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How hard would it be to make a setup wizard? I know that this may go against most Linux users wishes of diversity but I am thinking of new adopters. Netbook users to be exact.
I would think that simple things would be set up for users like:
Setup WiFi
Choice of themes
Choice of wallpaper
Choice of what the netbook is to be used for, this would keep the distro small. Zen Mini would work well for this, just give the NEW user choices of School, Office, Net or whatever profile that is needed. Then have a script run in the background that tells synaptic ( please forgive me if synaptic is just a GUI for a terminal app) to download a predetermined set of programs that fit the profile. While this is being done, show a slide show of things that are great about Zen and the community around it. Chances are that Zen can do things that the NEW user doesn't know about.
Now I understand that most Linux users would not like this but I think that letting a NEW user/adopter try and decide what programs to download is detrimental to the cause. In the beginning they are not going to know Adam from Eve when it comes to apps. I know that I have spent hours downloading apps and reading on the net to figure out what programs do what, not to mention all the goofy names they have.
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Bacon shortage 'baloney,' but prices to rise
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Bacon lovers can relax. They'll find all they want on supermarket shelves in the coming months, though their pocketbooks may take a hit.
The economics of the current drought are likely to nose up prices for bacon and other pork products next year, by as much as 10 percent. But U.S. agricultural economists are dismissing reports of a global bacon shortage that lent sizzle to headlines and Twitter feeds last week. Simply put, the talk of scarcity is hogwash.
"Use of the word 'shortage' caused visions of (1970s-style) gasoline lines in a lot of people's heads, and that's not the case," said Steve Meyer, president of Iowa-based Paragon Economics and a consultant to the National Pork Producers Council and National Pork Board.
"If the definition of shortage is that you can't find it on the shelves, then no, the concern is not valid. If the concern is higher cost for it, then yes."
Fears about a scarcity of bacon swept across social and mainstream media last week after a trade group in Europe said a bacon shortage was "unavoidable," citing a sharp decline in the continent's pig herd and drought-inflated feed costs. The report caused much consternation over a product that used to be merely a breakfast staple, but nowadays flavors everything from brownies to vodka.
The alarm was quickly dismissed by the American Farm Bureau Federation as "baloney."
"Pork supplies will decrease slightly as we go into 2013," Farm Bureau economist John Anderson said. "But the idea that there'll be widespread shortages, that we'll run out of pork, that's really overblown."
The stubborn drought in the U.S., the world's biggest supplier of feed grains, undeniably will affect pig production. The Corn Belt's lack of moisture twice has prompted the U.S. Agriculture Department to slash its forecast for this year's corn output. The government now expects U.S. production of the grain to amount to 10.8 billion bushels, the least since 2006.
Those lowered expectations sent prices of corn — also used in ethanol, further squeezing supply — to record highs through much of the summer. Feed generally makes up about 60 percent of the expense of raising a pig. Rather than absorb the higher costs, swine and beef producers often have culled their animals by sending them to slaughter.
As of Sept. 1, the nation's inventory of hogs numbered 67.5 million head, up slightly from a year earlier, the USDA reported Friday. But the USDA suggested that pork supplies will tighten next year as the nation's breeding stock and intended farrowings — birthings of litters of pigs — likely will drop due to high feed costs. Continued...
"I think we're going to (still) see pretty substantial liquidations" of livestock, Meyer said, guessing that 3 percent of the nation's breeding pigs could be sent to slaughter by next March. "And by my estimation, that's a big move."
The USDA said the breeding inventory of sows and boars stands at 5.79 million head, down slightly from last year and off 1 percent from the previous quarter.
Such liquidations could mean a temporary glut of pork on the U.S. market, depressing pork prices before the oversupply eases and the volume of pork drops again next year, causing hog prices to rebound, said Ron Plain, an agricultural economics professor at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Consequently, he estimates, the higher costs will be passed along to consumers, who could end up paying 10 percent more for their bacon.
As of Friday, the USDA said, a pound of sliced bacon cost an average of $4.05 at the nation's supermarkets, down 22 cents from a week earlier.
Pig producer Phil Borgic is banking on high prices. With 3,400 sows near Nokomis in central Illinois, Borgic figures he's had to spend $2 million more this year for the 600,000 bushels of corn he feeds his pigs. Rather than sell off animals on the spot market, the 56-year-old farmer is hedging his bets by contracting them out for slaughter over a staggered period in coming months — what he sees only as a break-even proposition.
"The previous couple of years have been good to us," he said. "Then the drought changed the ballgame on a worldwide level."
He waves off the concerns about consumers facing shortages.
"The U.S. has plenty of pork, and we won't run out here," he said. "We'll have some price inflation, but we have plenty of supply."
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Control Your Linux Desktop with D-Bus
Every modern Linux desktop environment uses D-Bus, a system for allowing software applications to communicate with each other. Thanks to D-Bus, you can make your desktop work the way you want. In this article, I illustrate some of the things that are possible with D-Bus. Get ready for some desktop tweaking.
D-Bus (Desktop Bus) is an interprocess communication (IPC) system, which provides a mechanism for applications to talk to each other. The D-Bus designers built it from scratch, but were heavily influenced by KDE's DCOP (Desktop COmmunication Protocol) system. Currently, D-Bus is everywhere—KDE 4 has ditched DCOP for D-Bus, and GNOME is moving toward D-Bus instead of its own Bonobo system. So, D-Bus has become a desktop-agnostic IPC mechanism. Software that uses D-Bus seamlessly integrates with your desktop, regardless which desktop environment you use. D-Bus is part of the cross-desktop project freedesktop.org, and Red Hat is the primary contributor.
With D-Bus, every program that offers services to other programs registers itself. Other programs then can look up which services are available. A program also is able to register itself for events, which some system services do, for example, to detect hot-swapping hardware.
D-Bus does not allow direct process-to-process communication, but works by providing a "bus". The bus dæmon routes messages between processes on a bus, and in this way, processes can speak to one or more applications at the same time. Each application can send messages to the bus or listen for events on the bus.
Usually, D-Bus creates two buses: a privileged system bus and a session bus. The system bus allows system-wide communication between processes with the right access permissions, and its main use is to deliver events from HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) to processes that are interested in hardware events. Some possible hardware events might be notification that a new hardware device has been added or that a printer queue has changed. The second bus, the session bus, is created when you log in, and it lets your applications communicate.
Each application using D-Bus exposes some objects, which generally map to internal GObject, C++ or Python objects. One application can send a message to a specific object in another application. You address each D-Bus object with a unique pathname, which looks like a filesystem pathname. To ensure that each application uses unique pathnames, a D-Bus object pathname generally is prefixed with the developer's domain name, such as /org/kde or /com/redhat. The Java programming language uses the same system with package names (for example, org.sun). A D-Bus path is made up of three parts: the service name, the object path and the interface (I give examples of them a bit later in this article).
So, how do you support or use D-Bus in your own application? The core API is written in C and is rather low level. It is not really designed for application programmers to use. Different programming languages and environments have binding layers built on top of this API, such as GLib, Qt, Python, Ruby, Perl and Mono. I don't go into C or GLib (GNOME's base library) programming here, but I give some examples written in script languages like Python and Ruby, as well as shell scripts.
The freedesktop.org project has an incomplete list of applications using D-Bus on its Web site, and the bus name for each application is listed there also. However, you can find the bus names yourself by using some interesting tools to help you explore D-Bus on your own system. For example, Qt has a graphical D-Bus browser called qdbusviewer (Figure 1). In Ubuntu, you can find the application in the qt4-dev-tools package. Although it's part of KDE, the application works perfectly on other desktop environments, including GNOME.
When you run qdbusviewer, it shows two tabs: Session Bus and System Bus. Within each tab, the left pane shows a list of service names. If you click on a service name, the right pane shows information about that service, such as the available methods and signals. For example, if you click on the service org.freedesktop.PowerManagement, and then click in the right pane through the hierarchy org/, freedesktop/ and PowerManagement/, you will have navigated two parts of the D-Bus path: org.freedesktop.PowerManagement in the left pane is the service name, and the org/freedesktop/PowerManagement in the right pane is the object path.
The object path has one final part in the right pane, three so-called interfaces, with a dot-separated name: org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable, org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties and org.freedesktop.PowerManagement. Each interface implements some methods and signals. These are the things you can interact with. Here, we're interested in the interface org.freedesktop.PowerManagement, as this one implements the concrete power management actions. When you click on it, you can see all implemented methods and signals in a list. If you click on the method Suspend, your computer suspends, and wakes up only when you press the power button.
Some methods, such as Shutdown, Reboot, Hibernate and Suspend implement actions, and other methods give you some information about the system. For example, the org.freedesktop.PowerManagement object implements some methods like GetLowBattery, GetOnBattery, CanShutdown and so on. If your system (laptop) is running on battery power but with enough battery time remaining, clicking on GetOnBattery gives a reply "Arguments: true" in the pane below, but if you click on GetLowBattery, it gives the reply "Arguments: false".
It's worth pointing out that qdbusviewer can show only the service names that are registered at the moment. For example, if you haven't started Pidgin, the viewer won't list the Pidgin service. Take this into account when you are exploring the D-Bus services you can use on your system.
If you are more of a command-line person, you don't have to fire up qdbusviewer. The command-line application qdbus exposes the same information. If you run qdbus in a terminal, you get the list of service names available on the session bus. If you run it with the --system flag, the services known to the system bus are shown. If you want to know the different objects a service exposes, run, for example:
$ qdbus org.freedesktop.PowerManagement / /org /org/freedesktop /org/freedesktop/PowerManagement /org/freedesktop/PowerManagement/Backlight /org/freedesktop/PowerManagement/Inhibit /org/freedesktop/PowerManagement/Statistics
Now, if you want to know which interfaces the /org/freedesktop/PowerManagement object implements, use:
$ qdbus org.freedesktop.PowerManagement \ /org/freedesktop/PowerManagement
This will give the same list of methods and interfaces that you saw in qdbusviewer. For example, the line:
method bool org.freedesktop.PowerManagement.GetOnBattery()
The bool means this method returns a boolean value, which can be true or false. If the method doesn't return a value, for example, org.freedesktop.PowerManagement.Suspend(), the line lists void instead of bool.
qdbus also allows you to call these methods directly. For example, if you want to call the Suspend method, execute:
$ qdbus org.freedesktop.PowerManagement \ /org/freedesktop/PowerManagement \ org.freedesktop.PowerManagement.Suspend
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Determine how many crackers will be needed to line the bottom of the TofuXpress. Double that amount for the top layer of the sandwich and that is how many crackers you will need.
Coat crackers with a thick layer of Tomato Pesto.
Line bottom of the TofuXpress with crackers, placing the uncoated side of cracker down.
Line the crackers with half of the sliced Avocado.
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Goody's is celebrating its grand opening this Thursday.
After closing three years ago when the company went bankrupt, the clothing store will be reopening in its old location on North Bridge Street.
After filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Stage Stores, Inc. bought the Goody's name and is reopening, said Goody's district manager Don Stanley.
"We will have everything the old Goody's had and more, including a lot new brands and fragrances," said manager Carolyn Martin. "We will be carrying fragrance brands such as Lady Gaga, Rhianna and Polo."
Goody's is celebrating their grand opening by giving the first 100 customers Goody's tote bags, two $250 shopping spree prizes along with a 20 percent off five day savings pass for Aug. 23 to 27.
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Guggenheim Museum Roundup, October 2009
While I appreciate Kandinsky's place in the history of modern art, the Guggenheim show was still unsuccessful in making me a fan. I've never felt compelled by the majority of his paintings, and the show, the first full-scale American retrospective since 1985, certainly did not sway my opinion. Maybe it's heresy to not die over such an exhibition.. I think the show was also similar to the recent Francis Bacon show in that having such a large quantity dulled down the work's impact.
In any event, there are three smaller exhibitions strewn throughout the museum, which are definitely worth seeing, all of which employ an amazingly simple economy of means.
Anish Kapoor: Memory
Anish Kapoor, Memory, 2008. Cor-Ten steel, 14.5 x 9 x 4.5 m. Commissioned by Deutsche Bank in consultation with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin.
Memory, a site-specific sculpture by Anish Kapoor, is only partially visible from three different views. It's essentially a hollow 24-ton Cor-Ten steel (think Richard Serra steel) egg, whose exterior can only be partially seen from two views, and whose pitch black interior can be seen from a rectangular hole in an adjacent gallery. It sounds simple enough, but the black void is so understated and beautiful. From a distance, it seems to be a black Ad Reinhardt painting, yet its close-range effects are closer to that of an Yves Klein monochrome. The gallery even contains a line which the viewer is not allowed to pass, which maintains the illusion of a two-dimensional space. Kapoor's statement "I am a painter working as a sculptor" seems to encompass many of the interests at work here.
Intervals: Kitty Kraus
Kitty Kraus, Untitled, 2006. Ice, ink, light fixture, cable, and light bulb, dimensions variable. Courtesy Galerie Neu and the artist.
Kitty Kraus's installation consists some sort of toxic seepage emanating from a burnt out lightbulb. Kraus placed a lightbulb within a frozen cube of ink, and allowed the heat to melt the ink, and eventually render the bulb charred and useless. The work's sparse nature recalls its Minimal art fore-bearers, yet its spontaneity, adherence to chance, and use of small and commonplace objects places it closer to Arte Povera. The work is certainly not literal, yet evokes the current international sociopolitical situation.
Paired, Gold: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, "Untitled" (Golden), 1995. Plastic beads and metal rod, variable dimensions. © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation, Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
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Look were most bad reviews come from Southern states. Shoddy workmanship. Only one bad review from AZ, where it is the hottest state. Get a parts and labor warranty, for any a/c you buy. Freon is considered a "part". A Lot of Goodman are sold in Phoenix. It can handle the heat! It is all about the installer.
Location: az
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"The guy with the bad reversing valve.."
If you have high vibration the tech who repairs your a/c should have noticed this. Blade, blade, blade. Remove and replace. While you are at it change the motor. I have not seen any problems with reversing valve, all the companies use the same one. I'm very sorry you're having problems -- it's not the reversing valve, it's the vibration. Call goodman ask for a company that deals with them (good care). Fix the vibration. This time it was the tech. If you have high vibration and do not fix it it will keep doing the same thing. It's like having a hole in the bucket and keep adding water. NOTE: If the king caps are not very tight they will leak freon. I do not work for Goodman.
Location: Phoenix
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Goodman is a very good unit has the best warranty then anyone out there. it all about the installer!!!!I Live in phoenix Az over 100 every day..You know what stop a trane ?? a Phoenix summer..I Do not work for Goodman. If you have a problem with your equipment call Goodman and they will give you a number of there a rating company that only work with goodman equipment.. It all about the Installer work..CALL Goodman and they will send a good man...Shotty Work ..Note the company that installed your equipment..You will see the name show up more than Once...
Location: Dallas, TX
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"Cracked Discharge Line"
We have a problem with cracking in the discharge line of our 2006 unit, whereby freon is spraying out! We have had to spend over $600 to get the copper rewelded, the unit recharged and new freon put in, just to get another crack in a different spot 3 months later! So much for a 10 year warranty. This is going to cost us over $500 this second round...for a grand total of over $1,100--for a unit that is 6 years old. The labor and freon are very expensive. This is an internal problem, not an installation one. The unit shakes too much and causes cracking.
Location: Wilmington, NC
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"If you want to SWEAT"
I have two Goodman ac units which are only five years old. Two years ago, one of the units (upstairs )went out and we had to replace the coil. This past week, the same unit went out and, again, we were told we had to replace the coil. The coil was not readily available and had to be ordered. Now our downstairs unit has gone out as well. So, while I sit here, sweating, I decided to write others regarding the Goodman product. hvac installers and builders should be made aware of this problem as well!
Location: Las Vegas NV
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"Units are junk"
Your units are junk. It stoped working after one week of new installation. There is nothing also to say.
Location: St. Louis
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There are so many idiots on here. You people blow my mind! One guy actually blamed his problems on Obama! I've been in the business 30 yrs and would guarantee 90% of these problems are due to shoddy installs. Hint, most of your 2 yr capacitor problems are due to Chinese made capacitors. Thats what we are dealing with nowdays people! All manufacturers have their problems.
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Leu Verlag Play Along Series Snare, Play Along Series Drums, Snaredrum, By Michael Claudi And Dieter Ern: Songbook for Snare Drum, Contents: First Step, Eins,Zwei,Drei, Die Windm
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Instruments: Drums, Percussion
Rock Etudes For Drum Set is the companion book to Etudes For Drum Set. In this book, three and four-way coordination between the snare, hi-hat and bass drum is featured within the highly practical framework of a steady rock cymbal rhythm. Most of the etudes are four to eight lines in duration, and meant to be read from start to finish without stopping. Preparatory exercises precede most of the etudes, and these exercises do just that - prepare you for the coordinated rhythmic patterns found within a particular etude.
Instruments: Drums, Percussion
The Faber Graded Rock & Pop Series Drums Songbook: Initial – Grade 1 provides the perfect resource for the budding rock and pop musician.
Specially arranged to follow the parameters for Initial to Grade 1 as set out by Trinity for the "own choice song" option in their Rock & Pop exams, each song also includes handy hints and tips and a fantastic sound-alike backing track suitable for practice, performance and the exams.
Instruments: Drums, Percussion
Genres: Pop
This enjoyable and challenging exercise system will elevate your body to entirely new levels of coordination and independence on the drumset. With the use of ostinatos, you will work your way, step by step, through a well-organized system of common patterns and rhythms for each hand and foot.
Not only will Drumset Coordination unlock your muscles, it will open your mind to many new possibilities of drumset playing and will help you realize your full musical potential. A unique and efficient approach to building drumset control and confidence, this book is a must-have for the serious drummer.
Instruments: Drums, Percussion
Among the many useful topics addressed in this package are the basic role of the drummer, the concept of pocket, learning basic song form, versatility (being able to play various styles), soloing in a musical situation, playing with a click, working with electronics, and conducting business professionally. These discussions are aimed at players of all levels who want to get more and better gigs. There are also informative and useful sections dealing with playing ballads, getting good tone from your drums, working with a group, and dealing with different types of gigs, from clubs to bus tours to sessions.
Interspersed among the educational segments are killer performances from Gorden and his group, The E&G Band, playing various song styles and grooves. There are also interview/advice segments from other famous working drummers, including Aaron Spears, Russ Miller, Will Kennedy, and a segment with jazz/fusion great George Duke, who also performs with Gorden.
Produced by Campbell and Eric Dorris (filmmaker behind Todd Sucherman's great DVDs) and released on the Hudson Ltd. label, the main program of the DVD runs approximately one hour and 45 minutes, and is followed by extensive bonus footage including a detailed tour of Gorden's gear (with explanations of the instruments) and a lengthy interview highlighting Gorden's childhood, development, career, and more.
Campbell's resume – which includes Earth. Wind, and Fire; George Duke; Jessica Simpson; Ne-Yo; Whitney Houston; The American Idol Tour; Mary J. Blige; and Jonathan Butler – clearly illustrates his qualifications for creating such a DVD. The program contains advice and discussion on career-related topics often overlooked on other DVDs, as well as lots of great playing.
Instruments: Drums, Percussion
Genres: Pop
Percussive Notes calls Drumcraft "very thorough and well sequenced" and Modern Drummer says it's "useful and a heck of a lot of fun!" Author Andy Ziker bases his unique new beginning method on his many years of playing and teaching experience. He covers these topics in detail: how to practice; drumset vocabulary; techniques for hands and feet; sticking options; reading, writing & playing rhythms; beginning patterns; rock beats & fills; and much more. The two accompanying CDs let students hear all of the examples. They are playable on any CD player, and also enhanced so Mac & PC users can adjust the recordings to any tempo without changing the pitch – perfect for learning!
Instruments: Drums, Percussion
Setting a newly written text by Charles Bennett, this fifteen-minute choral work takes singers on a journey through five historical events: the invention of printing, the abolition of slavery, the first powered flight, the discovery of penicillin, and the first man in space.
In each movement, music and words come together to create a strikingly vivid and personal account of each protagonist's experience, from the printer seeing 'each letter like a person' to the astronaut commenting on the beauty of our planet from space.
Chilcott's music is as captivating as ever, with energy in abundance alongside moments of clarity and stillness. This is an ideal concert work for choirs looking to perform with an upper-voice group, or for larger SATB choruses with divisi sopranos and altos.
The optional timpani part is printed separately at the back of the score.
Instruments: Timpani, Percussion
Jubilate! Jubilee! by Paul Mealor was commissioned by Making Music, with funds provided by the British Council, to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II. Optional Drum part. Vocal score sold separately: NOV293282
Instruments: Drums, Percussion
The follow-up to Intro to Polyrhtyhms, a method for learning advanced rhythm, polyrhythm, and metric/harmonic superimposition, looks at rhythm through a magnifying glass and enables the student to see, sing and hear various subdivisions and groupings of subdivisions. This book can be used by any and all instrumentalists. Metric Modulation will greatly improve the student's improvisational ability to create and respond to rhythmic musical dialogue.
The book is complete with general exercises for all instrumentalists as well as specific exercises for pianists, bassists and drummers. The included DVD demonstrates of all the material from the book, including improvised examples by Ari Hoenig and Johannes Weidenmueller in duo as well as trio with Aaron Goldberg. Transcriptions on how to harmonically navigate through polyrhythm inside standard jazz forms are included. The DVD musical examples can be watched, and played along to. Standard notation.
Instruments: Drums, Percussion
Enormous demands are placed on the control and manual dexterity of the contemporary drum set player, particularly in the Jazz idiom. Today's drummer is expected to have developed limb coordination to a degree that would have been thought unachievable a few short years ago. This text presents an effective method of dealing with the mastery of drum set coordination by breaking it down into four sections: 1) Ride Cymbal - Right hand; 2) Snare Drum - Left hand; 3) Bass Drum - Right foot; 4) Hi-hat - Left foot. The author clearly states his goals in writing this book: "It is my sincere wish that the materials presented in [this] text will be of considerable help in developing musical approach to the coordination skills demanded of today's drummer." -John Pickering
Instruments: Drums, Percussion
Genres: Jazz & Blues


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