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|1. Punk, you introduced me to Straight Edge and it's helped me tremendously. I just want to ask: Who or where did you pick up Straight Edge from? Minor Threat, who else? 2. I heard about the gimmik wwe wants to use for u as in being a Deaf guy.do u like that idea? and do u plan to wrestle any more future matches in R.O.H? Yes, I love it. Afterall, it was on the internet, so it must be true. 3. Do fans often give you gifts? If so, what are some of the coolest things you've received? Japanese fans always gave lots of rad gifts. I got a photo album once of my debut Kouraken hall from a cute japanese girl. 4. 1. Maby it is kind of stupid question but what is CM Punk`s favorite song of all time? 2. Is it hard to be an sXe in "wrestling world"? 3. Why WWE??? I think you know what i mean... 1...It's not a stupid question at all, however a hard one to answer. I listen to a wide scopeof music, it'd be way to hard and time consuming to pick one song. At the moment I can't stop listening to Cold Plays 'Fix You', and have been on a huge Ramones kick lately. 'Judy is a Punk' can't be beat. 2...no, it's not hard at all. It's hard to sleep. 3...I have no idea what you mean. 5. What will you do if wwe misuses you like they did with guys like shannon moore and so on? I'll go out and purchase a hummer and buy a nice house, just like he did. 6. Is the WWE going to make you change your finisher, since a variation of the move is used by Triple H? Yeah, they want me to beat people via count out ala the BERZERKER. Or maybe it was the anaconda vice...I forget. 7. Hey man, i first and for most have to start by sayin that becouse of you i have a whole new outlook at life. Ok now to the question.. I'm starting my wrestling career at the moment here in milwaukee, im 16 and i evem have a 14 foot ring in my backyard. I'm being traind every weekend when i have the chance to. Do you have any pointers or tips for me as I go down the road of wrestling? Get out of your backyard, get boots and gear, work anywhere you can for whatever money you're offered. Don't jump off your roof, that never got anybody anywhere... 8. i just want to know where it is you got your kickpads? i really need a good pair of kickpads. Japan. 9. I was wondering what kind of work out Punk does, and what body part he focuses on the most. I got this question a lot, and it's cool to me that people are interested. It'll take some time, but i'll write up some stuff and have it posted on the site. Working out to me is like crack to Tyronne Biggums. 10. I want to know how you got started in the wrestling buissness and how they all treated you? I got trained by Ace Steel and Kevin Quinn. They beat me up a lot. Mostly Quinn, as Ace was busy eating burritos. 11. Do the doctors expect the hearing loss to be permanent? I'm not really sure. I'm supposed to follow up again in a couple weeks, but that probably won't happen. Hearing is overrated. 12. Hey Phil is there still heat between you and Teddy Annis (Hart) over your brawl in the cafe which cost you job in TNA? Or have you settled your differences. This is a whole giant can of worms. I blame the internet. Fans who know wrestlers real name are pretty smart. Fans who call wrestlers their real names are pretty fuckin' stupid. And oh look, you even know Teddys real name. Good on you. Raven once wrote the greatest rant about calling wrestlers by their real name, and I feel the same exact way. Look it up and you'll understand why it's insulting to me, and most other wrestlers. Also,TNA didn't get rid of me because of the little slap fight Teddy and I got into. They told me to stop working for ROH, and I refused. 13. After working in Zero-One in 2003 would you have liked to work more Japan dates before you signed your OVW deal with WWE? I turned down a couple tours this year because I wanted to focus on the stories I was telling in ROH. Japan was my second favorite place in the whole world, and i'd love to go back, but the timing and money was never right before I signed my deal... 14. What happened after the RoH show in Woodbridge, CT with the kid and you? I chased him three blocks, he ran between some houses and hid in the bushes. P.S....the other question you sent in was really stupid. 15. Ok, what is your opinion gay marriages? Are you against or for them or what? Marriage is a totally out dated concept. Gay, straight, whatever. The fact that there's a bunch of cunts out there that have an OPINION on somebody elses lifestyle and don't want them to have the same basic human rights everybody else has makes me want to clobber some rebublicans. Fuck the religious moral majority, let whoever wants to marry whoever, get the fuck married. I love the moral high horse hypocrisy bullshit. I know super religious pricks do tons of steroids, but a homosexual life style to them is reprehensible. Fuck that. 16. Here's my question... Hey Punk, First I just want to say I ruptured my eardrum and lost 40% of the hearing in my left ear 2 years ago and it was excruciating. So I'm sending you a big hug sweetie and want to tell you that it's incomprehensible to me to think of not taking anything for that pain. I don't have the words to tell you how much respect I have for you. Now my question which I guess is a little silly but I've been dying to know for ages. Can you please please tell the boxers/hot tub contest with Chris Daniels story? The curiosity has been killing me slowly since you first mentioned it in your LJ. Best question asked by far! I may tell ya the story, or I may start typing it all up and get sick of writing about a bunch of stupid cunts that are involved in the story. Only time will tell.....great question though. 17. What is your opinion of straight edge and the question of veganism? Do you think being vegan is an important part of being a straight edge or is it just an addition to the no drugs philosophy? Vegan has absolutely nothing to do with being Straight Edge. 18. If you had to choose one thing for people to remember you by (Match, Promo, Angle...whatever) what would you choose. I have no choice in the matter. By boyish good looks, and my promo ability. 19. How was your match against Val Venis on heat back in May (I think)? Do you feel it was a great match for your style? I thought it was pretty good and it was nice to see you in a WWE ring. Hope to see you again on wwe tv! That match ruled. I credit it to being a huge reason as to why I got hired. Simply a very solid match, and I got to be me. 20. I was just wondering how are you enjoying working with Paul E., Al Snow, Danny Davis, et al down here in Louisville? I love it. Lots of great, and different minds to learn from. 21. Hey, Punk I looked up about why it is insulting for wrestlers such as yourself to be called by your first name and i also read the Raven rant you mentioned, so I understand it all now. So my question to you Punk is who was your favourite wrestler(s) growing up and influenced you into professional wrestling? Jerry Fox mostly. 22. Name the biggest advtantage of being straight edge and the biggest disadvantage, too. The advantage is i'm strong for real. I'm not going to tear anything, or have my kidneys fail anytime soon. The disadvantage is people trying to critize me for it, for that just leads to bloody faces and such. My favorite is when some kid tells me i'm not straight edge because I eat meat. WISDOM! 23. 1.In the WWE is there anyone you have looked forward to be working with? Like Shawn Micheals, or even Chris Benoit... 2. Have you ever thought the WWE have made some bad choices for letting people go? My goal is to work Eddie again. Benoit is a given. I can't wait to work HBK, HHH too. Anybody really. Selton Benjamin anyone? Yeah, i'd say there's some great matches ahead.....Kurt Angle! Fat Trevor Murdoch! 24. Who are you most looking forward to stepping in the ring with in WWE? (Personally I'd love to see you feud with Eddie and Jericho) and are you a Sage Francis fan? See above for answer, and who the hell is Renee Zell Wedger? 25. I was wondering if you have a favourite quote or a quote which you live by. "Every day above ground is a good day" and "luck is for losers" Also, "up yours" and "go fuck yourself" 26. What Show(Raw or Smackdown)do you think you will end up on? Raw, but that's purely speculation. I want to make people nervous with a live mic in my hand. 27. Are you going to ever ware your Long Shorts again. No. 28. So far what has been your biggest achievement in Wrestling? Switching to trunks. 29. Hey Punk! I just wanted to ask you who some of your favorite female wrestlers were and if you had to have a female valet who would you want it to be? I'd love for Rocky Romero to be my valet. He's my favorite female wrestler. At the moment, Bull Nakano, Beth Pheonix, and Daziee Haze are my favs. 30. Hey Punk. I'm a huge fan of yours and hope you take WWE by storm. At this current moment at time, which wrestlers do you think will be the big break out stars on the indie scence in 2006? Davey Andrews, Shane Hagadorn, and I fully expect my other bastard children Jimmy Rave and Rodderick Strong to continue on their path of awesomeness. Sydal and Delirious as well, if they can get rid of that pesky Daziee "the" Haze. 31. What do you think about fans cheering for you even though your a heel? Does it bother you or are you ok with it? I cheered for you at the OVW show in Indy last weekend and you looked really good in the match. You gave me the "If i wanted your help id ask for it", I was just wondering if its ok for fans to do it or do you hate it. I was one who shouted James "By God" Gibson and im pretty sure you let out a quiet "armadilla". Thanks for that by the way. It's an interesting arguement. I always say people can cheer or boo whoever they want to. This is the biggest reason to not follow any sort of a script while wrestling. Feel the crowd, go where they want, and take them on a ride.... 32. When you get to the WWE, what kind of gimmick would you not wrestle under? How about Roger Tomko, Tyson Tomko's younger brother or Sandy Castles the hippie with attitude. How about your email name being the best way to possibly describe you? 33. What CDs or tapes are in your car stereo right now? I have an Ipod. I'm rich. Thanks to StevieCorp! I'm currently listening to a lot of the Warriors, Throwdown, Elvis, and Motown. 34. Do you get annoyed with all the 'anti-WWE' sentiment from the 'smart fans'? Yup. A lot of fans negativity is par for the course. The ones who shit talk the wwe are the ones who are glued to their sets every Monday night. Trust me. 35. Dear CM Punk, First I want to let you know, that you have (at least!) one big fan in Luxembourg! Secondly, as I know, you have already wrestled a few times in Europe. So, what is your opinion about Europe, about the lifestyle, the people and, of course, the wrestling? Dude, i'm HUGE in Luxembourg. As far as Europe goes, Germans don't know how to drive. England has the most piss poor transvestites i've ever seen. Wales likes to throw lit cigarettes at me. I love Europe, I love the weather, I always found it a bit hard to eat properly while over there. P.S. Fuck France. 36. I love the tattoo's you have. I was wondering if you could explain what the cards mean and the one that looks to be some sort of fish?(Can't really tell in any pics I've seen) The cards are part of my "luck is for losers" piece. The ace of spades is the face card for none other than Ace Steel. The fish is a japanese koi fish, a symbol of good luck (also part of the same piece). Mine has three eyes in honor of Blinky the radioactive fish from the Simpsons. 37. Might seem like a totally idiotic question but I've been wondering for awhile what make of hair spray/dye you use and if its bought off the internet or a high street store somewhere. No man, the only Ex of mine i'm civil with does my hair. She's super rad, super hot, and has a brain as well (which is probably why she's my Ex.) Smart girl. 38. I've got 3 fast questions for you..1) What would be your first sentence in the ring facing off Triple H? .. 2) Was the pain during tattoing d-r-u-g etc. on your knuckles worse than in other part? .. 3) Will you try to be the main star of Rick Noon II? Without any further ado....number ONE! "Where you want to go eat after the show?" number TWO! Getting knuckles done doesn't hurt number THREE! There can be no other star of anything Rick Noon is involved in except rick noon himself. 39. If you get fired from wwe would you go back to roh or any other fed? No. I will sign a fat Pride contract and get paid more money than you'll ever see in your entire life to get knocked out by Mirko CroCop in under 7 seconds in what Dave Meltzer will hail as the best shoot fight of the year due to my aweome attempt to tell the ref that he pulled my hair. 40. Pepsi Plunge, Okay, so what is that move anyway? I heard through the grapevine that it was a Greeting-from-Asbury-Park variation, but I'm still not sure. Thank you for your response. It's a flying bengal tiger over-the-top-rope kung fu high kick. 41. Are you going to ever join the World Wrestling Entertainment anytime soon? No. 42. I come from a town where kids start drug and alcohol abuse by the time theyre 12 or 13, and are ultimatly junkies by the time they reach 15. with that said, I think that sXe is an amazing way to live and is the way to go. what are the basic "rules" of Straight Edge? is it like scientology in that there is no medication accepted? No Drugs. No alchohol. No promiscuous sex. 43. Punk, I was wondering if you knew whether you're going to be on the European tours this November at all? Any chance you'll be coming to Dublin? I'm not on TV yet, so no chance of me going, although i'd give many pints of blood in a grizzly fashion to be able to go. Dublin!!! 44. Pedro - Hey CM, big fan of yours. Everyone has been talking about your debut in the WWE and I am looking forward to it myself. You're the future and everyone believes so as well. My question is, if the WWE came to you and gave you the power to bring someone from ROH as your tag team partner who would it be? Also, my favorite type of match in the WWE is the Royal Rumble Match, what match would you love to be in the most and why? Colt Cabana would be my pick for my tag partner. I would love to be in a rumble myself, but only if I was either the gut in the shortest amount of time, or the guy in the longest. There is no inbetween for me. 45. Hello Punk, I was wondering if you have seen CP Munk and if so what where your thoughts on that? I haven't seen it, but i've seen pictures. I'm split 50/50 on it. Some days I get real pissed about it, because it's disrespectful. I'm sure it's no secret that the dorks that run Chikara and I don't get along, so they're judgement on trying to "mock" me is a little off. Most other days I just laugh it off because nobody from Chikara will ever be over enough anywhere for anybody else to parody them. I win. 46. What are your favorite ways to relax and enjoy yourself when you're not on the road or working out? Working out. 47. What is the best piece of advice you've ever recieved over the course of your professional wrestler career? Be yourself. Don't doubt yourself. Keep your mouth shut, eyes and ears open. SAVE YOUR MONEY. 48. Been coming out to OVW for the last few weeks now,and ive noticed a odd trend.Every week it seems that more and more kids are claiming that their "straight edge".This wouldnt be such a bad thing if they were actualy true to it and knew exactly what being straight edge was about.Ive been sxe for 5 years now and i tend to get aggravate when numerous kids are basicaly disrepecting my lifestyle. My question to you is.What are your thoughts on the temporary claimers?You know the ones that will say there edge as long as they like you? I've been edge since I was 15, so that's 12 years. So you could be a "temporary claimer" for all I know. I've seen and heard it all before and the only thing I can tell you is don't be straight edge for anybody else. I'm straight edge for me. I'm not a hard liner, I don't care who drinks, who smokes, as long as nobody is pouring anything down my throat or blowing smoke in my face, I give no fuck. I've had people tell me i'm not straight edge because I eat meat, or because i have tattoos. It's all assine. The only thing that irks me is when people say "I used to be straight edge", because if you're not now, you never were. Thus the phrase, "true 'til death". There's sellouts all around us, I have no use for 'em, I worry about me. 49. My friends and I are talking about taking a trip to Indiana for an OVW house show. Are you working all OVW house shows? Or do they randomly assign you to them? What are your top five albums of all time? 1.) I'm on all the house shows. 2.) Okay, great fucking question! Clint Smith gets a gold star! In absolutely NO order, I stress again, NO ORDER. Also subject to change on a daily basis, depending on mood, weather, season, which body part I happen to be working on in the gym, and many other variables: Faith no Mores Angel Dust. Rocket from the Crypts RFTC Misfist box set (yes you crummy fuckers, it counts). CCR choronicles vol. 1. Ice Cubes the Predator. Rancids Let's go. Metallicas ...and Justice for All. Less Than Jakes Borders and Boundries. Bouncing Souls Maniacal Laughter. The Clashs London Calling. Yes, that's ten. And I left out SO fucking much is insane. Hmmmm....maybe a top twenty five is in order so I don't have to leave so much out.....Minor Threat, stray cats, motown stuff, stevie wonder, elvis B-side collection. Fuck, I could go on forever...really, really intelligent question, thank you so much. 50. 1) What chant pisses you off more: You Sold Out or You Fucked Up? 2) Seeing as you have an iPod, do you listen to any of the wrestling podcasts out there, or any podcasts in general? 3)What's the worst thing a crowd can do in a wrestlers eyes, to legit piss them off? 1.) Chants don't piss me off, except the really lame forced deuling chants. 2.) I have no idea what a podcast is. 3.) Well, you could hit the wrestler, THAT would piss 'em off. I don't suspect you'd walk out of the building though. 51. 1) What are your thoughts on Steve Corino coming out dressed like you at a recent Ring of Honor show? and 2) What do you think of Josh Prohibition and him using the Straight Edge gimmick? 1.) Corino is a friend, honestly what he was his way of paying homage to me since he couldn't in in Chicago for my last show. I colaberated a bit with him on it, I loved it, and I now know what I'll look like when i'm sixty. Thanks Steve! 2.) Straight edge isn't a gimmick, Josh is really edge. His mom also makes the BEST chicken and biscuits. I miss him and M-dude. 52. Your trilogy with Joe is godly. I can't write exactly how you've had an impact on my life in this email, but just know that you have, and not with your straight edge ways particularly. Question: I'm going to be a pro wrestler one way or another and I'm 16. I have the option of training at a local school here in Australia while attending University, or finishing Uni and then move overseas to train at hopefully a better school. Which would you recommend? Would it be best to try and move overseas and train while in University? I get this question a lot. Finish school. If you can jugggle school and training, go for it. Move overseas AND train while still going to University? That might prove to be difficult. My stamp of aproval obviously goes on the ROH school. Nowhere else boasts not only the facilites, but the ability to learn from such talents as Samoa Joe to Jim Cornette. As far as the few who have asked me about local Chicago schools, i'm a bit out of the loop. I'm not sure if Eric Priest is taking on any new students, but that's the best place in Chicago to learn your craft. Eric Priest and I have trained side by side, and he gets my stamp of approval hands down. 53. Does he have a myspace account? I have seen many other wrestlers on myspace, and was wondering if he had an account as well. If he does, could I have the URL to his page? Nope, no My Space. 54. Did you have to endure constant peer pressure to give into the evils of drinking and/or taking drugs? And if so, how did you deal with it? I've never wanted to drink, smoke or do drugs. Peer pressure to me makes zero sense, as my entire life, I didn't care what other people did. I also never cared what people thought of me. The thought of somebody not thinking I was "cool" because I didn't drink was always laughable to me. 55. Hey Punk. I've got some quick questions. First one: What's you're favorite Cartoon Series, like the simpsons. And who's you're favorite character? Have you ever been in Denmark? Because I noticed in a Farewell Tribute that you had a shirt with a Danish flag on it. Thanks for answering. Ümit Ajrula 1.) G.I. Joe. Although starkly different then the comic book, it still had it's moments. Some great memories of watching those in my younger days. Favorite characters on the TV show would include: Ship Wreck, Destro, and the Baroness. Lord they had some great voice actors. 2.) Ya know, I have no clue if i've ever been to Denmark, so that probably means no. I also have no clue about a shirt I own with the danish flag on it. Weird. You're welcome for answering, thank you for thanking me. 56. What era of wrestling would you have liked to be in? The current era? The Attitude era? The NWO prime? The cartoonish 80s or one of the old school eras of the 70s or before? I was born twenty years late. To be able to travel from territory to territory learning and growing as a wrestler and just wrestling nine times a week would've been rad.


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I kiss my baby on the mouth and I love it. Love it, love it, love it. I started doing it minutes after my daughter was born, and nine months later, when she's teething and drooly, our make-out sessions are still going strong.
In all honesty, I thought this was something all moms did. Until I did it in front of a friend the other day, and she went: "Oh, you do that?"
"What?" I laughed. "Mouth-kiss my baby?"
"Yeah," she said giggly and disgusted. "I'm not really into that."
"I always do it," I said, karate-chopping a line of drool.
A third mom-friend who was there chimed in, "Oh, I do it, too."
But our one friend wasn't having it. So, clearly all moms aren't mouth-kissers.
My husband has never been a huge fan of planting kisses on our daughter's lips. "Do it," I sometimes tell him. "It feels so good." He'll give her a sweet little peck on her tiny baby kisser, but it's clear he's more into cheek, head, and tummy smooches.
So, what is it? It's not just a dude thing if other moms aren't into it. Personally, I think it's sweet. In fact, it's my very favorite place to kiss my baby. She's even now taken to "giving kisses back", AKA she opens her mouth up wide when I say, "Give mama a kiss" in a high-pitched squeal.
The thing is, I know there will come a time when my daughter isn't as enthusiastic or delighted to kiss me as she is now. There will come a time when mouth-kisses definitely aren't welcomed, and in fact, they'll be weird. That time is very far off, but I'm dreading it. So, I don't know, maybe I'm trying to get as much out of her babyhood as I possibly can. Maybe I want to be as close as humanly possibly right now. Maybe I want to do things that only a mama can/is willing to do to, in some odd way, express my love.
Or maybe I'm just gross.
Do you kiss your baby on the mouth?
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Joined: 14 Jul 2017
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 1:27 pm
Post subject: Practical Uses for the NeXT Cube
I bought a Cube & printer NOS. Then bought some upgrades from Rob B.
I am using it with Soft PC to Run DOS programs and it does that well.
Do any of you have PRACTICAL uses for this machine?
Do you have ot hooked up to the internet? Or are getting any special benefits out of software or hardware upgrades that make it useful to you?
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Location: St Gallen, Switzerland
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 1:44 am
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I don't think there's any practical use at all. Computing power is so much limited by today's standards that it's almost impossible to find any practical application.
By practical application I mean just getting to a similar result you would get with modern tools in a way or another, no matters if it takes hours instead of minutes.
Email nope, spreadsheets nope (almost), internet nope, and so on and so forth.
Seriously: thanks to god 30 years have not passed by in vain. At least when it comes to IT.
The only end use I could see is for word processing, if you are patient.
You could do that back in the late eighties with whatever Macintosh with a 68k processor and a 9" screen, you can still do that with a NeXT in a fairly decent and modern looking word processing environment (e.g. Word Perfect).
You would then move documents around via network (yes, of course it is possible to hook the Cube to the internet).
However, the point of owning such a piece of hardware goes beyond practicality.
It's like owning, driving and maintaining a classic car.
An original Mini Cooper from the 60s will never match the comfort, the efficiency, the performance of whatever modern hot hatch, but from time to time it will just give you that thrill modern automobiles completely lack of.
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 5:44 am
Post subject: Got it
But I am GOING to do this. BTW as far as cars go, I drive a 1990 Lamborghini Countach so my car goes well with my NeXT.
So if anyone can give me some advice as to how to do a massive processor & RAM upgrade and hook it to the internet, I would appreciate it.
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 6:23 am
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Can't help with ram and processor upgrades, as my machines are basic ones.
However, if you search for posts under my name, you will find some hints on how to connect to the internet a 030 Cube and some other stuff too.
Pics are missing, though, due to broken links.
If you need them or have some specific requests, feel free to reach me privately.
As for the car, I have no doubts that using NeXTs will feel as rewarding and as eventful as driving your gorgeous Countach from the nineties.
Be ready to deal with same kind of impracticality, though.
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 7:12 am
Post subject: Will do!
Thanks for the help.
I will call mine the Super-Cube.
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Location: Northfield, MN USA
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 6:33 pm
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Cubes are sufficient unto themselves and aren't required to be practical.
Kind of like cats
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Location: Kamloops, BC
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 8:07 pm
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Well, in theory you can setup an exchange server at home on another computer that syncs with your everyday mail accounts securely and then have the mailbox accessible from within the LAN. The reason you gotta do it this way is if I recall NeXTmail has virtually no support for encryption.
The utter lack of an office suite (I seem to recall Microsoft refused to port Office to NeXTSTEP) also really blows the legs off basic functions. Sure there are still graphing, word processing and spreadsheet applications but none are really compatible with modern office software compared to a copy of Microsoft Office from the early 90's.
Multimedia is also a no-go. Even if to stream media as a server you jsut don't have the bandwidth to do HD. SD with one user connected, possibly, but that is it.
In the end I have spent more time with the software that is available that is
strikingly similar to first name software, but something's just a little off
and using it as an IRC client.
-NeXT 68040 Cube with NS 3.3 and 64Mb ram
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Location: Québec
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 8:45 pm
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The only practical use for me was to learn software development on NeXTSTEP, for the sheer pleasure of it. It is of some interest if you keep in mind how advanced it was in the 90's. It can also be interesting if you see it as a challenge, considering how limited the hardware is.
That being said, I agree with the others : modern computing on a NS/OS workstation isn't feasible.
Happy owner of a NeXTstation Turbo Color.
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 4:25 am
Post subject: My Solution
My solution to this is- to add both OSX and/or Win 7 to the system on a separate drive.
You can then boot to windows, NEXTStep or OSX. Just like a multiboot system I have on my own laptop.
A separate card with more RAM and multiple processors in the GHZ range will be on that card.
I am suggesting much the same thing that Orange Systems did with Macs to give them IBM compatibility in the 1990s. They built a card with a whole IBM PC on it- chip, ram, HD and so on. Then you plugged the card-computer into a slot on a power mac.
All of my slots are free so I just need to design the card.
The difference is I am not trying to "jury rig" NEXTSTep to do things it cannot do. BUT I do want to upgrade the processor that NEXTStep uses. I believe someone on this thread said it could handle a Pentium I at 133MHZ. Ok that would be a great upgrade.
I know this sounds ambitious and a little silly. I mean, why put an IBM/MAC inside a NeXT? Just use a Mac with Parallels or VMware. The answer is I am tinkerer and enthusiast.
I am trying to climb the proverbial mountain because it is there, so to speak.
And be nice and helpful to me on this one you experts- today is my birthday
Thanks again for all of your input and advice.
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 11:25 pm
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You'd have to run the i386 version of NEXTSTEP OS on normal white PC hardware, not a cube, if you wanted to have the fastest NeXT setup.
I know that there are accelerator cards for the Amiga (which is also has a 68k) which mimics the m68k so maybe something is doable for the NeXT although being a huge job.
If I were to own a real cube, though, I would probably use it for light web browsing, (it seems to be fast enough and quite usable inside of Previous, the emulator)
news readers, word processing, chatting on IRC, but mostly the terminal app, so I could telnet into my iMac and do command line stuff on that nice keyboard and megapixel display. Using it for these kinds of tasks wouldn't make you feel like you're being less productive for using it.
It seems you could use it for mail too (
) but I've never tried it.
ps always wanted a countach, nice
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Thanks, how EXACTLY do I browse the web? Can you advise me?
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JohnK801 wrote:
Thanks, how EXACTLY do I browse the web? Can you advise me?
I can try to help as much as I can. The cube has an ethernet interface built in so I think you might just have to connect it to your router via the RJ45. Then you'll probably have to configure the cube for the network using the HostManager app (found in NextAdmin, click on Local... in the HostManager app menu)
I'm not too familiar with this step so you might need to ask around on the forum.
After getting networking up and running, I'd use the Terminal and the ftp client to connect to an ftp server and download the web browser OmniWeb. It's available on the web here:
But I don't know any NeXT FTP servers, you might need to ask around as I didn't have much luck having a quick search.
Feel free to ask more as I was a bit vague but it generally is how I would go about it.
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If you have a 030 machine, you also need an adapter and some other bites, just follow the thread Black Hardware > Networking Guide and you will find basically anything you need.
However, no matters if you have a 040 or 030 machines, browsing todays internet with a 25+ years old piece of hardware is an utterly lousy experience. Its technically doable and for sure I personally advise you to pursue this project for the sake of learning something and having some fun trying, but means not its of any practical use.
You can browse this forum (very slowly, though), for example, but indeed little else, just text based sites.
It might be something decent via software emulators, but at the end of the day it will taste unnecessarily complicated and artificial, especially considering that modern Apple OSes are still partially based on the very same foundations.
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Hello All: So we are working on a path to this with Brian Howard and Brian Archer.
So Brian has a working solution here
Here is the modded ATX power supply in a cube , yes this powers a cube motherboard
So why not go faster like the countach thinking I9 mini ITX board, yep we are working on it , the advantages here is it screams for a few thousand more , generates a lot less heat ...... then there is this ....
holy smokes, were we are going we won't need roads!
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Hello All: So we are working on a path to this with Brian Howard and Brian Archer.
So Brian has a working solution here
Here is the modded ATX power supply in a cube , yes this powers a cube motherboard
So why not go faster like countach like I7 ITX , yep we are working on it mini , the advantages here is it screams for a few hundred more , generates a lot less heat
holy smokes!
I had the Super Cube published awhile back
lol so my mom and dad always would laugh because for many years I kept taking there old pc and upgrading what started out as a 286 through Core2 Duo now he prefers his Ipad , mom still struggles with the Iphone but in their 80's they are doing well and heck of a lot less tech support for me sometimes. My dad enjoyed the many missions for me picking up NeXT's around country , especially after he retired from United!
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I have recently come across an interestng problem while working on my random variable implementation for BIP. Any type in Python is expected to have a __str__(self) method which returns an adequate and expressive string representation of the object. Well, as far as I could think, the most straightforward representation of a random variable is its probability distribution. Probability distributions most often depicted graphically by a continuous density function, or a histogram. So my challenge was how to bring the information conveyed by a histogram to a concise ascii string, suitable to be the output of a print statement?
I immediately rejected the boring solution of representing the distribution by its moments (mean, variance, skewness, etc.). I wanted a full histogram in as few ascii characters as possible. So I set out to implement my own ASCII histogram generator. I can anticipate that it was a very simple task given the handy histogram function in Numpy and how easy it is to do string formatting in Python. It was nevertheless a fun couple of hours of programming. I ended up implementing a horizontal and a vertical histogram. The ascii histogram proved to be very useful since it helped enormously in debugging code involving probability calculations with simple print statements. Probabilistic simulations are extremely hard to test because the results of a given operation are never strictly the same. However, they should have the same probability distribution, so by looking at the rough shape of the histogram, you tell you if your calculations are going in the right direction.
Curiously, such a simple and expressive representation for probability distributions is not available in any package I knew, so I decided to share the code with the scientific Python community so that people that may put it to good use. The code below is part of BIP and consequently under GPL license. Any suggestions of improvements are welcome.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
class Histogram(object):
Ascii histogram
def __init__(self, data, bins=10):
Class constructor
- `data`: array like object
self.data = data
self.bins = bins
self.h = histogram(self.data, bins=self.bins)
def horizontal(self, height=4, character ='|'):
"""Returns a multiline string containing a
a horizontal histogram representation of self.data
- `height`: Height of the histogram in characters
- `character`: Character to use
>>> d = normal(size=1000)
>>> h = Histogram(d,bins=25)
>>> print h.horizontal(5,'|')
106 |||
-3.42 3.09
his = """"""
bars = self.h[0]/max(self.h[0])*height
for l in reversed(range(1,height+1)):
line = ""
if l == height:
line = '%s '%max(self.h[0]) #histogram top count
line = ' '*(len(str(max(self.h[0])))+1) #add leading spaces
for c in bars:
if c >= ceil(l):
line += character
line += ' '
line +='\n'
his += line
his += '%.2f'%self.h[1][0] + ' '*(self.bins) +'%.2f'%self.h[1][-1] + '\n'
return his
def vertical(self,height=20, character ='|'):
Returns a Multi-line string containing a
a vertical histogram representation of self.data
- `height`: Height of the histogram in characters
- `character`: Character to use
>>> d = normal(size=1000)
>>> Histogram(d,bins=10)
>>> print h.vertical(15,'*')
-2.14: ***
-1.51: *********
-0.87: *************
-0.23: ***************
0.41 : ***********
1.04 : ********
1.68 : *
2.32 :
his = """"""
xl = ['%.2f'%n for n in self.h[1]]
lxl = [len(l) for l in xl]
bars = self.h[0]/max(self.h[0])*height
his += ' '*(max(bars)+2+max(lxl))+'%s\n'%max(self.h[0])
for i,c in enumerate(bars):
line = xl[i] +' '*(max(lxl)-lxl[i])+': '+ character*c+'\n'
his += line
return his
if __name__ == "__main__":
from numpy.random import normal
d = normal(size=1000)
h = Histogram(d,bins=10)
print h.vertical(15)
print h.horizontal(5)


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For over 20 years, award winning Marin photographers Rob Badger and Nita Winter have produced exquisite photographs of California wildflowers that connect us to the beauty of the Golden State while raising awareness of threats that natural habitats face from climate change. The exhibition spotlights flowers associated with the state's many geographic regions, the photographic techniques involved in capturing these delicate subjects and the expanding impact of human activity on wild spaces. This exhibit originated at the San Francisco Public Library and is traveled by Exhibit Envoy. Additional support provided by Amy Bowen Neel and the Sun House Guild. A sampling of Grace Hudson's wildflower paintings will also be on display.


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"So when he had washed their feet and put his garments back on and reclined at table again, he said to them, "Do you realize what I have done for you? You call me 'teacher' and 'master,' and rightly so, for indeed I am. If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another's feet. I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do." (John 13:14-15)
Oftentimes some folks get distracted by the celebration of what is commonly viewed as the institution of the celebration of the Eucharist on Holy Thursday to the point where its meaning is lost. Yes, the celebration of the Lord's Supper is indeed what is commemorated as we gather around the table tonight to break open the Word and break the bread, but what is the significance of this celebration? It seems to me that some people, religious and priests included, get so fixated on the establishment of the Last Supper — as if Jesus on the night before he died sat down and wrote the first Sacramentary — that they forget the powerful and important challenge Jesus puts to all who follow him.
I can assure you that Holy Thursday, or any Celebration of the Eucharist, is not about the individualism that gets emphasized when people focus solely on the Eucharist as their personal means to 'obtain' Christ. The Eucharist is certainly the true Sacramental presence of Christ made present within the ecclesia, but we are not called to be a collection of individuals who happen to gather together to have our own wants met. At the heart of the Eucharist (from Eucharistia which literally means "thanksgiving") is the Body of Christ, the Church. It is always interpersonal.
The Community of Believers gathers together to give thanks to God and to "Call to Mind" (as the Eucharistic Prayer says) the life, death and resurrection of the Lord. We share Communion with one another as the community of the baptized and, in doing so, we are all challenged. Did you not notice the challenge before? Well, tonight is the time to pay close attention to the prayers and readings.
The last paragraph of tonight's Gospel from John sums this all up well. Jesus asks, demands: Do you realize what I have done for you?" My guess is that most of us, like the disciples that first night, can only answer "No."
But Jesus goes on to explain what it is he has done and what it means for us. "I have given you a model to follow,
so that as I have done for you, you should also do." To be a Christian, to bear the name "Christ," to approach the Table of the Lord and share in Communion with Christ and his entire Body means that we are follow his example.
No easy task.
How willing are we to follow Christ's example? To the point of what? Death? Death on a Cross? How about to the point of embarrassment or apparent foolishness because of the decisions we make out of charity and solidarity? How about to the point of washing the feet of the other sinners, enemies or others in our lives that we cannot stand to face? How about in the embrace of nonviolence, like Jesus, in order to announce the in-breaking of God's Kingdom?
To follow the model of Jesus is not as easy as one thinks. As we hear the words of Christ proclaimed tonight according to John's account, let our hearts be moved to embrace the call we have been given — to live up to the name Christian.


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Apple released firmware updates for both the AirPort Wi-Fi router and Time Capsule router + hard drive combo today to version 7.5.2, in part to fix AirPlay bugs that prevented some users from properly streaming content from their iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad to their Apple TV.
- General fixes to Wi-Fi base station stability
- General fixes with USB interoperability including connection to external storage devices
- Fixes some issues with NAT port mapping settings
- Disables TKIP security with 802.11n rates per the Wi-Fi Alliance specifications
Apple also updated the Airport Utility for both Mac and Windows to version 5.5.2.
- Resolves an issue that caused the DHCP settings tab to display incorrectly
- Resolves an issue that caused the application to quit unexpectedly when automatically launched
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Bethsheba Johnson, M.S.N., C.N.S., G.N.P.-B.C., A.A.C.R.N., A.A.H.I.V.S.
Bethsheba Johnson is board certified as both a gerontological nurse practitioner and an HIV/AIDS nurse practitioner and specialist. She received her B.S.N. from Chicago State University. From Rush University she received both her M.S.N. as a pulmonary clinical nurse specialist and her post-master's certificate as a gerontological nurse practitioner. She is the former executive director of Luck Care Center, an HIV clinic in Chicago, Ill. She has volunteered with the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, spending three months in Ethiopia to scale up use of antiretrovirals; and with the International Center for Equal Healthcare Access (ICEHA), teaching an HIV curriculum for nurses in Suriname, South America.
Johnson is currently employed by St. Hope Foundation in Houston, Texas. Her most recent position was at AIDS Arms, Incorporated, caring for patients at the Peabody Health Center in Dallas. As a nurse practitioner, she partners with her patients to medically manage their health care, and acts as a sub-investigator for clinical trials -- both AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) studies and those through pharmaceutical companies.
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"I think it's time for ESPN to get a little competition, don't you?"
That tough talk is coming from an unlikely source — 81-year-old Regis Philbin. The former daytime television talk show host and David Letterman foil is one of the faces of Fox Sports 1, the cable network launching Saturday that is the latest David looking to knock off ESPN's Goliath.
Given that Philbin is more accustomed to speaking to housewives and is more than twice as old as the viewers Fox Sports 1 is hoping to attract, his hiring seems unusual to say the least.
"It is a bit out of left field, but that's what we do," said Fox Sports Co-President Eric Shanks of the hiring of Philbin to host "Crowd Goes Wild," an afternoon round table that will also feature former Baltimore Raven Trevor Pryce, Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay and Katie Nolan, best known for her racy sports-related YouTube videos.
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Even Philbin acknowledged surprise when the offer came. "I never thought I would be on an hour-long sports show," he said, adding he wasn't even aware Fox was launching the channel when he was asked to meet with Shanks.
Since then, the hard-core Notre Dame football and New York Yankees fan has been taking a crash course on the rest of the sports world. "From now on I'm going to have to keep my eye on everything," he said, adding that he'd spent the day reading about Ryan Braun, the Milwaukee Brewers slugger suspended for using performance-enhancing drugs.
The launch of Fox Sports 1 and smaller sister channel Fox Sports 2 highlights the dominant and growing role sports is playing in the modern television industry. At a time when broadcast and cable networks are struggling to keep viewers in front of the television and off the Internet, sports has become their surefire antidote to Web surfing and cord-cutting.
Fox, which has made a career out of taking on giants, first with its broadcast network and later with its cable news channel, will be starting this fight with one hand tied behind its back. Fox Sports 1 still doesn't have distribution deals locked up with some of the nation's biggest pay-TV operators, including Time Warner Cable and DirecTV. There's a good chance that when Fox Sports 1 goes live Aug. 17 with a NASCAR race that much of Los Angeles won't be able to see it (or the sports on CBS for that matter, but that's another story).
And the competition is formidable. "It is not a hill they have to climb, it's the Grand Canyon," said Mark Shapiro, a former ESPN executive. "ESPN has built such a big moat around itself the Russian army of the Cold War couldn't get in."
Moreover, while no one in sports broadcasting likes to hear it, there is not exactly a shortage of product out there. When ESPN launched in 1979, the consensus was there weren't enough sports or fans to sustain a 24-hour cable network.
Flash forward 34 years and now the sports that critics used to make fun of ESPN for carrying in its early days have networks of their own. There's a channel devoted to fishing. Another aimed at horse racing enthusiasts. Even big game hunters have two networks targeting them.
There are more than 20 national sports networks that don't have the letters E-S-P-N in their names. The NFL, Major League Baseball, the NHL and NBA all have their own channels on top of the billions they rake in selling their games to other national and local outlets. Tennis and golf also rate their own networks. Several college conferences including the Big-12 and Pac-10 have launched their own channels.
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The big broadcast networks and cable channels also have a heavy diet of sports. CBS, NBC and Fox all carry the NFL—and at a hefty price; the league it is estimated now pockets $7 billion a year from media. There are scores of local sports channels as well. In Los Angeles alone, the Angels, Lakers and Dodgers are on separate channels.
And that ever expanding universe, more than beating ESPN, is what is motivating Fox. "In the shaky swampy world of television programming, the one solid granite-like area is sports," said David Hill, a senior executive vice president of Fox Sports 1 parent 21st Century Fox and the self-proclaimed father of the new network.
Hill, who ran Fox Sports for decades and now oversees among other things "American Idol" and "The X-Factor," is known as an innovative producer. It was Hill who first came up with what now seems like an obvious idea to have the score and time left in a game superimposed on the TV screen. He put microphones inside bases to bring fans closer to the action.
"We spend more time and effort on audio than anyone else," he said proudly. "Close-up audio is far more emotive than close-up video.
Shanks said Fox Sports 1 has hired a couple of hundred people in front of the camera and behind the scenes. The majority of the shows will be done on the Fox lot in Century City where a huge new soundstage was recently completed. Shanks, who started in production at CBS Sports, said the trick is to give fans an "information pill with a little bit of sugar."
Keeping it light
Philbin is not the only unusual hire Fox Sports 1 has made. Its flagship show "Fox Sports Live" — a nightly three-hour recap of the day's highlights and news — will be anchored by Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole, two unknowns imported from Canada, where they hosted "SportsCentre" for the TSN sports channel there.
The pair are known for their morning zoo style, poking fun at the absurdities of sport with an ironic sensibility inspired by Conan O'Brien and Letterman. While some sportscasters these days are obsessed with statistics and overanalysis, Onrait and O'Toole want to keep it light.
"We're not good enough broadcasters to be serious," cracked the lanky Onrait, who resembles a young Vince Vaughn.
The two have been compared to Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann, whose stint as hosts of ESPN's "Sports Center" in the 1990s helped make that cable channel part of the zeitgeist.
Shanks said there is a simple litmus test for Fox Sports 1 personalities: "Do you want to hang out and have nachos with our guys?"
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But Fox Sports 1 will need more than a pair of wise-cracking Canadians and a spry octogenarian to bring ESPN to its knees. Not only does ESPN have a more than 30-year head start, it also has just about every major sport including the National Football League locked up for the next several years. While Fox has football on its broadcast network, a cable package may remain a dream for the time being. Wednesday, Fox did seal a high profile deal to telecast the U.S. Open men's and women's golf championships.
ESPN is the engine that drives its parent Walt Disney Co., making close to $10 billion annually in subscriber fees and advertising revenues. It is often, especially during football season, one of the most-watched cable networks. Last season's "Monday Night Football" games averaged 13 million viewers.
Hill knows changing the habits of sports fans won't be easy.
"The first thing we have to battle is inertia," he said "For 30 years people have been watching ESPN. We understand that. We know it. We get it."
Fox isn't going into the fight completely unarmed. It has rights to NASCAR, a big chunk of college football, ultimate fighting, lots of soccer and starting next year Major League Baseball. "We're starting from a pretty strong position," Hill said. On his wish list are the NBA and the NFL. The former may be attainable in the next few years, but the latter could be locked up into the next decade.
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Hill and Shanks point to Fox News as evidence that there is room not only for it to exist but to perhaps one day even topple ESPN.
"Would you pick this point in time to go into a business that people think is mature and people think, 'Gosh, do you need another national multi-sport network?' and the question is, did people think there was enough news when CNN was giving people 24 hours of news every day?" Shanks asked.
The addition of a new sports channel will give media buyers something to leverage against ESPN. "Competition is good," said Sam Armando, a senior vice president in Chicago at SMGx, a media buying firm. While Armando doesn't think Fox Sports 1 will immediately challenge ESPN, it has enough big sports to get a serious look from advertisers.
ESPN President John Skipper isn't sweating Fox Sports 1 and doesn't think the Fox News analogy works. "There is a dramatic difference," Skipper said. "If CNN had exclusive rights to the inauguration, election results and weather, Fox News wouldn't have snuck up and whupped them."
ESPN hasn't built an empire by ignoring its rear view mirror. Over the past few years, it has been shelling out billions to lock up several marquee events, including the Bowl Championship Series. Besides its roster of professional sports including the NFL, baseball and basketball, ESPN has rights to practically all the big college football conferences and marquee golf and tennis events, including Wimbledon.
"We bought up a lot of beachfront property," Skipper said.
Still, it'd be foolish to dismiss Fox Sports 1. CBS made that mistake 20 years ago when Rupert Murdoch swooped in with a big checkbook and outbid it for rights to the NFL. That deal lifted the Fox network into the big leagues and was a wake-up call to everyone else.
Hill is optimistic that Fox Sports can get on the map quickly. "It will take us two or three years to create a visible and emotional bookmark in people's minds to say, 'I'm going to switch on Fox Sports 1.'"
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There are some of you who think I don't care for Oliver Perez. Not true. I like the guy. I just don't like watching him pitch on the days when Coin Flip lands on tails.
That said, he's 27, lefthanded, and can throw the hell out of the ball. He made some progress this year with a modified delivery. Those days when he's on, well, he's pretty special to watch and worth keeping.
On those other days, well ….
The Mets say they'd like him back, but with a commitment toward going after Lowe and possibly setting up Niese in the fifth spot, where does that leave Perez? Obviously, they aren't optimistic.
I know he wants five years, and from $12 million to $15 million has been speculated. That's a lot for somebody with great stuff but mediocre numbers.
So, should they cut their ties with OP or try to keep him.


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So much fun to photograph Amber and Curt's wedding back to 2010 and now also got to photograph their beautiful baby Thoren!!
Thoren Hezekiah Holmes was born on January 16th at 3:59pm. He was 8 lbs 4 oz and 20 1/4 inches long. He was blessed to have all his grandparents, many cousins and aunts and uncles ready to welcome him into the world. Although he was his Toopie's 28th great-grandchild, his arrival still brought tears to his eyes, exposing just how precious every life is.
Thoren is a derivative of Thor- meaning thunder. Curt's love of comics, amber's Scandinavian descent, along with the baby's large measurements via ultrasound presented an interesting opportunity for a unique name. Hezekiah was a reformer king of israel (2 chronicles) and was chosen as his middle name.


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In order to keep time properly,
# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime # date Sun Feb 16 08:26:44 CET 2003
In most Gentoo Linux installations, your system clock is set to
UTC (or GMT, Greenwhich Mean Time) and then your timezone is
taken into account to determine the actual, local time. If,
for some reason, you need your system clock not to be in UTC,
you will need to edit
recommended:CLOCK="UTC" or:CLOCK="local"
The next step is to set the
export LANG="de_DE@euro"
If you use a locale that isn't available by default, you should use
# localedef -c -i en_US -f ISO-8859-15 en_US.ISO-8859-15
After having generated the locale, you can export the LANG variable as you see fit.
# export LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-15"
The keyboard layout used by the console is set in
KEYMAP="de" KEYMAP="de-latin1" KEYMAP="de-latin1-nodeadkeys"
The keyboard layout to be used by the X server is specified
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" ... Option "XkbLayout" "de" # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" ...
For KDE you have to install the kde-i18n package with the appropriate LINGUAS environment variable set:
# LINGUAS="de" emerge kde-i18n
In order to get your console to display the Euro symbol, you
will need to set
Getting the Euro symbol to work properly in X is a little
bit tougher. The first thing you should do is change the
fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15 variable -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15
Some applications use their own font, and you will have to
tell them separately to use a font with the Euro symbol. You
can do this at a user-specific level in
(in your home directory)# echo 'XTerm*font: fixed' >> .Xresources # xrdb -merge .Xresources
To use the Euro symbol in (X)Emacs, add the following to
Emacs.default.attributeFont: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15
For XEmacs (not plain Emacs), you have to do a little
more. In
(define-key global-map '(EuroSign) '[€])
The default language for OpenOffice is set as "ENUS"(01). If you wish to change the default language for OpenOffice, check the ebuild for the default language code.
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By Sheethal Shobowale, KF9, Peru
Counterfeit money is a very serious topic in Peru. There is so much false money floating around that it is extremely possible that at some point or another, you will try to buy some fruit from the woman selling fruit on the corner and she will return your bill or coin exclaiming, "falso!" (false!)
This has happened to several of my friends during my time in Cusco. One friend tried to pay for our salsa class with a 5 soles coin. Then someone else paid with a larger bill and got his coin as change. "Falso!" exclaimed the person who received the change and looked for my friend who gave the false coin to return the useless metal to the proper owner. In another incident, another friend of mine found out he had a false 50 soles bill (ouch!) and was just happy that the checkout person at the store he tried to pay for his meal with it didn't punish him more than just return the bill.
In fact, I wonder if Peruvians knowingly give foreigners fake money because they are less likely to know how to check carefully. Perhaps simply not wanting to lose the money, as plata (money) is a precious commodity here in the commerce-centered world of Cusco.
Having false money is like holding a hot potato or the Old Maid while playing the card game. Whoever has the false bill is pretty much stuck with it, because there's simply no way to get rid of it.
I found out I had a false 5 soles coin (equal to about $2.50), when I tried to pay for my one and only cuy (guinea pig) meal in Tipón, the capital of cuy in the Cusco area. The waiter would not accept my coin and returned it to me and asked me to pay with another coin. I looked at him and said "¿Cómo podría ser?" (How could it be?) But then he showed me why he knew it was false. I just had a shrug and put the useless coin back in my coin purse.
After this incident, (simply as an experiment mind you I tried to buy some fruit with my newly found falso. Even in the dark, the fruit woman knew it was false and gave it back to me. I then tried to pay my combi (bus) fare and the collector also returned it to me. After these two failed attempts to part with the Old Maid, I was resigned to keep the coin as a souvenir of my travels to Peru.
Like most businesses in Cusco, the MFI I am working with, Asociación Arariwa, also will not tolerate false bills in loan payments. When members make their loan payments, the loan officers write the member's initials in pencil on the bill so that the Caja (treasury) can check each bill for falsos. If a fake bill is found, the bill is returned to the owner during the next monthly meeting, much to the chagrin of the person who paid with the bill.
I recently went to a loan disbursement meeting in which Daphne, the loan officer, returned a 50 soles bill to one of the members. It was an upsetting incidnet, as the woman who used the bill herself did not know it was fake. And what is more upsetting is that she has lost a precious 50 soles because it is likely she will not be able to use the false money to pay for anything.
Just so you don't get stuck with the hot potato, here's some ways to tell if your money is counterfeit:
For bills -
- The color of the number (whether 10, 20, 50, 100 or 200 soles) should change when you wave the bill back and forth. It will go from a light purple to a dark purple or blue
- The paper should be thick and of quality stock. You can pull opposite sides of the bill to tell the thickness. After having Peruvian money for a while, you will be able to tell the proper quality
- The portrait etching should be intricate, with no detail left out. The quality of the carving is key
- There should be a shadow of the portrait when you hold it up to the light
For coins –
- The weight should be heavy. After handling Peruvian coins for a while you will be able to tell if a coin is lighter than it should be
- The coin should be round and well-formed
- The color should be a light and shiny silver and for 2 and 5 soles, light and shiny gold
- The coin should be smooth without pock marks or rough parts
- The engraving should be smooth and detailed
I've gotten pretty good at this recently. Whenever I get a 50 soles bill as change for a purchase in which I've paid 100 soles, I make sure to check if the bill is fake using all the methods I described above.
So far no Hot Potatoes or Old Maids for me!
Sheethal Shobowale has just finished her placement at Asociación Arariwa in Cusco, Peru and will be moving to La Paz, Bolivia to work with Emprender in January 2010.
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text: Ag Groups Launch Agriculture Workforce Coalition January 11, 2013 05:23 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By MILK Editors Email The goal is to seek legislation that ensures America's farms, ranches and other agricultural operations have access to a stable and skilled workforce. Source: Agricultural Workforce Coalition Organizations representing a broad cross-section of agricultural employers today announced the formation of the Agriculture Workforce Coalition (AWC). As the unified voice of agriculture, the AWC?s goal is to seek legislation that ensures America's farms, ranches and other agricultural operations have access to a stable and skilled workforce. In particular, the Coalition, recognizing that existing programs and previous proposals have proved unworkable, is putting forward a framework that includes both an earned adjustment in status for current experienced farm workers and a program to ensure that producers continue to have access to a workforce as current agricultural employees move on to other jobs. A key to the framework will be ensuring that it meets the needs of all of agriculture—both those employers with seasonal labor needs and those who provide year-round employment opportunities. American agriculture as we know it would not be possible without the contributions of more than 1.5 million hired workers each year. Beyond the farm gate, each of these workers supports two to three full-time jobs in the food processing, transportation, farm equipment, marketing, retail and other sectors. Ensuring that farmers, ranchers and growers have access to the workers they need to maintain their productivity and competitiveness will help support continued growth in employment across the economy and in areas far removed from farm country. "The continued production of labor-intensive agricultural crops and products in the U.S., ranging from dairy and livestock to fruit, vegetables and tree nuts, cannot be accomplished without vitally important labor provided by skilled and experienced farm workers," said Chuck Conner, president and CEO of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives. ?"Without people to work on America's farms and ranches, pick the crops or milk the cows, all other issues in agriculture become irrelevant."? "We have an unprecedented opportunity now that Democrats and Republicans are having a serious conversation about the critical need for immigration reform—an opportunity that cannot be wasted," said Tom Nassif, president and CEO of Western Growers. "Agricultural employers have come together as never before in lock-step and agreement about a workable proposal that will serve the needs of farmers, workers and the American people. The time for immigration reform is now." ? "This coalition framework proposal will help American agriculture achieve a market-based, flexible agricultural worker program that makes sense for everyone,"? said American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman. "It's important for workers, farmers and especially consumers that we have a legal, stable workforce in place. It's time to move the discussion forward and find a solution. It's time to meet agriculture's labor crisis head on." ? "After seven years of hard but fruitless work on this issue, dairy farmers have a rare opportunity in 2013 to achieve a comprehensive solution to the immigration policy challenge. We see our participation in this coalition as the best chance to shape federal policies that will ensure farm employers? continued access to both existing and future dairy workers," said Jerry Kozak, president and CEO of National Milk Producers Federation. ? Having a stable and viable workforce has never been more critical for our nation's fruit and vegetable industry, and we must continue to fervently educate lawmakers about all of agriculture's crucial labor needs," said Tom Stenzel, president & CEO of United Fresh Produce Association. ?"At this critical time, the AWC brings together the nation's leading agriculture organizations, delivering our messages with a strong, unified voice, to work with Congress for forging a landmark farm labor solution." Apple growers face a labor crisis and need immigration reform to ensure American apples are harvested each year. "Each apple – over 20 billion - must be picked by hand. Apples are grown in 36 states and play a critical role in our rural economy, creating jobs and returning millions to local business. Apples are also a cultural icon in our national heritage," said Nancy Foster, president & CEO of the U.S. Apple Association. "The old adage, ?'As American as apple pie,' will be obsolete unless this labor crisis is solved because we will import our fruit and export our jobs." Nursery and greenhouse crops are among the highest value crops still produced in America. They bring economic and environmental benefits and jobs to the communities where they are grown and used. But their production is very labor-intensive, said Michael Geary, executive vice president of the American Nursery and Landscape Association. "No issue is more important to our growers than Congress acting—smartly and soon—to ensure a stable and legal farm workforce," he said. NCAE members have worked for immigration reforms to assure stability of our current agricultural workforce and allow new workers to join us. US domestic production of food, ornamentals, and other labor-intensive crops is dependent on immigrant workers,?said Frank Gasperini, executive vice president and CEO of the National Council of Agricultural Employers. "Our economy, security and health benefit from robust domestic agricultural production. Our workers will benefit from safe, free movement and job choices that would derive from updated federal immigration policies," said Gasperini. "Our current H2 visa programs are badly flawed and poorly administered, we need a new model. NCAE is proud to be part of the large industry coalition represented in the AWC, and we look to our elected officials to take action in 2013 to assure the future of domestic labor-intensive agriculture in the form of immigration reforms which allow current workers to remain and provides a workable program for new arrivals." American agriculture has come together to support a common-sense plan that will provide needed stability to our agricultural labor force – both seasonal and year round - and will help ensure America's food production remains at home,? said Chalmers Carr, USA Farmers president. ?"After years of work, we have a proposal that addresses the labor needs of all sectors of the agriculture industry," he said. "It takes many hands to feed America," noted Michael Marsh, CEO of Western United Dairymen. "We know that all too well in California. One of every five gallons of milk comes from our state. We must have access to a stable, legal workforce including our current, experienced workers." About the Agriculture Workforce Coalition The Agriculture Workforce Coalition (AWC) brings together organizations representing the diverse needs of agricultural employers across the country. AWC serves as the unified voice of agriculture in the effort to ensure that America's farmers, ranchers and growers have access to a stable and secure workforce. To help achieve this goal, the AWC has developed a framework that presents a viable solution to agriculture's labor needs. The proposal includes both an earned adjustment in status for current agricultural employees who presently lack legal status and a program to ensure an adequate farm workforce in the future. Also, unlike current programs such as H2-A, the AWC proposal is meant to ensure that all types of producers—including both those with seasonal labor needs and ones with year-round labor needs—have access to the workforce they need to remain productive and competitive. Association members of AWC: American Farm Bureau Federation American Nursery & Landscape Association Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association National Council of Agricultural Employers National Council of Farmer Cooperatives National Milk Producers Federation USA Farmers U.S. Apple Association United Fresh Produce Association Western Growers Association Western United Dairymen Coalition partners: Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform Additional information on the AWC can be found on its website: www.agworkforcecoalition.org. Back to news


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Amazon has updated their ebook reading app for iPhone and iPad to Kindle version 3.5, and added their fancy new X-Ray feature to it, along with some improvements to manga rendering. Amazon says X-Ray lets you get "to the bones of the book" (yeah... ouch), which in less strained language means it hooks into Wikipedia and Shelfari. That means you can look up the people, places, and phrases, and descriptions from the book right inside the Kindle app. No switching required.
I mostly have comic books in Kindle, and the X-Ray button stayed grayed out for me even in the few standard books I have in my library, but if you've managed to get X-Ray working, let me know what you think of it, and how it compares to using X-Ray on Amazon's Kindle hardware proper.
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We're home
The 1872, 21,000-pound, 103-foot steel-arch
bridge that once spanned the Middle Fork of the
Little Beaver Creek at the lower end of Market
Street in Lisbon turned north as it came back
into Lisbon Tuesday. The two sections brought in
on escorted semi tractor-trailers from Doug
Davidson Trucking in Salem stopped and
unloaded at the county fairgrounds where the
restored bridge will find its new resting spot on
the north end of the fairgrounds connecting the
campgrounds with the main grounds. The bridge, refurbished by U.S. Bridge in Cambridge, was first saved and
stored by county Engineer Bert Dawson when it was replaced with a concrete span in the 1960s.With money
coming from the county fair board and county commissioners, the remaining funding came from state and
federal historic preservation grants making the bridge restoration project a reality. The bridge is tentatively
scheduled to be put into place Thursday providing a new entrance for the 2017 fair. Morning Journal/Patti Schaeffer


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One of world soccer's most legendary managerial careers came to a close Sunday when Sir Alex Ferguson toed the touch line for the final time as Manchester United closed its 2012-13 season. Ferguson's final match was an away draw with West Bromwich Albion 5-5. It came on a Survival Sunday where nearly everything has been decided, including the Red Devils clinching yet another Premiership title weeks ago.
With 13 league championships, five FA Cup titles, four League Cup wins, and two Champions League crowns, how does Sir Alex's career compare to American coaching icons such as Vince Lombardi, Tom Landry, John Wooden, Pat Summitt, or Bob Knight?
For one, staying 26 years with one club speaks volumes. Yes, managing a team with one of the world's largest war chests probably made things easier. But having a talented squad on paper comes with enormous expectations. Chelsea is one of Man U's fellow heavyweights in the English Premier League, they are currently looking for their ninth manager in six years.
Roberto Mancini helped lead Man U's arch-rival Manchester City to the EPL title on the final day of the 2011-12 season. Just 12 months later, he has been pushed out the door after a season where City placed second to United, but stumbled badly in the Champions League and the FA Cup Final to underdog Wigan Athletic.
Before taking the Manchester United job in 1986, Ferguson had fairly ordinary career as a player and manager.
As a player, Ferguson suited up for a number of clubs in his native Scotland from 1957-74. The height of his career came in three years spent with Glasgow Rangers in the late 1960s. He found himself on the outs with that club after being blamed for his part in allowing the decisive goal in a Cup Final against rival Celtic in 1969. Some have also speculated that Alex's wife being Catholic played a role in him eventually leaving. Rangers has historically had a Protestant fanbase while most of Celtic's supporters are Catholic.
Ferguson began his managerial career in 1974, mostly coaching Scottish sides St. Mirren and Aberdeen. His tenures with those two clubs can be compared to Bill Belichick's days with the Cleveland Browns. At the time many pundits wondered if he was too much of a disciplinarian for his own good.
Ferguson won his first trophies in 1980 and 1982, winning Scottish League championships in rare occasions where the title was not won by Celtic or Rangers.
Those titles came with automatic berths for the European Cup, and in 1983 Aberdeen won that crown, defeating Tottenham Hotspur and Real Madrid along the way. By the mid 1980s Ferguson's name was being connected top some of the top gigs in Britain, with Rangers, Spurs and Arsenal all reportedly courting him.
In 1985 Ferguson was tapped by his mentor Jock Stein as an assistant on the staff of Scotland's national team. It was at this point that fate intervened. In its final qualifying match Scotland needed to secure at least a tie to earn a date for a World Cup play-in game with Australia. Scotland indeed got the needed draw, but at the end of the game the 62-year old Stein slumped over, the victim of a massive heart attack.
In the aftermath of Stein's passing, Ferguson was appointed as the interim national manager, Scotland would beat the Aussies in the play-in and participate in the 1986 World Cup.
After the World Cup, Ferguson finally got the offer he could simply not refuse when Manchester United called.
Before Ferguson's arrival, Man U. was already an elite football operation, winning seven domestic championships and six FA Cups in its history up to that point. Since World War II, the Red Devils had been relegated only once, in 1974, and won promotion back in the top tier the following season.
It took seven years for United to win a domestic title under Fergie, but after that first taste of silverware the club became unstoppable. Man U. would win league championships in 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, and were runaway winners in 2013.
That's 13 titles in 21 years, an entire generation's worth of a true dynasty.
Ferguson achieved knighthood (at the time only the eighth person associated with soccer to earn the honor) soon after claiming his greatest achievement in 1999 when Man-U achieved the treble, winning the domestic championship, FA Cup and Champions League in the same season.
The 1999 Champions League Final remains arguably the most dramatic finish in football history. The ribbons of Bayern Munich were being affixed to the trophy as they held a 1-0 lead into stoppage time. Then, with United's goalkeeper being pulled forward as an 11th attacker, the Red Devils scored on a corner kick. They then scored at the stroke of full-time on another set piece for a 2-1 win.
There have been no shortage of legends to play for Ferguson in recent years: David Beckham, Gary Neville, Rio Ferdinand, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Chicharito, Wayne Rooney, and Robin Van Persie are just a few.
In Ferguson's quarter-century at the helm, Manchester United has elevated itself into the top global brand in all of sports, even above the New York Yankees, Dallas Cowboys, and Los Angeles Lakers. And with a total of 38 trophies earned, Fergie is in the argument as possibly the greatest manager/coach in any sport.
Upon the recent announcement of Ferguson's retirement, Man U. acted swiftly to hire his replacement, tabbing long-time Everton head man David Moyes. Many experts over the past decade have been as impressed with Moyes' record with a limited budget at Everton as Alex Ferguson's collection of All-Stars.
In 11 years at Everton, Moyes became one of four managers in Premier League history (since 1992) to win 150 games. However the Blues never won a trophy under Moyes, and he will not last long at Old Trafford without earning silverware on an annual basis.
Despite operating in the red during recent years, expect Manchester United to keep rolling, as the entire organization and reserve squads (soccer's version of baseball's farm system) remain fully stocked. United also continues to fill Old Trafford with 80,000 fans each game, its capacity dwarfing all of its EPL competitors.
Wayne Rooney is reportedly asking for his release from the club, but the club would easily fill his shoes during the summer transfer window (soccer's silly season) with either the likes of Gareth Bale, a Cristiano Ronaldo return, or any number of other marquee players who would be banging down the door go get to Old Trafford.
Sir Alex Ferguson has set the bar incredibly high for those who will follow in his path.


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TQ7574 : Kiln House
taken 7 years ago, near to Cooling, Medway, Great Britain
Splendiff Farm Oasthouses
Formed of two oast houses opposite each other.
A three round kiln oast house converted to three dwellings, known as Orlick Oast, Drummble Oast, and Gargery Oast. Sitting directly opposite another oast Link
Single round kiln oast house, originally with two or probably three round kilns. Similar to the neighbouring South oast house. Now converted to three dwellings, known as Oasthouse, The Old Granary & Kiln House. Probably more kilns originally.
Oast Houses
An Oast House is a building used to dry fresh hops before they are sent to the brewers, to be used for flavouring beer. A traditional Oast House consists of the 'oast' and the 'stowage'. The oast was a kiln, with a plenum chamber fired by charcoal at ground floor and the drying floor directly above. The steep pitched roof channelled the hot air through the hops to the top. The stowage, was the barn section, it had a cooling floor and press at first floor and storage area at ground floor. Read more Link
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Vikings defensive end Jared Allen has been raising plenty of money for wounded warriors via an unconventional golf tournament. On Friday night, he generated a large chunk of what he calls cashish through more traditional means.
The First Annual Jared Allen "Helping Heroes Gala" was held on Friday, November 9, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Minneapolis, and the event raised nearly $300,000 via ticket sales and a silent auction.
"I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who came out on Friday and made the event an incredible success," Allen said. "The support I received from my teammates and the Vikings organization was remarkable and I cannot say thank you enough. I hope that next year is even more successful. I intend to continue this event for many years to come so that we can provide more homes for our wounded warriors."
Homes for Wounded Warriors is a non-profit organization created for the sole purpose of raising money to build or modify the homes of America's injured Military Veterans. You can make a donation or buy a T-shirt at Allen's website.