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Read this overview before going to the individual islands
There aren't many Gaelic words that have made made it into English but machair is one. It means land behind the beach. There are lots of beaches. Quiet stretches of sand deposited by countless Atlantic rollers. The fertility of the machair is due to a mixture of peat and windblown sand, peat is normally infertile due to poor drainage. In summer you will notice many wild flowers. The scenery in the Outer Hebrides is amongst the most beautiful in the world - the sea is very clear. On a sunny day when it covers the white sands of the west coast it has more colours of blue and green than you can imagine. The white colour of the sand is due to its high shell content (over 80%). The marine life includes dolphins, seals, sharks and whales. The Minch (between the Skye and the Outer Hebrides) is one of the best areas in Britain for whale watching. Seals are particularly common and will be seen sunning themselves all round the islands. Not surprisingly the Outer Hebrides are also famous for shellfish which thrive in the unpolluted waters.
The Outer Hebrides are also noteable for numerous lochs. Some of these are brackish and others are dark and acidic, water lillies are quite common and many have populations of trout and charr. Birds include dunlin, redshank, plover, lapwing and the islands are the last stronghold of the corncrake. Nearly every beach seems to have a population of sandpipers. The islands are formed on the oldest exposed rock in the world, Lewisian Gneiss. This is grey coloured with bands of white and dark minerals contorted by the pressure of the earth. These were formed over 3000 million years ago, similar rocks are found today in Canada to which this part of Scotland was once joined.
Harris Tweed is cloth that has been handwoven by the islanders of Lewis, Harris, Uist and Barra in their homes, using pure virgin wool that has been dyed and spun in the Outer Hebrides. This is the definition of Harris Tweed contained in the Harris Tweed Act of 1993 and it ensures that all cloth certified with the Harris Tweed Orb symbol complies with this definition and is genuine Harris Tweed, the world's only commercially produced handwoven tweed. For centuries the islanders of Lewis, Harris, Uist and Barra have woven the cloth: Clo Mhor in the original Gaelic- 'The big cloth'. As the Industrial Revolution reached Scotland, the mainland turned to mechanisation but the Outer Islands retained their traditional processes. Lewis and Harris had long been known for the excellence of the weaving done there, but up to the middle of the nineteenth century, the cloth was produced mainly for home use or for a local market. Nowadays of course it is exported all over the world. More of the cloth is in fact produced in Lewis but you can still see Harris tweed being woven in Harris on the west coast at Luskentyre - take the dead end road off to Luskentyre beach to get to them: Luskentyre Harris Tweed Co. tel: 01859 550261.
Traditionally touring cyclists do the Outer Hebrides (Barra, South Uist, Benbecula, North Uist, Harris and Lewis) as a long chain of islands, taking perhaps a week to cycle the whole thing. This doesn't present any problem, and the scenery is at times so beautiful it defies description. Two major questions arise, which direction to do it in, and how to get there. The ferry journeys will be from from Oban to Castlebay (on Barra) and Lewis (on Stornoway) to Ullapool.
Which direction to cycle turns on wind direction. The prevailing wind is from the south-west though in summer there are sometimes northerly winds. The northerly winds are likely to be dry, but westerly winds might bring rain. Personally I prefer cycling cycling north. Traditionally the most reliable sunny weather is in the early summer though perhaps this pattern is now being broken. Certainly these islands do sometimes get long sunny spells when the rest of Britain is suffering rain. A possible problem is that the two mainland ferry terminals: Oban and Mallaig are 100 miles apart, so if you leave a vehicle at one of these places you have a 100 mile cycle on busy roads to return to it.
One solution would be to get the train. You can travel by train to Oban but the nearest train station to Ullapool is at Culrain 50 miles to the east. Cycling between Culrain (Carbisdale Youth Hostel) and Ullapool is fine, and the scenery is splendid. Most people could do it in a day. For train times phone 0845 7484950. Don't forget to reserve a space for your bike as places are limited.


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"This lovely book, so unaffected and so generous, opens the door to a past I knew as a child in Iowa, and I wept with joy and recognition as I read it. It deserves a distinguished place next to Hamlin Garland's Son of the Middle Border but, with its deep humility, it would also fit, without a single word of protest, next to the Betty Crocker Cookbook."—Ted Kooser, U. S. poet laureate, 2004-2006
"Little Heathens is an enchanting but thoroughly unsentimental look at rural life in the Great Depression. In clear clean prose we are offered the grit, struggle, and also the joy of hard work on a farm. I cherish this book for its quite naked honesty and quiet lyricism about a time which makes our current problems nearly childish. This is a fine book."—Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall
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"Little Heathens made me ache for my own Depression-era Grandma, with her hand-cranked clothes wringer and her North Dakotan speech tut-tutting…. This is a book to awaken your family's own half-remembered stories – or better, to send you back to your elders to scour up your own."—Cleveland Plain Dealer


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His players implored him to belly-flop into a California hotel pool, and he complied -- at age 75. He once took a running plunge into the mud during a soppy game in Oregon. He adored when players pulled pranks on him, insisted players use his first name -- Frosty! -- and corrected them if they used "Coach."
He sometimes halted practice to have players spend five minutes gazing beyond the giant evergreens to Mount Rainier. He sometimes halted practice to have players go to other sporting fields and cheer on, say, the soccer team. He always halted two-a-day practices in August and instructed players to go help freshmen move into dormitories.
He believed deeply in singing. His players sang before games, after games. Sometimes they sang to the mock direction of the coach's cane. Always they learned to sing without embarrassment, for it had become uncool to refrain from the refrains. For his 300th win in September 2003, an offensive lineman led the team in James Taylor's "Steamroller." During warmups for the NCAA Division III national championship game in December 1999, right there on the field in Virginia, his players sang "The Twelve Days of Christmas," then proceeded to win 42-13.
Can you imagine warming up on the other side, then losing 42-13 to that?
During three of the best days of my career -- those in his company, in Tacoma, Wash., in 2003 -- he requested that I join his players for supper in their dining hall. Three of them drove me, in a pickup truck, back to my car. Along the way, they sang "Leaving on a Jet Plane."
"Why singing?" I asked the coach.
"When you sing," he said, "your consciousness is raised."
And lest you think this guy some Left Coast flake, let me hurl at you this biographical detail: former drill instructor, United States Marine Corps.
Did you know one of the most remarkable American coaches died on Friday? Did you know that Frosty Westering, who had 32 seasons at Pacific Lutheran without a losing record in any, who never mentioned playoffs or titles to his players but won four national championships and four runner-up finishes on two levels, died at 85 surrounded by his considerable family? Please know. Please, please know.
An airline pilot wrote to the university president. He wrote because the Pacific Lutheran presence on his airplane had taken a routine day and whipped it up into memorable. He wrote because Westering insisted his players respect other people's work. He wrote because that respect included rapt attention to the flight attendants, which in turn included a phenomenal sound that came when the players clicked their seat belts in unison.
He wrote because at the destination gate, the college football players had held back and lined up on two sides in a "go" tunnel so they could give high-fives to disembarking crew.
A janitor wrote to the university president. He wrote because when he came upon Pacific Lutheran's visiting locker room one postgame in Portland, he found the chairs lined up in impeccable order. He wrote because he found the floors and lockers completely free of the normal detritus. He found the place just about spotless.
He wrote because, when he arrived in the room, he found a note on the whiteboard suggesting he go home and join his wife by the Christmas tree.
A man in a wheelchair came to the "Afterglow," a Westering postgame concoction where a few hundred players, coaches and fans would gather in the bleachers. They might discuss the game. Players might thank the fans for support. Fans might thank the players for inspiration. Everyone would sing "Happy Birthday" to anyone with a birthday nigh. The "Afterglow" would happen after wins, but -- oh yes -- the "Afterglow" would happen also after losses, because in Westering's mind, losing meant you had just completed the privilege of playing.
On a weekday after the "Afterglow," Westering happened upon the man in the wheelchair and invited him to practice. Soon after that, he made the man an assistant coach, and so John Nelson, a quadriplegic Singaporean-American born with a debilitating condition and spinal-cord problems, came to head up the freshmen players. And they, in turn, had to take on responsibilities for his care: dressing him, helping him eat, helping him go to the bathroom. Do you suppose that taught them anything?
By 2003, Nelson had lost count of the times he had appeared as a groomsman in the weddings of former players, reckoning the number beyond 10. He told of a road trip stop at Disneyland when the players determined he should take a ride, so one player hugged him all the way through. During those three days I spent with the team in 2003 Nelson said to me, "There's a reason for this, a reason for the guys coming out to this program, to see somebody who's different. Hopefully, it inspires them. If someone in public needs help, I'm sure they will be comfortable with helping them."
Doctors thought Nelson would have trouble making 30. By 2003, he had made 38. By his death in 2009, he had made 44. At his memorial service, Frosty placed a jersey on his wheelchair.
Westering had such stern rules. His players had to help up opponents during games on the premise that the privilege of playing could not occur without opponents. Troublemakers didn't have to run sprints; no, they were denied the "honor" of running. He knew fear could motivate but thought love could motivate for longer, so players badly in need of upbraiding -- of putdowns -- would receive what Frosty called "put-ups," and he mandated six put-ups per day.
One put-up, "Attaway" -- a configuration of "That a way" -- became a staple. He had players use it prolifically, including toward hotel clerks, short-order cooks, fast-food clerks, custodial staffs, flight crews. They used it one day at practice after Frosty had some women's volleyball players address the team about their recent and difficult victory over Puget Sound.
In a football world chockablock with practices planned to the minute if not the second, Frosty's practices carried a decided imprecision. His son and coaching successor Scott said that, to his knowledge, his father had never written a practice plan. One day he had me address the team, impromptu. Sometimes he'd serve popsicles, with root beer one flavor during my visit. Wet days might enable frolicsome sliding contests. Meetings never started on time, and Frosty's penchant for hazy punctuality proved so entrenched that Donna, his wife and the mother of their five children, found an "ish" clock with the suffix "ish" beside each number and placed it on their kitchen wall.
Said Donna, one day on the phone, "In fact, it's five after 2-ish right now."
Players never wore full gear until game days, then would suit up on Saturdays, sing (of course), maybe even listen to some music professor Frosty had invited to play drums for them on an upside-down bowl and plastic pitcher. Then the whistle would blow, the kickoff would go up, and players would tell of this astonishing transformation into hard, hard hitting -- replete with helping up the people they'd hit.
Then again, one day in September 2003 the quarterback came to the sideline on fourth-and-12 and said, "Let's go for it," whereupon Frosty said, "You're kidding," whereupon a small gaggle of players agreed with the quarterback, whereupon Frosty said, "Let's do it, then," whereupon Pacific Lutheran converted the first.
Seasons would begin with a three-day getaway in which players bonded, played games but not football, apologized for any insufficient effort the prior season and sang, sang, sang, the freshmen standing on chairs and singing their high school fight songs unless they could not remember them, in which case they got stuck with "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." Seasons would end the way almost all seasons everywhere end, with a loss, but with a way almost no seasons end, with an "Afterglow." Or they ended with a win and an "Afterglow."
And when PLU careers ended, the graduates sprinkled over much of the Northwest, some in coaching. One helped run a car dealership where they took time to behold Mount Rainier and they declined an applicant after a job interview in which the applicant told of being a No. 1 salesman, because they thought he had missed the point of it all.
Their former coach always bought used cars, so he drove me to the dining hall in his 1993 blue Oldsmobile. When he left one day for a speaking engagement, he offered me the use of his small office, which surely meant he wasn't cheating. And when I returned to New York, a dear friend who does not follow college football but who read my story said something simple, but said it with an inflection that made it ring in my head for good.
"He's a great man," my friend said. A great man died on Friday. A great man also lived from 1927 until Friday, and while he lived, oh boy, was he alive.


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It took almost two weeks from the time I ordered my internet to the time those fateful lights on my modem lit up, but I am back, again, with The Internet.
The first thing I did was log onto Twitter. It took me about two minutes to remember that I find Twitter very irritating. So the second thing I did was shut down Twitter.
I accomplished my second move of the month (one month exactly between moves), this one a major cross-country, 2 timezones move. My parents decided to sell the house (actually that's old news, but it didn't sink in until I was packing) so I had to move everything, everything, everything. And I'll tell you over the course of 20 years of schooling, a person sure accumulates a lot of papers and textbooks. I tossed as much as I could into the recycle bin.
And I still ended up with about 30 boxes. Boxes that won't come for another 2 weeks or so, but it's ok, I'm having a pretty cool time. Camping in the living room FTW.
That photo was taken shortly before the second night. The first night looked more like this.
As you may conclude from the pictures, my internetless time was probably the period of my life were I drank the most. I also played tons of Civilisation V, and when I couldn't handle Civ V anymore, I finally got around to watching Season 1 of House, which I had downloaded months ago. The first few episodes were difficult: I kept yelling out that "HOSPITALS DONT WORK THAT WAY!!!!". But once I got over how unrealistic the show is, I was completely captivated by "Will Cameron get House into her bed?"
I also, while going through internet withdrawl, starting writing a story about The Internet. I suspect that the next time I touch it will be the next time I'm internetless.
Then one day a technician came to my house and magically lit up my modem.
Because I Have To Include WoW In This Post
I got to play WoW a bit over the past 2 days. I live across the street from my job which frees up an incredible amount of time. So I FINALLY got to check out 4.2. I did some Mark of the World Tree dailies, I polished up my tanking set (don't tell my guild) and I ventured into Firelands. We haven't killed anything yet, partly because I spent the first hour and a half wiping the raid, (I hope I'm just rusty and not losing my touch) but we made good progress on Shannox.
No, I'm not excited to be playing WoW again. I assume it's just the usual: whenever I'm away for a long time, I don't feel like getting back into it.
Silly how I've been spending the past 6 months talking about what I want in my Perfect West Coast Guild and now I'm wondering if I should keep playing WoW at all.
Thing is- I love my job. Yeah, it's just the honeymoon phase, but the hours are a lot more flexible than I expected, the store needs quite a bit of organizing (my specialty!) and I have plenty of opportunity to travel around and do relief work all over Northern Alberta. Suddenly raiding doesn't seem so exciting. Everything raiding (and being in a guild) gave me, I can get from my job.
Plus I'm sorta liking this having money thingy.
Of Guilds and Guild Searching
Those who speak to me on a regular basis (all two of you) are probably very excited for me to find a new home. Mostly because that means I'll stop talking about finding a new home.
I'm a little worried about losing yet another month of boss kills, but I think I will keep with the casual route until my schedule gets sorted out. I don't want to make a commitment I can't keep.
What I miss the most about having a guild- a real guild that feels like home- is being dedicated to something. Remember that post I made about relationships with guilds? Well I quit lying to myself. For better or for worse, I have a relationship with my guilds that compares to romantic relationships. Maybe because I'm so uninterested in relationships with actual people. Err. Anyway. I like having a project to commit to, to be constantly thinking about improvements, about pretty trinkets I can buy it, about lovely conversations I can have with it. I miss that. With my current guild (or guilds, though I've probably been kicked for inactivity from my Horde guild by now) I've kept my distances. I didn't want to get attached (plus they tend to like status quo, I'm not sure my enthusiasm for evolution would be warmly welcomed).
And even though I get hurt when things eventually don't work out, I don't really care. I look for somewhere else to focus my energy. I think work might fill that gap now, but if you asked me what I miss the most from WoW, the answer would be "being actively involved in a guild".
Anyway, I should catch up on my 4.2 holy paladin reading. Rohan and Adgamorix have both written some interesting stuff that I (and some of you) might want to brush up on.
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July 14, 2011 at 5:36 am
hey well i met u in like Vash along time ago my main is "Myros" blood elf paladin and we talked for awhile and i thought u had a alli main and i just faction changed my Shaman so i wanted to know if u did whats its name if you are still playing WoW
July 15, 2011 at 9:33 am
So, Mark of the World Tree, eh? I hear everyone talking about it, but I don't even know what the darn things are, besides that they're in Hyjal. I hadn't quested there at all while leveling (I did maybe a quarter of Vash'Jir before switching to dungeons, hehe), so I'm really unsure where to even begin. Fortunately, my guild remains stuck on pre-FL bosses, so I don't have to worry much about updated gear yet.
Also, the drinking. *nags*


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April 26, 2011
McGeorge wrapped up a highly successful moot court season with an appearance in the 7th Annual International Criminal Court Moot Competition, which was held April 10-15, 2011, in The Hague, Netherlands.
McGeorge qualified for the world championship round by finishing second to William & Mary School of Law in the ICC North American Regional back in January. There were 21 teams at the final event representing 12 countries and five continents. Bond University of Australia won the world title with Nalsar University of India taking second and defending champion Osgoode Hall of Canada finishing third.
Scott Radcliffe, Krystal Collins and Susie Booth comprised the McGeorge team that traveled to Europe. Professor Linda Carter, the team coach, and Professor John Sims accompanied them. David Magnan, the fourth member of the student team, was unable to make the trip.
"We competed well in the preliminary rounds in The Hague," said Carter. "While we were not in the finals, both John and I felt that our team was competitive throughout the preliminary rounds. In fact, in one of our rounds, we were up against Osgoode and Bond."
"For the students, this was an intensive experience in analytical thinking, researching, writing, and constructing legal arguments on highly complex legal issues," Carter said. "A special note of accomplishment goes to Susie Booth, our legal researcher on the team. She helped the team research and write the briefs, but did not do an oral argument in the regional. But when David was unable to go, she stepped to the forefront. We contacted Susie less than a week before we left for The Hague to ask her to prepare the prosecution argument and argue it. She worked day and night, created her argument, and practiced it with us in The Hague. Although she had almost no free time in The Hague, Susie's efforts paid off and she did very well in the oral round. Krystal and Scott, too, were exceptional in each round that they argued, and David was outstanding in the competition in New York."
In addition to visiting the International Court of Justice and touring other sights, the McGeorge students were able to meet with several alumni who work in The Hague, including Yanying Li (Permanent Court of Arbitration), Nicole Rangel (ICTY), Cynthia Tai (ICC) and Lauren Tipton (Special Court for Sierra Leone).
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1957 - 22 December 2013
David Ward will be remembered for his determination to succeed at Go. He was also very generous with his time, being willing to play others, no matter what level they were at.
He contributed to British Go in many ways including being our analyst for many years, mentoring in the Shodan Challenge, running the London Open for several years and many articles in the British Go Journal.
Go was more than just a game for him, it was a soul mate. We have truly lost a Go friend.


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Noise Monkey wrote:It's not like you missed anything. In spite of my efforts, the boat still sank.
Did not! I drove past it just the other day!
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In the happy thread, Jim North wrote:I'm happy because I made a new G for Genesis today.
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Moments: Seeing Tony Hawk For The First Time
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater is remembered as a classic, but it wasn't always so. Back in 1999, it was an unknown game from an unheralded PlayStation developer in a genre that many thought could never be successful. I still recall the first time I saw it.
The events of my career at Game Informer have grown a bit hazy over the years, but I was either an unpaid intern at that time or had just been given a full-time position as an associate editor. In either case, the Game Informer "offices" back then were an odd-shaped room of about 15 feet long crammed to the ceiling with all the editors, piles of video games and promotional materials, and forests of empty Coke cans. Because we all shared the same space, every time a new game came in the office, all the editors could easily check it out.
The day that Tony Hawk arrived, no one was particularly excited about that game. While that might seem like heresy now, you have to remember the times. Skateboarding games hadn't been a hot property in gaming for years; you'd have to go back to old-school titles like Skate or Die!, 720°, and the boarding portion of the ancient California Games to find decent skateboarding games.
From our perspective, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater was a licensed game developed by second-tier studio, Neversoft, which was best known (if it was known at all) for a middling PlayStation game called Apocalypse that featured goofy voiceovers from action star Bruce Willis.
Reiner usually checked out the new games in those days, and he dutifully booted up the game to get a feel for it. This early version of the game contained the now-iconic first level (Warehouse), and it didn't take long for us to see that Neversoft had created something special. This was video game skateboarding the likes of which we hadn't seen before.
As Reiner began to grasp the complex, fighting-game style combos and learn the grinding lines, a crowd began to gather around his desk. While it was hardly a simulation of real skateboarding, the superhuman feats he was able to perform had us all transfixed. Our attitude of indifference had changed to one of eagerness; we were soon asking Reiner if we could grab the controller and have a run.
To this day, it's hard to remember a game that had this kind of impact in the office. For the next few years, Tony Hawk (and it's excellent early sequels, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and 3) became a staple of our outside-the-office gaming. I still remember the apartment I had in the Uptown neighborhood in Minneapolis where I spent countless hours trying to perfect half pipe tricks and grind lines.
This surprise title made such an impact on us that it won a spot on the cover of Game Informer. Reiner made the gutsy decision to pull our originally planned cover in favor of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. I'll let him tell that story:
"With editor-in-chief Andy McNamara gone on a trip to attend the PlayStation 2's unveiling in Japan, and no means of communicating with him at the time, I decided to pull the planned Pokémon Yellow cover story in favor of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. We only had a day to make the change and I had to act fast. I thought for sure I was going to get fired for changing the cover without telling Andy, but on the day he arrived back in the office, he said I made the right call. Like all of the editors who fell in love with the game, once Andy saw Pro Skater, he knew this game was destined to be a classic."


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Thursday, May 10, 2007
Move Along! Nothing To See Here!
Ohka escaped the game after 4 and 2/3 innings with only giving up three runs. Josh "Gas Can" Towers and the normally solid Scott Downs coughed up three runs each to leave the score at 9-3.
Something has to happen. Anything. If management isn't going to change, look for some personnel changes. We think that MacGowan will now get a spot good bad or indifferent. They'll probably move up the plans to put Casey Janssen in the rotation as well. This will be an improvement over the failed Victor Zambrano project. But we know this isn't the answer to get the Jays back in the race. But there isn't anybody willing to part with a good arm at this time of year for a bat. So sit tight and wait...for next year?
1 comment:
- Jim Briggs said...
"Wait for next year." The worst words you could hear in early May.
I did have to turn my head a bit at a caller to Ricciardi's post-game conversation/call-in (which I must admit takes cojones on his part to keep doing), who suggested, if Zambrano sucks, and Ohka sucks, and we're getting 5+ERAs from these guys, why not just put in Janssen, Marcum, McGowan as 3-5 with their 6+ERAs considering they at least have some upside.
On one hand, dude's right. On the other, if that's where we are right now, especially given that the vaunted offense is in a James Brown-worthy funk, it's beyond dire.
So he's right that it's dire, is my conclusion. Moves will undoubtedly be made -- hopefully they are not of the Young-for-Loaiza variety (IMO one of the all-time worst trades).
And Josh "Gas Can" Towers? That, my friend, is remarkably creative. Love it.
- May 10, 2007 at 9:34 AM


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Study of the composition, physiology and possible adaptation of microbial communities exposed to weightlessness
The main scientific objectives of the experiment are:
To evaluate which microbial species could unwantedly develop under the growth conditions in life support systems used for human spaceflight. The focus is on potentially infective and destructive microbes, and on the origin and distribution of species on different sample sites of the ISS.
Samples will be taken by rubbing swab-sticks over a defined surface (e.g. buttons, keyboards, personal care appliances). Furthermore, wall panels and other places where condensation creates moist surfaces will be sampled. In addition, electrical wires that produce some heat that might favour microbial growth and places with visible microbial growth will also be sampled.
Samples will also be taken from the astronauts from areas such as the nose and skin before, during and after the flight.
To investigate how microbial species adapt to weightlessness. Is there adaptation to weightlessness by microbes and if so what kind of adaptation: long-term physiological adaptation or genetic selection? Does weightlessness affect the adhesive properties of microbes?
To investigate this adaptation an E. coli bacteria will be grown in space inside a tube. The bacteria will be analysed back on Earth.


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A Primer on editing the AOLCP profile on the
Online Searchable Database of NOFA AOLCPs
Instructions for Business-Level NOFA AOLCPs
This website feature is a publicly available, searchable, online database of the NOFA Organic Land Care Program's Accredited Organic Land Care Professionals (AOLCPs). We have created this as a service to AOLCPs and to clients who want to find them. Please make sure to review our privacy policy before and terms of use before creating your profile. By creating your profile you are acknowledging that you read and have accepted our policies. Only our Business Level AOLCPs are able to have a business listing. If you used to have an AOLCP listing and no longer do, you probably reaccredited as a supporter or have lapsed, if you call our office or e-mail email@example.com we can help you get your profile up and running again!
AOLCPs should view the database as something a little like an online networking site, it is a place where you can enter data about your professional self and the business you are associated with that you want the public to see. This database is separate from the NOFA OLC program's internal database, and the OLC program does not use it to store contact information about AOLCPs. NOFA might use it to retrieve information to be published in the printed OLC Guide.
Bear in mind that since the NOFA OLC program accredits individuals, and not businesses, we have organized this database to be geared towards the individual AOLCP. All the entries apply to the individual, and only in the Business info section is contact information about the business with which the AOLCP is associated, either as owner, employee or volunteer.
Note that the zip code search featured here isn't standard. In this program, when the public enters a zip code, the results are "All AOLCPs who serve that zip code", not all AOLCPs whose address is in or near that zip code.
Quick Start
Click on AOLCP Search
Login: Enter your contact e-mail address and password
Enter the data you want to share with the public
Click "Submit"
Optional but recommended actions:
- Change your password
- To get some photos onto the site, open a Flickr account, tag your pictures with AOLCP. Give the pictures titles to make them more interesting for the viewer.
Full Instructions
Here is a detailed description of the two functional areas, the public area and the members-only area.
Public Area
The public area allows the public to search for AOLCPs by entering Service categories, keyword, or zip code of service location. It is important to note that when the public enters a zip code, the search functions returns all AOLCPs who serve that zip code, not all AOLCPs whose address is in or near that zip code. The results can be sorted by town, last name or business. For more information on a particular AOLCP, click on their name. This brings up a printable window. This type of window is called a "lightbox" and to close it just click on the X or anywhere outside it. Holding the mouse over a picture reveals the picture caption, and clicking on a picture takes you to the AOLCPs Flickr page. The keyword search searches all public data. The public area also allows a user to search business by name, address or AOLCP who works there.
The members-only area is for AOLCPs and offers an interface for entering, controlling, previewing and updating your contact information, services offered, biography, area served, and business information. The site is integrated with Flickr, so that members with a Yahoo! Flickr account (which is free) can display thumbnails and links to their Flickr gallery in the search results. You can edit or update your information at anytime. You can also select which information you want displayed, and which you want hidden, so you don't have to delete entries to hide them.
Click on AOLCP Search
Login: Enter your contact e-mail address and password
When you login, you are taken to "My AOLCP Profile" page. You will already have a name, e-mail address and the password, but nothing else. You can change your e-mail address, but bear in mind that this new e-mail address will now become your login e-mail.
Contact Info vs. Business Info: Since the NOFA OLC program accredits individuals, and not businesses, we have organized this database to be geared towards the individual AOLCP. All the entries apply to the individual, and the Business info is the business with which the AOLCP is associated, either as owner or employee. Therefore, we have provided places to enter Contact info as well as Business info. Your Contact info can be the same as your Business info (except your e-mail address, see below), or they can be different. When someone searches for a professional, what is returned is your Contact info and the business name you are associated with (if any). For a user to view the Business information itself, they need to use the "search businesses" feature.
Preview, Cancel, Submit: These buttons are at the bottom of the page. You can preview or submit the data you have inputted at anytime, even if you are not done. Preview lets you see what it will look like when the user clicks on your name. Submit sends your current edits into the database. Cancel takes you out of the update profile page and brings you back to the public user interface. Submitting is like saving your file and we recommend you do it early and often. You can always change any entry later. When creating your Service Description and Bio, you might even want to type it into your word processing program first, so you can get the text just right before cutting and pasting it into the input form.
- Change password using the button in the upper right. We recommend you change your password to something else.
- Public/Private: This enables you to hide from public view (Private) or show to public view (Public) all your information at once. You can use this if you want to temporarily suspend public access to your information without deleting all your entries, for instance if you have temporarily stopped taking in any more clients.
- *Starred Fields: These fields are required.
- Name: You can change the way your name is entered here if you don't like the one we used to set up the account, for example you might want your nickname here.
- Title, Address, Town, State, Zip: Use the ones you want the public to contact you through. If you decide you don't want them to see a particular piece of information, you can uncheck the box next to it and it will be hidden from public view and unsearchable. (When selecting state, you can get to MA by typing the letter M three times, and to CT by typing the letter C three times.)
- E-mail: You can change this, but bear in mind that it is your user name also. Each unique e-mail addresses can only be used by a single AOLCP, so if you work for a business with multiple AOLCPs, and you want to use the business e-mail address for your contact info, you need to have the business create one specifically for you, or uncheck the box in order to hide your personal e-mail address from public view and search functions. This is the only entry that needs to be unique. For all other fields (e.g. website, phone, address), you can use the same business contact info as other AOLCPs if you want.
- Website URL. We provide a clickable link, so use this if you want the public to easily find your website. If you don't enter the http://, the program will add it automatically if it needs to.
- Phone, Cell, Fax: Enter the numbers you want the public to reach you at. These can be business numbers shared by other AOLCPs.
- Business Information: When you first enter Business information, the program needs to check to see whether or not this business is already listed. If it is listed, then you can simply select it and the Business information fields will be already populated. If it is not already listed, then you can create the listing and then you will become the "owner" of this listing, and the only one who can change it. You can switch business affiliations at any time and go through the same process as above. One you have selected a name and state for your business, and submitted the data, you cannot change these, even if you are the owner, because these uniquely identify the business and they may be being used by other AOLCPs. If you are pretty sure the business already exists, you can type in all or part of the name and the "Check Availability" function will find all the businesses that have that text in their names. So if you can't remember if the business is called "ABC Lawn"or "ABC Lawns", you can type in "ABC" and it will return any business with "ABC" in its name. If you are creating a new business, and you want it to have the same information as your Contact info, you can simply click on the "Copy from Contact Info Above" button.
- Type of Establishment: When first entering in your business information the business "owner" can identify your businesses' type of establishment. Type of establishment is an optional category, it would be:
Garden Center
Landscaping Company
Consulting Firm
State Agency
[or make up your own]
- Services Provided: Please use the Glossary of Services to guide you in selecting the services you provide. To add services to your list, click on the class of services and the category of services and move them over to the right using the double arrow keys. You can select multiple items at a time. These should be services that you or an employee under your direct supervision can provide that are consistent with the NOFA Standards for Organic Land Care. If you do only one of the either/or categories, then do select the item and add it to your list. You can add items not listed into the "other" category. These will be searched when anyone does a keyword search. Don't go crazy entering things here, though, the next item allows more room for you to describe your services in your own words.
- Description of Services: This area will be shown when a user wants more information about an AOLCP, and it is also searched when anyone does a keyword search. This is a good place to mention specialized work for example push reel mowing, hand raking, and specialty gardens. Also a good place to mention what topic you speak on, if you selected "Speaking" in services provided. Any restrictions in your work, e.g. municipal only, or only properties above 10 acres, would be useful here. Bear in mind that it is also used for key word search, so it would be better to write "only municipal" rather than "we don't do residential." If you want to talk about the business you work for, this is a good place to do that, but please only mention services that are conducted consistent with the NOFA Standards. You are allowed a maximum of 1500 characters. For reference, this paragraph is 900 characters.
- Bio: This is where you enter biographical information. It is a good place to mention professional affiliations and licenses, showcase work you have accomplished, mention your land care philosophy and even tell a little bit about yourself. You are allowed 1500 characters.
- Area Served: Here you enter the area that you serve, which is where you are willing to travel to conduct your AOLCP work. You can enter your service area in one of THREE ways. 1) Enter a zip code at the center of your service area, and then enter a radius out from that zip code where you are willing to travel. OR 2) Select one or more states where you service the whole state, OR 3) Select one or more states, and then within those states, select any combination of towns and/or counties where you serve. Once you select a town or county within a state, your service area includes only those towns or counties you selected within that given state. For example, if you selected for states, MA and CT, and then you selected CT- Hartford, your service area would be all of Massachusetts, and Hartford, CT. If you include speaking in your services, you should probably note how far you are willing to travel to speak separately in the Description of Service area if it is very different from how far you are willing to travel to, say, install a meadow. Service area is translated into a set of zip codes that you serve, and when a user enters a zip code in the search, your name is returned if it matches a zip code in your service area. You can hide the area you serve from public view, but it is always used in the search function, regardless of whether or not it is hidden.
- Preview, Cancel, Submit: You can preview or submit the data you have inputted at anytime, even if you are not done.
- Preview lets you see what the data you have just entered will look like when the user clicks on your name. You can preview data before or after submitting it.
- Cancel takes you immediately out of the update profile page and brings you back to the public user interface without saving any of the data you have input since you last clicked on submit.
- Submit sends your current edits into the database. Submitting is like saving your file and we recommend you do it early and often. You can always change an entry later. (The only caveat to this is when entering a new business. Once you have picked a name and state and submitted it, you cannot change these. You can switch businesses and reenter the correct name and/or state, and then tell the NOFA OLC office and we can go in and delete the spurious business). When creating your Service Description and Bio, you might even want to type it into your word processing program first, so you can get the text just right before cutting and pasting it into the input form
Good luck, have fun, and if you have any questions, please contact us.


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Full Plastic Chair
model:B-725 chairs
THREE STAR BROTHERS, with the brand name of BEST PLASTIC FURNITURE, is a professional manufacturer of plastic chairs & tables and other items. "BEST" is located in small industrial zone of the pure industrial city Gujranwala. It is adjacent to Lahore city. From "BEST" products can easily supplied throughout the country.


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The Start of Something Amazing with KDE 4.0 Release
Several years of design, development and testing came together today for the release of KDE 4.0. This is our most significant release in our 11 year history and marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4.0 and the start of the KDE 4 era. Join us now in #kde4-release-party on Freenode to celebrate or come to the release event in person next week. Packages are available for all the major distributions with live CDs available currently from Kubuntu and openSUSE. Read on for details or take the KDE 4.0 Visual Guide to find your way around.
The KDE 4 Libraries have seen major improvements in almost all areas.
The KDE 4 Desktop has gained some major new capabilities. The Plasma desktop shell
Lots of KDE Applications have seen improvements as well. Visual updates through
The Oxygen Artwork team provides a breath of fresh air on the desktop.
Distributions known to have packages:
Thanks to the coders, artists, usability experts, testers, bug triagers and many more who have made this release the start of something amazing. Tell us what you think on this
Will be trying it out as soon as I get a chance tomorrow morning Sydney time ;)
KDE 4.1 will be even more awesome!
By Andrew Donnellan at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Looking forward to the return of kdepim
Hope kdepim comes along soon!
By Luke-Jr at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: Looking forward to the return of kdepim
It compiles, but does not have nearly the amount of polish and testing that it needs. For this, PIM really needs people who want to help out in a constructive manner -- testing, bugfixing. Although KDAB does a lot of good work, they can't save the world -- or PIM -- on their own.
PS. KPilot in PIM for KDE4 *will* eat your children and set your Pilot to speak LOLCAT irreversibly. This is another area we could use some help on; it would up the number of active developers from zero. If you need an extra Pilot to help testing, let me know and I'll send one. Seriously.
By Adriaan de Groot at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
At last!
Downloading kubuntu packages right now :)
I'd like to say THANKS to anyone that have made this release possible. Nice one!
* kwin: window compositing seems to be extremely slow, and it corrupts the contents of new windows very frequently... yes, I've got all the proper X configuration and I can run compiz on no XGL very nicely and I've got a nice beefy nvidia card.
* The new menu is awful... The old menu is still there, however, I cannot add it to the panel as stated above... I can't change the size of the panel either, it's insanely thick... I've got a 1280x800 screen so vertical space and clearance is certainly an issue.
* Well, basically, Plasma seems as uncooked as it was a couple of months ago, just slightly prettier... yes, I know all about "setting the foundations blah blah", but its quality is beta at the very best... it has crashed a few times (leaving a very nice white screen behind). I'm sure the underlying libs are shiny and nice, but the actual interface is very klunky...
* Oxygen: i wish it differentiated better between the active window and the rest of inactive windows in terms of different top window colour etc... There is a nice composite plugin that does the job, but compositing seems to struggle on my computer.
* I plugged in my iPod and... nothing happened on the widget that was supposed to tell me about it...
* Sound works perfect without the massive overhead of the, gone for good, arts daemon.
* Oxygen: looks really pretty and easy on the eyes. I love it.
Re: Impressions
Try to drag from the desktop widget toolbox onto the panel -- it's not quite perfect, but it does work.
The slowness may be due to a buggy nvidia driver. Nvidia already has released an update in December.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: Impressions
Cheers Boudewijn, I'll try what you suggest :)
Re: Impressions
Well I'm using the opensuse packages on 10.3 and haven't had any crashes and compositing works snappily on my fairly average go5700 nvidia card (latestdriver).
The panel is less functional than kicker for the moment but what it does it does well. I had no problem dragging the lockout applet to it for example, and the menu now allows you to add items to panel or desktop (rightclick to access). I don't know how good the kubuntu packages are but the suse ones seem to have been polished (if only little opensuse idents here and there) and they have the most paid developers working on it (correct me if I'm wrong please), summary here http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3196 and always upto date packages so I'm biased.
By opensuse user at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: Impressions
I can only confirm what you said. I am also using openSuse 10.3. I had a little problem with compositing yesterday (I have a nVidia card) but that also improved after using a tip somebody here gave.
I would also like to say a very special thanks to the openSuse people who made it possible for us to get an almost daily update of the KDE 4.0 packages upto release. Well done :)
By Bobby at Sat, 2008/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: Impressions
And today, just one day after release, the suse packages are yet again updated.
ps I wish I had never installed kubuntu as a quick fix after a dead HD with gentoo on it. openSUSE you guys rock (oh... and the kde devs ;) )
By Chaarles Fryett at Sat, 2008/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: Impressions
My personal impressions:
BAD first:
GOOD ones:
Overall not impressive, but I'm betting KDE 4.1 will be.
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Sat, 2008/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: Impressions
>Not being able to drag and drop a plasmoid from desktop to taskbar is bad.
Funny thing, something like this was never possible with the old Kicker(You could drag icon/links, but not applets etc).
And as far as i know, that kind of functionality are not avaliable in any other desktop either. But Plasma will eventually make it possible.
By Morty at Sun, 2008/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Impressions
No, you are wrong - he just used some misleading phrases:
In KDE3.5,
KDE3.5 got some nice and handy drag/mouse/key shortcuts, just that most people didn't know...
By Sebastian at Mon, 2008/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Impressions
"Plasma.. is still like a baby, it does have potential, but right now it just eat and produces some bad-smelling material ;) Not being able to drag and drop a plasmoid from desktop to taskbar is bad."
Plasma is still under heavy development we were told so what we see is just the beginning. Still we are the babies, we are the ones who have to learn how Plasma behaves.
By Bobby at Sun, 2008/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Impressions
What I would like to see is "panel versions of plasmoids" build in every plasmoid. For example dragging NewsTicker plasmoid into panel should give me a smaller plasmoid with news which would look there better. (AFAIR Aseigo was talking about sth like this so maybe tit will happen :) )
btw. section "Plasmoids" is on kde-look.org instead of kde-apps.org. ATM Plasmoids are all C++ apps which need compilation. So IMO they should be placed in kde-apps.org (on kde-apps.og there are already 2 plasmoids because authors didn't new that proper place is look.org ). Ideally ATM there should by Plasmoid sections on -look and -apps which content would be the same.
By Koko at Sun, 2008/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Impressions
"What I would like to see is "panel versions of plasmoids" build in every plasmoid. For example dragging NewsTicker plasmoid into panel should give me a smaller plasmoid with news which would look there better. (AFAIR Aseigo was talking about sth like this so maybe tit will happen :) )"
Yes, this is explicitly a core goal of Plasma, so you can definitely expect it. All of the infrastructure is there; applets writers simply need to respect the information provided by the Plasma core and adjust their applets accordingly. Some already do this, IIRC.
"btw. section "Plasmoids" is on kde-look.org instead of kde-apps.org. ATM Plasmoids are all C++ apps which need compilation. So IMO they should be placed in kde-apps.org (on kde-apps.og there are already 2 plasmoids because authors didn't new that proper place is look.org ). Ideally ATM there should by Plasmoid sections on -look and -apps which content would be the same."
Full agreement, here - kde-look.org is the last place I would have thought of looking!
By anon at Sun, 2008/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Impressions
My iPod was detected just fine (kubuntu latest debs). But my 3rd generation iPod really struggles to speak to linux. Not sure if it's the iPod being crappy, or the sbp2 firewire driver, but it's never been happy through various iterations of the kernel. Works fine over usb though (but doesn't charge...)
However, congratulations to the developers. Overall it's a massive achievement and with a bit of optimisation 4.1 will be a stunning general-consumption desktop!
By Adrian Baugh at Sun, 2008/01/13 - 6:00am
Congratulations to the whole community on reaching this very important milestone. May 4.0.0 be the basis for an amazing series of releases!
By Andre at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Minority Free Software Platforms
I'll report on "my" platforms, as a non-Linux user. FreeBSD is in the "it compiles, but runtime is buggy" stage; there is a Qt4 port you can use, and compiling out of SVN has been fairly stable for a long time. Weird konqueror slowdowns have still not been investigated. Lack of manpower is to blame. Some modules fail to compile (multimedia, utils) but I have not looked at them. Join us on #kde-freebsd to help out.
For OpenSolaris, the situation is the perhaps muddier "runtime is ok, but I can't explain how to compile it." Stefan Teleman just blogged more screenies, but getting KDE4 to compile means a lot of manual work to get the dependencies all compiled with the right C++ libraries. It looks like Qt 4.3.1 is required; Qt 4.3.3 seems to have serious memory leaks in the OpenGL stuff on Solaris, but we haven't had time to track that down either. Join in on #kde-solaris for *that* side of the fence.
KDE4 continues the long KDE tradition of cross-platform support (even if it's not-quite-there on the non-Linux Free Software OSsen -- don't get me started on Plan9 unless you have ported X.org to it recently).
By Adriaan de Groot at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: Minority Free Software Platforms
"Some modules fail to compile (multimedia, utils)"
I am using FreeBSD, and would love to help figure out what's going on with kdeutils. I am able to build it by hand out of svn, with no problems. Unfortunately, my time is almost completely booked until next week. But if you send me a link to the ports, I can poke about if I find some time.
By David Johnson at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: Minority Free Software Platforms
that would be great; ade can use all the help he can get as he's a pivot point right now for both BSD and OpenSolaris as well as being on the KDE e.V. board of directors. oh, and something about a family and a day job. ;) the more people we can get involved with platforms such as FreeBSD, the better! =)
By Aaron J. Seigo at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Congrats to all who worked on it!
By AIK at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Heh, the promo team managed to surprise me again. I expected a loud hallelujah and praises in this release announcement, it almost feels like pure understatement :D
Congrats to everyone involved! Let's make 4.[0.]1 even more rock!
By Jakob Petsovits at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: Careful!
Definitely! I'm really happy to see such exhaustive introduction to KDE 4.0. Lately I was looking for good screenshots to show people something, but now I can just point them to kde.org :D
The visual guide looks good :)
By Diederik van de... at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: Careful!
Yeah, it's a very good announcement, nicely covers everything in an understated way, good job guys.
But I'm still wonderig about the need for a 'truth in advertising' page detailing what doesn't work so well, what doesn't work at all, and what was deferred to 4.1. I can hear a million ill-informed bloggers firing up their KBlogger as we speak...
For my part I need to post something about the printing changes.
By odysseus at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: Careful!
there's enough good stuff in the release to concentrate on that for the time being. the blogosphere is actually very positive on this release right now, and 4.1 will end up being an answer-through-action for much of the rest.
the "this is the beginning" communication has been very effective. i even saw it echoed on wired blogs today. people get it. =)
By Aaron J. Seigo at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: Careful!
Perhaps the blogosphere is positive, but public comments seem negative.
Just look at the comments on the CNET article
or the discussion on Ars
or the comments on digg
By Michael Ballantyne at Sat, 2008/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: Careful!
gnomes and MS employees.
By reihal at Sat, 2008/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: Careful!
Ars Technica is normally a very pro-Linux crowd, and Digg is very mixed.
CNET has been somewhat objective surprisingly in many reviews. I believe they've been giving the Eee PC great reviews.
By T. J. Brumfield at Mon, 2008/01/14 - 6:00am
Man I am jumpin :)
Bundles of congratulations to the devs, you did it people !!
By Junaid at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
/me gives free beer to whole KDE Community!
By Emil Sedgh at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: THIS IS IT
You mean free beer like FREE Augustiner or just free like "free" :D
A big thank you, lots of congrats and praise to the powerful KDE Team!
By Bobby at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: THIS IS IT
No seriously, as soon as I unbreak portage, I think I'll install this
By Wyatt at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
I love you all...
I really do!!!
By j.v. at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: I love you all...
Yeah, after all the bashing it is time to give some love!!
Great job, guys and gals! You are amazing!
By Jens Uhlenbrock at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
OS X and Windows packages
Excellent! This is truly a great moment. KDE4 can run on Mac OS X and Windows, allowing people that cannot yet switch to a free operating system to use it.
So where can I get the windows version of KDE4?
By Jos at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: OS X and Windows packages
Sorry to disappoint, but the answer's something like 'in about six months to a year', if you're looking for a polished stable release.
In the mean time, there's always http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Installa... if you can live with some roughness.
By Aneurin Price at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: OS X and Windows packages
This is going to be so cool....
Let's ween people slowly off Windows!!! First they get used to the desktop, then they switch the "engine" underneath...
Once they get used to the new "body"/"interior", who cares what "engine" runs underneath. If it's faster and more stable, even better. :) Let's face it, how many people these days actually look at the engine of their car??? - My point exactly :D
So let's keep the Windows packages coming and stir up the publicity!!!!
Thank you to all that have been involved!!
By Max at Sat, 2008/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: OS X and Windows packages
just in case there is confusion on this point, the workspace is *not* being ported to windows or mac.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Sat, 2008/01/12 - 6:00am
KRunner has a lot of contrast - white on black. Is this the final design? Will it be like that in 4.1 as well?
By JohnFlux at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: KRunner
IIRC, Ruphy is planning very extensive changes to KRunner for 4.1, visually and internally.
By anon at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: KRunner
By Koko at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: KRunner
Honestly, I love it. It fits the look and feel of my beloved Thinkpad X60s nicey.
By Torsten Rahn at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: KRunner
I think it's ugly.
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Mon, 2008/01/14 - 6:00am
4.0 is awesome (and its just the beginning :D), thanks to all the people for their hard work!
By the way, splitted packages for Arch Linux are available here:
Thanks again, and have a nice weekend :)
By Jan at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
openSUSE wiki bug?
"openSUSE 10.3: For openSUSE 10.3, the KDE Team worked on the base technologies of KDE 4. openSUSE 10.3 offers by default a KDE3 desktop with single KDE4 applications. A preview of KDE 4.0 desktop (Beta 2) can also be installed. The aim is to offer an easy way to update to the final KDE 4.0 release once it is available."
Beta2? This is outdated right? When I w ill click this button on 10.3 I will get KDE4?
By Koko at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: openSUSE wiki bug?
I've been using the beta packages for a while, and I just updated and it's installing 4.0 packages, rather than 3.9.x.x so it looks like they already updated the repos...
By Kane at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: openSUSE wiki bug?
Beta 2 is on the openSUSE 10.3 DVD and the official repository. The KDE4 repository contains the most recent version for a long time ago, now 4.0. The button installs that.
By Grósz Dániel at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: openSUSE wiki bug?
The repros have been updated since the 10.01.2008 at 23:33. I have updated my packages since this morning (amost 9 hours ago).
By Bobby at Fri, 2008/01/11 - 6:00am


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Network Address Translation
I've often heard people talking about Network Address Translation (NAT) but I never really understood exactly how it worked until we started configuring some virtual data centres on my current project.
This is an attempt at documenting my own current understanding so I won't forget in future.
In our case we've been provisioning a bunch of machines into different private networks, and each machine therefore has an IP in the range of IPv4 addresses reserved for private networks:
- 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
- 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
- 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
We've been using IP addresses from the 10...* allocation so all our machines have an IP address in that range.
As I understand it private IP addresses were initially allocated because there are a limited number of IPv4 addresses available and because we don't necessarily want every machine to be directly accessible to the internet.
NAT becomes necessary when we want machines outside the private network to access our machine (e.g. we want to host a web server) or if we want to access things outside the network from our machine (e.g. we want to run an 'apt-get update').
In the first case we'd already have a publicly accessible IP address but creating a connection to it would only take us to a router/firewall.
If we want the connection to make its way to our web server we'd need to create a Destination NAT (DNAT) rule which will translate the destination IP address and port in the IP header of the IP packet accordingly.
We've created a little DSL which allows us to define these rules:
dnat :original => { :ip => "220.127.116.11", :port => 80 },
:translated => { :ip => "10.0.0.2", :port => 80 }
As far as I understand it there would be a table which keeps track of these rules and if it sees request coming in on 18.104.22.168 on port 80 it will forward that on to 10.0.0.2 port 80.
If it's for any other port then there will will be no such forwarding.
If we want to access the internet from our 10.0.0.2 machine we will need to put in a Source NAT (SNAT) rule to translate our source IP address and port otherwise any machines we send a request to will have no way of routing the response back to us.
In this case we wrote a more encompassing rule since we want all the machines in any of our networks to be treated the same way:
snat :original => { :ip => "10.0.0.0/8" }, # this means 10.*.*.*
:translated => { :ip => "126.96.36.199" }
In this example 18.104.22.168 would be a public IP address that we have available and any requests coming from machines within our network will look like they came from there.
If we make a request to google (184.108.40.206) from 10.0.0.2 we might create a TCP connection using port 23479 so our NAT software would at least need to translate the source IP from 10.0.0.2 to 18.104.22.168 and possibly the port too.
The NAT software creates some sort of internal state in a NAT session to remember the translations that have been done so that when the response comes back from google it can be routed back to 10.0.0.2 on port 23479.
There is more going on behind the scenes to ensure that the checksums are changed accordingly but conceptually this is what's happening.
The TCP/IP red book has a section where it explains this in more detail but I found the chapter in TCP/IP Illustrated: The Protocols an easier read.
If I've got anything wrong please feel free to point it out in the comments and I'll update the post.


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