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Couple of other things to help stimulate the thinking:
1. it isn't that OMPI -couldn't- receive a message, but rather that it -didn't- receive a message. This may or may not indicate that there is a problem. Could just be an application that doesn't need to communicate for awhile, as per my example. I admit, though, that 10 minutes is a tad long...but I've seen some bizarre apps around here :-)
2. instead of putting things to sleep or even adjusting the loop rate, you might want to consider using the orte_notifier capability and notify the system that the job may be stalled. Or perhaps adding an API to the orte_errmgr framework to notify it that nothing has been received for awhile, and let people implement different strategies for detecting what might be "wrong" and what they want to do about it.
My point with this second bullet is that there are other response options than hardwiring putting the process to sleep. You could let someone know so a human can decide what, if anything, to do about it, or provide a hook so that people can explore/utilize different response strategies...or both!
I understand your point of view, and mostly share it.
I think the biggest point in my example is that sleep occurs only after (I was wrong in my previous e-mail) 10 minutes of inactivity, and this value is fully configurable. I didn't intend to call sleep after 2 seconds. Plus, as said before, I planned to have the library do show_help() when this happens (something like : "Open MPI couldn't receive a message for 10 minutes, lowering pressure") so that the application that really needs more than 10 minutes to receive a message can increase it.
Looking at the tick rate code, I couldn't see how changing it would make CPU usage drop. If I understand correctly your e-mail, you block in the kernel using poll(), is that right ? So, you may well loose 10 us because of that kernel call, but this is a lot less than the 1 ms I'm currently loosing with usleep. This makes sense - although being hard to implement since all btl must have this ability.
Thanks for your comments, I will continue to think about it.
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Ralph Castain wrote:
My concern with any form of sleep is with the impact on the proc - since opal_progress might not be running in a separate thread, won't the sleep apply to the process as a whole? In that case, the process isn't free to continue computing._______________________________________________
I can envision applications that might call down into the MPI library and have opal_progress not find anything, but there is nothing wrong. The application could continue computations just fine. I would hate to see us put the process to sleep just because the MPI library wasn't busy enough.
Hence my suggestion to just change the tick rate. It would definitely cause a higher latency for the first message that arrived while in this state, which is bothersome, but would meet the stated objective without interfering with the process itself.
LANL has also been looking at this problem of stalled jobs, but from a different approach. We monitor (using a separate job) progress in terms of output files changing in size plus other factors as specified by the user. If we don't see any progress in those terms over some time, then we kill the job. We chose that path because of the concerns expressed above - e.g., on our RR machine, intense computations can be underway on the Cell blades while the Opteron MPI processes wait for us to reach a communication point. We -want- those processes spinning away so that, when the comm starts, it can proceed as quickly as possible.
Just some thoughts...
On Jun 9, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Terry Dontje wrote:
Sylvain Jeaugey wrote:
Hi Ralph,One way around this is to make all blocked communications (even SM) to use poll to block for incoming messages. ĀJeff and I have discussed this and had many false starts on it. ĀThe biggest issue is coming up with a way to have blocks on the SM btl converted to the system poll call without requiring a socket write for every packet.
I'm entirely convinced that MPI doesn't have to save power in a normal scenario. The idea is just that if an MPI process is blocked (i.e. has not performed progress for -say- 5 minutes (default in my implementation), we stop busy polling and have the process drop from 100% CPU usage to 0%.
I do not call sleep() but usleep(). The result if quite the same, but is less hurting performance in case of (unexpected) restart.
However, the goal of my RFC was also to know if there was a more clean way to achieve my goal, and from what I read, I guess I should look at the "tick" rate instead of trying to do my own delaying.
The usleep solution works but is kind of ugly IMO. ĀI think when I looked at doing that the overhead increased signifcantly for certain communications. ĀMaybe not for toy benchmarks but for less synchronized processes I saw the usleep adding overhead where I didn't want it too.
Don't worry, I was quite expecting the configure-in requirement. However, I don't think my patch is good for inclusion, it is only an example to describe what I want to achieve.
Thanks a lot for your comments,
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Ralph Castain wrote:
I'm not entirely convinced this actually achieves your goals, but I can see some potential benefits. I'm also not sure that power consumption is that big of an issue that MPI needs to begin chasing "power saver" modes of operation, but that can be a separate debate some day._______________________________________________
I'm assuming you don't mean that you actually call "sleep()" as this would be very bad - I'm assuming you just change the opal_progress "tick" rate instead. True? If not, and you really call "sleep", then I would have to oppose adding this to the code base pending discussion with others who can corroborate that this won't cause problems.
Either way, I could live with this so long as it was done as a "configure-in" capability. Just having the params default to a value that causes the system to behave similarly to today isn't enough - we still wind up adding logic into a very critical timing loop for no reason. A simple configure option of --enable-mpi-progress-monitoring would be sufficient to protect the code.
On Jun 8, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Sylvain Jeaugey wrote:
What : when nothing has been received for a very long time - e.g. 5 minutes, stop busy polling in opal_progress and switch to a usleep-based one.
Why : when we have long waits, and especially when an application is deadlock'ed, detecting it is not easy and a lot of power is wasted until the end of the time slice (if there is one).
Where : an example of how it could be implemented is available at http://bitbucket.org/jeaugeys/low-pressure-opal-progress/
opal_progress() ensures the progression of MPI communication. The current algorithm is a loop calling progress on all registered components. If the program is blocked, the loop will busy-poll indefinetely.
Going to sleep after a certain amount of time with nothing received is interesting for two things :
- Administrator can easily detect whether a job is deadlocked : all the processes are in sleep(). Currently, all processors are using 100% cpu and it is very hard to know if progression is still happening or not.
- When there is nothing to receive, power usage is highly reduced.
However, it could hurt performance in some cases, typically if we go to sleep just before the message arrives. This will highly depend on the parameters you give to the sleep mechanism.
At first, we can start with the following assumption : if the sleep takes T usec, then sleeping after 10000xT should slow down Receives by a factor less than 0.01 %.
However, other processes may suffer from you being late, and be delayed by T usec (which may represent more than 0.01% for them).
So, the goal of this mechanism is mainly to detect far-too-long-waits and should quite never be used in normal MPI jobs. It could also trigger a warning message when starting to sleep, or at least a trace in the notifier.
Details of Implementation
Three parameters fully control the behaviour of this mechanism :
* opal_progress_sleep_count : number of unsuccessful opal_progress() calls before we start the timer (to prevent latency impact). It defaults to -1, which completely deactivates the sleep (and is therefore equivalent to the former code). A value of 1000 can be thought of as a starting point to enable this mechanism.
* opal_progress_sleep_trigger : time to wait before going to low-pressure-powersave mode. Default : 600 (in seconds) = 10 minutes.
* opal_progress_sleep_duration : time we sleep at each further unsuccessful call to opal_progress(). Default : 1000 (in us) = 1 ms.
The duration is big enough to make the process show 0% CPU in top, but low enough to preserve a good trigger/duration ratio.
The trigger is voluntary high to keep a good trigger/duration ratio. Indeed, to prevent delays from causing chain reactions, trigger should be higher than duration * numprocs.
Possible Improvements & Pitfalls
* Trigger could be set automatically at max(trigger, duration * numprocs * 2).
* poll_start and poll_count could be fields of the opal_condition_t struct.
* The sleep section may be exported in a #define and reported in all the progress pathes (I'm not sure my patch is good for progress threads for example)
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It seems that most introductory books on elliptic curves simply state the definition of the j-invariant of an elliptic curve without giving any background on how that definition was conceived. Of course, for moduli reasons, it is clear why one might want such an invariant, but the actual formula has always seemed quite mysterious to me. Does anyone know of a nice self-contained source that explains the definition of the j-invariant?
Actually, Ravi Vakil's notes give a great reason (modulo the strange constant out front). This explanation is given somewhere in the Foundations of Algebraic Geometry notes here http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/preprints.html#coursenotes. I'm just going off memory, so don't attribute any errors I make to him.
Notice that once you prove that every elliptic curve has an affine model given by $y^2=x(x-1)(x-\lambda)$, then you know the $j$-invariant has to be independent of the different $\lambda$ you get by permuting.
You can just explicitly work it out that the six choices of lambda then are $\lambda, \frac{1}{\lambda}, 1-\lambda, \frac{1}{1-\lambda}, \frac{\lambda}{\lambda -1}, \frac{\lambda -1}{\lambda}$.
Some obvious first choices for an invariant with respect to all of these is to multiply them all together. You get $1$, oops, that isn't a good invariant since it not only doesn't depend on the choice of $\lambda$, but also is independent of curve. So you could also try adding them all, oops again, they come in pairs each adding to $1$, so they add to $3$.
So let's try the next best thing which is to sum the squares. If you check, this is exactly the $j$ invariant (but without the constant which is stuck in for characteristic $2$ reasons).
The $j$-invariant has the following classical interpretation.
Consider a model $E\subset{\Bbb P}^2$ of the elliptic curve (one knows that $E$ is a cubic). Let $P\in E$. There are 4 lines through $P$ that are tangent to $E$ and one can show that the set of cross-ratios $c$ of these 4 lines are independent of $P$. Then $$ j=\frac{(c^2-c+1)^3}{c^2(c-1)^2} $$ is invariant under the 24 permutations of the 4 tangents (which give up to 6 different values of the cross-ratio) and is the $j$-invariant of the elliptic curve, up to normalization.
When the curve $E$ is given in Legendre form $y^2=x(x-1)(x-\lambda)$ the formula for the $j$-invariant is obtained taking $P$ the point at infinity and the 4 tangents the line at infinity and the lines $x=0$, $x=1$ and $x=\lambda$.

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Hey guys, I just wanted to know wether it is posssible to pass geocoords to the google maps app bis intents or something similar.
I wrote an app for displaying route, coords and so on by myself, but wouldn't it be more elegant to ask google maps itself for displaying this?
I don't know if this is possible, but maybe, one of you can answer this question.
IF THIS IS POSSIBLE, is it also possible to ask google maps to calculate the route by my CURRENT POSITION?
It would be great if one of you can show me a skeleton/dummy code. I have no idea how the intents would have to look like.
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I have attached an 8085 Simulator that I had created during my college days. I hope somebody finds it useful. Also attached are some sample 8085 programs which were used for testing the simulator.
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The 8085 Simulator was written in Delphi, the source code is attached to this post.
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hey its really good stuff......but can you please give the details of this project. I hav to make the same project for my final sem. thnx
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18 Jan 2012 1:28 AM #1
App works in browser, not on iPhone + clearIcon bug
I have this very simple app. Just a view with a docked toolbar and two textfields. The bug is the textfields. I added "clearIcon: false", because they seemed to be enabled by default. But they are still visible..
Another thing which isn't working on the iPhone is selecting a textfield. I keep pressing on a textfield, but the keyboard never pops up (just some times..). So the textfield is never selected for some reason. I don't have this issue in a webbrowser like chrome. This only occurs when a passwordfield is added. When i leave the passwordfield out, then the other textfields repsond normally.
Another big issue is that when i add a textfield, it is automatically placed inside a fieldset...
I added my www directory incase anyone wants to take a look at it.
I'm using the latest Sencha Touch 2 version: 2.0.0 pr3
In my app i'm using the sencha-touch-all.js file.
BTW, i also had to apply this fix in order to make it work for both the browser and iPhone(PhoneGap).
PHP Code:
scope: scope
//if (Ext.browser.is.PhoneGap) { <-- not working
if (Ext.os.deviceType != 'Desktop' && Ext.browser.is.PhoneGap) {
if (!Ext.readyListenerAttached) {
Ext.readyListenerAttached = true;
So to sum up:
1. clearIcon is always visible, even when clearIcon: is explicitly set tot false.
2. Strange behaviour with multiple fields. Almost impossible to edit a field when another text/passwordfield is added
3. When adding text/password fields, they are automatically wrapped in a fieldset....
4. Needed to add the fix in order to make it work in both the webbrowser and iPhone/PhoneGap
18 Jan 2012 7:12 AM #2
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18 Jan 2012 7:31 AM #3
All the other problems remain. Like that my textfields are automatically placed in some sort of fieldset, and the fact that i can't hide the clearIcon buttons. This happends on all iOS versions 4.x up to 5.x.
If you need a fully working copy of my project (including PhoneGap) for xcode, then please let me know.
18 Jan 2012 12:49 PM #4
Heh, i have the exact same problem... Hopefully this will be fixed in the next release.
19 Jan 2012 4:27 AM #5
I wonder if this is till under your attention? I provided the needed info, but it's still on "INFOREQ" and i don't think i'm able to change it to another state.
19 Jan 2012 9:07 AM #6
Looks like we have what we need now, thanks.
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I bought the NN5 last week from 360 Tactical and I took the day off today to set it up with a few of my lenses.
The Sigma 10-20mm lens is set up and working great, along with the Nikon 50mm F1.8.
The issue I am having is with the Nikon 24-70mm f2.8 Lens.
It looks like I need to push the camera back another inch or so on the upper rail, but it will not go any further back for the 24mm setup.
The D300s camera is in vertical orientation.
I have a long thin wooden dowel standing upright. About 3 feet back against a white wall is a red dot which is place exactly behind the tip of the dowel. The dowel is about a quarter of an inch wide.
With the camera slid to the furthest point on the upper rail, and when I rotate to the right there is still a shift of the red dot to the right behind the dowel.
Looking through the viewfinder, when I rotate left and the dowel and red dot move to the right, the dot has moved from behind the dowel when I get to the edge of the frame. The same when I go the other way.
It looks like I need another inch, or inch and a half to hit the correct point.
I know my 70-200mm will be ok if I try it as it has a mount on the lens to push it back, but am I doing something wrong with the 24-70mm, or it is simply not a recommended lens?
By the way, why is there a mark to 160mm on the upper rail when the mount will not push back that far?


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Is there a travel guide exist that would cover a number of countries and only list some general information about travelling there? E.g. what are the main attractions (with photos and pictures), and some really basic information about the country. It would make planning much easier if one could just sit on the sofa and flick through a book, look at the pictures and decide on the next destination. Then I would buy a more detailed guide (like Lonelyplanet or Rough Guide etc.)
I only know one book that does exactly what you want. It is from the famous Lonely Planet and is called The Travel Book: A Journey Through every Country in the World. It consists of one or two pages per country and describes the most important facts as well as the major sights as well as sometimes how to get there and any other special information.
Here is the Amazon description of the boo (from Amazon Germany, but the book is in English):
If you want slightly more detailed information about countries, Lonely Planet does overview guides such as South-East Asia on a budget and other similar titles. This way, if you have narrowed down a region you're interested in travelling in then these books contain enough information on each destination to narrow down places of interest and basic information on costs for activities and accommodation. I found this highly useful for planning. Get an old second used book, it will be cheaper and you can still find out what places to go to; the cost information etc you can get in more detail once you buy a country guide on it.
As an alternative to a paper travel guide or book, Awespot might be a good place to start.
It's a collaborative travel guide (as WikiTravel for example) but browsable differently: you can check out pictures at random and explore the world map as you will, so you can compare very rapidly different travel destinations.
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In many articles I read the term "crossover phenomena" and a lot of methodology discussed according to it, with little or no description about what is meant by it. Sometimes there is a connection to networks, matrices, and then to other structures of elements. Can someone describe the concept of the phenomena?
"Crossover" is a general term describing a situation when a system can go from being in one phase to being in another phase as a certain parameter is changed.
The best example of a "crossover" phenomenon I can think of is the BEC-BCS crossover which occurs in cold Fermi gases. There one can tune the scattering length $a$ for pairwise interactions to go from being positive to negative. For $a < 0$ bound states can form and we get a BCS state (Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer) due to formation of Cooper pairs. As $a$ is tuned to go from being negative to positive the system "crosses over" from being a BCS to a BEC (Bose-Einstein Condensate).
It is fashionable jargon, suitable for Humpty-Dumpty:
Gluzman and Yukalov describe it as being like a function in an interval where, although the behaviour of the function is qualitatively different in the vicinity of the different boundaries of the interval, the function is continuous and there is no identifiable phase transition point.


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The ratio of markup to content in a beamer presentation is fairly high relative to a standard LaTeX document. What strategies do you use for speeding up the task of typing and editing beamer presentations?
These are some of the things I do
Emacs Org-Mode makes it possible to write Beamer presentations with almost no LaTeX markup. You make a normal Org outline, then use the Beamer export for Org to create a tex file with the markup you want. Of course, if you want to do more than the basics you'll eventually have to use some LaTeX, but even then Org makes it much easier.
Here's an orgmode/Beamer tutorial and here's another Org/Beamer tutorial.
The above should give a taste of how it works. Reading about Orgmode may make it appear confusing and complicated, but it's one of those things that's much simpler (and amazing) once you start using it.
I would suggest checking this out even if you're an Emacs-hater. I don't care much for Emacs, much prefer Vim, but Orgmode really transforms Emacs into a killer application for certain uses. Besides having a great export to Beamer, Orgmode also can export an article-type outline into LaTeX, complete with sections and more, while having virtually no LaTeX markup in your original file. You can choose "Export to LaTeX and view PDF" in a single step. Very slick.
You've got some good answers already. Here's my 2c.
As the question says, the markup to content ratio is way higher is a beamer presentation than a "regular" document, and that cannot be avoided. Attending to the difference is the medium (page vs. screen) makes it inevitable that many choices that are better left to a TeX engine for printed content must be made by the user for the screen.
That said, the more markup, the more likely you've got a presentation using bells, whistles, and gongs in place of content. Much use of markup past frames and lists is definitely a smell for me that I need to focus on the content, not on the wizz bang of its display. Having sat through a few (a few, but enough) presentations from the land of Power Point, it seems obvious to be that a glitter or wipe slide transition doesn't stand a chance of hiding the ugly fact that the content is poor. The more "cuteness" on the screen, the harder it is to focus on the content, and, typically, the less content there is to focus upon.
So, if you are finding your beamer presentation onerous to code, your audience is likely to find it onerous to sit through. Be minimal and be clear.
One option is to use markdown with pandoc and a latex header. I document this approach here and have an example in a github repository here.
See also John MacFarlane's documentation on pandoc's support for beamer slide production.
I use otl2latex.py which converts Vim Outliner documents into TeX files ready for compiling. You can find it here.


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What is the best way to add lemon flavor to a cookie recipe? I know lemon juice is highly acidic, I don't want to throw off the PH of the dough. Is lemon extract the same way? Lemon zest? Is there a way to compensate for that?
Try using lemon zest (lemon peel shavings) and lemon or lime juice. You might try sprinkling the zest over the top of the cookies right before you put them in if you don't get enough flavor from adding it to the batter
The easiest way is just use a recipe for lemon cookies. I'm sure you can find lots of them online. If you really want to use a recipe for normal cookies (because you really like it), you could certainly add lemon extract to a regular batch. Don't add too much, the flavour is really concentrated. Since you won't use a lot of it (a teaspoon will do), the liquid:dry proportion practically won't change, but to be sure, you can cut back the milk by the amount (e.g. a teaspoon). You can also add a bit of zest without a problem.
I wouldn't add lemon juice because you're adding milk in your cookies. The milk would curdle (in some cookies that is exactly what you would want to achieve). However, you can try to add lemon juice instead of milk.
Since lemon is acidic, you would want to reduce the quantity of baking powder and add some or more baking soda to neutralize the acidity.
What I ended up doing was taking my base sugar cookie recipe and substituting soymilk for milk to prevent the curdling issue. I then divided it into four portions, putting one straight into the fridge unmodified. One portion received zest, one received juice, and one received zest plus juice. The juice cookies may have been softer than the zest cookies (but there were some issues with baking that could have caused that), but all cookies rose the same amount (not much at all, by design). Sure enough, the ones with more lemon tasted more lemony :) Thanks for the help, everyone!


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My old PCs configuration is:
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- NVidia GeForce mx-440 GPU
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Dear NN Ult M1 users,
I need your input here. Currently, the vertical rail of M1 is not long enough for zenith shot. It requires the nadir adapter to increase the head room. This is my original design intention. The nadir adapter however, is quite heavy at 160g and comes at a price ($50 in a bundle, $89.95 separately). If I make the vertical rail longer, it should weigh just 30-50g more and cost $10-$20 more than the current vertical rail for M1S and M1L.
I wonder if you will prefer a longer vertical rail instead.
Thx a lot.


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The vote had been scheduled for Thursday, but House Floor Leader Rocky Adkins said it has been postponed until Friday.
The House Committee on Local Government approved the legislation on Wednesday.
The measure sets up a system for auditing the taxing districts, which spend some $2.7 billion a year to operate rural fire departments, airports, sanitation districts, even libraries. It also would create an online database where taxpayers could review financial reports for each taxing district.
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What can be gleaned about primes from Algebraic Number Theory? I know this is too vague. What I mean is the following:
Are there several examples where Algebraic Number Theory helps to solve ancient/long-standing problems about primes?
Instances such as representibility of primes by quadratic forms 1 and the quadratic reciprocity law 2 have been suggested. What role does ANT play in the theory of prime numbers, specifically prime distribution, gaps and progressions? (Are there corresponding algebraic studies of these questions (in contract to the analytic point of view)?
I would be grateful if you point me to a survey on such topics. It doesn't hurt if the answer is No/None/Nothing, etc. Thanks.


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In Maverick, there was an option to download Flash videos from sites like YouTube, Vimeo, etc. by copying the
flashxx** file in
/tmp directory to another location before closing the window. But in Firefox 4 in Natty, this doesn't work anymore. Why?
An update to the flash plugin changed the location from
The following command lists all the flash files in your Firefox cache.
On Newer versions of ubuntu try
You can use several Firefox addons in order to extract the FLV files from many websites such as Youtube.
I'll show below how to do this MANUALLY with the latest version of the Flash plugin.
That's it! You manually recovered the Youtube video!
If you navigate to your /proc folder, you will see a bunch of folders all named numerically, including a folder which matches the number in the second field.
Now navigate to this folder, then its subfolder "fd". In this folder, you will see a whole selection of numbers. These relate to the file descriptors themselves.
Within this, the number from the fourth field will be symbolic linked to the /tmp/Flash* file we found before.
To test that this is the right file, you can run it through mplayer or vlc (
For easy way try this command in console:
The output will be something like this:
That will list all your downloaded flash streams. For that example, there are 2 flash videos from my firefox 4 browser. If you want to copy it, simply use this command:
Source: http://n00bsys0p.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/how-to-download-flash-10-2-video-streams-in-linux/
This little script would save your downloaded flash files to a custom directory.
it would then open the files in the first folder created above. Customised to include all files ( worked for mpeg and mp4) instead of only flvs.
Credits goes to http://desdecode.blogspot.com/2011/04/saving-watched-online-videos-linux.html
As far as i know this is not due to firefox nor natty, but a flash update...
You can catch the http stream with
But remember that it might not be legal, so check your local legislation...
You should use flashgot to download the videos.
Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) - Firefox 11 Instructions A modified version of chlumma1's bash script.
With a text editor, save the code below into file named "getvids.sh". Move it to the location you want to save videos. Right-click on the file, go to Properties, Change the Permissions to "Allow executing as a program".
All you have to do is click the script, select "Run in Terminal", and it will save all video files to that directory. To save the whole video, it has to be finished loading in your browser. It will save videos from almost any website, including youtube, vimeo, dailymotion, metacafe, liveleak, facebook. Just delete any video files you don't want.
(If a video you want is not getting saved, then the website is probably using a proprietary stream format that can't be saved by any cache retrieving program. Examples: Hulu, netflix, some youtube videos?) Also, VLC player is a great for watching flash videos.
Those who know a bit about the terminal can edit the first two variables and achieve a little extra functionality. Alternatively, to view the files live, you can type this in a terminal to find out where they are
PS. Also, excellent work chlumma1, but lay off the C programming style loops a bit ;)
Recent versions of the flash plugin hide the temporary file by marking it deleted. Practically the video stream is downloaded to a "deleted file". However, even when a file is deleted, if the file is opened by a process then you can find its file descriptor and consequently the file contents.
This simple script prints out the file descriptors of opened Flash videos:
And, you probably want to create a regular file from the file descriptor, for example:
Otherwise the file descriptor is not very convenient (remember, it's a deleted file!)
The method should work regardless of your browser.
Hey, this problem already existed in 10.10. So in order to solve it try this:
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I hope this will help you. Let me know if this'll work.
For a generally applicable method which works with chrome or firefox try this little program called flashcache. It copies flash videos currently being played back to the current directory.
My patch adds the option
Although not directly answering the question, I ran into the same issue and after some searching found Clipgrab which is much easier to use.
You can try this command in a terminal
follow this link (
Unless I'm really confused (don't think so), that "ewzggcll" will not be in your machine. What you will find there is a random collection of letters (and possibly numbers?) that's very likely to be unique to your Linux and Firefox installation. Nevertheless, this odd-looking random collection is important, because it's essential for getting at the cache[s].
Hope this helps! (HTH)
I use SMplayer YouTube. It comes with Smplayer that you install in ubuntu software center. It record youtube videos. very simple and easy to use.
I use
This script will do that:
Mozilla seems to change the location too frequently. Further, the name of buffer is not the same as the video, so finding out the corrent one from the heap is also difficult. So saving the cached file is not a consistent solution. If installing a desktop program is ok, ClipGrab is the best tool out there. You can
You can also use keepvid.com for many video streaming sites. It does require java to be on your machines though. Once installed simply paste in the url link and save it in a variety of formats including mp4 or WebM
easiest method is to use the "CacheViewer Continued 0.8" addon for firefox
after installing press ctrl + shift + c to open and then press show all , there after u can search for a particular cache like jpeg , flv anything ......left click on the item will give u the option to save , save it by giving the required extension like .flv for flash video and .jpeg for jpeg and vice versa
link for the addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cacheviewer-continued/?src=api
Thats still possible.
You can use the shell script from this post about how to open/play all Flash videos with VLC.
To copy all of the videos you have to replace in the last line of the script
Hope this will help you http://sahanlm.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-to-copy-google-chrome-cache-flash.html


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Are there any studies that aggregate data over a wide population of contributed code, that establish a correlation between amount of code written in a commit and the # of bugs discovered in that code ? It'd be hard to do in github without knowing whether a change was due to new functionality or a bug, but you could determine a relation between lines of code per commit and how much thrashing eventually goes on in that code.
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Is the number of bugs in a section of code proportional to the # of lines ? The square of the # of lines ?
It just depends.
If all your program does is Console.WriteLine over and over.. chances are it won't have any bugs no matter how big it gets. If you're writing the next great document database, chances are you'll have a lot of bugs.
You couldn't scrape this information from github because you don't know how hard the problems people are trying to solve.. If most projects on gitHub are the complexity of a tic tac toe game, again, you probably won't see a ton of bugs. Your analysis could fool you and say "Wow codebases can expand with relatively few bugs or none at all!".
Bugs are more related to complexity, is what I'm getting at.
The only metric that I'm familiar with that tries to relate possible defects to program size is one of Halstead's complexity measures. The figure used is
Your number of bugs per commit may be related to the delta in bugs before the commit and bugs after the commit.
However, the validity of Halstead's metrics have been questioned - if you search for academic studies, you'll find papers that indicate their validity as well as papers that seem to indicate little to no validity of the metric. To the best of my knowledge, they are not widely accepted nor is there overwhelming evidence that they are empirically valid.
Its proportional to the number of functions/methods not covered by unit tests.


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The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote Thursday on a Republican plan to trim government spending and raise the federal borrowing limit. The vote comes days before a deadline to avert a possible default on U.S. debt obligations that President Barack Obama says would trigger financial "Armageddon." Regardless of how the House votes, the bill is considered dead-on-arrival in the upper chamber. At a time when political gridlock threatens to cast the United States into financial ruin, a morning prayer offered by Senate Chaplain Barry Black seemed particularly on-point:"Lord, you have been our God from the beginning. Save us from ourselves," Prayed Black.But if political flexibility and bipartisanship are key to resolving the debt stand-off engulfing Washington, the chaplain's words appeared to fall on deaf ears.Even before the House cast a single vote on Republican Speaker John Boehner's plan tying a two-stage debt ceiling increase to substantial spending cuts, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pronounced the bill a lost cause in the Democratically-controlled upper chamber."Republicans cannot get the short-term band-aid they will vote on in the House today. It will not get one Democratic vote in the Senate," said Reid.Late Wednesday, Senate Democrats sent a letter to Speaker Boehner informing him of their intention to defeat the House bill if it should come to the Senate.Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he is baffled by the Democratic position."It is inconceivable to me that they would block the only bill that could get through the House of Representatives and prevent a default right now. Inconceivable," McConnell said.Democrats are rallying behind an alternative proposal by Senator Reid. His plan also calls for significant spending cuts, but would authorize a single increase in federal borrowing big enough to assure government solvency through next year's national elections. The Boehner plan would force Washington to return to debt negotiations in another six months.Reid says his plan would spare the nation from another painful political fight over government finances months from now. He also argues that his plan bends to Republican demands for deep spending cuts without tax increases, and therefore constitutes a real compromise deserving of Republican support.Reid had a message for Republican lawmakers."Legislation is the art of compromise, and they need to learn that. There are things that either side cannot get. Accept that, and move on," Reid said.Republicans counter that Reid's proposal is driven more by the political calendar than an honest desire to put America's fiscal house in order. Just as the Boehner plan is considered dead-on-arrival in the Senate, so too is the Reid plan in the House of Representatives. Senator McConnell says it is Democrats who face a critical choice:"Guaranteed default, or a bill that takes the specter of default off the table while giving us another opportunity to address the very deficits and debts that caused this crisis in the first place. Senate Democrats are playing with fire here," said McConnell.The White House has said President Obama would consider a stop-gap debt ceiling increase to give Congress additional time to act, but only if a bipartisan deal has been hammered out by August 2. Beyond that date, the U.S. government will have exhausted its ability to borrow money. Given a $1.5 trillion federal budget deficit, the government will not have enough funds to cover spending commitments while also servicing a $14.3 trillion national debt.


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If you take a giant whale out of the water and put it on land for long enough, it will crush itself under its own weight. Why doesn't the animal get crushed under its own weight when it's in water?
When it's in water the buoyant pressures are distributed more evenly over the whale's natural surface contour, resulting in less internal strain in the whale's body.
On land, the pressures are all concentrated in a planar surface at the bottom. The whale's body is not naturally planar, so significant strain develops as the body attempts to conform to the planar surface in order to distribute the forces resisting gravity.
One place this issue is discussed is here. The key paragraph is
which is pretty cool. But then this leads to another problem addressed here:
At the same time, as the article points out, the lack of gas exchange is useful in the sense that it circumvents the problem of nitrogen getting absorbed into the blood that would then bubble out at lower depths.


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Does your employer have the right to test you for drug use?
Testing laws vary from state to state
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Many U.S. employers require drug testing as part of their hiring process. Some companies even administer periodic random drug tests to their existing employees, especially as part of their workplace substance abuse programs.
Many government agencies also administer drug tests to their employees. Last month, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed a bill that allows random drug testing of state workers.
The controversial new law is expected to be met with a lawsuit. As a result, Scott says most government workers will not face random drug testing until the legal matter is resolved.
"Many believe that when government workers are subjected to drug testing, it violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on unreasonable searches and seizures," says attorney Martin Sweet of legal information websiteTHELAW.TV.
That search and seizure ban would not apply to private employers, and there are many reasons for a private employer to implement a drug testing program:
- Workers' compensation discounts – Many states offer employers discounts on their workers' compensation insurance premiums for taking steps to ensure a drug-free workplace.
- Avoiding legal liability – If an intoxicated employee harms someone on the job, the employer could be liable.
- Maintaining productivity – According to the federal government, drug and alcohol abuse costs U.S. employers $80 billion in lost productivity each year.
Typically, current employees have more rights when it comes to drug testing than job applicants because they stand to lose a job they already hold if the test comes back positive. Prospective employers can require an applicant to take a drug test as a condition of employment as long as they follow certain rules. In those cases, you will be disqualified from consideration if you refuse to take the test.
But even job applicants have rights, and private employers could face several limitations:
- Privacy – Applicant privacy might be violated if the employer requires him to take a urine test or disrobe in front of someone else.
- Disability discrimination – If a disabled applicant is taking prescription medication that shows up on a drug test, he is protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- Observance of state laws – Some states only allow an employer to administer a drug test once the job has been offered. Other states require employers to indicate in their job postings that drug testing will be required.
"Each state has its own laws concerning drug testing in the workplace, and they can vary quite a bit from state to state," adds Sweet.
If you have a question about the laws in your state, you should contact your state's labor department. If you believe a prospective or current employer is in violation of those laws, it's a good idea to get in touch with an experienced employment lawyer.


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I am using
RAISERROR() to provide some basic Unit Testing functionality (as here), but I am frustrated by the inability to use
FLOATs in the error message. I know I can cast the float to a string, but I am using
RAISERROR in every single unit test, I don't want to add another line of code for every test. (My unit tests are already wordy enough!) Is there a way to perform an inline cast/convert within the
RAISERROR parameter list? Or is there another way around this deficiency?
Update: So ultimately what I wish I could do is this:
RAISERROR('Unit Test FAILED! %f', 11, 0, @floatParm)
RAISERROR doesn't handle %f or floats in general. So I have to do this instead:
DECLARE @str VARCHAR(40) = CAST(@floatParm AS VARCHAR(40))
RAISERROR('Unit Test FAILED! %s', 11, 0, @str)
...which just looks like a mess when it's scattered through dozens of Unit Tests. So I'd like to boil it down to something like this:
RAISERROR('Unit Test FAILED! %s', 11, 0, CAST(@floatParm AS VARCHAR(40))
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Avocet trip turns up much, much more
|Contributed American Avocet
The American avocet, a big wader with bold black-and-white plumage and an upturned bill, has been moving around the marshes at the mouth of the Housatonic River for several days.
I had no luck finding it, although it turned up a few hours after I left to get ready for work. By definitition it would seem like a trip designed to find something specific would count as a failure if the target didn't appear. But that's part of the beauty of birding. Looking for one thing always turns up others of interest.
On my way down I stopped at a Stratford marina, where an unimpressive shallow channel lined by derelict pilings often holds something interesting at this time of year.
The tide was favorable when I arrived. Being on the low side it exposed mud flats that attract several immature yellow-crowned night-herons and and a nice group of shorebirds. Among the greater yellowlegs and short-billed dowitchers, both regular migrants through our region, was a much less common bird, a single long-billed dowitcher.
I spend a lot of time at the Stratford Greenway, which is where the avocet had been seen the previous evening. It wasn't among a few hundred shorebirds and herons spread out on the exposed flats, but I enjoyed a pass by a peregrine falcon that sent them scattering. A bit later a single Forster's tern, an uncommon seasonal wanderer, spent some time cruising the cove in front of me.
Water birds weren't the only items of interest. A weedy area along the greenway attracted a small, loose flock of warblers that cooperatively fed in the low growth. It included a couple of yellow warblers, a species that clears out pretty quickly at this time of year; at least one western palm warbler and one common yellowthroat.
Throw in some ospreys, egrets, cormorants and kingfishers and it made for an interesting morning, with or without an avocet.
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I have a NN5 system but is it heavy so I am considering an Ultimate Rx.... I would like to make sure I can use my Tokina 11-16 ...
I have a NN5 system but is it heavy so I am considering an Ultimate Rx.... I would like to make sure I can use my Tokina 11-16 ...
Hans, I don't understand .... I am thinking about 1 row horizontal panoramas... my question is whether the Lens Ring for Tokina 10 to 17mm will fit the Tokina 11-16
There is no specs about the diameter of the ring
When you compare the pics of the two lenses, you will realize that Tokina 11-16 has a greater diameter , filter 77mm. You have to compare the clamping area of the two lenses.
http://www.nodalninja.com/Manuals/R1_QRG.pdf go to tokina 10-17. It seams that the back of the lenses might be similar near lens flange. At least you have to go to see a dealer to test the lens ring on you own lens.
Thanks Nick and Hans.... I did exactly that ..compared the diameters of both lenses and realized that it is not doable. Nick, Are you guys planning a ring for Tokina 11-16? It is widely used for Real State and others to make panoramas because its low distortion...in other words, there are lots of them out there. It is actually kind of hard to find, e.g. both B&H and Adorama don't have it in stock.
Just was in my resellers store to pick up pieces. They had both lenses. As you said, it does not work because of diameter. Plus 11-16 has a movable ring which moves forward and backwards exact in the area where the ring will go to.
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Guidance for the safe use of Video Conference equipment in school environments. This document is designed to be used in conjunction with the school's Internet Security policy statement.
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This article was written by Geoff Turrell (Athena EAZ) after six years of using video conferencing.
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This case study takes you through the lesson planning, the research needed to support the lesson, the technical issues and a detailed evaluation from all participants.
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This contribution gives examples of projects that are designed to give some indication of the range of practical video conference activities that are already part of the flowering video conference learning networks emerging across the country.


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I live in a house with a septic system. When the winter/spring rains come, the toilet on the ground level master bedroom does not flush. We have another toilet on the ground floor that does flush. We have removed the non-flushing toilet, snaked the line and even installed a newer toilet. Nothing works until the ground dries out and then it will work fine. We had the septic tank pumped out, though it does tend to fill with ground water. What I don't understand is why will the one toilet work when the other will not? Any suggestions as to what the problem might be?
Septic System?? If so, the system is FULL of water already and needs to drain out from your drain field. If it is a municipal system, tree roots CAN SWELL TO 40 % or more of their normal size in wet weather, creating a blockage- hence a slower drainage- I'd look into a rooter service if this is the case and if on a Septic System- even pumping the tank will not help as the ground water is the culprit-preventing more water to disperse. Pumping the tank will only remove liquid & solids in the inlet side- not removing water from the leach/drain field.
Some possibilities, in no order:
Vent Blocked
The toilets vent becomes blocked somehow when it rains. Check the vents on your roof for obstructions like trees, plants, birds nests, etc.
Damaged Pipes or Tank
Water is entering your septic system when it rains though cracks in pipes, seals or the tank itself and overwhelms your leach field.
In this scenario, a backup in your house would seem likely to occur eventually. When you are having the flushing problem, check the lowest drains in your house to ensure the sewer is not backing up.
Failing Leach Field
Your leach field cannot handle the volume of fluid when the ground is wet due to rain and might need replacing.
As to why only one toilet is a problem, with the exception of the blocked vent scenario, it is hard to say. I would try flushing the working toilet over and over to see if it slows down or stops as this would help rule out that one fixture or a broader plumbing/septic problem.
I have the same problem. We do not have a septic tank but live in a town house condo. The level of toilet water gets very low when it's windy and when it's raining a lot it will not flush. The water goes down very slowly only. I understand the water level in the toilet is because of the vacuum that is caused by the wind over the vent pipe on the roof so I assume this also causes the flushing problem. I live with it however.


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Attacks in Damascus Target Symbols of Assad Regime
BEIRUT—Dozens of Syrians were killed and wounded on Thursday in a wave of car bombs and mortar attacks targeting political, security and military symbols of President Bashar al-Assad's regime in Damascus, according to witnesses, state media and opposition activists.
The attacks were among the deadliest in the capital since the start of the civil war in March 2011. Many observers and analysts said they saw them as an attempt by militant members of the opposition to ratchet up the pressure on Mr. Assad to accept a negotiated settlement and relinquish power.
At least 53 people were killed and 235 wounded in the deadliest attack, which involved a suicide car bombing, Syrian state media said. The attack occurred in Mazraa, a busy area of central Damascus not far from the offices of the governing Baath Party, several ministries and the Russian Embassy. Security has been tight for months in Mazraa, which is bisected by a congested thoroughfare called Thawra Street. Several checkpoints dot the area.
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The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition group tracking the conflict, said the toll from the attack was at least 61, most of them residents, motorists and passersby. Witnesses and opposition activists said the explosion appeared to miss the intended target, Baath Party headquarters.
Residents and opposition activists said there were three other car bombings in Damascus on Thursday, of a police station, a security unit in charge of telecommunications surveillance and a drug-enforcement agency—all in the Barzeh neighborhood, on the capital's northeastern side.
Several mortar rounds also hit the Syrian army's general staff headquarters on Ummayad Square, on the city's west side, and nearby Jahez park, as well as other streets and squares known to house government and security offices, according to residents and activists. The observatory said at least 22 people, mostly security-force members, were killed in those other attacks.
Later Thursday, three mortar shells exploded in the Maleki upscale neighborhood on the capital's northwestern side, where Mr. Assad and several members of his regime maintain residences, the observatory said, adding that further details weren't known.
Earlier Coverage
- Damascus Stadium Attacked (2/20/2013)
- Europe Extends Syria Arms Embargo (2/18/2013)
- White House Blocked Rebel Arms for Syria (2/12/2013)
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the latest violence. Several antiregime rebel groups, including the al Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra, this month announced the start of a major offensive to "liberate Damascus." The group has previously claimed responsibility for a number of suicide bombings in Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo.
The Assad regime was quick to blame Jabhat al-Nusra and countries backing the rebels, such as Qatar and Turkey, for Thursday's biggest bombing, while some opposition activists accused the regime of orchestrating the attacks itself in order to besmirch the rebels.
The main opposition umbrella group, known as the National Coalition, issued a statement condemning the attack regardless of "who the perpetrators are and the motives."
Many observers say the fresh violence in Damascus will severely complicate—if not derail—any attempts to forge a peaceful solution to the nearly two-year civil war in Syria. The conflict has claimed more than 70,000 lives, according to the United Nations.
At the U.N. Thursday, Russia blamed the U.S. for blocking a Security Council statement condemning the attacks, charging that Washington was seeking to "justify" terrorism, thereby endangering the security of U.S. diplomatic missions. The U.S. denied the charge, saying it agreed with Russia but wanted to add language to the council text "on the [Syrian] regime's brutal attacks against the Syrian people," said Erin Pelton, the U.S. mission spokeswoman.
The Assad regime, which is backed by Russia and Iran, has sent several signals in recent weeks that it intends to control terms of any potential talks with the opposition, and that discussing the fate of Mr. Assad is off the table.
The opposition remains deeply divided over whether to engage the regime, with some hard-line members actively working to undermine dialogue. Most put Mr. Assad's departure from power as a condition for talks.
A Beirut-based Syrian analyst said he believed Thursday's attacks were probably the work of militant rebel factions with links to foreign powers opposed to dialogue with Mr. Assad. "If this is the start of a series of attacks, then it means more pressure on the regime to accept a negotiated settlement," he said.
The regime showed no hint of compromise. "We tell them from Damascus, we will crush you with an iron fist and fight you until the last drop of blood," said Damascus Gov. Bisher al-Sabban, a confidant of Mr. Assad, shown on Syrian television at the scene of Thursday's attack on Thawra Street. "Not a single terrorist will be left standing on Syrian soil."
Syrian state television broadcast gruesome footage of the aftermath of the bombing, saying it was caused by a suicide bomber who targeted civilians and schoolchildren; it didn't mention regime installations in the area. It also said security forces had foiled a second suicide bombing involving a vehicle packed with 1,500 kilos (3,306 pounds) of explosives.
Several bodies lay on the street amid the wreckage of dozens of burning vehicles and minibuses, as shown on Syrian state television. The bomb left a deep crater in the street, sheared off the facades of several residential buildings and damaged classrooms at a nearby elementary school.
Thawra Street is a hub for the capital's ubiquitous public-transport minibuses. Firetrucks could be seen dousing flames, while thick black smoke engulfed the devastated area.
A witness said he heard three consecutive blasts shortly before noon prayers, and saw a thick plume of black smoke rising from the direction of the Hayat hospital, not far from the Baath Party offices. "God protect us, this was the biggest explosion ever in Damascus and I am sure there were lots of victims," said the man.
Another witness from the adjacent neighborhood of Azbakiya said the impact of the blast blew out the windows and unhinged the doors of his home. "The sound and smoke were horrible," he said.
A woman living in Barzeh, where other explosions occurred, said the attack on the police station there has provoked clashes between rebels and security forces and regime loyalists that were continuing.
She said she had been out shopping and still hadn't been able to go home, where her husband was stuck.
By sundown, many parts of Damascus were deserted, with armed regime security forces in military fatigues as well as in civilian clothes fanning out on the streets, according to residents.
Separately, at least 18 people were killed in an airstrike by the Syrian regime on a rebel field hospital in the southern city of Deraa, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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Is it possible to run Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10 on a Google Nexus Tablet? Would it be able to run Unity and/or Gnome Shell? or would it have to run a lighter desktop environment?
Here is how you do it! Fresh off the press:
and here's a guide for reporting bugs:
It definitely is possible - here is a video taken by a Canonical employee showing Ubuntu (what appears to be either 12.04 or 12.10) running on a Nexus7. We just don't know how they did it. The accompanying blog post is here
Mark Shuttleworths blog post announcing the name for Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) has the following note at the bottom:
So in short, it's been done. How to do it though... well, we don't know that.
That's an interesting question :)
A quick google search finds a thread on xda-developers:
I would imagine making Ubuntu to run on a tablet would be an exciting weekend project but don't expect the end result to be really useful.
Here's even an article titled How to Install Ubuntu on Android, which should provide general directions.
Actually, it's pretty easy if you are already rooted. You can find instructions on LinuxOnAndroid's website.
Once you've got your Nexus rooted download the Complete Linux Installer application.
I installed Lubuntu on my aging Samsung Captivate (AT&T's version of the first-generation Galaxy S), and it does work. I installed TeXlive on it and was able to edit and compile a couple of tex files, and preview them using evince or epdfview. It's pretty amazing actually.
Of course, for me it was just a fun project to try out, but I guess that, with a keyboard, a Nexus 7 could actually be useful as a Linux tablet. You do need enough storage capacity of course, because you are installing a desktop Linux distro after all.


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Published on Sat, Dec 08, 2012
American Immigration Council Board Member Matthew Hirsch published a piece on the need for immigration reform in the Patriot News on the PennLive website. Here's an excerpt:
"Since the election, renewed attention has been focused on the issue of immigration reform and, like boxers circling in the ring, opposing sides seem to be inching toward some kind of compromise. The Republican leadership recognizes that shifting demographics helped President Obama win re-election, and it does not want to be the party of 'No' on immigration.
Both parties also understand that Congress is seen by the public as a pit of petty partisanship, and they view immigration as an issue that has the potential for a bipartisan bill they all can claim as their own.
These are good reasons for compromise on immigration, but there are at least five other good reasons for supporting immigration reform, which includes legalization of the undocumented."
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7 Ways to Be an Everyday Advocate for Your Child with Autism
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Principle 6 Collaborate: Be a Team Builder
Martin's Advice: Constantly strive for synergy working together to pool your human resources and help your child. Your team may include a specialty physician who meets your child once or twice, and your child's special education aide who sees her in school every day. Even if you feel exhausted and stressed from your everyday experiences, always have high-quality interactions and keep the big picture as an advocate for your child in mind. Being an amicable teammate will offer big advantages.
Source: The Everyday Advocate: Standing Up for Your Child with Autism
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CNN- A poster of the American soldier being held captive by the Taliban since June 2009 is on display in the Defense Department's CENTCOM command center. Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, mentioned the display of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, during a briefing with reporters Thursday, to highlight how the soldier's fate is always on the military's mind.
"I can assure you that we are doing everything in our power, using our intelligence resources across the government, to try to find, locate him," General Martin Dempsey said at a Pentagon press conference.
Bergdahl's parents said this week that the U.S. had been negotiating with the Taliban to exchange their son for five detainees at Guantanamo. It was the first public admission of the fact their son was part of the negotiation. The POW's parents gave the interview in part because of frustration about the lack of progress in freeing their son.Asked about how much focus the U.S. military has given searching for Bergdahl, Dempsey cited the poster as an example that the POW is not forgotten. Here is what he said:
"Yes, I've had the Bergdahls in my office. I've corresponded with them several times. I've - I understand their concerns. And I can assure you that we are doing everything in our power, using our intelligence resources across the government, to try to find, locate him, and that - I mean, I'll give you one vignette. If you go to the CENTCOM command center, where, you know, their conference room, there's about a four-by-six-foot poster of Bowe Bergdahl sitting in front of the podium to remind them, and therefore us, every day that he remains missing in action. I can assure you of that."