though I knew she wouldn't see anything different. She ran and got the doctor. I measured 16 weeks 6 days. It should have been 17 weeks 5 days. It happened sometime late last week, she said. She couldn't tell me why.
I let them scan my poor baby some more. I let them look for clues. And even though my most searing pain was for my boys, the one that was lost and the ones in the waiting room, I knew we were in it together, he and I. Because when he died, a part of me went with him.
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Saturday, March 8, 2014
Eating for Two
This is what it's like to be pregnant: You are governed by the whims of your body, every minute of every day. You might be sitting there, minding your own business like a normal person, and then you are gripped with the sudden, visceral understanding that you must have a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup right this very minute, or someone is going to pay. Never mind that you just ate your first lunch an hour ago. You will literally knock over loved ones who innocently stand in the path between you and that grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup. But then you decide that the husband you almost knocked down on your way to the kitchen makes better grilled cheese sandwiches than you do, so you threaten to cry if he won't make you one. And can I get an amen on this: No husband wants to deal with a crying wife.
So he makes you the sandwich and you inhale your "second lunch" in two seconds flat. And you feel better, but you know that is short lived. Soon enough, you'll be hungry again and you'll have to think really hard about what you want to eat, because there are only approximately five things on the planet that you like to eat right now. Right now, these things for me are: the aforementioned grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup combination, egg salad, chicken salad, Chipotle burrito bowls and the kind of salad you get from a pizza place, with the mix of iceberg and dark lettuces and the light Italian dressing you can somehow only procure from Italian restaurants and pizza joints. I could drink that dressing right now. Oh and, because I love to be a cliche, pickles. Little gherkin pickles mostly, especially the little gherkins called cornichons, whose name makes me feel fancy and French, and slightly less disgusting when I eat the entire jar in one sitting. Okay, that is an exaggeration. Most of the jar.
The other day, I ate two entire boxes of Annie's shells and cheese. I wish I were kidding. I had one box and then I realized it hadn't even made a dent, so I made another. I told myself I would just have a few more bites, but that was a farce: I inhaled the entire box faster than I had the first, I think because it seemed like if I ate the whole box quickly, it would be like it didn't happen. Believe it or not, that actually made sense to me at the time. Anyway I ate these two boxes and I felt exactly as you'd imagine I would feel after inhaling two boxes of pasta with rehydrated cheese. With respect to Annie's, I cannot recommend this on a regular basis.
The good news is, I also crave fruits and vegetables. This is a statement that, were it coming out of the mouth of someone like, say, pregnant Gisele, would fill me with irrational rage. But it's really, truly true. Sometimes the cravings I have are for kale chips or roasted broccoli, or an orange or mango. So at least there's that along with the kid food (I also crave bagel pizzas).
And although I am stuffing my food folder on Pinterest with sinful looking dessert pins with the full and real intention of going on a dessert bender after delivery, for right now I am using every iota of willpower I can muster in my Advanced Maternal Age bones to avoid processed sugar. Literally the only "treats" I have had since we did the transfer are bowls of Honey Bunches of Oats (the only cereal I've ever eaten in quantity without growing tired of it) and banana bread I make with less than half the called-for sugar (Have you ever made banana bread with this recipe? If not, please do it soon.). That's it. No chocolate. No nougat. No fun. I am trying to avoid the carb/hormone cycle of PCOS by cutting down sugar, just as I did with H., which is possibly mostly unnecessary, but I'm doing it anyway, for the same reason that I also switched to natural bath products (another post for another day). It's called taking things to the extreme, and I was born to do it.
So all in all, I'm eating when I'm hungry, and eating some good, some not so good, but I think the sum total of all of this (particularly reducing refined sugar) is that so far, all the weight I've gained in my 16 weeks of pregnancy is right in my little bump. I'm hoping I can keep this up -- I mean in the scheme of things, who cares, but bouncing back more quickly this time might be a nice little bonus.
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Jim Balsillie always seemed ready to pick a fight. RIM's other co-CEO and co-founder, Mike Laziridis, always seemed ready for a hug. Their yin and yang drove an unmistakable passion within and around RIM, helping to build it into a company worth more than $70 billion not long ago. As with so many companies that become a defining force for an industry, however, that passion also came with blind spots exploited by other upstarts.
What RIM needs now isn't just new leadership. It also needs new blood and fresh thinking, attributes it still lacks following Sunday's CEO shakeup. The co-founders are out, kicked into board-level positions. Their replacement, Thorsten Heins, a four-year company insider who previously was CTO of Siemens' Communications Division, has the resume and confidence for the job. But Heins has little new to add--practically by his own admission ("I don't think there is a drastic change needed," he said in a call with analysts early Monday).
Over the past two years, RIM lost customers, revenue, market share, market cap, and investors, as it miscalculated the popularity of new business models for smartphones in North America--one that involved media consumption, rather than e-mail. The investors drove this week's leadership change, but apparently they're less than impressed with the successor, as RIM's share price plunged more than 8% following Sunday's announcement.
Balsillie and Laziridis had led RIM into a quandary--the market leader turned industry whipping post--but they had a plan for pulling it out. It included a much better lineup of phones, new programs for developers, and acquisitions of companies such as TAT (displays and graphic user experience expertise), QNX (industrial-strength operating systems), and Ubitexx (multiplatform mobile device management). Their plan also included an overhaul of the BlackBerry platform, to the QNX-based BlackBerry 10. But none of those changes happened fast enough, which turns out to be the story of RIM's life.
RIM failed to anticipate customer demand for a touch user experience, bigger displays, slimmer designs, and application and Web experiences that worked incredibly fast. A new RIM executive told me earlier this month that the company had been caught off guard by how quickly North American consumers turned the smartphone into a data consumption device rather than a communications platform. Unlimited data plans were largely a U.S. phenomenon, and smartphone rivals Apple, Motorola, and Samsung understood that shift early on.
RIM, a truly global company, may have had its eyes on worldwide mobile dominance to the detriment of its U.S. market opportunity. The same RIM executive told me that in Africa, India, and similar markets, BlackBerry growth is astoundingly high, mainly because its customers see BlackBerry Messenger as a way to bypass texting on expensive data plans.
RIM's difficulties wooing developers are notorious. I spoke with a RIM product manager about its developer problem several years ago, and he said the company was busy turning things around, but he offered no evidence. I've heard the same story every year since. A glimmer of hope came at RIM's most recent developer conference, where executives unveiled some of the grassroots training programs it has begun worldwide. RIM continues to extend support for myriad programming tools, trying to reach developers where they live. It sounds, at once, hopeful and desperate.
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Michel Houellebecq, whose novels deal with themes like sado-masochism, molecular biology and cloning, has gone missing according to his publisher. Houellebecq, who also wrote a biography of H.P. Lovecraft, was scheduled to appear for a reading tour in the Netherlands and Belgium, but he never showed up.
Piet Joostens, who organized Houellebecq's reading tour, told Bloomberg:
I wouldn't panic yet. We have no concrete evidence that he is a missing person. Of course we are worried. It has happened before that he doesn't answer e-mails, but it is rare for him not to show up to meet his public.
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I'm pretty picky about clam chowder. First of all, it should taste like clams, as if the juices from the bivalves have really contributed something. The broth should be at least as clammy as it is creamy, and it should never be gluey or pasty. There should be tender pieces of clams, too, and the whole thing needs to be seasoned properly. Suffice it to say, I'm often disappointed.
But as Erin and I roadtripped our way down the Oregon coast, we stopped in at Ecola Seafoods for a cup of chowder (and some smoked mussels and some salmon fish and chips, because we never just stop anywhere for a single food item) and found that the unassuming little cup truly impressed us.
The secret: instead of using chunks of potatoes, they shred them to help thicken the soup. The texture ends up rich but not heavy, hearty but not overwhelming. It tastes deeply clammy, not fatty or starchy. There's a sprinkle of paprika on top for color, and it's well-seasoned throughout. The soup, which is made fresh every day, has an inviting, savory aroma, and big chunks of sweet and tender clams. It's pretty much everything I'd ask for in a chowder, and I'll be back for more.
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Word from Michael Allen is that demolition is already underway (possibly completed?).
RIP 4608 Washington Blvd. Next time, we need to act more quickly. In the meantime, contacting Bowood Farms (314-454-6868) would be a good way of letting them know this is not a sound business practice and a terrible way to sustain the Central West End. Also, make sure to let Terry Kennedy, alderman for this area, know that you support extending the Central West End local historic district onto Washington Boulevard so that this does not happen again! Why do you support this?
Because you do not want a bifurcated Central West End, where half of the neighborhood suffers from blight and vacancy, and where the other half is active, lively, urban, and diverse.
Mr. Kennedy has communicated that his constituents are not as concerned with preservation as those that often email him. He has said that the African American residents of this portion of the neighborhood believe there is a social divide between these two halves. Today, that divide has grown stronger and more visible.
Demolishing historic buildings when sound alternatives exist is senseless.
For more background on this issue, see my March Archive, which contains several posts on this matter.
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Posted: Sat 21 Nov 2009, 15:57
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latest and greatest - jan 2010
kernel 126.96.36.199, under 125 megs, fixed lots of stuff.
* spdp-451.iso ae35ce929a811073c1f68698771df8ac
* spdp_devx_451.sfs 1606d8e670c21f3c468716dd94d0608b
Puppy Linux based on Slackware 12.2
kernel 22.214.171.124, about 125 megs. im calling this alpha 3. if your afraid of alphas, go ahead and call it a beta if that makes you happy.
alpha 4 is on the way using the woof tarball that bk released yesterday. i would like to use a different kernel.......easier said than done.
devx from alpha 1, it should work fine
one may need to rename it to devx_451.sfs
kernel sources
some md5s
dea85f809ab969ed2f04433b4c6d8f7a spup-451.iso
0d58b111643d90d661b73eec94fddb7e devx_432a
pet for zpm and pkgtools. to install txz(slackware current) and tlz(zenwalk) packages.
if you want to read a little about the development, the thread is here
i know filefactory is not ideal, but it works for me. scroll to the bottom of the page, click download now, scroll down again and wait 30 seconds.
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Location: wnc-usa
Posted: Sun 22 Nov 2009, 21:49
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Subject description: woo hoo !
hi plaguedogs
I've been test running spup-451 . it seems to agree with my ten year old compaq presario p3 450. Network does its usual magic loading the right module and getting me out on the net.. The firewall also does its happy little thing and protects me. what can i say ? it's running smooth and easy . There's no big strain on my 384megs ram. As for the slackware packages in puppy package manager, they install nice and easy . I like the feel of 451 and the penguin wall paper rocks . I've been running live cd cause i only got a ten gig hd ,but who knows i just might try a hd install. oh and you were right about renaming the compilers to devx-451 . They popped up in terminal just like they should. Well, won't talk your ears off , keep up the good work and rock on !
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Posted: Mon 23 Nov 2009, 00:28
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the penguin came from mandrivia, i like how it fits into the default icon layout, it seems to compliment them nicely.
if you try a full hd install, let the installer run its course....then it will freeze your desktop, or at least it does for me. ctrl+alt+backspace to a terminal.
xwin back in. unmount your target partition, and run grub from the menu.
thanks for the input.
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Location: England
Posted: Fri 27 Nov 2009, 18:34
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I went to the File Factory website: how do I download spup? Do I have to open an account? Or join?
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Posted: Sat 28 Nov 2009, 03:44
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no you dont need an account. use the link at the top of my first post.
scroll down to the bottom of the page and click "download now with file factory basic" scroll to the bottom again, there is a 30 second timer, when the timer expires, its replaced with text that reads "download with filefactory basic or upgrade to premium" click the download with basic text and the download will start.
this puplet has not generated a lot of interest, which sort of surprises me; doesn't everybody use slackware?
my next build will be 220.127.116.11 kernel, with opera, wine, psx, and some other stuff. mainly a cheated virtual box module. 188.8.131.52 src refuses to build one for me so i took one from a different install and did an "insmod" and it worked.
i will do a 18.104.22.168 or 31.5 for my other boxes, but my main machine needs 29.6. i will put these on file factory for my own convenience, but will post the links here for anyone else whos interested.
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Posted: Sat 28 Nov 2009, 04:45
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Just downloaded and planning to do a frugal install on my test box tomorrow. Looks pretty good on a quick live test run....
No problem with file factory, download worked fine.
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Posted: Sat 28 Nov 2009, 05:11
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Spup-451 Mirror...
Spup-451 devx.....
Please use wget....
Dpup Home
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Posted: Sat 28 Nov 2009, 05:55
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Thanks gposil. Even though I've used file factory, it wasn't playing well for me today. Download broke 3 times..
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Posted: Sat 28 Nov 2009, 06:29
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@Plaguedog- no, we don't all use Slackware, I don't because I could never work out how to install it. I am surprised that there is little interest. I have an extremely minimal install of Debian Lenny, (minimal because the computer crashed near the end of a full Gnome-Lenny install). It works well, boots faster than Puppy Live. BUT it is very sparse, and I can't find things like pmount in the repos- any useful little thing like that either doesn't exist, or comes as part of Gnome/KDE. One thing that strikes me is that the Debian people do like to customise apps, whereas I understand that Slackware use apps in their native state, which I reckon should make spup easier to maintain than dpup.
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Posted: Sat 28 Nov 2009, 14:06
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Subject description: interest
hi plaguedogs
i'm still running spup 451. I agree with gerry about installing stuff from slackware. Most of the headaches of past tries have to do with dependacies or the lack of finding them . many are use to "like myself" apt-get from debian. I've been exposed to gslapt and slapt-get too however. Don't get discouraged interest in spup will grow. Remember there are other puppies running around the kennel at present both new and patched. I personally would like to learn more about spup and help where I can. I'm still in a learning curve with slackware so be patient with me
I like the feel and smoothness of spup , such things aren't easy to duplicate. I'm sure you have had many moments when you would like to bang your head against the keyboard, but just hang on. You have friends and more will show.
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Posted: Sat 28 Nov 2009, 18:30
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plaguedogs.. is that the latest md5sum? (for alpa3?)
I got "ffd7284dbd3cf91835a6356ad092911b spup-451.iso" just got from gposil's site. The filesize seems correct. I'll burn to a cd-rw and give it a spin anyway.
EDIT: (10 mins later) posting from spup-451 now.. no immediate problems. Will report more late. Nice work!
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Posted: Sat 28 Nov 2009, 18:41
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thanks for the support guys, especially gposil for hosting my iso. so im still working on getting my 188.8.131.52 built, i also have a lot on my plate in real life. i really enjoy puppy and slackware and will make time to continue this project. hopefully one day someone could look at the hacked scripts from the other thread (slackware puplet, back to the drawing board) and get a slable build from slack 13 pkgs. is everyone happy with the package manager? im not. i had to use files from a different build to make it work and its not using the repos like i want it to. on the other hand it seems to work a lot like the upup package manager, so maybe it is what it is.
im quite busy today, so ill get back to this when i can.
if you do a furgal and look at "NEWGRUBTEXT" you will notice that nosmp is passed, delete that if you have dual core. i think this is standard in puppy since the smp kernels came out.
dea85f809ab969ed2f04433b4c6d8f7a spup-451.iso is what i have.
i wonder what thats all about, maybe file factory scrambled the iso
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im really pressed for time right now but, i will dowload a copy from file factory and md5 it to see what happens, i might have to get a good copy uploaded, ill post back tonight.
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Posted: Sat 28 Nov 2009, 19:59
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Weird about the check sum, but this seems to work fine.
Immediate bugs,
Menu icons.. yes I had that before in spups but didn't fix it. Will take a look.
Pictureviewer not working. Just symlink to libpoppler-glib.so.3.0.0 with libpoppler-glib.so.4 and it works. I changed "defaultimageviewer" to fotoxx anyway.
Two menu entries for geany.. one is in utilities, it seems like a Slackware thing.
Nicoedit fails... libs and other things.
Anyway, just some things to look at before you upload the next version.
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Posted: Sun 29 Nov 2009, 22:06
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micko, your post was exactly what i was looking for. funny thing, i had that libpoppler thing fixed in my early builds, i guess i overlooked it this time around. epdfview will be broken too, but should work with your aforementioned symlink
nico edit i sort of gave up on, early builds had it removed, i left it in this iso to try to force myself to fix it. i have never used it, i use geany for everything, and e3 for everything without x
as for the menu icons, they are low priority for me, but any suggestions on a fix are welcome.
ill do an alpha 4 based on this with bugfixes. the latest woof has changed a little so ill get to that another day. my personal build with an older kernel, wine opera and vbox, will get a different version name, probably spdp-45x.
i am excited to see some feedback and will do what i can to keep this going.
thanks everyone
btw, im still getting the same md5 as i always did,
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Posted: Mon 30 Nov 2009, 02:04
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hi plaguedogs
funny that md5sum issue, anyway let's not worry too much about that.
I'll see if I can find some other niggly bugs and let you know, and if I can, fix them too
I do like the wallpapers you included.
Looking forward to the next beta. BTW, contact gposil and I'm sure you'll be able to upload directly to gposil.com. We don't mind using wget to download.
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It's been a busy few weeks for Kyle Schwarber. Drafted by the Cubs in early June, goes to Boise and demolishes the pitching there, now he finds himself at Kane County, and he continues to mash. Schwarber is slugging with the best of them right now, and tonight was no different as he went 2-for-3 with a double, his first Low A home run, a walk, an RBI, and two runs scored.
Schwarber is now 15-for-26 as a professional ballplayer, that includes two doubles, a triple, five home runs, and twelve RBI… good Lord.
Video of the home run coming as soon as it is available. We will be at the Cougars game on Sunday, I will get plenty of pictures.


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