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Senator Latz's committee assistant sent us a notification last night that the hearing would be at noon. Today, the committee schedule was updated to show that the hearing was at 6 p.m. Strangely enough, the anti-gun Facebook page had the 6 p.m. time listed hours before the committee page was updated. Don't you wonder how we got sent the wrong info, and they got the right info?
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A pile of anti-rights legislation will be heard by the a Minnesota Senate committee on Thursday at 6 p.m.
More gun control: here it comes!
A pile of anti-rights legislation will be heard by the a Minnesota Senate committee on Thursday at noon.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, headed by Sen. Rob Latz, will hear the bill, which he authored, and which is likely to closely match Rep. Michael Paymar's rights-stripping HF237.
The committee is heavily weighted toward urban, anti-freedom urban DFLers, who need to hear from you that real Minnesotans DO NOT support these policies. Their contact information is below.
If you are free on Thursday, it is important that we have plenty of gun rights supporters, but this will not be the last, or even the most important, event at the capitol in the coming days and weeks. If you have to save your days off, there will be more winnable battles.
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When I first started out in systems administration, I had only a few machines to keep track of. It was relatively easy to remember which servers did which functions (mostly because one or two machines did just about everything). If a server had a problem, I immediately knew everything it would impact.
For better or worse, nowadays my position has become more complicated. When you personally manage tens or hundreds of machines, it can be difficult to keep everything straight. When a server goes down, you might no longer know what services are impacted or who else to notify. Beyond that, there's also the dreaded running-the-right-command-on-the-wrong-server mistake. I think every sysadmin has typed halt, rm -rf or some other destructive command in the wrong terminal at least once (just ask my old boss Bill).
In this column, I discuss some methods I've found to help you keep track of your servers. Although I can't guarantee you'll never type a command on the wrong server, I can say that as your environment grows to hundreds of servers, these techniques will help you pick up where your brain left off.
The message of the day (motd) is the message that greets you every time you log in to your system on the command line. For instance, here is the message of the day on one of my old Debian servers:
Linux napoleon 2.6.20-1-k7 #1 SMP Tue Apr 24 22:37:29 UTC 2007 i686 The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. No mail.
Messages like this are pretty generic, so it's easy to take them for granted and leave them alone. After all, in this example, I already know the OS, hostname and kernel version (Linux, napoleon, 2.6.20-1-k7). You can extend this information, however, and list anything you want.
The message of the day is managed in a file called /etc/motd. It's a simple text file, so you can modify it to say anything you want, although you'll want to limit it to what can fit on a standard console screen. Note that on modern Debian-based systems, the /etc/motd file is somewhat dynamic, so you will want to modify /etc/motd.tail instead.
So, how can you use this file to your advantage? A lot of security-minded administrators add a special terms of use in this file to note that their systems are private and do not allow unauthorized access. In that case, the motd acts like a No Trespassing sign, so if someone hacks in to the system, law enforcement has help demonstrating that the attacker was notified that it was a private system.
Although you may or may not want to add a No Trespassing sign to your motd, there are a number of other things you can add to the motd to make your life as an admin simpler. For instance, you could add a short set of documentation about the server, including what the server does, other groups to contact if there is a problem on the machine and even any special locations where custom files are stored. That way, when you log in, instead of a boring default motd, you could get something more like:
Linux napoleon 2.6.20-1-k7 #1 SMP Tue Apr 24 22:37:29 UTC 2007 i686 Welcome to Napoleon. Local services: DNS, DHCP, Internal Wiki (http://wiki.example.net) DNS config: /etc/bind, /var/named. DHCP config: /etc/dhcpd.conf Wiki files: /var/www/wiki Support team: email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com
You even might want to use the motd to pass along useful tips to regular users on the system. For instance, let's say your users use vim to view log files. On some systems, vim stores a complete copy of any files you open in /tmp. Although that's fine for a small text file, when you have users opening 1GB+ Apache logs, your /tmp space fills up quickly, and you are paged again and again. One solution might be to add a gentle reminder in your motd to use less, not vim, to read large text files.
Another great way to help remind you which servers you are on is to tweak your shell prompt. If you are a good security-minded admin and become root only when necessary, a quick tip is to make the root prompt a different color (like red), so it stands out and reminds you that everything you do is with root privileges.
There are many different tastes when it comes to a custom shell prompt, so you might want to tweak this to suit your preferences. Also, I'm assuming you will be using the bash shell that most systems tend to default to these days, so the file you should edit is /root/.bashrc. What shows up in your prompt is defined by the PS1 environment variable, so if you are curious what it is set to by default, simply type:
root@napoleon:~# echo $PS1 \u@\h:\w\$
In this example, you have a very basic prompt that lists the current user (\u), the @ symbol, the hostname (\h), a colon, the current working directory (\w) and a # symbol (if I'm root), or a $ otherwise (\$). On my sample system, it would look like root@napoleon:~# when I log in as root.
There are plenty of other ways you can tweak the prompt, and if you are curious, the full list of aliases you can use for it is found in the bash man page—just search for PS1.
Because I'm focused on colorizing the prompt and not necessarily changing the format, I mostly will leave the prompt as is. There are a few ways to colorize the prompt, but the simplest way I've found is to define some of the potential colors you'd like to use in environment variables ahead of time, and then you can assign them to the PS1 variable without going cross-eyed from all the escape characters. Open up /root/.bashrc, and if PS1 already is defined, add these lines above it:
NORMAL=`tput sgr0 2> /dev/null` BOLD=`tput bold 2> /dev/null` RED="\[\033[31m\]" GREEN="\[\033[32m\]" BLUE="\[\033[34m\]" GREY="\[\033[1;30m\]" PURPLE="\[\033[0;35m\]"
Now that all the colors are defined, I simply can define PS1 with the default settings, only with these color settings around it:
PS1 = "$RED\u@\h:\w\$$NORMAL"
Once you save the changes to .bashrc, the next time you log in, you will notice your prompt is colorized. Now you can spend the rest of the afternoon tweaking the prompt with different sets of colors and symbols like I did the first time I found out about it. It even might be worthwhile to use a different prompt color scheme for different types of servers.
Kyle Rankin is a systems architect; and the author of DevOps Troubleshooting, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Knoppix Hacks, Knoppix Pocket Reference, Linux Multimedia Hacks, and Ubuntu Hacks.
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Guess what those servers do, and which environment of the infrastructure they're in?
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New York, January 31, 2012--The convictions of two journalists in the Central African Republic over their critical coverage of a top official constitute political censorship, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
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Honey-Mustard Chicken Salad Recipe
The marinating of the chicken adds so much extra flavor to the recipe. You can choose any lettuce you want to serve this wonderful chicken on.Taste of Home Test Kitchen, Greendale, Wisconsin
- 6 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 6 tablespoons vegetable oil, divided
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 cup honey
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (4 ounces each)
- 6 cups torn mixed greens
- 12 cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
- 1/4 cup chopped green onions
- Combine mustard, 4 tablespoons of oil, water, honey, lemon juice and pepper. Place chicken in a shallow glass dish; add half of the marinade. Reserve the remaining marinade. Cover and refrigerate chicken for at least 2 hours, turning occasionally. Drain chicken and discard marinade. In a large skillet over medium heat, cook chicken in the remaining oil for 5-7 minutes per side or until browned and juices run clear. Arrange the greens, tomatoes, mushrooms and onions on four salad plates. Slice chicken; arrange over salads. In a saucepan, bring reserved marinade to a boil and boil for 2 minutes. Spoon over salads; serve immediately. Yield: 4 servings.
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The reserve price on a valuable sliver of spectrum was reached in the Federal Communications Commission's 700MHz auction on Thursday, triggering rules that would make the spectrum accessible to any device or software application.
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The internet streets have been steady buzzing about UK singer Emeli Sande and soon it'll be time for the US release of her debut, Our Version Of Events (out June 5).
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In its latest design collaboration, mass-retailer Target has teamed with handbag designer Anya Hindmarch, famous most recently for her cheeky and impossible-to-get "I'm Not a Plastic Bag" tote. This group of faux patent bags is a bit more styled and features options ranging from an oversized clutch to a chic yet roomy tote. Though the collection won't hit stores until October 12, shoppers will be able to purchase online at Anya Hindmarch's site from October 8 through October 12. Mouses, on your marks.
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BO's nominee for CIA Director, John Brennan, is Muslim, and may be a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, based on his past interactions with that terrorist group and his work to install MB members in key federal government positions.
Please call your reps and demand that Brennan NOT be involved in national security in ANY way.
Please share this video. John Guandolo, former Marine officer and FBI agent, shares Brennan's bio. Trento intros Guandolo at 10:50; Guandolo shares at 13:00.
Brennan currently serves as Deputy National Security Advisor to BO. As Guandolo points out, Brennan is either a spy/traitor or a complete imbecile (my words). In either case, he should be removed from his current position and tried for treason.
Brennan converted to Islam while a U.S. diplomat in Saudi Arabia, under the influence of MB members.
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btw, I called Upton's SJ office. Spoke with Megan. When I explained that Brennan is unfit for national security posts due to his conversion to Islam and his ties to the MB, she was argumentative, rude, and refused to listen, continually trying to speak over me.
She asserted that Fred could not oppose the nomination on the basis of religion. It would be unconstitutional. Apparently he can't oppose it on the basis of terrorism, either.
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For use in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010, this Picture Thumbnails Web Part displays images from a SharePoint Picture Library in a widget-like thumbnail layout (see Figure 1). When a user clicks on a thumbnail, the original image opens up Lightbox style on top of the darkened page (see Figure 2). This is adapted from my WSS 3.0 version for SharePoint 2010.
For images stored in a SharePoint Picture Library, thumbnails are generated by referencing the URL /<Picture Library Url>/_t/<Image Name>_<Image Extension>.jpg. This URL is stored in field EncodedAbsThumbnailUrl. However the thumbnails are too big for my liking. Instead of using some custom HTTP handler to generate thumbnails of smaller size, I decided to use the thumbnails as they are but use them as CSS background images. This way, I can control the "apparent" thumbnail size by sizing the block element associated with the background image, thereby avoiding any aspect ratio issue of just resizing the thumbnail images directly.
Next, I would like to have some Dynamic HTML or Ajax functionality to view the original image when user clicks on a thumbnail. Lightbox style preview looks very cool to me. There are many implementations or variations of Lightbox and I settled on using Litebox because of its compact size and relatively small number of supporting files.
PictureThumbnailsWebPart functions as a wrapper by calling custom web control PictureThumbnails. This design allows the developer the option to add the web control directly to a master page or a publishing page layout where Web Parts are not allowed. The Web Part has the following public properties:
The Lightbox functionality is provided by Litebox and requires a number of supporting files:
These JavaScript files are treated as Embedded Resources in Visual Studio 2010. In code, they are referenced using Page.ClientScript.GetWebResourceUrl, passing in the files in the form of [Default namespace].[Folder containing resource].[Filename of resource]. In AssemblyInfo.cs, include each of these files in the same format. For example:
[Default namespace].[Folder containing resource].[Filename of resource]
[assembly: System.Web.UI.WebResource ("QuestechSystems.SharePoint.ClientScripts.litebox-1.0.js", "text/javascript")]
These images are treated as Class Resources. In code, the path to Class Resource files is obtained by calling SPWebPartManager.GetClassResourcePath. Since the project assembly is deployed to GAC, the deployment path will be something like /_wpresources/QuestechSystems.SharePoint.Thumbnails/184.108.40.206__ce574b585167cfb8/. To package Class Resource files for deployment, a SharePoint 2010 Empty Element is created in Visual Studio 2010. These images are added under the newly created folder with Deployment Type set to ClassResource.
You can find them in the Styles directory. lightbox.css is customized from the original Litebox module to reflect the directory path of Class Resource images. If you recompile the supplied Visual Studio project with your own strong name key file, you would need to update these paths. picturethumbnails.css is not part of Litebox but is required for the widget/thumbnail look and feel as shown in the screenshots above.
The Web Part also uses a resource file to store all messages and property attribute UI strings. It demonstrates how to develop a custom class that inherits WebDescriptionAttribute, WebDisplayNameAttribute or CategoryAttribute and returns a localized string from your own Resource Manager.
The supplied Visual Studio 2010 solution includes all the support files you need to build and deploy this Web Part, minus the strong name key file (key.snk). It makes full use of the built-in SharePoint integration. No more third party tools or custom pre and post build scripts are needed to build the SharePoint solution file.
Open SharePoint 2010 Management Shell, add solution file QuestechPictureThumbnails.wsp using Add-SPSolution like:
Add-SPSolution "C:\QuestechSystems.PictureThumbnails\bin\Release\ QuestechPictureThumbnails.wsp"
Or using stsadm, add solution file QuestechPictureThumbnails.wsp like:
stsadm -o addsolution -filename "C:\QuestechSystems.PictureThumbnails\bin\ Release\QuestechPictureThumbnails.wsp"
Go to SharePoint 2010 Central Administration/System Settings/Manage farm solutions. Deploy the installed solution to selected web applications. In the site collection where the solution is deployed, activate the Site Collection Feature Questech Systems Picture Thumbnail Web Part. After that, the Picture Thumbnails Web Part (listed under Questech Systems) should be available for you to add to pages.
As mentioned, the Lightbox functionality depends on lightbox.css and picturethumbnails.css. If you have a custom CSS file for your site already, you could just copy the content out from the two files and paste it into your custom CSS. If you do not have a custom CSS file, you would need to either add it through the SharePoint UI Site Settings interface or insert it in your custom master page or page layout (for SharePoint Server 2010). Tips: You can control the number of thumbnails shown per line by adjusting the width of the Web Part.
Please note that though this web part is licensed under The Code Project Open License, Litebox is licensed separately under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5.
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private void PopulatePictureItemsPanel(Panel pictureItemsPanel) { List<SPListItem> pictureItems = GetPictureItems(_pictureList); if (pictureItems.Count == 0) { return; } string itemHtml; string baseUrl = this.Page.Request.Url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority); string siteUrl = _pictureList.ParentWebUrl.TrimEnd("/".ToCharArray()); string galleryOption = String.Empty; string thumbnailUrl; string previewUrl; if (_showAsImageSet) { galleryOption = "[Gallery]"; } pictureItemsPanel.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("
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2014-03-10 13:00"Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative.[] But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too."" - Aaron Scharf
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Would you prefer to hear information from a real nurse, or from a computer? Your answer might depend upon the kind of information being delivered, as well as the context (i.e. is the computer in your own home, where you can half-listen while you also sort your inbox and eat a snack? Because in that case…), but I figure that if I'm receiving the kind of information a nurse might need to give me, I'd like the nurse to be a real person so that I can ask questions if I have them. Turns out I'm in the minority, though; 74 percent of participants asked this question in a study opted for the computer. And now the Northeastern University-based reasearcher behind that study has helped to carry out another in which a lactation consultant avatar (a computer-generated "person") shared her knowledge and skills with 15 women. Turns out the avatar, who was closely modeled after a real lactation consultant — right down to her expressions and gestures — was good at her job, too; the participants demonstrated an increased intent to breastfeed, as well as knowledge around breastfeeding, after their time with the avatar.
The research team behind the study plan to conduct another to see if an avatar consultant will have a similarly positive impact on breastfeeding duration. They've clearly stated, too, that these avatars are intended to complement—rather than replace—the human-to-human experience, and that avatar effectiveness doesn't let hospitals off the hook on information delivery. I think it's pretty cool that the study's participants learned from the avatar consultant, and that their attitudes toward breastfeeding were even impacted by the experience, but I also feel like, sure, obviously additional information exposure (presented by a friendly, person-like character) will result in more knowledge and increased positive attitudes toward a subject. As real people, we learn when information is presented well, and we also act a lot like sheep (in the study's case, this was a good thing), following the lead of whoever's "talking" to us through our ubiquitous screens. I'm not surprised by this study's results.
When it comes to breastfeeding, though, consultants can be most useful in helping women put the information they've gathered into action. Babies don't always latch quite right, and women sometimes need help adjusting their positioning or holds based on their unique body shapes, any discomfort they might be experiencing, and so forth. Breastfeeding consultants can also be indispensable in trouble-shooting. Mine figured out that baby Kaspar had reflux (the nurses at the hospital kept telling me he was crying because he was "still hungry"), and a friend of mine hired a consultant who discovered her son couldn't latch because he was tongue-tied. As with all virtual tools, a computerized consultant wouldn't be able to customize its assistance to meet the unique needs of each client.
Women who seek out breastfeeding consultant, however, are generally those who already intend to breastfeed; it sounds like the women who participated in the study may not have had much of a base of knowledge—or plan around breastfeeding—in place before meeting the 'avatar.' So while part of my thinks, "Why bother making an avatar that moves and speaks like a real consultant? Just go for the real thing!", I also recognize the potential for the 'avatar' to reach a broader audience, as well as greater numbers of women, than any individual breastfeeding consultant would be able to. It might even prompt women who wouldn't otherwise breastfeed to request time with real consultants as follow-up, once they're primed to get their babies on the boob.
While it's cool, too, that the researchers made clear that hospitals can't replace their nurses (and, presumably, their on-staff breastfeeding consultants) with avatars, but instead might be able to create a complementary system utilizing both, I remember finding it quite difficult to get any decent information — as well as time with a breastfeeding consultant (I asked for one as soon as Kas was born; she didn't arrive until I was checking out) — in the hospital after Kaspar was born. The quality of nurses varied greatly among the staff, too. One of them was really mean! Perhaps avatars can be used to ensure that patients get at least a quality baseline of information in an accessible way, but hospitals definitely need to step up, too, and provide the real (expert) person — whether nurse or consultant — for patients to ask questions of and learn from, whether or not they've had a visit with an avatar first.
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City of Asheville Staff Emails: Occupy Asheville
From: Lauren Bradley
Subject: RE: Occupy Asheville
Date: 2011-10-20 10:29:09
10-4. Thanks. Jeff, Let me know if you need us to draft something to be
included in your staff report or if you are OK.
From: Betty Coulter
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 10:19 AM
To: Lauren Bradley
Subject: RE: Occupy Asheville
Yes, that is what I am working towards.
Betty Coulter, RMPE
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From: Lauren Bradley
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 10:05 AM
To: Betty Coulter; Bob Oast; Jeff Richardson
Cc: Jon Fillman
Subject: FW: Occupy Asheville
Importance: High
Thanks, Betty. I had a chance to speak with Bob about this briefly this
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Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 10:01 AM
To: Jeff Richardson
Cc: Lauren Bradley; Jon Fillman
Subject: Occupy Asheville
Importance: High
I visited the site of occupy Asheville. As with other organized groups
that hold activities on our property I recommend that this group
purchase liability insurance and name the City additionally insured.
I am concerned about the vehicle exposures that are created with tents
and signs not being secured properly and that this appears to create an
attractive nuisance increasing liability for the City of Asheville and
the citizens of Asheville. Also, as far as the site is concerned, is
the site owned by the City or the State. If the State permitted the use
to the City for parking I would be recommend that the City notify the
State of a change in activity at this location. As a solution (option),
I am currently working on an OCIP program that this group or any other
group that is required to have insurance when on City property can
purchase directly from the City. At this time we are clarifying
underwriting requirements relative to policy pricing. I expect to have
the framework and cost of this option by October 25th.
Betty Coulter, RMPE
Manager, Risk Management
City of Asheville
PO Box 7148
Asheville, NC 28802
(p) 828-259-5718
(f) 828-258-5686
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- 12-08-2012, 03:41 PM Thread Author #1
Evo Design is in need of some desperate help.
Our phone has went dead. And I'm not ashamed to ask for some help. We did have one developer left. But he seemed to drop off of the face of the earth. So I am asking for anyone with some experience to try and help us out. Anyone can have a shot at it. You do not have to be super skillful. We just would like to see this phone be loved.
Sent from my HTCEVODesign4G using Tapatalk 2 - 12-27-2012, 02:17 PM #2
Re: Evo Design is in need of some desperate help.
Hi all, I was a little surprised, after spending roughly $350 on the phone, to find that the HTC EVO Design 4G has almost no support, at least recently. There is a build/port of CM10 from back in august that is decently stable from using it the past week minus Bluetooth and recording. So I (like boost mobile) would like to help bring this phone back to life. I'm new to this and missing a Linux system but I'm willing to learn and maintain this and the hero S since they are practically the same phone if I can get some help, I know basic stuff but not python and such. I'm sure I can find a working device tree and post here if any bodies interested.
I'm not trying to spam the threads but I too am trying to get this phone some help
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Steve Jobs - the book
I ordered "the book" from Amazon and it arrived, belatedly, on Monday afternoon. I read just the introduction and knew I was going to love it. Aw heck, I knew I was going to love it before I read a word, because I like business books, I like biographies, and I love Apple. But reading Walter Isaacson's writing in that introduction convinced me that I was going to enjoy it more than most any other, and I was right.
So I heartily recommend "Steve Jobs", even moreso after reading it because it lives up to the promise, particularly for people who know about and have followed the company for all these years. Even my wife, for whom things computer are mysterious if useful, even at times baffling, read the introduction and told me me she wants to read it too. I wonder if she will enjoy plowing through the business minutiae, but I am not likely to dissuade her attempt. Isaacson's prose flows, and there is never a moment of awkward writing or a place where I stopped and wondered "Now why did he ever use that word?"
"Steve Jobs" is nearly 600 pages, yet there is a ton of stuff left out; if you don't believe me, ask Wikipedia to walk you through every iteration of Macintosh OS 7 and see how much there is that nobody really cares about. But nearly everything you do care about is in here: the beginnings, the break-up, the comeback, the products, the future, the family, the sordid and the glorious. The well known "reality distortion field" comes up again and again, as does early Jobs' refuse to bath or use deodorant, as does his tendency to assume ownership of others' ideas, as does his habit of declaring something "great" or "crap", sometimes the same thing on the same day.
That he was a prickly manager and odd in other ways takes nothing away from his genius or accomplishments, indeed, the story rings true at every turn; it is not a sycophant's homage but a reporter's honest attempt to lay out Jobs' life and the Apple story in meticulous detail, and it succeeds.
Which is not to say there aren't a few bumps here or there. John Sculley comes in for his rightful trashing, but he's in the midst of destroying the company, and he's not mentioned again for three chapters, when suddenly we learn that he's been replaced by Michael Spindler, who is a bozo, (who is suddenly replaced by Gil Amelio, who is an even bigger bozo.) Little of the behind the scenes political machinations are revealed, although one which is (and is probably the best) is the way Jobs is invited back into the company by Amelio via the purchase of Jobs' company NeXT as "an advisor", and Steve quickly convinces the board to oust Amelio, and even more shortly tells the entire board (with one exception) they have to resign, en masse, and they do. Talk about chutzpah!
Anyway, little of the book is available online, but I marked some nuggets for display here. I will try to stay within the bounds of the copyright gods by quoting only a few short passages from this long and enjoyable book:
In the "when life hands you lemons, make lemonade department": The music companies were reluctant to license someone else to distribute their music, but they fought among themselves, too, debuting proprietary, competing and incompatible systems which were complicated, incomplete, and (to coin the phrase) verklempt at birth. Jobs used the Mac's small market share as a plus, instead of a negative:
I've never spent so much of my time trying to convince people to do the right thing for themselves," he recalled. Because the companies were worried about the pricing model and unbundling of albums, Jobs pitched that his new service would be only on the Macintosh a mere 5% if the market. They could try the idea with little risk. "We used our small market share to our advantage bt arguing that if the store turned out to be destructive it wouldn't destroy the entire universe," he recalled
(Of course after just a few months he went back and renegotiated the contracts to include Windows machines, and more than one record company executive felt a bit abused. Oh well.)
On the concept for the stores, even as Gateway and other computer retailers were crashing:
The days of the Byte Shop were over. Industry sales were shifting from local computer specialty shops to megachains and big box stores, where most clerks had neither the knowledge nor the incentive to explain the distinctive nature of Apple products." ...
There were no tech stores in the mall, and [Ron] Johnson [VP Merchandising for Target] explained why. The conventional wisdom was that a consumer, when making a major and infrequent purchase such as a computer, would be willing to drive to a less convenient location where the rent would be cheaper. Jobs disagreed. Apple stores should be in malls and on Main Streets--in areas with a lot of foot traffic, no matter how expensive. "We may not be able to get them to drive ten miles to check out our products, but we can get them to walk ten feet," he said.
On the (secretive) design process:
The design studio where Jony Ives reigns, on the ground floor of Two Infinite Loop on the Apple campus, is shielded by tinted windows and a heavy clad, locked door. Just inside is a glass-booth reception desk where two assistants guard access. Even high-level Apple employees are not allowed in without special permission...
Ive described the usual process: "This great room is the one place in the company where you can look around and see everything we have in the works. When Steve comes in he will sit at one of these tables. If we're working on a new iPhone, for example, he might grab a stool and start playing with different models and feeling them in his hands, remarking on which ones he likes best. Then he will look at the other tables, just him and me, to see where all the other products are heading. ... Looking at the models on these tables, he can see the future for the next three years.
On why it's good to have cash in your pocket:
Jobs began pushing for a portable music player in the fall of 2006, but Rubinstein responded that the necessary components weren't available yet. He asked Jobs to wait. ...
At the end of a routine meeting with Toshiba, the engineers mentioned a new product they had in the lab that would be ready by that June. It was a tiny, 1.8 inch disk drive that would hold five gigabytes of storage (about a thousand songs), but they were not sure what to do with it....
"I know how to do it now," Rubinstein told Jobs. "All I need is a $10 million check." Jobs immediately authorized it."
And finally, if I'm not pushing my luck too much, how about a memo from Bill Gates, on the debut of the iTunes store. Microsoft, of course, already had MSN, so delivering content online should have been easy, right? At 10:46 that night, Gates sent a memo:
Subject: Apple's Jobs again
Steve Jobs ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things." He expressed surprise that Jobs had been able to convince the music companies to go along with his store. "This is very strange to me. The music companies' own operations offer a service that is truly unfriendly to the user. Somehow they decide to give Apple the ability to do something pretty good." ...
I am not saying this strangeness means we messed up-at least if we did, so did Real and Pressplay and MusicNet and basically everyone else," he wrote. "Now that Jobs has done it we need to move fast to get something where the user interface and Rights are as good. I think we need some plan to prove that, even though Jobs has us a bit flat footed again, we can move quick and both match and do stuff better".
I would love to quote more, but I dare not. One tidbit I found fascinating was that when Steve came back, he didn't really know what to do, or at least didn't let on to some of his closest confidants who didn't see the path eventually taken. On a walk around his neighborhood, talking with Mike Markkula, early angel investor, former Apple CEO, a long time friend and about-to-be bounced Board Member, Markkula articulated the strategy. He said that Hewlett Packard started in a garage making audio oscillators, but hadn't stopped there, and went on to manufacture calculators, then computers and printers and a plethora of other things. Markkula said, and Jobs acknowledged that the PC business was in Microsoft's pocket, and Apple wouldn't beat them at that game, so they should look elsewhere. And so while Jobs' first moves were in the OS, jellybean colored Mac cases and the like, he was formulating the strategy of "other", the famous realization of "Think Different", and through it a strategic path which nurtured the Apple brand and polished it ever more brightly, climbing through the litany of Apple products the world has come to know over the past decade.
It's a great book. I recommend it highly. Spend the $17, you won't regret it.
The history of 'computers'
So my new issue of American Heritage Magazine arrived today, and with it the article "Top Secret Rosies." The title is a play off World War II's Rosie the Riveter(s), except these other Rosies were in a different wartime activity altogether. In an earlier day combatants were face to face or within musket or pistol eyeshot, but with the advent of howitzers and artillery and bombs falling from airplanes, it became harder and harder to find, much less hit the enemy. Often the artillery couldn't see what they were targeting and had no idea if their shells were falling anywhere close to the intended destination. Bombardiers were tens of thousands of feet in the sky, often at night, and might as well have been throwing darts at a wall as trying to drop explosives on factories. Enter mathematics and the calculation of trajectories, drop points, elevation angles and muzzle velocities. Add in wind direction and speed and even humidity and you have some idea of the host of variables involved in trying to get a shell to the target. Even before Pearl Harbor the Army was working on new artillery and infantry weapons, and engineers crunched numbers with a Bush differential analyzer, a 30-foot long mechanical calculating machine developed at MIT in the 1930's. Others, not privy to the latest technological innovations, laboriously compiled projectile tables using pencil, paper, and adding machines. These people were called "computers", in the same way that people at other jobs were called "typists" or "machinists": as a description of what they did. As it turned out, in 1941 men went off to war and women were left behind, and a sudden hole was left in the field of figuring out how to drop bombs and aim artillery. The Army, in a panic, called on the University of Pennsylvania's Moore Engineering School (which had a Bush calculator), and together they and the military put out a call for the most immediately available mathematical talent: young women with a gift for numbers. The administrations of dozens, and later hundreds of high schools got the Army SOS, and a cadre of young women was assembled who could learn the functions and do the work, and they were called "computers." Scores of women were involved, first from the close environs, but eventually from New York, New England, and as far as the Midwest. As the article notes: "The recruits dove right in, learning the specialized mathematical differentiation and integration techniques involved in ballistics calculations." The women were sworn to secrecy, as were the men at Los Alamos, and little of their story has become known even today. The first "computers" were human beings, mostly female, who labored without recognition (or much pay) and helped with the war effort in the early 1940's. So closed was the information flow between themselves and the soldiers that they rarely knew anything about the conflict happening thousands of miles away. Occasionally they could divine clues, such as from topographic readings and wind velocities, coupled with headlines from newspapers weeks later, but mostly they worked without knowing how their output was used, or even if it was used at all. The war, of course, eventually was won, thanks in no small part to the work of the females who came to service when called and performed the jobs which needed to be done. There's a sad post-script to the story: The effort of these computing women continued even after the war as the War Department aided in the formation and planning for a transition from mechanical calculation machines to electronic ones, and the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, commonly known as ENIAC debuted on the Penn campus in 1946. While the guts of the "giant brain" were sketched out by two men, the implementation was done in fair measure by the women who understood the mechanical mathematical functions which the machine was designed to emulate. Those women, a few of whom are outlined in the article, became ENIAC's first "programmers", the people who designed the script, or "program" the machine was to follow. Over time the word "computers" devolved to mean the machine, not the people, a change that lasts through our modern day. In short order the women were replaced by men; indeed, in two-dimensional foreshadow of the three-dimensional reality to follow, the first picture of ENIAC carried by the New York Times showed several women and one man at the machine; as the picture was reproduced in other papers and later in books, the women were cropped out of the shot and only the single, lone male stood before the hulking machine. So it was in real life, too, as men swiftly replaced women in the industry, to the point where today when we think of humans "programming" "computers" the image we conjure is of young men with a bag of potato chips working in solitary environment at the keyboard. It began quite differently, with Rosie the Computer, dozens and dozens of them learning the arcane business of artillery shells and bomb trajectories, and later transferring a fair part of that knowledge to a new industry, and then, like their Rosie the Riveting sisters, departing for the stifled and solitary home life of American women in the 1950's.
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A Great Year for Safety
There's a company that's crowing about its great year in safety: they're TransOcean Corp, and it's their best year ever. They had only one major safety problem last year, and everyone exceeded their safety goals and so there's lots of congratulations and extra executive bonuses all around.
Comparing the 70's with today, economically speaking
Flash forward to today: inflation is low, exceptionally so by historical measures. Unemployment is high, which keeps people quite price sensitive. More importantly, there are 3 billion people in the rapidly industrializing world (China, India) who are "demanding" lots and lots of new things which require "commodities": meat (which requires corn), cars (which require steel, gasoline), and consumer durables like washing machines, televisions, computers, and clothes. So commodity prices are increasing, but not stoking widespread inflation, at least yet.
There are two causes of our current dilemma: The Great Recession has decimated tax collections (aided by the relentless mantra for tax cuts on top of that), and we have borrowed from the future to pay for the present. This is not just "government pensions", but private corporations and even just regular people, who have cashed out their 401(k)'s to pay for Johnny's college or Suzie's new house. Exxon, the most profitable corporation in the history of the world, also has the single most underfunded pension plan of any corporation anywhere. This is a failure of moral leadership, and when that happens the correct response is generally regulation (that's how we stopped putting toxins in the rivers, children in sweatshops, and lead in gasoline, among other things.)
Alas, along with the "eliminate taxes" we've also suffered a spate of "eliminate government" by some, and the charge continues even today in spite of the obvious evidence of the failure of Wall Street and moral abdication of corporate and government chieftains to man up to real solutions in favor of simplistic slogans for simple minded political partisans.
The correct solution is to muddle through the crisis as best we can, shoring up the teetering house as we go, rather than applauding and hoping the entire edifice comes tumbling down. We have seen what that is like in the 1930's, in Weimar Germany, in 1998 Russia and other examples further back in human history.
That will require some belt tightening on the part of everyone, particularly those who have profited so greatly over the past 20 years, and who seem to scream the loudest about doing their part.
The reason there isn't rampant inflation even with the injection of billions of dollars is because the vast preponderance of that money hasn't made it into the economy. It's sitting on the banks' balance sheets collecting dust - and as the economy gradually improves, it can be withdrawn from those same ledgers without too much pain - assuming we don't fall victim to the VLP's and chicken-littles who seem to run around endlessly telling us how horrible everything is (it isn't) and how the end of the world is just around the next corner.
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Then they came for the unions, but I did not complain because I was not a union member.
Then they gutted Social Security, but I did not complain because I was not receiving it.
Then they downsized the middle management, but I did not complain because I was still employed.
Then they eliminated Medicare, but I did not complain because I wasn't eligible yet.
Then they sent my job overseas, and there was no one left to speak out for me.
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Before the day was over, however, House Republican leaders disclosed that no amendments would be allowed to the health care repeal measure...
Boehner's response: 'I promised a more open process. I didn't promise that every single bill was going to be an open bill.'
How To Profit From The Upcoming, uh, Collapse
Anyway, my first 2011 prediction rests squarely on the back of the Tea Party and the raft of devoted followers who were just inducted into the new Congress. My reasoning is simple: the government spends more money than it takes in (duh, big news, right?) and periodically has to raise the debt ceiling so it can issue more official US government bonds which the Chinese purchase so they can keep selling more stuff to us, which adds jobs to their economy takes jobs out of the US except at Walmart, and therefore somehow helps our economy too. I know I don't have to explain this because everybody knows it, even though it's an absurd system on its face. But whatever.
Fruitcakes. Always Fruitcakes
From her Subaru, a car painted as white as the fourth horse of Revelation, Allison Warden proclaims that Jesus Christ shall return May 21.
By her reckoning, the Lord's return will fall on a springtime Saturday. And if the world weren't ending, you might find people celebrating other notable highlights of the day: Mr. T's birthday, Montenegro's independence or the Red Sox-White Sox game.
But to Warden and hundreds of like-minded Christians, Judgment Day can be calculated precisely by tracing biblical genealogy, or by following history forward 7,000 years from the day Noah shut the door to his ark.
Pennsylvania - Libertarian paradise
The natural gas boom gripping parts of the U.S. has a nasty byproduct: wastewater so salty, and so polluted with metals like barium and strontium, that most states require drillers to get rid of the stuff by injecting it down shafts thousands of feet deep.
Not in Pennsylvania, one of the states at the center of the gas rush.
There, the liquid that gushes from gas wells is only partially treated for substances that could be environmentally harmful, then dumped into rivers and streams from which communities get their drinking water.
Why bother with regulations? Doesn't everyone know that companies will pick up after themselves, or that people will stop using the products from bad companies and they will instantly go out of business?
What's the fuss, here?
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough suspended!
So comes the news that Joe Scarborough has <gasp> made eight contributions to Republican candidates in the most recent election. (Keith Olbermann contributed to three.) I have no objection to that, of course, he's free to donate to whoever he wants.
But NBC does have its rules, one of which is that you have to inform the bosses, and "get permission", which presumably is a formality.
No big deal.
For me, a big deal is why it took so long for this to surface. Is it possible that Joe Scarborough missed the news of Olbermann's suspension on the very same channel? Well, no, they talked about it on 'Morning Joe' as it was happening.
Cheating in Alaska
Knoxville one of the best markets for housing
The Gilded Age
Among the many touristy things we've done, yesterday we went to Newport, Rhode Island (which isn't actually an island, but I digress.) My brother-in-law grew up there, so we spent the day having a picnic by the ocean, eating lobster in a waterfront restaurant, etc. But on arriving, and for the first half of the day we toured the Vanderbilt Mansion, one of many built in Newport in the late 1800's and early 1900's by the great industrialists of the age.
While smaller than Biltmore (in N.C., which we have also toured) I think it is more grand; the ceilings sparkle with inlaid tile mosaics consisting of thousands, or more likely tens-of-thousands of tiny porcelain pieces hand placed by "old world" craftsmen. The walls shimmer with sculpted limestone, some of them feature platinum inlays and there is gold-leaf all around. In fact, there is hardly a wall anywhere with artwork (save a couple of pictures of the then owners) because the detailing of everything else is so rich.
I do not understand the Republicans
Vertical living
The Joneses - a review
The concept, as the trailers have made clear, is that this isn't really a family so much as a marketing machine, a vehicle for corporate America to increase sales by finding the so-called "early adopters" and getting them rowing in the same direction. How do you do that? Why by actually hiring early adopters and stuffing them with your stuff.
The 'Lack of Self-Awareness Award' goes to...
Worried about liberal infiltrators, Kevin Terrell, a self-described colonel in the Ohio Valley Freedom Fighters militia based in Louisville, led about two dozen camouflaged followers on a patrol around the park. "I'm a little apprehensive because of the left-wing nut jobs out there," Terrell said.
Stephen Fincher, GOP candidate & Tea Party hypocrite
I didn't really know the name Stephen Fincher; I don't keep up with all the local pols in other Congressional Districts.


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