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December 1, 2011
Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy is amped through a PA at Outside Lands in San Francisco.

Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy is amped through a PA at Outside Lands in San Francisco.

One of the trickiest instruments to work with live is the acoustic guitar. Although amplifying it seems as simple as pointing a microphone, you''ll encounter issues with tone quality and feedback on all but the quietest stages.

Early acoustic-guitar amplification systems simply added piezo or microphonic pickups to the instrument, but the resulting sound was often overly percussive, honky, and thin. Modern acoustic-electric guitars, on the other hand, have pickup systems specially designed to maintain the tonal complexity of the instrument without feedback, even at high volumes within a mix of instruments.

However, maintaining decent sound quality onstage doesn''t stop at the guitar. Whether you''re playing on open-mic night, touring clubs, or visiting houses of worship, it''s important that you find a way to maintain the sound quality of your guitar no matter what kind of PA system you encounter. Let''s examine three ways that professionals take control of their sound onstage.

he easiest way to work with a venue''s PA system is to simply plug your guitar cable into whatever mixer input is provided. However, this scenario gives you the least amount of control over your sound. When you have an unbalanced output and the distance between your guitar and the mixer is more than 20 feet, you will need to convert your signal to a balanced one in order to avoid signal loss. Most venues will have a passive direct box, which accepts your 1/4-inch cable and provides a balanced XLR output that can be plugged into a cable snake that goes to the front-of-house mixer.

Guitarists who are concerned about tone quality should consider bringing along their own DI, particularly one that''s designed for an acoustic-electric guitar. These products not only create a balanced output, but they typically include a preamp that boosts the signal, while offering EQ controls to compensate for any peculiarities of the PA system or venue.

There are active boxes that run off a battery or accept +48VDC phantom power from the mixer, as well as passive, unpowered products. The device you choose will be determined by your budget, the type of pickup system you have on your acoustic-electric (whether it''s active or passive), and the kinds of features you need. Typical features include a notch filter or phase switch to help mitigate feedback, a dedicated tuner output or built-in tuner, and an effects-loop. Prices start well under $100, though the more feature-laden DI/preamps can cost as much as $400.

One drawback of plugging directly into a PA is that you must rely on the venue''s monitors to hear your amplified instrument. One way to solve this issue is by using an acoustic amp onstage; it not only provides direct monitoring but it gives you greater control over your sound with its built-in preamp and EQ.

Portable, modular PAs such as the Bose system here make carrying your own system easy.

Portable, modular PAs such as the Bose system here make carrying your own system easy.

Unlike an electric-guitar amp, which boosts midrange frequencies, an acoustic amp is designed to cover the wide frequency spectrum an acoustic guitar is capable of producing, while offering features that benefit acoustic-electric players, such as feedback suppression. The more sophisticated products have digital effects. Acoustic amps also include balanced outputs so you can simultaneously send your carefully crafted signal to the front-of-house mixer and go through the PA.

Some acoustic amplifiers can double as lightweight, miniature PA systems and are designed for artists who play house concerts and other small venues. These products include a phantom-powered mic input for vocals and a stereo line-level input for media (MP3 or CD) players. The size and wattage of the acoustic amp you choose will depend on the kind of music play, the onstage volume level of your performances, and whether you''re playing solo or with a band.

The next level of amplification is to bring your own PA. Although you might think that solution is only for loud bands, there are personal PAs designed for soloists and small groups. In one sense, it is a small step up from the acoustic amp, because it not only reproduces the full frequency spectrum, but it includes mic and line inputs, EQ, and, often, digital effects. For the acoustic-electric guitarist who plays indoor and outdoor events to relatively small numbers of people, this can be the smartest way to project a quality guitar tone.

Remarkably, a portable system can be as simple as one or two powered speakers on a stand, with all the connections built into one of speakers themselves. That means you won''t have to pack a separate (and often heavy) power amp and mixer. Examples of this type of system include the Bose L1 Compact, the Fishman SA220, and the HK Audio Elements. All three systems feature narrow, space-saving speaker arrays that are lightweight and easy for one person to schlepp.

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How to use Symantec Factory Restore on Dell Dimension 5150?

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How to use Symantec Factory Restore on Dell Dimension 5150?

  • Hi I would like to Factory Restore my Dell Dimension 5150, just start clean again, now I've looked every where and all I can find so far is people saying to press Ctrl+F11, but I know that's not right, and that it's another combination of keys at the startup and I do not remember them, anyone care to tell me what 2-3 keys I have to press in order for the Symantec Restore Factory Reset screen comes up? It would be very helpfull.
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    Systems shipped after July 15, 2004 came with Symantec PC Restore. This utility restores the computer to an "as-shipped" condition. If you haven't reformatted, repartitioned, or otherwise modified the master boot record, it should work.

    If the Symantec PC Restore utility won't work, but still resides on your computer, a Dell customer has figured out some ways to get it to work again. Note - If you removed this partition, it is not recoverable, cannot be downloaded from the internet, and cannot be shipped from Dell. Click here for ways to fix Symantec PC Restore. Users have also reported that the partition can be restored with Ghost 2003, and Ghost 9 using the '03 capabilities of it. If you boot to the Ghost 9 CD, select Advanced Recovery Taks, select Utilities, then Restore Legacy Image it should work - but you want to verify the image before attempting the restore. It's in a folder called IMG.

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    1 Turn on the computer.

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    4 When a warning message appears stating that all data will be lost, click Confirm, or press <Tab> to highlight Confirm and then press <Enter>.

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Englishmen Chris Wood and Tommy Fleetwood both put themselves in position to win a second European Tour title at The Championship at Laguna National.

Wood, who made his breakthrough at the Qatar Master two years ago, and Fleetwood, victorious at the Johnny Walker Championship eight months later, carded third rounds of 68 and 69 respectively in Singapore.

Bristolian Wood moves to 13-under par and will go into the final round just three off leaders Anders Hansen and Panuphol Pittayarat, with Fleetwood a shot further back.

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"I was disappointed to drop my first shot of the week on the 16th," Wood said. "I've hit a lot of greens this week. That is the longest stretch I have gone without dropping a shot [51 holes]."

A late hat-trick of birdies saw Denmark's Hansen, playing just his fourth event since a six-month absence with a wrist injury, join Pittayarat tied at the top on 16-under.

Hansen picked up shots at the first and eighth to move within three of the lead, before another birdie at the long par-5 15th was followed by a 25-footer at 16 and a tidy two on the par-3 17th.

"I'm very pleased," said the three-time European Tour winner. "I didn't hit the ball that great today but I made a couple of good putts on the last few holes.

"I hit a lot of greens but I just didn't hit it as close as I have done the last couple of days. It was nice to finish with those three birdies - it was a little more windy today so it was more tricky. It was a great finish.

"Everytime you are up there you have to be pleased so I'm looking forward to tomorrow. I love competition and I love playing under the gun - it gets your attention."

The 21-year-old Pittayarat holed four birdies but dropped only his second shot of the week at the 17th after missing the green to the left.

"I came into this week missing three straight cuts on the Asian Tour this season," said Pittayarat, who has led at the end of all three rounds this week. "My performance so far has definitely given me a boost in confidence.

"Whatever happens happens tomorrow. I will just try and play my own game."

England's Nick Dougherty, who made his first cut in a European Tour event for two years, carded a one-over par 73 to fall back to four-under par overall.

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Drama School in the West Bank

Theatre of Hope

Students at the West Bank's first and only drama school talk about their struggle to establish a theatre in the West Bank and their desire to change society for the better through theatre. Ulrike Schleicher spoke to three of them

When Palestinian Malak Abu Gharbia was 12 years old, she met the famous Syrian actor and comedian Doraid Lahham after a theatre performance. "He asked whether I wanted to become an actress one day too," says Malak, who is now 20 years old. "I wasn't able to say a single word." Since the encounter, film and theatre have been part of her life. She soaked up everything that had anything to do with them, read plays and went to see performances whenever possible.

For the past half year, Malak has been able to live out her passion: she is studying acting at the theatre academy in Ramallah in the West Bank. Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was one of her first roles.

Malak, who was born in Jerusalem, learns various acting techniques such as improvisation as well as singing, fencing and pantomime five days a week. She also trains her voice and rehearses. Although the academy is the first and only acting school in the West Bank, her training is no different to what she would receive in Europe.

The academy was founded in 2009 with the help of the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. The teachers there advise the staff at the Ramallah academy and are helping them to build what will in future be a state-approved college. Exchanges and guest performances are part of the cooperation.

So far, the lion's share of funding has come from Germany, but the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah would also like to contribute in the future. Speaking at the opening of the academy in 2009, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said that the academy is helping to maintain the history, heritage and culture of Palestine.

Al-Kasaba theatre, cinema, and acting school (photo: DW/Ulrike Schleicher)
Breaking new ground: students at Al-Kasaba acting school in Ramallah know that they have not chosen an easy path in life: the theatre scene is small in the West Bank, theatre work is not very well paid and people seem to have forgotten how much their lives are connected to culture

Little acceptance of theatre

Despite the euphoria, the initiators of the project know that they have a long road ahead of them. Aside from a lack of infrastructure, there simply isn't enough acceptance of theatre yet in the West Bank.

"In Arab countries, there's very little in the way of theatre culture," said George Ibrahim, head of the academy, actor and director of the Al-Kasaba theatre in Ramallah, adding that that is why there are very few contemporary plays. In light of the situation in the West Bank, there's the added difficulty that people once again need to learn how important culture can be for their society.

This is an experience shared by Malak: "I have met with nothing but intolerance," she says. In her home village of Al-Ama near the barrier, neighbours asked whether she didn't have anything better to do with her life than study something that couldn't guarantee her a job or a future.

Without the support of her family, Malak said she would not been able to pursue her dream, certainly not as she's a woman: "Women need the permission of the family," says Petra Barghouthi, who teaches movement at the academy.

Expressing feelings though acting

But even with the permission of their families, there is no guarantee that students will finish their education. Fathers often take their daughters back out of the school. All too often, their studies there go against their religious sentiment. "For them, smoking, for instance, or contact with men are unacceptable," says Barghouthi. Malak, however, is not willing to accept such a traditional view of women's roles in society: "It's something we have to change."

Ramzey Hasan also says he wants to use theatre to wake up society. The 29-year-old is in his third year at the academy and studied psychology before he went into acting. "People here have to realise how much their life is connected to culture," he said.

Many people in the West Bank are still dealing with the pain and aftermath of the last intifada, he says, adding that theatre could help them come to terms with it. He says that he realised how well he could express feelings and thoughts through acting and adds that by doing so, he "learned a lot about himself."

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A wake-up call for society: each in their own way, the young actors want to change society for the better through theatre, whether it be challenging traditional attitudes to women, reinvigorating society, or forging new links between people and culture

An uncertain future

Petra Barghouthi knows how much the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the difficulties of everyday life in the West Bank impact on the way the 21 drama students develop their art. "In rehearsals, emotions that are buried deep inside often come to the surface," she says.

Assuming other roles enables the young students to leave behind their traumas and past experiences – often for the first time. Such experiences are rare in the West Bank.

Usually, the young actors come back to reality with a bang. Muayad Owda, one of the academy's first six graduates, knows this all too well. The 25-year-old works with a street theatre that's playing across the entire West Bank. Unfortunately, the wages are very low. "I have to have a job on the side," he says. But he knew that it wouldn't be easy to make a living as an actor: "The market here is simply too small." The young man from Kalkilya says that he would like to go abroad, "By the time there is something happening here, I'll be 80 years old."

For Malek though, leaving is not an option. As far as she is concerned, the school is the first step towards establishing theatre in Palestinian society, and theatre is connected to her hope to reinvigorate society. "Even if we don't get anything out of it, then the generation after us will," she says.

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Encyclopedia > Guilt

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Guilt is a concept used in various ways in various contexts.

In psychology and ordinary language, guilt is simply a negative affective state in which one experiences regret at having done something one believes one "should not" have done. Guilt and its causes, merits, and demerits is a common theme in psychology and psychiatry. It is often associated with depression.

In criminal law, sometimes in individual and religious moral codes, and more rarely in systems of ethics (either as a philosophical discipline or in ethical codes and professions relying on them), guilt is a concept similar to the economic concept of debt. Actions of low or negative legal value that cause damage on the object, put an equal amount of guilt on the agent. Value theory addresses these questions directly.

Guilt can sometimes be remedied by punishment (a common legal action and advised or required in many legal codes), by forgiveness (as in transformative justice), or by sincere remorse (as with confession in Catholicism or restorative justice). Law does not usually accept the agent's self-punishment[?], but some ancient codes did so: in Athens the accused[?] was permitted to propose his or her own remedy, which might in fact be a reward[?], while the accuser[?] proposed another, and the jury chose between. This forced the accused to effectively bet on his support in the community - as Socrates did when he proposed "room and board in the town hall" as his fate. He lost, and drank hemlock, a poison, as advised by his accuser.

Traditional Japanese society[?] and Ancient Greek society are sometimes said to be "shame-based" rather than "guilt-based" in that the social consequences of "getting caught" are seen as more important than the individual feelings or experiences of the agent. This may lead to more of a focus on etiquette than ethics as understood in Western civilization. This leads some to question why them we would adapt the words ethos[?] and mores from Ancient Greek when their norms are so different from ours. A meta-wikipedia article asks this.

Christianity and Islam inherit most notions of guilt from Judaism, Persian[?] and Roman ideas, mostly as interpreted through Augustine who adapted Plato's ideas to Christianity. The Latin word for guilt is culpa, a word sometimes seen in law literature, e.g. in "mea culpa", "I take responsibility". The Latin word for authority assumes a high degree of responsibility, the English word "province" being a close equivalent.

The relationship between guilt, social trust and the law is complex. A nearly universal notion is that guilt cannot accrue by ignorance[?] except remarkably by ignorance of the law[?] - giving law special status in any ontology. This notion alone explains why religious moral codes and the legal codes of civilizations have tended to evolve closely together.

Some thinkers have theorized that guilt is used as a tool of social control. Since guilty people feel they are undeserving, they are less likely to assert their rights and prerogatives. Thus, those in power seek to cultivate a sense of guilt among the populace, in order to make them more tractable. This was a theme in Eric Hoffer's True Believer[?]. Ayn Rand claimed that Christian sexual morality[?] served a similar purpose.

Another common notion is that guilt is actually assigned by social processes like a jury trial, i.e. that it is a strictly legal concept. Thus the ruling of a jury that O. J. Simpson or Julius Rosenberg was "guilty" or "not guilty" is taken as an actual judgement by the whole society that they must act is if he were so. By corollary, the ruling that such a person is "not guilty" may not be so taken, due to the asymmetry that assumes one is innocent until proven guilty[?] and prefers to take the risk of freeing a guilty party over convicting innocents.

Guilt was a theme in John Steinbeck's East of Eden and many other works of literature. It is a nearly universal concern in novels, who explore inner life and secrets.

See also: good faith, shame

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Friday, October 28, 2011

…and Lincolnshire, and Oxford, and…

I don’t remember much about my first experience of the seaside (the Lincolnshire coast, c 1959), except that I played a lot in the sand making sandcastles using a spade that was much too small (in my opinion my parents should have bought me the next size up). And one other thing. The gallopers. The carousel with horses and roosters that I was, to my great pleasure, allowed to ride.

I already knew about roundabouts – from books I suppose. They were meant to have mirrors and fairground organ music and flashing coloured lights and garish paintwork and brightly caparisoned horses to ride on and roosters to ride on too and the horses and roosters went up and down as well as round and round and they had these twisted columns like pieces of barley sugar and every one had a name. Even then, having perhaps sensed that the Lincolnshire coast wasn’t exactly the last word in sophisticated holiday destinations, I thought the reality might be a let-down. The horses’ ears might be broken or the lights might not flash or it might be closed or there might not be roosters. Well, it wasn’t a let down. The lights flashed, the gallopers really galloped and, yes, there were even roosters.

So these days, when I see a carousel, or even a picture of one like Clarke Hutton’s 1945 cover illustration for Popular English Art in the King Penguin series, I do experience a certain nostalgia and I’m thankful that the showmen of England still give me the chance for such feelings. People such as the Noyce family, owners of the wonderful carousel in the photograph below. Dating from about 1895 and made by Savage’s of Kings Lynn, it was refitted in around 1900 with 30 horses and 6 roosters carved by Anderson of Bristol. In those days it was owned by one John Cole, from Yate, not far from the Bristol home of the horses, but it has been in the Noyce family since 1950. The photograph shows it at Nottingham’s renowned Goose Fair in the 1980s, but I think I remember it at St Giles’ Fair in Oxford a few years earlier too.

Though this ride has no doubt been repainted a few times since its first outing, its ornate lettering, bands of golden decoration and scrollwork, dazzlingly carved and mirrored centre drum, and of course magnificent horses certainly speak of the turn of the century period. It’s heartening to think it has been giving pleasure for well over a century. I hope it’s still doing so.

Noyce’s Gallopers at the Nottingham Goose Fair
Photograph courtesy of Simon Garbutt, used under Creative Commons license

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Wingrave, Buckinghamshire

On the hoof

The previous post about Spiegeltents set me thinking about the other kinds of “portable architecture”, from caravans to yurts and gers, that one sometimes sees in the English countryside. I found this example among some pictures I took a while ago in Buckinghamshire. It’s apparently a version of the classic shepherd’s hut,* the movable shelter traditionally used by shepherds on the downs and wolds when they needed to be near far-flung flocks. These wheeled huts, then, are the opposite of the wonderful lookers’ huts of Romney Marsh, about which I’ve posted in the past.

The heyday of the shepherd’s hut was probably the 19th century – one thinks of films of Hardy novels. But their history goes back much further. One website on the huts traces it back at least to the late-16th century, when an agricultural writer described how in some places the shepherd “hath his cabin going upon a wheele for to remove here and there at his pleasure”.

The huts were originally made mainly of timber, with a wooden body, wooden wheels, and a curved canvas roof, waterproofed with tar, on a wooden frame. Later, corrugated iron was often used for the roof, and now versatile corrugated iron sheeting is generally used to clad the walls too, which may be finished with timber tongue-and-grooved panelling inside. Spoked metal wheels on wide axles are common. This variation seems to have a wooden body on some modern wheels. The stable door, curved roof, and chimney are all features that hark back to the traditional hut.

People are still making shepherds’ huts, and finding uses for them as home offices, summerhouses, even shops at visitor attractions. They’re an inspiring example of how a traditional structure can find new roles, its wheels helping it to migrate from the downs to the backyard.

* Or perhaps a road-menders' hut: see the comments on this post

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Loitering in tents

The Cheltenham Festival of Literature has just been on. A large tented village appeared – or rather two tented villages, filling two of the gardens lined with terraces of Regency houses that are among the highlights of Cheltenham’s town centre. As the canvas was alternately heated by the sun and buffeted by the wind, thousands of us sat around while hundreds of authors got on their hind legs to entertain and instruct us on every subject from the Spanish Civil War to the history of the bathroom, from Charles Dickens to Eric Gill. Most of the tents used at the festival are standard-issue white canvas jobs of various sizes but, as I discovered when I went in search of a coffee between events, one of them is nothing less than a Spiegeltent, one of those early-20th-century rococo confections imported from the Low Countries as palaces of entertainment or boudoirs of burlesque.

Spiegeltents originated in Belgium and now a number of these antique structures have been restored and are on hire to those who want a venue a cut above the usual marquee. As I went for my coffee I understood the attraction. Gilded fronds and curlicues run up and down the walls, putti and scrolls hang from columns, surfaces are covered with bits of mirror or painted in a fairground palette. Carefully positioned light fittings accentuate the glitter. The richly coloured canvas roof completes the exotic ensemble. Now, I was here in the morning, so did not experience the joys of Kiki de Montparnasse or the provocatively named Ophelia Bitz, two entertainers I believe were billed to appear later in these seductive surroundings. But the rococo environment still delighted my eye as I sipped my coffee and waited to return to the more elevated matters on offer in the rather puritanical white marquees.

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Apologies for my quick-fire iPhone photo, taken on the hoof and somewhat blurred, but atmospheric nonetheless, I hope.

You can find more about Spiegeltents and see more images of them here.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Brixworth, Northamptonshire

Not dark yet

I have never forgotten an early school history lesson during which we moved from the Romans to the period after they left the shores of Britain: the Dark Ages. Except, as our history teacher insisted, they weren’t really dark. Illuminated manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon sculpture and jewellery, the vigorous beginnings of English literature, and the very origins of England as a united kingdom – all of these belonged to the post-Roman period and told us that there was really quite a lot going on, some of it wonderfully illuminating.

Forty years on, I can’t count the number of times I’ve been told that Dark Ages weren’t really dark. TV historians and archaeologists seem unable to abandon the term, or the notion that, in telling us that the Dark Ages weren’t really dark, they are letting us in on some newly discovered secret about this remote and mysterious period.

And yet, reading of the hail-battered and rain-sodden landscape portrayed in Anglo-Saxon poems like The Seafarer, or grubbing about in dark little Saxon churches, some of them almost windowless, the Dark Ages in England do seem somewhat crepuscular. Where are the polychromatic churches of Ravenna, glittering with mosaics? Where are the marble-clad walls of Byzantium? Where the great spaces of early Christian basilicas of the kind we find in Rome?

Well, there’s one English church that still gets near to this kind of light, spacious, early Christian architecture: All Saints’, Brixworth, Northamptonshire, though not a glittering jewel box like the churches of Ravenna, is large, light, airy – and Saxon. With its large nave and rows of imposing arches, it has been described as the most impressive 7th-century structure north of the Alps. And it’s an indication as clear as any in England, that the Saxons, builders of small churches like Odda’s Chapel in Gloucestershire or the one at Bradford-on-Avon, could also build big.

Churches like Brixworth were regional religious centres, and on another level from small, privately endowed chapels like Odda’s. They were monastic foundations – Brixworth was apparently built for monks from Peterborough – and also no doubt places of pilgrimage. They are testimony to the wealth and faith of Mercia, the Anglo-Saxon Midland kingdom, in around 675.

The other remarkable thing about this church is the arches. They originally opened on to aisles or side rooms known as porticus, the use of which is unknown (side chapels? homes for holy relics? ossuaries? the jury it out). The porticus have gone, and the arches are now filled in, but their striking construction is still clear. They are made from bricks, and those are Roman bricks, reused from some earlier structure. It’s an inspired bit of recycling, the bricks fulfilling their role both structurally and visually. And it’s a reminder that these Dark Age buildings, which look forward to later churches and cathedrals, are also close to the preceding Roman era. It’s good that these Roman bricks are still enjoying their time in the sun.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Round-up 1918–1955

The latest, and, for now, final, installment in my very brief and partial history of English architecture can now be found here, or accessed from the link in the PAGES menu on the right. As with previous installments, this round-up uses examples from this blog with links in the text to the original posts. The cut-off point is 1955, the approximate date of the most recent building I've written about in the English Buildings blog. It covers briefly the various styles of the first half of the century, both the backward-looking (for example neo-Georgian) and the various forms of interwar "modern" architecture, from Bauhaus-influenced functionalism to jazzy Art Deco. It concludes, appropriately in this anniversary year, with buildings designed under the influence of the 1951 Festival of Britain.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Winchester, Hampshire

A chronicle of years gone by

Admiring the front of the picturesque and presumably 18th-century offices of the Hampshire Chronicle in Winchester – dappled brickwork, bow windows, dentil course, tiled roof – I was irritated at not being able to photograph it without also including road signs, railings, and other irrelevant street furniture. So I decided to walk away. As I did so, I passed the end wall and was delighted to find this remarkable selection of bits and pieces amongst its collage of stone and flint.

A small iron plaque records that these stones were uncovered in 1959 when the building was being restored, but I expect a lot of people miss them even though the plaque is there to tell them that the stones probably come from the church of St Ruel, which once stood nearby. The selection includes a bit of Norman moulding and chevron, another piece of carving that resembles part of a classical acanthus leaf but may also be Norman, and the piece on the right. Is this a very eroded small figure, or am I imagining things?. There are also some fragments of brick that look Roman, and the larger block below, which bears interlaced Saxon carving. A wonderful group, making one wonder what the church was like, though the collection is not quite as richly eccentric as another wall full of fragments that I posted long ago. Here’s to recycling!

Monday, October 3, 2011

Stanway, Gloucestershire

Green thoughts in a green shade

The other night I and a small group of neighbours went to visit a local water mill that has been beautifully restored. While I was walking around the outside as the evening light faded, I noticed this shed, and especially its roof, which is covered with corrugated iron – regular readers will know this is one of my favourite materials. Whether by accident or design, the corrugated covering of this roof has become home to a green carpet of moss, grass, and other plants. An informal green roof is the result.

Green roofs are quite fashionable these days. Their construction usually involves several layers of different materials to protect the roof structure from vapour, water, and roots, as well as a substrate in which to grow the plants. This one, as far as I can see, is just a sheet of corrugated metal with plants growing on it – hence my use of the word ‘informal’. It’s not going to last for ever, but this roof with its covering of greenery is a happy addition to this workshop down a secluded lane surrounded and shaded by trees.


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  • Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiæ. 10th Edition: 824 pp.

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Wisteria floribunda (common name Japanese wisteria) is a species of flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae, native to Japan. Growing to 9 m (30 ft), it is a woody, deciduous twining climber. It was brought from Japan to the United States in 1830's.[1][2] Since then, it has become one of the most highly romanticized flowering garden plants. It is also a common subject for bonsai, along with Wisteria sinensis (Chinese wisteria).

The flowering habit of Japanese wisteria is perhaps the most spectacular of the Wisteria family. It sports the longest flower racemes of any wisteria; they can reach nearly half a meter in length. These racemes burst into great trails of clustered white, pink, violet, or blue flowers in early- to mid-spring. The flowers carry a distinctive fragrance similar to that of grapes. The early flowering time of Japanese wisteria can cause problems in temperate climates, where early frosts can destroy the coming years' flowers. It will also flower only after passing from juvenile to adult stage, a transition that may take many frustrating years just like its cousin Chinese wisteria.

Japanese wisteria can grow over 30m long over many supports via powerful clockwise-twining stems. The foliage consists of shiny, dark-green, pinnately compound leaves 10–30 cm in length. The leaves bear 9-13 oblong leaflets that are each 2–6 cm long. It also bears numerous poisonous, brown, velvety, bean-like seed pods 5–10 cm long that mature in summer and persist until winter. Japanese wisteria prefers moist soils and full sun in USDA plant hardiness zones 5-9.[3] The plant often lives over fifty years.

W. floribunda cultivars[edit]

Those marked agm have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

  1. 'Shiro Noda', 'Snow Showers' or 'Longissima Alba' agm[4] - long white flower clusters
  2. 'Kuchibeni' or 'Carnea' - pink flowers
  3. 'Honbeni' or 'Rosea'agm[5] - pale rose flowers tipped purple, 18 inches long
  4. 'Issai Perfect' - light lavender flowers
  5. 'Jako' or 'Ivory Tower'
  6. 'Lawrence' - blue flowers, hardy cultivar
  7. 'Macrobotrys' or 'Longissima' - reddish-violet flower clusters one meter or longer
  8. 'Macrobotrys Cascade' - white and pinkish-purple flowers, vigorous grower
  9. 'Multijuga'agm[6] - violet flowers with darker markings
  10. 'Nana Richins Purple' - purple flowers
  11. 'Nishiki' - variegated foliage
  12. 'Plena' or 'Violaceae Plena' - double blue flowers in dense clusters
  13. 'Praecox' or 'Domino' - purple flowers
  14. 'Purpurea' - unknown - May be Wisteria sinensis consequa which is sometimes labeled purpurea
  15. 'Royal Purple' - purple flowers
  16. 'Rubra'- unknown - may be Honbeni - sometimes labeled as Rubrum - deep pink to red flowers
  17. 'Texas Purple' - may be a sinensis or a hybrid, short racemes, purple flowers, produced while the plant is still young
  18. 'Violacea Plena' - double violet flowers, rosette-shaped
  19. 'White with Blue Eye' - also known as Sekines Blue - very fragrant

External links[edit]

  1. ^ "Wisteria floribunda, W. sinensis". United States Forest Service. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  2. ^ "Japanese Wisteria". National Park Service. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  3. ^ Growth Conditions
  4. ^ "RHS Plant Selector - Wisteria floribunda 'Alba'". Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  5. ^ "RHS Plant Selector - Wisteria floribunda 'Rosea'". Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  6. ^ "RHS Plant Selector - Wisteria floribunda 'Multijuga'". Retrieved 9 June 2013.

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We've hosted the best riders from around the country, including members of the US Cycling Team. While we are honored to have hosted such high profile riders we’re also proud to be a welcoming and fun race series for those wishing to try mountain bike racing for the first time. No memberships are required, just sign-up and you're off!

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Status of Research in Marine Fisheries and Mariculture (Role of CMFRI)

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    Marine Fisheries and mariculture sectors occupy a very important position in India's economy. The country is blessed with a long coast line of 8129 km., a vast exclusive economic zone (2.02, a potential yield of 3.9 million tonnes per year and an impressive infrastructure for harvest and postharvest operations. The annual marine fish landings have reached 2.41 million tonnes in 1996 valued at about Rs 7,230 crores against a fixed and operating cost of Rs 4,528 crores. The exports of marine fishery products reached 378,199 t valued at Rs 4,121 crores in 1996-97. Organised research in marine fisheries and mariculture started in 1947 with the establishment of the CMFRI. During this fifty-year period, a large database on marine capture fishery statistics, biology of exploited stocks, fishery environmental characteristics and economics has been built up. The database thus developed has been forming the basis for various marine fisheries development activities in the country

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Unique landing of Sardinella sirm at Neendakara, Kollam

Sijo Paul, (2009) Unique landing of Sardinella sirm at Neendakara, Kollam. Marine Fisheries Information Service, Technical and Extension Series (201). pp. 13-14.

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    The ring seines operating at Neendakara on 14.05.08 landed a record catch of Sardinella sirm (Fig. 1). Two types of crafts were operated; thanguvallams with 90 HP inboard engine and fibre boats with 19.8 HP outboard engine. The depth of operation was 32 - 44 m north-west of Neendakara. The catch range per unit of fibre boat was 800 to 1000 kg and that of thanguvallam was 2600 - 3900 kg. Due to Ekadashi, thanguvallam and fibre boats did not operate on 15.05.2008.

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Lien, Kai-Wen and Reeve, JS (2005) A TCP/IP Network Emulator. In, IST2005 International Symposium on Telecommunications, Shiraz, Iran, Sharif University of Technology, 659-664.

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In this paper a Linux based framework of a TCP/IP emulator is introduced. Several advantages can be noted. Firstly, the maintenance of large numbers of processors is unnecessary. Secondly, compared with simulators constructed with conceptual codes, our emulator framework makes it possible to test the interaction and behaviour of TCP/IP in real Linux network environments. Thirdly, the wired network is fully controlled by a single processor enabling us to separate TCP/IP behaviour over the wireless network, which helps distinguish performance functions that occur due to noisy wireless links. The framework was tested on two Linux processors over an IEEE802.11b wireless link. The simulations show that the complex topology of the heterogeneous network was "realistically" constructed.

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One of my favorite tools that I find myself using quite often is called "ScreenCloud". It allows you to quickly select any area of your workspace, create an sized screen shot, and then upload it or export it off to their server, your Dropbox account or an SFTP server.

If you've recently performed upgrades, either to Ubuntu >16.x or Fedora >21 or the latest version of ScreenCloud, you may be experiencing the same pain that I just endured when launching the application.

In my case, this particular error relates to the SFTP plugin inside of ScreenCloud which automatically uses secure FTP to upload your screenshots to a remote server.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
ImportError: No module named 'Screencloud'

First, kill any running instances, remove any custom repositories you may have installed it from and then completely remove the screencloud application.

In Ubuntu/Mint:

sudo killall -9 screencloud
sudo rm -vf /etc/apt/sources.list.d/screencloud*
apt-get remove screencloud -y

In Fedora:

sudo killall -9 screencloud
sudo rm -vf /etc/yum.repos.d/screencloud*
yum remove screencloud -y

Now, remove its associated local plugins (sftp, dropbox, etc). These are easily attainable again via the application or GitHub.

rm -rf ~/.local/share/data/screencloud/ScreenCloud/plugins/

Next, we need to place the module in a directory that is actually included in the search paths for the application. This varies depending on systems and versions.

You can find a list of the paths within the ScreenCloud application, by opening "Preferences" and pressing CTRL+D (debug mode) and typing the following into the debug CLI:

py> import sys
py> print sys.path

In my case, ~/.local/share/data/screencloud/ScreenCloud/screencloud/modules was part of the path and the directory did not exist, so I simply created it and rsync'd the file over:

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/data/screencloud/ScreenCloud/screencloud/modules

cp -f /usr/share/screencloud/modules/ ~/.local/share/data/screencloud/ScreenCloud/screencloud/modules

Now, try to run the application again.

Did it work? Great!

No? If you received an error such as this:

from Crypto.PublicKey import DSA
ImportError: No module named Crypto.PublicKey

Make sure you have the latest Crypto and PyCrypto modules installed:

sudo pip install crypto pycrypto --upgrade

Copy over the Crypto module from your system's distribution package into a path that screencloud is configured to look in.

You can find a list of the paths within the ScreenCloud application, by opening "Preferences" and pressing CTRL+D (debug mode) and typing the following into the debug CLI:

py> import sys
py> print sys.path

And again I simply rsync'd the entire Crypto/ module's directory over to it one of the included paths. Note: Debian based systems like Ubuntu use different system paths for Python packages than RedHat based systems. Note the differences below and know your system's layout before running commands.

In Ubuntu/Mint:

sudo rsync -avz /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Crypto ~/.local/share/screencloud/modules/

In Fedora:

sudo rsync -avz /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/Crypto ~/.local/share/data/screencloud/ScreenCloud/screencloud/modules/

I hope this helps save someone else some time and frustration!

In a déjà vu scenario of a previous blog post I authored in 2012 called Source control != File System, I ranted about why binaries do not have any place in a source controlled repository. Fast forward nearly 4 years later, and I've once again encountered a repository that was filled with network device firmware image (.bin) files.

I knew something was terribly wrong when I went to clone a fresh copy of the repo to look at some basic device startup configs, and it took me nearly 10 minutes:

Cloning into 'network'...
remote: Counting objects: 1014, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (925/925), done.
remote: Total 1014 (delta 499), reused 155 (delta 61)
Receiving objects: 100% (1014/1014), 1.63 GiB | 2.67 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (499/499), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

real 9m9.360s
user 1m13.431s
sys 0m22.595s

After grabbing another coffee and enjoying a smoke, the cloning operation had actually finally completed. A bit of poking around quickly revealed the 2.9GB "Firmware" directory inside an otherwise organized and newly restructured repository. The logical fix to reclaim what would likely be hours of my life over the period of a few quarters of working with this repo was to just git rm -rf and move on. After pushing my changes, I quickly realized that the wasted space was still very much alive in git's history data. This wasn't much of a surprise, considering this functionality is required to fulfill one of my favorite and arguably one of the most valuable purposes of source control: revision history.

So, how did restore sanity to this repository?

No, you do not have to delete everything and start over - though this would be effective, it is a waste of time and energy.

However, I HIGHLY recommend that you backup or clone a copy of your bloated repo, just in case you do something dumb.

Next, you will need to find the files that you want removed from the repo. I stumbled upon a one liner that leveraged the git rev-list command, and piped it to some ugly perl to chomp and print the largest files (source). While I am not a big fan of perl, it is certainly not the ugliest perl I've ever encountered, and it's effective.

But, in the interest of my quest to avoid using perl and enable me to continue making fun of one of my perl loving systems architects, I decided to find my own way. Just as with 90% of the lines you'll find in an average perl script, you can accomplish near identical results with 10% by using an alternative. In this case, I achieved the same thing with just a bit of sed|sort|head action:

git rev-list master | while read rev; do git ls-tree -lr $rev | cut -c54- | sed -r 's/^ +//g;'; done | sort -u | sort -rnk1 | head -n 20

The output will list you the byte size and path/file of the largest nonsense to ever get pushed to your repo in any previous revision.

Using the results, you need to determine what files you want removed. In the command below, simply replace DUMBFILE with the files or directories that you want removed.

git filter-branch --tag-name-filter cat --index-filter 'git rm -r --cached --ignore-unmatch DUMBFILE' --prune-empty -f -- --all

Next up, I needed to do a bit of garbage collection on the references and reclaim the lost space:

rm -rf .git/refs/original/
git reflog expire --expire=now --all
git gc --aggressive --prune=now

Lastly, I needed to push the history changes made back to the repository with the use of force.

Disclaimer: there are VERY few situations where the use of --force is recommended, and in my first hand experience I have seen it destroy repos if used incorrectly or simultaneously while others are pushing. USE CAUTION!

git push origin --force --all
git push origin --force --tags

And all was right with the world again...

After the successful push, demolish your bloated local repository and clone her slim and healthy self back home again...

Cloning into 'network'...
remote: Counting objects: 773, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (317/317), done.
remote: Total 773 (delta 439), reused 773 (delta 439)
Receiving objects: 100% (773/773), 196.15 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (439/439), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

real 0m0.910s
user 0m0.088s
sys 0m0.032s

I recently recompiled PHP on a server I own to upgrade it to the latest version. This particular server runs cPanel, which usually makes this otherwise tedious process much simpler. However, when recompiling mod_python it errors out with this message:

touch connobject.slo connobject.c: In function '_conn_read':
connobject.c:142: error: request for member 'next' in something not a structure or union
apxs:Error: Command failed with rc=65536
make[1]: *** [] Error 1

The entire process then fails and reverts itself to the last known working LAMP stack.

The problem is actually a known bug, and is fixable with a bit of hackery. If you are not using a cPanel server, it's very easy. Just simple change one line at your leisure prior to compiling.

If you are using a cPanel server, you need to time the patch correctly. Let me elaborate.

First, the bug itself is in connobject.c on line 142.

To fix, simply replace:

Simple enough.

Now, back to cPanel. Since easy apache will download fresh copies of the source upon each build session, you need to apply the fix strategically AFTER it downloads the fresh copy, but BEFORE it attempts to compile it. There is a window of approximately 1-2 minutes to do this, depending on the speed of your server.

Here's a trick that I used to make sure I'm catching it.

First before starting the build, remove the file entirely

# rm -f /home/cpeasyapache/src/mod_python-3.3.1/src/connobject.c

Second, start the build process.

Now, do a simple while loop or just manually check for the file periodically. Once it appears, you know you're working with the fresh copy from the build and can perform your edit on line 142.

# while true ; do ls /home/cpeasyapache/src/mod_python-3.3.1/src/connobject.c ; sleep 5; done

Once you've edited the buggy line, save the file, sit back and wait for the build to complete (successfully).

Hope this helped!

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So, those that know me know I have a few laptops. I'm no stranger to technology.

Imagine my chagrin when I try piping a linux command to grep and my output comes out like so:

ps uawx > grep X

I know that the ps command thinks it is superior to grep, but seriously. WTF

Huzzah! You can use xmodmap to tell Linux what that key should actually do.

xmodmap -e "keycode 94 = backslash bar"

Now suppose you don't want to actually have to hack that every time you use your system? Well, here's a quick fix until the real fix hits the repos...

echo 'xmodmap -e "keycode 94 = backslashbar"' >
chmod +x

Note: ALL punctuation is necessary above (quotes and double quotes).

If using one of the common distros, open System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications and in the Startup Programs Tab, click Add.

Then put the path to your newly made executable script, give it a description and reboot. Your keyboard should be sane again.

I did too.

I love my Dell XPS 13 because it's small, lightweight and fast. I also surprisingly enjoy using the touchscreen (much more than I thought I would before purchasing). However, because of its 13" screen and the very high resolution, it makes the scroll bars in firefox and other applications extremely tiny. Combine that with my fat fingers, finding the scroll bar became even more difficult.

Feel my pain?

Edit the file ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (create it if it doesn't already exist)

Add the following lines and save:

style "scroll"
GtkScrollbar::slider-width = 40

class "*" style "scroll"

Now just restart Firefox, and enjoy.

There's a ton of outdated information floating around the web on how to simply and effectively install Node.JS on CentOS, specifically one of my legacy boxes that runs 5.11. I spent about 15-20 minutes toying around with various hacky ways to do this. To save you the time, here's the easiest way I found:

Perform (as root):

curl -sL | bash -
yum install -y nodejs

If you're a security fanatic like myself, you'll likely want to first download the 'setup' script before piping it to bash. If you don't care, I can assure you I've reviewed the code and is a trusted source.

It will output each step as it moves along, prompting you to manually install any 3rd party dependencies.

Once done, verify your install with:

node -v

On one of my local Ubuntu workstations at home, I sometimes have the need to send mail out using mailutils/mailx inside of scripts or on the command line. I also don't necessarily want/need to set up an entire mail server on my workstation. In addition, Verizon FiOS doesn't take too kindly to this for purposes of preventing malicious activity, SPAM, etc. They actually block outbound connections on the default SMTP port (25).

If you're using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, it comes with Postfix by default. If you're using a different version or flavor, chances are you've got Sendmail or Exim installed. These instructions assume you've uninstalled whatever MTA came with your system, and that you want to use Postfix (far superior to its counterparts in my eyes).

First, it's easiest to install postfix and Cyrus SASL packages from your operating system's repository. If you're compiling from source, be sure to make Postfix with the -DUSE_SASL_AUTH flag for SASL support and -DUSE_TLS for TLS support.

# apt-get install postfix libsasl2-2 -y

In Ubuntu/Debian/Mint, the SASL package is called libsasl2-2
In CentOS/RHEL/Fedora, the SASL packages are called cyrus-sasl and cyrus-sasl-plain

Next, edit the main Postfix configuration file @ /etc/postfix/ to include the following:

# Set this to your server's fully qualified domain name.
# If you don't have a internet domain name,
# use the default or your email addy's domain - it'll keep
# postfix from generating warnings all the time in the logs
mydomain = local.domain
myhostname = host.local.domain

# Set this to your email provider's smtp server.
# A lot of ISP's (ie. Verizon) block the default port 25
# to prevent spamming. So in this case we'll use port 587.
relayhost =

smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_path = smtpd
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_sasl_type = cyrus
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes

# optional: necessary if email provider uses load balancing and
# forwards emails to another smtp server
# for delivery (ie: -->
smtp_cname_overrides_servername = no

# optional: necessary if email provider
# requires passwords sent in clear text
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous

Note: Your remote SMTP host must be configured to listen on the alternate port you specify in relayhost=

Next, you need to configure authentication with SASL, so edit /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd and provide the credentials in this format: username:password

Note: The host and port must match identically to relayhost= in

Generate a postfix .db file from the previous file

# postmap hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd

For security, you'll want to make sure the sasl_passwd and sasl_passwd.db files are not readable:

# chmod 600 /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db

That's it, restart the postfix service and test sending email.

# service postfix restart
# echo testing | mail

If you did everything correctly, you'll see your local host connect to the remote host and send the message. If something went wrong, you'll want to start digging through logs to figure out why.

ownCloud is enterprise file sync and share that is self-hosted in your data center, on your servers, using your storage. ownCloud provides Universal File Access through a single front-end to all of your disparate systems. Users can access company files on any device, anytime, from anywhere while IT can manage, control and audit file sharing activity to ensure security and compliance measures are met.

WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) allows you to "mount" your ownCloud content as a local mount point on your local Linux environment.

I prefer this over using the ownCloud client program, as it gives me much more flexibility with my data (e.g. I can rsync directly from CLI from my local storage to the ownCloud and vice versa - effortlessly).

Here's how I did it:

1. Install davfs2
Using your Linux distribution's package manager, install the 'davfs2' package which is available in most all repositories regardless of Linux flavor.

# apt-get install davfs2

# yum install davfs2

2. Create and set permissions for a local mount point for your ownCloud data.
(I prefer mine in /owncloud -- replace all instances of 'youruser' with your non-root username)

# mkdir /owncloud
# chown youruser.youruser /owncloud
# mkdir ~youruser/.davfs2
# touch ~youruser/.davfs2/secrets
# chmod 600 ~youruser/.davfs2/secrets
# chown -R youruser.youruser ~youruser/.davfs2/

3. Edit ~youruser/.davfs2/secrets with your favorite editor to store your ownCloud credentials: youruser yourpassword

4. Edit /etc/fstab and put the following entry in to tell the filesystem how to mount it: /owncloud davfs user,rw,auto 0 0

Note: if you prefer to not have the mountpoint auto mounted each time you log-in, change auto to noauto

5. Add youruser to the 'davfs2' group so it can use it.

# usermod -aG davfs2 youruser

Note: you will need to log out and back in to get your new group to take effect

6. Now all you need to do is mount your ownCloud webdav instance

# mount /owncloud

On some operating systems, the mount.davfs binary does not have setuid privileges to run as a non-root user. If you see an error such as:

/sbin/mount.davfs: program is not setuid root

You are running an OS that needs the privileges granted. To do so, run this as root:

# chmod +s /usr/sbin/mount.davfs

Want faster rsyncs??

If you're transferring a large amount of files with rsync, you'll want to pass it some extra arguments.

Check the rsync man page for:

  • --size-only because most webdav implementations do not accept setting modification time
  • --no-whole-file to tell rsync its handling a remote filesystem
  • --inplace having rsync replacing files directly, instead of uploading an then replacing

On one of my personal laptops (Dell Inspiron 17R), my attempts at using the function key combinations to change the brightness did not yield any results on Fedora 20, Linux Mint 17, or Ubuntu 14.10. The LCD brightness was stuck at "can barely see, but must conserve battery because I'm stuck on an island mode" (not a real setting, but might as well be).

The system has an integrated Intel graphics card, and if you're not sure what your system has you can check it here:

Run the command below in terminal to know what video card is used for the backlight/brightness:

ls /sys/class/backlight/

If you see dell_backlight and intel_backlight, this article may help you. If you do not, continue your search.

Fire up a terminal and edit the following configuration file with your preferred editor (disclaimer: yes, I'm an old school Linux user dating back to the 'pico' days, so when I'm not coding I use nano - judge if you will, but I'm about to brighten your life):

sudo nano /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Add the following lines to this file:

Section "Device"
Identifier "card0"
Driver "intel"
Option "Backlight" "intel_backlight"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"

Save it (CTRL+X in nano, some crazy 😡 in vim, etc)

Log out and log in back. The brightness control should be working through function keys now.

Good day, world!

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I recently bought myself a book that I’d had my eye on for awhile. I wanted it based on title alone (Magic 1400s-1950s!), but then I saw pictures and made grabby hands at my computer screen and then I kind of had to have it.

I think I can safely say that it is now the biggest book I own.

It is the only book I have ever purchased that arrived in its own case, complete with convenient handle for carrying.

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[erlang-questions] Simple chat server in Erlang

Torbjorn Tornkvist <>
Fri Mar 16 13:32:04 CET 2007

Very nice!

Especially the rendering of the code examples :-)
Is it handwritten or do you have a way of generating those ?

Do there exist an up-to-date Erlang->HTML converter nowadays ?

Cheers, Tobbe

Jeremy Thurgood wrote:
> Good day all,
> I'm fairly new to Erlang, and am writing a MUD server to teach myself
> the language.  So far, I have gotten as far as a simple chat server
> thing which I decided to write up as a tutorial since I couldn't find
> one pitched at an appropriate level.
> I would appreciate any comments on my code and/or style.  Erlang's the
> first functional language I've done more than "hello world" in and I'd
> hate to find myself writing Java in it...
> http://www.jerith.za.net/writings/erlangsockettut.html
> Thanks,
> --J

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Erlang Paris

Paris (France) is home to two well-established Erlang shops and several start-ups are appearing.

After meeting very occasionally in the last few years, we have started holding a monthly Erlounge:

  • Third monday of each month around 7.30pm
  • L'Escalier, 105, Rue du Faubourg Saint Denis, 75010 Paris (usually upstairs)

We usually speak french but are happy to speak english if we have visitors!

There is no mailing list: use this page for messages to the group. People are free to browse here or to add it to their watchlist for email notifications.

Next session planned on 19th January 2009

Planning to come:

  • NicolasCharpentier
  • Eric Cestari
  • Dominic Williams
  • Nicolas Delaveau
  • David Nonnenmacher
  • Laurent Desgrange


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Fair board asked to consider big picture

Meeting of the city, county and fair board will be the next step

by Paul Rignell

Contributing Writer

The next annual Sherburne County Fair is not on the calendar for another eight months, to open July 17, 2014, although planning for the fair is important in the minds of the Fair Board members and other supporters year-round.

Some of the Fair Board members were present at the Sherburne County Government Center Nov. 6 for a monthly workshop of the elected Board of Commissioners.

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Fair Board member Irene Kostreba announced plans for applying to the state Department of Agriculture by a February 2014 deadline for a $10,700 grant that would fund construction of a new building on the fairgrounds, at Business Center Drive and Joplin Street Northwest in Elk River, envisioning a new home for information on Sherburne County history to be open only during the four-day fair. A legislative action in 2011 authorized the Department of Agriculture to offer “equal share” grants for each of the 87 counties to support their fairs with funds created after voters approved the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment in November 2008.

But the Sherburne County commissioners at their workshop noted there are larger issues to be considered for the fair, namely whether it would be in the interest of the county and other parties for the Fair Board to renew an extended lease on the current grounds. A review of the fairgrounds lease was on the workshop agenda, while property for a potential new home for the fair – designated by a private family land trust – remains open near the permanent Sherburne History Center in Becker.

Many in the County Board chambers Nov. 6 agreed they were missing a voice from the city of Elk River regarding its interest in continuing to host the county fair.

County Administrator Steve Taylor, new to his office in the first week, advised that because the county, the Fair Board and the city of Elk River comprise a “three-legged stool” with interest in the fair’s future at the current site, each should be represented in further discussions.

Commissioner Bruce Anderson, representing most of Elk River in his district, said he believes the city supports the fair and he pledged to arrange a meeting with city officials on the matter by late November.


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ESPN’s Monday Night Football: Tennessee Titans Host New York Jets
contact: allison.r.stoneberg@espn.com

The Tennessee Titans host the New York Jets on Monday Night Football on December 17 at 8:30 p.m. ET. Since the organization moved to Tennessee in 1997, the Titans are 9-5 on MNF and have won the last three games. Mike Tirico and Jon Gruden will call the action with sideline reporter Lisa Salters.

Televised on ESPN and ESPN Deportes, MNF will also be available at WatchESPN.com (computers) and via the WatchESPN app (tablets) for those who receive video subscriptions from an affiliated provider.

Providing pre-game news and information, Chris Berman hosts the two-hour Monday Night Countdown at 6:30 p.m. on ESPN with analysts Cris CarterMike DitkaTom Jackson and Keyshawn Johnson and NFL Insiders Chris Mortensen and Adam Schefter. On-site host Stuart Scott, analysts Trent Dilfer and Steve Young, columnist Rick Reilly and Salters will join the studio crew from the stadium.

Sunday NFL Countdown:  Conversations with Steelers’ Big Ben Roethlisberger and Broncos’ Von Miller; and More
contact:  mac.nwulu@espn.com

Chris Berman, Cris Carter, Mike Ditka, Tom Jackson, Keyshawn Johnson, Suzy Kolber, Merril Hoge and Ron Jaworski will preview week 15 games on Sunday NFL Countdown Presented by IBM on December 16, at 10 a.m. NFL Insider Adam Schefter and senior analyst Chris Mortensen will report the day’s news, and comedian Frank Caliendo will contribute his impressions of ESPN and NFL personalities.

The three-hour program will focus on Sunday’s six marquee matchups between teams with winning records, a rare occurrence on NFL Sundays this late in the season.  Countdown correspondents –  Josina Anderson (Green Bay Packers at Chicago Bears) Sal Paolantonio (Denver Broncos at Baltimore Ravens), Rachel Nichols (New York Giants at Atlanta Falcons), Bob Holtzman (Indianapolis Colts at Houston Texans), Ed Werder (Pittsburgh Steelers at Dallas Cowboys) and Colleen Dominguez (San Francisco 49ers at New England Patriots) – will report from each one of the games. The last time a NFL Sunday included six games between teams with winning records was Sunday, Dec. 7, 2003. Other highlights:

  • A Conversation with Big Ben:  Last Sunday, Ben Roethlisberger returned from a shoulder injury to quarterback the Pittsburgh Steelers in a surprising home loss to the San Diego Chargers in a game symbolic of the team’s roller coaster season. Countdown’s Merril Hoge sat down for a one-on-one conversation with Roethlisberger.
  • Von Miller Interview:  The Denver Broncos defense, led by second year linebacker Von Miller, shares as much credit as quarterback Peyton Manning and the offense in the Broncos eight-game win streak. Countdown’s Tom Jackson, a former Broncos linebacker, travelled to Denver for a sit-down interview with Miller, the AFC Defensive Player of the Month in November.

Countdown will also feature a live look-ins at quarterbacks Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, Aaron Rodgers, Andrew Luck, Jay Cutler and Matt Ryan, running backs Arian Foster and Ray Rice, and linebacker Ray Lewis in their pre-game routines leading into the 1 p.m. games; Kenny Mayne in his self-titled segment – the Mayne Event; Cris Carter’s “Where You At?”; and Jaworski and Hoge’s Xs and Os “Eye in the Sky” segment.

Snickers NFL Matchup – Patriots Play-Action Passing; Giants Red Zone Offense; Broncos Blitz Schemes; and More
contact:  mac.nwulu@espn.com

NFL Matchup host Sal Paolantonio and analysts Ron Jaworski and Merril Hoge will preview the weekend’s key matchups by taking viewers inside the film room with X’s and O’s analysis Sunday, Dec. 16, at 6:30 a.m. on ESPN (ESPN2 at 8:30 a.m.).  Highlights:

  • Blitz Breakdown – Roethlisberger Pressured:  Hoge shows two blitz concepts by the San Diego Chargers from last week that overwhelmed the Pittsburgh Steelers pass protection and forced a sack on quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
  • “X and O Files” – Tony Romo Interception: The Cowboys battle to make the playoffs continues at home against the Steelers, who have the best defense in the NFL. Jaworski uses an interception quarterback Tony Romo threw against the Washington Redskins to show how Romo was confused by a disguised coverage.
  • “Between the Lines” – Giants Red Zone, Manning to Bennett:  Jaworski uses the telestrator to show how the New York Giants dictate successful one-on-one matchups between tight end Martellus Bennett and opposing linebackers in the Red Zone.
  • Hoge Breakdown – Kaepernick 50-yard Touchdown: Hoge explains how the San Francisco 49ers have added the read-option into their offense to create extra dimensions to their run game.
  • “Coaches Clicker” – Bears’ Struggles in Run Defense: After allowing 141 rushing yards per game in the last five games, Hoge shows how the Chicago Bears defensive struggles result from poor linebacker play.
  • Shot Play – Patriots Play Action Pass: Jaworski describes how the New England Patriots use multiple tight ends and run action to influence the safeties on a play-action that resulted in a touchdown to wide receiver Brandon Lloyd.
  • “Game Changer” – Broncos Blitz Sack:  The Denver Broncos have 15 sacks from blitzes this season.  Jaworski shows a successful blitz with linebacker Von Miller coming off the edge to get to Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton.
  • “The Money Down” – Andrew Luck to Reggie Wayne on Third and 17: The Indianapolis Colts lead the league in third and 10-plus yards conversions. Jaworski explains how Andrew Luck’s quarterbacking attributes allow him to move in the pocket and convert downfield throws on crucial third-down situations.

NBA: Doubleheaders Wed. & Fri. – Two Boston Games, Gymnast Gabby Douglas in Studio
contacts: ben.cafardo@espn.com and kristen.m.hudak@espn.com

ESPN’s action-packed week of NBA games continues on Wednesday, Dec. 12 when the Boston Celtics host the Dallas Mavericks, at 8 p.m. ESPN’s lead crew – Mike Breen, analyst Jeff Van Gundy and reporter Doris Burke — will provide commentary. At 10:30, the Western Conference-leading San Antonio Spurs face the Utah Jazz with Terry Gannon handling play-by-play duties and Chris Mullin providing analysis.

Friday’s doubleheader will again feature the Boston Celtics with Paul Pierce and Rajon Rondo as they take on the Houston Rockets led by James Harden and Jeremy Lin at 8 p.m. Mike Tirico will call the game – his second Boston v. Houston game of the week (Monday Night Football, saw the Patriots defeat the Texans) – while Jon Barry will provide analysis. In the nightcap, the Memphis Grizzlies face the Denver Nuggets at 10:30 p.m. with commentator Terry Gannon and analyst Chris Mullin.

KIA NBA Countdown precedes each doubleheader at 7:30 p.m. On Wednesday, Olympic Gold Medalist Gabby Douglas will be on the set to introduce analysts Magic Johnson, Bill Simmons, Mike Wilbon and Jalen Rose.

Date Time (ET) Game Commentators Network
Wed., Dec. 12 7:30 p.m. KIA NBA Countdown Magic Johnson, Bill Simmons, Mike Wilbon, Jalen Rose ESPN, WatchESPN
8 p.m. Dallas Mavericks at Boston Celtics Mike Breen, Jeff Van Gundy, Doris Burke ESPN, WatchESPN
10:30 p.m. San Antonio Spurs at Utah Jazz Terry Gannon, Chris Mullin ESPN, WatchESPN
Fri., Dec. 14 7:30 p.m. KIA NBA Countdown Bill Simmons, Mike Wilbon, Jalen Rose ESPN, WatchESPN
8 p.m. Boston Celtics at Houston Rockets Mike Tirico, Jon Barry ESPN, WatchESPN
10:30 p.m. Memphis Grizzlies at Denver Nuggets Terry Gannon, Chris Mullin ESPN, WatchESPN

Regis Philbin Visits the First Take Debate Desk Friday
contact: jayjay.nesheim@espn.com

Television personality Regis Philbin will visit ESPN for First Take on Friday, Dec. 14. A self-proclaimed fan of the show, Regis requested an opportunity to debate Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless on the day’s hottest sports topics. College football is certain to be a topic of discussion as Philbin is an alum of Notre Dame, and the native New Yorker will also want to discuss the Giants and Jets.  First Take airs weekdays at 10 a.m. on ESPN2.  Follow First Take on Facebook (facebook.com/firsttake) and Twitter (@ESPN_FirstTake). Photos of Philbin will also be available in the ESPN Images library shortly after the show.

espnW.com: Summer (Sanders) on the Run, The Great Lung Run and This Week’s Top Shots
contact: Amanda.decastro@espn.com

espnW.com has launched a 12-week video and blog series, Summer on the Run, that follows former Olympic swimmer and avid runner Summer Sanders on her training journey  for Disney’s Princess Half Marathon on February 24. Sanders offers training tips, motivation and advice as she prepares for her 13.1-mile run. In addition, contributor Sarah Spain shares the inspirational journey of Kelcey Harrison, who ran from Times Square to San Francisco, logging 30 miles almost every day for four consecutive months, in honor of the best friend she lost to lung cancer. espnW.com also shares this week’s Top Shots in women’s sports.

Men’s College Hoops: Holiday Hoops Week Continues; Boeheim Aiming for Win #900
contact: michael.c.humes@espn.com

ESPN’s Holiday Hoops Presented by Kay Jeweler’s will continue through early next week with 19 games over three days (Monday, Dec. 17, through Wednesday, Dec. 19). The schedule includes telecasts of two of the top four ranked teams: No. 2 Duke against Cornell on Wednesday, Dec. 19, at 7 p.m. on ESPNU and No. 4 Syracuse vs. Detroit in the Gotham Classic on Monday, Dec. 17, at 7 p.m. on ESPN2. With a Syracuse victory over Canisius on Saturday, Dec. 15, head coach Jim Boeheim will be at 899 career wins and going for his 900th victory against Detroit.

In addition, ESPNU and ESPN3 will each cover a home game for No. 22 Notre Dame: against IPFW on Monday, Dec. 17, and against Kennesaw State on Wednesday, Dec. 19, both at 7 p.m.

Commentator Mike Couzens will receive the overtime award, calling a game on three consecutive days, each with a different analyst. In addition to working both Notre Dame matchups, he will call Ball State at Purdue on Tuesday, Dec. 18, at 7 p.m. on ESPN3.

Date Time (ET) Game Network
Mon, Dec 17 7 p.m. Gotham Classic Detroit vs. No. 4 Syracuse (Regional)
John Saunders & Doris Burke
  Louisiana-Monroe at Florida State ESPN3
  IPFW at No. 22 Notre Dame
Mike Couzens & LaPhonso Ellis
  Maryland-Eastern Shore at Connecticut
Bob Picozzi & Bob Wenzel
ESPN3 & BIG EAST Network
  9 p.m. Cornell at Vanderbilt
Dave Neal & Dino Gaudio
Tue, Dec 18 7 p.m. Richmond at No. 9 Kansas
Mitch Holthus & Stephen Bardo
  No. 19 Michigan State at Bowling Green
Jim Barbar & Tim McCormick
  Ball State at Purdue
Mike Couzens & Darrin Horn
  7:30 p.m. Old Dominion at College of Charleston ESPN3
  9 p.m. Stanford at No. 25 NC State
TBD & Sean Farnham
Wed, Dec 19 7 p.m. Xavier at No. 11 Cincinnati
Bob Wischusen, Dan Dakich & Andy Katz
  Cornell at No. 2 Duke
Tom Hart & Doris Burke
  Clemson at Coastal Carolina ESPN3
  Kennesaw State at No. 22 Notre Dame
Mike Couzens & Sean Kearney
  Morehead State at Virginia
Byron Kerr & Glenn Consor
  8 p.m. Alabama at Texas Tech
Mike Gleason & John Harris
  9 p.m. No. 21 North Carolina at Texas
John Saunders & Jimmy Dykes
  Oakland at West Virginia
Dave O’Brien & Bruce Pearl
  11 p.m. Ole Miss at Loyola Marymount
Roxy Bernstein & Miles Simon

30 for 30 Shattering Ratings Records for Documentaries on ESPN
contact: jennifer.j.cingari@espn.com

This Saturday’s 30 for 30 film You Don’t Know Bo was ESPN’s highest-rated documentary with a 2.6 rating. In its current run, the 30 for 30 films are averaging a 1.5 rating through six telecasts. Two of the top five highest-rated documentaries ever have aired this fall — You Don’t Know Bo and Broke. Top five:

Rank Telecast Date Rating

You Don’t Know Bo December 8, 2012 2.6

The Fab Five March 3, 2011 2.1

Broke October 2, 2012 1.9

Pony Exce$$ December 11, 2010 1.9

The U December 8, 2009 1.8

ESPN Films’ 30 for 30 series will return in 2013 with another slate of films.

ESPN The Magazine: “Hall of Fame” Issue
contact: carrie.b.kreiswirth@espn.com

Ahead of ESPN The Magazine’s Hall of Fame “Voter Confidential” newsstand release (Friday, Dec. 14), Outside the Lines broke down the verdict when The Mag asked 48 anonymous voters how they would cast their vote on the MLB Hall of Fame ballot. According to the voters polled, Barry Bonds does not appear to be a first-ballot selection, and voters weren’t sure they would ever let him in. Roger Clemens didn’t fare much better, and according to voters, Sammy Sosa may never get in. Meanwhile, more than half of those polled said they would vote for Pete Rose if they were able to. Today, Outside the Lines (3 p.m. ET) discussed the complete findings from the latest ESPN the Magazine’s Confidential.

Special PROFILE:60 Shows from E:60
contact: carrie.b.kreiswirth@espn.com

E:60 presents PROFILE:60, three new half-hour episodes with NFL stars Rob Gronkowski of the New England Patriots, Victor Cruz of the New York Giants and Arian Foster of the Houston Texans.  The shows will premiere Thursday, Dec. 20, at 8 p.m., 8:30 p.m. and 9 p.m., respectively on ESPN2.

ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine Present the Hall of 100
contact: ben.cafardo@espn.com and kristen.m.hudak@espn.com

ESPN debuted a new baseball-themed collaboration between ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine entitled the Hall of 100. The project recognizes the top 100 baseball players of all time based solely on performance. Nos. 26-100 were unveiled earlier in the week. The final 25 will be named on Thursday, Dec. 13, during a live chat on ESPN.com.

The content will be supported with essays, articles and videos by Steve Wulf, Matt Meyers, Dan Szymborski, Jim Caple, Christina Kahrl, Jerry Crasnick, David Schoenfield, Tim Kurkjian, Peter Keating, Eric Karabell, Jayson Stark, Doug Glanville, Mark Simon and Buster Olney.

#Hallof100 is the official hashtag across social platforms for the series. The Hall of 100 is part of ESPN The Magazine‘s comprehensive Hall of Fame issue, scheduled to hit newsstands Friday, December 14.

Bowling on ESPN – PBA Alka Seltzer Plus Cold Cheetah Championship on Sunday
contact: allison.r.stoneberg@espn.com
ESPN will televise the PBA Alka Seltzer Plus Cold Cheetah Championship on Sunday, Dec. 16, at 1 p.m. Lon McEachern and PBA Hall of Famer Randy Pedersen will be on site in Las Vegas, Nev., to call the action.

The stepladder finals begin with Bill O’Neill, winner of the 2010 U.S. Open, facing Chris Loschetter for a chance to move to the semifinal match and take on No. 2 qualifier Jeff Roche. Roche or the challenger will then contend with four-time Tour winner Mike Wolfe in the championship match. Schedule

Reebok CrossFit Games Marathon Sunday on ESPN2
contact: stephen.mcdonald@espn.com

ESPN2 will reair 12 episodes from the Reebok CrossFit Games on Sunday, Dec. 16, from 4:30 p.m. to midnight. Sunday’s episodes will highlight the Games Men’s and Women’s competition with: Camp Pendleton Endurance Test, Chipper, Double Banger and Elizabeth, Isabel & Fran. Each episode will also be available on WatchESPN.

Date Time (ET) Competition Network
Sun, Dec. 16 4:30 p.m. Camp Pendleton Endurance Test (Men’s & Women’s) ESPN2, WatchESPN
  5:30 p.m. Camp Pendleton Obstacle Course (Women’s) ESPN2, WatchESPN
  6 p.m. Ball Toss & Track Triplet (Women’s) ESPN2, WatchESPN
  6:30 p.m. Medicine Ball & Handstand Pushups (Women’s) ESPN2, WatchESPN
  7 p.m. Sprint & Rope Sled (Women’s) ESPN2, WatchESPN
  7:30 p.m. Clean Ladder & Weightlifting (Women’s) ESPN2, WatchESPN
  8 p.m. Chipper (Women’s) ESPN2, WatchESPN
  8:30 p.m. Double Banger (Women’s) ESPN2, WatchESPN
  9 p.m. Elizabeth, Isabel & Fran (Women’s) ESPN2, WatchESPN
  10 p.m. Chipper (Men’s) ESPN2, WatchESPN
  10:30  p.m. Double Banger (Men’s) ESPN2, WatchESPN
  11 p.m. Elizabeth, Isabel & Fran (Men’s ESPN2, WatchESPN


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