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Boss OD-2 TURBO OverDrive - "Two Overdrives In One"
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Boss OD-20 Drive Zone - gotta know how to use it
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Eko Camaro Reissue - Awesome Guitar! One of my favorites and I have 11
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Roland JV-880 - This rack module has quite a bang in sound quality with an external sound editor
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LinPlug Octopus - Quel son ! pas du tout d'accord avec le review précédent.
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text: All AT&T's flip-flopping between offering free wireless at Starbucks and then taking it away—turns out it was some peon screwing up after all. An spokesperson for the company told the New York Times that the confusion was due to a "human error." But the day when iPhone users can definitively access the internet while sipping on frappuccinos will come, the PR flack assures, AT&T is just refusing to say when. Oh, come off it, AT&T. The cat's out of the bag already, you might as well roll out the service now. I'm sure there will be plenty of secrets you can accidentally release before deadline in the future. [New York Times]

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The Rascal Micro is an open source embedded Linux platform that's aimed at helping artists and scientists build web interfaces for their installations or instruments. According to Brandon Stafford, the creator of the Rascal Micro, "it's like the brains of an iPhone, without the corporate overlord." The platform has a web-based code editor and you can use Python to program it.
He recently showed the board off at Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire in Providence. "It was fascinating to talk to people working in so many different disciplines," Brandon says. "I love watching people who are unfamiliar with the Maker movement realize that they have stumbled on something incredible."
You can check out the Rascal Micro in person at the Arduino Pavilion at World Maker Faire New York next weekend.


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Facebook, Flickr, 500px and mobile sharing applications such as Instagram have replaced the hard copy photo album as the preferred method for letting others see pictures you have taken. Now photos are easy to take and easy to share. This easiness makes a number of legal questions potentially more relevant.
Embarrassing photos
Let's be honest — every one of us has been in photos that we do not want others to see. It may be just bad lighting, an awkward angle, or something more sinister such as nudity or drug use, but having a photo like that made public would cause embarrassment or some other type of harm. Sometimes the law affords ways to get embarrassing photos taken down. To the same extent the law can help, the one posting the embarrassing photo puts himself at risk for legal liability.
Invasion of privacy. If someone takes a picture of another in a public place, or with a bunch of other people, the subject of the photo probably does not have a right of privacy in whatever he or she is doing in the photo. So the law will not be helpful in getting that content off the internet. But there are plenty of situations where the subject of a photo may have a privacy interest that the law will recognize.
- "Intrusion upon seclusion," as its name suggests, is a legal claim that one can make when someone has intentionally intruded — physically or otherwise — upon their solitude or seclusion. Surreptitiously taken photos of a person in her own home, or in a place where she expected privacy (e.g., in a hotel room or dressing room) would likely give rise to an unlawful intrusion upon seclusion.
- "Publication of private facts" is another form of invasion of privacy. A person commits this kind of invasion of privacy by publishing private, non-newsworthy facts about another person in a way that would be offensive to a reasonable person. Posting photos of one's ex-girlfriend engaged in group sex would be considered publication of private facts. Posting family pics of one's nephew when he was a kid would not.
Photoshop jobs
Some people enjoy using Photoshop or a similar advanced photo editing application to paste the head of one person onto the body of another. (Reddit has an entire category devoted to Photoshop requests.) This can have drastic, negative consequences on the person who — through this editing — appears to be in the photo doing something he or she did not and would not do. This conduct might give rise to legal claims of infliction of emotional distress and defamation.
Infliction of emotional distress. We expect our fellow members of society to be somewhat thick-skinned, and courts generally do not allow lawsuits over hurt feelings. But when it's really bad, the law may step in to help. One may recover for infliction of emotional distress (sometimes called "outrage") against another person who acts intentionally, and in a way that is extreme and outrageous, to cause emotional distress that is severe. Some states require there to be some associated physical harm. A bride who sued her photographer over the emotional distress she suffered when the photographer posted pictures of her in her underwear lost her case because she alleged no fear that she was exposed to physical harm.
Defamation. A person can sue another for defamation over any "published" false statement that harms the person's reputation. Some forms of defamation are particularly bad (they are called defamation per se), and are proven when, for example, someone falsely states that a person has committed a crime, has engaged in sexually immoral behavior, or has a loathsome disease. A realistic Photoshop job could effectively communicate a false statement about someone that is harmful to his or her reputation.
Copied photos
Since copying and reposting images is so easy, a lot of people do it. On social media platforms, users often do not mind if a friend copies the photos from last night's dinner party and reuploads them to another account. In situations like these, it's simply "no harm, no foul." Technically there is copyright infringement going on, but what friend is going to file a lawsuit against another friend over this socially-acceptable use? The more nefarious situations illustrate how copyright can be used to control the display and distribution of photos.
In most instances, the person who takes a photo owns the copyright in that photo. A lot of people believe that if you appear in a photo, you own the copyright. That's not true unless the photo is a self portrait (e.g., camera held at arm's length and turned back toward the person, or shot into the mirror), or unless the person in the photo has otherwise gotten ownership of the copyright through a written assignment (a much rarer situation).
A person who finds that his or her copyrighted photos have been copied and reposted without permission has a number of options available. In the United States, a quick remedy is available under the notice and takedown provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The copyright owner sends a notice to the platform hosting the photos and demands the photos be taken down. The platform has an incentive to comply with that demand, because if it does, it cannot be held responsible for the infringement. Usually a DMCA takedown notice is sufficient to solve the problem. But occasionally one must escalate the dispute into copyright infringement litigation.
Some other things to keep in mind
With the protections afforded by free speech and the difficulties involved in winning an invasion of privacy or infliction of emotional distress lawsuit, one can get away with quite a bit when using photos in social media. One court has even observed that you do not need a person's permission before tagging him or her in a photo.
A person offended by the use of a photo by him or of him may have recourse even in those situations where it is not so egregious as to give him a right to sue. Social media platforms have terms of service that prohibit users from harassing others, imitating others, or otherwise engaging in harmful conduct. The site will likely remove content once it is made aware of it. (I have sent many requests to Facebook's legal department requesting content to be removed — and it has been removed.) The norms of social media communities play an important role in governing how users treat one another, and that principle extends to the notions of civility as played out through the use of photos online.
Evan Brown is a Chicago technology and intellectual property attorney. He advises businesses and individuals in a wide range of situations, including social media best practices.
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The White Sox have announced the majority of their season ticket holders will receive an 18 percent reduction on the cost of the seats, depending on their location in the ballpark. The Sox had the fourth highest average on ticket prices last season at $40.67.
… The prices for individual games are yet to be announced, but there's a good chance they'll follow the reduced price trend a well.
Now all we need is a few good players. Get it together Gordon!


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Intel's upcoming Ivy Bridge platform has been touted and celebrated for months, and the thing hasn't so much as been touched by nary a consumer. But now, the anticipated CPU has made it into devices and a couple of lucky bastards have gotten their hands on it early. How does it perform? It's powerful. Real powerful. Like faster-than-a-laptop-with-discrete-graphics powerful.
To illustrate just how impressive Ivy Bridge is, let's use Laptop Reviews' benchmarking as an example. They played around with an HP Elitebook 8470p—descended from a line of computers known more for their practicality than performance—and put it up against a wide variety of Sandy Bridge-baced laptops big and small. It bested most computers in most categories, including topping the HP Envy 17 in a PC Mark overall system benchmark (4520 to 2703). Also consider that its Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics scored a 6.4 score graphics category of the Windows Experience Index, which is considerably higher than the 4.7 the previous generation's Intel HD 3000 scored in the same test.
Long story short, Ivy Bridge may just be worth the cost of upgrading on its own, or at the very least, worthy of consideration. [Laptop Reviews]


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It seems that Upstate New York may be earning a reputation as the "Weird School Bus Crime" Capital of the world.
Just last month, a group of kids from Greece, NY bullied school bus monitor Karen Klein to tears. They received a one year suspension and she received $600,000 in donations.
But before that was even a twinkle in the eyes of these young students, 63-year-old Queensbury bus driver Marjorie Jones was putting duct tape over the mouth of a 7-year-old disabled student, according to The Associated Press.
The student, who is unable to speak and has the cognitive abilities of a toddler, had her mouth taped shut on a 2010 bus ride.
Jones, who could have faced a year in prison, now has three years of probation to look forward to along with 100 hours of community service. She said that she didn't mean any harm and the act was "playful."
She has one strange definition of playful.
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The Senate's Shameful Lack of Courage on GunsNews at Home
tags: guns, gun control, U.S. Senate, Gabby Giffords, John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
Walter G. Moss is a professor emeritus of history at Eastern Michigan University. His most recent book is "An Age of Progress?: Clashing Twentieth-Century Global Forces" (2008). For a list of all his recent books and online publications, go here: http://people.emich.edu/wmoss/pub.htm.
On April 17, "a shameful day for Washington" in President Obama's words, the U.S. Senate failed to pass "common-sense gun reforms." The key measure, an amendment for expanded background checks, needed 60 votes to break a Republican filibuster, but received only 54. Based on some polling data, the president claimed it was "supported by 90 percent of Americans."
Shortly after the vote Gabby Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman who was shot in the head two years ago, wrote: "These [46] senators made their decision based on political fear and on cold calculations about the money of special interests like the National Rifle Association [NRA], which in the last election cycle spent around $25 million on contributions, lobbying and outside spending." She also mentioned courage and called on others to help expose "the cowardice these senators demonstrated." And she added, "the senators who voted against background checks for online and gun-show sales, and those who voted against checks to screen out would-be gun buyers with mental illness, failed to do their job."
The sorry spectacle of the Senate vote calls to mind its opposite: John Kennedy's 1956 book, Profiles in Courage. Written while he was still a senator, it highlights the political courage of eight senators from John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) to the Republican Robert Taft (1889-1953). It also includes a few chapters outlining Kennedy's views on political courage, "a quality which may be found in any Senator, in any political party and in any era."
Kennedy cited three main pressures that discouraged political courage: the desire to be liked; to be reelected; and, most significantly, "the pressure of his constituency, the interest groups [today, think NRA], the organized letter writers, the economic blocs and even the average voter." He also mentioned party pressures and obligations, but concluded that "when party and officeholder differ as to how the national interest is to be served, we must place first the responsibility we owe not to our party or even to our constituents, but to our individual consciences."
Although nation-wide support for more extensive background checks ran high, some of the April 17 Senate nay voters, including four Democratic senators, came from states that are considered "gun-friendly." About the four Democrats, a Salon article mentioned that "[Senators] Baucus [Mont.], Begich [Alaska] and Pryor [Ark.] are up for re-election next year. [N.D. Senator Heidi] Heitkamp's excuse is that the entire population of her state is old white gun nuts."
For these senators and others afraid that they might be defeated in a primary or general election or who claim they were just "listening to the wishes of their constituents," Kennedy's Profiles are especially valuable. For the type of political courage he mainly championed was "the courage required of the Senator defying the angry power of the very constituents who control his future."
Kennedy seemed to believe that a senator owed to his constituents what Edmund Burke said in England in 1774 "[Their] wishes ought to have great weight with him. ... It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs; and, above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgement, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you. ... Your Representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
Kennedy thought that "national interest [the public good], rather than private or political gain, furnished the basic motivation" for the senators he profiled. For each of them "his conscience, his personal standard of ethics, his integrity or morality," his interpretation of the national good, came first.
In the aftermath of the "shameful day" we have just experienced, where among any of the Senate nay-voters is conscience, ethics, integrity, morality? Do any of them really believe that blocking more extensive background checks is in the national interest? Gutlessness, not courage, seems triumphant. Maybe those of us appalled by the nay-voters action should send them copies of Kennedy's book.
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- Adam Winkler: Who Killed Gun Control? (The New Republic)
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Hey Guys, Looking for some Help In regards to 2v2 and 3v3. I play Shaman,Lock and Feral,Lock,Shaman in 2's/3's. Main problem I notice is I'm not outputting the damage i want in 2's any time I come against a druid Priest or a shaman healer in 2v2, they dispel all my dots as soon as there up even with UA on, and i cant keep up the pressure needed to kill any Healer/dps. By the time i get them low enough they either insta heal back to full ( NS a big heal). I dont know if Im just unlucky and everytime i burst them down their Defensive abilities are up or Im doing something wrong.
Also in 2's were having a hard time against priest due to dispels and mana burns on my shaman. My Shaman Partner is spec'd for 5 second wind shears and he's constantly tossing hex's along with purges. Again Normal, or is there more i can be do
My "rotation" in 2's is similar to 3's with Ua/affli/CoA, CoElements, Haunt. Followed into Life drain and SB procs. Soul swapping and fearing every chance i get on Pesky melee, and mana burners.
Armory: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...heflipp/simple
Any help and tips would be appreciated Thanks!
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From my Exp. (I'm not a high ranked player though) I just spam UA, making sure they get silenced every time. Pop Demon soul as it comes off CD, and get great burst while they are silenced. If you get a fear right after the silence then they'd have to pop some major CDs for sure.


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All you need to know to rent this Vineyard cottage
Accommodations: Three bedrooms (one queen, one double, three twins) and one bath
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Hooray! Today's my birthday! 😀
I woke up this morning to find that I have reached 180 followers! Why, what a lovely birthday gift. 😛 Once I reach 200, I'll be doing something pretty cool to celebrate. Hint, hint. XD
I have had an AMAZING day. My mom decorated the house with everything Harry Potter. It's absolutely fabulously spectacular! You should have seen my reaction to it all. I took pictures of all the decorations and awesomeness and made them into a slideshow. Be warned: most of it won't make sense unless you've read Harry Potter. 😉
Isn't it all so amazing? 😀 I was so shocked and thrilled!!!
After lunch, my mom, sisters, and I went to a cool used bookstore in our town. I got 10 books for about 20 dollars. I'll probably do some book reviews soon! I've also officially run out of space on my bookshelf… whoops. XD I had a ton of fun, though! Thank you so much to my family. ❤
Oh, and one more thing – LOOK AT THESE CUPCAKES.
The cupcakes are Butterbeer flavored – they taste kinda like butterscotch, caramel, and happiness mixed together. 😛
My sister made them. She's an absolutely unbelievable cook, meanwhile I can't even make an edible pan of brownies. XD Thanks so much for making them, sister dear!
Overall, I had an amazing birthday and I'm very thankful for all the things my family did to make it memorable. 🙂
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A while back we were standing in line in Costco and we look over and standing in a nearby line is an older fellow in a peculiar outfit. He was wearing cargo pants made out of a fabric with the American Navy logo all over it. He had white hair and a white handlebar moustache (to give you an idea of what I meant by "older fellow"). He was also sporting a white t-shirt with the following on the front in large letters:
"God Fearing
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I'll start off by admitting that I don't know how "new" this trend is, hence the reason I did not give it that qualifier in my title; however, it is something that has recently begun to stand out to me.
I've noticed a disturbing trend in politics of restating or informing people that alternate opinions or concerns exist, while at the same time saying and doing absolutely nothing to actually address them.
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Before you sharpen your pitchforks and light the torches, let me qualify that title with: Not all of them!
Those who are child molesters, or knowingly aid such vile excuses for humans deserve all of the scorn and contempt they get from any thinking human.
That said, I was thinking the other day of how religion is basically a mind virus that has permeated and infected much of humanity for millenia. Then the thought struck me that if that is the case, should we not feel…Continue
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I'm sure it's been mentioned before, but just a quick thought upon seeing another pick of Pope Palpatine riding around in his popemobile...
Isn't it obvious that even he doesn't believe in God if he's that worried about being assassinated? Wouldn't "God" protect him if he's supposed to be "His" emissary on Earth?
Contrary wise, if it's his time to go, wouldn't "God" make it happen no matter how much bulletproof glass he's surrounded by?
How to believers not…Continue
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My wife and I were privileged enough to be able to see the world premier of Hamlet in the Original Pronunciation (since Shakespeare's time) this past weekend. There were some odd cuts in the script, and the original brogue took a little getting used to, but over all it was an excellent production beautifully acted and directed.
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Car windshields shot out in Joppatowne
Cars shot while traveling Joppa Farm Road
Several car windshields were shot at some point overnight in the Joppatowne area, Harford County sheriff's investigators said.
Between 11:20 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, authorities were called to investigate shots fired in the area of Joppa Farm Road at U.S. Route 40.
The Harford County Sheriff's Office canvassed the area and added additional patrols but found nothing.
Investigators said three separate victims in separate vehicles reported damage to their vehicles.
"Each of them had reported the same thing that they had been driving through the intersection or stopped at it when they heard the sound of either breaking glass or something hitting their window or windshield and upon further observation, it was discovered that a BB had hit each one of the three vehicles," Harford County sheriff's spokeswoman Cristie Kahler said.
No one was injured.
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The star of the New York Auto Show is the new Viper. Everyone's talking about it — even more than the new Nissan cab, if you can imagine that. But what's less realized is that there's lots of stuff called "viper" that aren't even cars! Get this — they even named a snake "viper!"
Herpetology aside, let's look at some other important Vipers you, a sexy modern go-getter who's in the know, should be aware of.
Viper Car Alarm Systems: We'll start with a car-related one so the transition is nice and smooth. The important thing about the Viper Alarm System is this 80s-era ad:
... and what's important about that is that my wife as a child actually believed the alarm system worked by projecting a hologram of an angry snake inside the car. Not only did she believe this for many years, she felt it was a stupid system that would never dissuade her from stealing a car. See, as a little girl, she exhibited an amazing tolerance to poorly CG'd snakes, and for that I'm very proud of her.
Viper, Colonial: In both the Battlestar Galactica series, the Viper was humankind's most baddest-ass single-seat space fighter. Three engines, very maneuverable, great looking. I'd take one over an X-wing any day, though I'm not sure where I'd stick my R2 droid. Because I'd have a droid.
Viper, Porn Acttress: The late Stephanie Green was known as Viper thanks to a full-body snake tattoo. She was a ballet dancer and Marine before making the move to porn (a common career path), and later in life claimed to be a victim of "implant schizophrenia" from her breast implants which led to her mental breakdown.
Vipers, Enemies to GI Joe: Apparently, within the Cobra Command anti-freedom-and-puppies organization, the common honorific among soldiers is "Viper". So, if you're part of Cobra, you may be an Air-Viper of a Mecha-Viper, or a Janitor-Viper.
Viper, Telescope: The Viper telescope is used to study cosmic background radiation, and is the most powerful of its kind. It's being used to help prove or disprove the Big Crunch theory.
Vipers, Deadly Assassin Squad: Perhaps best known from the Kill Bill documentaries (?), the Deadly Viper Assasination Squad is a crack, well, assassination squad composed of Bill, Elle Driver, Vernita Green, O-Ren Ishii, Budd, and, of course, Beatrix Kiddo. Kiddo killed everyone in revenge for killing her, so keep that in mind if you're looking to hire a killing squad.
Viper, Hieroglyph: In ancient Egyptian, the Viper hieroglyph was the phonetic letter f, and the possessive pronoun (his, hers, or its).


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Food & Drink
Airport dating: Love at first flight?
By Eoghan Macguire, for CNN • Updated 27th November 2012
When a delayed flight left Steve Pasternack stranded at Miami Airport in early 2011, he settled into his departure lounge seat and cast a curious eye across his fellow passengers.
"I noticed a lot of people at the bar looking for something to do," he says, "and I thought it'd be great if I could get them to meet each other."
A web entrepreneur by trade, Pasternack resolved to create
-- a dating website that enables travelers to connect at the departure gate.
Since launching in May 2011 the platform has attracted roughly 20,000 members worldwide, he claims.
The concept works by prompting users to enter their personal interests, flight details and departure airport before matching them up with individuals with similar interests and travel arrangements.
So far people in the United States, Mexico and Germany have shown the most interest, although Pasternack says members have joined from all over the world.
"What better time to meet somebody new than when you're sitting in an airport?" he asks.
"This person could be a travel companion [or] they could be from the place you're going. It could turn into a friendship, a romance. It could work out for business, many things."
See also: No more flying solo with travel revolution
Although somewhat of a pioneer in this field, Pasternack is not alone in exploring the possibility of transforming airports into social meeting places.
Vantaa Airport in Helsinki, Finland, recently considered the possibility of introducing an
airport speed-dating service
According to
Rachel Greenwald
, dating strategist and author of the book "Have Him at Hello," these ideas are a natural progression of the popular niche-dating site concept.
Since first coming to prominence in the mid-90s, online dating has exploded in popularity, becoming increasingly specialized in the last five years or so, Greenwald says.
A report from web-business industry body Subscription Site Insider found that more than 25 million people registered for online dating sites globally in April 2011 alone.
"[There are now] dating sites for wine lovers, tall people ... there's also another which connects people on their book tastes," Greenwald says.
"[Many] young professionals in their 20s and 30s are constantly traveling as they build their careers," she says. "They simply don't have time to date when they're at home, so this [airport dating] could be very efficient."
See also: Are single men the best airline passengers?
But while curious as to how the concept develops, Greenwald cautions that ideas like airport dating will likely be inhibited by the same factors that limit online dating.
This includes their impersonal nature and the idea that pairing individuals with similar interests is all it takes to make a good match, rather than personal chemistry between two people, she says.
There is also the degree of blind trust required to accept that the person on the other end of an email chain really is who they say they are.
While recognizing this risk, Pasternack argues there are few safer places to personalize a blossoming online relationship than in the tightly policed environs of an airport.
See also: Luxury hotels offer day only rooms
Greenwald agrees, although she points out that Meetattheairport may still struggle to compete with other modern dating platforms -- such as group dinner dates or theater trips -- which provide earlier face-to-face meetings.
"Airport dating still isn't solving the underlying problem of online dating, which is that it can't predict chemistry," she says.
Until sites can master this concept, airport daters will be choosing who they meet on "two-dimensional impressions based on a photo and some words ... rather than three-dimensional personal chemistry."
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Holy hell, this is like if Doctor Frankenstein joined forces with Busby Berkeley. Artist Lu Yang has built a contraption that allows dead frogs to dance in a grim chorus line, courtesy of a MIDI controller and some well-timed electrical shocks.
This gruesome piece — officially titled Reanimation! Underwater Zombie Frog Ballet! — is part of an exhibition at Beijing's Iberia Center. Explains Yang of this project:
My project "Revived Zombie Frogs Underwater Ballet," originally started from 2009 has been consummated as a video work. This work takes a form of MTV showing dead frog's dance controlled by Midi controller and Midi signal. For the avoidance of cruelty to animals, dead frog bodies originally used in a medical dissection experiment were re-used for this work.
Because of my strong affinity with CONTROL, the control of people and animals, I have been creating my works by using technology and various media. Such a control totally relies on the cerebration of human and they cannot escape from the physiological reality. Yet they use their bodies to create devices so they can break away from these limitations while they are being controlled by their physical form or illness.
Definitely some discomfiting stuff, but considerably less freaky than salting a few dozen frog legs.
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A game that does some awfully beautiful things with some awfully simple graphical techniques. This one will appeal to the hardcore shoot 'em up fans the most.
An absolutely hands-down amazing game. If you have the means to download this, get it now.
Canopia is a 3D shoot 'em up game where you have to fly around and defeat the dark species
A really cool old school vector-based shooter game with a smooth modern OpenGL feel.
A retro styled shoot 'em up with cute graphics, lengthy game play and heaps of enemies.
A vertically scrolling shoot 'em up from Japan. Uses an interesting power-up method.
Help your frog through the jungle roads avoiding the crazy chicks
Zooom is a great game with an old school style of space craft shoot em up game play. Great graphics and sound.
You're in control of a metal ball in this 3D game
Sunday Panzers is a fun, single player 3D tank game. Boasting good graphics, 50 stages of play, 8 different tanks, 10 different levels of AI and much more.


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PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - Shareholders in EADS EAD.PA have reached the outlines of an agreement on its structure and are working out final legal technicalities before announcing a shake-up of the European aerospace group, two people familiar with the matter said.
By abolishing a Franco-German shareholder pact, public and private shareholders are on the verge of the biggest shake-up of control since the maker of Airbus passenger planes, Ariane rockets and Eurofighter combat jets was founded in 2000.
"Everything is basically done but there are a few complexities to work out, mostly legal stuff," one person said, asking not to be named because the talks are confidential.
France and Germany have agreed to control 12 percent each of the voting rights, handing Berlin a direct stake in the Airbus parent company for the first time.
An economic ministry spokesman in Germany said discussions continued on Wednesday. EADS declined to comment on the talks, which are taking place at an undisclosed location in Paris.
"The deal is done. There is a firm political will to get it done on both sides. But it is not only a discussion between Paris and Berlin. That is why it is taking time," said a second source, who expected an announcement this week.
Those technicalities included setting up a foundation in the Netherlands, where France is expected to park a 3 percent stake in a non-voting structure in order to keep voting parity with Germany but keep the economic value of its full 15 percent.
There were also discussions over the mechanisms for German auto group Daimler (DAIGn.DE) and French media conglomerate Lagardere (LAGA.PA) to sell shares they have held as proxies for their respective governments.
As Lagardere sells, the parties also need to decide who would take over from Arnaud Lagardere as EADS chairman.
"The deal is technically complex and it takes some time to go through all the different complexities. It has to be done in a clean way," the source said.
The changes are designed to simplify EADS' structure and give the financial markets a bigger slice of Europe's largest aerospace firm. They come weeks after talks broke down to merge the group with UK defense contractor BAE Systems (BAES.L).
While the shake-up increases direct state shareholdings, they will be held inside a smaller tent without proxy industrial shareholders. Government powers will also be curbed.
French, German and Spanish shareholdings will fall to less than 30 percent from 50.5 percent under the current power-sharing scheme, which will be wound up, sources have said.
Daimler currently owns 15 percent of EADS and votes for another 7.5 percent held by a consortium. In the shake-up, the German government is expected to buy 12 percent, leaving Daimler to sell the rest.
Lagardere owns 7.5 percent, which it is expected to sell.
Cash-rich EADS is expected to launch a share buyback to cushion the share price, which has risen this week on optimism that the reorganization would reduce the role of politics in one Europe's most strategic firms and a rival to Boeing (BA.N).
At 6 a.m. EDT, EADS shares were up 2.3 percent at 27.20 euros, still well below prices of over 30 euros before news of the BAE merger talks came out.
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Years after the Raccoon City disaster, Alice (MILLA JOVOVICH) is on her own; aware that she has become a liability and could endanger those around her, she is struggling to survive and bring down the Umbrella Corporation led by the sinister Albert Wesker (JASON O'MARA) and head researcher Dr. Isaacs (IAN GLEN). Meanwhile, traveling through the Nevada Desert and the ruins of Las Vegas, Carlos Olivera (ODED FEHR), L.J. (MIKE EPPS), and new survivors K-Mart (SPENCER LOCKE), Claire Redfield(ALI LARTER), and Nurse Betty (ASHANTI) must fight to survive extinction against hordes of zombies, killer crows and the most terrifying creatures created as a result of the deadly T-Virus that has killed millions
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Juneau Volunteer Marching Band prepares for Fourth of July Parade
Published: 06/06/2013 13:30:00
With the Fourth of July less than a month away, one of the perennial favorites of the Parade is beginning its preparations for this year's event. The Juneau Volunteer Marching Band has been playing in Juneau's Fourth of July Parade for nearly four decades. Sarah McNair-Grove, the President of the Juneau Community Bands, filled in a few details.
VIDEO: With the Fourth of July less than a month away, The Juneau Volunteer Marching Band is beginning its preparations for the Parade, which they've been participating in for nearly four decades. (Image: Rik Pruett)
"Well of course the Fourth of July is a wonderful holiday in Juneau and we like to participate in the parade with some music so that's the sort of the main purpose of the Juneau Volunteer Marching Band, and tonight's our first rehearsal for the 2013 Fourth of July Parade.
We usually kind of start kind of slow with a few people and we grow as we get closer and closer to the Fourth, we've had anywhere between twenty five and forty people actually marching in the parade, so it depends from year to year who's available.
The band has been around for; I guess 1976 was actually the very first time that the parade had a marching band and we've been operating ever since then so over the years we've accumulated music, we've accumulated a few instruments we have drums for all of the drummers and marching gear so that they don't have to bring their own drums, we have a couple of Sousaphones those people who play a sousaphone and don't have their own we can provide those to them, and then we also have music.
We are looking for more players and we would hope that anybody out there who plays an instrument that wants to come and march in the parade we'd love to have you, we are also looking for a drum major, we've had a drum major for several years who has moved out of town so if anybody was a drum major in high school and college or want to be a drum major, we've got an opening for you.
We practice Wednesday nights from 7 to 9 pm at the Salvation Army Church on Willoughby Avenue, and so just come and participate with us if you want more information we do have a website, juneaucommunityband that you can get information on."
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Happy Father's Day!
Here is a real varied collection of links. Enjoy!
Security Solids
- Java 7u5 and 6u33 released - ISC Diary - Make sure you get your Java updates on. Despite all attempts, my Java app still doesn't want to notify me updates are available (at home) so I keep a constant eye out for update notices and install them myself.
- Oracle Java Runtime Environment 7 Downloads - Oracle - Here's one place to get them direct from source.
- Inside Flash Player Protected Mode for Firefox -Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET) Blog - Adobe Flash Player also got updated, particularly impactful for Firefox users (see next tie-in grouping below). YMMV. You can get the very latest version for different platforms here at this Adobe - Web Players link. Or hop over to Major Geeks.
- (IN)SECURE Magazine - Issue #34 is now out in PDF format.
- How LogMeIn is enabling scammers to profit - Troy Hunt's blog - Troy continues his ongoing battle against fake tech-help scams. This time he examines how "LogMeIn" could do more to help prevent their great service from being leveraged for The 3vil, if they chose to.
- Free cruise phone scam masquerades as political survey - ESET ThreatBlog - I've started to periodically get a few calls now on our cellulars from unknown numbers…they follow a pattern of tracing back to a cruise-operation. If it isn't a number already in my contacts, I just don't answer and if critical, the caller will leave a voicemail and I will call back immediately. If not…too-bad-do-dad! So it was with interest I read this ESET post by Aryeh Goretsky and how an end-run may be going on around cellular do-not-call list participation.
- Close Call with a Caribbean Cruise Line Scam - IT Secure Site - More on the above.
- 'State-sponsored attackers' using IE zero-day to hijack GMail accounts - ZDNet's Zero Day blog. I've seen the notice of "state sponsored attackers" recently and was wondering "what's up with that?". Now I know. more details at this Google Blog post: Security warnings for suspected state-sponsored attacks. Chron.com TechBlog's Dwight Silverman has some advice and links to a Microsoft "hotfix" for the issue: Bad guys using unpatched Internet Explorer flaw to hack Gmail accounts.
Firefox Paisleys
In my last GSD post, I touched a bit on some issues I was having with Firefox 13 and Flash. My issues may or may not have been related to these, however there are some serious headaches for Firefox 13 and Flash users.
- Firefox 13 tripped up by Flash patch - Update - The H Security: News and Features
- Inside Flash Player Protected Mode for Firefox - Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET) Blog
- Flash 11.3 doesn't load video in Firefox - Firefox Help
- Flash 11.3 Video Issues In Firefox - Firefox Extension Guru's Blog
- Firefox 13.0 Release Notes - Mozilla Desktop
- Firefox 13.0.1 Released -Firefox Extension Guru's Blog. The Guru helpfully points out the following:
"Note: In regards to the Flash Bug (747683) this does NOT address issues related to Flash videos not playing in Firefox (which may also be affecting Firefox 12.0.x users as well) for Windows Vista and 7 users. "
- Wallpaper your Firefox new tab page - Mozilla Links. However all is not lost, you Firefox freakers can tweak your "new tab page" to display a wallpaper background image if desired.
Sysadmin Stripes
- Malware Hunting with the Sysinternals Tools - TechEd North America 2012 \ Channel 9 - A new presentation video from Mark Russinovich on using Sysinternals Tools to do some malware thumpin! Watch streaming or pick from one of two formats for direct downloading and viewing later. This presentation includes real-case reviews as well as a live analysis of a Stuxnet infection. Sweet!
- Windows Exploratory Surgery with Process Hacker - SANS Windows Security Blog - Jason Fossen shares PDF version of his presentation primarily using the freeware tool "Process Hacker". It is a really great review of the different angles one can take with a limited tool-set.
That got me thinking a bit. Process Hacker has matured quite a lot since I last downloaded a copy and the new one certainly has more polish on it. I went through my utility pile and offer below some other great freeware utility process-monitoring tools you may be interested in visiting again.
- Process Explorer - Sysinternals - One ring to rule them all. Still the very first utility I place on my Windows systems and swap out the default Task-Manager with. It continues to be upgraded so if you haven't got the latest version for a while, you are missing out!
- System Explorer - This one also has grown up quite a bit from my last download a few years ago. I like the tabbed interface. The "Performance View" tab is very neat. Process Explorer's graphs are still a bit more detailed looking but it doesn't provide an all-in-one dashboard view like System Explorer offers.
- Daphne - Not as GUI pretty as the others, but what it lacks in pretty it more than makes up in back-to-basics tightness.
- Process Viewer for Windows - This project hasn't been updated in a while but again, the "latest" update was still fresher than the one I've been carrying around for quite a while. This one is a bit more feature basic. If you aren't ready for the power of some of these other process utility tools, but need more detail than the default Windows Task Manager (at least in XP) then this may be a friendly choice.
- ProcessActivityView and ProcessThreadsView - These two application from NirSoft compliment each other nicely.
- NoVirusThanks EXE Radar Pro - Provides process monitoring and alerting as well as to kill processes on demand.
- ESET SysInspector - This is a complex, single-file-executable. It provides detailed information on running processes as well heuristics reporting on items found. I find it particularly helpful in assessing a system. It may not tell me exactly what is going on, but it often will help be refine my focus a bit.
- WHITEPAPER: Windows PowerShell 3.0 and Server Manager Quick Reference Guides - Kurt Shintaku's Blog
I learned this week about a "honeypot" project that attempts to capture USB-seeking virus/malware by creating a virtual USB-drive honeypot. This is a cool project and I hope it continues to see success in development.
- Catching worms with ghost flash drives - The H Security: News and Features
- HPSoC Project 1 - Ghost USB Honeypot -The Honeynet Project
- ghost-usb-honeypot - A honeypot for USB malware - Google Project Hosting
- Ghost USB honeypot released - Help Net Security blog
More interesting tips for admins…
- Microsoft .NET Framework Repair Tool Download - Microsoft Downloads
- Windows 8 – Script for customizing WinPE 4.0 – Part 2 – Customizing the Wallpaper - Anything about IT
- Local admin accounts vs. the default Administrator account - Windows Networking
- Where is That Group Policy Setting? - Windows Networking
- Active Directory Replication Status Tool - Bink.nu
- Download: ADREPLSTATUS - Microsoft Download Center
- Video: User Rights - Server vs Domain Controller - Windows Networking
- INFO: Why the heck is my Outlook .OST so big? - Kurt Shintaku's Blog
Network Knitted
- ARP Scans - A Ping Alternative - LoveMyTool blog video presentation by Tony Fortunato.What's really going on the wire with Colasoft MAC Scanner Free.
- Script to resolve hostnames to IP address - Computer Security Forum. Recently I was presented with a massive list of Hostnames for PC's on our network. The assignment was quite simple, provide the associated IP addresses. No problem, I could manually ping each one by hostname, copy the result (if alive) and paste into my spreadsheet. Well, no. I wanted to go home to my family that night. Instead I found and ran this nice simple script against a cleaned up text-file of the Hostnames. My success ratio for IP grabs was over 90%. The other 10% required some manual followup (systems turned off, shelved, etc.) but it made quick work. I wasn't able to find a good free GUI-based alternative, but this did the job wonderfully.
- Extracting DNS queries - NETRESEC Blog - Either by Tshark or NetworkMiner.
Utility Dotted
- NTFSLinksView - View NTFS symbolic links and junction points - NirSoft utility update
- Backup Windows User Profile Folders & Web Browser Profiles - Auslogics BitReplica - AddictiveTips review and walkthough for a new profile backup utility.
- Backup for Windows 8 & Co: BitReplica - (Google Translated from German) - Caschys Blog
- BitReplica - A free tool for backing up files stored on your Windows PC
- Batch-Rename Files In Windows Using 8 Different Presets - AddictiveTips reviews the PDFN
Batch File Rename Utility.
- Spreadsheet Compare - The Fool on the Hill - Neat little Microsoft Excel Add-in to compare and highlight two spreadsheets. As seen in this review How to Compare Previous Version of Excel Spreadsheet– A Diff for Spreadsheet over at Windows7hacker.
- VMware closes holes in its virtualisation products - The H Security: News and Features
- New VMware Workstation 8.0.4 and Player 4.0.4 - (Google Translated from German) - Born and Windows IT Blog. What I found interesting is Gunter's catch of the EULA details that allow VMware to collect and use info about your use of software including IP address, hardware ID, OS information and other "non-personally identifiable" usage stats. Also that by accepting the EULA and using the software you agree to a two-year post termination of software use agreement for folks to audit your books, records and computing devices to determine your compliance with the EULA and payment of license and support service fees. I'm sure this is pretty standard stuff and proper use of the free software they make available shouldn't concern the average user, but it is another reminder of what lives in the EULA's. Just be aware.
- VMware Player: Run Windows 7, Chrome OS - Free Download for a Virtual PC - VMware
- Download VMware Player 4.0.4 - FileHippo.com - alternative download link
Foresensically Checked
- New Plugin – "TypedURLsTime RegRipper Plugin" - RegRipper
- Digital Forensics Stream: TypedURLsTime RegRipper Plugin - Digital Forensics Stream blog
- RegRipper Supplemental Plugins Updated (regripperplugins_20120528.zip) - RegRipper
- DEFT Pen ready for download DEFT Linux - 2GB and 4GB versions of DEFT "LiveCD" 7.x to load onto a USB pen-drive rather than the optical media version.
- WinPentest v1.3.0 - woanware - Major updates.
- Compromise Root Cause Analysis Model - Corey Harrell wonderfully thought-provoking post on DFIR concepts over at his Journey into Incident Response blog. There will be a pop-test after the review…
- Am I pwn3d? Windows *Non-Native* Tool Triage is a follow-up post to the Am I pwn3d? Windows *Native* Tool Triage on using "simple" tools to perform system triage. Posted on Foundstone's Open Security Research blog.
- Red Rock Solutions - RRTX Blog: ShadowKit - Red Rock Solutions RRTX blog - Neat and easy-to-use tool for recovery of Windows Volume Shadow Copy files. I've got several tools like this, and having a few makes it easier for me to find the one that helps me best in a particular event.
- Windows 8 Forensic - File History - Random Thoughts of Forensics blog brief post with some backing linkage.
- Timeline Analysis and Timeline Analysis, and Program Execution - Two excellent posts over at Windows Incident Response blog.
- Prefetch Hash Calculator + a hash lookup table xp/vista/w7/w2k3/w2k8 - Hexacorn blog utility/technique.
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December 18, 2013By Shannon Reed
I had a lot of fun asking my social media community, friends and family about their word quirks, specifically words they've misread (and, thus, mispronounced). Everyone seems to have one or two — maybe more — of these. I found that they can sometimes be quite revealing. Continue reading...


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Along with first lady Michelle Obama, the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) and the American Council on Exercise (ACE) announced free health club memberships and fitness training services to military personnel and their families.
The announcement, part of Mrs. Obama's Joining Forces and Let's Move initiatives, came Monday on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC. IHRSA President and CEO Joe Moore and ACE President and CEO Scott Goudeseune were on hand at Monday's press conference.
"As I've been told, they got a call and this request was put in and they jumped on it," Mrs. Obama said Monday. "This has been the reaction of the country. People want to make sure our kids are healthy. They just need to know how. They want to know how they can plug in. So everyone is stepping up in a way that is profound. So, Joe and Scott, we are truly grateful for this leadership. And this is the kind of leadership we want to see from sports legends and sports organizations and food manufacturers and restaurant owners and chefs, and you name it—everybody can step up and help out on this effort."
Mrs. Obama launched the Let's Move! initiative last year. She and Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, recently launched the Joining Forces initiative.
The IHRSA and ACE campaigns are offered to immediate family members of actively deployed military reservists and National Guard members. The IHRSA Joining Forces Network aims to offer at least 100,000 free health club memberships throughout the country, equal to more than 18 million days of free access to health clubs, a value of more than $30 million, according to IHRSA. Beginning June 1, eligible military families can find participating clubs in their area at www.healthclubs.com/joiningforces.
"The freedoms that each of us enjoys every day are possible because of the sacrifices that our nation's military families bear," Moore said in a statement. "Joining Forces offers us an opportunity to provide these families with the support they are due."
Also beginning June 1, service members and their families can take advantage of this effort and find participating fitness instructors at www.acefitness.org/joiningforces. ACE is offering at least 1 million hours of free fitness training services.
"The American Council on Exercise has always, and will always, proudly support our servicemen and women as well as their families for the protection they provide and the sacrifices they make for our country," Goudeseune said in a statement. "Through our involvement with the Joining Forces initiative and participation from our extensive network of fitness professionals and others in the industry eager to give back, we are thrilled to be able to show our gratitude to these military families and rally support on their behalf."


text: T-Mobile isn't the only carrier that's been hurt by not having the iPhone. Reuters reports that NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest wireless carrier, saw a net loss of almost 41,000 subscribers over the last month and the iPhone is taking blame as the primary culprit. NTT DoCoMo said that last month's subscriber loss was the first it had seen in over five years and Reuters says this happened because "users switched to Softbank Corp and KDDI Corp to grab an Apple (AAPL) iPhone 5 supplied in Japan by the two smaller carriers." Softbank's subscribers in November grew by nearly 302,000 while KDDI's grew by 228,000, Reuters notes.


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Heather Gaudio Fine Art is pleased to present "Burn Baby Burn", a group exhibition featuring works by Kathleen Kucka, Dennis lee Mitchell and Jay McCafferty. The show opens with a public reception for the artists on June 28th, 5-7pm and will be on view through September 8th.
Using counterintuitive approaches to art making, the artists in this exhibition expose their materials and work to smoke, soot and flames Their process-driven techniques incorporate smoldering devices and scorching (methods typically associated with destruction), making for unconventional contemplative paintings and drawings that invite the viewer's sustained attention.


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On the first day of classes, September 4, 2012, the Mauthe Center, UWGB Alumni Association and the UW Credit Union all pitched in to welcome students, alumni, faculty and staff back to campus. Students enjoyed burgers, hot dogs, veggie burgers and all the fixin's. 'Rocker' provided fantastic live music. What an awesome way to start the year! Go Phoenix!
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Building a Beast!
This is another step in my evolutionary quest to build Linux based server from cost-effective generic components that can rival the performance of some of the best expensive commercial systems on the market.
First let's look at the kit I'm using. We have a Chenbro Rack-mount case with six Hotswap bays, an ASUS SATA III, USB 3 AM3 slot motherboard, an 3.2G AMD II X6, 16Gb of Dual-port RAM, 5 WD Velociraptor 10K rpm hard drives and a decent 2U power supply.
Note that although we're using SATA III hardware Linux support for this is currently not terribly good so we're going with a SATA II configuration but leaving ourselves open to using SATA III when the Kernel catches up with SATA III specs.
So moving on, first we need to start with the case. There are many cheap cases knocking around, this one is a little more expensive but well worth the money. Not only do you get the hot swap system but the built in fans, brackets, cables etc are all well-suited to self-building and don't leave anything out.
First we start with the case and insert the motherboard, CPU, PSU, memory and hard drives (not forgetting the CPU fan!) and try an initial boot. This is where I hit my first snag. The initial boot lasted around 6 seconds before the machine shut itself down, my assumption based on the red flashing light on the motherboard was a memory incompatibility. Not uncommon with modern boards and 4GB DIMM modules. So, what to do .. I swapped out pretty much everything in an effort to nail down the problem specifically, until eventually I started the machine by shorting the power pins, just because I'd not re-patched the appropriate cable – and it worked!
Closer examination revealed a problem with the front-panel PCB on the case, it looked like a short somewhere, so I'm afraid I took it apart. In the end it was a solder-short across the power switch itself – simply braking the strand and re-assembling solved the problem and we were up and running. Isn't is amazing how much of a mess one can make with cables (!) Anyway, so much for a work in progress, here's what it looks like when everything is put back where it should be and the cables are tidied up.
In this instance I'm using a motherboard with onboard VGA and one of the features of this configuration is that I only get 5 internal SATA channels, so if you look closely you'll see I've added a Lycom twin channel PCI express SATA III expansion card for about twenty quid, and as these boards only come with a single onboard 1G NIC, I've also added a Lycom PCI express Gbit NIC card. Both are Marvel chipset devices and seem to run quite happily with Linux.
Why do I need 7 channels? Well for a start there are six bays in the hot-swap module, and unfortunately ASUS have started using an optional on-board IDE controller which seems not to work with Linux (at all) , so I've had to use a SATA CD-ROM device rather than IDE.
So, here it is in all it's glory, everything fitted and running except the rack-mount rails.
So why is it a beast?
Well, essentially the performance compared to machines we've seen in the past or indeed compared to cheap rack-mount servers you might buy from the likes of Dell, is absolutely staggering.
First we have a six-core processor running at 3.2GHz and overclocked to 3.8GHz producing over 44,000 bogomips on 64 bits. Then we have a sustained disk throughput of over 500Mb/sec using software RAID. Compare this to the average desktop machine that sports around 4000 bogomips and can generally chug through data on a hard drive at around 60Mb/sec. This thing can easily run 10 virtual machines using KVM, each of which will easily outstrip an average desktop workstation, that's a lot of power in a 2U package.
Catalogue of parts …
- Chenbro RM 217 2U Rackmount Case
- AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
- 450Gb SATA III WD Velociraptor
- 16Gb of DDR3-1333 UDIMM
- Samsung SATA DVD
- PE-115 SATA III 2-Port PCIe
- Lycom 1Gb Marvel NIC
Now I've just priced up a Dell Poweredge R510 with an equivalent hardware configuration using Dell's online pricing tool. I don't know how they would actually compare head-to-head, but based on benchmarks I've carried out on similar systems I'm thinking the beast would win, albeit there shouldn't be a vast amount in it either way. Cost of the Dell machine is just shy of £8000, if anyone wants a beast and doesn't want to build their own, I can provide one for £2499 with a warranty and options on on-site maintenance and support.
(Feel free to contact me via the Forums!)
Does sort of make you wonder whether companies aren't paying a little over the odds for their servers … (!)
Oh, and you're asking if it's going to work and be reliable?
Well, these are the boxes that underpin the Linux.co.uk cluster .. so .. 🙂
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Talk about a short game.
Tiger Woods briefly answered reporters' questions on camera in twin five-minute interviews on ESPN and the Golf Channel on Sunday, saying he just "couldn't stop" his "reckless" behavior and expressing concern over how he will be perceived by fans when he returns to the Masters next month.
As the world's No. 1 golfer plots his comeback, should he expect to speak out again on personal failings to win over ex-fans? Or can Woods now return to the game confident that his image is on the upswing? Pundits weigh-in on Woods' five minutes of shame:
- "After everything, people are still letting him make the rules, even though last month he told us he thought the rules didn't apply to him. Fat chance," writes Mike Lupica for the New York Daily News. "[Sports agents and crisis managers] think we're all as easy as the other women in Woods' (former) life."
- Tim Kawakami writes for the San Jose Mercury News that it was "hard to miss the unspoken theme" of the presser: "Golf, golf, golf, golf, golf, golf." That's a good thing because Tiger owns that turf, Kawakami argues. "Immediate success might not bring forgiveness or revive all those corporate deals. But winning tournaments will change the Woods storyline," he writes.
- Bob Harig, writing for ESPN.com, agrees that Woods will "do his best rehabilitative work" on the links. But Woods must now give a full-fledged press conference as part of the recovery, he writes, if only because his critics will keep hounding him until he does. "He has every right to declare certain subjects off-limits or personal -- as he did several times Sunday -- and then say he will not discuss the issue again," Harig writes.
- John Paul Newport of The Wall Street Journal writes that the interviews "had the feel of being trial balloons, as if Mr. Woods were testing—in a highly controlled circumstance—how he, his interlocutors and the public would respond to public questioning." The chats did not break new ground, but showed a Woods more unscripted than when he made his public apology in February, he concludes.
- MSNBC's Mike Celizic writes that "short of going on Oprah and submitting to a grilling by Dr. Phil, there's not much more [Woods] can do to satisfy the demands of the public to strip himself bare — metaphorically speaking — and do penance for his sins." The Tiger Woods "I'm Sorry Tour" is starting to become "boring," Celizic concludes.


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48 Days brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 51 Designs von 13 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
48 Days - http://www.48days.com
Dan Miller, President of 48 Days, specializes in creative thinking for increased personal and business success. He believes the most effective life plans are achieved by integrating natural gifts, unique personality traits and one's own values and passions. Dan is active in helping individuals redirect careers, evaluate new income sources, and achieve balanced living.
Dan is the author of the widely acclaimed 48 Days to the Work You Love and No More Mondays. He writes regularly for many popular magazines and web portals, including CBN.com, Crosswalk.com, New Man, AARP and Success magazine. He has been a guest on CBS' 'The Early Show,' MSNBC's 'Hardball with Chris Mathews,' 700 Club's Living The Life and
the Dave Ramsey Show...to hit some highlights. Dan is also a frequent speaker and guest on popular radio programs like Moody Broadcasting, Crown Financial, Janet Parshall's America, American Family Radio, and
Prime Time Chicago.
The target audience is entrepreneurs and job-seekers. He has an existing reader base - about 100K hits to his website each month.
Dan appreciates a more laid-back approach to branding. He especially enjoys informal fonts. The "mascot" of the business has been the Eagle. There is a tree carving of an eagle just outside of his office window (photo attached). Please take a look at the existing logo (attached). He's looking for an updated, edgier approach to the eagle theme.
Here is a peek at the new website design (note that it is still under development): http://www.48days.ws/
Desired colors in the logo are black, red, and white (please see website for detailed representation). Gray would probably be acceptable as well. The red is hex #B10404.
The logo needs to include the phrase:
48 Days
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Nisland Man Found Dead in Burned-out Home
NISLAND - A man was found dead in his burned-out mobile home in the western South Dakota town of Nisland.
Firefighters recovered the body of Gerald Streb on Tuesday afternoon. The cause of death was not immediately determined. The Rapid City Journal reported that Streb was thought to be sleeping at the time of the fire.
Another occupant of the home was away when the blaze broke out but lost all of her possessions. The fire also damaged two vehicles and destroyed a shed next to the house.
The state fire marshal will be investigating the cause.
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Samsung, the Taiwanese manufacturer accused by Apple of copying their iPhone and iPad, has filed a complaint to stop the U.S. sales of Apple products in its latest legal maneuver.
Samsung filed the complaint Thursday both internationally and with a Delaware district court, according to the Wall Street Journal, but the move is seen merely as a reaction to Apple's attempted injunction to stop U.S. sales of Samsung's Galaxy S line of smartphones.
The entire legal battle is a strange one because although both Apple and Samsung have competing products, they also have a symbiotic relationship. Apple is the biggest customer of Samsung's component manufacturing side business, which make logic chips, memory chips and liquid crystal displays for iPhones, iPads and iPods.
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News from around the country and around the globe
Earlier this month, Apple amended its lawsuit to include Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 which caused a rise in hostility between the two companies.
Although both Apple and Samsung are still doing business with one another, we can't help but think this scorched earth legal battle will leave some marks. We expect that Apple is already looking for a replacement for Samsung, but has realized that Samsung components are probably the best out there. Will Apple stop causing friction and get on with manufacturing, or will it continue to waste time and money on frivolous lawsuits? .


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Fringe Hairstyles
Sometimes fringe plays a very important role in a hair-dress. By removing the fringe or, on the contrary, adding it, by changing its length or frames, you can transform the shape beyond recognition.
Fringe hairstyles can be divided on two groups:
- Fringes that are a constructive element of the model. They are made along he hairstyling process. Once the process is complete, the fringe is combed out in a desirable direction and the ends of the fringe are framed in a proper way;
- Fringes that are an independent element of a hair dress. The rest of a hairstyle can be of different shape and length. The fringe hairstyle in this case is independent and has its own value.
How correctly to make a fringe hairstyle and what techniques must be used?
Width and thickness of a fringe hairstyle
The fringe w idth is limited to the width of a forehead. It should not come out of temple hollows. Hair for a fringe is separated in a U-shaped mode, triangular or a hair parting, which is parallel to a line of hair growth. The thickness of a fringe depends on the wishes of a person. However the hair density is also very important. The more dense the fringe is, the more hair parting will be removed from a growth line. Someone likes a classical fringe hairstyle with the hair length hardly below the forehead middle. Others prefer a rather thin fringe which falls on eyes, at times hiding a sight. The third have got used to carry a dense bang almost from half of hair.
Classical fringes variants for various hairstyles
For the hair of any type and the most different length.
Tools: straight scissors, thinning shears, a hairbrush. It is possible to cut hair using razor, too. The hairstyle is done almost always on a wet hair. It always demands accuracy and carefulness.
Technics of a fringe hairstyle for an even-length hair
Such fringe is very good for thin or curly hair. To make such bang you'll need to moisten hair, separate the fringe from the hair partings area and pin the fringe up. Then comb out the first lock and cut it at the necessary level. This first lock in this case is a control fringe. Then it is necessary to separate the next lock of hair through 1 sm a horizontal hair parting, both locks must be lifted using a hairbrush perpendicularly to the head and now you can cut off the hair at the level of a control lock. Go on and comb the locks up, cut them following the previous lock's length. To make a fringe hairstyle you can use both a straight cut, and a pointing method. Once the fringe is cut, carefully comb the hair in a direction of its growth and check up a cut line – to make sure that the fringe is cut evenly or in the way you need. The last stage is thinning out the fringe.
Fluffy fringes with a one-line cut
Such fringes fit to a bob hairstyle. The length of a fringe can be any. You can have this fringe in the following way. Rectangular (or to be more exact, U-shaped) hair parting or a hair parting in the form of a triangle it is necessary to separate hair and pin it up. Make a hair parting for all the width of a fringe. The hair parting goes in a parallel line with the hair growth line on a distance of 1 cm. Comb up the extreme lock in the area of the hair growth and cut off the hair at a necessary length. Further the hairstyle is done using a "lock on a lock" technique. For this, the next locks are combed up in about 1 cm disance from each other, then comb the lock over the first lock and cut it at the same level (length).
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LongHair Women Photos
Curly hair