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Posted: Thu 07 Nov 2013, 07:58
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Doing long posts with facts and replying to replies takes a lot of time for me to do in EN. Really, you all can't imagine that from reading my posts.
Lived in france for a while so understand that one....
but you managed to troll batter effectively hopefully leaving a quiet productive thread..
I developed my systems some moons ago and have solid frameworks that just get the odd update now and then but happy to throw in my experiences and anything else that might be useful.
@sunburnt ... updated mut this week (ext4 and stripped out all the logging/debug stuff),...thought the sources were lost... the busybox of drive handling ... added it to the initrd too. Puppy lacks c programmers and I am not one either but some functions are better handled in binaries.
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Ok we await your needs, questions, statements, tap dancing, jokes RSH but we are not groupies
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Posted: Thu 07 Nov 2013, 09:58
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Good to hear from you RSH, I was worried you`d become discussed with your thread.
I'm just on duty.
If my idea of Virtual Packages interests you, you should see what I have done.
Current work is on a general purpose world mirrors GUI for the Virtual Apps.
Of course, I am interested.
Some of this probably could be used to refine/extend the RoxApp Builder.
mikeb wrote:
Ok we await your needs, questions, statements, tap dancing, jokes RSH but we are not groupies
Ah, Ok.
stay tuned
is like a saying to groupies?
I think, I remember me knowing this saying from the old days, back when I was a child and listening to a few GB/US Radio Stations. Germany was split/divided then and also occupied by the US/GB/FR allies (Western Germany).
Aahhh, I should remind my saying: to not to start any off topic discussion...
Ok, I'm still at work. After finishing it I'll have to "fix" my bicycle, which means, to make it ready for the use at winter times. This might take a day as well. I think I'm ready to turn back to here with all good news to offer, on Saturday.
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Posted: Thu 07 Nov 2013, 10:12
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After finishing it I'll have to "fix" my bicycle, which means, to make it ready for the use at winter times.
hmm no tread on the tyres, not smooth chain, boot lets in water and velcro on snow hats.... yes must get busy too...
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Posted: Thu 07 Nov 2013, 15:03
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RSH; What RoxApp Builder are you referring to? Your`s, or maybe amigo`s?
I`d like to see it`s method of app. enabling, and it`s arrangement of RoxApp structure ( if any...).
Can you give us a short hint of what project/code you`re working on? An app. package setup?
Modularity: Most simpler apps., and bigger ones that work well as AppDir can be that way.
This simplifies adding/removing the apps. as no sfs_load is needed, and fewer union layers.
Organize: Make uncooperative apps as SFS files, and bundle the ones with common deps.
mikeb; I seem to recall mut from Puppy`s earlier days. Replaced by pmount or hotpup?
My latest is staring at Xwindow, and, Xlib, XCB programming examples.
Want to make base window with all common needed events and methods to draw on.
Like many (technosaurus) I`m sick of GTK+ and want a new tool kit, and a common api.
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Yeah, a short reply is possible.
Currently I'm working on SFS P.L.U.S. Version 4 - (3.8.9 at the moment).
Adding option based on mavrothal's suggestion to download SFS Modules to specific location, at first use of a Puppy (when using from CD, since one can't download to CD, which then is the LP2BDL - boot directory (usually it loads from and downloads to this location)).
Also, mikeb mentioned something about ROX or RoxApps and other WMs like XFCE, e17 etc.
All Programs/Functions of SFS P.L.U.S. are easily to be used by right-click action, which will only work in a Rox Filer Window. They can be used also from a menu entry, but this will add 25 entries to the setup menu (or was it utilities?).
So, I'm working on a GUI to be able to execute/use all SFS P.L.U.S. Programs/Functions from within this GUI. Will reduce added menu entries down to 1 - if needed or wanted!
Since I'm able to use the SFS P.L.U.S. Suite to create RunScripts from:
- SFS Modules
- Portable Linux Applications
- Portable Wine Applications
- Wine Installation Packages
(Forum Utilities -
LazY WInstND
- paused - for further information, if interested)
and so, I felt in love with the idea of creating RunScripts from RoxApps.
RoxApp Builder:
I did refer to the RoxApp Builder (forum Puppy Projects) of mine - did not know, there was any other.
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Perhaps try loading a sfs on the fly with a 32 line script in a fraction of a second ..easy and fits in with standard linux structure...its fun...or just load a bundle of you favourite apps at boot time.
Actually I was referring to mut2 the backend daemon for low cpu monitoring of all drives and related functions....saves a hell of a lot of scripting. (and cpu time) ...probepart/probedisk/guess_fstype/probepci/usb insertion notifier and more all in one multicall binary.... basically left in mid air when jesse left the world of puppy so never had such as ext4 added but that was done to guess_fstype which is one of the sub apps so easy to update.
If you want an overall picture of such as this thread is about...imagine slacko or precise but with the performance of puppy 2, rock solid save behaviour and a no brainer , no breakages package system.... you could even drop in a new kernel in a flash.
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Ok Guys.
I might be somewhat like the:
Chief Executive Officer of LazY Puppy Software Group
and therefor I' might be as well the:
Project-Leader/-Manager/-Maintainer of SFS P.L.U.S. Suite Development Team.
But, as you all know:
- all the above Groups and Teams are just an assembly of a single person
- better saying: of a single old man, still being a Linux newbie
Really, I can't handle with and do know almost nothing about stuff like:
- mut, mut2 (mikeb)
- self contained SCM extensions (mavrothal)
- PVR or NAS System (gcmartin)
- SLAX (simargl5)
- 64bit Systems and PCs (gcmartin)
- Puppies like: 2.02, 2.12, 4.12 (mikeb)
- Woof (or Woof2) (dancytron)
Though, I've read the postings, it makes me believe, it would take me another one or two years to get behind all such things.
However: I have almost finished my work and so, I can spend some time to make a reply to some postings, before I'll go to sleep.
Ok, at first the HUGE post by gcmartin.
gcmartin wrote:
I have run primarily from Live media.
Usually I prefer to use installations to USB flash drive. At my home workstation I do mainly use USB HD. I have a swap partition at home, but not on the USB flash drives in use.
I fully understand what you propose. But, the world since I started using Puppyland distros has changed. Back then I had some tiny 1990s systems. Today, most of my hardware is pre-2006 PCs and a couple of old X2 desktop and 1 64bit Atom.
The my computer's main board is from 2007 (date of buying it) - anything else like graphics, sounds etc. is much older (still using a sound blaster audio card from year 2000!!!)
As a user, I have no need for understanding of whether a system is modular or not. Most of us look for stability and functionality.
This is also my main point for an Operating System. I don't care, how the GUIs do look (old-fashioned or outdated).
I think that as we discuss system design(s), we should discuss them in their merit. For example, in the many many years that I have been in IT corporations and in OS development design, we discuss, plan and implement a system design based upon the goals we set. I have worked with implementations that use rollin-rollout (this is what modular design systems do) as well as with systems which use subsystem that are ever-present.
Yes, this might be some sort of discussion related to system designs, but it was not intended to be such. I don't want to design a new system and I also don't want to produce a new ISO etc.pp.
The point is:
a modular use of
Puppy Linux
It is not:
create a modular based Puppy Linux OS.
Yes, Puppy Linux is copyrighted by Barry Kauler and only his work is called/named Puppy Linux. But to me, this all is Puppy Linux - no matter, what/how the OS is named to.
Mainly my intention is to make most of the Puppy Linux users, members and developers able to use the modular concept of SFS P.L.U.S. -based on LazY Puppy's modular concept- for their own projects, operating systems and ISOs to publish.
I'm really not interested in:
- producing/developing a new operating system (except for my own needs)
- what a new operating system should be based on (I don't care, if: slacko, ubuntu, debian - just not interested in)
- and so, I don't want to spend too much time for discussions about system designs etc.pp.
An objective must discuss and maybe demonstrate how its design selection resolves and addresses the functionality needed.
The modular concept of LazY Puppy 2.0.2-005 already demonstrates this. But this concept used has now evolved so, one won't get the whole picture of it by now.
Posting ISO sizes in an effort to show that it somehow has deprived functionality should not be an approach that we use to justify a directional movement.
Sorry. Just did now know, how to make a start and how to show this in any different way. To me it just was the best way to start.
Further, most often times, I have seen the idea for modularity done at the application level. The internal operations of a full-on versus a modular application are vastly different. It is here where modularity really shines. Reason: All elements of the application need not be present until the user hits a selection for the functionality that the user needs. This is done with the knowledge that the user MUST wait while the appl manager does a rollin-rollout as necessary.
The application level is currently the one and only level, where I'm able to do some work for a modular concept. The user always has to wait until the application starts and appears on the screen. Even Firefox is not immediately usable when installed.
After the SFS Module is loaded, I can not see any difference in speed, compared to installed version - first two versions of LazY Puppy has had Firefox installed.
Since I don't, should I call them bloat because of that? If I like 98% of what's in a distro I select, should I write the author to tell him that the 2% is bloat (or any percentages)? I thnk you see the point. In my cases that 2% has not been seen to have any impact on my systems behavior. Its just NOT used.
Ok. But 150 MB Libre Office in an 630 MB ISO, of course is a lot of more than 2%. I will call this bloated - especially, if built in and when discovering a new version after having a reboot the very next day!
dancytron wrote:
I'd be happy to do some testing and give feedback. I'm not sure if I'd be any help doing actual development.
What I'm actually needing is some testings with feedback, improvement of English language files used. I doubt anyone else could develop SFS P.L.U.S. and its components without studying it in all its details.
sunburnt wrote:
# RHS; What`s your opinion of a bare O.S. with only base apps., using app. modules only.?
Reduces download bandwidth, and users don`t have to ask how to delete unwanted apps.
Only a dev. or two are needed to maintain the O.S., but many app. builders are needed.
I don't mind if the OS is a bare OS, when "bare" doesn't mean: it will miss all its mainly needed libraries for the apps. I have seen this in some Precise derivatives, like LxPup. For SFS Modules that worked out of the box in Pecise, I have had to install some libraries to get the application to run in LxPup (one example to remind was Audacity 2.0.0).
It should be pretty well set up related to libraries.
Moose On The Loose wrote:
In the past, I have solved the library issue with scripts that set up links to stuff. It works out a lot like plugging and unplugging SFS. The programs can't be used at the same time when that is done.
Exactly such issues I have noticed on the use of my RoxApp Bulder when using .Rox4fs type (just a renamed SFS Module). But to me it seems to be only relevant when using a save file - so, I don't even care on that (currently).
I also can on some things get the source and do a compile with static linking. It makes the programs bigger but it can solve some shared library issues.
I think, this would be the best way in general!
Since a pet is really just a TGZ archive, an "installer" could be made to create an SFS for each new thing you install as a pet so the SFS modularity method can be transparent to the user.
SFS P.L.U.S. already can turn each PET package into an SFS Module including creating of a RunScript for immediate use/test - just by right-clicking the PET package. The PET installer in LazY Puppy 2.0.2-005 offers a option to create a SFS Module instead of installing the PET package. This function will be available in SFS P.L.U.S. 4 as well!
Batch mode as well, directories containing PET AND DEB packages also!
sunburnt wrote:
Yeah, most portable apps I`ve tried are not so portable.
Yes, confirmed. I did try a lot from a Portable Linux Applications WebPage. Some did work, some doesn't. Some did work after adding libraries or stuff like Python, Java etc.pp.
That's why I did create the RunScript Builder for portable Linux Applications. It can define SFS Modules as a dependent SFS to the portable Linux Application, which then is loaded first - right before executing the portable Linux Application.
Ubuntu is bloated, but size isn`t important ( ask your girl friend Laughing )
Yes, one can also use his 10 Modules on both of hands!
mikeb wrote:
Perhaps try loading a sfs on the fly with a 32 line script in a fraction of a second
Could be solved possibly using a 10 line script - or even less.
But I'm not on size - neither for applications nor for scripts. I'm on comfort of use and setup. You can't produce a 32 line script, that offers SFS Module to load (also to download from web, if not locally existing), all needed dependent SFS Modules to load (also to download from web, if not locally existing), doing a md5sum check automatically after downloading, executing the application and sending a file to it - all for the use from a single click on a menu entry or a desktop icon.
No, you can't!
Ok, that's enough for now. More details on Saturday.
Attached: Screenshot of my Openbox Menu Pipe for the loaded SFS Modules (to be unloaded, when clicked)
The funny thing is: Openbox removes the underline "_" from SFS Modules Name - the names usually begin with "LP2_", but it somehow doesn't effect its use.
Menu Path to LP2_PupSnap-1.6.3_Scrot-0.8_32Bit-l528.sfs would be (in EN):
->Welcome -> Manage Modules -> Loaded -> LP2PupSnap-1.6.3_Scrot-0.8_32Bit-l528.sfs
Openbox Menu Pipe for loaded SFS Modules in LazY Puppy 4 (to be unloaded, when clicked)
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Apologies for straying .... especially as most of my last comments were aimed at sunburnt which would just confuse matters. (ie mut2 and how well a sfs based system can work)
Actually the aim of posting the script was to a
show how little is needed compared to sfs_load to actually do the job..those 32 lines load and unload and decide which to do, In other words could in some way contribute to your sfs plus script.
and more importantly how to load modules ON TOP of the other modules including the core so there are no hacks needed to deal with needed elements being hidden in the union.
My reference to earlier pups is simply because most of my development was done there and techniques from such still apply...plus there have been some good methods lost...eg sfs naming to auto load. Also SLAX gets a mention for the same reason..it contains very useful techniques.
I suppose the discussion of a modular OS comes in as you did make lazy puppy so I/we tend to assume there is a bigger picture going on.
This thread did become quite hectic which has been a lot for you to wade through (in EN!)...perhaps you need a clean start with specific aims ... this topic does tend to invite general comments
here to try and help
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Installing a sfs is simpler than a pet
mount and extract to /
a pet has to be extracted and then the resultant folder copied to / ..messy and uses double the space temporarily.
So well worth having a sfs install to full/save if wanted.. 3 line jobbie
.. this also encourages having apps in sfs format only.
Additionally dependancy checking can be done without extracting anything... more non destructive testing.
Finally having 3 install systems seems a little excessive especially as one depends on having a particular file manager present.
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Posted: Fri 08 Nov 2013, 10:24
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Actually the aim of posting the script was to a
show how little is needed compared to sfs_load to actually do the job..those 32 lines load and unload and decide which to do, In other words could in some way contribute to your sfs plus script.
Do you refer to this script?
Will check this out.
Somehow I have missed this...
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Do you refer to this script?
yes.... was a busy thread at the time.
I don't think mount now shows the aufs layer like it used to and did not find a way of doing so..that option is set in the kernel though can be overridden by a parameter when loading aufs.ko if i remember correctly...example
unionfs on / type aufs (rw,xino=/initrd/pup_rw/.aufs.xino,br:/initrd/pup_rw=rw:/initrd/Thunderbird_uni.sfs=ro:/initrd/pup_ro2=ro
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Ok, this looks interesting.
Maybe I can use this for a special purpose.
Could you add a some code to check size of SFS Module/available RAM to make sure it (the SFS) will fit into free RAM space?
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Could you add a some code to check size of SFS Module/available RAM to make sure it (the SFS) will fit into free RAM space?
Can I ?...I definately should . The other missing test is if the sfs is in the unionfs ..eg /root...
I'm testing an initrd so will do it later hopefully.
edit...the question that comes to mind is what would be a figure for 'enough ram' ... otherwise I would probably use the same calculation the initrd uses since determining truly free ram from free is not often helpful I find.
This would allow sfs to ram to the same amount as would be determined at boot.
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Ok a quick but hopefully not to dirty virsion that resizes the tmpfs if needed too (merging tmpfs was a way to avoid that) and loads to ram if enough space.
If the module unloads (some like devex will not) then its removed from the tmpfs too.
tmpfs is dynamic so making it the max the system is able to handle while leaving working ram should be ok.
One step at a time...left out puppy filesystem check.
edit...actually for an sfs in the unionfs.... if there is ram space it would get copied to there anyway...and if it remains where it is the union mount would fail... so a check would only be informative.
remove the .gz and make executable.
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Hi mikeb.
This is pretty cool. I don't know, why I've had missed this. It could have helped me to save three hours of work at yesterday evening, when I tried to get sfs_load to not to copy the downloaded SFS Module to the boot partition.
No success at all!
But with your script, it works out of the box. Just needed to modify a RunScript for a quick test.
Had to remove the sfs_load commands:
--cli --skip-fixmenus --quiet
for that quick test.
As I have seen it (the SFS) is mounted by using its name and not in pup_roX directory. Is this what you meant about mounting a SFS on top of other layers - even than main one?
I have some thoughts about it and would like to invite you (and your script) to be a part of SFS P.L.U.S. development - by improving the your script for a use in SFS P.L.U.S. and its RunScripts and also for compatibility to sfs_load.
Parts of this:
- adding the --cli command (currently just as a dummy)
- adding the --skip-fixmenus command (as it is used in sfs_load, to not to run fixmenus after loading the SFS Module)
- adding the --quiet command (to load/unload SFS Modules without to show any information about loading/unloading)
and, to make it special and to possibly to build an alternative to sfs_load (smaller with some special features, but controllable by CLI commands)
- adding --use-pupro command (to load SFS Modules as usual)
Also, loaded SFS Modules should appear in
- at least in its LASTUNIONRECORD entry since this is the one mainly used.
LASTUNIONRECORD='LP2_Aqualung09b11.sfs LP2_Firefox7.sfs LP2_Geany-0.20.sfs LP2_Kid3-2.1-i486.sfs LP2_Audacity1312.sfs LP2_QTGain-0.9.5_i386.sfs LP2_Qt-4.6.2-S4.sfs LP2_WineCorelSuite.sfs LP2_Gimp2612.sfs LP2_ImageMagick-6.6.9-5.sfs LP2_PupSnap-1.6.3_Scrot-0.8_32Bit-l528.sfs LP2_Gnome_MPlayer_1.0.4.sfs LP2_VLC117.sfs'
Adding also --unload command (obviously use)
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Focus: Netanyahu's speech
Limiting a Palestinian state
By Lamis Andoni, Al Jazeera's Middle East analyst
It was billed as a peace speech, but Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, echoed the words of a colonialist conqueror when he delivered his much-anticipated policy speech at BarIllanUniversity.
Without ambiguity, he told the Palestinians that their existence and future hinges on their acquiescence - the relinquishing of their own history, rights and aspirations.
In effect, Netanyahu called on the Palestinians to accept total surrender.
It was a speech reminding the vanquished that they have no rights beyond accepting the terms of their defeat.
In the tradition of victorious colonialists, Netanyahu's vision for the future emanates from a self-entitlement to rewrite history and to determine the fate of his defeated subjects.
Netanyahu's speech is a blow to a justice-based solution to the conflict, not merely because it offers no more than a powerless entity subject to de facto Israeli control, but more significantly because the Israeli leader's vision is based on an extremist Zionist narrative that promotes the view that the historic land of Palestine – recognised as Israel and the West Bank — is the homeland of the Jewish people.
Revisionist history
Such an account categorically denies Palestinian history and Arab roots in Palestine and therefore does not acknowledge the dispossession of the Palestinians in 1948, or the 1967 occupation of West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Instead they are the "undisputed lands of Israel".
"The state of Israel is the national homeland of the Jewish people and will remain so," Netanyahu told his audience.
"The connection of the Jewish people to the land has been in existence for more than 3,500 years.
"Judea and Samaria - the places where our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob walked, our forefathers David, Solomon, Isaiah and Jeremiah.
"This is not a foreign land, this is the land of our forefathers," he said emphatically to loud applause.
Throughout his speech Netanyahu never even remotely referred to an occupation, or an end to occupation.
Instead, he referred to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank in the 1967 war as "when the soldiers entered Judea and Samaria".
The presence of the Palestinians "in the land of Israel", as Netanyahu framed it, is a problem that Israel has had to deal with to ensure its security, rather that of an occupation and dispossession of an indigenous people.
"But, friends, we must state the whole truth here. The truth is that in the area of our homeland, in the heart of our Jewish homeland, now lives a large population of Palestinians," Netanyahu said.
In other words, the presence of Palestinians in their lands is portrayed as an accident of history – thus annulling in one speech their history and stripping them of their legal, let alone their national, rights.
'Jewish homeland'
It is only in the context of denying Palestinian history and identity that Netanyahu's proposed demands should be understood and evaluated.
Netanyahu's two preconditions for peace are a logical consequence of his blatant and distorted revisionist history.
Asking the Arabs and the Palestinians to recognise that Israel is the historic "Jewish homeland" is paramount to demanding that the Arab, Muslim and Palestinians themselves recant their own history, roots and identity.
Thus by denying their own rights, Palestinians are reduced to a foreign community that accidentally found itself in another people's land and must accept the terms of its "hosts".
Communities as such do not exercise the right to self-determination or national rights.
Therefore, it is only natural, following Netanyahu's line of thinking, that a Palestinian state is only accepted if it is devoid of real sovereignty or independence.
Palestinian state
It is misleading to interpret Netanyahu's conditions as that of accepting a two-state solution.
The vision that Netanyahu laid out stripped the Palestinians of their right to self-determination and replaced it with Israel's "right" to continue its domination of Palestinian lands and lives.
He wants occupation without the burden and the responsibility of spearheading one.
He laid out a vision for an isolated and besieged Palestinian entity that would have no control over the land beneath it, nor the skies above it.
"The territory in Palestinian hands must be demilitarised - in other words, without an army, without control of airspace and with effective security safeguards," he said.
His demand for a "demilitarised state" is thus a logical demand, for how else can Netanyahu and Israel and its future leaders ensure the total subordination of future Palestinian generations who will be borne into a perpetual prison in the guise of statehood?
Seen in this light, from a Palestinian viewpoint, Netanyahu is not only trying to deprive Palestinians of their present aspirations for independence, but to deny future generations the right to dream of freedom.
Breakdown of spirit
Total subordination of the vanquished, in the logic of conquerors, is only possible if the defeated are denied the right and the ability to resist.
Disarming an imprisoned population to ensure its control in the name of statehood is a prerequisite to ensure that future generations will not rebel against Israeli control.
But it is not the most dangerous aspect of Netanyahu's terms for Palestinian surrender.
Netanyahu is after a moral and psychological breakdown of the Palestinian spirit.
Breaking the spirit of a nation is not achieved solely through depriving Palestinians of the right to resist or of their right to self-defence, but by forcing the Palestinians to relinquish their memory.
Memory is the key element here.
It is astonishing that Washington and Western governments rushed to embrace Netanyahu's call for recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, which is paramount to a blatant call to erase Palestinian history.
In his speech, Netanyahu rewrote the history of the conflict by erasing any mention of Palestinians' right to their historic land, denying Palestinian identity and the saga of Israeli-imposed dispossession of the Palestinian people and occupation of Palestinian land.
'Simple truth'
Netanyahu's narrative, long propagated by the Israeli right wing and extremist Zionists, is that the establishment of Israel was an exercise of the right of the Jewish people to their natural homeland - Israel bears no responsibility for the Palestinian refugees and finally there was never a problem of dispossession and occupation.
"The simple truth is that the root of the conflict has been and remains - the refusal to recognise the right of the Jewish people to their own state in their historical homeland," Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu's rhetoric is consistent with his long-standing politics and reflects the prevailing ideology of the Israeli establishment.
What is more disturbing is Washington's welcome of the speech as a positive step towards peace.
In his Cairo speech, Barrack Obama, the US president, offered a new beginning with the Arab and Muslims worlds based "on mutual understanding and respect".
By hailing Netanyahu's racist policy speech, Obama is squandering whatever momentum he sought to build as he perpetuates America's endorsement of Israeli superiority.
Bill Clinton, the former US president, made the same mistake when he unconditionally supported the similar "generous offer" of Ehud Barrak, then Israeli prime minister, who proposed establishing a fragmented, powerless entity in parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip under the guise of Palestinian statehood.
Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader, rejected the offer, and disillusioned Palestinians erupted in an uprising against Israel - the second Intifada.
Neither the Israeli nor American leaders seem to learn from history.
No Palestinian leader, moderate or extremist, will accept such subordination.
For the Palestinians it is a betrayal of their history, as well as a betrayal of future generations.
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This fact sheet answers the most frequently asked health questions about fuel oils. For more information, you may call the ATSDR Information Center at 1-888-422-8737. This fact sheet is one in a series of summaries about hazardous substances and their health effects. It is important you understand this information because this substance may harm you. The effects of exposure to any hazardous substance depend on the dose, the duration, how you are exposed, personal traits and habits, and whether other chemicals are present.
Fuel oils are liquid mixtures produced from petroleum, and their use mostly involves burning them as fuels. Drinking or breathing fuel oils may cause nausea or nervous system effects. However, exposure under normal use conditions is not likely to be harmful. Fuel oils have been found in at least 26 of the 1,430 National Priorities List sites identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Fuel oils are a variety of yellowish to light brown liquid mixtures that come from crude petroleum. Some chemicals found in fuel oils may evaporate easily, while others may more easily dissolve in water.
Fuel oils are produced by different petroleum refining processes, depending on their intended uses. Fuel oils may be used as fuel for engines, lamps, heaters, furnaces, and stoves, or as solvents.
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- Some chemicals found in fuel oils may dissolve in water after spills to surface waters or leaks from underground storage tanks.
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- Some of the chemicals found in fuel oils may build up significantly in plants and animals.
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- Breathing air in home or building basements that has been contaminated with fuel oil vapors entering from the soil.
- Drinking or swimming in water that has been contaminated with fuel oils from a spill or a leaking underground storage tank.
- Touching soil contaminated with fuel oils.
- Using fuel oils to wash paint or grease from skin or equipment.
How can fuel oils affect my health?
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Breathing some fuel oils for short periods may cause nausea, eye irritation, increased blood pressure, headache, light-headedness, loss of appetite, poor coordination, and difficulty concentrating. Breathing diesel fuel vapors for long periods may cause kidney damage and lower your blood's ability to clot.
Drinking small amounts of kerosene may cause vomiting, diarrhea, coughing, stomach swelling and cramps, drowsiness, restlessness, painful breathing, irritability, and unconsciousness. Drinking large amounts of kerosene may cause convulsions, coma, or death. Skin contact with kerosene for short periods may cause itchy, red, sore, or peeling skin.
How likely are fuel oils to cause cancer?
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has determined that some fuel oils (heavy) may possibly cause cancer in humans, but for other fuel oils (light) there is not enough information to make a determination. IARC has also determined that occupational exposures to fuel oils during petroleum refining are probably carcinogenic in humans.
Some studies with mice have suggested that repeated contact with fuel oils may cause liver or skin cancer. However, other mouse studies have found this not to be the case. No studies are available in other animals or in people on the carcinogenic effects of fuel oils.
Is there a medical test to show whether I've been exposed to fuel oils?
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Has the federal government made recommendations to protect human health?
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Air Force Office of Safety and Health (AFOSH) have set a permissible exposure level (PEL) of 400 parts of petroleum distillates per million parts of air (400 ppm) for an 8-hour workday, 40-hour workweek.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recommends that average workplace air levels not exceed 350 milligrams of petroleum distillates per cubic meter of air (350 mg/m3) for a 40-hour workweek.
The Department of Transportation (DOT) lists fuel oils as hazardous materials and, therefore, regulates their transportation.
Carcinogenic: Able to cause cancer.
CAS: Chemical Abstracts Service.
Evaporate: To change into a vapor or a gas.
Hydrocarbon: Any compound made up of hydrogen and carbon.
Milligram (mg): One thousandth of a gram.
ppm: Parts per million.
Sediment: Mud and debris that have settled to the bottom of a body of water.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). 1995. Toxicological Profile for fuel oils. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.
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The suit, to be filed by the House of Representatives later this summer, takes issue with executive actions Obama has taken on issues ranging from health care to energy to foreign policy, Boehner said. But he declined to be specific about which administration actions he would challenge.
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"The fact that they are considering a taxpayer-funded lawsuit against the president of the United States for doing his job, I think is the kind of step that most Americans wouldn't support," Earnest said.
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LOS ANGELES — Looking to close out their series with the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday night, the Sharks might be facing an opponent with a new look on its top line.
A lot of misdirection takes place at this time of the year on both sides, but Kings coach Darryl Sutter moved Dustin Brown up from the third line and had him skating alongside Anze Kopitar and Marian Gaborik in the morning skate.
Meanwhile, the Sharks had Joe Pavelski back at left wing on the top line with Joe Thornton and Brent Burns, though in Game 3 it was Tomas Hertl taking the bulk of the shifts there.
"I hope he gives a little bit of size and power," Sutter said of Brown. "I think when we play against Thornton, we've had trouble with the size of Burns and Thornton quite honestly."
Sharks coach Todd McLellan said that from his perspective, Thornton and Burns were just doing what they have been all season.
"Burnzie's somewhat reckless, which enhances his ability to play," McLellan said. "He's a big body that goes. Jumbo's always been 6-foot-4 for the I don't know last however many years. Those are two guys that have to lead us now. They really have to step up and make sure our team is ready to play. We're counting on them and I think they'll get the job done."
Burns has two goals and an assist. He also leads the Sharks this series in both shots (16) and hits (20) — both of which play to his strengths, according to McLellan.
"If he wasn't at our near the top we'd obviously have concerns — he wouldn't have the puck, he wouldn't be involved physically," McLellan said.
A win Thursday night and the Sharks get needed rest before playing the winner of the series between the Anaheim Ducks and Dallas Stars, now tied at 2-2. If the Sharks lose, they come home for Game 5 at SAP Center at 7 p.m. Saturday.
For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak's Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/PollakOnSharks.


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A team of researchers projecting carbon emissions into the future has determined that they could have a severe effect on fish populations - shrinking the size of some species by as much as 24%. That could mean a huge blow in the future to the beleaguered fishing industry. The findings were published in Nature Climate Change this week.
"We were surprised to see such a large decrease in fish size," says the study's lead author William Cheung in a press release. "Marine fish are generally known to respond to climate change through changing distribution and seasonality. But the unexpectedly big effect that climate change could have on body size suggests that we may be missing a big piece of the puzzle of understanding climate change effects in the ocean."
The computer model in the study builds on decades of research that shows that most species of fish, especially large ones, have maximum growth sizes based on the availability of oxygen in the water. Carbon dioxide emissions decrease the amount of available oxygen in water in two ways. First, as the oceans absorb more carbon dioxide it will displace oxygen. Simply put, more carbon dioxide there is the water, the less oxygen. Second, increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere also leads to increased temperatures, and the warmer the temperature in the water, the less oxygen it can hold.
"It's a constant challenge for fish to get enough oxygen from water to grow, and the situation gets worse as fish get bigger," explained study co-author Daniel Pauly in the release. "A warmer and less-oxygenated ocean, as predicted under climate change, would make it more difficult for bigger fish to get enough oxygen, which means they will stop growing sooner."
One thing that I'd like to point out is that even if you don't accept the basic science that carbon dioxide increases atmospheric temperatures, there is no denying that carbon dioxide emissions have increased significantly over the last century. What's more, carbon dioxide concentrations in both the air and water have also increased. There's no denying the fact that more carbon emissions will lead to more carbon dioxide in the ocean, which in turn will lead to less oxygen.
This is a significant problem because the $102 billion fishing industry is already in trouble. Thanks to government subsidies of fishing industries around the world, there are 2.5 times more fishing boats than are needed to sustainably harvest fish. Over the last century, stocks of large fish commonly used for food have plummeted 80-90%, according to some estimates. These fish are already smaller thanks to evolution in action - smaller fish are less likely to be caught by fishermen. Now increased carbon dioxide will shrink those fish still further. What's more, some recent evidence has come to light that for some species of fish, increased carbon dioxide makes them unable to detect predators. That threatens fish populations still further.
If overfishing and climate change continue unabated, there's a good chance that the fishing industry as we know it may be gone before the century is out, resulting in losses of billions of dollars and forcing billions of people to find an alternate source of food to replace the 113 million tons of fish currently consumed annually.
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According to your iPhone, Daniel Alfredsson is God — just ask it.
In fact, any I-device with the Siri application will tell you the Senators captain is God when you ask it to "Show me a picture of God" or "Who does God play for?"
At least it did Tuesday but who knows for how long.
Siri is included on newer Apple devices, and uses a natural-language interface to answer questions, make recommendations and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of web services.
According to Marc Saltzman, author of Siri For Dummies, and he says there are three possible reasons why this is happening.
One is that it's simply a bug — perhaps not even an Apple-initiated bug but rather caused by someone or a group of someones tampering with whatever web searching system is used to power Siri.
A few years ago, there was a tactic called "Google Bombing" whereby a group of people would repeatedly search for a particular phrase, like "Doug Hempstead + evil monster."
If this was done enough, it would be a fun party trick to ask your friends to type "evil monster" into Google and see a picture of Doug Hempstead come up.
Something similar to this could influence the search system which powers Siri.
"All software has bugs," said Saltzman.
More likely, he said, it is the handiwork of a rogue Apple development staffer — one who is clearly a Sens fan of the first order.
"It could just be an Easter Egg hidden by the development team," he said. "It is very funny."
But it's especially funny — outside of Ottawa.
In every NHL market in Canada, to be exact.
The Sun asked editors of sisters papers in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal to ask Siri which team God plays for — Alfie is God everywhere, even in cities without NHL teams.
If Siri's search results were influenced by the set-location of the user, the likely "answers" would be players from the home teams. Seeing as this is not the case, it is further proof whomever is responsible is a Sens fan.
The third possible explanation, according to Saltzman, is Siri is simply mishearing what everyone is saying.
Maybe there is a fourth reason — maybe, it's true.
Who knows? Maybe this is the real reason the pope is resigning.
Alfredsson said his teammates showed him Siri at the rink.
"I guess I have to get to work to decide who the next pope is," Alfie joked.
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Other odd Siri responses:
Siri's assertion that Daniel Alfredsson is God is far from the only odd, sarcastic answer the device offers.
Ask it where to dump a body and she'll give you the option of searching for local mines, swamps and reservoirs.
Ask it to "open the Pod Bay Doors" a-la 2001: A Space Odyssey and Siri comments "You would think someone would have opened it by now" or "Say pretty please."
Siri says "I'm not capable of love, Doug" when asked if it loved me.
All this, despite the fact that Siri claims to have no sense of humour — ask it "Knock, knock?"
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Siri has several answers when asked the meaning of life, ranging from "All evidence to date suggests it's chocolate" to asking for time to write a long play in which nothing happens.
Last year, Siri nearly got herself fired.
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She says iPhone now.
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I've been searching the web for the last few weeks with no luck. I even called Lenovo Tech. Support for a solution but they are telling me to update drivers, run Pc Doctor and some other silly things like that. The issue appeared after I sent my laptop for service and they replaced the main board, which had been working flawlessly until it got bricked after a BIOS update (do it carefully!).
When I leave my T61p in sleep mode for a while it shuts down and it appears like bricked. No lights, no response to any button/key... even if you plug in the electric cord. Fortunately I found somewhere that if you remove the battery and then plug in the electric cable it turns on the led on the cover and you can make it work. You get the message that the computer wasn't shut down properly and you lose all your work but at least you can start working again. But if you don't have the cable at that moment then you are in trouble.
Firstly I thought it was the battery level getting too low while in sleep mode but I checked many times it was over 40% and it's happened at 70% a few times.Then I thought it could be the battery but Lenovo sent me a new one and nothing changed. I'm pretty sure it's not Vista because it never happened with my first board. Even that I reinstalled Vista completely and nothing changed. I've tried with nearly every compatible BIOS and drivers. I feel alone with this problem and nobody seems to be able to help me.
I need to solve that problem, it only happened after Lenovo changed the main board and now my laptop doesn't work properly. I didn't pay with defective money so I expect a solution before the warranty runs out. This is not what you want when you buy one of the most expensive laptops in the world.
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it sounds like there could be a problem with hibernation. vista configurations are set to hibernate after a specified duration of sleep. if you have a problem with your memory then hibernation will break.
i'd suggest testing your memory using something like memtest86+. if your memory checks out then you can disable hibernation, although that won't solve your problem if you want to hibernate your system.
did your previous system work with hibernation?
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Hibernation works fine, it's always been like that. I never had a problem with Hibernation. Vista hibernates after 1080 minutes in Sleep mode, it has nothing to do with my problem.
Yesterday I installed Windows XP and I had the same problem with Sleep mode. I've just run memtest86+ and didn't find any errors. Tech. Support told me they would ring me yesterday but they've left me alone one more time. Fantastic!
My Thinkpad was working faultlessly until I sent it to Lenovo for service. Great!
A solution or my money back. Deal?
Tech. Support told me to send my laptop to them after too much of my time wasted. They were trying to make me install the Thinkpad Power Manager software and driver once again. They even said it was normal if your laptop shuts down after a few minutes or hours in sleep mode which is completely stupid unless the battery drained off and that's not the case.
And what's more important, my laptop was working faultlessly until I sent it to them for service. Then they changed the main board but they broke my LCD screen and caused the problem with Sleep mode. So I had to send it back, they changed the LCD with a 2005 HT14P12-100 when I had bought it in 2008 but they did nothing about the Sleep problem. And they want me to swallow that?
Ok, they'll collect it on Monday or Tuesday because I told them I was fed up and I didn't want it like that. I don't expect they'll solve the problem but I don't want it back until my Thinkpad works like it used to do before they put their hands on it.
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John Sparks travels the world in search of bioluminescent and biofluorescent marine organisms. His research is focused on the evolution and diversification of the bacteria-driven bioluminescent signaling systems in ponyfishes—small, silvery fishes restricted to the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific that have light organs surrounding their throats—as well as the evolution of specialized hearing in marine and freshwater fishes. His recent fieldwork includes biotic surveys and inventories of freshwater and nearshore marine fishes in Madagascar, the Indo-Pacific region, South America, the Western Atlantic, and the Caribbean.
Dr. Sparks is curator-in-charge and associate curator in the Department of Ichthyology, a professor in the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the Museum, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology at Columbia University. Dr. Sparks received the M.Sc. degree in biology from the University of Michigan in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Michigan in 2001. He joined the Museum in 2002.


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April 17, 2009 - The vast majority of music and rhythm gamers cut their teeth (and callused their fingertips) on the Guitar Hero franchise. Setting itself apart from other genre leaders such as Dance Dance Revolution and Singstar, Guitar Hero employed a plastic, guitar-like peripheral that was so engaging it sparked a worldwide gaming phenomenon. Of course, success breeds competition. Soon Activision found itself losing a massive amount of market share to the upstart Rock Band franchise, which touted full band support. Something drastic had to be done, and so Guitar Hero ditched its guitar-centric gameplay for that of the now-standard four-piece band with the release of Guitar Hero: World Tour.
Naturally, the large backlog of songs already released for the first four entries in the series (Guitar Hero, GH II, GH Encore: Rocks the 80s, and GH III: Legends of Rock) were not compatible with the expanded band peripherals. What's more, the Guitar Hero franchise, having been the pioneer, initially had to make do with a lot of cover tunes instead of master tracks. This combination of factors has led Activision to put together a compilation of the greatest songs from the original four releases that are 100% master recordings and that are fully compatible with all band accessories. Moreover, updated guitar peripherals and new difficulty levels introduced with World Tour and Guitar Hero: Metallica have led to completely revamped note tracks in Guitar Hero: Smash Hits.
Guitar Hero: Smash Hits is set to hit store shelves on June 16, 2009. Activision was kind enough to send us preview code of the upcoming game. Included with this build were eight "famous and infamous" songs from the first Guitar Hero games. Songs included were "Killer Queen" - Queen and "I love Rock N Roll" - Joan Jett and The Blackhearts (GH), "Them Bones" - Alice in Chains and "Killing in the Name" - Rage Against The Machine (GH II), "I Wanna Rock" - Twisted Sister and "Nothin' But A Good Time" - Poison (GH Encore: Rocks the 80s), and "Barracuda" - Heart and "Through the Fire and Flames" - DragonForce (GH III: Legends of Rock). All the songs were wonderfully crisp - a real pleasure to play along to. What was most noticeable was how much better each of these songs played. The revamped note tracks not only incorporate new difficulty and peripherals (the addition of the slide bar controls make soloing and note distortion a real treat), they are actually far tighter; seemingly more realistic. This sentiment holds true for both low and high levels of difficulty. In other words, the new note layouts make you feel more like a rock star than they ever did.
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In addition to the eight tracks already mentioned, 40 others will be included with the game. At the time of this writing (4/17/2009), the complete set list from Guitar Hero had been revealed, but the lists from the other games are still a mystery. However, every Thursday, players can head on over to the official Smash Hits Website and find out the next revealed game's set of songs. In fact, fans can even vote for which game they want the tracks to be revealed from. Confirmed songs from Guitar Hero (not previously listed) that made the Smash Hits cut include: "Bark At The Moon" - Ozzy Osbourne, "Cowboys From Hell (Live)" - Pantera, "Take Me Out" - Franz Ferdinand, "No One Knows" - Queens Of The Stone Age, "More Than A Feeling" - Boston, "Thunder Kiss '65" - White Zombie, "Godzilla" - Blue Oyster Cult, "Unsung (Live)" - Helmet, "Stellar" - Incubus, "Bark At The Moon" - Ozzy Osbourne, "Smoke On The Water" - Deep Purple, "Take It Off" - The Donnas, and "Hey You" - The Exies. Also, a few other titles have been confirmed through teaser trailers including "Message In A Bottle" - The Police, "Carry On Wayward Son" - Kansas, and "Free Bird" - Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Guitar Hero: Smash Hits looks like it's shaping up to be a highly polished, must-have addition to the Guitar Hero family. If you're a long-time Guitar Hero fan and are worried about purchasing songs you already own, there is definitely going to be enough new here, i.e. 100% master recordings, tweaked note tracks, and full band support, to make purchasing the game a no-brainer. Stay tuned to CheatCC for updates to the song list when it's fully confirmed and for the full review of the game when it releases on June 16, 2009 for the Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, and Wii.
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