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The Sampler Edition is a true cross section of what the full version will be. The Sampler contains eleven great Cajun recipes with accompanying photos and complete step by step instructions. It also contains history and facts about Louisiana and New Orleans. Additionally there are several inspiring stories with connections to a specific recipe. Lastly, there is some great Cajun humor scattered throughout the manuscript. The full version of Cajun Cuisine and More is all of the above, times four. The full version will contain 48 great recipes, with all of the related inspiring stories, Cajun humor and 60 plus photos, all for your culinary delight, your enlightenment and entertainment.
Author and Chef, Paul Raphael takes the reader on an adventure, flavoring the recipes with history, humor, regional interest, or related short stories that make the dishes unforgettable, and enhance the joy of their creation.
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It is free to buy with no prime membership right now. I just did it.
I wish I could be in for one. My Kindle just stopped working of its own accord (faulty screen). I'd heard stories of customer support being helpful, even if you're a tiny bit past the full warranty, but I found no such help. They offered me a refurbished one for nearly the cost of a new one! Time to switch to an iPad, I think...
@dmaz: You can still read it online, and you can buy it now for whatever device you get in the future.
Unless you really just wanted to complain about your Kindle woes and not really discuss this book.
@dmaz: Just install the Kindle app on your computer. I rarely use my Kindle itself, but I store tons of books in my Cloud and read them from whatever computer I am using.
On a note more pertinent to this deal post, as a representative of Cajun cooks down in South Louisiana, I want to check this out and post a review when I get a chance. (Wow, that sounded more pompous than I intended!)
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Hi and thanks for the great forum.
I apologize for some noobness of this question- It may well be simple but..... then again
I am working on creating some HDR pano's and typically shoot on a sunny day with some decent cloud overcast for contrast.
Shooting in full manual mode and striving for a 3 bracketed exposure of -2, 0, +2 I typically lock aperture at F8 with ISO 100 and then adjust the shutter speed as needed. For instance 1/250 for normal exposure and then 1/60 and 1/1000 keeping consistent through all the bracketed sets of the pano.
I apologize for a lengthy intro but here is my question:
How do I determine the best shutter speed for the panoramic as a whole? Do I base it on the brightest point (sun) and adjust or rather the darkest point or somewhere in between?
I did do a test the other day using the sun as the reference point with shutter speed at 1/500 and then continued on through with 1/125 and 1/2000 - the next set was done at 1/60 with 1/15 and 1/250 as the spread.
Is there a difference or has someone a trick of the trade for optimal starting point?
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If you take a look at the licensing tag you'll see many (22) questions about the GPL and WordPress. Way to many of them have accepted answers which are incorrect.
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Many of those questions/answers were considered correct at the time. Keep in mind, the GPL is an incredibly complex but not-very-well explained piece of legalese, so every statement we make here, on personal blogs, on podcasts, or in chat rooms is our own interpretation based on past experience and what we've been told by the license authors and original adopters.
Licensing has been such a hot issue in the community because there are so many licenses out there and so many differing opinions on what is/isn't allowed. Particularly when you get to derivative works.
However, this site lends itself well to being updated. Commenting on an outdated answer asking for an update is fine and helpful. What would be even more helpful would be earning reputation by answering other questions and then editing inaccurate posts.
Simply put questions are answered to the best knowledge of those answering. Licensing being convoluted and nasty topic - that knowledge tends to be far from perfect.
Sadly situation with licensing around WP was not resolved to the "this is definitive legal explanation" or "we all agree and happy".
It was resolved to "if you voice unpopular opinion you [and your business] will eat shit from community".
So yes - there probably are some questions with poor answers about licensing. Not that much of them (in scope of many thousands of total question site has by now).
What can be done? Well - everything that can always be done: comment (wisely), edit (when really needed) and out-answer (in most awesome fashion) incorrect stuff.
This is a (potentially inflammatory) subset of this question: What to do with wrong answers marked as solution?
I would follow the advice/answers from that question. Regardless of why there are so many incorrect answers to licensing questions, in the end the real problem is dilution of the correct answer - and the solution to that problem is to use the site mechanics to downvote incorrect answers, upvote correct answers, and leave comments as appropriate.
Answer: Licensing is difficult and there is much FUD around the issue. After years of hashing this out, it's fairly well understood, but old entries still exist and haven't been updated.
Some points to clarify:
WordPress is licensed "GPLv2 or later" explicitly. If it lacked the "v2 or later" part, the text of the actual license states that the licensing terms can be upgraded to any later version.
The plugin page has some language about GPLv2 only. This is an arbitrary rule resulting from what was likely originally a typo or a misunderstanding of the Core's license (but we may never know, and it's irrelevant anyway). This deals with hosting, not legitimacy. GPLv3 plugins and themes are legitimate.
The incompatibility between GPLv3 and GPLv2+ or later is one-directional. (GPLv2 only can't be upgrade.)
You can't combine GPLv3 code into a GPLv2+ distribution.
GPLv3 compatible code, meaning AGPLv3 and Apache 2.0 among others, can be combined into legally distributed plugins and themes.
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6 People Who Had No Clue Their Faces Were World-Famous
Becoming accidentally famous must be an unpleasantly surreal experience. Rebecca Black is the most cited example of the phenomenon these days (as though she was just dancing down the street one day and accidentally passed through a terrible music video) but she's far from the most mind blowing example.
For instance, imagine driving through the streets of, say, Beijing, and suddenly seeing your face on a billboard for instant noodles. Imagine you then find out your face is the Chinese equivalent of the Gerber's Baby, and has been for decades, and you never had a clue. This apparently happens all the time.
#6. We Can Do It! With Your Face!!!
Via Wikipedia
You've almost certainly seen the famous World War II propaganda icon "Rosie the Riveter."
What started as a simple motivational poster for the millions of women working in factories while their husbands were away fighting became one of the most iconic symbols of feminism and equality in the workplace. It's one of the most well known American cultural images of all time, up there with the raising of the flag over Iwo Jima and the drawing of Uncle Sam.
In 1984, while flipping through a copy of Modern Maturity, 59-year-old Geraldine Doyle spotted an article about the inspiration behind the Rosie the Riveter character: a photo of a 17-year-old girl working in a factory in 1942. Her name? Geraldine Doyle.
Via familytreemagazine
"Geraldine the Metal Presser," doesn't roll off the tongue quite as well.
Doyle, incredibly, had no idea of her connection to Rosie the Riveter. In fact, she didn't even know about the original inspirational photo, which given her posture, lends an unsettling peeping-Tom vibe to the whole thing. At the time, she'd just graduated high school and, like many other women, had taken a job in a factory in order to support the war effort. American Broach & Machine Co. had her on a metal press in no time at all, probably after a vigorous and thorough safety-training program that only that decade could deliver.
Via Wikipedia
"Wearing dresses around whirring, metal crushing machinery? Why, that's almost as dangerous as letting women wear pants!" - The 1940s
Fearing an injury that could impact her ability to play the cello, Doyle quit after only two weeks on the job. She endured the potential hand crushing long enough for a photographer to snap the picture without her noticing. Someone who did notice, however, was J. Howard Miller, an artist commissioned by the government to draw up some motivating pieces of art.
He kept Doyle's pretty face and red bandanna, but gave her slender build a shot of super-heroine sized muscles. Rosie, though not named as such right away, was born, and went on to inspire countless women.
Doyle told the Lansing (Michigan) State Journal, in the understatement of the century, "You're not supposed to have too much pride, but I can't help have some in that poster. It's just sad I didn't know it was me sooner."
Via paduanjawa
"So, I'm as well known as Mickey Mouse? Yeah, that might have been good to know."
#5. Taster's Unfair Choice
In 2002, Russell Christoff, a kindergarten teacher, coasted through the grocery store just like any regular shopper looking for Bloody Mary mix. Coffee wasn't on his list, but, to his astonishment, he noticed that he was on the coffee.
Yeah, that's Russell Christoff smelling up a bunch of sweet coffee heat, courtesy of Nestle. And he didn't know how it got there. Also, he didn't even like Taster's Choice. But his coffee clone seemed to love it deeply ...
Via SFGate
Modern day Christoff appears much less likely to be whispering, "Oooooh coffee, it is going to be so fine when I make love to you."
Christoff had knowingly modeled for a Taster's Choice ad in Canada back in 1986 that, as far as he knew, never got used -- he had been paid $250 for the session and sent on his way. Not being good enough for Canada isn't the sort of thing you want to dwell on in a world with so many tall buildings with roof access, so Christoff pretty much forgot about it and went on with his life.
Unbeknownst to him, a Nestle employee, looking specifically for an image to embody Taster's Choice, ended up stumbling across the photo again. Naturally, Nestle called up Christoff and asked if they could use the photo in a new worldwide ad campaign. And of course, we're kidding. This was Nestle, a company famous for being somewhat unscrupulous.
"A phone call? To a customer? How quaint. Send him a cookie."
Over the years, Christoff's face would be plastered on coffee labels in about two dozen countries (including several Latin ones, for which they darkened his skin and added sideburns to the picture for some reason) and he had no idea. He sued and won $15.6 million, which he lost on appeal. He's back in court now, still fighting Nestle over the use of his face. Nestle, on the other hand, tried to settle things outside of court for the sum of $100,000. Christoff countered with the sum of $8.5 million. Nestle respectfully declined before chuckling softly into a handkerchief and leaving the bargaining table to add a new warning label to their jars.
Via USA Today
"Warning: May contain images of people who can't keep their damn mouths shut!"
#4. The Stolen Scream
Via fstoppers
No matter where you live, there is a pretty good chance that at some point in the last couple years you have seen this image. It's become the face of revolution in half a dozen countries, a Che-like icon.
The young man who apparently hates the sky can be found on T-shirts, in promotional materials for rock bands and as graffiti all over the world. And that was all before the guy in the photo had the slightest idea. It was just a picture of his face he had stuck on his Flickr account.
Via fstoppers
This Flickr account, if you want to see the originals. Try to restrain yourself from sticking them on a T-shirt.
That guy was Noam Galai, an Israeli living in New York City who took up photography as a hobby. One day he thought about how scary people look when they yawn and decided to take a self-portrait with his mouth wide open as if screaming. Then he promptly forgot about it.
A few years later, a co-worker noticed T-shirt sellers around the city doing a brisk business shilling Galai's face to tourists, and asked him why he hadn't told her he had sold the rights to his face, at which point Galai probably asked her which Pink Floyd song that was from because he hadn't sold the rights to anything.
By this point it wasn't just a local thing -- Galai searched for the image online and found more than 50 examples from places as far flung as Chile, Canada and Germany. Eventually he showed up on this magazine cover:
Via screameverywhere
Not bad for the visual equivalent of "meh."
You might notice the headline says "The Face of Democracy." That's because the image of a random young man scream-yawning had become a rallying image for political movements in places like Honduras, Bhutan and China. Something about the power of this image spoke not only to Manhattan teens trying to annoy their parents but to oppressed people around the world.
National Geographic, the parent company of Glimpse magazine, did actually pay Galai for the use of his image for their cover, marking the first and only time he's seen a dime. Instead of getting lawsuit-happy and attempting to sue everyone from small businesses to freedom fighters, though, he took the popularity of his stolen picture in stride and started a website where people can send in pictures of the image.
Galai isn't the first person to have his image used without his permission. In fact, if you've ever posted your photograph online, you might already be famous. Danielle Smith and her family became literally huge overseas after she posted their Christmas card photo on a few social networking sites and ... that's it. She didn't sell the photograph to a modeling agency. Just posted it online and forgot about it.
And that would have been the end of the story if she didn't happen to have a friend in Prague, who happened to be walking by a high-end grocery store that was displaying this life sized ad:
How many friends do you have in Prague? You might be the Eastern European equivalent of the Jordan jump man logo right now. You'd never know. And thanks to Facebook settings, it's only going to get weirder from here. Tomorrow it could easily be your sexy face staring back at you from a cheap T-shirt.


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The 6 Most Insane Game Shows From Around the World
Whenever America comes up with brilliant new inventions (America being the only country with the resources to invent anything, or so Conservapedia told us) foreigners steal it and add in goofy cultural idiosyncrasies.
Nothing demonstrates this more starkly than what they've done to our game shows, taking wholesome, innocent entertainment and turning it into shows like ...
#6. El Gran Juego de la Oca (Great Game of the Grey Goose)
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No, this is not an elaborate drinking game based on French vodka. Rather, it is an elaborate board game based on geese. Yes, someone in Spain decided to create an entire game show around geese, natures most terrifying animal ... what with the hissing, and the biting, and the shitting, and the feathers flying, and our mothers screaming, and the sirens ... we would rather they go with the vodka.
The idea seems simple and harmless enough. A contestant earns money by rolling virtual dice and progressing along a giant, twisting 63-square board game while being cheered on by the host, studio audience and "chicas ocas" (goose girls, who are all in varying stages of undress, naturally). When the contestant lands on a square, he or she either wins a cash prize or has to complete a "stunt." Finally, the contestant who gets to the end of the board is given a reoca (final stunt) that they must complete within a week to win a new car. Easy enough, eh?
Why It's Insane:
Unfortunately the "stunts" involve pain, humiliation and being kissed by fat, messy Italian stereotypes. Even worse, it sometimes involves getting your feet licked by a goat.
What is it with Spaniards and incorporating farm animals into their game shows?
Here's a fun sample of a few of the squares one can land on:
Space No. 8: The "stunt" here must be completed in the mud. Usually this involves finding a key or some such object. Meanwhile a female mud wrestler is "inhibiting" the progress of the player. Inhibiting is a nice way of saying "hurling about and generally emasculating."
Space No. 47: The player is locked inside an acrylic glass prison filled only with sand and boa constrictors. His goal? Find the key in the sand, get out and not die of snake-related asphyxiation.
Space No. 57: Here, the contestant is asked questions by a sexy woman in a nurse outfit. He must answer questions right or have his leg hair waxed off. Also, he must keep his heart rate down to a minimum, a theme later turned into an American talk show where John McEnroe screamed at people for 30 minutes. Oh yeah, did we mention the nurse is stripteasing the whole time? Because she is, and she's nude, very nude.
Theoretically one could win 800,000 pesetas and a car, assuming the player doesn't die of crushing, burning or snake-related injuries. Or, that they didn't lose it all during the "Cruel Roulette" round, where the contestant is attached to a giant roulette wheel and spun around, and whatever percentage value their head lands at is the percentage of their winnings they lose. Need even more reason not to appear on the show? 800,000 pesetas is only equal to roughly $6,000, an amount we're pretty sure an actual goose could win on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
#5. Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! (Downtown's "Not An Errand Boy!")
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You may have seen clips from this show on the web (including this one where the contestants have to recited a tongue twister or else get smacked in the balls). If you don't know the background, the show appears to be a series of small, cruel challenges, none with an obvious reward for winning and all involving serious physical or psychological pain. You may speculate that the contestants are desperate commoners looking for prize money to pay for, say, an operation for a family member. This is fortunately not the case.
The contestants are comedians, attempting to launch themselves to stardom by receiving a spring-loaded lever blow to their groin. It's kind of like Saturday Night Live only instead of proving their comedic talent by creating characters and being funny, the comedians are tortured.
Each challenge is called a Batsu, or punishment game, which involves completing nearly impossible tasks like not laughing while watching other contestants suffer humiliation and excruciating pain, or dressing up as female comic book characters and ordering spaghetti. The punishment for not completing these tasks is usually a sound whipping, but occasionally a friendly spanking or nipple clamping is in order.
Why It's Insane:
If you watched that video and don't think it was self explanatory then you're either a robot, masochist, masochistic robot, creator of the show or the masochistic robot that created this show. If you are one of the above, or if you're afraid to watch Japanese videos at work (and rightfully so), then let us elaborate. This clip features forced nose hair removal, asphyxiation by "bad smell air," and a grown man sobbing like a little girl as an old man gums his ear.
What's worse is that the contestants have to be restrained while doing most of these tasks. Meanwhile, their comrades try not to laugh too loud at their friend's misfortune lest they find themselves on the business end of the slapping machine's whirling dervish of blows.
Adding to the humiliation is the fact that there doesn't seem to be any prize or goal other than survival, and another week of continued semi-fame in the world of Japanese comedy.
#4. Le Bigdil (The Big Deal)
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According to the Wikipedia entry, as deciphered by Google Translator, "Applicants must pass a test rather amusing to earn a certain amount of moneys or gifts from Bil, which had its saucer filled. Suffering from half of the game, the candidate had the ability to stop the game and take what was behind the curtain (or the garage during the last season). This could be both a car or bunch of leeks, but the interest of the game was that the candidate was completely unaware of what's hiding behind the curtain."
That sounded awesome, until we later found out it was just a French rip-off of Let's Make a Deal.
Why It's Insane:
Those wacky Frenchmen did make one small change from the American version: They replaced Monty Hall with an alien. The entire premise is that the host is a goofy interstellar benefactor who just happens to also be a Francophone and resemble French comedian Vincent Lagaf.
As the story goes, Bil the Extraterrestrial was zipping through space with his flying saucer filled with game show prizes, when he crash-landed in a French television studio. The studio naturally gave him a game show. We are only left to assume that Bil and his family are now being held captive on Earth and forced to continue doing this show until their incredible swag ship is entirely looted. The interstellar fleets of planet Fricus are presumably enroute for intergalactic war. Way to go France.


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October 7, 2013
New York University will host a roundtable discussion, "Shaping Immigration News: A French-American Comparison," on Wed., Nov. 6, 6:30 to 8 p.m. at NYU's La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews (at University Place/below 8th Street).
The event, which is free and open to the public, will feature Rodney Benson, author of the recently released Shaping Immigration News: A French-American Comparison. Joining Benson, an associate professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, will be: Gaye Tuchman, author of Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality; James Graff, executive editor of The Week and former Paris bureau chief of Time magazine; and Frederic Viguier, a clinical assistant professor at NYU's Institute of French Studies.
In Shaping Immigration News, Benson draws on interviews with journalists and analyses of newspaper and television coverage in showing how the immigration debate has become increasingly focused on the dramatic, emotion-laden frames of humanitarianism and public order. This book offers a portrait of French and American journalists in action as they grapple with how to report and comment on one of the most important issues of our era—and finds enduring French-American differences related to the distinctive societal positions, professional logics, and internal structures of their journalistic fields.
Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call 212.992.9492. Subways: N, R (8th Street); 6 (Astor Place).
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The Regis High School football team wore teal laces along with teal jerseys at their homecoming game today at Carson park.
The team sold t-shirts to benefit the Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance.. Which also serves women here in western Wisconsin.


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CHINA SPRING (November 6, 2012)--The China Spring Marching Band has been ranked 9th in the state.
The feat comes after missing a top ten state finals spot by just a few points in 2010.
Directed by Pam Hyatt, the band placed 4th in the area finals competition in October giving them the opportunity to advance to state.
The state competition was held Monday at the Alamodome in San Antonio.
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WHEELING - When the Rev. Charles Ellwood stepped onto a bus headed for Washington, D.C., in 1963, he brought three things: his toothbrush, his health insurance card and some money to bail himself out of jail if necessary.
It is not that Ellwood had getting arrested in mind, but he just didn't know what might happen. It turned out he didn't need those things after all.
Ellwood, a Wheeling resident and retired West Liberty University minister, took a bus sponsored by the Urban League of Pittsburgh with two friends to participate in the March on Washington - and to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his famous ''I have a dream'' speech.
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REMEMBERING THE MARCH — The Rev. Charles Ellwood overlooks memorabilia from the March on Washington at his Wheeling home. -- Shelley Hanson
Wednesday is the 50th anniversary of the march.
Ellwood, 82, said he wanted to attend the event because, although he was very aware of what was happening to blacks and black churches throughout the South at the time, he felt as though he was not connected enough to what was happening across the nation.
''I needed to participate and stand with the protesters,'' Ellwood said. "We left having no idea what to expect. We felt the worst that could happen is that we would be detained and go to jail. ... I think we were the only three white men in the bus. We sat in the back as a symbol."
On the way into Washington, D.C., traffic was bumper-to-bumper with buses filled with people on their way to the rally.
"The closer we got, the more people were standing on the sidewalks. There were soldiers and police on the rooftops. It was an anxious and exciting time to be with people who were committed to the cause. There was great camaraderie on the bus," Ellwood said.
There were several other speakers before King, while the heat of the day sent many people leaving early. However, once they heard King's voice, people turned around and went back to hear him speak.
"It was a stirring experience," Ellwood said.
King told the crowd, Ellwood said, to work for equality no matter what kind of job they held.
"And that's what I began to do," he said.
Back in Wheeling, Ellwood helped form the MLK Committee, which had its first local celebration of King's life after his 1968 assassination. Clergy and people who were concerned about the Vietnam War came together to form a group now named Ohio Valley Peace.
"It's good to take a step into something dangerous. ... It was a significant moment in my life," Ellwood said.
At the time, Ellwood said he believed progress would be made more quickly in terms of equality in our society, though he is pleased with the gains made.
"That doesn't mean the work is done," he said.
Ellwood said he plans to watch the anniversary celebration on TV, though some day he would like to visit the new MLK memorial in Washington.


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Dwell Around the World
As we began dispersing for the holidays—heading our separate ways to SoCal and all the way to the Carribean—we take a look back at the best of what we saw worldwide in 2010.12.28.10
Academy Rewards
A pair of photographers employed a pair of architects (they're all buddies) to transform an aging schoolhouse into a modern marvel.written by: David Hay12.23.10
Cool Chicken House
Who doesn't love a chicken run? This cool coop is by David Rosen, an Associate Producer at CBS News in New York. His goal, in addition to sheltering four egg-laying hens, was to design a...12.23.10
8 Exhibits to See Over the Holidays
With a few days off and some time to travel, now is your chance to catch new shows as well as the tail ends of the exhibitions you've been meaning to make it to. We've rounded up 8 must-see...12.22.10
Sneak Peek: Hyperlinks at AIC
In the new exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago titled Hyperlinks: Architecture and Design, AIC curator Zoe Ryan and collaborator Joseph Rosa, director of the University of Michigan Museum of...12.20.10
Garden Statement
On a once-vacant corner lot in a transitional Jersey City neighborhood, a pair of local architects devised a clever prefab for a resourceful client.written by: William Lambphotos by: Samantha Contis12.19.10
Braided Rag Vessels
Ever since I got my hands on a copy of Meg Mateo Ilasco's latest book, Crafting a Meaningful Home, I've been flipping through trying to decide what to start working on first. Calling upon creative...12.16.10
New Media: Sight Unseen
Jill Singer and Monica Khemsurov met as editors at the venerable I.D. in 2005 and both developed a passion for peeking behind the scenes at the creative processes of designers—–access...photos by: Elizabeth Weinberg12.15.10
Furniture Design: Misewell
Growing up in southeastern Wisconsin, Vincent and Paul Georgeson used to hang out in their father's basement woodshop, fascinated by the process of building things. It was a formative...photos by: Daniel Shea12.15.10
Landscape Architecture: Marcel Wilson
Landscape architect and urban designer Marcel Wilson describes his practice as "combining things that are made with things that are alive." Hence the superhuman name of his firm, Bionic...photos by: Katie Shapiro12.15.10
Graphic Design: Project Projects
Manhattan-based Project Projects may be a graphic design studio, but it works in all dimensions, on the page and off. Founded by Prem Krishnamurthy and Adam Michaels in 2004, the firm designs...12.15.10
Industrial Design: Atelier Takagi
After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002 with a degree in furniture design, Jonah Takagi traveled the world for four years with indie-rock musician Benjy Ferree. When he had...photos by: Elizabeth Weinberg12.15.10
Designs on Film by Cathy Whitlock
Newly released by Harper Collins, Designs on Film: A Century of Hollywod Art Direction is a compendium of images celebrating iconic interiors and architecture. Interior designer and...written by: Amanda Dameron12.13.10
Introducing Home Work
Hello, friends! Welcome to Home Work, a new column on dwell.com. We'll be visiting artists, designers, and creatives you know and love and introducing you to some whom you haven't yet...12.10.10
Techbuilt House
The first residence built in Tuxedo Park, New York, after World War II wasn't one of the Shingle-style mansions that proliferated there after the tycoon Pierre Lorillard IV developed the...written by: Marc Kristalphotos by: Carl Bellavia12.08.10
Resnick Pavilion at LACMA
I was down in Los Angeles at the end of last week and between visiting clients, attending the Divine Design benefit, and generally sitting in traffic, it was a miracle I got a minute to...12.08.10
Mexico City: Day 4
My fourth and final day in Mexico City was a real treat: the perfect blend of making a few new friends and finally clapping eyes on a building that feels like an old pal. I met up with graphic...12.07.10
Roche Bobois Celebrates 50 Years
French luxury furniture retailer Roche Bobois turned 50 this year, celebrating this milestone with a retrospective at their Madison Avenue showroom. Evident through the timeline of chairs, sofas,...written by: Diana Budds12.06.10
Salvaged Jungle Kitchen
In the jungles of Maui, artist and builder Tom Sewell has built his own oasis. Using discarded materials from the Hawaiian island's sugar mills, he's created his own home and outbuildings as well...12.06.10
Adventures in Oz
Having admired a project by Shane Blue of Bourne + Blue Architecture in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, James and Sue O'Sullivan asked the architect to help them create a beachside...written by: Erika Heetphotos by: Simon Whitbread12.06.10
L.A. Creamery
Former pastry chef Jessica Goryl, who learned to make ice cream while working at a steakhouse, has just opened L.A. Creamery, which offers two dozen homemade flavors each day, churned onsite in a...written by: Erika Heetphotos by: Erika Heet12.02.10
House, Rotated: Prototype 180
On November 11, 2010, New York artist Mary Ellen Carroll rotated a single-family home in Houston's aging first-ring suburb, Sharpstown, a neighborhood characterized by rows of post-WWII...written by: Michelle Whitephotos by: Kenny Trice12.02.10
The Chatwal Hotel
The prevailing approach to landmark preservation in New York tends to be either/or—i.e., if it's not worthy of embalming, knock it down—which has deprived the city of many fine...written by: Marc Kristal12.02.10
Mexico City: Day 3
My third day of Mexico City design tourism was one fraught with camera woes. Not only did many of the photos I took on my daylong wander not come through a vexing download (goodbye morning...12.01.10
In and Around Reykjavik, Iceland
Iceland seems more remote than the four-and-a-half-hour flight from Boston feels. But Reykjavik, a city closer to Boston than San Francisco, is a world apart. The prime minister is in the phonebook...written by: Chelsea Holden Baker11.30.10


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I got an SQL Server 2008 R2 and a SharePoint Server. I have put up a BCS between the two servers. Reading data through a External List. This worked fine yesterday. But to day I got this error:
The query against the database caused an error.
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w3wp.exe (0x0CB4)-0x1AD8-SharePoint Foundation-Logging Correlation Data-xmnv-Medium Name=Request (POST:http://External%20List/Read%20List.aspx)-7ebc312e-db3a-46a4fbe-04b0115c4885
Some of the guys I work with have reset the IIS, can this be the problem?


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5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
#2. Gratuitous Cocking
Where You've Seen It:
Boondock Saints, Die Hard, Reservoir Dogs, all the movies on this list.
The Myth:
Movies treat the cocking of a gun like an exclamation point. When Hardass McBadCop interrogates the lone surviving henchman, you can safely assume that, at some point, he's going to make his gun go "clickety-clack" to let the poor schmuck know he means business. The sound of a clicking gun is so ominous that the MacManus brothers use it to close out their fruity little prayer in Boondock Saints:
The Problem:
That "click" is the sound of a hammer being cocked back, and movies seem to be saying, "This means the gun is ready to fire now, baby!" It doesn't mean that, however. It doesn't mean anything. The gun was already good to go.
For instance, the guns our hunky Irish assassins are using up there (the Beretta 92F--the same gun John McClane uses in Die Hard), is made so that pulling the trigger also cocks the hammer for you, to save you the extra step and the extra two seconds during which you could get shot. The "cocking the gun to show you mean business" must date back to Westerns, back when those old revolvers forced you to cock them between each shot (something that was made obsolete 150 years ago--so, yeah, Hollywood is even slower to catch up with gun technology than they are computers).
They've hacked your car!
By the way, when you fire one of these guns like the Saints have up there, it's made so that it leaves the hammer cocked back in between shots (the reason is it makes the trigger a little easier to pull). We bring this up because that means the MacManus brothers purposefully de-cocked their guns before shooting that mobster, just so they could make that sound.
It gets sillier. When movies show somebody with a gun that doesn't have a hammer back there to be cocked (like a shotgun or assault rifle) they substitute either the pumping of the shotgun or pulling back the slide on the automatic. It's the only way to get a cool clicking sound for dramatic effect.
The problem is that on these guns, that only serves the purpose of ejecting an empty shell and sliding a new bullet into the chamber--something that already happened the last time you fired it. So every cool "click" would be accompanied by the somewhat-less cool sound of one of your perfectly good bullets falling to the floor.
#1. Bullets Explode Everything
Where You've Seen It:
Jaws, Casino Royale, Matrix Reloaded.
The Myth:
In the movies, bullets and anything mildly flammable have a matter/anti-matter relationship. The second hot lead touches a car's gas tank, it and everyone inside are going up in flames. This is incredibly convenient for those times when Morpheus needs to flash-fry two creepy dreadlocked albinos or a Buick full of raw bacon.
We bet crisp, bleached dreadlocks taste like Sun Chips.
Propane, hydrogen and oxygen work the same way. As long as it is packed in a pressurized metal cylinder, you can be sure shooting it will result in an explosion large enough to blow through any jam the screenwriter gets the protagonist into. Shoot an oxygen tank in a shark's mouth and he'll blow like he's spent all week munching on dynamite.
The Problem:
The manufacturers of automobiles and pressurized containers really don't like liability lawsuits. If their products could be turned into a fireball the size of a city block with nothing more than a sudden impact or puncture, every car accident would look like the Fourth of July, every pile-up would look like a Michael Bay movie.
The Mythbusters famously demonstrated the falsehood of both the "shoot the gas tank" myth and a ton of other gun myths in two of their episodes. As it turns out, you actually have to coax a car into exploding by doing things in a very particular way. If you can punch a small hole in the tank, light a fire outside of it, and vaporize the gas inside to the point that the tank over-pressurizes, then you could probably get it to light. Assuming you use special tracer bullets.
Not those kind.
What's so illogical about Hollywood's "handguns can explode a car" principle is that their bullets can't penetrate anything else. Here's John Cusack hiding behind a shelf of potato chips at a convenience store, safe from the dozens of bullets slamming into them:
And if the good guy takes cover behind a car door? Hell, he might as well be holed up in Fort Knox. Ironically, while guns are useless for exploding a gas tank, they'll punch through a car door with ease.
Everything we know is wrong. If those of us raised on action movies have to fend off a Red Dawn-style invasion, it's going to be a total clusterfuck.
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NRA spokesman's ideas fall well within mainstream thought
After tragedies, there often is a call for action — any action — regardless of how ineffective it might be. Dec. 21, Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association made a speech in which he called for armed police officers in schools. It was severely denounced by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and then-Sen.-elect Christopher Murphy, D-Conn. Blumenthal called it "sadly and shamefully inadequate." Murphy called it "revolting and tone-deaf." The New York Daily News called LaPierre the "craziest man on Earth." Let's examine those accusations.
Right now, 30 percent of schools have a police officer. Police chiefs in St. Louis and Cincinnati have called for training and arming teachers. Bill Clinton established the "COPS in School" program; it placed 2,200 police officers in schools. You may have read that the 1999 attack at Columbine wasn't prevented by a police officer, but ask anyone blurting that out if Columbine would have been better off without an officer present. Who knows how many more would have been killed without a cop? The cop who was on duty at Columbine the day of the attack thinks armed cops in schools is a good idea.
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al.cap wrote on Jan 9, 2013 6:44 AM:
one question for those who support banning legal property. if you're not going to confiscate what's already in circulation, what good is a ban? if you are going to confiscate, please explain how that would be implemented without severe backlash. "
roy wrote on Jan 9, 2013 9:12 AM:
After all, "GUN FREE ZONE" means gun free.... "
KITTY wrote on Jan 9, 2013 9:47 PM:
Citizen 4 Fairness wrote on Jan 9, 2013 10:08 PM:
al.cap wrote on Jan 10, 2013 5:25 AM:
i was going to write that if you can't see it coming, you"re blind, but that's already established with this pair
that's a pretty fair and accurate description.. "
Brian wrote on Jan 10, 2013 7:06 AM:
john kanca wrote on Jan 10, 2013 7:06 AM:
John Kanca wrote on Jan 10, 2013 7:11 AM:
Let's look at what McChrystal said:
"I personally don't think there's any need for that kind of weaponry on the streets and particularly around the schools in America."
I don't disagree. Sandy Hook already was a gun-free zone. You need to create laws which address the problems, not those which adversely affect those who abide by the law. "
John Kanca wrote on Jan 10, 2013 7:15 AM:
We have a big problem here- mental illness. About 10% of homcides are committed by the mentally ill. That's where you can start. "
roy wrote on Jan 10, 2013 8:44 AM:
Whatever orders are implemented, it will be close to gun confiscation...backlash will not be as severe, but it will better prepare guns owners for what's coming. Words to the wise are sufficient. "
blue star wrote on Jan 10, 2013 9:33 AM:
linda wrote on Jan 10, 2013 10:25 AM:
al.cap wrote on Jan 10, 2013 11:03 AM:
Brian wrote on Jan 10, 2013 3:42 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Jan 10, 2013 4:47 PM:
Today there was a shooting in California. A shotgun was used. They'll be talk of banning them too now.
It sounds like the shooter had some sort of problem with the 2 kids he tried to shoot. I bet his is a wimpy kid who saw no other way to get his revenge. We coddle our kids so much, they don't know how to settle an argument. What happened to settling things after school with fists? If we teach our kids self defense, they wont feel the need to use a gun against a classmate.
@ Brian, that's never happened anywhere? The government never went door to door to take guns? You think our government is any different than England?
Lets not forget the US has only been here for a few hundred years. That's a blink of an eye. Those that doubt it. Read the book NUDGE. It's a left wing book on how to slowly nudge the people in the right (left) direction on any idea. "
al.cap wrote on Jan 10, 2013 5:13 PM:
ca today. most restrictive aw ban in the nation. no help. numerous laws broken. no guards, though, because that makes too much sense.
and as long as the dictator wannabe is in office, nothing will get our guard down. "
John Kanca wrote on Jan 11, 2013 8:13 AM:
roy wrote on Jan 11, 2013 9:23 AM:
The pen may be mightier than the sword, but if we live by the sword, we shall die by the sword.
Obama better get more hospitals and cementeries.
Then the Communists can come in and take over. "
blue star wrote on Jan 11, 2013 10:38 AM:
So that's another facet, the Education system, and it's reliance on drugs.
I believe that mental health is a major component of all of the violence we are witnessing. And so much of it centered on schools. "
KITTY wrote on Jan 11, 2013 12:45 PM:
KITTY wrote on Jan 11, 2013 12:57 PM:
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blue star wrote on Jan 11, 2013 2:48 PM:
al.cap wrote on Jan 11, 2013 3:24 PM:
John Kanca wrote on Jan 12, 2013 8:09 AM:
How about a little proof of these assertions?
......the nra gets $1 for every gun sold in this country .......wayne says he's had an increase of 100,000 in membership......he failed to say how many have cancelled their memberships..a wash at very best..... "
NRA Membership Surges By 100,000 In Wake Of Sandy Hook Shooting
A "wash" my foot "
John Kanca wrote on Jan 12, 2013 8:10 AM:
Kitty, you don't even know what semi-automatic weapons are. Not the first clue. Automatic weapons are already forbidden. "
John Kanca wrote on Jan 12, 2013 8:16 AM:
"you said it why don't kids handled things like they use to........it's the gun culture in this society .....and the nra is very responsible for that gun culture...... "
Kitty, the NRA does not create culture. YOU create culture. So does Hollywood and TV. That is a culture of violence and murder without conscience. How many people does Jamie Foxx kill in his new movie? Tarantino has cheapened life to nothing.
The NRA teaches the responsible handling of weapons. Your movie stars teach kids how to kill. "
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- NRA spokesman's ideas fall well within mainstream thought
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STEUBENVILLE - Seven-year-old Madison Hickey wasn't thrilled to lay back in the dental chair Wednesday morning at Eastern Gateway Community College.
She was the first child to take advantage of the free Give Kids A Smile program at the community college that will continue today and Friday at the school.
This was Hickey's first dental exam and the prospect of an X-ray and a cleaning bothered her.
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CHECK-UP — Madison Hickey got her first dental check-up Wednesday at the 11th-annual Give Kids A Smile event at Eastern Gateway Community College. The program continues today and Friday and is one of nearly 1,600 events across the nation. Missy Gust, left, a dental hygienist, checked Hickey's teeth, while Katlyn VanDine, right, a dental assistant, prepared to help Gust.
"It tastes icky," the Pugliese West first-grader announced to Missy Gust, a dental hygienist volunteering at the three-day event.
"I'm a little nervous but I'm OK," she added.
Her mother stood nearby offering quiet words of encouragement.
"I was told about the program by a dental assisting student. I work but I don't have dental insurance so I was happy to take full advantage of this program," explained Connie Rheinhardt of Steubenville.
Tammy Graham, dental assisting program director at EGCC, said approximately 60 children are expected to participate in the three-day Give Kids A Smile that concludes Friday with three volunteer dentists filling cavities.
"We had several cancellations because of the weather. It is a shame because this is a free program for eligible children, but we need the adults to make a commitment to bring their children here," Graham noted.
Dr. Jim Fraser sat on a nearby stool waiting for dental hygienist Missy Gust to finish cleaning Hickey's teeth.
"I have been volunteering here since the program started. I volunteer as a way to give back to the community. This is the first visit to a dentist for many of these kids, so I try to explain everything before I do anything. They are usually frightened so I try to calm them," Fraser stated.
"Some of the kids we see here are in real need of dental care. They don't qualify for Medicaid. The parents are working but don't have dental insurance, so we provide a much needed service. I have been practicing in Wintersville for the past 34 years so this is my chance to volunteer when I can," cited Fraser.
Elizabeth Bradcovich was walking through the halls of the college passing out stickers and selling child and adult toothbrushes.
The dental assisting student at EGCC was playing the role of the Tooth Fairy helping children to learn proper brushing techniques and offering a smile to everyone who stopped to talk to her.
"The teachers asked who wanted to be the Tooth Fairy this year and no one really wanted to. So I volunteered. I am selling the tooth brushes and we are holding a fundraiser for our dental program scholarship fund," she said.
"It's heartbreaking to see a child's smile destroyed by severe tooth decay. Imagine not being able to eat, sleep and pay attention in school because you have a mouthful of toothaches, Some children have reached the point where the only alternative is a mouth full of crowns or pulling the teeth that can't be saved. It's tragic. Our state needs to do more to help children get the dental care they need," said Dr. Thomas Matanzo, who helped spearhead the local Give Kids A Smile event.
The college dental assisting and expanded functions dental assisting students offered their services as part of the statewide initiative this week. "Many children enrolled in Medicaid receive no dental service in throughout the year. Dentists can't do this alone. With Give Kids A Smile, we can help some children get the dental care they need, but the annual event will never be enough. Our event is not a cure-all, it's a wake-up call. Children's oral health is everyone's business - not just dentists. We need to participate as a community and as a nation. We need to find the political will to solve this problem. It won't happen overnight. But if enough people start working on it, it will happen," said Donna Robinson, dental assisting program consultant.


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Below are the common set of curves that are used in a DJ mixer on the crossfader. I have a software equivalent and am using the "Transition" type curve but would like to include some different curve types.
On both the x and y axis' my range is from 0-1. What I usually do is have a function that gives me one side of the curve. (i.e. just the red from the diagrams below) Then as I need two levels (the red and the blue) for a given x value I invert the x value and feed it to the same formula (something like invertedX = x * -1 + 1)
I need the formula for the Dipped curve in the diagram below.
Extra credit goes to those who can give me the formulas to the other curves
- Intermediate
- Constant Power
- I'm pretty sure Slow Fade, Slow Cut and Fast Cut are all the same formula with just a parameter difference or two.
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I guess one way of putting it, when does the series $\sum_{x,y \in \mathbb{Z}} q^{x^2+xy+y^2}$ have nonzero coefficients?
The analogous answer for $\sum_{x,y \in \mathbb{Z}} q^{x^2+y^2}$ is that $q^n$ appears when $\mathrm{ord}_p(n)$ be even for all primes.
Is there a closed form for either of these with quadratic characters or theta functions or something?n


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I have been a Linux user on and off for many years. Recently, I have been using it daily. I am looking for suggestions for media; commercial books, free information, online videos etc that will help me to understand the OS at a much deeper level. Your suggestions please.
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You will find several free guides at The Linux Documentation Project, guides page. This is a short list i pick from there, but you should scroll through the page to find what you need.
You should look for specific HOWTOs for topics you are interested in. Another date sorted HOWTO list.
There are some starters at the Linux reviews beginners page.
Finally, this is a small book available online -- Linux Kernel in a Nutshell. Its in PDF form of the 2007 edition.
You should use these references only as a feeler to start you own search for things that you need.
The best way to understand Linux is to break it, badly, and then fix it.
I'm not sure, when you say a "deeper level", if you're talking about getting more into the command line (some people never leave the GUI that comes with their distro, if you can imagine that), or with really gritty low-level stuff like writing kernel drivers. I'm going to assume more of the former than the latter.
I'd advise you to set reasonable goals for things you'd like to do using Linux and applications running on Linux (run a web server, serve files to Windows hosts, serve DHCP, run a graphical desktop, etc). It's my firm belief that you only learn when you're "doing". Once you've got a goal in mind, pursue it. That means reading man pages (lots and lots of man pages), "HOWTO" documentation, mailing lists archies, random blog posts, and, of course, the documentation that comes with the various programs you're installing or compiling to run on your boxes.
Having taught classroom-based IT certification courses for several years, I believe I can say with some degree of authority that the students who I saw make the most progress were the ones that were doing crazy projects of their own design, and learning by the seats of their pants.
As I said before, man pages, "HOWTO" documentation (http://tldp.org/docs.html and in many, many other places on the 'net) and mailing list archives are your friends. I'd steer clear of any books that talk about kernel internals, at least at this stage. You don't need that kind of deep knowledge to get started.
Talk to other people. Server Fault looks like it's turning out to be a great place to get good advice. Ask questions here, and don't think that you're going to look stupid doing so. If you can get some "face time" with people who are familiar with Linux, go for it. (Though I'd recommend you try and separate opinion from fact. There are as many "holy wars" in the Linux community over differing opinions of how to do things as in any other community-- perhaps more, given the nature of the community.)
To get really "deep" knowledge of the Unix heritage of Linux, you might go for some older Unix-specific administration or reference manuals. I'd steer clear of these early on (at least until you can appreciate the historical nature of the "paths not taken" with Linux as compared to some of the Unix-derived operating sysems).
Not knowing what your overall skill-level is, I will throw a shout-out to a book that my or may not be heplful. I highly recommend "TCP/IP Illustrated" (http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Volumes-Addison-Wesley-Professional-Computing/dp/0201776316). It's not Linux-specific at all, but you will be doing so many things that deal with TCP/IP that knowing it "cold" is a no-brainer.
I guess, in short, I'm saying that there's no magic book or books, no super-secret videos that the "masters" learned from, but absolutely no limit to what you can learn if you stick to it and aren't afraid to get your hands dirty.
Only years of experience playing with individual components will give you a deep understanding. Having said that, the vast majority of Oreilly Press books are really well written and perfect if you're not a dummy and have more than 24 hours. :)
There is a project called Linux From Scratch, which shows you how to build a linux distribution from nothing. You may find it educational to do once. It'll be time consuming as you need to compile everything from source and you'll throw it all away at the end.
I find LWN.net's kernel page invaluable for keeping up with how things work in the kernel at a high level.
Other than using it everyday (Which I think is a great thing!), I recommend you start thinking about services that could be implemented for your network on a linux box. Start designing it based on Linux services, research and implement once your ready. There will be hopefully mistakes in the process, and that experience will help you understand the OS at a deeper level.
For general Unix philosophy and an excellent introduction to the command line, there is Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike's classic The Unix Programming Environment.
Also, IBM's DeveloperWorks web site has over 900 articles in its Linux section. You can browse the article list for topics you find interesting.
Finally, once you're ready to get into the nitty-gritty, go to the source. Grab the source code for the kernel version you're using at kernel.org (your distribution will also have kernel source packages you can install) and check out the Documentation directory. You'll find lots of reference material on kernel internals and configuration settings.
School. To really understand the Linux system you need a wide array of Computer Science systems backgrounds. Compilers, Computer Architecture and Operating Systems. And you need a guide who can show you what's important and correct any misunderstandings you have or form.
Once you understand how modern processors work, and how C compilers exploit them, you can dive into books like Minix 3:
This is the latest version of the book that Torvalds, author of the Linux kernel, (loosely) based his work on. You'll learn about the fundamental components and algorithms of an operating system, and how exactly to implement one: the text comes with a nearly complete printing of the source code to Minix for reference and instructional purposes. Check out the interrupt handler to get a complete understanding of how the system works and where control flows.
And before you scoff at schooling and Computer Science, it's important to note that the jobs Operating Systems are asked to do are generally NP-complete. So understanding a wide variety of available algorithms is critical to performance tuning, since there won't be a provably optimal algorithm.
In addition to the kernel, there's a number of other areas. Because Linux is open source, this is an academic gold mine. Systems like Debian and Ubuntu make their source available, and it's dead simple:
Many upstreams also host their code in revision control, so you can read the most up to date version of a program's source, or even see how it was built years ago.
The source.
That, of course, if you mean the kernel.
If you are trying to learn the system above the kernel and the API, I would start at learning old school
Another way would be go diggin' in
Linux from scratch is a great way of
Just start building your own distro. I've done it for yourself and you know what? After 4 month I've spend on that I know about Linux internals more than guys around me who are using Linux more then 10 years.
Learning in any of the *nix environments is a holistic approach. It involves a series of epiphanies and experiences. This is not by accident. It is the deliberate byproduct of its design, as the original environment was designed around and for computer programmers. It is also its greatest shortcoming, as the focus is on technical aspects and not user experience. It is "a house with a sturdy frame that will last 100 years without service, yet its siding is haphazard and the paint clearly neglected".
Contrast this with Windows, which is the mirror image of this philosphy - do something that gives the user a tangible experience, but shield them from the inner workings of things. It is "a house with beautiful trim and paint, but the foundation that has been built-over several times with multiple work-arounds".
To really start learning, I would suggest building custom kernel images that have options specific to your hardware, and installing them with the options you want. You should fully expect going into this that something, somewhere will break, and you may or may not be able to back things out to "normal". This is a normal part of that learning process and you should approach this as if things will break (i.e. don't make this a primary install, use a separate drive or virtual machine or something...)
I've done an answer on a similar question, so to reduce typing I'll crosslink it here. You'll also want to read the first few paragraphs on this page, which will give you a better feel for what you're in for.
Start reading/cat'ing files in
You can find some real gems about how the kernel and OS work this way.
A few quick pointers:
/etc/inittab /etc/rcS.d /etc/rc2.d /etc/crontab /proc/1/environ /proc/filesystems /proc/meminfo /proc/cpuinfo sysctl -a | grep vm.swappiness /etc/default # debian-based /etc/sysconfig # redhat-based
Quick tip - some output in /proc is NUL separated, and hence is hard to read. Use 'tr' to convert the NUL's to newlines, eg:
sudo cat /proc/1/environ | tr '\0', '\n'
There is a lot to learn about Linux, or any operating system. One kind of learning is what I call "in depth" learning, which is finding out how the kernel operates, what assumptions it makes, how the various bits talk to each other, and how it deals with hardware. That's kernel stuff. Stuff like that is very useful in figuring out why the operating system broke in just that way. In fact, I learned it the same way Karl Katzke did. I broke stuff, and made it better.
For this kind of knowledge, Linux is pretty easy. It's all documented in many places. The same can't be quite said for Windows, though there is still a lot of doc out there for it.
Then there is the 'getting around in the OS' learning, which is where knowledge of bash/sed/awk/regex and all that other stuff comes in handy. Because the fact is, an operating system is much more than its kernel these days. You have vendor supplied driver blobs. You have how this particular distribution packages its startup scripts. You have various patch/update mechanisms. You have system daemons that everyone needs, but aren't kernel.
This is a much broader spectrum of knowledge than simple kernel-fu. It varies by distributer so how things work on Red Hat may not work the same on Slackware. Where files are kept can vary. As can what they picked to replaced 'vi'.
"Learning Linux" is more about learning an entire ecosystem than it is a simple operating system.
I had a book called "Linux Programming" that taught me more about the OS than any "Learn Linux" book. I wish I had the ISBN number, but it was amazing..partly because it went into the programming "why"s, not not just the "how"s.
Overall, most of my learning was honestly through breaking it and fixing it. It happened slowly, and I'm still learning new things after 12 years.
It's definitely a process. The key is to be very, very curious. When you encounter something that you're unfamiliar with, become familiar with it. Seek out knowledge about how and why it ticks, and learn the underlying technologies, too.
I found drifting through Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and then even various other Linux distros a good way to learn a lot about Linux. About how it did things differently. You learn as much about your home town while visiting other places than you learn about where you are.
When it comes to books, I like the O'Reilly's, so "Essential System Administration Pocket Reference" and "Linux System Administration" are possible starting points.
My copy of TCP/IP Network Administration is an older one and I haven't used it in a while, but I found it very useful to get a more in-depth understanding of what's going on.
You're already making the first step by using Linux as your regular desktop.
If you want to understand how all the parts hook together and are configured, I would suggest running Gentoo. From a regular stage3 install, you have to compile your own kernel, install all your services (except SSH which is there out of the box), build and configure X yourself, etc. When you're doing that, you end up with a much greater understanding of all the bits that go into a binary linux installation. It also doesn't hurt that Gentoo has the best documentation of any Distro I've found, or that portage is a fantastically powerful and flexible package manager.
I would strongly recommend this as "required reading":
The Unix Programming Environment - Brian W. Kernighan / Rob Pike
Someone else mentioned this, and I think its the thing that helped me most with using various linux flavors. If you feel you have a reasonable handle on linux, start using open/net/freebsd.
This posting on Stackoverflow has a large listing of Unix/Linux resources including most of the canonical works on the subject.
Another way to learn what makes Linux tick behind the scenes is to work through Linux From Scratch (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/). It is essentially a set of exercises in manually installing and configuring the various components of a linux system and is a very good intro to learn the nuts and bolts from.


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I've been reading generationgfunctionology by Herbert S. Wilf (you can find a copy of the second edition on the author's page here).
On page 33 he does something I find weird. He wants to shuffle the index forward and does so like this: \begin{align*} (f_{n+1})_{n\in N_0} &= \frac{(f(X)-f(0))}{X}\\ (f_{n})_{n\in N_0} &= \sum_{n\in N_0} f_nx^n \end{align*}
Why is this allowed? Namely $X$ has a noninvertible (0) constant term, so how is this division (multiplication with the reciprocal) defined within the ring of formal power series?


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Robert G. Morvillo '63 was a New York City white-collar criminal defense lawyer who represented celebrities, politicians, businesspeople, and companies. He passed away on December 24, 2011, at the age of 73.
Morvillo was widely admired by clients and fellow jurists as a preeminent tactician. The New York Times referred to him as a preeminent figure in the city's criminal-defense bar. His client list included major companies like Merrill Lynch and the Hess Corporation, and his most famous client in recent years was media mogul Martha Stewart.
Morvillo was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Rockville Center, Long Island. He earned his bachelor's degree at Colgate University, and, after graduating from Columbia Law School, he clerked for Judge William B. Herlands at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Morvillo then served as an assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he eventually led the securities-fraud unit and the criminal division. During his tenure as a federal prosecutor, Morvillo worked on several high-profile cases, including the conviction of Clifford Irving on charges of authoring a fraudulent biography of businessman Howard Hughes.
In 1973, Morvillo left his post to join two fellow colleagues at a boutique firm that became a predecessor to Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, the New York City firm where he practiced as a partner until his death. During the next several decades, Morvillo represented a string of prominent executives implicated in fraud and corruption cases. These clients included former AIG chief executive Maurice R. Greenberg and John A. Zaccaro, a real estate developer and the husband of former Democratic vice-presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro.
"Win or lose, he was always thinking three steps ahead of anyone else in the room," Judge Jed Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York said of Morvillo, The New York Times reported.
Lawrence Iason, his partner at Morvillo Abramowitz, told the New York Law Journal that Morvillo also displayed remarkable skill in protecting his clients from criminal prosecution in the first place. "So much of his best work was for clients you never heard of because they were never charged," Iason told the legal newspaper.
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Floyd E. "Gene" Felts, 85, passed away Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 at Albuquerque Heights Healthcare where he volunteered for more than 15 years before becoming a resident.
He was born in Dodge City to Clyde and Ruth Felts. He was a very kind, compassionate man and will be greatly missed by his family and friends.
He is preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Carmen Felts; and a brother, Gerald Felts.
He is survived by his six children George Loring of, Burrton, Shirley Rivera (Walter) of Reseda, Calif., Pam Doerksen (Clarence) of Satanta, Debbie Tate (Gene) of Albuquerque, N.M., Jerri Tyler of Pekin, Ind. and Carmen Flores of Albuquerque, N.M.; 18 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren; his Brother, Kenneth W. Felts of Arvada, Colo.; and a sister-in-law, Joyce Felts of Dodge City; many nieces and nephews; and a special friend, Patsy Simmons, Albuquerque, N.M.
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GOP Probes Deeper Into Benghazi Review
Lawmakers Seek to Question Accountability-Board Leaders, Saying Clinton's Handling of Attacks Wasn't Fully Explored
WASHINGTON—House Republicans on Monday plan to take another step in a widening Benghazi investigation, by asking leaders of an independent review board to agree to be questioned about their investigation of last year's attacks in Libya.
The formal request, to be submitted in letters on Monday, comes as GOP lawmakers move to discredit the investigation by the Accountability Review Board, a panel appointed under federal law last year by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to size up the adequacy of U.S. security measures and preparations at the diplomatic mission that was overrun in the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist assault.
Four Americans were killed in the attacks, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, leading to months of questions over security, the absence of a military response during the attacks and politically charged accusations about the Obama administration's handling of the aftermath.
The Accountability Review Board reported in December that the State Department had failed to provide for the security of the Benghazi, Libya, posts despite growing militancy in the area. Four top officials, including an assistant secretary and a deputy assistant secretary, were removed from their jobs as a result.
However, Republicans have assailed the board for not probing more deeply and not formally questioning Mrs. Clinton. Some charge the panel was under the control of Mrs. Clinton and the White House.
"We believe it was insufficient," said Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, in an interview Sunday on NBC. "We're going to want to go through at length how the [board] reached its conclusions."
He said he planned to send letters asking that the two leaders of the review board, longtime diplomat Thomas Pickering and retired Adm. Mike Mullen, agree to depositions to answer questions about the panel's work.
Mr. Pickering appeared on news programs Sunday to rebut the charges against his panel, which he said were "an unfair criticism."
The panel met with Mrs. Clinton near the end of its investigation, but didn't exhaustively question her, Mr. Pickering said. "I don't believe that it was necessary to do that," he said. "I don't think that there was anything there that we didn't know."
Interest in the Benghazi attacks was rekindled by a hearing last week in which the former No. 2 U.S. diplomat in Tripoli, Libya, testified about his experiences the night of the attacks. The diplomat, Gregory Hicks, testified as a whistleblower, criticizing administration statements in the first days after the attack that it had grown out of a demonstration.
As a result of Mr. Hicks's testimony, Republican lawmakers said Sunday that additional whistleblowers are likely to emerge. They also are pushing for the appointment of a special select committee to probe the attacks, bringing together investigations now under way at five different GOP-controlled panels.
Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) has called the administration's response to Benghazi—including inaccurate "talking points" used as the basis for early public statements—a "coverup" and endorsed the idea of a select committee, as did Sen. James Inhofe (R., Okla.). Mr. Inhofe predicted last week that the Benghazi investigation would lead to an impeachment debate.
Democrats see the investigation as aimed squarely at the political future of Mrs. Clinton, who is frequently mentioned as a potential 2016 presidential candidate. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) said in a television interview Sunday that Mrs. Clinton's name was used dozens of times in last Wednesday's House hearing. "You know, what I hear being assessed is all kinds of ulterior motives, and I don't believe they existed," she said, regarding the coverup accusations.
Mr. Issa said the probe wasn't aimed at Mrs. Clinton or President Barack Obama.
"What we have to find out is how did we not get it right before the attack?" Mr. Issa said. "How did we not get it better during the attack? And how did we not get the truth after?"
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Can anyone suggest a programme or website that will allow playing diplomacy with all players on one computer. Ideally this should not involve logging in and out, or having a window open per player. I would like to use it purely as a movement judge, so once all orders are submitted on paper, then they can be copied onto the screen, and the "Go" button clicked to show the results (ideally with nice arrows showing where units bounced, convoyed etc.). I have found many programmes and websites that provide great interfaces for play-by-email or play-by-web for a single player, but nothing for helping with face-to-face games.
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The software I know of is Realpolitik.
I know that at games Dan Burgess has hosted in Chicago, they've used this program (eg see his comment here), but I believe not in lieu of ordinary analogue adjudication over a board. The general setup as I understand it is that a non-playing host loads the moves into Realpolitik and adjudicates, which is synced up to a computer screen in a different negotiation room(s), so that players in that room can see the current position of the board while negotiating. I've never actually see this in progress, if you want more information, I'd contact one of the Windy City Weasels.
Call me skeptical, but I'm not convinced of the advantage of using automatic adjudication (perhaps if I see it in action I'll become convinced, maybe cutting down on errors is one possibility, but not the one mentioned in comments). The orders still needed to be read, and the results assimilated by the players, so I don't see a major time saving (since assimilation usually occurs simultaneously with hand-held adjudication).
jDip is an exact fit for that. It is a free java program so can run on any platform.
The kind of software you are looking for exists.
MSN - Gaming Zone used to support Diplomacy, but something must have happened between Hasbro and Microsoft to change this.
Stewart Cross has an interesting article on the difficulty in creating the Diplomacy GM. If you are looking for reviews of the PC game, you might check GameSpot, or AllGame (although it looks like this site is a data farming site like Answers.com). I would normally use GameFAQs.com, or MobyGames.com, but both don't seem to have much useful information on them.


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I've seen walking poles range from <£10 to >£100 - and to a casual observer there doesn't often seem to be much to distinguish them, with both having good grips and shock relief / suspension. What makes one better than the other, and is it worth investing in one which is more expensive if it's going to be extensively used?
Each person is unique and may need one feature over another. But here is my take on the features in a rough order of importance:
A good set of poles should last a lifetime, so don't be afraid to spend a few extra bucks on a better model. If you're about to be attacked by an animal or you start sliding towards a cliff, you'll be glad you didn't trust your life to the cheapest thing you could find.


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