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Have you ever clicked on a link hoping for a story and found it was a video?
Ok, here is the scenario, you are reading a news article at work and beside the current article is a link for another article that sounds really interesting. You click the link and it turns out that it is for a video instead of written word. Does this drive anyone else nuts?
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i get rick roll'd all the time
but to answer your question
sometimes cnn does that to me
It's annoying, because I don't want to have to shut my music off, watch an ad, and then watch the video when in a lesser amount of time I can scan an article and get what I need out of it.
Yep. Annoying to me. I can usually get the information I want faster by reading than by watching a video.
i usually close it and head to Google to find it somewhere else. I'm also really tired of articles split across pages. All that does it aggravate a reader and increase ad impressions falsely for the article's website.
Yep. Drives me batty. I won't watch them. I prefer my news in print form.
all the time. 9 out of 10 times I close the tab, mainly because they run a commercial before the video starts.
Yahoo! is the worst at this. There is a local news station here that does it a lot too. Hate it.
This is the single biggest reason I avoid CNN more and more. It seems like everything I'm interested in reading ends up being a video.
YES. This drives me crazy! CNN does it often. They should have the option of either video or written word. I also think all videos should not auto-start but have you click to play them.
Definitely hate it. It's fine if they say like "Story title blah blah [Video]" since you know what you're getting in to, but just mixing them in is super annoying.
There are definitely places where video is useful if it's something you 'really need to see' but even then 99% of the time I just want to read the story.
Unfortunately, the videos are more often talking heads and stock footage. Of course, often times if they've already recorded the video spot for use on the air, so it's not much of an issue to post it online I suppose. However, in this case I'd appreciate a warning next to the link, something along the lines of "WARNING: Video, not worth your time, please ignore."
Yes, it is so annoying! I don't care if they have a video, but they should also have a text version that I can't read. I can skim the text and get the gist of the story in less time than it takes to watch their video plus whatever advertisement they want to force upon me!
You would think it would be easier to type out your story, but apparently not.
Yahoo! are the biggest trolls when it comes to this. When the top 20 highest rated comments say 'STOP POSTING VIDEO REPORTS!', then maybe you should listen.
Great question, thanks OP! Sounds like everyone has the same feelings about it(including me)!
I can't really sit at my desk at work and watch streaming video with sound... I don't get why CNN and Yahoo fail to understand this!
I agree! Another pet peeve is when the name to the article is longer/more interesting than the article itself...
"Great Dane saves owner from flash fire in kitchen by alerting authorities"
A dogs barking alerted neighbors to a fire, who called 911 and pulled a man from his kitchen.
@unoriginal26: YES! Those drive me nuts too. Most entertainment articles are like that, using the GoDaddy tricks to a certain extent.
Yes, I it drives me nuts! And I'm not far from it to begin with.
Boo videos, hooray reading!
Of course. Very rarely do I take the time to actually watch them at that point -- especially if I'm at work...quite annoying in my opinion.
@djp519: I literally can't watch videos at work, they're all blocked! Sometimes I just want to catch up on the news on lunch, and BAM! RESTRICTED WEBSITE!
friggin yahoo does it all the time
One of the biggest pet peeves I have with the Internet!
Oh gosh, YES! Hate it!
Yep. Hate watching news videos. Also, have you noticed that even if you do decide to watch the video that came with an incredibly interesting headline, you get a 40 second high level news clipping of the actual event/news item?
Probably my single biggest internet pet peeve: Automatic playing videos. MSN Money is particularly annoying at this. You click on a headline which brings you to a another page where the headline is, you click it again and get to an article and begin to read. Meanwhile, a video half way down the page starts blasting at you. SRSLY!?
I appreciate this question and the answers 'cuz it makes me feel like I'm not some grumpy weirdo.
Almost always, I prefer text to video. I remember reading about some sort of Twitter clone that was being promoted as the next big thing, but people post short videos instead of 140-max messages. I felt so uncool thinking that it was dumb because the whole company was pushing itself as being hip and what the younguns prefer nowadays.


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A9 TV; 17 August 2011
No such thing. Do you know why not? For one thing, the way of the Mahdi will dominate the world. We are in the time of Jesus the Messiah. The coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as) has happened. So any such thing is impossible. In addition, they have made 99% of people selfish and egotistical. Most of them think along the lines of, it may be small, but it's mine. Someone has only a small house or car, but he is devoted to them and unwilling to give them up. So nobody will become a communist. But of course it is easy for communism to thrive in rather isolated areas where the geography is well suited, such as southeast Turkey. It is easy for communism to spread in isolated countries where ignorance is widespread. Communism has become a religion in the PKK terror organization. They have adopted communist thinking as the opposite of religion. That is why they are not interested in cars or houses or anything. They want to do what their religion demands. They want to live as the religion of communism requires. What is needed is an intellectual struggle against it. Look, the State permits all kinds of struggle apart from an intellectual one. But there is nothing wrong with the intellectual struggle. For example, if 100 tons of books had been dropped instead of 100 tons of bombs, and if anti-Marxist, anti-Leninist and anti-Darwinist broadcasts had been made over the TV and radio, we would long ago have seen the results and it would all be over. If people are told of the miracles of the Qur'an and shown love, compassion and brotherhood, that will solve the problem. The problem in the southeast, that of the PKK people, was described by Bediüzzaman.; "Under the effect of science and philosophy, and the contagious plague known as materialism and naturalism, and its spread among people, he will first of all save the faith in such a way as to silence philosophy and materialism." (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Emirdag Addendum, p. 259)
He says this is Hazrat Mahdi's first task. That is the matter, the disease. If we ignore it, what does Bediüzzaman say? The scourge will just grow worse. In other words, it will lead the body to death. The Risale-i Nur and the Qur'an explicitly say what the solution is. Allah sets it out in the Qur'an and Bediüzzaman in the Risale-i Nur and our Prophet (saas) in the hadiths. We make a grave mistake if we ignore it.
But if union is proposed sincerely and with love, every Islamic country will agree. But if they approached with cold faces and cold, official statements, then none of them will agree to Islamic Union. Islamic Union will come about through warmth, friendship and a deep love in the heart, and with light. Islamic Union is built upon love. It requires profound love and sincerity. It is founded on passion and love of Allah. But you cannot get Turkish-Islamic Union with icy language. Even a child knows you cannot obtain Islamic Union with a proud, arrogant kind of language. And Allah would in any case never allow it. There can be no Turkish-Islamic Union without Hazrat Mahdi (as), we see that in every way. Because what our Prophet (saas) said came from revelation. Jibrail (as) speaks through him. Allah will do what He says. Everyone knows how Allah will respond if new ideas are developed contrary to what Allah says. There is no other way than doing what Allah says. But one cannot expect Turkish-Islamic Union to come from cold faces, chilly language and official statements. It has to be entrusted to the way of the Mahdi. Wasting time just leads to disasters, constant pain and nothing else. We must move to the way of the Mahdi and Turkish-Islamic Union at once. Then everyone, Muslims, Christians, Jews and everyone can relax. You will see that what I am saying will happen.
Surat al-Zukhruf verse:
"Pharaoh called to his people." For example, as you know, until just recently there was a mindset in Egypt that shamelessly spoke down to and looked down on the people. He is now in a cage. "…saying, 'My people, does the kingdom of Egypt not belong to me? Do not all these rivers flow under my control. Do you not then see?"
Since there was a communist mindset there, he also regarded everything as belonging to him even then. He regarded the people as belonging to him. He imposed his own ideology on the people. For example, he says; "you will believe in me, I will not put up with anything else." [In the Quran Pharaoh says] "Do you not then see? Am I not better than this man..."Look, by saying "this man" he imagines he is belittling the Prophet Moses (as). "who is contemptible…?" There are stupid people like that who attach no value to our Kurdish or Arab brothers or some other people. "…and can scarcely make anything clear." In other words, he has trouble expressing himself. The Prophet Moses (as) grows excited as he speaks and sometimes stutters. He tries to use that against him. "Why have gold bracelets not been put upon his arms?"His thoughts immediately turn to gold and money. He will value and respect people depending on how much money they have. Disbelief is like that; people are judged according to their money and wealth. But a high-quality Muslim likes people because of their character and moral values. "and why is there not a train of angels accompanying him?"
This is also something that unbelievers want. Nonbelievers always demand to see angels. This is therefore the kind of language to be used by nonbelievers and Pharaoh, not by Muslims. "In that way he swayed his people and they succumbed to him."
He despised that and literally made them his captives. "They were a people of deviators. Then when they had provoked Our wrath, We took revenge on them and drowned every one of them."
Allah generally inflicts disasters on perverse peoples. "We made them a thing of the past,an example for later peoples. When an example is made of the son of Maryam your people laugh uproariously."
Some foolish types behave in the same way today when we say, "The Prophet Jesus (as) will come. Or they do not believe in the Prophet Jesus (as) coming into the world without a father. The nonbelievers at that time were just the same. "They retort, 'Who is better then, our gods or him?' They only say this to you for argument's sake. They are indeed a disputatious people."
There are argumentative people on the internet. They send retorts back and forth. But what is it about? Argument and disputation. Is there any love? No. They have abandoned affection, compassion and respect. Solely argument. They insult the prime minister or someone else. Their mouths have grown used to filth. Not a word do they say about love. They are not used to love. Their hearts are full of enmity and hatred. They want two things – enmity and argument. What dominates the argument? Enmity. Look for the word love on the internet and it is very hard to find. Always insults. Even young girls have begun cursing like men. They use cursing with a sexual content as if that were perfectly normal. How ugly that is! For a woman to curse is a direct insult toward herself. Really abnormal. "He is only a servant on whom We bestowed Our blessing and whom We made an example for the tribe of Israel."
Allah says that the Prophet Jesus (as) is not divine. But He tells us to follow him. He says he is a model. "He is a Sign of the Hour. Have no doubt about it. But follow me. This is a straight path."
And we have no doubts. Abjad [numerological] calculation gives a date of 2026, the date of the global dominion of Islamic moral values, insha'Allah. The beginning of the years of the glorious sovereignty of the Prophet Jesus (as). "Do not let satan bar your way. He truly is an outright enemy to you."
Surat al-Mumtanahah, 4:
"You have an excellent example in Abraham and those with him,"That means there is a fine model in the Prophet Abraham (as) and those with him in terms of understanding the spirit and beauty of Muslims. Not just Abraham, but those with him, too. "They said to their people: 'We wash our hands of you and all that you worship apart from Allah'," We espouse neither Darwinist, nor materialist nor communist thinking. We espouse the truth. "We reject you." We spurn you, they say. They reject their mother or father or whoever it may be. "Between us and you there will be enmity and hatred for everunless and until you believe in Allah alone."There will be an opposition until they become genuine Muslims, faithful to Allah, until the Day of Reckoning. "Except for Abraham's words to his father: 'I will ask forgiveness for you."
The Prophet Abraham (as) says he will beg Allah's forgiveness for his father and says he will pray to Allah to make him good and grant him reason and lead him to happiness. "but I have no power to help you in any way against Allah." But if vengeance comes from Allah, I will submit to it, he says. "Our Lord, we have put our trust in You." What does trust mean? We have attained the greatest blessing in the world, in other words. What happens when a person trusts? Things become like paradise, his mind becomes very healthy. If he falls ill he will not be afraid, if he is imprisoned he will not be distressed, nor if he loses all his possessions, because he has trust. Who destroys all one's possessions? Allah. Who imprisons one? Allah. Who frees one again? Allah. Who sends sickness? Allah. And Who cures one? Allah. Since everything comes from Allah, everything is for the best. Everything is created with goodness and wisdom. Wisdom is in any case good, and there is goodness in all things. Goodness means what is true and fitting for Allah. And that is then good and fitting for Muslims. There is goodness in it, insha'Allah. 'We have put our trust in You.' Not just, we have turned to You. But we have truly and sincerely turned to You. "You are our final destination." How excellent! Muslims remain in this world for a while. Then they return to Allah, to His presence. Of course, Allah is unfettered by space. I say that to express the hereafter. "Our Lord, do not make us a target for those who are unbelievers." Since it is a hard test. "…and forgive us. Our Lord, You are the Almighty, the All-Wise." It is a most important obligation to know that Allah is strong and mighty. People forget. This command and all commands belong to Allah. "You are the All-Wise." If He does something there is always goodness in it; sometime we can know this, if Allah tells us. But sometimes we cannot, insha'Allah.
Surat as-Saff, 7:
"Who could do greater wrong than someone who invents a lie against Allah when he has been called to Islam?" Even though they have been preached to and told to follow Islam and the Qur'an. If someone tells a lie, that he was created out of mud by chance, if he utters such a slander, then he has done a great wrong. Allah will never bestow happiness on such a wrongful people. "Who could do greater wrong than someone who invents a lie against Allah?" The second component of the verse refers to superstitious nonsense such as "if you do this, you will be spared going to hell." Who says so? Is that in the Qur'an? No. Did our Prophet (saas) make any such declaration. No. Superstitious nonsense. Or saying, "this is lawful but that is unlawful." On what basis. Is that in the Qur'an? No. Did our Prophet (saas) say any such thing? No. So it is superstitious nonsense. "Who could do greater wrong than someone who invents a lie against Allah?" So hypocrites and unbelievers are the most wrongful people of all. "Allah does not guide wrongdoing people." In other words, He gives them no power or dominion. They are despised and belittled everywhere. If they have a state, it collapses. The answer is to fully follow the Qur'an. To add nothing to the Qur'an and take nothing away. To believe in the sufficiency of the Qur'an.
Muslims are "those who, when they are oppressed, help and defend themselves.", Allah says in one verse. Allah regards Muslims as a single nation, a single community in the Qur'an. For example, if anything is done to Muslims in Eritrea, according to that same commandment, all Muslims, all, must ally themselves against that, with knowledge and love and reason. The Qur'an makes that an obligation. This verse is one of the proofs of the obligatory nature of Islamic Union. When any Muslim is harmed, anywhere, Allah says, "help and defend themselves" in the verse. For example, in the event of an attack by the PKK terror organization, Muslims in Eritrea, Egypt, Mora, Chad and everywhere have an obligation to oppose it together. If Muslims are persecuted in Syria, for instance, all Muslims have an obligation to oppose that in the form of an alliance. There will be no corruption on earth when that is done. There is a verse of the Qur'an that reads, "Fight them until there is no more corruption and the religion is Allah's alone." This is an application of the verse. Because there is corruption? Where is there corruption? In any country at all. All Muslims have a duty to unite, to intellectually fight that corruption. Allah does not say, "Some of you take an interest in it, while the others need not bother." It is a verse that addresses all of them. Allah does not tell some of us to pray while the others need not bother. He addresses us all. When He tells us to fast, He means all of us. The verse "those who, when they are oppressed, help and defend themselves" also refers to all Muslims. They all have a responsibility. I have a responsibility, as do Mahmut Hodja, and Fethullah Hodja, and religious scholars in Egypt and people in Pakistan and Libya. It is a duty incumbent on all. Indeed, even when the People of the Book are persecuted, when Christians and Jews are oppressed, Muslims in their own countries have a duty to protect them. Indeed, they even have a duty to protect polytheists. There is a verse in which Allah says, "If any of the idolaters ask you for protection, give them protection until they have heard the words of Allah." Who will do that? All Muslims. The responsibility is not given to any particular group. The verse is a command to all, to everyone. The verses of the Qur'an are commands addressed to all the Muslims in the world. If people refuse to understand, then Allah will make them understand. Pretending not to understand is unacceptable. Libya pretended not to understand, for instance. Now look at it. Syria pretended not to understand. And now look at Syria. And this is the reason for hunger. There is an assault being made against all Muslims' rights. There is famine and misery. We must all oppose it together. But who is taking any notice? Very few.
Surat as-Saff 8:
"They desire to extinguish Allah's Light with their mouths." They seek to stop Islamic Union, to stop the way of the Mahdi, to stop Turkish-Islamic Union. They try to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths. They foolishly imagine they can extinguish Hazrat Mahdi (as) and prevent the coming of the Prophet Jesus (as) and neutralize Islamic Union. They are striving day and night to extinguish Allah's light with their mouths, on the radio and television. "but Allah will perfect His light." Even if they strive against it, Allah will still send Hazrat Mahdi (as) and the Prophet Jesus (as) and the moral values of Islam will still rule the world. "though the unbelievers hate it." Those who make additions to the Qur'an, or make false deductions, unbelievers, atheists, whoever. "It is He Who sent His Messenger with guidance and the Religion of Truth"in such a way as to be an instrument of happiness. Hazrat Mahdi (as) will be sent with the duty of serving as Mahdi, as a guide to the true faith. "To exalt it [Islam] over every other Religion." Against all superstitious faiths. "to exalt it" so only Islam will remain. "though the idolaters hate it." Even if the bigots detest it. Because you can see that unbelievers are trying to oppose Islamic Union and Turkish-Islamic Union with all their might. They are not just trying to extinguish the light of Allah in Turkey alone. They are striving with all their might to prevent the global dominion of Islamic moral values in this century. But what does Allah say? "though the idolaters hate it," Allah says He will impose His religion and establish Islamic Union. Abjad calculation of the verse gives a date of 2021.
"You who believe! Shall I direct you to a transaction which will save you from a painful punishment?" Almighty Allah says.
He speaks of a transaction so people will understand. Almighty Allah addresses people in the language they best understand, the language of the busy they are so preoccupied with. "from a painful punishment." Allah does not speak of an ordinary punishment, but of a painful one. People will not understand if He just says punishment. But Almighty Allah says, "a painful punishment." To warn people and attract their attention. "which will save you…" That is a source of great joy. "Shall I direct you to a transaction…?" It is not easy for them, so Allah compares it to a business transaction. "It is to believe in Allah and His Messenger and strive in the Way of Allah with your wealth and your selves." If you struggle, if you strive hard. You will give up your belongings on Allah's path, preaching with all your hearts and spreading Islam everywhere. "That is better for you if you only knew." What am I doing right now? Striving, spreading the faith, talking to people.
What do hypocrites do? They boast of their belongings, their money and houses, their flesh and blood, their tactics, their interests and their circles. What do believers do? They boast of their intellectual struggle, their efforts to spread Islamic Union, their services to Islam. They rejoice in them, and their hearts are at ease. "He will forgive you your wrong actions and admit you into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, and fine dwellings in the Gardens of Eden. That is the Great Victory."
This is true happiness, because the life of this world is very short "And other things you love: support from Allah and imminent victory. Give good news to the believers!" Anjad calculation gives a date of 1981. "And other things [blessings] you love " says Allah. Allah refers to the global dominion of Islamic values as a blessing. "Support from Allah and imminent victory. Give good news to the believers!" And we tell people the good news of Hazrat Mahdi (as) and Islamic Union. Allah says, "Give good news to the believers!" We will tell people of paradise, insha'Allah. We will tell them of Allah's approval. If Allah permits. And it gives a date of 1981.
Islamic Union and Turkish-Islamic Union are coming about, step by step, before the eyes of the world. And I state openly that nobody can stop it. Eventually, everyone will say, "May Allah be pleased." We are rendering most excellent service, insha'Allah. As pioneers for the Mahdi, as followers of Hazrat Mahdi (as). Hypocrites strive through corruption, but we are engaged in a most useful and successful intellectual struggle against Darwinism, materialism and Leninism, insha'Allah. And we are highly effective.2011-09-08 23:10:49

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What began as a small grocery store in Michigan is now a superstore with an interest in Bowling Green.
The City-County Planning Commission of Warren County approved the plans for the nearly 200,000 sq. ft. store called Meijer on Westpark Dr. off Gary Farms Blvd. near Home Depot and Kohl's.
Plans were reviewed to ensure they met all zoning requirements, but some were concerned about the business' proximity to nearby residential areas.
"The main concern I have is that there hasn't been a privacy fence put up." said Russell Morgan Eastland Park Neighborhood Assoc. Vice President.
Those concerns about fencing were included as "binding elements" to development plans when the area was rezoned to be "highway business" in 2008.
"There are quite a few binding elements on it. There were concerns with the Eastland Park neighborhood next door about the commercial going in next door. So they made alot of commitments about building a fence, quite a bit more landscaping than is normally required," said Daniel Faller Plans Reviewer for the City-County Planning Commission of Warren County.
Representatives from Meijer's engineering firm say that a privacy fence will be built before construction on the store begins.
Meijer is among several other large developments that have recently invested in the Gary Farms Blvd. area since it was re-zoned.
"That's kind of the way things develop. You have someone do a big re-zoning and from there it's a matter of trying to attract people to come in and fill it up," said Faller.
Faller says the next step for the store will be to apply for a building permit, and then they will be ready for construction.
Meijer calls itself a "one stop shop" with more than 40 departments like grocery, pharmacy, clothing, electronics, and automotive.
The Bowling Green store will be their southernmost location.
Meijer representatives say they hope to break ground by next year... and open their doors by 2014.


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I thought the whole essence of swap was to act as a temporary storage safety net when RAM was full but my swap partition is constantly being used even though I sometimes have as much as 3GB free RAM. Is this normal?
You could try changing your "swappiness" value:
From the Ubuntu's Swap FAQ:
Also you can check out: http://askubuntu.com/a/103916/54187
There are a few different aspects to your question.
Firstly, what your definition of "free" is. It is actually not as simple as it sounds in Linux (or any modern operating system).
How Linux uses RAM (very simplified)
Each application can use some of your memory. Linux uses all otherwise unoccupied memory (except for the last few Mb) as "cache". This includes the page cache, inode caches, etc. This is a good thing - it helps speed things up heaps. Both writing to disk and reading from disk can be sped up immensely by cache.
Ideally, you have enough memory for all your applications, and you still have several hundred Mb left for cache. In this situation, as long as your applications don't increase their memory use and the system isn't struggling to get enough space for cache, there is no need for any swap.
Once applications claim more RAM, it simply goes into some of the space that was used by cache, shrinking the cache. De-allocating cache is cheap and easy enough that it is simply done in real time - everything that sits in the cache is either just a second copy of something that's already on disk, so can just be deallocated instantly, or it's something that we would have had to flush to disk within the next few seconds anyway.
This is not a situation that is specific to Linux - all modern operating systems work this way. The different operating systems might just report free RAM differently: some include the cache as part of what they consider "free" and some may not.
When you talk about free RAM, it's a lot more meaningful to include cache, because it practically is free - it's available should any application request it. On Linux, the
How Linux uses swap (even more simplified)
Once you have used up enough memory that there is not enough left for a smooth-running cache, Linux may decide to re-allocate some unused application memory from RAM to swap.
It doesn't do this according to a definite cut-off. It's not like you reach a certain percentage of allocation then Linux starts swapping. It has a rather "fuzzy" algorithm. It takes a lot of things into account, which can best be described by "how much pressure is there for memory allocation". If there is a lot of "pressure" to allocate new memory, then it will increase the chances some will be swapped to make more room. If there is less "pressure" then it will decrease these chances.
Your system has a "swappiness" setting which helps you tweak how this "pressure" is calculated. It's normally not recommended to alter this at all, and I would not recommend you alter it. Swapping is overall a very good thing - although there are a few edge cases where it harms performance, if you look at overall system performance it's a net benefit for a wide range of tasks. If you reduce the swappiness, you let the amount of cache memory shrink a little bit more than it would otherwise, even when it may really be useful. Whether this is a good enough trade-off for whatever problem you're having with swapping is up to you. You should just know what you're doing, that's all.
There is a well-known situation in which swap really harms perceived performance on a desktop system, and that's in how quickly applications can respond to user input again after being left idle for a long time and having background processes heavy in IO (such as an overnight backup) run. This is a very visible sluggishness, but not enough to justify turning off swap all together and very hard to prevent in any operating system. Turn off swap and this initial sluggishness after the backup/virus scan may not happen, but the system may run a little bit slower all day long. This is not a situation that's limited to Linux, either.
When choosing what is to be swapped to disk, the system tries to pick memory that is not actually being used - read to or written from. It has a pretty simple algorithm for calculating this that chooses well most of the time.
If you have a system where you have a huge amount of RAM (at time of writing, 8GB is a huge amount for a typical Linux distro), then you will very rarely ever hit a situation where swap is needed at all. You may even try turning swap off. I never recommend doing that, but only because you never know when more RAM may save you from some application crashing. But if you know you're not going to need it, you can do it.
But how can swap speed up my system? Doesn't swapping slow things down?
The act of transferring data from RAM to swap is a slow operation, but it's only taken when the kernel is pretty sure the overall benefit will outweigh this. For example, if your application memory has risen to the point that you have almost no cache left and your I/O is very inefficient because of this, you can actually get a lot more speed out of your system by freeing up some memory, even after the initial expense of swapping data in order to free it up.
It's also a last resort should your applications actually request more memory than you actually have. In this case, swapping is necessary to prevent an out-of-memory situation which will often result in an application crashing or having to be forcibly killed.
Swapping is only associated with times where your system is performing poorly because it happens at times when you are running out of usable RAM, which would slow your system down (or make it unstable) even if you didn't have swap. So to simplify things, swapping happens because your system is becoming bogged down, rather than the other way around.
Once data is in swap, when does it come out again?
Transferring data out of swap is (for traditional hard disks, at least) just as time-consuming as putting it in there. So understandably, your kernel will be just as reluctant to remove data from swap, especially if it's not actually being used (ie read from or written to). If you have data in swap and it's not being used, then it's actually a good thing that it remains in swap, since it leaves more memory for other things that are being used, potentially speeding up your system.
Setting the swappiness value doesn't work in every situation. If it works for you, great. If not, I've written a script to periodically clear out swap by turning it off and back on again.
Toggling swap is a bit risky if you're not careful. If you don't have enough free RAM to hold everything in RAM plus everything in swap, trying to disable swap will cause your system to become unresponsive. My script first checks whether there's enough free RAM (which takes a bit of doing, as the actual amount of free RAM is different from what
You must run this script as root (e.g., with
Generally swap remains unused on now-a-days systems. In my experience, the processes which are running for a long time without intensive operations are shifted to swap by the linux.
Once swap has been used for a program it tends to remain mapped for the life of the program. Many programs have code (and data) which is rarely used.. Once the memory is swapped out, it is unlikely to be swapped in.
One way to force these pages into memory is to turn off the swap device. If you have two, you can turn one off, the turn it back on, then turn off the second one. If swap is really needed, it will move between devices. You could just turn off the swap device (or file), but if you really need swap space drastic things can happen.
Besides the normal things in memory, tempfs uses swap space, and will swap out like the rest of memory. If you run something that requires a lot of temp disk, it may force pages to be swapped out. Once created temp files may no longer be used after a couple of minutes and are good candidates to be moved to the swap device.
In a pinch you can use a file as a swap device. This is useful if you need extra swap space temporarily.


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Are there any passages in the New Testament where Jesus himself condemns the practice of contraception? As a virgin and the product of a miraculous conception himself it would seem odd for Him to have a strong opinion on the subject.
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No, there are no passages in the New Testament where Jesus even speaks about contraception. Coincidentally, He never mention airplanes, computers, fast food, or cell phones either. :)
All of these are modern inventions for which there was no vocabulary or context in which teaching could be given. (While there were examples of contraceptives in ancient history, the Jewish people don't appear to have used any.) The basis of the teachings of the Catholic church and others comes from arguments of design. God's design of intercourse leads to reproduction--not all the time, of course, but that is certainly a reasonably common outcome. Additionally, there is a specific command given to Adam and Noah to fill the earth and multiply upon it, so taking unnatural action to prevent reproduction seems to go against that to some extent.
Also, the idea that Jesus would not have a strong opinion on the subject, merely because He Himself was the product of a miraculous conception, ignores the Biblical teaching that Jesus was Himself the eternal Son of God who took on flesh 2,000 years ago. The Son of God, through whom all things were created, certainly has a strong opinion on truth and morality.
There are not any references to contraception in the Bible. The two arguments I have heard against using contraception are Onan dying after spilling his semen on the ground to avoid getting his brother's wife pregnant (Genesis 38:8-10). The other is just that it is unnatural
Jesus didn't condem Contraception per se, but there is a stong traditon running back to Genesis, that children are a good thing:
And another (Psalm 127:5):
If you'll excuse what may be faulty parallelism, you might see that one of the more ancient prophecies about Christ is right next to the denouncement of "those who engage in witchcraft"
I don't know if no one thinks about contraception as witchcraft nowadays, but in days of yore, I'd imagine, if you'd want to get a contraceptive back in the day, you didn't go to Planned Parenthood. You went to the old hag who knew how to conjure that kind of stuff.
I should note, witchcraft as contraception is not completely bogus opinion.


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The One City One Team Basketball Tournament begins at noon on Jan. 12 in the Marlin High School gym.
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Allen spent about a week in the intensive care unit of Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco after he was injured on Nov. 16 in the early morning rollover accident near Marlin.
In late November, Allen was set to begin rehabilitation in the Austin area.
Allen suffered a broken femur and other injuries in the accident, which happened at around 2 a.m. Nov. 16 on State Highway 6 north of Marlin as Allen was driving home from an off-duty security job in Waco.
A Department of Public Safety trooper who investigated the accident said Allen lost control of his 2004 Ford Explorer near Falls County Road 121, it left the roadway and overturned several times.
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Chemind adds new waterproofing technology to Grace's global construction products portfolio and establishes its first waterproofing R&D and manufacturing facility in Australia. The new site will make waterproofing materials for repair, maintenance and improvement markets and for new construction.
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The dominant theme of the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is fear of instability and change, which the act suppresses by subjecting the largest financial firms to banklike regulation. The competitiveness, innovativeness, and risk taking that have always characterized U.S. financial firms will, under this new structure, inevitably be subordinated to supervisory judgments about what these firms can safely be allowed to do. But the worst element of this system is that the extraordinary power given to regulators--and particularly the Federal Reserve--is likely to change the nature of the U.S. financial system. Where financial firms once focused on beating their competitors, they will now focus on currying favor with their regulator, which will have the power to control their every move. What may ultimately emerge is a partnership between the largest financial firms and the Federal Reserve--a partnership in which the Fed protects them from failure and excessive competition and they in turn curb their competitive instincts to carry out the government's policies and directions. In addition, with the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the act abandons a fundamental principle of the U.S. Constitution, in which Congress retains the power to control the agencies of the executive branch. These wholesale changes in traditional relationships are hard to explain except as the triumph of a fundamentally different view--a corporatist political model more characteristic of Europe--of the government's role in the U.S. economy.


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The Skier Who Got the Cold Shoulder
Four months ahead of the Sochi Olympics, it's hard to criticize the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association. Americans have conquered the Austrian-centric Alpine world. They own snowboarding and now they're winning Nordic events, too. Clearly, the USSA leadership has made some great decisions of late. But they made a bad call earlier this year when they cut national champion Kris Freeman from the U.S. cross-country team.
Even though Freeman will likely make it to the Olympics next year, the move cost him not only the chance to collect thousands of dollars in funding from the U.S. Olympic Committee, but also his USOC-subsidized health insurance.
This is no minor matter. Freeman has Type 1 diabetes, also known as "juvenile" diabetes, which is typically triggered early in life by an autoimmune disorder. His health-care costs aren't small; he has been on COBRA since he got booted from the team.
Though Freeman is a three-time Olympian who has been among the three best Americans in the overall rankings the past six years, he's a victim of the USSA's formula for success. The federation has an annual budget of about $25 million and spends the bulk of it to support and develop hundreds of athletes, coaches and trainers. With no government support, which similar federations in Europe receive, finances are limited, so the USSA has begun tracking the performances of all of its athletes and measuring them against all other elite skiers. Athletes who drift too far outside the curve of a potential Olympic medal winner stand to lose financial support.
Freeman won 50-kilometer national championships in 2011-2013, but didn't achieve a high enough ranking on cross-country skiing's international circuit last season to claim an automatic spot on the U.S. team. "I was told that my trajectory was not what they were looking for," said Freeman, who is 33.
"You fall out of the top 30 in the rankings, they'll give you a second year, but if it happens two years in a row they cut you," said Andy Newell, a U.S. team member.
The USSA says it would rather invest in youth development than older skiers who haven't excelled on the biggest stage. Freeman has never finished better than 14th in an individual Olympic race, though he was part of a relay team that finished fifth in 2002. Winning a medal in Sochi would be a stunning achievement for Freeman given his disappointing results internationally the past two seasons, when he ranked 50th and 54th in distance races.
During a recent interview in Park City, Bill Marolt, chief executive of the USSA, said the federation "has to look at our best opportunities given the resources that are available."
Now Freeman has to cover his health-care costs and nearly all of his training and travel expenses until the Olympics—even though he remains one of the top long-distance skiers in the U.S. Freeman won't say how much he has had to shell out for his COBRA payments. "It's not cheap," he said. "It's not any fun at all." Getting cut also cost him the chance to receive thousands of dollars in travel expenses and $2,450 annually in direct support from the USOC.
Sponsorships cover some expenses, but Freeman is hardly Roger Federer. His five equipment deals are worth about $10,000 combined. Sponsorships with pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and the maker of an insulin pump he wears bring his income into the mid-five figures.
That he continues to compete at an elite level at all is remarkable. He wears that insulin pump to control his blood sugar level. Before races that can last more than two hours he has to set his insulin pump according to the altitude, snow condition and his estimate of the likely pace.
But there is no protocol. Freeman is a science experiment on skis. Six seconds off the lead midway through the 30-kilomenter race in Vancouver, Freeman collapsed. He downed a sports drink and a sugar-rich gel pack. Then he got up and finished 45th.
He spent the summer at home in New Hampshire doing 30-mile runs up and down multiple peaks, and 60 mile jaunts on roller skis during which he used only his poles. He spent much of September training on a glacier at 11,000 feet near Bormio, Italy.
November brings the start of the World Cup circuit, where food and lodging for World Cup participants costs $150 a day. As an American, he'll have access to the U.S. team's coaches and support staff, including the wax technicians. He doesn't know yet whether he'll have to pay for his own wax.
If you are all about betting on likely medal winners, history and modern medicine suggest Freeman is a long shot. Still, doesn't a three-time Olympian who remains elite nationally and competes with unrivaled courage at least deserve Team USA health insurance?
Maybe getting cut off will prove advantageous. There is a certain edge in Freeman's voice these days. He seems determined to prove the USSA made the wrong decision.
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The $g$-fold symmetric product of a Riemann surface of genus $g$ naturally has both a symplectic structure as well as a complex structure. Is it in fact Calabi-Yau? If so, is anything known about a mirror for it (in the sense of mirror symmetry)?
My motivation for this comes from Mirror Symmetry and Heegaard-Floer Homology (neither of which I've done any serious work in so the following might be complete garbage). Heegaard-Floer homology is essentially the study of the Floer homology of various special Lagrangian tori in $Sym^g S$ for $S$ a surface of genus $g$. If $Sym^g S$ admits any sort of sensible mirror, under HMS one should be able to extract a lot of information about the Heegaard-Floer homology of 3-manifolds admitting a genus $g$ Heegaard splitting by looking at morphisms of sheaves on the mirror side.
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|Congress created the "Dolphin Safe" labels, seen on the back of this Starkist tuna can, in 1990. A recent ruling by the World Trade Organization, however, could force the United States to stop labeling the cans this way. David Krechevsky Republican-American
WASHINGTON -- If you look closely at the can of tuna in your cupboard, there's a good chance you'll spot a small label that says "dolphin safe." In 1990, in a big win for environmentalists, Congress passed a law creating the labels, hoping to assure consumers that their tuna had been caught without using methods that hurt dolphins.
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Given exam question:
Algorithms A & B have complexity functions $f(n)=10^6n+3n^2$ and $g(n)=1-2^{-20}n^3$ respectively.
[edit: It has been pointed out by Andre that the given complexity function $g(n)$ is meaningless -- therefore we infer a typo here and let $g(n)=1+2^{-20}n^3$ instead.]
By classifying each $f$ and $g$ as $\mathcal{O}(F)$ for a suitable function $F$, determine whether A or B is more efficient when $n$ is large.
Shouldn't the question ask for big-Theta instead of big-O? Consider the following answer:
We have $f(n) \in \mathcal{O}(n^2)$ and $g(n) \in \mathcal{O}(n^3)$. <--PremiseP
So when $n$ is large, $f(n) < g(n)$, thus algorithm A is more efficient. <--ConclusionP
But it's wrong to draw ConclusionP from PremiseP (just consider the counterexample $g(n)=n$).
On the other hand, the following answer is logical, but it doesn't quite answer the question:
We have $f(n) \in \Theta(n^2)$ and $g(n) \in \Theta(n^3)$.
So when $n$ is large, $f(n) < g(n)$, thus algorithm A is more efficient.
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I have not heard about this stuff before.. It is not used in Indian cooking..! What exactly is shortening? I read it in a recipe to bake a rose shaped cake and it uses shortening to grease the pan..
In baking, the term "shortening" alone is used to mean any fat; "vegetable shortening" is a fat made from vegetable oil to be solid at room temperature.
Most vegetable oils, such as corn oil, peanut oil, soybean oil and so on are liquid at room temperature because they are unsaturated fats: their fatty acids do not have hydrogen bound to them.
Vegetable oil is converted into vegetable shortening by hydrogenating it, forcing hydrogen to bind on to the ends of the fatty acids. This is done by forcing hydrogen to bubble through the oil under pressure, heat, and in the presence of a catalyst.
Compared to vegetable oil, vegetable shortening is solid at room temperature, white in color, and much less prone to rancidity as it is a saturated fat. It has essentially an unlimited shelf life.
It is also very neutral in flavor, so is often used to grease pans. However, any fat will do for that purpose.
In baking, it performs very well in making North American style pie crusts, where it helps promote a flaky crust, but it has little flavor. It also performs very well in deep frying.
As a solid fat, like butter, it can also be creamed with sugar to help leaven baked goods, although it does not give the flavor benefits of butter.
Note that margarine is essentially an emulsion of vegetable shortening (about 80%) and water (about 20%) plus colors and flavorings, meant to imitate butter.
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They don't call it vegetable shortening in India, but "Dalda" is exactly that. As @rumtscho explained, it is made from an industrial process.
"Vegetable shortening" is a type of fat. It is created from vegetable fats in a highly industrialized process, until it is a solid white block. It mimics the baking properties of lard the same way margarine mimics the baking properties of butter.
You may be able to find vegetable shortening under some different name, such as "fat of plant origin", "frying fat" and so on (but not all of the fats with this name will be vegetable shortening). The better way is probably to substitute it. In complicated recipes, it will be important to choose whether to use butter or lard as a substitute. But for greasing a pan, any fat will do, even a liquid vegetable oil. Choose any fat without its own strong flavor, and spread it in a thin even layer on the pan.
Vegetable shortening is commonly known in the U.S. by the brand name Crisco. It's made by saturating the molecules of a liquid oil, commonly vegetable or canola oil, with extra hydrogen, which increases its melting point so that it's a solid at room temperature.
Shortening in the U.S. has generally come to replace other solid fats traditionally used in baking, such as lard (from pork fat) and butter (from milk), primarily because it's cheaper, vegetarian, and doesn't add any taste to the food being cooked with it. However, butter and even lard are making a comeback, as the naturally-saturated fats of these products, while not exactly health food, are turning out to be better for you than the artificially-hydrogenated oils and trans-fats developed to replace them. The Crisco product on the shelf right now is trans-fat free, but is still 99% artificially-hydrogenated fats.
For greasing a pan, almost any food-grade fat will work; shortening is recommended because it melts into a thick oil at baking temperature, which won't burn, evaporate or soak completely into what you're baking. However, all you really need is something to lubricate the pan so your cake will release from the pan. You could use a cooking spray like PAM, or a tasteless oil with a higher "smoke point", like cottonseed. Butter works, but if you're baking a very spongy cake or baking at high temperature, it can soak into the cake and not do its job (tastes great though).
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We have site pages stored in the document library. Is there a way to hide the breadcrumb which appears in the page (outofbox) site->document library->page name?
You can create a CSS file that sets the
Once you create the CSS file, place it in the /Style Library/CompanyName/CSS/ folder in the site collection. From there, go to the root of the site collection, select Site-Settings-Look and Feel - Master Page. At the bottom of that page is an 'Alternate CSS URL' and you can enter the path to your new CSS file there. Be sure to click on the "Reset all subsites to inherit this alternate CSS URL" checkbox below it so that all subsites pick up the change.
There is a lot more information on this available here.
There is no oob way. If you would use page layouts (requires publishing features) you could do it easily in your page layout. For site pages the only common thing is the master page. Within the master page you can modify it, so that you delete the breadcrumb from the content place holder. However, then it would no longer be visible on any site/page within that site collection.


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28 Dec 2011 5:58 AM #1
The content of tab panels - easy to define in separate script files?
In the introduction at http://docs.sencha.com/touch/2-0/#!/...etting_started it explains how to create different "items" for different tabs.
The content for each tab is defined in that one script file though. That's nice for simple static examples, but if there is dynamic data, and not all of it is needed at once (a user may not click on all the tabs) is there an easy way to not load the content for each tab in one file and instead have the tab transitions go between separate script files, each loading their own content as needed?
Sorry for such a newbie question...
28 Dec 2011 6:39 AM #2
With JavaScript it really doesn't matter if your components are in 1 file or 100. A good practice would be to have each tab's component in its own JavaScript file defining an xtype.
28 Dec 2011 6:50 AM #3
What would be the syntax for replacing, say, this first object in the array of tab panels with a reference to go to a different script file instead of using the literal contents defined here?
title: 'Home',
iconCls: 'home',
cls: 'home',
html: [
'',
'
Some text goes here on this home page
'
Thanks for your help,
28 Dec 2011 7:32 AM #4
change your html: to xtype:
29 Dec 2011 4:54 AM #5
29 Dec 2011 5:50 AM #6
Yes, I'm stuck. I've been reading and reading through the documentation, but don't see how changing the xtype accomplishes the goal here, of modularizing the contents of each tab panel into a separate source file.
In one document, for example, the following source is given.
Here we have both xtype and html together. So how would "changing html to xtype" help at all.
Is there a simple explanation somewhere of what xtype is?
All I really need to get going is to take the example used in the "Getting Started" example and instead of defining the content of all three tabs in one file I'd like to know how to define them in three separate files, each which only get loaded as needed.
Ext.create('Ext.Container',{ fullscreen:true, layout:'vbox', items:[{ xtype:'panel', html:'message list', flex:1},{ xtype:'panel', html:'message preview', flex:2}]});
5 Jan 2012 6:50 AM #7
One way (maybe not the right way)
Here's how I do it - but I'm far from a pro at this...
Note: I've yet to figure out how to access the elements in each tab until I click and show it. In case you were headed in that direction. I'm using Ext.select(td.class) but I only get Tab 0's elements until I click through all other tabs...
var MyTabPanels = Ext.create('Ext.tab.Panel', { height: 350, width: 525, activeTab: 0, items: [{ title: 'First Tab Title', autoScroll: true, loader: { url: 'path/to/htmlFileWithMarkupAndScript.htm', contentType: 'html', scripts: true, loadMask: true, autoLoad: true listeners: { activate: function(tab){SomethingToDoWhenYouClickTheTab();} } } }
Last edited by MakrelJohnson; 5 Jan 2012 at 6:52 AM. Reason: Added Ext.select statement
6 Jan 2012 3:16 AM #8
Hi, Makrel.
Thanks for your note. I think my mind might not be working right or something, but after trying for several days I'm "just not getting Sencha." It's like dense framework within framework within framework.
The JavaScript syntax is fine. I see objects with properties and arrays and all that. But I just can't make heads or tails about what they are supposed to be doing, even after going through all the documentation I can find.
I stumbled across Jquery Mobile, and was able to accomplish what I was trying to do in a few hours, and it seems to work just fine, with sliding transitions, looking like an iPhone native app, etc. Maybe my mind is just oriented that way based on my age and past programming experience. I somehow feel Sencha might be more comprehensible with a better set of documentation and tutorials. I'm sure it is a fine and robust framework, but for me, for right now, "just getting it done" and working, it is easier for me in Jquery Mobile.
6 Jan 2012 7:21 AM #9
Sencha products are great object oriented JavaScript frameworks. If you're coming from another object oriented language then Sencha should be enjoyable to use. I've been a Java programmer forever, and once I got past the quirks of JavaScript, have caught on pretty quick.
I would add if I'm going to learn a new language/framework, I wouldn't start with a preview release. As any developer knows, documentation usually comes last. Your best bet for learning Touch 2.0 would be to look at the guides for Ext JS 4.0 keeping in mind that the UI part will be slightly different. Stores, models, controllers, events, classes, MVC, etc. are going to be pretty much the same between the products.
If you're not understanding xtype then you haven't learned one of the core features of Sencha. Before trying to write an application you need to learn the core concepts first.
6 Jan 2012 4:37 PM #10
Actually, I am coming from JavaScript. I've been doing server-side JavaScript almost constantly for the last 13 years using a special object-oriented database.
That is why the syntax of Sencha looks completely clear. And why I was very hopeful starting out with Sencha. I am very comfortable with JavaScript.
As I mentioned, I could immediately see the tabs were part of an array of objects in the constructor defined for the app. So syntactically I wasn't having any problems.
Perhaps the problem is, as you say, that I started with Sencha 2 instead of Sencha 1. So there simply weren't any explanations of what was going on. Yet, the documentation did say "start here". Unfortunately there just wasn't a complete explanation of what was happening. Even the URLs in the example, when turned into actual URLs, didn't go anywhere when I clicked on them.
Perhaps I will return to Sencha at some point. It certainly looks interesting. But I really needed to get started and just do something already, and despite several peoples' kind posts, including yours, I just wasn't finding the information I needed to get anything working. But I will revisit this again when I have some free time and when, hopefully, there is more tutorial documentation.


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Posted Tue May 31, 2011 4:52 AM
No it never has. Your friend has a one-of-a-kind. Do you know what your friend wants to do with it?
I might have a possible prototype. A recent find by a close friend has unearthed a cart with a typed label titled Astro Grover. I was curious on if this cart has ever been found for the 5200. I plan on updating this post with pics and video by end of the week. Stay tuned. At this time the proto is not for sale. Stay tuned.
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Posted Tue May 31, 2011 7:15 AM
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Posted Tue May 31, 2011 9:00 AM
Yes it was. A proto of it showed up last year (minus sound), but it was auctioned off and not dumped AFAIK. I wonder what happened to it?
My guess is that the Big Bird game was done as well.
Now were the heck is Elevator Action, CRYSTAL CASTLES, FOOD FIGHT, GALAGA ,GRAVITAR, HIGHWAY, ORBITER, SKIING and SUBTERFUGE?
Posted Tue May 31, 2011 9:44 AM
Elevator action *may* exist somewhere
Posted Tue May 31, 2011 9:45 AM
I was told that they actually never found the proto. They were going off of what Joe told them.
Elevator action *may* exist somewhere
You mean like here http://www.digitpres...es/arc00085.htm
Posted Wed Jun 1, 2011 11:10 PM
Oh wow, another CCW 5200 proto has shown up. Astro Grover was planned for the 5200, but no one has ever found a prototype of it until now. As Allan pointed out, the 8-bit version of the game WAS released. The 5200 version should be identical, but there may be minor differences.
Very cool find! One of a kind to be sure.
Posted Thu Jun 2, 2011 11:08 PM
Edited by Greg2600, Thu Jun 2, 2011 11:09 PM.
Posted Fri Jun 3, 2011 7:20 AM
The Big Bird game Allan I think you are referring to was Muppet go Round, aka Letter Go Round, maybe? That was found a few months ago, sold privately, and never dumped/released for the public. It had no sound. Letter Go Round was released on Atari 8-bit, and later part of the NES title, Sesame Street A-B-C, which also included a mini-game called Ernie's Big Splash, which by looks I think was something newly developed in 1989.
Posted Fri Jun 3, 2011 7:24 AM
Ducks Ahoy! was the Donald Duck game. Lastly on Atari 8-bit they released Big Bird's Funhouse. All of these games on computer back then were published by CBS.
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I am sure that the rom will be released eventually. Unclear on when, but I will let the owner decide to work that one out. I have had some video issues so hopefully I can showcase this tonight or tomorrow.
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Posted Thu Sep 8, 2011 8:11 AM
The prototype this person found is not finished, it doesn't even have sound. As I've pointed out, the better approach would be to take the fully completely Atari 8-bit release of Astro Grover and convert that to the 5200.
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One of my favorite things to do when we are traveling is to try new BBQ joints all over North America. I love the chance to visit with folks all over and to hear their stories and their BBQ methods.
I am not alone in this pursuit there are many folks and foodies that really enjoy the pursuit of BBQ. These are not high end edited videos. These are just people that are going out and sharing their love of BBQ with everyone out there.
One of those fine folks is Jim "Rhino" Reincke from Bandit BBQ a competition team and BBQ Caterer.He is also a member of the Illinois BBQ Society.
His video on You tube is a great example of the continual pursuit of BBQ.
Here is a video on a BBQ Snoot sandwich in Illinois
Check out his videos and commentary on his You Tube Channel.
This year I may even have to take out a video camera myself and share some of the places we stop along our travels. It seems like a great idea to share all these great and interesting places we stop at.


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I want to return their phone, but can't access their contacts, etc.
1) Find the phone number, then find the owner
I think the iPhone is locked but not the SIM card. If this is the case, pop the SIM card out. Put it in another phone. Find the number. Now, use the web to do a reverse lookup, find them, find their email or alternate phone, and call them.
2) Find someone who knows the owner
When you set the password, by default the "Voice Dial" is still active. Try holding down the home button for 4 seconds. Even when locked, you might be able to say "Call so-and-so". Try some random names. If someone picks up, explain the situation. They will probably have an alternate means of contacting the owner.
3) Turn the phone on and see if there are recent callers - then use any of these names to try voice calling as in 2 above.
By strange coincidence, this exact thing happened to me, so I have the answer:
Wait until the owner's mother calls. Answer the phone, explain the situation, upon which she will send her husband to collect the phone from your office.* Shake the father's hand, hand over the phone, and make a funny apple joke (he asked me if I had kids, to-whit I responded, no, but I have an iPhone, so I understand! -- fan boys rejoice).
*As it turns out, the owner was a 15 year old boy.
Take it to the Apple store and see if they can sort it out. I would imagine that they have DB of serial numbers and customers even if they didn't sign up with Applecare or MobileMe.
Just ask Siri 'what is my name' and it will bring up the contact details for the owner of the phone.
You can also use Siri to post to Facebook, send emails and just abut anything else.
To be fair, upon closer inspection, this seems like a huge gap in the security of an iPhone where you're data isn't actually secure, even when locked. Love it!
Obviously only works if the owner has set their phone to utilise Siri when locked. But I think most people do.
If there is a lost and found at the location you found the phone put it there, or turn it over to the police. That is where the person who lost it should be looking for it.
Attempting to break the PIN is just not a good idea, even if you have good intentions. They chose to keep some information confidential (for whatever reason), at the expense of making the phone harder to return if it is lost.
I hope you make the owner very happy.
Starting with iOS 6, owners will be able to help you out by sending a number to the phone using the new "Lost" mode:
You can try a number of things. To build on mankoff's answer:
1)Try taking out the SIM card and checking if there are any contacts on it. If the iPhone was not the first phone used with that SIM, it may have stored contacts on it.
2)Try "Call home".
Also, I remember seeing this article a while back, I wonder if it still works with iPhone 4: Read iPhone Data with Ubuntu
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Lastly, an Apple store would have the serial number linked to an iPhone, as Philip Reagan suggested.
You can use Siri to call some of the contacts.
You probably know no names in his/her contacts list so you should ask Siri:
When you ask Siri about contacts, it would bring up ALL the contacts information that is entered in the iphone/icloud.
So if the iphone is connected to wifi/3g/4g and siri is enabled, you have access to the owner's identity(home, relative names, other phone numbers, addresses).
If the wifi and 3g is turned off, you would have some hard time dealing with it.
I'm trying a different tactic. I wrote a note telling them to call the phone or call my number and I took a picture of it with their phone. Hopefully it will upload to Photo Stream. It looks like 3G is on but I'm not sure if it will only upload over wifi. Oh, well. It's worth a shot...
Just wait for the owner to call once they realize they lost it. Just found an iPhone on the way home and as I was searching for 'How to find an owner of a locked iPhone', it rang. The owners wife, Viola'! Set up a meeting and hope someone will do the same for me someday.
plug the phone into iTunes to get data like the name or other identifiers!!
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I'm using the runwithfriends example app to learn canvas programming and GAE. I can upload the sample code to GAE without any errors. Here are my config.py and app.yaml files:
# Facebook Application ID and Secret.
# Canvas Page name.
FACEBOOK_CANVAS_NAME = 'blah'
# A random token for use with the Real-time API.
# The external URL this application is available at where the Real-time API will
# send it's pings.
EXTERNAL_HREF = 'http://blah.appspot.com'
# Facebook User IDs of admins. The poor mans admin system.
application: blah
version: 1
runtime: python
api_version: 1
- url: /(.*\.(html|css|js|gif|jpg|png|ico))
static_files: static/\1
upload: static/.*
expiration: "1d"
- url: .*
script: main.py
- url: /task/.*
script: main.py
login: admin
Accessing the demo app on their GAE works just fine. When I take the exact same code, except for the changes I need to run under my own GAE account, the app won't work. I can login to the app using my account and the app shows up under my Apps menu. So, OAuth is good. Every time I go to access the main page, I'm always redirected to the iframe showing I use the app (can't show that image, runwithfriends app is over quota as I type this) but won't go to this iframe:
at all.
I've looked at and understand how url routing works:
def main():
routes = [
(r'/', RecentRunsHandler),
(r'/user/(.*)', UserRunsHandler),
(r'/run', RunHandler),
(r'/realtime', RealtimeHandler),
(r'/task/refresh-user/(.*)', RefreshUserHandler),
application = webapp.WSGIApplication(routes,
debug=os.environ.get('SERVER_SOFTWARE', '').startswith('Dev'))
All the handlers are there with what looks like correct post/get methods. There are no errors logged in my GAE instance either, such as 404 or 405. When I first use
http://localhost:8080, I see plenty of 200s and nothing else.
I started out using dev_appengine.py but had to move development to GAE because of my HTTPS security setting. I disabled HTTPS temporarily but still always get redirected to the apps.facebook.com/path no matter what and can't keep all my development within dev_appengine.py. Don't know if that's related to my issue or not.
Since the demo works (when not over quota), I'm sure the problem is with my own GAE instance, or configuration within FB to use my GAE, I just for the life of me can't figure out. I'm using Eclipse with PyDev and GAE plugins.
Adding the app's FB configuration and the window that's displayed after I login to the app.
Running under my GAE, this is the only page that is returned:


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STEUBENVILLE - Anthony Mougianis helped paste a new campaign total onto the United Way of Jefferson County cardboard thermometer and clapped his hands.
His enthusiasm at the United Way of Jefferson County report luncheon Wednesday at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Hellenic Hall has been evident during his tenure as the 2013 campaign chair since the campaign started in the spring with an auction of Ohio State University memorabilia by Mougianis.
"Leadership is about leaders. The flock will follow good leaders, and we have good leaders in our United Way. We are fortunate to have Ross Gallabrese as our president and to welcome Dave France as our new board of directors president in 2013. As I tell my staff at Apollo Cleaning, it is very important to help someone you will never meet," Mougianis told the report luncheon crowd.
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PAST THE HALFWAY MARK — Showing off the latest accomplishments of the United Way of Jefferson County are, from left, Anthony Mougianis, 2013 campaign chairman; Beth Rupert-Warren, executive director; Jodi Goff, administrative assistant; and Ross Gallabrese, board president.
-- Dave Gossett
The division chairs individually reported their financial efforts so far, and and Mougianis reported the volunteers have raised $250,698.56 toward the $440,000 goal.
"Last year at this point we were a little under the 40 percent mark. When we entered this room today, we were at the 47 percent mark.
"Now we are at the 60 percent mark. I feel confident we are going to reach our goal, and maybe we will pass that goal," said Mougianis.
He also cited Beth Rupert-Warren, who recently took on the duties as executive director of the United Way of Jefferson County.
"She has an infectious excitement about her and is a great leader," added Mougianis.
Gallabrese gave credit to the campaign volunteers and donors who have helped the 2013 campaign reach the 60 percent mark.
"Today is a testament to everyone who has worked on the campaign or contributed to the campaign. And, I thank Tony for his leadership this year," noted Gallabrese.
Gallabrese also thanked Ame Taggart for serving as interim executive director during the transition period this past summer.
"When we gather at the annual recognition dinner here at the Hellenic Hall on Feb. 21, we will at least be at the 100 percent mark and perhaps a little higher," Gallabrese said.
Phyllis Riccadonna of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Jefferson County shared a story about one of her "littles" who has an angelic face.
"We matched the little boy with a mentor who has transformed him so much.
"The mentor told us his 'little' wanted to join his school band and needed a trumpet. So we went on Craig's List and found an elderly man in Pittsburgh who had a beautiful trumpet," said Riccadonna.
"The mentor took his 'little' to meet the man in Pittsburgh, who asked the little boy if he would take care of the trumpet. The mentor is now paying for trumpet lessons, and one day we will all enjoy that little boy playing his trumpet at a report luncheon," added Riccadonna.
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(AP) MILAN - The CEO of Italian bank Unicredit says Italy doesn't run the risk of default, but needs urgent reforms to promote growth.
CEO Federico Ghizzoni welcomes Silvio Berlusconi's about-face decision to back the government in Parliament confidence votes as a signal of political stability. In remarks to foreign journalists Wednesday, he called political stability `'fundamental" for Italy to take advantage of early signs of an economic turnaround.
He says the government must now focus on reforms like decreasing payroll taxes on workers, making the labor market more flexible and trimming public administration.
Ghizzoni notes that Italy's triple B rating put it at higher risk than other countries, adding `'there's no risk of default, but it's a county that needs to change gears."
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Sometimes I use plugins and 3rd party libraries, and one thing that drives me crazy is when these libraries are not versioned. So, if I download it, make some mods to it, I am the only person in the world who can benefit from it... well, until I version it myself.
My question is simple: if a library I find online has an MIT License, would it violate the license if I download it, modify it, and put it on github?
I'm not trying to pass it off as my own, I'm just trying to help the community benefit from my work. A lot of libraries are pretty nice, but for some reason they aren't versioned...