text:
« back to Designing Woodworking Projects forum
Forum topic by Chelios | posted 04-01-2011 05:18 AM | 1258 views | 0 times favorited | 13 replies |
Topic tags/keywords: question Or red and white? As I made my first pieces and got more and more into the design, my work evolved from being very spontaneous, to the point of not knowing how the piece would come together, to a more planned approach as to the joinery the milling, wood grain orientation, shapes, ratios etc. As I got more involved in the planning of my projects, I started looking back at my first pieces and I came to the realization that I suffered from what I now call the black and white (checkerboard) syndrome. My projects had to have the contrasting colors of maple/padauk or maple bloodwood. Once I realized this I started observing other people's work and I found that many other fellow woodworkers went through or are going through the same checkerboard phase. Follow this Lumberjocks tag so you can see what I mean http://lumberjocks.com/projects/tag/walnut So the question tonight is does making black/white furniture say "new woodworker"? Or is just trendy to use these contrasts? |
13 replies so far
#1 posted 04-01-2011 05:54 AM |
I will also clarify that I still consider myself a beginer. |
#2 posted 04-01-2011 06:02 AM |
I think most people go with what looks good and then expands upon that. Contrast is a good design feature in everyday life. Not only in WW but in, interior and exterior design, clothing, and so on I don't see how it is anything new maybe just leaning towards certain colors. Reds and whites, light and dark brown woods, those are the main colors unless you stain of course. Maybe I am full of crap, I don't know. Maybe the availability or price of woods depicts what we buy/use, maybe its a trend, I am not really sure. Although, I wouldn't call it checkerboard, I would call it contrasting elements or something to that effect. -- Bill - "Freedom flies in your heart like an Eagle" Audie Murphy |
#3 posted 04-01-2011 08:25 AM |
Using contrasting woods ,is simply ,pleasing to the eye I wouldn't call it checkerboard ether -- E J ------- Always Keep a Firm Grip on Your Tool |
#4 posted 04-01-2011 01:43 PM |
As a beginning woodworker, I agree with EJ and Bill. I know that I use contrasting woods whenever I can, but in combination with interesting grain patterns as well. I think this is to help add interest to a piece that otherwise would not be as interesting given that as a beginning woodworker, my abilities with different joints and styles has a long way to go still. As we evolve in our woodworking skill, we're able to do more from a design/joint perspective that may reduce the need to use contrasting woods to add interest to a project. Just my .02 -- Life is a one lap race. |
#5 posted 04-01-2011 11:30 PM |
Well for sure it makes for more interesting pieces, I agree with that. However I have been observing that contrasting woods in hobby woodworkers' furniture is more prevalent than in furniture made by more experienced woodworkers that actually make their living from the pieces they sell. I don't mean to make general statements, it was just something I noticed and I was wondering of other people out there had thought about it. In the future, I will be paying closer attention to these details and probably won't be as bold/obvious with contrast but more subtle. all the best |
#6 posted 04-02-2011 12:58 PM |
I don't know for wood worker, but as a architect I know this. -- MAD F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect. Democraticwoodworking. |
#7 posted 04-02-2011 01:55 PM |
Ive often thought about this when designing a project, and it's an area where I can really struggle with when I'm in the planning stages. I think contrasting woods can bring a piece of furniture to life, or they can be so distracting, that it can completely ruin a beautiful design. Most often, I find it's a very fine line between the two. I think this quite often, is where the 'newbie' struggles (unknowingly) when designing, AND reproducing. They see a 'kick ass' design, and think they can 'improve' it by changing this, add some contrast to that…..what they quite often do is cause a distraction rather than make an improvement. I'm not saying that you can't, or shouldn't improve an idea that you've seen…not at all. But realize that sometimes a subtle change or contrast can have a much better impact and be more pleasing to the eye than a large one. -- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle |
#8 posted 04-02-2011 05:22 PM |
Mads You explained it perfectly, thank you for sharing your insight and experience. Creative sense develops in steps and it is great to learn from yours. I can understand exactly what you mean by introducing a small twist in a simple design. I very much like the concept and enjoy looking at these types of creations. You and Tony have re-assured me on to the next step. thank you both! all the best |
#9 posted 04-02-2011 09:19 PM |
I had a tear in my eye reading your words, it's rare these days to meet a person who can take a advice in such a good way. Thank you. -- MAD F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect. Democraticwoodworking. |
#10 posted 04-02-2011 10:56 PM |
Ya guys got me thinkin here … I have a feeling that i know where you're at and im going to try to explain it in relation to my status as a wood worker. Im at the stage right now where im still learning and tuning my joinery and overall measurements, so much of my time is dedicated to ehancing my abilities in that aspect, the designing, or the twist, hasnt been my overall focus. This is not to say that i never think about decorative design, i do, and the farthest my brain has gone is to use contrasting colors. Its easy and pleasing … for now. Im full on checkerboard. Not be be callous but when i do something and invest my time into it, i want to be good, I like to think of it as competitive nature. Be a little bit better every day, just a little bit, at least try to. To find my way to a place where Mads and others around here are would be like making it to the big leagues in my opinion. I find that this is a hobby of limitless capabilities; as proven around this site. Chelios – You've got a step on me but i think i learned a lot from this thread. I just may go back to the drawing board on the current piece im working on. The wheel's are greased and they're turnin. Mad's – Seriously you're a smart guy. Thanks for passing some knowledge on, i appreciate it. -- Something, something, something. |
#11 posted 04-03-2011 02:13 AM |
I'm a beginner of woodworking, trust me! -- MAD F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect. Democraticwoodworking. |
#12 posted 04-03-2011 08:34 AM |
Mads It is indeed a wonderful journey. One that I am glad I get to have the chance to walk. I am glad we can come across so many great people that open our eyes along the way. Thank you again for that. I hope you are feeling better. chrisstef, I am glad it worked for you as well. I will be looking forward to seeing that project. all the best |
#13 posted 04-03-2011 12:38 PM |
Yes I'm taking a slow up tour thank you. -- MAD F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect. Democraticwoodworking. |
Have your say...
You must be signed in to reply.
Forum | Topics |
Woodworking Skill Share
11452 |
1651 |
365 |
292 |
1153 |
4238 |
Designing Woodworking Projects
6103 |
Power Tools, Hardware and Accessories
25717 |
CNC Woodworking
154 |
Hand Tools
4864 |
Jigs & Fixtures
1266 |
Wood & Lumber
5657 |
Safety in the Woodworking Shop
1275 |
Focus on the Workspace
1936 |
Sweating for Bucks Through Woodworking
1133 |
Woodworking Trade & Swap
4421 |
LumberJocks.com Site Feedback
2107 |
Coffee Lounge
8446 |


text:
It's OUR business to provide customized, no-cost services to YOUR business ... making your tax dollars show a healthy return on investment for the public vocational rehabilitation program.
VR is the "parent company" of the Business Relations program READI-Net, Resources for Employment and Disability Information.
The national statistics regarding the Return On Investment for the public Vocatinal Rehabiliation program follow:
Click here for an Alabama example of ROI with one of the many business partners working with READI-Net.
Unmanaged disability can cost companies millions. Integrated disability management programs are proving to be some of the most cost-savings measures a company can implement. Take a look at the facts.
If you would like help managing disability costs in your workplace, connect with a local READI-Net business relations consultant.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Carefully analyze all the information you can find when you are selecting a tree service.
Don't be pressured into something you don't need.
Tree Removal, Trimming, Large Tree Services, Thinning, Pruning & Trimming, Seasonal Service, Leaf Removal, Chipping, Shaping, Shrub Removal,Grounds Maintenance, Insect & Disease Control, Hazardous Tree Removal
Excavations, Demolition Services, Lot Clearing, Residential Properties, Commercial Properties, Hauling
Best.Western WC, Fl., Jesse FFA,Daves Tree, Free Estimates...
Fire Clearances,
I would love to chat about your project! I can be in touch with you within 24 hours to discuss your project in detail and provide you with a free quote.


text:
Message view | « Date » · « Thread » |
Top | « Date » · « Thread » |
From | "Craig R. McClanahan" <Craig.McClana...@eng.sun.com> |
Subject | Re: BugRat Report #92 was closed (apparently by: Craig R. McC |
Date | Sat, 09 Sep 2000 00:17:53 GMT |
Jonathan Pierce wrote: > Paths on NT are not case sensitive. > Agreed, but that's not the point. Resource paths used in HTTP are case sensitive. > > Only the part of the URL after the /servlet needs to be case sensitive. > How do you figure that? From the point of view of HTTP, the context path and the "/servlet" prefix are part of the resource path -- the protocol makes absolutely no distinction between it and the remainder of the path. If HTTP were a MIcrosoft-only protocol, I'd be in agreement with you. But it's not. Tomcat needs to play by the official specification's rules. > > This also causes a problem when configuring Tomcat to startup as a service if > the app directory parameter is not typed in the correct case. > Is there something so terribly hard about typing it in the correct case when you run into this? :-) > > Can this be changed to support case insensitivity for the part of the part that > precedes the context? > Can it be changed? Sure. Will it be changed? Not in the official distribution, if my -1 counts for anything (which it does). Because this is open source, you are welcome to create yourself a patch to make your version of Tomcat non-standard in this respect. But you're not going to like the performance impact this has on figuring out what webapp a request belongs to, or what servlet to execute. > > Jonathan > Craig McClanahan ==================== See you at ApacheCon Europe <http://www.apachecon.com>! Session VS01 (23-Oct 13h00-17h00): Sun Technical Briefing Session T06 (24-Oct 14h00-15h00): Migrating Apache JServ Applications to Tomcat | |
Mime |
View raw message |


text:
I would like to syndicate...
Author | Content |
jayrfink Jan 03, 2006 10:28 PM EDT |
Hi all, I would like to syndicate lxer over at systhread.net but darned if I can find an easy way to do it. I went searching for RSS/RDF syndication feeds and all the tutorials I found only discussed how to setup my own rss.{xml,rdf} file (which - I already have) but not how to easily incorporate someone elses. Now I have some issues of course, I only have ftp access to my hosting provider but I *do* have crontab access. So I should be able to setup some sort of periodic fetch of the rdf, my problem is how to incorporate it, do I need to s/foo/my xhtml/? Any help would be appreciated, I think it would look great right under the external links box on systhread's home page. Thanks, Jay |
dave Jan 04, 2006 5:30 AM EDT |
Jay, I'll be happy to do a custom page for you that you can just include in your page. If you would like that, just email me what you'd like the stories to look like (layout wise) and I'll set it up. dave |
jayrfink Jan 04, 2006 5:21 PM EDT |
Actually I think I am going to write a script that wgets the rdf file then seds the headlines into an include file on my end. That is easier for both of us. It will take me awhile though (probably a week). |
dave Jan 05, 2006 7:12 AM EDT |
Sounds like a plan! |
Posting in this forum is limited to members of the group: [Editors, MEMBERS, SITEADMINS.]
Becoming a member of LXer is easy and free. Join Us!


text:
Gin and Topics: Genius Man Destroys Wheel of FortuneThe Big Question: Which PR Buzzwords Must Die?Business Spring Cleaning: Squeaky Clean Social Media ChannelsGin and Topics: Microwave Cameras, Provocative Guys, and MoreThree Things Big Data Can Do to Help in Crisis Communications PlanningHow to Build a Strong Foundation for Thought LeadershipWhat is the Future of Owned Media?Contributed Content is on the Rise — Here's How to Stand Out -
The Secret to making an obscene amount of money is spinning an unlikely and misleading story
Want to get rich quick? Want to stay healthy and find true love? Want to lose those love handles? Well quit thinking fat thoughts, doughboy, and think positive! It's all right in front of you…so says the author of "The Secret," the Oprah-endorsed best seller that claims to hold the secret to success in its faux-dog eared pages.
But despite its impressive sales, the book seems contrived, with the authors sitting on the golden pedestal of manufactured success, talking down to the masses. The secret, according to author Rhonda Byrne, is to simply think happy thoughts, like so many Peter Pans. The power of positive thinking can, apparently, overcome war, disease, poverty, and loneliness.
Here's what one blogger writes, in support of the book:
"It's a three-step process: Ask. Believe. Receive.
She likens it to sitting in a restaurant and placing an order. We look through the menu, choose what we want, tell the waiter about it, and sit back and relax, waiting for it to come with the absolute faith that it will. ASK: look through the menu of the universe and choose what you want to achieve, or what you want to be. BELIEVE: have the utter conviction that sooner or later, you are going to get it. RECEIVE: be as you would be had you already got what you want. If having the wealth of Bill Gates is what you want, believe that you already do, and be as happy and as content as you'd be if you had it."
Here's my take: You'll receive your food because you ordered it and the waiter believes s/he will receive a tip…even though s/he didn't ask for it. Also, that's how restaurants work. Big deal.
To me, the power of positive thinking sounds like a load of hooey. And the fact that millions of people are buying this book and its DVD counterpart screams spin. It plays off people's hopes and fears. It belittles those – like me – who are under the (apparently false) assumption that hard work can propel you to success, and deigns to suggest that happy thoughts can bring you all the material possessions you've ever wanted.
Worst of all, I think, the book trumpets materialism, making televisions, fast cars, and designer clothes seem the height of happiness. It seems shallow to me, and the fact that moguls like Oprah give the thumbs-up, legitimizing this drivel, is obscene. Certainly it's a good thing to have positive thoughts, but that alone will not erase your debts, it will not find you love; it will not stave off obesity or disease. There's more to do on your end of the bargain.
I'm not just ranting after reading reviews and hearing criticism. My ex-girlfriend gave me the book; I gave it a chance. But seeing as she's still my ex-girlfriend, I can say with all certainty that "The Secret" is full of it. – Alex Parker
While I agree 100 percent with Alex, I do believe the real secret is believing you can do anything. I believe that if I have a goal, if I write it down, and I tell people about it, I achieve it…and usually sooner than I expected. It's like these wish necklaces that are all the rage (and that I wear). You make a wish, you put it on, and when the thread breaks, your wish comes true. Guess what? It really works! Want to know why? Because you've created a goal, you've articulated it, and you work to achieve it. I'd like my multi-millions now.
Gaylord Briley
I know "The Secret" was doubly endorsed by Saint Oprah, but the book completely misleads all its readers.
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale —— I worked with him personally, two days a month, for exactly 18 years, raising $250 million for his several Christian charities by Direct Mail.
(He was a "strapping youth of 70" when we started working together and 88 the year we laid down our pens. I was his ghost writer, visiting his office near his country home in Pawling, NY.)
I know The Secret is supposed to have some linkage to Peale's 46 books, but it does not.
Every day I see blogs where "Secret- readers" are wishing, hoping, trying to find some token that tells they they are wishing hard enough…and mostly failing.
That is NOT what Positive Thinking is. In fact, few people know that Peale tried to title his 1952 book as "The Magic of Believing" but could not, for another author beat him to it.
He was very upset and discouraged. It was not until Myron L. Boardman, then editor at his publisher's office, reexamined the book's content and said "Why not call it 'The Power of Positive Thinking?' You use the phrase a couple of times in your manuscript."
THAT was the reason why the book assumed its award-winning title. They went to press not long after.
But if you examine Peale's text with any care at all, there is NO evidence that the good doctor rewrote anything much to make the old text conform to the new title.
He had one sermon/speech title he always used when he made an address away from Marble Church. It was "Why Positive Thinkers Always Get Positive Results."
In fact Nelson Publishers squeezed a book out of him with almost that title in his last productive years. But the title is not as strong as the crowd- compelling speech-title since Peale himself simply never gave Positive Thinking the kind of emphasis that his imitators did.
In the 51 years from his book's release until his death in 2003 Peale NEVER added any new principles to his after- dinner speeches.
In two of my several books over the years — "Are You Positive: Five Simple Steps to Success" (Berkley Books paper, 1988) and "The Seven Spiritual Secrets of Success" (Thomas Nelson, 1995) — I took every meaning of "positive" in my giant Random House Dictionary and showed the best meaning for Peale was the one single word "posit," as in "positing one's goals."
If readers want to read a recently- republished book from the "father of success teachers," from whom Peale clearly adapted some of his topics, I refer them to "Every Man a King" (1924) by Orison Swett Marden.
Dr. Gaylord Briley
Thank you for your comment, Dr. Briley. I think this goes to show just how much spin goes into the Secret. Not only is the idea unoriginal, it's a bastardization of previous thinkers' work. I wonder what the Secret says about karma.
Buy ephedra online drugstores yellow swarms.
Products containing ephedra. Ephedra pills. Ephedra.
Buy vicodin without prescription.
Vicodin online. Vicodin. Buy vicodin without a prescription. Buying cod vicodin. Vicodin consultation.
Easing symptoms of vicodin withdrawal.
Vicodin. Liquid vicodin.
Buta apap caff gen_ for fioricet.
Cheap fioricet and one day delivery. Fioricet watson. Fioricet order. Fioricet. Fioricet and blood work. Buy fioricet.
Fioricet. Cheapest fioricet.
Fioricet free shipping.
Online fioricet w codeine medical consultation. Fioricet. How long does fioricet show up in blood work. Does fioricet show up in blood work. Cheapest fioricet. Fioricet phentermine shipping.
Info on fioricet abuse. Fioricet. Buy fioricet online that ships to missouri.
Dangers of vicodin.
kulartinuminto 46 post
all about kulartinuminto and top news
What is lexapro. Lexapro side effects. Lexapro.
Connecticut ephedra attorneys.
Wyoming ephedra attorney. Yellow swarms with ephedra. Yellow swarm with ephedra. Ephedra.
Vicodin. Vicodin withdrawal.
Ativan. Order ativan online consultation.
Cheapest fioricet.
Fioricet. Fioricet and blood work. Buy fioricet.
Information on nexium.
Nexium and alcohol at pharmacy news page.
Fioricet. Fioricet and blood work. Fioricet c.o.d.. Cheap fioricet. Fioricet phentermine shipping. Fioricet plain pill.
Lexapro drug.
Lexapro. Lexapro 10 mg. Gain weight on lexapro.
Meridia coupon.
Meridia home.
How long does fioricet show up in blood work.
Cheapest fioricet.
Fioricet side effects.
Fioricet. Cheapest fioricet. Fioricet plain pill.
Generic propecia.
Propecia. Propecia baldness. Does propecia cause male infertility.
Fioricet. Fioricet cod. Cheapest fioricet.
Tamoxifen structure. Tamoxifen. Tamoxifen citrate.
Morphine pump. Morphine kadian. Morphine nausea. Intrathecal morphine pump syracuse.
Tamoxifen 2d6 test.
Tamoxifen. Metabolizing tamoxifen. Tamoxifen sex disruption. Does tamoxifen kill cancer cells.
Online vicodin.
Buy vicodin online no prescription. Buy vicodin online without a prescription. Pharmacy online no prescription vicodin. Buy vicodin online without. Purchase vicodin online.
Acetaminophen-codeine 3. Codeine. 222 with codeine. Somas do they have codeine in them.
Morphine transdermal patch.
What do morphine pills look like. Morphine drug. Morphine pump back pain. Morphine pill. Lips like morphine.
Fertility restored after ending propecia.
About propecia. Nzlive com propecia rally new zealand. Propecia. Propecia online lowest prices for hair loss reduce.
Tamoxifen side effects.
Study of tamoxifen and raloxifene. Tamoxifen. Metabolizing tamoxifen. Tamoxifen side effects. Tamoxifen sex disruption.
Buy fioricet bloghoster.
Buy fioricet bloghoster. Buy fioricet online that ships to missouri. Buy fioricet online without a prescription.
Propecia online information uk.
About propecia. Propecia online information uk. Propecia. Reversing the effects of propecia. Cheapest online propecia. Does propecia thin hair out at first. Propecia result. About propecia online information uk.
Does lipitor have a generic drug.
Lipitor drug reactions. Lipitor drug recall. Lipitor drug interactions. Lipitor the drug. Does lipitor have a generic drug.
Tylenol arthritis.
Buy tylenol no.3 without a prescription. Concurrent tylenol and motrin. Pregnancy information tylenol. Tylenol with codeine. Tylenol metal. Darvocet and tylenol 3 stronger. Tylenol. Tylenol 3 and 4. Tylenol recal.
Buy testosterone cream for women in canada.
Buy testosterone cream for women in canada. Buy testosterone patch. Buy transdermal testosterone. Testosterone buy. Buy testosterone.
Online pharmacies that offer fioricet.
Online pharmacies that offer fioricet. Fioricet online.
Fioricet morphine.
Online pharmacies that offer fioricet. Webresults fioricet. Fioricet. Fioricet online. Cheapest fioricet. Fioricet info.
Christmas crafts for kids.
Buy lexapro.
Buy lexapro.
Ohio garnishment percentages.
Minnesota exemption garnishment. Post judgment writ of garnishment. Garnishment hearing. Garnishment steps for protection for managers.
Christmas pictures. Christmas crafts. Christmas myspace layouts. Christmas cards. Christmas. Artificial christmas trees.
I read both The Secret and Alex Parker's comment with interest. I think there is definitely something real and worthwhile behind the ideas in The Secret. At the same time, books and dvds that cover this subject matter can take advantage of people who are desperate in the "wishing" department. Alex Parker is correct when he says that he thinks "there's more to do on your end of the bargain." I read the book that is mentioned as the inspiration for the author of The Secret, which is the book The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles, written in 1910. If I wanted to paraphrase the key idea in that book, it would not be only that thought attracts wealth, but that sustained thought combined with intuitive freedom and consistent action create wealth, or anything else one might want. Unfortunately, the desperate and wishful can concentrate on the "thinking" part of the equation. After years of scattered thinking and action, a few "positive" thoughts thrown out there won't do much. What I'm saying is that this idea can be trivialized and come off like "hooey" but it also has weight and depth if you check out the right sources. As for The Secret itself, the approach used in this amalgamation of ideas about attraction takes somewhat of a shallow tone. Whether or not this is because the promise of an easy route to wealth sells copies, I won't venture to guess. However, I don't blame anyone for thinking at first glance that it is nonsense.
Alex Parker
My basic problem with the Secret is it's promise of easy riches. If you have a positive attitude and work hard to attain a goal, be it fiscal, love, whatever, I think that is fine. But by sitting around waiting, hoping for that phone call or check to come around, you're fooling yourself. By that measure, the Secret is a fraud.


text:
Definition of saltcellars
plural of saltcellar 1
The word "saltcellars" uses 11 letters: A A C E L L L R S S T.
No direct anagrams for saltcellars found in this word list.
Adding one letter to saltcellars does not form any other word in this word list.
Words within saltcellars not shown as it has more than seven letters.List all words starting with saltcellars, words containing saltcellars or words ending with saltcellars
All words formed from saltcellars by changing one letter
Other words with the same letter pairs: sa al lt tc ce el ll la ar rs
Browse words starting with saltcellars by next letter
Previous word in list: saltcellar
Next word in list: salted
Some random words: juba inkstand oogamete olio gaen foal coacervate
This is not a dictionary, it's a word game wordfinder.
- Help and FAQ - Examples - Home
Privacy and Cookies Policy - Share - © Copyright 2004-2017 Morewords.com - 13.968mS


text:
Cars > Challenges > "The BEAST" Vs "beater"
1999 Chevrolet Suburban LT 4X4
"The BEAST"
1994 GMC 1500 turbo-diesal
Head to Head
About "The BEAST"
Isn't it funny how, when you're not even looking for a car, one comes along that you just HAVE to buy? That's the way it was last week. I was out on a parts run for the shop and saw this monster for sale at a local service station/car wash. It was love at first sight, even though I've never even considered a truck like this before! I justified it by putting it in my shop's name and telling myself that it would become the new shop truck..... Yeah, right!
About "beater"
my first truck. petty good since i got it for free. it was my grandfathers, but now mine. It is both a woods truck, a daily driver, and my transportation to the races. awsome ride, i would say it is one of the most reliable trucks out there.
Specs for "The BEAST"
I haven't even had it long enough to know for sure what it has, what company made the parts, who installed them, or when. All I know is that it sounds downright WICKED, has a better ride than I would have guessed, and goes like a scalded cat! I don't know for sure what all's been done to it's 454 cid big block engine, but it's a MONSTER!
Specs for "beater"
No specifications listed.
Vote This challenge has ended!
Points for The BEAST | Total Votes | Points for beater |
30 | 6 | 0 |
Cars > Challenges > "The BEAST" Vs "beater"


text:
More About JENB4285
Recipes I've Shared:
Brown Rice Breakfast Pourridge
Yummy, , very quick and healthy way to start your morning off right.
Great way to use the leftover brown rice that is sitting in the fridge or make a cup on Sunday evening so you can have it ready to go during the week.
Recipes I've Rated:
JENB4285 currently has no rated recipes.


text:
lines need some work
Dear Good Writers on this Site,
Not to be the defiant toy but nobody wants to hear someone on the internet tell them that they can't draw worth shit....instead of "go simpler" as hard as this may seem, how about just giving tips to improve current styles? Every time i try and take people seriously on here and go simpler i end up over thinking all of my sketches and give myself the yips. My point is, just as we all like to defy the law and vandalize, we all like to defy other people, especially when their advice doesn't actually contain any tips or guidelines.
Go ahead, call me a fag or a loser or even the dreaded "TOY" for trying to point this out.....all i know is I'm going to put paint on peoples walls no matter what you think and that for me is what this is all about.
^obviously this doesnt apply when people are going way out of their league but when i can't get some tips for improvement on a simple simple style, theres a problem
Last edited by ven0m; 03-10-2012 at 05:14 AM.
Treat suckas like paint so call me turpentine; Removin motha-f**kas from the surface, and I'll rob your home land like the Mississippi purchase.........
They are telling you to go simpler for good reason, if you don't like it than ignore it. Think about the benefit of simples this way. If you attempt a piece with extensions, crazy letter forms, and all that jazz, but your basic letter form is not perfected, than obviously adding extensions and all that other stuff isn't going to fix it. You can't polish a turd. By starting simple you can learn the best ways to attain flow and bend your letters. That's like trying to backflip a motorcross bike before you've even learned to shift gears. If you want to ignore people who are good writers advice, than that's your choice nukka. All of my progression (if you can call it that) is from listening to the advice iv gotten from here.
Also tits.
^Such a negative nancy
Edit: Also @Kinger who the fuck are those 3 posts directed at?
Last edited by cred1384; 03-10-2012 at 01:22 AM.
I am not in any way interested in piecing. I want to bomb and tag.
Treat suckas like paint so call me turpentine; Removin motha-f**kas from the surface, and I'll rob your home land like the Mississippi purchase.........
Feedback please?
@shearz - some of the ideas are nice but i dont think its working overall. I didn't realize that was a Z until i kept staring intensely, and those wavy bar - vein things connecting letters looks awkward. hate to say it but, try some simples.
@ cred - i wasn't feeling that as much as your other stuff, i think its all starting to get super super clean though
@ doss - i kind of get what you mean, but just ignore it if you don't care, no need to bring it up.
@ kinger - from seeing some of your other posts i can only say, take everything you know - and completely forget it.
@ toys - the shading and detail looks nice on that first post, but you should try more simples - or do whatever.
There is an entire thread dedicated to this very thing (new to Graffiti). No one is going to hold your hand while you try to figure out your own shit.... I'm not gonna help you climb the ladder I'm too busy climbing mine type shit. You might get some tips as to why something doesn't work etc, but when you haven't even tried to grasp the basics and it stands out like a blind man at a nude beach and talk about wanting tips and then about not giving a shit what people say no one is going to take you seriously and frankly your drawing should be deleted at that point or you should just stop posting. If you want tips take them and take the time to educate yourself. CRED is doing it and shows like a mother fucker.
Best tip you will ever get. SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DRAW.
@PETER aside from my little alcohol induced ledge moment, i can't agree more with your final statement.
Treat suckas like paint so call me turpentine; Removin motha-f**kas from the surface, and I'll rob your home land like the Mississippi purchase.........
@seder - try adding some funk to your letters. get some more style going in there. those fills are sick tho
Seder the bottom ones pretty cool, im not so sure about the top one haha. But its still good. The only thing is the right leg of that R got wicked fat on the bottom one
failure for the NOLA battle, character doesnt fit at all, gonna drop characters for a little while and concentrate on letters and better connections
bombing is a poor mans game, if you live above the poverty line we hatin!
Shears Ir shading and 3d are off.
Area dope letters but the r looks a bit small.
Seder that first one is sick why not try something a lil harder u make that look 2 easy.
Hipsterpunk u r to good for toy section IMO advance


text:
(5286 quotes found)
"Just when you thought that you thought it all out, life demonstrates that you need to think less and do more."
Brandon A. Trean
"Someone else will plan your path if you do not take charge of it. The thing is, that someone probably never had much of a plan for you."
Zeng Han Jun
"Learn from yesterday, Live for today, Plan for tomorrow."
John Bankson
"Question what you hear. Think before you speak. Plan before you take action. Show respect but never follow blindly."
"It's all about what you do every day, be remarkable!"
Robert J Banach
"The mission, he thought, probably failed because of a series of logical, reasonable, carefully considered decisions, each of which seemed like a good idea at the time. Like most colossal disasters."
Maria Doria Russell
"A plan that is not written is only an idea."
Marion Dwain Siady
"A Greater Person is Someone who PLAN their OWN LIFE, or Someone Else will PLAN to Make YOU ORDINARY."
"As humans we always have life plans which can at times limit us to reaching out to what is waiting for us out there!"
Irene Goodwill
"Carpenters have the right idea: measure twice, cut once."
Jeffrey Benjamin


text:
- Home
- About MeitY
- Vision & Mission
- Organization Chart
- Functions of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
- Who's Who
- Official Language Activities
- Citizens' Charter
- Vigilance & Grievances
- Performance Management
- Integrated Finances
- Acts & Policies
- Controller of Accounts
- Immovable Property Return
- Web Information Manager
- Know Your Ministers
- Divisions
- Organisations
- Tenders
- Downloads
- Visitor Pass
e-Governance Group-Group-II
Fri, 01/22/2010 - 19:38 — webmaster
Governments worldwide are faced with the challenge of transformation and the need to reinvent government systems in order to deliver efficient and cost effective services, information and knowledge through information and communication technologies. Development of Information and communication technologies catalyzed and led up to E-governance. It presents a tremendous impetus to move forward in the 21 st century with higher quality, cost-effective, government services and a better relationship between citizens and government. The waves of e-governance are rising through public organizations and public administration across the world. More and more governments are using information and communication technology especially Internet or web-based network, to provide services between government agencies and citizens, businesses, employees and other nongovernmental agencies.
Over the years, a large number of initiatives have been undertaken by various State Governments and Central Ministries to usher in an era of e-Governance. Sustained efforts have been made at multiple levels to improve the delivery of public services and simplify the process of accessing them.
With a view to replicate the successes of the various state level e-Governance initiatives, the National e-Governance Plan was formulated. This plan was approved by Cabinet in May 2006 with an objective to provide Public services through electronic means to the common man in his locality at affordable costs. Several stakeholders are involved in the implementation of NeGP which focuses on making critical public services available and promoting rural entrepreneurship.
Over 1100 services can be accessed across the length and breadth of the country. These services have been enabled by the Line Departments under the various Mission Mode Projects of NeGP as well as by state governments that have chosen to leverage the digital service delivery infrastructure created under NeGP. Significant efforts have gone into e-enablement of services and creation of a digital service delivery infrastructure that enables access of these services in the remotes corner of our country.
Since its approval, many milestones have been achieved under the Plan. While Mission Mode Projects such as MCA21 and Pensions are successfully providing services to their respective stakeholders through their respective portals, extensive outreach has been achieved for those in need of assisted access to public services through establishment of Common Services Centers across States & UTs of our country to provide access to approximately 60 million people residing in nearly 500,000 villages. The Department of Information Technology plans to complete the roll out of 100,000 CSCs across 600,000 villages by August 2011. Given the on ground success of CSCs, the Honourable President in her address to the Parliament has directed that "The scheme for Common Services Centers or e-Kiosks will be suitably repositioned to be network of Panchayat level Bharat Nirman Common Service Centers to provide Government services to citizens in rural areas". The PMO/ Cabinet Secretariat have accordingly directed that the CSC Scheme should be further extended by Department of Information Technology to cover remaining 150,000 Panchayats. This is by far, the biggest project of its kind anywhere in world. It is also unique in its perspective because perhaps for the first time it is being effectively demonstrated that a Public Private Partnership model can work successfully and can be self sustainable in delivering a basket of services to essentially rural and underserviced section of the society. It is estimated that over 100,000 rural micro enterprises have been created as a result of implementation of the CSC Scheme.
These Centers provide access to over 100 different types of public and private services including but not limited to enrolment & job cards under MGNREGS, copy of Record of Rights, telemedicine enabled diagnostics, access to financial services such as insurance & micro finance, utility services such as payment of utility bills, employment services such as vocational, soft skills and language training, booking of tickets, recharge of mobile phones etc. It is envisaged that very soon several other services critical to rural populace including all services provided by Gram Panchayats and other social services under rural development, health and employment shall be ubiquitously accessed through the Common Services Centers.
Apart from CSCs, significant progress has been made in the other two core e-infrastructure pillars of the National e Governance Plan consisting of State Wide Area Networks (SWAN) and State Data Centres (SDC).
The SWAN scheme, at an estimated outlay of Rs 3334 crores, was approved by the Government of India in March 2005. The objective has been to provide a country wide secure network for delivering G2C and G2G services interconnecting each State/UT Headquarter and each District HQ with the Block HQ via lease lines with minimum 4 Mbps bandwidth capacity between each State/UT headquarter and District headquarter, and minimum 2 Mbps bandwidth between District headquarter and Block/Taluka headquarter. SWAN will be operational in all States by March 2012.
The State Data Centre (SDC), is one of the core infrastructure pillars of the NeGP to be set up in all 35 States/UTs. SDCs planned for each state are envisaged as state level digital nerve system housing all applications and databases. SDC provides key functionalities such as Central Repository of the State, Secure Data Storage, Online e-Delivery of G2G, G2B and G2C Services, Citizen Information/Services Portal, State Intranet Portal, Disaster Recovery, Remote Management and Service Integration. The Government has approved the SDC scheme at an outlay of Rs 1623.20 crores. State Data Centres will be progressively made operational by September 2012.
There are several supporting infrastructure under the NeGP which will enable speedy service delivery. Funds of approximately Rs 400 crores have been earmarked for establishing State Portals and State Service Delivery Gateways. So far 31 State/ UT proposals have been approved for Rs 336 crore. This project creates State Portals that will host electronic forms to offer convenient and easy services to citizens. This project leverages the existing e-governance core infrastructure namely CSCs, SWAN and SDCs. It intends to provide the citizen with easy, simple, "anywhere and anytime" access to government services. It aims to reduce the number of visits of a citizen to a government department/office for availing services. It also aims to reduce administrative burden and service fulfillment time and costs for the Government, Businesses, and the Citizen by creating more efficient communication means through the portals. It will enable the citizen to download forms, and submit their applications electronically with the help of e-forms available on the State Portals, routed through a common service gateway (SSDG). The project will guarantee electronic delivery of the request from the citizen to the specified field office of the Government department. The citizen will also get an electronic acknowledgement of successful submission of application from the department. Moreover, at any given point in time, the citizen can ascertain the current status of his/her application request online.
One of the key Mission Mode Projects in the integrated service category under the NeGP is the India Portal. This project has been implemented by NIC. It has been envisaged as a unified portal providing "single window access" to information and G2C services which are electronically delivered from all state sector institutions and organizations. The first version of the portal is operational and was released by Hon'ble MCIT on November 10, 2005 and the portal address is http://india.gov.in/. Some of the Demand driven additional modules for Public Participation like Complain & Appeal Module for Central Information Commission (CIC), NGO Partnership System, Business Module of the India Portal have been implemented. There has been an attempt by the National Portal to bring together all online services offered by the Central and State Governments under a single umbrella for various categories of services like G2G, G2E, G2C and G2B. Around 1830 services offered by different State Governments have been added. In addition, the content has been enhanced to facilitate the contribution of Government information and services for example: 7365 forms can be downloaded now from the portal, at least 1830 services, 1420 schemes, 6160 documents, 2239 Acts, and 1444 Rules are available on the site.
The initiative has also been taken up for formulating a comprehensive policy on Mobile Governance to make Government services available to the residents of the country through mobile devices. In this regard, a Draft Consultation Paper on Mobile Governance Policy Framework was prepared and made available online (at www.mit.gov.in) for feedback and comments from all interested stakeholders. Further, two rounds of public consultations were conducted on the proposed framework. Efforts are underway to create the Mobile Service Delivery Gateway (MSDG) that will enable delivery of public services through mobile phones, as well as to develop a suite of mobile-phone applications for delivery of Government services.
Standards in e-Governance are sine qua non for sharing of information and seamless interoperability of data across e-Governance applications in India. An Institutional Mechanism has been setup under National e-Governance Programme (NeGP) to evolve/adopt Standards for e-Governance. Government of India is promoting the usage of Open Standards for e-governance to avoid any technology lock-ins. A Policy on Open Standards has been formulated and notified which provides a framework for the selection of Open Standards to facilitate interoperability between systems while providing organizations the flexibility to select different hardware, systems software, and application software for implementing cost effective e-Governance solutions.
Open standards for interoperability in various domains would now need to be adopted based on this Policy would be part of the Interoperability Framework for eGovernance (IFEG) document. Standards have also been adopted for localization like Unicode and Open Font Format. Metadata and data standards have been published for person and land identification which will ensure sharing of information and seamless interoperability of data across applications.
Security assurance framework guidelines to help in implementation of the ISO 27001 standard have been published. Quality Assurance Framework (QAF) and guidelines to ensure quality in e-Governance applications have been also published. Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) Interoperability guidelines have been published to enable interoperability of DSC's issued by various Certifying Authorities(CA). Guidelines for usage of Digital Signatures in eGovernance Applications have also been published. Website Design Guidelines compliant to Web Accessibility guidelines have also been published.
Biometrics standards for face image, fingerprint image and Iris image standards have also been notified which would enable the sharing of biometrics data by various e-Governance applications. New areas of standardization like digital preservation, cloud computing are under consideration for formulation of standards. The standards and guidelines and other information relating to e-Governance standards is available on the website http://egovstandards.gov.in
The Department of Information Technology, Government of India has created the National e-Governance Division ( NeGD) as an autonomous business division within Media Lab Asia (MLA), under the Ministry of IT, GoI, for undertaking the Programme Management of NeGP. The NeGD facilitates and supports Department of Information Technology for tasks and responsibilities assigned to them such as facilitating implementation of NeGP by various Ministries and State Governments, providing technical assistance to Central Ministries/State Line Departments, serving as a Secretariat to the Apex Committee, undertaking technical appraisal of all NeGP projects to examine issues such as overall technological framework, standards, security policy, service delivery mechanism etc. NeGD supports Department of Information Technology in human resource development, training and awareness building, framing core policies, R & D, assessment.
For successful, sustainable implementation of NeGP projects, Capacity Building is a critical component both at the programme level and at the project level. It is necessary to develop and strengthen human resources and institutional capacities. The scheme envisages providing technical and professional support to State policy and decision makers and developing specialized skills necessary for e-Governance.
The Empowered Committee for the Capacity Building Scheme has designated NeGD as the central agency for execution of the scheme. NeGD has set up a central Capacity Building Management Cell for coordination and implementation of this scheme. One of the main components of this scheme has been the formation of professional core teams or State e-Governance Mission Teams (SeMTs) to provide inputs and support to policy makers, executive bodies and implementing authorities in matters related to e-governance. Leadership meets for sharing the e Governance vision, strategies and successes among political and senior government functionaries and specialized training for operational level officials are being organised as part of the Capacity Building Scheme.
As such, the projects under NeGP promise faster delivery of service, easy availability of services through multiple medium in the future (including mobile phones); and improved convenience in terms of availing forms, documents and governmental information. These projects will also provide for better authentication of beneficiaries (through UID and NPR) reducing revenue leakages and preventing identity frauds.
Sr. No. | Name & Designation of the DeitY officer | DeitY Implementation Activities/Mission Leader |
Resource Assgined from NeGD |
Coordination with Concerned Ministries/ Departments on the MMPs |
Nodal Officer of NeGD Resposible for MMP |
Nodal Officer of DeitY for the following States |
1 | Ms. Renu Budhiraja, Scientist G & Head of Division (Senior Director) |
1. State Data Centres-Nodal officer | PC(BM) PC(RN) SC(VK) SC(KR) |
1. Agriculture | PC(VD) | Chhattisgarh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab and TamilNadu |
2. Core Infrastucture- Consolidation, Provisioning & Utilization | ||||||
3. Cloud based Infrastucture & service delivery | ||||||
4. Interface with IT Industry | ||||||
5. Collating and Analyzing International Best Practices in e-Governance. | ||||||
6. Citizen Contact Center | ||||||
7. Link Officer to Additional Director (Ms. Kavita Bhatia) | ||||||
2 | Shri Abhishek Singh, Director |
1. Nodal Officer for NeGP website | PC(RN) SC(AM) SC(CP) C(RP) E(KS) | 1. Police | PC(BM) Director (RK) Director (VSS) Director (RN) Director (VS) Director (VSS) |
Jharkhand, North East(except Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh) |
2. Nodal Officer for e-District & Common Service Centres (CSCs) | 2. NPR & UID | |||||
3. Community Information Centres (CICs) | 3. Gram Panchayat | |||||
4. All matters relating to NIC | 4. e-District | |||||
5. All matters relating to World Bank Project. | 5. CSCs | |||||
6. Banking & Insurance | ||||||
3 | Shri Gaurav Dwivedi, Director |
1. Matters relating to National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) Programme - Body headed by PM; Advisory Committee chaired MCIT; Apex Committee; Cabinet matters; Core Policies (other than technical), Monitoring of NeGP and Strategic Planning (other than technical) | PC(BM) C(YN) SC(FM) C(S) C(TB) SC(VK) C(SS) |
Director (VLKR) |
Haryana, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan |
2. Reporting to PMO, Cab.Sectt., Planning Commission | 2.Education | |||||
3. Appraisal of proposals received from State Government / Line Ministries | 3. Health | |||||
4. Assessment of e-Governance Projects | 4. e-Office | |||||
5. NeGP - Awareness and Communications | 5. Land Records | |||||
6. Funds Management -Utilization-Audit etc. & Internal Coorditation | 6. Municipalities | |||||
7. Annual Plan, Annual Report & Outcome Budget related Issues | 7. Employment Exchange | |||||
8. Cloud Policy & Services from Consolidated Core Infrastucture | 8. Pensions | |||||
9. RFD & Citizen Charter Document | 9. EPFO | |||||
4 | Shri A. K .Garg , (Additional Director) |
1. Center for E-Governence | PC(BM) C(YN) C(S) |
1. Treasuries | Director (VSS/BM) Director (VLKR) Director (VLKR) |
Gujarat, West Bengal, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh |
2. Open Data | 2. Education | |||||
3. All matters relating to Parliamentry Committees | 3. Health | |||||
4. Business Process Reviews | ||||||
5. Interface with consulting Organizations / Sourcing of Personnel | ||||||
6. Council of Mission Leaders | ||||||
7. Link Officer to Director (MR) | ||||||
5 | Shri AK Balani, Scientist F (Director) |
1. State Wide Area Network (SWAN) Project Nodal Officer | SC(VK) | 1. IVFRT | PC(BM) PC(BM) PC(RN/ BM) PC(VLKR/BM) |
Kerala, Orissa, Goa and Maharashtra |
2. Coordination with DOT, USOF | 2. Passport | |||||
3.Coordination issues of SWAN with NICNET, NKN, BSNL & CSCs | 3. Posts | |||||
4. International Cooperation in EG. | 4. e-Migrate | |||||
5. Support and Coordination issues relating to SWAN and CSC implementation in consulation with Nodal Officer Director(Shri Abhishek Singh) | ||||||
6. All matters relating to last mile wireless connectivity | ||||||
7. India Development Gateway Project -Nodal Officer | ||||||
8. UNDP - ICTD Project Nodal Officer | ||||||
9. Link officer to Director (AD) | ||||||
6 | Shri Muni Ram, Scientist F (Director) |
1. Nodal Officer Capacity Building | CBMC Group | 1. Income Tax | PC(RN/ BM) | Delhi, U.P, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh |
2. Operationalising SeMTs | ||||||
3. HR Policy for e-Gov. | ||||||
4. HRD and training programs for e-Gov | ||||||
5. Technical /HR assistance to all Ministries/States | ||||||
6. Knowledge Management & Case Studies | ||||||
7. Horizontal Transfer & Replication Project | ||||||
8. GIS/GPS Applications | ||||||
9. Link Officer Director (AKG) | ||||||
7 | Ms. Archana Dureja, Scientist F (Director) |
1. Gartner Services | Director (VSS) PC(RN) SC(PS) C(AK) C(PR) |
1. Road Transport | PC(BM) Director (VSS) PC(BM) Director (VSS) |
Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Union Territories of Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep |
2. Creation of a Cell for Cyber Security | 2. e-Procurement | |||||
3. Preparation and appraisal of RFQ/RFPs etc. and to oversee its working (This would include capacity building for preparation of RFPs/RFQs in Govt. of India and State Govts.) | 3. EDI for eTrade | |||||
4. R&D | 4. Customs | |||||
5. Misc.matters not dealt with by other Scientist G/Scientist F | ||||||
6. To provide support to SD (RB) | ||||||
7. Link Officer to Director (AKB) | ||||||
8 | Ms.Tulika Pandey, Scientist E (Additional Director) |
In addition to her existing duties/responsibilties in Internet Governance Group, she is entrusted following responsibilities/duties in e-Governance Group:- | ||||
1. All matters relating to DIT Website Cell.(May consult and involve Scientist E (Kavita Bhatia), as and when required, on important Website matters and high-level meetings.) | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
2. Country e-readiness report | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
9 | Ms.Kavita Bhatia, Scientist E (Additional Director) |
1. Standards/Interoperability for e-Governance | PC(BM) SC(AM) SC(RS) C(CS) C(RC) |
Uttarakhand |
2. Conformance Assessment Centres. | 2. e-BIZ(Pilot) | |||||
3. NeGP -Core policies (Technical) Technical Coordination & Architecture. | 3. India Portal | |||||
4. Nodal Officer for NSDG & India Portal | 4. NSDG | |||||
5. National Services Directory | ||||||
6. Nodal Officer - SP, SSDG & e-Form | ||||||
7. MSDG (m-Governance), App. Store, Payment Gateway, Language Switch and e-authentication, Certifying Authority, Document Depository | ||||||
8. Link officer to Additional Director (Ms. Tulika Pandey) | ||||||
10 | Shri D. V. L. N. Rao, Scientist E (Additional Director) |
1. SDC and SWAN Group | -- | -- | -- | Dadar, Nagar and Haveli, Daman & Diu |
2. Link Officer Additional Director (Ms. Uma Chouhan) | -- | -- | -- | |||
11 | Ms. Uma Chauhan, Scientist E (Additional Director) |
1. SDC & SWAN Group | -- | -- | -- | |
2. Link Officer - (Additional Director (Shri D.V.L.N. Rao) | -- | -- | -- | Puducherry | ||
12 | Shri Shiv Charan Singh, Scientist D (Joint Director) | 1. SWAN Group | -- | -- | -- | -- |
13 | Shri Somnath Bose, Scientist D(Joint Director) |
1. To assist Director (AKG) | -- | -- | -- | -- |
PC - Principal Consultant.
Director/PC | SC/Consultant | Ministry/Department | MMP/Projects |
Shri Bhushan Mohan | Shri Vivek Srivastava | MHA | Police, IVFRT |
Ms. Anita Mittal | Department of Information Technology | NSDG & SSDG, Service Delivery Platforms, NIUs* | |
Shri Chittaranjan Sawaijam | Law & Justice | e-Courts* | |
Power, Rlys, S&T | |||
V Sivasubramanian | Shri Anirban Mukerji | Department of Information Technology | e-District* |
Shri Chander Prakash | CSCs | ||
Shri Anuj Bhati | MoPR | Gram Panchayat* | |
Shri S Bhasker | Finance - Expenditure | Treasuries | |
Shri Kumar Gaurav | Finance - FS | Banking & Insurance | |
Shri Randhir Pratap | Finance - Revenue - CBEC | Customs | |
Finance - Revenue - CBIT | Income Tax | ||
Commerce | e-Trade | ||
Commerce & Industry | e-Procurement* | ||
Defence, Performance Management | |||
Commercial Taxes & GST | |||
Rajendra Kumar | Shri Sanjeev Kumar | Department of Information Technology | m-Governance and e-Authentication |
Shri Pranav Vikas | PC & RGI | UID & NPR | |
Shri Deepinder Singh | MoUD | Municipalities* | |
Shri Arijit Chakraborty | MoRD & DoLR | Land Records & NLRMP* | |
Shri Shahnawaz Islam | Surface Transport | Transport | |
Shri Amol Sahdev | Cons. Affairs & PD | PDS | |
Health | Health* | ||
Shipping, Chem & Fert. | |||
Deepa Sengar | Ms. Kiran Goel | Department of Information Technology | Capacity Building |
Shri Vashima Shubha | Labour | Employment Exchange | |
Shri G. Srinivas | DARPG, Personnel | Pensions | |
Shri Varinder Bangar | e-Office* | ||
Shri Sumeet Madaan | Social Justice, W & CD | ||
Ms. Neel Mony | |||
Vineeta Dixit | Ms. Barnali Mukherjee | Department of Information Technology | Awareness & Communication |
Ms. Vusat Iqbal | Agriculture | Agriculture | |
Dr. Shailendra Saxena | MHRD - Edn, Culture | Education* | |
Shri Ajeet Kumar | Env. & Forests, Coal | ||
I & B, Statistics & PI | |||
Rajesh Narang | Shri Kunwar Rohitaswa | DIPP | e-Biz* |
Shri Amit Jain | MCA | MCA21 | |
Shri Abhinaw Paliwal | MEA | Passports | |
Shri Himanshu Wadhwa | Department of Information Technology - NIC | India Portal | |
Dept of Posts | Posts |
* Will be closely guided by President & CEO


text:
LED Cube/Understanding The Electronics
This page is meant to give you a understanding of the workings in your LED cube. We will try to avoid common electronics slang, thus this is especially suitable for you if you are not familiar with electonics. If you are, however, you are probably better of simply having a look at the schematics and your cube itself - it is not complex in any aspect.
The Cube Structure
We will first explain the cube structure and then work our way to the USB connector. First of all, some basic understanding on how you work with LEDs.
LEDs are very handy and mostly nice-looking devices which is the reasen we chose to create this cube kit. Usually, if you connect a LED to a battery, there is a characteristic of the LED you have to take into consideration. For batteries with very low voltage ratings, your LED will not emit light. If you slowly increase the voltage, for example by using different batteries, or, if you are more used to electronics, use a variable voltage source, you will see that at some voltage, current will start to flow through the LED and it lights up. This depends on the color (or the technology) of the LED. Red LEDs for example start to light up at about 1.5 V. However, in contrast to a light bulb, which will not get much brighter or draw much more current at higher voltages, the LED will! Thus, if you want to connect a LED to a commonly available voltage source with a fixed voltage, it is necessary to add a resistor to the circuit which is able to limit this current. So, if you want to connect an LED to a battery, the circuit will look somewhat like this:
@todo: G1
Now, we are not interested to always light up an LED, but we want to be able to switch them off and on to display different patterns on our cube. Thus we add a switch:


text:
BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Sunday threatened to deport Bangladeshi immigrants if NDA comes to power, saying they were being welcomed with red carpets for vote bank politics.
"I want to warn from here, brothers and sisters write down, that after May 16, will send these Bangladeshis beyond the border with their bags and baggages," Modi said alleging that Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee was pursuing vote bank politics.
"You are spreading the red carpet for the Bangladeshis for the sake of votebank politics," he said in this largely mixed constituency, where there is a large chunk of Hindi-belt population who are the main work force in the jute mills here.
"If people from Bihar come, they seem to be outsiders to you, if people from Odisha come, they seem to be outsiders to you, you feel bad if Marwaris come.
"But if some Bangladeshi comes, your face seems to shine," he said alleging that Banerjee was insulting the people of the country for the sake of votebank politics.
"This country cannot run like this. We won't allow you to destroy the country for the sake of your vote bank politics," he thundered.
"Nowadays, votebank politics is going on. I speak on only two issues, which are development and good governance.
"When I say what about the employment of the youths, they say what about secularism. When I say what about the welfare of farmers, they say what about secularism. I say what about two square meals for the poor, they say what about secularism. I talk of security for women on whom atrocities are being met out, they say what about secularism.
"They don't want to talk on issues, except for vote bank politics, they got nothing to say," the Gujarat chief minister said.
"Whether it is Mamataji, the Left, Madam Soniaji or Mayawati, they are all pursuing vote bank politics," he claimed.
"This vote bank politics has darkened the future of India's youth," Modi said.
For more news from India Today, follow us on Twitter @indiatoday and on Facebook at facebook.com/IndiaToday
For news and videos in Hindi, go to AajTak.in. ताज़ातरीन ख़बरों और वीडियो के लिए आजतक.इन पर आएं.


text:
Research in Motion founder Mike Lazaridis, who created the BlackBerry smartphone, has donated $100 million to a new center pursuing radically small computing innovations.
The Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre will open tomorrow, Bloomberg reports, and it's where Lazaridis will double-down on his efforts to promote technological improvements in quantum computing and nanotechnology.
The massive donation in nascent technology isn't anything new for Lazaridis: In 2000, he founded the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and has donated around $150 million to it so far. He's also donated more than $100 million to the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing.
Lazaridis and his RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie both stepped down from their roles in January, after facing criticism for not innovating RIM's hardware and software to compete with the iPhone and BlackBerry. But things aren't shaping up much better for new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins, who in June announced that next-gen BlackBerry 10 devices won't appear until 2013.
Why the fascination with tiny computing? Both nanotechnology and quantum computing have far-reaching applications in fields like biotechnology, allowing us to develop treatments that work at the cellular level. Lazaridis also tells Bloomberg that this research could lead to tiny energy sources and self-repairing elements for nuclear plants. Most importantly, the move towards nanotech and quantum computing will allow us to leap beyond the limitations of Moore's Law, the notion that number of transistors on integrated circuits double every two years.
"We can't offer [people working at the center] ocean, beaches, or mountains, but we can try and offer them the best environment, the best collaborators, the best equipment that would be conducive to them making the breakthroughs of their lifetime," Lazaridis told Bloomberg. "One of the best ways to describe this is, we're trying to break the known laws of physics."
Photo via textlad/Flickr


text:
Second City
Edited on 1-21-2013
One thing that pops up in world chat sometimes is "how do I get a second city?"
Well really the only way to get a second city is by buying the deed to a second city, which costs 250 pearls, or by getting lucky in the chance chests or if you get 100 artifacts.
Getting a second city will double your income potential, double your army training facilities and double your research facilities!
Try to build your second city as close to your main as possible. It seems tempting to build it far away but it makes it much harder to defend either city. If your being overwhelmed by attacks it may be wise to teleport your main city and then build a second as close as possible. It'll slow down if not stop the attacks and during the time of calm you can use that momentum to really get your second city building. You may want to try to move closer to an alliance member you isn't really being attacked too much if you want peace. But a stronger alliance member may offer much more protection.
34 comments:
- AnonymousJanuary 15, 2013 at 2:30 AM
Just as an advice. Is it better to settle your second city in the same region of your main city or to settle it in a far away region?
In the first case, it get easier to defend the second city but it means to split your army in two in order to defend it. In the second case, it gets harder for the opponent to find your two city but it is also harder to defend your second city.
Any advice ? I personally believe that you should make your second city as close to your first as possible because it makes it easy to transport resources as well as defend. The problem I see with making a second city far away would be the fact that it's still easy for someone else to start farming that one. Then you're kind of stuck with two cities being farmed by two different guys.
My advice is try to get all your cities as close together as possible. Hope this helps!- AnonymousFebruary 13, 2013 at 4:55 AM
How do you collect "artifacts"? is this a random award from the daily chest, or is these found attacking a certain wild?
ReplyDelete - Replies
- AnonymousOctober 8, 2013 at 12:58 AM
Btw.. regarding the artifacts for the 2nd city. I just found out from the Tap4Fun support that if you are defeated in battle you loose a certain number of the artifacts you collected. So let's say you gathered 40 artifacts from caves and battles you won. If you loose a great battle you might loose also from 1 to several of these 40 so it's pretty difficult to build a 2nd city based on collecting them.
Do you know which chest type will provide the second city deed? Is that the silver chest or the golden chest? thanks
ReplyDelete- AnonymousMay 6, 2013 at 8:26 PM
I got 2 city deeds from standard chests. Is there anything I can do with the 2nd one I found? I'd like to give it to someone if I can, and at least let them use it.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousMay 22, 2013 at 5:35 AM
Hello I have two cities and I got a box other city Why can not I build it
? - AnonymousJune 1, 2013 at 8:06 PM
I have two cities. I read somewhere that your research facilities (arms and academy) in one improves the other as well. So if this is true, I don't need to build these in both cities, right? So I can keep more space open?
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJune 3, 2013 at 3:07 PM
how do you get the resources in your main city from the second city or vice versa?
ReplyDelete - Replies
- AnonymousJune 7, 2013 at 3:15 PM
collect artifacts or get in daily chest or buy with 250 pearls
Delete - AnonymousJuly 16, 2013 at 2:47 PM
You don't have to move them. Click on your gods while in the second city and choose one to worship
- AnonymousJuly 1, 2013 at 2:21 AM
if you destroy your academy in your main city and you built a new one in your vice but it's lvl 1 will you lose all your tech?
ReplyDelete - AnonymousNovember 30, 2013 at 5:08 PM
Can I give a second city deed to my alliance member ... if so it would be more helpfull... or can I give them pearls???? Plz help


text:
Looking for delicious pasta recipe for dinner? These 7 Pasta Dinner Recipes are sure to please. You'll find mac & cheese, salisbury steak and more!
I love pasta! Pasta makes a delicious dinner, lunch or snack, and the best part is, there are so many different recipes that you can put it in. Today I am going to feature only 7 Pasta Dinner Recipes, but the possibilities really are endless.
This first recipe is Gemelli with Creamy Red Pepper Sauce and Fresh Mozzarella. I hadn't heard of Gemelli before it is the type of tight spiral pasta that was used in the recipe. Mmmmm a new pasta to try!
This Chicken Cordon Bleu Pasta looks pretty amazing too. I love Chicken Cordon Bleu but have never had it in Pasta. That top layer of crunchy goodness is making my mouth water.
This is an example of how pasta makes everything better. These Swedish Meat-Bombs look AMA-ZING! The bulk of the recipe is for the meatballs (I love that she calls them meat-bombs) but they look delish on top of that bed of pasta. Tortellini are my favorite I just love that bow tie shape. – Sorry, this recipe is no longer available through the website.
Here is another take on some delish meatballs, but these are Salisbury Steak Meatballs. TUMM! Again on top of that delicious plate of pasta!
This Hawaiin Pizza Pasta Bake has ham, bacon, pineapple and cheese, just like the pizza! Oh, I bet this is good!
I bet that you can't disagree that this One-Pot Sausage & Cheese Cappelletti looks pretty amazing! Oh yum. Is it dinner time yet? It is a touch spicy so I am sure the whole family would love this one.
Mac and cheese is a classic and is a favorite in this house too. This Bacon Mac & Cheese is a new twist that I am excited to try. Who doesn't love bacon?
I hope you are now as hungry as I am. Now, which one do I make for dinner tonight?
For more pasta inspirations make sure to follow my Delicious Pasta Recipes board on Pinterest.


text:
The views or opinions expressed on this blog are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of my current employer. The views or opinions expressed by visitors on this blog are theirs solely and may not reflect mine.
Related tags
It's been a while since my last post on this blog; I definitely need to get back into the habit! One of the reasons for my radio silence was that I switched roles here at Oracle. After having been with the MySQL team for 9 years, I felt it was time for a change. Fortunately I did not have to look far – I'm now a member of the Oracle Linux product management team and I am having a lot of fun there.
However, I realized that while I was an active Linux user on the desktop, quite a lot has happened on the enterprise and data center side of things. Linux has really come a long way and I am glad to be back in this field, drinking from the firehose and learning a lot about recent developments and technologies. For me, this is kind of going "back to my roots", as I have been deeply involved with Linux at SuSE before I joined MySQL in 2002.
Anyway, I'm still alive and you can expect to hear more about Linux and less about MySQL from me on this blog in the future. I also started writing for the official Oracle Linux Blog as well as the OTN Garage blog – watch these spaces for future posts from me, too.
In addition to that, my travel schedule is also filling up again: at the end of this month I'll be speaking at the fisl12 conference in Brasil and Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco later this year. I also submitted talk proposals to the DOAG conference and the UKOUG conference. Looking forward to it!
Congratulations to the Drupal community for getting version 7.0 released! This is a major mile stone and an excellent reason to celebrate!
If you want to give Drupal 7 a try without having to install anything, I've now updated my Drupal 7 appliances on SuSE Studio to the latest release. The appliance is based on openSUSE Linux 11.3 and is available in two variants:
The appliance is available in various formats:
So congratulations to the Drupal developer community for reaching this goal and thanks to SuSE/Novell/Attachmate for providing the infrastructure for creating such appliances. I also would like to especially thank Richard Bos for the testing and many suggestions for improvement of these appliances!
Over the weekend I updated my Drupal 7 test appliance in SUSE Studio to the Drupal 7.0-beta2 release, which was released on Oct. 23rd. I also added phpMyAdmin upon a user request, to provide a web-based method to work with the MySQL instance, if needed.
In addition to the lightweight "headless" appliance (which can only be accessed and configured via a remote network connection), I've now also created a GUI-based version. This appliance starts a minimal GNOME desktop and a Mozilla Firefox browser, which in turn opens the Drupal installation page by default. I hope you will find this useful if you want to toy around and test Drupal 7 without having to go through the entire OS and LAMP stack configuration yourself. In fact, you can even test this appliance via the recently added test drive option from right out of your web browser!
The appliance is now also available in OVF format. SuSE Studio now also builds Amazon EC2 images, which don't seem to be available for download from the SUSE Gallery yet. I assume this is a recent addition to the continuously improving SUSE Studio functionality, hopefully these images will be made available soon.
The Drupal community just recently released another alpha test release of their upcoming Drupal 7 version, to shake out the remaining bugs and to encourage more users to test it.
If you would like to give it a try, but you don't have a free server handy, how about using a virtual machine instead? Using the fabolous SuSE Studio, I've created an appliance based on openSUSE 11.3, Drupal 7.0-alpha7 and MySQL 5.1 with the InnoDB plugin and strict mode enabled (both for the SQL mode and InnoDB mode. Using this configuration helps to ensure that Drupal works well with the current version of MySQL/InnoDB and does not use any "questionable" SQL statements. This might be especially interesting for additional modules - Drupal core did not reveal any problems using strict mode so far.
You can download disk images for VMware/Virtualbox/KVM or XEN from the SUSE Gallery (free login required). Just boot the appliance in your virtualization application of choice, choose your keyboard layout and step through the network configuration and Time Zone selection. Once the appliance has booted up and the login: prompt appeared, point your web browser to the appliance's IP address to start the Drupal installation/configuration. MySQL has been pre-configured, there is an empty database named "drupal" and a user "drupal" with the same password to access it. You just need to enter this information in the Drupal Database configuration dialogue during the installation. Anything else can be configured to your liking.
After you have finished the installation, you can toy around with a fresh Drupal 7 installation! Install additional modules, change the themes, add content. And make sure to report all bugs that you run into while doing so! Have fun.
I've been working in a fully distributed work environment for almost 8 years now (I joined MySQL AB in April, 2002). Therefore I've been reading Toni Schneider's blog post about the "5 reasons why your company should be distributed" with great interest – he raised several points that I fully agree with and which I covered in my talks about "Working for a virtual company - how we do it at MySQL" at last year's next09 conference (slides, video) and at FrOSCon 2009 (video).
However, Toni draws a profusely positive picture here, or, as my dear colleague Dean pointed out "The blog overly simplifies the realities of a distributed workforce, making it sound like it's all ponies and rainbows".
I recently received a question from Robin Schumacher at Calpont, the makers of the InfiniDB analytics database engine for MySQL: "How would you recommend we try and get bundled in with the various Linux distros?"
Since this question has come up several times before, I thought it might make sense to blog about my take on this.
First of all, please note that there is a difference between "being part of the core distribution" and "being available from a distributor's package repository". The latter one is relatively easy, the former can be hard, as you need to convince the distributor that your application is worth devoting engineering resources to maintain and support your application as part of their product. It's also a space issue – distributions need to make sure that the core packages still fit on the installation media (e.g. CD-ROMs or a DVD). Therefore they take a very close look at each package and if it's really needed to be part of the installation medium or if it's fine to provide it for download from a package repository instead.
Distributors prefer to keep their core product small and restricted to the "basic OS building blocks". While MySQL might still be considered to be a part of this, this probably does not apply to the various plugins and extensions that are available for it. Therefore the best approach is to invest some engineering time and start doing the packaging yourself, either by hiring an engineer capable of creating and maintaining the packages, or by finding someone in your community who has the required experiences and is willing to do it.
While it's of course possible to set up and maintain your own build and package hosting infrastructure for that, I recommend to make use of the existing services provided by the distributors.
The top tier distributors all provide means of offloading the maintenance of "non-core" packages to their community, offering various options for packages to be made available. For example, Novell/openSUSE provide the free "Build Service", which is capable of building packages for other distributions as well (e.g. Fedora, Mandriva, Debian/Ubuntu, etc.). In addition to automating the builds, the Build Service also takes care of the distribution via their download mirror network and ensures that your application can be found via their package search interface.
Red Hat/Fedora provide something similar, named "Koji" – but it's "Fedora only". Here's a HOWTO that outlines the process of becoming a Fedora package maintainer.
Ubuntu/Canonical have "Personal Package Archives (PPAs) – if your project is hosted on Launchpad already, that might be something to look into for providing Debian/Ubuntu packages. Alternatively you could join the Debian project and start building and maintaining your package there. They maintain a list of "Work-Needing and Prospective Packages", a description of the process on how to become a new maintainer is outlined here.
If you'd like to target Solaris/OpenSolaris as well, there is the OpenSolaris Source Juicer – a web service which allows OpenSolaris community developers to build packages (using RPM spec files) and publish them for review, so they will be included in an official package repository. The Software Porters Community Group coordinates, advocates, encourages and helps with the porting of Software from multiple Platforms to the OpenSolaris Platform.
So you're a small startup company, ready to go live with your product, which you intend to distribute under an Open Source License. Congratulations, you made a wise decision! Your developers have been hacking away frantically, getting the code in good shape for the initial launch. Now it's time to look into what else needs to be built and setup, so you're ready to welcome the first members of your new community and to ensure they are coming back!
Keep the following saying in mind, which especially holds true in the Open Source world: "You never get a second chance to make a first impression!". While the most important thing is of course to have a compelling and useful product, this blog post is an attempt to highlight some other aspects about community building and providing the adequate infrastructure. This insight is based on my own experiences and my observations from talking with many people involved in OSS startups and projects.
The summer break seems to be over and the event season is heating up again! There is a number of conferences and events coming up in the next months — here is a quick summary of the events that I plan to attend.
This Friday I will attend an event here in Hamburg: the "Silpion Sommerfest", organized by Silpion (a local IT solutions provider which is a partner of Sun Microsystems as well). I will be there to network and talk about MySQL.
This coming weekend (2009-09-12/2009-09-13), there will be the PHP Unconference here in Hamburg, Germany . It will consist of two days of Barcamp-style sessions about PHP. Sun/MySQL are sponsors of the event and I expect several of my team mates to be there as well. With more than 180 participants, the event is already sold out.
The following week I will be attending the openSUSE Conference in Nuremberg, Germany on 2009-09-17/2009-09-20. I will give the opening keynote on Thursday morning. Titled "Working in a Virtual Community", I will talk about the pros and cons of working in a virtual organization, giving an overview about some of the technical and social aspects that play a role in working with virtual communities.
On December 10th and 11th I will be attending the 4. Secure Linux Administration Conference 2009 (SLAC) in Berlin, Germany. I've been invited to talk about MySQL and will give two sessions about MySQL Backup & Security as well as MySQL High Availability Solutions. The Call for Papers for this event is still open, so if you have a technical, "best practice" talk that might be relevant for system administrators, consider submitting your proposal!
I admit it — I'm a fan of simulation software, particularly flight simulators. Probably the best Open Source Flight Simulator out there is FlightGear — it provides an impressive level of reality and you can download and install many additional plane models and terrains. There are packages of FlightGear 1.0.0 in the games repository of the openSUSE Build Service, which works quite well and I have been enjoying it a lot. However, the FlightGear project released version 1.9.x quite a while ago (1.9.1 was published in January 2009) and I was itching on giving the new version a try (just take a look at the screenshots and you know what I mean). However, building FlighGear on Linux is quite a complex task with many dependencies, and so held off from doing it myself, waiting for someone else to perform the update...
Well, this weekend I finally bit the bullet and did it myself - FlightGear 1.9.1 has now been added to my home:LenzGr build repository. I based my packages on the ones included in the games repository, but I plan on cleaning them up a bit and splitting them into separate packages (currently the FlightGear source RPM contains SimGear and fgrun as well). I also "borrowed" the OpenSceneGraph sources and spec file from the PackMan repository, in order to have a functional build. Unfortunately FlightGear currently only builds on a very limited list of distributions so far (namely OpenSUSE 11.0, just what I needed) — I haven't had time to adapt the spec files for FlightGear and OpenSceneGraph to match the appropriate build dependencies for the other distributions yet and "02-check-gcc-output" gives me some grief on platforms where it actually builds but generates compiler warnings (but patches are welcome!)...
Shortly after I created the initial packages of embedded InnoDB on the OpenSUSE Build Service, Oracle/Innobase released an updated version (220.127.116.1125). In addition to many improvements and bug fixes, they slightly changed the versioning scheme to better indicate what version of the InnodDB plugin their code is based on (see Vasil's posting on the InnoDB Forums for more information).
I've now updated my InnoDB packages on the Build Service to this version as well - please note that the naming scheme of the shared library package has been changed from "embedded_innodb1" to "libinnodb2" — RPM will take care of replacing the old package during update, even though the name has changed.
Oracle/InnoBase announced the availability of the embedded version of InnoDB at this year's MySQL Conference & Expo, but I have not seen a lot of comments or reviews about it so far. Which surprises me, because I think this is a very interesting piece of technology!
In my opinion it might actually hit the sweet spot for application developers seeking an alternative embedded database solution. SQLite is nice and popular, but it seems to have concurrency issues when used in multi-threaded applications. An embedded MySQL server would be an alternative - this is what the Amarok developers decided to go with, for example. But this approach has its issues, too, especially the lack of a shared library version of libmysqld poses some challenges when distributing binaries.
This is where I think the embedded version of InnoDB might have an edge. It's pretty lightweight in comparison to a full-blown MySQL server, provides excellent crash-recovery (which is essential for desktop applications), transactions (useful in environments with high concurrency) and foreign key constraints. I'm not sure how important these are for embedded use cases, it probably depends on the complexity of the data to be stored. On the downside, Embedded InnoDB does not "speak" SQL. In order to store and retrieve values, you need to use the InnoDB API. See the chapter Concepts and Architecture for more details and an overview.
Another possible reason for the low popularity might be that it's currently not part of any Linux distribution (yet) and that Oracle only provides binary tarball packages for Linux and a Windows binary for download from the web site.
Therefore I've now created a spec file to build RPMs of Embedded InnoDB and added it to my repository on the openSUSE Build Service, which now provides Embedded InnoDB packages for a wide range of RPM-based Linux distributions. I hope that the spec file will be included in the next source distribution. I've posted it (and a patch to fix a few problems with the examples) to the newly created InnoDB mailing list, but to be sure I added a note to the Embedded InnoDB Forum as well.
XtraBackup is an Open Source online (non-blockable) backup solution for the InnoDB and XtraDB storage engines. It works with both MySQL 5.0 and 5.1 (and possibly 5.4 as well) and is distributed under the GPLv2.
Some weeks ago Vadim announced the availability of xtrabackup-0.7, stating that they consider it stable enough now to label this version a "Release Candidate". I've been maintaining RPM packages of xtrabackup on the fine openSUSE Build Service for quite some time now, RPMs of 0.7 for a number of distributions are now available for download. Please report any bug reports via the bug tracker on Launchpad.
Today I attended the Drizzle Developer Day which took place in the auditorium of the Sun Campus in Santa Clara.
Many of the the Drizzle core hackers as well as several other people interested in the development attended this event, hacking away and discussing various issues. Jeremy Zawodny gave a presentation about Craigslist's needs for Drizzle, Jay Pipes gave an overview over Google's protocol buffers library. I took a number of pictures, which you can find in my Flickr photo set.
I joined a group of people that haven't built Drizzle from source by themselves so far, helping them with installing Bazaar and the required libraries. As Drizzle requires several third-party libraries that sometimes are not included in the common linux distributions (or only in outdated versions), we spent some time in getting these build requirements fulfilled.
One of the requirements for building Drizzle is libdrizzle - the client & protocol library. So one first has to download and compile this one, before the actual build of the server can proceed. I noticed that the libdrizzle source distribution contained an RPM spec file already, so I've been working on adding libdrizzle to the openSUSE build service today. The packages for various distributions (Fedora, openSUSE, RHEL, Mandriva) will be available for download shortly. Along the way I also fixed several small issues in the spec file and created a libdrizzle-devel subpackage. The patches are now proposed for merging on Launchpad, I hope Eric will take a look at these shortly.
On early Tuesday morning, I made a quick trip to Paris, France, to attend and speak at the Solutions Linux / Open Source 2009 Conference. I've never been to this conference before and was quite surprised about its size - it's actually the largest Open Source event in France and it reminded me a lot of LinuxTag in Germany. Many well-known vendors (e.g. Sun, Novell, Canonical, Bull, etc.) were exhibiting. The also was a large "DotOrg" section for various Open Source projects and I was very happy to see that LeMUG.fr, the official MySQL User Group of France, had a table there, too! A big Thank You goes to Pascal Borghino, who manned that table on his own most of the time and answered questions about MySQL. I walked around the exhibition floor and took some pictures, which I have now posted to my Flickr account.
In addition to the exhibition, there were several parallel tracks with sessions. I was invited to speak about MySQL HA Solutions in the "Aquarium". Unfortunately I had the last slot at that day and they were running a bit behind schedule, so I had only 15-20 people in the audience. But I still had a great time and I received several positive comments about my presentation. I travelled back home early the next day - I wish I had scheduled some more time to attend the conference. I look forward to going there again next year, it was a nice event.
Sorry for the downtime of this site - until around a week ago I hosted my home page on a trusty Genesi Pegasos II system (powered by a PowerPC G4 Processor clocked at 1GHz, using Debian 4.0 PPC with 512 MB of RAM), serving these pages from my home DSL connection. Unfortunately this system provided no means of redundancy - the hard disk drive died.
Luckily I perform frequent backups, so I moved most parts of the site to a shared hosting space now - the picture gallery is unfortunately too big to fit into the space that I have there. I'll try to move the pictures into my Flickr account instead, but this will take some time.
Note that the primary domain name of this site is now lenzg.net - lenzg.org, (the domain that I tried to promote as the official domain for my site) used to redirect to the home machine at lenz.homelinux.org. Both now redirect to the new address instead. I've initiated the move of the lenzg.org domain to the other provider as well, so soon this site will be available from both the .org and .net domain. Please don't link to lenz.homelinux.org anymore, as that site will eventually go out of service. Until then, a small openSUSE Linux box (Intel PIII, 500 MHz, 192 MB of RAM) running lighttpd will perform the URL redirection.


text:
Well as some of you know I finally got that '88 yesterday that I was talking about.. Anyway, I got it started up today at my house and let it run to check things out..Tempature goes up quite quick, and it goes almost to 3/4's untill the fan finally kicks on, i was scared that the motor was shot...As I was watching the fan i noticed some smoke comming from the rad...I felt the rad and it was like falling appart...Its all crispy..guess its time to ditch that stuipd 1Core Rad... What do you guys reccomend? If this is a solid car overall im going to dump money in to it, so buying the top of the line radiator in there w/o getting it too cool would be great..I priced a 'stock-replacement' for it at pepboys and it was 85 bux, but it was teh same 2core rad thats in my '93..and I'm having a heating problem in that.. Thanks, Mike
A couple months ago I installed the FMS 3 core aluminum radiator in mine. Part # FMS-M8005C Costs $247 from summit. The radiator is amazing and I feel it was worth every penny. The car runs at whatever temperature the thermostat is rated for.
also what are your future plans for this car, if you go turbo with a front mount intercooler (volve setup) , your stock and/or larger'r radiator will not fit right. If you stay n/a, go ahead and get what ever your heart desires ;o) keep it real -wood
247 wow...you can get a summit branded aluminum radiator (27x19" i think is the one you want, cant remember) and its less than 200
This is just a temporary solution, but if you turn the heater on full blast it lets the heat blow out of the engine. I know that doesn't really solve anything, but if you're afraid of it smokin' and stuff, that should help while you're driving. Other than that, I'd say spend the money, only cuz you just bought the damn car anyway...
If the summit radiator fits and installs as good as the FMS unit, I'd say go for it. I spent the extra money hoping that it would be an easier install and maybe higher quality. Plus, it came with a built in transmission cooler. Nobody came forward to give opinions on the summit radiator when I was in the market, so I chose one I knew was made for our cars. The hardest part of installation was triming a quarter inch off the front circumference of the fan housing so I could bolt it back on. A couple washers and some longer bolts probably would have worked as well. In hindsight, I don't regret buying the FMS radiator, but if someone on here has used the summit radiator and can tell you the best way to install it, it sounds like an awesome deal. You can never have too big of a radiator, the thermostat will stay closed until operating temperature is achieved.
his car is a 5spd, so he doesn't need the tranny cooler. even if he did, i would feel more comfortable with a large external cooler than one built into a radiator. I know MANY people running the summit radiators in fox cars, as well as 94-95 5.0 cars
heh, just got in, saw alot have replyed to my post which is always good. Yes, I eventually plan to make it Turbo, drop it, Pony wheels, the whole nine..But for the winter its staying stock..Right now i'm mainly worried about the transmission. If you guys have been following my posts about this car before I got it it has some transmission problems, Either the fluid is low beacuse it was sitting for quite a few months. or the syncros are shot...I haven't checked the fluid level yet, but hope so tomorow as I continue cleaning it up
syncros usually go. t5's really aren't too bad to work on, i would probably tackle synchros myself. I would personally go with the scummit branded aluminum radiator, and probably will when i need a new one for my car...my 4cyl looks to have a better radiator than my 94 5.0, i kid you not
I'm just gonna have a transmission shop do it, im not even going to drop it....shhh im not supposed to let my dad know anythings wrong with this car....
hahahaha, i remeber those days of avoiding the parents (sry, i used to prowl around in here a while back, before i blew my motor for those who dont know me) but yeah, i think that you can get a 3 core from advanced auto parts for your car, something like the Heavy Duty replacement for the radiator, only like 170-180 or somethin like that
But will it cool too much? I have problems heating up in my '93, it dosen't go passed the 2nd bar...its the stock 2 core rad..
as said before, you can't have a too big radiator, the thermostat is what controls temp... Go get yourself a stock replacement "Stant" 195 degree thermostat and gasket
yeah, do that, and if you then have problems heating up too fast get a 180 deg thermostat, had one in my 2.3 for two years with no problems till i blew the motor


text:
Your name is fitting, because what you say is a joke. Lolz "all closed source software is a virus". Dumbass. You need a tinfoil suit to match your tinfoil hat; the government might not be able to read your mind but they might be able to control your body otherwise...............
Seriously, though. I can't believe I'm actually posting this, but...:
Reasons to be closed source:
- Prevent upstarts from taking your code, modifying it, and redistributing it with malware inside.
- Prevent the game owners from reading your code, finding a telltale heuristic (a.k.a. 'signature' move) that your bot will do every time something occurs, and bot nuking all your users.
- Prevent people from downloading your source, fucking something up, and getting themselves banned.
- Prevent competitors from stealing your source, adding stuff, and selling it.
- Protect paid script makers. Open source = much harder to secure...imagine that.
- The list goes on...


text:
Same as Dungeon Master 2
Get rid of Lord Chaos. You'll be given firestaff to do so when you enter the zo-link gate.
Programs used: DMute 1.3
This is as close as possible to the original Dungeon Master 2. I wasn't able to recreate some puzzles, but they are mostly replaced with my own versions. I didn't have maps for the cellars and caves so I have made them as I remembered (not well). Also items are mostly from memory.
The outside area is mapped closely, but it is not entirely accurate. I had to make some areas smaller and if you try to map it on paper, well, good luck. Some areas won't mach properly. Skulkeep itself is nearly 1:1. I had to fiddle a bit with stairs and such.
Shops work very different from DM2. When you enter you'll see the shop guard (stone golem in The Town, knights in the village) and a coin slot. Put a gold coin in slot and door opens. You can then browse the shop. To buy simply step into the same square as the item. You'll figure it out. (Oh, yes. The shop in the second village needs a blue gem).
The Town, clockwise: your house, the teleport room, armor shop, tavern, and weapon shop.
The 2nd Village: Tavern and equipment shop.
The Armorer sells a full plate set (two pieces per purchase), chain set and two full sets of clothes (elven and wizard). Tavern sells torches and food (and water).
Weapon Shop has Axe, Sword, Mace of Order, Crossbow (& arrows). Put a coin in second slot and you can buy delta and diamond edge.
The equipment shop has The Inquisitor, The Hardcleave and full Armor of Lyf on sale for one blue gem a piece.
You use the Mirror of Dawn to teleport at some tech eyes. Stairs work as usual. Ladders are substituted with teleporters. If wall behind the teleporter is marked with a dent then the teleporter is ladder.
Upper dent means up and lower means down.
Copy the DM2.DAT file over your DUNGEON.DAT in /DATA/ folder. Don't forget to backup your original DUNGEON.DAT! Start the game as normal.
Attachment | Size |
CustomDungeon-DungeonMaster2-LegendOfSkullkeep.zip | 17.09 KB |
Title | Custom dungeon reviewed | Reviewer | Gameplay | Originality | Difficulty | Puzzles | Size | Replayability | Craft | Game Ending | Atmosphere | Overall |
Review: Dungeon Master 2 - Legend of Skullkeep (DM PC) | Dungeon Master 2 - Legend of Skullkeep | Michael Hutton (a.ka. Beowuuf) | 8 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 4 |