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all of this examination makes me think there needs to be a DC software shootout on all of these (and more to come i'm sure) hotkey managers.
Most people on DC seem besotted with AHK, but I'd like something that's quick and easy to set up without needing even elementary programming.
I find that Macro Express makes creating hot keys simple.
i've read through your ME review, Chris. sorry i missed it before. thanks. i'll check ME out later.
a couple of days ago i read about WordStar
I think it's time you stopped faffing about with mice and keys and began to master mind control.
I've heard of taking it on the chin but that might be going a little too farr!
found this whilst looking for more WordStart inspired scripts
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March 31, 2014 - Oscar Laluyan
The dreary and gray winter mitigates a splash of color to rouse up our dull stupor from this never ending cold spell. Thank God for Margaret Thatcher Projects in presenting dual shows where their artists are bold significant users of color meant to chase away the winter blues.
Last March 27th, AF came to the opening of Clayton Colvin: Put Down Your Stars and Tegene Kunbi: Melting Pot. Softness in the application of color on linen was key in the work of Colvin where a sense of space seemed to take one into another plane that makes it a transcendental experience. Kunbi with his blocks of mid-range tone color defined spaces and sections where one explored places within the quadrant. Both were a visual treat to the senses and a real color laden palette that punctuates a breath of verve to decrease the desolate feeling of that last grasp of winter.
March 20, 2014 - Brian Edmonds
I recently visited the studio of Clayton Colvin in Birmingham, Alabama. The conversation below took place during the visit and through an exchange of emails over a period of time.
Brian Edmonds: Clayton, could you explain your studio routine? I know you recently moved into a new studio space. Has this affected your work, if so then how?
Clayton Colvin: I work in a studio at my home, which makes it possible for me to work when time presents itself. I try to work 4-5 hours, 5 days a week, but it is not so predictable.
March 1, 2014 - Cassie Cummins
Upon first glance, "Color Virus," the third solo exhibition of Belgian artist Jus Juchtmans currently up at Margaret Thatcher Projects, seems to speak to or qualify itself within the monochrome painting movement. Each of Juchtmans' pieces is a kind of meditation on a color: one blue, another red, another yellow, another white. As such, the show seems to beg the question of what significance can be found in a monochrome painting made today, many decades after the heyday of monochrome painters like Yves Klein or Kazimir Malevich.Download Article (PDF)
February 6, 2014 - Shona Macdonald
Pouring it On gives us the opportunity to examine how both of these statements from over sixty years ago can, in the context of contemporary painting, coexist rather than contradict one another...Cathy Choi pours layers of acrylic and resin on her canvas, creating a luminous surface of fluidity and movement. The qauntity and excess of material discharged onto the canvas are restrained in a kind of untertow. She engages in a conversation with the material, more or less as an equal partner. The resin and acrylic flow inevitably to the bottom, gravity asserts itself, and the point of termination bends light—perfectly. The total effect is that, within the limitless reservoir of color and light, we have serenity in abundance.
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February 6, 2014 - Jeannette Cole
Pouring it On gives us the opportunity to examine how both of these statements from over sixty years ago can, in the context of contemporary painting, coexist rather than contradict one another...Informed by his degrees in Painting, Art History, and Religious Studies, Robert Sagerman discovers the meditative dimensions of emplacing paint on a surface. The strict structure allows profuse paint application and maximum saturation of color. This explosion in front of the surface is excessive, or would be, were it not for his process. Individual color blobs, squeezed onto the surface and terminating in pointy extensions, are almost fluorescent. His work focuses on the materiality of paint with the effect of transcending it and transforming it into a metaphysical event.
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February 1, 2014 - Audrey Tran
Cathy Choi is a sculptural painter based in Bushwick and she recently participated in BOS '11. For this post, I've posed a few questions about Choi's practice and views of our community in contrast to the other art communities she's experienced abroad.Download Article (PDF)
February 1, 2014 - Trenton Millar
This collection of William Betts artwork shows off the artist's ability to create extremely realistic paintings using the pointillism style of painting. Rather than using just any photo as his reference to create his works, Betts uses security camera footage instead.
The pieces give the viewer the feeling that they are spying on someone. The pointillism technique adds to the grainy security cam theme that the paintings portray. The ideas of security and privacy make these paintings particularly relevant in the post-modern period.Download Article (PDF)
January 29, 2014 - Kenneth Baker
Freddy Chandra: Tuning In: This Bay Area sculptor, who often works with light, presents wall-bound abstractions in cast acrylic. Tightly clustered vertically or horizontally, their color bars vary in transparency and finish, and in length and thickness. They change subtly with the viewer's position and with time of day. Some of them can act like wind chimes for the eye.Download Article (PDF)
January 29, 2014 - Kenneth Baker
Maria Park: Composition: Inspired by François Truffaut's 1966 film "Fahrenheit 451," and by current anxieties about the future of literacy and the book, this East Coast artist has abstracted details from the film in painted objects that suggest the fading of cultural memory and attachment.Download Article (PDF)
January 19, 2014 - Sheri Chiu
Art gallery Scream London showcases Telling Tales, a group exhibition featuring local UK and international artists whose crafts dissect and reassemble words from different languages. Schön! had the opportunity to talk with two artists, who both use the printed word in their artwork, but in completely different ways.
Meg Hitchcock does more than examine the word of God; she slices and dices the heart of religion to highlight the universal forces holding society together. Hitchcock literally cuts letters from holy books to create other sacred texts. The Koran is transformed into the Bible, the Bible turns into the Bhagavad Gita, and so on.
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Hi everyone,
We just received via mail a ticket (we live in Canada) issued by photo-radar for speeding (near Santiago de Compostelo). I understand we're responsible for the car but its very possible the car was valet parked when the ticket was issued. (And the licence plate number does belong to our rented car).
Is there any point in disputing the ticket?
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Photo radar Speeding ticket - Spain
Hi everyone,
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If the ticket is not issued to your car then I would definitely dispute it. Probably the rental agency made a mistake when they furnished the information.
This is a good lesson to make sure I have the license place of rental cars in the future.
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I would contact the rental agency and see if they can steaighten it out. We had a situation with an electronic ticket in the same area of Spain.
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" licence plate number DOES belong to our rented car"
My caps.
If the car rental place has your CC#, might they end up paying it and charging you?
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Sorry - I read it wrong. You need to pay the ticket.
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If the speeding ticket is time stamped and you have a receipt for the valet parking, I'd dispute it.
The cost of the fine may impact how much effort you want to make.
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You will probably get an administration fee from the rental car company for the ticket. It is usually part of the agreement. Just out of curiosity what was the name of the town?
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Our ticket didn't have an address to send the payment. Avis told us to call Spanish tourism bureau in NYC. The man who answered said he drives faster than that in Spain which was strange. In the end, we ignored it as we had no address.
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I just had the same problem in The Netherlands and another long time poster had the same problem in Germany.
I was going 3 mph over the limit and I think Peg was also was just a miles over the limit.
If this becomes an epidemic across Europe, it will discourage visitors from renting cars.
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Spain has several area's where they have set up camera's the last fewl years simply to raise revenue. We came across one outside of Jaca on the N-240 a few years ago. The speed limit went from 120 to 70 and back up to 120 in less the 50 meters, around a blind corner. The price, €200 EUR, payable to the Guardia Civil in Huesca.
Other areas have increased the tolls, much easier than trying to collect speeding tickets from someone outside the EU. It may be difficult for you to pay since you are from Canada and don't have an IDN, which is required, but you can try.
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I guess the only epidemic is that rather than giving up at the border european organisations are now chasing those that speed over the border.
I'd be interested to know what happens at US state borders or indeed do Canadians get chased down for their US traffic violations.
Still, I also struggle to keep to speed limits and have programmed my car to "ping" if I go over the official speed, maybe others can too?
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First off the ticket will state a time and date. If you were renting the car at the time and date you will have to pay the fine.
The rental company will send you a bill for forwarding your details to the local authorises.
You can pay on line at this web page.
https://apl.dgt.es/migracion_IWPS.html - Para acceso sin certificado digital
Here is an explanation on how make a payment.
Note: sometimes your browser will question if the DGT website is safe. Either change browsers or click to say it is ok. This happens a lot with Spanish government websites.
The question one has to ask is what are the ramifications if the fine is not paid. That is unclear at the moment. laws are changing all the time. Some say pay and you will have a clear conscious.
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I say pay because it is the law, this whole thing of "taxes and laws are down to debate" is how you end up with nonsense countries
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"If this becomes an epidemic across Europe, it will discourage visitors from renting cars."
Believe me, the impact on furriners renting cars in Europe is never mentioned when speed cameras are propsed. I expect there is also little mention of tourism when open carry laws are discussed.
I also wonder how many valet parking drivers in Santiago de Compostella get an opportunity to speed. If they don't know where the cameras are, nobody does.
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I expect there is also little mention of tourism when open carry laws are discussed.
It all depends if you are talking about Bourbon St or Salt Lake City?
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I am surprised that this car was caught on a speed camera unless it was a mobile one.
Then "buscar" Aeropuerto Internacional De Santiago De Compostela.
Tick the box "Radares" ans scrollout. There are very few fixed positions in the area.
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Slightly OT but I never use Valet parking with a rental car for insurance reasons. I assume if the car is in an accident it would be a nightmare to figure out the insurance implications for a driver not named on the rental agreement. Others do the same?
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I can't imagine why people find it so difficult to respect the speed limit.
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kerouac, having been caught speeding in the UK I got the chance to be re-educated in speed awareness rather than "take points on my licence". As a result I got to spend a day with the ex-chief constable for Lancashire who put 95% of all speeding down to in-attention and a "just not being aware" of how nasty it is to kill a small child.
Made me think....
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<I'd be interested to know what happens at US state borders or indeed do Canadians get chased down for their US traffic violations>
No! There are no federal traffic laws in the US, only international commerce rules and regulations. Each state is different and independent when it comes to such matters. Speed limits on Federal Highways are regulated to what each State believes it can live with, so when you drive in Idaho or Montana, the speeds are far greater than what is allowed in parts of New York, Washington State, or Georgia.
Canadians are free if they break a minor traffic law, and receive a ticket, as long as they do not get stopped by the State Patrol or local police for some infraction at a later date. States do not share such information, but some border states may share the information to the US Border Patrol but there is no formal process regarding traffic violations. If you receive a speeding ticked from a state where you do not reside, they have no power to force you to pay the fine. Just don't return and get stopped for some reason.
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"If this becomes an epidemic across Europe, it will discourage visitors from renting cars."
Or encourage them to respect the laws of the country they visit.
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I wish Robert2533 was correct as least as far as Ontario is concerned but we've had reciprocity with many States for years - and it seems many States have reciprocity too
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"If this becomes an epidemic across Europe, it will discourage visitors from renting cars."
Or encourage them to respect the laws of the country they visit
Yes, I can see whether exceeding the speed limit by a few miles an hour is akin to child molestation and murder.
And oh the hypocrisy, that people sheepishly pay any fine whether justified or not.
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Reciprocity agreements between cities in Canada and the US and the Drivers License Compact are not the same. The DLC is only used within the 45 States that have opted to enforce it, mostly for major violations.
Getting someone from Canada to pay a traffic fine in Washington State requires an act of Congress, and we all know how much work Congress accomplishes in a given year.
Unless it's a major traffic offense, the Canadian violator can come and go a will, the US Border Patrol will not be aware of any pending minor traffic tickets. They have other things to worry about, like all the illegals slipping across the border, most in plain sight.
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Why the hell are we getting dragged into a US v Canada conversation here. The OP asked about a possible speeding ticket he might get in Spain, and how to resolve that.
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No, he's asking about a speeding ticket he GOT. It slays me that adults--well old enough to know better--will claim a ticket is "unjustified" if they were only speeding a little. Well, guys, that's like being a little bit pregnant--either you were speeding or you weren't.
I agree that if you can prove the valet had the car when the ticket was issued, you should dispute it. If not, let your conscience be your guide; friends of ours have ignored a European speeding ticket without consequences (although the rental car company will be harder to ignore).
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"Yes, I can see whether exceeding the speed limit by a few miles an hour is akin to child molestation and murder. "
A few miles might make the difference between killing a human being or not. Paying a fine is the price foreigners have to pay for breaking the law. Locals incur the fine plus the possible loss of their driving licence.
In your opinion how many miles above the speed limit should one be allowed to drive ? Should the law be also applied to DUI? After all, one more drink isn't going to make much difference, is it?
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Yes, I oftern compare speeding and pregnancy. I have three little Volvos and a Saab on the way.
The absurd and false comparisons. Courts often throw out speeding violations if the machines recording violations have not been calibrated during a certain period and do you honestly think every car's speedometer is perfectly calibrated. Please let's have a dose of reality here, not self-righteousness.
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In France, they remove 10 km/h from the speed recorded by the radar cameras, just to be nice. So when you get a ticket for going 3 km/h over the speed limit, it means that you were actually going 13 km/h over the limit. This is clearly marked on the ticket, but some people whine and whimper anyway about only having been 3 km/h over the limit. If they deducted 20 km/h from your actual speed, these same people would still protest.
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Last year a speeding driver killed two cyclists in the town I live in. Seven children were left fatherless by this incident.
If a speedometer is faulty then the driver needs to take that into account and drive considerably under the limit to be on the safe side IMO.
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We are not talking about speeding at breakneck speeds or drunk driving, we are talking driving a bit over the limit.
People get killed by cars driving at under the speed limit and today the growing cause of accidents are people texting.
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>>>We just received via mail a ticket<<<
If you had that rental car on that day, then it's probably your ticket.
>>>I'd be interested to know what happens at US state borders or indeed do Canadians get chased down for their US traffic violations.<<<
I don't know about tracking down people from out of the country, but there are plenty of cameras and rental companies here have the same clause/fees for providing your info to the police. No one bothers to read their rental agreements,
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"me thinks he doth protest too much"
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If you referring to me, I have been driving almost 50 years I have only gotten speeding ticket in the States and that is when I was 18 and deserved it.
It is just the people that complain that the salad fork was missing are the same one who are self-righteous when it comes to others.
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The Netherlands automatically reduces the measured speed by about 10%, to allow for your speedometer being incorrect. The speed cameras are regularly tested.
Of course all European countries only send fines to Americans in hired vehicles. They make so much money from that there is no need to fine the locals. Except for the fine DH got last week for going @ 135 in a 120 zone. It's a 130 zone at night, but his right foot is heavy and fines are not unusual sadly.
OP, normally the registered holder of the vehicle, you in this case, has to pay the fine. If you can prove conclusively that it was the valet parking service you could either fight the fine, or demand repayment from the parking company.
I guess it depends on the amount involved whether it is worth the hassle of doing so or not.
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IMDonehere tells yet another great Saab story.
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And how much exactly is going *a bit* over the speed limit?
As others tried to explain over and over and over again, the speed cameras are set to allow *a bit* of an error in favor of the driver.
So if you get caught going 120 in a 100kph speed zone, your odometer has shown appr. 130kph.
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Cold, I thought you were after some woman's Volvo.
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Just finished 8 days of driving in France and detecting the current speed limit was not always easy. Had to assign a child passenger the job of monitoring it, and it changed frequently and there were often 4 speed limits simultaneously: 1 for trucks, 1 for camper vans, 1 for cars in dry pavement and a fourth for cars in the rain.
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Why was it so difficult? The signs are clear enough on French motorways. You know what type of vehicle you are driving so know what sign to look for. You can also see if it is raining or not.
It is your responsibility to read the signs and know what they mean.
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tom_mn on Aug 4, 14 You had a child in the front seat. I hope you obeyed the Law(s) on children in the front seat.
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I was addressing those who implied following speed limits in Europe would be as simple as in the US. Child was in back seat.
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I was addressing those who implied following speed limits in Europe would be as simple as in the US. Child was in back seat.
Not with the intention to retort, but even after 30+ trips to the US, it is still my pet peeve that speed limit signs in the US are so hard to spot (for me) or easy to overlook (for me) as they lack any signal color.
If you are used to drive in Europe, you will probably identify any sign with a red circle almost subconsciously as you drive. Not saying that you will always process that information properly and take action not to speed.
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I am flummoxed that on several points.
1) Does your child know or understand the rules of the roads?
2) Sitting in the back the view on the road is quite limited, how did they see all the signs to give you information?
3) Only the driver should be in command of the vehicle and not the back seat driver.
Sounds oh so dangerous to me. Glad you survived.
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The photo would also have a picture of the driver...maybe not very clear but still. Is it you? I was informed of a ticket from a stretch of highway near Tarragona. I've never driven more than 30 km south of BCN! The photo was not me. The owner of the car is ultimately responsible. But since it was a rental, you are as part of your agreement. How many kms over the speed limit? Was it "grave" or "muy grave?"
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Lake Wobegon a satire?
Funny how we interpret things so differently. Somebody commented that Garrison Keillor's tales of the Town that Time Forgot were his satirical pokes at his provincial, fundamentalist upbringing in Minnesota. I heard them as a loving, funny tribute to those days. Probably because I come from a town that was a whole lot like Lake Wobegon and I treasure the memories.
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Today my starter was ready to use, I made it using grapes.
I got the info from a Julia Child video when she interviewed Nancy Silverton.
I also ordered the book on line, hope to get it asap.
Well, here's the pic, I think the bread came out nice. There is like this
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Hope it tastes good, will find out tomorrow moring.
Welcome to the fold..
Very nice loaf, let us know how your bread tasted. You say you went to school to be a baker, so I'm sure you could teach us a few things. Look forward to hearing more of your bread adventures..
The bread had a light sour
The bread had a light sour taste which is typical for sourdough.
I did like it a lot. Tasted very good. Better, more complex than the average loafs I made.
I will update my blog with a pic.
Well, since it has been more that 17 years since I went to school I don't know that many tricks.
I never worked in bread that much, more in pastry and chocolate. So I really am like you guys, checking out every technique I can find and try it with trial and error.
I should have made a different decision when I was younger. I love bread, I sometimes eat it without anything on it, just a slice of bread. Delicious! I assume you are knowing what I am talking about.
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Poundland's £55m acquisition of rival 99p Stores has provisionally been given the go-ahead.
The merger has been under investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) since April amid concerns it would substantially reduce competition in the market.
But the inquiry group of independent panel members yesterday stated that "customers would not face a reduction in choice, value or lower-quality service as a result of the merger".
It added that the new group, which would boast a network of 800 shops, would still face competition from the likes of Poundworld, B&M, Wilko, Tesco and Asda.
As such, it has provisionally concluded the merger would not reduce competition. Shares were up by more than 5% in early trading following the announcement.
Poundland chief executive Jim McCarthy claimed the move will benefit both customers and shareholders.
"We welcome the CMA's provisional clearance of our acquisition of 99p Stores," he said.
"We continue to believe that the acquisition of 99p will be great for customers and for shareholders alike."
CMA inquiry group chair Philip Marsden said customers would not be "worse off" from the merger.
He said: "We conducted our own customer survey and examined a large amount of data to understand whether, after the merger, customers would have enough alternatives both overall and in the local areas where there is currently a Poundland store and a 99p Store.
"Both across its business and in individual areas, Poundland would continue to face competition from other value retailers so we don't currently believe customers will face a reduction in choice, value or lower-quality service as a result of the merger.
"We have also seen in recent years the Big Four supermarkets engaging in intense price competition, some of which involves the promotion of £1 products. On the basis of the evidence to date, we do not think customers will be worse off from the merger."
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DNS server isn't responding
Today, my laptop and desktop, both running Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit, started having the same problem - they can't connect to the internet. With windows Network Diagnostics, sometimes "The DNS server isn't responding", and sometimes "Local Area Connection/Wireless Network Connection doesn't have a valid IP configuration".
I've tried:
- unplugging and replugging the power cable to the modem
- resetting the wireless router
- ensured obtaining IP address and DNS server address are obtained automatically for Internet Protocol V4 and V6
- netsh int ip reset (CMD)
- netsh winsock reset (CMD)
- ipconfig /renew and ipconfig /release (CMD) (the latter gives me the following error message on my laptop: "An error has occured while renewing interface Wireless Network Connection : unable to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out.")
-ping-ing 220.127.116.11 (CMD) transmit failed, general faliure 4/4 times.
- clearing browser history
- system restore to an earlier point on my laptop
- checking for updates to my network adaptors (Microsoft Virtual Wifi Miniport Adaptor was updated)
- disabling Microsoft Virtual Wifi Miniport Adaptor
- uninstalling and reinstalling the wiresless adapter to my laptop
- inputting the physical address on my desktop to the Network Address (Local Area Connection > Properties > Advanced) - originally the value was "Not Present"
None of the above worked. I've used this network for a few years, and this is the first time this problem has occured on both the laptop and desktop.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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If there's an issue with both of your computers, I'd look at the router or the ISP as the cause of your problems. Have you contacted your ISP about the internet problem?
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I tend to agree, sounds like a problem with the router specifically to me.
Power it down again, but be patient let it stay off for a good 5 minutes, then plug it back in.
You may have to go into the router settings and manually refresh the dns after that.
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Sorry, I forgot to mention I contacted my ISP. I tried everything they asked me to and none of their suggestions worked. I'm inclined to say it isn't the router's problem given that the desktop I'm using right now (running windows vista) works with it, and my ipod connects to it as well.
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Sorry, I forgot to mention I contacted my ISP. I tried everything they asked me to and none of their suggestions worked. I'm inclined to say it isn't the router's problem given that the desktop I'm using right now (running windows vista) works with it, and my ipod connects to it as well.
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|04 Jul 2011
The desktop is properly connected to the router by cable and the laptop is wirelessly connected. As mentioned, both computers have Windows 7 and both of them have been updated very recently (within the last week). I was thinking an update may have resulted in this issue and figured restoring it to an earlier point would resolve it on my laptop (it didn't). Would it be possible to uninstall every update I've done in the last week?
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|05 Jul 2011
So using safe mode with networking allows me to access the internet with no problems. Something's blocking the connection outside safe mode but I don't know how to pinpoint it or how to resolve it. Help, please.
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My guess would be either antivirus or firewall software is blocking you they don't load in safe mode.
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|05 Jul 2011
I've temporarily uninstalled my anti-virus. It doesn't seem to be the cause. I'll try to disable my firewall as well (along with anything else that looks suspicious) and see what happens.
EDIT: no anti-virus at the moment, and firewall disabled. The problem is still here.
Two oddities I should point out:
- my anti-virus (Avast!) updated itself several times despite the problem
- sometimes it says I have internet access, but I can't access any websites (I've tried IE and Firefox)
Edit 2: it works now, after disabling all non Microsoft services via safe mode and restarting.
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|16 Jul 2011
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
In the old threads like a year ago, they were suggesting to uninstall bonjour service (msdnresponder.exe), but I don't know if anything changed since then about msdnresponder.exe. People more professional than me can know better.
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Hi folks, and welcome to this easy to follow and simple guide to what the 2010 Eisner nominations are and what we here at The Weekly Crisis think about some of them. This won't read like some Wiki article about the history of the awards, more like we'll open a few envelopes, see who's nominated, and then get our fanlad chat on. And there'll be plenty to chat about as some of these noms are pretty controversial.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
A Fanlad's Guide To The Eisner Nominations 2010
Hi folks, and welcome to this easy to follow and simple guide to what the 2010 Eisner nominations are and what we here at The Weekly Crisis think about some of them. This won't read like some Wiki article about the history of the awards, more like we'll open a few envelopes, see who's nominated, and then get our fanlad chat on. And there'll be plenty to chat about as some of these noms are pretty controversial.
Posted by Ryan K Lindsay at 7:24 PM
Thought Bubbles: Eisner Awards, Opinion/Editorial
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- Ivan said...
There's no only Best Penciller and only Best Inker award?
- April 15, 2010 at 8:29 PM
Has Brubaker ever been involved with something that was just straight-up bad? I've loved pretty much everything of his I've ever read.
- April 15, 2010 at 9:36 PM
- CasinoGrande said...
I think Larroca did the actual illustrations on the Iron Man covers, while Rian Hughes did the trade dress and overall design (so fonts and those extra circles, maybe?)
At least, I think the Tony here is drawn by Larroca: http://marvel.com/images/601973./from/content.comic_issue.28335
And while I love Hickman and wish he had gotten more of a nod, he has at least been nominated in the past, with Nightly News up for Best Limited.
- April 15, 2010 at 10:00 PM
You pretty much summed up my thoughts when I heard Old Man Logan was nominated. I'm also baffled as to how Irredeemable is up for anything, considering we're up to issue 12 and all we've seen is that the Plutonian could give Superboy Prime a run for his money as the whiniest comic character ever.
- April 15, 2010 at 11:45 PM
- Ryan K Lindsay said...
@Ivan - nah, there's no separate category for pencillers and inkers...make of that what you will. When I interviewed Steven Snaders recently he said inkers need their own category.
@Klep - I know I've generally loved most of Brubaker's stuff, but apparently his X-Men run isn't perfect, and I didn't think Books of Doom was very impressive.
@CasinoGrande - Nightly News was pretty good but Hickman is now doing Secret Warriors and FF and doing them both damn well, perhaps next year with the S.H.I.E.L.D. feather in his cap as well he'll get a nod.
- April 16, 2010 at 12:55 AM
- Jonathan M Perez said...
Cap Reborn was straight up bad
- April 16, 2010 at 5:34 PM
- Marc said...
It's nice to see Wonderful Wizard of Oz get nominated for some legit awards, rather than just the ones for kids' books. I think it probably has an advantage over Incognito for the Best Limited Series or Story Arc award, but really, every other nominee (other than Blackest Night) is award-worthy and deserves to be there. I'd say this is a pretty strong year, and other than a very small number of strange nominations (James Robinson for Cry Justice? Really?) the Eisner Awards have done a good job of honoring that.
- April 17, 2010 at 1:34 PM
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Thank gawd you´re not in the betting business! lol!
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You will receive a Vietnam IMMIGRATION /CUSTOMS form from the flight attendant. This is fairly self explanatory. DO NOT leave any blanks unless the question doesn't apply to you. If you have any questions ask a fellow traveler or flight attendant. The last thing you want to do is get to the Vietnam immigration desk with an incomplete form. The official will probably have limited English language ability and there likely be a long line of travelers behind you. You don't want to spend any more time at the desk than absolutely necessary.
There will be one blank regarding the name and address of where you are staying in Vietnam. This "PLACE" is your unofficial sponsor. The easiest solution to this problem is to write down the name and address of the hotel where you'll be staying the first night. Put this paper in your passport for easy reference, you'll need your passport number to complete the form. If you didn't make a reservation for a hotel – no problem. Get on the internet or check a travel guide; find the name, address and phone number of any hotel in your arrival city, write it down. Refer to this as you fill out the form. Keep in mind this is only a bureaucratic formality. Don't concern yourself with the fact that you're not going to stay at the "phantom hotel" that night; people change their minds all the time when traveling.
When you get off the plane you will proceed to the immigration line. Be sure to get in the tourist line. Have your passport and other documents ready.
The Vietnam immigration officer will compare the visa stamped in your passport and the visa entered in the immigration information system. If you get a pre-approved visa from a service agency the procedure will be the same. He will stamp the visa in your passport and give you a white immigration card. This card is your official Vietnam travel/tourist permit. DO NOT LOSE THIS FORM! You must turn in this form when you leave the country.
You will then claim your luggage and proceed to customs. My advice – don't carry any luggage that needs to be checked – carry only what you can put in your pockets, a day pack and a carry-on size bag or backpack. I have never had my belongings checked at Vietnam Customs. (They will do Security Inspections.)
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Ever since I learned the pope was resigning, I have been wondering how a name is chosen for the pope. This gave me my answer.
"What's in a name? Clues to be found in next pope's moniker" by Laura Smith-Park, CNN (4 March 2013)
The secret election to pick a new pope has yet to begin. But whoever is picked may already be mulling over a choice of name — and what it means.


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Getting Goosebumps Podcast
The Power of Storytelling with Bryan Adams
"Hits the spot with superb guest features and a clear marketing theme throughout the series. Amazing insight" - iTunes Review
Great story-telling is at the centre of Ph.Creative's philosophy. It was also the foundation of our best-selling book Getting Goosebumps. I wanted to take this a step further, delve deeper into the power of storytelling and hear the thoughts of my favourite marketing experts. So far, the podcast has featured guests such as Seth Godin, Robert Mckee, Brian Clark, Michael Hauge and Gary Vaynerchuk.
So grab your headphones and scroll down to have a read about our latest episode...
Getting Goosebumps Podcast: Episode 48
#48 How Ann Zuccardy became an accidental neuroscientist
This week I am joined on another episode of Getting Goosepumps by Ann Zuccardy, and what an episode it is. Ann a former writer who suffered from a brain injury has since become, what she explains to be, an accidental neuroscientist. 4 years following her injury Ann has learned that the majority of new information she was discovering about her brain, is in fact backed up by science, hence the accidental title of a neuroscientist.
How Ann's brain injury made her smarter
Since Anne's injury in 2011 she has since been redefining what makes somebody 'smart'. Ann enlightens us into less conventional ways of determining how smart somebody is. She explains how she was once measured on things like her school grades, her job, and the amount of money in her check-book. Today she measures her level of smartness on inventing new ways to do old tasks, her ability to be creative and learn through curiosity.
The importance of being present in every moment
Ann explains due to her injury, she has no other choice, nor physical capacity, but to be present in everything she engages in. Her ability to only focus on one task at a time has taught her that more people should practice this. Listening to people without thinking of an agenda of what to say next is something Ann can't do, however this is something she would encourage more people anyway to do too.
Telling stories with humour makes a more memorable experience
Ann talks of her The Safe/Unsafe Ted-ex Talk and how embracing your 'inner-dork' is something she preaches and encourages. Stepping out of your comfort zone every day and doing so with a child's mind like Tom Hanks in BIG is a way of exposing our brains to novelty it needs to grow. Finding levity in a serious moment and creating stories create memories, something Ann encourages and wills us to do more.


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Captain Teemo's Abilities
Camouflage. If Teemo stands still and takes no action for 2 seconds, he becomes stealthed. After leaving stealth, Teemo gains the Element of Surprise, increasing his attack speed by 40% for 3 seconds.
Blinding Dart. Obscures an enemy's vision with a powerful venom, dealing damage to the target unit and causing all attacks to miss for the duration. Deals 80-260 (+0.8 per ability power) magic damage and causes the target to miss all of their attacks for 1.5-3.5 seconds.
Move Quick. Teemo scampers around, increasing his movement speed until he is struck by an enemy champion or turret. Toggle: Teemo's movement speed is increased by 15-35% until he is struck by an enemy champion or turret.
Toxic Shot. Each of Teemo's attacks will poison the target, dealing damage each second for 4 seconds. Teemo's basic attacks poison their target, dealing 8-35 (+0.14 per ability power) magical damage upon impact and again each second for 4 seconds.
Noxious Trap. Teemo places a explosive poisonous trap. If an enemy steps on the trap it will release a poisonous cloud, slowing enemies and damaging them over time. Uses a stored mushroom to place a trap which detonates if an enemy steps on it, spreading poison to nearby enemies which slows movement speed by 30/40/50% and deals 250/475/700 (+1 per ability power) magic damage over 4 seconds. Traps last 10 minutes. Teemo forages for a mushroom every 30/26/22 seconds, but he is only big enough to carry 3 at once.
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[gad] /gæd/
verb (used without object), gadded, gadding.
to move restlessly or aimlessly from one place to another:
to gad about.
the act of gadding.
verb gads, gadding, gadded
(intransitive; often foll by about or around) to go out in search of pleasure, esp in an aimless manner; gallivant
carefree adventure (esp in the phrase on or upon the gad)
(mining) a short chisel-like instrument for breaking rock or coal from the face
a goad for driving cattle
a western US word for spur (sense 1)
verb gads, gadding, gadded
(transitive) (mining) to break up or loosen with a gad
noun, interjection
an archaic euphemism for God by Gad!
noun (Old Testament)
a prophet and admonisher of David (I Samuel 22; II Samuel 24)
"to rove about," mid-15c., perhaps a back-formation from Middle English gadeling (Old English gædeling) "kinsman, fellow, companion in arms," but which had a deteriorated sense of "rogue, vagabond" by c.1300 (it also had a meaning "wandering," but this is attested only from 16c.); or else it should be associated with gad (n.) "a goad for driving cattle." Related: Gadding.
"goad, metal rod," early 13c., from Old Norse gaddr "spike, nail," from Proto-Germanic *gadaz "pointed stick" (see yard (n.2)).
glutamate decarboxylase
fortune; luck. (1.) Jacob's seventh son, by Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, and the brother of Asher (Gen. 30:11-13; 46:16, 18). In the Authorized Version of 30:11 the words, "A troop cometh: and she called," etc., should rather be rendered, "In fortune [R.V., 'Fortunate']: and she called," etc., or "Fortune cometh," etc. The tribe of Gad during the march through the wilderness had their place with Simeon and Reuben on the south side of the tabernacle (Num. 2:14). The tribes of Reuben and Gad continued all through their history to follow the pastoral pursuits of the patriarchs (Num. 32:1-5). The portion allotted to the tribe of Gad was on the east of Jordan, and comprehended the half of Gilead, a region of great beauty and fertility (Deut. 3:12), bounded on the east by the Arabian desert, on the west by the Jordan (Josh. 13:27), and on the north by the river Jabbok. It thus included the whole of the Jordan valley as far north as to the Sea of Galilee, where it narrowed almost to a point. This tribe was fierce and warlike; they were "strong men of might, men of war for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, their faces the faces of lions, and like roes upon the mountains for swiftness" (1 Chr. 12:8; 5:19-22). Barzillai (2 Sam. 17:27) and Elijah (1 Kings 17:1) were of this tribe. It was carried into captivity at the same time as the other tribes of the northern kingdom by Tiglath-pileser (1 Chr. 5:26), and in the time of Jeremiah (49:1) their cities were inhabited by the Ammonites. (2.) A prophet who joined David in the "hold," and at whose advice he quitted it for the forest of Hareth (1 Chr. 29:29; 2 Chr. 29:25; 1 Sam. 22:5). Many years after we find mention made of him in connection with the punishment inflicted for numbering the people (2 Sam. 24:11-19; 1 Chr. 21:9-19). He wrote a book called the "Acts of David" (1 Chr. 29:29), and assisted in the arrangements for the musical services of the "house of God" (2 Chr. 29:25). He bore the title of "the king's seer" (2 Sam. 24:11, 13; 1 Chr. 21:9).
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[gad-flahy] /ˈgædˌflaɪ/ noun, plural gadflies. 1. any of various , as a or , that bite or annoy domestic animals. 2. a person who persistently annoys or provokes others with criticism, schemes, ideas, demands, requests, etc. /ˈɡædˌflaɪ/ noun (pl) -flies 1. any of various large dipterous flies, esp the horsefly, that annoy livestock by sucking […]
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The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) on Thursday felicitated 19 former cricketers from India and Pakistan at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata to mark the 25 years of Indo-Pak One Day International (ODI) matches at the iconic stadium.
The felicitation was performed during the 45-minute innings break of the second ODI match between India and Pakistan here.
The stadium witnessed a historic moment when the former cricketers, including Sourav Ganguly, Ravi Shastri, Rameez Raja and VVS Laxman, were given a lap of honour around the iconic ground on open jeeps. The crowd cheered aloud as they captured the moment in their hearts.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who was the guest of honour, gave a silver salver, a shawl, a commemorative tie and a cheque of Rs.One lakh to each of the cricketers.
Pertinently, the first ODI between the two neighbours were played at the Eden Gardens on February 18, 1987.
The list of players felicitated are as follows:
Bishan Singh Bedi
Mushtaq Muhammad
Ajit Wadekar
GR Vishwanath
Sunil Gavaskar
Intikhab Alam
Kapil Dev
Imtiaz Ahmed
Sadiq Muhammad
K Srikkanth
Wasim Akram
Ravi Shastri
Sandip Patil
Rameez Raja
Dilip Vengsarkar
VVS Laxman
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dragon knight by Wen-XaeroaaaWatch
©2012-2017 Wen-Xaeroaaa
hope u like my fantasy world~
no need to hope, love it!
That knight looks amazing
Well drawn and gracefully colorful. I couldn't do this in a million years Love it
wuao!! how many hours doing this? looks so amazing! love the blue colors you use, nice contrast and composition.
Wow!I love it.
I always love illustrations where the canvas has a large width and you see an awesome badass knight on the side while the rest is a scenery to complement the knight
I hope your fantasy world likes me.
*magically jumps in the picture*
*magically jumps in the picture*
This is so amazing. I truly am speechless...
I like it very much! (: Great job.
love it!
Wow! awesome composition and colors!!! Sweat piece!
Oh come on, why can't I be there !!
HHAHHAHAHAHA~i cant either
Well there's always imagination , yours seems significantly better than mine, however. Looks like I've got some work to do on it. . Hey look there's a picture up there, that ought to help. *yoink*
Now this is a dragon knight! Wonderfully painted!
:~spent lots of time~hope u all enjoy~
Keaghen... did you get an upgrade? teeheehee
Awesome work!~
I love the swords.
Head of that dragon is just awesome! Great pic
Wow! Excellent art work once again. I like the fantasy setting and the scenery looks epic. Wonderful coloring. Well done!
thank u all~^__^
now THAT is a bitchin' DRAGON RIDER! sweetness!
Totaly like it! <3
Awesome work
Fantastic design!
Love it, I really like the strong tones you use. The dragon's maw is lovely as well.
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Porsche's most controversial model, the Cayenne four-wheel-drive, will get a baby brother in 2015.
The German sports car maker's Volkswagen bosses have confirmed Porsche will further expand its rapidly growing line-up with a new mid-sized SUV that could be called Cajun.
VW CEO Martin Winterkorn had hinted at a smaller Porsche off-roader at last March's Geneva motor show, and in an interview with German newspaper Der Spiegel he said the company will get "a new SUV, a smaller brother to the Cayenne which might be called Cajun".
European speculation has pinned a late 2014 or early 2015 on-sale date for the baby Porsche SUV, which has been rumoured for a couple of years and had been expected to be called Roxster.
The Cajun is likely to be based on the mid-sized 4WD Q5 from VW's luxury brand Audi. The Cayenne shares its platform with the Audi Q7, as well as the VW Touareg.
Porsche is also expected to produce a baby sports car to sit below the Boxster as Volkswagen aims to double Porsche's global sales to 150,000 in the next few years.
The Porsche range comprised just the 911 and Boxster eight years ago but now also includes the Cayenne, Cayman coupe and Panamera four-door.


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IT conference addresses tech trend impact
Technological innovations that seem unrelated to a business or industry actually could have a profound, disruptive impact, an information technology expert told area business leaders on Wednesday.
For example, Google's self-driving cars could eliminate crashes, which might spell the end for the $170 billion auto insurance industry, said Erik van Ommeren, director of innovation for Dayton-based Sogeti USA. The emerging technology also could reduce the need for truck, taxi and bus drivers, he said.
Business leaders should "reason through" seemingly inapplicable tech innovations to find tangents "that may be relevant for you as a company or an industry," van Ommeren said at the fourth annual Technology Innovation Conference at the Sinclair Community College Ponitz Center in Dayton.
The half-day conference was intended to inspire IT professionals from about 50 southwest Ohio businesses and organizations to "think more strategically into the future about where things are headed," said Ann Gallaher, chief operating officer of Technology First, the regional IT trade association that hosted the event.
The conference also featured speakers from Microsoft, Google and Tableau Software, who addressed trending technologies including "big data," data visualization and mobile device management.
The conference is an opportunity for area businesses to learn about new tech trends and standards that they might be able to capitalize on, said Jon Lind, a business development manager for IO, a Phoenix-based data center technology and services company that in March opened a new facility in Springboro.
"They get a chance to hear what is changing the market space and (consider) early adoption of those opportunities to better improve their business," Lind said.


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Ported the core of my L-system work to user Browserify through CommonJS — much nicer API than AMD/requirejs. Not sure I'm keen on exposing node_modules, though.
Category: JavaScript
More Textbook PCM Visualisation
As a base for the on-going habitat soundscape program, I've AMD-wrapped my PCM visualiser of some years ago, and given it a place in bower, too. Mainly so I could easily subclass to add a spectragraph, too.
Over the weekend I had a go at three.js and Conway's Game Of Life — I'm sure I can get it to make music somehow, but am disappointed to learn that the shapes appear not to be photosensitive, and ray tracking in JS is not fast.
Three.js is great for someone like me, who has never programmed 3D graphics — the shader language looks interesting.
Used require.js again — this time set up with Yo and Bower — the wiring of require took about five minutes. Nice workflow, I'm sticking with it. Tests were in Qunit, sadly, but maybe I'll write a Yo generator for requirejs, bower, and mocha.
Angular Mixer
A coupe of years ago, whilst working away from home, I started writing a sound mixer in MooTools. All went went, until I hit looping bug in Firefox and then my l-system project caught my eye again…
Now I'm looking for something to work on with Angular, shortly after being handed a bunch of mp3 tracks split from a Logic session, so …
Why Angular?
In 1997 I wrote a clone of PacMan for Netscape Navigator, moving DIV elements with CSS. Although I have largely earned my living as a server-side developer since then, I have written many JavaScript applications, using MooTools, jQuery, and avoiding libraries altogether: at every hand-over meeting, I have had to spend hours explaining what have become to me fundamental concepts in JS, borrowed from my server-side work, such a views, bindings, injection, controllers, routes — and to those who are familiar with these concepts, I have had to explain my own implementations of these. I'm actually quite proud of my own implementations: they're clean and efficient, but repeatedly explaining them is a bit of a drag. A library that can do the same things, and more, as well as offering reasonable documentation and community support, removes from me the burden of general documentation and education, as well saving a lot of start-up time.
Where to start
My last, and first, Angular project was a single-page application to add subtitles to video files. It took a couple of half-days to write, and served as a great introduction to the way Angular works. But it rook me hours to find a clean entrance, and the chosen Angular seed on GitHub modularised in a way I didn't find constructive for my project, being functional rather than conceptual, rather at odds with the OO approach I prefer.
When recently spent some time updating some code for Symbox in the UK, I came across a Backbone project that used grunt and bbb. Since the last release of bbb was some years ago, I brought the project's gruntfile up to date, which negated the need for bbb, but did show me that Yeoman had finally taken off. So this time, I'll start with Yeoman.
From the Yeoman homepage, set-up looks quite straight forward:
npm install -g generator-angular # install generator yo angular # scaffold out a AngularJS project grunt test # test your app grunt serve # preview your app (formerly `grunt server`)
Looks like we get bonus HTML5 boiler plate, and a reasonable staring point in js files. Now I can think about my application.
Application Requirements
Other than being testable, package-able, and easy to read, the application needs to:
- play multiple audio files
- play local or remote audio
- start and stop playing individual tracks at discrete points
- loop specific points in tracks for specific periods
- muting of tracks
- changes to pan
- changes to volume
- recording and playback of mute/pan/volume events
In Agile style, best to start simple, with an object representing a single audio track.
In my previous attempt, I had a container for tracks that visually represented time, but found — as in any sequencer — milliseconds an unnatural unit for music. So this time, I'll work in units based on the size of audio files, placing the burden of timing on the creator of the audio files. After all, the intention is to remix existing multi-track recordings.
Prototype, Trains, Marketing
I was asked the other day if I'd ever used Prototype.js, and I completely forgot that I had used it in Train Game — the library is such a natural extension to JavaScript that its use did not stick in my mind. Although, having now looked again, I do wonder what it is doing with my error messages….
The reason I forgot Train Game is that I never got past the round of development. The idea is simple — allow a child to build a train track, with points, and watch the trains — this could keep a three- or four-year old boy amused for an hour, and it's not hard to program, as it is all grid-based.
Thing is, I then thought about extending the game to allow varied size pieces of track, and selling the software to those who make the Thomas And Friends tracks. It's a great idea — design your layout from track in their catalogue, and order online with a single click: so simple, a three- or four-year old child could do it.
But I have no idea how to sell this, where or how to raise capital: all I know is how to program, hire a and run a development team, apply graphics. I think I could even have a selected number of track pieces lay themselves out in a number of patterns dreamt up by the computer.
It would take six months to publication.
JavaScript Poster Text
A year or so ago, I wrote some client-side JavaScript to allow allow input text to flow around images — it worked perfectly, and was optimized through a server-side process that produced a mask map from the image, which could be sent as JSON with the choice of image being mapped. Whilst optimised, it was non-dynamic — there were no uploads of user-supplied images, nor any provision in the client to analayse such images, tough that would be only a few lines of code. The purpose of the project was to allow users to create their own type-wrapped postcards, and that worked perfectly.
The next version of the library will have a version that allows not the wrapping of text to an image, but the automated sizing of text such that every line is fully justified (flush from margin to margin), with lines of less characters generally using bigger font sizes to till the line.
The user will be able to enter text with or without manual line breaks, and real-time editing should be supported.
It should be easy to program all of this within a day, perhaps two. My only concern would be cross-platform DOM manipulation, because I have used MooTools, jQuery and such libraries for so long now, that my DOM API is rusty. Then again, there are few places where node creation is actually necessary, so it will not be long-winded enough to justify use of any library.
Day two
This morning I managed to tweak the existing e-card code to automatically scale free text, preserving line breaks. This afternoon, I should break it away from the input UI.
My First Facebook Applicaiton
This Timeline Word Cloud is my first Facebook application, written in about 16 hours — most of which were spent dealing with horrendous problems within the Facebook JavaScript SDK.
On the whole, it is a pleasant SDK, with clear documentation and plenty of Stack Overflow examples (some ugly, some neat).
What did bugged me was that WebKit-based browsers get very upset when Facebook's 'Login' button/dialogue inserts an IFRAME with an https scheme when its images are hosted on a server with an http scheme. This would have been less of an issue had OSX Chrome actually reported the issue.
After writing my own Facebook log-in routine, everything worked like a charm — up to converting the beautiful d3 word cloud SVG to PNG, when Chrome freaked out that I was manipulating Blob and Object URIs. I updated my use of the word cloud to render directly to a canvas from which I could gather pixels to create a URI for my image.
I would have liked to have written the app to use a Facebook 'canvas' — to appear within the Facebook site itself — but my host, Vision Internet, require a modest £50 a year for a usable SSL certificate, which this application really doesn't justify, yet.
I was pleased enough with the results to use the Graph API to produce word clouds of friend lists activities, too — which took about two hours.
What's the point?
I've learnt how to tie-in with Facebook, which was no big deal. I've learnt how tight Chrome is, which was news.
Can it pay? No, I doubt it — but when I was developing the first prototype (an hour's code), I was using d3 bubble graphs, and it might be interesting to see those bubbles filled with images from a paying agency — particularly if the agency had a friend list of news providers: instant and up-to-date promotional posters for current affairs. That would be fun.
PHP Ain't So Bad, and Paula's New Homepage
Paula wanted to update her website last month, so I actually spent some money buying a photographer's WordPress scheme — what a waste. There were no docs, and the implementation was as unintuitive as I could imagine, so I hand-coded her site single-page JS application.
I finally gave up on MooTools and used jQuery for DOM manipulation, and wrote the rest as a collection of 'pure JS' classes — slideshow, portfolio, news section, very straight-forward, and quite good fun.
One Interesting Thing
Paula's quite good with the machine, but doesn't like fiddling, so I wanted an easy way for her to upload and manage her images.
The simplest I could come up with was for her to title them in a human-readable, sensible manner, and produce 200px thumbnails with the same title, plus a suffix of '_thumb.' She then FTPs the lot into a directory on the host, and adds a single empty div to the single HTML page of the app — specifying the images' directory URI in a 'data-' attribute. Apache's mod_autoindex directory index is then requested, parsed, and used to generate the portfolios and slideshows.
I'm very pleased with this simplicity.
The Other Interesting Thing
The other interesting thing was that I found it took only two hours to turn this code into a WordPress plugin, and that WordPress can be made to work with OO PHP — great news, considering how much PHP work there is out there. It is almost as ugly as Perl, and nowhere near as sweet as JavaScript can be, but still…
Angularjs Subtitles
I watch a lot of Scandinavian video files, which means a lot of subtitles. Being a fussy sort of a fellow, I do get irked by badly timed and badly typed subtitles, so for some months have been contemplating writing a subtitle editor. I've combined that urge with my curiosity about AngularJS. I have been irritated by JavaScript since version 1.0, and have so far been unimpressed with everything but MooTools. Yet the weight of Google, and its usually intelligent solutions, is encouraging.
Starting from scratch it took about eight hours to create an SRT viewer from scratch in 'the Angular way.' That has involved very little new ideas — a blurry MVC, more of an MVP; mustach-style templates that mix presentation, backbone views — but some nice dependency injection, and a huge pile of patterns to choose from (which will probably be a PITA, if the TMTOWTDI motto of Perl is anything to go by).
Eight hours to produce an SRT viewer, which is a task I'd usually accomplish in two hours.
I am hoping the investment in time will pay a return now that I set to work on the editing controls. Currently, Angular's two-way data-binding allows me to edit subtitles — moving them as a mass, and adding new entries, is coming up.
One thing I do find encouraging is the community, which is very helpful, and not snooty like the Perl community, who seem to be slowly drifting away in the Perl6 pipe smoke. Angular's API seems to change quite often (not a bad thing), and these changes are regularly pointed out on Stack Overflow.
One thing that really annoys me is the need to $scope.$apply — so hard to avoid.
What really pisses me off, though, is that the tutorial is not up to date with the tools. There is little more off-putting than starting a tutorial and having to reconfigure everything. Surely Google have the resources…?
What's the alternative?
But the two libraries do things very differently. Ractive.js is designed to have as few surprises as possible – no mysterious
$scope.$apply()or dependency injection minification headaches! You can master Ractive.js in an hour or two, just by following the interactive tutorials.
So claims Reactive.js — and it has to be worth a look.
JavaScript and Perl Object-orientation: a small comparison
I began programming Perl in 1997, as my university did not
run Netscape Live Server – the original server-side JavaScript –
and I wanted to access to a database.
So many years later, it looks as if JavaScript is back in
a serious way: despite limitations in the implimentations
of ECMA Script, the standard of which JS is now a subset,
the language is more powerful than the average Perl
developer is lead to believe.
Perl programmers tend to frown on JS as a toy language,
the way C++ devlopers look down on Perl developers.
Yet Perl and JavaScript have an awful lot in common:
both are easy to exten, bothd in their own syntax and
in the C; both are regularly extended with library
frameworks (Moose, MooTools).
Whilst both have a slightly unusual approach to OO,
the main conceptual difference is that JavaScript is
OO to a much great extent than Perl. For example, whereas
Perl has a length() function, JS objects have a length() method.
More interestingly, JavaScript's object orientation is
prototype-based – there are no classes, only objects and
object instances, based on functions that operate upon a
built-in "this" variable, and which are used to generate
instances of custom objects when called with the "new" keyword.
This page contains JavaScript which
is documented, in comparison with Perl:
A comparison between
common OO features of Perl and JavaScript
The Problem with MooTools…
jQuery's primacy is not because it is a 'better' system: it doesn't even have a class model, and class-like features have to be hacked-together in a non-standard manner. jQuery sells because it looks good, and has a huge number of reliable plug-ins.
I recently had call to produce a live data grid, reflecting a database table, and allowing users to make updates to the database table by editing the table on the screen. I found a jQuery plugin within five minutes, and had the code up and running in 15: all credit to jQuery and the plug-in author.
Doing this in MooTools can take all day, though the code produced is easier to maintain and update with new features.
Part of the problem is that MooTools is more compartmentalised. A recent example I came across was trying to produce charts from tabulated data. The wonderful MilkChart library for MooTools, by Brett Dixon, produces beautiful business-ready charts from HTML tables – but not from MooTool's Table.Sort or Table.Paginate tables. It only took ten minute this morning to produce a GitHub fork of the project, updated to support these core MooTools features, but it seems curious that such elementary comparability has been over-looked for so long. Perhaps I can gauge the health of MooTools by the state of this fork's pull request.