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Title: "The Flower Vow"
Fandom: Sailor Moon
Genre: AU
Rating: K+
Chiba Mamoru could make flowers.
Roses were his speciality, but any bloom known to man had the potential to sprout from his fingertips with a simple flick of the wrist. All he ever required was the intent to create and a little magic- magic, he claimed teasingly, that was born of the tinkling laughter of his beloved. Every gentle smile, every brush of her lips against his, fueled the passion buried deep within Mamoru. He loved the way her golden hair seemed to shine like a personal halo under sunlight. He treasured the graceful dance of her feminine stride; the vibrant cerulean of her tender eyes that paid homage to the world she so altruistically protected. Tsukino Usagi was his power, but first and foremost, she was his soulmate.
The day Usagi proclaimed she was carrying his seed was the happiest of Mamoru's life. Tears streaming down his cheeks, the ebony-haired man tugged Usagi into his arms and promised a flower for every day she grew with the offshoot of their love. Usagi had teased him with the pink of her tongue, chuckling that he was only exaggerating. Midnight eyes twinkling, Mamoru merely pecked her cheek and summoned a sunflower. Pushing it into the blonde's hands and tapping her playfully crinkled nose, he crooned,
"Pure thoughts, Usako. Pure thoughts. Don't you believe your husband?"
"I believe my husband's going to turn into a pansy himself if he isn't careful," Usagi quipped wanly in reply, smirking mischievously as she floated away. Mamoru's laughter followed her into the kitchen.
Weeks upon weeks passed, and every morning Usagi woke up beaming to find a new breed resting on her burgeoning stomach. There were asters for the nights Usagi had spent whispering fears of inadequacy into Mamoru's ear, and bouvardias for the colorful dawns ignored in favor of anticipated dreaming. He gave her a gladiolus when she sniffled into the toilet bowl from morning sickness, and chrysanthemums when work kept him overtime. The first time Usagi felt their fetus kick, Mamoru had cried and pressed a violet lisianthus to his wife's bulging abdomen.
"So fiesty. So lively. Just like Mama."
Freesias, snapdragons, heathers, and orchids, Mamoru bedizened the woman until she swore their bedroom was going to become an indoor garden. But one evening, rocking in the silence of the partly renovated nursery, Usagi had frowned with the ghost of irritation and inquirance painted across her countenance.
"Why do you never give me roses anymore, Mamo-chan?" she pouted, carding her fingers through Mamoru's shaggy black locks as he leaned against her distended belly. The man did not say anything for a moment, simply listening to the sound of their baby- fast approaching its due date- stretch in Usagi's womb.
"I'm waiting," Mamoru said at last, rubbing Usagi's palm as he felt her tense in curiosity.
"For what?"
"Roses are the most passionate and romantic of all the flowers, Usako. They are the most common representation of love, and I wish to reserve such a sentimental gift for the culmination of these nine long months."
"You're going to save our special flower for the baby's birth," Usagi clarified happily, blue eyes glistening as she squeezed the hand caressing hers. "Oh Mamo-chan, that's so perfect! I can't think of a better moment. I'm so excited to share that symbol of love with the newest member of our family."
Summer arrived in a sudden and welcome burst of energy, lush green scenery seeming to erupt out of nowhere. It was on a particularly hot June afternoon that Mamoru received a frantic call from Usagi while at work, urging him to the hospital. In a mild panic, the man on the verge of fatherhood asked about her condition and location. The expectant blonde, no doubt barely restraining an annoyed eye roll, reassured Mamoru that she was fine; her friend Naru had been visiting when her water broke and graciously offered to drive. It was with only slight relief that Mamoru hung up, worry gnawing holes into his stomach as the ex-superhero ended his shift early and lunged for the car. Rose vow entirely forgotten, he sped off to meet his wife and child-to-be with the road rage of a madman, cursing all manner of wayward pedestrians and belligerent red lights during the hour-long trip.
He knew something wasn't right.
Mamoru was achingly acute of the off feeling in his gut, so familiar even after years of peace, and that premonition of danger served to galvanize him further. He *needed*, with a compulsion only rivalled by the intake of oxygen, to get to Usagi. He wondered if something had gone wrong with the baby, placing one or both of their lives in the balance.
The red Ferrari screeched into the hospital's parking lot. Mamoru had barely set the clutch before he was out the door and racing up to the looming white building, heart beating a painful staccato. He skidded across the entrance and over to the desk, panting to a frightened secretary,
"Please... Tsukino Usagi, my wife... in labor... is she here yet? What room?"
The petite brunette with an attractive bun smiled at him sympathetically, no doubt used to frantic fathers demanding their pregnant wives' whereabouts. She scanned a list of names projected on her computer screen, clicking here and there. Suddenly the secretary paused, frowning, her hand poised upon the mouse. "*Tsukino* Usagi, you said?"
"Yes," Mamoru bit out impatiently, knuckles pale and tight on the desk as he prepared to bolt for the delivery room... or surgery ward; he couldn't be too sure that Usagi wasn't currently having an emergency C-section, what with the foreboding terror curling in his stomach-
"Sir... Tsukino Usagi was checked in for massive hemorrhaging and extensive head injuries," the woman informed Mamoru timidly, sorrow tainting her expressive green eyes. "She and a friend were the victims of a severe three car pile-up. There were no survivors; Tsukino Usagi and Osako Naru... passed on... nearly half an hour ago."
Mamoru felt like someone had punched the wind out of him, and suddenly he knew what the pain in his chest was-
The bond that connected him to Usagi, always so strong and virile, had been extinguished like a fragile flame after a violent gale. All that was left in the wake of tragedy were wisps of what once was; a smoke licking at his insides from the unexpected loss. Knees flagging, the man sunk wearily into a chair as the world pitched and swayed around him; an endless torrent of noise, confusion, and agony. This had to be a nightmare, a horrible nightmare...
"The- the baby?" he croaked, every limb trembling in shock. 'No, no, no, no no...'
"I'm so, so sorry. The infant died on impact. S-she... she couldn't survive the air bag's weight with no amniotic sac protecting her anymore. Maybe if your wife hadn't begun labor-"
But Mamoru was not listening anymore. 'She,' he thought, heart crumbling a second time. 'She. A daughter. A little Usagi I will never have the chance to raise. Oh God, they're *gone*.'
A howling scream of torment and grief rent Mamoru's throat apart. The last thing he registered was the piercing clap of footfalls and light rustling of starched suits before blessed darkness ensnared his hot, tortured vision.
Days fled in an unintelligible blur. Mamoru knew he received condolences and meatloaves abound, but every card and every homemade dish disappeared somewhere between the door and the counter. His only true comfort lay in two things:
Sleep, and the mutual commiseration shared between him and Usagi's equally distraught Senshi comrades. He realized he owed them eternal gratitude for taking it upon themselves to organize the funeral when Mamoru himself could not, but the man hadn't even the will to feed himself, let alone travel to any of their homes. Life had become a distant and hazy memory of what used to be and what could have been; every moment Mamoru spent awake found him wallowing over photographs showcasing a carefree couple, fingers twined and glowing smiles the staple of a time Mamoru could no longer remember. He missed the wake and he missed the funeral; he missed a lot of things, actually, but one chilly fall morning- entirely out of the blue- Mamoru's funk broke.
His heart had decided, and with that revelation came a rush of cogency and pure, utter peace. Usagi had been his reason for being and without her, there was simply nothing- only a gaping wound where she once resided. There was only one way Mamoru foresaw reuniting with his fallen princess, and it was not through whiling away the remnants of his future on earth.
Staggering, unshaven, and half-deranged, Mamoru wandered the streets of Tokyo. He knew his malnourished body evoked quite the wide berth from frightened citizens, but their stigmatization was so trivial it echoed risible in Mamoru's mind. He had one objective and one only- to fulfill his final promise to Usagi before the beginning of forever.
The cemetery was lonelier than Mamoru last recalled it, with more graves crooked and decrepit than ever. Sadly, the ebony-haired man realized the reasons were not unlike his own; the painful certitude that came from seeing a beloved's name scribed harshly into marble for all eternity. It did not take him long before Mamoru stumbled upon their graves, set together as closely as they had been in life. Mamoru collapsed against the fresh earth, throat burning as he performed the motions that had, over the past year, become second nature to him. He could just imagine the sparkling in Usagi's azure eyes as a stem formed slowly, winding up the tips of Mamoru's shaking fingers. Deep crimson blossomed at the head as a cavalcade of tears poured down Mamoru's face.
"A rose," he choked, "for the constant love and spontaneousness you brought this bland, undeserving orphan, Usako."
Mamoru laid the flawless creation at the foot of his wife's marker, already adorned in an abundance of flowers from friends and admirers. He recognized them all- alstroemerias for friendship, carnations for pride; amaryllises and stocks in memory of the blonde's angelic beauty; delphiniums symbolizing heavenly traits and statices for remembrance. His daughter's was much the same, with sweet peas, tulips, ranunculuses, and lilacs expressing how cherished her innocence and radiance were. Mamoru conjured another rose, this time a bud, and reverently placed it next to the emblazoned "Tsukino (Chibi-Usa) Usagi".
"Rose buds are for purity and love. Papa so wants to meet you and hold you in his arms, little princess," Mamoru crooned, rocking back onto the balls of his feet. "It's unfair, really, how Mama hoarded you all to herself. But she was always like that, I suppose."
An unbidden laugh ravaged Mamoru's sore vocal cords and he swiped at the obstinate moisture lingering on his cheeks. With a last kiss to the graves of the two most important people in his life, the raven-haired widower steeled his resolve and departed the cemetery, leaving behind the last two vestiges of his innate gift.
Chiba Mamoru never made flowers again.


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The global Isocyanates markets are covered weekly by ICIS in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the US. All the reports have price assessments on methyl di-p-phenylene isocyanate (MDI) and toluene di-isocyanate (TDI) for spot business and, where applicable, contract or domestic activity.
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Asia toluene di-isocyante (TDI) prices are expected to remain largely stable in the second quarter. Tight supply in northeast Asia, outside China, due to several plant turnarounds during this period, will likely be offset by stagnant demand. Methyl di-p phenylene isocyanate (MDI) prices, however, are expected to trend stable to firm from even tighter supply from a few plant turnarounds in northeast Asia including the larger of Wanhua Chemical's two MDI plants in Ningbo, China, in May.
Market participants expect European TDI tightness to persist into the second quarter of 2017 as they await the restart of BASF's Ludwigshafen, Germany plant. The company announced in February 2017 that it will not fully repair the facility until 2018. Meanwhile, Huntsman's turnaround at its Rotterdam, the Netherlands MDI plant is set to finish in April having begun in mid-March 2017
Even though US TDI prices have been assessed upward by a total of 37 cents/lb ($816/tonne) over a series of price hikes dating back to the fourth quarter of 2016, ongoing global supply tightness may support further increase initiatives in the second quarter. MDI prices could also see further increases as supply will be tight entering into the second quarter, although some participants believe that tightness will ease later in the quarter. High benzene feedstock costs have also supported MDI increases, although benzene contracts may see some downward movements.
The Middle East isocyanates market is expected to see tight supply conditions continue in the second quarter, especially with a number of maintenance shutdowns and the delayed start-up of BASF's Ludwigshafen plant. One wildcard for the MDI market is the Sadara chemical complex in Jubail Industrial City in Saudi Arabia which is expected to start-up in the second quarter of this year. Until then, prices are expected to remain stable to firm although demand may also ease during the Ramadan month, starting late-May.
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About Isocyanates
MDI: Pure methyl diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) occurs as white to pale yellow crystals or flakes with a slightly musty odour. It is soluble in acetone, benzene, kerosene and nitrobenzene. It reacts readily with water to form insoluble polyureas and may polymerise under the influence of temperatures above 204oC.
MDI is made available both in pure form and as a mixture of MDI, the dimer and trimer. Mixed MDIs is referred to as polymeric isocyanates or PMDI.
MDI is used mainly in polyurethane (PU) foams. Rigid foams are mostly used in construction, refrigeration, packaging and insulation. Flexible foams are used in furniture, bedding and transportation. MDI is also used to make binders, elastomers, adhesives, sealants and coatings.
TDI: The main outlet for toluene diisocyanate (TDI) is in the manufacture of polyurethane (PU) flexible foams used in upholstery, mattresses and automotive seats. This is achieved by reacting the TDI with a polyol to produce the foam. Smaller uses for TDI include polyurethane elastomers and coatings.
TDI occurs as colourless to pale yellow liquid or crystals with a pungent odour. All isocyanates are hazardous and must be handled with care. Skin contact must be avoided, as redness, blistering and possible sensitisation can result.


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CHICAGO – In its July session, the European parliament approved some of the strictest rules in the world on the bonuses paid to bankers. The aim is to curb risk-taking by financial institutions.
The new rules require that no more than 30% of bankers' bonuses be paid in cash, that between 40% and 60% be deferred for at least three years, and that at least 50% be invested in "contingent capital," a new form of debt that converts to equity when a financial company is in distress. The most innovative aspect of these new rules is that the limits do not apply only to financial institutions' chief executive officers, but to all the top managers (though the definition of top managers is delegated to national parliaments).
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A USB device makes it easy to steal credentials from locked PCs
Most users lock their computer screens when they temporarily step away from them. While this seems like a good security measure, it isn't good enough, a researcher demonstrated this week.
Rob Fuller, principal security engineer at R5 Industries, found out that all it takes to copy an OS account password hash from a locked Windows computer is to plug in a special USB device for a few seconds. The hash can later be cracked or used directly in some network attacks.
For his attack, Fuller used a flash-drive-size computer called USB Armory that costs $155, but the same attack can be pulled off with cheaper devices, like the Hak5 LAN Turtle, which costs $50.
The device needs to masquerade as an USB-to-Ethernet LAN adapter in such a way that it becomes the primary network interface on the target computer. This shouldn't be difficult because: 1) operating systems automatically start installing newly connected USB devices, including Ethernet cards, even when they are in a locked state and 2) they automatically configure wired or fast Ethernet cards as the default gateways.
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Once an attacker controls a target computer's network settings via DHCP, he also controls DNS (Domain Name System) responses, can configure a rogue internet proxy through the WPAD (Web Proxy Autodiscovery) protocol and more. He essentially gains a privileged man-in-the-middle position that can be used to intercept and tamper with the computer's network traffic.
According to Fuller, computers in a locked state still generate network traffic, allowing for the account name and hashed password to be extracted. The time it takes for a rogue USB device to capture credentials from a system using this attack is around 13 seconds, he said.
He tested the attack successfully on Windows and OS X. However, he's still working on confirming if OS X is vulnerable by default or if it was his Mac's particular configuration that was vulnerable.
"First off, this is dead simple and shouldn't work, but it does," the researcher said in a blog post. "Also, there is no possible way that I'm the first one who has identified this, but here it is."
Depending on the Windows version installed on the computer and its configuration, the password hashes will be in NT LAN Manager (NTLM) version 2 or NTLMv1 format. NTLMv2 hashes are harder to crack, but not impossible, especially if the password is not very complex and the attacker has access to a powerful password cracking rig.
There are also some relay attacks against network services where NTLM hashes can be used directly without having to know the user's plaintext password.
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For a planet that hasn't technically been discovered yet, Planet Nine is generating a lot of buzz. Astronomers have not actually found a new planet orbiting the sun, but some remote icy bodies are dropping tantalizing clues about a giant orb lurking in the fringes of the solar system.
Six hunks of ice in the debris field beyond Neptune travel on orbits that are aligned with one another, Caltech planetary scientists Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown report (SN Online: 1/20/16). Gravitational tugs from the known planets should have twisted the orbits around by now. But computer simulations suggest the continuing alignment could be explained by the effects from a planet roughly 10 times as massive as Earth that comes no closer to the sun than about 30 billion kilometers — 200 times the distance between the sun and Earth. The results appear in the February Astronomical Journal.
Evidence for a stealth planet is scant, and finding such a world will be tough. Discovering hordes of other icy nuggets on overlapping orbits could make a stronger case for the planet and even help point to where it is on the sky. Until then, researchers are intrigued about a potential new member of the solar system but cautious about a still theoretical result.
"It's exciting and very compelling work," says Meg Schwamb, a planetary scientist at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. But only six bodies lead the way to the putative planet. "Whether that's enough is still a question."
Hints of a hidden planet go back to 2014. Twelve bodies in the Kuiper belt, the ring of frozen fossils where Pluto lives, cross the midplane of the solar system at roughly the same time as their closest approach to the sun (SN: 11/29/14, p. 18). Some external force — such as a large planet — appears to hold them in place, reported planetary scientists Chad Trujillo, of the Gemini Observatory in Hilo, Hawaii, and Scott Sheppard, of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C.
This new analysis "takes the next step in trying to find this giant planet," Sheppard says. "It makes it a much more real possibility."
In addition to what Sheppard and Trujillo found, the long axes of six of these orbits point in roughly the same direction, Batygin and Brown report. Those orbits also lie in nearly the same plane. The probability that these alignments are just a chance occurrence is 0.007 percent.
"Imagine having pencils scattered around a desktop," says Renu Malhotra, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson. "If all are pointing in the same quarter of a circle, that's somewhat unusual."
A hidden world might explain a couple of other oddities about the outer solar system. Dwarf planets Sedna and 2012 VP113, for example, are far removed from the known worlds (SN: 5/3/14, p. 16). Planet Nine could have put them there.
The planet would also stir up some of the denizens of the Kuiper belt into orbits that are roughly perpendicular to the rest of the solar system — a population of five known objects that Batygin was surprised to learn exists. When he and Brown compared their simulations of an agitated Kuiper belt to these bodies' cockeyed trajectories, they found a match."If there was one dramatic moment in the past year and a half, this was it," Batygin says. "We didn't really believe our own story for the longest time. But here was the strongest line of evidence."
Given what scientists know about how the solar system formed, the proposed planet is not native to its current environment. It probably originated closer to the sun and was kicked to the hinterlands after flirtations with the current roster of giant planets.
This wouldn't be the first time scientists were led to a new world by the odd behavior of another. Astronomer Johann Galle found Neptune in 1846 after mathematicians Urbain Le Verrier and John Couch Adams calculated that an unknown planet could be causing Uranus to speed up and slow down along its orbit.
Uranus was a more clearly defined problem, says Scott Tremaine, an astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Le Verrier and Adams were trying to understand why Uranus appeared to defy the law of gravity, whereas Batygin and Brown are piecing together a story of how the solar system evolves.
"When we're talking about history rather than laws, it's always easier to go astray," says Tremaine.
The orbital alignments are striking, he says, and Batygin and Brown have done sensible calculations. But he worries about hunting for statistical significance after noting a possible oddity. "That can be very misleading," he says. "The numbers that won the Powerball lottery are an unusual combo, but that doesn't mean anything."
In the meantime, "the hunt for Planet Nine is on," Batygin says. Data from NASA's WISE satellite, which spent nearly nine months making an infrared map of the sky, rule out the existence of a planet as massive as Saturn out to 4.2 trillion kilometers from the sun, and a Jupiter-like world out to three times as far. If a smaller, cooler planet is out there, it's probably in the outer third of its orbit, which puts it against a dense background of Milky Way stars, a planetary needle in a galactic haystack. "It's not going to be impossible," he says. "It just makes it harder."
The Victor Blanco telescope in Chile and Subaru telescope in Hawaii are the best facilities for undertaking the search, Schwamb says. Both have cameras that can see large swaths of sky. If scientists don't mind waiting, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will come online in 2023. Currently being built in Chile, LSST will image the entire sky once every three days.
"We would be able to detect Planet Nine even if it was moving slowly," says Lynne Jones, an astronomer and LSST scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle. "We could look for motion from month to month or over the course of a year and quickly pick it out from the background stars."
There's also the possibility, though remote, that a serendipitous picture of the planet already exists. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were all seen before anyone realized they were planets, dwarf or otherwise. Most observations don't record things as faint as Planet Nine. "But there's lots of archival data," Sheppard says, accumulated in observatories as astronomers gather images of stars, nebulas and galaxies. "This could be sitting there somewhere."
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Pidgin – Multiple Instant Messenger Service
Available as a free of charge download from www.pidgin.im, this small program supports 17 networks including favourites AOL, MSN and Yahoo as well some lesser known ones such as Jabber and Gadu-Gadu. Additional chat clients such as Skype and the Facebook Chat tool can be added through the use of freely available third party plugins which are easily located on the Pidgin site.
Once installed, simply select the type of account you want to add (for example a Google Talk account) along with your user name and password. Any of your contacts from that account that are currently online will automatically appear in the buddies list and you can begin chatting straight away. Not only does this offer the distinct advantage that you don't need to switch between several applications if you have contact with friends on multiple networks but it also cuts down on the resource requirements of having multiple chat services running on one machine.
Along with being cross compatible with different networks, the Pidgin application is also available for many different Operating Systems; as well as the obvious Windows version, the developers have provided support for Solaris, SkyOS, Qtopia, UNIX, Linux and even the AmigaOS.
All the standard features you would come to expect such as contact organiser, custom smileys, file transfers and group chats are present. The only slight criticism that I would have is that it doesn't support video and voice chat however my assumption is that these protocols are difficult to integrate in to an application that has been designed to be compatible with dozens of networks and half a dozen different Operating Systems. Hopefully this lack of functionality will be addressed in future releases.
Pidgin is completely customisable; the preferences dialog box provides an area where you can define every conceivable option including the interface, sounds, network connection, chat logging and your default availability status. In terms of appearance you can also change the font type, size and colour, formatting along with installing new themes which change the appearance of smileys and status icons. An additional option to install themes in order to change the actual user interface would be welcome as the default interface may be a little dull and unintuitive for some users.
Apple Mac OS X 'Snow Leopard'
Windows 7 is due for release on the 22nd October however Apple announced on Monday that the release date of OS X 'Snow Leopard' had been bought forward from early September to Friday 28th August – the publication date of this column.
After covering the release candidate of Windows 7 some weeks back I will this week attempt to cover the Apple offering. I don't own a Mac or the developer version of Snow Leopard and, as such, the overview will be a culmination of what is known by the community so far which, owing to the usual Apple intense secrecy, is relatively little.
It would appear that Apple hasn't concentrated so much on adding new features to the Operating System than refining the underlying code. Installing 'Snow Leopard' on to a system currently operating 'Leopard' for example will immediately free up 6GB worth of disc space.
A great deal of this space has been saved by the OS no longer offering support for the older PowerPC processors and, as such, you will need a more modern Mac utilising an Intel processor to make the switch. How much of the space saving has come from Apples claim that it has refined 90% of the Leopard code and how much of it is down to the removal of the PowerPC code we don't know.
The refinements that Apple have made have also resulted in users of the developer preview edition already in circulation reporting a faster installation along with a more speedy start up and shut down sequence. Apparently the OS also feels my punchy and responsive than previously.
With Snow Leopard, Apple has successfully made the jump to 64-bit computing; a technology that is rapidly becoming standard in both the PC and Mac world. Practically all the bundled applications have been rewritten to take advantage of a 64-bit processor if available and this can potentially result in some pretty impressive speed increased. As an example, the 64-bit version of the Safari web browser is claimed to be up to 50% faster than the same 32-bit version.
There are a number of minor improvements which are worthy of mention:
Power – Waking up from sleep mode is twice as fast with an additional speed increase of up to 50% when subsequently searching for a wireless network. Improved power management also means that if you are sharing files across a network then your computer won't disconnect all users from your drive when your computer enters sleep mode.
Quicktime – The bundled media player has been updated with a cleaner interface, easier uploads to YouTube and additional features previously only supplied in the paid for professional version.
Finder – This search facility is now responsive and includes an enhanced icon view along with more customisable search options.
Services – The services menu which allows you to make use of a specific service provided by another application installed on your hard disk will now only show you services relevant to the application you are currently using.
Stacks – Dock items that give you fast access to a folder or files are now scrollable so you can easily view all items. Exposé is also refined so you can just click and hold an application icon in the dock in order to unshuffle all the windows for that application so you can quickly change to another one.
As a final point, it should be noted that the upgrade version of Snow Leopard is priced at just $29.99 (around £20) making it a worthwhile upgrade for all Mac users. Although Macs are undeniably more expensive to buy and purchase accessories for, this price point looks incredibly appealing compared with the anticipated £70 price point of Windows 7 Home Premium.
Connecting your Computer to a TV
Connecting a computer to your TV is an extremely simple process, it is therefore surprising that so few people have taken the plunge.The most obvious use in my mind would be if you downloaded a film off of the Internet then rather than having to burn it to disc to play in your DVD player, you could play it directly from the computer however.There is also the added advantage that now most TV's support high resolutions (a measure of how many pixels the screen can display) you could use it in place of a conventional monitor; your favourite game and even the Internet would look much better on a 42" widescreen!
There are a number of ways to connect a TV and computer and below are the three most popular:
S-Video (Separate Video)
This standard is supported primarily by older, non HD compliant TV's which don't display the kind of resolutions required of a conventional computer screen; whilst a low resolution screen is fine for TV and film pictures it is unable to provide the kind of clarity needed for operating a computer.As such, this option should only be used if you have an older TV and certainly only for watching movies.
You need to look out for a small, round, yellow socket on the back of your TV and computer.Providing you have both it's simply a case of purchasing a standard S-Video cable (which we sell at Refresh Cartridges for £2.99) although if the socket is absent from your machine you will require an expensive signal converter box.
SVGA (Super Video Graphics Array)
Practically every computer has a standard monitor connection, as does practically every LCD or Plasma screen so this method is certainly the most popular.An SVGA socket is 15-pin, 'D' shaped and blue in colour and once you have confirmed they are present on both your PC and TV it is simply a case of buying a standard monitor cable which again, is available through us for £2.99.
The ease of use of this connection type varies depending on your computer; if you have a laptop then you will be able to display an image on your TV at the same time as using the inbuilt screen but unless your conventional PC includes two SVGA connectors then for the period it is connected you will be using the TV as your main monitor.
DVI (Digital Visual Interface)
This would be your ideal method of connected your PC to the TV as the DVI standard relies on a digital signal rather than the older SVGA which is an analogue system. This should result in an increase in quality as you remove the need for the PC to convert its digital signal to analogue before transmitting down the cable, just to have the TV switch it back to digital again on receipt.
As this is a fairly new standard, whether your PC will be equipped or not is dubious; you are looking for a long, white connection with 24-pins (3 up and 8 across).Provided this is present then your choice of cable will be influenced by your TV set; you will need either a DVI to DVI cable or DVI to HDMI (a small 'D' shaped, colourless socket approximately 14mm x 4.5mm) cable.If the Herald Express will allow me another shameless plug then I will mention that we sell either for £6.99.
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5 Cool Mouse Operations You Can Use In Windows
Here are five windows operations that you can use on some occasions with windows or associated software.
1 – Open new links in brand new tabs on Windows Internet Explorer
If your mouse has three buttons – then use the middle one to open new tabs. Hover the mouse pointer over the link and press the mouse wheel to open up new tabs. All you need to do is place the mouse pointer over a link and then press down on the middle mouse button (the mouse wheel).
The middle mouse button is able to roll forward or back, however, it is also able to be pressed down and clicked just like a button. If you do this on a link then it will open up that link in a new tab. This is a lot quicker than pressing right-click and clicking on "open in a new tab." It is an easier way to research certain items by simply clicking in order to open new tabs.
If you are feeling the super lazy you can hold CTRL and press Tab to scroll through your tabbed windows – or you can even hold Alt and press Tab to see a screen of windows – which shows all of the items you have active at the moment, including your tabbed windows.
2 – You may find hidden menus within context menus on Windows
Some article and icon buttons on Microsoft Windows may be right-clicked on to reveal a context menu. Some icons you are able to hold shift upon in order to reveal an even bigger listed menu. You should try it on your hard drive file. This is a very nice little trick to use if you are a hardcore windows user.
3 – You are able to select columns of text with some Windows applications
On some applications you are able to select text on a vertical level as opposed to on a horizontal level. You do this by holding the ALT key and then dragging the mouse across the text you would like to highlight. This may be done on some versions of Microsoft word and many advanced editors that word have created. You will even find that you can use this technique on the fantastic code writing software known as Notepad++.
4 – You are able to drag and drop items into some menus
When you right click on the bottom taskbar/icon bar, a contextual menu pops up. In many cases whilst this menu is open you are able to grab certain icons and add them in there. For example if you right clicking the folder icon on in the bottom left of the taskbar (next to the start menu), you will see a list of your most recent file accesses.
Click and hold onto an icon on your desktop and drag it into the open menu to pin it to the folder menu. Every time you right-click the folder you will see two lists. One list is your usage and the other is the list you created. You can use this instead of having to search through the directories on your computer to find files.
5 – Sometimes you are able to select chunks of text.
If you would like to select a big chunk of text, you can hold the CTRL button and highlight the section of text whilst avoiding the other end selected texts pieces. This is a nice alternative to having to highlight in a horizontal direction only, because the horizontal selection process is all-inclusive and does not allow you to omit certain parts of text
Why Network Synchronization Matters
Ask anyone, and you know that most people dislike when their calls drop, or when the dreaded 'loading' icon disrupts their live stream of the playoff game. Carriers realize this, and know that network speed and reliability are driving forces behind consumer satisfaction in today's connected world. With the exabytes of data sent across today's networks, however, speed and reliability can be difficult to maintain consistently.
What's less commonly known is the role that network timing and synchronization play in this whole equation. 4G LTE networks, for example, rely on highly accurate timing and synchronization for smooth cell-to-cell transfers of the mass of voice, video and mobile data.
4G LTE, LTE-A – What's The Difference?
But first, some background about what 4G LTE really means. LTE is a broad umbrella encompassing three different network types:
– Frequency Division Duplexed LTE, or FDD LTE, uses paired spectrum – one for upstream traffic and the other for downstream. FDD LTE was used in some of the early LTE deployments and is still deployed today;
– Time-Division Duplexed LTE, or TDD LTE (also sometimes called TD-LTE), is more spectrally efficient. Unlike FDD LTE, TDD LTE requires only a single spectrum band for both upstream and downstream traffic, flexibly allocating bandwidth by timeslot, and generating significant cost savings for carriers in spectrum licensing fees; and
– LTE-Advanced, or LTE-A, is an upgrade to either of the two types outlined above, delivering greater bandwidth by pooling multiple frequency bands and allowing simultaneous data transmission from multiple base stations to a single handset.
These different 'flavors' of LTE need different types of synchronization, and wireless networks use what's called frequency synchronization and time-of-day synchronization. FDD LTE only needs frequency synchronization. TDD LTE and LTE-A, on the other hand, require both. And therein lies the challenge.
Historically, wireless networks have used global positioning satellite (GPS) as the main timing source, since it can provide both frequency and time-of-day synchronization. But carriers now recognize its drawbacks, especially as networks rely more on small cells (femtocells and picocells) for increased coverage and capacity. Often, small cells installed at street level or indoors lack a direct line of sight to GPS satellites. Even if that weren't the case, adding GPS technology to these units would make them too expensive to deploy on a mass scale. Add to that the growing concerns about GPS spoofing and jamming, plus the unwillingness of countries outside the U.S. to depend exclusively on the U.S. government-run GPS satellite system for their wireless networks, and clearly carriers need alternatives.
Fortunately, there is an alternative: IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (1588 or PTP). Not only can it deliver the frequency and time-of-day synchronization needed in TDD LTE and LTE-A networks, but it's more cost-effective than GPS as well. Especially as carriers rely more on heterogeneous networks, or HetNets, using 1588 as a GPS-alternative for network timing becomes more critical. By definition, HetNets are comprised of both fiber and microwave equipment, including the more widespread small cells mentioned above. Compounding this is the fact that most carriers use network equipment from several vendors, which may or may not offer 1588 support.
True, most wireless customers ultimately won't care how they get their services, just that they work when and where they're needed. But from a network infrastructure perspective, IEEE 1588 is here to stay. Carriers need to look for it and plan accordingly as they continue their network rollouts to support next-gen advanced wireless services
Ways to Outsource Software Development and Actually Get Things Done
Developing digital assets is rapidly becoming one of the most expensive undertakings for businesses in 2016. Skilled developers command high salaries, which can add up to millions of dollars over the life of your startup. After all, it often takes a team of project managers and developers to create and maintain unique, high quality software.
This leads many businesses down the road of outsourcing development work to remote developers, often in countries like India or Ukraine. It allows businesses to maintain low costs, and can even reduce product development time by allowing for larger number of developers to be hired.
Is there a problem with this? Not really, just differences, which you can manage if you know what to expect. You can't directly manage these remote workers in-person, so getting the work done remotely will be a different experience than with your in-house employees. This doesn't have to be a difficult experience though! Here are three ways to have your cake and eat it too with outsourcing your software development.
Hire an Experienced Project Manager
Having an in-house project manager is a great way to maintain control over your development without bringing on expensive in-house workers. It's up to the project manager to oversee the remote workers and keep you up to date on the progress being made. This may even be a part-time position, because it's rare that remote workers need full time management, unless there are large numbers of people working abroad.
This means you and your team can concentrate on business, while still being completely informed of the ups and downs related to the project. Your manager can brief you daily or weekly, translating the technical jargon to English, as well as providing demonstrations as projects are fleshed out.
For those who thrive on control, this may be a great solution to reduce costs of in-house developers and reduce the risk that comes from outsourcing.
Bring on a Firm to Handle it All
If your company doesn't want the extra overhead of a project manager, you could bring on a firm like DevTeam.Space or Toptal.com to handle the entire process.
These types of companies have their own developers, or source from a pool of hundreds of manually vetted development teams in the case of DevTeam.Space, so that you don't have to worry about recruiting or managing developers. This solution also allows your business to scale up projects if necessary, as these firms can more easily bring in additional developers than you could in-house.
The goal of these businesses is to be a safe solution for outsourcing software, as there's more organization and peace of mind than working with individual remote developers.
"The software outsourcing market will continue its rapid growth, serving more and more companies every year. To actively participate in this growth, every company should focus on providing a higher level of quality and communication," says AlexeySemeney, CEO of DevTeam.Space, a firm that helps companies build software using elite remote development teams. "We provide every client with two project managers, vetted and trained senior level developers with at least 5 years of dev experience, and a reporting dashboard with daily written updates and roadblocks tracking. This not only allows us to build precise project estimates and deliver products faster, but makes our clients feel safe and in control of the situation."
Find a Rockstar as Your Lead Developer
If you already have someone to oversee the project, a rockstar in-house developer can be an extremely valuable asset to maintain quality standards and handle the most complex parts of the development process.
Having access to someone in-house can also make getting through roadblocks easier, as well as keep you even more informed of the ups and downs associated with developing digital products, especially enterprise-level software.
Yes, you'll end up paying this person more than even an average in-house developer; however, it's more than worth it if this rockstar is providing the value of 2 or 3 mediocre developers. Like hiring an in-house project manager, this option is for companies looking to save money through outsourcing without sacrificing control–and potentially quality–in the process.
To find the right fit for your company, consider using a service like CyberCoders to get the most exposure for this type of position. You'll want to make sure you get the right person in for the job, as they could make or break a project.
Windows Admins Get New Tools Against Pass-The-Hash Attacks
In Windows 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1 releases, Microsoft released a slew of new features specifically created to stop or minimize PtH attacks, which version 2 of the PtH whitepaper covers in good detail. Here's a recap of the new Windows PtH mitigations:
- Strengthened LSASS to prevent hash dumps
- Many processes that once stored credentials in memory no longer do so
- Better methods to restrict local accounts from going over the network
- Programs are prevented from leaving credentials in memory after a user logs out
- Allows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections without putting the user's credentials on the remotely controlled computer
- A new Protected Users group, with member's credentials that can't be used in remote PtH attacks
- Several other OS changes that make PtH attacks far more difficult to achieve
Most of these protections are now available in all of Microsoft's supported operating systems. If your company is worried about PtH attacks, you should implement these mitigations. Yes, hackers and malware writers are already working overtime to defeat these defenses, but enabling them can only help you and reduce risk.
But you can take many other measures involving traditional policies, procedures, and controls that don't require the new features. If done correctly, they can provide event better protection than the mitigations listed above:
- Prevent the bad guy from gaining local admin/domain access in the first place. This involves perfect patching, educating end-users against social engineering, and making sure end-users aren't logged in with elevated accounts.
- Reduce the number of privileged domain accounts to zero or as near to zero as you can get. We call this the "zero admin" model. Don't allow permanent members of any elevated group. Instead use delegation, credential vaulting, or a PIM product.
- Audit, alert, and respond anytime membership in an elevated group changes unexpectedly.
- Require all elevated accounts to use two-factor authentication.
- Require all admins to use highly secure (no Internet access, strict whitelisting control, and great patching), dedicated (per user) "jump boxes" to administrate other servers.
- Don't allow elevated domain accounts to log on to end-user workstations. Instead, they should be logged on using delegation or as a local Administrator.
- Deny the ability for elevated local accounts to log on to other computers over the network (use group policy or local policy).
- Make sure all elevated local accounts, like administrator, use unique passwords, so they can't as readily launch attacks against other nearby computers.
Lastly, use remote management tools and methods to logon to remote computers that do not place the credentials in the remote computer's memory. Built-in and common Windows methods include:


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Filmmakers take on the rich and powerful
A full-page advertisement for crime thriller Overheard 3 in the Hong Kong Economic Times was cleverly designed to be barely distinguishable from an IPO ad, using the name of a company that features in the movie. Observant readers will have noticed that among the eight mugshots in the advert, titled 'Congratulations to N.T. Land Group's new share launch', were actors Sean Lau Ching-wan and Alex Fong Chung-Sun. Yet the blurring of fiction and reality did not stop there. The portrait of Lau, wearing sunglasses, bore an uncanny resemblance to Heu ng Yee Kuk's Sheung Shui rural leader Hau Chi-keung. Meanwhile, Fong's bob haircut was reminiscent of the signature style of businessman and former triad leader Kwok Wing-hung, aka Shanghai Boy, who once caused a stir by attending a dinner involving aides of Leung Chun-ying before CY's election as chief executive in 2012. Filmmakers have been criticised for their efforts to avoid upsetting the rich and powerful. We can only wait and see whether the advertisement was a brave attempt to prove their critics wrong …or if it was just another gimmick.
Forgive and forget? Not in politics: ex-official
With three years to go before the 2017 chief executive election, political figures tend to be reluctant to speak their mind on who might - or might not - make a good leader. Not so for former civil servant Rachel Cartland, who made it clear she felt New People's Party leader Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee was not suitable. Ip was the security minister who spearheaded the ill-fated national security legislation effort; she resigned in 2003 after 500,000 people took to the streets and forced the government to shelve the bill. At the Foreign Correspondents' Club on Tuesday, Cartland was asked to comment on Ip's prospects. "Although I believe in forgiveness as a principle in personal life, I have to say I think it's a dictum for governments and so on, if people have failed, it's not a frightfully good idea to then give them too many other chances," Cartland said. "There are other names of people who've failed really quite significantly in the post-handover years, and yet for strange reasons keep getting resurrected, talked up as potential chief executives and so on. I think that's a basic mistake that we shouldn't allow."
New party? Now that's what we call progress
Are executive councillors required to take a written test in English? We ask because i n an article for RTHK's Letter to Hong Kong on Sunday, Exco member Starry Lee Wai-king appeared to announce the creation of a new political party. She wrote: "[The] Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Process [sic] of Hong Kong began with establishing a 17-member special task force…" Thrown off by countless typos in the 1,115-word article, we were not sure whether Lee, the vice-chairwoman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, had established a new party. The mistake was rectified, but perhaps the article could be material for that written test?
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The body of former Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh was discovered in his room at the Raffaello Hotel in Chicago on Saturday. Police say the 40-year-old was expected to check out around 1 p.m. yesterday, but it was around that time maid service found him unconscious and not breathing. An autopsy report is expected to be released by the Cook County Examiner's Office later today.
A painter since the age of 19, Welsh took over for founding Weezer bassist Matt Sharp in 1998, although he quit the band in 2001 after suffering a nervous breakdown. The band has left kind words about Welsh on their site, also pasted below.
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