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Welcome to the Slackware distribution of Linux! This chapter aims to help the new Linux user or administrator evaluate Slackware, plan a Slackware system, and install Slackware Linux. In it you'll find an emphasis on careful planning rather than rushing into an impetuous installation. A special worksheet is included to help you "get it right the first time", which I hope will be especially useful to overworked Unix administrators in busy environments.
Whether or not to choose Slackware as the flavor of Linux you will use is a serious consideration. It may seem like a trivial decision now, but Linux boxes have a way of taking on more and more responsibility in organizational computing environments. Plenty of Linux experiments have evolved in their first year to become mission-critical machines serving many more users and purposes than originally intended. Slackware is one of the most widely used distributions of Linux. When it comes to finding the newest, easiest, or most carefully planned distribution of Linux, Slackware may be "none of the above". Some background on the life and times of Slackware put things into perspective.
In 1993, SLS created one of the first organized distributions of Linux. Although it was a great start, the SLS distribution had many shortcomings (it didn't exactly work, for starters). Slackware, a godsend from Patrick Volkerding, solved most of these issues, was mirrored via FTP and pressed onto CD-ROMs the worldwide, and quickly became the most widely used flavor of Linux. For a while, Slackware was the only full-featured Linux solution. Other Linux distribution maintainers, both commercial and nonprofit, have gradually developed distributions that are also well worth your consideration.
According to statistics maintained by the Linux Counter Project,
Slackware inhabits about 69% of all machines that run Linux. Slackware
is typically obtained via FTP or CD-ROM and installed on a 486-class
computer running at 66Mhz with about 16 MB of memory and 1050
MB of storage. More information about Linux use and the Linux
Counter Project is available on the World Wide Web.
By January 1994, Slackware had achieved such widespread use that it earned a popular notoriety normally reserved for rock stars and cult leaders. Gossip spread through the Usenet suggesting that the entire Slackware project was the work of witches and devil-worshippers! "Linux, the free OS....except for your SOUL! MOUHAHAHAHA!"
From: firstname.lastname@example.com
Date: 7 Jan 1994 15:48:07 GMT
Jokes alluding to RFC 666, demonic daemons, and speculation that Pat Volkerding was actually L. Ron Hubbard in disguise were rampant in the threads that followed. The whole amusing incident probably helped Slackware gain some market share:
I was browsing here to figure which version of Linux to install, but after this, I think that I hve no choice but to install Slackware now.
From: David Devejian
Date: 10 Jan 1994 04:57:41 GMT
All folklore and kidding aside, Slackware is a wise and powerful choice for your adventures in Linux, whether you are a hobbyist, student, hacker, or system administrator in the making.
If you are a system administrator, you may already be dealing with one or more key servers running Slackware. Unless you have time to experiment at work, sticking to the tried-and-true distribution may be the easiest way to go. If you expect to get help from Unix literate friends and colleagues, better make sure they're running something compatible-odds are they're running Slackware. Its shortcomings are widely acknowledged, for the most part discovered, documented and patched whenever possible. You can put together a Slackware box, close the known security holes, and install some complementary tools from the other Linux distributions to create an excellent Unix server or desktop workstation, all in about half a day.
Slackware is old | It's mature, widely available,
and the most widely installed
Linux distribution |
Slackware lacks sexy administrative tools a la RedHat | You're free to add
other distributions such as
the RedHat package manager |
Slackware includes bundled security holes | We know what some of the
vulnerabilities are and
volunteers have posted fixes |
Donald Knuth complained about the fonts | Patrick Volkerding fixed the
fonts |
Linus Torvalds uses another distribution | Oh well |
Slackware is assembled by Devil Worshippers | Satanist crackers (not SATAN
itself) will avoid your box |
Slackware is no longer | This is a myth, Slackware is
developed actively maintained, sans
marketing hype |
Slackware is not supported by a commercial vendor or sanctionaed user group | Linux support is available
along with consultants, explained further
in the section on Commercial
Support |
Slackware is not created by a committee or development team | Good. A system designed by one
accountable individual is
cohesive |
If you are still undecided whether Slackware is the tastiest flavor
of Linux for you, have a look at the "Buyer's Guide"
published in the Linux Journal, which gives a thorough
comparison and evaluation of each major distribution. For a straightforward
listing of Linux flavors, have a look at the Linux Distribution HOWTO
on the Internet:
Nine tenths of wisdom is timing. The right time to set up Slackware is afteryou've carefully planned the installation and alternatives in the unfortunate event of a problem. A well-planned installation of Slackware will repay itself many times over in the future, when the natural process of Linux evolution leads you to add disk space, install a newer Slackware release, or jettison any old, inferior operating systems that may linger on your drives.
Like Unix, Slackware Linux tends to grow like a virus. If you succeed in getting one Slackware box up and running, you're likely to start infecting other computers that belong to your friends, family, and coworkers. When this happens, you'll be grateful that you at least took the time to think through this first setup-and so will they!
This section will help you decide...
Linux is a powerful operating system, and with power comes responsibility. Like Linux, the Slackware release treats you with the respect you deserve as an intelligent human being. If you elect to wipe out a few hard drives with a misplaced punctuation mark, so be it. There are graceful and intelligent front-ends to Linux that allow the average end-user to get lots of productive work done without ever delving into the cryptic subtleties of Unix setup and administration. But there's no such luck for you, the appointed installation guru. If you're going to install Slackware, be forewarned that you should know your IRQs from your RS232s and your SCSIs from your IDEs.
This is an essential element for planning any Linux installation. The only Slackware-specific hardware issue is this: you must confirm that the particular version (vintage, release) distribution of Slackware you'll be installing from provides a kernel and drivers to support your hardware. You're in great shape with just about any IBM-compatible personal computer with an Intel CPU older than the date on your Slackware distribution but younger than 1992 (built after 1992). If you have a bleeding-edge machine, you may need to download a newer boot disk that includes an updated kernel and drivers.
For the latest information on it general Linux hardware compatibility,
check the Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO document on the World
Wide Web:
To check for up-to-the minute Slackware news, such as which boot
kernels are available, you can look in this directory of the Slackware
home ftp site, ftp.cdrom.com:
Careful planning of file systems and the storage media upon which they reside can spare you hours of painful juggling at a later date. In particular, putting all of your custom administration files, user homes, and local software onto dedicated partitions or disks will allow you to upgrade Slackware on the root partition with minimal disruption to your improvements to the system.
A typical personal computer has one fixed disk drive. If you're a hobbyist or power user, you may already have installed more than one Operating System on that drive. For example, your computer may have shipped running MS-DOS or Windows 95 as a pre-loaded operating system, after which you added another operating system such as OS/2, NeXTstep, Geoworks, or Linux. To run multiple operating systems from one drive, the disk is divided into separate areas known as partitions. Each partition may contain a different operating system. Once you've installed a second OS, you also need to install a small program called a boot manager or OS loader that runs at system startup time and offers you a choice of all the installed operating systems.
If you're adding Linux to a computer running a lesser OS, you
may elect to keep the old operating system around for kicks. Take
a look at the Linux Loader (LILO), a high-powered boot manager
that comes free with Slackware. The latest distribution of LILO
and its documentation are available via FTP from this URL:
An overview of LILO and how you can use it are easily gleaned
from the LILO Mini-HOWTO:
In a simple world, you can set up Linux to run on a single disk partition (or maybe two-one for swap). In a real-world, multi-user Unix system, a single-drive file system setup creates unnecessary risks and hassles you can avoid by distributing the file system across multiple partitions. It's all the same to Unix, which views the file system as a continuum of available space comprised of all the disks and partitions "mounted" into various locations on the file tree.
If you create a Slackware setup on only one drive partition, you effectively put all of your eggs in one basket-one user may receive an abundance of e-mail and overload the /var/mail file system, another might store enormous files in their home area, etc. As with many Unix quandaries, you have a choice of solutions to control file system use, including quotas and user limits. Distributing your Unix file system across multiple partitions and disks has an extra benefit for Slackware users-it allows you to upgrade the Slackware installation with a minimum of pain.
The Linux file system standard puts the personal space of each
user into a subdirectory of /home. The user Linus
would typically have a home under /home/linus, the
user Patricia under /home/patricia, and so on. An
easy way to protect this file system during future upgrades is
to mount /home on a separate disk or partition. Same goes for
custom programs and resources you add to the off-the-shelf version
of Slackware-plan to put these on a separate disk mounted to /usr/local
and you'll have much less grief when it comes time to upgrade.
"Where things go"---or where they try to go unless you dictate otherwise---
in a Slackware box is determined by a standard file system layout,
called the Linux File system Hierarchy Standard. Read all
about it URL:
In some settings, Linux boxes are assembled from leftover parts-"worthless" 386 and 486 motherboards, old grayscale monitors, and discarded hard drives. You may need to link together several ancient 40MB hard drives to come up with enough space to install Slackware. In other environments using Linux, there are so many users and such large development projects that several of the biggest, state-of-the-art drives or drive arrays must be integrated to provide enough space.
You can install Slackware onto more than one disk at once by designating individual disks to hold specific parts of the Slackware installation (just like using multiple partitions), creating a logically continuous and unified file system.
For an informed second opinion on partitioning, swap space setup,
fragmentation and inode size consult Kristian Koehntopp's Partitions
Mini-HOWTO via Internet URL:
24-Aug-95 NOTE: Trying to upgrade to ELF Slackware from a.out Slackware will undoubtedly cause you all kinds of problems. Don't do it.
Patrick Volkerding
One thing we don't hear too often with Slackware is the U-word. Slackware's setup program is designed to put a fresh operating system onto empty hard disks or empty disk partitions. Installing on top of a previous Slackware installation can erase your custom applications and cause compatibility problems between updated applications and older files on the same system. When Slackware was first put together, everyone was a first-time Linux user, and the system was always experimental-reinstalling the entire operating system and applications was the norm in a developmental system. Today, many institutions and businesses now run mission-critical applications on Slackware Linux. In such environment, a simple reboot is a planned activity and taking down the system and overwriting all the user files or custom applications is absolutely unacceptable.
So, if you cracked open these pages to plot an upgrade, better think twice. If you're planning a first-time Slackware installation, there are a few decisions you can make now that will ease upgrading in the future:
Teaching you how to finagle a Slackware upgrade is beyond the
scope of this chapter, but it is workable if you are an experienced
Unix administrator and you've taken the precautions above. There
is an Internet resource that claims to analyze your distribution
and bring it up to date across the Internet, you might want to
have a look at this URL if you're facing an upgrade situation:
Or read, weep, and learn from the upgrade expertise of Greg Louis
in his mini HOWTO document: Upgrading Your Linux Distribution,
available where finer LDP publications are mirrored:
Slackware can be installed from a variety of media and network sources to fit your needs and budget. Every installation method will require you to have at least three floppy diskettes available to get started.
Installation from CD-ROM is fast, popular, and convenient. Although someone has to break down and pay for the initial purchase of a CD-ROM, sharing CD's is encouraged. Because Linux and the Slackware distribution are copylefted, you may make as many copies as you like. CD-ROM installation is also a bit better practice in terms of netiquette, since you're not hogging bandwidth for an all-day FTP transfer. Finally, you may be grateful for the extra utilities and documentation that accompany the CD-ROM, especially if you run into installation hassles or need to add components in the future.
If you're a hobbyist (or want to watch a few dozen Slackware installs before taking on the task at work), see if there is a LUG (Linux User Group) in your area that sponsors install parties. Imagine a roomful of generous and knowledgeable hackers uniting to share CD-ROMs and expertise with other enthusiasts.
According to the Linux Counter Project, FTP is still the most popular way to obtain Linux by a narrow margin. Once you transfer Slackware from the closest possible FTP mirror, you'll still need to put the Slackware 'disk sets' onto installation media such as a hard drive partition or laboriously copy them onto 50-odd floppy diskettes.
In a networked environment, it is possible to install Slackware on a shared file system and allow everyone on the Local net to attach to this shared location and install. If you have the technical know-how or a geeked out system administrator who is Linux-literate, this is a great way to go. The initial distribution of Slackware can be added to the network via CD-ROM, FTP, Loading floppies, tape, or even via a remote NFS share across the Internet! For details on such a remote share, see these URLs:
It's time consuming, but it works-you can buy or create the pile of floppies needed to install Slackware and then feed them into your box one-by-one when prompted. Slackware 'disk sets' are actually designed and arranged to fit floppy diskettes. If you happen to have a huge stack of recycled high-density floppy diskettes at your disposal, this can be the most economical way to go.
Hard Disk
This is the way to do it if you've transferred the Slackware distribution across the Internet via FTP-you'll escape the floppy trap by merely creating boot, root, and rescue diskettes. It requires you to have an extra disk or disk partition with extra space to hold the Slackware files during installation (you can erase them afterwards). Installation from the hard drive is also a workaround if you bought the CD but your CD-ROM drive is not supported by any of the Linux kernels that come with the Slackware CD. You can use your present operating system to transfer the Slackware files onto spare hard disk space, then boot into the Slackware installation.
Still experimental as of this writing, tape offers a great compromise of speed and economy when installing Slackware-worth considering if a friend with compatible tape drive can dupe a CD or FTP archive for you. Get the latest details from the TAPE section of the INSTALL.TXT file that accompanies your Slackware distribution.
Even if you're gifted with a direct T-3 Internet connection that allows you to suck up a new distribution of Slackware right off the 'net, you'll be wise to start by building the two Slackware setup disks (boot and root) before proceeding. In the event of an unfortunate accident (power outage, feline friends traversing the keyboard, or even human error), these two little disks, in the hands of an experienced Unix hacker, may be able to revive your system or at least rescue your personal files.
During the installation, must choose which disk sets (Slackware lingo for collections of software) and individual programs to install. You can usually just accept the default recommendation of whether or not a package is worth having. A few setup decisions are crucial. Mid-installation is no time to decide you want to boot back into OS/2 and look up what kind of graphics chip your video card uses, which network card you've got in there, or whether you'll be needing a SCSI or an IDE kernel to get started.
I've often blurted out to a supervisor, "Oh sure, I can have it up and running in a few hours." Famous last words. If anyone else has a stake in the Slackware computer's health, you owe it to them and yourself to think through a less-than-perfect installation attempt:
After the files are all copied, Slackware can go on to do most of the system and network configuration, if you're ready. To help you plan your decisions, Section 3 consists of a worksheet derived from the text-based Slackware setup program. You can use this worksheet to record answers in advance (while your computer is still working!), so you'll be ready with the necessary details-partitions, IP addresses, modem and mouse IRQs, host and domain names, and others that you're required to provide during setup.
Last chance to back out! When using the install from scratch option, you must install to a blank partition. If you have not already formatted it manually, then you must format it when prompted. Enter I to install from scratch, or a to add software to your existing system.
Ext2fs defaults to one inode per 4096 bytes of drive space. If you're going to have many small files on your drive, you may need more inodes (one is used for each file entry). You can change the density to one inode per 2048 bytes, or even per 1024 bytes. Enter 2048 or 1024, or just hit Enter to accept the default of 4096. 4096, 2048, or 1024.
These are your Linux partitions (partition list displayed). These partitions are already in use (partition list displayed). Enter the partition you would like to use, or type q to quit adding new partitions. Use a format such as: /dev/hda3 or whatever the device name is. Partition name or quit
DOS and OS/2 Partition Setup: The following DOS FAT or OS/2 HPFS partitions were found: (partition list displayed).
Good! We're all set on the local end, but now we need to know where to find the software packages to install. First, we need the IP address of the machine where the Slackware sources are stored. Since you're already running on the network, you should be able to use the hostname instead of an IP address if you wish.
There must be a directory on the server with the Slackware sources for each disk in subdirectories beneath it. Setup needs to know the name of the directory on your server that contains the disk subdirectories. For example, if your A3 disk is found at /slackware/a3, then you would respond: /slackware.
These defaults are user definable---you may set any package to be added or skipped automatically by editing your choices into a file called TAGFILE that will be found on the first disk of each series. There will also be a copy of the original tagfile called TAGFILE.ORG available in case you want to restore the default settings. The tagfile contains all the instructions needed to completely automate your installation.
You can specify an extension consisting of a "." followed by any combination of 3 characters other than tgz. For instance, I specify '.pat', and then whenever any tagfiles called 'tagfile.pat' are found during the installation they are used instead of the default "tagfile" files. If the install program does not find tagfiles with the custom extension, it will use the default tagfiles. Enter your custom tagfile extension (including the leading ("."), or just press Enter to continue without a custom extension. Tagfile extension Enter
Now put a formatted floppy in your boot drive. This will be made into your Linux boot disk. Use this to boot Linux until LILO has been configured to boot from the hard drive. Any data on the target disk will be destroyed. Insert the disk and press Return, or s if you want to skip this step.
Now, we need the domain name. Do not supply a leading "." Enter the domain name. Domain name
If you only plan to use TCP/IP through loopback, then your IP address will be 127.0.0.1 and we can skip a lot of the following questions. Do you plan to ONLY use loopback? Yes or No.
Enter your IP address for the local machine. Example: 220.127.116.11. Enter the IP address for this machine (aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd). IP address
You may now reboot your computer by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete. If you installed LILO, remove the boot disk from your computer before rebooting. Don't forget to create you {/etc/fsta if you don't have one!
If you've taken the time to plot and plan as recommended in the preceding sections, then the actual installation will be a piece of cake. There isn't much writing needed to explain the actual process of loading Slackware onto your computer(s). You just follow the steps to build boot and root diskettes, then answer a long series of questions asked by the menu-driven Slackware installation program. If you've completed the Slackware Installation Worksheet, these questions will be familiar and everything will run smoothly.
Choose Your Kernel
When installing Slackware Linux, you must create a boot diskette with a Linux kernel that is specially prepared to recognize your system hardware. For example, to install Slackware from an IDE CD-ROM drive onto a SCSI hard drive, the kernel that you put onto the boot diskette will need to have drivers for your SCSI card and your IDE CD-ROM drive.
The kernels are stored as compressed binary image files that you can access from most any operating system to create a Slackware Boot diskette. On the Slackware FTP site, CD-ROM, or NFS mount, you'll find a subdirectory called bootdsks.144-containing 1.44 MB kernel images for creating boot disks on 1.44MB high density 3.5'' floppy diskettes. If you're working from a 5.25'' floppy diskette drive, look in a directory called bootdsks.12 for kernel images that will fit the smaller diskette format.
Table 2 provides a quick reference of the kernel images available
as we went to press. Information and up-to-date boot disk image
information is available from this URL:
Table 1
aztech.i | CD-ROM drives: Aztech CDA268-01A,
Orchid CD-3110, Okano/Wearnes,
CDD110, Conrad TXC, CyCDROM CR520,
bare.i | (none, just IDE support) |
cdu31a.i | Sony CDU31/33a CD-ROM |
cdu535.i | Sony CDU531/535 CD-ROM |
cm206.i | Philips/LMS cm206 CD-ROM with cm260
adapter card |
goldstar.i | Goldstar R420 CD-ROM (sometimes sold
in a Reveal "Multimedia Kit") |
mcd.i | NON-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM support |
mcdx.i | Improved NON-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM
support |
net.i | Ethernet support |
optics.i | Optics Storage 8000 AT CD-ROM (the
"DOLPHIN" drive) |
sanyo.i | Sanyo CDR-H94A CD-ROM support |
sbpcd.i | Matsushita, Kotobuki, Panasonic,
CreativeLabs (Sound Blaster),
Longshine and Teac NON-IDE CD-ROM
support |
xt.i | MFM hard drive support |
Table 2
7000fast.s | Western Digital 7000FASST SCSI support |
Advansys.s | AdvanSys SCSI support |
Aha152x.s | Adaptec 152x SCSI support |
Adaptec 1542 SCSI support |
Aha1740.s | Adaptec 1740 SCSI support |
Aha2x4x.s | Adaptec AIC7xxx SCSI support (For these cards: AHA-274x, AHA-2842,
Am53c974.s | AMD AM53/79C974 SCSI support |
Aztech.s | All supported SCSI controllers, plus CD-ROM support for Aztech CDA268-01A,
Orchid CD-3110, Okano/Wearnes CDD110, Conrad TXC, CyCDROM CR520, CR540 |
Buslogic.s | Buslogic MultiMaster SCSI support |
Cdu31a.s | All supported SCSI controllers, plus CD-ROM support for Sony CDU31/33a |
Cdu535.s | All supported SCSI controllers, plus CD-ROM support for Sony CDU531/535 |
Cm206.s | All supported SCSI controllers, plus Philips/LMS cm206 CD-ROM with cm260 adapter card |
Dtc3280.s | DTC (Data Technology Corp) 3180/3280 SCSI support |
Eata\_dma.s | DPT EATA-DMA SCSI support (Boards such as PM2011, PM2021, PM2041,
Eata\_isa.s | DPT EATA-ISA/EISA SCSI support (Boards such as PM2011B/9X,
Eata\_pio.s | DPT EATA-PIO SCSI support (PM2001 and PM2012A) |
Fdomain.s | Future Domain TMC-16x0 SCSI support |
Goldstar.s | All supported SCSI controllers, plus Goldstar R420 CD-ROM (sometimes sold
in a Reveal "Multimedia Kit") |
In2000.s | Always IN2000 SCSI support |
Table 3
Iomega.s | IOMEGA PPA3 parallel port SCSI support (also supports the parallel
port version of the ZIP drive) |
Mcd.s | All supported SCSI controllers, plusstandard non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM support |
Mcdx.s | All supported SCSI controllers, plus enhanced non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM support |
N53c406a.s | NCR 53c406a SCSI support |
N\_5380.s | NCR 5380 and 53c400 SCSI support |
N\_53c7xx.s | NCR 53c7xx, 53c8xx SCSI support (Most NCR PCI SCSI controllers use this driver) |
Optics.s | All supported SCSI controllers, plus support for the Optics Storage 8000
AT CDROM (the "DOLPHIN" drive) |
Pas16.s | Pro Audio Spectrum/Studio 16 SCSI support |
Qlog\_fas.s | ISA/VLB/PCMCIA Qlogic FastSCSI! support (also supports the Control
Concepts SCSI cards based on the Qlogic FASXXX chip) |
Qlog\_isp.s | Supports all Qlogic PCI SCSI controllers, except the PCI-basic,
which the AMD SCSI driver supports | |
Sanyo.s | All supported SCSI controllers, plus Sanyo CDR-H94A CD-ROM support |
Sbpcd.s | All supported SCSI controllers, plus Matsushita, Kotobuki, Panasonic,
CreativeLabs (Sound Blaster), Longshine and Teac NON-IDE CDROM support |
Scsinet.s | All supported SCSI controllers, plus full ethernet support |
Seagate.s | Seagate ST01/ST02, Future Domain TMC-885/950 SCSI support |
Trantor.s | Trantor T128/T128F/T228 SCSI support |
Ultrastr.s | UltraStor 14F, 24F, and 34F SCSI support |
Ustor14f.s | UltraStor 14F and 34F SCSI support |
Unix Operating Systems
If you have the Slackware kernel images on a Unix host that has a floppy drive, you can quickly create the necessary boot and root diskettes using Unix commands. You can use the dd command. The example below which puts the scsi.s boot kernel image onto the floppy device rfd0: dd if=scsi.s of=/dev/rfd0 obs=18k
You'll need to repeat this process with one of the root disk images onto a second floppy diskette.
DOS, OS/2, MS-Windows 95 \& NT
Slackware bundles a utility called rawrite.exe that will generate boot and root diskettes under DOS-literate operating systems. To write the scsi.s kernel image onto the formatted, high-density diskette in your A:$\backslash$ diskette drive, issue the following command: RAWRITE SCSI.S A:
You'll need to repeat this process with one of the root disk images onto a second floppy diskette.
Here's the big anticlimax. After all this planning, preparation, and partitioning, you're in the home stretch. Make sure the boot floppy is in the diskette drive, and restart your computer. Now is a good time to go get some coffee (or whatever you like to keep you company) and return to the machine ready to play the part of a button-pushing drone, answering yes-no questions for an hour or so.
Log in as root (no password) and type setup or setup.tty
Slackware comes with two versions of an excellent setup program. One is a colorful, dialog-based, menu-driven version. An alternative setup, setup.tty, is a text-only version of the installation that you may actually prefer, because detailed diagnostics and error messages will stay on the screen and not be erased by the next dialog box, which happens in the color version. If you're attempting a Slackware setup on sketchy hardware, I strongly recommend the less colorful setup.tty routine. If you don't know much about Unix and would feel more comfortable with an attractive. ``clean'' interface to the same setup process, then by all means go for the beautiful setup.
Hint: If you have trouble using the arrow keys on your keyboard, you can use '+', '-', and TAB instead. Which option would you like?
To transfer Slackware onto your system from here should involve little more than selecting what you want off the menus. By filling out the Section 3 worksheet in advance, you should be able progress quickly through each menu in order, until you reach the INSTALL option, at which point things may s l o w down: you are advised to select the PROMPT feature and read about each software package, deciding whether or not you'd like it to end up on your Slackware system. The last part of a regular setup is the CONFIGURE section on the setup menu, and the questions you must answer bear a striking resemblance to the second half of the Section 3 worksheet.
Definitely not! At this point, you've either got some annoying
obstacle that is preventing the setup from completing, or more
likely, you're looking at the root prompt
and wondering "What Next?"
Well, if you're plagued by problems, you'll want to proceed directly to the next section on troubleshooting. If things appear to be in working order, you've still got some details to attend to. Sort of like purchasing a new automobile-after you've selected an paid for a new car, there are still some things you need before you can drive it with confidence-insurance, a steering wheel club, and perhaps some luxuries that make the driving experience closer to Fahrvergn\ügen than FAQ!
Not every Slackware installation is born on cue to expecting system administrators. I've pulled a few all nighters, sitting down after work one evening to upgrade a Slackware box and still there struggling to get the damn thing back online at dawn, before people start bitching about their missing mail and news. This section will look at a few common Slackware setup problems, solutions, and where to look for additional assistance.
Patrick Volkerding, the father of Slackware, has dealt with the many questions of new users by listening, answering, and anticipating repeat queries. To catch the new Slackware users before they ask the same question for the 5,000th time, Patrick has kindly created documentation and included it with the Slackware distribution. Three files that you may find very helpful in answering your initial questions are FAQ.TXT, INSTALL.TXT, and BOOTING.TXT.
Web Support For Slackware
At this time, the Slackware-specific help you'll find on the Internet tends to be highly customized---such as how to NFS-mount the distribution on computers within a certain university or how to wire your dorm room into a particular residential WAN using Slackware.
Usenet Groups For Slackware
The comp.os.linux.* hierarchy of the Usenet is a treasure-trove of Linux information, not necessarily Slackware-specific. At present, 11 separate Linux forums handle a high volume of discussion in this hierarchy. Dozens of other general-Unix newsgroups are also available. Some discussions relevant to getting Slackware up and running are:
A group established for figuring out Linux installation and system administration. The best place to look for clever setup strategies and to network with others who may have recently installed Slackware.
A must-read for Linux administrators and enthusiasts, C.o.l.a is a sort of daily Linux digest for the Internet community. The group is moderated, so only the relevant material makes it into circulation. The newsgroup is designed as a low-traffic alert service for announcing Linux-specific software, documentation, and security warnings.
Here's where to find (or post) the latest Linux FAQs, How-Tos, READMEs and other documents that answer questions about Linux.
Mail Lists For Slackware
At this time, there are no electronic mail discussions devoted to Slackware per-se. You can participate in some excellent Linux-related talk via e-mail, try www.linux.org and asking in the newsgroups for a few good subscription lists.
Commercial support for Linux is available from some of the CD-ROM
vendors and a long list of Linux Consultants, who can be contacted
through the Linux Commercial and Consultants HOWTO documents:
Don't rest on your laurels quite yet. Especially if your Slackware machine is a shared computer or lives in a networked environment. Grooming a computer for community and network use is a bit more demanding than just running the setup program and forgetting about it. We'll leave you with a few pointers to securing and sharing your new Slackware system.
I know you just sat through what may have been a long and perplexing installation session. But before you move into the house you just built, consider tearing it down and starting over again. Friedrich Nietzsche had a quote: "A man learns what he needs to know about building his house only after he's finished."
If, in the process of installing the system, you had some thoughts about how you might do it differently, now is the time. If your Slackware Linux box will be a multi user machine or a network server, there may never be such a convenient opportunity to reinstall or reconfigure the system in radical ways.
Before you put away the CDROM or return the 50 floppy disks you borrowed to run the Slackware installation, sit down and test each application that your users may expect to find in working order. If professor Bien absolutely has to have emacs humming under X-Windows, you'd better test it out now, while you've still got the workstation 'in the shop.'
Did you set up this Linux box to serve a specific purpose in your organization, such as...
Get Off The LAN At Once
Out of the box, Slackware is an insecure system. Although Patrick does his best to create a secure distribution, a few inevitable holes become known, and patches or workarounds are made available in the system administration (and cracker) communities. If you installed Slackware from a network source such as an NFS-mounted drive, you should temporarily disconnect your box from the LAN after a successful installation, while you plug a few holes.
Give Root a Password
By default, a new Slackware box will not require a password for the root user. When you're comfortable that your new Slackware system is stable (after a few hours, not days or weeks), add a password to protect the root account. Login as root and type: passwd root
Give Yourself An Account
On large shared systems, the super-user root account is not used as a working login account by any individual. If you're interested in system administration or are running a networked machine, this is a good precedent to follow. Use the \texttt{/sbin/adduser} program to make yourself a login account, rather than working out of the root login. I always smile when I see students and hobbyists posting proudly to the Usenet as firstname.lastname@example.com. Be humble and safe, create another login account for your daily work and use su (rather than login) to enter the root account sparingly.
Deny Root Logins
Not only is it uncommon to work as the root user, it is not considered secure to login as root across the network. Administrative users usually connect to a Unix box as their regular username login, and then use the su utility to become the root user as needed. To prevent crackers, hackers, and ignorant users from logging in directly as root, edit the file /etc/securetty and comment out (prepend a pound \# sign before) all but the local terminals: console tty1 tty2 \# ttyS0 \# ttyS1
After this fix, users who attempt to login in as root across
the network will be denied:
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durak login: root
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Apply the Simple Fixes
Slackware installs itself with some very real security problems.
Rather than master Unix security and sleuth out these vulnerabilities
yourself, you can jump start the hole-patching process by visiting
a web resource maintained for just this purpose, called Slackware
Check For Patches On ftp.cdrom.com
As an actively maintained Linux distribution Slackware updates
and patches are available from:
Stay Current
You might like to subscribe to one or more electronic mail lists that alert users to issues in Linux administration, such as:
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LeBron James CRUSHED a young basketball player at a camp in NJ yesterday ... knocking the kid down to the ground during an erratic dunk ... but TMZ has learned, King James came through with a pretty awesome apology.
The NBA star was playing a game of knock-out with the kids ... when he missed his shot ... and went chasing the rebound. Seconds later, LeBron comes flying back towards the rim ... slamming the ball and taking out the next shooter in the process.
Afterward, the kid went to his Facebook page and posted, "Got dunked on by Lebron :-( but he gave me his shoes so its alll good broo."
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Understanding what lenders want to know before you apply for a business loan is a good way to prepare for the questions they will ask.
With so many lending options available today, the particular documents or the specific information you may need to gather can vary from lender to lender. However, there are three very important questions you should be prepared to answer no matter where you're seeking financing.
1. Can you repay a loan?
Lenders may not ask it exactly this way, but when they ask about your time in business, your annual revenues, your profits, or your cash flow, they're trying to determine if you have the means to make regular payments. This is why it's so difficult for early-stage businesses that aren't generating regular income or revenues to qualify for a loan.
While a good business plan is important, lenders are more interested in whether or not your business has the cash flow to make the loan payments. No revenue or no cash flow usually means no loan.
If you can prove to a lender that you can make regular and timely loan payments, you improve the odds of a successful loan application.
2. Will you repay the loan?
This is a different question than the first and is why many lenders look at your business credit profile as well as your personal credit score when they evaluate your business's creditworthiness. Based on your track record with other creditors, lenders try to predict whether or not your business can be relied on to make periodic payments.
This is another reason startups and other early-stage companies sometimes struggle to borrow capital. Because they have a very short track record (or maybe none at all), it's hard for lenders to judge whether or not they will make their loan payments. That's why it's so important to start establishing your business credit profile as soon as you start your business.
You can begin to build a strong business credit profile by establishing trade credit with vendors that report to the major commercial credit bureaus—Experian, Dun & Bradstreet, and Equifax—and making your payments on time. Getting a business credit card that reports to the major business credit bureaus and paying your credit card bills on time will also help establish a business credit history.
If you can convince the lender that you can and will repay the loan, you're more likely to get the loan.
3. Do you have a backup plan?
This is an important question. Many business owners plan to use borrowed capital to fund projects designed to increase revenue and profits. They expect this increase in revenues will give them the cash flow they'll need to make their loan payments. This may be a reasonable expectation—but it's not enough to convince a lender.
Unlike an investor, a lender isn't making an investment in your business. Whether or not the capital they lend you has the desired result, what they care about is whether you can make the loan payments when they're due. That's what makes the loan profitable for the lender.
If you can demonstrate you can and will make the loan payments despite any contingencies, you increase the odds of a successful loan application.
Different lenders may have different requirements and ask different specific questions. However, if you can prepare all the information that you'll need to answer these three questions, you're more likely to get a small business loan—regardless of the lender.
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Shrimp, Crab And Okra Gumbo
- 2/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1 1/2 pounds fresh okra, cut crosswise into 1/4-inch slices
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 4 cups chopped onion
- 2 cups chopped green bell pepper
- 2 cups chopped celery
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 3 bay leaves
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 cups chopped Creole tomatoes (or any firm, ripe tomatoes)
- 1 pound andouille sausage (or any smoked sausage), cut crosswise into 1/4-inch slices
- 1 pound gumbo crabs (gumbo crabs are hard-shell crabs with the top half removed, the claws and legs attached. They are sold frozen in some seafood markets.)
- 2 1/2 quarts shrimp stock, or combination of water and stock
- 2 pounds shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
- Steamed white rice, for serving
Heat 1/3 cup of the oil in a large cast skillet over high heat. Add the okra and cook, stirring constantly with a slotted spoon, until the okra is browned and cooked through, about 10 minutes. Transfer the okra to a platter and set aside until ready to use.
Heat the remaining 1/3 cup of oil in a large, Dutch oven over high heat until it begins to smoke. Reduce the heat to medium-low and add the flour. Stir the flour constantly and continue to cook until the roux is dark brown, the color of a pecan.
When the roux is ready, add the onions, bell peppers, celery, garlic, bay leaves, thyme, oregano, cayenne, salt and black pepper. (The vegetables will prevent the roux from continuing to brown.) Stir and cook the vegetables and seasoning until they are very soft, about 10 minutes. Add the reserved okra, tomatoes, sausage, and the gumbo crabs. Stir for a few minutes, then add the shrimp stock. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce the heat to medium-low, and simmer for 1 hour and 45 minutes.
Right before serving, add the shrimp and the parsley and simmer for 5 minutes longer until cooked through. Adjust the seasoning if necessary, and serve over rice in deep bowls.
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- Source: Cooking Section, August 2001
- Dish Type: Soups
- Cuisine: Cajun/Creole
- Cooking Method: Simmering
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Join Annie as she takes you through a simple series of movements which are aimed at creating a sense of connectedness with the Earth.
Here at Dru, we encourage you practise moving gracefully with your yoga as well as supporting you in creating a subtle change of flow and grace in the way we think too. In this short session, Annie teaches a simple posture, yet, by applying intension and attention, we can amplify the benefits we receive from this movement.
Annie's class includes the following:
- forward bend and simple squat
- extended squat
- dynamic extended squat
- standing meditation
If you find lowering down into the squat uncomfortable or difficult to begin with - especially if you have knee problems, simply adapt by taking the feet to shoulder width apart and turning the toes to point outward a little. Bend your knees slightly and then gently move from side to side into a side lunge. The main focus is on opening up the base of the spine and the muladhara chakra.
Top tips to accompany this session:
- Allow your mental focus to be on the base of the spine at the coccyx. This is where the base chakra, the muladhara is said to reside.
- Ask yourself, "What is it that i feel worried about? Finances, career, family, relationships?" Enter this movement with an attitude that with every breath you take, you make space inside yourself for the energy of certainty and courage to rise.
Repeat this short sequence as often as you like, incorporating the breath and positive intention, and just feel how much of a difference this makes!


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Crabs are in the Crustacean phylum, which means they have hard exoskeletons that protect the soft body underneath. They also have sharp claws for battling predators and grabbing prey. There are many species of crabs, and they come in all shapes and sizes. Most crabs live in coral or rocky reefs, but others prefer the sandy shores. Crabs are usually not fussy eaters, but they prefer small invertebrates and plankton.
One class of crabs is called Hermit Crab. These special little animals live inside shells, which they pull along on their backs. In case of a threat, they can crawl inside for protection. The Thin-clawed Hermit Crab is about 7 inches long, and has bright blue eyes with an orange body. It looks more like an alien than a crab!
Others, like the Smooth Shore Crab, are only a few inches long. They don't have a shell with them, so spotting one in the day time is almost impossible. The Smooth Shore Crab is rather plain, but some have very unusual designs. The Mottled Shore Crab has a yellow-brown shell, with bright white grooves. This little crab is less than a half-inch long, but it still looks scary!


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Rosanne has taught French and Spanish in Grades 6-12 during the course of her career. As the first world languages teacher at High Technology High School in Lincroft, she established a communicative-based philosophy and curriculum for this program that was designated as a model high school program in 2004-06. She is currently supervisor of world languages K-8 at West Windsor-Plainsboro and has expanded the program to include instruction for all students. She also has developed curricula for Spanish and Chinese at the elementary level and for French, German and Spanish and Chinese at the middle school level. Roseanne's program has been designated as a World Languages Regional Model Program Resource Center since 2000.
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The development of composite services poses very interesting challenges concerning their functional and NF requirements. On the one hand, a composite software system depends on the NF requirements of its constituting components in order to provide a satisfactory service to the user. On the other hand, the main issues for the fulfillment of QoS and service level agreements (SLA) are concerned with performance variability. Indeed, the QoS may evolve frequently, either because of internal changes or because of workload fluctuations. The performance and the robustness of the composite software system may be significantly improved by monitoring the execution of the components and by flexibly reacting to degradation and anomalies in a timely fashion.
The concept of adaptive and reconfigurable software systems has been introduced in order to describe architectures which exhibit such properties. An adaptive and reconfigurable software system can repair itself if any execution problems occur, in order to successfully complete its own execution, while respecting functional and NF agreements. In the design of an adaptive and reconfigurable software system, several aspects have to be considered. For instance, the system should be able to predict or to detect degradations and failures as soon as possible and to enact suitable recovery actions. Moreover, different NF requirements service levels might be considered in order to complete the execution in case of failure.
- Distributed and centralized collaborative solutions for the diagnosis and repair of software systems
- Design for the diagnosability and repairability
- Collaborative Management of NF requirements (quality, security, robustness, availability)
- Monitoring simple and composite architectures, components and services
- Semantic (or analytic) architectural and behavioral models for monitoring of software systems
- Dynamic reconfiguration of CB and SO architectures
- Collaborative planning and decision making
- Collaborative technologies for ensuring autonomic properties
- Predictive management of adaptability.
- Collaborative Management of autonomic properties
- Experiences in practical adaptive and reconfigurable CB and SO applications
- Tools and prototypes for managing adaptability of CB and SO applications
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Slim Kallel, ReDCAD, University of Sfax, Tunisia
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Yamine Ait Ameur | IRIT/INPT-ENSEEIHT, France |
Mehmet Aksit | University of Twente, Nederland |
Paris Avgeriou | University of Groningen, Nederland |
Thais Batista | Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil |
Djamel Belaid | Institut TELECOM; TELECOM & Management SudParis, France |
Djamal Benslimane | Lyon 1 University, France |
Isabelle Borne | Université de Bretagne Sud, France |
Cinzia Cappiello | Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
Miriam Capretz | University of Western Ontario, Canada |
Christophe Chassot | LAAS-CNRS, France |
Anis Charfi | SAP Research, Darmstadt, Germany |
Marco Comuzzi | City University London, UK |
Carlos E. Cuesta | Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain |
Marcos Da Silveira | CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg |
Flavia Delicato | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil |
Elisabetta Di Nitto | Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
Christophe Dony | LIRMM - Montpellier-II University, France |
Letícia Duboc | State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Laurence Duchien | University of Lille, France |
Schahram Dustdar | TU Wien, Austria |
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Bernd Freisleben | University of Marburg, Germany |
Cristina Gacek | City University London, UK |
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text: The Social Action Committee of St. Luke Parish in Ocean City has been sponsoring a Giving Tree for the past 11 years, obtaining names of families in need from schools in the Ocean City and Berlin area. This year's goal was met once again with overwhelming generosity thanks to the parish's generosity. In 2009, 45 families were presented to us, including 114 children. Approximately 422 gift tags for food cards, clothing and toys were created. In 2010, there were 58 families (121 children) and a total of 543 tags were hung on the tree. This year, 75 families (144 children) and 625 ornaments were made. The local chapter of the Knights of Columbus #9053 also donated 24 jackets to the program. Submitted Photos


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With all the talk about out-of-control gun usage lately, the NY Journal News has poured gas on the fire by publishing a database of gun owners by county.
SEE ALSO: It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like (A Wet) Christmas)!
Shortly after the Newtown shootings, the News filed Freedom of Information Law requests in Rockland, Westchester, and Putnam counties to uncover pistol-permit records. Despite some counties blocking gun-permit information, the paper managed to compile a list of gun owners in each area.
And the results are concerning at best.
Of its 16, 998 gun permits, Rockland County has 3,907 active ones. The remaining permits haven't been active within the last five years. According to reports, the inactive permits include people who may have moved or died, since they never expire.
Westchester County offered names and addresses for its 16, 616 active permit owners. The Journal also managed to acquire limited information about the types of permits for the county.
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Almost 5,000 Westchester residents have unrestricted permits allowing them to carry weapons at all times. Over 2,300 residents are permitted to carry guns for work. At least 6,900 residents have shooting permits and more than 11, 200 have target-shooting permits.
Putnam County responded to the Journal's inquiry by noting it would take time to recover records, but estimated at least 11,000 permits within its borders. Gun proponents note that such access to gun owners' information presents a danger.
"You're giving a shopping list to criminals," New York Rifle & Pistol Association President Tom King said. "Does it matter if you own 47 guns or you own one gun? Everybody likes to think that someone who has all of these guns is evil, that there's some nefarious reason they have all these guns. There are collectors."
"You have judges, policemen, retired policemen, FBI agents — they have permits," Rockland County clerk Paul Piperto noted. "Once you allow the public to see where they live, that puts them in harm's way."
The report is also garnering negative reactions from citizens in the three counties. Over 500 comments appeared under a CNN article about the expose Tuesday night. Hundreds of angry people have called the paper, arguing the publication of gun owner addresses was illegal; some even threatened staff members.
CynDee Royle, NY Journal News editor and vice president, came to the paper's defense. "We knew publication of the database would be controversial, but we felt sharing as much information as we could about gun ownership in our area was important in the aftermath of the Newtown shootings," she said.
"People are concerned about who owns guns and how many of them there are in their neighborhoods."
This is the second time the Journal News has received criticism for publishing information about gun-permits. Another article in 2006 received an identical reaction, though it didn't spread through social media as much as the second one.
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New iPhone app brings solace to the weird-eared
A new iPhone app from Yurbuds allows users to take photos of their ears in order to pair them with the right earbud tips.
Anyone who has spoken to me for five minutes would probably tell you I'm quite normal. What they don't know is that I harbor a deep, dark secret, a strange deformity that sets me apart from the average person. OK, OK...it's not a secret at all, and I'd hardly call them deformed, but my ears are really ridiculously small. I've literally had people who've never read CNET point out how tiny they are. This is fine by me--I embrace my differences. And now a company called Yurbuds is embracing them, too.
Yurbuds is wise enough to know that not all ears are created equal (indeed, they are actually very similar to fingerprints in their uniqueness). The company offers custom-fit eartips that are based off of a photo of the ear rather than a visit to the audiologist.
The benefit to this is twofold. First of all, you don't have to take the time out of your day to go into the specialist's office, and perhaps more importantly, the tips won't cost you an arm and a leg. Yurbuds Earbud Enhancers only cost $29.99 and include a pair of earbuds (though my speculation is that the quality of these is not top notch).
Now, the company is making the fitting and ordering process even easier by offering a free iPhone app. "Size yur Ear!" lets you use the iPhone's camera to take a photo of your ear and send it directly to the Web site for a fit check.
Of course, the custom tips offered by Yurbuds aren't going to provide the same specific contours that would be provided by an audiologist, who actually injects wax into the ear to make a mold, but that is a sacrifice you have to make for saving all that time and money. My only real complaint about these is that they're specifically designed for stock-type earbuds (such as the ones that come with the iPod and other MP3 players), which sound terrible regardless of fit. It would be great if Yurbuds would add tips for popular in-ear sets going forward.


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Throughout its 75-year history AAA Refrigeration Service, Inc. Bronx, NY has been committed to offering regular state of the art training for its service and installation technicians. Recently, the Bronx, NY-based commercial refrigeration leader —and the ContractingBusiness.com 2008 Commercial Refrigeration Contractor of the Year (see this link) has expanded its training outreach to provide an increased focus on "real-world" applications.
The main element in this initiative is a customized, mobile refrigeration training trailer that began fabrication in January, 2012. After five months of classes, the first class of trainees graduated in June.
Training to Meet New Realities
One of AAA's long-established training tactics has been to offer two Saturdays of training each month, for apprentices or future technicians, from September to May. In addition, attendance is mandatory for monthly seminars hosted by AAA's various vendor partners to provide on going education for their Senior technicians. However, Steffen and other AAA supervisors realized its technicians needed and wanted an increased amount of training, to keep up with ever-evolving industry requirements."New technicians that join AAA from technical schools are trained, however, they haven't had sufficient exposure to supermarket operations," says Donald's son, Vice President Dan Steffen. "So, even though we've been holding Saturday classes for apprentices, and after hours continuing education for technicians, we recognized the need for hands on training."
The endeavor began with a meeting with Emerson representatives, who had asked AAA to evaluate Emerson's packaged simulator that had recently been released to market. The Education Committee observed two AAA apprentice teams — experienced and entry-level —that had been chosen to participate in the evaluation. It didn't take long to see that both groups found value in a hands-on teaching tool supported by a structured curriculum. The committee also recognized a need for a training tool that better represented the variety of AAA technicians' field challenges. Over the summer of 2011, the committee continued to meet, to draft an outline for a "simulator tool," which would incorporate industry-specific valves and energy management systems (EMS).
"Once everyone agreed upon the required components, the training simulator went through an in-house engineering process, and was transferred to a CAD line drawing," Dan Steffen explains.
Trailer Concept Expands Training Outreach
The team was right on track with the design, but Donald Steffen then asked, "If we're making this investment, how do we make the training available to our offices in Connecticut and New Jersey?" He realized that, for the training to be most effective, it must be available across all branches, to ensure consistency of training, which would be reflected in the type of service customers receive. The answer was to modify a trailer into a mobile training vehicle.Jim Kirk, AAA's New Jersey supervisor, found a 14-ft. trailer with a ceiling of just over 6-ft. The committee met in AAA's Bronx shop to lay out the concept in a way that would accommodate the confined space of a trailer. After a few minor modifications the concept was again transferred to CAD drawings for both refrigeration and electrical specs, using low voltage — 120V and 220V. The committee presented its concepts to industry vendor partners, who gladly provided AAA with the necessary training components.
From September to December of 2011, dedicated AAA committee members and associates proceeded to purchase the trailer, finalize the CAD drawings, obtain equipment and parts, and outline the five-month construction schedule. The preparations included selecting and getting commitment from nine apprentices to participate in the 12 classes. For continued continuity over the training season, attendance was mandatory; only a medical excuse would be accepted for those who missed a class.
"It's an amazing program, says AAA apprentice, Jonathan Rey, who was a member of this inaugural class. "The simulator assembly was very much like building a mini-supermarket, with all of the major technology you find in today's stores. It was definitely worthwhile, and very educational. And, even though I had studied much of the content, it's very true that 'practice makes perfect,'" Rey says.
From January to May, in-depth, hands-on training was provided in:
• the refrigeration cycle and basic engineering
• refrigeration installation
• piping and installation of equipment
• electrical theory
• electrical low voltage, 220 Volts and 120 Volts wiring
• Armoflex covering
• refrigerant evacuation and leak checking.
June featured the simulator start-up and a BBQ graduation party.
'I Becomes 'We'
Throughout the training, the process was improved upon as necessary. For the first week, Kurt Woods — a AAA field supervisor for 25 years, and lead supervisor for the training —assigned a foreman who would be responsible for leading the team in designated tasks. The current week's foreman would assign the foreman for the following week.After the first week, the classes became known as "The AAA Apprentice," a takeoff on the TV show, "The Apprentice." And, although no one was ever "fired," the foremen came to develop a respect and understanding for a supervisor's role and how important it is to maintain a schedule. A training supervisor or Dan Steffen often took on the role of a "customer," who would "arrive" with questions, and typical observations and concerns, which the team would have to address appropriately.
In three weeks, the group — which had become known as "Simulator Team 9" — had become a cohesive team. "What started as 'I,' 'he,' or 'they,' quickly became 'we,'" says Bob Isola, vice president, construction. Steffen adds that they had developed a sense of pride in their accomplishments as a team.
"As with any real-life supermarket project, they overcame hurdles, made field modifications, experienced some delays, and learned from their mistakes. The guys would arrive in the morning and know what the job was. They took ownership of it and wanted to be successful. They applied a team effort and a sense of what it takes to work together, how important it is to keep crews working, and each person's importance," Steffen says.
Woods says the classes provided — and will continue to offer — valuable lessons in team building. "They entered the class as individuals, and at the end, they were one unit. That's what you need in the field: a group working together," Woods says.
This is an exciting, "to be continued" adventure for AAA. Over this summer, the company's education committee will develop a curriculum for ongoing, advanced apprentice development and entry-level apprentices. Contractors with questions about building a training trailer or the structure of the classes can contact Dan Steffen at (718) 324-2231.


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Embarrassing injury
Mileage: 23.0
Hours: 2:00
November mileage: 498.7
Temperature upon departure: 34
Rainfall: 0"
I was strolling up to ask a co-worker a question today when he blurted out, "Are you limping again?"
"Huh?" I asked, confused. My knee felt great. My foot felt great. I'd been gimp-free for more than six weeks, just about a personal record.
"I don't know," he continued. "You're kinda limping. What happened? Is it that bike thing again?"
I suddenly realized the acute pain I was feeling must be physically manifesting itself. But what could I say? That bike thing? You mean that bike thing where I grunt on my heavy bike all the way up to Eaglecrest just to look for snow, and there isn't even much snow up there, but I ride anyway on a faint trail across the frozen tundra and I manage to ride really fast until I hit a puddle that isn't completely frozen and plant my front tire 8 inches deep and my bike stops cold but my body flies forward and I'd probably still be spiraling into space if I wasn't stopped abruptly and painfully by my stem slamming into a very personal place that I can't describe in this place of business except to say that if I were a man, I would probably never have children ... That kind of bike thing?
But instead I just said, "Yeah, it's that bike thing again."
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- AnonymousNovember 21, 2007 at 9:01 AM
When I moved to Flagstaff the first time, I experienced this new thing they call 'landscaping with cinders'. I was riding from downtown via the path along Route 66, and secided as traffic was clear on both sides that I should ride off the curb and across four lanes of road. I discoverd that when riding like a bat out of hell it is bad idea to ride though the cinders edging the bike path to get to the curb...I did make it all the way over the handlebars and cleared the first lane before I hit in the second. Laws of Physics, how doth I hate thee? Let me count the ways...
But yeah, OUCH!
Craig It is so un-satisfying not to tell your co workers how you were really injured. I miss being able to do that, I have one co worker who habitually falls down drunk, and she limps a lot. I have to listen to her crappy stories - yet when I want to talk about putting my knee into the stem because i slipped going around a burm, they just don't care. It's the bike thing.
There aren't that many of us out there, but I am glad that you are writing.- AnonymousNovember 25, 2007 at 3:14 PM
Oh yeah, ow. I just did that yesterday while mountain biking (for the first time ever). Ow. And still, ow.


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I perform an upgrade of SP from WSS SP2 to SPF 2010 SP1.
In WSS SP2, I was able to update the farm administrators. In SPF 2010 SP1, I keep receicing the following in the ULS logs:
Local administrator privilege is required to update the Farm Administrators' group.
- I have tried multiple accounts. All with the same error message.
- I have also ran the updatefarmcredentials command. Still same error.
I was able to resolve this issue after running the SP Products Configuration Wizard several times.
Also, currently MS does not support installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows Server 2012. These issues I am noticing could be the result of unsupported environment.
Update: MS is now saying the installation of SharePoint 2010 on Windows Server 2012 will be supported once SP 2010 SP2 is released. Reference


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BUZZNET Exclusive: All Time Faux Winner's 'Best Night Of My Life'
Our lucky – and creative, All Time Faux winner Molly Moesner had the, "best night" of her life when she saw All Time Low's The Rock Show At The End Of The World Tour a few weeks ago. Molly won 2 tickets to the show, a meet and greet with the entire band AND a personal item from Jack Barakat; who she almost perfectly imitated!
Take a look at her blog entry from her amazing day.Buzznetis thrilled she had a good night and met the guys. Also be sure to check out all her personal pics from her night!
*The adventure began on November 16, 2012. My family, friend, and I packed up our things and drove from Baltimore to Philadelphia the night before the show. The drive wasn't too bad because my friend, Hannah, and I passed the time by listening to music. Rock on. We used the Visa gift card to pay for the hotel we stayed in so that was nice. Early Saturday morning, we had breakfast, but two eggs didn't last like the feeling of what we needed. We went sightseeing in Philadelphia and being the tourists that we are, we had Philly cheese steaks for lunch. They were prime. Afterwards, we went back to the hotel to take a quick power nap. But of course, as much as we were tired, we couldn't sleep. We were too excited. Who could deny those butterflies? They were filling our guts. We did the best we could and finally started getting ready for the show.
When we got to the venue, there was already a long line wrapped around the
building. It was bound to be a crazy show. We met up with a couple friends in the meet and greet line and waited until Matt came to cross our names off the list. We were let into the venue and Matt explained how the meet and greet was going to go down. Then,All Time Lowcame in the room.
Don't panic.
They are some of the most genuine people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. All of them are just so incredibly nice and funny. Am I right or am I left? Jack wins the award for being my favorite person in the world and I'm honored to have impersonated him. Anyways, we had nice conversations with them and got pictures together. It was truly lovely. Then the show started and we were in the front because my mom saved our spots on barricade (Shout out to you, Jen). Hit the Lights,The Downtown Fiction, and The Summer Set were all really rad and they got the crowd really pumped up. Finally, it was time.All Time Lowcame on.
The crowd went wild as they took the stage by storm and started playing "The Reckless and the Brave". It was the beginning of a perfect show. The set list was amazing and the songs were flawless. As always, the stage banter was hilarious. I don't even know what they're talking about half the time, but they never fail to make me laugh. At one point, they brought up everyone in the venue who could lick their own elbows. So the two people who were able to came up and licked their elbows as everyone watched. It was so funny. I died. Well anyways the show was absolutely amazing and words can't express how grateful I am to have had this experience. My friend and I may or may not have cried and eaten our feelings when we returned to the hotel because it was so perfect. I can honestly say that it was the best night of my life.
Long live us.*
Have you ever met All Time Low? What was your experience like?


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DuPage Fire Districts Form Alliance to Reduce Costs, Improve Efficiency
By Katlyn Smith, Daily Herald correspondent, Chicago Daily Herald
In the heart of a Wheaton neighborhood, thick smoke poured out of a vacant home.
Teams of firefighters quickly set to work. They adjusted their gear that weighs almost 70 pounds per person, burst into the home and searched for the source of the smoke.
Turns out it was pumped out of a machine on the first floor.
The occasion was a training drill last week of a new alliance that encompasses the Wheaton Fire Department and fire protection districts of Carol Stream, Winfield and West Chicago. The group calls itself the West Suburban Fire/Rescue Alliance. It's not a consolidation, but an opportunity for the fire officials to reduce costs and improve efficiencies by sharing training, coordinating dispatching and creating common protocols. The alliance also plans ahead for big events that will affect them all. It even improves teamwork and camaraderie among departments, its leaders say.
The Wheaton Fire Department officially became the final member of the alliance June 18 when the city council approved the intergovernmental agreement and bylaws. Before the alliance, multi-department training occurred every couple of months, Wheaton Fire Chief Gregory Berk said. And when firefighters reached a fire, each agency used its own operating guidelines and procedures to battle a blaze.
Now, the alliance has established a uniform set of guidelines and created a committee that releases a monthly bulletin with schedules for multi-department training at the end of each month.
"By building this relationship, you're seeing that they're now becoming cohesive and prepared to work with each other without hesitation, with immediacy," Berk said.
The genesis of the alliance goes back to March 2010, when the four chiefs from each agency met to try to iron out ways to boost efficiency in a time of tight budgets.
Since then, they and four deputy chiefs have been meeting weekly and are eyeing expansion. Berk said the alliance is in talks with several neighboring municipalities.
The alliance also has set up a uniform set of dispatch guidelines on how each agency responds to fires within and outside its community.
The DuPage Public Safety Communications, or DU-COMM, a Glendale Heights-based regional service, handles 911 calls for the four municipalities and reprogrammed a software system for the alliance when it went live in February, Berk said. Now, when DU-COMM receives a call for an emergency within the four communities, it dispatches the closest available fire station of the 10 in the alliance, he said.
If there's a working fire, an alliance task force deploys to the headquarter station of the affected community to plan for any additional emergencies that may arise, Berk said. The task force includes three fire engines, a truck company, an ambulance and a chief officer.
"We take that task force of equipment and we now look at where are the voids," Berk said. "We start deploying that task force to cover everything so that next call is going to get answered."
In the fall, Berk said, the alliance expects to study equipment needs and whether there are ways to share resources. In Wheaton, the city council still approves the fire department's budgeting and purchasing of equipment. The chiefs plan to determine the alliance's success by doing benchmark studies on data such as response time at the six-month and one-year marks. In addition to day-to-day operations, Carol Stream Fire Chief Rick Kolomay says the alliance was formed with an eye toward preparing for major events that can test security, such as the recent NATO summit and the Ryder Cup international golf competition at Medinah Country Club in September.
Kolomay said of the NATO preparations, "We felt very whole because we were all on the same page already."
Berk added, "Instead of waiting and reacting to something happening, we're trying to plan ahead and say, 'If this were to happen, here's how we're going to address it.'"
In the firefighter culture, Kolomay stressed the alliance also builds inter-department relationships, trust and chemistry. "That," he said, "translates into the field."
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Irving G. Thalberg Biography
Irving G. Thalberg
movie executiveBorn: 5/30/1899
Birthplace: New York City
A film industry Wunderkind, Thalberg was promoted from his post as secretary to Universal Film Manufacturing in New York to reorganize Universal's Hollywood studios at age 21. His inherent sense of what made a good film led to his being tapped four years later to supervise production at the newly formed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) studios in 1923. Working directly for Louis B. Mayer, Thalberg was given full authority to choose scripts, revise them, and have final cut on any film. Thalberg is largely credited for establishing MGM as the literary studio, and supported the studio system that kept a stable of actors, directors, writers, and producers working together to produce films. The artistic tone set by Thalberg survived his 1932 heart attack and early retirement, as MGM went on to produce some of its best-known films, including The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), and Romeo and Juliet (1936). The Academy of Motion Pictures named its outstanding producer award for Thalberg in 1937.
Died: 9/14/1936


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Atlas of Northern Cyprus
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The last match to decide the 16 StarCraft II players competing at Blizzcon is starting just about right now. This match-up, a best-of-five series between NaNiwa and Revival, was not an expected event. Over the whole of 2013, both players accumulated 3200 "WCS Points" which puts them in a tie for 16th place. As far as I can tell, Blizzard is hosting the event.
A little retro…
The WCS Global Finals have a prize pool of $250,000 USD. Whoever wins will be able to compete for up to $100,000 and, of course, the title of "Best StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Player in the World, 2013". Just attending the competition guarantees you at least $5000. All of this is on top of whatever else the player won over the last 10-or-so months.
You can check out the tie-breaker series, if you go quickly, by checking out their website. Blizzcon is taking place this weekend, Friday and Saturday, and is usually where Blizzard announces new titles. Hopefully it will be a big event to make up for the last year's hiatus.
Update 1: NaNiwa goes up 1-0 after crushing Revival with a quick push. Really quick. On to game 2. ((I will continue to update as the series goes on.))
Update 2: NaNiwa got a little greedy in getting a third base and Revival punished him for it. His third base got wrecked and his attack upgrade got denied. Revival, with a big lead, spent a lot of resources getting workers to increase his lead. NaNiwa, with very few options besides a 2-base push, massed up a bunch of blink stalkers.
As it turns out, Revival spent too much resources on workers and not enough on units to defend. NaNiwa is up 2-0. Revival now needs to win 3-in-a-row or he's out of Blizzcon contention. On to game 3!
Update 3: Revival pushed NaNiwa at both the second an third base with a large swell of zerglings and roaches. Eventually he broke NaNiwa's third. The attacking force could not leave though. NaNiwa used his forcefields to block their exit and kill them off. He then massed 2-attack blink stalkers and crushed Revival. 3-0 for NaNiwa with three straight 2-base blink stalker crushes.
The Round of 16 matchups for Blizzcon are:
- Soulkey (Z) vs NaNiwa (P)
- Bomber (T) vs MMA (T)
- Hero (P) vs sOs (P)
- Polt (T) vs Alive (T)
- Dear (P) vs Taeja (T)
- Jaedong (Z) vs MVP (T)
- Maru (T) vs MC (P)
- INnoVation (T) vs duckdeok (P)


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