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The only interest we have in the Thals is in their total extermination!And in only the second serial, the Doctor's most iconic enemies are born. Originally intended as one-shot villains, the Daleks prove so popular that they were the main enemy of over 20 further serials and secondary villains in a few more.In their first outing, we meet them on the planet Skaro, a dead world poisoned by radiation. The Daleks live in their city, while the other natives of the planet, the Thals, live in the petrified forests around. The Thals are Perfect Pacifist People, and prove lethally gullible to the Daleks' deceptions until the Doctor and companions persuade them that they need to fight for their freedom and they attack the city.Ian and Barbara are still very upset at having been kidnapped by the Doctor, and downright angry when the Doctor pretends that the TARDIS can't fly home just so he can go and investigate the Dalek city. Then, when they escape, they leave the TARDIS component he sabotaged behind and have to go back for it.The Daleks are entirely dependent on static electricity drawn through the metal floors of the city, and when the power is turned off and the Daleks fall lifeless, one is heard to intone "this is the end of the Daleks..."How wrong he was.Susan gets mildly traumatised a few times over but eventually learns how to be brave, Ian puts his Chronic Hero Syndrome to good use, and Barbara fancies one of the Thals and gets in a good snog by the end.N.B.: This story is also referred to as "The Mutants", one of its working titlesnote . It was adapted for film as Dr. Who and the Daleks, starring Peter Cushing.
— A Dalek speaks the one word that will forever linger as their go-to phrase.
- After the End: Skaro is still suffering the after-effects of a devastating war, fought centuries earlier. Most of the plant and animal life is dead, and the survivors have all mutated in one way or another.
- All There in the Manual: According to the BBC Classic Doctor Who website, the Daleks encountered in this story are early prototypes of Davros' experiments, left behind when most of the Daleks went into space after the end of the Thal-Kaled War. This explains both why the Daleks have a mighty space empire later while the Daleks in this story are confined to the city and are all wiped out, and why later Daleks don't have the same weaknesses of needing high levels of radiation to survive and constant static electricity to power their shells.
- Also why they don't recognize and exterminate the Oncoming Storm.
- All Up to You: To save the lives of others, poor little Susan braves a jungle at night in a storm while suffering from radiation sickness, travels several miles, navigates to a pinpoint target to fetch some anti-radiation glov-er, drugs, then keeps it together when surprised by a apparent monster that proves to be a handsome man. Self-possession of the highest order!
- Artistic License Biology: The whole "cycle of mutation" thing. The Thals mutated into creatures like the Daleks, then over centuries back into human form.
- Though this was sort of retconned in Genesis of the Daleks (broadcast 15 years later), where it implies that the later Thals are descended from both the Thal, Kaled, and possibly Muto survivors of Davros' massacre of both race's cities. May turn this into Unreliable Narrator in that case. Of course, it was a long time ago.
- Beauty Equals Goodness: The Thals, all of whom are blonde and nearly physically perfect. Not that they don't have flaws, a few of which prove fatal. But they're nearly all good characters, while the hideous Daleks are all evil.
- Characterization Marches On: Next to nothing about the Daleks in this serial carries over into future ones.
- Here the Daleks are technocratic scientists, barely holding onto a hysterical sanity, locked up in suits of armour that barely preserve their lives on a hostile world.
- Probably the biggest difference here is that they shoot Ian simply to temporarily paralyze him, and warn him that if he tries to escape again, they will kill him. It's a bit difference from the Daleks' later MO of just killing everything on sight, and certainly going straight for a killing shot on someone trying to run. Hell, it's only in this serial (and one other) that the Daleks can use their weapons to temporarily paralyze someone.
- Though here the Daleks are trapped in the city so it makes sense they are more cautious about killing people from outside.
- Cut the Safety Rope: Antodus does this when he falls into the chasm while roped to Ian, and realises that Ian isn't strong enough to pull him and that he is dragging both of them to their doom.
- Double Entendre: Believe it or not, lampshaded!A Thal: We're all working towards the same end!
Another Thal: Now there's a double meaning for you.
- Dressing as the Enemy: Ian at one point climbs into an immobilized Dalek.
- Early Installment Weirdness:
- These Daleks need radiation and static electricity to survive. Later Ret-Conned as them being an early Davros experiment.
- Also, No Hugging, No Kissing was not yet in place, and Barbara is free to snog a random cute guy.
- Susan and The Doctor are clearly worried that The Doctor may die of radiation sickness. Regeneration wouldn't be conceived of until just before William Hartnell was about to leave the show.
- Faking Engine Trouble: The Doctor wants to explore the city on the planet they just landed on while his companions want to leave. He pretends a part is damaged in order to force a trip to the city.
- Fantastic Radiation Shielding: The Thals survive on the planet's surface through drugs which cure radiation sickness and also prevents negative effects from further radiation.
- Fantastic Racism: The Daleks towards the Thals, simply because they're different, hence the deliberate use of Beauty Equals Goodness. The Daleks constantly refer to Thals as "mutants"; audience expectations are subverted when they turn out to be handsome and human-looking.
- Ghost City: The Dalek city appears to be one in Episode 1.
- Ghost Planet: In fact, the entire planet appears to be catastrophically depopulated in Episode 1.
- Gilligan Cut: In Episode 5, the TARDIS crew has met up with the friendly Thals, and have been urging them to fight against the Daleks for the good of their race. Back in the Dalek city, the Daleks are looking over surveillance photos of the Thal's camp, leading to this cut:Dalek: It is logical that together they will attack us.Cut to the main Thal looking unhappily at IanThal: No! And that is my final word.
- Mutants: Everyone on Skaro is a mutant, from the Daleks to the Thals, to the surviving animal life.
- Incredibly Lame Pun: The bacon and eggs which Ian gets from the food machine comes in the form of an oblong white bar, a pun on the phrase "a square meal."
- Let's Split Up, Gang:Ian: Why don't we separate and go different ways and meet back here in ... say ... ten minutes, alright?
Barbara: Alright, I'll go this way.
(Barbara goes down one corridor, Ian another, and the Doctor and Susan take the third; less than five minutes later, the angriest pepperpots in the entire history of time and space make their television debut)
- Made of Iron: One of the Thals gets hit by a Dalek exterminator beam in the gut at point-blank range and is only floored for a minute.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: One for the ages. Had the Doctor not intentionally tampered with the TARDIS so that they'd visit the Dalek City, none of the trouble with the Daleks in future episodes would've ever happened.
- No, Except Yes:Doctor: That's sheer murder!
Dalek: No. Extermination.
- Nothing Is Scarier: When they crack open a Dalek, Ian appears visibly horrified at what he sees inside, and tells the two girls to wait in the hallway so they don't see. The audience also never sees what's inside, either, except for a single claw later struggling from underneath a cloak. Of course, the audience does eventually see the creature inside a Dalek in later episodes. Although, given that this is a different offshoot, what's inside these particular Daleks might appear totally different...
- Shaky P.O.V. Cam: See page image.
- Sinister Surveillance: Barbara is moving down a corridor in the Dalek city and places her hand over the camera lens, making us realise we're looking from the point-of-view of a security camera.
- Straw Man Has A Point: The Daleks are right, coexistence actually is impossible. The Daleks need more radiation to survive and the Thals less.
- Violence Is the Only Option: Done fairly well, since the Daleks are Omnicidal Maniacs and none of the Thals are under any illusion that fighting back is a good choice.
- What the Hell, Hero?: The Doctor removes the fluid link and claims it was damaged in order to explore the city, despite the others wanting to leave. When he admits this was the case later on, they call him on how stupid he was for doing so, especially since the fluid link was actually broken when he did so. Or so he claims, as it's mysteriously better at the end of the story (albeit after the Doctor has had access to the Daleks' supplies in order to effect repairs) and it's pretty heavily implied that he lied twice about it. It's kind of a moot point the second time round though since the Daleks have taken the fluid link from them and they need to get it back damaged or not.
- Ian and Susan called out the Doctor on wanting to leave Barbara on the planet.


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The late Tip O'Neill gets credit for saying "all politics is local."
The former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives knew of what he spoke.
The House is scheduled to take up the federal farm bill today, and at least one possible amendment smacks of politics - all the way from Washington to the Panhandle area.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the farm bill will cost $286 billion over the next five years, and there are cries for reform in farm subsidies, etc.
An amendment called "The Fairness in Farm and Food Policy Amendment" promises to "restructure and reduce farm subsidies to help more family farmers ... and increase federal farm spending in 348 congressional districts when compared with extension of the 2002 farm bill," according to a group called "Environmental Defense."
What crops up, though, in this farm bill amendment is politics, at least as far as the Tri-State area is concerned.
Under the "fairness amendment," there are 26 congressional districts in Texas that would receive more farm money in 2008-2012 totals than under the current farm bill.
Interestingly, 11 are Democratic districts.
The 13th District, home of Clarendon Republican Mac Thornberry and the ag-heavy Panhandle, is not among the 26.
Neither is the 19th District, home of Lubbock Republican Randy Neugebauer.
The 28th District stands to get the most bang for its buck with an increase of $41,813,031. That district belongs to Laredo Democrat Henry Cuellar.
In Oklahoma, Republican Frank Lucas, whose 3rd District includes the Oklahoma Panhandle, also is not among the districts that would get more farm funds. Of the four districts in Oklahoma that would see an increase, tops among them is Democrat Dan Boren's 2nd District, which would get an extra $64,292,707.
Three districts in New Mexico would get additional farm funds, including District 3, represented by Democrat Tom Udall. District 3 gets $31,514,056 more, good enough for second in the state.
The new farm bill has a long way to go through Congress, but hopefully politics won't be harvested.
"There are a lot of different proposals going around. The current farm bill works about as good as anyone could expect," Thornberry said Tuesday. "The basic structure is good for our area."
In the case of this amendment, politics is not.
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Opinions others won't give: The Daily Oklahoman is celebrating the state's centennial by reprinting editorials from 1907. An edit from July 21, 1907 - titled "New Immigration Laws" - stings today: "The new immigration laws now in effect place numerous commendable restrictions upon the incoming of undesirable foreigners ... Another change makes the steamship companies subject to a fine of $100 for transporting physically or mentally defective immigrants or those afflicted with loathsome or contagious diseases ... The law further provides for exportation of women found to be leading immoral lives within three years after their arrival." These days, we can't even agree to call them illegal immigrants or "undocumented workers," much less kick out the loathsome.
A pat on the back ...
To the Amarillo Rockies and Brian May: There is a conflict of interest in one of these items, but blood is thicker than printer's ink. (Besides, Father's Day is only 11 months away.) The Rockies won the 12-and-under Super Series Baseball Minors Division National Championship July 14 in Round Rock. (The team: Left to right in the accompanying photo. Front row: Nathan Dockery; John Hood; Colten Castleberry; Garrett Butler; Jake Rogers. Second row: Graeson Cook; Ryan Sluder; Jordie Henry; Landon Rogers; Brandon Hernandez. Back row: Head Coach Dennis Dockery and Assistant Coach Stephen Hernandez.) Congrats, guys. Now, about those $200 rings ... May, the legendary guitarist for Queen, plans on completing his doctorate in astrophysics this month. May put off his education more than 30 years ago when Queen hit it big. May's thesis is "Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud." And this from the guy who penned "Fat Bottomed Girls."
and a kick in the pants.
To Michael Vick and the public's outrage meter: There are few who care if Vick, indicted for alleged dogfighting, ever plays in the NFL again. It is curious, however, what enrages the public. Vick is in the public's doghouse for allegedly killing dogs. Ever heard of Leonard Little? The St. Louis Rams defensive end spent three months in jail and got four years probation after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in a 1998 drunken-driving accident that killed a woman. Little was later found not guilty of drunken driving in another incident in 2005 despite admitting to having two beers. Little quietly signed a three-year contract extension with the Rams in 2006. There are several NFL players who make Vick look about as vicious as a poodle, but the public barely barks.
Dave Henry is an editorial writer for the Amarillo Globe-News, P.O. Box 2091, Amarillo, Texas 79166. His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com. His column appears Thursday.
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Rome elected its first female mayor Sunday, NBC News reported.
Rome city council member Virginia Raggi, a 37-year-old lawyer from the opposition Movimento 5 Stelle, or Five Star Movement, had 67 percent of the vote with almost 80 percent of the vote counted early Monday, the Interior Ministry said.
She beat Roberto Giachetti, who was backed by Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Her defeat ousted Renzi's Democratic Party from power in the capital city.
Raggi's party, known as M5S, was founded on the Internet about 6½ years ago as a "clean" alternative to business as usual by TV comic Giuseppe "Beppe" Grillo, M5S is already the largest single party in Italy's lower Chamber of Deputies.
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Central Bank Roles Vary, but Goals Are the Same
GAO-02-303: Published: Feb 25, 2002. Publicly Released: Feb 25, 2002.
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The central banks of major industrialized countries have agreed on common policy objectives and presented them in the Core Principles for Systematically Important Payment Systems. Intended to help promote safer and more efficient payment systems worldwide, the Core Principles outline specific policy recommendations for systematically important payment systems and describe the responsibilities of the central banks. All of the central banks GAO studied seek to ensure that their wholesale payment systems operate smoothly and minimize systemic risk. All of the central banks provide settlement services for their countries' wholesale payment systems. Some central banks also provide wholesale clearing services. Other central banks own the system but have little operational involvement in clearing, while others participate in partnerships with the private sector. All of the central banks GAO studied provide settlement for some retail payment systems. Some, but not all, central banks exercise regulatory authority over retail payment systems in their countries. Central banks also tend to have less operational involvement in countries where there is a relatively concentrated banking industry. In some cases, laws governing payments and the structure of the financial services industry direct the involvement of central banks in retail payment systems.
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Mortgage Servicing:Community Lenders Remain Active under New Rules, but CFPB Needs More Complete Plans for Reviewing RulesGAO-16-448: Published: Jun 23, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 25, 2016.
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Troubled Asset Relief Program:Most Community Development Capital Initiative Investments Remain OutstandingGAO-16-626: Published: Jul 5, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 5, 2016.
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Troubled Asset Relief Program:Capital Purchase Program Largely Has Wound DownGAO-16-524: Published: May 6, 2016. Publicly Released: May 6, 2016.
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Financial Institutions:Fines, Penalties, and Forfeitures for Violations of Financial Crimes and Sanctions RequirementsGAO-16-297: Published: Mar 22, 2016. Publicly Released: Apr 21, 2016.
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Federal Real Property:Commodity Futures Trading Commission Needs Better Leasing Guidance to Improve Cost-effectivenessGAO-16-434: Published: Apr 18, 2016. Publicly Released: Apr 18, 2016.
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Resolution Plans:Regulators Have Refined Their Review Processes but Could Improve Transparency and TimelinessGAO-16-341: Published: Apr 12, 2016. Publicly Released: Apr 12, 2016.
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Financial Regulation:Complex and Fragmented Structure Could Be Streamlined to Improve EffectivenessGAO-16-175: Published: Feb 25, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 28, 2016.
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Troubled Asset Relief Program:Treasury Should Estimate Future Expenditures for the Making Home Affordable ProgramGAO-16-351: Published: Mar 8, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 8, 2016.
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International Remittances:Money Laundering Risks and Views on Enhanced Customer Verification and Recordkeeping RequirementsGAO-16-65: Published: Jan 15, 2016. Publicly Released: Feb 16, 2016.
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Healing Center provides services
It was Victoria Olszewski's pursuit of higher education later in life that led her to unlock the secrets of an extremely painful past - more than four decades later.
During one of her classes, the mother of three and grandmother of five, who is working toward a degree in social work, learned about the different forms of child sexual abuse, including pressuring a child to engage in sexual activities.
That's when the horrifying memories of being sexually assaulted as a child came flooding back. "I thought I had put it behind me. I had pretended it never happened," said Olszewski, who then became trapped in vivid flashbacks and couldn't break free.
"I was not able to concentrate," said the 52-year-old, who said she was abused by her stepfather from the ages of 10 through 17. "I was having signs of depression, thoughts of hurting myself and enormous amounts of stress and anxiety. I wasn't myself."
Her cries for help led her to The Healing Center, a nonprofit organization that offers a safe and comforting environment to sexual abuse survivors, while giving them tailor-made supportive services to help them heal from their traumatic experiences.
One of its support groups, Adults Molested as Children, or A-MAC, is the most in demand, said Maryann K. Clesceri, the executive director of the center, which is under the auspices of Aurora Sinai Medical Center.
"So often, when you have something horrible happen, the tendency is to try to put it behind you," Clesceri said. But, she said, that's often a difficult task, particularly for those who were assaulted as children.
"Childhood trauma is more pervasive and has much more lasting effects," said Clesceri, who is a trained psychotherapist. "It has a greater impact on adult survivors."
The A-MAC support group meets weekly, as does the center's six other support groups, which include: Survivors Toward Recovery, Adult Sexual Assault, Creative Healing, Sexual Wholeness, Spanish-Speaking Survivors and an open group for newcomers.
Last year, the organization, which also offers one-on-one counseling, advocacy, ongoing educational programming and an array of natural therapies in collaboration with Core el Centro, served 844 people.
It is one of the United Way of Greater Milwaukee's newest agency partners, receiving $50,000 in funding support.
"The center provides incredible support for survivors of sexual abuse, including those who are underserved in our community," said Nicole Angresano of the United Way. "These are people who would otherwise have nowhere to turn for counseling."
The Healing Center's newest support group is for male sexual abuse survivors, a service that had been a void in the community.
"Without The Healing Center, men wouldn't have a group to go to. There are probably individual therapists, but not for free," said Cathy Arney, vice president of clinical services at Pathfinders, an agency that offered those services for men before changing its focus to youth. "They provide the perfect environment for people to feel safe and comfortable."
There are currently 30 men who participate in center's programming, including Roy Czarnecki, 22, who is a member of the male support group.
There are many negative side effects of the actual abuse. One is being able to trust people again."
After unsuccessfully trying a variety of methods to heal from his past, including years of therapy, he said, The Healing Center has been the most effective.
"It is geared toward survivors of sexual abuse. They understand and know where you are coming from," he said.
"You are allowed to build healthy bonds with people, express your feelings and receive reassurance from others who share your experience," Czarnecki said. "I am now living my life because of The Healing Center."
Through one-on-one counseling and support group sessions, Olszewski, a center participant for 15 months now, has also moved a lot further in the healing process.
"They helped me to learn that I can't change what happened and how I can move forward in a positive way," said Olszewski, who will earn a bachelor's degree in December and plans to go on to graduate school so that she can counsel other survivors of sexual abuse.
Mission: To offer sexual abuse survivors and their loved ones opportunities for healing by providing support, advocacy and community education.
Address: 611 W. National Ave., 4th Floor, Milwaukee, 53204
Phone: (414) 671-4325
Website: www.thehealingcenter.org
Faces of Hope focuses on Milwaukee-area people who need a hand and the organizations that are helping them. The feature is highlighting United Way-financed nonprofit organizations in Milwaukee and Waukesha counties during the agencies' fundraising campaigns. To track the updated Milwaukee and Waukesha County campaign results, go to: www.unitedwaymilwaukee.org and www.unitedwaywaukesha.org.


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Deadline for submission: no later than December 15, 2012 (or until all the places have been filled).


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Irish Rec Room license won't be renewed
Members of the Milwaukee Common Council on Tuesday voted to not renew the Class "B" tavern and public entertainment license for the Irish Rec Room, 1023 N. Old World 3rd St.
Aldermen took the action because the tavern's owners deviated from their original plan of operation, and because of allegations of disorderly conduct and disruptive behavior. »Read Full Article
Miss Madison crowned Miss Wisconsin
Miss Madison Paula Mae Kuiper was crowned Miss Wisconsin 2013 Saturday night at Alberta Kimball Auditorium in Oshkosh. For more details, here is the story from the Oshkosh Northwestern. »Read Full Article
Mad Rooster open in West Milwaukee for breakfast and lunch
The transformation of the former Vicki's diner at 4401 W. Greenfield Ave. in West Milwaukee is complete -- the country-themed Mad Rooster Cafe opened in its place on Wednesday.
It's open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, and the bulk of the menu is breakfast items, including omelets, Benedicts, skillets and frittatas, like the Rooster ($9), with chicken chorizo, red potatoes, bell peppers, sun-dried tomatoes and basil. »Read Full Blog Post(6)
Guide to Milwaukee-area farmers markets
Whatever the weather — major mayhem excepted — most farmers markets go on. (It's not supposed to rain all morning, anyway.)
And Saturday's the day for most farmers markets in the Milwaukee area. You can always bring along an umbrella. »Read Full Article


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PROFINET (an acronym for Process Field Net) is an industry technical standard for data communication over Industrial Ethernet, designed for collecting data from, and controlling, equipment in industrial systems, with a particular strength in delivering data under tight time constraints (on the order of 1ms or less).[1] The standard is maintained and supported by Profibus & Profinet International, an umbrella organization headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Three protocol levels are defined:
- TCP/IP for non time-critical data and the commissioning of a plant[2] with reaction times in the range of 100 ms
- RT (real-time) protocol for PROFINET IO applications[2] up to 1 ms cycle times
- IRT (Isochronous Real-Time) for PROFINET IO applications in drive systems[2] with cycles times of less than 1 ms
The protocols can be recorded and displayed using an Ethernet analysis tool PRONETA[3] such as Wireshark.[2]
Interfacing to peripherals is implemented by PROFINET IO.[2][4] It defines the communication with field connected peripheral devices. Its basis is a cascading real-time concept. PROFINET IO defines the entire data exchange between controllers (devices with "master functionality") and the devices (devices with "slave functionality"), as well as parameter setting and diagnosis. PROFINET IO is designed for the fast data exchange between Ethernet-based field devices and follows the provider-consumer model.[2] Field devices in a subordinate PROFIBUS line can be integrated in the PROFINET IO system without any effort and seamlessly via an IO-Proxy (representative of a subordinate bus system). A device developer can implement PROFINET IO with any commercially available Ethernet controller.[2] It is well-suited for the data exchange with bus cycle times of a few ms. The configuration of an IO-System has been kept similar to PROFIBUS. PROFINET IO always contains the real-time concept.
A PROFINET IO system consists of the following devices:
- The IO Controller, which controls the automation task.
- The IO Device, which is a field device, monitored and controlled by an IO Controller. An IO Device may consist of several modules and sub-modules.
- The IO Supervisor is software typically based on a PC for setting parameters and diagnosing individual IO Devices.[4]
An Application Relation (AR) is established between an IO Controller and an IO Device. These ARs are used to define Communication Relations (CR) with different characteristics for the transfer of parameters, cyclic exchange of data and handling of alarms.[2] Refer to PROFINET IO connection life-cycle for a more detailed description.
The characteristics of an IO Device are described by the device manufacturer in a General Station Description (GSD) file. The language used for this purpose is the GSDML (GSD Markup Language) - an XML based language. The GSD file provides the supervision software with a basis for planning the configuration of a PROFINET IO system.[2][4]
IO addressing[edit]
Every module within a PROFINET network has three addresses:
- MAC address
- IP address
- Device name, a logical name for the module within the total configuration
Because PROFINET uses TCP/IP a MAC and IP address are used. A MAC address changes if the device is replaced. An IP address is a form of dynamic addressing. Because there was a need for a fixed address a device name is used.
For allocation of the IP address, subnet mask and default gateway two methods are defined:
Real time[edit]
Within PROFINET IO, process data and alarms are always transmitted in real time (RT). Real time in PROFINET is based on definitions of IEEE and IEC, which allow for only a limited time for execution of real-time services within a bus cycle. The RT communication represents the basis for the data exchange for PROFINET IO. Real-time data are treated with a higher priority than TCP(UDP)/IP data. RT provides the basis for the real-time communication in the area of distributed periphery and for the PROFINET component model. This type of data exchange allows bus cycle times in the range of a few hundred microseconds.
Isochronous communication[edit]
Isochronous data exchange with PROFINET is defined in the isochronous real-time (IRT) concept. Devices with IRT functionality have switch ports integrated in the field device. They can be based e.g., on the Ethernet controllers ERTEC 400/200. The data exchange cycles are usually in the range of a few hundred microseconds up to a few milliseconds. The difference to real-time communication is essentially the high degree of determinism, so that the start of a bus cycle is maintained with high precision. The start of a bus cycle can deviate up to 1 µs (jitter). IRT is required, for example, for motion control applications (positioning control processes).
Profiles are pre-defined configurations of the functions and features available from PROFINET for use in specific devices or applications. They are specified by PI working groups and published by PI. Profiles are important for openness, interoperability and interchangeability, so that the end user can be sure that similar equipments from different vendors perform in a standardised way.
There are PROFINET profiles for encoders, for example. Other profiles have been specified for motion control (PROFIdrive) and Functional Safety (PROFIsafe). A special profile for trains also exists.
Another profile is PROFIenergy which includes services for real time monitoring of energy demand. This was requested in 2009 by the AIDA group of German automotive Manufacturers (Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and VW) who wished to have a standardised way of actively managing energy usage in their plants. High energy devices and sub-systems such as robots, lasers and even paint lines are the target for this profile, which will help reduce a plant's energy costs by intelligently switching the devices into 'sleep' modes to take account of production breaks, both foreseen (e.g. weekends and shut-downs) and unforeseen (e.g. breakdowns).
PROFINET is defined by PROFIBUS and PROFINET International (PI) and backed by the INTERBUS Club and, since 2004, is part of the IEC 61158 and IEC 61784 standards.
See also[edit]
- ^ http://w3app.siemens.com/mcms/infocenter/dokumentencenter/sc/ic/Documentsu20Brochures/E20001-A24-M116-X-7600.pdf
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Application Layer protocol for decentralized periphery and distributed automation, Specification for PROFINET, Version 2.3, October 2010, Order No.: 2.722, PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation e.V. (PNO)
- ^ http://w3.siemens.com/mcms/automation/en/industrial-communications/profinet/productportfolio/proneta/Pages/proneta.aspx
- ^ a b c Industrial communication with PROFINET, Manfred Popp, Order no.: 4.182, PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation e.V. (PNO)
Further reading[edit]
- Raimond Pigan, Mark Metter: Automating with PROFINET, 2nd rev. and enl. edition. 2008, ISBN 978-3-89578-294-7


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TIA TSB-116 Revision A, March 1, 2006
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The objectives of this TSB are to provide end-to-end voice quality guidelines for North American IP Telephony and to an E-Model tutorial for IP scenarios. IP Telephony introduces several impairments, some of which are familiar and some new. The E-Model (ITU-T Recommendation G.107) is a tool that can estimate the end-to-end voice quality, taking the IP Telephony parameters and impairments into account. This TSB first describes how the E-Model handles IP Telephony impairments and then it provides general design recommendations for the best possible voice quality performance irrespective of cost, available technology or customer requirements. These recommendations are illustrated with specific IP scenarios to provide an E-Model tutorial for analyzing real networks.
Since initially, IP telephony is a replacement technology for the existing wireline PSTN, the focus of this document is on wireline scenarios. The impairments introduced by wireline IP packet technology can be significant. The reader should be aware that wireless and satellite technologies also introduce significant impairments and that only a few of the combined effects are illustrated here. This TSB builds on similar work done for North American PBX private networks that was published in TIA/EIA/TSB32-A and the focus of this document remains on providing guidelines for engineered private networks as opposed to the Internet.
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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has a new book out called Drift. I won't review it because I'd have to buy it. The Soros-funded Media Matters assigns 10 people to each Glenn Beck book, but I'll just have to go by her Amazon.com book description:
"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of "privateers"; its bloated Department of Homeland Security; its rusting nuclear weapons, ill-maintained and difficult to dismantle; and its strange fascination with an unproven counterinsurgency doctrine.
Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Joe. She offers up a fresh, unsparing appraisal of Reagan's radical presidency. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the priorities of the national security state to overpower our political discourse.
Ronald Reagan's radical presidency? (rolls eyes)
What about Nobel Peace Prize recipient Barack Obama's illegal wars? Clinton's military action in Bosnia? She talks about all that, doesn't she?
I'm a quotation researcher and I'll look up other quotes in the book if sent to me, but let's look at "One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier." Here's the actual quote (in a June 3, 1792 letter to Mr. Hammond):
I told him that the idea of having no military posts on either side was new to me: that it had never been mentioned among the members of the executive: that therefore I could only speak for myself and sa that, prima facie, it accorded well with two favorite ideas of mine, of leaving commerce free, and never keeping an unnecessary soldier; but when he spoke of having no military posts on either side, there might be difficult in fixing the distance of the nearest posts.
Jefferson never wrote "One of my favorite ideas is...," but he wrote "two favorite ideas of mine." Maddow leaves out "leaving commerce free." Jefferson's words, like the Constitution, are living and breathing and we can change them to fit the times and our tastes.
Let's go back a few sentences earlier:
To influence the Indians, to keep off a rival nation and the appearance of having a rival nation, to monopolize the fur trade. He said he was not afraid of rivals if the traders would have fair play. He thought it would be better that neither party should have any military posts, but only trading houses. I told him that the idea of having no military posts on either side was new to me: ...
The context was trade with Indians (Native Americans). Jefferson was not talking about the defense of the United States against another nation.
Strictly speaking, nobody wants "unnecessary" anything. When I was in New York City, I fought against unnecessary government (the useless office of "Public Advocate" and the powerless offices of the borough presidents). Businesses cut down on unnecessary packaging of their products to save money. We can disagree on what's necessary -- there's the rub -- but once something is deemed "unnecessary," then who needs it?
Jefferson's "never keeping an unnecessary soldier" was saying something that no one can disagree with. However, he was wary about "having no military posts on either side."
When people take a quote, it's usually taken out of the surrounding context. Can it at least be quoted correctly? If Jefferson never said "One of my favorite ideas is...," then how can this be a valid quote?
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Today the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) posted details about the November security updates. On Tuesday, November 8, 2011, at approximately 10 AM Pacific Time, Microsoft will release 4 bulletins.
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On April 27, 2016, Joel Wit published the article, You Can Negotiate Anything – Even North Korea, in Foreign Policy.
On April 27, 2016, Joel Wit published the article, You Can Negotiate Anything – Even North Korea, in Foreign Policy.
Ambassador Stephen Warren Bosworth died of pancreatic cancer in his home in Boston on Monday, January 4, 2016.
Stephen Bosworth was a career American diplomat and was chairman of the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and held an appointment as a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He was also served as the Payne Lecturer at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University in 2014.
Ambassador Bosworth served as Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University from 2001-2013. His administration at Fletcher is credited with increasing the size of the Fletcher faculty and student body while securing the financial soundness of the school during a period of economic uncertainty. He oversaw the creation of new degree programs that have significantly expanded the scope of The Fletcher School's teaching, research, and global outreach. During his tenure as Dean at the Fletcher School, Ambassador Bosworth also served President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as United States Special Representative for North Korea Policy from 2009 to 2011.
"Stephen Bosworth was among the best diplomats of his generation. A consummate professional and a student of history, he managed American foreign policy skillfully at critical junctures and left an indelible imprint on America's policy toward Asia," said Vali Nasr, dean of Johns Hopkins SAIS, "He was a transformational dean at the Fletcher School at Tufts University where he oversaw development of new programs. Insightful, kind and considerate, he was a great influence on friends and colleagues and generations of students who studied international affairs."
The U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS invites you to:
Tumen Triangle Tribulations:
The Unfulfilled Promise of Chinese, Russian and North Korean Cooperation
Andray Abrahamian
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015
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The Tumen Triangle region—where North Korea, China and Russia meet—is, in many ways, the story of regional integration being held back by the political concerns of Pyongyang, Beijing and Moscow. Andray Abrahamian, Director of Research at Choson Exchange will present USKI's latest special report which examines historical legacies, contemporary relations and shifting strategic priorities between the three countries and how they influence trade and investment in the region.
Andray Abrahamian is the Director of Research for Choson Exchange, a non-profit specializing in training for North Koreans in business, economic policy and law. He is an Honorary Fellow at Macquarie University and was a CSIS non-resident Kelly Fellow. Andray has a PhD from the University of Ulsan, in which he examined media discourse and our understanding of North Korea and an M.A. from the University of Sussex, which focused on US-Korea relations.
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Tuesday, Oct 6, 2015 – China and North Korea: Strategic and Policy Perspectives from a Changing China
With growing confidence in their grassroots power, Korean Americans are now networking further to strengthen their political influence through enlightening themselves about voting rights, mobilizing the community for major elections, and encouraging the next generation to be more visible and active in Washington's political arena.
SAIS Lecturer Eunjung Lim and USKI Visiting Scholar Dennis Halpin review the accomplishments and analyze the rising influence of the Korean American community in US domestic politics.
Download the USKI Policy Brief: "The Korean Wave in American Politics," by Eunjung Lim and Dennis P. Halpin.
A shorter version of this brief was originally published as on op-ed in the Korea Times on September 8, 2015. Read it here.
Dr. Eunjung Lim is currently a lecturer for Korea Studies at School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include comparative studies on democracy and local politics. She has been researching on Korean Americans' grassroots movement as well.
Dennis P. Halpin, a former US consul in Busan and Asian affairs advisor to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is a visiting scholar at the US-Korea Institute and an adviser to the Poblete Analysis Group.
The US-Korea Institute at SAIS is seeking program and research interns for immediate hire. Multiple positions are open, duties will vary. Current areas of research include: North Korea political, economic, and social development, North Korean WMD issues, US-ROK nuclear cooperation, US-ROK cooperation in Southeast Asia, US-ROK cooperation nuclear security, US foreign policy to both Koreas, energy security cooperation in Northeast Asia, ROK renewable energy policies, and more. Candidates with a background in security and Asia issues preferred for immediate open positions.
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In recent years, North Korea has put greater emphasis on economic growth, resuming economic experimentation and putting in place new measures to try to attract foreign investment. More and more, Pyongyang seems to be placing its bets on developing Special Economic Zones (SEZs) to serve as the main engine of that desired growth. While an SEZ strategy is hardly new for the North, the establishment of new SEZ laws and specialized zone development plans seem to indicate a better understanding of what it takes to attract foreign investors.
In this new USKI Report, Andray Abrahamian, Executive Director of Choson Exchange, examines the political and economic drivers of North Korea's SEZ development policy and its established zones, and spotlights SEZs with the greatest growth potential. Abrahamian also draws insight from site visits and discussions with North Korean officials, businesspersons and academics to further explore the limitations, challenges and opportunities for North Korea's new and planned SEZs.
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Kick off the 2015 Belk Bowl festivities with the Belk Bowl 5K presented by New Balance. Come run or walk the streets of Uptown Charlotte and celebrate with a post-race celebration full of beer, food, and giveaways. Bring your family, friends, and football fans and get ready to run!
December 27th at 2:00 pm
Online Registration – Credit Card Only
You can register online until 11:59pm on Thursday, December 24. Click here for Online Registration.
Race Day Registrations
Opens at 1 pm | Closes at 1:50 pm
Course Map
All Race Day events will take place on Wells Fargo Plaza/Atrium, 310 S. Tryon Street, which is located on South Tryon Street between Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Third Street.
1:00 pm – Race day registration & packet pickup open
2:00 pm – Belk Bowl 5K presented by New Balance Starts
2:30 pm – Post-Race Celebration Begins
3:15 pm – Belk Bowl 5K awards ceremony
4:00 pm – Belk Bowl 5K Post-Race Celebration ends
The Top 3 Overall Male & Female and Top 3 Male & Female Age Groups will be awarded. Age groups are as follows: 14 & Under, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54. 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70+
Awards will be kept at the Charlotte Sports Foundation for two weeks after the race. Please call (704) 943-3560 to schedule a time to pick up your award.
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm - Wells Fargo Atrium
The post party will feature the awards ceremony, food, beverages, DJ, and much more!
Each participant will receive two (2) drink tickets attached to their bib to redeem for alcoholic beverages at the Post-Race Celebration. A valid ID required for proof of age for alcoholic beverage consumption.
You may pick up your race bib and race t-shirt one of following ways:
Saturday, December 26
10:00am – 3:00pm: Run For Your Life |Midtown
901 S. Kings Drive Suite 100, Charlotte, NC 28204
Race Day | Sunday, December 27
1:00pm – 1:50pm: Race Registration
327 S. Tryon Street – At the Registration Tent
Race Results
Results will be posted to www.belkbowl.com 5K page as well as at runforyourlife.com
Physical postings will occur at the Post-Race Celebration at the Wells Fargo Atrium & Plaza.
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Parking is available in several places around the event.
Please visit www.aboutparking.com/charlotte to find detailed information about parking locations.
Once you're on the Aboutparking.com website, search the address 310 S. Tryon Charlotte, NC to locate specific parking information. Parking meters will not be in use during the event in the Center City area.


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Craftsy Block of the Month 2013 taught by Laura Nownes
Learn new quilting techniques, make new friends and create a sampler quilt! Laura Nownes demonstrates 10 fabulous blocks and numerous techniques in this FREE class.
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Now these are very interesting! Love your contrast......really nice work, will be watching for the finished quilt, I think it will be spectacular!
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Love your colors!
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Thank you girls!
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exterior wall lights
exterior ceiling fixture
exterior table lamps
exterior floor lamps
weather-resistant lampshades
wireless dimmer w/ remote control
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wire connectors
philips screwdriver
square-head screwdriver
Light your outdoor living space just like an indoor space.
Space wall lights along sides of house for even lighting. Choose traditional style single or double wall lanterns.
For security, hang double wall lanterns beside doors. For a more contemporary look, hang wall landscape lights flush with wall
Ceiling fixtures on a porch or overhang provide light to dine by. Choose a landscape chandelier with weather-resistant shades.
Pair hanging landscape lanterns over an outdoor dining table. Hang a pendant over an outdoor sitting area.
Exterior wall sconces have a more formal look and come with weather-resistant shades.
Furnish your outdoor seating areas with outdoor table and floor lamps with weather-resistant shades.
Candle lanterns provide ambient candlelight.
Light the way to your outdoor living space with a post lantern.
For special ambiance, control all these lights with an easy-to-install wireless dimmer.
Turn off the power to the switch and place a DO NOT TURN ON sign on the breaker.
Remove faceplate from dimmer.
Strip insulation from dimmer wires and wires to which dimmer will be connected. Strip 1/2 inch from 10, 12, and 14 gauge wires; 5/8 inch from 16 and 18 gauge wires.
Using wire connector, connect green or bare ground wire on dimmer to green or bare copper ground wire in wall box. If a green or bare copper ground wire is not in wall box, call a licensed electrician.
Using wire connectors, connect 2 dimmer leads to 2 wall-box leads.
Push wires into switchbox.
Mount dimmer to switchbox with 2 screws in center mounting holes. Make sure dimmer is level.
Snap faceplate on, and turn the power back on.
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HIV & AIDS Health Center
New AIDS Therapy Nukes HIV
Nov. 7, 2006 - Like guided missiles, radioactive anti-HIV antibodies seek out and destroy HIV-infected cells.
The new approach to AIDS therapy -- called radioimmunotherapy -- works in mice, report Ekaterina Dadachova, PhD, of New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and colleagues.
"Radioimmunotherapy is supposed to be curative," Dadachova tells WebMD. "Current HIV treatments kill the virus, but it will come back because it hides in latently infected cells. Our goal is to go after those cells, so radioimmunotherapy has the potential to cure somebody completely."
Dadachova's colleague, Harris Goldstein, MD, tempers his enthusiasm a bit more. Goldstein is director of the Einstein/MMC Center for AIDS Research in New York.
"If we had a nickel for every time HIV was cured we'd all be very wealthy," Goldstein tells WebMD. "But it is exciting when a new conceptual approach comes along. What makes this treatment unique is that it is designed to target HIV infected cells and kill them. This really has the potential to markedly reduce the viral infection in patients."
Nuking HIV
What has Dadachova and Goldstein so excited is their finding that the new AIDS therapy concept works not just in the test tube, but in living animals.
The treatment starts with an antibody that homes in on a piece of HIV (called gp41) that sticks out of HIV-infected cells. The antibody is attached to a radioactive isotope. It latches on to cells carrying HIV and irradiates them. Since the antibody doesn't stick to healthy cells, the treatment doesn't affect them.
This may sound like the future, but such treatments already exist. The FDA-approved drugs Zevalin and Bexxar are radioimmunotherapies that target cancer cells in people with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Recently, Dadachova, Goldstein, and others showed that radioimmunotherapy could be used to treat infections as well as cancers. In their new study, they show that the technique can seek out and destroy human HIV infected cells growing in specially bred mice.
"Many things fail in animals that worked in the test tube," Goldstein says. "So the antibodies being able to hunt out and eliminate HIV infected cells brings this a lot closer to the clinic."
Indeed, the researchers hope to begin human clinical trials within two years.
It's an innovative, interesting approach, says HIV researcher Carrie Dykes, PhD, of the University of Rochester, New York. Dykes was not involved in the Dadachova/Goldstein study.
"I think it could play out," Dykes tells WebMD. "They have a lot of animal studies to do before they get into humans. But it would be interesting to see if it would really work."


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Letters to the Editor and Linux Q&A
The article on page 14 of Linux Journal #2 [The "What's GNU" article on using the Unix "tools philosophy"] was interesting to me. The final pipeline on page 17 has given me a better idea of what Unix really is!!
I even got it working, too, in my Slackware 1.1.1 from morse.net-jon kitchin, VK6TU, firstname.lastname@example.com
LJ replies:
We're glad you liked it. You will probably enjoy the article this month on the history of Unix. Like the "What's GNU" article, it does not directly relate to Linux, but it tells a story that explains why we can have Linux in the first place.
Your Linux Journal is great. I just read the second issue, which was outstanding, and would like to ftp the GNU C Library Reference Manual. I could not find it at sunsite. What is the file name I should be looking for?-Clinton Carr, email@example.com
LJ replies:
All GNU software (that is, software maintained by the Free Software Foundation) and its documentation, including the GNU C library and the GNU C library reference manual, can be found at prep.ai.mit.edu in the directory /pub/gnu, and on mirror sites around the world. Read gnu.announce, where each post announcing a new product is followed by a list of mirror sites all over the world.
The filename you want is glibc-1.07.tar.gz, which contains both the source code and the documentation.
I am looking for some technical details like process management, memory management, process coordination, file system, etc. of Linux OS for my term project. If you could direct me to get those information I would greatly appreciate it.-Raghib Muhammad, email@example.com
LJ replies:
First, read the source. It's pretty readable, at least to me.
I have written the beginnings of a book about Linux internals called the Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide. It is not complete, but you can ftp it from tsx-11.mit.edu in /pub/linux/docs/LDP/khg* Also, read Bach's The Design of the Unix Operating System which is about AT&T's internals, but they are somewhat similar. Linus read that book while designing Linux. The KHG contains an annotated bibliography that might help you, as well.
I enjoyed reading the April issue of Linux Journal and have two questions on Linux that might be of interest to other readers. I would certainly appreciate any help or solutions.
Does Linux currently support or plan to support QIC-80 tape back-up via a NON-SCSI interface? What I specifically have in mind is an external tape unit that interfaces with the PC via the parallel (printer) port.
I have a date/time system problem with all Linux kernels that I have compiled beginning with patch level 14 and including the latest Linux 1.0, when I compile on my home computer, a 386DX with 8 MB and a math coprocessor. When I compile patch levels 12 and 13, I do not have this problem. When I boot with a floppy containing the newly compiled kernel, Linux starts up without the correct date/time. Instead it thinks it is Jan 1, 1970. If I use the same floppy kernel to boot on my PC at work (a 486DX with 8MB) the current date/time of the system is found. So it appears to be something related to compiling and then booting the kernel on my PC at home. However, this is not a problem with patch levels 13 or 12. Something in the kernel code changed beginning with patch level 14 that now causes difficulties in finding the system time on my home computer.-Donald Mugnai, Silver Spring, MD
LJ replies:
As documented in the Ftape-HOWTO, there is currently no support at all for any tape drives that work off the parallel port. All of these drives use proprietary protocols. No one that we are aware of in the Linux community is currently working on reverse engineering those protocols so as to be able to use those drives. As far as your system time problem, have you tried booting an old patchlevel 12 or 13 kernel on your home PC lately? It might simply be a worn-out battery on your CMOS. If any readers have any better solutions, please send them in. This question might be a little too specific, or be in a FAQ. I was running Slackware Linux 0.99pl14 with a SCSI CD-ROM. The CD-ROM was mounted with:
mount -t iso9960 /dev/sr0 /cd-rom
I later wanted to access a different CD, so I did:
umount /cd-rom
Popped in the new disk, mounted it, and the system thinks the original disk is in the drive. This doesn't happen with floppies, so there must be a switch to mount that says it's removable media. Is there a special way to mount a CD-ROM so the fs will recognize that it's changed?-Joe Wronski, firstname.lastname@example.com
Eric Youngdale, firstname.lastname@example.com, replied:
Sounds like broken firmware on the drive. Any removable SCSI device should report a media change anytime you change discs, and for some reason this is not happening for you. If the drive were reporting the change, then all of the old buffers would be flushed.
One way to force the issue is to simply attempt to use the drive while the drive is empty. The scsi code notices that there is nothing there and does the right thing.
Joe replied:
Thanks for looking into this. Actually, I had been running a version of Linux earlier than 1.0 (.99pl14, I think). After finally building and installing 1.0, the CD-ROM media changes are detected and reported at mount time. All's as it should be now.
Is there a means with Linux to format and use 3.5" disks above 1.44Mb (1.7MB for instance) as easily as with MS-DOS ?-Xavier Cazin, email@example.com
LJ replies:
Yes. There are a set of patches on tsx-11.mit.edu that accomplish this. There is something in the directory /pub/linux/patches/ called fdpatch2for15.* which does what you want; it supports 3.5" 1.77 MB disks and 5.25" 1.44 MB disks. With that patch applied to use extra-high-formats, the standard fdformat should allow you to format any supported format.
The patches come with a patched version of mtools which will allow you to access DOS-formatted floppies at these formats. The Linux DOS filesystem should access them correctly without any changes, once the fd driver is patched to recognize the high-capacity formats.
All letters to the editor and submissions for Linux Q&A are subject to editing for clarity, length, grammar, and spelling. Send letters and questions to email@example.com, and use a subject like LTE or Q&A. Alternately, send paper mail to Linux Journal, P.O. Box 85867, Seattle, WA 98145-1867. E-mail is preferred, because we can print the results of a discussion, which can be more useful than just your letter and our response.
Sata Disk Format
Hi every one,
does any one knows, whether the Hard Disk requires format or not prior to installation of Linux OS, mainly for SATA Hard disk,
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Joan Baez has been inspiring change through her music since the 1960s. Her own experiences drew her to nonviolence and civil rights advocacy. In late 2013, she joined the Dalai Lama and others in the annual Forum 2000, a conference which promotes human rights. When asked if artists should feel compelled to speak out on social and political issues, she said: "All I can say is from my own experience – that it is the connectedness with the people, the prisoners, the people in the war; that I was able to speak where a lot of people couldn't speak. But that's what's given my life the richness that it has."
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