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Just like last year, we're showcasing the people, ideas and memes that made Deadspin 2009 shine. Today: Sports Twitterers.
Shaq was the undisputed champion of Twitter, having his fans track him down in a diner. And then a mall.
Charlie Villanueva Tweeted from the locker room at halftime, was predictably fined. Football and tennis preemptively banned their athletes from following suit.
Tony La Russa was none too happy about his online impostor, and sued Twitter. He dropped his lawsuit after someone told him that's not how it works.
ESPN scared the bejesus out of any employees who might have considered straying from the company line. The only one to run afoul of the new rules was, of course, Simmons.
The media remained unaware of Nate Robinson's arrest until he complained about the cops to his Twitter followers.
Michael Beasley forgot to crop the weed baggie out of his Twitpic.
Shawne Merriman and Tila Tequila waged their war of words online.
The NFL was especially open with communications. A Redskin bitched out Washington fans. Larry Fitzgerald's brother called out Kurt Warner. Larry Johnson trashed everyone and got himself fired.
Dick Vitale discovered Twitter. The Internet, inexplicably, remains up.
Gilbert Arenas decided he wouldn't Tweet until he reached a million followers. He has almost 9,000.
Joshua Cribbs's wife decided he was underpaid.
Dwight Howard sued his baby mama for posting pictures of their son.
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This week Jalopnik buddy and noted speed fiend Alex Roy made the insanely great but also somewhat questionable decision to become a Porsche 928 owner. For some strange reason he let Travis and Raph drive it a bit, and they seemed impressed.
I'm a big fan of the V8-powered, cocaine-fueled failed replacement for the 911 as well, so now seems like as good a time as any to revisit a classic 928 ad from back in the day.
And this ad from the early-to-mid 80s does not disappoint, nor does it fail to showcase Porsche's monumental ego. Why put so much luxury into a performance car? Why put so much performance into a luxury car?
Because we're Porsche, Porsche says, and we don't know how to not be awesome. "At Porsche, excellence is expected."
Well la-dee-fucking-dah, Porsche. It's like standing next to the sun whenever you're around. Glad you think so highly of yourselves.
Notice the operative word there is excellence, and not reliability. This is the 928, after all.

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The diode is one of the oldest and most important electronic devices, although it is not as famous as its cousin, the transistor. Used in all sorts of electrical and electronic systems, the diode functions as a one-way valve for electric current—it only allows current to flow in one direction. This is useful in converting AC to DC, processing high frequency signals, regulating voltages, and in other applications. There are two basic types of diodes. One is an electron tube similar to the triode. The other type uses semiconductors, like the transistor. Both were invented early in the 20th century.
The first diode was a modified light bulb. Thomas Edison discovered that including an extra electrode in a light bulb and connecting it to the positive side of a battery resulted in a current flowing from the filament through the empty space. He was not sure what to do with this discovery, and moved on to other projects.
Joseph J. Thomson (1856~1940) announced the discovery of the electron in April 1897 and explained the Edison effect where current travels just one way through a vacuum tube. Thompson received a Nobel prize in 1906.
Others found another use for this device. In the early 1900s, for example, English engineer John Ambrose Fleming used this one-way electrical "valve," to convert radio waves into a flow of current that could be measured by a galvanometer. The Fleming valve is remembered as the first true electronic device. It came into use for radio transmission and soon became the basis of Lee De Forest's Audion electron tube, which he invented in 1906.
Also around 1906, American engineer Greenleaf W. Pickard invented a new type of diode. Pickard based his design on the earlier discovery that electricity can flow in only one direction through certain types of mineral crystals, such as silicon. By placing a silicon crystal between a metal base and a carefully placed fine wire, Pickard created a valve that could also be used to detect radio waves. This type of "cat's whisker" diode (so-named because of the fine wire used in it) became more popular after American H. C. Dunwoody patented a version of it that used a material called carborundum.
In the early 1900s, cat's whisker diodes were widely used in radio receivers, as they were an improvement over electron tubes. But they too had limitations. They required careful adjustment and could easily be knocked out of alignment. For these reasons the use of cat's whisker diodes declined, although their ability to work at very high frequencies made them valuable during World War II when they were used in radar receivers. During the war years, thousands were manufactured, and in the course of research on semiconductors, Bell Laboratories scientists stumbled on a new type of diode. Russell Ohl, a Bell Labs metallurgist working with silicon samples discovered that one of his samples acted like a diode and—even more remarkable—produced electricity in response to light. He had invented a new type of diode that was also an efficient solar energy converter or "cell." The reason it worked either as a diode or as a solar cell was a mystery to the researchers. Eventually, however, they determined that the sample, which had been cut from a larger piece of silicon, had a region that contained high levels of a certain kind of impurity. The area where this region joined the rest of the silicon formed a "junction." This junction had something to do with the diode action of the device. The junction and the different regions of impurity also allowed it to respond to light. It would be many years before physicists explained why this worked, but in the meantime, semiconductor junction diodes went into production, first as solar cells and eventually as ordinary diodes.
Today the variety of diodes and their uses have greatly expanded. Electron-tube diodes are rarely used, but silicon diodes are used in many types of equipment to detect high frequency electromagnetic waves, to convert sunlight into electricity, and many other purposes. Inside computers, televisions, and other familiar systems are diodes that help convert alternating current (AC) electricity to direct current (DC), and to regulate the level of the voltage. High-power diodes are used in automobiles, where they convert the AC from the alternator into DC that the battery and on-board electronics can use. Light emitting diodes (LEDs), perfected in the early 1960s, have replaced incandescent lamps for many purposes, and may soon replace the lamps used in car headlights and household light bulbs.
Historical Diodes (Rectifiers)
Here is a partial list of the type of diodes invented, constructed and used over time, many comprise of hazardous materials:
- Chemical Rectifier, known as the Nodon Valve using lead and aluminium electrodes.
- Copper type rectifier (used lead and copper junctions, also copper sulphide and magnesium junctions)
- Selenium Rectifier
- Electrolytic Rectifier
- Gaseous Rectifier, Argon arc rectifier
- Mechanical Rectifier, colloquially known as the vibrator, obsoleted from industrial applications around 1921, but used in vacuum tube mobile radio equipment up until 1958. Also a rotational synchronous rectifier
- Mercury Arc Rectifier, also Mercury Vapour Rectifier
- Photo diode tube, also photomultiplier, gamma ray detector
More recent solid state diodes:
- Silicon Diode,
- Germanium Diode,
- Tunnel Diode,
- IMPATT Diode,
- Gunn Diode,
- Schottky Diode,
- Varacter Diode,
- Zener Diode,
- Light Emitting Diode,
- Photodiode,
- Silicon Controlled rectifier (SCR)
- Metal-Oxide-Metal Diode, invented around 1975, and a variant of the Schotty diode, see text authors V A Ivanov, A A Rivlin and V S Solov'ev and Izmeritelnaya Tekhnika, No. 11, p. 33, November, 1980. Used for detection and mixers into the near-infra-red wavelengths.
S Tube Rectifier
The S Tube Rectifier.-The S tube rectifier has been developed by the American Radio and Research Corporation, and is often used by American amateurs instead of the usual form of two-electrode valve rectifier. The anode is a flat carbon electrode, and the cathode is cup-shaped, with a small tube-like opening, as illustrated. The tube contains helium at about 12 mm. pressure. When the anode is made positive, free electrons are drawn from all parts of the cup through the opening to the anode.
In doing so they collide with the atoms of the helium and ionise them. The action is cumulative, and hence the tube conducts.
When the cup is made positive the action is very different. Positive ions in the cup, being much larger in bulk, are less mobile, and but comparatively few of them reach the cathode (cup). The movement of the positive ions is so sluggish, and the number which reach the cathode so few, that the current conduction is less than 1 per cent. of the normal current carrying capacity when the polarity is reversed.
S tubes are manufactured for supplying D.C. anode potentials to 5-watt 1 transmitting valves. They are rated at 20 watts each, the normal current being 50 milliamperes. The tube has a practically constant drop of 150 volts, and will stand 2,000 volts in the reverse direction. Two rectifier tubes will supply sufficient current for one 50-watt 1 transmitting valve.
Other old diodes were:
- Raytheon Rectifiers
- Tantalum rectifier uses tantalum and lead electrodes, with sulphuric acid. Similar to the Nodon valve.
- Vacuum tube diode
- Cats Whisker, uses crystalline galena (Lead sulphide), it can also use coal.
- Crystalline Zinc Diode, exhibits negative resistance akin to the modern day tunnel diode. see -> http://www.sparkbangbuzz.com/els/znrfamp2-el.htm


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Bruges, Brussels, Belgium, Brrr....illiant.
FC Brussels 3-1 K.A.S. Eupen (30:11:08)
The Stade Edmond Machtens, home to FC Brussels.
FC Brussels are the self proclaimed 'Pride of Brussels'. Not a bad boast when you factor in their near neighbours - just two kilometres down the road - R.S.C. Anderlecht who've won just the 5 European trophies, 29 Belgian Division One titles, 9 Belgian cups, 8 super cups and show up every year in the Champions League. In comparison FC Brussels list of honours reads thus; 1 x Belgian 2nd Division winners and 1 x Belgian Third Division A winners. Still, why let the facts get in the way of a good slogan eh!?
K.A.S. Eupen are the only 'German speaking' club in Belgium and reside in the provence of Liege, 15km from the German border. Amongst the myriad of attractions in Eupen, I suppose it's their famous chocolate museum that would make them blow their own trumpet the loudest.
Before the football in Brussels on Sunday, my wife, sister and I spent a day in Bruges at the Christmas markets. Before you start to break out in a cold sweat at the prospect, most of the wooden huts on show double up as temporary bars. Others sell a range of santa hats, which seem like a terrible idea when sober but the best concept ever when you've down a couple of 13% beers.
It was a bit parky, or if you prefer cold in Bruges. In fact it was freezing. This meant our plans to go skating on the temporary ice rink in front of the Belfort were shelved in favour of a pub crawl. In a lot of good Belgian bars a coffee table sized book is thudded down in front of you upon your arrival. On closer inspection this book turns out to be a beer menu. Thumbing through said book and making your way through a selection of fine ales isn't a bad alternative to falling arse over tit on an ice rink.
For the record the best bars we found in Bruges were the Staminee De Garre, which was tucked away in the side streets and sold over 100 beers and housed two bars separated by a small corridor. The L'Estaminet was also a fine establishment for quaffing the local brew 'Brugse Zot'. Inexplicably, I'd also managed to book our hotel within 300 yards (ie within nightcap range) of Bruges' oldest pub - the Cafe Vlissinghe.
Fair play to Bruges, it's a special place and they'd really gone to town to inject it's visitors with a bit of a Christmas belly fizz, something I hadn't felt properly since 1979 when I received a Brighton and Hove Albion Bukta kit from ol' Santa Claus.
The next morning we jumped on the train to Brussels. No need to pay of course if you've arrived in Belgium via Euro Star. Your ticket is valid for travel to and from any station in Belgium. Imagine that occurring the other way round and us allowing our Belgian friends to travel anywhere in England once they'd arrived at St Pancras - at no extra charge. Shamefully, that's never going to happen is it though Geoff Hoon - shame on you - get in the sheep pen lad. Right honourable my arse......and relax.
After marvelling at the floodlights at the King Baudouin Stadium and a visit to the Atomium in Brussels, I left my wife and sister to enjoy an afternoon of shopping in town and met up with a couple of my Belgian mates who'd travelled down from Antwerp, namely Roland Van Puyenbroeck and Steven Van Rompaey - names don't get more Belgian sounding than that do they!? I'd also arranged to meet Stephane Lievens, who'd I got to know via the EFW Facebook group in a bar outside the ground.
FC Brussels were formed in 2003 as a result of a merger between R.W.D. Molenbeek and KFC Strombeek. In doing so the club lost the honours of RWDM and they've since gone on to form their own club in a sort of AFC Wimbledon type way. They play in the 7th tier of Belgian football and that's who Stephane now follows. The controversial bit is that they chose to merge with Strombeek who had no real affiliation or relationship with Molenbeek. They sort of brought their league status and as such a lot of fans are understandably a bit sniffy about FC Brussels.
After not nearly enough time we made our way to the ground. Where as neighbours Anderlecht attract crowds of around 28,000, The 'Pride of Brussels' draw more of a spartan throng. During the first half we chose to sit next to the away fans. How many Eupen fans had managed to drag themselves out of the chocolate museum in their city!? Answer, not many. When they took a shock lead their fans, probably more out of shock than anything else could barely muster a punch to the air.
Eupen are bottom of the Belgian Division 2 for a reason. They did have four quite good players who were making a name for themselves but instead of building a team around them in the Summer, they chose to sell them all. Frankly, to use a technical term; they are total shite. So when Gregory Molnar slotted them into the lead against their hosts (2nd in the league by the way), aside from the apathy from the away fans, my Belgian friends and I afforded ourselves a little chortle. 0-1 at half time.
At half time I met up with footballing agent and all round good egg Stefan Van Heester. So to recap that's Stefan, Stephane, Steven and Roland. More beers flowed at half time and more stories and banter were exchanged. This really is the best part of European Football Weekends. The actual football is often just the side show.
You can't really pen a report about FC Brussels without mentioning their Chairman Johan Vermeersch. He was instrumental in bringing KFC Strombeek to Molenbeek and changing their name to FC Brussels. He also has a history of bizarre behaviour. After a defeat at Oostende 3 years ago, he threatened to throw all his players into the North sea and more recently, after a home defeat (also vs Oostende) he made them train at 4am on the pitch of an amateur outfit because "if you play like amateurs, you train like amateurs!". Lastly and astonishingly, he told Congolese playmaker Matumona Zola, after a poor game, "to go back in his tree and eat his bananas". After that comment the clubs sponsors not surprisingly withdrew their shirt deal.
Anyway, back to the game and as expected FC Brussels steamrollered Eupen in the second half scoring three goals without reply. Annoyingly, there is no such thing as a free piss in Belgium and one has to part with 50 cents everytime. On the plus side though, my visit had coincided with the clubs decision to award every fan at the game with a free beer after the match, that resulted in the loudest cheer of the day and a prolonged bout of overhead clapping from my good self.
After our beers, Steven or was it Stephane.....no get this right Stephan gave us a lift back into the centre of Brussels so I could met up with my wife and sister. They'd long given up on shopping and decided instead that 8% Duvels were the order of the day. That might go some way to explaining why they were swinging a fast shoe to the spectacular Christmas light show in Grand Place when we met them
Our Belgian hosts then took us to a few quality bars around town. The first of which 'Delirium Cafe' simply has to be visited if you are ever in Brussels. After a couple more in the Brasserie Vossen it was time to say goodbye to our mates and myself and the two girls headed back to Brighton via the Euro Star armed with some Jupilers beers for company.
So in Oscar ceremony style, please excuse me as I thank the following; Roland, Stephan and Steven from Antwerp for their excellent company. Stephane from Brussels for his fine hospitality. FC Brussels for giving me a free ticket and beer for the afternoon and last but not least my sister and my wife (alright that's enough - Ed) for our superb, Christmas belly fizz induced European football weekend.


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After decades of increasing U.S. child obesity rates, 2012 might be the watershed year when this trend started to reverse -- several cities and even the state of Mississippi, which for many years ranked the fattest state in the nation -- showed declines in child and teen obesity.
The study by the Robert Wood Foundation found declines in childhood obesity rates in Philadelphia, New York City, Mississippi and California.
In the last decade, Philadelphia and New York City implemented strong nutrition standards to improve food and beverages available in schools. They also initiated citywide efforts to improve healthy food and exercise opportunities.
Mississippi and California led efforts among states to reduce obesity rates. In 2006, the Mississippi State Board of Education set nutritional standards for food and beverages sold in school vending machines and the state legislature required the public schools to provide more physical activity time, offer healthier foods and beverages and develop health education programs.
In 2007, California set strong nutrition standards for school snacks, and in 2009 it prohibited sugar-sweetened beverages in high schools. In 2008, California passed two laws, one requiring walking and bicycling as part of transportation plans and another requiring large chain restaurants to post nutrition information.
However, in other rankings the United States maintained a relatively poor showing when it came to health.
The United States trailed many countries in life expectancy. The CIA World Factbook ranked the United States at 51 for life expectancy -- at birth U.S. life expectancy was 78.49 years in 2012 -- lower than for people born in Monaco at 89.7 years, Macau at 84.4 years and Japan at 83.9 years.
The infant mortality rate -- the number of deaths of infants age 1 and younger per 1,000 live births -- is another indicator used to evaluate the level of health in a country. The United States ranked 51 with six deaths per 1,000 live births. Monaco led the world again with infant mortality of 1.8 per 1,000 live births, followed by 2.12 per 1,000 births in Japan and 2.47 per 1,000 births in Bermuda, the CIA World Factbook said.
Another indicator of a country's health is maternal mortality rate: the annual number of female deaths per 100,000 live births from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy.
The United States ranked 47th with 21 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births compared to Estonia's 2 deaths per 100,000 lives births and 3 per 100,000 in both Singapore and Greece, the CIA World Factbook reported.
Nationwide, New England ranked as the healthiest region, with the West coast also ranking well. But the South known as the "stroke belt" since 1962 was also the "obesity belt," the "diabetes belt," the "heart disease belt" and the "lung cancer belt."
Federal, state and local governments, corporations and individuals in the United States spent $2.5 trillion, or $8,047 per person, on healthcare, representing 17.3 percent of the gross domestic product in 2009, up from 16.2 percent in 2008 -- more than double the cost of any other county in the world.
In the past year, U.S. smoking decreased from 17.9 percent to 17.3 percent in adults, the lowest in 22 years from a high of 29.5 percent in 1990.
In another study, the researchers investigated the association between U.S. smoking bans targeting workplaces, restaurants and bars passed from 1991 to 2008 and hospital admissions for smoking-related illnesses -- heart attacks and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- among Medicare beneficiaries age 65 or older.
The study found hospital admissions for acute heart attacks fell about 20 percent 36 months after restaurant, bar and workplace smoking bans. In addition, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease fell 11 percent where workplace smoking bans were in place.
A 2012 study found the total number and rate of reported abortions for 2009 decreased 5 percent, for a total of 784,507 abortions, compared to 2008.
Sixty-two percent of U.S. women of reproductive age used contraception, mostly birth control and sterilization, from 2006 through 2010, the latest data available.
Of the women using a contraceptive in the month of the interview, 10.6 million women, or 28 percent, used birth control, while 10.2 million women, or 27 percent, said they used sterilization.
Use of intrauterine devices as a current method was used by 5.6 percent and 11 percent of the women reported not currently using a method of contraception and were at risk of unintended pregnancy.
For people with diabetes, the death rates for heart disease and stroke dropped substantially -- 40 percent -- from 1997 to 2006.
Slightly more than half of Americans age 12 or older -- 133 million -- reported being drinkers in 2011 survey, similar to the rate in 2010.
Nearly a quarter of people age 12 or older -- 58 million people -- participated in binge drinking at least once in the 30 days prior to the 2011 survey.
Nearly 5 million people used marijuana on a daily or almost daily basis in 2011.
Among people age 12 or older in 2010 to 2011 who used pain relievers non-medically -- taking a prescription drug not prescribed or taking it for reasons or dosages other than prescribed -- 54 percent got the pain relievers from a friend or relative for free, 12 percent bought them from a friend of relative, 4 percent got pain relievers from a drug dealer or stranger and 2 percent got pain relievers from more than one doctor.
As 2012 draws to a close and plans are made for New Year's remember in 2011, an estimated 11 percent drove under the influence of alcohol at least once in the year.


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Xenith_Inc, on 13 March 2018 - 12:23 PM, said:
Ok, you realise the CB in WGCB stands for Chicago Baltimore, meaning they are in the USA.
At the time of your post, it's 3am or so there.
You'll get the results by noon local time most likely.
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The family of a man shot by Anaheim, Calif., police in January has filed a $20 million wrongful death lawsuit, court documents show.
The family of Bernie Cervantes Villegas alleges Anaheim officers wrongfully and negligently shot him to death on Jan. 7 outside an apartment complex on Ball Road, according to the civil complaint filed Oct. 15 in Orange County Superior Court.
The lawsuit alleges that at least five members of the department's SWAT team rushed around a corner and shot Villegas without provocation as he stood in a parking lot, talking with friends.
Full coverage on NBCLosAngeles.com: Anaheim Shootings
Police, responding to 911 calls of a man with a gun, shot Villegas, who they say threatened them with what appeared to be a gun that later turned out to be a BB rifle, said Anaheim Police Sgt. Bob Dunn.
The lawsuit said Villegas was holding a small BB gun -- a present for his son -- but that he did not threaten the officers and was not a danger.
Dana Douglas, the attorney representing the Villegas family, did not return a call seeking comment.
The lawsuit said the officers fired without giving any commands or warnings.
For more visit NBCLosAngeles.com.
The officers "created a blatantly false story that (Villegas) had a shotgun, that he had waved or pointed a gun at officers and that he had tried to threaten or attack officers," the lawsuit said.
Villegas held a "small BB gun" by the end of the barrel and pointed upward while he stood and talked with friends, the lawsuit said.
In addition to wrongful death, the lawsuit alleges negligence, negligent hiring, and deprivation of civil rights.
The news comes as Anaheim police shot and critically wounded early Sunday a man on a bike they say was armed with a pistol.
Anaheim has been the focus of increased scrutiny after back-to-back fatal police shootings this summer, one of which prompted a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit by the family of a man who was unarmed.
Also on NBCLosAngeles.com: Video Released of Firebomb Attack in Long Beach
The shootings sparked a series of protests across the country, clashes with Anaheim police and calls for city reform.
The number of police shootings in Anaheim have spiked as the city is grappling with a spike in gang-related crime, officers said.
According to data provided by the city to NBC4 under the California Public Records Act, the city of Anaheim has paid out more $2.2 million to settle 10 officer-involved shooting cases dating back to 2005.


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I love, love, love it when the hive is full of people. It creates a real energy and gives me an excuse to talk (lots)!
So, we've having a VIP Shopping Day.
Bring a copy of this blog post or our email newsletter and we'll give you a further 10% off the factory prices (applies to everything except for all the goodies that are Buy 2 Get 1 Free because they're already a big, fat bargain). Factory prices are already a bargain anyway and you can also watch the candles being made on the day.
We'll put on bubbly and keep the kettle on (I make a mean cup of tea). You bring yourself (and a few friends if you like).
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Time: 9am – 4pm
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bvcguru necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 24 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
We need a design mock-up (we will do the html) for a brand new website that we are launching that will combine Twitter and online poker. This site will track the recent Twitters from well-known pros in the poker world.
Poker Tweets (Poker-Tweets.com)
Our company: We have been in existence since March of 2003. We operate in a number of different niches, and we are located throughout the world.
What we want designed: A slick, professional design that will incorporate elements of the poker world.
Why we want it designed: Because you are a better designer than I am.
- Should have a slick and professional banner at the top of the page
- Should incorporate colors commonly associated with poker (reds, whites, blacks, greens)
- Should have a left bar and then a larger area on the right where we will display recent tweets (for an example of what I mean, please see the layout of Tweetizen.com - something like that)
- Should include 5 buttons on the left navigation bar that we will use to divide up the players that we are following. These buttons would be: Veterans, Young Guns, Poker Rooms, Media, Others
- Tweetizen.com is a good example of the type of lay-out that we would like in terms of button size on the right
- the main content areas (left nav and space for the tweets on the right) should have a white background
- Please avoid colors such as yellows, purples and blues
- banner shouldn't be overly cartoonish


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Are you in London next week?
If so, don't forget to attend my presentation at this year's RSA Europe conference, hosted in the magnificent Hilton Metropole Hotel.
More details:
Hotel's address:
225 Edgware Road, London W2 1JU, United Kingdom
Presentation details:
Track ID: HT-308
Date: Thursday, 11th of October, 2012
Time: 13:30 – 14:20 hrs
Topic: Cyber Jihad vs Cyberterrorism – Separating Hype from Reality
Conference Agenda: Click here to download
What you will learn after attending my presentation?
- What's the difference between cyber jihad and cyberterrorism?
- Which one is a bigger, more realistic, and prevalent threat to the today's modern and inter-connected society?
- Do cyber jihadists or potential terrorists posses the necessary technical knowledge to cause havoc on the Internet?
- How is the Intelligence Community responding to the rise of the Cyber Jihad?
- Detailed overviews of the most popular cyber operation campaigns launched by Cyber Jihadist's over the years
- A case study on the Global Islamic Media Front a.k.a GIMF
Come and say hi, and listen to my presentation. See you there!
You can find more about Dancho Danchev at his LinkedIn Profile. You can also follow him on Twitter.


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INTERNALSThis information is for people hacking on XML::Liberal; it's not public API documentation. There are three sorts of class that cooperate to do the liberal parsing: the error class, a driver, and a remedy class. Instances of the error class, "XML::Liberal::Error", encapsulate the details of an error detected by an XML parser. They have fields "message", "line", "column", and "location" extracted from a parser error; "location" is the position within the string of the location described by the error. They also have a method "summary", which combines those pieces of information in a human-readable way). A driver knows how to extract line/column/location/message from exceptions generated by a particular XML parser. It is a subclass of "XML::Liberal"; the only current driver is "XML::Liberal::LibXML", which handles parser exceptions thrown by "XML::LibXML". The driver subclass must implement a method "extract_error", which takes an exception argument and a reference to the XML source text, and returns a suitable instance of "XML::Liberal::Error". Each remedy has a class method "apply" which takes three arguments, a driver instance, an error instance, and a reference to the XML source text. It either (a) does nothing and returns false (to indicate that it doesn't know how to fix this problem, so other remedies should be given the opportunity to do so); or (b) modifies the text referenced by its third argument and returns true (whereupon the error is considered as fixed as possible, so no other remedy will be invoked for this error). The driver base class "parse_string" method first tries to use the underlying XML parser to parse the document. If that works, all is well; otherwise, it attempts to apply remedies to fix the problem that arose. It considers each remedy class in turn; as soon as one remedy says it's handled this error, it tries to parse again. If no remedies claim to have handled the error, it gives up.
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QMU. Town Hall Meeting. Ever heard of 'em? No? Allow me to fill you in then.
QMU stands for "quarterly ministry update," and, as you may have guessed, it happens once a quarter. Crazy. At least one representative, from each team within each department goes to listen and report the latest on Compassion stats for the fiscal year.
I took it upon myself to attend last week's meeting on your behalf. So I would like to take this time to report that . . . God is crazy good.
You may have heard that our economy is, well, shrinking? Crumbling? Deteriorating? I would say that it is out of control, but as a believer, I know better than to go that far.
The only truth in such a statement would be if it were specified in this way: "The economy is out of our control." If I may so bold I would say that, considering the God we serve, that's a good thing.
What I am alluding to is a report that so many of our executives elaborated on: in the midst of so much turmoil in the United States and abroad, Compassion is continuing to grow.
It doesn't make any earthly sense. The ride of the economic roller-coaster in recent months is making people financially queasy, and we're probably all holding on to our wallets more tightly than before. I definitely am.
And it seems as though secular businesses and ministries alike are feeling it. Layoffs. Hiring freezes. Budget cuts. Then there is Compassion.
And we are growing.
Outside of supernatural forces and divine intervention, there is little explanation as to how or why Compassion is defying probability and odds.
I would venture to say that at this particular time God has chosen to bless Compassion to do His work. That then begs the question, "What about other ministries that are doing His work too?"
I asked myself the same question. I don't know.
Mark Hanlon, the senior vice president of sponsor donor development, reminded long-time staff and enlightened us newbies that Compassion has seen similar days; nationwide stress and global epidemics are nothing new to this fallen earth.
And so in the same way that we have dealt with comparable seasons in years past, our leaders have assured us that we will continue to do everything in our power to be the best possible stewards of our resources.
We will continue in our same rigorous practices of audits and checks and balances so as to be obedient and faithful with that which the Lord has blessed us.
"We will not bury our talents," Mr. Hanlon declared with proper authority and inspiration.
I got goose-bumps when I heard that. And I had peace.
"We will not be frenetic," he said.
Fra—what? I looked at the girls sitting next to me. "Frenetic?" I mouthed with a quizzical look.
They stared blankly back at me. I wrote it down to Google later.
There are only a handful of academic lessons that I learned when I was college that really stuck with me. Sorry Mom and Dad. One of them was this: "You have to spend money to make money."
You may think that this doesn't sound very spiritual. It's not. But Malachi 3:10 is.
"Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it." (NIV)
Everything that we have here at Compassion is not ours. Time. Talent. Education. Experience. Money.
Everything that we have and all that we are has been bestowed upon us to be used up for the kingdom and glory of God.
What good does it do us or the children if we do not use what we have been given? How can saved souls be multiplied unless their bellies are filled, their wounds are bandaged, their minds are taught, and their cries are heard?
Case in point: As we continue to grow and the Lord continues to provide for the financial needs of sponsored children around the world, we will continue to act as the mediator between the giver and receiver. What we are entrusted to pass on, we will pass on.
Fun fact of the day: Frenetic is an adjective meaning "wildly excited or active; frenzied or frantic."
Good to know that is what we are not.
"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline." 2 Timothy 1:7 (NIV)


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Q My question deals with snow chains, M+S or mud and snow tires, four-wheel drives and chain requirements. I have heard so many different stories about this issue that I am totally confused.
Below is what I have heard, and I was wondering if you could help me through the maze and get to the right answers.
Walnut Creek
A That is why I am here. Fire away.
Q Two-wheel drive vehicles must put chains on the driven wheels when chains are required.
A Correct.
Q Four-wheel drive vehicles with M+S tires do not need chains when chains are required.
A Correct.
Q Four-wheel drives must use chains when chains are required and they must be installed on the rear wheels.
A Incorrect.
Q Four-wheel drives must use chains when chains are required and they must be installed on all four wheels.
A Incorrect.
Go to dot.ca.gov/dist3/departments/mtce/controlmp.htm for chain rules. There are three requirements and they are:
Q I hear that chains should be put on one's front tires. … My neighbor tells me chains should only go on one's rear tires. … My mechanic says front tires.
D. Boyce and many more
A Install chains on one set of the drive tires if you have a four-wheel drive or all-wheel drive vehicle. This can be either the two front tires or the two rear tires. Caltrans says rear tires are preferred, unless the vehicle manufacturer recommends they be put on the front tires. You can install chains on all four.
Q Every year when it snows Caltrans often puts chain controls on Interstate 80. I notice that more often than not, they require chains when there is no snow anywhere on any section of road. Bare pavement is visible the entire time.
Drivers are forced to drive with chains on bare pavement, which is abusive to cars and chews holes in the road. As I write this, chain controls are in effect on the Caltrans website, yet their own cameras at Colfax, Kingvale, Truckee and Floriston show completely bare roads with only RAIN on them.
What's even worse is that the whole highway is slowed to a crawl for miles because of the screening process. Is this really necessary or is it just some outdated practice invented in the 1950s before modern tires were invented?
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A This is a pretty common question. Chain controls are set by Caltrans' Donner Pass superintendent, who makes the call based on conditions from his perch.
"Since our checkpoints and 'chain on' areas are pretty spread out, we may have some bare patches in between," says Mark-the-Caltrans-Spokesman. "Drivers should drive the limit (30 mph) and heed the control because snow and ice could be just around the bend or on the other side of the grade.
"Adding to the problem are conditions that can change in a moment's notice. We always err on the side of caution and try to make the safest call of the moment."
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As people know: " Water is very important ". It help us too much but INSTEAD OF protecing water, we are destroying.
We should use water as much as we want. We save water and save our life. LET'S GO. (^_^)
(^^) The video is very interesting and helpful. It help me to know more about "water" .
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Snapshots from Iceland: Wall of Coca-Cola
I visited Iceland from April 18 to 24. Although this sparsely populated country may not be known for its cuisine, there was plenty of interesting food to report on. This week I'll share some food-related bits with you.
The 24-hour supermarket 10-11 in downtown Reykjavik is a small shop—perhaps the size of a 7-11—but seemed to devote a disproportionately large area of refrigerator space to Coca-Cola. A bit of googling tells me that Iceland and Mexico have the highest consumption rates of Coca-Cola per capita. (Iceland doesn't appear on it, but Coca-Cola has this handy website with per capita consumption data.) One of my travel partners insisted that Icelandic Coke tasted better than American because theirs is made with sugar and not high fructose corn syrup; the Icelandic Tourist Board also attributes it to the use of Icelandic water.
If you're a Pepsi fan, you'll be able to find Pepsi Max, a low calorie, sugar-free Pepsi drink. And...that was all I saw. Considering that Pepsi Max is the only thing that shows up on pepsi.is, it seems to at least be the most popular choice.


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50 Awesome New jQuery Plugins
The jQuery community never ever fails to let you down. Its constantly evolving, constantly improving and, thankfully, constantly releasing a tidal wave of fresh and powerful freely available plugins for every possible requirement.
Today we round-up the best and most powerful jQuery plugins from the last few months. You will find a comprehensive selection of the always popular sliders, image galleries, navigation solutions and form validity options. But this round-up has much more. Much, much more.
jQuery Mobile
jQuery Mobile is a unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code has been built with progressive enhancement, and has a flexible, easily themeable design.
jQuery Mobile Download & Docs →
Globalization Plugin from Microsoft
Globalization Plugin from Microsoft Download & Docs →
Transformie is a Javascript plugin that comes in less than 5k that you embed into web pages and that brings you CSS Transforms by mapping the native IE Filter API to CSS transitions as proposed by Webkit.
Transformie Download & Docs →
CLEditor is an open source jQuery plugin which provides a lightweight, full featured, cross browser, extensible, WYSIWYG HTML editor that can be easily added into any web site.
CLEditor Download & Docs →
Color Plugin xcolor
The xcolor plugin is an easy-to-use jQuery extension to manipulate colors in all imaginable combinations.
This plugin implements an extensiv color parser and a featureful set of color-manipulation methods. There is also an animate() extension to smooth CSS colors. Another useful method isReadable() completes the whole, by allowing you to check if a text is readable on a certain background. The color value can also be passed in different color models: RGB, HSV/HSB, HSL and their adequate alpha extensions.
Color Plugin xcolor Download & Docs →
Sexy.js is a lightweight JavaScript library which provides enhanced Sequential Ajax (Sajax) functionality and a sleek facade to jQuery's native Ajax methods.
Sexy.js Download & Docs →
Crazy Dots
jdCrazyDots is a jQuery Plugin that creates a loading spinner via CSS. Best appearance is with CSS3 capable browser, but can be made to work in older browsers, too.
Crazy Dots Download & Docs →
Demo →
QuickFlip 2
QuickFlip 2 is a major reworking of the jQuery plugin that flips any piece of HTML markup over like a card. The new version is faster and even easier to use—simply call the flip animation through a jQuery selector and the QuickFlip will flip the front panel to show its back.
QuickFlip 2 Download & Docs →
This plug-in allows you to apply 2D transformations in all CSS3 capable browsers as well as Internet Explorer. This plug-in works in Firefox 3.5+, Safari 3.1+, Chrome, Opera 10.5+ and IE 5.5+.
Transform Download & Docs →
Tooltip Plugins
Cute Balloon
Cute Balloon is a jQuery script that allows you to easily make a 'cute' tool tip balloon. It also works with Ajax content.
Cute Balloon Download & Docs →
Demo →
Poshy Tip
PoshyTip includes 7 different color schemes for tooltips; it displays tooltips relatively to forms and inputs; supports asynchronous page loading; can load flickr feeds; has fade-in effects; and much, much more.
Poshy Tip Download & Docs →
Demo →
Colortip converts the title attributes of an element within your page, into a series of colorful tooltips. With six color themes are available, you can easily match it with the rest of your design.
Colortip Download & Docs →
Demo →&
Charts and Graph Plugins
gvChart is a plugin for jQuery, that uses Google Charts to create interactive visualization by using data from the HTML table tag. It is easy in use and additionally it allows you to create five types of charts (AreaChart, LineChart, BarChart, ColumnChart and PieChart).
gvChart Download & Docs →
Demo →
DDchart is a JSON data driven bar chart plug-in that creates a classable bar chart with flash style animation effects.
DDchart Download & Docs →
Demo →
Web Page UI Plugins
Pines Notify
Pines Notify is a JavaScript notification plugin that has been designed to offer an unparalleled level of flexibility, while still being very easy to implement and use. It uses the jQuery UI CSS library for styling, which means it is fully and easily themeable.
Pines Notify Download & Docs →
Demo →
jQnotice allows you to easily show an animated notification tooltip at the top of your website with just a simple line of code.
jQnotice Download & Docs →
jQuery Constant Footer
jQuery Constant Footer Download & Docs →
Demo →
Simple Unlimited Levels Vertical Drop-Down Navigation Menu
Simple Unlimited Levels Vertical Drop-Down Navigation Menu Download & Docs →
Demo →
Pajinate is a simple and flexible jQuery plugin that allows you to divide long lists or areas of content into multiple separate pages.
Pajinate Download & Docs →
Demo →
Mapping Plugins
.goMap Download & Docs →
Demo →
This plugin has been designed for quick development of a page that implements a Google Map with a list of the locations that are specified within the HTML.
jMapping Download & Docs →
Demo →
Forms, Validation, Tables and Search
jQuery.validity is a powerful jQuery plugin you can use to setup client-side form validation. Instead of writing validation manually or balancing some unwieldy server-side framework, validity allows you to design client-side validation in a manner that feels natural and straightforward.
jQuery.validity Download & Docs →
Demo →
Formation is a jQuery plugin that allows you to quickly create a form with validation without writing any HTML. You simply specify the container you wish to append the form to. By passing a few paramters into one of the formation function calls you can add different validation such as number, e-mail, url, phone number, or zip code.
Formation Download & Docs →
Demo →
HTML5 allows you to validate forms without the need for additional JavaScript. Currently only Safari & Google Chrome supports this functionality. This plugin, with just a single line of code, gets the same result in Firefox & Internet Explorer.
Html5form Download & Docs →
Demo →
ezMark is a very small (minified version is ~1.5kb) plugin that allows you to stylize Radio button and Checkbox easily.
ezMark Download & Docs →
Demo →
Searchable DropDown
A jQuery plugin which extends normal dropdown (select) elements to be searchable.
Searchable DropDown Download & Docs →
Demo →
This plugin provides a simple to use popup textarea extension for textboxes.
popBox Download & Docs →
Demo →
Cantipi Time Picker
Cantipi is a simple, functionality and highly original time picker built with jQuery and makes use of canvas.
Cantipi Time Picker Download & Docs →
Demo →
Animated Table Sort
This plugin allows you to animatedly sort a table based on a column's s, or on the content/value of a child/descendant element within those s. The various s fly to their new homes, giving a nice effect.
Animated Table Sort Download & Docs →
Demo →
Video and Media Plugins
jQuery YouTube TubePlayer
jQuery YouTube TubePlayer Download & Docs →
MediaElement.js Download & Docs →
Demo →
jme is an HTML5 audio / video development kit with Flash Fallback, which focuses on flexibility, intuitive DOM-API and semantic code.
jMediaelement Download & Docs →
Demo →
Image Slider Plugins
Coin Slider
Coin Slider Download & Docs →
Demo →
Image Scale Carousel
When working with imagery online keeping the integrity of an images aspect ratio is as important as anything else. This is what's so nice about this jQuery plug-in; you don't have to worry about all of your images being perfectly sized for this slider. The jQuery Image Scale Carousel auto scales all of your images making implementation super simple.
Image Scale Carousel Download & Docs →
Sudo Slider
Essentially, Sudo Slider is the slider plugin that allows the designer to do whatever they wants, with whatever HTML he want. It's a content and image slider, with support for captions, ajax, multiple sliders, bookmarks, automatic sliding, continuous sliding, fading etc.
Sudo Slider Download & Docs →
Demo →
Nivo Zoom – jQuery Image Zoomer
Nivo Zoom – jQuery Image Zoomer Download & Docs →
Image Gallery and Effects Plugins
YoxView Download & Docs →
Demo →
Exposure is a jQuery plugin for rich and smart photo viewing that can handle very large amounts of photos.
Exposure Download & Docs →
Demo →
Cloud Zoom
Cloud Zoom is a jQuery image zoom plugin. Compared to the popular jQZoom plugin, Cloud Zoom is smaller, has more features and more robust compatability across browsers.
Cloud Zoom Download & Docs →
Blockster Transition Effect
Blockster is a Javascript transition effect designed for 'featured content' rotators or slideshows. Its underlying concept is to transition between one element to the next block by block. It is highly customisable in terms of how many blocks are involved, whether they fade in or simply appear, whether they appear in order or randomly, and more.
Blockster Transition Effect Download & Docs →
Lightbox_me – Stupidly Simple Lightboxing
Have you ever had a DOM element that you wanted lightboxed, but didn't want all the fanciness of all the lightbox-related plug-ins out there? Lightbox_me is for you.
Lightbox_me Download & Docs →">
Easy Gallery
Easy Gallery Download & Docs →
Demo →
This is a small plugin for jQuery that adds a nice feature to rotate images by a selected angle on web pages.
jQueryrotate Download & Docs →
jQuery.popeye 2.0
jQuery.popeye is an advanced image gallery script that allows you to save space when displaying a collection of images and offers your users a nice and elegant way to show a big version of your images without leaving the page flow.
jQuery.popeye 2.0 Download & Docs →
Demo →
Galleria is a image gallery framework that is very easy to use, yet loaded with advanced customization options. With more than 5k daily downloads, it's one of the most popular javascript image galleries available today.
Galleria Download & Docs →
Demo →
jQuery and Social Media
jTweetsAnywhere – jQuery Twitter Widget
jTweetsAnywhere is a jQuery Twitter Widget that simplifies the integration of Twitter services into your site, with just a few lines of code.
jTweetsAnywhere – jQuery Twitter Widget Download & Docs →
Demo →
So So Social – jQuery News Feed from your Social Networks
The So So Social plug-in uses jQuery and YQL (Yahoo Query Language) to gather RSS feeds from your various social networks and sorts them into an "activity feed". It basically creates a news feed out of your social networking activity.
So So Social Download & Docs →
Bit.ly Button – jQuery Plugin for Your Clicky Post
bit.ly offers realtime statistics about the clicks on shortened links and this button takes advantage of that information. This jQuery button gives you a uniform click count button -tall or wide- that people can also use it to retweet your post.
Bit.ly Button Download & Docs →
Demo →
Quite Delicious Button
This jQuery-fied delicious sharing widget gives you a uniform share button -tall or wide that works the same as the official Delicious button but looks much prettier.
Quite Delicious Button Download & Docs →
Demo →
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@willemoes, glad you got SRC working - regarding Sox, sounds like you neglected to disable the default output before enabling a Sox output - depending on the hardware this can do a variety of bad things, you have to be diligent about disabling the default output before enabling a Sox output. This is because the underlying hardware is the same and if both are enabled conflicts will ensue. MPD doesn't have any features to protect a user from themselves in this case.
Once you get them both working let us know what you think of the difference.
I run mpdPup on an Intel Dual Core 1.66 GHz Atom D510 mobo with 4GB RAM.
I have now had a chance to compare SRC/SOX on that PC. I run SRC at 'Highest' quality level (0)
SOX at 176,400 was unable to run without stuttering whereas SRC at 176,400 runs fine. I have to conclude that SOX is more CPU intensive.
At 88,200 both ran fine. There was very little in it for SQ, but in the end, I prefer SRC as being more 'natural'. Both IMHO though enhance 44.1/16 CD usefully, especially at the top end.
Of course, your mileage may vary.
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Yes Idolse, thats an issue to. I began to try to automount the card reader with the following line on fstab :
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/mmcblk0p1 auto defaults
also tryed vfat (card is in vfat) instead of auto and it doesnt mount.
But if i add to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local the following lines:
mkdir /mnt/mmcblk0p1
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/mmcblk0p1
It works for the card reader, if i add the line
mount -t ntfs /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1
it doesnt mount the usb drive. Really i am trying to make the card reader working for now.
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Sorry, replace mount/dev/ sda for mount/dev/mmcblk0p1.
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I am starting to try mpdPup and it looks very promising, congratulations!!!
I have one suggestion and two questions.
CIFS should use a credential file to store the username and password (chmod 700 it) and uses the credentials option to mount the share. It's more secure and a wider password range will be allowed. Actually you can't use passwords with ',' (coma) characters because it is the options delimiter in fstab. I think this point should be really easy to implement.
Now, the questions...
Is there any way to change/redetect/swap audio interfaces without reinstalling or using CLI to load module and modify alsa/mpd config files? I'll be swapping Young DAC and Hiface2 but can't figure out how to "magically" make it work.
Any plan on NFS support?
Thanks and keep up the good work!!!
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I've seen discussions about several tweaks. I don't know if the package exists for Puppy: rtirq-init (name in Debian). It can address a few of these tweaks (irq threading, priorities...) and you can achieve pretty good defaults/balance for USB Dacs and PCI Cards. An option to activate it in the wizzard would be possible as it is an init script that can be enabled/disabled in a config file.
It takes advantage of irqthreads/realtime enabled kernels. I am actually at work and cannot check if this is the case of mpdPup.
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Apologies for the delayed replies. @luisb, handling USB drives in that manner is on my to-do list, it's just quite a ways down - I'll get there eventually.
@ boulogne75, thanks for downloading and trying things out. If you have more documentation on how to store the CIFS user/pass in a credential file I'd appreciate any links you have. Increasing security isn't a major concern, but having more password flexibility would be good.
Unfortunately I don't know of any way to automagically swap interfaces. You could do this yourself with a hotplug script - basically the hotplug action would swap between diferent mpd.conf files for the different cards (or possibly edit in-place), then re-start MPD. I don't see it as something I could easily bundle into the wizards though, as the actions would be a little bit different depending on the model of the card.
NFS support hasn't been high on my priority list - I did give it a shot at one point, but didn't have much luck with it. I might give it another shot now that I have a new NAS which supports it, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Thanks for the info on rtirq-init, I'll do some more reading on that.
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Idolse, i just solved the network problems i had with my server so USB drive will not be in my concerns anymore. I will stay with the configuration mpdpup was designed for. A great listening pleasure it gives.
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It's pretty straightforward:
As root:
- Create an /etc/samba/credentials file
Add username=xxxx
Add password=xxxx
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Now only root user can read/modify/execute the file
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If you don't know it, you can take a look at AutoFS:
It allows to easily automount any kind of filesystem (usb, cifs, nfs...), choose the mount point, pass mount options, and automatically unmount after an idle time...
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Hi ldolse
In a thread over at AudioAsylum - http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/vt.mpl?f=pcaudio&m=117722
A guy is promoting a number of low level tweaks to Linux audio and has suggested some for mpdPup. He suggested they were posted to our forum and so I am doing so -
Here are some more settings to add into the mpdstart.sh file
chmod 666 /sys/module/ehci_hcd/parameters/log2_irq_thresh
echo 6 > /sys/module/ehci_hcd/parameters/log2_irq_thresh
chmod 666 /sys/module/ehci_hcd/parameters/park
echo 3 > /sys/module/ehci_hcd/parameters/park
echo 999999999 > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbhid/module/parameters/mousepoll
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
echo 40 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio
echo 5000 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
echo 2048 > /proc/sys/kernel/msgmni
echo 65535 > /proc/sys/kernel/msgmax
echo 65535 > /proc/sys/kernel/msgmnb
echo 40960 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
echo 50 > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_app_win
echo "1000 1024000 512 2048" > /proc/sys/kernel/sem
echo 268435456 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
There followed some debate on some of the values he has used. I see they include 'swappiness' which we know does not apply to mpdPup running entirely in RAM.
I would be interested to hear if any of his suggestions would be able to be run in mpdPup and/or whether what you have done would conflict with his suggestions.
Many thanks
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@boulogne75, thanks for the extra info - I'll see about implementing this for the next version.
@jrling, I just saw that thread on all those tweaks - lots of good stuff there to add to the wizard. Can you point out documentation for any of these items that weren't previously discussed? I'd like to be able to document the purpose for each one, I'm not inclined to implement tweaks I can't explain.
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I am afraid not. I just saw them and passed them on. The poster gave no explanations, but is obviously well informed. If you want, I will ask him for explanations but I cannot of course guarantee that he will reply.
Before I do so, for reasons of not wanting to waste his time, are you able to confirm which ones will work in mpdPup conceptually and which ones will not with the kernel that you use? We know for example swappiness is not applicable.
Have you had any chance to look at the rt-irq tweaks that Dynobot and boulogne75 have suggested?
It looks like we are building a number of tweaks which some may want to try and others not. I was wondering whether a new '0.9.3 Tweaks' thread might be helpful, as some readers may not want to get involved in tweaking?
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I think it's ok to keep the tweaks in this thread. I'm not sure which ones don't apply. As you noted swappiness shouldn't matter.
probably doesn't matter either as it sounds like it's also related to swap files.
- quite possibly relevant, more info would be good
- not sure if it's relevant when no mouse is attached, and not sure what it will do to X with that large a number defined when a user does want to use a mouse.
- not sure how relevant it is when the filesystem is always in memory, but it's possible that it would reduce 1's and 0's being shuffled around for no reason.
- setting this to zero seems to tell the kernel not to reserve memory for TCP activity - I'm not sure how this would be a good thing, so definitely need more background on this one, since TCP gets used heavily by anyone with a network share.
- some of the suggested numbers seem quite large, definitely would want some background on the logic and what the impact on memory is along with audio, but I can imagine that changing some of these could have a positive impact. Most of these settings only show up in Google searches related to relational database tuning. I'm not saying they won't make a difference in MPD's performance, but a relational database and MPD are very different beasts.
Also note many of the other tweaks that I've implemented were validated by multiple users in these or other forums using mpdPup before I implemented them. Would be great to see more users chime in and indicate that their independent testing also saw an improvement. Basically more votes of confidence will give a given tweak priority. Most of these most recent suggestions can easily be tried by anyone - there aren't any additional binaries required like there are for some of the other tweaks.
I haven't had a chance to do a lot of work with a variety of the tweaks discussed over the last page or so aside from investigating which packages I will need to include in the next release - been travelling over the holidays so development has been slow.
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Thanks for the feedback.
Now that they are posted on this forum, I am sure that we will get feedback if no extra binaries are required.
Will post your reply comments back to the AA correspondent.
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Posted: Wed 02 Jan 2013, 19:09
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Hi ldolse
I looked into those settings posted on another forum. Perhaps some are on the right path BUT and a HUGE BUT...his numbers are extremely faulty. He got the numbers purely out of the air or out of his...well. Anyways I would not use any of them and even though some of the kernel tweaking can be done with proper numbers MPDPup is already at optimal. I spent some time and looked up the proper usage for each of those and how/why each value is used. I applied 'proper' values based on what Linux calls for, yes if you change the numbers the sound will change but each value is already at the optimal setting for Puppy Linux. I would caution plugging in random values like he does.
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Dynobot wrote:
Hi ldolse
I looked into those settings posted on another forum. Perhaps some are on the right path BUT and a HUGE BUT...his numbers are extremely faulty. He got the numbers purely out of the air or out of his...well. Anyways I would not use any of them and even though some of the kernel tweaking can be done with proper numbers MPDPup is already at optimal. I spent some time and looked up the proper usage for each of those and how/why each value is used. I applied 'proper' values based on what Linux calls for, yes if you change the numbers the sound will change but each value is already at the optimal setting for Puppy Linux. I would caution plugging in random values like he does.
I had arrived at the same conclusion.
Having said that, there are one or two of his suggestions that I might try. For instance I run mpdPup headless and no networking for music, so the mouse polling and TCP 'turning off' ones might have some merit. Worth a try anyhow.
Do you credit his ehci suggestions as being worthy?
My Tranquil PC T2E has four USB ports on the rear panel (I have disabled the onboard USB header in the BIOS) and I only use one for my WaveIO USB/S/PDIF converter. So I wondered if I could turn off all but one USB port in Linux?
Finally, you made a sweeping statement (!) -
and even though some of the kernel tweaking can be done with proper numbers MPDPup is already at optimal
Could I gently question that? I am not suggesting that you are wrong, but I suspect that Puppy Linux kernel on which mpdPup is based is certainly not aimed at audiophiles and unless those settings have been modified before mpdPup release, they might not be optimal. But of course with all the variables of individual hardware set-ups, there is probably no such thing as optimal.
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