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For awhile when SC2 came out I was pretty heavy into it. I was playing multiplayer and got up to diamond in 1v1, 2v2, and 3v3. I want to start playing multiplayer again, but I feel like I'm going to get my butt kicked. What is the most efficient way to regain my competitiveness in SC2 multiplayer? Also, a related question: will I still be in the diamond ladder when I start back up? Or do they automatically bump you back?
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Best suggestion i can give is play some games, if you are afraid of loosing ranked matches at start then play custom games that don't count towards your placement or custom games that are made for practicing certain aspects of the game like "Multitasking train" or Build order tester.
Other than that you should read up on changes and new tactics since you last played, trying all maps in the map pool might also be a good idea if you don't want to loose in the beginning and watch videos/streams of other players so you see what people do.
Just remember in the long run your are expected to loose about 50% of your matches as long as there is people that are better than you do to the way the matching system works.
To your 2nd question you can check that on your Quick Match screen, if your still got some kind of placement it will say "Play one match to be placed in a new division for this season." if not it will say "Complete a series of multiplayer matches to determine your initial league placement." and it will say how many games are remaning.
If you have missed an entire season then you will need to replay your initial 5 placement matches and you will be ranked based on your performance of those 5 games.
As far as how to get back into the competitiveness, that's a personal goal/attitude that one has to adopt. New games come out that distract a person (myself included). It's really how much you want to get involved into it. You have to find a reason to play and to be competitive.
It's really simple. Play the game.
There's no magical procedure that will re-increase your skills. If you feel rusty, and don't want to play ladder because of that, then play some custom games. Although you'll get matched against random players, so they might be way better or much worse than you.
Playing ladder game is still the best form of practice, because the matchmaking system will match you against players of roughly the same skill. Maybe you also have some friends around that are roughly at the same skill-level as you and you can practice against them.
Apart from playing the game, you can also go and watch some streams (like the ones on twitch.tv). It might give you a good idea what strategies are currently in use (the "meta-game"), so that you don't get surprised when playing ladder.
Under "competitiveness" I believe you mean "go back into diamonds". Tactic and strategy evolved for the last time. I've skipped 3 months and everything changed really significantly. If you won't go back to diamond you need to play with your level diamonds.
In custom games you will meet a lot of different level players, but if you top diamond then matches with low diamond will only allow you to remove the rust :) 3-5 matches should be enough - after that - you should go back to ladder. Be ready to switch to low diamonds for some time though :)
Day[9] TV is a good way of getting into SC2 again. I watch a few of his dailies. Specifically does concerning the match ups you going to train. Also have a look at GOMtv(Most content is pay-walled) and see how the pros have evolved and the where the meta game is at. Or basically just watch replays of games.
Don't be afraid to play against players who will beat you. There are far greater lessons to be learned from that than winning(Most of the time, not always).
Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with either GOM or day9(Even though I've applied to become a day9 volunteer)


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Friday's Jobs Report Is Campaign's Next Key Moment, Here's What To Expect
With the first presidential debate now behind us, what's the next big item on the campaign calendar?
It's Friday's 8:30 a.m. ET release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics about the September unemployment rate and how many jobs were added to payrolls last month.
Here's what we'll likely hear, according to economists surveyed by Reuters and Bloomberg News:
— That there was an uptick in the jobless rate, from 8.1 percent in August to 8.2 percent.
— That there was a net increase of about 115,000 jobs on private and public payrolls. That's weak growth, but slightly better than the preliminary estimate of a 96,000-gain in August.
If those forecasts turn out to be correct, that means Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his supporters will again talk about how the jobless rate has remained above 8 percent throughout President Obama's time in office. It also means that Obama and his supporters will focus on how there's at least been slow, steady job growth for more than 2 1/2 years.
They'll have one more chance to debate employment figures before Election Day, by the way. The October jobs report is due on Nov. 2. Election Day is Nov. 6.
We'll be posting on Friday's news when it comes. Watch for related posts on Planet Money and It's All Politics.
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Motherboard: MSI MS-7778 (Jasmine)
The CPU is a Trinity FM2 socket.
Has 2 x DDR3 slots, so the memory must be an 8GB and a 2GB stick.
The power supply is 300W. You probably want to upgrade that if you will be putting in your own video card.
Wow. Not having PoS Windows 8 alone is worth the price!
I agree. Having Win 7 and not 8 is nice. It's getting harder to find an off the shelf pc that has 7. I'll have to give this a bit of thought before buying......
The motherboard picture shows 4 memory slots and spec state 4 memory slots. It makes no sense to upgrade the power supply and add a graphics card to this computer. To get better graphics you'll have to spend at least $100 on the card and $50 for a more powerful supply than this computer has already.
Is this a better deal? Same price
They are very similar. This one has 2x the storage on the hard drive but both have more than most people will use. This also has better graphics, but for most uses other than games you be hard press to notice it. The other has a better cpu but in use you'll not notice that much difference.
@spyder69696969: Either you're an old school IT guy (why they always hate change so much, I'll never know) or you've had little to no experience with Win8. I've been using Win8 for over 2 months now and it's perfectly fine. It's faster in almost every category compared to Win7, and if you are so inclined, there are easy ways of setting it up to look and feel just like Win7, except it's faster. Not to mention an incredibly better Task Manager, and much better file transfer management. Please don't reply with some story about how you've been using it since the beginning and still hate it, your comment makes it obvious this isn't the case.
To those who would like to know, If you like Win7, and have even an ounce of computer savvy in your body, then Win8 can be almost identical in usage and offers better performance. If you aren't afraid of change, Win8 takes a little getting used to, but I feel is worth it (even though I still use it like Win7 most of the time).
@wootificator: So...no. Windows 8 is horrible. The metro interface is absolutely pitiful for normal desktop use. Leave it for phones, tablets, whatever else - but don't MAKE me use it on my desktop, or even worse on the SERVER interface. I can use Start8 or something similar to return it to normal - but what is the point? Windows 8 has more niggles than just that, and in my short time using it there was nothing better that added to it. The speed is negligent at best, anybody saying it is faster is coming generally from a new install and it is going to be faster if you installed Vista over 7 that has been used for a long time. How is someone that doesn't want to use a crappy interface to get little to no speed improvements "afraid of change"?
@wootificator: Thanks for your thoughtful comment. It makes me more inclined to give Win 8 a shot. By shear bad luck, most of my computers came with the worst of Microsofts OS releases (Windows ME, and Vista).
@tristicus: I apologize if my actual use of the OS has upset you. But when YOU actually use it, then come back and let people know your opinion. If you've only seen it, or maybe used it for a few minutes, then you didn't give it a chance and you're being childish. If you have used it extensively, you would know the "metro" interface is superficial, and can be ignored and set up to look and feel pretty much just like Win7 if you take a few minutes to research how to do it. Understandably MS doesn't want you to do this, but plenty of people have figured it out and shared how on the internet if you give it a search.
So you can leave "metro" for the phones if you choose, and get a smoother, faster, more intuitive experience with a more stable version of Win7 that can also run Apps if you choose to use it that way, or you can just install/uninstall programs as you always have. Both work fine, except Win8 is just better in almost every way.
@wootificator: Apparently you missed the part of my post where I DID use it. And apparently because I don't like it I'm childish. Real logical there. Did you not even read the part of the post where I said you COULD DO THAT, but it is pointless? It's a POS upgrade, the end. Thanks.
@tristicus: You're wrong though... Win8 is WAY better than 7 in every aspect. Yes, metro is weird (at first). I have found after about a month that I actually like metro, but even if you don't, as wootificator mentioned, you don't have to use it. If you think Win8 is a PoS compared to Win7, you're either stubborn or inexperienced.
@tristicus: You're right, I based my comment on your first two or three sentences. I admit when I decided your comment was seemingly based on emotion, rather than critical evaluation of the OS I stopped reading.
But I have read it now...and am no more impressed with your opinion than I was before. Your points were all addressed in my first comment, and you ask "why bother?" as if that justifies ignoring what I wrote. I bother because I like the smoother operation (I dual boot 7 and 8 so I can see the difference), the integration of social media like Facebook, and the added security of the built in anti-virus. Also I like that my children have their own profiles, and I can regulate exactly how, when, and for how long they use the computer. I like the more detailed Task Manager, and File Handler, and the ribbon on top of the folders is more intuitive and informative than 7. There's plenty to like about it, and nothing that can't be fixed to dislike unless you're just being stubborn.


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My, my! Nasty, nasty!
I'm talking about some of the comments some in Twitter nation made in reaction to actress Stacey Dash's tweet urging people to vote for Mitt Romney. Have you seen 'em?
Here's what Dash, the star of the movie and television show "Clueless," tweeted:
"Vote for Romney. The only choice for your future."
That simple tweet was way too much for some supporters of President Obama to take. They took to Twitter themselves, and some proved, once again, why the social medium has the word "twit" in it.
Here are some of the kinder Twitter posts:
"Racial draft: I like to request a trade to send Stacey Dash to the Caucasians to acquire Bill Clinton to the blacks."
So white folks get that fine Stacey Dash and black folks get the guy who was faced disbarment for perjury, and was charged with perjury, subornation of perjury and obstruction?
Nah, I'd just as soon keep Stacey.
Here are some more anti-Dash tweets:
"Stacey Dash has had a perm since birth. I knew I couldn't trust her…lol."
"You're an unemployed black woman endorsing Mitt Romney. You're voting against yourself thrice. You poor beautiful idiot."
One tweet accused Dash of "voting for white supremacy." Another said she was "white with a dark tan."
According to the Web site foxnews.com, "Several other Obama supporters even went as far as to encourage 'the old hag' to 'kill herself.'"
And those were the kinder tweets. Be forewarned: what follows are the nasty ones, and they're really nasty.
"This hurts but you a Romney lover and you slutting yourself to the white man only proves why no black man married u."
Sounds like this tweeter was hooked on ebonics.
"She's an indoor slave."
"You ready to head back to the fields, jiggaboo?"
"Stacey Dash has probably been thinking that she's white since her 'Clueless' days. All the signs were there."
And now for what might be the most offensive one on this list:
"So Stacy (sic) Dash buck tooth ass really voting for Romney!! B—ch you black and Mexican….do you think yo bloodline gone survive or something?"
Some full disclosure might be in order here. News stories have identified Dash as a registered Republican. I don't know if she is or isn't.
But I AM a registered Republican. Why I am is a long story. It could take up at least 10 columns. But the chief reason is this: I couldn't be a Democrat in Baltimore and still maintain a sense of shame, because Democrats in this town have none.
That being said, I haven't voted for a Democrat OR a Republican for president since 1972, and even then I voted for Democrat George McGovern, whose politics put him closer to the Green Party than the Democratic Party.
So I could easily argue that I've never voted for a Democrat or a Republican for president, and probably won't this election. I have no dog in this fight.
And yes, for more full disclosure, I'll admit that I'm hot for Stacey Dash. Have been for years. Anybody that has a problem with that can meet me in the nearest alley so we can "discuss" it.
But I'm not hot for Sandra Fluke, the feminist activist that conservative and Republican windbag Rush Limbaugh dissed as a "slut" earlier this year.
I defended Fluke then and condemned Limbaugh for being the bloviating blowhard he is. (Republicans and conservatives would really do themselves a service by retiring this guy's mouth.)
And Fluke – who most certainly is NOT going to vote for Romney – has rushed to Dash's defense. Here's what she tweeted:
"So disappointed to see people attacking @REALStaceyDash for voicing her opinion. Disagree politically, but #racist attacks are unacceptable."
Well put, Ms. Fluke. Some of Dash's detractors have gone to the first, the last and indeed the only refuge of those that have absolutely no argument: the ad hominem attack.
An ad hominem attack is one against the individual, not against the ideas he or she expresses. If Dash's detractors have any good arguments for her to vote for Obama rather than Romney, they need to express them.
And if they can't do that, then they need to shut the hell up.


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Seeing so many users failing to load up unity and facing graphical issues with quantal ,should i be worried as my system has an ATI Radeon 5650 mobility card.
Ps-On another note ,how do i still keep the ppas after upgrade ?
My advice would be not to use the proprietary drivers, I have an ATI Radeon 5450 and using the proprietary drivers means losing the dash/launcher and top bar.
I've also updated to 12.10 when it came out and remained without Unity, top bar and all the stuff (plus a low resolution). Uninstalling the proprietary drivers did the job, everything worked unexpectedly smooth, but soon after boot, the laptop started heating up and continued doing it, even during idle (70 celsius in idle is a lot). Formatted everything and installed 12.04, now everything works fine with the proprietary drivers (around 49 celsius while idle, will need to clean the fan soon). Will stick with it for now.
I have an Acer Aspire 5738pzg with an ATI Mobility HD 4570.


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I just got my Dreamplug
February 10, 2011, 05:54:39 AM »
I just a Dreamplug. Here are some initial observations:
1) uanme -a shows:
Linux sheevaplug-debian 126.96.36.199 #1 PREEMPT Sun Dec 5 22:56:10 CST 2010 armv5tel GNU/Linux
so I think this is lenny
2) i did apt-get install usbutils and lsusb reports:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05e3:0726 Genesys Logic, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0d8c:013c C-Media Electronics, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1a40:0101 TERMINUS TECHNOLOGY INC. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
3) ifconfig -s shows:
Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
eth0 1500 0 2292 0 0 0 1237 0 0 0 BMRU
lo 16436 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 LRU
uap0 1500 0 95 0 0 0 103 0 0 0 BMU
4) using my phones wireless network browser I noticed that the Dreamplug showed that it was hosting a wireless network named "Plug2-uAP-50a0"
I am wondering how I can back up the SD card in the device and then if I can update the system to debian squeeze.
Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks for any help
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Re: I just got my Dreamplug
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February 10, 2011, 01:59:23 PM »
To be sure about which Debian version is installed, simply do
$ cat /etc/debian_version
In order to backup the internal SD, I would remove it and read it in another computer (with GNU/Linux).
$ dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=dreamplug-rootfs.img bs=4M
should do the trick. Note that the actual device name may vary.
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February 12, 2011, 01:47:24 PM »
cat /etc/debian_version gives the following result:
There is no "/dev/mmcblk0" device. I am not sure how the internal disk is represented in /dev
There does not seem to be a port to hook up to a usb cable to get into the uBoot environment
I guess I should be able to update the internal card to a USB thumb drive or SD card
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February 12, 2011, 02:18:46 PM »
df -hT
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs tmpfs 251M 0 251M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev tmpfs 10M 712K 9.4M 7% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 251M 4.0K 251M 1% /dev/shm
rootfs rootfs 906M 633M 227M 74% /
/dev/sda1 vfat 49M 2.6M 46M 6% /media/usb0
tmpfs tmpfs 251M 0 251M 0% /var/cache/apt
/media/usb and /media/usb0 contain a file called
it looks like we can back up /dev/sda1 to back up the internal hard drive
since there isn't a usb port to access the device via a serial terminal I am not sure how we could then access uBoot to tell the device to say boot from an SD card that might contain debian 6.0
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partitions on internal drive
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February 12, 2011, 03:31:16 PM »
I installed parted and here is what the "print" command shows:
Model: Generic STORAGE DEVICE (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1016MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 31.2kB 51.0MB 50.9MB primary fat16
2 51.0MB 1015MB 964MB primary ext3
Unfortunately I forgot to order the JTAG unit to use with it! Doh!
I had heard that using ext2 is better because the journaling with ext3 was undesirable
Can anyone recommend a JTAG unit for this device other than the one form globalscale?
Thanks for any help
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February 12, 2011, 08:35:17 PM »
They started shipping the dream plugs, or are you just one of those special people that get it before the rest of us? Unfortunately, I am not aware of a way getting serial/jtag functionality without the jtag box.
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February 13, 2011, 12:02:50 AM »
Interesting. No Dreamplug images for any uboot, rootfs or kernel in the remository. ESIA hasn't been updated for over 6 months. Nothing on the plug wiki. Makes you wonder how serious Marvell and GSI are about this new model.
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February 13, 2011, 02:39:05 PM »
I'm planning on ordering a Dreamplug soon, so I'm interested in learning as much as I can about the thing and how it's configured.
Bwooster0, do you think you could post the output of `dmesg`, `cat /proc/mounts` and `mount` (the last two might be identical, but if they're only similar, the differences could be illuminating).
Note that the /dev/sda1 device you mentioned corresponds only to the FAT16 partition with the kernel uImage on it. I'm guessing the / ext3 partition is /dev/sda2 and if you want to back the whole system up you want to make an image of /dev/sda . But I still need to read up on the the various ways Linux handles MTDs like the Dreamplug's internal SD. The `dmesg` would really be helpful.
It's possible to create and use an Ext4 filesystem w/o a journal, if journaling is really frowned upon. I need to find out if uBoot can handle ext4, or if it matters (since the kernel is on FAT16 anyway).
Debian being Debian, it should be possible to upgrade the system in place from Lenny to Squeeze just by changing the distribution in /etc/apt/sources.list and using apt-get -- but that's assuming the OS really is Lenny, and not some hacked-up hybrid like the Guruplug seems to ship with. Anyway, I think you're really gonna need that JTAG box if you want to upgrade the system, even in place.
Again, I'm just starting to get into this, so please take my words with a grain of salt; recovering from a mistake without the JTAG box may not be possible.
Oh, and how's the cooling situation? Are the overheating problems of the Guruplug fixed?
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February 17, 2011, 12:06:53 PM »
I have ordered a JTAG unit and will have it in a few days.
I plan to back up the internal storage to another SD card. Then I want to modify uboot to have the dreamplug boot from another external SD card.
I want to use the dreamplug as an access point to serve music to the Squeezebox devices in my house.
I don't want to start hacking on the box until I have a good backup / recovery strategy so that if I mess things up I can quickly get back to a good state.
I am concerned to hear that there don't seem repositories for images for the kernel and root filesystem.
I will run the unit overnight and let you know if it gets hot.
Oh yes, the unit did not come with any documentation or any cd that might contain backup images / software / docs. 8(
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mount, cat /proc/mounts, dmesg output
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tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /media/usb0 type vfat (rw,noexec,nodev,sync,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /var/cache/apt type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid)
cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=writeback 0 0
tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/usb0 vfat rw,sync,nodev,noexec,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/usb1 ext3 rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,errors=continue,data=writeback 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /var/cache/apt tmpfs rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime 0 0
Linux version 188.8.131.52 (
) (gcc version 4.2.0 20070413 (prerelease) (CodeSourcery 2007q1-10. Marvell 2008q3-13 20081204)) #1 PREEMPT Sun Dec 5 22:56:10 CST 2010
CPU: Feroceon 88FR131 [56251311] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=00053977
CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
Machine: Marvell GuruPlug Reference Board
Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
On node 0 totalpages: 131072
free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c052f690, node_mem_map c05de000
Normal zone: 1024 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
Normal zone: 130048 pages, LIFO batch:31
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 130048
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda2 rootdelay=35
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 256MB 256MB = 512MB total
Memory: 513536KB available (4816K code, 862K data, 140K init, 0K highmem)
SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Hierarchical RCU implementation.
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
Calibrating delay loop... 1192.75 BogoMIPS (lpj=5963776)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
NET: Registered protocol family 16
Kirkwood: MV88F6281-A1, TCLK=200000000.
Feroceon L2: Cache support initialised.
initial MPP regs: 01112222 11113311 33331111 33333333 00003333 00000222 00000000
final MPP regs: 01112222 11113311 33331111 33333333 00003333 00000222 00000000
bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
vgaarb: loaded
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 3.00 loaded.
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
cfg80211: Using static regulatory domain info
cfg80211: Regulatory domain: 00
(start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
(2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2000 mBm)
(2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2000 mBm)
(2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2000 mBm)
(5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2000 mBm)
(5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
Switching to clocksource orion_clocksource
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
TCP reno registered
UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
RPC: Registered udp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 32
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
JFS: nTxBlock = 4014, nTxLock = 32112
msgmni has been set to 1003
alg: No test for stdrng (krng)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf1012000 (irq = 33) is a 16550A
console [ttyS0] enabled
brd: module loaded
loop: module loaded
No NAND device found.
MV-643xx 10/100/1000 ethernet driver version 1.4
mv643xx_eth smi: probed
net eth0: port 0 with MAC address f0:ad:4e:00:50:a0
net eth1: port 0 with MAC address f0:ad:4e:00:50:a1
ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: Marvell Orion EHCI
orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: irq 19, io mem 0xf1050000
orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-datafab
usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-freecom
usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-jumpshot
usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-sddr09
usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-sddr55
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
rtc-mv rtc-mv: rtc core: registered rtc-mv as rtc0
i2c /dev entries driver
cpuidle: using governor ladder
cpuidle: using governor menu
sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
mmc0: mvsdio driver initialized, lacking card detect (fall back to polling)
Registered led device: guruplug:red:health
Registered led device: guruplug:green:health
Registered led device: guruplug:red:wmode
Registered led device: guruplug:green:wmode
mv_xor_shared mv_xor_shared.0: Marvell shared XOR driver
mv_xor_shared mv_xor_shared.1: Marvell shared XOR driver
mv_xor mv_xor.0: Marvell XOR: ( xor cpy )
mmc0: new high speed SDIO card at address 0001
mv_xor mv_xor.1: Marvell XOR: ( xor fill cpy )
mv_xor mv_xor.2: Marvell XOR: ( xor cpy )
mv_xor mv_xor.3: Marvell XOR: ( xor fill cpy )
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
usbhid: USB HID core driver
oprofile: using timer interrupt.
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
lib80211: common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers
lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
Gating clock of unused units
before: 0x00dfc3fd
after: 0x00cf41d9
rtc-mv rtc-mv: setting system clock to 2010-02-26 13:56:06 UTC (1267192566)
Waiting 35sec before mounting root device...
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using orion-ehci and address 2
hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
usb 1-1.1: new high speed USB device using orion-ehci and address 3
scsi0 : usb-storage 1-1.1:1.0
usb 1-1.4: new full speed USB device using orion-ehci and address 4
input: C-Media Electronics Inc. USB PnP Sound Device as /devices/platform/orion-ehci.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.4/1-1.4:1.2/input/input0
generic-usb 0003:0D8C:013C.0001: input: USB HID v1.00 Device [C-Media Electronics Inc. USB PnP Sound Device ] on usb-orion-ehci.0-1.4/input2
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9909 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
scsi 0:0:0:1: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9909 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1984000 512-byte logical blocks: (1.01 GB/968 MiB)
sd 0:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1 sda2
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs (sda2): using internal journal
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1457
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1456
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1455
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 116
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 115
EXT3-fs (sda2): 5 orphan inodes deleted
EXT3-fs (sda2): recovery complete
EXT3-fs (sda2): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) on device 8:2.
Freeing init memory: 140K
sata_mv sata_mv.0: version 1.28
sata_mv sata_mv.0: slots 32 ports 1
scsi1 : sata_mv
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 21
ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl F300)
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
libertas_sdio: Libertas SDIO driver
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
libertas_sdio: Copyright Pierre Ossman
libertas_sdio mmc0:0001:1: firmware: requesting sd8688_helper.bin
libertas: can't load helper firmware
libertas: failed to load helper firmware
libertas_sdio: probe of mmc0:0001:1 failed with error -2
Bluetooth: vendor=0x2df, device=0x9105, class=255, fn=2
btmrvl_sdio mmc0:0001:2: firmware: requesting sd8688_helper.bin
btmrvl_sdio_download_helper: request_firmware(helper) failed, error code = -2
btmrvl_sdio_download_fw: Failed to download helper!
btmrvl_sdio_probe: Downloading firmware failed!
uap_probe: vendor=0x02DF device=0x9104 class=0 function=1
uap_sdio mmc0:0001:1: firmware: requesting mrvl/helper_sd.bin
usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
uap_sdio mmc0:0001:1: firmware: requesting mrvl/sd8688_ap.bin
UAP FW is active
NET: Registered protocol family 10
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
eth0: link up, 1000 Mb/s, full duplex, flow control disabled
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): uap0: link is not ready
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (8030 buckets, 32120 max)
CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT is deprecated and will be removed soon. Please use
nf_conntrack.acct=1 kernel parameter, acct=1 nf_conntrack module option or
sysctl net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct=1 to enable it.
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.14
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
Bluetooth: vendor=0x2df, device=0x9105, class=255, fn=2
Bridge firewalling registered
Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6
Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
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Heat Issues
Reply #10 on:
February 19, 2011, 05:45:11 PM »
I've had my dreamplug on for more than 24 hours and it is just a little warm. No overheating issues so far.
Of course it wasn't actually doing anything. I was just ssh-ing into it now and then to confirm that it was running.
When I can run it as a squeeze server I will let you know about any heat issues.
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Dreamplug U-Boot
Reply #11 on:
February 21, 2011, 05:02:52 PM »
I got my JTAG unit running from Mac OS X. This took a bit of googling and some minor hacking to get working. I found an app called "goSerial" that works well with the FTDI USB device in the Dreamplug.
I got into u-boot and tried a few things.
command shows:
U-Boot 2010.06-02334-g8f495d9-dirty (Dec 21 2010 - 15:27:37)
I do not know what version of u-boot this is.
results in
bootcmd=date;setenv ethact egiga0; ${x_bootcmd_ethernet}; setenv ethact egiga1; ${x_bootcmd_ethernet}; ${x_bootcmd_usb}; ${x_bootcmd_kernel}; setenv bootargs ${x_bootargs} ${x_bootargs_root}; bootm 0x6400000;
x_bootcmd_ethernet=ping 192.168.2.1
x_bootcmd_usb=usb start
fatload usb 0 0x6400000 uImage
=root=/dev/sda2 rootdelay=35
burn_spi=sf probe 0; sf erase 0 d0000; sf write 1000000 0 d0000
Environment size: 594/4092 bytes
Now I have to figure out how to clone the internal drive to an SD card and have it boot from that card. Note that the bootdelay is 3 second! You don't have much time to hit that key to get into U-Boot!
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Dreamplug u-boot update needed to allow booting from an SD card
Reply #12 on:
February 23, 2011, 08:53:51 PM »
I was able to backup the internal SD card to a USB drive. Then by changing the u-boot parameters I was able to boot the device from the USB drive. I really want to be able to boot the drive from an inserted SD card. The current U-Boot does not allow this so now I have to figure out how to upgrade U-Boot to a newer version.
*SIGH* Does anyone know how to do this? I know there is quite a thread on this forum about U-Boot but I haven't found a definitive solution.
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Re: I just got my Dreamplug
Reply #13 on:
February 24, 2011, 02:15:30 AM »
Hi bwooster0,
I noticed the same thing with the Dreamplug I tested. It does not allow the Kernel to be loaded from the SD card but it was quite easy to copy and rename the kernel from the SD onto the 1st partition of the microSD and leave the Rootfs on the SD card.
MicroSd boot
x_bootcmd_kernel=fatload usb 0 0x6400000 uImage
x_bootargs_root=root=/dev/sda2 rootdelay=35
SD card boot
x_bootcmd_kernel=fatload usb 0 0x6400000 uImageSD
x_bootargs_root=root=/dev/sdb2 rootdelay=35
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Reply #14 on:
February 24, 2011, 12:00:16 PM »
Thanks! I'll try it.
I was thinking of trying out fedora on the dreamplug. I think it would require using the fedora kernel tho and I am not sure that fedora would have the drivers for the dreamplugs devices (sound, esata, spdif...)
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How does the D40 decide which focus location to use? It always seems to choose the wrong focus area.
There is a pretty good, in depth article about this at kenrockwell.com.
Essentially, it tries to use the closest subject it can find without extra help from the photographer.
The camera makes a best guess as to what it thinks is the primary subject of a photo. Given that the camera has multiple (three) autofocus points, sometimes it guesses wrong. There are a couple ways to overcome the fact that autofocus can't always guess where you'd like the focus point:
I believe cameras try to pick the focus sensor that has the highest contrast, plus magical proprietary special sauce.
You can either choose the sensor yourself (as in chills42's answer) or set it to the center sensor only and focus (half-press of the shutter) then recompose and shoot (full press).


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Sports-Specific Injuries
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There are other factors less predictable that contribute to injury risks. These include weather conditions, playing surface conditions, and faulty equipment. Past pain or injuries can suddenly reoccur during play. Weakness that was not noticed can cause injury if the area is stressed and falters. Overuse of a joint or muscle group always can lead to pain and injury.
In general, sports injuries can be classified as either due to accident (trauma) or wear and tear (overuse). Regardless, there is a lot that can bedone to prevent injuries. Knowing what you are at risk for is half the battle. Following is a description of the most frequent injuries related to each fitness activity. In preventing these injuries, a focus is also placed on maintaining overall health and conditioning, as this can often be overlooked in a highly competitive environment.
Sports-Specific Injuries
Aerobics, Circuit, Kickboxing, and Exercise Classes
Although these activities are fun and usually offer a great cardio workout, the repetitive motions can lead to a variety of overuse injuries, especially if techniques are poor. Instructors should be well trained on enforcing proper form and instruct activities that do not cause injuries, but it is often difficult for them to watch everyone in class closely enough. Occasionally, they themselves do not demonstrate proper technique.
The faster the pace of a class, the more equipment used, and the larger the range of repetitive movements, the more likely an injury. Improper posture, poor balance, and quick, uncontrolled movements can lead to ankle sprains, shoulder tendinitis, knee bursitis and tendinitis, and muscle sprains. Squats, lunges, and dead lifts, common exercise class moves, often cause knee or back stress, pain, and injury. Repetitive quick twisting and kicking motions in kickboxing classes are risky to backs and legs. Weights that are gripped too tightly or too heavily can lead to wrist, arm, and shoulder injuries. Foot injuries can also be due to shoes that have insufficient support or have lost their cushioning or support from overuse. Ankle sprains, plantar fasciitis, and calf injuries are common.
To prevent injuries in exercise classes: Do not take more than three of the same class a week, alternating days with other activities or rest. Do not do any movements or activities or use weights or equipment you are uncomfortable with, and especially avoid those that cause pain. Ask your instructor if you have questions regarding techniques. If you do not feel you get a reasonable answer, take a class with a different instructor. Make sure you get new shoes every three to six months, especially for high-impact, jumping classes.
Factors Increasing Risk of Exercise Class Injuries
- Faster pace of class
- Large motions
- More types of equipment used
- Quick, repetitive movements
The most common injury to a basketball player is an ankle sprain. Knee injuries to the ACL and meniscus can also be common, along with finger dislocations, jams, and fractures. Contact injuries and falls can result in more serious injuries. Overuse injuries can lead to sprains, strains, and tendinitis, including jumper's knee (patellar tendinitis).
ACL injuries can occur three to six times more in female than male basketball players. ACL tears usually require surgery and three to six months of recovery time.
To prevent injuries in basketball: Knee injuries can be prevented with quad and hamstring strengthening, balance activities, and improved jumping and landing techniques. An excellent conditioning program includes cutting maneuvers, skill drills, and single-leg jumping and landing techniques. Box jumping, side stepping, running cones, and jumping rope on one leg is great practice.
Bowlers can get back, knee, elbow, wrist, and finger sprains. Most injuries are soft tissue sprains or tendinitis, although occasional injuries occur related to falls or dropped balls.
To prevent bowling injuries: Bowlers should do general strengthening and stretching exercises for the back, legs, and arms. Wrist- and upper-arm-strengthening exercises are also recommended. Bowlers should also add 30 minutes of cardiovascular activities to their workout schedules 3 to 5 days a week.
Besides expected contact injuries, boxers tend to suffer upper extremity injuries, including wrist, elbow, and shoulder sprains. Shin splints, Achilles tendinitis, plantar fasciitis, and knee and leg tendinitis can occur due to repeated short, quick steps and jump-rope training.
To prevent boxing injuries: Upper body strengthening is recommended, particularly to the wrists and shoulders. Proper punching, jabbing, and defensive techniques are crucial to avoiding overuse injuries. Wrapping should be done correctly to protect the fingers, hands, and wrists. Protective gear, including headpiece, mouthpiece, chest guards, and groin protectors, should be adequate and fit properly so they are optimally functional. It is suggested to wear well-cushioned, supportive cross-training shoes when training to prevent overuse injuries in the legs, ankles, and feet.
More on: Sports
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How would you interview someone you know well or someone you may even be friends with? What if you already know their strengths and weaknesses. I would prefer to avoid this situation by delegating this task to somebody else, but what if this is not an option. I feel like there is just too much personal feelings involved and it is almost impossible to be unbiased. If you have been in an similar situations, how did you handle them?
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If you can't delegate to someone else entirely, involve other people in the interview. Make it clear to the person you're interviewing that you will be listening to other interviewers very carefully to make sure you make the best decision.
I think it can still be beneficial for you to be present at the interview. Observing a person's performance and behaviour will still be helpful even though you already know their strengths and weaknesses. You might notice something (either good or bad) you didn't pay attention to before, when you weren't critically looking at them as an interviewer.
Precisely as you described - by delegating to someone else.
If you already know their strengths and weaknesses what are you hoping to learn from the interview?
Tell them someone else is doing the interview, but you're going to be sitting in. Then get someone else to come in and pretend to be the person in charge of the interview. You can give your fake interviewer a list of questions to ask, and still jump in yourself if you feel the need to.
Use whatever excuse you want to explain your presence, but make it clear that you will not be in charge of the interview and are not the person they need to impress to get the job. You could tell them its a training/learning exercise for you, or that you are there to access their technical skills since the interviewer isn't familiar with the language you're discussing.
It also gives you a convenient excuse if you decide to hire a different candidate.... just say you weren't the one in charge of making the final decision.
Your behavior will be affected. And your judgment too.
I highly suggest you to delegate the task to someone else and then discuss with him privately.
IMO this is not a big problem. Knowing the person very well IMO beats being unbiased. If the person fits the job well, hire him, otherwise politely explain that the job would not make him happy in the long run. Delegating that task to another person looks a bit like "I know too much too hire him, so let somebody else make this mistake".
It could only pose a problem if that person is very desperate, and you might feel forced to hire him even if he doesn't fit. But even in that case, it's more honest to tell him "sorry, I can't" instead of delegating this task to someone else.
Who is asking you to interview this person and why? Knowing that will tell you all you need to know.
For example, maybe this person is your neighbour, you have seen each other in the street and been at each other's house for dinner, but you don't know "how many years of C++ experience do you have?" or "have you ever written a Disaster Recovery Plan?". That is probably a pretty easy interview to run. "Look, we're friends, I already know you have integrity and you're smart, I just need to ask you some technical things."
A different example, this is your college buddy, you worked on assignments together, you know a great deal about the technical skills and personality traits that would be coming into the team, and you think this person is a definite hire. But management wants to cover their backsides and insists on an interview. Well in this case there is nothing you can ask that will change your opinion, so you should ask someone else to lead the interview.
If you must go through the interview yourself, and you feel it's not going to help you learn anything, schedule this person LAST. By the time you have interviewed 5 or 6 other people, it may occur to you there are things you don't know about what it would be like to have your buddy (spouse? cousin? child?) join you on the team, and you actually have some good questions to ask and a decision to make.
If I had to interview someone I knew well and couldn't get out of it, I'd probably try to set up a formal interview with some formal questions that are standard things like "why do you want this job" or "what do you like about this company" kind of basics where the key here is to see if something changes with this person. Some people may change when in an interview and this may be worth noting to some extent. There is also something about in this situation whether or not my friend rises to the occasion. For example, if answering the "why you want to work here" the answer given is, "Well, because you work here!" that wouldn't be very encouraging to my mind as I'd want to know how well do they see themselves in the job.
If I know this person well, then I'll already know whether they would be a fit for my workplace.
Sounds like you have a problem being honest with your friend. If you don't think they are qualified then tell them. Be sure to tell them exactly why. This is the only way to be a true friend. Give them pointers on how to be the type of person you need. It might be as simple as "we need X years of working with Y tech and it can't be learned on the job."
If it's more of a "I think you're lazy" type of thing then that's a whole other conversation, but one that you should still have if you are a true friend.
If you do think they are qualified then there shouldn't be an issue, just hire them.
I was in similar situation sometime back. I let other team lead take the interview. It is a weird situation and may end up being awkward situation for both of you. You may select the candidate or not it will have a guaranteed effect on your future harmony. As far as possible try to avoid or else you may be leading to turmoil
I was not hired by someone I know very well some years ago when I was pretty hard up for a job. He simply explained that the final decision was not his.
It stings a little more than a rejection from someone who doesn't know you, but for all I know my outspoken friend's boss just didn't want him having too many allies working at the company.
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Do people study the category of representations of a compact
finite group (not just irreducible ones)? I'm more interested in small cases like S_3 and SU(2) but I'd be curious about general cases like $S_n, SU(n)$. These must be tensor categories since - well... they admit tensor products and direct sums. Can these representations be considered a ring?
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5 Classic Board Games With Disturbing Origin Stories
If there's one thing we've learned in our time here, it's that there's absolutely no cherished childhood memory, from nursery rhymes to candy bars, that doesn't have some dark and gritty origin story. But surely our favorite board games sprang fully formed from the land of bunnies and rainbows, right? After all, they're just a bunch of colorful squares on a board meant to let families kill time in the pre-video game era.
#5. The Game of Life -- and Suicide
Released way the hell back in 1860, The Game of Life is one of the best-selling board games of all time and the single oldest game in the Milton Bradley library. It's a charming get-together game in which families around the world experience all the fun of paying their insurance, and ultimately, witnessing the miracle of humanity reduced to a dong-shaped plastic peg.
How Milton Bradley views its consumers.
The Disturbing Origins:
The original version of Life was somewhat more pessimistic than the one we play today. Some of the board's original squares included "Disgrace," "Poverty," and "Ruin," as well as "Crime," "Prison," and -- no joke -- "Suicide."
Making a square for "Suicide" is one thing, but landing a job at the "Fat Office" is just plain cruel.
Even though today this would be like having a slot for the Joker's pencil trick in Operation, the original version of Life nevertheless sold like hotcakes.
So who was the psychopath behind this grim game? Milton Bradley himself, who was going through a bit of a rough time when he made it. Bradley was a professional lithographer at the time, and was driven to financial ruin, solely because Abraham Lincoln grew a beard. We're not making this up. Mr. Bradley was making a pretty sweet dime in 1860 selling lithographs of a then-beardless Abraham Lincoln until a little 11-year-old girl named Grace Bedell sent Honest Abe a letter asking him to grow a beard, which he did. This unprecedented presidential fashion statement basically destroyed Bradley's business after all his unsold portraits of clean-shaven Abe were judged "so yesterday."
At the end of his rope and out of alcohol, Mr. Bradley sat down and sketched The Checkered Game of Life, we imagine with a loaded gun on the table.
Milton Bradley.
As a result, for decades children throughout the country actually had fun killing themselves in a board game.
Of course, the grimmest aspect of the game is still present in the version we all know today: After you have had all your children, affairs and midlife crises, win or lose, you die at the end of Life.
"Congratulations! Thanks for playing!"
#4. Clue -- Killing Time Between Nazi Bombs
So right away we see that, like with any form of artistic expression, you learn a lot about the state of mind of the creator from the finished product. This brings us to Clue. It's a dark goddamned subject for a game if you think about it -- some of the murder weapons would only work by splashing the brains of the victim all over the floor of the fancy mansion. So under what circumstances would someone think this was an appropriate game for kids?
"Manning 'em up for the goddamn Marines."
The Disturbing Origins:
The game was released in England in 1949 under the almost intentionally dumb name Cluedo. And, while most board games enjoy the reputation as something you save for a rainy day, the rainy days that brought you Clue were rains of Nazi bombs on British households. Clue is the only board game on this list made possible because of Adolf Hitler.
The original Parker Brothers.
Clue/Cluedo was devised in 1943 by a wartime fire warden named Anthony E. Pratt, who came up with the game while "walking his beat" in between the Nazi firebombings. Withholding any pretense, the game's working title was Murder! Basically, it was Saw II in a box. He quickly sold his idea to a game company.
This is seriously how you played the game.
Waddington Games had to hold off on production for a while, because the game was to include a ton of pieces and materials were still being rationed due to, you know, the world war raging around them.
Also, we should probably mention that this game not only included the classic gun, rope, knife and three makeshift de-brainers, but also an axe, syringe, poison, a bomb and a "shillelagh."
Yeah, we had to Google it too.
That's right, in the original Clue you could totally kill a dude with a bomb. It took a lot to shock that generation, and understandably so.
#3. Monopoly -- The Stolen Game
Released in 1935, Monopoly is the most popular board game in the world behind, well, chess. It has sold more than 275 million copies, been played by more than a billion people and prompted people such as Wall Streeter Derk Solko to describe it as one of the most amoral experiences in the history of entertainment: "Monopoly has you grinding your opponents into dust. It's a very negative experience. It's all about cackling when your opponent lands on your space and you get to take all their money."
The real game involves considerably less dancing with cartoon dollars and considerably more broken relationships with siblings.
The Disturbing Origins:
The official story according to Hasbro is that during "the height of the Great Depression" an unemployed salesman named Charles Darrow proposed Monopoly to Parker Brothers in 1934, was first rejected, but eventually closed the deal. This is the official legend as told by -- no joke -- Mr. Monopoly, the goddamn robber baron on the box.
A face you can trust.
Since anyone should be suspicious of any company that leaves their official truth-telling to their mascots, several people have smelled a rat big enough to investigate the story. It turns out that, in a strangely appropriate revelation, Monopoly was actually pirated wholesale from a board game called The Landlord's Game which was patented in 1904 by a Quaker named Elizabeth Magie.
A Quaker who apparently had something against illustrations.
This game was very much the Monopoly we all know and hate, except it included a crucial second round designed to teach "just how unfair monopolies can be." That's right, Monopoly is actually supposed to be a lesson on unscrupulous business practices comparable to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, but the monopolistic bastards at Parker Brothers deliberately kept it evil to appeal to the darker angels of our souls.
How did they get away with this? Easy. According to PBS' History Detectives: "a large firm which manufactures games" bought out Ms. Magie's patent for $500.
It was an offer she couldn't refuse.
As for that "legend" on Hasbro's website, that was even easier for Parker Brothers. They just had their fictional spokesperson Mr. Monopoly make it up to better suit their image of a family-friendly monopoly. The fact that they pulled all this off during the Great Depression, seriously, that takes balls.
At long last, Mr. Monopoly shows his true face.


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The 6 Most Idiotic Decisions by Authority Figures in Movies
Some of the most famous cinematic heroes are folks who didn't respect authority and liked to play by their own rules. Well, there's a very good reason for that -- authority figures, from police departments to federal agencies, aren't known for making the wisest decisions in movies. In fact, some of them are bafflingly stupid. Like ...
#6. Batman -- The Joker Announces He's Holding a Parade, No Cops Bother to Show Up
Different actors have played the Joker in different ways, but one thing that hasn't changed is the fact that the guy doesn't care much for money -- in The Dark Knight, he burns a huge pile of bills (with an accountant on top), and in Tim Burton's Batman, he hijacks the mayor's press conference to announce that he'll be holding a midnight parade in downtown Gotham City and throwing $20 million in cash at the crowd.
And sure enough, when midnight comes around, the Joker keeps his word and holds his downtown parade, to the delight of Gotham's citizens. Sure, he also tries to gas those citizens to death, but no one's perfect.
Now, here's the thing: By this point in the movie, the Joker is already a supervillain. Aside from, well, looking like that, he is wanted for killing people and making creepy-ass commercials. And here he has done the authorities a huge favor by telling them exactly where and when he'll show up next, and even makes sure to tell Batman to be there. And what do the cops do with this information? Absolutely nothing.
Watch the scene again -- not a single policeman is present, even though the parade literally passes right in front of City Hall. Were they all trapped in the sewers by Bane or something?
"Let Batman handle it. It's league night."
It should be mentioned that the most powerful figures in Gotham were present to hear the Joker's announcement, including the mayor, Commissioner Gordon, and District Attorney Lando Calrissian ...
What the hell are they looking at, anyway?
You'd think that, after being provided with such generous advance notice, Gotham PD would put themselves on high alert and cover the entire downtown area. We don't know how big the area is, but how hard could it be to spot the guy in the clown makeup traveling on a parade float, blaring Prince music and dragging a couple of gigantic balloons behind him?
And yet, the first we ever see of the cops is like 10 minutes later, after the Joker has had enough time to poison several people, shoot down Batman's plane, and take his girlfriend into a bell tower. They knew the parade would be at midnight. Why were they so late?
"Goddamn daylight saving time!"
#5. Die Hard 2 -- The Justice Department Wants to Pick Up a Deposed Dictator at a Commercial Airport
The plot of Die Hard 2 involves deposed South American dictator/drug lord General Ramon Esperanza being extradited to the U.S. to stand trial for his crimes/showcase his fantastic beard. Esperanza is put on a plane bound for Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., where he will be handed over to the Justice Department.
They've been after him since his mandingo fighting days.
However, the corrupt Colonel Stuart and his team of mercenaries decide to hijack the airport's network and hold all the airplanes flying overhead hostage until they can spring Esperanza from custody and flee the country. And what do you know, John McClane's wife is on one of those planes. McClane must now defeat Stuart and convince his wife that he isn't cursed (judging by her absence in the sequels, she didn't believe him).
Anyway, we've already mocked Colonel Stuart's needlessly convoluted plan, which hinges entirely on the area being hit with a blizzard ... but, um, why is the Justice Department picking up such a high-profile prisoner at a commercial airport in the first place, anyway?
"Never waste an opportunity for duty-free booze."
When we see the Justice Department guys, they are completely surrounded by reporters -- that was their best case scenario, the worst one being "some asshole kidnaps a bunch of planes to free the general." To compound their stupidity, they decide to pick up Esperanza at Christmastime, when Dulles Airport will be super busy and packed with people. This idea creates a ludicrous number of security risks, especially considering that the airport police is run by the most incompetent officer ever.
He spends most of his scenes trying not to swallow his tongue.
While it's obvious that the character of Esperanza was inspired by Manuel Noriega, the Panamanian dictator who was captured by American military forces and extradited to the U.S. a year before Die Hard 2 came out, the main difference there was that Noriega was transported to an Air Force base, not the same place you go to pick up your grandma, because that's just common sense.
So, if not for the piss-poor planning of the authorities, Die Hard 2 might have been the wacky story of John McClane dealing with his angry mother-in-law for causing her new car to get towed.
Die Hard 2: Park Harder
#4. Minority Report -- Tom Cruise Becomes a Fugitive, They Still Give Him Top Clearance
According to Minority Report, in about 50 years we'll figure out how to stop crimes before they happen by harnessing the powers of mutant babies. However, this system backfires on the PreCrime captain, John Anderton (Tom Cruise), when the precognitive kids have a vision of him committing a murder in 36 hours. Anderton is forced to go on the run as a wanted fugitive.
And that is officially the most convoluted reason for Tom Cruise to spend a whole movie sprinting.
At one point, Anderton decides to undergo an eye transplant so that he can avoid being detected by the city's retina scanners (which are freaking everywhere), but the doctor is nice enough to let him keep his old eyeball in a plastic baggie. This bit of sentimentality pays off later when Anderton returns to the PreCrime building in order to kidnap one of the precogs and uses his old eyeball on the retina scanner to gain access.
"No! I've seen what that hand does! Nooooooo!"
But, wait a minute ... why does Anderton still have access to the most restricted high-security area of the building? After becoming the city's most wanted criminal, you'd think they would have revoked his security clearance. Does this mean he can still use his parking spot, too?
But, you know, let's cut them a little slack on this one. It's only been about a day and a half since Anderton went on the run, and the PreCrime unit's been pretty busy trying to catch him. Maybe they simply didn't get around to revoking his clearance, or they didn't know he would be ballsy enough to go back to a building full of pissed-off cops.
It's not like they can see the future or anything.
However, once Anderton has been in and out of the building, knocked some people out, and kidnapped a kid, then revoking his access would definitely become a top priority, right? Nope. Later in the movie, his wife is able to just walk right into a containment unit and break him out by using his goddamn eyeball ... again.
Let's get this straight: Immediately after he goes on the run, Anderton can't even drive his own car (they disable it remotely), but weeks later, he can still release prisoners? And even worse, D.C. cops apparently didn't learn anything from that whole Die Harder situation decades earlier.


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Balsamic & Parmesan Roasted Cauliflower
From EatingWell: January/February 2008
Roasting isn't usually the first cooking method you think of for cauliflower but the results are quite delicious. The florets are cut into thick slices and tossed with extra-virgin olive oil and herbs. Wherever the flat surfaces come into contact with the hot roasting pan, a deep browning occurs that results in a sweet, nutty flavor.
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I cut the recipe in half and ate the whole portion for dinner. This is fantastic. Glad I didn't make the whole portion because I would have ate it all. This is definitely a keeper!! So easy to make and so delicious and tasty!
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You may have noticed the "Label Cloud" in the right hand column of this blog. This is my attempt to index all the recipes I have posted. I am slowly working my way through the old posts (and wishing I had added labels from the get go) and applying labels according to main ingredient, and type of dish (Indian, Mexican, baked goods, etc.) Hopefully, then, when you have a block of tofu and are not sure what to make for dinner, you can click "tofu" in the label cloud and be presented with a variety of ideas. The bigger the word/ingredient appears in the label cloud, the more posts there are with that word/ingredient. I hope this helps everyone better access the recipes.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Behold the Label Cloud!
Posted by Vegan Dad at 12:51 PM
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- Cravin' Veggies said...
Looks great! Better than the behemoth list on cv recipes!! I am jealous (wink, wink)!!
- February 9, 2008 at 4:44 PM
- the pleasantly plump vegan said...
i need to do this too
- February 9, 2008 at 8:30 PM
- kitsune-stars said...
Yay, great idea!
- February 10, 2008 at 12:27 AM
- John Plummer said...
- February 10, 2008 at 10:42 AM
- Happy Herbivore said...
i love the label cloud! how did you get it work! its way cooler than my boring list of labels
- February 14, 2008 at 7:40 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
To get the label cloud, I followed the instruction on this page. I will warn you, this requires messing with the html code in your blog's design template. You could horribly screw things up. Make sure you back up your template before you start. If you have no idea what I am talking about, forget about the label cloud altogether.
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Chicken Croquettes
Categories: Finger Foods, Kid-friendly, Party Snacks
Type: Main Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
These savory nuggets, crunchy outside and meltingly soft inside, are a fine way to use leftover chicken. Here is a Spanish version
Prep Time: 30M
Cooking Time: 20M
Serves: makes 4 servings
- 5 tbsp butter
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 3/4 cups whole milk
- 1 cup finely chopped cooked chicken
- 1 tsp tomato paste
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 3/4 cup dried bread crumbs
- 3 large eggs
- vegetable oil, for deep-frying
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- Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat. Whisk in the flour. Let bubble without browning for 2 minutes. Whisk in the milk and increase the heat to medium. Bring to a boil, whisking often. Reduce the heat to low and cook, whisking often, until the sauce is very thick, about 5 minutes.
- Stir in the chicken and tomato paste and season with salt and pepper. Transfer the mixture to a bowl. Press a piece of plastic wrap directly on the surface and pierce a few holes in the wrap. Let stand about 2 hours, until completely cooled.
- Line a baking sheet with wax paper. Spread the bread crumbs in a shallow dish. Beat the eggs in another shallow dish. Use two soup spoons to form 12 thick ovals about 11/2-2in (3-4cm) long. Roll in the bread crumbs, coat with the eggs, roll again in the bread crumbs, and place on the baking sheet.
- Preheat the oven to 200°F (100°C). Line another baking sheet with paper towels. Add enough oil to a large, heavy frying pan to come halfway up the sides and heat until the oil is 350°F (170°C). In two batches, add the croquettes and deep-fry, turning frequently, about 3 minutes, or until deep golden brown. Transfer to the paper towels, and keep warm in the oven.
- Serve the croquettes on a heated serving platter.
- can be frozen for up to 3 months
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I'm trying to duplicate the sponging type effect of the background gold part of the following image:
Does anyone know of a tool I can use within Photoshop, or how else I could do this?
I'm trying to duplicate the sponging type effect of the background gold part of the following image:
Does anyone know of a tool I can use within Photoshop, or how else I could do this?
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As with most things in Photoshop, there are several ways to do this. Here's one:
Step 1: Create a new, oversized document. For this web banner example, a 4 inch x 6 inch, 300 dpi is about right, but you can go bigger.
Step 2: Press D to set your colors to defaults, and choose Filter > Render > Clouds. You're looking for a "pattern" that's about the right size and frequency for your application, so if it doesn't look anywhere close, press Ctrl-F (Cmd-F) to run the filter again until you see something you like.
Here's what I ended up with:
Step 3: This is too fuzzy for our purposes, so we need to greatly increase the contrast. The best tools for this are Levels and Curves. I used Levels:
Step 4: So far, so good, but black and white isn't quite what we're looking for. The entire layer is opaque, which makes changing the blacks to something else a bit of a challenge. Once again, Photoshop has several ways to get there. I'll choose one that gives lots of flexibility later. The first step is to merge the Levels adjustment layer and our clouds layer. Press Ctl/Cmd-E.
Step 5: In the Channels panel, Ctl/Cmd-click on one of the channels to load its luminosity as a selection.
Step 6: Press Delete (Mac) or Backspace (Windows) to remove all the white, then Ctl-Cmd-D to deselect.
Step 8: Now we need to recolor our black clouds. Once again, there are several ways to do this. The most flexible is with a Layer Effect. Color Overlay will give you the look you want, and if you're feeling mischievous, throw in Bevel and Emboss. (Why? -- Because you can.)
I would suggest you to use grunge brush instead of making it by your self it will consume time. you can get such brush here :
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I've gotten a number of different responses at airports. Atlanta requires removing a CPAP, but Reagan didn't. Any others know what airports require/don't require it? (And why its inconsistent)?
Speaking as someone who travels with someone who travels with a CPAP, the answer is: it varies.
The TSA gets a lot of crap, and (imo) much/most of it is deserved. But oddly enough, random checks are a reasonable security approach.
Traveling with a CPAP has improved immensely over the last few years. That's partly due to the equipment getting smaller & lighter, partly because more people have been diagnosed with sleep apnea (and so the TSA sees CPAPs more often), and partly due to TSA employees getting some training. It's been many years since the time I saw someone told they couldn't bring their CPAP on board "because it's scuba gear, and we don't allow pressurized containers on board."
The good news: as it's medically-required equipment, the TSA has ruled that it doesn't count against your carry on or personal bag quota. And if you happen to toss an extra extension cord (or a pair of socks?) in the bag, what are they going to do?
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All net proceeds from the Coors Field Tour Program go to the Colorado Rockies Charity Foundation, which benefits at-risk and underprivileged youth in the community.
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All bags brought on tour will be subject to a search prior to entry. All dates, times, and viewing areas are subject to change without notice. For more information please call (303)ROCKIES.


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The 5 Stupidest Decisions You Didn't Notice in Famous Movies
#2. Mr. and Mrs. Smith -- Their Bosses Try to Get Them to Kill Each Other (Repeatedly)
John and Jane Smith, played by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, are two sexy master assassins who have been married for years but have somehow managed to remain completely oblivious to each other's status as world-class killers, in one of the most improbable strokes of storytelling convenience in cinematic history. Their respective employers find out about this staggeringly huge oversight and decide to hatch a joint plan to send the two after the same target, knowing they'll be forced to kill each other in the process and save both firms a ton of embarrassing paperwork.
The true bane of any secret agency.
The Scene:
John and Jane try to do the spousal elimination dance several times, resulting in the most glorified display of domestic violence ever photographed. However, they ultimately decide not to kill each other, because they've been married for like 10 years and are actually pretty happy with that arrangement. Instead, John and Jane team up to take on their respective firms in a massive final shootout at a ritzy department store, because that's where attractive people do things.
"I figured our natural habitat would be more easily defensible."
The Problem:
Let's say you have two of the best professional killers in the world. Let's go even further and say that the two of them are a married couple who, by all accounts, genuinely care for one another. If you were trying to rub them both out, they've made it easy for you, right? They live in the same place -- just poison their tap water or hurl a microbus at their house with a trebuchet. Boom, problem solved.
What you should absolutely never do, under any circumstance, is try to get them to kill each other.
Especially if they both look great in their underpants.
Sure, it might work. It might turn out that one (or both) of the Smiths is a cold-hearted hate machine who only married for the sake of a good cover. But that's a pretty big risk to take on "might," and what's absolutely mind blowing is the fact that the firms seem to realize this. They essentially force John and Jane into this situation with the constant reminder that if neither one kills the other, both of their lives will be forfeit. The firms are deliberately pushing Mr. and Mrs. Smith further and further into a corner they'll be forced to fight their way out of in the most bullet-acious way imaginable. If their ultimate plan is the death of John and Jane, why bother with all of this nonsense in the first place? Just put a hydrogen bomb in their mailbox and be done with it.
#1. The Matrix -- Trinity Picks the Worst Possible Moment to Talk About Her Feelings
Whether or not you still love The Matrix may depend on whether you believe that movies can be retroactively ruined by atrocious sequels. Humans in the future are slaves to robot overlords and kept docile by an Internet dreamland called the Matrix that imprisons their minds so their bodies can be used for fuel. Some people have escaped, and they can hop in and out of the Matrix at will through telephone lines, because this movie was made in 1999. All of it is one complex excuse to have actors do awesome zero-gravity kung fu on each other while wearing sunglasses and trench coats.
Because we so needed an excuse.
The Scene:
In the climax, heroes Trinity and Neo have rescued their leader, Morpheus, from the villainous clutches of Hugo Weaving and have safely gotten him out of the Matrix. All they have to do now is answer a ringing telephone and they will be teleported to safety as well. Sure, the robot agents of destruction are hot on their trail, but they've practically already won. They're literally right next to the phone, and we repeat, with all of the emphasis in the world, that their salvation lies in merely lifting it from the cradle.
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"Ew, what's up with that ring tone?"
Trinity picks this moment to say, "Neo, I want to tell you something," and proceeds to awkwardly wrestle with the words "I love you" before deigning to answer the phone.
The Problem:
We understand that at this point of the movie it has been an emotional day of personal discovery for all of the characters. But perhaps inches from safety after being locked in a reality-bending bullet fest with murderous super-bots that are still executing their "bloodthirsty pursuit" programming isn't the time to talk about goddamned feelings.
A quick fondle at most, then it's time to leave.
This is a precise transcript of Neo and Trinity's conversation:
TRINITY: Neo, I want to tell you something ... but I'm afraid of what it could mean if I do.
[Phone RINGS]
TRINITY: Everything the Oracle told me has come true.
[Phone RINGS]
TRINITY: Everything but this.
[Phone RINGS]
NEO: But what?
[Phone RINGS]
NEO and TRINITY give each other DRAMATIC LOOKS
[Phone is STILL RINGING]
A HOMELESS GUY turns into A KILLER ROBOT
[Phone RINGS YET AGAIN]
TRINITY picks up the phone
"Pizza Hut? The hell ...?"
The life-saving telephone rings six goddamned times and Trinity doesn't even get around to making her point. We understand that it's tough to tell someone you love them, but for the love of Robot Buddha, you are right now being chased by killer machines that are actively mutating hobos in their war to destroy you while the telephone of live-saving escape is screaming urgently into your face. A better (nay, perfect) time for this stumbling exchange would be after you've answered the phone and are back on your robot-free spaceship. Then Trinity could take Neo aside and spend half an hour Hugh Granting her way through a stuttering romantic speech without the threat of cold mechanical slaughter looming directly over their shoulders.
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For more movie decisions that have us confused, check out 6 Heroic Movie Deaths That Could Have Been Easily Avoided and The 5 Most Easily Avoidable Movie Deaths.


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Pamela Damis
Chair, Ray Laman
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