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Everyone knows that the Linux operating system was created from scratch about four years ago, right? Actually, while the Linux project is itself only four years old, it is important to remember that large parts of the Linux system on your desk are far older.
Linux is not an entire operating system—it is an operating system kernel. Any Unix or Unix-like operating system kernel requires a large suite of utility programs to complete the entire operating system. The Unix kernel has historically been distributed with many text manipulation tools, a C language compiler, programming libraries, and on-line documentation for all (or almost all) of the utilities and libraries. All of this together comprises the operating system.
Years before Linux was started, programmers who were fed up with bugs and limitations in the standard versions of Unix utilities started to write their own versions and contribute them to the Free Software Foundation's "GNU" project. Slowly, over the years, programmers noticed bugs and limitations in nearly all Unix utilities and wrote replacements for them, freeing the users from having to rely on software vendors to be consistently perfect.
These replacements were ported to most "flavors" of Unix that were available—but they all still required a commercial kernel, and the users were still dependent on their Unix software vendors to fix bugs and remove limitations in the kernel. The Free Software Foundation (known as the FSF) started work on a replacement kernel (now called "The Hurd"), but work was slow, original efforts met with legal challenges, and although the legal questions have long been settled, The Hurd has still not been publicly released.
In the spring of 1991, Linus Torvalds, a college student in Finland, started writing a 32-bit terminal emulator for his 386. He wrote it in a combination of assembly language and C, and in order to learn more about the 386 chip, made the emulator completely independent of DOS or any other operating system. Over the next few months, he learned enough to turn his terminal emulator into the beginnings of a Unix-like kernel.
To compile his code, Linus used the FSF's gcc C compiler and assembler. As a shell, he used the FSF's bash ("bourne again shell"). For the make program, he used the FSF's GNU make. In short, he and the team that quickly assembled around him used nearly all of the FSF's GNU programs to complement the Linux kernel and assemble a complete operating system.
These pre-tested and refined utilities turned a Unix-like kernel into a Unix-like operating system overnight. Many users who are not very familiar with the Free Software Foundation's suite of utilities are under the impression that the entire Linux operating system has been developed completely from scratch in the last four years. In reality, Linux leveraged (to use a current buzzword) a huge amount of tested, quality code to turn a kernel into an operating system, virtually overnight—the GNU project has enabled the Linux operating system to take the world by storm. Most of what's really new is the name and the kernel—much of the rest is GNU.
This does not belittle the kernel. It is large and complex, and there are few people who have the combination of qualities required to write—and especially maintain—one. It merely points out that Linux is in reality not a four-year-old newcomer, but a respectable, mature option for Unix users.
This new, powerful combination of the FSF's GNU utilities and the Linux kernel has in turn contributed to the quality of the GNU utilities. Because Linux users rely exclusively on the GNU utilities, when they find a bug in a GNU utility, they cannot simply fall back and use the version of the utility that came with the system. This means that more people are working on fixing those bugs that still exist in the GNU utilities, making them even more stable than they used to be. Those bug fixes (and enhancements) are usually given back to the FSF, as is appropriate.
Not all of the utilities that Linux uses come from the GNU project. The University of California at Berkeley had a long-running project which produced the Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix, known simply as BSD. Since much of the Unix networking software was developed by and for Bed's distribution of Unix, the BSD networking utilities still define the standards, and so many of the Linux networking utilities are time-tested utilities from BSD. As another example: thanks to the work done by MIT and the corporate members of the X Consortium, Linux had a well-tested, respected GUI less than a year after the project started.
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I never knew I had any talent for music. My mom's guitar was too intimidating, with its long neck and all those strings. But when a new music store opened down the street, I had to check it out. My twelve-year-old eyes took one look at that ukulele hanging on the wall and immediately I was crunching the numbers in my head to figure out how many weeks I'd have to save up my allowance before I could take it home.
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Some of my teachers and mentors have been Jamie Haddad (Paul Simon, Herbie Hancock, Paul Winter,) Kevin Hanson (The Roots, Jay Z, Jill Scott,) Lukasz Kuropaczewski, Stephen Aron, and Tony Moore (Usher, Patti Labelle.)
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Professor Nick R. (guitar, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, dobro/resonator/slide, bass, drums, composition) Currently, adjunct professor at Essex College, Jazz clinician for over 14 years via Kupferberg Center(Queens College), Great Neck Music Conservatory
-Vanity Fair magazine (August 2013) interview
"Recently performed at Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin's home. It was an honor to meet Paul McCartney and jam with him while he played toy harmonica. Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Iridium, Bluenote, Birdland, U.N., IAJE, Cape Cod Jazz Festival, NJPAC, Sweet Rhythm, Smalls, Zinc Bar, Smoke Jazz Club, internationally: Japan, Spain, Russia, Brasil, St. Kitts, Canada, France, Bermuda, Sweden, Israel
-Toured/worked as sideman w/Jimmy McGriff, Teddy Charles, Sonny Dallas, Victor Jones, Vince Giordano & The Night Hawks, Frank Vignola/Joe Ascione, Miles Griffith, David Pleasant Jim Nolet & others.
-Appears in Sam Mendes Film "Away We Go"
-Movie Soundtrack: King George.
-Guitar/banjo: "Jew Grows in Brooklyn," "Take Me Along," "The Big Apple Circus" + others.
-Banjo/Guitar Chair: "New Girl In Town" (Irish Rep Theatre)
-Author: Metallica Legendary Licks series,volume 1 & 2)
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M.A. from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College
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B.S. from S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, graduated magna cum laude. Dean's list all semesters
-Published interview (book): A New Face of Jazz (Cicily Janus)
-Playing guitar/banjo on new PBS cartoon "Peg and Cat"
Peg & Cat. Current adjunct professor at Essex College
-Guest lecturing professor at Manhattanville College
-Substitute adjunct professor at Queens College
-Winning participant: I.A.J.E. with Miles Griffith's New Ting 2007. Performance and educational certificate granted.
-Winning participant; part-scholarship award: 2004 International Jazz Workshop at BANFF Centre, Canada (dir, Dave Douglas)
-Winning participant; full-scholarship award of the 2001 JAS academy in Aspen Colorado (dir, Christian McBride (Down Beat Dec. 2001)
-Studying Bol (Indian rhythmic system) with tabla player, Pandit Samir Chatterjee 2006-2007; 2013-current
-Studied with Pat Martino, Billy Bauer, Ben Monder, Tony Purrone, Pete Bernstein, Dr. Stephen Salerno, Dr. David Belser
-Studying African Rhythms with drummer, Harvey Wirht
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A native of Seattle, Washington, Braden came to NYC a decade ago to get his BFA in Music from New School University, and to study with some of the greatest musicians in the world, then quickly became a regular on NYC's many different music scenes, from jazz to rock and everything inbetween. Braden performs regularly with Double Down, Betty Reds, his own project, The Alternatives, and plays mandolin and guitar for the popular Off-Broadway musical Italian Bred. He's worked with Vincent Pastore (The Sopranos), Steve Holley (Wings), Daniel Glass (Royal Crown Revue, Brian Setzer), Charlie Lagond (Buddy Rich, Jackson Five, Kid Creole and the Coconuts), and Harry Whitaker (Roberta Flack, Roy Ayers), just to name a few. He is also an in-demand freelance guitarist and singer, and doubles on mandolin, ukulele, banjo, and bass, and is a highly experienced private teacher.
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It is no wonder that someone from the very edge of the North American continent would possess a voice as naturally captivating as the verdant Pacific Northwest. Emma B., young cellist, singer, banjo-player, and fiddler from Qualicum Beach, British Columbia has what bluegrass super-star Laurie Lewis called, a "voice like a laser," clear, effortless, and striking to the core.
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She presently tours with Joy Kills Sorrow and Nic Gareiss, and makes her home in Brooklyn, NY, where she teaches locally.
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Snark bright, snark light first snark I see tonight! Hippo and goat and lurk as you like!
!Rainbow Baby BOY due 3/10/2013!
Looks like my Give A Shit button broke.
Torso--I hope your DH doesn't have as much trouble finding your vag as the lightening is having......lol
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Rainbow Snark Mama!
So sorry Taygen. Glad you are home but sorry you are still not well. I hope you can get your iron levels up.
I didn't get the picture right away either. I'm dumb this morning.
Mommy duck to my ducklings, 4 who waddle and one who flies:
twins David and Erik (5), angel Cecily ❤, rainbow Anna (2), baby Jack (11months)
I am glad someone else didn't get it! :) I thought maybe they wrapped trash or were improperly storing food...
Seriously, when is the last time you saw a college kid gift wrap in something other than the store bag it came in or newspaper?
Well Torso THAT is a valid point you make.
My DH has always put up a Christmas tree, decorated, wrapped gifts, etc. My brother however....once wrapped my Christmas gift in what he could find which was green, gold & purple wrapping paper (Mardi Gras, y'all!) and taped it with electrical tape. That was interesting.
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Rainbow Snark Mama!
@emw2 I hear you! My family is the same way I'm tired of the lectures!! That's the reason Im kind of avoiding them right now (it sounds awful) :(


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From left, Brian Frerk, Josh Frerk, Ben Zill, Bob Bins and Jim Zill meet up in a field while deer hunting on private property in Kewaunee County in November. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has sought the assistance of hunters in controlling the spread of chronic wasting disease. / Evan Siegle/Gannett Wisconsin Media
A Wisconsin deer that tested positive for chronic wasting disease. / Photo supplied by the DNR
CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE is a neurological disease similar to mad cow disease in cattle and scrapie in sheep, but it affects white-tailed deer, mule deer, moose and elk. It is caused when a naturally occurring protein mutates into an infectious, misfolded form � called a prion � and begins accumulating in nervous and lymphoid tissues, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
CWD was FIRST DISCOVERED IN WISCONSIN IN 2002, though officials believe it was introduced at least 20 years ago in two separate locations � near the border of Dane and Iowa counties and in southeastern Rock County. MORE THAN 1,500 DEER HAVE TESTED POSITIVE for CWD in Wisconsin since 2002, including a high of 218 in 2010.
The disease is SPREAD THROUGH DIRECT CONTACT with infected deer or CWD-contaminated soil, and the disease can linger for at least three years in soil.
An infected deer will show no immediate symptoms as the disease incubates for at least 17 months before outward signs begin to appear and the clinical progression begins, research shows. Outward signs typically last between several weeks and several months before death. They include emaciation, widened stance, lowered head, excessive salivation and behavioral changes such as walking a repetitive course.
THERE IS NO VACCINE and no signs deer can become immune to the disease.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there is �NO STRONG EVIDENCE� THAT CWD CAN BE TRANSMITTED TO HUMANS, but it advises against eating infected animals. The CDC says many years of follow-up are needed to be able to say with certainty whether CDC poses a risk to humans.
Tediously slow but invariably lethal, chronic wasting disease is the most significant threat ever to face Wisconsin�s whitetail deer population and its hunting culture, wildlife officials say.
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But tell that to a hunter and you likely will see an eye roll or hear criticism of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources� CWD management efforts.
�I don�t think CWD is enough of a threat to do what they�re doing to the deer herd and to the state�s hunting,� said Andy Townsend, 24, of Milton, who shot and later ate a CWD-positive buck in January.
�I�m friends with 100 guys, and 99 percent think this is getting kind of absurd and they should just let (CWD) run its course.�
Extensive studies so far have yielded no evidence of human health risks from CWD. Questions remain about its potential impact on the age and size of the state�s deer herd.
�Prevalence and distribution continue to slowly grow,� said Davin Lopez, DNR biologist and CWD team leader. �Ultimately, it could reduce deer numbers to a level that would significantly impact hunting permanently.�
The state�s highest concentration of CWD is in a 210-square-mile section of southern Wisconsin in Dane and Iowa counties, where nearly 12 percent of all deer are CWD-positive, according to DNR estimates completed this month. The previous high in that area was 8.4 percent in 2008.
Last year, 219 deer tested positive for CWD, which is 40 more than 2009 and the highest yearly total since the disease was discovered here in 2002, according to the DNR. The previous high was 205, a total reached in both 2002 and 2006.
The DNR has changed CWD management tactics and goals several times since the disease was first discovered in Wisconsin in 2002 � most notably abandoning the initial eradication goal as impossible.
The current effort is aimed at overall population reduction. CWD is spread through direct contact with infected deer or CWD-contaminated soil, so fewer deer means fewer chances for healthy deer to contract the disease.
�We only have maybe 15 to 20 percent prevalence in our adult males (bucks) in very small areas at this point, so it�s not surprising that most people don�t see a sick deer,� Lopez said.
�They�re not seeing a sick deer, they�re not thinking it�s really a problem.�
Population goals
Despite nine years of extended hunting seasons, the deer population fell only slightly in the 9,000-square-mile area that covers the southern quarter of the state � called the CWD management zone.
About 184,000 deer roamed the management zone at the close of the 2010 hunting seasons, down from 198,000 in 2001, according to DNR estimates. The current population goal is 78,000, a number established in 2007 after hunters criticized the initial 49,000 goal as unachievable.
�It�s overpopulated even regardless of CWD,� Lopez said.
Extended hunting seasons in the CWD zone have drawn the ire of hunters and landowners, but the DNR defends the additional opportunities as the best available means to slow the spread of CWD. Mature bucks are most vulnerable to CWD, but Lopez said lowering the number of does is the best way to limit the population.
�Basically we�re asking for herd reduction now that could bounce back in lieu of permanent herd reduction later,� Lopez said.
The DNR has opened two additional gun seasons in the CWD zone. A four-day antlerless hunt is held in mid-October and a two-week gun season runs from late December to early January began in 2008.
The DNR also issues an unlimited number of tags in the 22 management units that comprise the CWD zone, but that is subject to earn-a-buck requirements.
Terry Frey, who co-founded a landowner group to advocate limiting hunting to the traditional nine-day season, said landowners in the CWD zone are frustrated with what he calls �endless seasons.�
�It�s here, we�re not going to eradicate it,� the 56-year-old Black Earth resident said of CWD. �How long can these deer seasons go on where people can�t go out and enjoy their property?�
Management varies
Most of the 15 states with CWD in wild populations have built their management plan around some kind of population control. Methods include allowing sharp shooting, extending seasons to issuing additional licenses in key areas.
But the state with the most CWD experience � Colorado, where the disease was first discovered in the wild in 1981 � has abandoned population control efforts.
Battling CWD in deer, mule deer, moose and elk, Colorado set out in the early 2000s to reduce its deer herd in core areas by half, said Jeff Ver Steeg, assistant director for wildlife programs with the Colorado DNR. Officials dropped that goal after several years � calling it unattainable � and soon after abandoned sharp shooting and issuing extra licenses.
�(Population reduction) just didn�t really seem to make that big of a difference, and prevalence was not something that was increasing at a huge rate either, especially in hunted populations with enough turnover,� Ver Steeg said. �We�re back to managing for herd objectives and recreation. CWD is not the primary driver in terms of our management objectives.�
Unmanaged in Wisconsin, CWD would slowly spread to the rest of the state while infecting an increasing percentage of the herd � potentially up to 40 percent of adult male deer, Lopez said.
Wyoming has reached that prevalence level in areas covering thousands of square miles, Lopez said. Wyoming is the only CWD state that monitors but does not actively manage the disease.
�This is a very slow-progressing disease, and the population level effects that would affect hunting or deer numbers at all aren�t going to be seen for � decades if not longer in Wisconsin,� Lopez said.
Said Ver Steeg: �I think it�s fair to say the jury�s still out. We just don�t have enough long-term data to answer that question.�
Success in outreach
Lopez said lack of support from hunters is the single biggest problem facing the state�s CWD management. The DNR needs hunters to harvest more deer in the CWD zone and landowners to allow more access to hunters, he said.
�We ultimately have to work together if we�re going to be reasonably successful doing disease management,� he said.
A 2006 Legislative Audit Bureau analysis of the CWD program said it was �imperative� for the DNR to improve communication with hunters, calling it unlikely that the disease could be controlled without public support.
But telephone surveys done for the DNR last summer show only 7 percent of hunters who recently hunted in the CWD zone believe the disease is currently a �serious� problem. Only 15 percent believe it will become serious if left untreated.
The DNR�s goal on the disease is also unclear to many, with 60 percent of landowners and hunters in the CWD zone saying they believe the DNR is attempting to eradicate the disease.
Eric Litke writes for the Sheboygan Press.


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When 7-year-old Ellie Johnson walked into the Miller Hill Mall with $50 in cash from her recent birthday party, the Two Harbors girl wasn't looking to buy a gift for herself.
When 7-year-old Ellie Johnson walked into the Miller Hill Mall with $50 in cash from her recent birthday party, the Two Harbors girl wasn't looking to buy a gift for herself.
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"She has always had the biggest heart," said her mother, Julie Racchi. "She's always looking for ways to help others."
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"I saw on TV this girl who wanted to collect shoes for her birthday and she got over 200 pairs to donate," Ellie said. "I thought, 'Why don't I do that, too?'"
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"When she left, I cried a little," she said. "I was so touched. Being right after the Boston Marathon and Watertown shootout, it restored my faith in humanity to know that there are kids like Ellie out there."
Larson and a co-worker later purchased 14 pairs of shoes to donate to Ellie's drive, and a sign now sits at the counter at Payless with information on how to contribute.
"I said, 'We've got to help and get other people knowing about this,'" Larson said. "She's such an inspiration to us all."
Racchi set up an email address and a Facebook page to help coordinate donations. While she gets some help from her mother, Ellie does most of the work herself, keeping an inventory of the shoes, delivering them to the school and shelters, and making phone calls to ask for contributions.
Ellie, who attends North Shore Community School in rural Duluth, used some of her cash donations to purchase shoes for gym classes at her school. She collected shoe size information for students who didn't have gym shoes, making sure that each of her classmates had a pair of shoes that fit.
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Ellie plans to donate the rest of the shoes to local women's shelters. She has already dropped some off at the Damiano Center in Duluth.
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Racchi said she wasn't too surprised by her daughter's generosity (she always plays a big role in school fundraisers and last summer went door-to-door to raise "quarters for cleanup" in the wake of the June flood), but the project has grown more quickly than she would have imagined.
Ellie and her mother say they are unsure of what's next for the Ellie's Shoe Box project. It could turn into an annual spring drive, or they could just seek contributions when the shelters are in need. If it grows big enough, they could seek a nonprofit designation, Racchi said.
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Everyone was told not to update to 6.1.3 because it stopped the jailbreak.
That didn't stop some from updating though...
This sucks, I was forced to restore to 6.1.3 and was previously on 6.1.2
Seeing this article makes me really sad even though they make a point
You shouldn't have updated if you were already on 6.1.2. I waited to get my 5 until the jb was released. I do think that while the devs are not working on jb's they should consider trying to find a way to downgrade newer devices. I'm so scared to install anything new from Cydia because idw to lose my jb if something happens and it needs a restore.
Then that's there own fault they were warned
Can someone explain to me....
I have a iPhone 5 on 6.1 jailbroke.
If I don't care about 6.1.2 or 6.1.3, why should I be concerned there is no jailbreak for 6.1.3?
If my phone crashes and I need to restore, can't I restore to 6.1 or has that been changed since the iPhone 4 days?
It's been changed if something happens to ya iPhone 5 you would have to go to 6.1.3
Well, I guess I need to avoid water damage and dropping my phone!
you would be out of luck. You could only restore to 6.1.3. So be careful. In iPhone 3, 3S and 4 days there was a bootrom exploit which allowed downgrades. That all ended at 4S. No more downgrading.
I can't remember the last time I got in to a boot loop or anything similar and couldn't get out of it one way or another either by uninstalling using a file browsing tool all disabling mobile substrate and doing it that way.
Most of the time a tweak will cause the problem either poorly coded or conflicting with another you have so remove that tweak and all (should be good) I've uninstalled tweaks via terminal to get out of boot loops.
Just a little info. I'm not saying this is definetly going to work if it happens to you but like I said I've never lost a jb because I've used one of those methods.
I can't remember any time I lost a jb.
But these seem like different times.
I have an iPhone 4s with iOS 6.1.2 that has never been jailbroken. Can I?
Sure can! Go to evasi0n iOS 6.x Jailbreak - official website of the evad3rs and get the most recent jailbreak tool. Have fun!
if you were on 6.1.2 jailbroken and you just randomly updated to 6.1.3 without checking first if evasi0n was going to support it or if Apple changed anything major to it thus patching the exploits, that's your own fault.
Today I used the latest version of redsn0w to Jailbreak a iPhone 3GS on the latest firmware 6.1.3. The iPhone is untethered on 6.1.3, however after using iTunes to restore and update my phone to 6.1.3 in order to achieve the jailbreak I used a custom unmodified 6.0 IPSW when I manually selected the IPSW to jailbreak with. I achieved an untethered jailbreak successfully. Next I was also able to downgrade from using the iPad baseband 06.15 to 05.13.04 and achieve a successful unlock using ultrasn0w 1.2.8
Definitely will up date for this http://www.macrumors.com/2013/04/02/...es-on-april-5/