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Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 5:07 am
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Talking about singing on Rock Star.Has anyone visited the kareoke sight for it.It's really funny.Such a laugh.
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If you have the DVD and under the special features is the commentary option, which goes through the whole movie with the directors commentary and he states in there that Mark was doing some of the singing. But not very much since he has a much deeper voice than your average 80's rock singer. Anyway the commentary totally clears all that up and he even tells you at about which points Mark is really singing.
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madz don't forget that MP3s can be named anything -- just because you saw Mark's name in the filename does not make it official. If I put my name in the title of an MP3 song you wouldn't think I sang it, would you? Besides, MP3s are still, for better or worse, pirated copies of songs ripped from a CD. Whoever does the ripping can name each file whatever he or she wants. There are no "official" MP3s of about 99% of all soundtracks and albums out there. Maybe one day, but not quite yet.
p.s. Again, let's get past this old topic, can't we? Lianne's explanation said is clear as a bell.
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Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 4:16 pm
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wut kinda songs r on the soundtrack. i so want it but only if it haz all the songs he sang. i luv mark!
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Justdeb I remember to brings back some good memories. Does anyone know the answer is he singing or not, I remember him singing rap in Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, but I've never known him to sing Rock.
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yep jusdeb i remember that song infact i have their tape with it on boy i must me old lol
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hello new girl here!
I Love Mark and this movie is a massive fave of mine. I am a huge Jeff Scott Soto fan too, and boy is this bloke a top geezer and wow what a voice hey?
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This is not to ruin the fans hopes or anything but you know he might have sang a little bit of the songs but guess what a lot of songs by any artist can be dubbed and lip sync. But they obviously had to make the movie and the soundtrack identical. I hope u guys would be able to realize and notice a difference if it was Mark's voice verses someone else's.
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OK! So if any of you are like me, and were wondering if Mark is actually singing on the movie rockstar...I would like to give you a tip. The question has apparently been answered 27 times on this very message board! Please if your unrealistically bored and indefinably tired, then read this entire page and it will give you a good laugh. There are numerous references to prove that he does not do most of the singing. However, there are still people who feel the need to "stand up and shout" that Mark is doing all of the singing. I don't know why I think its so funny, but I do. I don't know why I am posting a message, but I am.
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Well i think yes he had a job with singing before i think song wouldhave to be on of the qualifications so i think yes somehave answered your question already so just had to add that
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True rock and roll will never fade away. Mark Walberg did not do the singing for the film, dispite some articles saying hetook lessons and did his own singing. Thankfully, the movie producers went on a worldwide search to find the best 80's stylerock and roll musicians. The soundtrack has a great line up withKiss, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, The Verve Pipe, and many more. What stood out to me was that the producers put together a band,who never played together before, and pulled it off brilliantly.Steel Dragon has two lead singers, Mike Matijevic and Jeff ScottSoto. Most people have never heard of these guys. Mike Matijevic was in a band called Steelheart, and the band split upafter piece of the stage fell on him, causing him to be hospitalized for a number of months, after a 100% recovery, the band was no more. His voice has such range, and is clear at all volumes, quite amazing considering the style of music. His top single was "I'll Never Let You Go", that song is what most people remember him by. Jeff Scott Soto did a lot of cover band work, singing Ozzy tunes and such. He sounds like Gene Simmons of Kiss a little bit, and has a great voice that compliments Mike Matijevic's range and contol. All things said, if you like great vocals, heavy metal or hard rock, new, and never been over played on the radio kind of music, than this album is right for you. Lets all hope that when Mark Walburg promotes the film as the lead vocalist, he gives some credit to Mike Matijevic and Jeff Scott Soto for providing such heart pounding, high screaming, and true 80's heavy metal rock'in, that make this album a must have for anyone who likes to rock!!
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Wrestling takes a back seat tonight as Shawn Michaels shows up to have a chat with The Undertaker. Also, John Cena and rap go up against The Rock and, well, rock. Taking a cue from Aerosmith and Run DMC, can't we all just get along?
Jerry Lawler explains that tonight features the first ever rock and rap concert on Raw. That must be because Fozzy never took the stage against John Cena way back then. Cena is out first, to his old theme and looking like the old Doctor of Thugonomics, but with ridiculously bigger muscles.
Let's sum up: The Rock has cheat sheets on his wrist, had pectoral cosmetic surgery, and Cena says the "s-word".
After Cena leaves following a short performance, Vickie Guerrero steps out to display a staggeringly poor understanding of Daylight Savings, complaining that it costs the world an hour of the presence of her man Dolph Ziggler.
Match #1 – Dolph Ziggler vs. Sheamus
Ziggler is toying around at first, but Sheamus gets his hands on him and starts rag-dolling him around the ring. Ziggler does manage to slip out of the ropes and avoid being potatoed by forearms as we go to commercial.
Ziggler fares no better back from the break, with his ineffective punches giving way to a hip-toss that sends him clear to the floor. When Sheamus gives chase, Ziggler crawls under the ring to come out from behind him, then runs the Irishman into the announcer's table, leaving a welt that looks like a streak of ketchup on a piece of white bread.
Josh Matthews is stationed in the crowd to interview Daniel Bryan and AJ. Matthews says that many people are upset that Bryan told AJ to shut up last week, but Bryan asks AJ if he was rude to her. She says no.
Back in the ring, Sheamus finds an opening for the Brogue Kick, making the welt worthwhile with a win.
Winner via pinfall: Sheamus
Another match is announced for Wrestlemania, because Bragging Rights is just too far away: John Laurinaitis and Teddy Long will each have teams fighting to decide who will be GM of both shows. Tonight, though, Laurinaitis joins the ringside crew to watch what was supposed to be a mixed-tag match, until Mr. Excitement turns it into:
Match #2 – Santino Marella (w/ Aksana) vs. David Otunga & Mark Henry – Handicap Tag Match
As Otunga and Henry argue over who will start, Teddy Long also comes to ringside and jaws it out with Laurinaitis before pushing him into Michael Cole. In the ring, Santino's thinking Cobra on Otunga until Henry enters on a blind tag and wins with a World's Strongest Slam.
Winners via pinfall: David Otunga & Mark Henry
Henry and Otunga look to continue the punishment, but Kofi Kingston comes down to help. Oh, he gets a World's Strongest Slam. Wait, here comes R-Truth! Oh, he gets The Verdict and a World's Gentlest Splash. Laurinaitis makes a non-announcement by naming Mark Henry to his Wrestlemania team.
Backstage, Eve is strutting along when Zack Ryder stops her to ask if she's playing him. She suggests a "friends with benefits" relationship, to which he agrees in a most gentlemanly fashion. Beth Phoenix steps in, upset about not being on Extra as a featured Diva; Eve bristles when Phoenix also suggests that she might take a turn stringing Ryder along.
Elsewhere, Laurinaitis is on the phone in his office, when The Miz shows up with guest host James Roday, looking for a spot on the Raw GM's Wrestlemania team. Laurinaitis tells Miz to beat CM Punk tonight, and he's in.
Match #3 - Jinder Mahal vs. Brodus Clay
Mahal is not impressed by the Funkasaurus. A cradle suplex and splash impress Mahal even less as the match is over in seconds.
Winner via squash: Brodus Clay
It's time for Undertaker and HBK have their heart-to-heart. Taker isn't pleased that Michaels has inserted himself into the match, so much so that he mistakenly looks forward to Wrestlemania on April 21st.
Michaels says he may still be the guy to end The Streak, but Taker threatens him to keep the ending pure. Michaels' foot twitches in anticipation of a super-kick, but he sees the light and patronizingly pats Undertaker's arm before leaving. Triple H meets him at the top of the ramp and looks a little funny doing a crotch-chop in his suit.
Match #5 – The Miz vs. CM Punk
James Roday makes the introductions, while Jericho watches the match from backstage. Punk gets in only a few kicks before it's quickly commercial time.
Coming back, Punk is on a roll: knee-lift, bulldog, and almost a GTS, though Miz squirms away. Miz hits a DDT, but misses a launch off the top rope. Punk turns a Skull-Crushing Finale into an Anaconda Vice for the win.
Winner via submission: CM Punk
Jericho appears on the big screen, stopping Punk in his tracks by telling everyone that Punk's father was an alcoholic. The challenger promises that after he wins at Wrestlemania, Punk is going to have a few drinks to ease the pain.
Coming back from commercial, an advertisement offers the services of David Otunga for accident benefits, available through Twitter only.
Match #6 – Randy Orton vs. Jack Swagger (w/ Vickie Guerrero)
Orton tries to spike Swagger's hair again with a standing dropkick before throwing him out to the floor. He runs Swagger into the stairs and then the announcer's table.
Back from break, Swagger puts up a brief fight by zeroing in on Orton's left leg, culminating in an ankle lock. Orton escapes, sets up and lands a superplex, and soon afterwards ends the bout with an RKO.
Winner via pinfall: Randy Orton
As Orton celebrates, red floods the arena and the turnbuckles burst with flames. Wary as Orton is, though, Kane never appears...
It's the long-awaited rock portion of the rap n' rock connection as The Rock arrives in the ring, toting a guitar. He sounds a lot like a grumpy old man, perplexed by John Cena's chain and sideways hat from earlier.
The Rock performs a slow version of Jailhouse Rock, filling in some digs at Cena's character, and also getting some easy cheers for isolating the grown men that support Cena. Questioning their sexuality kind of flies in the face of the "Be a Star Coalition", doesn't it?
The Rock ends with a badly-sung Karaoke rendition of We Will Rock You, with Freddie Mercury still handling the chorus, once again filling in the rest of the lyrics with a greatest hits of his latest catchphrases. That's it -- no guitars over the head or anything.
Dave Hillhouse still can't see The Streak ending, but what if The Undertaker really thinks that Wrestlemania is three weeks later than it is and he no-shows? Will a forfeit count towards 19-1?


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Booby Traps for Mothers of Multiples
Women expecting multiples report a desire to breastfeed at rates as great or greater than
those having a single baby. More than 70% say they plan to breastfeed. And if women find all kinds of Booby Traps hidden along the road when breastfeeding a single newborn, the woman planning to breastfeed two, three or more newborns steps onto a minefield! Here are a few of the typical booby traps mothers of multiples face.
Prenatal Booby Traps
Prenatal Booby Traps include both institutional and cultural ones. Often there is overlap, such as the healthcare professionals, family members, friends, members of a parents of multiples club or total strangers who seem compelled to say, "Breastfeed twins (triplets, quadruplets, etc.)? That's a nice idea but…
- "You'd have to be crazy to do that!"
- "It will be too hard on you."
- "It's not worth the hassle."
- "You can't make enough milk for two (three, four, etc.) babies."
- "You can't breastfeed twins (or more) exclusively, so why even try?"
- "You'll need to supplement or you'll never get any sleep."
- (Yada, yada ad nauseum!)
These comments are often accompanied by a patronizing rolling or winking of the eyes, giving the impression the person is adding, "Yeah, sure you'll breastfeed twins (or more), ha, ha."
Actually, many, and perhaps most, mothers can exclusively breastfeed twins or more whether their breasts are small or large. The issue is often more one of enough hours in the day for cue-based feedings than the body's ability to produce enough. And there may be a bit more of a learning curve when breastfeeding two or more newborns, especially if they are preterm or small for gestational age but, once working as a breastfeeding team, nothing could be easier, more convenient or more restful. Breastfeeding means spending more time with the babies rather than investing time in shopping/purchasing, cleaning equipment, preparing (sometimes different artificial baby milks for different babies), heating, storing, etc. – and for an inferior product!
When obstetric healthcare providers approach multiple pregnancy as a disease and treat all expectant mothers of multiples in a "one size fits all" manner, it reinforces a notion that one's body doesn't work right, especially for women whose multiples are the result of assisted reproductive technology. It also may trigger a cascade of medical interventions that can contribute to a delay in initiating breastfeeding or milk expression with multiple newborns.
Hospital Booby Traps
Hospital Booby Traps occur more often with early breastfeeding because multiples are more likely to be born preterm and small for gestational age. Mothers are somewhat more likely to experience certain complications, such as pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH, also known as pre-eclampsia) or postpartum hemorrhage. So babies are more likely to require special care and mothers may receive medication or treatments that interfere with early breastfeeding.
However, institutional Booby Traps may also occur as the result of "one size fits all" multiple birth care. More than half of twins and almost 100% of triplets and higher multiples are delivered surgically; some of these deliveries are not related to a complication but are performed electively, "in case a complication develops." Even in uncomplicated twin or triplet pregnancies, induction or elective cesarean is often "pushed" by late preterm or early term gestation. Then early mother-babies skin contact and breastfeeding (or milk expression) within the first hour get lost – often unnecessarily – within the "drama" of a multiple birth.
Institutional and cultural booby traps bombard the breastfeeding mother of multiples
during early and later postpartum. Mothers report pressure to supplement from postpartum staff or family and friends before they ever leave the hospital – no matter how each baby is breastfeeding. In addition to NICU booby traps already cited, some NICUs still place multiples in different areas rather than close together in the same area. Also, staggered discharge of one baby before the other(s) affects frequency of breastfeeding or pumping for each baby. Poor post-discharge support includes failure to develop realistic plans for continued milk expression and of transition babies to breast once home and coping with the needs of two or more young babies.
The Booby Traps continue when (or once) each baby is breastfeeding well. Feeling exhausted? Feeling overwhelmed? Having a low-confidence day? Rather than praise the mother for how well she is doing and point out that most of her feelings are related to having more than the usual number of babies, everyone from the pediatrician to family, friends, parents of multiples club members and total strangers rarely hesitate to provide an "out" for the mother of multiples by suggesting she supplement with formula or introduce some early solid food. (A personal "favorite" is the pediatrician who says, "Hey, don't feel bad. I've never had a mother who could exclusively breastfeed twins [or triplets, etc.]." Really? I wonder why this pediatrician doesn't see exclusively breastfed multiples after voicing that kind of self-fulfilling prophecy concept!)
Breastfeeding Support Booby Traps
On the other side of the booby trap coin is the breastfeeding advocate who fails to recognize that breastfeeding (or breastmilk-feeding) two, three or more the usual number of babies is not the same as breastfeeding a single baby. Mothers will tell you that breastfeeding multiples is more than the mechanics of latch or observing for signs of effective milk transfer during suckling. It's also the logistics of juggling more than one newborn when two (or more) are crying at the same time! It's the exhaustion of week after week of no more than an hour or two of uninterrupted sleep. It's a feeling of being overwhelmed when giving more than 100% yet feeling as if no one's needs are being met.
Mothers of multiples report they've been told by lactation consultants or counselors and peer supporters or leaders who have never breastfeed multiples themselves that "You may not have enough milk for two (three, more) unless you…
- "Always breastfeed two at once."
- "Always assign each a particular breast," or "Never assign each a particular breast!"
- "Pump after every feeding (even when babies are term and breastfeeding well)."
- "Pump every 2 hours for 20 minutes (for preterm multiples)."
- "Sure, a nice personal double pump is as good as a hospital-grade rental pump once your milk 'comes in.'"
- "Use a tube at breast (finger-feed, syringe-feed, etc.) for any supplements. If you give a bottle, the babies will get nipple confused and then have trouble latching."
How demoralizing! Many of these "rules" don't take into account the research evidence about milk production nor do they acknowledge the physical and emotional toll of caring for multiple (often preterm) newborns and figuring out the differences in their individual needs. Mothers of multiples need strategies for breastfeeding and expressing milk that are based in their current reality. Whether for physical or psychosocial reasons, some mothers may also need strategies for offering occasional or regular supplements of mom's milk, or possibly artificial infant milk, if they are to continue to breastfeed (or pump). Also, different strategies work for different breastfeeding "teams" – there is no one way to breastfeed multiples.
This concludes the first part in this two-part post on Booby Traps for Moms of Multiples.
In the second part of this post, Karen will discuss Peer Booby Traps, how Moms Booby Trap themselves, and her best advice for How Moms of Multiples can Avoid the Booby Traps.
Are you a mom of multiples? Did you experience any of these Booby Traps? What made a difference for you in breastfeeding your babies?
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< Anaconda | UX Redesign
- 1 UI Structure
- 2 Install Methods
- 3 UI Functionality
- 3.1 New feature: Password strength for user password selection
- 3.2 Individual Package Selection Removal / Adding Spins selection
- 3.3 New feature: Saving user progress
- 3.4 New (again) feature: Ransom notes
- 3.5 New feature: sudo by default
- 3.6 Install Progress screen
- 3.7 Automagical Media check
- 3.8 Add askmethod options to UI
- 3.9 Pulling in GNOME control center applets/widgets to reduce codepaths
- 4 Storage
- 5 Non-UI functionality
UI Structure
Language selection at the beginning of the flow
One concern with the hub-and-spoke model was raised by elad - if users can´t read the text in the UI (especially the hub) they might not know how to change it to their language. We could ask language up front, and allow it to be changed again in the hub as desired. Input method should be chosen later though, because if someone types in say Hebrew or Japanese it would cause issues auto-generating their username and the system hostname.
One proposed screen flow:
Language? => Name? => Hub => Progress bar => Done
Note that anaconda only has the languages and keyboards for what anaconda itself supports.
Move from Wizard-based linear UI to a Hub-and-Spoke Model
We would like to move to a hub-and-spoke UI model (common in mobile device settings dialogs) rather than the current linear wizard model. This affords a few things:
- If there´s only a few things you need to modify before installation, it´s much faster to get where you need
- If you need to go back and change something you set earlier, it is at most 2-3 clicks away rather than having to navigate backwards through every single screen
- It´s a scalable model - more features can = more spokes
- It´s less total clicks required for an install, given sane default settings.
- The hub also can serve as a ´shopping cart' or inventory of what you selected which you can read through to confirm before going through with installation.
Inventory loader and try to integrate what makes sense into UI
Ideally we would be able to get rid of loader, so it would be good to integrate what we can from it into the UI. Here's a quick loader inventory:
- Media check
Load updates.img- UI not needed for this
- cant do in UI... it´s too late; you´re already in the installer (unless this is done in a pre-UI)
- Used by testers and developers
Load product.img- UI not needed for this
- product.img is a way to brand anaconda for your own distro or tweak it
- you can also modify installclass, which effects which screens show up
- Fetch kickstart file
- Driver disks (auto or not)
- Run firmware loader process
- Kick off hardware probing
- Load a lot of modules
- Prompt for and load keyboard layout & language
- Process basic kickstart commands (halt/reboot, network, method)
- Bring up network
- Network Proxy setup => would be good to do in GUI
- Serial console installs
- Enable debugging mode
We may not be able to kill loader though because removing askmethod from loader means breaking implicit updates.img fetching.
What Goes in Anaconda / What Goes in Firstboot?
Stuff moves between the two a lot. One idea: add firstboot plugin support to Anaconda so it's easier to switch things between the two.
Mizmo thinks firstboot is only useful for OEMs and that we should make it possible to install without using firstboot by default and special case it for OEMs. One problem here is figuring out where to display the license agreement (maybe in ransom notes?)
Fedora vs RHEL
We can use installclass to modify the screens present / screen flow in Fedora vs RHEL but the less changes between them, the more testing either will get.
Install Methods
Combine Live media and DVD?
Today live media and DVD are separate. bcl is working to generate the live media images with Anaconda, since they aren't today and because live media are generated via a different code path, various stability issues are present in live media installs today. One of the issues, that dlehman says has gotten a bit better over time but still needs improvement, is that the user can interact with the live image as it's being installed, which can make the install fail in weird ways. (It's kind of a pulling-the-tablecloth-out-from-under-the-meal kind of problem, where the system is the tablecloth and the meal is the install process.)
It might be preferable to have a single all-in-one installation ISO... one that is live bootable, yet also has a full-blown Anaconda installer as well. It's only one piece of media to download, and one codepath for installations making installation more stable, easier to test, easier to debug.
One idea is that you would boot off of a live DVD and when you are are ready to install, clicking on the 'install to hard drive' icon boots the machine into full anaconda, either via modifying the GRUB configuration or using kexec.
An alternative solution to the 'tablecloth' problem would be to full screen Anaconda's window during live install with no option to minimize it.
A downside to disabling the live environment during install is that users say they like to be able to read documentation while installing.
Repo selection / Fedora People Repos
Today anaconda has a UI where you can add custom yum repos to your system, and where you can update from a repo rather than just what's on the media so you'll boot into a fully-updated OS. However, it could use some improvements.
One idea we had (currently in the mockups) was to let users add custom yum repos or browse a selection of available repos.fedorapeople.org repositories. PackageKit. PackageKit - the only GUI users have available post-install to work with software installation - does not allow for adding custom yum repositories. If anaconda does, there will be a bit of a mismatch. Part of the rationale of PackageKit not allowing it is (I believe) because of security / trust model concerns, and also because dependency changes in Fedora could change out underneath the Fedora People repo packages, making them non-functional. There are apparently a number a problems the Ubuntu PPA system has unsurfaced that would be unsurfaced should this be done. Here's an IRC log with hughsie on the topic that might help.
Some other concerns providing a Fedora people repo browsing interface:
- Fedora people repos are used to both provide software not included in Fedora AND to provide newer versions of software that is already in Fedora, overriding core Fedora software.
- Fedora people repos don't have comps. They might need them? Default / mandatory / optional packages would need to be defined otherwise nothing from the repo would get installed, right?
- Fedora people repos are not QA'ed and you need to trust the provider before installing from them. We would need some kind of warning indicating this.
We might need to update/institute Fedora people repo conventions / guidelines / rules on top of what's already there.
Specifying repos is definitely a requirement for those testing packages.
If someone enters a freeform repo URL, should we detect if it´s a mirror or not?
If we remove optional package selection, then repos will need to better think about each package. Right now there is default / mandatory / optional. Optional will be dropped.
UI Functionality
New feature: Password strength for user password selection
Would be nice to have a password strength meter for the user creation bits. Could use the new GNOME accounts dialog?
Individual Package Selection Removal / Adding Spins selection
We would like to remove the notion of individual package selection.
There are some issues that individual package selection causes today:
- Users can customize their package selection much more easily post-install via PackageKit or yum, where more information about individual packages is at their fingertips.
- Users can install individual packages in a live environment, and may suffer some confusion / annoyance when they realize their lovingly hand-picked packages are gone after rebooting into their fully-installed system.
Is there any other rationale here?
One reason people install software during install is because they have no / bad internet and they would like to install software that's on the DVD (or USB stick) but not in the default install. We can´t support this post-install right now because of a PackageKit bug that should be fixed.
Why do users like choosing individual packages in the installer vs. post-install? Is there any advantage to this? (Not sure.)
We could replace individual package selection with better high-level / abstracted software customization.
New feature: Saving user progress
One new feature we are considering is to save out a partial kickstart file if a user quits Anaconda before finishing. If we detect a partial kickstart file on a USB stick in th emachine, we'll reload all of the fields the user had filled in thus far so they didn't have to restart from scratch.
New (again) feature: Ransom notes
We would like to bring back the 'ransom notes' feature of Anaconda. You know, the feature that introduced the world to the glorious beefy miracle. They make the install process more fun and give the user something to look at as their install progresses.
Ransom note ideas:
- Where to get help
- Planet Fedora promo
- fedoraproject.org/using tutorials
New feature: sudo by default
Allowing the first-created user to have sudo by default would be nice. This may mean user creation should be in anaconda, though?
Install Progress screen
Aside from ransom notes, bcl suggested we could show a full log of the install progress on the progress screen. Mizmo suggested making this possible, but doing it as plymouth handles this - having a documented hot key to trigger a full-screen log mode, so most users wouldn see the log.
Clumens suggested we continue to display the currently-being-installed package on the progress screen.
Aruiz noted that Ubuntu asks for user details (the type we collect in firstboot) during the installation´s progress.
Automagical Media check
Move media check out of loader. Live media uses dracut to verify media. The DVD doesn't (not sure how it does media verify.) Things to consider:
- Automatic media check for DVDs - Automatic media check for Live Media
How long does it take though? Would the amount of time the media check takes be worth simplifying install by dropping a screen to ask if the user wants media check?
If media check is an option, where would it go? (Maybe in the 'install source' spoke?) If you already performed a media check though, it wouldn't make sense to offer it a second time.
Add askmethod options to UI
Askmethod has a text-based UI that allows you to install via various network-based methods. Today ´askmethod´ is a parameter you can specify in syslinux (or via ks, or via a parameter in a repo.)
The methods askmethod supports: - CD - HDD - NFS - FTP - HTTP
With networked install sources you may need to provide information for a network proxy.
You may also need to provide information to connect to a wireless access point.
Right now the askmethod TUI has a place where you can make network card lights blink in a specific pattern in order to identify them. Is this still a necessary feature?
(We´ll of course keep the command line askmethod argument, we may potentially kill off the TUI if we can build good GUI for it)
Pulling in GNOME control center applets/widgets to reduce codepaths
Hadess (Bastien Nocera) is the contact person for the GNOME control center but he said that it is difficult to pull in control center applets from other applications and there is currently no work being done to make it easier, either. They are written in C.
LVM by default?
Maybe we shouldn't default to LVM. Not for Fedora users. Does LUKS require it? (It doesn't seem to.)
Non-UI functionality
Image creation and cloning
Have a way to use anaconda to create / clone OS images?
Use Fedora mirror list by default for local fast copies of software. (Do we not do this now?)
IP-based geolocation
Could be a sexy way to:
- select an appropriate mirror
- give good guesses at locale and language info / make the most likely selections more prominent
Install updates by default
If network is up, and the user is installing via local DVD, mirror, or USB - install software updates by default. The rational for this is that folks will be booting into a fully-updated system. The rationale against it is that updates can make installation take much longer.
If updates make it take much longer, maybe give the user an option to bail out while the updates are being downloaded but before yum begins to apply them.
Installing updates by default is a bad option for the following install types:
- http
- nfs
Could maybe just ask the user. (Downside of this being ye tanother option polluting the screens)


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Wednesday, 27 July 2011
INS Satpura to be commissioned on 20th August 2011
22 comments:
why does it look like its going to fall apart
- 27 July 2011 at 18:26
Is India capable of engineering CODAG type of propulsion ?? INS Satpura is CODOG
- 27 July 2011 at 18:59
- P.K.Chaudhuri said...
Congratulations to all involved.
Please update why Kaveri Marine engines can not power such Frigates.
Please enlighten us with a comparison with similar class of Frigates.
- 27 July 2011 at 19:23
How come the Brahmos missile hasn't been added to these destroyers ?
- 27 July 2011 at 19:39
Holy cow.. where is brahmos?
- 27 July 2011 at 21:15
The finish is quite poor. it doesn't look like a new frigate!!! I am Desi jingo only..i expect them to shine and the same time perform.
- 27 July 2011 at 21:27
Fine ship but the SA-N-12 is kind of outdated, the russians have a new system called Redut replacing it.
- 27 July 2011 at 22:15
Didn't see any Brahmos missiles in its inventory?
- 28 July 2011 at 01:09
Well, finish looks ok to me. If i am not wrong, pic is old and from sea trials. The ship must have seen lot of finishing work after completion. Ship on ID won't look like it is now.
@ Nemo
Man INS Satpura is a FRIGATE not destroyer. FRIGATEs are mainly a anti-submarine ships which protects BGs from enemy submarines in addition to limited airdefence.
- 28 July 2011 at 01:23
Pal, this pics must have be taken during her sea trials... Wait till 20th August and see how she is....
- 28 July 2011 at 01:36
Are Brahmos too big for it.
Congrats to all concerned.
- 28 July 2011 at 03:40
if russians are advertising it now, that means another 4 years of indian funding before it is ready
- 28 July 2011 at 05:23
why still using klub instead of brahmos ?
- 28 July 2011 at 08:10
- joydeep ghosh said...
Shivalik class frigates are 6200 tons and Kolkata class destroyers are 7600 tons.
Assuming that next generation frigates will be even bigger, question how much bigger frigates do we need considering the fact that these frigates may well be near destroyers by tonnage, but less powerful than destroyers.
Joydeep Ghosh
- 28 July 2011 at 13:16
- Broadsword said...
Why do all of you seem to expect that the Satpura will be fitted with the Brahmos VLS? The Shivalik had Klub missiles... and so will all the Project 17 frigates.
@Avinash and Anonymous 21:27
I'll be visiting MDL next month, so I'll ask them to do a stainless steel frigate... I'm sure that'll make you feel good.
Kaveri Marine gas turbines are not yet cleared for fitment into warships.
Frigates are not anti-submarine platforms. They are expected to have all-round capability today.
I don't understand why Gen-Next frigates are going to be bigger? Please explain.
- 28 July 2011 at 15:48
@broadsword, it is great when you answer technical queries like you have just done above.
I have one question too though not very technical. Helideck/chopper takes a lot of space on the ship. Considering that their main role is recon, target surveilance/vectoring, would not it have been more feasible to use a drone that could do the same job and take less space?
You might say how will it take off, but the nishant type launcher cannot be that hard to replicate on a big ship.
- 28 July 2011 at 16:37
- joydeep ghosh said...
this has been the trend, Nilgiri were 2600 ton plus then Godavari were 3600 ton plus then Bramhaputra were 3800 ton plus then Talwars tip[ped the scale at 4000+ ton and now Shivalik are a huge 5600 tons.
this is why i asked as per the trend the next frigates will be bigger and may tip the scale near the delhi class destroyers.
so the question remain the same how much heavier frigates can go since the only major difference between the new age frigates and destroyers is thw Brahmos VLS battery.
Joydeep Ghosh
- 28 July 2011 at 17:16
- Broadsword said...
@Anonymous 16:37
We're a long way off from being able to replace a manned platform with a UAV. Recce is just one of the tasks that a UAV does.
How much use is a UAV, for example, when you have a man overboard?
The difference between a frigate and a destroyer is not just the Brahmos! That is only the case if you believe that a battleship is merely a floating collection of weapons. There are many additional features that a battleship has, which a frigate does not incorporate.
But there is no indication at present that the Project 17A class will be bigger than the Shivalik class.
- 28 July 2011 at 22:16
Broadsword, Thank you for your answer @22:16.
If it is only for rescue it might take a lot less time to go out to him in a speed boat, rather than start a chopper and hover over him. Besides would not choppers require extra storage on the ship for emergency spare parts. Drones may also be less high maintenance.
I agree we are far away from such technology but I just thought it was worth to put the idea out there.
- 29 July 2011 at 16:49
- Brownian Motion said...
I wonder if it should be called a stealth frigate - "stealthish" perhaps but not stealth. Compare with the La Fayette class and you'll see what I mean. Lots of paraphernalia hanging about - too much.
- 30 July 2011 at 05:04
I wonder if it should be called a stealth frigate - "stealthish" perhaps but not stealth. Compare with the La Fayette class and you'll see what I mean.
indeed. also india has the tech to evaluate a design for its RCS but is not capable of designing and building even a naval gun (the oto melara)?
- 30 July 2011 at 19:48
- Avishek Ganguly said...
even if it carries bramhos it will b under d deck magazine unlike the rajput class destroyers. may be the future shivalikh projects will come with bramhos
- 28 February 2013 at 13:22


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- ??Construction spending during the first five months of 2013 declined from the rate of spending in Q4 2012. Growth has been inconsistent, even in the booming residential sector, which has seen recent declines. We see more consistent growth in 2014 for buildings.
- ??As spending continues to increase, contractors gain more ability to pass along costs and increase margins. The growth in contractor margins slowed since last year. However, expected increases in volume should reverse that in 2014.
- ??ENR's Third Quarter 2013 Cost Report shows general purpose and material cost indices up on average about 2% to 2.5% year over year. However, selling price indices are up on average 4%. The difference between these indices is increased margins.
Supported by overall positive growth trends for the year 2013, expect margins and overall escalation to climb more rapidly than we have seen in five years.
Nonresidential buildings construction slowed in the first five months but is expected to increase substantially in the last few months of 2013. We will see a decline in nonbuilding infrastructure extend completely through 2014. Residential work will remain extremely active. Once growth in nonresidential construction picks up, and both residential and nonresidential are active, we will begin to see more significant labor shortages and productivity losses. Margins regained a positive footing in 2012 and extended those gains in 2013. Expect margins to grow stronger in 2014. Even moderate growth in activity will allow contractors to pass along more material costs and increase margins. When activity picks up in all sectors, escalation will begin to advance rapidly.
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Author Ed Zarenski, a 40-year construction veteran and a member of the Gilbane team for more than 33 years, is an Estimating Executive who has managed multimillion dollar project budgeting, owner capital plan cost control, value engineering and life cycle cost analysis. He compiles economic information and provides data analysis and opinion for this quarterly report.


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Drawing 1: Archeologists' conception of how the barricade at Horseshoe Bend was constructed.
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I can't even tell what the show is about (I'm guessing swimming). To me it just looks like typical pandering, just in reverse. Guys with perfect faces and chiseled bodies finding excuses to take their shirts off every episode. Fujoshi will love it.I've never understood the appeal of sports anime myself. I watched a couple episode of Slam Dunk when I was a lot younger but I was never crazy about it.
I generally like KyoAni's stuff, but then they're usually doing adaptions of material that's already pretty good to start with. They are mostly known for their animation quality more than their writing. Their latest show, Tamako Market, is I believe the first original work and I have to say I thought it was extremely disappointing. Boring characters, confused tone, didn't really feel like it knew what it wanted to be.
http://youtu.be/LAnNTqIZteQWow! So that Kyoto Animation preview for their company is becoming a real anime called "Free!"Why is it worth attention? Lack of moe women for a all-male main cast!!The animation and atmosphere style looks good, I might check out an episode or two (but if it becomes more slice-of-life shenanigans, I'd probably tune out).
The only sports anime I ever really got into was Battle Athletes, but space sports in the future is more just funny and for fun (though I do hear with the right crowd Slam Dunk and Prince of Tennis were great).Given the last 10 KyoAni anime were simply school shows (and while this isn't exactly an exception), I do like the added adjunct surrounding swimming (I used to take lessons myself before college) and I hope they can work in a competitive edge.And I don't follow. Swimmers are supposed to NOT be taking of their shirt and have athletic bodies?? Should they have whale blubber pouring over the sides of their trunks?? And I guess an anime should make their characters ugly too now?? I really don't see your complaints as legitimate ones. Of course, I don't really find ripped anime men that attractive either, but I don't see what they're supposed to do otherwise.
And when is KyoAni going to do more Haruhi? There is still a ton of material from the novels just waiting for it...
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2009 has been a great ride for Benny Fairfax so far. Fresh off his long journey at the Battle Of The Berrics, the chaps at the Stereo Sound Agency gave Mr. Fairfax a promotion to pro status. What does pro status mean? A pro status party. The generous people at WESC hosted the Benny pro rager at the WESC store in West Hollywood with free tall boy Asahi's and plenty of hard alcohol, music, BBQ, custom Benny ties and graduation caps, friends, and raging spirits. The night started off with a speech commencement hosted by ol' blue eyes himself, Mr. Clint Peterson. Words of emotion said by Olly Todd, Chris Pastras, Danny Brady, WESC's Gunther couldn't have made Benny any happier. Once the speeches were over, the serious raging started. To say the least, everybody had a great time. Since I wanted to celebrate with my boy on his new success, I brought my assistant Heath Kirchart out on his first job. Heath nailed it. He learned the photographer power by hooking up some of his boys with introductions to the hottest babes by just asking them if they wanted their photos taken with them. The paparazzi just a block up the street at the Ivy would have been proud. All in all, the evening was a blast, and I'm pretty sure everybody is as hungover as I am. Congratulations Benny!
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Right now as I follow the story I see people on the right calling for Wiener's head, and people on the left trying to excuse his behavior.
The Right's argument seems to boil down to "his actions prove that he is an immoral scumbag, so he should resign." I can buy that argument, but the problem is that, as far as I can tell, everyone in office is pretty much an immoral scumbag, so if you take that tack, everyone needs to resign (which is maybe not such a bad idea)
The argument on the Left is that Wiener broke no laws. This is correct as far as we can tell. Phone sex and sexting are not illegal acts per se. It does not seem to be the case the Wiener has even broken his wedding vows, at least technically. So this is not a case like that of Elliot Spitzer or David Vitter who actually broke the law.
So why should Wiener resign then? It's simple, his actions demonstrate a profound lack of emotional maturity, coupled with an inability to project the consequences of his actions into the future and act accordingly. He also shows a lack of conscience, which is to say he shows no connection to understanding that his actions will hurt a great many people.
I accept the fact that to get elected and hold office in this country you need to be a borderline sociopath, but it matters to me which side of that line someone lands.
Weiner's emotional underdevelopment, in my opinion, makes him unfit for office and the right thing for him to do is to retire from political life and get himself some psychological help and some marriage counseling.
We need people in office who are both intellectually and emotionally mature, and Wiener as shown himself to be neither.


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In theory, this could be possible. In practice, it's unlikely to happen. Taking control of the system to capture Bitcoins, for instance, would also have the effect of destroying their value.
(computer connected to the blockchain network using a client that performs the task of validating and relaying transactions) gets a copy of the blockchain, which gets downloaded automatically upon joining the blockchain network.
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Electron tomography studies of thin sections of the DEB at the secretory stage of enamel formation were performed using a Tecnai 12 transmission electron microscope (FEI, Hillsboro, OR, USA), equipped with an LaB6 filament, at 120 kV. Tomography tilt series of thin-sectioned samples were acquired at nominal magnifications of ×23,000 to ×26,000. The micrographs were recorded automatically using a bottom-mounted Gatan 2000 charge-coupled device (CCD) camera (Gatan, Warrendale, PA, USA). The micrographs were taken in a tilt range from –60° to 60°, with a 1° increment from –45° to 45°, and a 0.5° increment from –60° to –45° and from 45° to 60°. Because of the strong contrast of mineralized samples, the images were aligned using fiducial-less procedure in the IMOD 3.9 reconstruction package (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA). Three-dimensional density maps were reconstructed from the tilt-series images using C himera software (University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA).
HR-TEM of the DEB was performed using a Tecnai F20 (FEI) microscope equipped with a field-emission gun at 200-kV accelerating voltage. The images were recorded using a Gatan 4k × 4k CCD camera. The power spectra of the lattice images of mineral crystals at the DEB were created and analyzed using imagej 1.44 image-processing software (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA).
The TEM image of the DEB at the secretory stage revealed that the von Korff fibrils of mantle dentin were intimately associated with enamel mineral particles ( Fig. 1A ). The mineral crystallites in the mineralized von Korff fibrils, as well as the ribbon-like 10- to 20-nm-thick enamel mineral particles in the aprismatic enamel layer were found to be oriented normal to the DEB plane, indicating the continuity of the crystal orientation between dentin and enamel. Higher-magnification micrographs showed that the enamel crystals directly interface with dentin crystallites, and many of them are 'embedded' into the mineralized von Korff fibrils ( Fig. 1B–D ).
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) micrographs of the dentino–enamel boundary (DEB) in non-demineralized sections of the midsecretory stage of enamel formation at low magnification (A) and high magnifications (B–D). Note that the dentin and enamel mineral are tightly integrated at the DEB. Arrowheads point to the adjacent dentin crystallites in the mineralized von Korff fibrils and enamel crystals (*).
To gain a better understanding of the relationships between the mineralized collagen fibrils in mantle dentin and the mineral particles of secretory enamel, we carried out a series of ET studies of areas of the DEB, located at different distances from the cervical loop. In the region of initial enamel mineral deposition we observed a number of enamel mineral particles intimately attached to the mineralized von Korff fibrils (
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, Video S1 ). The three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of the area shown in Fig. 2A revealed a long ribbon-like enamel mineral particle that was closely associated with a mineralized collagen fibril ( Fig. 2B,C ) and with the mineral crystals within the fibril, and that its long axis was co-aligned with the crystallites in the fibril ( Fig. 2 , Video S1 ). Figure 3 and Video S2 represent a tomographic reconstruction of the area of the DEB at the late secretory/transitional phase of enamel formation. At this stage the enamel crystals are much more numerous; however, they are similarly intertwined with the crystallites of the mineralized collagen fibrils of mantle dentin. Overall, the tomography studies indicate that the enamel mineral at the DEB is integrated into the mineralized von Korff fibrils and exists in very close physical contact with dentin crystallites at the nanoscale level.
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I still have to remind myself about the deeper meaning of e and i — which seems as absurd as "remembering" that a circle is round or what a cat looks like! It should be the natural insight we start with.
Missing the big picture drives me crazy: math is about ideas — formulas are just a way to express them. Once the central concept is clear, the equations snap into place. Here's a strategy that has helped me:Step 1: Find the central theme of a math concept. Step 2: Explain a property/fact using the theme. Step 3: Explore related properties using the same theme
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Understanding the number e has been a major battle. e appears all of science, and has numerous definitions, yet rarely clicks in a natural way. Let's build some insight around this idea. The following section will have several equations, which are simply ways to describe ideas . Even if the equation is gibberish, there's a plain-english idea behind it.
Here's a few popular definitions of e:
The first step is to find a theme. Looking at e's history , it seems it has something to do with growth or interest rates. e was discovered when performing business calculations (not abstract mathematical conjectures) so "interest" (growth) is a possible theme.
Let's look at the first definition, in the upper left. The key jump, for me, was to realize how much this looked like the formula for compound interest. In fact, it is the interest formula when you compound 100% interest for 1 unit of time, compounding as fast as possible.
The article on e describes this interpretation.
Let's look at the second definition: an infinite series of terms, getting smaller and smaller. What could this be?
After noodling this over using the theme of "interest" we see this definitions shows the components of compound interest . Now, insights don't come instantly — this insight might strike after brainstorming "What could 1 + 1 + 1/2 + 1/6 + …" represent when talking about growth?"
Well, the first term (1 = 1/0!, remembering that 0! is 1) is your principal, the original amount. The next term (1 = 1/1!) is the "direct" interest you earned — 100% of 1. The next term (0.5 = 1/2!) is the amount of money your interest made ("2nd level interest"). The following term (.1666 = 1/3!) is your "3rd-level interest" — how much money your interest's interest earned!
Money earns money, which earns money, which earns money, and so on — the sequence separates out these contributions (read the article on e to see how Mr. Blue, Mr. Green Mr. Red grow independently). There's much more to say, but that's the "growth-focused" understanding of that idea.