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The series is hosted by Gisèle Quenneville. Reporters associated with the series include Melanie Routhier-Boudreau, Isabelle Brunet, Marie Duchesneau, Luce Gauthier, Frédéric Projean and Chantal Racine. Longtime host Pierre Granger retired from the series in 2009.[1] The series was renamed RelieF in fall 2010.
The show airs seven nights a week at 7 p.m. From Monday to Thursday, it airs news and public affairs. On Fridays, the program airs documentary programming. On Saturdays, it airs a "week in review" edition, and on Sundays it airs an arts and culture magazine.
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Repressed memories are hypothesized memories having been unconsciously blocked, due to the memory being associated with a high level of stress or trauma.[citation needed] The theory postulates that even though the individual cannot recall the memory, it may still be affecting them consciously.[1]
The existence of repressed memories is a controversial topic in psychology; some studies have concluded that it can occur in victims of trauma, while others dispute it. According to some psychologists, repressed memories can be recovered through therapy. Other psychologists argue that this is in fact rather a process through which false memories are created by blending actual memories and outside influences. Furthermore, some psychologists believe that repressed memories are a cultural symptom because there is no written proof of their existence before the nineteenth century.[2]
According to the American Psychological Association, it is not possible to distinguish repressed memories from false ones without corroborating evidence.[1] The term repressed memory is derived from the term dissociative amnesia, which is defined in the DSM-IV as “an inability to recall important personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness”.[citation needed]
Amnesia is referred to any instance in which memories stored in the long-term memory are completely or partially forgotten, usually due to brain injury.[citation needed] According to proponents of the existence of repressed memories, such memories can be recovered years or decades after the event, most often spontaneously, triggered by a particular smell, taste, or other identifier related to the lost memory, or via suggestion during psychotherapy.[3]
There is no documented writing about repressed memories or dissociative amnesia (as it is sometimes referred to), before the 1800s.[4] The concept of repressed memory originated with Sigmund Freud in his 1896 essay Zur Ätiologie der Hysterie ("On the etiology of hysteria").[5] One of the studies published in his essay involved a young woman by the name of Anna O. Among her many ailments, she suffered from stiff paralysis on the right side of her body. Freud stated her symptoms to be attached to psychological traumas. The painful memories had separated from her consciousness and brought harm to her body. Freud used hypnosis to treat Anna O. She is reported to have gained slight mobility on her right side.[6] Freud's repressed memory theory joined his philosophy of psychoanalysis. Repressed memory has remained a heavily debated topic inside of Freud's psychoanalysis philosophy.
Some research indicates that memories of child sexual abuse and other traumatic incidents may be forgotten.[7] Evidence of the spontaneous recovery of traumatic memories has been shown,[8][9][10] and recovered memories of traumatic childhood abuse have been corroborated.[11]
There has also been significant questioning of the reality of repressed memories. There is considerable evidence that rather than being pushed out of consciousness, the difficulty with traumatic memories for most people are their intrusiveness and inability to forget.[13] One case that is held up as definitive proof of the reality of repressed memories, recorded by David Corwin[14] has been criticized by Elizabeth Loftus and Melvin Guyer for ignoring the context of the original complaint and falsely presenting the sexual abuse as unequivocal and true when in reality there was no definitive proof.[15]
It is hypothesised that repression may be one method used by individuals to cope with traumatic memories, by pushing them out of awareness (perhaps as an adaptation via psychogenic amnesia) to allow a child to maintain attachment to a person on whom they are dependent for survival.[16] Researchers have proposed that repression can operate on a social level as well.[17] Psychogenic amnesia, now renamed dissociative amnesia, is found to increase in incidence after psychologically traumatic events such as war and natural disaster, which is consistent with the repression hypothesis.
Memories can be accurate, but they are not always accurate. For example, eyewitness testimony even of relatively recent dramatic events is notoriously unreliable.[18] Misremembering may result from confusion of memories of perceived and imagined events, as there may be overlap between features of the stored information comprising memories for perceived and imagined events.[citation needed] Memories of events are always a mix of factual traces of sensory information overlaid with emotions, mingled with interpretation and "filled in" with imaginings.[citation needed] Thus there is always skepticism about how valid a memory is as evidence of factual detail.[citation needed][clarification needed]
Such experimental studies have been criticized[23] in particular about whether the findings are really relevant to trauma memories and psychotherapeutic situations.[24] Nevertheless, these studies prompted public and professional concern about recovered memory therapy for past sexual abuse.[clarification needed] When memories are 'recovered' after long periods of amnesia, particularly when extraordinary means were used to secure the recovery of memory, it is now widely (but not universally) accepted that the memories are quite likely to be false, i.e. of incidents that had not occurred.[25] It is thus recognised by professional organizations that a risk of implanting false memories is associated with some similar types of therapy. The American Psychiatric Association advises: "...most leaders in the field agree that although it is a rare occurrence, a memory of early childhood abuse that has been forgotten can be remembered later. However, these leaders also agree that it is possible to construct convincing pseudomemories for events that never occurred. The mechanism(s) by which both of these phenomena happen are not well understood and, at this point it is impossible, without other corroborative evidence, to distinguish a true memory from a false one."[26][27]
Obviously, not all therapists agree that false memories are a major risk of psychotherapy and they argue that this idea overstates the data and is untested. [28][29][30] Several studies have reported high percentages of the corroboration of recovered memories,[31][32] and some authors have claimed that the false memory movement has tended to conceal or omit evidence of (the) corroboration" of recovered memories.[33]
Both true and false 'memories' can be recovered using memory work techniques, but there is no evidence that reliable discriminations can be made between them.[34] Some believe that memories "recovered" under hypnosis are particularly likely to be false.[35] According to The Council on Scientific Affairs for the American Medical Association, recollections obtained during hypnosis can involve confabulations and pseudomemories and appear to be less reliable than nonhypnotic recall.[36] Brown et al. estimate that 3 to 5% of laboratory subjects are vulnerable to post-event misinformation suggestions. They state that 5 - 8% of the general population is the range of high-hypnotizability. Twenty-five percent of those in this range are vulnerable to suggestion of pseudomemories for peripheral details, which can rise to 80% with a combination of other social influence factors. They conclude that the rates of memory errors run 0 - 5% in adult studies, 3 - 5% in children's studies and that the rates of false allegations of child abuse allegations run 4 - 8% in the general population.[29]
Neurological basis of memory[edit]
The neuroscientist Donald Hebb (1904–1985) was the first to distinguish between short-term memory and long-term memory. According to current theories in neuroscience, things that we "notice" are stored in short-term memory for up to a few minutes; this memory depends on 'reverberating' electrical activity in neuronal circuits, and is very easily destroyed by interruption or interference. Memories stored for longer than this are stored in long-term memory. Whether information is stored in long-term memory depends on its 'importance'; for any animal, memories of traumatic events are potentially important for the adaptive value that they have for future avoidance behaviour, and hormones that are released during stress have a role in determining what memories are preserved. In humans, traumatic stress is associated with acute secretion of epinephrine and norepinephrine (adrenaline and noradrenaline) from the adrenal medulla and cortisol from the adrenal cortex. Increases in these facilitate memory, but chronic stress associated with prolonged hypersecretion of cortisol may have the opposite effect. The limbic system is involved in memory storage and retrieval as well as giving emotional significance to sensory inputs. Within the limbic system, the hippocampus is important for explicit memory, and for memory consolidation; it is also sensitive to stress hormones, and has a role in recording the emotions of a stressful event. The amygdala may be particularly important in assigning emotional values to sensory inputs.[37]
• Childhood amnesia is the normal inability to recall memories from the first three years of life. Sigmund Freud was the first to observe this phenomenon and realized that not only do humans not remember anything from birth to three years, but they also have “spotty” recollection of anything occurring from three to seven years of age.[39] There are various theories as to why this occurs: some believe that language development is important for efficient storage of long-term memories; others believe that early memories do not persist because the brain is still developing.
Effects of trauma on memory[edit]
'Betrayal Trauma Theory' proposes that in cases of childhood abuse, dissociative amnesia is an adaptive response, and that “victims may need to remain unaware of the trauma not to reduce suffering but rather to promote survival.”[42] When stress interferes with memory, it is possible that some of the memory is kept by a system that records emotional experience, but there is no symbolic placement of it in time or space.[43] Traumatic memories are retrieved, at least at first, in the form of dissociated mental imprints of the affective and sensory elements of the traumatic experience. Clients have reported the slow emergence of a personal narrative that can be considered explicit (conscious) memory.
Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk[32] divided the effects of traumas on memory functions into four sets
• dissociative processes; this refers to memories being stored as fragments and not as unitary wholes.
• traumatic memories’ sensorimotor organization. Not being able to integrate traumatic memories seems to be linked to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).[44]
The existence of repressed memory recovery has not been accepted by mainstream psychology,[46][47][48][49] nor unequivocally proven to exist, and some experts in the field of human memory feel that no credible scientific support exists for the notions of repressed/recovered memories.[50][51] A survey revealed that whilst memory and cognition experts tend to be skeptical of repressed memory, clinicians are much more apt to believe that traumatic memory is often repressed.[52] One research report states that a distinction should be made between spontaneously recovered memories and memories recovered during suggestions in therapy.[53] A common criticism is that a recovered memory is tainted by, or a product of, the process of recovery or the suggestions used in that process.[citation needed]
Medico-legal issues[edit]
Serious issues arise when recovered but false memories result in public allegations; false complaints carry serious consequences for the accused. Many of those who make false claims sincerely believe the truth of what they report. A special type of false allegation, the false memory syndrome, arises typically within therapy, when people report the 'recovery' of childhood memories of previously unknown abuse. The influence of practitioners' beliefs and practices in the eliciting of false 'memories' and of false complaints has come under particular criticism.[56] Sometimes these memories are used as evidence in criminal prosecutions.
It is generally accepted that people sometimes are unable to recall traumatic experiences. The current version (DSM-IV) of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association, states that "Dissociative amnesia is characterized by an inability to recall important personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness."[57] The term "recovered memory", however, is not listed in DSM-IV or used by any mainstream formal psychotherapy modality.[58]
Legal state[edit]
A U.S. District Court accepted repressed memories as admissible evidence in a specific case.[60] Dalenberg argues that the evidence shows that recovered memory cases should be allowed to be prosecuted in court.[30]
In a 1996 ruling, a U.S. District Court allowed repressed memories entered into evidence in court cases.[66] Jennifer Freyd writes that Ross Cheit's case of suddenly remembered sexual abuse is one of the most well-documented cases available for the public to see. Cheit prevailed in two lawsuits, located five additional victims and tape-recorded a confession.[10]
Clinical relevance[edit]
Recovered memory therapy[edit]
Recovered memory therapy is a range of psychotherapy methods based on recalling memories of abuse that had previously been forgotten by the patient.[68] The term "recovered memory therapy" is not listed in DSM-IV or used by mainstream formal psychotherapy modality.[58][69] Opponents of the therapy advance the explanation that therapy can create false memories through suggestion techniques; this has not been corroborated, though some research has shown supportive evidence.[70][71] Nevertheless, the evidence is questioned by some researchers.[58][72][73] It is possible for patients who retract their claims—after deciding their recovered memories are false—to suffer post-traumatic stress disorder due to the trauma of illusory memories.[74]
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27. ^ Sheflin and Brown state that a total of 25 studies on amnesia for child sexual abuse exist and that they demonstrate amnesia in their study subpopulations. Sheflin, AW; Brown D (1996). "Repressed memory or dissociative amnesia: what the science says". J Psychiat Law 24: 143–88. ISSN 0093-1853. . An editorial in the British Medical Journal however, prefaces mention of the Sheflin and Brown study with "on critical examination, the scientific evidence for repression crumbles."Harrison G Pope (14 February 1998). "Editorial — Recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse: The Royal College of Psychiatrists issues important precautions". British Medical Journal (BMJ) 316 (7130)
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33. ^ Cheit, RE (1998). "Consider this, skeptics of recovered memory". Ethics Behav 8 (2): 141–60. doi:10.1207/s15327019eb0802_4.
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Mission type Remote sensing
Operator Canadian Space Agency
COSPAR ID 2003-036A
Mission duration 2 years (minimum)[1]
Spacecraft properties
Manufacturer Bristol Aerospace[1]
Launch mass 260 kilograms (570 lb)[1]
Start of mission
Launch date 13 August 2003, 02:09:33 (2003-08-13UTC02:09:33Z) UTC[2]
Rocket Pegasus-XL F35
Launch site Vandenberg Runway 12/30
Contractor Orbital
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Low Earth
Perigee 642 kilometres (399 mi)[1]
Apogee 654 kilometres (406 mi)[1]
Inclination 73.9 degrees[1]
SCISAT-1 is a Canadian satellite designed to make observations of the Earth's atmosphere. Its main instruments are an optical Fourier transform infrared spectrometer, the ACE-FTS Instrument, and an ultraviolet spectrophotometer, MAESTRO. These devices record spectra of the Sun, as sunlight passes through the Earth's atmosphere, making analyses of the chemical elements of the atmosphere possible.
SCISAT is a relatively small satellite weighing 150 kg (~330 pounds). It is partly drum shaped with a diameter of about five feet and a depth of about five feet. The Canadian Space Agency coordinated its design, launch and use. The main contractors were Bristol Aerospace of Winnipeg, Manitoba, who were prime contractor for the bus, and ABB Bomem Inc. of Quebec City, Quebec who developed the ACE-FTS instrument. The total development cost of SCISAT, as estimated [3] by the CSA in 2003, was about CDN$60M. As of 10 years after launch, the satellite and its instruments are still operating.
SCISAT passes through the Earth's shadow 15 times per day, profiting from the occultation of the Sun to make a spectrographic analysis of the structure and chemistry of those parts of the upper atmosphere that are too high to be reached by balloons and airplanes and too low to be visited by orbiting satellites. This kind of analysis can help understand the depletion of the ozone layer and other upper atmosphere phenomena.
SCISAT was placed in low Earth orbit, or LEO, by a Pegasus rocket launched from a NASA Lockheed L-1011 carrier aircraft on August 12, 2003 from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Expected to operate for two to five years, it was still operational in 2014. Current information may be obtained from the ACE Mission Information for Public Data Release report.[4]
The University of Waterloo, York University, the University of Toronto, and several other Canadian universities collaborated in the design of the experiments, and in several aspects of the testing of the satellite.
The ACE-FTS instrument is the main payload of the SCISAT-1 spacecraft. The primary scientific goal of the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) is to measure and understand the chemical and dynamical processes that control the distribution of ozone in the upper troposphere and stratosphere. The principle of ACE measurement is the solar occultation technique. A high inclination (74 degrees), low Earth orbit (650 km/400 miles) will provide ACE coverage of tropical, mid-latitudes and polar regions.
The spectrometer is an adapted version of the classical Michelson interferometer using an optimized optical layout. Its highly folded double-pass optical design results in a very high performance instrument with a compact size. A signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) better than 100 is achieved, with a field-of-view (FOV) of 1.25 mrad and an aperture diameter of 100 mm (4"). A semiconductor laser is used as the metrology source of the interferometer sub-system.
The auxiliary Visible/Near-infrared Imager (VNI) monitors aerosols based on the extinction of solar radiation using two filtered detectors at 0.525 and 1.02 micrometres. The instrument also includes a Suntracker mechanism providing fine pointing toward the radiometric center of the Sun with stability better than 3 μrad. The ACE-FTS instrument was launched on August 12, 2003.
ABB was the prime contractor for the design and manufacturing of the ACE-FTS instrument.
The Measurements of Aerosol Extinction in the Stratosphere and Troposphere Retrieved by Occultation (MAESTRO) instrument aboard SCISAT-1 measures the vertical distribution of ozone, nitrogen dioxide, water vapour, and aerosols in the Earth's atmosphere.[5] MAESTRO consists of a UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometer that measures the 285-1030 nm spectral region.[6]
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START domain
Symbol START
Pfam PF01852
InterPro IPR002913
SCOP 1em2
TCDB 9.B.64
OPM superfamily 147
OPM protein 1ln1
CDD cd00177
PDB 1em2 EBI.jpg
star-related lipid transport domain of mln64
Symbol START
Pfam PF01852
Pfam clan CL0209
InterPro IPR002913
SCOP 1em2
START (StAR-related lipid-transfer) is a lipid-binding domain in StAR, HD-ZIP and signalling proteins.[1] The archetypical domain is found in StAR (Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein), a mitochondrial protein that is synthesized in steroid-producing cells.[2] StAR and initiates steroid production by mediating the delivery of cholesterol to the first enzyme in steroidogenic pathway. The START domain is critical for this activity, perhaps through the binding of cholesterol. Following the discovery of StAR, 15 START-domain-containing proteins (termed STARD1 through STARD15) were subsequently identified in vertebrates as well as other that are related.
Thousands of proteins containing at least one START domain have been determined in invertebrates, bacteria and plants to form a larger superfamily, variously known as START, Bet v1-like or SRPBCC (START/RHOalphaC/PITP/Bet v1/CoxG/CalC) domain proteins, all of which bind hydrophobic ligands. In the case of plants, many of the START proteins fall into the category of putative lipid/sterol-binding homeodomain (HD) transcription factors or HD-START proteins.[3]
Representatives of the START domain family bind different substances or ligands such as sterols (e.g., StAR or STARD1) and lipids like phosphatidylcholine (phosphatidylcholine transfer protein, also called PCTP or STARD2) and have enzymatic activities. Ligand binding by the START domain in multidomain proteins can also regulate the activities of the other domains, such as the RhoGAP domain, the homeodomain and the thioesterase domain.[1][4]
The crystal structure of START domain of human MLN64 shows an alpha/beta fold built around a U-shaped incomplete beta-barrel. Most importantly, the interior of the protein encompasses a 26 × 12 × 11-Angstrom hydrophobic tunnel that is apparently large enough to bind a single cholesterol molecule.[5] The START domain structure revealed an unexpected similarity to that of the birch pollen allergen Bet v 1 and to bacterial polyketide cyclases[disambiguation needed]/aromatases.[4][5]
Human proteins containing the START domain[edit]
START domain-containing proteins in the human are divided into five subfamilies. An exception is StarD9 whose activity remains unknown. Other proteins also exist in the human with domains that are members of the START-based superfamily such as PITP, but are not part of the START domain itself.
Cholesterol/oxysterol binding StarD1/D3 subfamily[edit]
These proteins are primarily concerned with cholesterol transport
StarD4 subfamily[edit]
These proteins are involved in cholesterol and oxysterol transport
Phospholipid/sphingolipid binding StarD2 subfamily[edit]
SAM-RhoGAP-START subfamily[edit]
These proteins contain both the START domain and Rho-GTPase signaling activity
Acyl-CoA thioesterase subfamily[edit]
The members of this subfamily possess the START domain and thioesterase activity
See also[edit]
1. ^ a b Ponting CP, Aravind L (1999). "START: a lipid-binding domain in StAR, HD-ZIP and signalling proteins". Trends Biochem. Sci. 24 (4): 130–132. doi:10.1016/S0968-0004(99)01362-6. PMID 10322415.
2. ^ Clark BJ, Wells J, King SR, Stocco DM (1994). "The purification, cloning, and expression of a novel luteinizing hormone-induced mitochondrial protein in MA-10 mouse Leydig tumor cells. Characterization of the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR)". J. Biol. Chem. 269 (45): 28314–28322. PMID 7961770.
3. ^ Schrick K, Nguyen D, Karlowski WM, Mayer KF (2004). "START lipid/sterol-binding domains are amplified in plants and are predominantly associated with homeodomain transcription factors". Genome Biol. 5: R41. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-6-r41. PMC 463074. PMID 15186492.
4. ^ a b Koonin EV, Aravind L, Iyer LM (2001). "Adaptations of the helix-grip fold for ligand binding and catalysis in the START domain superfamily". Proteins 43 (2): 134–144. doi:10.1002/1097-0134(20010501)43:2<134::AID-PROT1025>3.0.CO;2-I. PMID 11276083.
5. ^ a b Hurley JH, Tsujishita Y (2000). "Structure and lipid transport mechanism of a StAR-related domain". Nat. Struct. Biol. 7 (5): 408–414. doi:10.1038/75192. PMID 10802740.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65691 | Shatter (video game)
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Shatter icon in the PlayStation Store
Developer(s) Sidhe Interactive
Publisher(s) Sidhe Interactive
Designer(s) Alan Bell, Antony Blackett, James Everett, Jonathan Brown
Composer(s) Module
Platform(s) PlayStation Network, Microsoft Windows, OS X, GNU/Linux, iOS
Release date(s) PlayStation Network
• WW July 23, 2009
Microsoft Windows
• WW March 15, 2010
OS X, Linux
• WW September 18, 2012
• WW Early 2013
Genre(s) Brick buster
Mode(s) Single-player
Shatter is a 2009 brick-busting video game developed and published by Sidhe Interactive for the PlayStation 3, PC platforms, and iOS. The game was released on July 23, 2009 on PSN, on March 15, 2010 on Microsoft Windows, on September 18, 2012 on OS X and GNU/Linux, and in early 2013 on iOS.
Shatter is a re-imagining of the classic block-breaking Arkanoid gameplay mechanic, with the addition of physics forces "suck" and "blow" to give the player control of the ball and other physics-enabled objects.[1]
The player can use the suck mechanic to pull shards, power-ups and other objects towards the paddle.
The game area consists of a paddle, a ball and field of blocks. To clear a level, the player must destroy all of the blocks. This is most commonly done by guiding the ball into them but blocks can also be destroyed using the Shard Storm power-up, by hitting the blocks with the paddle itself, or by sucking in fragments with the shield enabled to create "ricochet" bullets.
As well as using the paddle to strike the ball, the player can also suck objects towards it or blow objects away. When a block is broken, it releases a number of shards which the players should collect in order to charge their Shard Storm bar. This can be done more efficiently by using the suck function to pull shards towards the paddle. The player collects these shards using the paddle. The suck and blow functions also affect the balls trajectory so can be used to more accurately guide the ball to specific targets. Some blocks also react to the in-game physics and will move towards or away from the paddle as the suck and blow actions are used. The player can activate a shield around the paddle which will destroy blocks on contact however, this also drains power from the Shard Storm meter. If a block hits the paddle when the shield is not activated the player loses control of the paddle for a few moments.
Some blocks contain power-ups which have to be collected. All power-ups in the game are positive and trigger functions such as doubling the number of shards on the screen, making the ball more easily maneuverable or give the player an extra life. The player collects these power ups by catching them with the paddle. Players can also release multiple balls into the arena at once. While this allows the player to collect points and clear the stage more quickly, it also makes the game more difficult.[2]
On March 15, 2010, Shatter was released on for Windows through Steam. This updated release includes extra modes. Ports of this version for Mac OS X and Linux were released as part of the Humble Indie Bundle 6.
The soundtrack for Shatter was composed by the electronic musician Module, and has been featured in its own right by the Bandcamp independent music website.[3]
Shatter received favorable critical reviews with a metascore of 86 on Metacritic for the PlayStation 3 version and 84 for the PC version. It was nominated by as one of the most innovative games at E3 2009.[4] later scored the game B in their review calling it "a fine interpretation of the old brick-breaker style" and praising the introduction of new and interesting gameplay mechanics to classic brick-breaker game genre. However, reviewer Ray Barnholt did comment on the game's brevity, saying that it could be completed in a couple of days.[5] Game Freaks 365 noted the similarities to Breakout, but claims that it "deserves a more respectful title than clone," giving it an 8.7 out of 10.[6]
See also[edit]
1. ^ David Ellis (June 29, 2009). Brand-New Footage of Shatter. 1UP. Retrieved on April 15, 2012.
2. ^ (June 30, 2009). Shatter: Hands-on and Mind-blown. IGN Entertainment. Retrieved on April 15, 2012.
3. ^ Sidhe Interactive at Bandcamp
4. ^ 1UP's Best of E3 2009. 1UP. Retrieved on April 15, 2012.
5. ^ Ray Barnholt ( "Shatter Review". UGO Entertainment.
6. ^ "Shatter Review". Game Freaks 365. Retrieved 2009-07-30.
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Simplesse is an egg and dairy whey protein product used as a fat substitute in low-calorie foods. Originally brought to market in 1988, the manufacturer, CP Kelco (a former NutraSweet subsidiary), sells Simplesse to food processors as a "microparticulated whey protein concentrate" in dry powder form, and recommends that it be labelled as dairy protein on food labels.
The protein is partially coagulated by heat, creating a micro dispersion, in a process known as microparticulation. It is due to the small particule size of the protein that we perceive the dispersion as a fluid with similar creaminess and richness of fat. [1]
Simplesse began in 1979 as "a substance that gelled like egg white but crumbled like Styrofoam."[2] At that time, Shoji Yamamoto, an associate of Norman S. Singer at Canadian beer company John Labatt Ltd. in London, Ontario, brought Singer the whey protein substance.[2] After sensing that it gave the taste texture of cream cheese, another scientist put a sample under a powerful microscope and saw "tiny spheres of protein rolling over each other" about a tenth the size of particles of powdered sugar.[2] It was this particle rolling action that gave a smooth creaminess sensation.[2] Another associate of Singer, scientist Nina Davis, worked for three years with Simplesse (then called microcurd) to adapt it to and incorporate it into many different food products. After Singer's boss observed that the product tasted like cheese cake, Singer filed for and received a United States patent for his efforts with the product.[2][3] Labatt licensed the product to NutraSweet, a subsidiary of Creve Coeur, Missouri, United States chemical conglomerate Monsanto,[4] in 1984.[2] The product was given the trademark "Simplesse" in January 1988.[5] An initial version of the product, approved for use in frozen desserts like low-fat ice cream substitutes by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), was introduced to the public about that same time as being "the first completely natural fat substitute."[4] The FDA approved a second version of the product in 1991 for use in salad dressings, butter, and baked goods.[6]
Simplesse is a protein-based fat substitute derived from egg whites and milk (or whey protein) that allows calorie reductions of up to 80 percent compared with foods that contain fat.[7][4] Describe in a United States patent abstract as "a proteinaceous, water-dispersible, macrocolloid comprising substantially non-aggregated particles of dairy whey protein,"[3] Simplesse particles are so minute that a person's tongue perceives the texture of the substitute as being smooth and creamy.[7] Its texture is due to its ability to form a colloid, similar to the way fat is dispersed in homogenized milk. It differs from other whey protein concentrate mainly by virtue of the principles of food rheology; it is produced by a mechanical, rather than a chemical process. However, when heated such as by frying, the ingredients in the faux fat begin to gel similar to egg whites so the product mostly is used in ice cream, butter, spread cheeses, sour cream and dips, oil-based products such as salad dressings and mayonnaise, and other products that do not involve cooking.[7][4]
Simplesse is used in ice cream, yogurt, cheese spread, salad dressings, margarine, mayonnaise, coffee creamer, soups, and sauces.
However, the brand "Simplesse" is trademarked, hence why it does not appear as such on the labels of food products. According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), The common name of Simplesse for use in the list of ingredients of a food depends on the form of Simplesse used in the final product. If the Simplesse is made from egg white and milk protein, then the common name must appear in the list of ingredients as "egg and milk protein". The trade name "Simplesse" may appear in brackets following "egg and milk protein". (An earlier suggested common name "microparticulated protein" is no longer required and there is no triggering of nutrition labelling.)
If Simplesse is actually "whey protein concentrate", it may be described as either "whey protein concentrate" or "modified milk ingredient" (section B.01.010 (3) (b) item 7.1, of the Food and Drug Regulations) in the list of ingredients. In either case, the trade name "Simplesse" may appear in brackets following it. (09/MA/90; 20/MR/92; 06/NO/92; MA 25/94.)
Date modified: 2012-09-21
Nutritional fact[edit]
Simplesse is digested as a protein, but due to the micro dispersion formed, it produces only 1.0 to 1.3 Cal/g as opposed to 9.0 Cal/g that produces regular fat. Consuming Simplesse gives the possibility of maintaining the rich texture of the product by avoiding the high calorie intake. Simplesse allows the consumer to feel satiety just as consuming a regular fat.
1. ^ "Proteins provide pleasure to lowfat products. (Formulation Challenge). Formulated from whey and soy". Prepared Foods (journal) 172 (1): 74. January 2003. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
2. ^ a b c d e f Peter Coy (January 27, 1988). "Discovery Of Simplesse Was An Accident With AM-Fat Substitute". Associated Press. Retrieved October 22, 2012. |chapter= ignored (help)
3. ^ a b U.S. Patent 4,734,287
4. ^ a b c d "Natural Fat Substitute Likely In 18 Months". San Jose Mercury News from Associated Press. January 27, 1988. p. 4A. Retrieved October 22, 2012. |chapter= ignored (help)
5. ^ U.S. Trademark 73,707,968
6. ^ "F.D.A. Backs New Version Of Simplesse". The New York Times. August 14, 1991. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
7. ^ a b c Gholam Rahman (July 4, 1996). "Simplesse Can't Be Used In Cooking". Palm Beach Post. p. 4. |chapter= ignored (help)
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"Chang (beer)" redirects here. For the Tibetan beverage, see Chhaang.
Thai Beverage
Traded as SGX: Y92
Founder Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi
Headquarters Thailand
Area served
Key people
Thapana Sirivadhanabhakdi, President and CEO
Products Brewing
Thai Beverage, better known as ThaiBev (Thai: ไทยเบฟ) (SGX: Y92), is Thailand's largest and one of Southeast Asia's largest beverage companies, with distilleries in Thailand, Scotland, Ireland, China and France. Listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange, Thai Beverage Plc has a market capitalisation in excess of US$4bn.
In January 2013, the firm announced it had succeeded in a US$11.2 billion deal to take over the conglomerate Fraser and Neave, adding to the group’s considerable portfolio of assets.[1]
Brief details[edit]
Thapana Sirivadhanabhakdi, company President and CEO
Thai Beverage Public Company Limited owns and distributes several significant brands, including Chang beer, Mekhong and Sang Som rum. It also has significant operations in Europe, producing malt Scotch whiskey, vodka, gin, and liqueurs with over 20 distilleries in Scotland, France, Poland and Ireland. Mr Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi in early 2013, added Fraser and Neave, Limited, a food and beverage, brewing, property and publishing industries conglomerate in Singapore, to his drinks and property empire.[2]
Chang Beer, which started production in March 1995 at their brewery in Bang Ban district of Ayutthaya Province, is the top-selling brand in Thailand. It managed to win 60% of market share in Thailand after a hard market fight with the previously leading brand, Singha. In 2006, the company's beer market share was 49%, according to research company Canadean.
In 2004 Chang became the sponsor of Everton Football Club of the English Premier League. Together, they initiated five projects in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster in Thailand.
Everton-Chang is a village on the Khao Lak coast in Phang Nga Province of Thailand. It consists of 50 houses and a football field. It was built following the 2004 tsunami that struck the area and destroyed the existing village of Ban Naan Khem. Local youth teams compete for the Chang-Everton cup. Officials from Everton F.C. and Chang Beer have been involved in the project. Together, they sponsor Chang Everton Football Cup and send promising Thai footballers to Liverpool for a trial with Everton.
A bottle of Chang beer.
ThaiBev brews Beer Chang (Thai: เบียร์ช้าง), a pale lager. Chang (Thai: ช้าง) is the Thai word for elephant, an animal with cultural and historical significance in Thailand. The logo features two elephants facing each other.
Chang is brewed at 6.0% abv for the local market. It is 5% abv for export. The two "versions" are in fact very different, the export is a 100% malt beer, while the Beer Chang sold in-country is brewed with rice.[citation needed]
In 2004, the company introduced Archa beer, at 5.4% alcohol by volume (abv). Archa won a gold medal at the 2007 Australian International Beer Awards (AIBA). Archa Beer has since lowered the alcohol by volume (abv) to 4.9% in 2014. The first market outside Thailand to distribute Archa Beer was Singapore and it was successfully launched in Singapore back in 2012 by InterBev (Singapore) Ltd [1].
In 2006, the company launched Chang Light, 4.2% abv and Chang Draught in bottles, at 5% abv.
ThaiBev's flagship brand Chang Beer has won a gold quality award three times in the beers, water and soft drinks category at the World Quality Selections, organized each year by Monde Selection.[3]
Chang/Carlsberg history[edit]
In December 2000 Carlsberg and Chang established a 50/50 joint venture, Carlsberg Asia, to create a significant brewing company in Asia.[4] The Carlsberg influence can be seen in the typography of the "Beer Chang" logo, which resembles the classic "Carlsberg Beer".[5] In 2005 Carlsberg pulled out of the venture and terminated its licence agreement with Chang due to non-fulfilment of contractual obligations, resulting in Chang claiming US$2.5 billion in damages.[4] A final settlement of US$120 million was subsequently paid by Carlsberg.[citation needed]
ThaiBev produces brown and white spirits, including rum, which is derived from distilling cane juice, sugar or molasses until the product is with 60–95% alcohol content. The content is mixed with purified water to produce a satisfactory level of alcohol content before being transferred to age in charred oak barrels for at least one year. Before being bottled the liquor may be further mixed to adjust for desired colour, aroma and taste, but it has to have at least 40% alcohol content.
ThaiBev's most famous, but not best selling, spirit is Mekhong, which originated in 1941 at the Bangyikhan Distillery west of Bangkok. Originally a state-owned distillery, it dates back over 200 years to the beginning of the current Chakri Dynasty. The launch of Mekhong was aimed at producing high-quality Thai spirit to stem the increase in the import of foreign liquor and to eventually replace imported brands. SangSom, however, has been the country’s most popular spirit brand for over 29 years, until 2006 holding almost 50% share of the entire brown spirits market in Thailand. The company also produces Mungkorn Thong and Hong Thong and brands based on whisky, such as Crown 99 and Blue, as well as Scotch whisky brands such as Hankey Banister and Pinwinnie Royal Scotch Whisky.
White spirits are made from molasses without any mixture or colour, and produced in four alcohol contents: 28, 30, 35, and 40%. The company's largest-selling white spirits is Ruang Khao. The labels are colour-coded to reflect the alcoholic strength but do not have the brand name printed on them. Other brands in this category are Niyomthai and White Tiger.
Molasses is the main raw material used for the production of ThaiBev's spirits, so that most of the products fall under the category of rum. Molasses is a by-product of the manufacture of raw sugar from sugar cane. As is the case with all distilled spirits, the distillate is crystal clear when first distilled. Amber and dark brown spirits obtain their colour from the extracts from the oak barrel during aging and from caramel, a natural colouring agent.
ThaiBev's yeast cultures, used for fermentation, are grown in its own laboratory and propagated in a yeast propagation tank. The yeast, molasses diluted by water, steamed rice that has been sprayed with mould (to create sugar) and incubated for four days, and water are added into a fermenter and the mixture is allowed to ferment for approximately 72 hours. The liquid that is left at the end of the fermentation process is known as fermented mash.
Distillation takes place in a distilling column and a pot still, which is a large copper or stainless steel kettle. Distilling involves boiling the "fermented mash" and condensing its vapour. The spent sludge remaining in the pot still is removed to be processed. The company's white spirits are then diluted with demineralized water to the desired alcohol content in a white spirits blending tank and sent to be packaged and bottled after filtering.
Brown spirits are diluted with demineralized water and then aged in oak barrels for three to eight years depending on the brand. The aged alcohol is then further diluted with demineralized water before bottling. Liquor concentrate alcohol and caramel color are added. The brown spirits are passed through filters and then bottled and packaged. ThaiBev also makes Chinese herb spirits, branded as Chiang-Chun and Sua Dum. These are produced by blending alcohol, white spirits, sugar, caramel, and Chinese herbs, and then further diluting the mixture with demineralized water
See also[edit]
1. ^ Khettiya Jittapong (22 January 2013). "Thai billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi builds empire with F&N takeover". Reuters.
2. ^ Head, Jonathan (3 February 2013). "Thai whiskey tycoon Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi takes over Fraser and Neave". Asia business. BBC News. Archived from the original on 2013-02-03. Retrieved 3 February 2013. BBC News, Bangkok. What are the secrets of business success in Thailand?
3. ^ Beer Awards
4. ^ a b 31.08.05 Carlsberg Asia Presentation.pdf
5. ^ ToffeeWeb
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65695 | Vyborg Library
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Auditorium of the Viipuri Municipal Library. This iconic photograph shows no lamps: it was taken just prior to their installation.[1]
The building, built from 1927 to 1935, is an internationally acclaimed design by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and one of the major examples of 1920s functionalist architectural design. The library is considered one of the first manifestations of "regional modernism".[2] It is particularly famous for its wave-shaped ceiling in the auditorium, the shape of which, Aalto argued, was based on acoustic studies.[3] On completion the library was known as Viipuri Library, but after the Second World War and Soviet annexation, the library was renamed the Nadezhda Krupskaya Municipal Library. Nowadays, integrated in the Russian Federation city of Vyborg, the library is officially known as the Central City Alvar Aalto Library.
The library restoration project lasted almost two decades from 1994 until late 2013.[4] The restoration work was awarded with the World Monuments Fund / Knoll Modernism Prize in 2014 and the Europa Nostra Award in 2015.
Vyborg Library Auditorium in 2011
Interior in 2011
Restoration work proceeding in 2005
The same view in 2008
Restoration work proceeding in August, 2013
Restoration work proceeding in August, 2013
Library after restoration in 2014
Aalto received the commission to design the library after winning first prize (with his proposal titled 'WWW') in an architectural competition for the building held in 1927. Aalto's design went through a profound transformation from the original architectural competition proposal designed in the Nordic Classicism style (owing much to Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund, especially his Stockholm City Library) to the severely functionalist building, completed eight years later in a purist modernist style. Such architectural solutions as a sunken reading-well, free-flowing ceilings and cylindrical skylights, first tested in Viipuri, would regularly appear in Aalto's works. Aalto differed from the first generation of modernist architects (such as Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier) in his predilection for natural materials: in this design, "wood was first introduced into an otherwise modernist setting of concrete, white stucco, glass, and steel".[5]
World War II marked a turning point in the history not only of the library but the city of Vyborg itself, as it was ceded to the Soviet Union. The building had been damaged during World War II, and plans by the new Soviet authorities to repair it were proposed but never carried out.[6] The building then remained empty for a decade, causing even more damage, including the destruction of the wave-shaped auditorium ceiling. During the 1950s schemes were drawn up for its restoration — including a version in the Stalinist classical style typical of the time — by architect Aleksandr Shver.
Until the coming to power of Mikhail Gorbachev, few people from Finland, let alone other Western countries, visited Vyborg, and there were many different accounts in Western architectural texts about the condition of the library, including erroneous reports of its complete destruction.[7] The building is now included in the Russian Federation's list of objects of historical and cultural heritage.
Russian and Finnish committees have been founded to promote the restoration of the building, which has been progressing piecemeal, while the building remains in public use.[8] The restoration is being directed by the Alvar Aalto Academy, under the direction of architect Tapani Mustonen, together with input from architect Maija Kairamo (formerly of the Finnish National Board of Antiquities) and ex-Aalto employees, architects Eric Adlercreutz, Vazio Nava and Leif Englund.[9] In 1998, to mark the 100th anniversary of Aalto's birth, a 2×10-metre section of the auditorium ceiling was reconstructed, but it was taken down in 2008 to enable the reconstruction of the ceiling proper.
In September 2003 an international seminar and workshop was held at the library, under the auspicies of DOCOMOMO, to discuss the restoration of the library, as well as its role within the local community. Experts in restoration from around the world attended.[3]
In the first phase (until 2009), the following parts of the building have been restored: the large glass wall in front of the main stairs; the roofs (including the cylindrical roof-lights); the steel windows and external doors; entrance to the children's library; the former janitor's flat; the periodicals reading room; the auditorium, including reconstruction of the undulating suspended ceiling. Due to piecemeal funding, the restoration has progressed slowly. The restorers have emphasised that the work has progressed in terms of greatest urgency; thus, to the casual observer, the interior walls still have flaking paint, giving an impression of lack of maintenance; but the restorers argue that this is the least important aspect of the work, compared to significant structural repairs. To mark the progress of the restoration, a book outlining both the history of the building and the restoration work was published in 2009, "Alvar Aalto Library in Vyborg: Saving a Modern Masterpiece", edited by Kairamo, Mustonen and Nava.[10]
The restoration project gained speed in 2010 when Finnish president Tarja Halonen met with then-Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin and asked about the library. Shortly after this the project received 6,5 million euros funding from Moscow. In late 2013 the restoration was finally finished, having cost nearly 9 million euros altogether. Architect Maija Kairamo praised the end result and said she wasn't sure whether the building was in as fine a condition even when it was originally opened.[4]
In 2014, the restoration committee and the library received the World Monuments Fund / Knoll Modernism Prize for the restoration work.[11] In 2015 it also received the Europa Nostra Award, the jury calling the restoration "exceptionally well-researched and highly sensitive" and commending the project's transnational collaboration.[12]
In art[edit]
The library has also been the starting point for a very different kind of art project, a film titled What's the time in Vyborg? (2002) by Finnish-American artist Liisa Roberts. Roberts was challenging the introspective view Finns have of their former city, by organising and filming writing workshops arranged for local Vyborg youths.[13]
1. ^ Petra Ceferin, Constructing a Legend: The International Exhibitions of Finnish Architecture 1957–1967. SKS, 2003. ISBN 978-951-746-542-7
2. ^ Christian Norberg-Schulz. Nightlands: Nordic Building. MIT Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-262-64036-7. Page 164.
3. ^ a b Ola Wedebrunn et al. (ed), Technology of Sensations. The Alvar Aalto Vyborg Library. DOCOMOMO, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 2004. ISBN 978-87-7830-108-6.
4. ^ a b "Viipurin Aalto-kirjaston remontti on vihdoin valmis". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). October 10, 2013. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
5. ^ Michael Trencher. Alvar Aalto Guide. Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-910413-55-8. Page 28.
6. ^ Michael Spens, Viipuri Library. Alvar Aalto. Academy editions, London, 1994, page 72. ISBN 978-1-85490-366-2.
7. ^ Malcolm Quantrill. Finnish Architecture and the Modernist Tradition. Spon Press (UK), 1998. ISBN 978-0-419-19520-7. Page 74.
8. ^ Finnish Committee for the Restoration of Viipuri Library, The Getty Grant Report, Alvar Aalto Academy, 2001 (no ISBN)
9. ^ Alvar Aalto Library in Vyboorg: Saving a Modern Masterpiece, Rakennustieto, Helsinki, 2009. ISBN 978-951-682-938-1.
11. ^ "2014 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize". World Monuments Fund. October 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
12. ^ "Viipuri Library". Europa Nostra. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
13. ^ Tere Vaden, Mika Hannula, Juha Suoranta, Artistic Research. Theories, Methods, and Practices. Kuvataideakatemia, 2005. ISBN 978-951-53-2743-7
14. ^ Göran Schildt (ed), Alvar Aalto in his Own Words. Otava, 1997, page 108. ISBN 978-951-1-15065-7.
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Observational learning refers to simple learning that occurs as a function of observing, retaining and replicating certain behaviors observed in superiors or figures they relate to. There are four processes to observational learning;
1. Attention to the model
2. Retention of details
3. Motor reproduction
4. Opportunity
This method of learning is primarily prevalent in the younger years of development, when authority becomes important in a child's life. Also see Albert Bandura.
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He described the bizarre incident in a post on Reddit:
I opened the front door and heard what sounded like wings… I kind of flipped sh*t. Long story short We got them all out safely. There was a lot of cleanup involved, but all of the birds are fine. We think they got in through the chimney since last summer we thought we could hear birds chirping.
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Building a Kernel from the source RPM
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Note these instructions *only* apply to Fedora 12 and later releases
This document provides instructions for advanced users who want to rebuild the kernel. Note, however, that when building or running any such kernel, one should NOT expect support from the Fedora kernel team, you're pretty much on your own here if something doesn't work as you'd hoped or expected. But hey, you're an advanced user, so you can handle it, right? Anyway, advanced users build custom kernels for a variety of reasons:
• To reconfigure the existing kernel
• To learn more about the kernel and kernel development
These instructions can also be used for simply preparing the kernel source tree.
Before starting, make sure the system has all the necessary packages installed, including the following:
• rpmdevtools
• yum-utils
yum-utils is a default package. To install the other package, use the following command:
su -c 'yum install rpmdevtools yum-utils'
If you plan to use make xconfig, it will be necessary to install the additional packages:
• qt3-devel
• libXi-devel
For Fedora 15, use the following command:
su -c 'yum install qt3-devel libXi-devel'
Get the Source
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Do Not Build Packages as root.
Building packages as root is inherently dangerous and not required, even for the kernel. The following instructions allow any normal user to install and build kernels from the source packages.
1. Prepare a RPM package building environment in your home directory. Run the following command:
This command creates different directories ${HOME}/rpmbuild/SOURCES, ${HOME}/rpmbuild/SPECS, and ${HOME}/rpmbuild/BUILD. Where ${HOME} is your home directory.
2. Download the kernel-<version>.src.rpm file. Enable the appropriate source repositories with the --enablerepo switch. (yumdownloader --enablerepo=repo_to_enable --source kernel)
yumdownloader --source kernel
3. Install build dependencies for the kernel source with the yum-builddep command (root is required to install these packages):
su -c 'yum-builddep kernel-<version>.src.rpm'
4. Install kernel-<version>.src.rpm with the following command:
rpm -Uvh kernel-<version>.src.rpm
This command writes the RPM contents into ${HOME}/rpmbuild/SOURCES and ${HOME}/rpmbuild/SPECS, where ${HOME} is your home directory. It is safe to ignore any messages similar to the following:
warning: user kojibuilder does not exist - using root
warning: group kojibuilder does not exist - using root
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Space Required. The full kernel building process requires several gigabytes of extra space on the file system containing your home directory.
Prepare the Kernel Source Tree
This step expands all of the source code files for the kernel. This is required to view the code, edit the code, or to generate a patch.
1. Prepare the kernel source tree using the following commands:
cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
The kernel source tree is now located in the ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-<version>/linux-<version>.<arch> directory.
Copy the Source Tree and Generate a Patch
This step is for applying a patch to the kernel source. If a patch is not needed, proceed to "Configure Kernel Options".
Advanced Users
There are tools such as 'quilt' that allow you to avoid copying the source tree. For advanced users, such tools are often a time saver over the steps below
Copy the source tree to preserve the original tree while making changes to the
export arch=x86_64 # replace x86_64 with your arch
export ver=3.1 # replace 3.1 with your kernel version
export fedver=fc16 # replace fc16 with your fedora version
cp -r ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-$ver.$fedver/linux-2.6.$ver.$arch ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-$ver.$fedver.orig
cp -al ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-$ver.$fedver.orig ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-$ver.$
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The second cp command hardlinks the .orig and .new trees to make diff run faster. Most text editors know how to break the hardlink correctly to avoid problems.
Using vim on FC14, it treated the hard link as a hard link and thus the above technique failed. It was necessary to repeat the original copy used for the .orig directory for the .new directory. Note that this uses twice the space.
Make changes directly to the code in the .new source tree, or copy in a modified file. This file might come from a developer who has requested a test, from the upstream kernel sources, or from a different distribution.
After the .new source tree is modified, generate a patch. To generate the patch, run diff against the entire .new and .orig source trees with the following command:
cd ~/rpmbuild/BUILD
diff -uNrp kernel-$ver.$fedver.orig kernel-$ver.$ > ../SOURCES/linux-$ver.$fedver-mynewpatch.patch
Replace 'linux-$ver.$fedver-mynewpatch.patch' with the desired name for the new patch. On FC14 it was necessary to copy the above patch name to linux-$ver.$fedver-mynewpatch.patch in ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES as well in order for rpmbuild to find it.
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For more information on patching refer to the man pages for diff(1) and patch(1).
Configure Kernel Options
This step is for modifying the options the kernel is configured with. This step is optional. If no configuration changes are needed, proceed to "Prepare Build Files".
Small changes
If you only want to make a small number of configuration changes, you should simply set the options as desired in the config-local file. This will be sourced and override the remaining config-* files and avoids a lot of unnecessary work. You can skip the steps below if you use config-local
1. Change to the kernel source tree directory:
cd ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-$ver.$fedver/linux-$ver.$arch/
If you only want to make minor changes to the default fedora kernel, skip to step 4., and use one of the two configuration tools to edit those minor changes into the default config file.
2. Select the desired configuration file from ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-$ver.$fedver/linux-$ver.$arch/configs. Copy the desired config file to ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-$ver.$fedver/linux-$ver.$arch/.config:
cp configs/<desired-config-file> .config
3. Run the following command:
make oldconfig
4. Then run the following command, selecting and saving the desired kernel options from the text-based UI:
make menuconfig
• For a graphical UI, instead run:
make xconfig
5. Add a new line to the top of the config file that contains the hardware platform the kernel is built for (the output of uname -i). The line is preceded by a # sign. For example, an x86_64 machine would have the following line added to the top of the config file:
# x86_64
6. Copy the config file to ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/:
cp .config ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/config-`uname -m`-generic
32-bit x86 kernels
The 32-bit PAE kernel uses the config-i686-PAE configuration file. If you are building a PAE kernel, you will need to copy your config file to ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/:
cp .config ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/config-i686-PAE
If you are building a non-PAE kernel, you will need to copy your config file to
cp .config ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/config-x86-32-generic
. Again, the use of config-local is encouraged unless you are making a large number of configuration changes.
Prepare Build Files
This step makes the necessary changes to the kernel.spec file. This step is required for building a custom kernel.
1. Change to the ~/rpmbuild/SPECS directory:
cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
2. Open the kernel.spec file for editing.
3. Give the kernel a unique name. This is important to ensure the custom kernel is not confused with any released kernel. Add a unique string to the kernel name by changing the 'buildid' line. Optionally, change ".local" to your initials, a bug number, the date or any other unique string.
Change this line:
#% define buildid .local
To this (note the extra space is removed in addition to the pound sign):
%define buildid .<custom_text>
4. If you generated a patch, add the patch to the kernel.spec file, preferably at the end of all the existing patches and clearly commented.
# cputime accounting is broken, revert to 2.6.22 version
Patch2220: linux-2.6-cputime-fix-accounting.patch
Patch9999: linux-2.6-samfw-test.patch
The patch then needs to be applied in the patch application section of the spec file. Again, at the end of the existing patch applications and clearly commented.
ApplyPatch linux-2.6-cputime-fix-accounting.patch
ApplyPatch linux-2.6-samfw-test.patch
Build the New Kernel
This step actually generates the kernel RPM files. This step is required for building a custom kernel. For Fedora 10 or 11, for most purposes, it will be simplest to build with firmware included (see the last form below).
Use the rpmbuild utility to build the new kernel:
• To build all kernel flavors:
rpmbuild -bb --target=`uname -m` kernel.spec
• To disable specific kernel flavors from the build (for a faster build):
rpmbuild -bb --without <option> --target=`uname -m` kernel.spec
Valid values for "option" above include xen, smp, up, pae, kdump, debug and debuginfo. Specifying --without debug strips out some debugging code from the kernels, where specifying --without debuginfo disables the building of the kernel-debuginfo packages.
• To specify that only a specific kernel should be built:
rpmbuild -bb --with <option> --target=`uname -m` kernel.spec
Valid values for "option" above include xenonly, smponly, and baseonly.
• For example, to build just the kernel and kernel-devel packages, the command would be:
• To build with firmware included, do:
rpmbuild -bb --with baseonly --with firmware --without debuginfo \
--target=`uname -m` kernel.spec
The build process takes a long time to complete. A lot of messages will be printed to the screen. These messages can be ignored, unless the build ends with an error. If the build completes successfully, the new kernel packages will be located in the ~/rpmbuild/RPMS directory.
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Following Generic Textbooks
su -c 'ln -s /usr/src/kernels/<version>.<release>-<arch> /usr/src/linux'
Enter the root password when prompted.
Install the New Kernel
This step actually installs the new kernel into the running system.
To install the new kernel, use the rpm -ivh command, not the -U or --upgrade options:
su -c "rpm -ivh --force $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/<arch>/kernel-<version>.<arch>.rpm"
These commands will install your kernel in /boot, create a new initramfs to bootstrap your kernel, and automatically add your new kernel to your grub bootloader "menu.lst". At this point, you can reboot to give control to your new kernel.
Building Only Kernel Modules (Out Of Tree Modules)
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This section needs to be updated and fleshed out
su -c 'yum install kernel-devel'
The kernel-doc package contains official Kbuild documentation - see files under Documentation/kbuild, in particular the modules.txt file.
obj-m := foo.o
PWD := $(shell pwd)
Then, issue the make command to build the foo.ko module.
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Dear All,
I had a Arduino Mega board connected to a 4x4 keypad a RTC, 2x16 LCD and a xbee. The LCD will display the current time and the program will still detect the keypad press. When '1' is pressed, a serial string will be send out from the xbee to control something.
I saw from the RTC sketch that to display the time, we will delay(1000); so that the time in the LCD will update every seconds. But by putting the delay(1000); my keypad pressed may not respond and nothing will be send out as the program may be in the delay function doing nothing. As I am using the keypad scanning method in the forum and the time display also in the forum, I had a problem with putting both together.
Can someone help me as to what should I do to get rid of the delay(1000) and yet can use the loop to scan keypad and still display the time on the LCD every seconds.
Thanks a lot
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1. LoweGear
2012-05-24 03:05
You're welcome. And I see that you translated a line there in your post, should be interesting to see what comes next.
2. Nanya01
2012-05-08 20:50
Wow, long time no speak.
*Looks at your reply*
But I thought Subaru only met Teana 1 year before the first episode of StrikerS. They met in training (Manga) one year before they joined RF6, I thought.
3. Nagumo
2012-04-15 19:27
Um, because they've known each other for over 7 years by the time of SSX? You forget that the StrikerS manga is a few years prior to StrikerS itself. SSX takes place 2 or 3 years after StrikerS.
The StrikerS manga doesn't say what the year it is, does it?
In any case, Teana is almost like a mebmer of the Nakajima family.
4. Nanya01
2012-04-15 16:11
Hey, Nagumo, I got a question...
Why does Ginga say this line in SSX to Runessa?
Ginga: She’s been friends with Subaru since childhood and used to play/visit our home quite often. She’s almost like family to me and the Commander.
Hey, Gin-nee, Teana and Subaru have only known each other for 4 years now, according to the StrikerS manga...
5. Nanya01
2012-04-07 22:50
Hello, Nagumo. How are you?
6. Nanya01
2012-02-12 21:47
Ugh... makes for writing scenes for fanfiction out very, VERY hard...
Speaking of fanfiction...
I'm almost worried that Tre's about to suffer prison rape from the sounds of it.
As for Sette's paintings, well, don't forget that Uno's in the same prison as Sette, so... heh... Wouldn't be hard for Sette's paintings to get over to Uno.
I wonder if Tre's ever going to feel bad about Sette in canon...
Not that we'll ever know, since Tsuki isn't likely to ever give her another role.
7. Nanya01
2012-02-12 19:17
Sadly, that's all I'm doing, reading the text.
No, I mean...
Ever listen to old American radio dramas? You had an announcer who talked through the low points and described the action to give people a better visual of what was going on. Of course, descriptive narrative for what new characters looks like as well.
8. Nanya01
2012-02-12 18:23
I have nothing against your translations, Nagumo, I really don't...
But those Sound Stages that are more action-based really annoy me.
It's just... I can't visualize what's going on properly if all the characters do the talking.
Where's a narrator to explain what's going on?
9. DezoPenguin
2012-01-06 23:52
Happy New Year's to you, too!
10. Nanya01
2012-01-04 21:51
I couldn't even stand to watch it that far.
They could have done these three things, would not have needed to add any extra time to the movie either...
1: Show Yuuno with RH in staff mode (could look different) to show that its modes were pre-installed. In canon, Nanoha thought up the modes and her outfit instead.
2: Have Yuuno tell Nanoha where he got RH from.
3: Explain that Yuuno and RH didn't have good compatibility together, so RH would barely work for him.
Those three things instead of explaining about Linker Cores would have gone a long way to making it better.
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Red face manga like Velvet kiss
I was suggested this manga by a friend and I read it on a whim. I really, really enjoyed it. I loved the long and complex story and the artwork and the fact that sex was portrayed fairly realistically. I'm looking for other manga like it.
I don't need AS MUCH sexual depiction, and honestly, I skimmed through a lot of that. I just loved the fact that here was something with decent characters and a gripping storyline with more than a smooch on the last page.
I can't wait to read your suggestions! Thanks!
The longer the better.
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Nozoki Ana: It's about a guy and his female neighbour. One day he happens to find a hole in the wall and discovers that he can see his neighbour, just like she can. She proposes him to make a pact and be free to spy on each other, but at the same time the protagonist is dealing with other girls. It's a romance/ecchi/nearly hentai, the story is just too interesting, the girls are all cute and i loved the artwork. It's currently my favorite title and it's on the same list of Velvet Kiss. The characters are very likeable. It's very long and still on the run (95 chaps or so)
Sensen Spike hills: about two guys and a girl who plan on cheating to get in a famous university; every of them got his own life and problems, there is a romance between the protagonist and the girl and there is sex. It's still on-going and got some little action.
Kono S o, Mi yo!: It's about a guy and a weird tattoo he got on his ass; when he shows it to a girl, the girl will get horny and willing to make out with him. It may appear like some lame manga, but it's serious, since the guy doesn't really like it and struggles whether he wants to use this "trick" on the girl he loves or not.
All these titles were suggested to me by Cold-As-Ice, so the credits should go to him. He's the one currently providing me this kind of titles
Just in case you felt like being more interested in the sex part, i've got a bunch of titles that depict a lot of sex, but are more on the comedy (still not hentai).
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To the PS part: no not really what I'm looking for. Thanks a bunch for the suggestions! I'll check them all out.
Wow I've read 97 chapters of Nozoki Ana and love it. You really gave me a great suggestion!
It is a little more sexual than is necessary, but I'm ok with that, none of those scenes are very long, and the plot is almost or maybe as awesome as Velvet Kiss! Thanks a lot Classified Info and I'll make sure to let you know what I think of the other suggestions too.
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Give Moteki a shot. Not many chapters out, but it's well-executed romance, even if the guy doesn't get exactly what he wants in the end.
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I read what's available for Sensen Spike hills. I'm enjoying it. It's very suspenseful. Not much romance really, it seems like for now Kukuchi is just thrown in there for the obligatory boobs. I like it a little less than Nozoki Ana. I feel Sensen Spike hills is target more at teenage boys for whatever reason.
Thanks for the suggestion frubam, I looked into Moteki.
It's cute in a kind of way that I can marvel at people like the main character and wonder how they got there. I'm really glad I'm on the 'other side'.. I guess we'll see where it goes from here.
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11" MBA i7 Performance on SC2/Netflix/Hulu
Discussion in 'MacBook Air' started by harveyza, Aug 6, 2011.
1. macrumors newbie
I currently have a 13" MBA Rev. C (2.13GHz) and have trouble playing games such as Starcraft 2 and streaming Netflix/Hulu in HD. I am considering replacing it with the 11" MBA core i7/4GB RAM/256GB SSD.
The main thing I am concerned about is how the 2011 MBA fares on flash/silverlight playback as my current MBA is incapable of playing HD content without stuttering. If it does well at SC2 that would be nice, but hardly a deal-breaker as I only play occasionally.
Screen size is not so much an issue as I have a 24" external displaysomething that also taxes my current MBA when doing anything more than web browsing or typing in Word/Pages.
Aside, how do the new MBAs do when faced with large spreadsheets and statistical analysis programs such as SPSS? My current MBA does pretty well at these tasks, but I would be interested in how the new one improves upon performance on these kinds of applications.
The 11" size is ideal as I am a college student that also works 20 hours a week in a labthis will also be my "work" computerso the portability is key.
Feedback appreciated.
2. macrumors 6502
I just got the exact Air you are considering. I'll hook it up to my 26" 1920x1200 monitor and let you know how it does on HD playback. Can't really say about SC2 as I don't play it. I'll post back with results tomorrow.
I do know that it handles Windows7 Pro with XP mode very well. Also, all apps seem way faster than on my previous 1.6 C2D 11.6 Air (also had 4GB RAM)
3. macrumors 6502a
the MBA that you are going to buy will have no problems.
4. macrumors 6502
Okay, I've been running as many different 1080p videos as possible - both on just the Air and on my Visio 26" LCD monitor (DVI to Mini Display port converter) at 1920x1200. I have had NO issues with stuttering or lockups or freezing. In fact, I am watching one right now on YouTube @ 1080p. I tried Hulu also with no issues but I am not a Hulu+ member so it was not at 1080p.
Eventually the fans come on but my CPU temp has not gone above 73 degrees C. The fans do kick up to 6000 rpm after about 20 min. and they are audible, but not that bad.
I do not have any games installed to try out, but if and when I do, I'll report back.
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I also have the same 11inch mba (see sig) I've played sc2 a couple of times on lowest settings and it runs just fine assuming you have good internet. i do use a chill pad on my desk cause my mba gets hotttttt. usually around 87 degrees C. the bottom is literally burning my leg. hope I'm not the only one with this problem. The laptop is a screamer absolutely rips on the internet. smooth scrolling and good 1080p playback. but it gets hot doing all these things. I'm downloading a game off steam right now and the keyboard is getting kinda hot. but it really doesn't bother me too too much. strongly suggest it, as the heating thing varies :D:D
6. macrumors newbie
Thanks for the replies. I will definitely drop by the Apple store in the next few weeks to pick one up. Do any of you have any suggestions for a resale value for my current MBA? I was thinking $1000-1200I still have two years of apple care left. I will admit this does seem a little low since I just bought the computer ~14 months ago, but they did update it right after.
7. macrumors 6502a
I had my 13" hooked up to my 27" imac. It was running one 1080 movie and 3 browser windows with about 5 tabs each.
No problems. It did start to struggle when i opened a second 720 movie though.
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Apple plans Arabic iPod, OS X
Discussion in 'MacBytes.com News Discussion' started by MacBytes, Jan 18, 2006.
1. macrumors bot
Category: Apple Hardware
Link: Apple plans Arabic iPod, OS X
Description:: Dubai: An Arabic version of Apple's hugely popular iPod will hit the market soon, officials have revealed.
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2. macrumors 6502a
Oh well, at least it means better support for right-to-left languages.
3. macrumors G5
Strange. I would have thought they already had Arabic OS X and iPods. Shows you what I know.
4. macrumors 6502
I'm sure it will come. Arabic is a start :)
5. macrumors 6502a
Well, if you compare the number of people who speak Arabic to the number of people who speak Hebrew, there is a huge difference!
Anyways, this seems to be an effort from Arab Business Machine, not from Apple. So if Apple's marketing company in Isreal asks Apple to make a Hebrew version, I guess Apple shouldn't have a problem.
6. macrumors 604
There is a hebrew version floating around online...I think it only works for the ipod up to 3rd generation (possibly 4th black and white). Only apple made the people who hacked the firmware take it down. I think you might be able to get it if you know hebrew...I'm not sure though.
and yeah...it's about time the iPod supported RtL languages. Hopefully they won't make me get a new iPod to see my hebrew now.
7. macrumors 6502a
There's an open source version someone developed that needs to "hack" the iPod updater, and remain constantly in the background so that when iTunes finished updating the playlists, it goes up and fixes all of iTunes' fonts errors. Apple's israeli representative took that open source and started offering it under a new name in their web site (it's a reseller, not an actual Apple site.)
Now, what's sad to me is that 1 developer was able to do this so simply, which makes me wonder why they couldn't let someone at apple handle these things in a more user friendly way. and by the way, it's still not RTL, the text is left sided.
Ofcourse, for Mac Os X, the problem is more severe. I agree with what someone said in here that Arabic is more popular than Henrew so that's why they're porting it (only now, 30 years after Apple's existence!). Apple just posted their profits for this quater, and 40% came from international sales. Imagine how well it could have done if they had good support for all languages. I hate to admin it, but the fact is that Microsoft is much better than them in this department. They have Windows in every language on the planet, with full RTL support. They have an Israeli development center, just to support hebrew versions of their products. Apple? They're as good as non existant in our small, yet very high-tech country (and many international companies are based here as well). They have this one exclusive reseller with very poor customer service and extremely overrated prices (sometimes as much as twice the actual selling price in Europe), and Apple just allows this to continue.
So you've got this amazing operating system, really cool, very stable, very sexy. Now, what good is it if you can't simeply write a short Pages document in Hebrew? What good is it if you can't import a Word document in Hebrew? I can see why Microsoft won't support it (why should they? they have 99.9% of the business here, converting office for mac to Hebrew will hurt their business), but what's Apple's excuse? It really is not that big a deal. They've done harder things in their lifes.
Hope someone from Apple reads this plea and acts on it.
Oded S.
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Assignment 1 - Applespider
Discussion in 'Digital Photography' started by Applespider, Dec 16, 2005.
1. macrumors G4
I'm a little confused with what our closing date is supposed to be so I'm hoping that I can sneak this in under the wire if it was supposed to be two days ago or early if it's next Wednesday - in which case, I may withdraw this.
Anyhow, I love the escalators in this store although unfortunately, people seemed to stop getting on them when I was taking this picture - at least, not laden with shopping which was the idea of the holiday preparation aspect.
Also sadly, I couldn't use my camera since stores here generally disapprove unless you're in the camera department, so it's taken on my mobile...:(
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2. macrumors 6502a
Nice photo! I like the contrasting forms and directions. Pretty impressive quality from a mobile phone too. What phone is it?
3. macrumors G4
It's a Sony Ericsson k750i. It's a 2 megapixel camera on it so that helps I guess! And it's a very bright store! ;)
4. macrumors 6502a
Ho hum. I need to get out snapping a bit more. Couple of years ago I'd take mycamera almost everywhere, but ddly enough since I got my Mac, photography as a hobby has taken a down-turn :rolleyes:
Is that a home setup? :eek: We need an "envy" emoticon :D
5. macrumors 68030
That is a very nice shot, especially with a camera phone. Actually, that is probably one of the best camera phone photos I have seen.
6. Guest
What is assignment one?
Never got the memo?
Very nice shot, Applespider.
7. Moderator
Staff Member
Nice photo.. but clearly not as good (read: cheeky) as mine. :p :D
8. -hh
macrumors 68020
I like the form too, although I found the escalator landings on the left side a bit "cluttery" and distracting (to me). Cropping the image would remove the balls on the left ... undesirable ... so I'd have to speculatively wonder what the result would have been if you could have positioned yourself a bit to your left so as to change the angle to then remove the (distracting to me) landings and have the balls, ribbons and people-filled escelator diagonal.
PS: FWIW, I don't really mind the "black hole" in the bottom right corner. Probably because I'd prefer for you to not risk fall over the railing :D
9. macrumors G4
Hmm, may well be in the store again and might try from the other side of the 'well' that the escalators front. It's one of these annoying things where it's tough to frame with just the phone (and a large bag of shopping!) without looking really conspicuous! From what I recall, it meant that the balls ended up having all the focus though and the escalators became mere blurs in the background...
Thanks...me too! Although it's the fabric department below so it might have been a reasonably soft landing! I suspect it crept it since the screen doesn't show exactly what you end up with...
10. macrumors Penryn
Geez, that's a mobile phone photo? Dayam, and here I was telling people that I felt that the K750 and other mobile phone cameras wouldn't take a decent photo at 2MP or greater unless they started using a "real lens" in mobile cameras.
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Best Deal on ULTIMATE 13"?
Discussion in 'MacBook Air' started by kp98077, Nov 7, 2010.
1. macrumors member
I know there was a prior post on this but looking for some ideas on best possible deal on this unit. Mac Mall seems good and no tax, any other ideas? much appreciated!!
2. macrumors member
Assuming you aren't in a MacMall tax zone (Ca and one other state, I forget which): clickthrough 3% discount from appleinsider to MacMall plus whatever credit card cashback you can get. I got a maxed out 13" for $1610 this way (5% citibank tech purchase bonus until next Jan). Good luck!
3. macrumors G4
Which Citi card do you have?
To the OP, so far the MacMall deal is the best I've seen.
4. double329, Nov 8, 2010
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macrumors 6502
I would check to see if the place you work at has Apple discount or not? Or you can just check at Apple store to find out if your company is the list. I saw the list and it's a long list. Most company get 6-8% discount. My company got 8% and if you are using one of those credit card with cash back. then you will save more. Happy shopping :D
5. macrumors 6502a
Student discount from apple plus 5% off with discover card.
6. macrumors 65816
Be careful getting it from apple online at a discount. I got mine with my employer's discount, and I just found out that I can't return it because it was discounted (it says that when I click on "return items" on my order page). When i placed the order, the rep told me directly that I could return it in 14 days with a restocking fee if it was opened and not defective.
7. macrumors member
Can you verify this? When I linked through discover and went to the education page it seems that you lose the discover link in the address bar.
8. macrumors member
Portableone.com agreed to 1729 shipped to me no tax.
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Cube CPU upgrade compatibility
Discussion in 'PowerPC Macs' started by livingfortoday, Nov 25, 2006.
1. macrumors 68030
I had a quick upgrade question. I'm getting back into upgrading my Cube, and was wondering - since it has a 100Mhz bus, would processor upgrades for a Sawtooth or Gigabit Ethernet G4 tower work in it? Not necessarily fit in it, but just work?
2. macrumors P6
IJ Reilly
With the standard motherboard? I'm pretty certain the answer is no. Your CPU upgrade options are pretty limited.
3. macrumors 68000
As IJ said, no, only the cube-dedicated ones will work, apparently.
Not that they are necessarily bad...single 1.8 or dual 1.5 or 1.6, and I don't think the prices are much different from the comparable G4s you're talking about.
Of course that wouldn't matter if you already had the processor...
4. macrumors 68030
Really? I'm looking to upgrade it to a single-processor G4, and was looking at this one in particular:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet Technology/SG414002M/
I guess I figured that a Cube could take a Sawtooth upgrade since I'm using a processor pulled from a Sawtooth (450Mhz) in there right now. Is there any particular reason the upgrade wouldn't work? The only thing I can think of would maybe be power issues?
5. macrumors G4
Lord Blackadder
I'm pretty sure the CPU would fit and work, but the heatsink/fan setup would not.
Looking at the Cube upgrades, I notice that the PowerLogix kits for the Cube come with an on-board VRM (and they use the low-power 7447), so slapping a kit designed for the Sawtooth may either overheat the Cube, overwhelm the power supply/VRM, or both.
6. macrumors 68030
I think you're right about the VRM thing. I had a Powerlogix dual-1.5Ghz in my Cube way back in the day (I sold off the third RMA I got when the first two CPU's burnt out within a week), and it came with a cable to bypass the logic board and draw power straight from the VRM. I suppose a Sawtooth upgrade would not have anything like that. Hmm. Ok, I guess that rules that out, then.
7. macrumors member
Quite simply, if you don't buy an 'approved' CPU upgrade for your Cube, you risk a number of things: It won't fit. It won't work. It might work for a while and then burn out your VRM. It might work.
I personally don't think those risks are worth trying any non-approved upgrades. The power requirements alone for the Cube are very tight, and exceeding those with a Sawtooth upgrade (especially a powerful one) will most likely end in a pretty Apple paper weight.
Do yourself a favour and stick to something that's guaranteed to work, and you'll have a happy Cube for a number of years to come. Right now I have a PL 1.8 in mine, and it's quite happy (and fast).
OWC has a few listed, but the numbers are diminishing as the demand has fallen off over the last year (mostly due to the release of the Intel Macs). I've bought from them many times, and I've always been happy with the results.
Good luck!
8. macrumors member
Yea, as pretty much everyone else said, the Cube should only be upgraded with Cube-specific G4 cards. I have heard of someone using a tower G4 card before, but that is a serious mod that I dont think is worth getting into, considering the speed would not be that much of an improvement, and figuring out which CPU would work would be even more of a task. Stick with a Sonnet, Powerlogix, or Giga upgrade card. That way you get the warranty if it fries. (Which has been a problem with some of the cards.) :eek:
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FAQ: Some details behind Apple's announcement
Discussion in 'MacBytes.com News Discussion' started by MacBytes, Oct 12, 2005.
1. macrumors bot
2. macrumors G5
Handy FAQ. Only one new thing for me:
Good--at least there's SOME way to judge whether your iMac is watching you :)
3. macrumors 68040
and if your still paranoid I'm sure you can spare some duct tape & tin foil from your hat haha
4. macrumors 6502
I'd like to know the source for the answers they provide. In particular, I had also been wondering whether the previous photo models would be upgraded via software update to allow video playing. They say "no", but don't offer any explanation. The photo models already do sound and video out to TV, and I've read that the video capabilities were disabled by Apple. I'll wait for official word from Apple and send a request in the mean time.
5. macrumors 6502a
Is it just me, or did this article sound condescending?
6. 24C
macrumors 6502a
Except some enterprising hack could disable this LED and it'd be like HAL all over again :eek:
7. ntg
macrumors regular
hang on a minute...
he says the remote uses Infra-red, but the tech specs of the new iMac only mention Bluetooth and Wi-Fi!
There is no mention of an additional I/R dongle with the remote...
Can anyone please confirm this?
I guessed it would be BT, so I already ordered myself a remote for this laptop (BT and Wi-Fi built in, so didn't envisage a problem!)
Any thoughts?
Nig. :confused:
I just found this at the bottom of the spec for the remote!
So WHY doesn't the spec for the iMac mention built-in I/R?
8. macrumors 65816
I *think* that the new universal dock has built in IR. So I think you have to buy the remote and the dock..and then connect the dock to your mac and maybe it'll work? I'm not sure..but maybe ..
9. Moderator
Staff Member
I was wondering about this too, but the dock only talks about controlling an iPod in the dock.
I am expecting a boxed product at some point that includes the remote, a CD with Front Row and a little white USB IR receiver...
10. macrumors 603
No, it's not just you. The fact that it's on the MSN tech and gadgets page might have something to do with it. I wonder if they'd have the same tone if they were reviewing a <i>Microsoft</i> product.
For example, take the first one:
Couldn't they just as easily say, "yes, but you'll need to convert them into an iPod-compatible format, which requires additional software"?
11. macrumors G5
I think they mean it's not available to older color iPods NOW. And I doubt it ever will be (screen size is different in pixels, for one thing, plus Apple makes money on iPods more than iTMS). But I don't recall Apple actually saying flat-out that they won't ever have an upgrade.
Nope, it does. But you sound fine.
I think because it's not meant for any OTHER purpose, just for the Apple Remote. For instance, no IrDA file transfers, presumably.
The new iPod universal dock has a round IR receiver on the front, while the iMac has its receiver in the Apple logo, someone said.
Addition: "...just like doing ANYTHING safely with a Windows computer requires." ;)
12. macrumors G3
Apple did at least make that possibility difficult. The light is hard wired and would have to be replaced by a suitable dummy for the camera to keep working. With that much hassle, it would be easier for the Illuminati spies to put a separate camera somewhere.
13. macrumors G3
The new iMac comes with the remote but not the dock. It's built into the main cabinet.
14. macrumors regular
All FAQs sound condescending. It's in their nature.
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Good monitor for professional video editing
Discussion in 'Digital Video' started by Pritchardly, Mar 8, 2011.
1. macrumors newbie
*I'm reposting this from Mac peripherals as I didn't realize there was an editor's forum on here. Forgive me, I'm new here.
I'm a professional editor myself but I've typically just had whatever the current Apple monitors were to work with. Now I'm going off on my own as a freelancer and I'm looking to get a relatively inexpensive monitor with good NTSC fidelity to compliment my brand new quad-core MBP. After shelling out so much on the laptop I just can't justify going for the $999 Apple monitor no matter how great they really are. My target range is between $200 and $300.
The models I am looking at so far are the Dell U2211H, U2311H and NEC EA232WMi.
I'm liking the Dells best but I've read a few things about them not always playing nicely with Macs but nothing about them with the newest MBPs. It's nice that the NEC is also LED but it's 14ms response time seems painfully slow.
Does anyone have any other models or tips on things I should be looking out for? Personal experience with any of the above monitors would also be greatly appreciate. Alternatively if there is a standard Macrumors thread for these kinds of questions I'll gladly take a look there. Thanks!
2. macrumors regular
You shouldn't anyways when you can get a better Eizo for the same amount. I'm puzzled how you can call yourself professional when you want to cut down at any area... The screen is just as important. It's what you do you final grading by, and if you go buy yourself a **** monitor for 200 dollars, how can you ever be sure that what you render out is what is actually going to be on the end users screen?
If you don't do gradings, then bygones :)
3. macrumors newbie
As I said I'm just starting out on my own and that leaves for MANY new expenses. I simply don't have the money right now for a $1000 monitor no matter how important I know it may be to have one down the road. I can work up to one but for now I'm looking for a stopgap. In the mean time I don't even have any clients who require that level of accuracy in their color grading. I don't see how this should call my professionalism into question...
4. macrumors 6502
Wait you're a pro editor going on freelance and you only have a laptop and a budget of $300 on a monitor? Good ****** luck buddy.
5. Pritchardly, Mar 8, 2011
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macrumors newbie
My goodness, what is it with this place? Can anyone just give me a little advice WITHOUT critiquing my business model or do I need to submit a resume and business plan to get anything? I feel like I'm applying for a bank loan here...
All you know is that I'd like an inexpensive but solid monitor to accompany the laptop, you have absolutely zero insight into what other equipment I may already own other than I obviously am not an expert on choosing a monitor.
6. macrumors 6502
Dude, I don't care what equipment you have. What I meant was, that isn't the type of budget to be going out on your own. It's hard and even though you may have solid work now doesn't mean you will have it in the near future. Can you absorb 6 months off, 100% bills paid for, food, utils and everything? Until you can, don't buy another thing.
And if you want monitor advice, the Dells are good. My edit suite is based around the U2711.
7. macrumors regular
I use two 24" monitors, both in your price range. One is a Dell the other is a Samsung. Both perform exactly as expected with an early 2008 Mac Pro. They are both a couple of years old so I doubt the model numbers would be the same as current models. After 2+ years neither has any bad pixels or fading. The Samsung may have a cooling fan in it that I do notice on occasion, but usually it's by the unit's silence when I turn it off.
(Because they are exactly the same height when I use them I'm unaware of the brand difference.)
Good luck.
8. macrumors 6502
LOL @ gameface - sorry but it did make me chuckle...but i happen to agree! And i know nothing...but those Dell monitors do look sweet!
9. macrumors demi-god
Computer monitors are just good for looking at your programs and they shouldn't be used to judge video image quality. FCP isn't designed to display a broadcast accurate image in the GUI, the gfx card isn't designed to output a broadcast accurate image and the computer monitor isn't designed to display a broadcast accurate image.
I have a Dell 2408 and a 23" ACD and if I was going to buy another computer monitor today it would most likely be another Dell.
10. macrumors member
As Lethalwolfe says - what you're after is just a secondary computer monitor - it has nothing to do with video editing. Go for a brand you know and trust. I would recommend Dell or HP.
You could also buy a HDTV with DVI or HDMI in from someone like Samsung.
But you have to understand that without a video interface (such as a product from Kona, Blackmagic, Motu or Matrox) all you are doing is looking at another computer display. For video monitoring you need different hardware (and that's when it starts getting a little pricier).
11. macrumors newbie
Thanks for the advice, this is the kind of information I needed. I've worked with AJA converters before but never a Kona card as I was never responsible for final color graded masters.
12. Richardthe4th, Mar 8, 2011
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macrumors regular
As stated above, just buy a second computer monitor to attach. Don't invest a lot in that. But to be able to fairly judge the output you need a broadcast monitor. And they cost a lot and you need additional hardware.
Check the matrox mxo2 mini, very versatile and a lot of bang for the bucks. You can even connect an lcd tv and adjust that to come close to a calibrated monitor. (Or buy a crt monitor on ebay.) That works really good. Has your MBP an express34 (17")? Or thunderbolt (then you have to wait until they have thunderbolt interfaces). Even a cheap tv/crt through a video interface gives a better impression than a computer screen (different color room etc and fcp just doesn't send all the information to the computer screens).
Good luck
(PS look further than just this advice, but it can be a starting point)
13. macrumors 6502a
That's the kind of gear the professionals use when creating stuff for HD broadcast.
At work, I have a little Panasonic standard def broadcast monitor that I wouldn't trade for any computer monitor for as long as I keep doing SD work. CRTs rule!
Aprat from that, everything Lethal said. I'd get a Dell Ultrasharp because they are as good as Apple's monitors, but cheaper.
14. macrumors 68020
I have a pair of these attached to my 3D Workstations (Dell and Boxx). My Dual 30s on my Mac Pros are getting old and showing wear (yes they wear down).
Im not too keen on using the new Apple 27s in the cubicles but would deal with them in the controlled lighting in our NLE/DAW studio.
For wide open space lighting, go with the Dells.
15. macrumors 65816
Thanks for providing a constructive well thought out response. :rolleyes:
I get your point, but perhaps a little bit more tact next time. The line separating professionals and amateurs has gotten so blurred that it hardly exists anymore. So while some of us need expensive color accurate production monitors and AJA cards, others are perfectly fine on just a single laptop. There are different levels of "professionalism" in this field. It was pretty easy to gauge where the original poster was coming from.
I'll echo Lethal's recommendation. Most of what you'll find in your budget range will have similar performance. But I've used Dells for a while now and have been pretty satisfied.
16. macrumors 68020
Yep Dell monitors have stood the test over time in my books. Too bad the computers didnt but thats another topic.
Love my Dell U2711 here :)
Great for home too. It has DVI, Display Port and HDMI as well as VGA.
17. macrumors regular
Unfortunately, many newcomers to pro video never hear of needing to use broadcast monitors and are shocked that their $299 computer monitor isn't suitable for color accuracy. Video monitors were fairly affordable in the SD era, but never, ever were they cheap. I had this one: http://www.broadcastbaron.com/infopvm20m4u.htm I think I got it used and paid over $2000 for it.
In today's market, you have to spend much more for an HD broadcast monitor. Many prosumer/low end pros usually can't justify the cost of such a monitor. That said, you should endeavor to get such a setup so that you can deliver a quality, color accurate product to your customers. If you deliver to broadcast television, you'll certainly need one.
If you must use a computer monitor for color accuracy, go with handsome pete's suggestion: a fully featured Dell.
18. macrumors 6502
It's true that a professional reference monitor is different than a computer monitor. Given that, there are still dramatic differences in the quality of computer monitors. Right off the bat, I'd recommend the Dell U2412 which can somewhat regularly be found for under $300 (well, $299 certainly). A 24" 16:10 monitor with a matte IPS screen and great stand adjustability. Certainly one of the best you'll find close to your price range.
19. macrumors regular
Don't listen to this. Focus on internet video, that's where the freelance money is at and to be honest as long as you have a fairly accurate screen noone gives a ****.
99.9999999999% of the time your internet video will be viewed on a cheap TN panel/ non colour accurate display, so who cares.
Focus on telling a good story, don't listen to the dinosaurs.
20. macrumors 68020
I want to agree with you smali and I have preached the same to my students and fellow videographers. However, its still a must to be able to deal with both. From my experience the Internet Guerrilla Video folks are usually at the bottom of the pecking order in both budget and professional use. Why not learn to deal with NTSC broadcast on the cheap since the trickle down (as you mentioned) tech is good enough (so you say) for the web.
But of course, watch some of the work done (uploaded) on Vimeo. Im pretty most of that wasnt geared straight for the web :) IMHO
21. macrumors newbie
what about the response time?
The Dells IPS's you are all talking about are 6-8 ms.
Isn't there a good IPS with response time of 2-3 ms? or perhaps I over estimate the meaning of that value - is it not that important for video editing?
22. macrumors demi-god
You don't really need a solid response time as that would be more applicable to something like gaming whereby you are interacting with the screen whereas for video editing you are basically playing back footage.
23. macrumors regular
I am not surprised by the responses you have got, there just are some people that need to kick people, it just makes them feel better about themselves.
Anyhow, I know of an editor that I will collaborate with from time to time on bigger projects and he too went freelance after working for years a a major post house. He too had budget concerns when he went out on his own, yet saw a bigger picture and not just today. He started out with a Dell U2311H and all the projects we collaborated on worked out well with him using this Dell monitor. Then 4 months after going out on his own that monitor got him through the lean start up days until he had sufficient resources and got 2 Apple monitors to replace that Dell monitor.
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Best of luck for the future.
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How did you install Jag?
Discussion in 'General Mac Discussion' started by irmongoose, Aug 31, 2002.
I installed/plan to install with...
1. the Upgrade option.
13 vote(s)
2. the Archive and Install option.
2 vote(s)
3. the Erase and Install option.
8 vote(s)
4. on a seperate hard drive.
1 vote(s)
5. I don't intend to install Jaguar anytime soon.
0 vote(s)
6. What the heck is Jaguar!? (Check [url=http://www.apple.com/macosx/]THIS[/url] out.)
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1. macrumors 68030
Quick poll: How did you/plan to install Jag?
2. macrumors 604
Purchased a new computer with it preinstalled. This isn't an option in the poll but should be.
3. Moderator emeritus
Mr. Anderson
So far I've installed it on my older Sawtooth G4 by doing a full install on the second harddrive, leaving OS9 on the first one.
It went smoothly - except for the damn issues I'm having with the Linksys Router.....
4. macrumors 68030
I took this opportunity to back up all my files on an external drive and wipe my hard drive. Since OS X has come "of age" I decided it's no longer necessary to have separate partitions for OS 9 and OS X. So far, it has proved beneficial for me. I gained about 1 gig of space, my internet connection now works in Classic, and classic loads in a fraction of the time (no old extensions bogging it down.)
I usually make it a point to start from scratch every two or three years; sort of like a spring cleaning, if you will (not to be confused with that lousy Aladdin product :p ).
5. Moderator emeritus
Erase and install.
Nothing like a fresh start on a new OS install.:)
6. macrumors 68020
same here.
sometimes its damn obvious who the switchers are. :)
7. Moderator emeritus
Heh...reinstalling Windows everytime your PC starts crapping out scars you for life.
I never feel comfortable with an upgrade install...
8. macrumors 603
If I get Jaguar for Dec. 25 I'll do a complete erase, then I will reinstall everything. I want the most out of ALL my computers.
9. macrumors 68000
Ensign Paris
I plan to erase and then keep all of my files on a Firewire disk then as I need them I will add them to the hard disk, therefore only bring back the files I need and saving space.
10. Moderator emeritus
A clean format and new install for me, that's the way I have allways installed new OS's and that the way I allways plan to.
I think this way you ensure a faster, cleaner and more stable system, which is what we all want at the end of the day.
11. macrumors 68040
I did an upgrade and its slow, which suck, I wanted a b00st!!!!
12. Moderator emeritus
The Archive and Install option worked well, especially considering I had the initial developer preview on my 2nd hard drive in my G3/400.
Everything seems to be working so far and the installation was surprisingly quick.
1st CD-ROM: 23 minutes
2nd CD-ROM: 13 minutes
dialup download of security update: 23 min.
I upgraded the Ultra2 SCSI drive and got much different times.
1st: 83 minutes
2nd: 19 minutes
40-some minutes seemed to be spent on determining what was already there.
The only thing really different that I've noticed is that the 3D effects seem rather shallow in contrast to 10.1.5.
13. macrumors 68020
Reformat and install
I built it from scratch. I backed up everything to about 40 cd-rs, and then tried to reformat with UFS as the file system. DO NOT do this. After instaaling it once and a few new apps, i tried to install photoshop, and it does not like UFS.
Anyway, no OS 9 on there for me. I just have to figure out how to install Suitcase w/o OS 9. It won't let me so far. Ideas?
I like to reformat my drive once a year or so. The OS runs SOOOO much faster and I got rid of all the crap on my machine. I used to only have 6 gigs free, i now have 23 with everything on the system i need.
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iMac 27" advice
Discussion in 'Buying Tips and Advice' started by PlanetExp, Jan 31, 2013.
1. macrumors member
- Entry level 27" + 1TB Fusion Drive
- High end 27" flat
- Entry level 27" flat, and use that extra cash on food and unforeseen bills :)
So many questions, so little money. Thanks in advance!
2. macrumors regular
That is some impressive cash stretching from a sale of a MBA 11 to the purchase of a new iMac. :D You might want to strike some middle ground between the base model and high end to get a config with a SSD. You can always add memory later. Make sure you budget for AC. Good luck!
3. -jc
macrumors member
The iMac 27" is not something you buy if you're lacking money.
4. macrumors member
Also, don't get the Fusion Drive if you're doing anything with large files, like video editing. I'm a videographer, and I had a new 27" iMac with 3TB Fusion Drive that I had to send back and get the conventional 3TB drive iMac instead.
If you use large files with the Fusion Drive, the SSD part fills up and doesn't transfer the remaining data to the HDD part. I was editing a 75GB project when a system error message popped up saying that the drive is full, and asked if I wanted to force quit the application (there was no choice to continue).
5. macrumors 6502
What I am going with
I am still saving towards my 27 inch purchase, won't be making the purchase until about November. Waiting for Haswell, hopefully better GPU and just wishful thinking that the Fusion drive will become a part of the standard pricing across all models without the $250 premium.
My purchase will be the base model with fusion drive because that is in my budget. I will also be purchasing a iPad 5 if and when it comes out. I plan to also max out the RAM to 32 GB.
I would have settled for standard mechanical drive configuration, but after a year of using an SSD on a HP Z210, I honestly cannot go back to HDD. Its fast. I also saw a review video of the new iMac with a 3TB FD, 32 GBs of RAM and the system boots in about 4 to 5 seconds.
6. macrumors 6502
Don't forget the refurb section, found on the Apple store landing page. Save a chunk of money that way
7. macrumors 68030
Be a little while until the new 27's reach refurb store.
8. macrumors 68020
Get a maxed out 21.5" iMac instead. Cheaper, still capable.
9. macrumors regular
You should definitely get the fusion drive - given your described usage. And it will be fine for light video editing.
If you get to the stage where you're working with large video files you should be using an external fast (raid preferably) drive anyway - any pro would do this.
10. macrumors regular
If you're a serious videographer, or aiming towards pro video editing, know that it's never a good idea to have the raw footage you intend to edit on your main hard drive - get fast, reliable externals for your footage; USB 3 or thunderbolt compatible.
11. macrumors member
I'm a professional videographer who works for a local television station. I also run a video company that does commercial video and I'm an Apple Certified Pro in FCP 6, 7 and X. It may have been true in the past that you shouldn't use the main HD to edit, but that's not the case now with much faster processing and much faster drives. It makes very little difference nowadays. What I described is an engineering design oversight that shouldn't occur. It's a typical "hybrid" problem, not unlike a hybrid car, where the hybrid is an underperforming compromise from two proven technologies (SSD and HDD in this case).
And BTW, I have plenty of external HD Thunderbolt storage.:)
12. macrumors member
I can't recommend the new 27' iMacs highly enough. It's fast, powerful and gorgeous. I imagine if you're an intensive user then you can get away with a RAM upgrade instead of going for the higher CPU and GPU.
Find a way to get it, you'll love it. :D
13. macrumors member
Thanks for the help everyone!
Yes it's definitely a stretch getting the 27". I ended up on the short end of the stick selling the air too, but I just couldn't work with it - too flimsy for my lifestyle it would have looked like a strip of bacon in months'. So I threw in some savings ontop, and worked some extra shifts during christmas to get the money.
Went with the low end 27" 2.9 GHz with fusion drive. Having doubts everyday if I should have taken the high end with 675MX instead, but I think I'll put the money towards an external backup drive instead.
It's tricky, I'm really tight on cash but $200 ontop of $2050 doesn't feel like that much of a stretch :D
I reccon I can do light editing with it and when the day comes for the next movie we'll have enough cash for a Mac Pro, in which case I can use the 27" as a display.
P.S. Its a philosophical question as well as I always end up maxing everything on everything, or buying the most expensive thing, then having a hard time utilizing everything until the next os, or system comes along that makes what I have the new low end. This is the first time I haven't maxed everything actually.
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iOS Lock screen on Mac you say?
Discussion in 'Mac OS X 10.7 Lion' started by macboiest, Jul 29, 2011.
1. macboiest, Jul 29, 2011
Last edited: Jul 29, 2011
macrumors newbie
2. macrumors 6502
People PAY for that??
3. macrumors 6502a
How does one slide the keyboard, exactly? :confused:
4. C64
macrumors 6502a
^ off the desk
this looks horrible
5. macrumors 6502
You're Jamaican me crazy! This app is ugly... not Swede at all.
6. 3bs
macrumors 603
Does it slow down anything? And how much does it cost
7. macrumors 65816
Patrick J
How about reading the app?
You create a pass pattern which you slide across the keyboard keys.
8. macrumors 6502a
I wouldnt be able to take apple seriously if this was included with leopard. It's just stupid.
Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk
9. macrumors 6502a
Unless there's a trackpad built-in to the keyboard, I think that pressing the keys in a specific order is still called "entering a password".
I'm not really keen on having to learn a password other than my admin one to unlock my mac, unless it has a "slide" aspect already by an amazing coincidence.
10. macrumors 6502a
You press each button in a row consecutively. (In a sliding motion of course)
Very intuitive, isn't it? :p
11. macrumors demi-god
12. macrumors 65816
Wow. This app. I seriously have no clue why it's one of the Top 10 Paid apps in the App Store of my current location (and it's the #35 in the US App Store). The icon is horrible and doesn't match the OS X HIG, and sliding the keyboard to unlock... Are you kidding me now?
13. macrumors 603
It works with the TrackPad just fine, and looks kinda cool. Don't know if I will keep it running, but why not?
14. macrumors 65816
The "slide to unlock" feature is there to prevent you from unlocking your phone by accident when it's in your pocket. You don't keep your laptop or desktop anywhere where you might unlock it by accident.
This software is simply idiotic.
15. macrumors 68000
i keep my 27inch imac in my pocket.
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Discussion in 'MacRumors.com News Discussion' started by MacRumors, Jan 14, 2013.
1. macrumors bot
Digitimes provides more details about the rumored cheaper iPhone that has been circulating. According to their supply chain sources, this new entry-level iPhone is said to adopt plastic for its chassis rather than the glass and aluminum that has been used on their current models.
iPhone 3GS (2009) had a plastic enclosure.
They also cite other circulating rumors that suggest that the cheaper iPhone will alternatively offer a "chassis mixed with plastic and metal, with the internal metal parts being able to be seen from outside through special design".
The publication also reports that the components for the low-cost iPhone are going through validation and the final product may come to market in the second half of 2013.
Digitimes reignited the long-running rumors of a low-cost iPhone last week. The report was quickly followed by a Wall Street Journal and Reuters report claiming the same, and offering a target price of $99-$149. Subsequent comments by Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller seemed to suggest that Apple was dismissive of that possibility, but that article was later retracted by the original publication.
Article Link: Low-Cost iPhone to Use Plastic or Hybrid Plastic/Metal Design, Due in Late 2013
2. macrumors 6502
This has already been debunked though...
3. macrumors 68030
Here we go again!
4. arn
macrumors god
Staff Member
5. Guest
The smallest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone.
6. macrumors regular
I can see the market. Alot of people I know would love to own a iPhone but can't due to cost.
7. macrumors member
My guess, if it will exist, is a 3GS with updated internals that can be compatible with iOS 7.
8. macrumors 6502
I thought they already offered an older model that's $0 with contract?
9. macrumors member
I still don't understand the point of this when you can get an iPhone 4 for free or a 4S for $100. Plus you get fancy glass and aluminum enclosures with those two.
10. macrumors G4
Maybe Apple cut their orders of iPhone 5 screens to ramp up orders of screens for this?
11. macrumors 68020
but you are tied to a contract. This will be primarily used by non-contract folks that do not want to pay high prices for the iPhone.
12. macrumors regular
Only changing the case doesn't seem like enough to offer a considerable discount over the usual price cut for older models. Even an 8gb downgrade on flash memory seems like too little
13. macrumors 6502
I admit, I miss the white plastic roundness of the 3GS. It would make it cheaper instead of aluminium or glass.
It makes sense to make a cheaper one. I just didn't expect it from Apple, but if it sells and works well, why not?
14. macrumors member
To me at least it doesn't really feel Apple to provide a cheap alternative.
Apple knows its market and makes products for that.
Are we going to see cheaper versions of their MacBooks and iMacs?
What they should be doing is discounting the previous generation a bit more than they do.
15. macrumors newbie
Still rockin' the 3GS BABY YEA!
16. macrumors G3
I suppose plastic will suddenly become magical and innovative. :D
17. macrumors 68020
Yup, iPhone 3G's and 3GS's, which are 3-4 generations old for the low-cost market. I wouldn't be surprised by this.
But seriously, this again? :rolleyes:
18. macrumors demi-god
This isn't an older model.
19. macrumors member
They can get a much cheaper 4/4S then.
20. macrumors 68030
The main costs come in the form of a two year contract, not the cost of the phone itself imo.
21. macrumors newbie
Every time an article is posted citing DigiTimes, MacRumors conveniently starts the post with "Digitimes..." that way I don't waste my time reading the article.
I don't believe there is a chance there will be a cheap iPhone alternative now, or anytime in the future.
22. macrumors regular
There wont be a low cost iphone, there is the iphone 4. If they do i will immidiatly pull all my stock out of that company.
23. macrumors 601
contract free iphone 4 8gb is $450
24. macrumors 65816
If Apple resorts to this,then its truly a sign that Apples innovation and ingenuity are finished. Theres no way Apple can obtain a good profit margin on these Low end iPhones . Besides the country where Apple is going to sell these are more on the poorer side and the people are not purchasing Macs etc.
25. macrumors G3
Just like there wasn't going to be a mini iPad or larger iPhone?
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Mac NAS enclosure
Discussion in 'Mac Peripherals' started by Lucagfc, Jun 16, 2011.
1. macrumors regular
I' m searching to a really simple NAS enclosure to Share on the network my 2TB S-ATA HDD. Can anyone suggest me a simple enclosure with a little price that works well? thanks!
2. Moderator
Staff Member
You should probably elaborate.
What are the clients. All Macs? Does it need to share with Windows/Linux too?
Is this an empty drive or is there data already on it you need to share? What format is it in HFS+? NTFS? EXT2/3? FAT? ....
How low is low cost? Do you mean < $200? $100? $50....
3. macrumors 6502a
Great questions. Without knowing the answers, Synology ds110j is my suggestion.
4. macrumors regular
I use only Mac Client (MacBook Pro, Apple TV and iOS devices). The HDD is empty and i prefer to spend less than 100$ Thanks!
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Staff Member
The <$100 devices you will find are better suited to Windows environments. The Synology unit ia a bit more expensive but will do a good job of supporting your devices.
You could look at Macsales/OWC for other Mac-y options...
The rumored iOS time capsule might even serve your ATV if and when it comes out...
6. macrumors regular
I need to find something that is easy to buy here in Italy. OWC shipment to Italy cost 60 $ !! I search for the Synology ds110j now....
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Need help setting up a Windows mail client to work with Leopard Mail server
Discussion in 'Mac OS X Server, Xserve, and Networking' started by trazanka, Feb 8, 2008.
1. macrumors newbie
I have got my 10.5 server up and running, Mac Mail clients sending and receiving fine.
We have one user that must use Windows and I cannot get him connected to the Mail server at all.
We have CRAM-MD5, Kerberos and SSL enabled as options for secure connections.
Does anyone have a setup you could share that would allow the Windows client to connect securely to the Mail server?
Thank you,
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Need some Expert advice - How do you remove a HD from a PowerMac G4 Quicksilver?
Discussion in 'PowerPC Macs' started by bluetooth, Jan 27, 2010.
1. macrumors 6502a
Hi, I am wondering how I go about removing my Hard Drive from my Power Mac G4 QUicksilver? I don't know the first thing about removal or location of the HD?
It is a 40GB Ultra ATA/66 (5400 rpm)
I would like to remove it and fit it with a Hard Drive case enclosure so I can use it as an extra external for backing up data.
I was told by Tiger Direct that this enclosure should work:
I would ultimately be connecting to a macmini for backing up data periodically.
Any adive or insight is much appreciated.
2. macrumors 6502a
I replaced the hard drives in my Quicksilver a few years ago. I don't remember the details (and I don't have the computer anymore), but it wasn't too hard to figure out.
That being said, I have to seriously question using what is obviously an old HD as an external drive (especially as a backup drive). Hard drives don't last forever. If that's the stock drive from a Quicksilver, it is many years old. It's also small (40 GB) and slow (5400 RPM). If money is tight, I'd suggest getting something like this (it's only a few dollars more than the case you linked to):
3. macrumors 6502a
Hey, good idea thanks for the info and link. :)
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Program for even and odd numbers
Discussion in 'Mac Programming' started by Quboid, Dec 14, 2006.
1. macrumors 6502
hello all,
My final programming exam is tomorrow. And i am practiciing at this moment. Just a quick question, how do write the code to figure out if a number is even or not even. I have it theoretically as finding the mode 2 of the number and test to see if it is zero. but the mod function doesn't work on my xcode compiler. I tried using the % command (a%b) but that doesn't work either.
PS. I am programmnig in C.
2. macrumors 6502
3. macrumors G4
You need to add
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
in XCode for modulus to work ;).
4. macrumors 68000
The word is modulo (or modulus)...its actually an operator (not a command).
Anyway, in C the modulo operator is '%', so (a%b) evaluates to r, where r is the remainder after performing integer division of a by b.
5. macrumors 6502a
elfin buddy
I personally find Xcode horrible for writing in C. I just use a text editor in the terminal and the GCC program to compile. Works like a charm :)
Still, I don't think you need to add a
#include <stdlib.h>
line for it to work in Xcode. I just tested the following code under a C Tool project in Xcode, and it ran perfectly:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
int a;
int b;
int c;
b = 2;
printf("Please enter the number to check: ");
scanf("%d", &a);
c = a % b;
if (c == 0)
printf("%d is even.\n", a);
printf("%d is odd.\n", a);
But, whatever works, eh?
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Doctor Q
Staff Member
Even if you didn't know about the % operator, you could test parity (even/odd-ness) using integer arithmetic.
If i is an integer, this test would do it:
int j = ( i >= 0 ? i : -i ) ;
if ( j/2 == (j+1)/2 )
printf("%d is even\n",i) ;
printf("%d is odd\n",i) ;
In integer arithmetic, 0/2 and 1/2 are 0, 2/2 and 3/2 are 1, 4/2 and 5/2 are 2, and so on.
7. macrumors regular
You could go into good 'ole bitwise operators also!
But I won't go into that....;)
8. macrumors 68020
why not?
if (number&0x1 == 1)
printf("number is odd/n");
printf("number is even/n");
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Doctor Q
Staff Member
My example didn't work for negative integers, so I edited the post above to fix it. I don't win any points for bug-free programming today.
10. macrumors regular
Because Quboid probably hasn't gotten into bitwise operators yet. :p
( excuse me if I'm wrong )
11. macrumors 603
== has precedence over &, so you're actually just saying if (number&(1==1)) ... which happens to give the right answer because true (1==1) is usually set to 1, maybe it's even defined to be 1 in C, but I don't know for sure.
if (number&1) is sufficient, but if ((number&0x1) == 1) is probably more readable while also doing what you think it does.
Sorry, Quboid, for digressing.
12. macrumors G4
You're probably right, I was doing it in Cocoa, and don't want to check in the program itself which C libraries are required, as having either seemed to be OK to the compilier.
13. macrumors 6502
Surely you mean if ((number&0x1) == YES)?
14. macrumors G4
No, because, the YES, NO thing is only for Objective-C, not real C.
15. macrumors 6502
Thanks a million guys, i had the exam today and got exempted......i ahve a prject to finish though. Looking for some help.
16. macrumors 603
And more importantly if ((number&0x2) == YES) wouldn't work for if ((number&0x2) == 0x2) or just if (number&2).
17. macrumors 65816
Come on guys, we can still take it up a notch :)
#include <stdio.h>
char *even_odd_index[] = { "even\n", "odd\n" };
char *even_odd_offset = "even\n\0\0\0odd\n";
int val = 5;
printf( even_odd_index[val & 0x01] );
printf( &even_odd_offset[(val & 0x01)<<3] );
18. macrumors regular
I couldn't help but create my own little 1-line-app version of odd and even - nothing new which hasn't be posted yet, just wrapped into a runnable program.
#include "stdio.h"
int main (int argc, char ** argv) {
return printf("the number %s is %s", argv[1], atoi(argv[1]) & 1 ? "odd" : "even") < 0;
19. macrumors 6502
I stand corrected. It just seems inelegant to me to have to make the assumption that logical truth == 1, as safe as that assumption may be.
Oh yeah. I forgot that we weren't actually testing a Boolean result. My point is rendered rather pointless in this case...
20. macrumors regular
Someone needs to write an asm version! :D
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Superdrive for the CUBE!!
Discussion in 'Macintosh Computers' started by Flowbee, Mar 26, 2003.
1. macrumors 68030
Wow... I think this is great news...
Expected to start shipping April 2. $449.
The new MCE DVD-R "SuperDrive" upgrade for the Power Mac G4 Cube allows Cube owners to author professional-quality DVDs as well as create, store, and share their collections of videos, music and photography. Plus, the fast, highly reliable drives are compatible with most computer and set-top DVD video players and other DVD burners ? so video and data DVDs created using these drives can be shared with business associates, friends, and family.
Install it yourself or have the MCE DVD-R "SuperDrive" upgrade professionally installed into your PowerMac G4 Cube at one of our worldwide MCE Authorized upgrade centers, and you'll be able to easily record up to 4.7GB of data, video or audio onto recordable DVD discs right from your Power Mac G4 Cube.
-- 1x DVD-R recorder
-- Convenient slot-loading mechanism
-- 2MB Cache Buffer
-- Buffer underrun protection
-- Bootable
--Compatible with iDVD 3*, DVD Studio Pro, iTunes, Disc Burner and Apple DVD Player
**While MCE has independently tested and verified compatibility of this product with iDVD 3, Apple Computer, Inc. does not officially support the use of iDVD 3 with "non-factory installed" SuperDrives.
2. macrumors 65816
With it mounted verticle it would be butt slow... but to each his own.
3. macrumors 68040
4. macrumors G4
Why would that make any difference?
5. acj
macrumors 6502
Sheesh, a 2.4X superdrive for my cube is $225. That's an almost 5X better deal :). Apple needs a new cube like the shuttle PCs...
6. macrumors 68030
Re: $450???
Well, of course, anyone can plug a firewire drive into their cube for less money... I figured we all new this already.
This new Cube superdrive is internal (reducing desk clutter) and works with iDVD. To me, that makes it worth the money.
7. acj
macrumors 6502
I'm talking internal, but I'm just being abastard and talking about my PC. It's the size of a cube on it's side, but it takes desktop components so they're cheap. It even works with a Radeon 9800, two raided hard drives, and the 3.06 P4. This is good to me, because if it can be done on a PC, think what they could manage to do on a Mac.
8. macrumors 68030
9. macrumors regular
i have one of those shuttle XPC's... it doesn't compare at all to a cube! its sooooo fricken loud its annoying. I can't leave it on over night. While its cool I can put any desktop component in there, it puts out a lot of heat... I saw it get to 150 degrees one night after playing games for a few hours!! All in all, i'm not really too happy with it..
10. acj
macrumors 6502
Mine is silent
The older shuttles were very loud, the new ones are better, but I replaced the main fan in mine and it's nearly silent. There's tons of forum discussions about this at sudhian.com. In fact it will run without the main fan if you are not gaming (Intel version only, not AMD). Stock they are not perfect, modified they are better, but they still have a ways to come. That said, software aside, I find it vastly superior to a cube.
11. macrumors regular
hmm well I have the SB51G, its the newest Intel one with 845GE chipset. It's not the main fan thats loud (I replaced it, and it made no difference) It's the power supply fan that gets really loud.
12. acj
macrumors 6502
This is not the forum, and this is getting more and more off topic, but my PSU fan is quiet. When I get into heavy processing it may speed up some, and I don't have much in my computer which helps, and my video card is fanless which also helps (I needed dual monitors so the built in one wasn't good enough). Like I said, they're not perfect, but mine is very quiet. Much more so than my room mates Quicksilver dual 866, which is quieter than our friends MDD dual 1.25. I have the SB51G too. By the way, has yours ever locked up? Mine's never, but I do turn my computer off at night (why waste power?).
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Whats the best program for audio editing? Help!
Discussion in 'Digital Audio' started by clovis, Nov 13, 2008.
1. macrumors newbie
I have audacity but im looking for something that will help me maximize the volume of a song and and monitor levels and such. Kinda of like a poor man waves L2 Maximizer, or any program that u can work wit audio.
mind u that i do have protools and logic. is there something on there that would work as well?
Any help is greatly appreciated. thanks
2. macrumors 68040
I am not totally sure what you are looking for, but take a look at sound studio. Not sure if its any help but its a nice little audio program.
3. macrumors newbie
thanks, umm i guess what i am looking for is a mastering program maybe, anything that i can edit mixdowns with so i can tweak em and polish them
4. macrumors 68000
You probably want some kind of plug-in package by the sounds of it. For a mastering/audio editing program I use BIAS Peak, its great. Its actually on sale this month from an email I received from them ($600 off the normal price) for $299. Thats for the full Pro XT package. I'm sure you can get the LE version even cheaper.
5. macrumors newbie
thanks man ill check into it
6. macrumors 601
if it's for release, best to have it done professionally. if it's for personal listening, forget the number crunching and just turn up your volume knob.
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does anyone EVER vote punish for a case were only one person reported?
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An important thing to keep in mind is that a single report is half a teams other players in 3v3. If someone was being offensive only to her own teammates then the most you might get is 2 reports and some people never report and others (like me) are often unable to because their client crashes after every single game.
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Had an unknown error pop up just now. I went to my profile, changed some masteries around, and then entered a solo queue for a normal game. When it popped up the choose a champion or finish what you are doing dialog box, the error box popped up as well.
The error:
body = (null)
clientId = "EC14786A-E70A-FC35-0840-B93C3C1B015D"
correlationId = "74D363C4-13B6-FECD-20B5-034ED2B43265"
destination = "playerStatsService"
extendedData = (null)
faultCode = "Server.Processing"
faultDetail = (null)
faultString = "com.riotgames.platform.messaging.UnexpectedServiceException : null"
headers = (Object)#1
messageId = "EC147A2E-900C-A245-37BF-A29E5C85D559"
rootCause = (com.riotgames.platform.common.exception::UnexpectedServiceException)#2
message = (null)
rootCauseClassname = "com.riotgames.platform.messaging.UnexpectedServiceException"
stackTraceString = (null)
timestamp = 1254185975696
timeToLive = 0
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Id like to see 3 or 4 films (with different directors) then a Batman Beyond movie.
Just enough to establish Dick Grayson in 2 films. Enough to do something with Joker + Harley Quinn towards the 3rd film. And enough to have stories for the Riddler, Penguin and Freeze. Then move on to Beyond set in the same universe but 40 years later.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65776 | Writers Strike May EndThe showdown between Hollywood studios and writers over absolutely critical issues like residuals and the Internet and fairness and competitiveness is about to end because everyone wants to put on their pretty clothes and go to the shiny party show. In which case, the Oscars will not suck. On the other hand, we've heard this all before, so get back on that picket line you lazy hack. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65785 | Olde Timey Notificator Machine Twitters Like It's 1935
Featured in a 1935 issue of awesome futurist-comic-book-slash-science-mag Modern Mechanix, the Notificator is almost certainly the world's first Twitter client.
According to the article, the Notificator was placed in train stations—the depression-era equivalent of the internet, apparently—so that travelers could post ephemeral message for friends, families or passers-by.
I like to imagine 1935 Twitter as more charming and erudite than the 2009 Twitter, but I'm pretty sure it just had more messages about trains. [Infomark via AdamCrowe via Digg] |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65786 | Plastic Logic E Book Reader Video Tour and Hands On
Plastic Logic's device is big, over 10 inches across the screen and 7mm thin. It's touchscreen driven. What's surprising is that they'll have a store, 3G/WiFi and are coming out in Jan 2010.
The prototype I saw was definitely nice, but also sluggish to refresh its screen. (They have time to improve it as they move to production models.) The touchscreen works well, but the cool thing is the annotation function allows you to scribble on docs, while the page refreshes only the section you draw on, negating the need to do total page refreshes. There's also a nifty page scroll bar on the right, and a document switcher on the left, the ability to hide all menus and go directly to a page using an on screen keypad. The store and 3G and WiFi access were not quite working yet.
It looks promising. We'll see how great their store is. Amazon's Kindle store wasn't built in a day.
[Sorry the video is a little sleep. I'm just dragging today.] |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65789 | Apps Will Overtake iTunes Music Downloads Before the Year's Out
Numbers mined from iTunes by Asymco are pointing towards a startling new fact: that very soon the number of app downloads will surpass music downloads, in just half the amount of time.
Asymco, the same market research firm that published the purported figures of iPod Touch sales, reckons by the end of the year more apps will have been downloaded than music tracks—with today's figures showing 6.3 billion apps have been downloaded in just 2.2 years, whereas it took five years for the same number of music downloads.
What a world we live in, where it's thought that over 80 per cent of downloaded iOS apps are free, and actually able to surpass paid-for music downloads, tracks of which are impossible to be found elsewhere online! [Asymco via TechCrunch] |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65790 | These New Video Basketball Cards Make Me Yearn for the Simpler Days of My Youth
I used to collect basketball cards as a kid and if I was still a kid, I'd probably go apeshit for these new cards that can play 20 minutes of video highlights. But are they even basketball cards anymore?
Though they're made from cardboard, they're bigger and thicker than your everyday card. The screen takes up 2/3rds of one side and will show clips of the player, along with music and voiceovers. Even more, the cards come with 2 gigs for storage and a charger—yep, a charger—to juice it all up. That's a far cry from the technology of yore like refractors, protective film and bubblegum. These things are pre-programmed USB sticks with a screen fancying themselves as collector items.
But still, imagine you're a kid and you pull one of these video cards of your favorite player. That'd still be pretty damn fun. Ah, life is so much simpler as a kid. [LA Times] |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65791 | The FBI Thought Kim Dotcom Had a 'Doomsday' Device That Could Wipe Away All Evidence of Piracy
Do you know how the FBI justified the insane raid of Kim Dotcom's mansion? By saying that it suspected that Kim Dotcom had a 'doomsday' device that could "wipe out evidence of internet piracy around the world." No, seriously.
Grant Wormald, the detective inspector who oversaw the operation for the Organized and Financial Crime Agency (Ofcanz) said he was told by the FBI that Dotcom "carried a device with him to delete servers around the world". Apparently, the 'Doomsday' delete-all-servers device could have been triggered "in seconds" from any computer or phone on the property. Of course, no device was ever found in the raid but that didn't stop the feds from sending choppers and a crapton of officers more fit for a drug kingpin than an online pirate. [NZ Herald via BGR] |
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Posted 21 August 2013 - 06:18 PM Edited by Evil.Tim, 21 August 2013 - 10:12 PM.
I've had the Gigabyte KM7600 keyboard and mouse combo for a while now, and they've been working fine up until recently, when the multimedia buttons on the keyboard stopped working.
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As you can see, the keyboard has several media control buttons, like play/pause, some quick launch buttons for common programs and a volume control knob. None of these now work. The rest of the keyboard is working fine. The drivers are up to date and I've even checked the registry entries for the different buttons ans they're set up like always.
Is there a chance this might be a software issue? So far it's looking like a hardware thing to me, but I'm not sure. I recently installed some Windows 7 updates which have screwed up a few other things, can it be a glitchy update that could have screwed up my keyboard as well?
Thank you in advance.
EDIT: Fixed it. Just had to restart a service called Human Interface Device (HID) in the Windows 7 services.
Thank you so much for the help, Evil.Tim!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65819 | Indian Country Today Media - Northern Ute Tribes en Future Resources Are Key to Planning for Ute Tribes <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>DENVER—When the three Ute tribes of present-day Colorado and Utah convened at the Tri-Ute Council April 27 they focused on their younger tribal members’ needs and on ways to provide for them in the future.</p></div></div></div> Tue, 03 May 2011 15:00:07 +0000 leeanne 31679 at |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65833 | Windows Enterprise Desktop
Mar 19 2014 11:07AM GMT
MVA Releases Video Series “Windows 8.1 Deployment Jump Start”
Ed Tittel Ed Tittel Profile: Ed Tittel
Through the Microsoft Virtual Academy, the company has released the complete set of videos from its recent Windows 8.1 Deployment Jump Start, free to anybody who wants to look them over. Here’s a screencap of the items on offer (check the link to dig more deeply into any of them, and/or to access the video content):
All the major tasks involved in creating, setting up, managing, and deploying Windows 8.1 images to desktops is covered in this free online course.
There are four separate modules, each of which includes a video and a support PPT deck, along with a 10-minute self-assessment test worth up to 5 points upon completion. First you begin with an overview that walks through the various tools that MS makes available to support Windows deployment, including ADK 8.1, WDS, and MDT. Second, you explore the process of engineering a Windows 8.1 image, to create a reference image using automated and repeatable processes. Next, actual deployment is explored and explained, with special emphasis on driver management and application deployment. The final module melds the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) with System Center 2012’s Configuration Management facilities to deploy Windows 8.1, including managing drivers.
All in all it’s a nice introduction to the tools and techniques that MS recommends for Windows 8.1 Deployment. For those wishing to learn more about what’s involved and to get a general idea of how it’s done, this is a perfect way to spend a half-day learning the necessaries. Those who really want to dig in and learn this stuff from end to end will find it makes a nice point of departure, but one that must then be augmented by lots of hands-on interaction and experimentation with the tools and platforms covered in the course.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65840 | If you're resisting the urge to have a Brangelina-sized brood anytime soon (or maybe ever) you have some company. The number of women ages 40 to 44 who don't have children has doubled in the last generation, according to a new report from the U.S. Census. As of June 2006, 20% of women in that age group were childless, up from 10% thirty years ago. And the study finds that even women who do decide to start families are having fewer children. The birthrate among the white and Asian populations have declined to the point that they will not replace themselves, but the Hispanic population is growing. The report gives no reason for the changing rates, but analysts point to delayed marriage and more women choosing careers over having children. [USA Today] |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65860 | Why the name-calling?
Posted: Tuesday, February 11, 2003
As President Bush prepares his nonconstitutional first strike against Iraq, Empire readers have seen several letters dismissing people in the antiwar movement as communist dupes at best and traitors to the homeland at worst. In any event, people who question the war automatically hate the United States, Israel and free enterprise. However, people and groups questioning the war come from all political philosophies. Some of the "communist front" groups who are against this war at this time are:
• The Cato Institute, whose motto is "Individual Liberty, Limited Government, Free Markets and Peace." You can read their many reasons for opposing a first strike at this time at www.cato.org/current/iraq/index.html. In part, they are concerned because our troops are unready for chemical warfare.
• The Libertarian Party, www.lp.org, not known for their hatred of free enterprise or of America.
• The Vatican www.vatican.va , not known for their hatred of Christianity or of Israel.
If the case for a first strike is so strong, why do the proponents resort to name calling?
Daniel Cornwall
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65868 | My, Shepard, How You've...Changed
Reader Sgt.LulzJager has kept the same female Commander Shepard model across all three Mass Effect games. That's a lot of time spent with the same character. So it didn't take long for him to notice something different about her in Mass Effect 3.
Beside a few tweaks to her face, he didn't make any changes to the rest of her physical appearance. That all just...happened.
I noticed my Shepard's arms had gotten bigger, but figured, hey, he's been in what's essentially a prison for a while. And dudes in prison pump iron.
I may not watch enough documentaries on women's prisons to be an authority on this subject, but I'm pretty sure women in the slammer don't come out with complimentary cosmetic surgery. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65869 | Introduction to MATLAB for Signal Processing
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This webinar will provide an overview of major signal processing capabilities of MATLAB® and related toolboxes. Attendees will discover how to more effectively solve problems encountered in the analysis, design, implementation, and verification of signal processing systems.
Through demonstrations, we will showcase features and capabilities of Signal Processing Toolbox, Filter Design Toolbox, Fixed-Point Toolbox, and other related products, and show how these products can help you tackle a wide range of signal processing problems and challenges, including:
• Designing digital filters including multirate and adaptive filters
• Applying specification-based filter design methodology (FDESIGN objects)
• Statistical signal processing, including spectral analysis of signals via SPECTRUM objects
• Accelerating fixed-point MATLAB code execution speed through automatic C code generation with Simulink®
• Estimating the computational complexity of filter structures
• Implementing a filter as synthesizable VHDL® or Verilog® code
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65870 | Karuna Mantena
Karuna Mantena is Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Her research interests include modern political thought, the theory and history of empire, and South Asian politics and history. Her first book, Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism (2010), analyzed the transformation of nineteenth-century British imperial ideology. She is currently writing a book on political realism and Gandhi's political thought. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65875 | I'm Becky Stern of Adafruit, and This Is How I Work
Is Becky Stern an artist or engineer or designer? At Adafruit Industries, it's all of the above. As Director of Wearable Electronics, Becky combines her DIY skills with crafting talents to build cool gizmos that utilize all sorts of electronic components.
Location: Work in west SoHo, NYC, live in Brooklyn
Current Gig: Director of Wearable Electronics, Adafruit
One word that best describes how you work: Speedboat
Current mobile device: Nexus 4 running CyanogenMod
Current computer: 27" iMac
I'm Becky Stern of Adafruit, and This Is How I Work
• Arduino IDE—I use this software every day to prototype new wearable electronics projects run by the Adafruit FLORA or GEMMA. It's a code editor that communicates with the microcontroller boards, and we've made our own mods to it for working with our more eccentric hardware.
• Final Cut Pro X—I'm a recent convert from Final Cut Pro 7. I use Final Cut to edit my weekly wearables tutorial videos!
What's your workspace setup like?
I am the wearables department—I sit at an L-shaped desk with lots of bins and drawers for small parts. One part of the L is reserved for filming (with my big daylight-balanced softbox overhead), and I also have another table for large projects. I use a lot of hand tools and so have a caddy for those, and a few dress forms for developing new projects. Here's a video walk through:
What's your best time-saving shortcut/life hack?
Sometimes I let my scattered brain just do its thing, bouncing from small task to small task. Learning to recognize and embrace these spurts of intense ADHD-like behavior has helped me harness their speed and flow. On the flipside, I can get lost in creative projects and so I set timers to remind me to take breaks and switch tasks to stay on-schedule.
What's your favorite to-do list manager?
My small Moleskine notebook—I write a new todo list each day, and really enjoy the sensation of crossing things off! I do have a "todo" Gmail label, from which I'll work when making blog posts or other computer tasks. But the paper helps me visually organize my day and be sure something major doesn't slip through the cracks.
My camera! Without it, I couldn't share my wearable electronics projects with the wide wide internet. It's a Nikon D5100.
Doing my nails—I don't fuss with traditional polish, but go straight for the indestructible and long-lasting UV gel. My hands get a lot of screen time and so it's always fun to play around with color gradients and other nail art. Sometimes I call it "structural nail polish" since it lets me open infinite pop-top cans and scrape at circuits all day long.
I'm Becky Stern of Adafruit, and This Is How I Work
What do you listen to while you work?
Groove Salad on SomaFM, but often I'm rocking out to our Adafruit music-for-videos collection, trying to pick the perfect track to go with this week's project.
What are you currently reading?
Accelerando by Charles Stross.
Are you more of an introvert or an extrovert?
I'm a loud introvert. I like collaborating and socializing but need significant alone time to recharge.
What's your sleep routine like?
I'd say I'm somewhere in between a night owl and early riser. I definitely work better in the AM/early afternoon, but can go down a web hole and not come out until 2am. I use my phone's alarm on a gentle ringer as an alarm clock—I hate the idea of being jarred awake by a buzzer or "nagtech" evasive alarm clock. Who wants to start their day angry?
What's the best advice you've ever received?
Use the right tool for the job (requires planning ahead!).
Photo via MAKE. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65878 |
From: Julian Reschke <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:29:22 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: Ian Hickson <[email protected]>
Ian Hickson wrote:
> ...
> Incidentally, do you know if the current specs define how a user agent is
> to handle the following bytes if they are received by the client _before_
> the client knows if there are any more bytes?
I assume the stylesheet PI is irrelevant here...
It seems you're asking whether it's legal for a recipient to start
something users want).
As a matter of fact, this (progressively rendering and fail late when
required) is what IE6 has been doing for eons when displaying generic
XML (not XHTML) with an XSLT PI.
> I haven't been able to find where the XML spec defines how to process such
> a document -- it's not strictly an "XML document" since it isn't
> well-formed, but it might become well-formed if the next few bytes are
> "</root>", or it might become definitely not well-formed if, say, there
> are no more bytes. Surely the processing of the earlier part of the
> document doesn't change based on later parts of the document. Indeed in
> many applications, it couldn't change.
Of course it could. In the worst case an application can always collect
the whole data and wait for the end of the document before doing
something with the data.
And yes, there are case where this *is* desirable for robustness, and
thus it would be bad if the XML spec mandated something different.
> ...
BR, Julian
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From: John Cowan <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 09:38:01 -0400
To: Arnt Gulbrandsen <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], Mark Davis <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I propose that the procedure specified in draft-newman-i18n-collation-09
for getting new collations approved should be changed to the procedure
used for new language tags. Instead of the requestor sending the
request to IANA, who sends it to the Collation Reviewer for discussion
on the list, and then the Collation Reviewer sends it back to IANA for
registration (or doesn't), remove the first pass through IANA.
Have people post directly to the list and work out the details. When the
requestor thinks it's ready, the Collation Reviewer wakes up and then
either sends the latest draft of the request to IANA or else sends a
rejection (with reasons) to the list. This lowers the load on IANA.
This scheme has worked very well for [email protected] for the
past 11 years.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65882 |
Thoughts on XLink 1.1
From: Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:04:57 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To start I would like to say that I hope the XML WG is going to continue
the work outlined in the extending XLink 1.0 document[1]. It looks good
and especially making xlink:type "simple" by default will probably
spread adoption a lot more.
- I hope the new specification will have a lot less non-normative DTD
samples (none, if possible) and more actual XLink examples.
- I also hope that XLink 1.1 will provide samples of nested XLinks, as in:
<foo xlink:href="#foo">
<bar xlink:href="#bar"/>
... and says what applications are expected to do with them. (This would
especially be useful for UAs, if the elements have actual content.)
- It would be nice if the relationship with CSS was specified. Does
:link and :visited match <foo xlink:href="#foo"/>? (I believe Mozilla
has already implemented it in such a way, but it would be nice if the
specification defines that relationship.)
Perhaps a non-normative sample style sheet could be included. For
example, I believe you can implement |show="embed"| using the CSS3
'content' property. As in:
- Which is the link in the following example taking in account that a UA
has support for both http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink and
<xhtml:a href="foo" xlink:href="bar">test</xhtml:a>
... of course, the same applies to IMG, OBJECT et cetera. More mixed
namespace examples:
<xhtml:a href="foo" xlink:show="embed">test</xhtml:a>
<xhtml:a href="foo" xlink:href="bar" xlink:show="embed">test</xhtml:a>
<xhtml:img src="foo" xlink:href="bar" xlink:show="embed"/>
<xhtml:img src="foo" xlink:href="bar" xlink:show="replace"/>
- It would also be nice if the specification makes use of semantic HTML
instead of using |<b>must</b>| to name an obvious error.
PS: If someone replies to the message and does not CC
www-xml-linking-comments please do CC me.
Anne van Kesteren
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65883 |
Re: Challenge for RDF Gurus :)
From: Seth Russell <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:32:28 -0800
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, "Pat Hayes" <[email protected]>
From: "Pat Hayes" <[email protected]>
> > property c(range(A or B), domain(A and B))
> I take it that this means that the range is the union and the domain
> is the intersection. The official answer is that you can't. What you
> can do is this:
> _:x rdfs:range A .
> _:x rdfs:subPropertyOf C .
> _:y rdfs:range B .
> _:y rdfs:subPropertyOf C .
> C rdfs:domain A .
> C rdfs:domain B .
> This says that the domain is contained in A intersect B, and that the
> range is contained in a class containing both A and B. That's the
> best you can do in RDF since it doesn't have any kind of negation or
> 'lower-bound' construct that could prevent a range or domain being
> smaller than stated. If you want to be more exact about upper and
> lower bounds of classes, you will need to use a more expressive
> language, such as DAML.
Interesting .. can a property ~inherit?~ a range ~restraint?~ from it's
subProperties ?
Seth Russell
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Re: Tabs and the CSS3 Basic User Interface Module
From: Justin Wood <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:39:52 -0500
To: Matthew Raymond <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:14:51 -0500
Matthew Raymond <[email protected]> wrote:
>value called "tab". This could be very useful for making
>lists look and behave like native tabs, but there's
>something I don't understand. Tabs are almost always used
>in a group context, yet there is no "tab-group" property
>value. Is there a specific reason for this? It would seem
>to me that a "tab-group" value would make it easy to
>create a tab group with a simple unordered list...
>| ul.tabgroup { appearance: tab-group }
>| ul.tabgroup il { appearance: tab }
>....Or perhaps a <div> and some hyperlinks...
>| div.tabgroup { appearance: tab-group }
>| div.tabgroup a { appearance: tab }
> Then again, if I understand correctly, |appearance|
>doesn't affect
>the |display| property. Should this require "tab" and
>"tab-group" values for |display|?
See for reference, the WhatWG concept of "Tabs" as it
stands for now (The document is ever changing)
Also something by Fantasai when "dared" by Ian to write a
current example of "Tab" display capability if it was to
be implemented in some way. (Requires JS and good CSS
support iirc)
I am far from an authority on this, just thought it would
help everyone involved.
~Justin Wood (Callek)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65887 |
RE: Active proxy 'problems'
From: N. Coesel <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 19:12:13 +0200
Message-Id: <>
To: [email protected]
At 09:06 01-07-2002 -0700, you wrote:
>> This setup seems to work quite well, but there is one major
>> drawback: There seem to be active proxies at the client side.
>> This means that more and more sites will refresh their caches
>> every 24 hours. This results in a huge amount of wasted
>> bandwith since no-one (= a person) at the client side
>> actually requested the document.
>documents just in case a user may ask for it?
Yes.. sort of. I've noticed that some proxy caches re-fetch (yes re-fetch)
the documents every 24 hours (or with shorter intervals) to keep their data
up-to-date. This results in a huge amount of hits.
>Do you know what user-agent is provided in those requests?
I'm recompiling squid (the fron-side proxy) right now to log the user agent.
Nico Coesel
Received on Monday, 1 July 2002 13:05:47 UTC
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Re: normalizedString and its subtypes
From: Henry S. Thompson <[email protected]>
Date: 18 Jul 2002 15:40:57 +0100
To: "Kay, Michael" <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
"Kay, Michael" <[email protected]> writes:
> I am confused by the definitions of the built-in types normalizedString and
> its subtypes, in Schema Part 2.
> (1). The value space of normalizedString allows all characters except xD,
> is the mapping from the lexical space to the value space: what happens to an
> canonical lexical representation, presumably, is the same as the string in
> the value space: I think we should be told.
The mapping from the lexical to the value space is 1-to-1 (I think),
so I think this is in fact a bug. The builtin derived type
normalizedString is defined as having the value 'replace' for its
whiteSpace facet, which in turn means that all strings offered for
validation as normalizedStrings will have had "[a]ll occurrences of
#x9 (tab). #xA (line feed) and #xD (carriage return) . . . replaced
with #x20 (space)" [1].
> Presumably the lexical space represents the value after the XML parser has
> done its normalization.
No, after that _and_ the _further_ normalization specified by its
whiteSpace facet.
> So in practice, a tab character is allowed in an
> attribute of type normalizedString (because the XML parser will turn it to a
> space), but a tab character is not allowed in an element of type
> normalizedString (because the XML parser will leave it unchanged). Is this
> interpretation correct?
No, because the the reference quoted above takes care of the
attribute/element difference.
> I find it hard to understand why the lexical space doesn't allow any string,
> with a mapping to the value space achieved by normalizing whitespace
> characters. Alternatively, the lexical space should be identical to the
> value space. The current definition seems nonsensical.
I agree there's a bug. I believe the 2nd alternative is correct.
There is a residual problem here to do with the attempt to make the
Datatypes REC usable independent of the Structures REC, and the WG
probably needs to step up to some clarification here.
> value space allows all characters except xA or x9. But since it is a
> restriction of normalizedString, it actually appears to allow all characters
> should be restated in full.
There's an erratum pending [2] which will say precisely this.
> good name) that allows any string containing no whitespace characters? I
> would have thought this type would be vastly more useful than most of the
> other built-in subtypes of string.
Good idea -- perhaps we'll add this in 1.1
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#section-White-Space-Normalization-during-Validation
[2] http://www.w3.org/2001/05/xmlschema-rec-comments.html/#pfitoken
URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65910 | Khan artistry: Why you should visit the NC Museum of Natural Sciences' exhibit on the Mongolian warlord
So, tonight is First Friday and, as always, downtown Raleigh will have a bevy (that’s right, I said bevy!) of happenings that wandering folk can dip into. Over at the Museum of Natural Sciences, the museum’s monthly “Natural Horror Picture Show” will show the 1989 comedy Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, which has Alex Winter and a pre-Matrix Keanu Reeves as high-school dunderheads picking up historical icons in a time-traveling phone booth for their history report.
One of those icons is Mongolian warrior/leader Genghis Khan, about whom the museum just happens to have an exhibit. It opened a couple weekends back, and we were invited to visit. The museum hopes you’ll show up tonight for the free movie, but also that you might wanna plunk down cash to see artifacts from Khan’s time.
If you still need convincing, here are five reasons you should check out the exhibit (with help from Albert Ervin, the museum’s special exhibits coordinator).
1. The exhibit has a lot of cool stuff.
The exhibit itself is a traveling museum devoted to both Khan’s legacy and Mongolian culture. You get weaponry both real (like a Mongol cavalry saber) and replicated (like a triple-action crossbow). But the exhibit also has about 200 artifacts belonging to Mongolia, ranging from clothing to bowls to musical instruments, all encased for your viewing pleasure. Ervin says many of these artifacts come from other empires and dynasties Khan conquered.
“His empire was twice the size of the Roman Empire, at its greatest extent,” he says. “So, he accumulated cultural artifacts from the people around him. [Khan] brought people from China and Europe sort of together along the Silk Road.”
2. It gives a well-rounded view of Khan.
Sure, Khan killed a lot of people (as Marc Maximov drolly pointed out in his 8 Days a Week writeup for the Indy), and this exhibit shows the armor, weaponry and tactics he used on the battlefield.
But Ervin says that’s not the whole story.
“I think this exhibit does a good job of showing Genghis Khan as the warrior that he was, because he was that,” says Ervin. “You don’t conquer most of the known world unless you’re a warrior—at least, in his day and age.
"The other side of it is that Genghis Khan was also a statesman. And he had a lot of really—I guess we would call them progressive ideas for his day. He created what would be very similar to a democracy. People rose in the ranks of the hierarchy of his military and of his government based on merit, not based on who they were related to.”
3. The place reeks of incense.
When you first walk in, you’ll find that the exhibit has a very exotic, alluring odor. That comes from a machine, located above a small recreation of the palace Khan's grandson Kublai called home, that blows the scent of incense all over the place. Ervin says that idea came from the exhibit organizers.
“I guess they just felt that it would put people in the mood of a Chinese palace,” he says. (It put me in the mood of an Erykah Badu concert when I took a whiff. But I’m sure your mood may be much different.)
4. This exhibit features a dead person’s bones!
Unfortunately, they're not Khan’s. No one knows where he’s buried. But someone did find the tomb of an unnamed Mongolian princess (they refer to her as “Princess Mummy,” but I like to call her “Karen”), and the bones of said princess are on display at the exhibit.
Says Ervin, “Based on the things that were found in the tomb with her, we can sort of extrapolate about how Genghis Khan may have lived or how he might have been buried.”
You might even find it—dare I say—fascinating. “What I think is the cool part of this exhibit is that people will learn that Genghis Khan wasn’t just this ruthless barbarian,” says Ervin.
“He had that other side of him that made a lot of progressive changes in his empire and the people that he conquered. So, his empire wouldn’t have lasted as long as it did if all he was was just going out and killing people.”
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65916 | Digital load cells with high-speed dynamic weighing capabilities make it possible to fill baby bottles with formula at a rate of 10,000/hr, about three per second.
The baby bottler is manufactured by Krones AG, Moline, Ill. It incorporates 16 load cells in a single carousel for weighing. Empty bottles move into the rotating carousel, fill, get check-weighed, and move out. Load cell transducers sample bottle weight during filling at a rate of 100 measurements/sec until the system detects the target weight.
One problem with this setup is vibration during filling. Either electronics must filter or adjust for the vibration, or vibrations must settle out before the weighing operation. Settling times are difficult to accommodate in the high-speed operations needed to hit production goals.
The weighing system is from HBM in Marlboro, Mass. FIT (Fast Intelligent Transducer) electronics let users download settings and adjustments to the weighing processes via an RS-485 serial bus. Up to 32 load cells connect to a single bus system, and all parameters store in EEPROM to guard against power failures.
The bottling machines use a type PW2/H3R4/10kg load cell, which can make up to 100 measurements/sec. Each load cell sits in a stainless steel housing, hermetically encapsulated to handle the harsh environment of food manufacturing plants. The load cells don't need a trigger signal to initiate a measurement. The devices themselves offer a 2 kg tare load, a 300 g to 2 kg life load, and a standard deviation of 0.5 to 0.7 g.
Krones uses a similar weighing system on a soybean oil operation. Each of these filling machines has 72 FIT load cells per carousel. The machine can fill as many as 38,000 bottles/hr. The machine runs for 22 hours daily and needs only two hours for cleaning. This particular operation took advantage of the software program supplied with the load cells. The program was used to analyze the behavior of the filling procedure over time, which helped engineers in optimizing the mechanical system. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65918 | [Numpy-discussion] ising model: f2py vs cython comparison
Pearu Peterson [email protected]...
Sun Dec 23 04:38:29 CST 2007
On Sun, December 23, 2007 3:29 am, Ondrej Certik wrote:
> Hi,
> http://hg.sharesource.org/isingmodel/
> comparing many things - wrappers, my fortran coding skills
Though the problem is 2D, your implementations are essentially
1D. If you would treat the array A as 2D array (and avoid calling
subroutine p) then you would gain some 7% speed up in Fortran.
When using -DF2PY_REPORT_ATEXIT for f2py then a summary
of timings will be printed out about how much time was spent
in Fortran code and how much in the interface. In the given case
I get (nsteps=50000):
Overall time spent in ...
(a) wrapped (Fortran/C) functions : 1962 msec
(b) f2py interface, 60 calls : 0 msec
(e) wrapped (Fortran/C) functions (acctual) : 1962 msec
that is, most of the time is spent in Fortran function and no time
in wrapper. The conclusion is that the cause of the
difference in timings is not in f2py or cpython generated
interfaces but in Fortran and C codes and/or compilers.
Some idiom used in Fortran code is just slower than in C..
For example, in C code you are doing calculations using
float precision but in Fortran you are forcing double precision.
PS: Here follows a setup.py file that I used to build the
extension modules instead of the Makefile:
#file: setup.py
from numpy.distutils.misc_util import Configuration
config = Configuration('',parent_package,top_path)
config.add_extension('mcising', sources=['mcising.f'],
define_macros = [('F2PY_REPORT_ATEXIT',1)]
#config.add_extension('pyising', sources=['pyising.pyx'])
return config
from numpy.distutils.core import setup
setup(configuration = configuration)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65931 | 25 Signs You're Not Ready to Graduate
What was the point of those student loans again? Oh, yes — a degree that will take you to the next chapter of life. You've successfully scraped by for the past four to five years, and that piece of paper is the golden ticket to Willy Wonka's functioning adulthood factory.
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Generalized type spaces
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Ordinary type spaces (Heifetz and Samet, 1998) are essential ingredients of incomplete information games. With ordinary type spaces one can grab the notions of beliefs, belief hierarchies and common prior etc. However, ordinary type spaces cannot handle the notions of finite belief hierarchy and unawareness among others.
In this paper we consider a generalization of ordinary type spaces, and introduce the so called generalized type spaces which can grab all notions ordinary type spaces can and more, finite belief hierarchies and unawareness among others. We also demonstrate that the universal generalized type space exists.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65960 | Submitted by TheLastWriter 708d ago | opinion piece
The Best Single Player Only Game Of The Generation?
OnlySP: We've heard some great things about upcoming multiplayer-less titles like Thief and Wolfenstein: The New Order, but let's take a look back at what some of the greatest games so far this generation have accomplished without the need for jumping on the "multiplayer for everything" bandwagon. (BioShock: Infinite, Dishonored, DmC: Devil May Cry, PS3, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Xbox 360)
Relientk77 + 708d ago
For the past year I'll say,
Dishonored and BioShock Infinite
Ezio2048 + 708d ago
Yes, both were good.
Personally, I would vote for God Of War 3.
UltraNova + 708d ago
humbleopinion + 708d ago
Exactly these two.
And Skyrim.
And Uncharted 2.
And Alan Wake.
And Red Dead Redemption.
And Arkham City.
Damn, this is hard.
vishant101 + 708d ago
Uncharted 2 doesn't count (not saying its not good :p) just it comes with mp, its for pure sp games i think
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humbleopinion + 708d ago
So does RDR. But that doesn't detract from the awesome single player campaign.
showtimefolks + 708d ago
Not every game needs MO but I am starting to debate that after playing last of us MP, ND really did something different and tried so,e fish and new so if developers have enough resources do something smart and out of the ordinary
Dishonored was single player only and so was bioshock infinite. But dishonored is liked because of the gameplay it had a weak story and bioshock infinite IMO is a very over rated game of this gen. And that's coming from someone who bought bioshock infinite at launch
But I guess to each their own
CRAIG667 + 708d ago
PSX04 + 708d ago
ray man origins
SolidGear3 + 708d ago
The Last of Us
Best game ever made and I've been gaming since 1991
drsfinest72 + 708d ago
Definitely not the best story. I could say best graphics or top 3 best graphics
Lovable + 708d ago
Dude Single Player ONLY without Multiplayer so The Last of US don't count.
Sizzon + 708d ago
It has competitive MP tho :p
SolidGear3 + 708d ago
I don't count the MP. I'd think it'd be under consideration to be in this category because alot of MP centric games feel like they have a tacked on SP. It's the opposite with this. I'd say BioShock, Heavy Rain and The Walking Dead are also at the top.
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Kran + 708d ago
"single. player. only"
Do you not understand what that means?
Lovable + 708d ago
I thought Rainbow Moon on the PSN for !5 dollars was damn good. I spend over 100 hours on that haha...
The Walking Dead Series. Truly amazing...
Sizzon + 708d ago
The original Bioshock or Portal 2 (yes online co-op) but no real MP.
inFamous and Uncharted: Drakes Fortune are noteworthy aswell.
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Kran + 708d ago
co-op = multiplayer
2 = multiple people thus multiplayer. NEXT.
duckmysick + 708d ago
Uh....nothing out is better than The Last of Us. BioShock infinite looks like trash compared to TLOU.
If all you have is an Xbox, it would be to you. But the rest of the world is playing TLOU. Get your heads out of your asses people and go get the game, and stop wasting time on debating dumb shit. If you don't have a ps3 with PS+ and TLOU, I don't know what the hell you could be playing! Its a shame people with extreme biases won't get to play, not only, the best game this year but the gen, its really sad.
SolidGear3 + 708d ago
True. The Last of Us is the best experience I've ever had.
GusBricker + 708d ago
Skyrim, Mass Effect 2
oIITSBIIo + 708d ago
Batman Arkham
The Witcher
Geezus + 708d ago
arkham city was one of my faves but maybe because im a batman nerd and shi-
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hulk_bash1987 + 708d ago
God of War 3 and Bioshock are standouts to me as some of the best Single-Player only games. TLOU stands out as the best story in a game I've played in a long time though.
McScroggz + 708d ago
Why the stipulation of single player only? Why not just say single player campaign?
theEx1Le + 708d ago
Heavy Rain for me. Plotholes everywhere but i was so gripped from start to finish. Original Bioshock, InFamous were excellent too and the first Mass Effect also deserves a mention.
iRocket + 708d ago
This is a really hard question. For me personally I would say Mass Effect 1/2, Half-Life 2 or the Walking Dead.
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GrumpyOla + 708d ago
Demon's and Dark Souls for me. There is multiplayer in them but they can be played without online connections.
MaleManSam + 708d ago
Geez hard to pick,
batman arkham city
Bioshock (original)
Mass effect 2
last of us
Skyrim (with mods)
Heavy rain
The witcher 2
And of course the Walking dead.
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despair + 708d ago
100% agree with all of these.
captain_slow82 + 708d ago
yeah so many to choose from off the top of my head
last of us
heavy rain
the walking dead
batman arkham
half life 2
alan wake
just to name a few...
Commodore + 708d ago
Demon's Souls was great but I loved playing online which takes it out.
Portal 2 (just ignore the multiplayer because it wasn't really multiplayer). It was still primarily single player.
The original Uncharted is still my favorite from the series. The story was good, a little sic-fi, but not as sic-fi as two and three. I can't even really remember the story towards the end from 3. The landscape, location, colors, gameplay.
Heavy Rain
God of War 3
bocajbee + 708d ago
The Last Of Us.
Wait. That had multiplier.
Stoppokingme + 708d ago
Deus Ex human revolution deserves a mention. I hope we get another Deus Ex game next gen.
despair + 708d ago
That's a hard one to decide, so many great SP games.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/65962 | Submitted by HolyOrangeCows 1658d ago | news
IGN: "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, and Prince of Persia: Warrior Within will be available for download on PSN this coming holiday.
CEO Yves Guillemot also confirmed on the publisher's earnings call this morning it will release HD remakes of the first three Splinter Cell titles, but did not provide further details" (Prince of Persia HD Trilogy, PS3, Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell Trilogy, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow)
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HolyOrangeCows + 1658d ago
Oh Splinter Cell....return and remind this generation what stealth really is.
MariaHelFutura + 1658d ago
Your gonna get bombarded by MGS fans. For good reason, I might add.
BTW, Yes I would enjoy a HD remake of the 1st and Chaos Theory.
seinfan + 1658d ago
Is this only for PS3? I prefer the 360 controller, but I wouldn't mind getting HD remakes of those 3 games for the PS3 if that was my only option.
JAMurida + 1658d ago
"Yes I would enjoy a HD remake of the ***1st and Chaos Theory.***"
Those two were the best in the series. Even to this day I still can't decide which one was better between them. If I had to call though, Chaos Theory, though the first Splinter Cell had a really good story to it.
Man... If they add trophy support on top of that..... I'll be all over it.
imvix + 1658d ago
Question will any of these remakes work on the next console? or will people need to buy them all over again.
OhReginald + 1658d ago
umm splinter cell did return with splinter cell conviction...but is didn't remind us so much of how the game is stealthy...
HolyOrangeCows + 1658d ago
I mean the spirit of Splinter Cell needs to return.
theIMP + 1658d ago
Guess ya'll forgot Double Agent.
showtimefolks + 1658d ago
i guess time to import these games
if usa users willm only get them on psn much rather have disks
playasia.com is a good site by ebay will be cheaper
showtimefolks + 1656d ago
i don't think we have to worry about next-gen 2.0 for another 4-6 years
so enjoy these while you can
AKissFromDaddy + 1658d ago
I love this
gaden_malak + 1658d ago
Wow the remakes are flooding in now.
George Sears + 1658d ago
Quick easy buck.
Zachmo182 + 1658d ago
Now we just need the freaking GTA HD remakes.
nycredude + 1658d ago
I like to look at it as fan service and a steal for me! Mostly a difference in perspective. Glass half full mentality.
CobraKai + 1658d ago
Wait, it's only on blu-ray in Europe? Aww man!!!
AKissFromDaddy + 1658d ago
playasia(dot)com for imports :-)
CobraKai + 1658d ago
cool. thanks I may just do that.
Bathyj + 1658d ago
Download only or will there be a retail copy.
I prefer to own the disc, plus alot of my downloads dont seem to work.
Anyone else have the corrupt data error on PSN?
showtimefolks + 1658d ago
SC will be on disk wile pop won't be for us region
but either way ps3 is region free so just import i am also like you much rather have disks than downlaod version
playasia(dot)com for imports(CobraKai site provided by that user)
Neo Nugget + 1658d ago
Pandora Tomorrow FTW!
Possibly the return of spies vs mercs? If so.....OHOHOHOBABY!
Quagmire + 1658d ago
I wouldnt know since I havent played, but from a friend who's crazy about SC, isnt pandora tomorrow the worst?
Balt + 1658d ago
I hope it's DL only. I wish every game 10gb and under was made for DL honestly. With this news I wonder if Sony fans will come back to finally tout their dominance in better version over the xbox counterpart? Remember all them years back when Splinter cell was 1st announced and there was no PS2 version in sight? Remember the xbox owners touting it? Remember when the PS2 version was announced and then remember how it looked? Now, the time has come. Sony finally gets the better looking versions. I just wonder if it'll just be a PC port or actually take advantage of the PS3's hardware.
wenaldy + 1658d ago
Chaos Theory > Conviction
alster23 + 1658d ago
yay. i played sc convictoin and thought it was awesome now i wanna play the older games i hear they are awesome. maybe they will slip a teaser for the next splinter cell
ZombieAssassin + 1658d ago
Didn't they just put up the first PoP game on the store? Good prices too only $15 definitely gonna buy it this weekend.
bofuknjanglez + 1658d ago
yep im lookn @ it right now just not sure to dl or not :|
DarkBlood + 1658d ago
k well
that sucks looks like the EU pop blu-ray disk might be my first import and splinter cell too maybe if they dont realise it on disc in canada
also question to the experinced importers
will the game work with my u.s account or do i have to create a EU account for the first time to play this
Dark_king + 1658d ago
Your account doesn't matter at all,unless the game has DLC it doesn't.Though if it did all you need to know is while all current games are region free the DLC must be from the region listed on the side of the game.Your actually account has nothing to do with region data.
DarkBlood + 1658d ago
maniac76 + 1658d ago
alot of gaming for ur buck with these upscales,its great.
a tomb raider will be an aw3some pack aswell
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GoldPS3 + 1658d ago
This is great. The more HD remakes the better. Other companies will see the easy profit in this and start doing the same. Hopefully MGS 1-3 will come next year.
DigitalRaptor + 1658d ago
MGS Collection would absolutely dominate on PS3. Just take a look at how well MGS4 sold and that is an indication of the success Konami would have. I'm sure Sony and Kojima already knows this and some team is probably working on it.
I predict it will be released in anticipation of Metal Gear Solid: Rising in late 2011/early 2012. Or perhaps even earlier.
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A Top 100 name in the 1920s, as reflected in early film stars Wallace Beery and Wallace Reid, Wallace hung on in the Top 1000 until the early 1990s. A notable modern namesake is poet Wallace Stevens.
Wallace stems from the names first given to the native British people as distinct from the Anglo-Saxons, later applied to the people living in Wales. Wallace is the Scottish form, popularized in the last century in honor of the medieval hero of the Scottish War of Independence. William Wallace--leading character in the film Braveheart.
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Move over, free software. Step aside, today's open-source licenses.
Software distributed under an "enhanced source" license released this week will be legally prohibited from censoring or spying on users.
Crafted by Hacktivismo, a hacking group organized by the Cult of the Dead Cow, the Hacktivismo enhanced-source software license agreement says that anyone using code released under it must respect privacy, free expression, due process and other human rights.
HESSLA comes as concern is growing over governments using technology such as blocking software to restrict what their citizens can do or say online. In September, House Republicans released a report titled "Tear Down This Firewall," and this week, Amnesty International published a report highlighting China's crackdown on Internet use.
"The Hacktivismo enhanced-source software license agreement marks the first time technology transfer has been linked to protecting human rights," said Oxblood Ruffin, founder of Hacktivismo. "Our clients and end-users aren't building the firewalls to keep democracy out. They're locked inside trying to break free."
In July, Ruffin published a manifesto that referenced the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights and said Internet censorship is "a serious form of organized and systematic violence against citizens, is intended to generate confusion and xenophobia and is a reprehensible violation of trust." Hacktivismo's license says that any government that violates human rights is prohibited from using software released under it.
The "enhanced source" license intentionally tracks much of the language of the well-known General Public License and borrows most of the GPL's concepts, such as the one that says anyone incorporating code released under the license in their program must also make the source code of their program available. In fact, Hacktivismo recommends that programmers release their code under both licenses.
One problem Hacktivismo might encounter is that the current license is so broad it discourages developers from using it. For instance, it bans governments, individuals and corporations from any "monitoring of individuals," which might apply to popular network monitoring utilities, and bans "filtering" of any expression, which could cover routine utilities such as spam-filtering programs.
Another section of the license requires that the creator of any program that uses cryptography for authentication or confidentiality must ensure that the algorithms meet minimum security thresholds. And if any disputes arise involving another nation, the license says, foreign governments relinquish their right of sovereign immunity and agree to be sued in federal court in the United States.
The license enables both Hacktivismo and its end-users to go to court if someone tries to use the software in a malicious manner, or to introduce harmful changes into the software. It also contains more robust language than has previously been used to maximize enforcement against governments around the world. The HESSLA explicitly prohibits anybody from introducing "spyware, surveillance technology, or other undesirable code into modified versions of HESSLA-licensed programs." Additionally, the license prohibits any use of the software by any government that has any policy or practice of violating human rights.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66007 | Axes Resize to Accommodate Titles and Labels
Axes Layout
Axes properties control the layout of titles and axis labels within the figure. You can control which dimensions axes can change to accommodate the titles and labels by setting the appropriate properties.
Properties Controlling Axes Size
When you create a graph, MATLAB® creates an axes to display the graph. The axes is sized to fit in the figure and automatically resizes as you resize the figure. MATLAB applies the automatic resize behavior only when the axes Units property is set to normalized (the default).
You can control the resize behavior of the axes using the following axes properties:
• OuterPosition — Defines the boundary of the axes including the axis labels, title, and a margin. For figures with only one axes, OuterPosition encompasses the interior of the figure.
• Position — The boundary of the axes, excluding the tick marks and labels, title, and axis labels.
• ActivePositionProperty — Specifies whether to use the OuterPosition or the Position property as the size to preserve when resizing the figure containing the axes.
• TightInset — The margins MATLAB adds to the width and height of the Position property to include text labels, title, and axis labels. This property is read only.
• Units — Keep this property set to 'normalized' to enable automatic axes resizing.
Note: MATLAB changes only the current axes' properties by default. If your plot has multiple axes, MATLAB does not automatically resize any secondary axes.
The following graph shows the areas defined by the OuterPosition, the Position expanded by TightInset , and the Position properties.
When you add axis labels and a title, the TightInset changes to accommodate the additional text.
The size of the rectangle defined by the TightInset and Position properties includes all graph text. The Position and OuterPosition properties remain unchanged.
Using OuterPosition as the ActivePositionProperty
As you resize the figure, MATLAB maintains the area defined by the TightInset and Position so that the text is not cut off. Compare the next two graphs, which have both been resized to the same figure size.
ActivePositionProperty = OuterPosition
ActivePositionProperty = Position
The following figure shows how the default property values apply to 3-D graphs.
Axes Resizing in Subplots
When there are multiple axes in a figure use the ActivePositionProperty to prevent titles and labels from being overwritten .
The following figure illustrates how MATLAB resizes the axes to accommodate the multiline titles on the lower two axes when the ActivePositionProperty is 'position'.
Setting the ActivePositionProperty property to 'outerposition' reduces the height of the two upper axes to provide better spacing of the subplots.
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I've read Steve McConnell's "Code Complete" and one of items in checklist for requirements is: "Is the definition of success included? Of failure?".
Why is this important? Can you write any examples of those definitions? Can anybody provide examples of good requirements specification?
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Why it's important? Can you write any examples of those definitions?
When you specify a requirement, it's important that it meets certain qualities, such as cohesiveness (only address a single thing), complete (does not lack any information needed to fulfill the desired outcome), traceable (it is documented and can be tracked through design, implementation, and maintenance in both directions), up-to-date, feasible (it can actually be implemented), unambiguous (multiple people reading it will have the same idea of the desired outcome), and verifiable (it can be tested and easily seen whether the requirement is complete).
Defining success or failure criteria for a requirement allows it to be complete, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable. How can you know if the requirement can be met now or in the future? How can you know when you have implemented the feature or aspect of the system? How can you point to specific modules at any level that implement the requirement, either in a representation of the design or the implementation?
This is somewhat related to the concept of "definition of done" in the agile community, as well.
Can anybody provide examples of good requirements specification?
You can find a lot of information about requirements, including examples, in Karl Wiegers' Software Requirements and More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice. In addition, Wiegers' site Process Impact provides a number of goodies, such as sample documents and templates.
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Thanks for links, it's very helpful! I think i had misunderstood McConnell. I thought it should be separate item in requirements, like "success is ...", but as i see now, it's kind of quality of each requirement. – AlexLocust Oct 26 '11 at 19:33
@AlexLocust That's correct, however it doesn't necessarily need to be stated like that. Saying "The system shall have a downtime of no more than 4 hours per year" is correct as well - success is building a system with reliability and maintainability characteristics such that it can remain up for all but 4 hours of the year. – Thomas Owens Oct 26 '11 at 20:10
"Complete" implies "does not need a couple more hours/days/weeks/months fussing about it until it's perfect". It's hard to know when to move on to the next thing in the pile if you never know when you're done - which requires knowing exactly what "done" is. (And moving to the next thing is a good thing because that's how you end up delivering what you promised).
It is actually very hard to describe exactly what's needed for something to be "complete" - but having a list of success (if it doesn't do that it isn't complete) and failure (if it does that it fails) is a good way to get there.
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+1 Exactly. Its all about being able to show that it does what it is supposed to do and does not do the things it is not supposed to do. It sets criteria for evaluation of that. – Chad Oct 26 '11 at 18:29
A good requirement is something that is by its very nature Testable. The requirement itself defines its own metric of success or failure, was the requirement met or not?
There may be 1...n test cases for a single requirement but if the requirement is ambiguous, subjective, or conjunctive (combining multiple requirements using conjunctions) then it is no longer Testable.
Success or Failure are attributes one would apply to a Test Case for a requirement not the requirement itself.
The System shall display an error alert to the user if the credential job queue contains 80% or more un-audited documents.
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This is a good point and ideally testing demonstrates the qualities outlined in @Thomas_Owens' answer -- "Code's not done 'till all the tests run!" – Michael Oct 27 '11 at 13:21
We just started using scrum, so this idea of having a definition of done is new to us, but has been very useful. For just one example, we had a user story to get a build compilable. It seems apparent what that means, but having a definition spelled out really helped us. One part of that definition was to have another developer check it out from source control and verify it compiled without errors or warnings from a clean build. That caught a problem where I forgot to add some files in source control, so it built on my machine but not others.
Other things that came up were what should be included in the build for it to be called "done." Can we temporarily leave out modules with a lot of compile errors that are time consuming to reconcile? That led to a discussion about what we really need it for at this point in our development cycle. Without that discussion, we might either wait too long for a "perfect" build, or erroneously call a build done that is completely unusable by the rest of the team.
In other words, a definition of success makes sure we all know what to expect and what not to expect when we are finished. If it makes a difference in something as simple as compiling a build at the start of a project, it will make that much more of a difference on requirements the customer really cares about.
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I am a programmer that can code. But I find that I can get thing done, but not get thing do well or like most of the open source communities do. Well, I use some of the library from git hub. I find most of the programme is well structure. Also, a read me.
My question are:
1. Is that any common file structure or naming convention in the community or this is just a matter of personal taste?
2. How to become a more organized programmer, instead of writing code just work. But more organized that let other easy to get in your project?
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I don't think there's a magic answer, but one way to approach it is to look at what makes it easy for you to 'get in' a well organized open source project that you use, and repeat those things in your own project. One little piece at a time. – Philip Nov 24 '11 at 15:23
As with a lot of things in programming, by far the most important is to be consistent – Tom Squires Nov 24 '11 at 15:24
@TomSquires: I'll have to disagree. By far the most important thing is to always improve yourself and the code + documentation. Consistency for the sake of consistency serves to make software harder to maintain over time. – l0b0 Nov 24 '11 at 15:40
not only is there not a magic answer, there are a million different ways of programming, structuring projects etc, and lots of people with opinions, good or bad, about all of them. There are lots of little things you can do, lots of bigger things too, but no magic bullet – jmo21 Dec 13 '12 at 12:49
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Development project structure has been discussed lots of times on Stack* (1, 2), just take your pick relevant to your situation.
To get more organized, I've tried many different methods and tools for organizing code and the surrounding information:
• Bug trackers like GitHub/Bugzilla/TODO text files
• Wikis like GTD TiddlyWiki/GitHub
• Build tools like make/Maven/rake
• Project management tools like JIRA and Redmine
• Editors like jEdit and vim
• Merge tools like Meld and kdiff3
• Version control systems like Subversion and Git (actually scratch that, just use Git and save yourself a lot of grief)
Once you've tried several of each, you might find that some fit your way of thinking better than others. But remember that there is always a better tool which you don't know about, and tools are always catching up with each other. Therefore you should always be ready to try something else, even something you've already tried and dismissed, on the basis that anything you learn can and will be used by you for the greater good.
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gtdtw link down? – ell Dec 13 '12 at 16:29
Refactor your code till you are happy with it.
Over time you will need to refactor less and less, and eventually you will be doing it right the first time around*.
Learn by doing.
*Mostly right :)
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+1. Code is 'right' when any repetition has squeezed out and the tests are passing. The structure may change to pass subsequent tests. I try hard not to introduce complexity in anticipation of unwritten tests. – kevin cline Nov 24 '11 at 16:44
Git and SourceForge. These are the two items that I use when writing a large, unorganized program. For details Google the two, as I cannot link right now for some odd reason. Sorry about that, hope this helps.
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Get feedback on your coding style from someone with more skill and experience.
The way I did it was I got a job where I and a senior programmer cooperated on projects, and he reviewed all the code I checked in. Once in a while he wrote me an email with everything that annoyed or puzzled him about my code. It took a while for me to find a style that both I and he were reasonably comfortable with, and we had some heated debates about some things, but all in all I learned a lot and we parted as friends.
Read books/articles about design patterns, apply different patterns to your problems and see which ones you think are useful in which situations.
Read books/articles about naming conventions and formatting styles. Different communities use different styles. It is generally a good idea to use a style that the people most likely to read your code will recognize.
Some concrete advice on structuring code:
• When you see that some part of your code can be made simpler, do it.
• When you see that some part of your code can be reused, make it a function and reuse it.
• Don't be afraid to change the names of variables and functions if they are bad.
• When you have an idea for something (a struct, function, class, pattern, anything) that can make your life easier, create it and use it.
• Change your mind often. Each time you do, you learn something.
Taking the time to do this will of course slow you down in the beginning. As your code gradually gets more and more elegant, it will get easier to maintain and you will reap the benefits of your work.
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Global stuff - Nils Buerckel
After a pretty late night at the "Design Thinking" event after a full conference day, and then sitting around for a while with the SCN crew, and others, I was not moving rapidly this morning. The weather seemed warmer in the morning than the last couple days, so by the time I got to the first session I had planned to attend, I was thankful for the air conditioning. Though I only made it to the first session for the last few slides, I have known the speaker (Nils Buerckel) for many years through my Unicode project experience. In fact, I had referred a question to him the day before. We chatted after his session, and in to the hallway. If you have a globalization question, his team is the one to answer it. I'd list their email address, but it may be against the SCN rules.
SCNotties (continued)
Done with that, I wandered back to the SCN demo pod, presented Shiv with his SCNotties award, and was able to drop off the remaining 3 awards that need to be given to others in India. We chatted about the movie triva clues in the SCNotties awards Hindi categories. His is The Sunil Shetty Award.
With the variety of cultural references dropped before, during and after the Bangalore/Bollywood SCNotties awards, I am going to be adding a bunch more flicks to my Netflix queue (if I can find them!)
Hands On Session
My second hands on session was on Solution Manager 7.1, and seemed to be focused on the new landscape management database. For those with little background in the subject, it's necessary to store configuration of system definitions somewhere. It's not exactly a configuration management database (CMDB) as that would imply more structure and organization than I'm seeing with this.
As in the prior hands-on session, there was way too much chatter, and way too little time to get through the exercises. And there was not enough help given the number of students and workstations, so once an example failed to work (or we just didn't understand the directions), the rest of the class went on at ever-increasing speed.
I don't deal with the SLD (system landscape database) much, but now there's a landscape management database (LMDB) to go alongside it. The theory, I guess, is that this is an improvement for reliability, scalability, redundancy, or something, though that wasn't explained well. It also seems that this would replace SLD, but probably won't until every system in any landscape is compatible with it. And if one inherits a "legacy" system after being freed from the double maintenance that seems required, you'd probably need to go back to the old way.
Inside the SAP Mentor / Studio
Marilyn Pratt, myself and Pratik Talwar were interviewed by Aslann Noghre Kar in the afternoon, live on SAP TV. Though Aslann is a very laid back guy, the lights and the cameras, as well as the buzz of the crowd on every side can make this kind of chat more unsettling than a single camera or microphone would be. Thankfully no one asked me to put on make up, and the hair check involved a glance in the iPad front view camera.
The local tech crew was fascinated by the iPad, in fact, and when I thought back, I recalled seeing very few in use other than from non-local travelers like myself. Mobile phones with SMS seem to be the common denominator here, at least in the sample of session attendees that I observed. I was asked if I carried a laptop when I went into two out of all the rooms I entered (I waved it off).
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I have a SQL Server 2008 (ver 10.0.1600) running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise server with 8 GB of physical ram. If I open Task Manager I can see on 'Physical Memory' section of 'Performance' tab that only 340 MB are Available of 8191 Total, but I can't see any process using such amount of memory. Please note SQL Server is memory limited to 6GB (Maximum Server Memory = 6000).
If I open Sysinternals Process Explorer, I can see sqlsrvr.exe process has:
Private Bytes: 227.000 K
Working Set: 140.000 K
Virtual Size: 8.762.000 K
What does this means? Is there any way to free up this memory for other process? Why Virtual Size figure as allocated memory? I thought that Virtual Size was 'reserved memory' only.
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This is normal. SQL server will always use all available memory, and scale back when the system needs more resources.
THIS article describes what is going on.
By default, SQL Server dynamically grows and shrinks the size of its buffer pool (cache) depending on the physical memory load reported by the operating system. As long as enough memory is available to prevent paging (between 4 - 10 MB), the SQL Server buffer pool will continue to grow. As other processes on the same computer as SQL Server allocate memory, the SQL Server buffer manager will release memory as needed. SQL Server can free and acquire several megabytes of memory each second, allowing it to quickly adjust to memory allocation changes.
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Because of the way SQL Server allocates memory (particularly with AWE enabled), Task Manager and Process Explorer will not give you an accurate indication of how much RAM it's actually using. To get the proper figures, you have to ask SQL Server directly. The easy way to do that is run perfmon, and add the counter SQLServer:Memory Manager/Total Server Memory. That counter will report the total memory usage in KB.
Now, if SQL Server is using the full 6000 MB that it's limited to, then that's perfectly normal (and desirable) behavior. If it's using substantially more than that, then there might be a problem.
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Total Server Memory shows 6 GB so this is correct as Maximum Server Memory is 6 GB. So why Virtual Size is 8.762.000 K? Can't understand this point. – Danilo Brambilla Feb 23 '11 at 16:40
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I am looking for recommendations for hardware specs for a server that needs to be a web cache for a user population of about 2,000 concurrent connections. The clients are viewing segmented HTTP video in bitrates ranging from 150kbps to 2mbps. Most video is "live" meaning segments of 2-10 secs each, of which 100 or so are maintained at a time. There are also some pre-recorded fixed length videos. How would I go about doing the provisioning calculation for such a server: What kind of HDD (SSD?), how many NICs how much RAM etc? I am thinking of using Varnish on Linux, all the RAM I can get my hands on, 2 CPUs with 6-8 cores each.
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Will Varnish be able to share objects across sessions? In other words, is your architecture such that the object being loaded by the video stream client is /somestream/1h42m0s-1h42m10s/, as opposed to /somestream/for/joeuser? In that case, based on what you're describing, I'd skip the SSDs and just go for a ton of RAM; Varnish doesn't really need disk storage for anything when configured with a malloc pool. Remember to turn down swappiness. If, on the other hand, Varnish is just passing every request along to the backend, then at best all you're getting out of it is some SYN flood protection.
I've seen Varnish happily push multiple gigabits out the door, but make sure everything above Varnish knows how to handle that kind of traffic, too. Some firewalls (names redacted to protect the guilty) can barely handle 100 Mbit/s, let alone the kind of traffic (4Gbit/s) you're talking about if every one of those connections is saturating its link at 2Mbit/s. For a NIC, even an onboard 10Gbit port will probably do you just fine; if you need to, you can also do silly channel-bonding stuff with GigE, but why bother? Just get a 10G port (or three) and call it a day.
For the server itself, you don't need very much CPU at all, but max out the RAM. Stick a couple fast disks in there if you'd like, but the only reason they're there is for bootup. Varnish is a very, very slim server. You could go for multi-level caching and try to offload videos onto the HDD once they rotate out of RAM, but why? They're already cached to disk on your content servers; it's not like the disks on the Varnish server are somehow magically better. Spend that money on yet more RAM. Seriously, you shouldn't bat an eye at 64 or 96 GB given the kinds of bandwidth you're talking about.
In unrelated advice, if you're using disk at any point on those streaming servers, you should absolutely go for SSDs (or even more exotic options like FusionIO). For streaming applications where you're jumping all over the disk as people are streaming different parts of the same file, SSDs are not just a little better; they are, effectively, your only rational choice.
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BMDan, Thanks for the sage words. My objects will be shared across sessions. Some of the content is going to be "live" segmented video where the segments will be periodically (every minute or so) updated. Even in this case, a live video feed will push segments onto the varnish node which will then serve it to the masses. – Raj Jul 2 '11 at 16:51
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I need a simple tool under Windows which can catch some http request, make it possible to modify request headers (manually) and send it again
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...For what purpose? (there are plenty of legit reasons to want to do this. There are also plenty of malicious reasons...) – voretaq7 Sep 19 '11 at 17:16
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Fiddler http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/version.asp
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tcpdump, wget, unix utils for windows (hosted on sf.net)
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How to find total CPU utilization of a server using SNMP ? I am trying to find the CPU utilization % of one server having 64 CPU's ?
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Which OS? Does it use a standard SNMP library, or one of their own? – Mark Henderson Sep 27 '11 at 11:22
Solatis 10. Yes, its having SNMP. – Rubi Naaz Sep 27 '11 at 12:33
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I'm going to guess you're using Linux, but because you don't specify, I can't guarantee that these will be OK (although they apply to most major Unix distribution as well)
The OID's you're looking for are (taken from here):
• 1 minute Load: .
• 5 minute Load: .
• 15 minute Load: .
• percentage of user CPU time: .
• raw user cpu time: .
• percentages of system CPU time: .
• raw system cpu time: .
• percentages of idle CPU time: .
• raw idle cpu time: .
• raw nice cpu time: .
Memory Statistics
• Total Swap Size: .
• Available Swap Space: .
• Total RAM in machine: .
• Total RAM used: .
• Total RAM Free: .
• Total RAM Shared: .
• Total RAM Buffered: .
• Total Cached Memory: .
I can't remember off the top of my head, but I think the percentage of CPU time is 100*processors, so in your case, 100% is actually 6,400%
You can find all sorts of interesting things to monitor via SNMP here.
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Thanks Mark for the detailed explanation. Can you please tell me the necessary parameters from the above list which provides the total CPU usage at a given time ? – Rubi Naaz Sep 27 '11 at 12:41
You can only get "live" CPU usage from SNMP, so if you want to go back in time, you will need an NMS that polls the SNMP at regular intervals and stores the results. Nagios and Zabbix are the two most common I think for this, but might be overkill if all you're after is a simple CPU history. Otherwise, if you just want to get CPU usage now, then you need to use snmpget if you're using the net-snmp tools (otherwise you'll need to look up the syntax of whatever SNMP agent you're using) – Mark Henderson Sep 27 '11 at 20:47
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I just bought my first laptop. It runs Vista, and I need a software firewall to protect both its Ethernet and wifi connections.
I use the free Comodo Personal Firewall on my desktop, but I read that wifi protection requires upgrading to the commercial version.
Before I shell out the money, I'd like to know 1. what the recommended firewalls are for Vista 2. among those, are there free/open-source options?
Thank you.
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closed as off topic by Magellan, Hauke Laging, voretaq7 Jun 7 '13 at 2:26
What do you need that the built-in firewall doesn't do? – Sven Jul 2 '09 at 9:37
What are you using for antivirus? I'd be more concerned about that and just use the built-in firewall. – Russ Warren Jul 2 '09 at 13:14
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Windows Firewall and Windows Defender (wich is builtin) is fine.
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Just use the firewall Microsoft is shipping. Windows firewall is really ok.
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Everyone put your Ipods down and listin up! – Shard Jul 2 '09 at 10:17
So, you mean it does more than the crappy Windows XP one? That's good news! – Tim Büthe Jul 2 '09 at 19:50
Until Windows included its own built in I used to use Zonealarm, which handles both incoming and outgoing connections. And its free as well.
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Do you have any specific requirements. Using the baked-in vista one has the advantage of letting windows installer open ports when a vista aware application requires them.
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If you want fine-grained control you could use ipsec? start->run->secpol.msc, then go to the bottom one in the list (IP Security Policies). I've managed to lock myself out of remote machines regularly with that one, so I guess that should suffice? ;-)
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[The following are some very preliminary notes for a longish essay on gender
identity in Shakespeare.]
The centrality of women in Shakespeare's work, and in particular of the
question that appears as the title of Mary Beth Rose's influential essay,
"Where Are the Mothers in Shakespeare?"1, has become a commonplace of recent
studies of Shakespeare. On the other hand, as a participant in a recent SAA
seminar put it, given the relative scarcity of mothers in the plays, perhaps
one ought to focus attention on the fathers in Shakespeare.2 Immediately,
however, one runs into profound ambiguity. Consider, for instance, Lear's
words as he begins to understand just how thoroughly he has lost status and
O how this mother swells up towards my
Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing
Thy element's below. (2.4.56-58)3
The Riverside edition glosses "mother" as hysteria, but then "hysteria" is the
womb itself.4 Perhaps one should understand the term figuratively, as meaning
that Lear begins to feel the "errant womb" that signals his impending madness.
And yet my inclination is to take the passage literally: Lear really does feel
the female organ inside himself, displaced from its properly submerged position
and rising to strangulate him. To Rose's question, then, I answer as Juliet
does when the Nurse, coming from her conference with Romeo, irrelevantly asks
where Lady Capulet is:
Where is my mother! why, she is within,
Where should she be? (2.4.58-59).
I first came across a literal reading of Juliet's remark in an avowedly
psychoanalytic context, an essay by Elenore and Robert Fliess.5 Recent work,
however, has allowed me to reconceive the psychological perspective of the
Fliesses in a more material and historical mode. Thomas Laqueur's Making Sex
has demonstrated in detail the physiological and medical ideas that underlie
Renaissance assumptions about female and male genitalia.
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Comment: Re:Saudi Arabia, etc. (Score 1) 653
You need to read more foreign press. In Mexico is usual to call my metropolitan area, Guadalajara, as the "Mexican Silicon Valley" for all the IT and comms related companies that settled here. We used to have delivered to our Sun shop every year the "Silicon Valley xxxx year" calendar, so clearly, at least for publicity purposes, the term "Silicon Valley" was a metonym for the IT industry. In fact, your post and the one from the great grandparent are the first ones I have seen nitpicking about the term in 22 years.
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by Kyusaku Natsume (#48596207) Attached to: Seagate Bulks Up With New 8 Terabyte 'Archive' Hard Drive
I was bitten by that damn thing. I have a shoebox full of hard drives. Aside one drive of 250 Gb from Western Digital that become damaged in several sectors after 7 years the only drives I have that are really, really dead are the ones from Seagate, full spectrum from 750 Gb to 3 Tb.
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by Kyusaku Natsume (#47971509) Attached to: US Revamping Its Nuclear Arsenal
People should walk at least once in their lifetime the radius of destruction in Hiroshima up to the Atomic dome to get a real sense of the level of destruction that a small nuclear bomb can do. I sort of did it last summer, from Hiroshima Castle and halfway the path to the Atomic dome I was crying, the carnage that could come in a modern city even with that old small weapon is mindblowing, what kind of barely sane person would do that now?
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by Kyusaku Natsume (#46497211) Attached to: Religion Is Good For Your Brain
Is the social interaction enabled by religion:
So where does that leave non-believers?
“Out of luck, I guess,” Koenig joked.
“Actually, I would suspect that people doing the types of things like religious people do -- socializing, doing similarly complex cognitive tasks, would have similar benefits. But it is interesting that religion provides that whole package of things that people can adopt and pursue over time.”
It would be really interesting to make an additional study to compare that against a group of people that are not religious but that have a simmilar level of social interaction.
Comment: Re:4K makes sense for monitors (Score 1) 271
by Kyusaku Natsume (#45558273) Attached to: Why You Shouldn't Buy a UHD 4K TV This Year
I was in Kyoto last year in the Gion Matsuri event that is used by Sony to showcase their 4K tv sets so I can compare the real life event versus the recordings. The accuracy of colors and the resolution are really impressive, and nothing like I or pretty much anybody else have seen before. I think that for the first time the resolution and color space of a recording can give a real sensation of "being there" instead of only seing a moving picture, even without any 3D efects.
Comment: The problem are the politicians (Score 1) 634
by Kyusaku Natsume (#45162235) Attached to: British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care
Is absurd to expect any other result when people elects politicians that think that the State is a problem, an obstacle to society -instead of a tool to provide and protect the general welfare- that should be destroyed and then find that under their government the State's institutions start to fail. Is no wonder than after a long spell under conservative governments, Tory and New Labor, the welfare institutions are in shambles but well, the Great UK have it's army in action around half dozen countries around the world and boomers ready to strike the Soviet Union, and a great funeral for the Iron Lady, that's a better investment of taxpayer's money than wasting it in health care.
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Tandoori Haggis writes: "Everyone who lives in Britain should have their DNA stored on a national database,", according to a "top judge" in the UK, Would this make UK citizens safer? Is DNA really really going to be the 100% certain solution or will it tend to cause more problems for the citizen, e.g., identity theft, mistaken identity?
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Wheat is crap and not fit for consumption by man or beast. Think I'm kidding? I'm not! The only reason it got into the food supply was that it was practical for consumption for troops. You know, the people who probably won't live too long anyway. Not planning on dying soon? Don't eat wheat!!!
Comment: Re:being your own boss (Score 1) 426
by randyleepublic (#43427373) Attached to: "Micro-Gig" Sites Undermining Workers Rights?
>> Don't get me wrong, I enjoy being charitable with both time and money. I prefer to have that 'choice' and not have the govt force me to do so. This opinion is remarkably ill-considered. The result of a universal application of this is that only those who are to some degree empathetic ever contribute to the common good. Thus we reward the sociopath. Duh!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66109 | Topic: Islam/Islamophobia
• Pamela Geller's war on Muslims
The right-wing Islamophobes are trying to exploit the shootings at an anti-Muslim event to advance their reactionary agenda.
• Solidarity is not co-optation
#MuslimLivesMatter isn't an appropriation that diminishes the Black struggle, but an embrace of a wider fight against racism.
• The toxic hate behind the Chapel Hill murders
The killing of three Muslim college students was written off as a "parking dispute"--but the sickening role of Islamophobia is plain to see.
• Rewinding The Battle of Algiers
The only way forward is to challenge Islamophobia by fighting for the realization of the Arab Spring revolutions.
• Free speech and the state
History tells us that if the government can determine what speech is "legitimate," all progressive political forces will suffer.
• Who do we trust with our rights?
We can oppose the killings at Charlie Hebdo without endorsing racism--nor ignoring government threats to free expression.
• The hypocrisy of pencils
• No tolerance for Islamophobia
• The fearleaders for war
The rise of ISIS has been the excuse for politicians and the media to spew Islamphobia--as part of a campaign to win support for more war.
• The "war on terror" on repeat
If the threat of al-Qaeda served to animate the "war on terror" in 2001, today, the Islamic State is the justification for war.
• Justice denied for Ayyub Abdul-Alim
A western Massachusetts man has been convicted in a farcical trial his defense says was government payback.
• Trampling the rights of Muslims
Law enforcement agencies should not be allowed to be judge, jury and executioner.
• Holding the cyber-racists accountable
Safe behind cyber-walls that protect their identity, some people feel free to spew bile, knowing they won't be held responsible.
• Profiting off of Islamophobia
Building on the intersection of racism and capital in the U.S. anti-Muslim hysteria has become a lucrative business for some.
• Justice for Ayyub Abdul-Alim
Supporters of Ayyub Abdul-Alim are organizing to win his freedom after law enforcement targeted the Muslim man.
• The lies they tell about Islam
The U.S. government's attitude toward Islam and Muslims has always depended first and foremost on its foreign policy objectives.
• Balanced between solidarity and racism
With the two suspects in the Marathon bombings killed or captured, Boston shows signs of both unity and bitter divisions.
• The media's response to Boston
In the struggle over how the mass media frame the news, the reactionaries and Islamophobes haven't won.
• UC takes on Islamophobia
Students at the University of California-Berkeley passed a resolution against Islamophobia at their school.
• Murder by bigotry in NYC
The death of a New York City commuter pushed in front of a train is the result of a culture poisoned by Islamophobia.
• Solidarity against anti-Muslim hate
Hundreds of people turned out to show solidarity with the Muslim community after an arson attack on the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo.
• NYC forum on Islamophobia
A meeting at the Alwan Center for the Arts in New York discussed the poisonous wave of Islamophobia in the U.S. and beyond.
• Clinging to hateful stereotypes
"Islam" and "Arabs" seem to only appear in the mainstream media these days when the subject is about violence or terrorism.
• The real battle is against U.S. imperialism
Egypt's Revolutionary Socialists analyze the wave of violent protests outside U.S. embassies and bases over a racist film. |
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Immigrant Rights as Human Rights
The issues surrounding immigration are politically complex and emotionally charged, especially at a time when many Americans are experiencing severe economic distress. Under the circumstances, many people's attitudes towards immigrants have hardened, and we are seeing a rash of harsh punitive laws aimed at driving out people in the U.S. without visas. However, I believe that people of faith ought to recognize that global immigration is a human rights issue. Recognizing immigration as a human right means acknowledging that people should have the freedom to cross national borders in search of a livelihood, or to escape physical danger. Indeed, the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes the freedom of movement across national borders as a fundamental right. It also grants every human being a right to a nationality.
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While the Declaration effectively grants all humans a right to have rights, in reality those rights are determined by individual nation-states that by their very nature include some people and exclude others. Since even long term immigrants are now often excluded from accessing citizenship rights in many countries in which they have settled, they are effectively excluded from having any voice in determining their own status. Immigration is one of the few policy arenas in which the people whose lives will be most affected are excluded from the decision-making process. Thus, the presence of roughly 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. once again challenges Americans to conceive of our democracy more broadly and inclusively.
Since Americans are citizens of one of the world's leading global economic, political, and military powers, we need to be aware of how our actions affect the well-being and freedom of people in other nations. Consequently, we carry ethical responsibilities to address the unintended negative consequences of our individual and collective actions on the lives of people in other parts of the world. These moral obligations can take multiple forms, including commitments by the U.S. and other wealthy nations to assist in a process of global income redistribution. It can also lead to an acknowledgment of an obligation to open one's borders, especially to groups of people who are suffering the negative consequences of one's own nation's economic and political policies. Within liberal democracies, this requires an electorate willing to support policies that accept responsibility for the consequences of global interdependence.
Broad support for the basic principles of human rights can be found within the world's major religious traditions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. In the Hebrew Bible, which serves as a foundational text for all three of the Abrahamic faiths, God instructs the Israelites to respect the rights of the "alien" or the foreigner in their midst. In early Israel blood ties connected each person to one of the twelve tribes, which in turn determined that person's right to inherit the lands God had given to each tribe. Those who did not possess such blood ties were considered to be aliens, even though, given the ethnic hybridity of the region; they may have been long term residents in the land given to Israel. This situation demanded that the Mosaic Law pay considerable attention to the rights of immigrants or resident aliens. Already in Exodus 22:21-22 God instructed Moses as follows: "You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. ... If you abuse them, when they cry out to me, I will surely heed their cry: my wrath will burn and I will kill you with the sword." This admonition is reframed positively in Leviticus 19:33 where it states, "The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself." Repeatedly, the rights of aliens are grounded in the remembrance that Israel had been given refuge in a foreign land. Numbers 15:15b instructs the Israelites that "you and the alien shall be alike for the Lord. You and the alien who resides with you shall have the same law and the same ordinance." For aliens or immigrants to have the same law effectively meant that they were granted the same rights.
According to the Christian political philosopher, Nicholas Wolterstorff, human rights are grounded in a worth-imparting relationship between all human beings and God. Wolterstorff argues that it is the quality of being loved by God that gives every human being great worth. "And if God loves equally and permanently each and every creature who bears the imago dei, then the relational property of being loved by God ... gives to each human being who bears it the worth in which natural human rights inhere." Other religions contain similar understandings of the worth of every human being even though they construct those understandings differently.
Given the religious grounding for human rights, I am particularly grieved when I encounter fellow Christians who are openly hostile to the presence of immigrants in the U.S. It seems that too often people come to regard American citizenship as some form of exclusive birthright, forgetting that most of us were also once aliens in this land. Shouldn't support for contemporary immigrant rights be an act of obligation in remembrance of our own histories of sojourning?
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• This is a very nice application, however the shell extension is causing me problems on WinXP. When it is installed and I try to show context menu on a file it crashes Explorer :-)
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I have been doing some reading lately about Exception Handling and the .Net Framework and this seems to have left me more confused then when I started.
In CLR via C# Fourth Addition I Read:
Also, the .NET Framework exception-handling mechanism is built using the Structured Exception Handling (SEH) mechanism offered by Microsoft Windows. SEH has been discussed in many resources, including my own book, Windows via C/C++, 5th ed. (Microsoft Press, 2007), which contains three chapters devoted to SEH.
Now, here is where my confusion starts. If the .Net Framework is built Using the SEH but is this only used for an unhandled exception or is it used right off the bat for all exception handling in .NET if so where does the CLR fit in, is taking Queues from SEH or is it acting on its own and using SEH if and when an unhandled exception Occurs?.
Second How does Context switching from the Kerrnal mode to User mode fit in? I know when a thread is created it has (From CLR via C#)
Thread environment block (TEB) The TEB is a block of memory allocated and initialized in user mode (address space that application code can quickly access). The TEB consumes 1 page of memory (4 KB on x86 and x64 CPUs, 8 KB on an IA64 CPU). The TEB contains the head of the thread’s exception-handling chain. Each try block that the thread enters inserts a node in the head of this chain; the node is removed from the chain when the thread exists in the try block. In addition, the TEB contains the thread’s thread-local storage data as well as some data structures for use by Graphics Device Interface (GDI) and OpenGL graphics.
AS well as the User Mode Stack and The Kernel mode stack. But Why would a context switch need to happen at any point as they have everything needed to process is on the same thread?
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Here is a very detailed explanation about how the CLR handles exceptions (by one of the CLR architects I believe): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cbrumme/archive/2003/10/01/51524.aspx
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Thanks for the link as additional reading is always useful, although I know the way exception handling works has changed in 2005 especially in regards to the way exceptions are now wrapped in a CLR friendly wrapper. – jquery auth Nov 25 '10 at 13:45
Since the article is dated 2003, I suppose he's speaking about the CLR V2 (released in 2005), since he's was member of the CLR dev team. Don't know if this has really changed since. – Simon Mourier Nov 25 '10 at 13:54
is [SEH] used right off the bat for all exception handling in .NET
Yes. Throwing a .NET exceptions causes a Win32 structured exception to be raised.
Why would a context switch need to happen at any point as they everything needed to process is on the same thread?
When you throw an exception, your thread transitions to kernel mode and back, but only one thread is involved. Kernel mode is not a separate thread; it's a place that your thread can visit.
All Win32 exceptions have to transition via the kernel. For instance, the debugger infrastructure lives in kernel mode, and a debugger might want to intercept the exception before your user mode code sees it.
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Thanks! I think I might be misunderstanding Kernel-mode and user-mode, I thought they belonged to a thread. – jquery auth Nov 25 '10 at 13:56
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Thank you, and sorry if the question was confusing.
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This might be better asked on gamedev.stackexchange.com – Jackson Pope Dec 27 '10 at 20:38
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There are no reasons why physics should depend on the framerate and this is clearly a bad design.
I've once tried to understand why people do this. I did a code review for a game written by another team in the company, and I didn't see it from the beginning but they used a lot of hardcoded value of 17 in their code. When I ran the game on debug mode with the FPS shown, I saw it, FPS was exactly 17! I look over the code again and now it's clear: the programmers assumed that the game will always have a 17 FPS constant frame rate. If the FPS was greater than 17, they did a sleep to make the FPS be exactly 17. Of course, they did nothing if the FPS was smaller than 17 the game just went crazy (like when played at 2 FPS and driving a car in the game, the game system alerted me: "Too Fast! Too Fast!").
So I write an email asking why they hardcoded this value and use it their physics engine and they replied that this way they keep the engine simpler. And i replied again, Ok, but if we run the game on a device that is incapable of 17 FPS, your game engine runs very funny but not as expected. And they said that will fix the issue until the next code review.
After 3 or 4 weeks I get a new version of the source code so I was really curious to find out what they did with the FPS constant so first thing i do is search through code after 17 and there are only a couple matches, but one of them was not something i wanted to see:
final static int FPS = 17;
So they removed all the hardcoded 17 value from all the code and used the FPS constant instead. And their motivation: now if I need to put the game on a device that can only do 10 FPS, all i need to do is to set that FPS constant to 10 and the game will work smooth.
In conclusion, sorry for writing such a long message, but I wanted to emphasize that the only reason why anyone will do such a thing is the bad design.
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Awesome anecdotal answer. Now, I want to see this on thedailywtf as well :-) – user166390 Dec 27 '10 at 20:49
Here's a good explanation on why your timestep should be kept constant: http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/fix-your-timestep/
Additionally, depending on the physics engine, the system may get unstable when the timestep changes. This is because some of the data that is cached between frames is timestep-dependant. For example, the starting guess for an iterative solver (which is how constraints are solved) may be far off from the answer. I know this is true for Havok (the physics engine used by many commericial games), but I'm not sure which engine SMB uses.
There was also an article in Game Developer Magazine a few months ago, illustrating how a jump with the same initial velocity but different timesteps was achieved different max heights with different frame rates. There was a supporting anecdote from a game (Tony Hawk?) where a certain jump could be made when running on the NTSC version of the game but not the PAL version (since the framerates are different). Sorry I can't find the issue at the moment, but I can try to dig it up later if you want.
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They probably needed to get the game done quickly enough and decided that they would cover sufficient user base with the current implementation.
Now, it's not really that hard to retrofit independence, if you think about it during development, but I suppose they could go down some steep holes.
I think it's unnecessary, and I've seen it before (some early 3d-hw game used the same thing, where the game went faster if you looked at the sky, and slower if you looked at the ground).
It just sucks. Bug the developers about it and hope that they patch it, if they can.
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Does an auto-formatting tool exist for vi that'll allow me to define per language preferences?
edit: I'm not looking for syntax highlighting. I'm looking for something that will apply formatting rules to my code. (Like brace positioning, spaces around oeprators, etc)
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Well, there's Vim which comes with a lot of languages covered already and which is easy to customize per language.
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Vim has tons of support for filetype-specific customisations. You might find what you are looking for in there.
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You can add a file in ~/.vim/ftplugin/ for each file type. For example, set ~/.vim/ftplugin/c.vim to
set tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2
This sets your indentation for C files to two spaces.
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I found the default indent when auto-formatting ruby in vim too big, this helped to set the indent. I've added this to my ~/.vimrc file along with configuration from this question: stackoverflow.com/questions/3785628/format-ruby-code-in-vim – axk Feb 19 '11 at 11:24
You can use vim. If you're on GNU/Linux, take a look at /etc/vim/vimrc for global defaults. Some things you may want are "syntax on" "filetype indent on" and "set showmatch".
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There is a vim plugin that enables formatting on your code from within vim. It's called vim-autoformat and you can dowload it here:
It integrates external code-formatting programs into vim. For example, if you want to format C, C++, C# or Java code, you can install the program astyle, and vim sets it as the format program automatically.
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As Darrin says, "flee from the vi wasteland" and embrace the one true vim path instead! Your desired language preferences, assuming that they're not for SNOBOL or Simula, will thank you!
Edit: Actually extending the syntax highlighting to cover SNOBOL or Simula would not be that hard! (-:
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Is there a way to write iphone and android apps using visual studio and c#? Also if I make a phone app can I easily write it for android, iphone, and windows without havong to write it in 3 different languages?
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facepalm Yeah, you probably could. But you'd be shooting yourself in the foot. I bet if you really wanted, you could write windows stuff in Objective-C... Good luck – Aurum Aquila Feb 24 '11 at 5:38
If you find which you are looking for, you will end up to learn all to be familiar with the target system architecture. – Waqas Raja Feb 24 '11 at 6:27
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xamarine is another approach. You can create both Android and iPhone/iPad apps.
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MonoTouch allows developers to create C# and .NET based applications that run on Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices
MonoGame is a free implementation of the XNA Framework for MonoTouch, MonoDroid and Mac OS X.
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You should probably have pointed out that MonoTouch will require a mac, MonoDroid isn't publicly available right now, and XNATouch is just a set of libraries for MonoTouch... – apiguy Feb 24 '11 at 5:50
Just to add to the list:
UmbrellaSDK http://www.umbrellasdk.com
Web development tool for creating portable apps for iPhone as well as Android. You can publish apps to the App Store or Google Play since the apps can be packaged as native on each platform.
DragonFireSDK http://www.dragonfiresdk.com
Allows iPhone development on Windows (using Visual C++, even Express editions) using C/C++. Apps are fully native and compiled on a Mac server and delivered to your device over the air.
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Unfortunately, the short answer is no. But here are some resources that will help you out:
MonoTouch allows you to build iPhone applications using C#. Unfortunately it is not free, and you need to run it on a Mac.
PhoneGap lets you build cross-mobile-platform apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. And it's free! No VisualStudio support.
Adobe Flash CS5
With some recent plugins Adobe Flash can now build and publish/package applications for Android and iPhone, as well as desktop applications.
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Yeah. MonoTouch isn't free. Don't tell him the price or he'll start developing WinPhone7 apps. – Aurum Aquila Feb 24 '11 at 5:49
@Aurum - I'm not sure what you're getting at. Were you suggesting there is something wrong with developing apps for Win Phone 7, or the people who do? – apiguy Feb 24 '11 at 5:55
@free-dom No man, not at all. I write for everything - I'm just a hobbyist programmer. I was saying that he'd probably prefer to write in stuff he's comfortable with if he's this intent on using VS to write for the iPhone. – Aurum Aquila Feb 24 '11 at 6:05
@Aurum - Ah. Yeah that is probably a better place to start if you've already got Visual Studio. I think the real challenge with the various platforms though isn't the different languages, but the different system architectures in general. – apiguy Feb 24 '11 at 6:12
Yeah. But in all seriousness, if he knows C# so well that he wants to use it for iPhone dev, I have news - all he has to learn is Xcode. C# and Obj-C are pretty much the same. Except for protocols. I got up and running in one month during the school holidays. You just have to sit down and do it. Thinking about Visual Studio or Code::Blocks/Qt/Eclipse just wastes time... – Aurum Aquila Feb 24 '11 at 6:16
Although Visual Studio is really good for Windows and Windows Phone development, it won't help you with Android or iPhone development by itself. And C# being from Microsoft, it's got good support for Windows, and then lesser support through avenues such as Mono. That being said, C# and .NET are open specifications so it is possible to see them on non-Microsoft products such as an Android phone.
That means there are opportunities for using an engine that has been designed as multiplatform. If you're making games, then you can use a platform such as Unity 3D. Unity can be programmed using Visual Studio and scripted using C#. It's also free for personal programming, but the iPhone version does cost money.
Along those same lines, Adobe makes Adobe® Device Central CS5 software. It's programmed with Actionscript, not C#, but I think they are very similar methods of programming. CS5 can be used for both iPhone and Android.
Nokia's QT supports a lot of platforms, including Mac and Windows, Symbian and Linux. There's a port for Android called Necessitas. However, I don't think there's support for iPhone just now.
The main question consideration then is whether you will be happy with your final product. The programming language or engine that you use has a certain influence on how well you achieve your goals.
If you're making a game and know C# already, you might consider Unity although there is a bit of learning involved. I do know that some game studios are using Unity for their games. Check out AirAttack, Startrooper and Batching, as well as the games on this thread: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/14591-Unity-iPhone-Apps-in-the-Store-List-Yours-Here/page39.
PS: even if you're programming Unity on a Windows computer, at the end of the day to publish on the iPhone you would need to have a Mac and an iPhone SDK installed on it. So technically the answer is yes, you can write iphone apps using visual studio and c#. But to get them into the store and onto an iPhone, you need to perform some steps outside the Visual Studio development environment.
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Im not sure I fully understand what your saying about Mono? What do I gain by buying Mono? What exactly does it give me? I wouldnt think the UI's can be created with xmal is that correct? There isnt gonna be a way to directly develop applications on the Iphone the windows way correct? – Nick LaMarca Feb 25 '11 at 1:48
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I have a a list of image swatches when on mouseover a div popup should appear above all content. However I am finding that in IE6 that the div popup is sitting behind the elements that are generated after the popup. It is sitting correctly ontop of elements rendered before the popup.
A rough idea of what I have:
<a href="#"><img src="image path to swatch"></a>
<div class="tooltip">TOOLTIP POPUP</div>
I have quite a few of these ULs stacked on the page.
Rough idea of the CSS
ul li {
width: 150px;
height: 20px;
position: relative;
div.tooltip {
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
position: absolute;
top: -20px;
left: -20px;
z-index: 1000;
display: none;
I have tried making the parent li have a z-index of -1 and position relative, but this also hides the swatch. The swatches are generated dynamically and I need the individual tooltips to be positioned near the swatch itself, which is why I structured it inside a list.
I have also tried to increase the z-index using javascript when the swatch is hovered over so that it is the highest above all else, but this hasn't worked either. Eg:
$('ul li').hoverIntent(
$('div.tooltip', this).css('z-index', '9000');
$('div.tooltip', this).stop(true,true).show();
function() {
$('div.tooltip', this).hide();
$('div.tooltip', this).css('z-index', '1000');
Running out of ideas, so if anyone could help please? Thanks.
The code can be seen on JS Fiddle at: http://jsfiddle.net/melon/nUTgB/13/
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I know this kind of sidesteps your question, so please forgive me, but it is time to let go of IE6. You'll feel so much happier when you forget that it ever existed. – Nacimota Nov 7 '11 at 11:27
Less than 9% of the whole world still use IE6, most of them corporations whose employees won't even see your site due to access restrictions. I agree with Nacimota, drop IE6 support. – Kyle Nov 7 '11 at 11:29
I wish I could!!! But not allowed to unfortunately :( – melon Nov 7 '11 at 11:37
From the code you published, it is not obvious when and how should be the particular div.tooltip displayed (is always has display: none now). Could you please send a link to jsfiddle demo that actually works in modern browsers as expected? – duri Nov 7 '11 at 12:16
Im using the hoverIntent jQuery plugin but this is essentially the same as the the native hover function, this is where the show and hide function is called. The JS Fiddle link can be found here link Also updated the post – melon Nov 7 '11 at 12:54
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To fix a lot of IE z-index bugs, keep this rule in mind:
If something has a position attribute, it always needs a z-index
That has helped me a lot with browser testing. That means that the LI tags need a z-index: 1 set, because they have the position:relative attribute
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I've tried that but it seemed to ignore it for elements rendered after a tooltip – melon Nov 7 '11 at 11:39
What happens if you add position:relative and z-index:1 to the UL elements? – leo.vingi Nov 7 '11 at 11:44
The swatches rendered after the currently hovered swatch is still appearing over the tool tip, additionally now any text rendered outside of the list is appearing ontop of the tooltip now. – melon Nov 7 '11 at 11:54
Found a way to do it with just CSS and slight restructuring:
at this link
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ie6 work on position relative more than absolute
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I am trying to retrieve users display picture through graph api and using cUrl to save it into the disk, but am unable succeed in it and getting this error when trying to check the mime type of the picture that I saved:
Notice: exif_imagetype(): Read error! in
//$userPpicture = $user_profile[picture];
//Create image instances
$url = "http://graph.facebook.com/{$userId}/picture?type=large";
$dpImage = 'temp/' . $userId . '_dpImage_' . rand().'.jpg';
echo $dpImage;
function get_data($url) {
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
return $data;
$returned_content = get_data($url);
file_put_contents($dpImage, $returned_content);
echo "Type: " . exif_imagetype($dpImage);
for this updated code using curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); I am getting this error:
Warning: curl_setopt(): CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /var/fog/apps/app12345/myapp.phpfogapp.com/start.php on line 178
If this action requires any server side configuration then i might not be able to do this as am using a shared cloud storage over phpfog.
Kindly help me with this.
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are you sure the permission was given to the app to access the picture? – Sir Troll Mar 26 '12 at 14:48
yes ive all the required permissions. – Maven Mar 26 '12 at 14:49
@Sir - pictures via /id/picture are publicly available - Maven - have a look at the image in the temp directory - check you're getting what you expect - also try file_get_contents (it works with URLs) – scibuff Mar 26 '12 at 14:50
also try chmod the file after file_put_contents - also what does filesize( $dpImage ) give you? – scibuff Mar 26 '12 at 14:52
@scibuff: due to server restriction i cant user file_get_contents & fopen functions. – Maven Mar 26 '12 at 14:57
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The graph url you are using of http://graph.facebook.com/4/picture?type=large returns a HTTP 302 redirect, not the actual user image. You would need to follow the redirect and download the image at that url which is a url that looks like this: http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/49942_4_1525300_n.jpg
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Thank-you for reply, i followed you suggestion by allowing cURL to follow action (see my updated code), but now i am getting that new warning. please help. – Maven Mar 27 '12 at 4:47
As OffBySome points out, you need to follow the 302 redirect served by graph.facebook.com to the final destination, which contains the actual image data.
The simplest way to do that in this case is to add another curl_setopt call with CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION as true. i.e.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true)
Check out http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php for more details.
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Thank-you for reply, did that but now i am getting that new warning. (see my updated code), please help. – Maven Mar 27 '12 at 4:48
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66155 | Do these earphones work with an iPod nano 2nd generation?
I have an iPod nano 2nd gen. I know that the volume control and skip buttons won't work but will the earphones themselves work with my device?
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Yes, they will work. In addition, they will work with any audio equipment that has a standard 3mm headphone input jack (which is virtually everything from laptops, other MP3 players, some celll phones, etc). However, you are correct, the volume and skip buttons will not work, and will only work with the proper iPhone or iPod Touch generation.
• I spoke to an Apple rep at the Apple store (1-800-MY-APPLE) and he went and double checked with his supervisor.
* Headphones - will work
* Remote buttons - will work
* Microphone - will not work
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66161 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I use the GMail web interface for my e-mail needs. How do I get mailto: style links in web pages and "send mail" type actions in Windows programs to open up the GMail web site?
I need this to work across and outside of browsers, so an extension for Firefox won't cut it.
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See superuser.com/questions/223/… – Sam Hasler Jul 15 '09 at 12:36
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Google has a "Google Notifier" program just for this. It runs in the tray on Windows and lets you set Gmail as your default mail program. It also provides notifications when you get new e-mail.
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Note that you get an error if you have HTTPS always enabled. Here's a link to fix it: mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9429 – quickcel Feb 22 '10 at 17:29
Notifier only works for mail hyperlinks (e.g. mailto:). For using gmail as a client outside of hyperlinks, e.g. R-click > Send To > Mail recipient see related question superuser.com/questions/573568/… – matt wilkie Sep 17 '13 at 20:14
You can use gmailto firefox extension to have "mailto:" links handled by gmail.
Or better, set it up without an extension, in Firefox.
For the rest of the system, you'll need to have a wrapper application that launches gmail.
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I can't vote down, but I think he said "no firefox extensions". =P – igorsantos07 Aug 22 '09 at 14:04
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66162 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I'm using Outlook 2007 to connect to my GMail account through IMAP. Unfortunately this creates a flagged item and an task entry for every starred item in GMail.
How to geek shows how to make this work properly (only show each item once) but doesn't show how to stop it altogether?
How can I stop this functionality?
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You should try unsubscribing from the Starred and All Mail folders.
Unsubscribe by right clicking on your IMAP folder and select IMAP folders, then click Query and select the two and click Unsubscribe
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Let's hope this one works! – Ivo Flipse Dec 11 '10 at 14:03
Even if it doesn't its something cool I didn't know! – C. Ross Dec 11 '10 at 14:05
I learned to use this to filter out downloading Support mails from our company Inbox :P – Ivo Flipse Dec 11 '10 at 14:07
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66163 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I've been spending quite a bit of time working over in the Republic of Ireland (Co. Donegal) at the moment. There's no terrestrial ADSL but there is a fairly usable 3G/HSDPA service from Three Mobile Ireland.
I'm wondering if there are any StackOverflow users that reside in the Republic of Ireland who are using Three Mobile's 3G 3Pay mobile broadband service with either a Billion 3G router (the 7402NX or 7402GX/GXL) or the Dovado UMR? If so, does the Huawei E160G dongle work with these products without any problems?
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closed as too localized by Sathya Apr 25 '11 at 15:55
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I think you should buy a single device and without USB. I am using the same company ("3"), but not in Ireland, and I am using Ericsson’s W21 3G Router. There is nothing to install on the client computer: this router has 4 normal Ethernet outputs and wireless (WLAN/Wireless LAN IEEE 802.11b/g.). It is also more secure.
I have used this device for nearly 2 years and it works great. For my marginal geographical location I get up to 1.5 MBit/s. The only gotcha is that 2G should be disabled; otherwise it will switch to 2G when 3G falls out for a brief moment and stay there until a power cycle...
(This answer has been sent through the W21...)
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Thanks for the reply, I didn't think I'd see one so quickly. The Ericsson looks ace and the tool for the job, but I'm on a budget of max GBP160.00. Where did you buy yours? – Kev Aug 25 '09 at 0:54
I bought it at the same time as the original subscription (from the "3" company). But as far as I know they no longer sell the W21. Perhaps there is a similar less costly device from another manufacturer (?). – Peter Mortensen Aug 25 '09 at 7:14
I've hunted high and low. I think I'll suck it and see with the Billion 7402NX :) – Kev Aug 25 '09 at 9:32
I bought the Billion 7402NX, works a treat. Also didn't notice the Draytek 2800 I have in Scotland supports 3G dongles. Could've saved some money but at least the place in Ireland is WiFi enabled now. – Kev Nov 7 '09 at 19:02
Product page for Billion BiPAC 7402NX: billion.com/product/3g/… – Peter Mortensen Nov 9 '09 at 17:57
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66164 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I had a hard drive crash and now that I reinstalled iTunes it seems to threaten to replace my current iPhone apps with the redownloaded apps on my new hard drive. This will cause me to lose all my progress in the various games that I have. Is there a way to turn the app sync on without having it rewrite my current apps?
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Make sure the computer is authorised on the same account as the iPhone, then delete the apps from your hard drive. The next time you sync your iPhone, the apps will be copied over from your phone.
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Also, if you only want to manually transfer apps from your iPhone to your iTunes, with your device connected, right-click on the iPhone icon on the left-hand side pane in iTunes and select "Transfer purchases".
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66165 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
• ulimit -s size
• /etc/security/limits.conf
limits.conf will work after a restart.
Is there a possible way to increase the limit without restarting?
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There must be a way to do this. The ulimit shell command doesn't work for a user. And the current logged in user doesn't have permission to alter their limit unless they are root. – Matt H Dec 21 '12 at 1:45
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What's wrong with editing your .bashrc file to do a ulimit -s size every time you start a terminal session?
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unfortunately that is not for me as a user, it is for the couchdb process, which crashes because a document in the DB is to big to fit in the stack. – Simon Jul 21 '11 at 11:17
@Simon: that means you're currently restarting that process every time? How is that done? Can't you splice the ulimit -s size in the scripts that control the restarts? – MSalters Jul 21 '11 at 12:48
well, it is a subprocess of couchdb that crashes (couchjs). So all processes started by the user couchdb should have a bigger stack – Simon Jul 21 '11 at 13:07
If you want to do this programatically, you can use the setrlimit() function.
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unfortunately I need to set the limit for couchdb, not for a program of my own. So setting it programatically is out of question – Simon Jul 21 '11 at 11:17
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