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After I watched Heth and Jed in New York, and playing a lot of guitar in Yoyogi Park now that the weather had turned from freezing to heatwave, I've been inspired to push myself a little bit more to get out there.
I've given up on waiting for someone to jam with, instead figuring out a way just to do it all myself. Watching the guys on Staten Island gave me the idea of using a looper to add my own accompaniment on the fly. I thought of pre-recording some tracks onto my iPod, but I like the idea of a one man band doing it "on the spot".
So my search for a looper was on. I watched Heth explaining his setup on Youtube, and noticed he had a Boss RC-20XL loop station on his pedal board.
I looked it up and a LOT of other loopers.
It's advantage is it's battery powered, but I wanted more than a single overdubbed loop. Although, check out KC Tunstall and her E2 Headrush performance here and a Jackson 5 cover here. Great stuff.
The Boss RC-50 looked like just what I was after but it looked pretty big, and required to be plugged into a power supply. The reviews weren't that great, but there is a fantastic demo of it here that almost convinced me to get it.
Another option was to just buy a midi pedal board, and use the great (and free!) Mac program "Sooperlooper". It's quite easy to use and a lot of fun! The only negative here is that I'd be carting along a laptop where I play. Not the most ideal busking situation, but it was one I've been close to going for.
For something different I played around with Everyday Looper on the iPhone. This was a lot of fun too, but using it live with a guitar might be a little tricky trying to keep my hands free to play, rather than touching the screen. Highly recommended though!
Finally I wanted something small, but ticked all the boxes of what I was after. There are many favourable reviews of the Boomerang III phrase sampler.
I watched this video that shows just what this baby is capable of. You can have up to 4 loops with one of them being a master percussive loop that can continue behind all the other loops. That's what I had in mind so this should be perfect! Well, almost perfect. One "problem' is that it can't be powered by batteries.
Mike suggested a Duracell Powerpack but unfortunately here in Japan they can't be found. The closest I'm thinking of is an Eneloop Pedal Juice. Here they call it "Music Booster". It's a 9V Lithium-ion battery pack. According to the manual it says it can run off DC power, but I'm still waiting for Boomerang Music to get back to me about that. It might only give me 2 hours power but the Eneloops are much cheaper here in Japan that I could probably get two.
The Boomerang's made in the US and is probably considered a boutique pedal that it's hard to come by it here, but out of the blue like someone read my mind I saw one in a local music shop for sale and I jumped on it!
I made the trip out to Ikebukuro today to buy it. My first impression is that it looks bigger than it does in photos. For some reason I expected it to be about the same size as my Adrenalinn. In hindsight that would be totally impractical. This size leaves enough space to comfortably hit the footswitches.
They had trouble getting an input level, but it looks like the cord inputs are auto-sensing, so I suggest powering it down and on again, and it worked. It was mostly intuitive, but for all it can do I really needed a bit of owner manual help to know how the buttons functioned.
But you know I'm excited. Finally I might be able to realize those sounds in my head of my songs, and covers, that I don't need anyone else to help me do.
Busking may be my answer after all. Back to the boys for some more inspiration. Check this out too!
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Boomerang Looper
After I watched Heth and Jed in New York, and playing a lot of guitar in Yoyogi Park now that the weather had turned from freezing to heatwave, I've been inspired to push myself a little bit more to get out there.
Posted by Jimmy In Japan at 11:59 pm
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- Adam Smith Lieberfarb said...
Wow, that looks really cool. Last week I got a BOSS RC-3 from soundhouse. It sounds a lot better than the Boss DD-7's HOLD mode, and is MUCH easier to use than my old Lexicon Jamman (and more compact.) The drums actually sound cool, too!
- 12 June 2011 at 19:34
- Jimmy In Japan said...
It's an awesome box.The Boss loop stations seem to be limited to a single (and overdubbed) loop except the RC50, but this one you can set one loop as a master rhythmic loop that can run all the time, with 2 or 3 independent loops that can be verse,chorus sections all stackable! Very, very cool.
I tried a DD-7. I expected better. The Echo Park sounds much better to me, and more versatile too.
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Bolton recovered from a woeful start to claim a morale-boosting 3-2 victory over Bristol City in their first game since Owen Coyle's departure.
Under the caretaker management of Jimmy Phillips, a revitalised Wanderers outfit showed admirable character following Steven Davies' early brace at the Reebok Stadium.
Davies, on only his second start for the Robins, followed up a superb third-minute volley by dispatching a disputed penalty, but goals either side of half-time from Chris Eagles and Jay Spearing levelled things up.
Several chances went begging for Bolton either side of Spearing's equaliser, yet there was still time for Martin Petrov to pop up with a deserved winner in the 82nd minute.
Petrov, Tim Ream and Benik Afobe gained recalls as Phillips made three changes to the Bolton side defeated at Millwall in the final game of Coyle's reign.
Experienced centre-half Stephen McManus was handed a second debut by City after returning on loan from Middlesbrough, while Martyn Woolford and Davies came in for Jody Morris and Ryan Taylor.
It took Davies little time to make an impact. A short corner routine resulted in Stephen Pearson swinging over a cross from the left and the former Tranmere and Derby forward connected with a acrobatic left-footed volley that gave Adam Bogdan no chance.
With their next meaningful attack, the Robins earned a penalty - much to the fury of the home support - when Woolford, running from left to right across the area, tumbled under a challenge from Ream.
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Wanderers skipper Kevin Davies did his best to inspire an immediate comeback; the veteran saw a half-hearted appeal for a spot-kick turned down and also fired over on the turn.
Yet it was Eagles who pulled one back in the 31st minute, drilling a powerful free-kick under the wall to register his sixth goal of the season after he had been felled on the edge of the box.
The hosts continued to improve thereafter, but survived another penalty claim when Sam Baldock's cross appeared to strike Ream on the arm.
Bolton upped the tempo once more at the start of the second half and Mark Davies fired wide from 15 yards before Petrov and Spearing brought routine saves from Tom Heaton.
With the visitors coming under increasing pressure, Heaton reacted sharply to deny Afobe from close range.
City's goalkeeper was powerless, however, when Spearing latched on to a neat through-ball from Kevin Davies and finished coolly.
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I've mentioned that Lucy and I are making our grand return to the Kentucky Derby in a few weeks, right? Because we are. And I am so excited.
I booked us rooms shortly after the Derby last year, just in case. And then we abandoned the idea and thought we would go to the Belmont -- the third leg in the triple-crown series -- instead. I wasn't crazy about traveling to New York so close to when I was leaving for Brazil but Chet wanted to join us (and bring the babies along, too, though they wouldn't go with us to the races) and that seemed like a fair compromise.
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Sailors have attributed superstitions to almost all aspects of their work
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Red sky in the morning, sailor's warning
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- for sailors to have tattoos
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- to have a black cat on board
- for a child to be born on the ship
- for sailors to wear gold hoop earrings
- to touch the collar of a sailor
- to step aboard using the right foot first
For sailors, it was unlucky:
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- to have the bottle not break when used in the launch ceremony
- to change the name of a boat
- to sail on a green boat
- to sail on a Friday
- to see rats leaving a ship
- to have someone die on the ship
- to whistle on board a ship
- to cross an area where another ship once sunk
- to lose a bucket at sea
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- If you meet someone with red hair, a clergyman, or someone with cross-eyes on the way to
the harbor, you are encouraged not to set sail
- A bell ringing by itself on the ship is a death omen for one of the crew
- The word "drown" can never be spoken at sea or it may summon up the actual
- A ship without its figurehead will not sink
- Horseshoes on a ship's mast help turn away storms
- A ship will sail faster when fleeing an enemy
- A ship carrying a dead body will sail slower
- Seabirds are thought to carry the souls of dead sailors
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On two of the top issues affecting the investment advisory space, Mary Schapiro, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, is adamant: Brokers should be held to a fiduciary mandate and a self-regulatory organization to help the agency examine advisors must be explored.
Since Dodd-Frank gave the SEC the authority to write a rule to put brokers under a fiduciary mandate, Schapiro has been waging a battle to ensure such a rule sees the light of day.
But Schapiro told Investment Advisor in an exclusive interview in mid-March that while she's hopeful a proposed fiduciary rule will be unveiled this year, those in the industry shouldn't count on it being one that is identical to the fiduciary rule being crafted by the Department of Labor.
"We have talked a lot with the DOL and we've tried to coordinate and work with them, but they have to operate under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), which is quite a different statute than the federal securities laws," Schapiro said. In crafting its fiduciary rule, the SEC is looking at "advice about securities to retail customers," she continued, "and so the issues we would be concerned about are somewhat different than those that DOL is concerned about under ERISA."
A uniform fiduciary rule crafted by the agency, however, will be business-model neutral, she said—a term that has had many in the advisory community scratching their heads. But Schapiro explained that under the SEC staff report recommending that brokers adhere to a fiduciary duty that was sent to Congress and was mandated under Section 913 of the Dodd-Frank Act, the SEC staff said "that if the Commission moves forward with the staff's recommendation to create a uniform fiduciary standard for retail customers when recommendations are made about securities that it be 'business neutral' so that we're not favoring a particular model–investment advisor, BD or a particular compensation structure–over another." Still, those in the advisory community argue that exactly how this business-model neutral approach is crafted will be crucial to determining whether the agency actually ends up putting brokers under a fiduciary mandate.
Despite being deluged with Dodd-Frank rulemakings and other priorities such as "a very big enforcement pipeline," oversight of the municipal securities markets and post flash-crash reforms, Schapiro said that she believes crafting a fiduciary duty rule for brokers is a "very important" priority for the agency.
"I don't know where the Commission will be on this" fiduciary rule, Schapiro told Investment Advisor. "I know that my personal view is that investors should not have to figure out based on the title on the business card of the person sitting in front of them what standard of care they are entitled to. The regulatory system should not put them in that position when [the advisor and the BD rep are] engaged in the exact same conduct."
Another priority for the commission, Schapiro said, is ensuring the agency can adequately examine the advisors it oversees. But even after the switching of advisors with between $25 million and $100 million in assets under management to state registration come July, Schapiro said the SEC will "absolutely not" be able to adequately examine advisors.
Despite the fact that 3,000 advisors previously registered with the SEC will be switching, she said, the SEC "will take on hedge funds and other private funds so the assets under management will actually increase and our responsibilities will be greater." Last year, she said, the SEC inspected 8% of advisors, "and one-third of advisors have never been examined by the SEC. My personal view is that's not sufficient; we need a much greater presence."
Said Schapiro, "I think we have to look at the option of an SRO."
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THE welfare reforms carried out by the Government have been called many things.
Radical, necessary, unnecessary – and either hitting the poor too hard or slashing the deficit to stabilise the economy.
Different people on different ends of the political spectrum have differing views – yet few people can say they have not been significant in one way or another.
The story of Mark Wood is one about the human cost of those changes once we look beyond the political disputes.
The 44-year-old was a vulnerable man with a number of issues – including phobias and behavioural problems.
According to his family, he was fiercely independent and did not like asking for help, although it seems he certainly needed it.
Months, though, after an assessment found that he was safe to work, he was dead – having lost a dramatic amount of weight.
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His own GP told an inquest he should never have been declared fit to work.
Questions have to be answered about how this has happened.
These work assessments have meant thousands in the UK have had benefits cut.
It seems clear that Mr Wood should never have been declared fit to work.
His family will say that he may have been alive today if that hadn't happened.
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NEW YORK (WFAN/AP) — Bigger than Shaq? Larger than LeBron? The Knicks as NBA champions?
(Don't laugh too hard at that last one. The odds are getting better, according to one online sports book.)
Nothing seems too Lin-possible now after Jeremy Lin's incredible first week as an NBA starter, and the story keeps getting better.
The undrafted player from Harvard made a 3-pointer with five-tenths of a second left Tuesday night to give the Knicks a 90-87 victory at Toronto.
Lin and the Knicks returned home Wednesday night and ran their winning streak to seven games with a 100-85 victory against Sacramento that got them back to .500 after an 8-15 start.
Lin joined the rotation only then, so hold off on making him a Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal or LeBron James just yet. But the Knicks have seen enough to believe this ride may last a while.
"I don't know when there's an ending, maybe there won't," coach Mike D'Antoni said.
Lin, the reigning Eastern Conference player of the week, took only six shots Wednesday. Fans at Madison Square Garden, quite a few wearing Lin's jerseys or holding masks of his face, loved it anyway. They chanted "MVP! MVP!" as he was interviewed on the court after the game and held up signs such as "Lin Your Face," "Linderella," and — of course — "Marry Me Jeremy."
"It's crazy. Thank you for the energy as always," he said to the crowd.
LISTEN: Knicks' Carmelo Anthony talks Linsanity on WFAN
Lin's story has blown straight past the New York sports pages and all their cute headlines such as "Va-Lin-tine's Day," all the way to a basketball-crazed continent on the other side of the world, where he's been "kind of like the great Asian hope," said Orin Starn, professor and chair of Cultural Anthropology at Duke.
Lin has done wonders for shares of Madison Square Garden Inc., the company that owns the Knicks, the Garden and the namesake sports network. The stock has surged 9 percent since Lin began his heroics Feb. 4, reaching an all-time high of $33.18 earlier this week before retreating slightly to close at $31.91 Wednesday.
"Rangers and Knicks fans do tend to buy the stock when the teams are doing well," Miller Tabak analyst David Joyce said.
And Linsanity has reached America's most powerful basketball fan, with President Barack Obama talking about Lin's winner Wednesday.
White House spokesman Jay Carney called Lin "just a great story, and the president was saying as much this morning."
Lin arrived in New York in December with no guarantee he'd last more than a few weeks. Already cut by Golden State and Houston this season, he was so hesitant to get comfortable in his new home that he refused to even get his own.
Instead, he slept at his brother's place in the city, and had crashed on teammate Landry Fields' couch the night before his breakout game against New Jersey on Feb. 4.
Even an Ivy League education couldn't help Lin explain what's happened since — the most points in any player's first five games as a starter since the NBA merged with the ABA in 1976, and a contract that's guaranteed for the rest of the season.
"No, but I believe in an all-powerful and all-knowing God who does miracles," Lin said.
If that sounds familiar, yes, Lin has been frequently compared to Denver quarterback Tim Tebow. Both relied on their faith as much as their previously overlooked skills to guide them through hot streaks that made them sensations even beyond their sports.
Tebow carried the Broncos right into the playoffs, and now there are some who believe Lin can do the same with the Knicks.
The Knicks were 40-1 odds to win the NBA championship on Bovada.lv before Lin's run began. Now, they're down to an 18-1 shot and conjuring up memories of another New York team.
"A guy like this is great for the game and has drawn a lot of interest from bettors on the Knicks games also," Kevin Bradley, the sports book's manager, said in a statement. "I am having visions of how the public was treating the Giants going into the Super Bowl being the hottest team in the NFL and costing us a mint, and right now the Knicks are by far the biggest loser for the book."
Not everybody is convinced. Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. played down Lin mania on Twitter, saying that Lin is just doing what plenty of black players do but is getting more attention because of his Asian heritage.
And Lin is certain to cool off. It's one thing to beat teams such as the Nets and Wizards when they've barely had time to learn your name. It's another when NBA defenses are prepared to stop you.
"He's a marked man now, he's not going to sneak up on anybody, and every night's going to be tough," D'Antoni said.
Then again, Kobe Bryant had said he wasn't familiar with Lin's game and would have to study up on him. The next night, Lin burned the Lakers for a career-high 38 points in a nationally televised victory.
That was a huge moment in Taiwan, which Lin's parents left in the 1970s. Asia lost its biggest basketball star when Yao Ming retired last summer, but ratings are up in China, and TV stations around the continent have rushed to add Knicks games to their broadcasts.
"I like Jeremy Lin (more than Yao Ming) because Yao Ming was already famous (when he started playing in NBA). For Lin, it's like nobody had heard of him before. Kobe gave an interview saying he did not know who Lin was. So this is truly a rising star," Taiwanese university student Zhang Gan-yu said.
Lin has been gaining followers on social media and had the NBA's top-selling jersey online in the first week it was available. With Knicks games blacked out to many New Yorkers because of a local cable dispute, the Knicks held their first viewing party in Chinatown on Wednesday night.
Their hero had a relatively quiet game, scoring only 10 points with a career-high 13 assists in the win.
Lin is the NBA's first American-born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent. Starn called his emergence sort of a "coming-out party for Asian-Americans," who he said haven't had a significant presence in entertainment despite their growing population. And certainly not on the basketball court.
"I think it is appealing to a lot of Americans when somebody comes along that seems to break out of this set of stereotypes — and in this case, an Asian-American from the heart of the Silicon Valley," Starn said. "I think Jeremy Lin has this special kind of attraction because he seems to capture this visibility of Asian-Americans."
But Lin will have to have lasting success to be just a short-term phenomenon, even to Asians. Yao was beloved because he proved to be an All-Star. Yi Jianlian, drafted in 2007 and now with his fourth NBA team, has seen his popularity wane because he is a journeyman.
Not to worry, D'Antoni says. Lin's the real thing.
"He's going to be a good player," D'Antoni said.
Do you think "Linsanity" will last? Sound off below!
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I am not a NBA Fan However I am very happy for Knicks Fans and they were way overdue for a Superstar like player who they not have since Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley and Jeremy Lin is the real thing.
Now it's time for Time Warner Cable to PLEASE bring back Madison Square Garden Network to it's Channel line up throughout New York State so Knicks Fans can see Jeremy Lin.


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Real Art Ways presents Sigur Ros film experiment
Real Art Ways in Hartford is going to be part of the global celebration of music and filmmaking that is being sponsored by the Icelandic band Sigur Ros on Friday, Dec. 9.
"The Valtari Film Experiment" is the culmination of months of work by professional filmmakers and fans who were commisioned by Sigur Ros to create short films inspired by their latest album, "Valtari," which was released in May.
The band asked filmmakers to create whatever came into their heads as they listened to the new music. Each director was given the same small budget.
Sigur Ros gave artistic freedom to the directors and the result is a haunting, eclectic array of work.
In addition to Hartford, "The Valtari Film Experiment" will play other towns and cities on all seven continents (including Antarctica). The band has reached out to nonprofit arts centers as well as rock clubs, hardware stores and hair salons.
An early "Valtari" film by Israeli director Alma Har'el -- set to the track "Fjogur piano" -- has gotten the most advance attention because of the participation of Hollywood actor Shia LaBoeuf.
The young "Transformers" star's frontally naked moment in the film has stirred intense debate on Twitter and other social networking sites (LaBeouf in the buff, as it were).
For Chicago independent filmmaker Melika Bass, the commission for the album track "Varoelder" dovetailed with the way she has worked on many of her projects -- putting a soundtrack together before she creates the visual elements.
For instance, Bass worked several years creating 28 tracks of audio for her highly acclaimed short "Shoals."
"I love sound. I think it's a huge part of film," the director said in a phone interview last week.
"I like working with constraints -- a structure. Building these snow globe worlds," she added of the physical and time limits of short filmmaking.
The Sigur Ros short by Bass features Croation choreographer and dancer Selma Banich with whom the director has worked on other projects.
"She is so fierce and so expressive," the director said of Banich's intense but enigmatic performance, which has already inspired a lot of debate about "meaning" on the Internet.
Bass likes to leave interpretation to the viewer and loves the way that Sigur Ros' dreamy music can trigger wildly different reactions.
"My work tends to be shown in museums and at art film festivals, so I had some trepidation," the director said of the "Valtari" project.
But it became clear very early on that the Icelandic musicians wanted her to work without any input from them.
"That was the real clincher," Bass said. "Total freedom."
Sigur Ros and the filmmakers all understood that the last thing any of them wanted to do was "to illustrate emotions," in Bass' words.
Those who go to the Sigur Ros "Valtari" event will receive a secret URL and a password for that URL where they can enter to win a special prize package.
Most of the videos for "Valtari" -- including "Varoelder" and "Fjogur piano" -- are available free of charge at http://sigur-ros.co.uk and details on the Hartford screening can be found at www.realartways.org .
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The Pittsburgh Pirates are 14-20 going into this afternoon's game against the Cubs. This is not good. Their expected performance (based on the Pythagorean model) says they have actually over achieved to this point and should be 8-26. However you look at it, there are some major issues on this team.
One issue that has gotten major attention over the last week-plus is the profound struggles of second baseman Akinori Iwamura. The 31 year old had a major knee injury last year and is hitting just .169/.267/.246 for a .512 OPS. It doesn't matter what team you're on at any level, those numbers should and will send you to the bench.
Here is a rundown of the articles that have been written. There is some overlap in these, but I encourage you to follow the links and read each article:
May 4: Dejan Kovacevic at the Post-Gazette talked to Aki, who claims to be completely healthy.
May 10: Kipper at Pittsburgh Sports Tavern notices that Aki has gained some weight and brings up his BABIP (batting average on balls in play).
May 12: Fangraphs' R.J. Anderson brings up his increased groundball percentage.
May 13: MarkInDallas on Bucs Dugout counts down the days till he thinks Neil Walker will be called up to play second.
May 14: Pittsburgh Lumber Co.'s Matt Bandi offers a very comprehensive look, which outlines many of the points in the other articles.
May 14: MLB.com's Jenifer Langosch has promised an article for later today with quotes from manager John Russell. I will link to it when it appears. UPDATE: Here's Jen's article. Huntington uses the small sample size defense, which still has validity after just a month of AB's. Russell says there aren't any other good options at 2B or leadoff on the roster. Jen points out that both of these answers ignore the bigger picture options of either promoting Neil Walker or moving Andy LaRoche to 2B in anticipation of Pedro Alvarez's forthcoming ascension.
All of these are well written so there's not much left for me to add. I was in favor or the trade for Aki when it happened. Any time you can trade your third or fourth best reliever for an everyday player is a no-brainer. His approach at the plate has been great – he works counts and draws walks. Very important skills for a top of the order hitter. But until Aki can start squaring up on the ball and driving it he just won't effective. I hope he can snap out of it soon.
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Elaine F. Crane 1937-2012
ALGONA – A Mass of Christian burial for Elaine F. Crane of Algona, formerly of Emmetsburg, will be held 10:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 28, at St. Cecilia's Catholic Church in Algona. Rev. Edward Girres, Rev. Eugene Murray, and Rev. Dan Guenther will officiate.
Burial will be in St. John's Catholic Cemetery at Emmetsburg. The Martin-Mattice Funeral Home in Emmetsburg is in charge of arrangements.
Elaine Frances (Cole) Crane, daughter of Eugene Smith and Ethel Mary (Fitzgerald) Cole, was born July 6, 1937, in Emmetsburg. She received her education in Emmetsburg, graduating from Emmetsburg High School in 1955. She attended Marycrest College in Davenport, receiving a bachelor of arts degree in education in 1959. She accepted a teaching position near Bettendorf.
On June 24, 1961, Elaine was united in marriage to James H. Crane at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Emmetsburg. To this union two children were born. Elaine continued her career in education, teaching in Mallard and Emmetsburg for several years. She later taught higher education classes at Iowa Lakes Community College, retiring in 1996.
Elaine was a devoted member of Holy Family Parish in Emmetsburg and currently St. Cecilia's Parish in Algona. She was very active in both communities. While living in Emmetsburg, Elaine was a member of P.E.O., Chapter B.K. and was a charter member and past president of the Progress Club. She was a 40-year member of AAUW, holding several offices, including the presidency. Elaine was a member of the Red Hat Society and served as a board member for Hospice of Palo Alto County for six years. She volunteered at the hospitals and clinics in both Emmetsburg and Algona. Since moving to Algona, Elaine became a member of P.E.O., Chapter B.W. and a member of the Stinson Prairie Arts Council.
Elaine was an accomplished watercolor artist, having created countless paintings, which most recently were displayed at the Stinson Prairie Art Center, in her honor. She also enjoyed golfing, gardening, photography, traveling, playing bridge, and using her exceptional skills as a seamstress. Elaine and Jim enjoyed spending their winters in Arizona. Above all, she treasured and loved her husband, children, and grandchildren.
Elaine passed away on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012 at Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Algona. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in July 2012. Elaine vowed to find the joy in each day and continued bringing joy to others.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Gene and Ethel Cole.
Surviving are her husband, James of Algona; her children, Jeanne Marie Mullenbach (Darrell) of Urbandale, and Steven Robert Crane (Natalie) of Clear Lake; five grandchildren, Megan, Sara, and Grant Mullenbach and Andrew and Jack Crane; a sister, Mary B. Hannon of Palm Desert, CA; two sisters-in-law, Margaret (Jack) Lyons of Yankton, SD, and Marilyn Crane of Omaha, NE; a brother-in-law, Robert C. Crane of Iowa City; and ten nephews and nieces.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be directed to Holy Family Catholic School in Emmetsburg, Bishop Garrigan High School in Algona, or Stinson Prairie Arts Council in Algona.
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You've finally received a hard-earned raise.
Unfortunately, that raise has bumped you into the next tax bracket.
Does that mean you should tell your employer you don't want the raise after all?
If all of your income is going to be taxed at a higher rate, with your new raise, you're actually going to take home a smaller paycheck. Right?
Fortunately, this statement isn't true, but it's a common misconception about how our progressive federal income tax system works. While people are taxed at higher rates when they earn higher levels of employment income, only a portion of their income, not all of their income, is taxed at the higher rate. Let's take a look at how the system works.
SEE: How To Ask For A Pay Raise
How to Calculate How Much Tax You Owe
As you've already noticed, the more money you earn, the more tax you pay. Not only that, but as you earn more money, you pay a progressively higher tax rate. The two tax tables below show the tax rates the IRS requires you to pay on your 2011 income if you're single or married filing jointly.
Your marginal tax rate is the rate of tax that applies to each additional dollar of income that a taxpayer earns. If you are single and you earned $34,500 a year before your raise, you were in the 15% marginal tax bracket. Your tax liability was $850 plus 15% of the amount over $8,500. The amount you earned over $8,500 was $26,000, so you owe $3,900 in tax on $26,000 and $850 in tax on $8,500 for a total of $4,750 in tax. While your marginal tax rate was 15%, your effective tax rate, or the average rate of tax you paid on your total income, was lower. To get your effective tax rate, divide your total tax by your total income. In this case, $4,750/$34,500 gives you an effective tax rate of 13.8%. (For more, check out How Your Tax Rate Is Determined.)
Now, let's look at what happens to your tax rate and the total tax you owe after your raise. Let's say you received a whopping $10,000 raise and your annual income is now $44,500. How much tax will you owe?
You already know that you owe $4,750 on the first $34,500 you earned. But now that your total income is between $34,500 and $83,600, you must pay a higher rate of tax. Your $10,000 raise bumps you into the 25% tax bracket. However, you will not pay 25% on all $44,500 of your income, just like you didn't pay 15% on all $34,500 of your income before you got a raise. The 25% rate only applies to your $10,000 raise. You'll owe an additional $2,500 a year in tax, for a total of $7,250 ($4,750 + $2,500).
What overall rate of tax are you paying on your $44,500 salary? Divide your salary, $44,500, by your total tax, $7,250, and you'll see that your effective tax rate is 16.3%, not 25%. With your raise, you're taking home an extra $7,500 a year. You may not be happy about the high percentage of your raise the government has claimed, but you are going to take home significantly more pay than you did before your raise.
Deductions and Credits
The above example is simplified; it doesn't account for the deductions and credits that reduce your taxable income. Every taxpayer can choose whether to take a standard deduction or to itemize deductions. If you're single and don't own a home, you probably don't have many deductions to itemize, so you'll take the standard deduction. The standard deduction reduces the amount of your taxable income. Instead of paying tax on all $44,500 that you earn, you'll pay tax on that amount minus the standard deduction. In 2011, the standard deduction for single filers is $5,800, reducing your taxable income to $38,700.
Whether you itemize or take the standard deduction, you're also entitled to a personal exemption, which reduces your taxable income even further. For your 2011 return, the standard exemption is $3,700. Now your taxable income is $35,000. Your marginal tax rate is still 25%, but only $500 of your income will be taxed at 25%.
The Bottom Line
The progressive tax system means that you pay different amounts of tax on different portions of your income. As you earn more money from your job, you'll pay higher rates of tax on your additional income. However, you won't pay a higher rate of tax on all of your income. So when you're up for your next raise, don't fear the tax man - negotiate your way to the highest raise possible. (For related reading, see Personal Income Tax Guide.)
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Persons wishing to undertake any form of development require provisional development plan consent. Each proposal is assessed to ensure it conforms with the relevant Development Plan for the proposed location of the development. The Development Plan sets out provisions in relation to the design and location of development and contains zoning and design criteria. Development means building work, a change in the use of land, subdivisions, work in relation to State or local heritage places which could materially affect the heritage value of the place, prescribed mining operations, the forming of certain levees or mounds, coastal protection works, display of certain advertising signs and excavation or filling of land in prescribed zones. The Council is generally the decision maker for applications.
A licence defines the need to obtain recognition / certification and registration to undertake a certain business activity.
You will not need provisional development plan consent for the following work:
Once off. The consent is generally valid for 12 months.
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I rarely if EVER participate in the WWC but man I love to go check it out. I'm alway interested in how everyone says the words.
I knew exactly what photos I would post when I saw the words.
This weeks first word is CONFORM.......
This is a shot of the twins on their first morning waking up in their toddler beds. I had expected them to be on the floor when I went to get them, honestly.
The other word for this week is REBEL........
MY children refuse to sit still for the group picture at the Halloween party. The party I was the hostess for......nice!
Sunday, November 12, 2006
WWC - Conform and Rebel
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Belsar Hammerfell's journal log of this adventure
At the time where Belsar thinks that he was fighting some giant white wormlike creature, he was actually under mind controll from the one illithid. Yes, even I don't make a saving throw every now and then. When I failed that save, our DM hands me a note that reads, "You are obviously the best Dwarf fighter here. Attack the others and show that this is true." As luck would have it, the character of Rennek then came over to help fight the illithid. Now I didn't have to figure out which
Since it was getting close to sunset and the fact that it seems like usually our foes like to be more active at night, we figure that it would be best to wait until morning before checking out the giants cave. A watch is set and we make camp away from the cave entrance. I made a large camp fire that would burn all night. We also made a blockade at the cave entrance. We even soaked it with oil from a couple of oil flasks. This way, if something attacked from the cave, we can set the oil and
On day two of working on the repairs to my war hammer and the arrow heads for Merrick, I noticed an odd clanging sound after I stopped working. The local smithy said that is the bell to gather towns folk to help defend Thurmaster. With the work needing to cool, I went straight to the meeting at the front gate. Of course, we have to go and try to save some fishermen that are being attacked by some giants.
We arrive just in time to see two giants preparing to leave with a human body
After resting, we go back to Milborne, We get there late and arrange for rooms for the night. The next day, I looked for some better armor to purchase, but there is none to be found. We then set out for Thurmaster, but have to leave Corabell at the inn. She seemed to be in some type of trance. The Barkeep was paid to take care of her until we returned. As we set out, Blintz, Rennek, Tristiana, Dengar, and Godric are nowhere to be found. Hopefully the 5 of them have set out for Thurmaster earlier
Well, as luck would have it, we managed to not get hit very often in the last battle with the trolls. We seem to be getting better at fighting as a group and are getting better at fighting in general. With the minimal damage taken, Corabell and Neravin were able to heal up the party and still had some healing spells left for later.
Being healed and not having used that many supplies, we decide to go check out the room that Lorien put the webs at the entrance. We were surprise to


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Post subject: Re: D-link find Linux link here
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...But not everybody is a computer enthusiast, just like not everybody is a car enthusiast, climbing under the hood of their car every weekend. That doesn't mean they are dumb, mebbe only that they use their computer for daily work and are more interested in that work than the computer itself. This is the hold Windows has on the OS market, imho.
Exactly put.
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...I think a solution for most desktop dial-up users is absurdly simple. PCI modem cards are cheap & easy to install. If the Linux community would focus on one card and get it up to Plug & Play in a
Linux handshake... the maker would sell a lot of cards- to the average user who'd rather just install a supported card than suffer through hours of decyphering an unknown language. It could even ship with a distro or two!
(Who's got China's phone number?)
For laptops & wireless folks, perhaps a well-heeled distro like Ubuntu could impliment a real solution...
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Post subject: D-Link internal modem with CD
We bought a D-Link internal modem for our home computer which came with a CD containing software (drivers+shareware)
Now the booklet says it supports only Windows but in the CD there is a directory which contains Linux drivers.
There are some files there :
hsflin-<some numbers separated by dots>.rpm
hsflin-<some numbers separated by dots>.deb
hsflin-<some numbers separated by dots>.tar.gz
install [a text file]
The install files gives instructions as to what to do regarding installing the modem. There are 3 sets of instructions for rpm and another and the last set for .tar.gz
The last set uses the "make install" command.
Now i could extract the .tar.gz as per instructions given into its own directory. But the next command did not work "make install" Bash says "make command not found" or something like that.
With this info can anybody help me?
Puppy 1.0.5 LiveCD BootUp option i select 3 (Harddisk) pup001 hda7
Intel Celeron 733MHz
D-Link internal modem (works in Win98)
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Posted: Wed 19 Oct 2005, 11:50
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Puppy autodetects many modems, and network devices 'out of the box', As I said before, It includes the most common to keep it small. So most of the users will have a good startup experience.
The same happens with video drivers, mouse, keyboard, printers, etc.
For most devices it wil be seameless, from the rest most will be possible (through downloading or installing something extra) and of course there will be the odd one that's not supported at all.
In your case there isn't even a barrier. You can ask for the CDs from Barry. It includes all the unleashed packages so you would not need to download the modem driver.
I still don't see an alternative. Or you get all the drivers at once in a big download or you get a small download and have to go get the odd driver or you request for the CD's on the mail.
Do you see a feasible alternative to solve the conundrum?
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Posted: Wed 19 Oct 2005, 13:36
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It includes the most common to keep it small. So most of the users will have a good startup experience.
The problem is, what are the MOST common? (I would add MOST IMPORTANT too. Internet connection is obviously very important.)
Btw, I think the most important thing for an OS is that it WORKS, i.e. all important hardware connected works (and it's more important than "to be small", I'm not saying that the latter is not important thou, it's the second most important
). If we can have a Chubby Puppy with Open Office, I don't see why we can't have a Chubby Puppy that all hardware will work.
In other words, the aim of an OS should be: ALL of the users should have a good startup experience.
rarsa wrote:
For most devices it wil be seameless, from the rest most will be possible (through downloading or installing something extra) and of course there will be the odd one that's not supported at all.
I think M$ has given a thorough thought on that and has come to a solution: include the 'basic' drivers for most devices. You may need to download the drivers from the manufacturer's site for the best performance. So something "extra" needs to be downloaded or installed ONLY when he/she wants better performance. This way few people complain that a device doesn't work in Windoz (also, they don't need to "climbing under the hood of their car every weekend", everything works out of the box
), and that's a major reason why most people have Windoz as their major OS instead of Linux. In fact, puppy has done a great job when compared to other distros. Everything here works except the modem. So why should modem be an exception?
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I still don't see an alternative. Or you get all the drivers at once in a big download or you get a small download and have to go get the odd driver or you request for the CD's on the mail.
We have smart puppies here right? If we can have Puppy which is only 60M as compared to other Linux distro which are 600M+, I say why not "get all the drivers at once in a small to medium download"?
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Posted: Wed 19 Oct 2005, 15:22
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How about this: a live CD (or more probably DVD) with the source code for several different kernels, every application, library and driver known to Linux, and a (compiled) wizard.
You boot the CD, which loads the wizard, which determines whether the CD has drivers for the hardware on the computer and asks which kernel and applications you'd like to use. Then it takes this info, compiles an optimum OS for that computer and burns it to a bootable CD or installs it to the hard drive.
It sounds doable, but not easy. Anybody up for it?
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Posted: Wed 19 Oct 2005, 16:38
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You just read my mind, Flash.
This project was in my Todo list.
I'm working on a draft for the wireless wizard and that was one of the solutions I was planning to explore.
I started doing some experiments to add files to the CD. There is another thread where that was resolved using the Multisession CD/DVD. I don't know if that solution will allow to create a non multisession CD image.
Patk was going to send me the Kanotix HW detection scripts for me to study.
Too bad I don't have more time. so if someone else starts the project that would be great. I actually asked Barry for priorities and those projects were there.
I am currently trying to get the project I was working on stable (dynamic menus) and start with the wireless. Of course building on what BladeHunter, BlackAddler et all have implemented. None of these projects are a one person's task (unless they are retired).
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Posted: Wed 19 Oct 2005, 20:37
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rarsa- lemme say first, I
support PUPPY, and for many reasons. Also, I hear your points and in the abstract agree with them.
I was astounded that Puppy set up everything on my non-standard ITX Epia. I'm not griping about this breakthru distro. Not at all.
that said... how old is Linux now?
I was trying to give a sense of the frustration that a basic function- one which determines whether you can communicate, or get needed downloads - is still so tangled in obscurity and kludging. It's easier to set up the DVD burner.
Take a look at the 'working modems' listed here in the wiki at:
these are the only internal ones listed that aren't PCMCIA or ISA:
Actiontec V.90 PCI AKA IBM V.90 PCI.
Actiontec 56K internal PCI Call Waiting Modem
Diamond SupraExpress 336 internal
3Com Megahertz 56K Global Modem pc card, model 3CCM156
1646T00 REA 12 99035 4903835 96 Lucent - - an older PCI modem that is very fast
so I went to eBay...
the Call-waiting 56K Actiontec is listed maybe - the listings refer to a Dell 528UU & V.90- not enough info to be sure what's what.
the 3Com is not PCI, its PCMCIA.
the Diamond 336 is not currently listed
on the last- which sounds the best-
* 7 items found for REA 12
* 48 items found for 12 Lucent
* 210 items found for 12 96
* 1 items found for 99035
12 Lucent give a bunch of telephones, nary a modem in the bunch.
now add in some of the wiki 'working modem' user comments, which I think would initially faze most anybody:
I had to clear config data in BIOS before it worked.
You only need to go through the puppy modem wizard to set it up.
Quick recap: Using the puppy modem wizard froze my system, and it could only be rescued via a hard reboot.
for getting Linmodems working with Linux (not easy)
I'm not saying that every driver in existence should be in PUPPY; or that all the VoIP, FAX, etc features should be supported right from the first LiveCD session.
I am saying that according to LINUX COUNTER, there are
29 million
people using LINUX.
One would think that any modem manufacturer would cater to that number. That they don't may be due to the 'registered driver' hold that MS has on any hardware maker- & the same lockout deal was pulled on the Netscape browser.
According to PC World, in 2000 there were
a quarter of a billion
people still using dial-up. That's 40% of all net users.
I'd guess that the majority of these people are still using their ol' steam computers, for which PUPPY is perfect. So why let the modem stump them?
It's time to fix this problem- somehow. Maybe the tradeoff isn't 60M becoming 80M, its 2000 users becoming 200,000 users...
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Posted: Thu 20 Oct 2005, 00:51
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aahhaaa said
afterthought- if one of you guys that really knows what you are doing would put half-height & full-height PCI winmodem cards on eBay- with a working driver setup disk for Puppy- I'd buy one of each!
I'de be in that. I could get my User Group members to buy these much easier than to pay out $90.00 to $120.00 for an external dialup modem.
What you say makes a great deal of sense. I read recently - on the Firefox site I think
Microsoft has never won a war in development against anyone. But it proved to be a master of Marketing. Dont Repeat The History. Don't Downplay The Marketing.
Successful marketing relies on a product that works for
. Linux must have the same support and choice of Net access that Win has.
Older users don't want to program or use spreadsheets etc. And older users are becoming a significant part of the Market
They want easy, reliable and cheap access to the Net so they can exchange pics, chat with distant friends and chase up their ancestors!
If we can't help them do this, they will stay with Win.
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If you want an all singing-dancing Linux DVD with nearly every option/driver known to man on it - Hr dr prof Klaus has already provided it. But Puppy is a very different animal! DSL used Knoppix detection to provide a credit card 50M live CD, whilst BarryK's intention was to redesign a very low inventory, backwards compatible distro with appeal to neophytes. All are successful in their own ways. The problem lies in catering for the huge array of HW, vast armies of putative converts and battling the beast of Remond. Not all things in life are possible. The main issue for all Linux distros remains the yawning communications gap between the gurus and users. This is gradually being address, although many penguin professionals are unable to comprehend that regular folk are incapable of understanding their technospeak, issue console commands, remaster CD s, etc. so are totally dependent on clever guys like Barry, John and colleagues to provide the goods required. For users, stepping outside the box is not an option. Linux drivers for modems with an incomplete complement of components and designed for Windows coding is a bridge too far. Although it presents an interesting intellectual challenge for the cognoscenti, regular users should avoid wasting time and effort, possibly cash too, and buy any external serial modem, as advised above.
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Posted: Thu 20 Oct 2005, 09:01
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why does wanting the existing modem to work always turn into discussing a kitchen-sink distro?
If the Linux community had real working relationships with the hardware makers, how long do you think it would take for
to write a generic* driver? a week? a day?
Whole countries have adopted Linux as their standard platform. What are they doing about the dial-up problem?
Linux doesn't compete with Windows- it mostly competes with itself.
Going back to the car analogy, in the early days there were a bunch of outfits making expensive complicated horseless carriages for the rich.
Ford made a simple sturdy vehicle for everyone else.
PUPPY has a good chance to become our Model T, the distro that works on every computer, unless some other distro solves this problem first.
* by generic, I mean a standard open source driver protocol that modem cards must include to be Linux compliant...
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Unfortunately, it isn't like that. Winmodems aren't really modems at all; indeed, another name has them as 'software modems'. They just have a few extra HW components on a card that, in themselves, do not constitute a 'modem'. Each chip manufacturer will devise unique software to enable their own Winmodem chipset to access the (unpublished!!) 'doze APIs; they
these to work.
ipso facto
, there is no 'universal driver' for these devices. It is only by dint of clever, maybe even a little reverse, SW engineering that some folks make these abominations function under Linux, but every one is different. Indeed, there is one company in the list that specialises in intercepting Lucent Winmodem calls, with the company's approval, and diverting them to penguin-speak. But, they want real money for their troubles.
Like I keep saying - save time, save effort, save money : buy an external serial modem! I could spell that out in caps, if you like?! The little lights also help to identify any rogue incoming, as well as routine problems, if that isn't an oxymoron.
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Posted: Thu 20 Oct 2005, 14:19
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why does wanting the existing modem to work always turn into discussing a kitchen-sink distro?
Because that's the reality wheter you can accept it or not.
If the Linux community had real working relationships with the hardware makers, how long do you think it would take for them to write a generic* driver? a week? a day?
Remember that in the minds of the traditional companies, Closed = captive audience, brand recognition.
The modem 'issue' has been like that always, actually it's like that for windows. If Microsoft hasn't been able to do it, what makes you think that Linux can in the short term. As I said before Microsoft solved it by market forces. Vendors create Windows drivers so they can sell.
Your question is highly rethorical as if you were asking: Why can't people just talk their problems and mediate so we wouldn't have wars?
An excelent question. A very easy solution. A very different reality.
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Posted: Thu 20 Oct 2005, 15:05
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Like I keep saying - save time, save effort, save money : buy an external serial modem! I could spell that out in caps, if you like?! The little lights also help to identify any rogue incoming, as well as routine problems, if that isn't an oxymoron.
It's not as simple as saying buy an external modem. Where I'm from a winmodem is around $12-15 US, whereas an external modem is at least $75US.
Why would a user (esp. a non-technical one) want to switch to an unfamiliar OS, spend $75US and then try to figure out how to install it and get on the internet?
Unlike other newbie issues (which could prob. be solved with the help of an internet connection) most users would not want to be without internet for days while trying to get a dialup connection working.
I do think there is a need to have relatively inexpensive and reliable dialup alternatives to external modems. This is part of the reason I've invested considerable time in compiling conexant hsf and hcf drivers although I no longer use dialup.
Puppy has quite a number of features working for it that can make PCs more cheaply available, can convert more M$ users to linux, can discourage dumping older PCs,.... All of this is done while still providing a positive user experience that Mr. Gates would be envious of.
Why should we not try to improve this with better modem support out-of-the-box?
I'm hoping to create a puplet with ALL of the modem (and hopefully wireless) drivers that currently work in puppy. I would have to sacrifice some apps to keep the size around 50MB but they can added once connected to the internet. I was waiting for 1.0.6 before starting the project but it seems like i may need to start sooner.
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Now i had seen the post about your drivers but did not understand if it suited me. Today i found out that my modem is using software/built by the company called Conexant. So may it will work for me.
But you have mentioned that it may be dangerous to use it. Does it mean it will cause permanent damage to my harddisk/filesystem (windows) if there is some malfunction or just that it may destroy Puppy settings (if so that will be ok)???
The financial implications are very much true.
And whatever i have learnt about computers is on the internet. In a setup like my neighbourhood where nobody knows what Linux is i cant get any help except on the net. So connecting to net is imperative with whatever i have.
Yes. your idea about sacrificing some programmes is good. For eg. a Gnumeric or gxine can be sacrificed (or may be some of the duplicate programmes) in favour of a system that will just work first.
I would rather have a Puppy that will connect to the internet on its own and get those apps rather than reboot into Win98 each time i want to do something on the net (including this forum)
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