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I would like to change the title to "KryoFlux Programming" which is the main focus from this message
It is already two weeks that I have received the device and it works as expected
So far I have used it to experiment on getting good reliable flux reversal information from original floppy disks and for that it is perfect.
First goal was to understand the Stream File output. Many thanks to IFW that provided me with a lot of very useful information and to MrVince that provided me with some source code.
The result is a preliminary documentation (attached) on the Stream File format. I believe it is more explanatory than the original documentation, but it may just be because I wrote it?
Second goal was to be able to parse the file. For that I have finished a "test" program (attached) to test the Stream File parser. Not very useful but ...
This program parses a Stream File (including stream files produced by version 2.0 of the firmaware) and check content for consistency.
It will therefore detect if something went wrong during the transfer of the data from the KryoFlux device to the connected PC.
This is a Windows program that should run on any version of Windows (tested on Windows 7 X64). At the end of the excution the program provides:
- the average transfer rate oveb the USB link in Bytes Per Second
The number of complete revolutions used for Imaging the track
Rotation Per Minute (RPM): the minimum, average, and maximum values
Number of flux transitions per track: the minimum, average and maximum values (usually the same)
However the .h files that I have been using are "embedded" in the project documentation generated with doxygen (KFCheck.chm). I do not think there is anything "secret" here but MrVince or IFW let me know if I need to remove this information.
Third goal was to "decode" the flux information from the stream file to display the bytes as a WD1772 would see them. I just made it to work last few days but it is not in a state that I can publish. So this is an ongoing task that will probably require few weeks ...
I want also to test a "more standard" usage of the KryoFlux device. That is to produce images of FD and send them to SPS to get IPF files. For that I will use my collection of original(?) FD. I have sent to SPS pictures of about 300 FD of non boxed games that I can image. Of course they are interested in getting these images but I must apologize because I have not sent any so far but promise I will start soon
here is a picture of the system connected to an old system running Windows XP
I am also updating my web site with the information on KryoFlux device and will keep you posted.
To get back to what has been discussed in this post. I believe that what is best for you really depends on what you want to do...
I have attached a small word doc that compare several preservation/backup techniques. I have tried to be as neutral as possible.


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Dickinson College, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History to Offer
Online Course on Abraham Lincoln
"Understanding Lincoln" is designed especially for K-12 educators seeking graduate-level credit and ideas for teaching the new Common Core State Standards
(Carlisle, Pa.) – Dickinson College, in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, will offer K-12 educators as well as American Civil War enthusiasts a unique opportunity to explore the life, leadership and legacy of Abraham Lincoln through an online journey titled "Understanding Lincoln." Available for graduate credit, or as a free course for personal enrichment, the course blends online seminars and virtual field trips with opportunities for in-depth discussions with noted Lincoln scholar, author and educator Matthew Pinsker, associate professor of history at Dickinson.
The course begins on July 23, and concludes on Nov. 19, during the 150th anniversary commemoration of the Gettysburg Address. The course will culminate with live-streaming presentations from the historic Wills House in Gettysburg conducted by students from the course who will be invited to attend the ceremonies based on the quality of their final projects.
The abundance of multimedia materials and opportunities to access primary-source documents make "Understanding Lincoln" a web-based resource for social studies and English teachers to implement the Common Core State Standards, nationally developed state standards for learning.
"We are attempting something new in the world of online education, by making a graduate course in U.S. history not only open and online but also infused with liberal-arts values," says Pinsker. "Our course will promote interaction with participants, not discourage it. Lincoln was perhaps the greatest self-made learner in American history, and we are aspiring to live up to his ideal. This will not be an exercise in merely watching videos and taking quizzes."
Pinsker holds the Brian C. Pohanka '77 Chair in American Civil War History at Dickinson College, where he also serves as the director of the House Divided Project, an online repository of digital American Civil War resources for K-12 and undergraduate classrooms. Since its 2011 public launch, House Divided has had more than 500,000 unique visitors. Pinsker is the author of "Lincoln's Sanctuary" and the forthcoming "Boss Lincoln." He has led numerous K-12 educator workshops for the Gilder Lehrman Institute and has been designated as a "Distinguished Lecturer" by the Organization of American Historians.
Course sessions will include live-streamed virtual field trips; live, interactive video seminars led by Pinsker; and discussion sessions led by pedagogy experts from the Gilder Lehrman Institute. The open section of the course is free and provides a certificate of completion for all participants who successfully finish a series of document-based assessments. There also is a limited-enrollment graduate section available for tuition-payers seeking a full master's level course credit certified through an official transcript from Dickinson.
Graduate section participants will engage directly in the interactive seminars with Pinsker and will work under his supervision to create various research and writing assignments, including a major final multimedia project. Three students who submit the best final projects will be invited at no cost, including free travel and accommodations to attend the commemoration ceremonies on Nov. 19 at Gettysburg. They will present their work as part of a final live-streamed virtual field trip to Gettysburg that will conclude the online course.
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The third annualLatitude Festival took place over the weekend in Suffolk. DiS dispatched a pair of scribes and a photographic duo to the three-day festival of music, art, comedy and more. Here be photographic documentation of the festival, and ten personal picks from the astoundingly good musical bill.
Photos: Holly Erskine, Toby Price
Franz Ferdinand
Fridays headliners hit their stride early. The vacuum left by their absence has recently been filled by a glut of indie also-rans - which makes their appearance here tonight a timely reminder that we need them back sooner rather than later. Perhaps predictably, it's the 'hits' Take Me Out, The Dark of the Matinée, and Walk Away that cause most people to go surging towards the stage butFranz Ferdinand are starting to amass an impressive catalogue and after a slightly lacklustre second album the new material previewed tonight points to a return to the classic sound they honed when they emerged some four years ago. Katherine Kiss Me in particular is laden with all the killer hooks and infectiously spiky rhythms for which they were loved in the first place.*DW*
Sigur Rós
I wasn't a fan of Sigur Rós. Now I am. I can pay no greater compliment than that. For once the word transcendental seems quite apt… nay,_ insufficient. They are bewitching. Glowing orbs, marching bands (it's good, trust me) and a sound that appears to emanate from some lay-line beneath the stage; 'Svefn-G-Englar_' is staggeringly beautiful. If ever there is a time when Sigur Rós make perfect sense then it is with the grass beneath your feet and the sky above your head. I can describe no more, because I am in their thrall.*DW*
The Twilight Sad
Early in the afternoon, whilst the majority lie or sit on the acres of grass that unfold before the Obelisk Arena, one man exorcises his demons as the rest of his band make wonderful noise. The Twilight Sad are captivating. James Graham is faintly oblivious to the people in front of him; caught up in the maelstrom of his band's music, or perhaps just reflecting the disinterest of many, he turns in on himself then expels great cathartic roars and expletives. If they were on later, in smaller confines, then they would be devastating. As it is, The Twilight Sad have a committed and beholden gaggle, swaying awestruck at the front of a field. *DW*
Johnny Flynn
As onlookers adjust their eyes to the closeting darkness of the Film & Theatre tent, something unspoken hangs in the air during Johnny Flynn's second set of the weekend. His guitar aches and hums whilst those perilously young, wholesome features hide an old soul and a burgeoning wordsmith. Today, he stitches his delicately crafted songs together with threads of poetry, whilst members of his band, The Sussex Wit, grant both sparse accompaniment and rousing weight. His sign off, 'Tickle Me Pink', is played to a film made as he wandered the festival over the preceding days. It's a fitting and stirring culmination to a set from a man with much promise on his long horizon. *DW*
Johnny Flynn (TP)
The Wave Pictures
Shorn of a larger audience by both the rain and clashes with Blondie and Black Lips, those who huddle at the front of the Lake Stage watching The Wave Pictures are treated to what is surely one of the festival highlights. 'Long Island' is an early triumph, fired off by a supremely confident band. Confident enough to throw together lines like: "I was an auto-focus illuminator-flash-gun in aqua-marine biology blue / Spitting out prints I printed you on photon quality glossily-greasy-chip-paper with a tortilla dip chaser / and then later / I pinned you down." It's flash wordplay but without sounding forced or detracting from the power-pop magic on which the words sit. In Dave Tattersall there is also a guitar hero spilling out; blazing solos fly out of songs where before there was none, indicative of a band honed by years on the road, and yet they are still one that retains a twinkling wryness - also the product of those years... spent kicking against things. Understated brilliance. *DW*
Johnny Foreigner
This is Johnny Foreigner's year, and the crowd's note-for-note recital of the start of 'Cranes and Cranes and Cranes' seems fitting after a glorious 2008 thus far. Messy, loud, and heart-stoppingly brilliant, you get the feeling that come album two in 20XX, Johnny Foreigner will have morphed into a bigger and better beast. 'Hennings Favourite' – one of debut LP Waited Up 'Til It Was Light's highlights – sounds absolutely massive here, promoting the idea that they're the most likely candidate in British rock's ranks to hit the 'big time' sometime in the near future. See you on the main stage in a couple of years then, yeah? *BY*
Johnny Foreigner (TP)
Death Cab For Cutie (TP)
Death Cab For Cutie
Death Cab, however, are the antithesis to exciting. Whiney, dull American rock – you've heard the criticisms before, and you thought they were unfounded. When you see Death Cab live though, it reinforces the idea that they're merely a band you sit in your bedroom listening to whilst crying into your pillow. What a disappointment it was when it dawned on me that Death Cab aren't the incredible force that their critical plaudits would suggest, rather that they're simply a few average guys playing some average songs on guitar. Bring back The Postal Service please.*BY*
Joanna Newsom
All 15,000 (educated guess) of those watching Joanna Newsom at midday on Sunday fall madly in love with the Californian songstress. Playing for the first time in a long while without an orchestra or band of any kind, her mistakes are glaringly obvious - but they come across as endearing rather than irritating. Amongst the favourites fromYs_ and _The Milk Eyed Mender, a few new numbers are aired - bluesy, piano-driven songs that bring out Newsom's natural southern drawl hidden on her previous recorded efforts. 'Emily' still manages to sound as epic and overblown as it does with an orchestra behind her, and despite her protestations of not to applaud her after her mistakes, it's hard not to express unbridled gratitude at her being here. *BY*
Joanna Newsom (TP)
Grinderman (TP)
Nick Cave is God. There's no questioning it, especially when he's playing out the cocky rock star role in Grinderman. Cave dances, kicks down mic stands, assaults roadies, all the things you'd expect him to do when taking time out from The Bad Seeds to play fuzzy no-holds-barred rock 'n' roll. 'No Pussy Blues' - the anti-anthem – is fully realised here, with Cave chanting "I must above all love myself" before the song explodes into its noisy denouement. It's exciting stuff, and it's where the quartet fully realise their potential. Whatever you think about the record, it's impossible to resist their charm on stage. In many respects, Grinderman are the perfect festival band. *BY*
Tindersticks round off the festival on the Uncut Stage with a shorter-than-expected set of brilliantly understated indie-rock. As soon as the crowd for Blondie (we manage to catch the end of their set, and laugh at how the mighty have fallen) exit, an almost complete audience change makes its way into the arena. One reveller comments: "Hurry up and let us miserabilists in". Whilst being miserable might not be a perfect footnote to the festival fun, Tindersticks tonight are so beautiful and so…real that I can't imagine any other way of ending it. No gimmicks, no light shows or funny on-stage banter, just simple whiskey-addled melancholy. The only criticism I can level at them stems from a disappointingly short set, with very little from their extensive back catalogue and more from their most recent effort, The Hungry Saw. Nothing wrong with that of course, but seeing 'Dying Slowly' or 'Talk To Me' live would have made the weekend.*BY*
Beth Orton (TP)
Bill Bailey (TP)
Black Kids (TP)
Black Lips (HE)
Crystal Castles (TP)
Elbow (HE)
Emmy The Great (TP)
Foals (HE)
Glasvegas (HE)
The Go! Team (HE)
Guillemots (HE)
Interpol (HE)
Jonquil (TP)
Lovvers (TP)
Lykke Li (HE)
Martha Wainwright (HE)
Metronomy (TP)
Noah & The Whale (TP)
Patrick Watson (TP)
Seasick Steve (HE)
Slow Club (TP)
The Coral (TP)
These New Puritans (HE)
Those Dancing Days (TP)
Early-bird tickets to 2009's Latitude are already on sale from the festival's official website.


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Peter Siddle said his participation in the Test would have risked a long-term injury. (ATP)
Siddle hit back at criticism of his omission, saying that he might have ultimately hurt his side more.
Following a draining draw in the second Test in Adelaide, Australia took a completely new pace attack to Perth and were crushed by 309 runs to lose the series 1-0.
Siddle took six wickets at Adelaide and emerged unscathed after he carried a huge workload in the absence of injured seamer James Pattinson, but had only three days to recover in time for the final Test at the Western Australia Cricket Association Grounds.
"Obviously I wanted to be out there and doing my best to try and win that game, but after going through what I did in Adelaide, knowing that if I had been the one that got injured ... it would have put us out of the game by a long way," the 28-year-old told Wednesday's Fairfax newspapers.
"I think we made the right decision.
Instead of missing that one match, it could end up being seven matches – including India."
Australia starts a three-match Test series against Sri Lanka in Hobart next week before heading to India for a four-Test series starting February.
'Injuries deplete bowling stock'
Australia's selectors and fitness staff have come under fire over their player-management, with a glut of injuries depleting their bowling stocks for a second successive home summer.
Young pace bowlers Pattinson and Pat Cummins have both broken down with injuries and are expected to miss the entire Sri Lanka series, while all-rounder Shane Watson missed the first two Tests against South Africa with a calf strain.
Only Siddle has been rated a certain starter by Australia coach Mickey Arthur for Australia's pace attack at Hobart, with fitness queries dogging a number of other candidates along with captain Michael Clarke.
Clarke has been ordered to forgo the first round of the domestic Twenty20 competition after suffering lower back stiffness following Perth, while paceman John Hastings, who made his Test debut at the grounds, may be ruled out of Hobart after suffering back pain, Cricket Australia said on Wednesday.
Workhorse paceman Ben Hilfenhaus was rested for the Perth Test but has also been ordered to miss the T20 "Big Bash" season-opener.
Seamer Josh Hazlewood, who was 12th man in Perth, would be rested for up to six weeks after suffering pain in the same left foot that suffered a stress fracture last season, Cricket Australia added.
The injuries leave pacemen Mitchell Johnson and Mitchell Starc strong candidates to retain their places in the side, despite being flayed by South Africa's batsmen in the second innings of the final Test.
"We've got to really discuss our attack as an attack and not in terms of individual bowlers," Arthur said earlier this week.
"We've got to look at what the best attack is for us to get 20 wickets and we need to sit down again and make those decisions." – Reuters
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We are now less than 5 weeks away from the release of 'Belle and Sebastian Write About Love' – so no matter how much we'd like the album to be a huge Christmas Day style surprise for everyone on the day of release, the details will start appearing on your favourite online retailers soon and no doubt bits of the music will be permeating various media outlets.
So – first off here is the lead track – "Write About Love" – for everyone to listen to (or, if you are one of the first 20,000 visitors, to download). We sent it off to our Twitter follower @recordingtime yesterday – and she posted about it here
We hope you like it! Along with the rest of the album, it was recorded in Los Angeles earlier this year and produced by Tony Hoffer. It also features a guest vocal by Carey Mulligan. For those in the USA, the song is available on iTunes from today – if you are elsewhere, it won't be released officially until after the album – 25th October in the UK.
If that is confusing, then things are a little more straightforward with the album! It comes out on the 12th October in the USA and Canada and the day before in the UK and most of the rest of the world -we'll post any variations on these release dates nearer the time.
It is, of course, our third album for Rough Trade and was recorded in April and May at Sound Factory Studio B. Stuart wrote the majority of the songs and one ("Sunday's Pretty Icons") with Mick; Sarah wrote and takes lead vocal on "I Didn't See It Coming" and "I Can See Your Future"; Stevie wrote and sings "I'm Not Living In The Real World". The are also some guests – as well as the aforementioned Carey Mulligan, Norah Jones duets with Stuart on "Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John" and some orchestration is added by members of LA's The Section Quartet.
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The album will be available on CD, Gatefold Vinyl and digitally. The full track listing is:
I Didn't See It Coming
Come On Sister
Calculating Bimbo
I Want The World To Stop
Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John
Write About Love
I'm Not Living In The Real World
Ghost of Rockschool
Read The Blessed Pages
I Can See Your Future
Sunday's Pretty Icons
In addition, two bonus tracks, "Last Trip" and "Suicide Girl", will be available as a 7 inch with the vinyl edition in most countries, and with all editions from selected retailers in the USA [including the Matador Store. Pre-order now.] A further song, "Blue Eyes of A Millionaire", will be a bonus track with selected digital outlets. Full localised details of variations and pre-sales will all be added in due course.


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US, Iran Band Together to Save Wrestling as an Olympic Sport
(NEW YORK) -- Washington and Tehran have finally found common ground although it has nothing to do with Iran's rogue nuclear program.
Last week's announcement that the International Olympic Committee's executive board has recommended dropping wrestling as an event for the 2020 Summer Games is putting the U.S. and Iran on the same side.
Both countries want to save wrestling and will make an appeal to the IOC to keep it as an Olympic sport.
Iran's other strong allies, Russia and Cuba, are also said to be angered by the IOC decision, which could be reversed later this year although most Olympic observers don't believe that will happen.
While the U.S. and Iran can agree on this issue, there have been no diplomatic ties between the two governments in more than three decades.
Wrestling is a particularly big sport in Iran. Tehran will host the Wrestling World Cup starting Thursday.
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Subject description: Puppy 5.1.1 online banking security
Dell Inspiron 910 (mini-9) / Puppy 5.1.1
This Dell Mini-9 has a failed SSD and no optical drive. I installed Puppy from Live CD to a USB thumb drive using the Puppy Universal Installer. I did this on an ACER notebook. I also followed directions on this forum to place this in section 7) of rc.shutdown:
dialog --yesno "Save this session?" 0 0 >/dev/console
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
<< no change to the rest of the script in this section except adding the 'if' to the end>>
Upon reboot or power down, I choose 'no' at the "Save this session?" question unless I've made a change to the desktop config. Never after accessing the Internet.
Here's my question: Is this method of using Puppy as secure as using the Live CD ? I'd like to use this PC only to access online banking sites and make CC purchases. Is it possible that malware/crimeware could reach the USB thumb drive during a Firefox session ?
Also, I noticed that there's no user or root password. Doesn't this open up Puppy to intrusion ?
Last, is there a way to reverse the Yes/No order and maybe place a timer on the little dialog box that pops up now when I power down ? So that if I do nothing in say 10 seconds, the answer is 'no'....
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Detective Inspector Bruce van der Graaf from the Computer Crime Investigation Unit told the hearing that he uses two rules to protect himself from cyber-criminals when banking online. The first rule, he said, was to never click on hyperlinks to the banking site and the second was to avoid Microsoft Windows. "If you are using the internet for a commercial transaction, use a Linux boot up disk - such as Ubuntu or some of the other flavours. Puppylinux is a nice small distribution that boots up fairly quickly. It gives you an operating system which is perfectly clean and operates only in the memory of the computer and is a perfectly safe way of doing internet banking," van der Graaf said.
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I just got a proud email notification from a small brokerage
firm that they now have a trading app for my iphone......hmm..I don't think so...
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I know I had more than one question in my post. What I'm really concerned with is that there is no root or user password. And I don't find a way to password protect after the installation. So, like the guy who posted "Safe Browsing Puppy" on Nov 12th last year to this sub-forum, I'd like to run Puppy totally in RAM after having set up Desktop etc., then after that never allow anything that happened during a session get back to the HD or USB stick. Run in RAM and dump it afterwards. Like a Virtual Machine.
I modified rc.shutdown with the two lines someone suggested in this forum:
dialog --yesno "Save this session?" 0 0 >/dev/console
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
So, I get the Save yes or no question at poweroff or reboot. When I arrow to 'no' and hit enter, I don't see any activity (the little USB lamp indicating read or write), then the PC shuts down. Is this the protection I need ? The same as a virtual machine ? Or can there still be some way to alter the contents of the USB during a browsing session which would propagate to future sessions regardless whether the session was saved or not afterwards ?
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Rob, you may not realize it but your questions about the security of operating in root are going to reopen a long-standing discussion which has never come to a definite conclusion. I can only say that in the 5 years or more since I started using Puppy, no one has reported a verifiable instance of his computer being taken over while he was using Puppy.
As for protecting your USB installation, what happens if you remove the USB thumb drive after Puppy has loaded into RAM? I run Puppy from a multisession DVD and I can remove the DVD after booting Puppy. After that, if I don't want to save anything, I just turn off the power.
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Thanks for the reply Flash, - Well, from what little I've read about one of the more secure Linux OSs, Ubuntu 10.10 for instance, the Desktop user can not know the root password since it's encrypted or it's a hash code generated during the installation. An intrusion from say a malicious script on a web page would have no chance of writing to or deleting or changing any files owned by root. Possibly only files in user owned files or directories like /home. This is my understanding and I could have it wrong.
This same web site could affect Puppy, though. Am I right or wrong ? So, if I'm going to open up my PC to that, I'd rather dump the whole thing after a browsing session and start over the next time with everything as it was when first installed.
I would think there would be a market for a simple machine that has no permanent storage medium (no hard drive), gets its operating system from a read only device like a USB stick. This machine is only used to browse the Internet and read email online from Gmail or Yahoo etc. Not used for any real work such as word processing, graphics etc. As an added plus, no anti-virus, adware, or spyware software would be needed.
I might get close to that with this little Dell Inspiron Mini-9. The SSD failed, so it doesn't have a hard drive. I have Puppy 5.1.1 on a 4G USB stick with that hack to rc.shutdown. I get a reminder now and again about not removing the USB and have seen comments about possible file corruption if this is done. I was hoping to get a lot of feedback from this forums guru's about this setup. -
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You didn't answer my question. What happens if you remove the USB flash drive after booting Puppy? Can you still do everything you want?
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I don't know yet. I'd have to open Firefox first though because I see the USB loading that up when I click on the browser icon. I'll check it out ...
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If it won't work, perhaps it's because of the way you installed Puppy on the USB flash drive. You might try a
frugal install
, if that's possible on a flash drive. I'm out of my depth here, as I've only run Puppy from a multisession DVD.
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Puppy itself and apps seem to all get loaded in RAM; everything on the Desktop seems to run ok after removing the USB. Firefox won't run. If I'm surfing on the Internet, when I remove the USB, the browser window stays up until I try to link to someplace. Then it shuts down and returns me to the Desktop.
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Can you try running SeaMonkey with the flash memory unplugged?
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It's not installed. I could have installed it when I was given a choice between Firefox, Seamonkey, Chromiun, Opera, and Generic. I chose Firefox then.
BTW, In Puppy Universal Installer, I did the 'Superfloppy' install to USB. That's no MBR and no partition.
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Well, that's about all I can think of to try. Maybe someone else can help.
are instructions for doing a frugal install of Puppy in a USB flash memory.
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On an ACER notebook, I zero'd the MBR, wrote random data on the HD, then ran the Puppy 5.1.1 LiveCD. Set up wireless and the Desktop, then did a 'Remaster Puppy LiveCD' in Menu > Setup. When I'm finished using the PC, I just power it down. The remastered CD stays in the optical drive. Any malware that may have infected RAM gets flushed the next power cycle.
For the Dell Inspiron Mini-9 to use the Internet safely, I'm going to invest in an Imation Clip USB drive. It has an external write protect switch.
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In this he realized the fact that anti-Trump protests ended despite people claimed that he is the new Hitler. So he concluded that two options are possible:
- Protesters decided that accepting Hitler as their leader was better than missing classes or skipping work.
- Protesters have now seen enough counter-evidence to diminish their hallucination of living in 1930s Germany.
The truth is #1. The liberals still think Trump is Hitler, they just don't want to miss class or work than walk around with signs which does nothing. So they fall back to slacktivism. What's my evidence that people can just go on with their lives when they truly believe that they are living in 1930 Germany? Simple: people in 1930 Germany just went on with their lives. While they mostly rejected Hitler's extremism, they just didn't care enough to do something about it. Socials.
Note: I'm obviously not claiming that Trump is Hitler. I supported him when his polls were the lowest. The post is about those who didn't.


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2012 NAIA Men?s Soccer Players of the Week - No. 10
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Jack McGowan of Oklahoma Wesleyan has been tabbed National Men's Soccer Offensive Player of the Week and Joe Shulberg of Oklahoma City has been named the NAIA National Men's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. McGowan and Shulberg, who are the final weekly award winners for the 2012 season, were selected based on their performances from Oct. 29 - Nov. 4 and were chosen out of a pool of conference/independent/unaffiliated groupings.
McGowan, a 5-foot-10 freshman forward from Liverpool, England, scored two goals, three assists (seven points) in Oklahoma Wesleyan's only game this week. McGowan led the Eagles to an 8-0 victory over Waldorf (Iowa) on Nov. 2, which landed them in the Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship. McGowan picked up one goal and two assists in the first half against Waldorf. He scored his second goal of the game at 58:27 extending the Eagles lead to 6-0. Just over 10 minutes later, he collected his third assist.
McGowan ranks eighth in the NAIA in total points (48), ninth in total assists (12) and 13th in total goals (18).
Shulberg, a 6-foot-3 junior goalkeeper from Huntington, England, was key in a 1-1 tie to then-No. 3 Science & Arts (Okla.) on Nov. 3. Shulberg made saves in the 17th, 23rd and 57th minutes to keep the match scoreless. He also made three saves in the final 10 minutes of regulation and three more in overtime to keep the game tied at one. Shulberg continued to record pivotal saves during penalty kicks as he stopped two shots to lead Oklahoma City to the Sooner Athletic Conference semifinals. For the game, Shulberg recorded nine saves in 110 minutes.
On the season, Shulberg is 5-1-3 overall with 38 saves and a 0.73 goals against average.
For a complete listing of all the national statistical leaders, click here.
For the complete player of the week calendar, click here.
Offensive Nominees: Pedro Antonelli, Cumberlands (Ky.); Rodrigo Pontes, LSU Shreveport (La.); Victor Costa, Oklahoma Baptist; Emilio Yomaha, College of Idaho; Jonathan Rehner, Asbury (Ky.); Edin Campara, Lyon (Ark.); Tim Krautheim, Ashford (Iowa); Ethan Bauer, Baker (Kan.); Noel Medina, Grand View (Iowa); Tyler Fischer, Aquinas (Mich.); Emmanuel Onywera, San Diego Christian (Calif.); Nathan Adams, Bryan (Tenn.); Jordan Green, Hastings (Neb.); Kyle Breitenbach, Saint Xavier (Ill.); Agust Arnarson, Auburn Montgomery (Ala.); Oliver Gore, Rocky Mountain (Mont.); Alex Vukic, Menlo (Calif.).
Defensive Nominees: Lance Quini, LSU Shreveport (La.); Chenjerai Simpson, College of Idaho; Ivan Ristic, Oklahoma Wesleyan; Julio Trejo, Concordia (Calif.); Anthony Wakeford, Lyon (Ark.); Yuta Nomura, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); Ben Coyle, Baker (Kan.); Harrison Burgess, Mount Mercy (Iowa); Reece Richardson, Indiana Tech; Jack Austin, Virginia Intermont; Josh Goepper, Indiana Wesleyan; Vignir Johannesson, Auburn Montgomery (Ala.); Evaristo Hernandez, Morningside (Iowa); Joachim Soderstrom, Rocky Mountain (Mont.); Jonathan Junqua, Soka (Calif.).
2012 Men's Soccer Players of the Week (Offensive; Defensive)
Week 1 (Sept. 4): Will Monsour, Belhaven (Miss.); Henry Moody, Texas at Brownsville
Week 2 (Sept. 11): Brad Lyons, Concordia (Mich.); Andi Hoffer, Thomas (Ga.)
Week 3 (Sept. 18): Will Monsour, Belhaven (Miss.); Milco Risteski, Robert Morris (Ill.)
Week 4 (Sept. 25): Joe Sbarro, Benedictine (Kan.); Luke Baxter, Bellevue (Neb.)
Week 5 (Oct. 2): Richard Isberner, Rio Grande (Ohio); Kyle Breckan, Cornerstone (Mich.)
Week 6 (Oct. 9): Naissim Ayadi, Mobile (Ala.); Dennis Kramer, Southern Poly (Ga.)
Week 7 (Oct. 16): Jordan Green, Hastings (Neb.); Vignir Johannesson, Auburn Montgomery (Ala.)
Week 8 (Oct. 23): Gaetan Massiah, Mobile (Ala.); Patrick Kinsella, Ashford (Iowa)
Week 9 (Oct. 31): Felipe Silva, Hannibal-LaGrange (Mo.); Tom Halsall, Lee (Tenn.)
Week 10 (Nov. 4): Jack McGowan, Oklahoma Wesleyan; Joe Shulberg, Oklahoma City


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Heritage Action For America, an influential conservative group, on Tuesday urged House of Representatives Republicans to vote against their leaders' latest bill to fund the government and raise U.S. borrowing authority.
The private group said that the legislation, which was scheduled to be voted on late on Tuesday, fails to "stop Obamacare's massive new entitlements from taking root."
In calling the upcoming vote a "key vote," the group is warning lawmakers that it will look at their positions on this legislation in considering whether to encourage candidates to run against them in Republican primary campaigns next year.
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Pakistan holds doctor who tried to collect bin Laden DNA
ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani authorities have jailed a doctor who helped the CIA by creating an elaborate plot to get DNA samples of Osama bin Laden's family before the al Qaida leader was killed in a special forces raid here.
The doctor, who holds a senior government health post in Pakistan, used nurses, who were able to gain entry to the residence on the pretext of giving vaccinations to children living there, according to Pakistani and U.S. officials and local residents.
The U.S. special forces operation that found and killed bin Laden on May 2 severely damaged relations between the United States and Pakistan, which was kept in the dark about the CIA's discovery that the al Qaida leader was living in a town filled with active-duty and retired Pakistani military.
The doctor's detention has added to the tension, and American authorities are thought to have intervened on his behalf.
Previous news reports have quoted U.S. officials as alleging that the Pakistanis had detained some people for questioning about their role in assisting the United States in tracking down bin Laden. But until now, there's been no detailed information on anyone detained or what he or she might have done for the Americans.
The doctor apparently is the only person still under arrest. His story provides previously unknown details about the lengths the CIA went to as it tried to confirm suspicions that bin Laden was hiding in the compound.
American officials are concerned that Pakistan is more focused on finding out how the CIA tracked down bin Laden than on determining how he managed to remain undetected for as long as five years in Abbottabad, a military garrison town where the nation's premier military academy is less than a mile from the bin Laden compound. So far, no one is known to have been arrested for helping to hide bin Laden.
In Abbottabad, a normally sleepy town, Pakistani authorities have gone to unusual lengths to make it difficult to gather information independently about bin Laden's time here. Residents who are in a position to know something about his stay say that Pakistani intelligence officials have warned them not to talk to reporters, and portions of the town near the bin Laden compound have been declared off limits to visitors.
The doctor's role was to help American officials know with certainty that bin Laden was in the compound, according to security officials and residents here, all of whom spoke only on the condition of anonymity because they feared government retribution. U.S. officials in Washington confirmed the general outlines of the effort. They asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the topic.
After years of fruitless searching, the CIA had tracked an al Qaida courier, known as Abu Ahmed al Kuwaiti, to the Abbottabad compound last summer, but it still wasn't sure that bin Laden lived there. The al Qaida chief and his family never left the house, which had no phone or Internet connection.
Satellite monitoring and surveillance from a CIA safe house in Abbottabad was used, but the monitoring was able to capture only fuzzy photos of a tall man who occasionally took walks in the compound's garden, images that didn't provide the confirmation officials wanted before they mounted a risky operation in another country.
So the CIA recruited the Pakistani doctor, Shakil Afridi, who works as the health official in charge of Khyber, part of the tribal area that runs along the Afghan border, more than 120 miles west of Abbottabad.
Bin Laden had always lived with his wives and children, even in war-torn Afghanistan before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States. The doctor was tasked with collecting DNA samples from those living in the house. A sample from any of the bin Laden children or grandchildren could be compared with DNA extracted from bin Laden's sister, who died last year in a hospital in Boston. A match would have indicated that at least bin Laden relatives were in the compound.
According to local residents, the doctor visited Abbottabad in March and April, saying he'd procured funds to give free vaccinations for hepatitis B.
Bypassing the management of the Abbottabad health services, he generously paid low-ranking local government nurses who provide door-to-door health services for women and children to visit the bin Laden compound. The nurses, who previously had entered the compound to administer polio drops to some of the children there, apparently were unaware of the true reason they were being sent there again.
The doctor went to great lengths to disguise the purpose of the vaccination program. He had posters advertising the program put up around Abbottabad, featuring a vaccine made by Amson, a medicine manufacturer based on the outskirts of Islamabad. On his first visit to Abbottabad in March, he had the vaccine distributed in Nawa Sher, a poor neighborhood on the edge of town that's some distance from the bin Laden compound.
In April, he returned, and instead of giving those same recipients the required second dose, he moved the nurses to Bilal Town, the upscale suburb where bin Laden lived.
"Bilal Town is a well-to-do area. Why would you choose that place to give free vaccines?" one Pakistani official said. "And what is the official surgeon of Khyber doing working in Abbottabad?"
According to some, the nurses would first take a blood sample before administering the vaccine. Alternatively, it probably would be possible to extract enough DNA for testing from the needle used to give a vaccination, even without extracting blood.
One of the nurses, Mukhtar Bibi, who goes by the nickname Bakhto, managed to gain entry to the bin Laden compound for the vaccinations. According to several locals, the doctor, who waited outside, also instructed her to take in a handbag that had been fitted with an electronic device. The purpose of the device, if such equipment was indeed given to her, is unclear. Mukhtar Bibi refused to discuss the issue.
Two U.S. officials confirmed the CIA's attempt to extract the DNA but one said that it didn't succeed. The second U.S. official said that no electronic device was part of the plan.
The doctor's activities emerged to the Pakistani authorities only during their ongoing investigation after the U.S. raid. The Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate spy agency secretly detained the doctor in the provincial capital, Peshawar, in late May, according to Pakistani security officials.
The Pakistani military and the ISI are alarmed and angry that the U.S. has been able to develop an independent intelligence network in the country, which was starkly illustrated with the bin Laden operation.
The Pakistani authorities declined to comment, but a senior Pakistani official recently told McClatchy that "wouldn't any country detain people for working for a foreign spy service?"
(Shah is a McClatchy special correspondent. Jonathan S. Landay contributed to this report from Washington.)
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text: thats the funny thing about inboxes and bills. If you ignore them they dont go away, they just get bigger. There's a bunch of jokes here I refuse to make. Marcel wrote: > That's the point - I was away from home the last week only and kinda shocked > found the om-community and debian-user-german folders with 320 mails each > when I came back which is nothing compared to your 1800 mails... :) > > -- > Marcel > > Am Monday 06 April 2009 01:08:24 schrieb Steve Mosher: >> thanks. During march I got so effin buried in other stuff that my >> community posting went to hell. I sat there looking at my community >> inbox grow and grow. And I thought "I rather open my cell phone bill >> than plow through 1800 community mails" but in the end you pay your cell >> phone bill and plow through those mails. As long as I keep the inbox >> empty every day, its a joy to read and respond. >> >> Gunnar AAstrand Grimnes wrote: >>> Nice posts Steve! This is what a community oriented company works like! >>> Frequent, on-time, interesting and well-written emails from the inside! >>> >>> Keep it up! >>> >>> - Gunnar >>> >>> Steve Mosher wrote: >>>> Good comments All. >>>> >>>> Let me inline some answers/explanations. >>>> >>>> Lothar Behrens wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I am mostly reading and sometime writing here. If it was useful or >>>>> useless - I don't know. But anyway. >>>>> >>>>> Let me arse around with some stupid ideas :-) >>>>> >>>>> What is a open phone? >>>>> >>>>> Is it only open source software or is it also open hardware? >>>>> >>>>> If software could be developed virtually at any place and from any >>>>> person, why don't we do the same for >>>>> hardware? >>>>> >>>>> Ok I cannot buy expensive equipment to test hardware that I may have >>>>> developed, but I virtually could >>>>> develop hardware. But many developers at one subject could spend money >>>>> for a rent to let one of the >>>>> team do outstanding tests. >>>> At the begining of Sean's presentation you will see two slides: >>>> 1. a picture of Steve Ballmer ( the evil empire) >>>> 2. A picture of paul Otilinni ( intel) >>>> >>>> And the point sean made about this was as follows; If a 15 year old >>>> kid tells ballmer that he has developed a technology that will disrupt >>>> microsofts business, Ballmer would do well to listen to him. Why? >>>> because with a computer and a compiler it is possible to disrupt their >>>> business or at least make there lives uncomfortable. Long ago back in >>>> 1994 before MS had any 3D api in windows there were three small UK >>>> companies that had 3D apis for the desktop: argonaut; Rendermorphics; >>>> and Criterion ( i worked there). These were really very small companies >>>> and what we did was keep gamers in DOS, while MS wanted to move gaming >>>> to windows. We disrupted their plans to move important apps into DOS. >>>> So they paid attention to us. I remember sitting with Alex st John >>>> and eric engstrom as they discussed what was originally called the >>>> "manhatten project" later to be directX. And the phrase disruptive >>>> technologies came up over and over again. One guy even had a folder on >>>> his desktop labeled disruptive technologies. In the end, MS >>>> aquired rendermorphics and it became Direct3D The point: in the >>>> software world, a kid and an idea is potentially a powerful force. The >>>> history of this is covered in this book: >>>> >>>> Drummond, Michael (November 2000). Renegades of the Empire: How Three >>>> Software Warriors Started a Revolution Behind the Walls of Fortress >>>> Microsoft. California: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0609807453. Covers >>>> the early years of DirectX development within Microsoft, including the >>>> acquisition of RenderMorphics. >>>> >>>> The bottom line on software is this: the business of software is easy >>>> to disrupt because the barriers to entry ( the cost of tools) is >>>> comparatively low. >>>> >>>> Now, lets look at hardware. If that same 15 year kid came to Paul >>>> Otillini and said he had technology that would disrupt Intels business >>>> what would paul do. He'd ask the kid who his investors were? ask what >>>> EDA tools did he use? Synopsis? did he have a cycle accurate C-SIM of >>>> the chip? Who was his fab? was he planning an ASIC flow or COT flow >>>> for the chip, what tools did they use for floor planning, routing etc. >>>> The cost of these tools and the cost of proving something in silicon >>>> are in the millions of dollars. Hardware is hard. The barriers to entry >>>> are huge, not only IP barriers but sheer cost. >>>> >>>> >>>> So, Sean's basic point in those first two slides is that >>>> entering/disrupting the software business is orders of magnitude >>>> easier than entering the hardware business. >>>> >>>> This of course is an extreme comparison, used however to make a >>>> point. We should be on guard against notions and attitudes that >>>> characterize the hardware business as easy. At OM we entered the >>>> hardware business at the system level. Not designing chips of course, >>>> but one level up from that: designing >>>> hardware systems. Here too, however, you see costs and risks that >>>> form barriers to entry. For example, the test lab we maintain for >>>> testing phones has 5Million dollars of equipment. A prototype >>>> run of an evaluation board can cost 50K USD. 20 phones: 50K. >>>> >>>> I use this analogy. You write your code in a series of units. >>>> you unit test them. Then you do your first integration. >>>> You set up your make files and I charge you 50K to hit return. would you >>>> hit the compile button? >>>> >>>> We've all sat there and said, just compile it, see if works. That's >>>> easy in software. In Sean's presentation you'll see a slide. >>>> "gcc GTA02v5 doesnt work" what that means is this. There are perhaps >>>> some unconcious attitudes people have carried over from the software >>>> world that will jump up and bite them when they start to work in the >>>> hardware world. I'll use another metaphor. Building hardware requires >>>> a "waterfall" design process, at least in my experience. In the software >>>> world, outside of DOD and NASA, we'd be hard pressed to find projects >>>> that followed a strict waterfall model. >>>> In a waterfall model you start with requirements. And you don't write >>>> a line of code until requirements are 100% done and complete and signed >>>> off. Once the requirements are done. They don't change. Then, and only >>>> then you get to do design. You are still not writing any code. when >>>> design is 100% complete, you move to implementation. If you're not >>>> familiar with this approach I can tell you it's a PITA. But it has its >>>> advantages: a requirements defect found late in the game ( in >>>> verification for example ) can cost 50-200X more to fix than if it was >>>> fixed in the requirements phase. This holds especially true for embedded >>>> software. >>>> So what's the result if you don't use a waterfall model in >>>> hardware development. Whats the cost if you find a requirements defect >>>> or a design defect ( glamo? )when you do that prototype run? 50K >>>> minimum, plus a redesign. Take the appendix out--perform a glamoectomy? >>>> ask Werner about the design implications of that on WIFI. And >>>> see my comments below about design and diving into peanut butter. >>>> >>>> That means this: if you are designing hardware or doing hardware system >>>> integration you would be well advised to follow a waterfall model. Any >>>> other approach is prone to excessive delays and costly recamps. Just >>>> read the list and see the number of people who are suggesting >>>> implementations for a new GTA03 design. The rush to implementation-- use >>>> this processor.. no use that processor, camera or no camera, resistive >>>> or capacitive, keyboard or touch.-- ALL signs to me of a lack of >>>> appreciation for the complexity and cost involved in doing hardware. I >>>> got a hammer your problem must be a nail. I'll give you >>>> another example. During the course of many discussion about GTA03 and >>>> GTA04 both here and inside OM, both before and after the demise of GTA03 >>>> I see a pattern of discussion and problem solving that is, in my mind, >>>> part of the problem. Those discussions go like this: "what if we take >>>> the GTA03 and stick it in the 02 case?" which leads to "but where will >>>> the camera go?" which leads to "do we really need a camera?" and so time >>>> and energy is spent on this "solution" In the end, marketing looks at >>>> that and says "who took the fucking camera out!" that's not an actual >>>> example, but you get the idea. >>>> >>>> The bottom line is this. To do a GTA03 right means starting with >>>> requirements. 100% complete requirements. set in stone... or quick >>>> setting cement. We had a couple of sayings in the jet fighter business. >>>> Design is like diving into a swimming pool of peanut butter. You better >>>> pick your landing zone right because there not much ability to swim >>>> around after you hit. And also, this: "engineers almost never make >>>> mistakes, the guys who set requirements do." >>>> >>>>> Isn't it possible to also develop hardware collaboratively? >>>> In one sense this is trivally true. hardware development is >>>> inherently collaborative. But I suppose you mean is it possible >>>> to do it in an open fashion. It maybe. But if the requirements process >>>> and design process is not rigorous and well defined you end up >>>> with expensive implementation problems. And if you don't have team >>>> consensus, then it's very problematic. Forking software is easy. >>>> Forking hardware is forking hard. The best example I can use is >>>> forking ASIC design. You can do a big chip with lots of functionality >>>> and then fork off 'defeatured' versions, but that forking needs to >>>> be designed in.and it may come with a cost. the same holds true >>>> for modular hardware designs. what's easy with lego blocks aint so >>>> trivial when it comes to EE design. >>>> >>>>> There are many hobby projects around in the net. These are really not >>>>> at a level as OpenMoko or in >>>>> general a device such as a mobile phone, but what is if we could get >>>>> preproduced components such >>>>> as the gsm 'plugin board'? >>>> The OM designs all used "modules" for GSM and modules for things like >>>> WIFI and BT as opposed to "down" designs or chips on PCBs. The diffculty >>>> is not in finding components or modules and system level design is >>>> fairly straight forward. The real difficulties come in areas like RF >>>> design ( a black art of sorts) and in the marriage of mechanical and EE. >>>> >>>>> I mean, if I am a crack in developing gsm stuff, but don't like to buy >>>>> a complete phone for it, I probably buy >>>>> the gsm module, say, with an interface connectable anyhow to a PC. >>>> 3G dongle >>>> >>>>> What I also think about, is why are there only PDF schematics >>>>> available? >>>> Well, we are looking at making the gerbers available under a licencing >>>> program. Stay tuned. >>>> >>>>> I have only heared about the dash derivat of openmoko device. Is it >>>>> because there is only a PDF available? >>>> No, we designed DASH electronics using Our existing design. As Sean >>>> points out in his presentation, this project proved to be a distraction >>>> from our main goals in that time period. Why? here's a solution for >>>> Dash, just take the existing design and make a few changes and recompile >>>> the hardware! >>>> >>>>> If it is possible to delegate hardware development tasks to the >>>>> comunity why isn't it done yet? >>>> I'm in the process of exploring this with a new list. However, you >>>> need to understand the process: >>>> 1. requirements: the community can help here. >>>> 2. Design: the community can help here: >>>> 3. Implementation: Build EVT boards. This is where you need money and >>>> infrastructure. So, if the community wanted to Build and buy EVT >>>> boards ( I actually suggested this to Sean) then that could happen. >>>> But an EVT board costs about 2 grand. I suppose if we had 20+ volunteers >>>> who wanted to do this, it could be done. But remember EVT boards often >>>> end up not working. Build 20, get 15. >>>> >>>> I'm not saying that it's impossible, but everyone who gets involved >>>> needs to know the mountain in front of them. >>>> >>>> And we havent even discussed ID. ID could be developed by the community. >>>> In fact, we had planned a design contest for alternative cases for the >>>> GTA03. With volunteer efforts you could probably make it through a first >>>> pass at ID and mech. here again samples are costly. early samples are >>>> done on CNC machines, later rapid prototypes (25K) and hard tooling >>>> is well over 100K. >>>> >>>>> So when also open up the real circuit 'source code' - the real CAD >>>>> files, would it give the real goal - the open mobile phone - a real >>>>> push? >>>> I'm looking into that. There is no fundamental objection to that. the >>>> terms and conditions are what I need to examine. Also, many people >>>> question the importance of gerbers. If you just want to copy the design >>>> as is and send those files out to have a PCB built, then having the >>>> gerbers saves you the time of reverse engineering from the schematics >>>> or reverse engineering from the actual board ( seen that done) but >>>> gerbers dont give you a theory of operations and design changes to a >>>> design you dont understand can have knock on effects: see the >>>> glamoectomy. >>>> >>>>> Then if there are some results that have a chance to become a real >>>>> 'next' phone, a company like openmoko could >>>>> think about producing some prototypes. So the company has a reduced >>>>> cost. >>>> without looking at actual numbers I would say 20% of the cost is >>>> in requirements and design and 80% in implementation, verification, >>>> production, test, and maintennce. Again, we are thinking down some >>>> similar paths, so your comments are welcomed. >>>> >>>>> There is one really good electronics project: The internal debug board. >>>> Ya I love werners stuff. Now, for a while, the GTA03 was going to have >>>> an internal debug board. The words flew kinda hot and heavy on that one. >>>> less than 50% of all buyers get a debug board. Should we include >>>> internal debug capability on every GTA03? I won't revisit that debate >>>> here. >>>> >>>>> This is only one sample that there are hardware developers out there. >>>>> Give them more food. >>>> That's what were are going to try to do. >>>> >>>>> My education in 1987 till 1990, was electronics engineering. I do not >>>>> any more practice in that area. So I stuck in some conflict >>>>> not to start any electronics projects, because I have the glue the >>>>> project will be a one man show and keep a hobby project. But >>>>> if there would be a collerative project I could join, I propably >>>>> would. And may it only getting more practice in laying out PCB boards >>>>> whose schematics other developers have created. >>>> Ok.. here comes a question. What layout tools? are there open source >>>> layout tools ( one hopes) and if not then what tool do we pick? >>>> Essentially, you are pitching the idea I'm going to try to get going. >>>> I'll make an announcement about it shortly, but my plate is pretty full >>>> and I can only volunteer a couple hours a day to help organize and guide >>>> it. >>>> >>>>> If that would be possible, then it would be a real open phone :-) >>>>> >>>>> End of arsing around. Is there a potential to create a hardware >>>>> development comunity? >>>> I think so. no harm in trying. >>>> >>>>> To avoid that each individual will start its own variant we could >>>>> using a vote system before any direction is done, say wich formfactor >>>>> is used, for sample. >>>> The voting approach will be discussed. Basically I dont believe in >>>> letting idiots vote. You dont want me voting on your layout and >>>> convincing everyone with my superb rhetoric that your 8 layer design >>>> can be accomplished in 2 layers.. you get my drift. The community will >>>> have to have SME ( subject matter experts) They will have to have some >>>> undemocratic powers. my view at least. >>>> >>>>> Sean: This would propably help continue GTA3 development. The risk to >>>>> produce it, would only invest some inspections of a new design >>>>> and doing integration tests. And even this could be donated. >>>> I asked sean the same. We are going to set up a mailing list at >>>> openmoko.org to get this started. >>>> >>>>> Dont let a great idea die. Delegate hardware development activities if >>>>> possible. We are a comunity. >>>>> >>>>> Lothar >>>>> >>>>> Am 05.04.2009 um 11:18 schrieb Johny Tenfinger: >>>>>> It seems like "plan B" doesn't share anything with phones and... >>>>>> Linux ;( >>>>>> >>>>>> 2009/4/5, David Reyes Samblas Martinez <david at tuxbrain.com>: >>>>>>> only add that replies are quite unfair to a any free project whatever >>>>>>> it succeed or not. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 2009/4/5 David Reyes Samblas Martinez <david at tuxbrain.com>: >>>>>>>> Yes very sad wrong titular "No More OpenMoko Phone " and very >>>>>>>> discorageus comentaries :( >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> 2009/4/5 robert lazarski <robertlazarski at gmail.com>: >>>>>>>>> http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/04/228240&art_pos=2 >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Not pretty. As someone who has been lurking on this list for 1 1/2 >>>>>>>>> years, patiently waiting to buy a phone but trying to avoid buzz >>>>>>>>> fix >>>>>>>>> parties if I could help it, I suppose its not surprising. On the >>>>>>>>> positive side, I'll stick around to see what happens with plan b >>>>>>>>> - if >>>>>>>>> that is there's anyone left to develop it and its not vapor. I like >>>>>>>>> the idea of Freerunner, just not its execution. I'd like to >>>>>>>>> surprised >>>>>>>>> though and see a turn around. And yes, I'll probably buy one that >>>>>>>>> ships without hardware problems. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> - R >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>> Openmoko community mailing list >>>>>>>>> community at lists.openmoko.org >>>>>>>>> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> David Reyes Samblas Martinez >>>>>>>> http://www.tuxbrain.com >>>>>>>> Open ultraportable & embedded solutions >>>>>>>> Openmoko, Openpandora, GP2X the Wiz, Letux 400, Arduino >>>>>>>> Hey, watch out!!! There's a linux in your pocket!!! >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> David Reyes Samblas Martinez >>>>>>> http://www.tuxbrain.com >>>>>>> Open ultraportable & embedded solutions >>>>>>> Openmoko, Openpandora, GP2X the Wiz, Letux 400, Arduino >>>>>>> Hey, watch out!!! 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Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942), better known as Gilberto Gil (Portuguese pronunciation: ), is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment. From 2003 to 2008, he served as Brazil's Minister of Culture in the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Gil began playing music as a child and was still a teenager when he joined his first band. He started out as a bossa nova musician, eventually writing songs that reflected a new focus on political awareness and social activism. He was a key figure in the Música Popular Brasileira and tropicália movements of the 1960s, alongside artists like longtime collaborator Caetano Veloso. The Brazilian military regime that took power in 1964 saw both Gil and Veloso as a threat, and the two were held for nine months in 1969 before they were told to leave the country. Gil moved to London, but returned to state of Bahia in 1972 and continued his musical career, as well as working as a politician and environmental advocate.
Gil's musical style incorporates an eclectic range of influences, including rock, Brazilian genres including samba and forró, African music, and reggae.


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Anonymity is an increasingly scarce commodity. Google's latest Transparency Report revealed government requests for data about users of its online services are increasing. It's not hard to find examples of threats to privacy — either intentional or unintentional.
However, for almost as long as there have been concerns about protecting privacy on the Internet, there have been tools available to do the job. In many cases these tools, such as GPG and Tor, are available for free. But it is one thing to have access to these tools, and another to cobble them together into an effective solution that preserves your identity from prying eyes.
Whonix is a project to build an operating system that will offer the maximum privacy and anonymity possible straight out of the box. Its creator, 'Adrelanos', says the aim is to make it as hard as possible for privacy-conscious users to make missteps when it comes to remaining anonymous. "It also provides loads of documentation and possibilities for interested users to make it even more secure," he says.
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Adrelanos says the project began because he wanted to run more than just a basic browser over the Tor network. At the time, online guides to remaining anonymous could often be contradictory.
"Running applications directly on a user's operating system was implicitly assumed," Adrelanos says. "Some people would argue for using proxy settings or a socksifier. Other argued that applications might not honour proxy settings or that there could be bugs in the socksifier, or even protocol leaks."
The guides on the topic were often partial and not updated to take new developments into account. "One guide had this precaution and another included different precautions, but none really included all important considerations," Adrelanos says.
The guides were also complicated and made a lot of assumptions or missed out important details. ("The left questions open like: How do I run the Tor Browser bundle behind a transparent Tor proxy while preventing Tor over Tor?" Adrelanos says)
"Starting fresh with a wiki page on the official Tor homepage looked like a good idea to me, to allow others to check if I badly messed up or to let others improve the guide so everyone profits."
"In the beginning the [Whonix] project wasn't even called project," he says. "It was called a guide named TorBOX and was a simple wiki page in the Torproject.org wiki." The original guide was created in January 2012.
"This guide became more and more sophisticated and because manually following the steps in it took a lot of time, shell scripts to make it easier were created by Anonymous. As building it became more time consuming and more complicated, and as more people became interested, the first binary builds were created by Anonymous."
Whonix itself is a virtualised operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux and uses VirtualBox for the hots VMs. It uses a dual VM design: The primary VM (Whonix-Workstation), which runs end-user applications, and a gateway (Whonix-Gateway) through which all network requests from the workstation VM are channelled, and which uses the Tor network.
"The Whonix-Workstation has, on purpose, no ability to find out its own real IP address," Adrelanos says. "This is because it has no direct network connection and can only connect to Tor on the Whonix-Gateway. The main goal is to stay anonymous. To hide the IP [address]."
"Technically 'IP hiding' is impossible." he adds. "It can only be replaced with another IP, and the Tor network was the best tool I found for this purpose. So the question was, how do I hide the IP from applications, if I am unable for technical and/or time reasons to check and/or modify all the applications in a very detailed manner?
"The transparent Tor proxy, where the applications have no way to find out the real IP address and can only find out their Tor exit node IP address, looked like the best approach."
In addition, a whole computing environment dedicated to anonymity is less likely to be confused with a user's standard computing environment, Adrelanos says, preventing inadvertent privacy breaches.
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Saw her at the Burbank airport about a year ago, she still looks great!
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Schümann and Stork back in business in Myslowice after a year of injury
The German team was seeded 15th out of 16 teams in the qualification tournament of the Polish age-group event on Tuesday. But by upsetting 2nd seeded Latvians Haralds/Armands (23-21, 16-21, 15-13) and 10th seeded Ukrainians Kravets/Denysenko (21-19, 21-13) they were one of the four teams advancing to main draw.
Schümann and Stork, both 22 years old, won bronze at the Youth World Championships in 2010 and at the CEV U20 in 2011. Stork also won a bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in 2012 with a different partner, but after that it went quiet.
"Last year we were both hurt", explained Schümann. "I had an injury to the finger and he was sick." Stork had a virus that kept him out for most of the season. It did not show on court on Tuesday, both players alternating spectacular digs with powerful attacks.
In Slupna Park in Myslowice they came back strong, upsetting the 2nd seeded Haralds Regza and Abolins Armands. Schümann: "It was a really tough match, we knew them from the semifinal at the CEV U20. Both our teams normally belong in main draw."
"I think we were stronger mentally", Stork said. "Personally I had a really tough game. It was really hot and the first set went into 23-21 and in the second one I had a total crash. And it was really tighed up in the end: 15-13."
Their second opponents of the day had a lucky break in the morning, because the other team forfeited. Schümann: "But maybe it was also an advantage for us, because we had the feeling of winning a match. For them it was the first match and they were really anxious."
Top seeded Norway
Norway's Andreas Takvam and Runar Torsvik Sannarnes lived up to the expectations as top seeded team in qualification. The silver medallists of the 2011 Youth World Championships booked two straight wins to advance to main draw.
After a 2-0 (24-22, 21-16) win over USA's Paulin/McCoy they also defeated Danish team Overgaard/Abell 21-18, 21-18.
In the first set against Denmark the Norwegian team took a lead from 16-11, but in the second it was point by point till 16-16. On their second match point Sannarnes scored the winning point with a smart attack down the line.
The heat, it was over 30 degrees Celsius, got to tall blocker Takvama after the match, but Sannarnes, son of former volleyball international Jan Gaute Sannarnes, had some energy left to talk about qualification. "We played two good teams, USA and Denmark. It was very warm and we had to keep pushing each other all the game. So it was very tough out there."
The Norwegians play a very attractive game, with lots of overhead setting and fast attacks through the middle. Sannarnes: "He is a middle player indoor and I am a setter. We have been playing together since we began playing volleyball. So we do a lot of middle attacks."
The 21-year old Takvam will return to Poland this winter. "He just got a contract in Poland, so he plays in Poland this winter and we play beach in the summer, because where we live there is no indoor beach volleyball in the winter."
About their chances the 20-year old Sannarnes said: "The U23 is a real high level, highest in our age-group. We are a bit younger and hope to get some experience in main draw and play as good as we can."
The other two teams to advance to main draw pool play are Russia's 6th seeded Firsov/Zhirkov and 5th seeded Buivids/Reinis from Latvia. A total of 36 teams, 6 pools of 6 teams each, from all five continents start in main draw on Wednesday.


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Reading 1: Herbert Hoover's Family Background
Jesse Hoover, with the help of his father, Eli, built a simple two-room cottage in the spring of 1871. The sturdy, cozy little home still stands on its original site at the corner of Downey and Penn streets in West Branch, Iowa. The timbers for this house probably came from Minnesota or Wisconsin because most of Iowa was covered by tall grass prairie. The logs would have been lashed together and rafted down the Mississippi River to a saw mill in Iowa. The finished lumber was then hauled to West Branch by ox cart.
The main room of the cottage served as living room, dining room, and kitchen. To reduce the heat in the house in the summer, the stove was moved to the back porch, which became a "summer kitchen." Jesse and Hulda Hoover's oldest child, Theodore, was nearly three years old when Herbert was born in 1874. Two years later their younger sister May was born. The whole family shared the single bedroom, with the boys sleeping together in a trundle bed pulled out from under their parents' bed.
Jesse Hoover prospered as a blacksmith and sold the cottage and shop in 1879. In May of that year, the Hoover family moved to a larger two-story house about one block south of the cottage, and as reported in the Local Record the family was "as snug as a bug in a rug." After selling the shop, Jesse Hoover purchased a building on the corner of Main and First streets where he began a farm implement business. Hoover proved to be a good businessman and quickly expanded his inventory to include pumps and wagons, and he also bought a machine to make barbed wire.
Then disaster struck: Jesse Hoover died of pneumonia on December 13, 1880, at the age of 34. Hulda Hoover kept her three children together by taking in sewing and accepting assistance from some of her relatives. She was often called upon to speak at the Quaker Meeting, and it was after returning from such a speaking trip to the nearby town of Springdale that she became ill with typhoid fever, from which she died in February 1884.
After Hulda's death, the Hoover children were separated. May was taken in by Grandmother Minthorn and Theodore went to live with his uncle, Davis Hoover. Herbert lived with his uncle Allan and aunt Millie Hoover on a farm northeast of West Branch.
The Allan Hoover farm was a busy place, as was typical of the time. The family made their own soap, wove their own rugs, sewed their own clothes, canned their own fruits and vegetables, and butchered hogs and cattle for meat. Farm families consumed about 80 percent of the products of their land and exchanged the remaining goods for other essentials and for the interest on the mortgage, which was a constant source of anxiety.
Hulda's estate provided $1.75 a week to Uncle Allan for Herbert's room and board, but this was reduced in return for Herbert's assistance with the chores. Herbert and his cousin Walter tended the garden and picked fruits and berries for Aunt Millie to can and preserve. Sometimes they earned extra money for special jobs: five cents a hundred to cut thistles, and two cents apiece for cleaning the barns. They even picked potato bugs at one cent a hundred. Herbert used some of his money to buy fish hooks. He used a butcher string for a line and a willow branch for a pole.
Although the work was hard, the farm provided adequate food, clothing, and shelter for everyone's health and comfort. However, Herbert Hoover's life once again was altered by a death, this time of the son of Dr. Henry John Minthorn, Hoover's uncle in Newberg, Oregon. Uncle Minthorn hoped that Herbert would replace this boy in their family, so he asked him to come to live in Oregon. In those days the railways had emigrant trains to the West. Each car was fitted with bare bunks and a kitchen stove. After some searching, an emigrant family was located that was willing to look after Herbert on the train to Oregon. Herbert was just 11 years old when his aunt Millie packed up some food and clean clothes and sent him off on the train.
1. What types of businesses did Hoover's father operate? Why would those businesses have been important in the economy of a town like West Branch?
2. What caused the deaths of Jesse and Hulda Hoover? How did their deaths affect the lives of their children? How have advances in health care reduced the dangers of death from those diseases?
3. How did young Hoover earn spending money? How does the amount he made compare with what you might earn today doing odd jobs?
4. Describe daily life on an Iowa farm in the late 19th century. How did families use their farm products? What types of goods would a family have to buy at a store? What is a mortgage and why was it such a burden?
5. How did another death within Hoover's extended family change his life again?
Reading 1 was compiled from Pat Wheeler, My Roots Are in This Soil (Eastern National Park and Monuments Association, 1976); and Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure, 1874-1920 (London: Hollis and Carter, 1952).


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 729 diseños de 174 diseñadores freelance.
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This stud has recently started with the aim of producing 'Royal Quality' Drum horses suitable for parade duties.
The Drum horse was originally bred by the Queen's Lifeguard's as a dignified parade animal to carry the silver Kettle drums that are the pride of the regiment. The Drum horses to this day lead the Edinbrough Military Tattoo and Trooping the Colour as well as many other ceremonial parades. As it was representing the regiment, it was bred to be a proud, strong and elegant animal, which hopefully be reflected in the winning design.
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The challenge will be including everything while trying to keep the design relatively simple.
The general idea would be having the front of the horse (or all of it, depending on your preference) in parade stance with the front left knee up as if walking. The head and arched neck being the main focus of the image. The neck should hopefully come across as very strong/defined, and the chin of the horse tucked in towards the shoulder. Instead of the standard 'flowing mane' look I was thinking of perhaps simple celtic knots to include the irish influence from the gypsy horses of the stud (as in the tattoo image, perhaps?). If you wish feel free to include an outline or the idea of the drums on the horse. Bridles and tack are also entirely optional. If you feel the Stud name will fit or improve the image, use it, if not, don't worry (can be shortened to T C Drums). Can be coloured, or black and white. I'll be back to offer help and suggestions! Good Luck!
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How Your Garage Can Make the Grade for Back-to-School Season
Once known as "that place you park your car," garages now serve as work rooms, craft corners, and entertaining and recreation spaces. In short, garages have become an extension of the home.
Most people prepare their home for the changing seasons, but many do not give their garages a second thought. Yet, updating garages can make them more functional while also improving the home's security and safety.
The Chamberlain Group, the manufacturer of LiftMaster (www.LiftMaster.com), a brand of professionally installed garage door openers and access solutions, offers tips for improving garages this fall:
* Create more storage space. As school begins, kids start to bring home sports equipment, so finding storage space may become an issue. But it's easy to create additional storage space — just look to the ceiling! Installing an innovative, yet powerful, side-mounted garage door opener, such as the LiftMaster Side-Mounted Opener, opens up space on the ceiling for storing bikes, sports equipment and kayaks that need to be put away until next summer.
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Kids may accidentally leave doors half-open. Keep your house from becoming vulnerable by installing a garage door monitoring system. The monitor, which can sit anywhere in your home, alerts you when the garage door has been left ajar.
* Always have a back-up plan. If you store your car in the garage and there's a power outage, you could find yourself stranded. Luckily, some garage door openers are capable of functioning even if the rest of the house has no power. For example, LiftMaster garage door openers with the EverCharge Standby Power System will open and close the door for up to two days without power.


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10 Irish Inventions that Changed the World
With St. Patrick's Day coming up this weekend, I thought i would share the 10 Irish Inventions that Changed the World infographic from GoIreland.com explores 10 of the greatest Irish inventions ever.
Ireland: The land of saints and scholars, right? Well, sort-of. Whatever about saints, this little island has certainly produced its fair share of clever clogs. For a country that makes no secret of some pretty audacious claims to fame (we even tried to claim that Barack Obama guy as one of our own!!), we have been remarkably quiet about some outstanding Irish inventions.
Modern chemistry? Tick. Color photography? Tick. Both Irish inventions, and, as you can see from the infographic, there are many more. And when it comes to refreshing beverages, it's not just Guinness that should come to mind. Raise a toast to soda water and chocolate milk, both Irish inventions to rival the black stuff.
Certainly more narrative than data visualizations, but they picked some fun and interesting inventions to include. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the sequence of events; they're certainly not in chronological order. I did notice that in the Atomic Bomb section, the visualization for 600,000 Volts actually shows 800,000 Volts.
Three things are missing from the bottom of the design: a copyright statement, the URL where readers can find the original infographic landing page and credit to the designer(s).
Thanks to Aidan for sending in the link!


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A spokesperson from Sussex Police said: "Sussex Police are currently on scene at a residence in Robertson Terrace, Hastings, in relation to an item being discovered.
"The item is a small piece of ordnance from World War Two."
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FIFTEEN more results like this and there will be few complaints from the Galpharm faithful!
Jamie McCombe grabbed his third goal in five games before Jordan Rhodes joined a select band of strikers to have notched 30 in a season for the club and it was job done in Simon Grayson's first match at the helm.
The new manager stuck with the same starting XI selected by Lee Clark in his last match in charge against Sheffield United as Town chalked up a very welcome first win in four games.
But there was a first outing of season for midfielder Joey Gudjonsson as the boss used his substitutes to good effect.
The Icelandic international, who was given a rousing reception when he replaced Anton Robinson, was part of a double swap on 64 minutes, with Lee Novak, who came on for Alan Lee, producing a bright cameo performance.
Danny Cadamarteri, who played the final stages in place of Gary Roberts, also did his bit as any chance of an Exeter fightback was finally quashed.
Town didn't have it all their own way against the dogged Devonians, who twice came close during a lively opening spell and had a 60th-minute penalty claim turned down when Daniel Nardiello went down under Jack Hunt's challenge.
But they did the bulk of the attacking, with Rhodes having a 71st-minute header ruled out for offside, and a first clean sheet in five matches was an added bonus.
While passes sometimes went astray, Grayson's players showed patience, persistence and a pleasing willingness to express themselves, with Jack Hunt and Danny Ward again forming a potent partnership down the right.
Ward was a very willing worker throughout, and having set up Town's first chance in the fourth minute, when Alan Lee glanced a header wide, got back well to dispossess Jake Taylor as the on-loan Reading man bore down on goal in a 10th-minute counter-attack.
Soon after Ward had a shot from the edge of the area blocked, and centre-back Sean Morrison put a cross against the outside of the right-hand post before Hunt put in the 30th-minute centre from which Rhodes brought a fine save from Polish keeper Artur Krysiak with a diving header.
The breakthrough goal finally came in the 40th minute.
Ward won a free-kick when James Dunne fouled him on the left and flighted the ball in for McCombe to guide home a header.
Exeter, who often had all 11 men behind the ball, did have chances.
Skipper David Noble drilled a long-range free-kick wide just 90 seconds in while McCombe made a vital block to thwart Nardiello as he shot from Taylor's pass a minute later.
Alex Smithies had to be alert to gather Liam Sercombe's snap shot on 10 minutes, and the Town keeper then beat away a fizzing effort from former Barnsley man Nardiello on 27.
And while Town continued to have the better of things in the second half, Exeter did have that penalty appeal before Noble put an effort over.
Ward was still making a nuisance of himself while Novak came close in the 67th minute, when he took possession from Gobern, cut in from the left and put the ball just over the bar.
When Rhodes had his header from McCombe's flick-on disallowed, it looked as if the wait for a 30th goal might carry on.
But his floated 85th-minute finish after Novak neatly laid off Gobern's delivery was real class.
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