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We Judge Motives All the Time
Attributing sinful motives to a man today will quickly bring the response, "We can't know the heart. We must not act as though we can read people's minds." or something of that sort. But it's almost always when somebody is offended that he says this, just like people only say, "Judge not lest ye be judged!" when they are offended. The second quote is trotted out when you confront a man about his sinful actions, but it is the first quote I'm interested in. That one is used when you confront a man about his sinful motives. So let's answer the burning question. Is he right? Should we or should we not judge motives?
Indeed we must, and it is quite obvious when we look at the qualifications of an elder. Here is the first part of the passage:
"An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money." (1 Timothy 3:2-3)
Notice the last one, "free from the love of money." It's interesting in this context primarily because it is talking about a heart-issue. In other words, the only way to evaluate a man on this criteria is to make a judgement about his heart. You have to look at his actions, and then make a decision about his motives, based on those actions. You can't simply look at whether he is wealthy or poor. Either way, he could be a lover of money. You can't simply ask him if he loves money. You must make a judgement about his heart. If you refuse to make a judgement about motives, you will inevitably have an elder who is not qualified because he loves money, and this will be destructive to the church.
As a matter of fact, judging motives is always going on. If an unknown man walks into your church and starts hanging out and talking to a group of girls outside, you better be judging his motives. Not just judging, but then acting on your judgment of his motives is absolutely necessary. Now, if he gets all in a tizzy, offended that you would suggest he might have impure motives, what do you do? Do you just let him go back to hanging out with the Jr. High girls? No. You tell him that it doesn't really matter what his motives are, he is not to be hanging around them, and that the next time he is seen doing so, he will be escorted off the premises immediately. And you probably warn the girls about him, too.
Even John MacArthur has been known to judge motives. At one point he spoke of a particular Bible translation as "distinguished by its deference to the feminist movement," and said that the translators "changed the Word of God to make it compatible with the contemporary feminist egalitarian movement." This is judging motives. As soon as you say why somebody did something, or what they were trying to accomplish, you are judging their motives. MacArthur is saying they are motived by their desire to please men. So why exactly is it ok for MacArthur to definitively judge the motives of the translators?
After all, the translator is going to respond with something that sounds rather familiar. It goes like this: "I already explained why we did this. My motive was actually to spread the word of God more broadly, to remove unnecessary stumbling blocks, and to make the Bible more clear to today's readers. Why don't you give me the benefit of the doubt as your Christian brother? Don't you have any charity? Besides, you really shouldn't try to assign motives. You don't know my heart. I do."
And that sounds very convincing doesn't it? You're the only one who knows your motives. Everyone else just has to take your word for it that your motives are good. But do you know your own heart? Actually, no. You don't. How do we know? Two verses address this directly.
"Every man's way is right in his own eyes, But the LORD weighs the hearts." (Proverbs 21:2)
"The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it? "I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds." (Jeremiah 17:9-10)
It is true that God is the one who searches our hearts ultimately, and He is the one who will judge us in the end. But it is also true that he ties our deeds directly to our hearts. There isn't a conflict between our actions and our heart, even if we ourselves are deceived into thinking there is. Sometimes our actions will appear good while our heart motives will be rotten, but never will our heart be pure and produce bad fruit. If there is a warning in Scripture against judging motives, it is that we need to be careful not to quickly praise somebody, assuming their motives are good. This is what we see in 1 Corinthians 4.
"3 But to me it is a very small thing that I may be examined by you, or by any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself. 4 For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted; but the one who examines me is the Lord. 5 Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men's hearts; and then each man's praise will come to him from God. 6 Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you may learn not to exceed what is written, so that no one of you will become arrogant in behalf of one against the other." 1 Corinthians 4:3-6
Discerning and judging men's motives is necessary. We do it all the time. The only question is whether we will do it with discernment or if we will simply say, "I know that looks bad, but he couldn't have bad motives. After all, I know him. He's a good man." That is the environment child molesters seek out. That is the cover they use to hide their deeds of darkness.
>>> never will our heart be
>>> never will our heart be pure and produce bad fruit
Joseph, on your Dad's blog I saw your question, something like "So people can't do bad things from good motives?" And here it looks like you got your answer, but I wonder how you got to it. If I do something for somebody that I think will be good for them and I was mistaken, does that mean my motives were bad? That doesn't seem right.
Or maybe trying and failing is different than bad fruit? I think there's something I'm not understanding.
Excellent question
Excellent question, Daniel. We are obviously not omniscient. We can't know everything. I had this exact conversation with somebody in college. He did not believe in the total depravity of man or original sin. He thought it was possible for men (and in particular himself) to do things without sinful motives. I was trying to convince him that he was wrong. In the end, he felt like I was claiming that he had to be omniscient in order to be able to avoid doing things that could have bad outcomes.
But the whole point is not that we need to be omniscient. It is that we need to be very wary of our motives, since we know that we are depraved. How many times have you determined to do something that you felt would be beneficial to yourself, only realizing later that you were actually deceiving yourself to set yourself up to pursue sin? This can even include things like saying, "I'm going to go spend time reading the Bible now." The reality is that you could be using supposedly "holy" motives simply to avoid doing the work in your home that the Bible requires. Will reading the Bible produce good fruit in that circumstance? No. It's actually the very producing of bad fruit, in that case.
Similarly, we often think we know what would be good for somebody and we tell them what to do. But did we seek the Lord's will in prayer? Are we trusting in our own wisdom? Have we spent the last 4 months avoiding finding out what's going on in their life so that we are culpably ignorant of what is actually necessary?
As fallen men, bad motives are everywhere in us. Does that help?
In Christ,


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More wild kuduro live from Angola via Akwaaba. Benjamin Lebrave writes from Luanda about Os Mais Potentes' song "Vem Ca," which he says is hugely popular there at the moment. It also has a video with rubber-legged dancers, one with no shirt but with a helmet. We want this on Hot 97. Anyone work for Clear Channel, can you can get this added? MP3 of the track released on Akwaaba soon, Lebrave's notes about the song after the jump.
Lebrave: As the rest of the world starts to pay attention to Luanda's kuduro scene, there are still very limited outlets for kudurists in Angola. It's changing fast though, just 3 years ago the national TV stations still wouldn't play kuduro, and as a result kuduro videos were rare. As were places to buy CDs or even venues doing kuduro shows. Now, there are more shows, music videos play and as a result more and more kudurists are investing in making music videos. Singers usually pay 2 to $5,000 to make a video, which typically plays first on TV Marçal, Angola's first and only community TV. It preceded all of Angola's private channels, and to this day it is considered the voice of the ghetto: it is based in the Marçal barrio of Rangel, a working class musseque of Luanda, and it broadcasts to a most of this musseque's homes. TV Marçal plays a LOT of kuduro, as well as other styles of music, and broadcast a number of more socially-driven programs.
Now Os Mais Potentes are from the Cassenda barrio of Luanda, another working class musseque near the airport. They spit a more conscious type of kuduro, not as aggressive as say Os Lambas, more ATCQ than Tupac… Vem Ca has been one of the most played songs in Luanda this year, and will be released very soon on Akwaaba.


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Puli 3.8.3 bark 4, released Apr 2014
Subject description: A high security configurable puplet intended to boot from USB pendrive
Welcome to Puli 3.8.3 bark 4, released Apr 2014
Puli is a high security, "kiosk" flavor of
pemasu's Upup Precise v22.214.171.124
, intended to boot from a USB pendrive and run safely even if the boot device is unplugged.
Puli is available at
as Puli_install.tar.gz
Special thanks to pemasu and OscarTalks.
related to its predecessor released Dec 2013:
Updated profiles (faster and more fun without decreasing security levels)
Latest Chrome browser (v34 with Flash plugin v13)
Latest Office packages (Softmaker FreeOffice and LibreOffice)
Latest Java runtime (jre-1.7u55-i586)
Mesa 9.2.0 for Intel video hardware
Media Transfer Protocol supported for MTP-capable but not auto-recognized devices
Minor bugfixes
How to install Puli:
1. Create a bootable USB pendrive
a. In any Puppy Linux distro/puplet such as pemasu's Upup Precise 126.96.36.199, run the Setup / BootFlash install Puppy to USB utility and follow the instructions there.
b. When finished, delete all files from the pendrive except ldlinux.sys.
2. Copy Puli to the pendrive.
a. Puli and its updates are available in form of compressed files. Unpack the Puli_install.tar.gz file to access the Puli_install folder.
b. Open the Puli_install folder and copy its content into the (root of the) USB pendrive.
c. Open the sfs folder and copy its content into the (root of the) USB pendrive.
3. Puli install files include third-party software in format of sfs files. You have three options:
a. To use SoftMaker FreeOffice, copy the puli-SoftMaker.sfs file (53 MB) to puli.sfs. You need to register and obtain your personal license at Softmaker Software GmbH as detailed below. See the related legal restrictions in license text at /opt/freeoffice/license.txt.
b. Alternatively, you can use LibreOffice (without registration) by copying/renaming the puli-LibreOffice.sfs file (206 MB) to puli.sfs on your USB pendrive.
c. If you don't need advanced office features, leave the default puli.sfs file (4 kB) intact, or copy the puli.sfs.empty file (4kB) to puli.sfs.
4. Unmount the pendrive. You are ready, Puli is installed.
5. Before rebooting your machine from the pendrive
a. It is recommended to read the following sections.
b. If you know what to do, you may configure some startup parameters in syslinux.cfg right now.
c. Ensure that the BIOS is configured to boot from pendrive.
6. Give Puli a go!
Puli in a nutshell:
1. Boot-up the PC from the USB pendrive pre-installed with Puli v3.8.3.
a. When asked, log in as root.
b. Type root as password. Later you can change the password and save it for next logins.
2. The QuickSetup dialog pops up. Here, you may configure the system as you want.
a. Check whether timezone, locale and keyboard, etc., are correct and change them if needed.
b. You may right-click the Volume tray icon, select Full window and check/adjust Capture, Mic boost, etc.
3. The USB pendrive gets unmounted. Consider pulling it out when the popup message reminds you.
4. It is recommended to set your own session password.
a. Open console
b. Issue the busybox passwd command.
5. Before you finish, be sure that you left no data on the PC.
6. There are different methods to save your work on the (replugged) USB pendrive:
a. Clicking the backup icon on the right of the Desktop immediately creates a compressed Puli_backup_YYYY_MM_DD_HH_MM.tar.gz backup file in the /backup folder of the USB pendrive. Backups include Backup description, but password files are excluded. You can restore a previous status from any backup if you drag-and-drop its icon onto the Restore icon next to it.
b. You can decide to create backup by selecting Save: backup on the Shutdown dialog.
c. You can preserve the current settings without creating backup file by clicking the Save: patch button on the Shutdown dialog.
* Be wary of hardware keyloggers. From the tray, open the virtual keyboard and use it any time to enter passwords or other sensitive text.
* Some programs, such as office features, evince etc., start in offline mode for your security.
For advanced users:
* The installed mesa graphics accelerator version is 9.0.2 for Intel video hardware while 8.0.4 for Nvidia and Radeon devices.
* You may add boot parameters, e.g., pkeys=hu plang=hu_HU.UTF-8, to syslinux.cfg on the pendrive (see among the install files).
* The default timezone is GMT. However, Puli overwrites it with the content of the single-line timezone file from the (root of the) pendrive. Take a look into the /usr/share/zoneinfo folder for correct timezone strings such as Australia/Perth
* If the USB pendrive contains a /patch folder, then Puli updates the filesystem with its content during bootup before X starts.
* The last executed script in the /root/Startup folder is zsupp. It may worth browsing it for the tricks it does. Of course, even zsupp could be updated from /patch before it (zsupp) would run.
* By clicking on different Office files, the appropriate program opens based on MIME type, i.e., abiword gets the .docx files while textmaker handles the .doc; clicking an .xls opens planmaker while .xlsx invokes gnumeric, etc.
* In the package, you can find tricky user profiles realized by different patch structures. They can be selected/activated (copied into /patch folder on the pendrive) by clicking their fantasy-named profile selector icon.
a. This is the default profile, i.e., when there is no /patch folder on the pendrive or it is empty.
c. The network_tray icon becomes red while suspicious connections are active. They are logged in /var/log/suspicious_connections file.
a. Barks as soon as suspicious connections are detected (only during browsing). Then, to prevent hacker attacks, updates the firewall's blacklist with the suspicious hosts.
b. Puli does not release the suspicious host but occupies its available ports in SYN_SENT or similar mode. For details, see profile-specific scripts such as /usr/local/apps/defaultbrowser and /usr/bin/chromium.
c. If you accidentally get false alarm(s), move those friendly IP addresses from /etc/suspicious_hosts to /etc/friends file (and update your patch structure accordingly).
a. According to the profile name, Puli makes hackers crazy. It disconnects the network periodically to prevent their sessions become effective.
b. I recommend to enable the downloadable Disconnect extension in Crazy profile even if you are in Incognito mode.
* The default browser is a properly sandboxed Chrome version 34.0 with Flash plugin version 13.0.
* In all profiles, clicking the help icon invokes Chrome with mild-tempered settings except that it runs in Normal (non-incognito) mode (where I recommend to set the downloadable Disconnect extension enabled).
* Parental control: Append IP addresses or even domain names (e.g., 22.214.171.124 and/or somename.com) as separate lines to the /etc/suspicious_hosts file (of course, copy it into your favorite patch structure on the UBS pendrive, together with /etc/friends). Puli interprets them and feeds the blacklist automatically.
* Notice that some common Puppy utilities, e.g., default applications chooser and firewall generator, have been removed in favor of the patch-based features.
* Notice also that the .DirIcon of the selected profile folder appears on the Desktop as backup icon.
* If you connected an MTP (Media Transfer Protocol)-capable device (e.g. a mobile phone) via USB cable, open a terminal window and issue mtp+. Now, you can access the device thru the /root/MTP folder. If you finished, issue mtp- before disconnecting the USB cable.
* Localization: Puppy Precise 188.8.131.52 localization files are applicable in Puli. Note that third party software (SoftMaker FreeOffice, Google Chrome, etc) should also be updated with their specific files for your locale. Put the localization files in the appropriate folder(s) of your favorite profile, then activate the changes by clicking the profile selector icon to see them at the next reboot. Puli install files include Hungarian localization (in the hu-HU folder). See it as an example to implement Puli in other languages.
For enthusiasts:
You may need to customize Puli if you want to run it on the same computer. Puli supports this in many ways as follows. But keep in mind that different computers' settings can be incompatible with each other thus their settings should be stored separately, i.e., in different patch profiles.
* During bootup, the puli.sfs file will also be loaded from the USB pendrive if exists. So, rename any .sfs you want to work with, to puli.sfs, to be auto-loaded. Among the install files, you can find a customized puli.sfs.hu as an example (Hungarian language, thanks to kros54). Rename it to puli.sfs of course.
* Menu item Setup > Create custom SFS takes (based on their alphabetical order) all *.sfs files found in /root folder, then merges them into /root/puli.sfs. Move it to the pendrive to auto-load it next time.
* You can save your session settings to auto-load them on the same machine next time. The following examples are here only to help understand the basics. However, their result should be similar to what you get by clicking the Save: patch button on the Shutdown dialog.
Example A
. Preserving only the audio configuration:
a. Set up the sounds with the Retrovol tray icon.
b. Open a terminal.
c. Issue alsactl -f /etc/asound.state store
d. Copy the /etc/asound.state file into your machine-specific profile on the pendrive.
c. Puli restores the same settings at every boot time.
Example B.
Preserving only the network configuration:
a. In Puli, Barry's sns is used to establish network connection. It stores your machine-specific preferences in /etc/simple_network_setup/ folder. Here, wpa_supplicant.conf files contain colons ( : ) in their name which cannot be copied to your pendrive if it is FAT-formatted. If so, replace these colons with equals sign ( = )
b. Copy the /etc/simple_network_setup/ folder to the patch structure of the machine-specific profile on the pendrive.
c. Puli restores those filenames when loading the patch files at startup.
Example D.
Preserving configuration items using built-in script:
a. Set up the sounds with the Retrovol tray icon.
b. Check that sns is configured well.
c. If you chose the default Softmaker FreeOffice program, click the write desktop icon to enter the Softmaker FreeOffice licence key. The key is free for registered users. You need to do this only once, at the first usage.
d. In a terminal window, issue permanent
e. The /usr/bin/permanent script asks for a permanent password then saves the sound and network settings into the /patch folder on the pendrive. You can add more lines to save other session files, e.g., bookmarks, browser profile, desktop background or even downloaded files that have been arrived into the /root/spot/Downloads/ folder.
f. Puli reads the saved settings at every boot time from the actual content of /patch folder of the pendrive. It is recommended to store those machine-specific sets in separate profiles then populate the pendrive's /patch folder from the appropriate profile when necessary.
* In contrast to other puppies, you cannot save your session as puli.2fs on the USB pendrive or elsewhere. Instead, use the backup desktop icon or the Save: backup option at the Shutdown dialog.
* You may refresh the puppy_puli_3.8.3.sfs file with the content of the actual patch structure:
a. Ensure that the pendrive is plugged in (either mounted or unmounted).
b. Open a terminal and issue refresh
c. The temporary files are in the /root/squashfs-root folder. You can manually edit their content there when the script asks for this.
d. Wait until all operations are finished.
* The shrink script does the same as refresh except that it calls the Remove Builtin Files utility before writing back to the USB pendrive. The temporary files are in the /root/squashfs-root folder. You can manually edit the content there when the script asks for this.
Have fun!
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Posted: Wed 11 Sep 2013, 08:10
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Errö írhatnál a magyar puppy-oldalra is!
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Posted: Wed 11 Sep 2013, 09:15
Post subject: Re: Puli Puppy 3.8.3
Subject description: A high security configurable puplet intended to boot from USB pendrive
syslinux.cfg wrote:
default vmlinuz initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=usbflash pfix=ram
I did not see any initrd.gz in Puli
Could not run it
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Posted: Wed 11 Sep 2013, 09:27
Post subject: Re: Puli Puppy 3.8.3
Subject description: A high security configurable puplet intended to boot from USB pendrive
I re-uploaded Puli_install.tar.gz to the collection at
HU menu bug fixed: now the default menu is English
Thanks for your notice.
L18L wrote:
I did not see any initrd.gz in Puli
Could not run it
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Posted: Thu 12 Sep 2013, 11:45
Post subject: Re: Puli Puppy 3.8.3
Subject description: A high security configurable puplet intended to boot from USB pendrive
Thanks for re-uploading
Took me some time to get it running.
Had to change BIOS, pendrive from automatic mode to HDD
Then forgot to set password.
Had to copy from a known /etc/shadow to enable access.
German langpack installed
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Posted: Thu 12 Sep 2013, 13:12
Post subject: Puli Puppy 3.8.3
4. It is recommended to set your own session password.
a. Open console
b. Issue the busybox passwd command.
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Post subject: Re: Puli Puppy 3.8.3
L18L wrote:
4. It is recommended to set your own session password.
a. Open console
b. Issue the busybox passwd command.
@L18L: Wow! You discovered a funny set of defense built in Puli...
1. Let me start with "passwd". As written in the intro (Help) text, Puli overwrites the default "root" password with a looong secret one at the earliest possible time. You remain logged in as root, but Puli recommended to set your own session password by issuing the
busybox passwd
2. I admit, not only is the password overwritten by Puli immediately but the "passwd" command, too
Well, this is a simple trick that prevents a friend (or a remote hacker) to change your password while you are working.
There are other common utilities such as ptrace and prctl, which are favorite "tools" of hackers who try to get remote control over your system. Puli knows that only malicious attackers try to act this way, so pops up the same alert message as for passwd. Remind that neither ptrace nor prctl are implemented in the original Precise 126.96.36.199 thus nothing has been lost.
Let me attach an example of setting a default password different from "root" and forcing Puli to replace it with the same one. If you copy /etc from the extracted attachment into the /patch folder of your pendrive, your default password will be
at boot time and will remain
for the current and future sessions.
P.s:. Ein herzliches Dankeschön an die deutsche Übersetzung!
However... I would appreciate if my Puli logo could appear also in the German version... see as /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/puli96.png
Run it! Love it! Trust it!
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Post subject: Re: Puli Puppy 3.8.3
gjuhasz wrote:
... set your own session password by issuing the
busybox passwd
Yes, that is better than just
set your own session password by issuing the busybox passwd command
gjuhasz wrote:
P.s:. Ein herzliches Dankeschön an die deutsche Übersetzung!
However... I would appreciate if my Puli logo could appear also in the German version... see as /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/puli96.png
There is no German "version".
It is just the langpack_de-20130806 loaded, nothing else.
The translated help page shows puppy logo like the original English help page.
So I think it is up to you to owerwrite puppy logo with (link to ?) Puli logo.
At all,
Since you know my password now try to hack me
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Posted: Sun 15 Sep 2013, 16:43
Post subject: Re: Puli Puppy 3.8.3
Subject description: An example of saving session onto USB boot device.
Install material updated.
Now the default page in Chrome is Google Chrome EULA:
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Posted: Sun 15 Sep 2013, 17:09
Post subject: Re: Puli Puppy 3.8.3
Subject description: An example of saving session onto USB boot device.
L18L wrote:
Since you know my password now try to hack me
Let me propose to use the below script as an example for how to save some local settings on the pendrive:
bootdev=`cat /etc/rc.d/PUPSTATE |grep PUPSFS |cut -f1 -d "," |cut -f2 -d "'"`
#asks for password then updates it together with sound settings in /patch/etc folder of the USB boot device
yaf-splash -bg yellow -close box -icon /usr/local/lib/pixmaps/puli48.png -text "To make your sound and password settings be permanent, please ensure that your USB boot device is plugged in."
/usr/bin/urxvt -e busybox passwd
mkdir -p /mnt/$bootdev
mount /dev/$bootdev /mnt/$bootdev
sleep 1
alsactl -f /etc/asound.state store
mkdir -p /mnt/$bootdev/patch
mkdir -p /mnt/$bootdev/patch/etc
mkdir -p /mnt/$bootdev/patch/etc/patch
cp -f /etc/passw* /mnt/$bootdev/patch/etc
cp -f /etc/shado* /mnt/$bootdev/patch/etc
cp -f /etc/shado* /mnt/$bootdev/patch/etc/patch
cp -f /etc/passw* /mnt/$bootdev/patch/etc/patch
cp -f /etc/asound.state /mnt/$bootdev/patch/etc
cp -f /etc/passw* /etc/patch
cp -f /etc/shado* /etc/patch
# Here you can add more lines to save other session files,
# e.g., bookmarks, browser profile, desktop background
# or even downloaded files that arrived into /root/spot/Downloads.
# But keep in mind that some settings, e.g., /etc/asound.state are machine-specific
# thus it is better to store them in machine-specific profiles of Puli.
sleep 1
umount /dev/$bootdev
yaf-splash -bg yellow -close box -icon /usr/local/lib/pixmaps/puli48.png -timeout 120 -text "Permanent password created, sound settings saved. Now you may unplug the USB pendrive. Don't forget to update your profile(s) on the pendrive with the new settings."
The next Puli version will include a desktop icon for a script (or feature) like this.
In Puli, I do not offer automatic or manual saving to pupsave.2fs in favor of the planned "carve in stone" feature.
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Posted: Fri 27 Sep 2013, 17:25
Post subject: Re: Puli Puppy
Thanks for the interesting version of Puppy, it works well in my Asus laptop.
In the current version of Puli the Chromium browser default language seems to be Hungarian and this brings Hungarian words e.g. to the menu of www.google.fi page. I can get it work normally if I remove the Hungarian from the Chromium language selection. Obviously this change will not be saved, when I restart Puli the Hungarian language is still there. This applies just Cromium browser, the language and keyboard selections of Puli itself are OK.
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Posted: Sat 28 Sep 2013, 19:52
Post subject: Re: Puli Puppy
pulmar wrote:
Obviously this change will not be saved, when I restart Puli the Hungarian language is still there.
Thank you for your interest in Puli.
I assume you use it as recommended, i.e., boot from USB pendrive with pfix=ram and your actual profile is in the /patch folder of your pendrive.
I propose to do the following:
1. Change the browser settings as you need
2. Close the browser
3. Issue the below command from a terminal window (replace '$bootdev' with the mount point of your device, e.g., 'sdb1')
cp -f --parents /root/spot/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences /mnt/$bootdev/patch
From now the browser starts with your preferences.
You can insert this and/or similar commands such as
cp -f --parents /root/spot/.config/chromium/Default/Bookmarks /mnt/$bootdev/patch
into the script in my above post.
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Thanks for the instructions. Now Puli works as expected, and I will continue studying its specific features.
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Posted: Mon 18 Nov 2013, 14:22
Post subject: Puli 3.8.3 bark 2, released Nov 2013
Hi all,
I am proud to announce
Puli 3.8.3 bark 2
See detailed description at the top of this page.
Changelog related to its predecessor released Sep 2013
Easier password handling (thanks to your posts above)
New backup feature with profile icon
New shutdown dialog with "save to patch" feature.
Updated "Mild" profile (a bit lighter without decreasing its security level)
Help icon opens a "milder" browser in each profile
Updated Chrome browser (to the current live v30 with Flash plugin v11.9.)
New desktop background
New jwm skin
Minor bugfixes
Have fun!
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Posted: Thu 05 Dec 2013, 18:14
Post subject: Restore script
The simple script below can be used for restoring backups. Copy it into the root of the USB pendrive where the backups are saved. To restore a previous status, simply drag a backup file and drop it on the Restore icon.
if [ -z "$1" ]
yaf-splash -bg yellow -close box -icon /usr/share/pixmaps/puli.png -timeout 5 -text "To restore, drag a backup file and drop it on the Restore icon."
bootdev=`cat /etc/rc.d/PUPSTATE |grep PUPSFS |cut -f1 -d "," |cut -f2 -d "'"` 2>/dev/null
killall -9 abiword 2>/dev/null
killall -9 gnumeric 2>/dev/null
killall -9 chrome 2>/dev/null
killall -9 chromium 2>/dev/null
killall -9 yaf-splash 2>/dev/null
killall -9 xchat 2>/dev/null
killall -9 evince1 2>/dev/null
killall -9 skype 2>/dev/null
killall -9 gtkdialog3 2>/dev/null
killall -9 nome-mplayer 2>/dev/null
killall -9 mplayer 2>/dev/null
sleep 1
#rm -R root/spot/.config/google-chrome/*
#cp -R /initrd/pup_ro2/root/spot/.config/google-chrome/* /root/spot/.config/google-chrome/
sleep 1
rm -f /tmp/tmp1 2>/dev/null
mkdir /tmp/tmp1
tar -zxvf $1 -C /tmp/tmp1
sleep 1
cp -rf /tmp/tmp1/* /
yaf-splash -bg green -close box -icon /usr/share/pixmaps/puli.png -timeout 5 -text "$1 restored, now X restarts..."
rm -f /tmp/tmp1
restartwm jwm
I am actually working on the New Years Eve version of Puli. Among the bunch of new features, you will find a more comfortable Backup and its Restore counterpart. In addition, as a surprise, I will introduce the "crazy" profile.
Fasten seat belts...
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I have set up a kvm host and configured a standard clone
prototype for generating new guests. One persistent (pun
intended) annoyance when cloning is the behaviour of udev
with respect to the virtual network interface.
The prototype is configured with just eth0 having a
dedicated IP addr. When the prototype is cloned udev
creates rules for both eth0 and eth1 in the clone.
Because eth1 does not exist in the cloned guest one has to
manually edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to
get rid of the bogus entries and then restart the clone
instance to have the changes take effect. All this does is
return the new guest to the prototype eth0 configuration.
Is there no way to alter udev's behaviour? Is udev even
needed on a server system using virtual hardware?
Altering the rules file not a big deal in itself but it
adds needless busywork when setting up a new guest.
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You know how you're supposed to check the oil every 3,000 miles on that car of yours? And how you need to periodically flush the radiator and the transmission? Well, sometimes men are better at routine maintenance on their cars than they are on their own bodies.
This checklist is designed to be a maintenance schedule for your body. It lets you know, based on your age, how frequently you should check into the various operating systems of your own male body.
Physical Examination. You should periodically have a review with your doctor about your current health status and a general discussion about where your health is headed. From age 20-40, you should have such an exam every three years; from age 40-50, you should have one every two years; and after age 50, you should see your doctor annually.
Blood Pressure. Checking out your blood pressure for signs of hypertension should be done every year. Many pharmacies and department stores have a self-check station. A blood pressure reading of over 120/80 is a sign you should talk to your doctor. Current medical studies suggest the need for early or pre-hypertensive treatment.
Blood Tests and Urinalysis. These tests should be done in the same frequency as your physical exam. In these tests, your doctor will be looking for cholesterol, diabetes, kidney problems or thyroid dysfunction.
Electrocadiogram. The EKG test should be done at age 30 to establish your basline rates, then every 4 years between 40 and 50 and every three years after age 50. This tests screens for any abnormalities of the heart muscle.
Tetanus Shot. If you're like me, you recall that tetanus shots are no fun. But if you live any kind of active lifestyle, you should have a booster every ten years no matter what your age.
Rectal Exam. Now, I know there are few things more unpleasant that this one. But it is still the most reliable way to identify hemorrhoids, lower rectal injuries and colon and prostate cancer. Current recommendations suggest a rectal exam by your doctor annually, regardless of age.
PSA Blood Test. The Prostate Specific Antigen test measures that quantity of PSA produced by your prostate. The level of PSA rises when you have an infection, an enlargement or a cancer in your prostate. If you are over 50, you should have this test annually. If you are in a high risk category (African American men or those with a family history of prostate cancer), you should start these annual tests at age 40 or earlier.
Hemoccult. This test screens for blood in your stool, which can be an early indication of polyps or cancer in the colon. This test should be done annually if you are over age 40.
Colorectal Scope. OK-there is something worse than a digital rectal exam, and this is it. In this procedure, a flexible scope checks out your rectum, your sigmoid and your colon for cancer or polyps. Over age 50, you should have a scope every 3 years.
Chest X-Ray. If you are or were a smoker, you should have a chest x-ray about age 40 and periodically as recommended by your doctor after that.
Testosterone Screening. If you have symptoms like low sex drive, erectile dysfunction, fatigue or depression, you may want to ask your doctor about a testosterone screening. This is done with a blood test supplemented by a questionnaire.
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Taking a few precautions now and investing a little time and money in preventive maintenance on your body will pay big dividends later and increase the chances of enjoying your grandchildren.


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BiE was happy to hear that the exciting new cinematic blockbuster from your studios has now entered the production phase. The choices for leads in the "Men in Red and Blue" (or "MiRB" – nice bit of online-centric marketing consciousness shown there, might BiE say) motion picture are intriguing, indeed. Sonny Weems and Viktor Khryapa definitely have that je ne sais quoi-level of star power; BiE likes the idea of Khryapa as an invincible Schwarzeneggeresque action-flick hero for years to come.
But BiE digresses. With MiRB in pre-production, BiE hereby offers his services as songwriter for the soundtrack. My CV is attached … nah, that's a lie. There is no CV. Let's say instead that Os Davis is just some guy with a strong willingness to wrap.
Below run the lyrics to the proposed theme song, "Men in Red and Blue." Thank you. My people will be waiting to hear from your people.
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"Men in Red and Blue"
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The good guys dress in red, remember that,
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I used a bag of baby carrots. I poured off most of water after the carrots had cooked and then added in about 2 tbsp. butter, 4 tbsp. brown sugar, sprinkled on some dill, salt and pepper. The sauce smelled so good that I wanted it to stick to the carrots a little better so I mixed 1 tsp. cornstarch into 1 tsp. water and poured into the pan to thicken the yummy sauce. Excellent.
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Made these last night, they were wonderful. I used a fat free butter substitute and Splenda brown sugar blend. I found the sauce a bit runny like most people, but found that if you turn the heat way up after mixing in the butter and sugar rather than turning it down, the sauce will thicken and stick to the carrots. Thanks for a great recipe, we loved it!
We liked these. I used 3/4 t dried dill, next time I will only use 1/2t. I also cut the black pepper down to 1/4 t. The ammount listed was too much. The recipe should say to boil the carrots, they don't really cook when simmering. I drained out the excess water & added the rest of the ingredients. I wanted to use baby carrots but the store was out so I used reg size ones. It was a little runny. I made these with pork chops. Thanks, I will be making these again!
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- 9%
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- 5%
- Protein
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- 2%
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His book War and Punishment was published by Princeton University Press in 2000. Another book, Leaders and International Conflict (co-authored with Giacomo Chiozza) is forthcoming by Cambridge University Press. Other publications have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.
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By James Neal, Staff Writer
Enid News and Eagle
ENID, Okla. —
Long lines formed in the Enid High School cafeteria Saturday morning for the 14th annual Breakfast with Santa, which benefits the Enid March of Dimes Foundation.
Kids and their parents enjoyed crafts, a bounce house, music, caroling, a full pancake-and-sausage breakfast, and of course, pictures with Santa.
"We're very excited to be celebrating 14 years of this fun, family-friendly event," said Stephanie Soucek, director of Enid's March of Dimes Foundation.
"Our mission is all about saving babies," Soucek said.
She said March of Dimes fundraising goes to support education, research, advocacy and community services, all "working together for stronger, healthier babies."
"It's very important that people know all the money we raise goes to those four programs, and it takes community giving to help babies."
Soucek said the Breakfast with Santa event would not have been possible without the help of Enid Public Schools staff, particularly EPS head custodian Ted Crawford.
"We're so thankful to Ted Crawford and his crew here at Enid High School," Soucek said. "It takes a lot of help and a great group of workers to pull all this together."
Crawford said helping stage events like Breakfast with Santa is part of the school district's broader mission.
"Enid Public Schools is very community-oriented, and we have a very good relationship with March of Dimes and other community organizations."
"I really like helping with events like this," Crawford said. "It's a lot of work, and a lot of time, but we feel like it's beneficial to the community. You see the good March of Dimes does, and they're just wonderful people."
Natalie Garrett, who served this year with Heather Helberg as co-chair for the event, said the fundraiser would not have been possible without a dedicated corps of volunteers.
Volunteers from Vance Air Force Base, Northwestern Oklahoma State University-Enid and Northern Oklahoma College joined with students from Drummond, Timberlake, Pioneer-Pleasant Vale, Chisholm and Enid schools to pull off the fundraiser.
"We couldn't do all of this without the volunteers, and we're very thankful for their help," Garrett said.
Garrett said she and other March of Dimes volunteers share a love of children, and a desire to help them grow up healthy.
"My passion in life is babies," she said. "I just love babies and children, and I want to make sure some day they're all born healthy, and anything I can do to help in that process is definitely worth my time."
JoDee Moore is very familiar with the good March of Dimes can do for babies and their families.
Moore's 7-year-old son Travis was born prematurely, weighing little more than one pound. He spent 75 days in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) clinging to life with the help of doctors and equipment supported by March of Dimes initiatives.
Today, Travis is a healthy 7-year-old. He was busy at the Breakfast with Santa event making a foam owl decoration for his family Christmas tree.
Moore said her son's progress would not have been possible without the NICU equipment, and the extra training and support doctors receive thanks in part to March of Dimes.
The Moore family attends Breakfast with Santa each year, and they put together a team for the March for Babies each spring. Moore said they want to give back for the help they received in Travis' time of need.
"The biggest thing we can give back is to just offer inspiration and support to other families that are going through what we went through," she said. "We just tell them, 'You cry every day, and you pray every day. It's not in your hands, and God will pull you through.'"


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The Hingham woman found with 11 driver's licenses and six U.S. passports with multiple identities a year ago in Hingham, was sentenced to two years probation and will spend no time in jail.
On Monday in Brockton Superior County, Wanpen Florentine changed her plea to guilty to one count of procuring a falsified motor vehicle operating license and one count of mortgage fraud, according to WATD.
Florentine explained that her legal name by marriage is Penny Collins-Siridee.
The 63-year-old was originally facing nine charges of identity and mortgage fraud but because two her identities 'Penny Collins' and 'Penny Siridee', are forms of her legal name, several charges have been dropped, WATD reported.
WATD reported that Florentine explained she's been a United States citizen since 1978 and over the years she's never thrown away expired licenses or passports.
Florentine was arrested last March at her home at 11 Crooked Meadow Lane after evidence from a search warrant showed she had five social security cards with different names, two resident alien cards with different names with her photo, a photocopy of an additional resident alien card and social security number, 11 MA drivers licenses all with her photo, 11 credit cards, six U.S. passports all with her photo, and multiple bank books and check books, according to police.
Police said her aliases included Penny Siridee, Wanpen Collins, Laciga Rachaisri, Wanpen S.J. Collins and Hieng Kridaratikon.
Her two addresses used were 11 Crooked Meadow Lane and 23 Ridgewood Crossing.
At the time of her arrest, Florentine was listed as the manager on the all-alcoholic license at Jack's Cafe, which has since closed shortly after having its alcohol license revoked.


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Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead are the three most illegally downloaded TV programs of 2013, according to TorrentFreak. It's the second year in a row that Game of Thrones has earned that distinction. Downloaders torrented the show's season finale 5.9 million times this year. Breaking Bad achieved its Number Two ranking thanks to 4.2 million downloads (for a single episode), and The Walking Dead made it to Number Three with 3.6 million downloads.
Where Did 'Game of Thrones' 'Red Wedding' Episode Rank Among the 20 Best TV Moments of 2013?
Game of Thrones set another piracy record earlier this year. In June, more than 170,000 people shared the season finale simultaneously, and over the course of a day more than a million people downloaded the show.
In August, Jeff Bewkes, the CEO of Time Warner – the parent company of HBO – praised the show's "word of mouth" buzz and even spoke positively about the effect of piracy on its popularity. "Our experience is that it leads to more paying [HBO subscriptions]," he told Adweek. "I think you're right that Game of Thrones is the most pirated show in the world. That's better than an Emmy."
Similarly, director David Petrarca, who has helmed two Game of Thrones episodes, shrugged off illegal downloading. In February, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the director drew a correlation between piracy and "cultural buzz" in a panel interview at Perth's Writers' Festival. Regarding how shows like Game of Thrones capitalize and benefit from social commentary, he said, "That's how they survive."
Conversely, The Walking Dead executive producer Gale Anne Hurd – whose show was available for streaming online for free this year, but was nevertheless pirated over half a million times, according to TorrentFreak – rebuked the others' notions that piracy is a good thing. "There's a mistaken belief by many of my peers that piracy is somehow good, that viewers will develop a habit to pay for it," she said at a Q&A event for Variety this month. "I'm not sure they really understand other than anecdotal evidence that their ratings go up that the people who pirate are not then going to choose legal downloads or legal viewing in the future."
According to TorrentFreak, in general, people downloaded shows most frequently in the first week after the show aired. The source cites HBO's exclusivity as a major reason why people download shows. The Associated Press reported last year that channels such as HBO and Showtime have been hesitant to license series like Game of Thrones and Dexter to Netflix, because those networks are worried about losing subscribers to the streaming service.
Other shows making the list of most illegal downloads include The Big Bang Theory, Dexter, How I Met Your Mother, Suits, Homeland, Vikings and Arrow. TorrentFreak charted its list based on "several sources," BitTorrent trackers among them; it did not include online streaming or "cyberlocker downloads," as there are no sources tracking these.
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IRVING, Texas —
October 28, 2011
IRVING, Texas - The Big 12 Conference Board of Directors have voted unanimously to accept West Virginia University as a full conference member effective July 1, 2012. The Mountaineers will begin competing in the Big 12 beginning with the 2012-13 athletic season.
West Virginia is the second new member to join the Conference since it began in 1996 after the addition of TCU earlier this month.
"The Big 12 Presidents and Chancellors are excited to welcome another outstanding institution to the Conference," said Burns Hargis, Chair of the Big 12 Board of Directors and President of Oklahoma State University. "The addition of West Virginia, while expanding the reach of the Big 12, brings an impressive institution with esteemed academics and a proud athletic tradition into the Conference. This is another step in building a strong foundation for the future of the Big 12."
"The Big 12 is a perfect fit for West Virginia University," said WVU President Dr. James P. Clements. "It is a strong conference that, like WVU, values quality academic and athletic programs, and has a great tradition of success. This is a very exciting time for WVU and Mountaineer nation. I am confident that the future of WVU athletics has never been more promising."
West Virginia University, located in Morgantown, sponsors 17 varsity sports. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, football, soccer, swimming & diving and wrestling. Women's sports are basketball, cross country, gymnastics, rowing, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track & field and volleyball. The Mountaineers also boast a co-ed rifle squad. The Big 12 sponsors every sport the Mountaineers participate in except rifle and men's soccer.
"We are excited to add West Virginia to our exceptional lineup of Conference members," said Big 12 Interim Commissioner Chuck Neinas. "They bring an excellent overall athletic program to the Big 12 and allow the league to expand into an area that boasts a passionate group of fans and alumni throughout its region."
Since its inception 15 years ago, the Big 12 has won 42 team national championships and 492 NCAA individual crowns. In addition, more than 3,700 student-athletes have earned All-America First Team accolades for their play on the field with more than 500 being recognized with Academic All-America honors.
Beginning with the 2012-13 season it is expected that the Big 12 Conference will be comprised of 10 Universities – Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas, Texas Tech and West Virginia. The Big 12's footprint will encompass five states with over 36 million people. More than 4,100 student-athletes from across the United States and around the World compete annually in the 23 sports sponsored by the Conference.
Location: Morgantown, West Virginia Enrollment: 29,617 (22,711 Undergraduates)
Founded: 1867
Colors: Old Gold and Blue
Chancellor: Dr. James P. Clements
Nickname: Mountaineers
Director of Athletics: Oliver Luck
Website: MSNSportsNet.com
Ø One of four programs in the nation to post nine or more wins in the past six seasons.
Ø WVU has been ranked in the top 25 of the final BCS Standings five of the last six seasons.
Ø Has reached a school-record nine consecutive bowl games.
Ø The Mountaineers boast the 12th-best record in the nation since 2005.
Ø West Virginia has 30 all-time bowl appearances, including each of the last nine seasons.
Ø The Mountaineers have competed in a New Year's Day or later bowl in six of the last eight campaigns.
Ø Recognized by the AFCA in 2009 and 2010 for having graduation rates of 75 percent or better.
Ø WVU has had three top seven Heisman finishers in three of the past five years.
Ø WVU has not finished lower than second place in its conference since 2002.
Ø Has recorded a 1,000-yard rusher in 13 of the last 15 seasons.
Ø Since 2002, WVU has had 22 All-America selections to 51 different All-America teams.
Ø A total of 177 Mountaineers have been drafted by the National Football League.
Ø Have had 28 Capital One Academic All-America honorees since 1952.
Ø West Virginia teams have a combined academic progress rate score of 974 (NCAA average = 970). Six squads (cross country, rifle, men's & women's soccer, rowing, tennis) had perfect APR scores.
Ø Has finished in the top 50 of the Directors' Cup rankings each of the past four years.
Ø The men's basketball team has made six NCAA appearances in the last seven years (including all four under Bob Huggins) and also advanced to the 2010 Final Four.
Ø WVU men's basketball has won 20 or more games for each of the last seven years.
Ø The women's basketball squad has earned five NCAA bids in the past eight campaigns.
Ø WVU began last season with a 16-0 record in women's basketball and posted the highest national-ranking (No. 6) in school history.
Ø Head baseball coach Greg Van Zant captured his 500th career victory a year ago.
Ø The rifle team has placed in the top three of the NCAA Rifle Championships each of the past three campaigns, with an individual NCAA Air Rifle Champion (Nicco Campriani) a year ago.
Ø The women's soccer squad has made 11 consecutive NCAA appearances.
Ø WVU's outdoor track & field program tied the school record by qualifying 12 student-athletes for NCAA Regionals in 2011.
Ø Five Mountaineer wrestlers earned berths to the NCAA Championships in 2011.
Ø Cross country has garnered three Top 10 NCAA finishes in the last four years.
Ø The Mountaineer gymnastics squad has amassed 28 NCAA regional berths.
Ø The rifle program has captured 14 national championships.
Ø 2,343 full-time and 667 part-time faculty members
Ø WVU ranks nationally for prestigious scholarships, including 24 Rhodes, 22 Truman and 33 Goldwater Scholars
Ø A total of 16 faculty members have been named Carnegie Foundation Professors of the Year
Ø 13 college and schools offer 191 bachelor's, master's, doctoral and professional degree programs
Ø Faculty conduct $177.7 million annually in sponsored contracts and research grants
Ø University expense budget is approximately $955 million
Ø Classified as a Research University (High Research Activity) by the Carnegie Foundation
Ø A land-grant institution - one of 106 in the United States
Ø One of the few schools in the country that are land-grant, doctoral research universities with comprehensive health sciences
Ø Approximately 70 percent of students receive some $350 million annually in financial aid
Ø Top 20 "Best Places to Work in Academia" by The Scientist (No. 2 public university on the list)
Ø The WVU Alumni Association is made up of more than 180,000 graduates worldwide
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Nokia Lumia 900 Reviews (2) from ABC News, Gizmodo, WSJ, Ars Technica, USA Today, WP Central, TechnoBuffalo and CNET
Following on the first batch of Nokia Lumia 900 reviews, in this post we have round 2. Like the previous post, I think I might just leave links.
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Joanna Stern, ABC News (Previously The Verge, previously Engadget)
Casey Johnston, Ars Technica
Sam Biddle, Gizmodo
Daniel Rubino, WP Central
Walt Mossberg, Wall Street Journal
Edward Baig, USA Today
Last minute addition, John Rettinger, Technobuffalo.
Last minute (2) Jessica Dolcourt, CNET
Category: Lumia, Nokia, Windows Phone
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CNET is up too, Jay:
Pretty good and balanced review.
good/okay reviews from where the "average joe" gets their news from (abc, cnet, wsj)
all this attention the 900 is paying for will hopefully pay off even though the reviews are a mixed bag at least its garnering attention
im rather excited for nokia right now even though as i imagine everyone knows i dislike WP
cant wait to see the numbers
How about putting your own conclusion whether the reactions are fair or not on the third part of this review round-up?
Very detailed review by AnandTech:
There's no doubt it's getting attention from all the big sites.
I respect arstechnica and anandtech….
Generally way more than engadget, cnet, theverge etc.
Even if it's not that great compared to the best Androids and i4PS.
It's starting to look like it really doesn't matter.
Seems to be getting "heaps" of limelight…
if anything ip4 showed to me at least,
its never the best that wins.
the best package often does.
Certainly AnandTech is more consistent than any other site out there. You can at least read multiple reviews by AT and have a clear picture of where they stand compared to each other. Although the Lumia 710 review suggests a sterile environment, explaining why they reported a loud speaker when everyone else reported it being almost silent.
Looks neat, that's for sure. I was also thinking of getting a Nokia, basically because I had so many over the years, before the whole smartphone craze… I really trust the brand. I have my gripes with WP but I'm seriously thinking it's worth a chance.
Given the drawbacks of the Lumia 900 that are showing up consistently in reviews, I would lean towards the Lumia 710 instead. It has the same drawbacks, but it's way cheaper (affordable outright, the 900 isn't). Design aside, (and 8GB storage), the 710 also has most of the strengths, and in some areas has the best screen of any smartphone out there (TFT CBD gives more natural colours than AMOLED CBD and pixel density is obviously better at 3.7″ than 4.3″).
10pm news on Fox 5 new york had it on around 10:45pm, the guy loved it and kept saying "pleasantly surprised"
Best wp critique from arstechnica: "Windows Phone OS design is information-sparse compared to iOS and Android—not a huge problem itself, but spread across the entire UI and apps as an aesthetic, it makes us hesitate"
Arstechnica has alot of valid points in the article.
"A good touch interface needs, for instance, visual cues to show you how to interact with something before you touch it."
WP needs to give more visual clues to the user without being distracting.
"For the density part, the apps and settings of Windows Phone hew closely to the OS's spacious design principles, but sometimes at the cost of making information accessible. Often apps split too much between too many menus, requiring several swipes to access all of the options. In other cases, the large fonts that characterize the OS take up too much valuable screen real estate."
This is also completely true, something that Microsoft needs to work on.
As for the 900 i think it got decent reviews had hoped for better… It sad that the camera is sub par with the competition, it gives the carl ziess branding bad reputation. But sure Nokia has focused on making the phone good cheap deal in US to attract customers.
Dense screens are outdated. Even Google takes lessons from Metro design language now.
I personaly hate super-dense screens.
Although I have to admit that my own WP7 app Accurate Tuner Pro has very dense UI:
And it's not even Metro, although the next big update will be. But I think Apple-like fake 3D design style makes sense for these real-thing-replacing apps (tuners, metronomes, compasses etc.) – and only for them. It's just ugly in Twitter clients, photo enhancers etc.
Sure but as it is right now, it's still a little too much form over function. I am a Lumia 800 owner myself I am very happy with it. But I feel that developers nor Microsoft yet knows how to unlock the full potential of the Metro language.
Sure but as it is right now, it's still a little too much form over function. I am a Lumia 800 owner myself I am very happy with it. But I feel that developers nor Microsoft yet knows how to unlock the full potential of the Metro language. I am all in for authentically digital!
Problem is wp should appeal to power users as well, I think in its current state it does not.
True, but MS could also take some lessons from ICS. Ars' complaints about Metro are valid, and while I like the UI it's WP's stability and reliability that sells me on it.
ha ha gotta love them paid reviews 900 isn't something new the htc hd7 is just as big and it's the same bloody os and apparently the titan 2 made this phone seem like shit lol
funny how the 900 won that competition and it's not even out to the public yet ,proves this was marketing ploy
Which ones are paid reviews and which aren't?
Genuinely interested.
i cant tell too.
are the reviews made payable by sections?
like maybe camera is 50000 USD, and design is 10000 USD?
also, is the person reviewing the devices changeable with money?
im not sure how the system works.
i just realised something, maybe these reviews are done with pros and CONS to make the reviews look REAL. WTF. sneaky bastards.
im going to buy this to protect myself just in case.
Here is a guide:
- The reviews praising Lumia are paid.
- The reviews not praising Lumia are real.
You're an idiot.
is that the best you can do? o.0
He was being sarcastic. If you haven't been on MNB for a long time I would refrain from personal attacks, you might end up attacking the wrong person.
Every positive review is paid, you know. Which is the reason why Apple has the biggest number of positive reviews. It is the richest guy in the room.
So all products actually suck?
Engadget should be embarrassed by their review.
Misquoting the amount of apps, and not knowing why the screen is no longer curved like the 800 is poor research.
Clearly they hate everything nokia and Windows.
I've read about 20 reviews of this phone, most i'd say said the phone was good, not great.
Engadget basically said it sucks.
I tend to side with the majority.
I can definitely see many of the points sites raise in the review, good and bad. HOWEVER, some sites I absolutely can't stand when they are essentially comparing the phone to whether it's an Android phone or not.
I find the trend lately in tech sites is,
1. – Be critical of Apple because tech blog readers aren't fans, but still give it good reviews to get into to press events.
2. – Don't [PROFANITY REMOVED] with Android. Just don't. Your readers will destroy you if you don't like Android.
3. – Laugh at Symbian when it's dropping, and make fun of WP7 when it's new and different. THEN praise WP7 as "something different" later on to sound like you're down with it. Talk about how dated iOS is, once again don't mention Android though.
I could go on. I'm fine with critical reviews as they are opinions, but they don't seem consistent. When bloggers like Meego why not promote it more too?
Basically, I enjoy blogs like mynokiablog, made by people who do it just vecause they are into tech. A lot of tech sites employee a bunch of techno nerds with English degrees that will do anything to keep their job. Not all are, but the BIG sites I find have a more than a few like this.
THe lumia 900 should be better than the lumia 800 based on nokia's naming system. As far as i can tell the only difference between the lumia 800 and 900 is the screen size. A larger screen size does not make a better phone.
In fact, its worse. The screen resolution is the same so all the reviewers complain about the pixels.
The new flat design of the screen is not appreciated
Additionally, u see the exact same amount of information bcuz of the resolution and and u still have to do the same amount of scrolling on a bigger screen
Ars technica noted that WP is information sparse. I think thats a very good point. The lack of information on the screen result is a lot of scrolling and swiping.
This is not a flagship phone. It is a midrange phone priced as a midrange phone. Plain and simple.
For nikias sake they better hope the marketing will push people to WP
The screen resolution complaint is a red herring. The only reason you hold an iPhone 12″ from your face is because the screen is so small. You can comfortably hold the Lumia 900 18″ from your face, so the pixel density doesn't need to be as high.
It also has a FFC (not a big deal, but does put it more in flagship territory), a gyroscope (big deal for games, on which the larger screen helps, and games are the #1 app category) and LTE – what good is a faster processor if the bottleneck is the connection?
Personally I find 3.7″ and 3.8″ are decidedly too small. I played with a 800 demo unit and was wowed but I could never go for a screen that small. I wouldn't trade my HTC-HD7 with a vanilla 4.3″ for a Lumia 800 despite everything else being better. But I certainly want the 900, although disappointed in its subpar camera.
A co-worker was also impressed by the 800 after checking it out a couple of weeks ago and he is going wait for the 900 also. He'll be switching from an Xperia.
Aside from migo's list, the 900 also has a front facing camera and I'm sure there are other items were missing too but I'm too lazy to go seek them out.
Seemed like the markets bought on the rumour and sold on the news. The reviews have beena mixed bag. The Lumia 900 hasn't hit it out of the ballpark. Nokia shares are down from 5.50 at the end of last week to 5.17.
It's not going to provide much traction. There seems to be a common element.
2 Years ago MS said wait for windows phone in response to Iphone and Android. October 2010 we got WP7 and it was a mixed bag. MS then said wait for the Mango release which came about a year later in September 2011. Again it was a mixed bag as the hardware hadn't changed much even though the o/s had moved on.
In April 2012 we have the hardware design evolving but nothing much more in regards to the o/s. Again we have been told wait til October for Windows 8.
As we continue to wait Android and Apple are defining and controlling the mobile space.
WP will end up being the third ecosystem by default as Nokia scuttled Symbian and RIM imploded.
The major concern for Nokia is that it can only build and design a phone against MS chassis requirements and these chassis requirements are dependent on the speed of the o/s development. Ie there is no point adding a multi core cpu and GPU when the o/s cannot take advantage of them.
However my main fear for WP is that in a desperate effort to get its phones sold on the operators networks MS will allow the operators to control updates and rollouts and then bastardize the products with their branding.
The operators still live in the past with their outdated business models.
It's not that WP can't take advantage of multicore – that's gingerbread problem – it doesn't need to. WP is smoother on single core than ICS is on dual core.
And Nokia isn't constrained by specs, HTC is. HTC goes for a 1.5GHz CPU and eMMC flash to get every bit of performance they can for the Titan. Nokia is content with 1.4GHz and slower flash that everyone else uses. They'd use a single core CPU even if WP supported a dual core CPU right now because WP is fast enough already with just one.
"However my main fear for WP is that in a desperate effort to get its phones sold on the operators networks MS will allow the operators to control updates and rollouts and then bastardize the products with their branding."
As far as this goes, this isn't a WP only thing. Operators do it for Android also (at least here in the US). For AT&T, pretty much any phone subsidized by them is carrier branded. And at least here in the US, Updates are totally at the behest of AT&T. It is up to them if they want to roll it out or not.
The warning of 2012 being a year of transition is making things true, I see.
W8 and WP8 are the big bets Nokia has placed on, it seems. Still, a lot to be happy about, after all, Nokia on board of WP meant more than a doubling of apps for the WP ecosystem. That will mean a lot for the stocking of W8/WP8 app store once it launches. In the meantime, Nokia and Microsoft have to stay the course and bleed with WP7, sadly.
Still, as a satisfied user of a Lumia 800, I got to say, the 900 is gonna my next phone once the other plans in my family can be upgraded, and I will trade in that for a brand new Nokia Apollo device once it hits. Staying the course with Nokia. XD
I think it's a safe bet that there will be a better phone than the 900 released in a few months. They're likely just not going to announce it until the marketing and sales push on the 900 with AT&T is over. If you passed on the 800, then the 900 makes sense, otherwise I think it's more logical to wait for a follow-up.
These reviews are just plain stupid. If they really want to test the battery performance or the camera, they should use controlled environment and variables. Now the result is that one reviewer is disappointed with the battery life and the other is stating "great battery life". Same with the camera.
And the amount of apps… oh please. One reviewer was at least mentioning specific apps that are missing. Mostly it's just the same old "it's lacking apps because there are no 500 000 of them".
Maybe a scientist just shouldn't read those reviews…
Battery life reviews less than a month in are hard to trust anyway.
Waiting for Nokia World in Finland, i beleive it will change the mobile market in someway or other.
Nokia has to sustain its position at the moment but it will come back big because they are not lacking in edge technology they are still in transition period.
L900 is a great device, and the OS is 7.5 iteration and all blogs are comparing it to IOS5 and ICS (4) iteration which is 4 years ahead of WP7.5
I would compare 7.5 to IOS3 or gingerbrad iteration for the moment. Hope WP8 will raise the bar to compete with IOS6 and Android 5.
Don't quite agree with you there. Mango is maybe one version behind if you're looking at the lowest common denominator, on par with iOS4, but it also has the lead in some areas, matching iOS5. So 7.5 is really more equivalent to a hypothetical iOS4.5.
Comparing to Android is harder, as Android and Windows Phone aren't quite the same model, but it's worth pointing out that even the Nexus S doesn't have an official Google ICS build, and will probably wait another 4 months with it, so for what people have in their hands right now, it only has to compete with GB. Obviously GB has a lot of stuff Mango doesn't, but GB lags a ton, has crap battery life and is unstable. WP is bland but healthy, while Android is junk food.
android market share 52% ,windows phone 1.5%.
Why android device sells?
It offers what people need also a worthy replacement for symbian users.unlike windows phone which forces users zune and metro u.i and all restrictions even if they dont like
the point is not on multicore is needed for os point of view.but multicore device sells ios works well on 600mhz didnt stop apple from launching a dualcore phone.i see many people with galaxy s2 and all using it for basic stuffs,
so big specs=big sales
Also what about that andreno 205?? Its shame that nokia flagship has a gpu which ultra lowend sony and samsung devices have.


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A female, no-nonsense security guard would not budge when Charlie tried to get back in, then Charlie snapped, yelling, "You know what? F******* blow my *****, alright, you f****** a******."
A little later Charlie's buddies try in vain to keep him away from the camera. The "Anger Management" star then explains, "Have common sense and common courtesy gone in society? That was what I was trying to impress upon her."
Ha. Anger Management, indeed. Here's the TMZ video of the incident.
And here's another video taken as Charlie enters the arena for the game (some NSFW language):
Note the wiseacre who asks Charlie if he's ever done bath salts.
Say what you will about him, but to Off the Bench Charlie Sheen is the gift that keeps on giving.
- agelardi - Jun 7, 2012 at 12:46 PM
What in the word does Charlie Sheen know about"common sense and common courtesy"?
- stakex - Jun 7, 2012 at 7:24 PM
To be fair…. its a little strange you can't get back in after you leave. You did after all buy a ticket to the game, and should be allowed back into the arena.
- sabatimus - Jun 8, 2012 at 12:46 PM
They probably just don't want you to 1) smuggle booze or weapons or whatever in (though that's pretty easy the first time through the gate) and therefore 2) avoid paying the 500% markup for concessions. But obviously every arena has rules, and this is by no means a new one. It's also a private establishment, which means if you don't like their rules you can get removed quite easily.
Blatant "Duh" comment of the day: Methinks the show "Anger Management" should actually be a series of anger management classes, without cameras, so that a natural actor like Sheen would feel less like an actor and more like someone seeking help. Because that's what he needs: help.
- 1historian - Jun 7, 2012 at 7:37 PM
His dad and his brother and his mom must be really proud of him.
- bbk1000 - Jun 8, 2012 at 7:06 AM
"Let me be your wingman"….."I got a bigger d!ck than you"….haha too much.
- bla bla bla - Jun 8, 2012 at 10:04 AM
I'd rather hang with Charlie than the douchebags shouting asinine questions.
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