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Sat 25th Aug 2007 @ 01:06 2007: How to crash a Linux box
ls `yes` seems to bring a Linux box grinding to a halt.
Okay, I bounced it after killing the "ls" and the "yes" processes, to no avail. I guess that ls still had hundreds of children spawning.
Ubuntu Feisty, since you ask:
Linux elvis 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
$ man yes
yes - output a string repeatedly until killed
"ls `yes`" is equivalent to
"ls yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes......" ad infinitum.
If ls itself were to check for duplicate files in its input, I suppose it could get around it, but as-is (and I admit I haven't checked the source code), I would assume that it goes through something like this (in arbitrary pseudocode):
parse "file" // no leading slash; relative path, not absolute
pwd=(get current directory)
okay, "pwd/file" doesn't exist.
Next one to process?
parse "file" // no leading slash; relative path, not absolute
... and so on
Fri 24th Aug 2007 @ 10:54 2007: SUNW becomes JAVA
The register report that Sun Microsystems are to change their ticker from SUNW to JAVA.
Why oh why oh why etc etc etc....
Thu 23rd Aug 2007 @ 00:14 2007: Helm Crag, Grasmere
I just caught the end of a programme on BBC4 about Helm Crag, in the English Lake District. It looks beautiful.
As this blog is little more than my own personal scratchpad, this seems to be the best place to store such a reminder!
Wed 22nd Aug 2007 @ 01:22 2007: Vista security: Certified for Vista
SpyBot, who say that they are "the home of Spybot-S&D, the best (according to PC World, PCMag.com, ...) privacy software available!", say that
Microsoft requires software that applies for this logo program to immediately crash when confronted with a situation described by Microsoft in detail. The background of this still is useful in a standard situation - software that has bugs should actually crash instead of just trying to hide them, so that Windows Error Reporting can log the problem and forward it to the developer. This way Microsoft can assure that applications that are part of the "Certified for Vista" program are of high quality.
However, in the context of a security application, this is hazardous: if malware writers can use a perfectly documented way to crash a security application, the overall security is greatly harmed. To avoid this, we suggested some alternatives to Microsoft that would not compromise the goal of submitting bug reports on errors that are the fault of the developer of the software. In the end though, some people at Microsoft seem to be too certain that Vista is absolutely safe, upon which we do not intend to comment, since key Microsofts employees have already done so, for example Jim Allchin or Mark Russinovich.
Tue 21st Aug 2007 @ 00:02 2007: Why DOS uses "\" instead of "/"
I didn't know this: Why DOS uses \ instead of /
Whilst *nix uses "
myprog -x /path" to give switch "x" to tell "myprog" to run on file "/path", DOS uses "
myprog /x \path"
It seems that DOSv1 had already used "/switch" for switches, so "/path" couldn't be used as a path; "\path" was the closest they could come up with. So they used "-switch" for switches
Mon 20th Aug 2007 @ 01:22 2007: Linus on Solaris
A few years ago, the F/OSS community view was very anti-Sun, and anti-Solaris, even when Sun open-sourced (much of) the Solaris tree. I have always been an unashamed Sun/Solaris advocate.
The "Linux rules; Linux will kill UNIX" guys seem to be faced with two things now; one, that IBM are selling Solaris on their own boxes, and now, that Linux says that Solaris licensing "could result in some interesting technology".
I'm not biased - honest - but UNIX is a world-class OS for many applications. Not because it's designed to do fn(x), fn(y) and fn(z), but simply because its design is clean and simple.
If the recent Sun/IBM deal (and the fact that HP already resell Solaris) mean that the *nix offering is reduced to Solaris/Linux/*BSD/HPUX, that won't change the world dramatically; if AIX were to disappear, which the announcement above could imply, that would (IMHO) not be good for *nix.
I can see that some people have a need to sell newspapers. I can even see the correlation with the "need" to sell visits to websites, and - in both cases - the associated advertising "eyeballs".
I just don't see that there is any "battle" between GNU/Linux and Solaris.
Both are great OSes, in their field. *BSD also fill a niche. I could even be persuaded that certain Windows boxes (appropriately configured and patched) may be the best fit for certain applications.
The concept that "I use foobix, and foobix works for me" does not equate to an argument that foobix would work for everyone. Whilst partly philosophical, this is not a religious discussion. What's right for me may not be right for you. That doesn't mean that anybody is "right" or "wrong".
The *nix approach is probably superior to the DOS/Win approach, and - of both "battles", I can see further segregation (specialisation), and that cannot be a bad thing. So long as there are sufficient resources to pursue different leads, let's try to find out what is possible. That way, we can find the best alternatives for all users.
Sun 19th Aug 2007 @ 00:09 2007: CSS Layouts: The Fixed. The Fluid. The Elastic.
CSS Layouts: The Fixed. The Fluid. The Elastic discusses different ways of setting column widths.
A year or two ago, 3 (or even 4) columns were the rage, as used by this site (though the blog part dispenses with the adverts, for a 2-col version); 2 columns seem to be becoming more trendy, and even single-column, with wide left and right margins.
The above (tl;dr) looks like a decent review of the pros and cons of various approaches. And the website itself looks purty.
Sat 18th Aug 2007 @ 22:54 2007: No more than 2 school children at a time
Bless 'em.
Some webmaster(s) have set up a site called whyfirefoxisblocked.com, the basic tenet being that Firefox users, with the AdBlockPlus plugin, can see the content without viewing the adverts. This is, apparently, akin to theft, so they feel the need to block all Firefox users.
This reminds me of the local shops' policy of "no more than two schoolchildren in the shop at any time", because the shop owner has suffered losses when they've not been able to keep on top of a horde of schoolkids in the shop. It's tarring all with the one brush, based upon school, age, or User-Agent string.
Except that if you have 100 Firefox users, and one of them sees your adverts, whilst the other 99 block them, haven't you still shown your adverts to one visitor? What exactly have the other 99 taken? It would have to be a very strange, ultra-high-bandwidth website which would lose money in that scenario.
Firefox accepted here :-)
Fri 17th Aug 2007 @ 23:42 2007: Revs
As a child, my favourite 2 games for the BBC, were Elite and Revs.
Elite is hard to play without a joystick, and I'm too much of an old fart to still have a joystick.
Revs is a different matter, and - via beebem, I can now play that, too. I loved it. Revs (I had the "extra tracks" option pack, but could never get it to work) is the reason that I have the Silverstone circuit burned into my brain. Or so I thought. It seems nothing like the Silverstone circuit I know from other games (even though my Revs learning helped on games like TOCA2 and Formula1), nor what I now know of the circuit, and the variations it allows.
So maybe the game was crap, but how come the layout that Revs taught me, helped me to understand the more accurate layouts in future games?
I'm totally thrown :-(
I'm also far too old to ever become a racing driver, so I guess that it's just a death by a thousand stabs!
Thu 16th Aug 2007 @ 22:56 2007: Solaris on IBM? On Power??!
According to The Register, IBM will offer Solaris x86 as a supported OS, providing updates, the works.
Schwartz is quoted as saying "The relationship with IBM is really the strongest we have with any partner in the marketplace"
The prospect of getting Solaris onto IBM z-Series and P-Series is also mentioned.
Vance concludes her piece with the question "what happens if HP and Dell fall in line too? Does it make sense for IBM and HP to spend millions on their own versions of Unix in that scenario or does it make more sense to see Sun like a Microsoft or Red Hat as a true market-wide OS supplier?"
That would make the so-called "*nix" world very interesting, if there was only one actual UNIX™ under active development!
Thu 16th Aug 2007 @ 21:14 2007: TCP Wrappers Bug
Ubuntu bug 108379 points out that netbase's dependency on tcpd was accidentally deleted for Feisty. So you get no /etc/hosts.deny or /etc/hosts.allow files. In turn, that means, amongst other things, that DenyHosts doesn't work.
I had kept meaning to check why I hadn't been getting any reports from DenyHosts, and kept putting it off. Now I know :-(
Thu 16th Aug 2007 @ 00:02 2007: Linux: Mainstream?
I'm not sure that a Mainstream Linux would be a Good Thing.
Mainstream Windows is a Bad Thing, but I'm not sure that I can define Good.
A change in Operating Systems would be one thing; a change in mainstream attitudes to information, would be another.
Is Mainstream ready for Linux?
Linux: Mainstream - a Good Thing?
An article like The 10 Commandments for New Linux Users, is a good suggestion as to how a previous user of Windows might best go about joining the GNU/Linux, and broader Free/Open Source software community, and how they may benefit from such a change.
That's great, and the ten points, for a keen but unsure newcomer to GNU/Linux distributions, are excellent, IMHO.
Many articles have been written over the years, though they started in fury around 2001, about whether or not, Linux is ready for the mainstream. Wikipedia reckons that this claim has been made since approx 2001: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_linux#Year_of_Desktop_Linux.
My question is this: is Mainstream ready for Linux?
A GNU/Linux distro isn't just another operating system; if the world is ready for (say) Ubuntu, then wouldn't the World be using Ubuntu? The OLPC project may yet make Linux the most widely-used OS worldwide, but - even if it does - this discussion of "mainstream" is generally focussed on the West, anyway, so even if the OLPC project changes the world, this argument will continue to rage.
So what's your point, Parker?
My point is this: it's not about making a Linux distro which works and looks identically to Windows, it's not about making a perfectly secure distro, it's not about gaining 50%, 60%, even 100% market share.
The goal, and the only thing that is needed, is to make the Mainstream ready for Linux. By that, I mean that people need to want to share code, to want to have things which will work openly, not just things which work for now, for me. A group of people who expect their computers to work for them, and to be open to examination when that does not happen. People who expect to be able to take a piece of software and make it work for them (or - better still, find a group who have already done the work!). Those who want to see why their software does a thing a certain way, and either gain enlightenment from that learning, or fix the behaviour if it is wrong. Those who want to join a community of people, working together, to make technology work for them, and not the other way around. People who expect openness and transparency. Who assume that they will not only be able to get code written by others, but will be able to see the tests made on that code, be able to write their own tests, be able to add tests to the core team's code, and even make changes to the code itself, to make it pass those new tests.
Or simply to be able to hire someone to make it all happen. Far from all users care about what code gets run, or how it works. They all care about the results. If your spreadsheet tells you that 1+2=5, you'd better care.
If you want your spreadsheet to work on dates, it seems reasonable to assume that it can cope with dates prior to 1900. Wrong. Excel 2000 incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year.
Can you fix it? Well, no, not you, not I, but Microsoft could. Except, so many people have spotted, and written workarounds, for the bug, that the bug itself has become "true". To fix the bug would now be to create a new bug, in all spreadsheets which work around the original bug. So - because MS Excel users couldn't fix the bug themselves, they were forced to create a situation whereby MicroSoft could not fix the original bug without creating their closest followers' spreadsheets, another bug.
When we, as customers, consumers, users, call us what you will, all get used to the idea that when something goes wrong, we can fix it, we shall see a revolution. It may even change the idea of Capitalism itself, unless capitalism is strong enough to encompass this radical change.
In conclusion to what I confess is a rant, and I may later try to write up more coherently at some later date, the use of closed software works against the individual user, and against the society which uses that software. This is not a purely geek debate; the geeks are (as usual) actually just a very small part of this conversation. The big issue is how closed source software affects individuals and society as a whole.
Tue 14th Aug 2007 @ 00:57 2007: Parasuite
I'm sure that something could be done, such that the final parachute trip isn't necessary; small birds can land on trees with no problem.
Still, this looks like an incredibly cool way to fall :)
Embedding doesn't seem to work, so here's the link: http://www.lolcrazy.com/file/51-parasuite.html
Adverts on that site are NSFW :-(
Mon 13th Aug 2007 @ 00:49 2007: Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
Mon 13th Aug 2007 @ 00:46 2007: Stutter Rap
Something random today reminded me of this classic rap spoof from the 1980s... Morris Minor and the Majors, doing the Stutter Rap.
Sun 12th Aug 2007 @ 23:49 2007: Vista : signed drivers
It seems that signing drivers isn't necessarily the silver bullet against malicious code, especially if the code isn't perfect, and the hardware its drivers support, run on half the laptops in the world.
The point of signed drivers, is that you can revoke the signature if a problem (intentional or not) is discovered.
However, Microsoft can't really revoke the signature, as every second Vista laptop would stop working.
"What ATI is probably going to have to do is get a new certificate, sign fixed versions of all their affected drivers, and release them via Windows Update. Only then can Microsoft get VeriSign to revoke the signing certificate."
-- Ollie Whitehouse, Symantec security researcher
Sat 11th Aug 2007 @ 23:52 2007: RIP SCO
Groklaw announce that The court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.
That's Aaaaall, Folks! The court also ruled that "SCO is obligated to recognize Novell's waiver of SCO's claims against IBM and Sequent". That's the ball game. There are a couple of loose ends, but the big picture is, SCO lost. Oh, and it owes Novell a lot of money from the Microsoft and Sun licenses.
If you prefer legalese...
For the reasons stated above, the court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights. Therefore, SCO's First Claim for Relief for slander of title and Third Claim for specific performance are dismissed, as are the copyright ownership portions of SCO's Fifth Claim for Relief for unfair competition and Second Claim for Relief for breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. The court denies SCO's cross-motion for summary judgment on its own slander of title, breach of contract, and unfair competition claims, and on Novell's slander of title claim. Accordingly, Novell's slander of title claim is still at issue.
The court also concludes that, to the extent that SCO has a copyright to enforce, SCO can simultaneously pursue both a copyright infringement claim and a breach of contract claim based on the non-compete restrictions in the license back of the Licensed Technology under APA and the TLA. The court further concludes that there has not been a change of control that released the non-compete restrictions of the license, and the non-compete restrictions of the license are not void under California law. Accordingly, Novell's motion for summary judgment on SCO's non-compete claim in its Second Claim for breach of contract and Fifth Claim for unfair competition is granted to the extent that SCO's claims require ownership of the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights, and denied in all other regards.
Furthermore, the court concludes, as a matter of law, that the only reasonable interpretation of the term "SVRX License" in the APA is all licenses related to the SVRX products listed in Item VI of Schedule 1.1(a) to the APA. Therefore, Novell is entitled to a declaration of rights under its Fourth Claim for Relief that it was and is entitled, at its sole discretion, to direct SCO to waive its claims against IBM and Sequent, and SCO is obligated to recognize Novell's waiver of SCO's claims against IBM and Sequent. Accordingly, Novell's motion for partial summary judgment on its Fourth Claim for Relief for declaratory judgment is granted, and SCO's cross-motion for summary judgment on Novell's Fourth Claim for Relief is denied.
Finally, the court concludes, as a matter of law, that the only reasonable interpretation of all SVRX Licenses includes no temporal restriction of SVRX Licenses existing at the time of the APA. The court further concludes that because a portion of SCO's 2003 Sun and Microsoft Agreements indisputably licenses SVRX products listed under Item VI of Schedule 1.1(a) to the APA, even if only incidental to a license for UnixWare, SCO is obligated under the APA to account for and pass through to Novell the appropriate portion relating to the license of SVRX products. Because SCO failed to do so, it breached its fiduciary duty to Novell under the APA and is liable for conversion.
The court, however, is precluded from granting a constructive trust with respect to the payments SCO received under the 2003 Sun and Microsoft Agreements because there is a question of fact as to the appropriate amount of SVRX Royalties SCO owes to Novell based on the portion of SVRX products contained in each agreement. Furthermore, because Novell has obtained the information that it would otherwise obtain through an accounting during the course of this litigation, the court denies Novell's Ninth Claim for Relief for an accounting. However, the court also notes that SCO has a continuing contractual obligation to comply with the accounting and reporting requirements set forth in the APA.
Accordingly, Novell's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment or Preliminary Injunction [Docket No. 147] is GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART; SCO's Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment or Partial Summary Judgment on Novell's Third, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Counterclaims [Docket No. 180] is GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART; Novell's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on its Fourth Claim [Docket No. 171] is GRANTED; SCO's Cross-Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on Novell's Fourth Claim [Docket No. 224] is DENIED; SCO's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on its First, Second, and Fifth Claims and Novell's First Claim [Docket No. 258] is DENIED; Novell's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on Copyright Ownership of SCO's Second Claim for Breach of Contract and Fifth Claim for Unfair Competition [Docket No. 271] is GRANTED; Novell's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on SCO's Non-Compete Claims in its Second and Fifth Claims [Docket No. 273] is GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART; Novell's Motion for Summary Judgment on SCO's First Claim for Slander of Title and Third Claim for Specific Performance [Docket No. 275] is GRANTED; and Novell's Motion for Summary Judgment on SCO's First Claim for Slander of Title for Failure to Establish Special Damages [Docket No. 277] is MOOT.
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Sat 11th Aug 2007 @ 00:40 2007: Bill Gates: Saviour of the World
According to http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12169, which stumbleUpon suggested I might like:
Windows 2.0 licensed ideas from Apple
Windows 3.1 never happened
Windows 3.11 (WfWG) never happened
There was such a thing as Windows 3.11 NT
Windows NT 3.5, NT 3.51, NT 4 never happened
Windows 2000 only contributed automatic updates over the internet.
WinXP was the first version of Windows to use the NT Kernel
I'm not a particular follower of Microsoft, though I did work with Windows 3.0, 3.1, 3.11 (and I know that they existed!)
I worked with Windows File/Printer sharing (though I never worked out what files and printers really had in common). I worked, briefly, with Windows NT 3.5 and 3.51, and (later) with 4.0
In a nutshell - I am not a Microsoft/Windows expert. My area is UNIX, though (because they are so close) I am also a Linux kind of guy, too. even I can see that this is so painfully flawed as to be (at best) misleading.
Why on earth would people publish such rubbish?
Does it deserve comments like "a journey with lots of innovations.... too good.. thanks for the quick history dude... ", or ""Microsoft is amazing. Seriously."?
Sometimes, I just want to check what planet I'm on...
Fri 10th Aug 2007 @ 15:17 2007: DTrace vs SystemTrap: No biting, no scratching, no hair-tugging, please!
There seems to be a bit of bitching going on between Sun's DTrace team, and the Linux alternative, SystemTap.
Adam Leventhal (Sun) has a blog entry, DTrace Knockoffs, pointing out that Linux doesn't needs a "dtrace for linux or something similar" - clarified to "like systemtap, but not crap".
A few days later, he posted an article called What-If Machine: DTrace Port, suggesting a port of DTrace to Linux.
The next day, Jonathan Corbet (LWN editor) posts an article on LWN.net: "On DTrace envy", which starts a little discussion, and a flame war between Frank Eigler (systemtap developer, RedHat) and Bryan Cantrill (DTrace originator, Sun).
Jonathan denies any link between this story and the previous day's What-If blog post.
Bryan describes Frank as "someone who, to the best of my knowledge, has never used DTrace.", to which Frank retorts "The best of your knowledge needs to get better.", so Bryan concedes "Fair enough; allow me to rephrase: "someone who, if they have used DTrace at all, appears to have learned nothing from the experience." Better?".
Frank then claims that there's a blacklist of "dangerous functions" in DTrace, which Bryan refutes. Frank doesn't back up the claim.
It then diminishes into a battle of how many man-hours each project spent from initial concept to release.
Handbags at 20 paces, ladies.
Fri 10th Aug 2007 @ 00:56 2007: Crazy Scary JavaScript
Well, this is pure evil.
The wettest dream of any phisher or web advertiser.
A full screen window which can't be stopped by popup blockers and can not be closed by the user (without killing the browser).
It should work in any Java-enabled browser.
It's been tested on IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari.
To prevent malicious sites from doing this, you need disable Java globally or (smarter) use NoScript to selectively enable it on trusted sites only.
I am no good at JavaScript (though I know some people, who may read this blog, do know it, and may be able to explain the behaviour) but this is crazy scary. First time I've really felt out of control (bar Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) on a GNU/Linux/X11 setup ever!
Thu 9th Aug 2007 @ 00:36 2007: Novell Sell Out
According to The Register, Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian says that "Linux has not yet reached its potential, and is - in fact - at a tipping point", and - more significantly, that "Linux can only reach its potential by working with Microsoft and proprietary code"
What gives him the right to even define what the potential of GNU/Linux even is? Sure, he can make some short-term money by siding with Microsoft.
Maybe Linux's potential is to be 5% of desktop and 20% of embedded; maybe that is what Linux (and/or GNU/Linux) should be.
If merging proprietary code with GNU/Linux is Hovsepian's way forward, isn't it just possible that not eveybody shares that plan?
A few years ago, Sun Microsystems got a lot of flak for their pro/anti/pro/anti/pro/anti statements about F/OSS, while Novell got a bit of kudos for taking over SuSE (and all the MS-biased Mono stuff that goes with it).
Who wrote, on what wall, the goal that Linux must be the kernel of every machine on the planet?
GNU/Linux is good for me, for Desktop - for me, my family, and many others, though concievably not everybody, and for Servers - in many cases, though I admit that I do love Sun, and I can see the place for so-called proprietary hardware and software in hardcore enterprise scenarios (though Solaris itself is now Open Source, as is the Niagra chipset!)
This whole PC mentality, of software being proprietary, is a blip on the computing landscape. It is an abnormality, it is something which simply should not exist, but has come about by pure circumstance, and its results - Microsoft being one of the richest firms on the planet, and Bill Gates being one of the richest people on the planet - are simply an indication of this blip.
That is not how the IT/computing community operates; it is - as Sir Isaac Newton said - by standing on the shoulders of giants - that we can progress our understanding.
History shows that kow-towing to the rich and powerful has never done any good; the heroes, the free thinkers, the true innovators, are those who do not accept the status quo, and have new ideas. Not always (though sometimes - Galileo, Einstein spring to mind) rejecting the status quo; often "standing on the shoulders of giants", as with Newton. This is the scientific method. This is how humanity has developed over the past 200 years or more.
Taking the Cathedral view, that the closed-source Cathedral must be better than the Bazaar of the people, is a good decade of backstepping. Indeed, ESR's Cathedral/Bazaar view is so taken for granted now, it is almost difficult to see that it has been completely ignored in Hovsepian's comments.
I don't want world domination; nor, apparently does Torvalds, come to that. Indeed, there is a famous comment, that "The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world"
Neither of these things are likely to happen. The former is desirable, the latter would give us nearly as many problems as the current situation provides.
Wed 8th Aug 2007 @ 01:34 2007: ie6 again
Sorry if any RSS feeds got messed up there... the HTMLification didn't go quite as expected, and the broadband went down at just the wrong time.
has the story.
I have simply noted that adding TR and TD tags within the table, appear to avoid the bug.
It seems strange that such a bug remain undiscovered for so long.
Tue 7th Aug 2007 @ 00:47 2007: Crikey!
I was confident that I wouldn't win (err, lose, no; win, oh, whatever) I was sure that joining the F1 Losers League would be an (enjoyable) waste of time. It's gone halfway through the season, and I seem to be somehow in the lead, with a decent gap. The majority of teams are yet to play their Accelerator card, which could make a big difference.
I was lucky (shame for Scott Speed, who was sacked) in guessing the Pitlane Punt; a 3% gamble meant that 22 points became 66 points. The standings are interesting, though; I've got a 129-point lead, but there's only 151 points separating 12th place from 2nd place (280 from 1st-12th).
It's a close-run thing; I don't think that I had really appreciated how closely the bottom-field fought things. The top runners are obvious; the midfield battle is a war unto itself, but of those teams who start the season without expecting to pick up a single point, it is truly fascinating. I want to hire their motivational and HR personnel. Their advertising staff ought to be paid better than if they worked for Google.
Tue 7th Aug 2007 @ 00:20 2007: PayPal again
After the grief I get from PayPal because they can't identify their own customers (but will happily autenticate that the transaction is valid), I then StumbleUpon this lovely site:
If you contact him, he will do something (the claims are rather vague) which may help you work with Bifrost.
Presumably, I could get in touch with this chap, "buy" his services, and then rescind later. I'd prefer that PayPal were a credible company who did not deal with this type of transaction in the first place, so I have been in touch with them to point out the nature of the business.
As they've stiffed my transactions, they must close this guy down. But - even if they do - he can just get a new email address and start up again. The "email addy == identity" concept simply isn't good enough in 2007. PayPal won't talk to steve@${domain}, it has to be paypal@${domain}, no matter how often I point out the fact that I'm replying to their email to steve@${domain} and am therefore one and the same person (were email addys not so easily forged)
Mon 6th Aug 2007 @ 12:25 2007: It's a good thing we can trust Microsoft
An article in Information Week, Microsoft Patents May Hint At The Future Of Windows, reveals a Microsoft Patent:
An advertising framework registers context data sources and advertising display clients from a variety of resources on a local computer. The ad framework may then receive context data and display triggers from the registered context data sources. The context data and display triggers may be processed and an advertising request generated and sent to an external advertising source. Non-advertising content may also be supported. When a targeted advertisement is received in response, a display manager may send the ad to an appropriate display client. When the ad has been presented a the advertising framework will communicate to the advertising supplier who may apportion and credit advertising revenue to the participating parties.
The stuff on the hard disk which it would search, would include "at least one of user document files, user email, user music files, podcast files, computer status messages, and a profile database storing existing tag data."
ArsTechnica calls it the Mother of All Adware Systems.
Mon 6th Aug 2007 @ 00:40 2007: YouTube
I was, recently, intrigued as to how the new-format "Top Gear" programme started, as I wasn't really aware of it, so I did that apparently bad thing, of downloading a torrent of the first series. Quality was varied; that is to say, excellent or terrible. Then I found that YouTube have the lot. Their current policy of max-10-minute-clips means that a 1h show is split into 6 segments, but that's no great shame, in the run of things. It means that I can link to the last 6th (8 minutes) of the item I'm talking about, like this: Top Gear, Series 1, Episode 4 (final 8 minutes)
They did exactly what I was just wondering about today, given the Super Aguri driver changes, based - not upon their driving abilities (as was demonstrated by the new kid spinning off), but on their ability to bring in sponsorship money. Rally, by contrast, or BTCC, need to have a similar car available in the forecourts, that we can go out and buy for ourselves.
It seems that in 2002, TopGear had the same view, and took a basic car from each manufacturer (bar Ferrari, who don't do "reasonably-priced cars"), and the results were:
|Ford Mondeo
|1m 41
|Mercedes C Class
|1m 43
|BMW 3 Series
|1m 43
|Honda Accord
|1m 44
|Renault Laguna
|1m 45
|Toyota Avensis
|1m 45
|Jaguar X-Type 2.0 V6
|1m 46
They didn't specify full spec details, so it's hard to say.
I finally find some justification for being satisfied with my boring old Mondeo; it does the job. If it beats a BMW 3-series, then that's good too.
Fri 3rd Aug 2007 @ 22:31 2007: Doom (done in Flash!)
I don't know anything about Flash programming, but this is incredibly cool. There are no baddies, and you can walk through walls, but it's the original Doom game, from the WAD, done in Flash.
Thu 2nd Aug 2007 @ 00:37 2007: Stylish
A FireFox plugin, named Stylish, allows you to customise the CSS of sites that you may visit. (The "!important" flag is pretty much essential).
I've always disliked the narrow theme that www.itv-f1.com have used; this fixes it! It took about a minute to fix the CSS, and much longer to post the screenshots.
This seems to be simpler than GreaseMonkey (which I admit, I have not played with), but rather a permanent application of WebDeveloper's "Edit CSS" feature.
Wed 1st Aug 2007 @ 23:10 2007: Trulli
This interview explains why Jarno Trulli has only got 7 points so far in this Formula 1 season, whilst (for comparison), Lewis Hamilton leads with 70 points:
What�s your favourite song?
�Everything� by Michael Buble
What are you frightened of?
Wed 1st Aug 2007 @ 16:13 2007: Terrorism "Not Scary Enough"
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thoughts on ruger lcp
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December 15, 2008, 01:17 AM
recall side (they are making them with the new improvements, right?)what do you think of your lcp's? noticed the price of pistol +ammunition, and kinda liked it.
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December 15, 2008, 01:59 AM
I like my LCP. I carry it in the Desantis Nemesis in my right front pocket. Still waiting for Ruger to contact me so I can send it in per the recall for some "improvements".
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December 15, 2008, 10:50 AM
Personally, I love Ruger firearms. I have been very happy with their customer service and all firearms I've shot and owned of theirs.
IMO, you should buy guns like you buy cars: never buy the first year's production of a new model. Wait until the company finds out all the little kinks in the first year and buy next year's production.
December 15, 2008, 11:19 AM
I have shot one many times and found it to jam up on the feed. I gave up on the gun. My friend wanted to buy it and I told him to shoot it first. I watched him shoot 100 rounds without failure. I determined the problem. My hand is too large and I have to hold the gun out of the normal position so I can get my finger in the guard. That alone caused the failure to feed as it will not cycle properly. Since then he claims 12 boxes of ammo and no failures.
December 15, 2008, 04:53 PM
I too am having some feeding problems. I have put 250 rounds through the gun so far and the problems are curing themselves as the parts wear in a little. I have a current post going right now called Ruger LCP-Range report. The gun is shooting well enough that I am carrying it but if it continues to hiccup at the next range session then it will get a return trip to Ruger.
Just One Shot
December 15, 2008, 06:05 PM
I've been considering one but there is a waiting list (I'm on one) around here so I went with a Bersa Thunder .380acp.
The LCP's grip is just too short for my hand but the Bersa has a nice grip. While it's not as small as the LCP it is still very concealable.
I may still get one for the wife as it fits her small hands quite nicely. I had her hold the display model and she seemed pleased with the way it felt.
December 15, 2008, 06:11 PM
I like mine but I will not carry with one in the pipe due to no fireing pin block.
I was not aware of the design until I bought it and disassembled it,If the hammer falls theres nothing to stop it from firing.Maybe the recall will prevent this but I don't think so.I love the size but wish it was safe like my P95 and most other semi auto's
December 15, 2008, 06:46 PM
When I fired one, I absolutely hated it in every way. I'm sure it carries easily.
December 15, 2008, 06:50 PM
When I fired one, I absolutely hated it in every way. I'm sure it carries easily.
That sums up my feelings exactly. I remember thinking "huh, glad it's not mine."
December 15, 2008, 07:34 PM
I learned to shoot mine pretty good
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December 15, 2008, 09:22 PM
I shot a friend's LCP and was very disappointed. With all the hype I really expected a much better gun. The trigger is awful and frankly, I wouldn't give $50 for one. There are other 380's that are much, much better.
December 15, 2008, 11:15 PM
A guy I work with keeps one strapped to his kevlar as a BUG, he loves it. I tried to shoot it last weekend, couldn't stand it. I have big hands and it's too small, too light, too narrow and too short. When I used a standard grip I felt like it was going to fly out of my hands and when I held it tighter it felt like I was going to crush it. No thanks.
December 16, 2008, 05:47 AM
the new magazine that ruger is sending back with the returned recall guns seems to make for a much improved grip. i've yet to shoot the returned gun, though. it was jamming before. i've yet to find a mini-automatic that i would trust in an emergency.
December 16, 2008, 08:07 AM
i like mine. no feeding problems after the initial 200 rounds. (may have been less, i dont remember) anyway, PLAN on getting magazine finger extentions for it. they help a bunch, and it really does not make the gun print any different in your pocket. the pressed in "checkering" does not have nearly as good of bite in your hand as a kel-tec does (theirs is in the correct position, shrp points outward). both of these are pretty good pocket pistols. pick one up, you'll like it! oh yes. dont forget to buy a bunch of ammo!
December 16, 2008, 10:35 AM
I shot a friends LCP and the thing was actually quite accurate. There were no malfunctions either. Other than that I really dont like the gun, or the design in general. I also dont like the recent 380 hype and will not ever carry one as a primary CCW. Ket a good Kahr 9mm or 40 or 45.
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Supreme head favours retirement age for bishops; deemed varsity status for old seminary soon
MOSC to extend helping hand to Egyptian Orthodox Christians if needed
Sees tiff with Patriarch faction as confrontation between justice and injustice, cannot accept foreign leadership in an Indian set up.
MUSCAT: The Catholicos and Malankara Metropolitan HH Moran Mar Baselios Marthoma Paulose II, paid a 3-day visit to the Sultanate of Oman in March. During a 96-hour hectic visit the supreme head led the Holy Eucharist, attended receptions, family prayer meetings, addressed media conferences and held photo sessions.
The Holy Father also travelled to Salalah on a day's visit. Despite his schedules, the Catholicos found time for a one-to-one exclusive interview with the IOH Muscat during which he answered a wide range of questions at the Mar Gregorios Orthodox Maha Edavaka. These ranged from why the MOSC has been neglected by various political groups, reconciliation efforts with the Patriarch faction and women's emancipation through the proposed voting rights. Later, the day also saw the Catholicos keeping his official appointments with the Awqaf and Religious Affairs Minister and the Grand Mufti. His Holiness switched over to Malayalam after initially beginning the over a hour-long interview in English.
Q: What is your vision for the Gulf Orthodox churches and your opinion on expatriates here…
A: I am happy that the expatriates are always loyal to the government because we know that all the Malayalis when they are in Kerala or in India they are not able to express their potential and capability. There are so many reasons, politically, local or social but whenever they go outside of their homeland, personally speaking, they are highly potential and are highly loyal to the government. I can say they are very, far, far better in work and character. They are Indians and none will disagree with what I said. Every Malayali, when they come here they work hard, they try to prove their capability and are highly honoured, that is what I feel…
You know very well that Kerala is a consumer state, because we are not able to invest there and unable to work there nor able to express our potentiality and capability. The same holds good for the Orthodox churches here and the community here are hard working and goal-centred.
Q: Egyptian Orthodox Christians are suffering in their homeland and subjected to sectarian conflicts. Will MOSC interfere if our help is sought?
A: This is a local political issue. We can pray to God that there will be peace in the end. We are not at all troubling the government or the local people or the citizens of any country. Peace is the solution for all countries towards all its problems. If the locals disagree with the administration and their rulers, it can also be stabilized by way of dialogue and all that because the problem does not only stop there. It is a like a contagious disease and some social problem may arise in neighbouring countries too. I don't think any expatriates in Egypt create any problem to the locals or to the government. They go in search for a livelihood there.
Whatever it is, if they need any kind of help, we are ready to help them out. We do not know the actual political situation existing there, if we go there and offer some kind of help to them, it may either flare up the whole situation or it might come to peace. But if they inform us what their requirement is, we shall be ready to provide them all help either at the government, social or at our own community level. We will definitely act if such a request comes. But we cannot act upon a political crisis there. We are bound to help them for whatever need they require, be it diplomatic or at government level.
We will get together with other communities to promote peace and stability. India's basic foundation is laid on peace and harmony, which is Ahimsa. Indians do not go anywhere to create trouble, our culture is not that. Mahatma Gandhi did not teach us violence; he practiced non-violence, co-operation, all these form part of our basic foundation. Our philosophy is also based on religion, god-fearing, truth, justice, non-violence – all these are our basic teachings and doctrines.
Q: What is our stand on politics and why have we been sidelined despite being the second largest Christian community? What are the other alternatives?
A: We have been grossly sidelined by both the main political groups in Kerala. For this, the first and foremost thing we have to do is to educate our community about this; otherwise it will destroy the very existence of the community. Both the groups really don't care a damn for the community though we are the second largest Christian community in the state. This rejection (by political groups) has led to a situation where we have no ability to react. Thereby our words or standing has no meaning. All communities have a voice. But it is not the case with our community. This is mainly because our community is not sure of standing firmly under a single leadership and we are not ready to be controlled by a leadership or obey his ideas. We are highly selfish….
There is no alternative but we will gradually communicate this to the ordinary people.
Take the case of Punalur Assembly constituency. We were initially told that a person from our community was offered a seat in the polls, but towards the end were told that someone else have been offered the ticket. When we enquired, we didn't get any concrete reasons as to why this happened and we were taken lightly.
As leader of the Malankara Orthodox community, we should lead the community to educate the people on this but we cannot toe a political line or political principles. Our community is becoming voiceless and powerless and this will do us more harm in the days ahead. All these cannot be done overnight. A beginning has to be made at least now.
Let me reiterate that our church will not enter politics. However, our church will communicate the issues to both the political fronts. Many of our church members are members of different political parties. Church will not direct its members to support a particular political party. Instead, it will encourage its members to support candidates who work for the common good of the society, that is our view.
Q:Will there be a peaceful reunion ever with the Patriarch faction and what about the reconciliation efforts done in this regard…
A: (Switches over to Malayalam with a request….)
oh…This is a confrontation between justice and injustice. This is purely an ethical problem. Either we should hold up justice or should we support injustice. Say for example: in the Mahabharat, during the Kurukshetra war between Pandavas and Kauravas, there was justice among the Pandavas, but not among the hundreds. At that time, there came a situation when Arjuna (master archer) had to take a decision regarding going to war — we see a sad and disheartened Arjuna placing the bow and arrow on the ground. At this stage, a confused Arjuna feels that if he begins the conflict, his brothers will die. That's why he decides that he is not powerful enough to wage a war, whatever be the loss. At that point of time, Lord Krishna enters the scene and advises Arjuna to perform his duty. That means to uphold justice. If a war should happen, then it should happen. Else, what you do is considered to be injustice… this interpretation is mentioned in Hindu mythology but our Lord Jesus doesn't teach us this.
But one fact is very right: what is the yardstick for measuring justice and injustice in the context of our situation in Kerala and the country. Suppose if we are unable to get justice, we will approach the respected courts. This is justice. If they say this is not justice, then what is justice? This is my question? Secondly, we cannot identify ourselves under or accept a foreign leadership, be it politically, socially or religiously. Orthodox people are always pleading for an indigenised Indian national culture. The illegal ways of approach used in religious activities cannot go on.
I said two main factors: One is confrontation between justice and injustice. In this context Jesus Christ also faced a stage where He had to accept punishment in order to fulfill justice. Here Pilate when asked Jesus what is truth, Jesus answered him saying "you know the truth."
What I am saying is this factional fight is a confrontation between justice and injustice. What is the measuring tool to evaluate this?
In a democratic set up, the proper means to know which is justice and injustice, must be proved and declared by the judiciary. An acceptance of a foreign leadership serves no good for the community. In a way it's something similar to slavery.
Here, some who want to achieve their own personal ends, who don't want to obey any laws, politically with wrong preaching or in an unprofessional manner runs the show.
Two months back I visited Mulanthuruthy Church and led the Holy Qurbana. I have never entered the church during my childhood nor after I had grown up. The authorities informed that the Orthodox Catholicos was arriving to perform the service. I stepped in, completed the Eucharist and it was calm throughout and came back peacefully. The problem here now is creating atrocities and pleasing some minor groups and fomenting trouble. These groups (other faction) if they want to go out they can do it and we don't bother, and will not question that right..
'Needhiyudhe sothu aneedithullavan thattiparikkunnadhe sherialla…'
There are murders taking place, criminals are being encouraged and it is bad that at a religious level, a top religious head is into such heinous crimes which he should not have done. This is my frank opinion. But we cannot stop all these.
'Bellamullavan, bellamillathavane akrami kunnu..' that's what is happening here. But I want to stress again that we cannot live under or accept a foreign leadership in an Indian democratic set up.
Secondly, if it is a confrontation between justice and injustice, to prove the definition of justice we can use established norms. Otherwise, if they are keen in believing or following a foreign leadership, then do not plead for the assets.
We are always ready for reconciliation. Whatever happens has to be within the framework of the 1934 Constitution which has been approved by the Supreme Court. Even if the people are one, some leaders have different opinions. They want foreign domination. But we cannot accept that and we want our church to be independent.
Q: The old seminary turns 200 in 2015 but still its syllabus is still based on the Serampore University. Will you take the lead to make it a deemed university? MOSC also celebrates its 100th anniversary next year and what are its main plans.
A: Surely. We have already started it technically, but it has to proceed further. We do have some problems being affiliated to Serampore University towards teaching our dogmas and doctrines properly. We have to do it more carefully and want more students to study at the seminary. We have charted out the plans but finance is a problem. We have to see if we can keep up our ethical stand, but if done it will be fine. We need to have a proper infrastructure to implement it. Surely, we will make it a deemed university with UGC recognition and efforts have already begun in this direction.
For the centenary celebrations, a separate committee has been formed and they will look into it. The basic principles of the church however are the same, like helping the poor and the marginalised.
Q: How about ecumenical efforts to bring all Christian factions together. Will MOSC give stress to it under your lead.
A: Ecumenical relations with other communities are good. Any one section swallowing (or silencing) up the other or not recognising is not proper. Let us keep the identity of all the churches and come together to work for a common cause and against social evils. Ecumenism is vast or forms a major part of the community.
We all have different dogmas and doctrines. Jesus Christ is only one. But what He said is been interpreted or defined differently and in different angles. We don't have to bother. Every one has their own traditions. So what we need from ecumenism in my opinion is respect for each other, acceptance between each other, along with that many common causes and difficulties faced by man. On such grounds we can unite together — so coming together for a common cause to bring peace, harmony and truth in the society is good and appreciable.
Q: What measures will you take to help revise our constitution in the light of women soon getting voting privileges.
A: The entry of women towards a voting system is good. The constitution has to be changed and it has got its own proceedings. However, the most important difficulty here is that now a bishop is being elected by a samithi or a parliament consisting of 4,000 members. With the inclusion of women, it will be around 8,000, which is an unwieldy issue.
Therefore, there should be proper canvassing and subjective quality is best called for. I mean to say regarding the election, we have to look into the ethics, quality, financial stand and how important it is for the efficiency of the system.
Democracy has got it merits and demerits. Women's way of thinking is different and is in different spheres. However, it will have its merits and demerits. Finally, we have to find the pros and cons of implementing this major decision by the Sabha.
Q: Are you in favour of retirement age for bishops? How will the church utitlise their services post-retirement.
A: Surely, before I was of the opinion that there should not be a retirement age for bishops. But, earlier, we had fever number of bishops. There were no unwieldy problems as I said earlier. Presently the number of bishops has gone up with the rise in diocese and the area wise. Earlier, there was a single bishop and a single diocese. Those days, to see or to meet with a Thirumeni we had to wait for a long time. Now it is not like that. In order to bring efficiency to the system, we should keep an age bar for retirement. This will not create any harm, that is my opinion. We should change in with the times. If not it will reduce the efficiency of the sabha as such.
I think I have been able to answer all your queries.
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After yesterday's 3-0 victory over the Red Wings, Marc Staal, who will be an unrestricted free agent next offseason, told Larry Brooks at the New York Post that he'd rather not go through contract negotiations during the season similar to Ryan Callahan and Dan Girardi…
"For me, the contract situation is definitely something I would like to take care of over the summer. That's the goal, but that also has to be the way management looks at it, too, in order to get it done."
Before the Rangers begin negotiations with Staal, Brooks feels they need to find out if playing with his brothers in Carolina is on his mind. If so, Brooks notes a deal with the Hurricanes could be a possibility this summer.
Brooks says Staal should be able to command between $5.5 – $6 million on the open market.
…if the Rangers were willing to go into this season without an extension being done for Lundqvist, I assume it'll be the same for Staal. Which I'm not sure I can go through again. Especially when Staal is likely to shoot for the moon like everyone else and ask for $7 million per.
…with Girardi getting a $5.5 million per extension, I definitely think Staal is worth at least $6 million. So anything around that number, I'd be more than happy with.
…and if Carolina is something Staal's interested in pursuing, I agree with Brooks, trade him this offseason and get what you can, because as we saw this trade deadline, rentals aren't worth all that much, unless you're throwing in picks of your own.
…the Staal situation could also have a huge impact on the Rangers decision to re-sign Stralman this offseason as well.
Meanwhile, Bruce Garrioch at the Ottawa Sun reports that the Rangers received a few inquires at the trade deadline regarding Derek Dorsett, but they had no interest in moving him.
…while Dorsett will likely spend more time in the press box than on the ice for the remainder of the season, I like that Sather decided to hold on to the rugged forward. Depth is always key for a playoff push and Dorsett brings that.
…now, depending on what the Rangers decide with Carcillo (UFA), maybe moving Dorsett in the offseason is a way to free up some cap space ($1.633M per) to bring in a #1 center.
Finally, Steve Zipay at Newsday reports that if Ryan Callahan can't agree on an extension with the Lightning, the Sabres and Panthers are ready to offer him a lucrative, long-term deal in July.
…for those of you hoping the Rangers will re-sign Callahan this offseason, it ain't happening.
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Dear Pat: I see Jane Aldridge has returned to WLNS-Channel 6, but I don't see Sheri Jones anymore. Has she left the station? A Jackson reader
Dear Reader: News Anchor Sheri Jones still covers the news for WLNS-Channel 6 during the 11 p.m. news slot.
She asked that her hours be reduced so she can spend more time with her three children, News Director Jam Sardar said.
Aldrich has returned full time to the station after cutting her hours a few years ago in order to stay home with her teenager.
"Sheri stepped up to help Jane out, and now Jane's helping Sheri out," Sardar said. "It's the best of both worlds."
Dear Pat: It annoys me to read that some corporations donate money to their community. For example, I saw that Blue Cross Blue Shield made donations to political candidates and to charities. Instead, they should reduce the cost to their customers. A Jackson reader
Dear Reader: Most major companies consider it important to give back to the communities in which they do business.
Many Jackson area businesses donate to worthwhile nonprofits in our community, such as United Way of Jackson County.
I asked Carolyn Bloodworth, director of corporate giving at Consumers Energy, to explain why the utility thinks it's important to support local nonprofits.
She said it helps ensure the communities remain strong and viable.
"We need communities to be healthy, as it impacts our ability to attract and retain employees, as well as create and retain relationships with key business and community leaders who provide important support for company operations and initiatives," she said.
"Research has shown if customers have a choice between two companies that are relatively equal, the customer will choose the company that is a stronger corporate citizen."
Dear Pat: Do you know any place that can use unopened jars of baby food? A Jackson reader
Dear Reader: You can start with the Salvation Army Pantry, 806 E. Pearl St., or the Jackson Interfaith Shelter, 414 S. Blackstone St. Either would gladly accept baby food. Any of the several food pantries in the Jackson area will also accept jars of unexpired baby food.


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THE Grand Master of the Scottish Orange Order yesterday revealed he had rewritten much of the organisation's founding document in a bid to tone down its anti-Catholic sentiments.
Ian Wilson says he is staging a campaign to improve the order's public image.
He says while the society is proud of its Protestant base, he does not want it to be seen as anti-Catholic.
And he has revealed he is seeking approval of the order's members to allow them to attend Catholic funeral Masses.
Mr Wilson said: "I have no issues with the Orange Order's Protestant credentials, but what has to concern any organisation is how it is viewed.
"The founding documents of the Orange Order say, 'An Orangeman should not merely be somebody who has hostility towards the distinctive doctrines, the superstitions, the priestcraft and spiritual despotism of the Church of Rome.'
"I believe there is no need to express ourselves in these negative terms. We do ourselves no favours by continuing to adopt language which came from the late 18th century."
Mr Wilson has rewritten the doctrine to read: "An Orangeman is not a lawbreaker. He is ready to obey magistrates, respects all constitutions and authorities and believes that the powers that be are ordained by God. He is a lover of peace and order, and one of the objects which the brotherhood is formed to secure is that peace and order, civil and religious liberty may be maintained in the land."
Mr Wilson said he was also concerned that other regulations effectively ban members from attending the funerals of friends or family members who may be Roman Catholic.
He said: "At the end of the day, as an organisation we recognise other people's right to have a different opinion and a different religious persuasion.
"Many of our members think that not being allowed to attend a Roman Catholic funeral service is archaic.
"Our members have expressed they do not wish to embrace the Catholic faith.
"But if they sit quietly at the back of the church without taking part, I don't see a problem."
Mr Wilson made his revelations on a BBC Scotland documentary, 21st Century Orangeman, broadcast last night.


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Lewisville Stinks. The City Hopes $2.7 Million Will Help Mask the Odor.
We don't mean to cast aspersions on Lewisville, which as far as we can tell is a fine suburb, home to 95,000 mostly law-abiding Texans and a fine lake to get drunk on. But the stench that wafts over Old Town, the city's historic downtown, is unmistakable.
"A lot of times, it's just a sewer gas smell," Terry Anderson, a Lewisville plumber, told WFAA. "It smells a little bit like a dead animal sometimes."
The odor, any mention of which is strangely absent from the city's official tourism website, has been plaguing Lewisville off and on for four decades. It wasn't until recently, however, after the city completed two studies, that officials figured out that it was coming from the Prairie Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, according to The Dallas Morning News.
"It's far enough away, you wouldn't expect it," town spokesman James Kunke told WFAA. "But it's close enough, based on the temperature, based on the wind, that you can have the issue from time to time."
The issue is severe enough that the Lewisville City Council last night was set to approve a $2.7-million redo of the treatment plant. The smell, they hope, will be gone for good come the summer of 2015.
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Title: Luncheon Menu, PILSUDSKI, June (?) 25, 1937
Accession Number: 2001.126.8
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Type: menu
Maker: Gdynia America Shipping Lines, Ltd.
Date: before 1937-06-25
Materials: paper
Description: Menu; luncheon menu, PILSUDSKI (built 1934-1935), June (?) 25, 1937; color reproduction printed on front of a view of the courtyard adjoining St. Mary's basilica in Czestochowa, Poland; inside features luncheon menu printed in both Polish and English; printed on back (in Polish, Danish and English) "Coffee, on request, may be served at the Promenade Dece/ Verandah instead of the Dinning (sic) Room.", "Hours of Meals:/ Breadfast from 8.00 - 10.00 A.M./ Luncheon 1st Sitting 12.30 P.M./ " 2nd Sitting 2.00 P.M./ Dinner 1th (sic) Sitting 6.30 P.M./ '" 2nd Sitting 8.00 P.M./ In the interest of all passengers we/ kindly ask you to be punctual/ at meal time." and "FOR WINE-CARD, PLEASE, APPLY TO THE WINE-STEWARD."; printed on back (in Polish and English) "FRONTISPIECE: View of court-/ yard adjoining St. Mary's basilica in/ Czestochowa (population 120,000),/ the Polish Lourdes, sacred to Catho-/ lics and famous as a city of pilgri-/ mages to the miraculous shrine of/ the Virgin Mary./ GDYNIA - AMERICA/ SHIPPING LINES, LTD.", "Z. G. Straszewiczow, Warszawa." and "Printed in Poland."
Mystic Seaport Image ID m419065 Information regarding reproductions


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Okay, one of my not-so-secret guilty pleasures has been my unabashed love for pro wrestling. Since I was seven years old, I have loved the spectacle, the sport, the commentary, the pathos. Wrestling was a jock soap opera, and the surprises and twists and turns always kept my friends and me captivated.
Times, sadly, have changed. My appreciation for their talents is still there, but the feeling is not the same as an adult.
Kayfabe is gone, probably forever. Internet spoilers ruin the returns and surprises that used to be fodder for an entire school week. And my biggest peeve is that there just aren't any quality gimmicks anymore. We used to see snakes and birds. There were dancing white men from "deepest darkest Africa," tax men, birdmen, all men it seemed.
Now, there are a bunch of monochrome stiffs who would've never been within 50 feet of a microphone 20 years ago. They would have had managers do their talking. Pay-per-views were built up for two to three months instead of four weeks. And that is where the genesis for this write-up brought me: I miss the wrestling jobber.
Understand, I'm not talking about a Santino Marella, who still gets a real ring introduction replete with pyrotechnics and music. I'm talking about a guy who was already in the ring, wore a cheap satin jacket and hailed from locations like "Schenectady, New York" or "Scranton, Pennsylvania." The more ridiculous the hair and mustache combination the better. And bonus points for being as pale as the paint on your bathroom walls.
So without further ado, let's give props to the greatest jobbers in my lifetime. The guys who not only made main-event quality wrestlers look great, but elevated abject scrubs like Big Bully Busick, Max Moon, Glacier and, of course, The Shockmaster.


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