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4:13 PM - MidnightBSD 3.0 development progressing
We have our first snapshot available on the FTP. it has a lot of problems and we're working on squashing bugs right now.
We have our first snapshot available on the FTP. it has a lot of problems and we're working on squashing bugs right now.
We're waiting on packages, but the ISOs are ready.
Several bug fixes have been made on the mport package manager.
It's now using a sha256 hash for verification of files rather than md5.
It gracefully ignores missing files on a mport update.
mport install can now update dependencies it needs to install a package.
MidnightBSD mports started as a refactor of the FreeBSD ports with some influence from OpenBSD many years ago. For the first few months of the project, we actually had a "ports" that was literally a checkout of FreeBSD ports with a bunch of changes to make things build. It was horribly unreliable and a huge mess. Chris Reinhardt did a big refactor along with input from Phil Peria and I. We started moving features into the extensions directory, which FreeBSD is now doing with their Uses directory. We also broke up a bunch of the bsd.port.mk and bsd.*.mk files into components as smaller chunks to work on and pull them in as necessary. Then the mport package manager prototype in perl happened as a replacement for pkg_tools (pkg_add, pkg_delete, etc). Chris ported that prototype mostly to C and then I finished the port and wrote the driver program for it. Chris got it to a point it could install and deinstall packages from the mports tree.
One of the big design goals we all agreed on as well as our then security officer Adam Karim, was that we wanted to install the package into a directory, which we called FAKE_DESTDIR, and to force all installed mports to be packages and then installed by the tool. This cut down on installation errors from packages that we frequently had as everything was tested this way. It was a bit slower in mports, but the benefits outweighed the risks. This wasn't really our original idea and it was inspired by OpenBSD ports at the time. Still, it worked out really well. As we were trying to adapt FreeBSD ports, we made a bunch of decisions that are still a difference from how FreeBSD ports work today.
FreeBSD eventually introduced STAGEDIR which aside from being a better name, also works similarly to FAKE_DESTDIR with a few differences. When we did the change, many ports did not have or honor a DESTDIR directory. We found that the ones that did would just work if we made the do-install and post-install targets include it in make invocations. In contrast, FreeBSD often has to add STAGEDIR everywhere to get it to work. There are cases their way is better such as dealing with ruby gems or similar funky ports. We have some mechanisms for those problems too. FAKE_OPTS has a trueprefix option that with change the behavior of the do-install and post-install targets. Sometimes you will see ports that are double appending the DESTDIR (/usr/mports/mycat/my/port/fake_install/usr/mports/mycat/my/port/fake_install/usr/local) type of nightmares. This works around that. In some cases PREFIX includes both the DESTDIR and the PREFIX from a makefile sense. This is only true for do-install, post-install, do-fake, post-fake. So if you have a newer target like ones based on options, it will not apply and you will need to use FAKE_DESTDIR. If you actually need the PREFIX value without DESTDIR, it's available as TRUE_PREFIX.
Another difference is the order that different parts of the framework are loaded. This can cause weird bugs if you're trying to copy a freebsd port over. It's very evident with some of the python ports. Different modules will sometimes fail to save the options selected using the options framework. It's a combination of the loaading order and the name that is used to distinguish different port options. In midnightbsd, port names must be unique or it really breaks the package manager index. OPTIONS mostly work the same aside from that bug.
Fetching distfiles is another area that can differ slightly. Most of the same features work, but there can occasionally be difficulties fetching from github or gitlab due to the subtle differences in how package names are used in the framework as well as features we're supporting. Sometimes one just has to add the DISTFILES explicitly or set the git tag to get it to fetch right. MidnightBSD like FreeBSD includes fetch and libfetch. Both mports and mport use these to get files. The MidnightBSD version also includes the OSNAME in the user agent string so you can actually tell it came from MidnightBSD in logs.
mport package manager doesn't support LUA scripts like pkg. Most of those trigger operations in the PLIST files. pkg-plist by default. You will see basic commands like @dir or @mode that work in both. Some have been augmented in mport with the use of hacks that substitute the commands for @exec or @preexec/@postexec commands in package plists. In other cases, the business logic is in the mport package manager and requires a minimum version.
on that topic, we recently created a port to install new versions of the package manager. That meant we needed to put it in it's own repo. We're bumping the version number based on updates, but mport itself doesn't know about that. Instead it reports the OS version and it's bundle version. That is the version of the package format and sqlite database schema in use. It gets bumped when we add breaking features. This used to go out with new OS versions and we're still working on how to manage that going forward. We may add version numbers to the package manager to make it easier to determine in the future.
We also are looking at adding UCL support to mport.
Another area where things are quite different is how we build packages, where to find information for them and how to detect security issues in installed packages. We have magus for package building which is a set of perl scripts included in the mports repository currently along with a postgresql database. There was some work to rewrite this in java a few years ago but it hasn't been completed. We also have a few endpoints that return JSON in there for services like repology to use as well as the MidnightBSD app store which is a searchable list of packgages. the app store also powers metadata in the graphical mport package manager in gtk3. Then we have the sec.midnightbsd.org security advisory site which is mostly there to work with a perl script in mports called security-advisory. It will check installed ports against the website REST api for security issues. it's a bit slow because it fetches vulnerabilites for ALL versions from the API so as to not tip off our server what release you're using for security reasons. We may know IP x is curious about apache httpd but we don't know what version. We have considered adding some kind of range to this as apache in particular is very slow to process. Magus has a web interface but it's optional. You can actually do a package build just with the perl client that runs on a build node, and the indexer. We then have a C program called bless that creates a sqlite3 database from the postgres database data for a given run. We then vacuum it and bzip2 it and put it on the index site. Finally, we mark it blessed=true in the database which is a signal for the app store and repology that those files are LIVE.
We recently added a new port, mports/sysutils/bastille that allows you to manage containers. This is a port of a project that originally targetted FreeBSD, but also works on HardenedBSD.
You can see the getting started guide at the link below.
A few notes on using this with MidnightBSD. Our port supports bootstrap, create, stop and destory. It may work with ZFS but we have not tested it. If you are using MidnightBSD 2.0.x amd64, you likely want to use a version of 2.0.3 in your create statement. MidnightBSD versions don't include RELEASE or other strings at the end so it's just a straight up version number.
The getting started guide also recommends using PF. The instructions will work on MidnightBSD just fine, but you do need to disable IPFW which is enabled by default on MidnightBSD first.
The update/upgrade function does not work in MidnightBSD right now because it requires binary update support. We do have the binary in 2.0 as it was planned to add it but the server side work isn't done yet.
There's also a bug in the port but it shouldn't affect operation on MIdnightBSD, just if you tried to use that code on FreeBSD with pkg integration. This came up when we upstreamed it and should be fixed in that PR now, although we didn't bother to fix the port since it's not used on other systems.
New 2.0.5 release tagged in git.
Happy 15th anniversary to MidnightBSD!
Fixes: pam security issue Updates: mport 2.0.5 tzdata 2021a Now uses sysrc for firstboot script.
We will do ISO builds later for this one.
We've recently added a default .xinitrc file for user profiles to help with the desktop integration on a fresh install. The default desktop environment has recently changed to Xfce. We still need to build packages to get the default on midnightbsd-desktop updated.
A number of package bugs are being worked on and we've placed the mport package manager in it's own repository now to help with contributions and allow us to easily package it in mports. You can test newer versions there.
February is the 15th anniversary for the project!
We have a new Jenkins CI server at https://jenkins.midnightbsd.org/
We have a new video up on youtube that explains how to install MidnightBSD 2.0.1 with a desktop environment.
We've updated gnome web (epiphany), midori and webkit2-gtk3 mports.
We're in the process of updating GNOME 3.x
Two new security ports were added for systems that have ssh, mail, web or other services exposed to block some attackers. security/blacklist-de-all and security/fire-hol-list which install scripts that can download updates and you tie it in with IPFW and cron. These are unique to midnightbsd at the moment.
We've added bhyve-firmware ports recently to allow you to run linux or windows vms on midnightbsd, with some effort.
We just fixed a plist problem with the nvidia-driver port that should help folks trying to use it in stable/2.0 or 2.0.1.
We fixed a bug with one of the install scripts that will be present in 2.0.2. You can use mport install midnightbsd-desktop manually for now to get the desktop stuff.
We recently added an eclipse port. You can of course use this with java, php, C/C++ and several other languages.
We fixed some of the mono ports on stable/2.0 releases. Still need to update fsharp and fix gnome-sharp20
We updated the chromium port, although it's still broken at the moment, it's the first step in bringing a new native browser in.
As for firefox, we will first need to update our rust port which also is needed to fix several other broken ports and bring in librsvg_rust. The blocker on this before was the compiler in 1.2 so now with 2.0 out, we can revisit it.
we updated 2.0 amd64 packages recently.
We just ran a 2.0 i386 build with the first of the gnome 3 changes. 450 ports less than the previous run. we won't be releasing these packages, but it's a good start.
mail/evolution was updated.
There is a security fix for OpenSSL in master and stable/2.0 branches of MidnightBSD. It's strongly recommended that you update to this version. It will be part of the 2.0.3 release.
MidnightBSD 2.0.2 in git.
Fixes the following:
firstboot script package name
ICMPv6 security issue
tzdata 2020d import to fix time zone problems.
certctl & certificates updated/fixed
USB audio improvements.
ACPI improvement with newer AMD systems.
NFSv4 server fixes
Hygon AHCI and USB controllers
pciconf can show extended pci capabilities
mlx5 improvements
WD green ssds quirk for trim
Denverton UART PCI ID
ZFS fixes
synaptics touchpad fixes
Add Atom C3000 watchdog ID.
JMicron JMB582/JMB585 AHCI
MidnightBSD 2.0.1 was released for amd64. The only change is a fix for UEFI booting.
We identified some issues with the 2.0 ISOs slated for release with the ZFS bootloader not working.
Until this issue is resolved, we are unable to build release ISOs. We've left the old ones up as they work fine for anyone using UFS.
We just added the F-PROT antivirus comamnd line scanner for BSD systems to mports under security/f-prot.
I recently setup a new system with the FreeBSD 9 32bit scanner. I was able to get it to work on a modern 64bit system with a few caveats.
As it's an old school FreeBSD package and not using the modern pkg, I extracted it at / and then removed the "+INSTALL, +DESC" and other + files from /.
First, the binary requires libintl.so and libiconv.so which are external dependencies not included with the compat32 system in FreeBSD. Normally one would install some packages to get those. gettext-runtime and libiconv i think. It would be nice if the binary was either static linked or at least mentioned these need to be installed. You can get packages from a 32bit version of freebsd 10.x or MidnightBSD 1.2.x for these and install them and it will just work.
Second, since I was trying to run on a 64bit system, I had to install compat9x, compat8x and manually copy the above mentioned libraries into /usr/local/lib32/compat/ and then update the runtime path. I set the following in /etc/rc.conf to get it to run easier
ldconfig32_paths="$ldconfig32_paths /usr/local/lib32/compat /usr/local/lib"
ldconfig_local32_dirs="$ldconfig_local32_dirs /usr/local/libdata/ldconfig"
Then I ran /etc/rc.d/ldconfig restart
I found that I had to make two directories that are included in the +INSTALL script including one for license files and one for logging. You'll see errors when running the tools that tell you what to make if you forget.
I was then able to import the license file and startup the daemon using the rc.d script and then perform a manual scan.
It would be really nice of the binary was static linked and also if a 64bit version could be created.
I technically did this on a MidnightBSD 1.2 amd64 system, but it would also work on FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x.
Folks have been asking me about webcams lately. I've previously gotten an integrated cam on my thinkpad working, but decided to try to get my logitech 920 usb camera working on my desktop.
I've installed the following packages:
webcamd, cuse4bsd, pwcview (new port), v4l-utils (new port), v4l_compat
I then did
kldload cuse4bsd
also added it to /boot/loader.conf
Then I did
webcamd scan
I found the camera line and copied the -N line for it into /etc/rc.conf as
webcamd_o_flags="-N ... "
I added my user to webcamd group.
I then started webcamd. I was able to load pwcview (as root) and see the picture from the camera at this point. Cheese is not seeing the camera though and neither is firefox with youtube.
It's now possible to install 2.0-CURRENT from a 1.2.7 machine with some caveats.
This is only tested on amd64 so far.
before installworld, setenv MK_TESTS no (or put this in /etc/src.conf)
lib/libcasper won't install without this.
mergemaster is broken AFTER installworld. Do mergemaster -p before at least
makewhatis is broken. Comment out lines using it in src/share/man/Makefile when running installworld, then build makewhatis with new compiler, then uncomment and run make install from src/share/man directory to workaround this. (it segfaults)
sendmail is not binding after updating. Unclear what is going on so far.
Current was recently renamed 2.0 (rather than 1.3) in case we need to do a security upate past 1.2.9. It also made sense as 2.0 is a major update.
There aren't any snaps yet for current. In fact, it's not building at the moment. We're actively working on it. Buildworld on an amd64 box gets into lib32 compat libraries at this point.
The go port has been updated in mports to 1.14.3. (lang/go) This should allow newer go apps to be built.


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Elderly couple claims marijuana was for Christmas presents https://t.co/aCNGKuhJE0 pic.twitter.com/HyrTJfHcvz
— York News-Times (@yorknewstimes) December 20, 2017
YORK, Neb. – Nebraska officers arrested a couple in their eighties after finding 60 pounds of marijuana in their truck during a traffic stop, according to the York County Sheriff's Department.
Deputies pulled over 80-year-old Patrick Jiron and 83-year-old Barbara Jiron, both of Clearlake Oaks, California, after they noticed the couples' vehicle crossing the center line and the driver turning without signaling, according to the York News-Times.
A strong smell of marijuana wafted from the Toyota Tacoma, and, with the help of a police dog, deputies found the roughly $330,000 worth of pot in the pickup, authorities said.
While being questioned, the couple told deputies they were headed to Vermont, and "the marijuana was for Christmas presents," according to a police report.
Deputies took Patrick and Barbara Jiron into custody on felony charges of possession of marijuana with the intent to deliver and no drug stamp, according to the paper.

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God's Smuggler
The story of Brother Andrew, from his first pair of wooden shoes in his native Holland to the world-wide ministry which is still in operation today, is an incredible journey of faith. Brother Andrew tells the story himself, and what a story it is! Taking Bibles and the Gospel to foreign countries can be challenging at the best of times, and the best of times it was not when Brother Andrew filled his car with Bibles and carried them to countries behind the "Iron Curtain." I guarantee that this will be one of the most amazing books you will read. Also available on an unabridged audio CD format beautifully narrated by Simon Vance. 8 hours. ~ Zach


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During a couple of days here at the Kitsap Sun there were two strings of prank phone calls sent our way. Someone pranked us from the site PrankDial.com. The calls are prerecorded, but they're convincing enough that folks who answered the phone answered like they were talking to real people. I took one of the calls the first day and it was a woman asking for toilet paper who then begged me to stay on the line. I hung up, because I knew about the earlier prank calls, but I might have stayed on the line had I been unaware.
Steve Harris called in the middle of the second run of calls when we still didn't know these things were prerecorded, so when he told me he thought he might have been hit by a meteorite, my first thought was "Oh boy, here we go."
The more Harris talked, though, the more I realized that he was being honest. I still thought it unlikely, but the more digging I did the more it seemed at least possible. And the mere possibility that someone in Bremerton might have been hit by a meteorite sent my news nerves into spasms.Harris said he was walking on Farragut Street on his way to the shipyard when he felt something hit the bill of his University of North Carolina baseball cap. The item then hit his shoulder and fell to the ground. It didn't hurt and his first thought was that a bird had done its business on him. But then he saw what looked like a piece of pea gravel by his foot and picked it up.
There was nothing in the sky that would explain why a rock had hit Harris, and when he talked to some friends at work he got the inkling to check out whether there was any chance it could have fallen from space.
Harris found some sites that suggested ways to test the seemingly implausible notion and after performing a couple of them he found out he couldn't rule it out. He called us, explained what had happened, talked about the tests he had done, and later he brought it over so we could take a photo. I was intrigued, still holding room for skepticism, but intrigued. I knew enough to know what I don't know. I'm not enough of a scientist to dismiss it, especially since everything I was looking up failed to rule out Harris' question.
For one thing, it looked enough like it could be one. Secondly, he dragged it on tile and there was no mark, a sign that the item could be a meteorite. And the magnetism of the rock was enough to convince me it was worth consulting an expert.
My first call went to Astronomy Professor Don Brownlee at the University of Washington.
Brownlee said there are lots of cases of meteorites hitting mailboxes, cars or landing in open spaces. Hitting people? "It's an extremely rare event," he said. In fact, a National Geographic piece on an Alabama woman who was hit by meteorite in 1954 suggests she is the only documented case ever. "You have a better chance of getting hit by a tornado and a bolt of lightning and a hurricane all at the same time," Florida State College astronomer Michael Reynolds told the magazine.
While that fires up the skepticism meter, it also ignites whatever goes on inside a reporter that encourages a chase because it might be a rarity. It would be a big deal if it turned out the rock really was a recent meteorite and that it hit a local.
Brownlee said the earth is hit by 20-30 tons of meteorites every year, that there is a steady rain of material coming to the ground. I did have a question about how fast something would be traveling if it fell from space, and Brownlee said terminal velocity meant that something as small as what hit Harris would be no faster from space than it would be from atop the Space Needle.
I sent Brownlee the photo you see here, and he responded, "It's not clear from the picture if is a meteorite or not. The fusion crust on meteorites is usually a bit rougher than this but it still might be a meteorite."
I had tried to reach astronomy professor David Fong at Olympic College. He responded by email saying we couldn't get a test done locally, but if we could get it to UW's geology department or to the University of North Texas they could give an answer. I got in touch with UW Geology Professor Tony Irving. He said it was highly unlikely the rock would actually be a meteorite, but got fellow Geology Professor Scott Kuehner to agree to give it a look with him on Friday.
Friday morning I got on the Bainbridge ferry and drifted into the fog toward Seattle. I made my way to the fourth floor of UW's Johnson Hall, where Irving and Kuehner were waiting for me. They put the rock under a microscope and made a quick conclusion that we did not have a meteorite that fell from the sky and hit Harris. "Everything about it suggests it's a pebble from a stream," Irving said.
Irving and Kuehner brought up the same thing Brownlee did, the lack of a fusion crust. On its way into the Earth's atmosphere meteorite will develop a crust that will wear off over time. This rock didn't have one. Secondly, there were iron oxidation signs suggesting the rock had been here a while.
Irving said when we watch meteor showers what we see is essentially space dust. Amazing that something that tiny causes that magnificent a show. And Brownlee said when we sit on a park bench the chances are good that we're parking on a pretty good collection of space dust.
Something as large as what hit Harris would create a much bigger show. "If this came down as a meteorite it would create daylight at night," Irving said.
It would takes lots more testing to find out what it is, but it only took a few seconds to determine what it was not. Irving said there might be some volcanic qualities to the rock, but that would take more testing. Whether that happens will be up to Harris.
Our local resident who was hit from above was a little disappointed, and so was I. There are times we go into stories where we want there to be a certain outcomes. Our initial skepticism can give way to our hopes. I was hoping this was a meteorite. In the end it's not our job to report what we hope is true.
Harris' conclusion now is that the rock that hit him was most likely something picked up by a seagull and discarded as it flew over him. That's one of the things both Brownlee and Irving said were likely possibilities. So in the end, it might have been the birds doing business after all, just not the kind of business Harris initially suspected.


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It's a criterion that measures, among other things, a conductor's charisma, which is something I was thinking about in the context of both the Boston and Philadelphia situations. Not so much charisma in the sort of vague, strong-personality everyday use of it, but in the somewhat more specific way that the great German sociologist Max Weber used it. Weber's ideas about charisma come in a long lecture, Politik als Beruf ("Politics as a Vocation"), that he delivered late in his life, in the wake of World War I. (You can read "Politics as a Vocation" here; the translation, uncredited, is by Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills.) Weber characterized three different kinds of political leadership:
To begin with, in principle, there are three inner justifications, hence basic legitimations of domination.Weber's definition of domination is specifically in the context of the state, the power of which Weber analyzes as derived from its claim on a monopoly on the use of violent force: "The state is considered the sole source of the 'right' to use violence". The power wielded by a symphony orchestra is awfully garden-party by comparison. But one can, I think, find hints of Weber's three legitimations in every orchestra. Certainly the orchestra's artistic power is based, in large part, on the authority of an "eternal yesterday"; and some of the organizational power struggles could be traced to a conflict between that traditional authority and the rules-based legal authority of unions and corporate regulation.
First, the authority of the 'eternal yesterday,' i.e. of the mores sanctified through the unimaginably ancient recognition and habitual orientation to conform. This is 'traditional' domination exercised by the patriarch and the patrimonial prince of yore.
There is the authority of the extraordinary and personal gift of grace (charisma), the absolutely personal devotion and personal confidence in revelation, heroism, or other qualities of individual leadership. This is 'charismatic' domination, as exercised by the prophet or—in the field of politics—by the elected war lord, the plebiscitarian ruler, the great demagogue, or the political party leader.
Finally, there is domination by virtue of 'legality,' by virtue of the belief in the validity of legal statute and functional 'competence' based on rationally created rules. In this case, obedience is expected in discharging statutory obligations. This is domination as exercised by the modern 'servant of the state' and by all those bearers of power who in this respect resemble him.
But it's Weber's gift-of-grace (the literal translation of χαρισμα) that sets orchestras apart—they're some of the very few organizations whose leaders are, necessarily, even by definition, charismatic leaders. We might think of such charisma as a de facto requirement in the political sphere as well; Weber, in 1919, was already at least hinting at its predominance:
To be sure, the pure types are rarely found in reality. But today we cannot deal with the highly complex variant, transitions, and combinations of these pure types, which problems belong to 'political science.' Here we are interested above all in the second of these types: domination by virtue of the devotion of those who obey the purely personal 'charisma' of the 'leader.' For this is the root of the idea of a calling in its highest expression.But charisma is a democratic choice, not a requirement. Garry Wills' polemic-disguised-as-a-meditation The Kennedy Imprisonment draws heavily on Weber's categories to make that point, contrasting the low-key, legalistic, trust-the-hierarchy administration of Eisenhower with JFK's explicitly charismatic brandishing—and appropriation—of presidential power. Since Kennedy, political success has, more often than not, been judged in charismatic terms. But political office is not inherently dependent on charisma—and such offices actually can resist charismatic leveraging. (As does the electorate—witness the pleasing-nobody limbo of Barack Obama, a charismatic figure but a temperamental legalist, trying to pivot from a Kennedy-esque campaign to a very Eisenhower-like style of governing.)
Orchestras, though, are predicated on charismatic leadership—you need somebody the players are going to look at. Wills' analysis, interestingly, suggests that such leadership is actually a chronic source of organizational instability. In the political sphere, charismatic leadership best flourishes in crisis situations—Wills points to the Kennedy administrations penchant for marathon, high-stakes convocations of decision-makers centered in the White House: "Since the charismatic leader's special powers grow from special dangers, the two feed on each other," Wills notes. "For some crises to be overcome, they must first be created." For orchestras, such crises tend to be centered around changes in leadership—music directors rarely depart except under circumstances of crisis, which, cyclically, gives the succeeding music director the fuel to exert a new round of charismatic authority. But such lacunae are perilous, especially now that the peripatetic, scheduled-years-in-advance conductor is the norm. The charismatic basis of music directorships means that the organizations are comparatively impoverished in the vacuum left by their departures. Wills again: "Charisma, the uniquely personal power, delegitimates institutions. Rule by dazzlement cannot be succeeded by mere constitutional procedure." He quotes Weber's biographer, Reinhard Bendix:
Such a transformation from charismatic leadership to traditional domination occurs most frequently when the problem of succession must be solved. In a strict sense that problem is insoluble, for charisma is an inimitable quality that some higher power is believed to have bestowed upon one person. Consequently a successor cannot be chosen at all. Instead, the followers wait in hope that another leader will appear who will manifest his own charismatic qualification. [emphasis added]In that sense, the timing of the Philadelphia Orchestra board's decision to file for Chapter 11 is hardly coincidental, the weakness of the institution expressing itself in the absence of a permanent charismatic head. (Interim conductor Charles Dutoit, indeed, seemed surprised by the move.) As far as I know, the BSO is not in comparable financial distress (although, if Philadelphia gets away with their petition, I cynically would not be surprised to see every orchestra in the country try a similar maneuver the next time a contract re-negotiation is on the horizon). But they're most likely looking at a couple seasons, at least, without an official music director. Given Levine's history, one might chide them for not being more proactive in arranging for a successor, for letting the situation reach such a crisis point. Under Weber's analysis, though, the crisis is the point, the crisis is necessary before the institution can make a move, because the crisis is what lends authority to the next leader.
It's hard to imagine what a conductor who relied on Weber's "legality" would look like—even those who philosophically defer to "the authority of the score" tend to make such deference part of their charismatic aura (and can be among the most charismatic of all—Riccardo Muti, for example). Maybe such statute-based power can only be found in those ensembles that abstemiously avoid permanent conductorial authority—St. Luke's, Orpheus, A Far Cry, &c. For most traditionally-structured orchestras, though, charismatic leadership is par for the course—which means that, structurally speaking, so are regular doses of drama.
Update (4/25): Joshua Kosman thoughtfully looks on the bright side.


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OMG you guys, Apple totally wants to go steady with Tim Cook! Brenda told Gina and Gina told Stephanie H. that after study hall, Apple is going to give Tim Cook a million shares of their company valued at nearly 400 million dollars that will be fully vested over the next 10 years! OMG OMG OMG! Couldn't you just die!? They are going to be SO. FREAKING. CUTE together. Totes.
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Scientists from the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology have shown for the first time that transplanting light-sensitive photoreceptors into the eyes of visually impaired mice can restore their vision.
The research, published in Nature, suggests that transplanting photoreceptors - light-sensitive nerve cells that line the back of the eye - could form the basis of a new treatment to restore sight in people with degenerative eye diseases.
Scientists injected cells from young healthy mice directly into the retinas of adult mice that lacked functional rod-photoreceptors. Loss of photoreceptors is the cause of blindness in many human eye diseases including age-related macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa and diabetes-related blindness.
There are two types of photoreceptor in the eye - rods and cones. The cells transplanted were immature (or progenitor) rod-photoreceptor cells. Rod cells are especially important for seeing in the dark as they are extremely sensitive to even low levels of light.
After four to six weeks, the transplanted cells appeared to be functioning almost as well as normal rod-photoreceptor cells and had formed the connections needed to transmit visual information to the brain.
We've shown for the first time that transplanted photoreceptor cells can integrate successfully with the existing retinal circuitry and truly improve vision. We're hopeful that we will soon be able to replicate this success with photoreceptors derived from embryonic stem cells and eventually to develop human trials.
Professor Robin Ali
The researchers also tested the vision of the treated mice in a dimly lit maze. Those mice with newly transplanted rod cells were able to use a visual cue to quickly find a hidden platform in the maze whereas untreated mice were able to find the hidden platform only by chance after extensive exploration of the maze.
Professor Robin Ali at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, who led the research, said: "We've shown for the first time that transplanted photoreceptor cells can integrate successfully with the existing retinal circuitry and truly improve vision. We're hopeful that we will soon be able to replicate this success with photoreceptors derived from embryonic stem cells and eventually to develop human trials.
"Although there are many more steps before this approach will be available to patients, it could lead to treatments for thousands of people who have lost their sight through degenerative eye disorders. The findings also pave the way for techniques to repair the central nervous system as they demonstrate the brain's amazing ability to connect with newly transplanted neurons."
Dr Rachael Pearson from UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and principal author, said: "We are now finding ways to improve the efficiency of cone photoreceptor transplantation and to increase the effectiveness of transplantation in very degenerate retina. We will probably need to do both in order to develop effective treatments for patients."
Dr Rob Buckle, head of regenerative medicine at the MRC said:"This is a landmark study that will inform future research across a wide range of fields including vision research, neuroscience and regenerative medicine. It provides clear evidence of functional recovery in the damaged eye through cell transplantation, providing great encouragement for the development of stem cell therapies to address the many debilitating eye conditions that affect millions worldwide."
The researchers demonstrated previously, in another study published in Nature, that it is possible to transplant photoreceptor cells into an adult mouse retina, provided the cells from the donor mouse are at a specific stage of development - when the retina is almost, but not fully, formed. In this study they optimised the rod transplantation procedure to increase the number of cells integrated into the recipient mice and so were able to restore vision.
The research was funded by the MRC, the Wellcome Trust, the Royal Society, the British Retinitis Pigmentosa Society, Alcon Research Institute and The Miller's Trust. Robin Ali is a senior investigator of the National Institute for Health Research and carries out research at the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. Rachael Pearson is a Royal Society University Research Fellow.
Image: Transplanted photoreceptor cells (green) can integrate and make functional connections in the adult mouse retina. Credit: UCL/Robin Ali
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The Golden Age: Florida Primary Centers On Seniors
Just how important is the senior vote in Florida?
Nearly one in five Floridians is retired. And a survey conducted by AARP predicts that as many as 60 percent of those who cast ballots in Tuesday's Republican primary — 6 out of 10 voters — will be retirees.
If that number is surprising, AARP Florida director Jeff Johnson says it helps to remember that primaries typically have a low turnout.
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In Pensacola this weekend, retiree Catherine Murphy went to a rally for her candidate, Mitt Romney. The most important issue for her: the economy.
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Murphy says her son, the father of two young children, is unable to work after having contracted Lyme disease.
Florida is struggling with unemployment higher than the national average and a still dismal housing market, with hundreds of thousands of homeowners facing foreclosure.
University of South Florida political scientist Susan MacManus says retirees in the Sunshine State tend to be a little wealthier than retirees elsewhere. But this economic downturn, she says, has had a big impact on Florida's senior citizens.
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In surveys and interviews she conducted with groups of senior voters in Florida, MacManus says she finds many are also worried about the nation's debt.
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Retiree Catherine Murphy says changes might be needed to strengthen Medicare and Social Security, but she's leery about the possibility of cuts.
"I'm one of those old citizens, but people are depending on that," she says. "They could reduce in other areas ... [but] this is a necessary expenditure."
Both former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich support making reforms to Medicare. Both propose giving the elderly the option to stay in traditional Medicare or move into private insurance plans.
Gingrich has also talked about giving younger workers the choice of opting out of Social Security and setting up 401(k)-type retirement accounts. Romney would try to strengthen Social Security by raising the retirement age and slowing the growth in benefits for wealthier retirees.
But you haven't heard much about those proposals as the candidates campaigned over the past week in Florida. Moderators didn't bring them up in the two debates, and Jeff Johnson of AARP says the candidates don't raise them because they're worried whatever they say could be used against them in the primary or general election.
"It is a perilous course for them to raise these issues," Johnson says. The reality, he says, is that whoever is elected president will have to deal with the issues of Social Security and Medicare and their long-term future. "To not know before the election what the candidates think of those issues is really troubling."
Romney and Gingrich — the two Republican front-runners — have campaigned in The Villages, a central Florida community that is home to nearly 80,000 retirees.
At the government center there a few days ago, Dana Carter cast his ballot in early voting for former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. He says he also is concerned about the future of both Medicare and Social Security, not for himself, but for the next generation.
"I worry about the people who are coming up behind us," Carter says, "because, unless [politicians] can change something, unless they stop stealing from the Social Security trust fund, there won't be anything for those younger people."
The message from Florida retirees: Fix Social Security and Medicare, but do it without making cuts to programs many here depend on.
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 9:58 PM
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District ups K-3 classes to 28 students
Original post made on Feb 10, 2010
Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 9:58 PM
Comments (27)
a resident of Danville
on Feb 10, 2010 at 7:17 am
Frustrating. A jump from 20(22)to 28 in the elementary classrooms is quite significant. I hope the district considers adding classroom aids to help manage the kids and facilitate learning.
a resident of Danville
on Feb 10, 2010 at 7:47 am
NO MORE AIDES! They are not credentialed teachers. Yes, the jump in numbers is frustrating-but it can be done. The teachers need to focus on what they do have, not what they don't have. I know this is not ideal-but as long as Prop 13 stays in place-the class size #s will go to 35 in K-3. And I, am a teacher and a parent.
a resident of Danville
on Feb 10, 2010 at 7:59 am
Prop 13 saved California from going into the tank. Every time there's a problem of not getting enough money to waste - teachers are especially vociferous about this - Prop 13 is trotted out as the problem.
Prop 13 was passed in 1978! Is this some sort of surprise? Haven't you learned to live with it yet?
a resident of Danville
on Feb 10, 2010 at 8:02 am
Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we're free at last!
Or at least getting there.
Problem: Tax slavery
Solution: Tax revolt
a resident of Danville
on Feb 10, 2010 at 8:16 am
Please save the younger teachers....they are the future of education. They are fresh, vibrant, with lots of incredible new ideas. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!
a resident of Danville
on Feb 10, 2010 at 8:43 am
Paraphrasing Susan's message:
Get rid of the old teachers - - they are stale, worn-out, and have no new ideas.
While we're at it, let's get rid of all the old medical doctors for the same reasons. How about dentists?
a resident of Danville
on Feb 10, 2010 at 11:55 am
Cutting the # of teachers - huh?
How many administrators and other "overhead" positions were cut? How many cutbacks were done to the teachers union's gold plated pension system?
The cuts are a political ploy
a resident of Greenbrook Elementary School
on Feb 10, 2010 at 12:49 pm
I was a parent who lobbied last year for Measure C which was SUPPOSED To keep class size the same and keep those property tax dollars in our school district. WHAT HAPPENED!! We're being taxed and for what? As a parent and a taxpayer we have to find a way to save our education system!! Too many cuts are already costing our children EVERYTHING. Enough about the teachers what about the kids!! Think of what they're loosing. They're not gaining anything. They've had all kinds of programs cut, which they need to be creative, nurtured and educated. They are our future. Had I known about the meeting I would have stood up and shouted my disagreement at the decision.
a resident of Blackhawk
on Feb 10, 2010 at 12:59 pm
How about reducing the school year by few days, maybe corporate sponsorship of technology, science, music programs...need creative ideas in these tough, uncertain times.
a resident of San Ramon
on Feb 10, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Have you looked at reducing or eliminating other programs such as the district's continuation high school? Consolating the continuation high school program with the independent program would save the district a lot of money.
Acalances School District recently voted to eliminate its continuation program. They will save over a million dollars next year by sending their continuation students to the existing independent program.
a resident of Alamo
on Feb 10, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Of course Proposition 13 has been the problem since its passage and the seemingly irreversible decline in California education began. On a personal level when it passed in 1978 my property taxes were cut in half and I was laid off from my teaching position in San Francisco-----great trade-off!
a resident of Danville
on Feb 10, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Proposition 13 IS NOT the problem. It was passed in 1978, over 30 years ago. Don't you think that's enough time to adjust the education funding dynamic to reality?
The "irreversible decline in California education" in 1978 coincided nicely with the beginning of the influx of more and more illegals into California. What could be more obvious?
a resident of Danville
on Feb 10, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Danville kids have it made - they will survive in a classroom that has a few more kids in it. God help these kids when they get out in the real world after having being coddled their entire lives in the fantasyland that is this city.
a resident of Danville
on Feb 11, 2010 at 7:38 am
Rachel Hurd said "Ditto"? Really? That's what our austere School Board member had to say about cutting my colleagues jobs? That's insulting from the Board President. We expect more leadership than that when we are giving up so much, and are being asked to potentially give up more in the form of benefit caps, furlough days, etc. on top of raising class sizes.
a resident of San Ramon
on Feb 11, 2010 at 8:12 am
I can't disagree with MJ. The kids today ARE coddled and, unfortunately, do NOT have the respect for authority of years ago. (Or, was it fear back then?--doesn't matter--it worked!)
Let's start by teaching kids to respect their teachers and elders! The children need to be taught this at home, as well as in school. This will put the teachers back in charge in the classroom and the teachers can then handle a larger class size.
a resident of Danville
on Feb 12, 2010 at 11:52 am
You got it "Just a Parent"! Too many Danville kids are raised by parents with their noses in the clouds. Many kids do not respect adults and therefore adults can not control those kids. Danville parents need to go back to the "old school" ways of discipline! A little punishment goes a long way. If a child does or says something wrong, make them fix it, don't just ignore it or pay people off to make the problem go away, they will never learn.
a resident of Danville
on Feb 12, 2010 at 12:13 pm
I completely agree. I think MJ could've worded it better, but the general theme of bringing discipline back to the classroom is right on point
a resident of Danville
on Feb 12, 2010 at 12:28 pm
Hey Arnold-
I've got a partial solution - and a question: When are you going to kill off the utterly bogus, disgraceful "heavy SUV" California tax deduction/loophole? Why should some wanker driving his Hummer (Hummer is French for "I'm under-endowed and must compensate in other ways") get a break? If anything, these four wheeled behemoths should face a vastly higher tax, not a break that is total b.s. in 95% of cases. How much would that save each year?
Oh, and if I've offended any of you Escalade, Expedition, Denali, Navigator, or Bummer drivers, go suck on your tailpipe for a while. I promise your anger will fade into hazy euphoria very quickly.
a resident of San Ramon
on Feb 12, 2010 at 2:31 pm
In response to the concerned teacher who questions Rachel Hurd's remark. Were you at the meeting? I was, the quote in the Express was out of context and unfortunate. She was the last board member to speak, all of them spoke to how badly they felt about making the increase and in the spirit of not being repetitive she said "Ditto." It was because she agreed with what all the others said, wishing they weren't in the position of having to make a decision that they can't really avoid in light of the $30million deficit the district is facing over the next two years.
a resident of Danville
on Feb 13, 2010 at 2:02 pm
My oldest son was one of the first students in elementary school to benefit from the class size reduction for K-3... to 20 students. Any parent who has spent significant time working in the classroom experienced the incredible difference it made for the students. It was particularly helpful for students that struggled in reading and math. This will be a real challenge for teachers managing such a large group of young students who require more attention during their initial school years.
Working in the private industry for many years, I've had employees in management positions complain about supervising more than 10 adults. Now imagine a teacher having to manage a classroom full of 28 (ages 5 through 9 years old) students. I would challenge all of you to spend time in the classrooms and see how you could manage. We need to get our priorities straight!
a resident of Danville
on Feb 13, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Blah, blah, blah, priorities, blah, blah. Stop talking past us about priorities. I could say you education overdevelopers don't have your priorities straight. What about our crumbling infrastructure? Is it more important for my child to be in a small class, or not dead from a piece of cement falling on his head, or killed in a car accident because the POS roads, such as the freeway in Alamo, who's being punished for not incorporating, caused his car to swerve. Kids were learning and doing more out of school in the fifties, when there were 50 kids in a class, but the kids shut their mouths and listened. Unlike these punks today, especially the ones we ship in from the ghetto
Our kids will do fine, because this town raises it's kids right
a resident of Walnut Creek
on Feb 13, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Rick, you don't have kids. What the F are you talking about? And you weren't alive in the 50's. I don't believe there was ever a time when 50 kids attended a class with only one teacher supervising. If you are going to post a comment, why don't you post something relevant and real? You continue to be full a racist lies.
Dear Dolores, Please discontinue Rick aka gunslinger from making racist, prejudice posts that are unsubstantiated and offensive to this community.
Thank you
a resident of Danville
on Feb 13, 2010 at 9:18 pm
I may not agree with Gunslinger on his posts, or anyone else for that matter, but I will defend his right to post his opinions...Reader, I am more troubled by your attempts to quash the first amendment, than anything Gunslinger has to say...Why is it that so many liberals, like Reader, only agree with free speech, if they agree with the content of the speech? Post on, Gunslinger!
a resident of Danville
on Feb 14, 2010 at 3:57 am
The schools need new paint. But no one cares what the painter thinks. That's ok.
a resident of Walnut Creek
on Feb 14, 2010 at 9:21 pm
I had a nun teacher in 5th grade Catholic school, in the '50s, that had 57 students and no aides. The nun proudly referred to her monster class as her 57 Heinz Varieties. While the nun may have thought it cute, I have bad memories of how much of the class was left behind because the teacher just didn't have adequate time or resources. Fifty students was the norm. It's very unfortunate that we are expanding class sizes due to budget constraints. I just hope that we never get to the Heinz 57 Varieties class size!
a resident of Danville
on Feb 15, 2010 at 9:09 am
I think before the district starts to cut teaching jobs and education they should look at the cost of management. Why not cut the jobs and positions that are not hands on? Cutting a childs education should be a last resort. There are better ways to cut cost that dont harm a child. If we fail to educate our kids, who will be there in the future to run the country? Who will take care of our society as we age and depend on others? Short sighted management.
a resident of Alamo
on Feb 15, 2010 at 4:51 pm
I agree that gunslinger should be allowed to post his biased, ignorant and totally inappropriate remarks. The First Amendment indeed protects all forms of speech - even the ridiculous.
It's a shame the we do not have an amendment requiring a minimum degree of civility or concern for one's fellow citizens. Perhaps the "Golden Rule" would be a good place to start.
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European Defense Community (EDC), an abortive attempt by western European powers, with United States support, to counterbalance the overwhelming conventional military ascendancy of the Soviet Union in Europe by the formation of a supranational European army and, in the process, to subsume West German forces into a European force, avoiding the tendentious problem of West German rearmament. The idea was originally mooted at the Hague Conference of 1948. Influenced by the Korean War, the French politician René Pleven evolved a plan that later was put forward by the French foreign minister Robert Schuman at a meeting of the Council of Europe in 1951. Though the weaker members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) were keen, the Scandinavians were cool toward the idea, and opinion in France and Italy was divided. A treaty was actually concluded in Paris in 1952, but tension between eastern and western Europe lessened, and by 1954 the necessity for the EDC seemed also to diminish. In its place there arose the Western European Unity Treaty (May 6, 1955), setting up the Western European Union.


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Saturday 16 February: on the final afternoon of the exhibition a series of special events will take place in the gallery
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(image: Sharon Kivland 'Knee–length (I)'. Whether in smart two–pieces, in nubbly wool or tweed or wool jersey, in the magazines the women stride forward, and even if they are not heading for the barricades of overturned cars, they appear to be going somewhere with certain purpose, allowing just a little glimpse of stockinged knee to emerge. One from a continuing series – we have four so far – of unique silver bromide photographs, 24×16cm/framed 42.5×31.5cm, 2012)
Domo Baal is delighted to present Sharon Kivland's third solo exhibition in the gallery. In 'Reproductions II' Sharon Kivland exhibits new works from the collection, echoing her last exhibition, with a little deviation. Works include postcards of Rome turned into clumsy negatives; more carefully done drawings of underwear, copied from magazines of the 1950s, immobile and fixed, removed from any supporting body; photographs of belts or waists, bodies or fashion accessories (so difficult to tell sometimes); a knee–length skirt, which appears both constraining and oddly liberating; truncated bodies in attractive trousers and defining belts or in lovely dresses (day and one evening); postcards of stars of the cinema, already fading, embellished (the painted addition may be all that remains); another Nana, ghostwritten this time, describing herself through the words of others. It is, one might say, a matter of structure, as well as one of meticulous cataloguing or insistent representation. Material that has had a life already is reorganised, yet the re–ordering leads to a certain disorder, a somewhat paradoxical economy. It may be rather hard to distinguish perversity from perversion, for example, in certain works (re)presented here, wherein there is both malice and jouissance.
This exhibition is accompanied by two essays written for Sharon Kivland's new body of work, by Jan Campbell and Steve Pile. These will be published in a two volume edition of 100 to be bound together and will be available from the gallery. Dr. Jan Campbell is a Reader in English Literature and Psychoanalysis in the Department of English at the University of Birmingham. She was also a member of the Cultural Studies Department at Birmingham until its abrupt closure in 2002. Jan Campbell has also worked clinically for thirteen years as a psychoanalyst, as well as writing widely on psychoanalysis in relation to feminism, queer theory, autobiography, social and cultural theory, literature, and film. Her most recent book is on the telepathic movement of a maternal form, which she argues is the necessary transferential sublimation of the repressed 'Freudian Passions: Psychoanalysis, Form and Literature' is forthcoming from Karnac in the Spring of 2013. Professor Steve Pile teaches Geography in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University. He has published on issues concerning place and the politics of identity. He is author of 'Real Cities: modernity, space and the phantasmagorias of city life' (2005) and 'The Body and The City: psychoanalysis, subjectivity and space' (1996). His many collaborative projects include the forthcoming collection, 'Psychoanalytic Geographies' (edited with Paul Kingsbury). He is currently working on early Freudian psychoanalysis and geographies of the body.
Sharon Kivland's work is included in 'Invitation à l'imaginaire' at L'Imagerie, Lannion, Brittany, France 19 January to 23 March 2013 and also 'Ulysse(s) L'autre mer' curated by Marcel Dinahet, Jean–Marc Huitorel, Catherine Elkar: part of a year–long celebration of exhibitions and events to celbrate 30 years of the F.R.A.C. collections from 17 May to 25 August 2013. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany in June 2013 and Cafe Gallery Projects, Bermondsey, London in 2014.


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fdread [-d device] -I numsects [-t trackno]
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bad blocks can be enabled.
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its contents to the respective output file. Unlike other tools like
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than reading single blocks (usually one track of data at a time), but
falls back to reading single floppy sectors in case of an input/output
error occurred, in order to obtain as much valid data as possible. While
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off, so the console and/or syslog are not flooded with kernel error messages.
The fdread utility accepts the following options:
-q Turn on quiet mode. By default, the medium parameters of the
device are being written to standard error output, progress will
be indicated by the approximate number of kilobytes read so far,
and errors will be printed out in detail, including the information
about the location of recovered data in the output. In
quiet mode, none of these messages will be generated.
-r Enable error recovery. By default, fdread stops after the first
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+o If the error was a CRC error in the data field, the kernel is
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-d device
Specify the input floppy device, defaulting to /dev/fd0. The
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-f fillbyte
Value of the fill byte used for dummy blocks in the output file
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-o file
Specify the output file to be file. By default, the data will be
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-t trackno
Specify the track number (cylinder number * number of heads +
head number) to read the sector ID fields from; only allowed
together with the -I numsects option.
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The fdread utility sets the exit value according to sysexits(3). In
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dd(1), fdwrite(1), sysexits(3), fdc(4), fdcontrol(8)
The fdread utility was written mainly to provide a means of recovering at
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a floppy.
The command appeared in FreeBSD 5.0.
Program and man page by Jorg Wunsch.
Concurrent traffic on the second floppy drive located at the same FDC
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order to see whether bad sectors could still be read without errors by
trying multiple times.
Bits that are (no longer) available on the floppy medium cannot be
guessed by fdread.
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A Lowcountry dish with some of our familiar Deep South elements, and similar in some ways to our jambalaya, with a touch of flavor akin to a Spanish rice.
Southern Red Rice with Shrimp and Bacon
This is one of The Cajun's favorite rice dishes and it's really easy to make. It's a Carolina dish with a bit of my own Deep South flare and similar in some ways to our jambalaya with a touch of flavor akin to a Spanish rice. My version contains some of our familiar Deep South elements, like Creole seasoning, hot sauce, and what else but the Trinity of Deep South cooking, plus the addition of one of our favorite southern seasonings - bacon.
Some people prepare this dish stovetop, but I like the oven method, because to me it's a whole different texture and flavor level. But it's hot outside, so either way will work if you don't want to crank up the oven. You can also omit the shrimp if you like.
It's going to surprise a few of you that I'm not using my familiar and favorite Slap Ya Mama {affil link} seasoning here. Well, I do actually keep a variety of Creole and Cajun seasonings in my pantry and one of my favorites is this Zatarain's Big and Zesty mix because, as you see here, it's a big flake seasoning, rather than a fine grind like Slap Ya Mama. It works really well here, but of course, use what you have, keeping in mind that if you're using a finer grind of seasoning, you'll probably want to use less.
Rather than stirring the shrimp into the rice near the end of cooking, I just give them a quick stir fry in oil and then toss them in some butter for extra richness, before spooning them over the red rice. Here's how to make it.
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If you make this or any of my recipes, I'd love to see your results! Just snap a photo and hashtag it #DeepSouthDish on social media or tag me @deepsouthdish on Instagram!
Recipe: Southern Red Rice with Shrimp and Bacon©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 20 min |Cook time: 45 min | Yield: About 6 to 8 servings
- 5 slices of bacon, chopped
- 1/2 cup of chopped onion
- 1/2 cup of chopped green bell pepper
- 1/2 cup of chopped celery
- 1 teaspoon of chopped garlic
- 2 (14.5 ounce) cans of diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1 (10 ounce) can of diced tomatoes with chilies (like Rotel), undrained
- 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 2 cups of uncooked long grain white rice
- 2-1/2 cups of chicken broth
- 1/2 tablespoon of Zatarain's Big and Zesty (big flake) Original Creole seasoning, or your favorite Cajun/Creole seasoning, adjusted to taste
- Couple dashes of hot pepper sauce
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme or to taste
- 1/2 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley or to taste, plus more for garnish
- Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
- 1 tablespoon of cooking oil
- Old Bay seasoning, to taste
- 2 pounds of small, raw shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 1 tablespoon butter
- Lemon wedges for the table, optional
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Use kitchen shears to cut bacon directly into a large Dutch oven and cook over medium high heat until slightly crispy. Remove with a slotted spoon to a paper towel to drain. To the rendered fat, add the onion, bell pepper and celery. Cook over medium heat until tender; add the garlic and cook another minute.
Stir in the tomatoes, with their liquid, and the sugar; bring to a boil. Add the rice and the chicken broth, return to a boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and add the Creole seasoning, hot sauce, thyme and parsley, and the cooked bacon; stir. Taste the broth and add salt and pepper to taste. Stir, cover and transfer to the preheated oven. Bake at 350 degrees F for about 45 minutes to an hour, or until liquid is absorbed and rice is tender.
Remove from oven and let stand covered. Heat canola in a skillet over high heat. Sprinkle the shrimp with Old Bay, add to the hot oil and stir fry quickly, stirring constantly, just until shrimp turn pink and are no longer translucent. Add butter and toss. Fluff rice with a fork and toss with shrimp, or simply spoon red rice onto the plate and top each serving with a serving of shrimp, including some of the pan juices from the shrimp. Garnish with chopped parsley, if desired and serve with lemon wedges.
Cook's Notes: May also use a 3.5 quart baking dish for baking. Spray with non-stick spray, prepare ingredients in a skillet, cover tightly with several and transfer to bake. I think the texture is better baked, however you may also cook this completely on the stovetop for approximately 20 to 25 minutes.
For a Southwestern Flair: Add 1 teaspoon of cumin and 1/2 tablespoon of chili powder.
Make it Mexican: Add one small hot chile, like a serrano or jalapeno, seeded, ribs removed, and finely chopped.
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