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Issue 15: Small Space Tricks
Moving into in a tiny space may seem to be an impossible task for many people. The first question asked is usually, "where am I going to put all my stuff?"
The answer you'll get from people who've successfully made the transition into small spaces is often "you free yourself from your stuff" – which is in fact the underlying theme in this month's issue of Small Living Journal. But there are also many small space tricks shared here too from choosing to live with less to clever ways of storing what you have away.
There are four articles in Issue 15: Small Space Tricks:
- Organizing small spaces: 10 tips to make the most out of your space – by Ryan Mitchell
- Thinking Big, While Living Small: 4 Design Ideas – by Tammy "RowdyKittens"
- 10 Guiding Principles for Living Tiny – by Hillary "Tinyhouse
- Space Saving Furniture – by Michael Janzen
In March 2010 we'll be focusing on one of my favorite topics, How To Design & Build a Home. If you'd like to contribute learn more about Guest Submissions. This month we had our first get submission from Ryan Mitchell. Thanks again Ryan!
Organizing small spaces: 10 tips to make the most out of your space
1. Use vertical space
After talking with lots of Tiny House folks, I have seen this as a trend: maximize the vertical. Everything above 8 feet is all dead air if you don't use it, so capitalize on that. You could have a small chest that takes up 2 square feet of floor space. If it is 4 feet tall, you will have around 8 cubic feet of storage. Take that to the ceiling and suddenly you have doubled or tripled your volume, but haven't given away any more floor space which is a scarcity in a Tiny House.
2. Everything has a place and is in its place
When working with a small space I know that everything needs a place. Without it, your house goes from quaint to cluttered. Make sure every item you have has its own resting place and be sure that it finds its way back once you're done using it. One lady who lives in a 90 square foot apartment said to me "if it doesn't have a place, do you really need it?" and that's a good point. Things that matter and are used are important enough to demand a place.
3. Double duty on items
There are those items which are by their nature, multi functional. You need to capitalize on these types of items. When you consider an item, you should always think if there is something else that can do it already. A perfect example of this is the end table, which transforms to a chair for extra seating. Check it out here.
4. Purpose built – built ins
Built-ins are nice, but built-ins with a purpose are even better. Think specifics. When paring down your possessions, you will identify the 100 or so items that will be contained in your house. Take stock of those items and let them dictate the form of your storage. If you are a ski patrol member, your closet should be able to fit your skis. If you live in colder climates, you will need more room for larger jackets than others might.
5. Go digital / paperless
As if being greener isn't motivation enough, going digital, as I call it, means that you are able to reduce the tangible items you need. Digital files take up no space if you have them stored online, with the added advantage of being able to access them from anywhere. Combined with backing the files up, they become safer than real world things. The IRS officially accepts all scanned copies of receipts and bank statements. This extends beyond receipts: books on your Kindle, movies on your Roku, music on OpenTape, or recipes in a wiki. See my post about using some of these. Here
6. Less is more
At this point I am preaching to the choir but, the question is not how to organize all your stuff, but on how to reduce the stuff to organize. The mentality needed is the same as you had if/when you went to college. The dorm rooms were tiny and you were broke. You only had what you really needed. Studies have shown that more stuff does not lead to happiness, so focus on the important things in life.
7. One thing in, one thing out
One principle that I like to pull from the Zen/Fung Shui school of thought is this. If you want to add a new item, consider adopting the rule that for every item you bring in, you must give up something else. Now, no cheating – like giving up a pen for an arm chair, but you get the idea.
8. Be intentional
Living with intention will have a profound impact on your life. Be thoughtful in your actions and choices. This extends to your organization and stuff. When you consider purchasing an item, you must first evaluate it and decide if you really need it. I often don't buy it right then, but next time I am in that store (in a week or two). If I still want it then, I usually go for it if it makes sense.
9. Think inside the box
This is a technique that I use when I feel that a certain space is cluttered or if I start stacking stuff. Take a box, fill it up with everything. Then as you need the items pull them out of the box. Six weeks later, if you still have stuff in the box – no, let me rephrase that, you WILL have stuff in the box – you can evaluate what is left. There is rarely an item that I have that I don't use within 6 weeks that's worth keeping. Detailed box theory.
10. Most used items easy to access
This seems pretty obvious, but having the most used items in the front means you are able to access them quicker and without disturbing other things. This ties back to being intentional. You should be intense about organizing your items in this manner. If you notice that there are items in the back that haven't been touched in a while, it's time to evaluate whether you still need them.
For more articles like this and other on Tiny Houses visit TheTinyLife.com.
Thinking Big, While Living Small: 4 Design Ideas
Moving to a smaller apartment has helped us downsize even more. Less stuff and less cleaning lowered my stress level, improved my health and saved an enormous amount of time. My extra time is now spent with friends, hobbies, and Logan.
Even though we have less stuff, I still want my home to be a safe, beautiful and welcoming environment. I think tiny apartment or home can be all of those things and more.
Whether you live in 80 square feet or 1000, the following tips will help you arrange your livings space to perfection.
1. Let your style shine through.
You can still let your style shine through and make room for the necessities. Jessica from Apartment Therapy has a 200 square foot apartment in San Francisco that is functional and designed beautifully. She has a "penchant for vintage" and "tried to blend antique collections with a modern aesthetic–all in a home the size of most people's guest bedroom!"
You might even consider designing a special nook in your tiny space.
2. Less is more.
Less really is more. If you live in a small space, you don't need to stuff it to the max. A few beautiful pieces of furniture will make your small space appear larger and less cluttered.
3. Use Mirrors.
Consider adding a large mirror to your little space. The use of mirrors will pick up extra light and make your home appear larger. Logan and I have a few mirrors in our apartment. The mirrors are designed simply, but add so much character to our apartment. I considered giving them away before leaving Sacramento, but I'm happy they are with us in Portland.
4. Bring in the plants.
Plants bring life to any small space. If you use vertical space you could even start your own radical gardening project on your balcony or inside your apartment. Creating a small outdoor project is not only fun, but a great hobby.
Do you have any design tips to add?
You can learn more about my downsizing journey by reading my blog, RowdyKittens, or following me on Twitter.
10 Guiding Principles for Living Tiny
Since plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery, I borrowed some of Andrea Zittel's writing (from her ongoing "Things I Know For Sure" series) because, well, I'm quite a fan. Below I've put together a mashup of tricks for living in small spaces — or guiding principles, or billboard-quality truisms. Whatever you want to call them, I hope they are as useful and inspiring to you as they are to me.
1. What you own, owns you.
2. What makes us feel liberated is not total freedom, but rather living in a set of limitations that we have created and prescribed for ourselves.
3. Things that we think are liberating can ultimately become restrictive, and things that we initially think are controlling can sometimes give us a sense of comfort and security.
4. People are most happy when they are moving towards something not quite yet attained.
5. Ideas seem to gestate best in a void—- when that void is filled, it is more difficult to access them. In our consumption-driven society, almost all voids are filled.
6. Maintenance takes time and energy that can sometimes impede other forms or progress such as learning about new things.
7. Surfaces that are "easy to clean" also show dirt more. In reality a surface that camouflages dirt is much more practical than one that is easy to clean.
8. All materials ultimately deteriorate and show signs of wear. It is therefore important to create designs that will look better after years of distress.
9. Ambiguity in visual design ultimately leads to a greater variety of functions than designs that are functionally fixed.
10. The best rules are never stable or permanent, but evolve, naturally according to content or need.
Image credit: Andrea Zittel, Andrea Rosen Gallery
Hillary lives in a 677 sq. ft. historic home with her partner while renovating a 50 sq. ft. tiny trailer and preparing for full-time travel. Her blog is located at thistinyhouse.com.
Space Saving Furniture
In my wanderings on the web for tiny house design ideas & news I often come across great space saving ideas. Many of them I post on Tiny House Design and Tiny House Living. Below are some of my recent favorites. I look at these ideas with an eye for uncovering inspiring ideas, not products to buy.
- Boxetti – Amazing built-ins and flexible furniture.
- Flat Fold-Out Home Office – I definitely want to try building this; it looks so simple.
- Convertible Table/Bench – Very nice table that has a section that lowers to form a bench.
- Transforming Furniture – Another example of multi-function transformer furniture.
- Compact Pull-Out Kitchen – An interesting way to conceal a kitchen behind a wall.
- Bookshelf Chair – It's a chair with built-in storage.
- Sleeping Space – A sleeping loft hidden behind a floor to ceiling false wall.
- Room in a Box – A company that packs whole functional rooms inside transportable boxes.
- Bedroom in a Box – Configurable bedroom furniture.
Built-ins and multi-purpose furniture seem like great tricks for getting more use from a space without cluttering it up. No matter how small or large your home is, freeing yourself of stuff and de-cluttering your existing spaces can really help you clear your mind, relax, reduce stress, and make you more productive.
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Dealing with Being Pregnant While Working
Paternity leave; returning to work
Paternity Leave
Paternity leave is the time a father takes off after the birth of a child, presumably to help the mother adjust and to bond with his child. Paternity leave is still in its "infancy" stages (pardon the pun). Some companies are quite progressive and offer fathers a paid leave, sometimes as long as six to 12 weeks; however, most companies who offer paternity leave do not necessarily give paid time off. The same stipulations for maternity leave apply to paternity leave in terms of time worked, etc. the one difference being that if the man is in the highest paid 10 percent bracket of wage earners at his company and the company can show that his absence would cause substantial harm to the organization, then the employer isn't required to keep the job open for the man.
Although more men are beginning to take paternity leave, in some cases, there still might be a stigma attached to it among co-workers or bosses. For this reason, some men are unwilling to take paternity leave, fearing that it could affect their jobs. If your husband is reluctant to take paternity leave, perhaps you can convince him to use some of his vacation time instead.
Creative Options for Going Back to Work
Some women can't wait to go back to work, but most find it difficult to leave their newborns. For this reason, many companies have created job sharing and split schedules. You might want to look into the options available in your particular industry.
If you job share with another person, then you will work part-time, splitting your job with someone else. The benefit is that you get to spend more time at home and are more flexible with your schedule. The downside is that you only make half your normal income, and you might not move up the corporate ladder as quickly. It's also important that you pair up to job share with someone who works in a similar fashion as you do so that you're not stuck doing twice the work in half the time.
Another option might be to telecommute to your job, either all of the time or working from home a specified number of days per week. Many women have opted to do this successfully. If you choose to do this, remember that you are still responsible for actually "being" present in your home office during normal business hours.
Some companies let women work 10-hour days so that they can get more days off in-between that is, three days off and four days on. If this time is split up over a weekend, there is the potential for your partner to babysit some of those days, thus saving the cost of a sitter.
You also can inquire about flex time (flexible schedules), seeing if you can work odd hours, say a morning schedule from 5 a.m. until 1 in the afternoon or an evening schedule, so that your husband can cover some of the time you would be gone. You never know until you ask what might be possible.
For Single Moms...
No doubt about it everything is harder for single working mothers. If you're in this situation, try to find some back-up help, whether it is a relative or a family friend. Situations will arise where you simply have to have help. It's best to get it arranged as early as possible before the baby comes.
I've been a single working mother, and I don't know how people do it (or how I did it for that matter). But somehow, you just do what needs to be done. If at all possible (and it usually isn't), try to create some space for yourself, particularly some quiet time. Also, negotiate to get away from the baby for a break now and then. No matter how much you love your child, you'll be a better mother for having been away and coming back refreshed. If there is a father in the picture, make sure he has time with the baby. Kids need both parents, assuming that the father is a good parent.
You'll find that you can't always put your kids first ahead of your job, nor can you put the job ahead of your kids. It's a perpetual dilemma because you need to have money to support the kids, but you want to be a good mother. Cut yourself a break and do the best job you can. It's all you can do.
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April 02, 2010
Cape Town International Jazz Festival Community Concert - A Photo Essay
Jonathan Rubain, photo courtesy Deon Gurling
Jonathan Rubain, born and raised in Cape Town, played his bass guitar beautifully for his home crowd. Rubain, who started playing music in his local church at the age of seven, set up the Jonathan Rubain Band three years ago. They are definitely a name to watch.
Happy member of the crowd, photo courtesy Deon Gurling
People of all ages enjoyed the Community Concert, part of the build–up to the 11th Annual Cape Town International Jazz Festival.
Having some fun and getting a better view of the stage, photo courtesy Deon Gurling
The well-attended event started at 5pm on April 1, 2010 and featured some of the top headliners who will also be performing at the Jazz Festival. The Festival is being held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on Friday and Saturday.
Enthralled young jazz lover, photo courtesy Deon Gurling
The Community Concert is part of the Festival's commitment to the community and the city.
Soil & Pimp Sessions band member, photo courtesy Deon Gurling
Six-piece Japanese "death jazz" band, Soil & Pimp Sessions, has gained recognition for playing an original form of alternative jazz. Their brand of music is described by the Cape Town International Jazz Festival official website as "rough around the edges, unadulterated entertainment and constantly kept at boiling point". The crowd appreciated their performance.
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Evil queens and werewolves: Check out the highlights on CTV this week
Halloween might be over, but fear not, you can still find evil queens and werewolves on CTV! New episodes of "Once Upon a Time" and "Grimm" are on this week.
Though flowers and tulle aren't really the look for the "Flashpoint" crew, the SRU ends up at a wedding, and Whitney leaves nail polish and chick flicks behind to head to guys' night.
It's déjà vu on "Grey's Anatomy" as George O'Malley's mom shows up at Seattle Grace and you can see what song Astro's pulling out on "X Factor" this week…
Check out all of the highlights this week on CTV…
Tuesday, Nov. 1
8 p.m. – Flashpoint – "A New Life"
When shots are fired at Donna Sabine's (Jessica Steen) wedding, the team races to save their old colleague, uncovering a chilling vendetta from Donna's undercover past.
9 p.m. – Dancing With The Stars
The Halloween themed entertainment continues from the previous night's performance show with stunning musical guests. Then, the seventh couple will be eliminated during the live results show.
10 p.m. – Unforgettable – "Road Block"
Carrie's (Poppy Montgomery) investigation into the death of her sister moves forward, but her inability to let go may hinder the search for a missing infant whose father was murdered.
Wednesday, Nov. 2
8 p.m. – The X Factor
The finalists from the four categories, Boys, Girls, Over 30s and Groups, perform live for their chance to win a $5 million recording contract with Syco/Sony Music.
10 p.m. – CSI – "Freak & Geeks"
The CSIs investigate a murder near the freakish attractions of a 19th-century-inspired travelling sideshow.
Thursday, Nov. 3
7 p.m. – Charlie's Angels "Black Hat Angels"
The Angels trace a kidnapped artist to a gallery owner who was the victim of extortion. When they dig to identify the extortionist, they discover that Bosley's (Ramon Rodriguez) identity has been compromised, and that he has been tied to the kidnapping.
8 p.m. – The Big Bang Theory– "The Isolation Permutation"
Amy (Mayim Bialik) is crushed when Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) and Penny (Kaley Cuoco) go shopping for wedding dresses without her.
8:30 p.m. – Whitney – "Two Broke-Up Guys"
When Alex (Chris D'Elia) encourages Mark (Dan O'Brien) to recycle his beer can, Mark takes a firm stance against it, causing the two to "break up." Trying to cheer Alex up, Whitney (Whitney Cummings) steps in for guy's night out, only to run into Mark and his new best friend, Neal (Maulik Pancholy).
9 p.m. – Grey's Anatomy – "Heart-Shaped Box"
George O'Malley's mom (Debra Monk, Damages) returns to Seattle Grace for surgery, sparking memories of past loves and friendships.
10 p.m. – The Mentalist – "Blinking Red Light"
During the hunt for a serial killer, Jane (Simon Baker) encounters a blogger who has devoted his life to finding the perpetrator.
Friday, Nov. 4
8 p.m. – Grimm – "Bears Will Be Bears"
A case of breaking and entering introduces Nick (David Giuntoli) and Hank (Russell Hornsby) to a mysterious family whose cultural background blurs the line of right and wrong. Meanwhile, Nick tasks Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell) with safeguarding Aunt Marie (guest star Kate Burton, Grey's Anatomy).
9 p.m. – CSI: NY – "Crushed"
When news of a high school house party goes viral, resulting in a collapsed porch and a teenage girl's death, the CSIs must use social media to uncover the truth about how she died.
10 p.m. – Blue Bloods – "Lonely Hearts Club"
Jackie (Jennifer Esposito) goes undercover as an escort to catch a serial killer, and Erin (Bridget Moynahan) meets a potential suitor.
Saturday, Nov. 5
7 p.m. – W5
W5 looks at legendary journalist Craig Oliver's lifetime of stories and scoops.
Sunday, Nov. 6
7 p.m. – Once Upon a Time – "Snow Falls"
Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin) pays a visit to a comatose John Doe (Josh Dallas) in the hospital, and Prince Charming (Josh Dallas) unexpectedly meets Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) for the first time back in the fairytale world.
8 p.m. – The Amazing Race – "Move Goat"
The race continues as the teams compete in Malawi, Africa.
9 p.m. – Desperate Housewives – "Always in Control"
Bree (Marcia Cross) is shocked to learn the identity of the person who dug up the body of Gaby's stepfather. Meanwhile, Lynette's (Felicity Huffman) jealousy over Tom's (Doug Savant) new girlfriend leads her to tell untruths about her to daughter Penny (Darcy Rose Byrnes).
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Will the EXT JS 4.0 get the video component?
I made my own container for HTML5/Flash video's using EXT JS 3.2.1 and just wondered if Ext JS 4.0 and Ext Touch will be able to kinda mix together in the future or I assume you would keep them separate. But with my site using both for the same look and feel would make it easier for me to only handle 1 source trunk with Touch components in it if it's available.
I'm current developing using the MSI WindTop AE2010 Touch All-in-One desktop. But moving towards using tablets soon then to mobile phones. Granted I can test a bunch of things during the beta for all 3 really. But my path is now desktops with touch -> tablets -> mobile.
Another question comes to mind with the announcement that Android 2.2 will be doing Flash as well can the video component also handle flash video, or will that be a separate component for Touch or not planned at all?
Thanks and great job from what I've been able to play with so far.
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Many of the components will be shared between the code bases where they make sense.


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The "Ten Essentials" are survival items that hiking organizations recommend for safe travel in the backcountry. {Wikipedia link. DWD}The Ten Essentials were first described in the 1930s by The Mountaineers, a hiking and mountain climbing club. Many regional organizations and authors recommend that hikers, backpackers, and climbers rigorously ensure they have the ten essentials with them.
MAPS: For prepping, you should have a variety of maps handy, of your neighborhood, town, county, state or region (depending on size of state), bug out locations and routes to them.
COMPASS. ... Silva. The Ranger is hard to beat.
HEADLAMP/FLASHLIGHT: for prepping, I avoid rechargeables, since the means to recharge may not be available. I like to minimize battery types as well, preferring to have all devices use the same, AAs, mostly, or AAAs. LED lights these days can provide very good light for very low battery drain.
Energizer. Yes, I'm serious. Some very good, very durable designs, reasonably priced.
Get a sharpener, or better yet, a sharpening system. Learn to use it.
AAA has excellent maps, and they are free to AAA members.
are the links in the above all 'referred' by bill so he gets a cut?i'm looking to buy some of the things (sharpener, med kit perhaps) and want to make sure he gets credits (s)
are the links in the above all 'referred' by bill so he gets a cut?
That's a solid list, Cap. What are you currently using for water purification? I have a 20 gal straw in my EDC....
I was looking at a Camelback brand water bottle with a purifier built into the cap, until I realized that it needed a USB cable for recharging...
We have a lot of "lists of stuff" posted around here. I wonder if we should periodically take another look at them, to see if they have suffered a similar sort of "rot."
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Crosby girls edge St. Paul; Litchfield stops Housy
Za'Nayia Love had 25 points and 10 rebounds as host Crosby held off St. Paul, 50-49, Tuesday in NVL action.
Deborah Vaichus added 12 points and Ndidi Nolisa nine for Crosby (5-6). Destin Trammell contributed eight rebounds and four blocks for the Bulldogs, who built a 50-45 lead before holding on for the win. St. Paul missed a potential game-winning shot at the buzzer.
Theresa Swanke led St. Paul (6-6) with 14 points. Kelly McMahon and Lizz Ferraro added 12 each.
Litchfield 68, Housatonic 66: Tara Shakley recorded a team-high 18 points for Litchfield in Falls Village.
Sierra Markelon netted 17 points, including nine of 14 from the free throw line, for the Cowgirls (2-9) in a game that was iced at the line down the stretch.
Isabelle Binstadt added 16 points, and Shelby Elwell chipped in with 10.
Heather Kearns scored a game-high 24 points for the Mountaineers (5-6), who trailed by as many as 14 points in the fourth quarter. Katie Heacox had 12 points and seven rebounds, and Hailey Nelson contributed eight points and seven assists.
Torrington 59, Ansonia 34: Nicole Kozlak scored 11 points to lead visiting Torrington to its fifth win in six games.
Caroline Teti and Megan Calabrese had 10 points apiece for the Red Raiders (9-3), while Paige Middleton and Mika Howard each added nine.
Tierney Lawlor led the Chargers (8-4) with eight points and 10 rebounds, while Melissa Tirella had a game-high 14 points to go along with four assists.
Holy Cross 62, Woodland 39: Kiera O'Donnell scored a game-high 16 points for the Crusaders in Waterbury. Amy Stafford added 12 for the Crusaders (9-3).
Andrea Piccolo had a team-high 12 points for the Hawks (7-5) and Nicole Fowler added 11.
Derby 55, Wilby 46 (OT): Rebecca Adanti collected a game-high 22 points as the Red Raiders edged the Wildcats in overtime to pick up their first win, at Wilby.
Shelby Mendillo scored 11 points while Shyanne Garofalo finished with eight points for Derby (1-12).
Julissa Medina had 15 points while Rashida Trawick added 11 for Wilby (1-12).
Kennedy 43, Wolcott 37: Shontia Punter knocked in a game-high 22 points to propel Kennedy over Wolcott on the road.
D.J. Alberto scored nine points for Kennedy (9-3). Amber Gianni had 11 points while Cassidy Cody finished with 10 points for Wolcott (7-5).
Watertown 52, Naugatuck 45: Abby Collier scored 18 points as the Indians edged the Greyhounds at Naugatuck. Jamie Zoldy scored 14 points while Meg Perrin contributed 13 points for Watertown (11-1).
Angelina Piccirillo had 19 points while Amy Dietz finished with nine for Naugatuck (5-8).
Seymour 39, Sacred Heart 37: Cindy Farrell had 16 points as the Wildcats edged the Hearts at Alumni Hall.
Tierra Harvey scored eight points while Kaitie Dow added seven points for Seymour (2-10).
Elena Colaci had 13 points while Maryn Vaillancourt and Mahnue Sahn both had eight points for Sacred Heart (6-6).
Northwestern 52, Wamogo 27: Rasa Hamel poured in a game-high 22 points to lead the Highlanders over the Warriors at Wamogo. Emma Beltrand scored 12 points while Kathleen Wysocki added nine points for Northwestern (8-4).
Hannah LaBonne and Jessica Binkowski had nine and eight points, respectively, for Wamogo (5-7).
Lewis Mills 61, Gilbert 12: Teagan Dunn recorded 19 points to lead Lewis Mills in Burlington. Natalie Ruel added 11 points for the Spartans (9-3).
Shelly De La Paz scored 10 points for the Yellowjackets (0-11).
Terryville 47, Shepaug 24: Morgan Downey scored 11 points and grabbed seven rebounds for Terryville as it earned a BL victory in Washington, Conn.
Julia Pilarski added 10 points for the Kangaroos (6-6), and Liz Klopp contributed eight points and seven rebounds.
Kate DeWitte, Brooke Parker and Kelsey Johnson each had five points for the Spartans (1-10).
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I noticed these icons in the resources folder of Transmit:
I was wondering how I can change the standard cardboard mounted disk icon with the transmit logo to one of these. Is this possible and how?
I did the following and it worked.
This creates an file at the root level of the volume called
Actually, all you have to do is change the disk's icon in Transmit. It will automatically assign the icon to the drive for you. When you are editing the favorite, just click the picture and choose a new one from the dropdown.


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I asked this question a long while ago, but I never got an answer to whether mental exhaustion can be measured. If mental exhaustion could be measured, it would mean that I would have a way of knowing the performance I can get out of my brain in a day. I would be able to know what is best for refilling my brain with energy (maybe TV is your best option after all...;) ) As far as I understand, different parts of the brain gets used for different purposes, so they should get exhausted at different times, so the measuring would have to be on specific regions of the brain or performance of the brain in various fields.
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A sleep study by Van Dongen et al (2003) uses three metrics to measure the effects of fatigue due to sleep loss. The first is cognitive throughput:
Second, alertness / vigilance (response time to stimuli):
Third, memory:
The metrics ought to be effective for measuring mental performance due to fatigue whatever the cause of fatigue might be.
There are a several perspectives of mental fatigue. Here are a few starting points:


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If you're into video games, you might also be on Twitter. But sometimes it can seem like there are too many people to follow. So much noise, so little information! Fear not, we're here to help.
Below, find our list of Twitter feeds you should follow. To make following easier, we've also made a public list on Twitter where you can find everyone in one place.
Of note: This list isn't final. If you've got suggestions for great Twitterers that should be on here, please suggest them in the comments. Let us know which category they'd fit under, and why they're worth following, and we'll update our list with the best suggestions.
Indie Game People
Molleindustria | Maker of some of the most consistently interesting, provocative games you can play.
Terry Cavanagh | The guy behind Super Hexagon and other wonderful distractions.
Chris Remo | Journalist-turned-game developer with no shortage of opinions on everything from video games to noir cinema.
Christine Love | Maker of Analogue: A Hate Story and Hate Plus, lots of thoughts on sex and games and anime.
Matthew Burns | Maker of Starbloom and Planck and one of the sharpest, funniest people in video games.
Rami Ismail | Co-developer of Ridiculous Fishing, plenty of interesting thoughts on the current state of indie gaming.
Merritt Kopas | Designer of provocative games like Consensual Torture Simulator, frequent tweeter of odd marginalia, unafraid to shut fools down.
Brandon Boyer | Chair of the Independent Games Festival, a one-stop-shop for interesting and beautiful video game stuff.
Doug Wilson | Designer of Johann Sebastian Joust, frequent opinion-haver, interesting, esoteric games stuff.
Erin Robinson | Currently working on Gravity Ghost, sharer of bad puns, good jokes and cool indie concept art.
Bennett Foddy | QWOP and GIRP mastermind, unafraid to say what he thinks about pretty much anything.
Triple-A Development People
Hideo Kojima | The man behind Metal Gear. Highly entertaining Tweets.
John Carmack | Probably the smartest human being working on video games, or possibly on anything.
Vince Zampella | Leading the charge on Titanfall and answering a lot of player questions directly on Twitter.
Ben Cousins | Sharp observations on the games industry at large.
Aaryn Flynn | GM of BioWare Edmonton & Montreal, always a good source of info for fans of Dragon Age and Mass Effect.
John Ricciardi | Co-founder of 8-4, lots of great Tweets about Japanese games.
Shane Bettenhausen | Sony's indie guy, a great source for info about cool new indie games for PS4 and Vita.
Anthony Burch | Writer of Borderlands 2 and generally nifty dude. Brother to Ashly Burch.
Ashly Burch | Voice actor and writer, played Tiny Tina in Borderlands 2. Sister to Anthony Burch.
Cliff Bleszinski | One of the most opinionated dudes making games, now unleashed from corporate overwatch.
Rhianna Pratchett | Writer for games like Overlord, Mirror's Edge, and Tomb Raider, all around cool person.
Darby McDevitt | Lead writer on Assassin's Creed IV, smart dude, knows a lot about Ireland.
The Suits
Marc Whitten | An Xbox bigwig who frequently shares interesting tidbits about the console.
Phil Spencer | Another Xbox big shot who spills some good stuff from time to time.
Shuhei Yoshida | The head of Sony's gaming division has a surprisingly open and engaging Twitter presence.
Peter Moore | Enjoyably outspoken EA COO who's happy to talk to fans and detractors alike.
Larry Hyrb, AKA Major Nelson | Xbox's main spokesman offers a great way to keep up to date on Xbox news.
Ian McQue | Killer sketches, works in progress, other art.
Sparth | Fine art from the Halo series' art director.
InsanelyGaming | Purveyor of InsanelyGaming.com's comics, art, illustrations, etc.
Olly Moss | A cool dude who makes good art and frequently tweets it.
Al Swearengen | If you're curious what the notoriously profane owner of Deadwood's Gem saloon would be like as a game developer, well...
lawblob | Jokes on jokes on jokes.
Duncan Fyfe |Erudite weirdness, often related to the world of video games.
Peter Molydeux | An excellent parody of noted game developer and idea-haver Peter Molyneux.
Fake Kaz Hirai | Surely one of the best parody accounts in all of gaming; whoever runs this knows what they're doing.
Official Feeds
Steam_Games | News on Steam games, network updates, and sales.
Nintendo of America | Good natured-tweets from the nice people at Nintendo of America.
Bethesda | The official feed of the Skyrim folks, with lots of fun fan art and creations.
Rockstar Games | If you want fast updates on Grand Theft Auto, this is the place.
PlayXBLA | Official updates from Microsoft on Xbox and Xbox One games.
PlayStation | Official updates from Sony and links to updates to their excellent official blog.
Critics And Journalists
Geoff Keighley | The man with the inside scoop, Keighley frequently tweets or teases big-time exclusives on Twitter.
Leigh Alexander | Never boring, tweets about games, the games industry, and increasingly, Netrunner.
Anita Sarkeesian | On-point tweets and retweets focused mostly on women in games and other media.
Superannuation | Industry snooping from Kotaku's own game-industry sleuth. Rumors, deductions, and very educated guesses, never not entertaining.
Wario64 | One of the best guys to follow for quick heads-ups on video game deals, also shares plenty of other interesting stuff.
David Brothers | Tweets about comics, music and games, lots of sharp observations about race in media.
Ian Bogost | You never know quite what you're going to get with Bogost, but chances are it'll be entertaining and at least tangentially video-game-related.
Michael Pachter | Gaming's most famous finance analyst, the guy who makes the predictions everyone loves to talk about.
Chris Kohler | Frequent, sharp insights into the games industry, occasional discussions of animated Disney movies.
Kotaku Staffers
Kotaku | Our official feed, gaming news and other fun stuff 24/7.
KotakuDeals | A great place to find video game bargains.
KoTAYku | Our reader-run blog, Talk Amongst Yourselves.
Stephen Totilo | Likes wrestling and comics.
Tina Amini | Likes animals and guns.
Kirk Hamilton | Likes PC games and rewatching TV shows.
Brian Ashcraft | Likes cool stuff from Japan.
Luke Plunkett | Likes historical strategy games and trolling PR people.
Mike Fahey | Likes fast food and Lego.
Jason Schreier | Likes JRPGs and snark.
Evan Narcisse | Likes good music and dressing well.
Owen Good | Likes sports and curmudgeonity.
Patricia Hernandez | Likes Pokémon and cuties.
Chris Person | Likes hipster stuff and cool movies.
Steve Marinconz | Likes indie games and internet comments.
Richard Eisenbeis | Likes Japanese games and anime.
Leo Witchowski | Likes biscuits and tea.
As mentioned above, we've also made a public list on Twitter with everyone on it.
We'll be adding reader suggestions to this list to flesh it out. (In particular, we could use a few more feeds that tweet lots of great video game screenshots and artwork.) Make your suggestions below, and please include a category and an explanation of what the person tweets/why they're worth following.


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If I'm logged in to a system via SSH, is there a way to copy a file back to my local system without firing up another terminal or screen session and doing scp or something similar or without doing SSH from the remote system back to the local system?
Master connection
It's easiest if you plan in advance.
Open a master connection the first time. For subsequent connections, route slave connections through the existing master connection. In your
If you start an ssh session to the same (user, port, machine) as an existing connection, the second session will be tunneled over the first. Establishing the second connection requires no new authentication and is very fast.
So while you have your active connection, you can quickly:
On an existing connection, you can establish a reverse ssh tunnel. On the ssh command line, create a remote forwarding by passing
You can automate this further with
If you haven't enabled a remote forwarding from the start, you can do it on an existing ssh session. Type Enter
There is also some interesting information in this Server Fault thread.
If the file is small, you can type it out and copy-paste from the terminal output. If the file contains non-printable characters, use an encoding such as base64.
remote.example.net$ base64 <myfile (copy the output)
local.example.net$ base64 -d >myfile (copy the output) Ctrl+D
More conveniently, if you have X forwarding active, copy the file on the remote machine and paste it locally. You can pipe data in and out of
SSH does support a few commands, via the escape character (
You can re-use the same ssh session if you set up a
you've technically never left the ssh session, and don't need to re-authenticate. Probably more complicated than you'd like, but I can't think of another easy way.
Those are all very complicated methods.
Then you can copy paste the file with nautilus, gnome, konqueror, dolphin, bash or whatever.
But none of these are really needed, IMO. The SSH protocol supports multiple channels on a single connection, and the OpenSSH client supports multiplexing. Assuming you have
# first connection $ ssh remote # will multiplex over the same connection the original ssh opened $ sftp remote
Another (IMO) easy way would be:
Or if you prefer something GUI-like, try Midnight Commander. They call the feature Shell-Link. Most distros have em in their package systems as
An even simpler approach: Open Filezilla (or your favorite ftp browser), open an ssh connection to the same site, find the file and drag it across to your local file structure. If you're new to Filezilla, use the "site manager" feature to reconnect fast next time.
Yes, I know this is obvious to most of you (and not precisely on point), but some (like me) who found this thread searching for a terminal-only solution may have overlooked the obvious.
What I've found to be the best and most efficient solution is to use
On the server, you use
This bypasses the need to use
One of the many reasons we use SecureCRT — despite preferring open source software where practical — is the ease of doing file transfers. There simply is no direct replacement in the F/OSS world.
SecureCRT started out as a pure Windows program in the mid-1990s but was ported to Mac OS X and Linux a couple of years ago.
SecureCRT has three major features for transferring files to and from a system you are SSH'd into:
Use "!" to convert the file to a ASCII-representation of your file (e.g.
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text: Guitars are one of my favorite musical instruments that I love listening to, and try to play. Some of my favorite musicians have off the wall guitar solos that make me want to slip into a perfect rhythmic comma. For my second submission, I am going to have some fun teaching you guys "how to draw a tribal guitar". What better way to express how you love music, by getting an a real clean looking tribal guitar design on your shoulder, leg, or arm. I had fun drawing this pattern because it wasn't to difficult to create. I have grown to love drawing tribal art because it enables my creative mind work more peacefully, and efficiently. Sometimes my patterns may come out looking a bit odd, messed up or funny. But that is all part of the motto "practice makes perfect". I know I'm not perfect yet, but in time I will be. One thing you have to remember about drawing tribal art, the lines and shapes have to flow within each other so they look unified and in the end look like a hole piece instead of shattered or scattered pieces that have no purpose. Anyway, just keep trying and remember to sketch out your designs at first instead of inking them out. This way, if you make any mistakes you can go back to the messed up area, look at it, and asses the fix up. That will do it for me with this tutorial. I shall return with some other lessons that may or may not rock your world. Adios me amigos!


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I've been a computer programmer for many years, and recently my father has been learning computer programming. Programmers often times will use a folder called "lib."
Not a native English speaker, my father pronounced "lib" like *lib*eria - short for "library."
When I corrected him and told him it's pronounced "lib" like *li*t, he asked why if "lib" is supposed to be short for "library."
I couldn't think of an answer why. I thought of other words such as
- "pup", short for "puppy" is pronounced like the first part of puppy
- "mic", short for "microphone" is pronounced like the first part of microphone
Why is "lib" not pronounced like the first part of library?


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Cited; Michael Osz, 27, 164 Chase Road, Wintersville, speeding; and Andrew Wilson, 26, 309 Patricia Ave., Weirton, stop light.
Arrested: Sam Busic, 64, 614 Oxford St., possession of drugs, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, Thursday.
Arrested: Marcus Gibson, 28, 49547 Cherry Valley Road, Cadiz, warrant, criminal mischief, trespassing, Thursday.
Arrested: James Goff, 28, 111 Holly Ave., Mingo Junction, parole violation, Thursday.
Toronto Police
Cited: John Griffith, 46, 517 N. Third St., Toronto, stop light, expired license; Adam McCoy, 29, 608 Market St., assured clear distance; Raymond Haynes, 36, Pacemaker Plaza, Toronto, failure to yield; Aaron Thompson, 19, 315 Spring St., disorderly conduct; Mason Gobanez, 20, 675 Titanium Way, Toronto, illegal U-turn, squealing tires; Michael Swaykos III, 23, 403 N. Sixth St., Toronto, driving under a suspended license; Lucas Jones, 23, 242 Skyview Drive, Wintersville, expired plates; Amber Halstead, 22, 567 N. Fifth St., Toronto, disorderly conduct; and Jay Shelton, 32, 1314 Craig St., Toronto, expired registration.
Arrested: Andrew Vantilburg, 24, 1212 S. River Ave., Toronto, warrant, felonious assault, Sept. 30.
Arrested: Annette Sell, 47, 525 N. Third St., Toronto, warrant, theft, Oct. 1.
Arrested: Brad Lease, 36, 137 Belmont Court, driving with a suspended license, warrant, Oct. 2.
Arrested: John Skeens, 37, 205 Main St., Empire, possession of drugs, Oct. 3.
Arrested: Ryan Guidos, 21, Apartment 13, 206 Findley St., Toronto, intoxication, disorderly conduct, domestic violence, Oct. 3.
Arrested: Brandon Webb, 34, no fixed address, warrant, failure to comply, Oct. 5.
Arrested: Aaron Korbel, 32, 101 Ventura Vista, Toronto, failure to appear, Oct. 6.
Arrested: Ronald Fullerton, 75, Apartment 1, 510 N. Fifth St., Toronto, driving under the influence, no turn signal, Oct. 7.
Arrested: David Davis, 42, 721 N. Third St., Toronto, no turn signal, driving under the influence, Oct. 9.
Jefferson County sheriff
Arrested: Christopher Yanda, 19, Mingo Junction, failure to appear, Thursday.
Theft: Flat-screen TV, TV, DVR player, Dell computer, printer, clothing and jewelry stolen from residence in 300 block of Salem Township Road 227, Wednesday.
Theft: ATV stolen from residence in 140 block of Steubenville Township Road 501, Mingo Junction, Thursday.
Cross Creek Township
Charged: David J. Potenzini, 29, 607 Williams Blvd., Mingo Junction, speeding and driving while suspended.
Charged: Ashley Clancy-Aguilera, 23, 128 Sunny Acres, Wintersville, warrants from Jefferson County and Steubenville for failure to appear.
Ohio State
Highway Patrol
Arrested: Harold Bittinger Jr., 25, 626 Prospect Ave., three warrants, Thursday.
U.S. Marshal
Arrested: Daniel Hanst, 27, 180 Fourth St., Steubenville, possession of methamphetamine, manufacturing of methamphetamine, Thursday.
Arrested: Brandi Smith, 26, 1510 Tope Road, New Cumberland, possession of methamphetamine, manufacturing of drugs, Thursday.
Arrested: Paul John Paris, 31, 619 Allegheny St., Follansbee, disorderly conduct, obstructing an officer and failure to fingerprint, Sept. 25.
Arrested: Stephen Michel Gorman, 42, 202 Wildflower Way, Follansbee, driving under the influence with a minor and while suspended for DUI and defective equipment, Oct. 5.
Arrested: Bryan Keith Canestraro, 30, 194 state Route 151, Mingo Junction, driving under the influence and one-way street violation, Sunday.


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I am trying to find out if you can upload LEGO NXT byte-code to any other hardware, so I am just checking to see if anyone has ever written the LEGO firmware for any other hardware. Maybe hardware like an Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc.
LEGO itself does not make specific firmware/software to support other devices other than the official NXT brick but...
...you can still use Arduino and Raspberry Pi (and more) with the NXT components including the NXT brick. Personally, I mix LEGO and electronics all the time.
Arduino & Raspberry Pi are flexible development platforms and they can easily be interfaced with other devices. Also, the NXT devices (i.e. The Brick or peripherals) can be interfaced by something else than the official LEGO hardware & software. On the other hand, the effort needed to run the LEGO firmware (probably through an emulator...) on a new device is way harder than to interface the systems. Remember that this is a firmware and it expect to run on the exact device it was built for.
Arduino & NXT: There is a lot of Arduino-NXT hardware components that you can buy or even make yourself. For example you could use this Arduino shield called NXShield-D and it's software.
RaspberryPi & NXT: Pi is still relatively new but, since it's a full computer, it is very easy to use. To interface with NXT you can use the GPIO pins but thanks to the USB port, somebody already made the NXT-python to control the NXT brick.


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On October 9, 2012, at 2:59 am, the Bowling Green Police Department responded to the 800 block of Victoria Street for a report of shots being fired.
When officers arrived they located Demarcus Elliott, 34, of Bowling Green, deceased in a vehicle in the drive way of 831 Victoria Street.
Police also located a woman who had been in the vehicle with Elliott and had a gun shot wound as well.
The woman is Veronica Mitchell, 21, of Bowling Green. Mitchell has been released from the hospital.
Police continue to search for suspects in the case.


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New Straight-Rail Asphalt Car - The Straight ScoopWritten by on November 2, 2009 Leavitt Racing Components Introduces A New Straight-Rail Asphalt Chassis
Anyone who has been a part of racing for a while has likely noticed a sort of ebb-and-flow of technology and wisdom that moves between the racing strata. For example, expensive technology developed in the professional racing classes gradually becomes cheaper as it evolves and usually gets adopted by Saturday night racers. Or it can go the other way. Every year, great new crew chiefs, chassis specialists, and drivers make a splash on the Sprint Cup tour, or other professional series, after cutting their teeth and winning races at the local level. A lot of that is planned, but some happens more naturally.
Take, for example, Leavitt Racing Components out of Mooresville, NC. The chassis shop has always built cars for all levels, but for the last several years it had been quite busy designing and fabricating chassis for NASCAR's top-level racing series, the Sprint Cup, Nationwide, and Camping World Series. Building cars on that level requires a lot of expertise as well as technology. To that end, owner Steve Leavitt added a complete CNC-machining center to be able to fabricate custom components for the chassis, installed computing centers to completely design a chassis to determine strengths and weaknesses before bending the first piece of tubing, and many other tricks.
Despite Leavitt Racing Components' success as a chassis builder, the vogue trend in the Cup series is for teams to build all their cars in-house. It makes sense for the multi-car teams to invest in the capabilities to build their own chassis, but even single-car teams feel the need to emulate that trend in order to "keep up." So despite the organization's success, Leavitt slowly found its high-end Cup chassis business drying up through no fault of its own.
That ebb from the Cup end of the business winds up "flowing" to the benefit of the Saturday night racer. Leavitt Racing Components is already a major player on the USAR Pro Cup Series and has several winning NASCAR Late Model Stock teams running its chassis. And now the company is designing a new straight-rail asphalt car.
"The NASCAR Late Model Stock is really only dominant in the Southeast," Steve Leavitt explains. "But the straight-rail car is raced all over the country. We used to build a lot of straight-rail cars but haven't in years. Now that most of the Cup teams are doing their own thing we have the ability and the time to start building them again, and I think we can put a really good race car on the track."
Following is a close look at Leavitt Racing Components' new straight-rail chassis. As this went to press Leavitt says he can't give an idea of the final cost. "There's still too much left to be finalized," he says. "This is the very first chassis, so we're developing jigs and new ideas as we go along. When we get the second one built we'll have a better idea of what we will need to charge. I do know we'll have at least a few on the track by the end of the 2009 racing season and, hopefully, this chassis will have wins to its credit before the start of the 2010 season."
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That's 1/2-inch-thick plate bracing the sway-bar tube with the lower control arm mounts. Leavitt says bracing the very front of the car like this is important because with the big bar/soft spring setups that are popular now, the sway bar is so stiff it wants to twist the chassis. A rack-and-pinion is also definitely the way to go with these cars versus a more traditional drag-link setup.The suspension mounts haven't been added yet, but Leavitt says the car will use a three-link rear with multiple adjustment points. A truck-arm style rear, obviously won't work with the underslung layout.The suspension mounts haven't been added yet, but Leavitt says the car will use a three-link rear with multiple adjustment points. A truck-arm style rear, obviously won't work with the underslung layout.Plates are used to separate the center section from the front and rear clips. In the event a clip gets damaged and must be replaced, this should make it a much quicker process (and cheaper for the race team).Although the left side of the car has four door bars-with plating-for maximum driver protection, the right side is fairly open with this "X" pattern to make it easier for teams that wish to run the exhaust out the doorskin.Engine mounts are slotted for adjustability. This way teams can easily adjust their setback if necessary. Leavitt will also have a chassis that accepts motor plates for mounting.While all the bars have a structural component, several have also been placed with the idea of keeping a broken driveshaft contained and away from the driver.
Leavitt says years of building chassis for Cup teams have benefitted his other chassis designs. For one, weld quality and fitment is top notch throughout.Leavitt Racing Components is fabricating spindles specifically for this chassis' front suspension. Notice the heat marks from all the welding required.Leavitt says the most important thing for a good chassis builder is to have good fixtures. This is the fixture Leavitt Racing Components uses when fabricating its spindles. This type of heft is required to make sure everything stays where it needs to when the heat from welding is trying to move things around (as you can see from the photo to the left). Fixtures like this are used for practically every welded component on the race car.


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Re: How to clone a SheevaPlug?
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April 14, 2010, 12:01:50 AM »
Hi SonicBoom,
Maybe you could try hacking the script from cbxbiker61 to produce a tarball in .tar.gz format. Rename the created file to rootfs.tar.gz and use it with the sheevaplug-installer.
See this link for additional info:
Hope this helps.
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Re: How to clone a SheevaPlug?
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April 14, 2010, 05:47:15 AM »
Ok, I'm not feeling sorry anymore!
Thank you for your kind help, but it's like we are speaking different languages!
I'm understanding just a little bit of what you are telling me, and anyway I don't imagine how to replicate it using the sheevaplug! Anyway, thank you again!
Your solution seems to be the simplest one: I'll try it and post the results as soon as possible! If everything will work fine, you saved my day!
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Re: How to clone a SheevaPlug?
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April 15, 2010, 07:15:20 AM »
Thank you so much to everybody!
Anyway, just to let you know:
1. I used the script provided by pingtoo, just using -z instead of -J and creating a .tar.gz file containing the whole NAND filesystem.
2. I copied the rootfs.tar.gz file created in the point 1. on my USB stick, overwriting the original rootfs.tar.gz provided with the installer-1.0.
3. Following the installer-1.0 procedure, I installed the cloned filesystem coming from one sheevaplug onto another one.
4. Well done.
Many thanx to everybody, especially pingtoo and snake!
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Re: How to clone a SheevaPlug?
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May 15, 2010, 10:14:32 PM »
Quote from: cbxbiker61 on February 16, 2010, 08:35:41 AM
What works well for me is to configure the sheeva with the root filesystem on SD. Then when I want to backup the sheeva I shutdown, put the SD in in my notebook computer and tar up the SD image. Restoring the SD is just a matter of formatting an SD and untarring my backup to the SD. This makes it extremely easy to clone the sheeva.
Here's the script I run (on the notebook) to backup my SD. The SD is mounted at /mnt/tmp.
#! /bin/bash
date=$(LC_ALL=C date +%Y.%m.%d)
sudo tar c -C /mnt/tmp --exclude=lost+found -J -v -f /var/tmp/SheevaRoot-$date.tar.xz .
I also want to backup my SD. I have debian on it using
Martin Michlmayr's howto
. This creates separate /boot and / rootfs. Using a card reader and dd, I created an image by
dd if=/dev/sdc of=~/sdcard.img
and then restored it to an identical SD card with
dd if=~/sdcard.img of=/dev/sdc
The cloned SD got the same UUID's and booted fine -- dd got the whole card with /dev/sdc even though there were 3 partitions (sdc1, 2 and 3). However, it took a long time -- 20 min to create the image and 50 min to restore it to the new card. I've used tar only a little -- it would probably be faster and I could then use it to backup minor changes to debian. My only concern is getting the formatting right and the partition table etc. How would I do that? Or is there a way to get dd to work faster?
EDIT: The process detailed above works fine, but there is a better, faster way to maintain a backup SD card than using dd each time. After making and testing the initial cloned SD card, use rsync to periodically copy the contents of the / and /boot partitions to a hdd. A backup SD card cloned as above can be synced fairly quickly from the hdd backup. Be sure to use rsync with the "-a" option to preserve ownership and permissions. This seems to work pretty well, but if there's a better way to do this, please tell.
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Re: How to clone a SheevaPlug?
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September 26, 2010, 12:55:29 AM »
An efficient way of cloning SheevaPlugs is over a network using SSH and Pipes.
For this to work, you will need to have a network configured initrd booting from either a storage device or TFTP.
This solution would work for currently configured plugs in Sheeva_Installer, but you need to quickly update a bunch of plugs without using the USB key in each plug all over again...
Make a special host initrd, and then guest initrds to make it even simpler. Boot your development plug into the host initrd image and mount the UBIFS in say /mnt, and make sure the SSH service is running.
Boot a production plug into the guest initrd which will automatically SSH to the host plug with a static IP.
SSH example command: ssh -n root@hostplug 'cd /mnt; tar zcvf - *' | tar zxvf -
Make the guest plug do a UBIATTACK, MOUNT, and CD into the destination directory before running the above SSH. You may also want to run the UBIFORMAT commands as well.
Feel free to remove the 'z' parameter in TAR if your network is very very fast, as this will speed up the process.
I would never recommend transferring a LIVE file system, one which has been mounted via bind, as this may cause some applications and services to act funny. I tend to only TAR Linux file systems which have been safely halted to have the best possible state when cloning using tarballs. But that's just my personal phobia.
Overall, if an initrd is scripted right, you could adapt the SheevaInstaller to obtain the rootfs.tar.gz from an SSH source such as this for installing fresh off the shelf plugs. Be sure to place your current uImage on the USB stick as well.
However, you can easily burn the TFTP'd uImage to the NAND before loading your guest initrd to clone the plug. There are also u-boot commands for running special scripts from a TFTP which could automate the u-boot upgrade process and avoid using OpenOCD completely. If you make the u-boot NAND partition visible in the host and guest initrd systems, you could easily transfer the entire u-boot binary and environment over the network and burn it directly to the NAND of the new plug!
For an even bigger kicker, when booting your custom guest initrd, make the MTD partition one huge single partition which can be accessed under Linux. Use the SSH piping above to transfer an exact 512MB image over the network and burn it on a new plug!!! Now that's mass-production at it's best. For this, it might even be best to have the 512MB image stored on a speedy server machine to serve the images to all the hungry guest plugs to feed from.
In effect, if you choose the last option, for each new plug you purchase all you need to do is:
1. Plug in your pre-configured USB stick with kernel and initrd into the new plug.
2. Boot the plug using the USB stick's kernel and initrd.
3. Wait while the initrd system transfers the entire 512MB NAND image from the server/devplug and burns it.
4. Reboot the plug and enjoy the exactly cloned plug(u-boot, environment, mtdparts, etc...)
Hope this helps anyone who need to mass-produce plugs for the market.
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Quote from: pingtoo on February 16, 2010, 12:36:39 PM
You are correct, it is not easy to use
to access NAND. However your origin post does not make it clear hence my question. I was trying to understand what is your plug condition.
Can anyone explain why this is difficult? It looks like /dev/mtdblock1 is the kernel image, and /dev/mtdblock2 is the root filesystem. I would naively assume I could
both to images on my bootable USB stick, boot a fresh plug from same USB, then
those images back onto the new plug's flash?
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Quote from: bkuker on January 06, 2011, 08:05:55 AM
Quote from: pingtoo on February 16, 2010, 12:36:39 PM
You are correct, it is not easy to use
to access NAND.
Can anyone explain why this is difficult?
To answer my own question it seems that MTD (Memory Technology Devices) are not quite normal block devices, and jffs is aware of that. Jffs will not run on top of anything but an MTD, and you can not simply DD a jfs image on and off. It does work under some circumstances I do not understand, but not in the common case.
You can DD off of an MDT (from /dev/mtdblockN), and then mount that image (via a loopback device AND a weird block to MTD converter) but you can't, as far as I can tell, DD onto an MTD. I expect that a UBIFS filesystem will work the same way.
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I don't claim to have any special knowledge of the MTD subsystem, but I wonder if part of the problem with successfully writing the NAND memory involves choosing the proper block size for the device. Here is what I get if I "cat /proc/mtd":
$ cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00100000 00020000 "u-boot"
mtd1: 00400000 00020000 "uImage"
mtd2: 02000000 00020000 "rootfs"
mtd3: 0db00000 00020000 "data"
As you can see, the erase size (block size) of the NAND is rather large -- 0x20000 or 131072 bytes, or 256 512-byte blocks. 'dd' defaults to a 512-byte block.
I don't particularly want to mess with my NAND, but those of you who are might try using "dd bs=128K ...". If anyone does this, I'd be interested in hearing if it work, or changes things.
The other inherent problem with 'dd' is that its behavior upon encountering an error does not work well with NAND. My understanding is that NAND errors are to be expected, and when they are encountered, that block is skipped and the contents written to the next good block. But, 'dd' doesn't do this, and as far as I know, it has no way to deal with NAND write errors appropriately. Thus, it is a poor tool for this task.
Again, I have no special knowledge of how the MTD subsystem is implemented in practice, so this may not be the problem at all. Perhaps the subsystem handles 512-byte writes. Perhaps it silently handles NAND block errors. It would be nice is someone who knew would answer us here. This is where I'd start looking, though, if I were trying to investigate this problem.
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Is there a ST_Distance_Sphere, ST_Distance_Spheroid equivalent function in MySQL's GeoSpatial Support?
If not, any way to emulate this?
What is the metric used in return type of GLength (length of the LineString)?
The manual for GLength says that GLength() is a nonstandard name. It corresponds to the OpenGIS Length() function. But I couldn't find any Docs for OpenGIS Length(). All I found was for ST_Length are they the same?
Also for accuracy do I need to specify the SRID(4326)? How Do I do this in MySQL?
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Oooh! I have points to spend on SWA! Time to book a trip!
@belyndag: Doesn't work with points - just $$$. Which is a bummer.
@75grandville: Strange. I didn't finalize any flights yet, but offered me an option to use points and allowed me to select point options. Does it just rule out points when you make your final purchase?
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I can still book with points, just without the discount, which makes it not a deal anymore. As compared to when they actually just decrease the fares, which does work with points.
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What in the world are we coming to ... back to the future? We have finally gotten to the place where our state, county and local governments are "working" again. We are doing the best we can with our schools, roads, law enforcement and fire protection. Don't forget the wonderful work being done by all of the service organizations, which our current administration supports. Why, when things are heading in the right direction, would you want to change the players? If you could just remove the "R", the "D" from the ballot, you would surely vote for the most experienced, the most qualified and best solutions to our problems.
This campaign has been the most violent and dishonest I have seen in a long time, with our own president avoiding the truth, calling his opponent a "killer", a liar, dishonest, etc.; Facebook users calling for a riot if their candidate does not win; local candidates lying about their records, forgetting their history and the work promised but never done; candidates being followed by persons with video cameras recording their every move; candidates tearing each other apart just to get your vote.
Who in this world can you believe? How do you get to the real truth? Unless you know the candidates personally, read every newspaper, listen to all of the news and read the interchange on the Internet or have a contact in government in the local, state or Washington area, you don't even come close to the truth.
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|The speed of modern communication combined with an itchy trigger finger on "send" often gets us into all manner of cyber mischief. (Tracy Cox/San Jose Mercury News/MCT)
Such are the measurable physiological and psychological responses that occur upon accidentally sending a steamy text meant for your girlfriend to your church minister instead. Or Google chatting more than one person at a time — perhaps your mom plus an important client — and mistakenly sending the client your sassy critique of the latest "Real Housewives" episode. Or, possibly worst of all, tapping the dreaded "reply all" button and propelling a snarky reference about your supervisor — meant only as an inside joke between a couple of pals — company-wide, including your boss's inbox. Quick, get the shovel.
A few years back, Zoe Francis, a Pleasanton, Calif., freelance writer, accidentally sent an e-mail to her boss in which she referred to him as a type of feminine hygiene product.
"I thought I would die when I sent that note," she said. "The second I hit 'send,' I knew I had made an egregious error. Luckily, he did not kill me or fire me."
You'd think we'd all know better by now.
After all, e-mail is hardly new, and most everyone's gotten the hang of smartphones, texting and social media. Yet the speed of modern communication combined with an itchy trigger finger on "send" often gets us into all manner of cyber mischief.
Luckily for Francis, this mishap came out OK. When her boss got that note, he strolled ever so slowly to her desk. "He wasn't laughing," Francis said. "But he understood the error and took it extremely well. Quite frankly, it was a bit of a turning point in our relationship — a wee bit for the better, oddly enough."
Online mishaps can certainly be funny — an embarrassment of glitches, fodder for jokes at the company picnic or the college reunion. Who can forget the "reply-all-pocalypse" of last November when New York University student Max Wiseltier received an e-mail from college administrators about a tax form, which he tried to forward to his mom saying, "Do you want me to do this?"
A slip of the mouse later, and Wiseltier had sent that simple query to all his fellow 39,979 students on the Listserv. Thousands upon thousands of them then replied-all back, mocking him, adding jokes and comments, turning the innocent mistake into an Internet phenomenon.
But serious consequences can happen, too. Jobs have been lost, relationships altered. E-mail "storms" — when people "reply all" to "reply all" messages over and over, multiplying like rabbits in everyone's inboxes — can overload servers and shut down critical systems.
Some research has shown that at least 15 percent of an average office worker's day is spent on e-mail, and 5 percent of those received are of the "reply all" variety.
These mishaps have become such a problem, some versions of Microsoft's Outlook e-mail systems provide a way to disable/enable the evil "reply all" button. Applications, such as Sperry Software's Reply to All Monitor, are on the market, providing pop-ups that ask "Are you sure?" when you start to respond to multiple recipients. And Gmail offers an "undo send" button and the option of setting a 5- to 30-second delay in your outbound messages, so you have a small window to fix a mistake.
Still, programs can only do so much to mitigate user error. There's no pop-up window for stupid.
Thom VanValkenburg, 32, works for an engineering firm in Oakland, Calif., and has heard plenty of e-mail horror stories.
"So I'm really, really careful," he said. "I pay close attention to whom I'm sending to. Another problem is if you are too quick to press 'send,' you might forget there's an attachment that you might not want to forward. That can be dangerous."
His safeguard technique is to write up e-mails, then set them off to the side for a while and take a fresh look before hitting "send."
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Home Depot's Mobile Grows; CB2 Catalog Shrinks
Are you checking out the Big Fat Marketing Blog (www.bigfatmarketingblog.com)? Here's a recent post from MCM senior writer TIM PARRY that you might have missed.
SOMETHING CAME TO MIND last month as …
April 1, 2010
Drooping enthusiasm for automation
YOU HAVE TO GIVE THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE some credit for trying to do right (or, maybe, less wrong) by catalogers in the past two years, with the lower rate hikes and summer mail sales. But it still seems …More...
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January 26, 2010
Pure Play Sees Value of Direct Mail
XSportsProtective.com has been an online seller of action sports equipment since president Jim Bartlett founded the company in November 2005. But if the ROI on its two holiday season postcard mailing campaigns are as good as he thinks, Bartlett says …More...
September 1, 2009
In the July cover story "Slimmer pickings," we stated that printer Arandell Corp. does not plan to invest in the new tabbing technology to accommodate slim-jim catalogs. The machine that Arandell is not equipping with tabbing capability is just for …More...
In Catalog
August 1, 2009
Slimmer Pickings
The tall, skinny catalogs affectionately known as slim-jims are soon to be scarce, once the latest U.S. Postal Service modifications kick in on Sept. 8. The main sticking point with the new rules is the requirement for three non-perforated tabs …More...
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