text:
Price cuts and the popularity of 3G are prompting Europeans to use mobile data like never before, says a survey.
The GSM Association survey shows that European data roaming traffic grew by 75% between April 2007 and 2008.
Over the same period the numbers of 3G users doubled and the average price of data roaming services fell by 25%.
The rising numbers drove a 40% rise in the European mobile data market which now stands at 7bn euros (£5.53bn).
The GSM Association (GSMA) said there were now 112 million users of third generation (3G) mobile services in Europe - about 22.5% of all mobile users. By comparison 18.4% of US and Canadian mobile users are on 3G networks.
The survey questioned 38 mobile operators across Europe and found that the average price for downloading a megabyte of data within the EU was 5.06 euros (£3.99) at the end of March 2008. At the close of 2007 the cost was 5.62 euros (£4.43)
The average cost of sending a text message while travelling in Europe fell by 18% during the year being surveyed.
"We expect prices to continue to fall as operators further innovate around tariffs and more and more Europeans use these services as a part of their everyday lives," said Tom Phillips, chief government and regulatory affairs officer at the GSMA.
In some nations, said the GSMA, mobile broadband services now cost as much as fixed line broadband services.
The survey comes only weeks before EU imposed limits on roaming charges for making phone calls come into effect.
Approved in May 2007 the caps on charges could cut by 75% the cost of using a mobile to make a call outside a handset owner's home nation.
[via BBC Technology News]
Thursday, June 12, 2008
'Lower prices' boost mobile data
Price cuts and the popularity of 3G are prompting Europeans to use mobile data like never before, says a survey.
Gepostet von thatguy unter 7:00 AM 0 Kommentare
Labels: 3g, data, europe, GSM Association, GSMA, mobile data market, mobile technology
Promised MySpace Self-Serve Ads Still on Hold
In November 2007, reports of a self-serve ad platform for News Corp.'s MySpace flooded the Web, but the News Corp. unit has yet to release it. Reached this week, MySpace said the tool, originally planned for launch by early 2008, is currently in beta testing and could be made widely available in late summer or early autumn of this year.
MySpace is testing the system with more than 80 advertiser brands. Like similar platforms on the market, the MySpace product provides customizable ad templates, making display ad creation accessible to the average mom-and-pop-shop and other small business marketers.
To ensure standards are met, the MySpace customer service team will review all ads built through the platform before they're unleashed on the social networking site's pages. Ads generated and placed in the system will be sold on a performance basis.
In addition to the ease-of-use factor, the promise of the product comes in its marriage with the micro-targeting system FIM launched on MySpace last year. The launch of that system was part of the company's mission to attract more brand advertisers -- and more advertisers in general -- to typically non-premium inventory. By combining user profile information with geographic and other targeting data, MySpace can to deliver more ads that are, in theory, highly relevant.
The do-it-yourself ad phenomenon is gaining ground as publishers build on what Google popularized through its self-serve text-based ad system. Most recently, The New York Times unveiled a self-serve display ad product for small and local businesses. Through a partnership with AdReady, the publisher is letting business owners create and manage CPM-based display ad campaigns to run on NYTimes.com. They can upload their own creative into the system or use its ready-made ad elements.
In May, News Corp.-owned Fox Interactive Media said it would soon launch a service for creating video and display ads targeted to small, local advertisers. According to FIM at the time, the CPM-based offering is to be accessible via local Fox TV station Web sites. Facebook and real estate site Zillow also enable self-serve ads that are mainly text-based but can include images.
The thinking behind these and other automated ad buying systems is that smaller advertisers who until now have limited their online ad spending primarily to text advertising can be enticed to engage in richer advertising if the process is simplified.
Word of the upcoming FIM self-serve product for local Fox TV station sites, in conjunction with the upcoming MySpace self-service offering, suggest the company might eventually build a DIY ad system to serve all its properties. Indeed, in announcing its new Audience Network division earlier this year, FIM indicated it may deploy its targeting technology on sites owned by other publishers in a broader network capacity.
That new division, created in April to handle performance ad optimization and operations, leads development of the delayed self-serve ad platform, in addition to dealing with third party publishers.
[via clickz.com]
Gepostet von thatguy unter 6:37 AM 0 Kommentare
Labels: advertising, consumer activity, myspace, social networks
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Mobile Music - call for papers
Mobile Music
Call for Papers
A Special Session at the
MOBILE LIFE CONFERENCES and EXHIBITIONS
-- mSOCIETY 2008 -- The 1st International Conference on Mobile Society
-- EURO mGOV 2008 -- The 3rd European Conference on Mobile Government
15 -19 September 2008, Sheraton Voyager, Antalya, Turkey
http://www.mgovernment.org/events/index.html email@example.com
Michael Bull, Professor, Sussex University, UK
Session Description:
For the first time in history over 50% of consumers in industrialised cultures worldwide have the capability of listening to music whilst on the move - either through the use of their mobile
phones or on dedicated MP3 players such as the Apple iPod. In this stream we wish to discuss the social, aesthetic and commercial impact of the rise of mobile music consumption:
We wish to encourage contributions that discuss:
- The changing nature of the 'social' that might be implied by the personalised environment created through the use of mobile technologies.
- The potential for artistic and aesthetic production and consumption through the use of these technologies.
- The changing nature of consumption patterns - collaborative and individualised.
- What lessons might be learnt by the industries involved in terms of their response to new technologies, new markets and new patterns of consumption.
Submissions in the form of research papers (max 10 pages) and practice talks (max 1 page) are solicited via the conferences online submission system at the
Further information on submissions and all about the conferences can be found at
For all enquiries please write to the session chairs: firstname.lastname@example.com
or the conference secreteria firstname.lastname@example.com
Gepostet von thatguy unter 7:47 AM 0 Kommentare
Labels: audio consumption, call for papers, conference, mobile music
FM Offers Social Media Metrics
Online ad network Federated Media wants to make it easier for advertisers to track the impact their community-driven campaigns have online with a new suite of tools. Called Conversational Marketing Toolbox, the offering will allow advertisers to determine benchmarks for their campaign's success, handpick which data to track and view that data on a single interface. FM will run beta versions of the toolbox this summer, with the full product available later this year.
"Digital media and marketing has come a long way in the last few years," said FM CEO John Battelle in a written statement. "The success of online advertising can no longer be defined only by direct response metrics... This toolbox was designed specifically for the needs of the brand marketer looking for the power to leverage the conversational media space in the most effective and efficient way possible."
FM will work with clients at the outset to determine which data points would best determine success for their campaign, said FM marketing director Kim Kochaver by telephone. "That's a big problem for marketers," she said. "There are so many metrics out there and they don't know which ones to look at."
The metrics available will range from simple click-through rates, page views and conversions, to social media indicators such as Facebook bookmarks and RSS subscriptions, to signs of "amplification," such as blog posts, wiki entries and Twitter mentions. Each of the chosen metrics will appear on a "dashboard" on the clients' desktop.
Kochaver said a number of large companies will partner with FM for the beta tests, but would only identify one among them: Dell.
While much has been made of "conversational marketing" in recent years, efforts to track and measure it has been elusive. Kochaver said the toolbox would help set a standard for how conversational marketing is measured within the industry.
In a separate announcement, FM today unveiled plans to launch a technology information site with Harry McCracken, the former editor in chief of PC World. The site, Technologizer, will include reviews, analysis and commentary aimed at the tech community. It will debut this summer.
Earlier this year, FM secured a $50 million round of funding. The company said at the time that it would use the infusion partially to offer its clients deeper and more expansive branding services.
[via clickz.com]
Gepostet von thatguy unter 7:44 AM 0 Kommentare
Labels: Conversational Marketing Toolbox, federated media, metrics, online advertising, social media
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Gamer Theory (And beyond)
Gamer Theory (And beyond)
McKenzie Wark
Monday July 21 4.30pm
Theatrette 3, Economics and Commerce Building, University of Melbourne.
The study of culture faces two problems. One is to embrace new problems, new sites of conflict and development, in ways that do not merely add these to traditional approaches to the study of culture, but transform them. The other problem is to retain a critical edge to the study of
culture, to prevent critical theory from slipping into hypocritical theory. I will broach both problems -- which I do not pretend to have solved -- with reference to three recent bodies of work that look at questions of intellectual property, computer games, and the intellectual
legacy of the Situationist International, the last of the avant gardes.
McKenzie Wark is the author of A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard UP), Gamer Theory (Harvard UP), 50 Years of Recuperation: the Situationist International (Princeton Architectural) among other things. Originally from Australia, he currently teaches at the New School for Social
Research and Eugene Lang College in New York City.
McKenzie Wark Works
In Virtual Geography, published in 1994, Wark offered a theory of what he called the 'weird global media event'. Examples given in the book include the stock market crash of 1987, the Tiananmen square demonstrations of 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. He argued that the emergence of a global media space – a virtual geography – made out of increasingly pervasive lines of communication – vectors – was emerging as a more chaotic space than globalization theory usually maintains.
In two subsequent books, The Virtual Republic, published in 1997, and Celebrities, Culture and Cyberspace (1999), Wark turned his attention to the national cultural space of his homeland, Australia. The first of these works examined the so-called 'culture wars' of the 1990s as symptomatic of struggles over the redefinition of Australian national identity and culture in an age of global media. The second of these 'Australian' books looked at the transformation of a social democratic idea of the 'popular' as a political idea into a more market-based and media-driven popular culture.
Both these studies grew out of Wark's experience as a public intellectual who participated in public controversies, mainly through his newspaper column in The Australian, a leading national daily. He developed an approach based on participant observation, but adapted to the media sphere.
Wark descibed the process of culture by which "the jolt of new experiences becomes naturalised into habit" or second nature and describes the information society as not being new but something that changes through culture the balance between space binding and time binding media. This is described in his book "The Virtual Republic"
Wark emigrated to the United States in 2000. With the Australian poet John Kinsella, Australian novelist Bernard Cohen and Australian memoirist Terri-Ann White, he co-wrote Speed Factory, an experimental work about distance and expatriation. The co-authors developed for this the speed factory writing technique, in which an author writes 300 words, emails it to the next author, who then has 24 hours to write the next 300 words.
Dispositions, another experimental work followed. Wark traveled the world with a GPS device and recorded observations at particular times and coordinates. The media theorist Ned Rossiter has called this approach a 'micro-empiricism', and sees it as derived from the work of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze.
In 2004 Wark published his best known work, A Hacker Manifesto. Here Wark argues that the rise of intellectual property creates a new class division, between those who produce it, who he calls the hacker class, and those who come to own it, the vectoralist class.
Gamer Theory combined Wark's interest in experimental writing techniques in networked media with his own developing media theory. Gamer Theory was first published by the Institute for the Future of the Book as a networked book with his own specially designed interface.
In Gamer Theory Wark argues that in a world that is increasingly competitive and game-like, computer games are a utopian version of the world (itself an imperfect game), because they actually realize the principles of the level playing field and reward based on merit that is elsewhere promised but not actually delivered.
Gepostet von thatguy unter 6:19 AM 0 Kommentare
Labels: McKenzie Warkm gamer theory, video games
Digital imageries: culture and reception call for papers
*Call for papers: Digital imageries: culture and reception
The deadline for submissions for this double issue is August 1st, 2008
Founded at the Université de Montréal, Kinephanos (www.kinephanos.ca) is a bilingual inter-university web-based journal. Focusing on questions involving cinema and popular media, Kinephanos encourages interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. The journal's primary
interests are movies and popular TV series, video games, emerging technologies and fan cultures. The preferred approaches include cinema studies, communication theories, religion sciences, philosophy, cultural studies and media studies.
Kinephanos' first issue aims to explore and understand how digital technologies change the communication relations between the object and the subject. As a double issue, "Digital imageries: culture and reception" will also be devoted to the different influences digital
technologies have brought to cinema and other forms of audiovisual expression, such as television, animation and video games. In addition the articles must incorporate ideas pertaining to the spectator's and/or gamer's reception. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Remediation of film's aesthetics outside of cinema
- The new cinematographic experience and the challenge of archival
- Case study: critical reception of a digital movie (Speed Racer, Beowulf, 28 Days Later, etc.)
- Popular culture, virtual community and collective intelligence
- The video game trailer : trompe-l'oeil and out-of-bounds
- Who wants digital?
- Japanese animation: web and fansubbing
- Film and digital projection… or fiction!
- Digital legitimation
While Kinephanos privileges publication of thematic issues, we strongly encourage writers to submit articles exceeding the theme which will be published in each issue.
How to submit?
Abstracts of 750 words are to consist of the subject, the problem addressed and the title of the article. Please include bibliographical references, your name, email address and your primary field of study. Send submissions (in French or English) by August 1st, 2008 to:
email@example.com or
Following our approbation sent to you by email (2-3 weeks later), please send us your completed article by November 1st, 2008.
Editorial guidelines
Kinephanos is a refereed Web journal. Each article is evaluated by double-blind peer review. Kinephanos does not retain exclusive rights of published texts. However, material submitted must not have been previously published elsewhere. Future versions of the texts published
in other periodicals must reference Kinephanos as its original source. Your text must comply with the following specifications: 6,000 words maximum (excluding references but including end notes) with double spacing, Times New Roman 12-point font, a bibliography with all your
references, end notes must be inserted manually in the text as follow :
« ... » (1), references must be within the text as follow « … » (Jenkins 2000, p. 134), and 5 keywords at the end of the text.
Kinephanos accepts articles in French and in English
Gepostet von thatguy unter 5:49 AM 0 Kommentare
Labels: call for papers, cinema, kinephanos, popular culture, tv series, video games, virtual communities
Internet in China -- special issue of Electronic Journal of Communication (EJC/REC)
The Internet in China
EJC/REC: Call for Papers
Edited by:
Randy Kluver, Texas A & M University, email@example.com
Teresa M. Harrison, University at Albany, firstname.lastname@example.com
China's population of Internet users has now increased to 221 million, matching the US for the largest number of users online in the world. The Internet is having revolutionary effects on Chinese society, allowing greater openness to expression, presenting challenges to the Chinese
government to control information, and posing the potential to improve the quality of life for Chinese citizens. While the Internet may be unlikely to "democratize" China, it is unquestionably modernizing Chinese culture and society, while providing radically new opportunities for Chinese citizens.
This special issue seeks to publish the best research addressing the impact of Internet use and new media technologies on China's culture and society. We invite submissions from scholars documenting the scope and depth of these changes in an effort to better understand the Chinese
information technology revolution and its consequences. We also seek submissions that consider these effects within the context of social theory and cultural criticism. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
* How the Internet is used in China to find, present, and discuss information about the world
* Chinese perceptions and attitudes about the Internet, the Web and new media
* The demographics of Internet adoption
* Internet and political communication in China
* Blogging, social networking, wikis, and other Web 2.0 phenomena in China
* Mobile, location-based services, and other emerging technologies in China
* Cross-cultural comparisons
* Cross-media use comparisons
* The history of the Internet in China
Inquiries to either editor about possible topics are welcome. Deadline for completed manuscripts is Monday, July 7, 2008. All submissions should be made electronically (.doc, .rtf or .pdf format), in English and emailed to Teresa Harrison (firstname.lastname@example.com). Manuscripts should conform to the specifications of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th Edition. For further information about EJC/REC, see http://www.cios.org/www/ejcmain.htm
Gepostet von thatguy unter 3:07 AM 0 Kommentare
Labels: blogging, call for papers, china, ejc, electronic journal of communication, new media, social networking
Monday, June 9, 2008
Edited Collection on Southeast Asian Horror Cinema - call for papers
Edited Collection on Southeast Asian Horror Cinema
Call for Papers
Abstracts are sought for a collection of essays on Southeast Asian Horror Cinema. Although relatively modest in terms of production and aesthetics if compared to the horror cinemas of Japan and Korea for example, it is undeniable that the horror genre contributes greatly to the cinematic histories and cultures of Southeast Asia although for various reasons (political, market, religion, etc.) it has, for a period, suffered a lackluster existence.
For example, although Malayan cinema basically debuted in the guise of the pontianak (loosely translated as female vampires) films, which continued to spawn successful sequels, since the 1970s, Malaysia has more or less "banned" horror from its sociocultural landscape due to politico-religious reasons. And despite longstanding histories of horror in Indonesian and Thai cinema, they have until relatively recently been merely low-budget affairs.
In the last 10 years however, there has been a radical shift in the way Southeast Asian cinema views its horror offerings, possibly influenced by the amazing achievements, on both critical and popular levels, of the horror cinema of Japan and Korea.
Technically, narratively and aesthetically more sophisticated, horror films in Southeast Asia have either made a comeback, or have undergone a significant facelift, drawing considerable attention not only from local audiences, but audiences in the West as well. Yet, despite this newfound "success", critical appreciation of the region's horror cinema remains scarce. While scholarship on Korean and especially Japanese horror cinema abounds, work on Southeast Asian horror has garnered almost no academic attention.
The main aim of this collection is to redress this vacuum. It seeks to be as comprehensive as possible, and would serve primarily as a critical introduction to Southeast Asian horror cinema. Suggested topics would include but are not limited to:
- The history of horror cinema in Southeast Asia
- Horror cinema and the socio-political climate
- Gender and sexuality in Southeast Asian horror cinema
- Religion and the horror genre
- Horror, nationalism and ideology
- The philosophical dimension of Southeast Asian horror films
- Symbols and metaphors in Southeast Asian horror films
- Theoretical interpretations of Southeast Asian horror films
Abstracts could either emphasize the horror cinema of a particular Southeast Asian nation, or be executed as a comparative study (historically, thematically, representations, etc.).
Please send abstracts of 500 words maximum before 31 October 2008 to Andrew Ng at ng.hock.soon_at_artsci.monash.edu.my or andrwng_at_yahoo.com
Gepostet von thatguy unter 3:53 AM 0 Kommentare
Labels: asia, call for papers, contemporary horror cinema
Down to "The Wire": Urban Decay and American Television
Down to "The Wire": Urban Decay and American Television
Call For Papers - Edited Collection
Edited by Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall
(University of British Columbia)
Proposals are invited for an edited collection of original essays that examine "The Wire," HBO's
award-winning television series, which has just concluded its fifth and final season. The volume
will be published by Continuum
The editors seek contributors who will examine "The Wire" from a variety of critical, theoretical, and cultural perspectives. This collection will be aimed at both academic readers and an educated general audience. We seek essays that are both scholarly and engaging.
The complexity of "The Wire" as unforgiving political and social commentary demands academic
investigation. Because the show addresses so many different social contexts, it is expected that
this volume will include chapters from several disciplines and methodologies, including literary
and cultural studies, political science, sociology, film and media studies, law, psychology,
criminology, and philosophy.
In addition to what we expect might include season-based examinations of drug crime, blue-
collar crime, social policy and practice, education, and the media, as well as discussions of the
nature of fictional representations of aspects of American life, the following is a list of topics
that contributors might explore, though we invite proposals from any disciplinary perspective on any aspect of the series and its reception.
• intersections between representations of race, economy, and criminality
• issues of masculinity
• gender and sexuality in police and criminal cultures
• the family, childhood, parenting, and criminality
• re-imagining of the heroic beyond traditional narratives of America
• roles for women in urban America
• the technology of crime
• street speech and class-based communication
• cultures of addiction and treatment
• constructions of violence
• stress and trauma narratives
• education and class
• interest groups and issues of governance
• cable television and representing America
• issues of genre and narrative
• The Wire as television: direction, cinematography, music, casting, etc.
• The Wire, The Corner, and Homicide: Life on the Street
• representations of Baltimore
Please send a 500-word abstract or completed essay (4,000-6,000 words), plus a brief
biographical statement (or c.v.), as email attachments (in Word or as a Rich Text File) to both of
the editors:
Tiffany Potter (tpotter_at_interchange.ubc.ca)
C.W. Marshall (toph_at_interchange.ubc.ca)
Deadline for abstract submission: 16 June 2008.
If your proposal is chosen for consideration, you will have until October 2008 for final
submission of your chapter.
Gepostet von thatguy unter 3:48 AM 0 Kommentare
Labels: call for papers, cultural studies, hbo, law, media studies, political science, psychology, sociology, the wire, tv, urban decay
CFP - Edited Collection on New Directions in Irish Film and Cultural Studies
Theorising the Visual: New Directions in Irish Cultural Studies
Call for Papers
The last twenty years has seen the development of the subject of Irish Film Studies into a distinct and notable field. There are now Film Studies centres in all of the Universities in the Republic of Ireland, highlighting its importance as a discipline at both the graduate and
undergraduate level.
Furthermore, academic publications in the area of Irish film are consistently increasing, signalling Irish cinema studies as a productive critical field and established academic discipline.
To date, the dominant paradigm operating within such academic work has been historical. So as to establish itself as a discipline, Irish Film Studies has focused on configuring a transparent trajectory that firmly locates texts within an historical context. This is to be applauded,
particularly since it has helped in the development of Irish Film Studies as a distinct academic field of study. However, as a consequence, it seems that there has been little investigation of, and engagement with, film theory and philosophy in relation to film, visual culture and media
studies. Given the contemporary climate of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland, where notions of Irish identity are undergoing significant questioning and transformation, it seems this is a timely moment to consider the implications of theoretical approaches to visual culture.
This collection seeks to provide a forum for this engagement: to explore the intersections
of a peculiarly Irish visual culture and critical theory. The editors welcome essays that address conjunctions between Irish film, media and visual culture and theory.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
• Film Theory and Irish Cinema/Media
• Cultural Theory and Irish Cinema/Media
• Photography
• Animation
• Advertising
• Film Genres
• The Institutionalisation of Irish Film Studies
• Gender, Sexuality, Ethnicity, Race
• New Technologies and Visual Culture
• Memory and Visual Culture
Abstracts of 400 words due Friday 11th July 2008.
Queries and submissions should be sent to Dr Emma Radley (University College Dublin) emma.radley_at_ucd.ie and Dr Claire Bracken (Union College, NY) brackenc_at_union.edu.
Gepostet von thatguy unter 3:45 AM 0 Kommentare
Labels: advertising, animation, call for papers, cultural studies, ethnicity, film theory, gender, photography
Anglia Television and the History of ITV Conference - call for papers
Anglia Television and the History of ITV: Programming, Regionalism and the
Television Economy
Call for Papers
A conference organised by the University of East Anglia To be held at the Archive Centre, Norwich, 14th and 15th November 2008
Conference Organisers: Andrew Higson, Su Holmes and Brett Mills
Anglia Television – now ITV Anglia – began broadcasting in the east of England in 1959, some four years after the launch of the ITV network. This conference will build on the current vibrant interest in television history, and especially the history of ITV, and will chart the story of the Anglia franchise, from 1959 to the present. Key issues to be explored will include the relationship between the regional and the national in British independent television history; Anglia's programme culture – the range of genres, series and programmes produced or commissioned by Anglia over the years; and the institutional organisation of Anglia and its operation as part of the ITV network.
The conference arises out of an AHRC-funded project at the University of East Anglia, which brings together colleagues from the School of Film and Television Studies and the East Anglian Film Archive (EAFA). EAFA has an extensive collection of Anglia Television programmes, programme material and related documentation, which is being catalogued as part of this
project. Another strand of the conference will address the issues involved in archiving a regional television collection. There will also be a series of related archival screenings, including quiz and game shows, drama, sitcoms, talk shows and regional affairs programmes.
Speakers to include: Cathy Johnson, Rob Turnock, Lez Cooke, Sherryl Wilson, Su Holmes and Mark Jancovich.
We are seeking 20-minute papers on any topics relating to Anglia Television/ITV Anglia, or to any of the themes noted above, from the history of Anglia to current programmes, from archiving issues to questions of regionalism.
250 word abstracts or enquiries should be submitted by 23rd June 2008 to the conference administrator Jonathan Stubbs: j.stubbs_at_uea.ac.uk. Please include a brief biography.
Gepostet von thatguy unter 3:22 AM 0 Kommentare
Labels: ahrc, anglia, call for papers, conference, EAFA, itv, tv, uk
BAAS Postgraduate Conference - call for papers
British Association of American Studies Annual Postgraduate Conference
Saturday November 15th, 2008
The University of Exeter
Exeter, United Kingdom
Keynote speaker: Professor Judith Newman (University of Nottingham)
The School of Arts, Languages and Literatures at the University of Exeter is pleased to be hosting the annual BAAS postgraduate conference. We are seeking proposals for 20-minute papers on all topics from all disciplines within the field of American Studies, including history, music, literature, philosophy, film studies, politics, sociology, popular culture, pedagogy and language.
This year we are especially interested in papers presenting new ideas and arguments that engage with the theme of "America and the West."
The West is often used as a generic term for the civilization that grew up and out of Greece, spreading first to Italy and then to northern Europe, before crossing the Atlantic and taking root in the New World – principally in the United States. This spread has been accompanied by the dissemination of core values that originated in classical antiquity, including limited constitutional government, civil liberties, the free exchange of ideas, private property, capitalism and the separation between religious and political/scientific thought – values all variously embodied in competing and contested ideas about the United States.
Yet within the U.S. there also is a West, both real and imagined. Annexation, migration and expansion west of the Mississippi was accompanied by theories about manifest destiny and the movable frontier as the site of contestation between the competing values of civilization and wilderness. Today, the "American West" can alternately conjure images of cowboys in Texas or hippies in San Francisco.
Possible areas of inquiry might include, but are by no means limited to:
• The American West/America as the West
• American/Western myths
• American and Western politics
• America/the West as represented in visual media
• The West(ern) as genre
• Cultures of/bordering the United States
• The imagined West
• Mapping the West
• America and the heritage of classical antiquity
• America and its allies
• East and West
• Writing America and/or the West
• The movement of history
• Western/westernizing narratives
• Frontiers and borderlands
Interested postgraduate students are encouraged to submit an abstract of no more than 200 words along with a brief biography (including institutional affiliation) to baas_at_ex.ac.uk no later than June 30th, 2008. For more information, please visit http://www.sall.ex.ac.uk/conferences/
Gepostet von thatguy unter 3:19 AM 0 Kommentare
Labels: american studies, BAAS, film studies, history, literature, music, pedagogy, philosophy, politics, popular culture, postgrad conference, sociology
Gorbachev Research Fellowship in Global Media at University of Oxford
Gorbachev Research Fellowship in Global Media
Rothermere American Institute
University of Oxford
Grade 6: Salary £24,403 p.a.
The Rothermere American Institute, in conjunction with Christ Church and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, proposes to appoint a fixed-term, three year Research Fellowship in Global Media, tenable from 1 October 2008 or soon thereafter.
The person appointed will have research interests in issues around the freedom of the press and the media in an age of globalisation. Applications are invited from those interested in the relation of nation states to global media, in questions of free speech and censorship, and/or in how transnational forms of communication affect international relations in a post-Cold War era.
This post provides an opportunity for an individual of exceptional calibre, at an early stage of their academic career, to develop a research agenda. Applicants must have an exemplary academic record, demonstrable research expertise and the ability to communicate the
results of their research effectively.
The starting salary will be £24,403 p.a. In addition to the salary, an annual research grant of up to £1,000 is available, along with a contribution of up to £750 per year towards meals in college.
Further particulars and details of how to apply are available at http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/ or http://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/institute/jobs.html.
Applications should be submitted no later than 17.00 on Thursday 12 June 2008. Interviews are planned for week commencing 30 June 2008. Applications by email are encouraged.
Gepostet von thatguy unter 3:14 AM 0 Kommentare
Labels: censorship, global media, globalization, research fellowship
Internet Research 9.0 (AoiR 9) REGISTRATION OPEN
REGISTRATION for the AoiR Internet Research 9.0 conference, IT University of Copenhagen, October 16th - 18th 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark is now open for both presenters and all interested academics!
In order to discover HOW TO REGISTER, find instructions below.
If you are PRESENTER, please note, that you need to register as quickly as possible in order to finalise the program!
AoiR is proud to announce the participation of three highly interesting and versatile keynoter speakers at this year's conference:
Mimi Ito, US/Japan, author of "Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life"
Stephen Graham, UK, author of the forthcoming book "Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism"
Rich Ling, Norway, author of the forthcoming book "New Tech, New Ties: How mobile communication is reshaping social cohesion"
Don't forget to check out the preconference workshops, taking place at the conference venue, on Wednesday October 15th. You can still submit papers to and participate in the "Learning and Research in Second Life" and the "Writing and Publications" workshop.
More info at: http://conferences.aoir.org/workshops.htm
The Doctoral Colloquium and the "In the Game.." workshops are closed for further submissions and participants, but remember to register for the workshop, if your paper has been accepted!
Don't miss our early bird prices! If you register before July 31st, the basic registration fees are:
Early Bird Professional: $320 (incl. one years membership of AoiR)
Early Bird Student: $190 (incl. one years membership of AoiR)
I encourage you all to also sign-up for the conference banquet! It will take place at the IT University in Copenhagen on Saturday October 18th, followed by an open student bar and partying/networking until the early hours of the morning...
1) Go the conference website: http://conferences.aoir.org/
2) Click on "Registration" in the LEFT-hand menu
3) Follow the instructions :)
Questions related to registration fees and inclusions: contact registration
liason and local conference coordinator, Anna Sommer: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Technical problems? Please contact registration webmaster Charlie Breindahl: email@example.com
Questions related to the program or your presentation: contact program chair, Brian Loader: firstname.lastname@example.com
Questions related to content, venue, sponsoring etc: contact conference chair, Lisbeth Klastrup: firstname.lastname@example.com
Questions regarding the workshops: please contact the relevant workshop organisers, see info at: http://conferences.aoir.org/workshops.htm
NB! If you for funding reasons need some form of formal document to verify your participation, contact Anna Sommer: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Gepostet von thatguy unter 2:50 AM 0 Kommentare
Labels: aoir, conference, internet research, registration open, workshop


text:
(OLD) (ARCHIVED) Puppy Linux Discussion Forum
Puppy HOME page :
"THE" alternative forum :
This forum can also be accessed as
It is now read-only and serves only as archives.
Please register over the NEW forum
and continue your work there. Thank you.
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
The time now is Wed 02 Dec 2020, 20:40
All times are UTC - 4
Forum index
Advanced Topics
Dialup/Wireless Modem Upgrade Packages for Puppy 4.3+
View previous topic
View next topic
Page 9 of 13
[193 Posts]
Goto page:
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Posts: 2008
Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:15
Post subject: USB-modeswitch upgrade to 1.1.6
Subject description: For non-zzz puppies -- 4.3.1, etc.
I am attaching an adapted version of the usb-modeswitch 1.1.6 function that includes the puppy interfaces to 1.1.6. It contains little new functionality, but has internal changes that need to be verified as not having regressed.
The main difference is that it utilizes all of the official components instead of using my substitute for the dispatcher (wrapper) script. That avoids dual maintenance of the wrappers.
The part I cannot test is the executable program that caused a problem in 1.1.5 and may or may not have been fixed in 1.1.6. I need someone to try this new package and report whether the executable actually creates and uses the expected ttyUSB ports (beyond 0 and 1, which are always present in puppy). Please send/post a pmodemdiag file if you encounter a problem.
EDIT: Since there are no reports of problems with 1.1.6, I have moved the package from here to the first message in this thread.
Last edited by rerwin on Wed 02 Feb 2011, 00:05; edited 2 times in total
Back to top
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Posts: 2008
Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Thu 20 Jan 2011, 22:10
Post subject: Bug fix for pup_event_backend_modprobe level 5.8
Thanks to Toy4's testing with the latest modem updates -- and his sending me a pmodemdiag file -- I discovered a bug in the 5.8 version of ...backend_modprobe. It impacts the automatic detection of the modem because the script may crash (invisibly) as it tries to load the modem driver. The fix was simple and I have replaced the 5.8 version with 5.8.2, at the beginning of this thread.
If you have to probe to get the modem detected, this fix may correct that.
Back to top
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Posts: 2008
Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Tue 01 Feb 2011, 23:58
Post subject: Upgrade packages updated
The packages at the beginning of this thread have been updated to "level 10". They include the above transition to modeswitch 1.1.6 and its dispatcher (thus the number bump). Since no one has reported difficulty with 1.1.6, I am removing the workaround from the thread. Please speak up if 1.1.6 causes a problem.
Back to top
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Posts: 2008
Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Wed 09 Feb 2011, 18:58
Post subject: Upgrade package minor updates
I have replaced the "modem 8-to-10" and pup_event packages, to further wrap up my development of them. The first corrects DGC USB modem detection, where it checks the messages log for evidence of such a modem. Pup_event_backend_modprobe...5.9 cleans up part of the module loading logic and removes unused "protect" options (after some simplification mods).
Module loading now keeps the blacklist in the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file (as in Wary), but does not create extra blacklist...conf files while determining preferences and usb_storage alternatives, instead copying all effective blacklist entries to a process-specific file to which the temporary blacklist items are appended. This avoid potential interference with loading of other modules. In addition, processing of event-rule-invoked loading is corrected to avoid preference processing, because a valid modalias is not present for such processing.
As usual, please report any regression in function. Thank you.
Back to top
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Posts: 2008
Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Fri 11 Feb 2011, 21:51
Post subject: Caution regarding the pup_event...5.9 package and woof!
I did not mention that I included an updated /usr/sbin/remasterpup2 in the "5.9" package. It is a special version for remastering an upgraded pup made from an original 4.3.1 CD and does not contain the latest developments found in wary, particularly relating to the simplified puppy names. But if those changes are not official, the included remasterpup2 should be OK for users who update with 5.9.
However, it is not appropriate for inclusion in woof. Barry, please do not use the 5.9 remasterpup2 in woof.
Back to top
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Posts: 2008
Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:40
Post subject: Fix for random failure to connect via dialup
I have replaced the "modem 8-to-10" package (now 20110218) to fix pupdial to prevent an intermittant input/output error on the /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial file, which causes connection to fail. Thanks to Toy4's persistence with me (again), I discovered a risk in the setup for running the wvdial dialer, which should be mitigated by insertion of a "sync" command before the launch of wvdial (line 688) as a separate process. That is the only change from 20110209. If that does not prevent an input/output error (on the wvdial file) message from appearing in the /var/log/messages log, please tell me so I can look further.
Back to top
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Posts: 2008
Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Thu 10 Mar 2011, 15:55
Post subject: Relocated project history
Subject description: Moved from first posting, to shorten the download message.
The following is the history of this thread. Assuming it is of limited interest, I have moved it out of the first message, to improve that posting.
UPDATE 7/19/2010: Uploaded "point one" versions of modprobe_protect, pmodemdiag and "bluetooth-ready" versions of pupdial and its friends. The download counts before the new versions were pup_...-5: 106, modem...-7: 73. For those of you who already have "-5" and "-7" installed, I am posting a "patch delta 7 to 7.1" package below in the thread, which replaces six files, including the one from the pup_event... package. Simply install that on top of the previous (modem and pup_event) packages.
UPDATE 7/28/2010: Uploaded the "point 2s" to fix some bugs and make improvements. I found the reason the USB modems are not detected automatically and fixed it. I posted a "delta" package farther down in this thread for those of you already at 7.0 or 7.1.
UPDATE 8/8/2010: I have corrected the problem Barry has spotted where the connect wizard regresses in releases later than 4.3.1, such as Quirky and Wary, when the modem_fix_pack_delta-6-to-7.2.pet package is installed. That package now merges my enhancement into the connect wizard, instead of substituting a modified 4.3.1-based script. The correction is present on all downloads
number 18. Users impacted by the connect wizard problem can recover by either (1) uninstalling and re-installing modem_fix_pack_delta-6-to-7.2.pet or (2) simply deleting /initrd/pup_rw/usr/sbin/connectwizard:
rm /initrd/pup_rw/usr/sbin/connectwizard
which will restore the wizard without the modem change, but with the new networking support. Note that these packages should not be installed on future (post-Quirky 1.2 & Wary 0.3) woof-based distros, since they will already be part of those distros. Sorry for the goof.
UPDATE 8/9/2010: Uploaded latest mode-switching data base (as of 7/7), which adds 6 more supported wireless devices.
UPDATE 8/10/2010: Note that all of the attached packages are now built into puppeee 1.0, except for the usb-modeswitch-data package, which gets upgraded as new versions become available. That package need not be installed if your modem is already supported, as it usually just adds new wireless devices.
EDIT 8/18/2010: Just a reminder to users of wireless modems: Be sure to check/select "Stupid Mode" in pupdial. A few new users have been stymied for a long time because Stupid Mode was not selected. That is the first thing to suspect if you get disconnected immediately after connecting.
UPDATE 8/28/2010: Re-uploaded "pup...5.2", after download number59, to correct the edit of rc.services, which improves the modem initialization function. Should fix unexpected modem choice, so that USB modems take priority. That fix is also in "pup...5.2_to_5.4" later in this thread, so no need to reinstall 5.2.
UPDATE 8/29/2010: Uploaded "pup...5.4" and "modem...7.4", with everything fixed, as far as I know. Improves detection in a rare case and completes the method of handling multiple possible modem devices. So, if ttyUSB0 does not work, click on the pupdial "test" button, which is labeled ttyUSB-something. If that is different from the selected (detected) device, clicking on it will test the alternative and select/detect it if successful. If unsuccessful, a different ttyUSB label will show; if still different from the selected device, click again to try it. This feature should also work for ttyACM and ttyHS (but not HSF) modem devices. The more noticeable changes are to the pupdial and modem-select (nee modem-probe) panes, so that the essential control buttons are all visible on a small (480 pixels tall) screen, the remainder available by moving the pane upward (with alt-leftbutton-drag).
NOTE that the attached pup_event... and modem... packages must
be installed in the puppeee derivative. Only the delta packages on page 3 of this thread should be used for puppeee 1.0 (as well as the two usb_modeswitch packages here).
UPDATE 9/22/2010: Uploaded new set of packages as "modem fix pack 8." While containing some fixes, the main improvements are to the internals, to streamline maintenance, making this the "elegant and sustainable" version. I hope users will retest this for any regression of functions that have already been working.
To update a system already at the "7.4" level, please use the package "7.2_to_8" posted on page 4 of this thread (instead of the "6_to_8" package posted here). Users of recent woof-based puppies (Wary 07, Quirky 1.3, fluppy) should use either "7.2_to_8" or "7.5_to_8-woof", which is posted in the wary 07 Bugs thread. The pup...modprobe_fix...5.5" must be installed with any of these modem_fix packages. The usb_modeswitch packages are optional, but ensure that the wireless mode-switching support is current.
Note that the bluetooth support has been extended, but not adequately tested. That is not a factor if you do not have a bluetooth device installed. Where bluetooth is detected, an attempt is made to find a modem, but stops short of actually doing anything about it. Debug information is collected (in /tmp/udevtrace-modem.log), which should be helpful in "fleshing out" bluetooth-modem detection. That can be sent to me via PM in a pmodemdiag file.
UPDATE 9/23/2010: Re-uploaded the modem-fix-pack-6_to_8 package with patch to wireless modem detection, after download number 4.
UPDATE 10/3/2010: Re-uploaded package modem_fix_pack_delta-6_to_8.pet after download number 17, with verified corrections to wireless modem detection, incorporated from "patch-2" (so no need to install that patch).
UPDATE 10/6/2010: Uploaded package pup_event_backend_modprobe_fix_to_p43x-5.6.pet after download number 44, to augment the "protect" function in support of the new "patch-3" posted on page 4 of this thread. The patch expands support for Agere (agrsm) modem chipsets. Only users of Agere HDA or PCI modems need this update.
UPDATE 10/7/2010: Re-uploaded package modem_fix_pack_delta-6_to_8.pet after download number 38, to correct the rules file for Intel and Agere modems.
Also re-uploaded pup_event_backend_modprobe_fix_to_p43x-5.6.pet after download number 60, to change the modprobe.d/alias-sound_cards file name to append ".conf". Edits delayedrun script, to match.
UPDATE 10/8/2010: Re-uploaded package modem_fix_pack_delta-6_to_8.pet after download number 67, to augment the test for modules being loaded (to support "patch-3").
UPDATE 10/18/2010: Replaced the pup_event_backend_modprobe_fix_to_p43x-5.6 package with pup_event_backend_modprobe_fix_to_p43x-5.7, to fix the loading of the Agere HDA driver. Unless this is important to you, there is probably no need to update to 5.7 from 5.6.
UPDATE 12/16/2010: Attached a new level of modem support to bring 4.3.1 up to the level of wary 0.9.8 plus a few additions. It comprises the following packages:
- pup_event_backend_modprobe_fix_to_p43x-5.8.pet
- modem_fix_pack_delta-8-to-9.pet
- usb-modeswitch-data-20101202.pet
These also need usb-modeswitch-1.1.4.pet.
If starting with an original puppy 4.3.1 CD, be sure to install the following before adding the latest packages:
- modem_fix_pack_to_431-6.pet
- modem_fix_pack_delta-6_to_8.pet
This level includes an upgraded "remaster" script that allows you to create a new CD (or iso) after installing all of the packages (as well as any others you might add, such as pburn). The old version omits some critical files from the new copy.
Even though they clutter the list of downloadable packages (below), I am leaving for now the level 5.7 and 20100826 packages for those not ready to step up to the new set.
To include the versions of the Agere driver variants for "level 9", please install the packages at the following direct links:
- agrsm048pci-2.1.60_20100108-k184.108.40.206.pet:
- agrsm06pci-2.1.80~20100106-k220.127.116.11.pet:
- agrsm-11c11040-2.1.80~20091225-k18.104.22.168.pet:
UPDATE 12/24/2010: Replaced the modem_fix_pack and pup_event packages to correct the functioning of the modem fix pack and convert the pup_event package to use the new syntax for multiple preferences, to be consistent with the newest puppies.
UPDATE 1/2/2011: Replaced the modem_fix_pack and pup_event packages -- again -- to make some internal changes to match wary code and to polish support for the SmartLink and Conexant DGC USB modems. Because of the internal change of the firmware.inst... file to firmware.dep.inst..., both of these packages must be installed together, since they both reference that file. The old versions (with the same names) should be uninstalled before re-installing the 2 packages.
UPDATE 1/20/2011: Replaced the pup_event package with 5.8.1 to correct a typo/bug that prevented completion of wireless-modem-module loading, resulting in a "timeout" during initialization. Everyone: please replace your installation of the ...5.8 version, with 5.8.1 (or later).
UPDATE 1/24/2011: Replaced the pup_event package with 5.8.2 to complete the bug-fix started in 5.8.1. The second problem was with loading of the usb-storage module, which might have delayed startup but otherwise did no harm.
UPDATE 2/1/2011: Upgraded the packages to "10" for miscellaneous cleanup. The differences are that now modules triggered by udev rules (e.g., agrmodem and Intel536/7) can be blacklisted, and that module-loading timeouts are eliminated if a module is not installed. The latter makes it possible for a puplet to include the PCI modem firmware tarballs even if the drivers are not present, allowing for users to later install drivers if/as they become available for later kernels.
Also replaced the "imitation" modeswitch script, to use the "official" modeswitch dispatcher. This means that the 2 usb_modeswitch packages are now required. As usual, please report any modem or module misbehavior/timeouts, so I can fix them.
UPDATE 2/9/2011: Upgraded the modem package to correct detection of DGC USB modems. Upgraded the pup_event package to clean up the module loading logic to use the modprobe.d directory, but using individual blacklist copies for resolving preferences. Also removed 2 now-unused protect options.
UPDATE 2/11/2011: Re-uploaded the pup_event...5.9 package to remove a statement from /usr/sbin/remasterpup2. Note, though, that the included remasterpup2 should not go into woof, for which it is not valid.
UPDATE 2/11&15/2011: Re-uploaded the modem_fix_pack_delta-8_to_10-20110209 and usb-modeswitch-1.1.6-adapted packages, to eliminate duplicated files. No other content change, so no need to reinstall those packages.
UPDATE 2/18/2011: Uploaded the modem_fix_pack_delta-8_to_10-20110218, after download number 52, to prevent random failure of ability to connect via dialup.
UPDATE 3/10/2011: Replaced all 5 of the previously attached packages with a single package containing updated versions of them. It can be installed on any existing installation of puppy 4.3.x or later, but not wary or quirky (which replace the content with a different implementation), and puppeee (which has unique requirements).
Back to top
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Posts: 2008
Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Thu 10 Mar 2011, 16:52
Post subject: Consolidated modem module-loading and mode-switching package
Subject description: Replaces all previous upgrades in this thread.
I have revised the initial page of this thread for simplification and consolidation of the separate upgrade packages because they have become quite interdependent. Now that Barry provides the wireless-modem mode switching function and database in their own packages, they can be added to the upgraded 4.3.x installations as they become available. But if they cannot be accommodated as they are, I plan to adapt them and post the result in the first thread message, as before.
The main thing to remember is to avoid installing the "modem-modprobe" upgrade before a pupsave file is in effect, because puppy forgets to keep files and directories deleted upon the first reboot of a new installation. Boot up, reboot and create a "personal data" (pupsave) file, then install the upgrade. Or install it in a "full" installation (vs. "frugal").
As usual, please report here any problems produced by this upgrade, which is not significantly different internally from the previous packages. Thank you for everyone's help in getting this done.
Back to top
Joined: 11 Oct 2008
Posts: 8787
Location: qld
Posted: Mon 14 Mar 2011, 07:03
Post subject:
Hello Richard,
In response to
this post
I installed the latest modem-modprobe_fix_pack_to_43x-20110313.pet into luci_254. It all went well with my huawei-E169 except that I was missing libcrypto.so.0.9.7 so I made symlinks to libcrypto.so.0.9.8 called libcrypto.so.0.9.7 in /lib and /usr/lib. From then on connection was flawless.
I'll attach a pmodemdiag anyway, never know, there may be a clue somewhere.
Puppy Linux Blog
- contact me for access
Back to top
Joined: 25 Apr 2008
Posts: 3794
Posted: Mon 14 Mar 2011, 11:17
Post subject:
In response to this post I installed the latest modem-modprobe_fix_pack_to_43x-20110313.pet into luci_254. It all went well with my huawei-E169 except that I was missing libcrypto.so.0.9.7
My bad. When I upgraded to 0.9.8o, I thought, what do we need that symlink to 0.9.7 for? I will put it back in luci-255.
Back to top
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Posts: 2008
Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Thu 17 Mar 2011, 13:55
Post subject: modem-modprobe package upgraded to 20110317
I have made an important fix to the module loader, to back out logic borrowed from wary/woof (zzz). The problem was that if a module has an "install" statement in any of the modprobe config files, that module is not seen by the backend_modprobe script! The code now uses only the "blacklist" entries from the config files, similar to the pre-zzz technique but for multiple config files in modprobe.d.
The other changes are to the sound card wizard and its friends. They now are similar to the Lucid puppy implementation. I have yet to test that on 4.3.1, but hope to ensure that it is compatible.
These changes result from feedback from playdayz regarding his sound card (which involves an "install" statement) and getting the sound interface right for Luci. Thanks, playdayz.
Last edited by rerwin on Tue 22 Mar 2011, 12:45; edited 1 time in total
Back to top
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Posts: 2008
Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Tue 22 Mar 2011, 12:43
Post subject: modem-modprobe package upgraded to 20110321
This new version of the package corrects the ALSA wizard to start a changed driver right away. In addition, the remasterpup2 script is updated to handle the obsolete files removed by the package. The removal of files and directories found on the main puppy sfs file impacted remaster as well as the creation of a new pupsave file, necessitating some constraints on both the installation of the package and remastering after the package is installed.
1. To install the package for immediate use, it must be installed to an existing pupsave. If installed before a pupsave is created, the removed files will reappear in the new pupsave created at shutdown. So create the pupsave first.
2. To create a new, generic remaster of a puppy with the package, boot with "pfix=ram" or choose pupsave 0 (if given a choice). Install any other dotpet packages to be included, then install "modem-modprobe" last (perhaps not necessary, but safer). Immediately run Setup > Remaster Puppy live-CD. Reply to prompts with OK or No (as appropriate), unless you want to make some changes. When finished, shut down/reboot
creating a pupsave file (which would erroneously contain the "removed" obsolete files and directories).
The remaster script is that for recent puppies that use the new identification technique in woof. If the script detects an older puppy, it pops up a red "Sorry..." message that now suggests running the command "remasterpup2old", which will start the updated older version of remasterpup. This is useful for remasters of 4.3.x puppies.
For first-time remasterers, note that you need to have available either a puppy live CD or an "iso" file containing the CD image; and it must match the version of puppy you are running on. To use the file, be sure to click on it first, to show its contents, then leave it mounted that way while running the remaster. Remasterpup2 will include it in its list of puppy-disk options.
Download at:
Back to top
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Posts: 2008
Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Mon 18 Apr 2011, 10:48
Post subject: modem-modprobe package updated to 20010421
Subject description: Adds better support of Lucid Puppy 5.x, including remasters and upgrades.
I have uploaded a new version of the consolidated fix for pre-zzz puppies. The new changes are to the "update/upgrade" and remastering scripts, and to better accommodate all versions Lucid Puppy 5 (lupu). But this version requires a change in procedures for installing and remastering, as well as for updating/upgrading a pupsave into a newly remastered version containing the fix package.
During installation of the new modem-modprobe package, a new dialog window will pop up in addition to the "installation complete" notification. The new window need not be responded to right away, but is there to allow use of the special version of the remaster script that eliminates obsolete files from the remastered puppy. You can install other packages for a remaster and then click "Yes" to start the remaster process. If you inadvertently click "No" and subsequently (in the same session) want to remaster, find file /tmp/remasterpup_upgrade and click on it. It will determine whether to actually run the "old" version of that script.
The install-and-remaster can be performed on either a new/CD bootup of a puppy or an existing pupsave. However, do not install the package, immediately reboot and create a new pupsave, because the deleted files and directories will reappear in the new pupsave. Always install and remaster in the same session or pre-existing pupsave file.
After a remaster is created with the package in it, upgrading a pupsave from an earlier version of puppy must be preceded by installation of the accompanying "pre-update patch" package. That has a special version of the "update" script that also ensures the deletion of obsolete files and directories that might have accumulated in the old pupsave.
As usual, the packages are here:
Please report any problems you suspect are related to the packages. Thanks.
Back to top
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Posts: 2008
Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Thu 21 Apr 2011, 12:59
Post subject: Pre-update patch made more useful
I have adapted the pre-update patch package so that it supports two situations. Originally, it required that the new puppy be a remaster that contains the modem-modprobe fix. Now it also works with pupsave files that already have the modem-modprobe fix installed. For them, the new puppy can be a regular puppy without the fix, which will be carried over from the old pupsave to the updated pupsave file.
This addition simplifies testing/experimentation with the fix in existing pupsave environments where the pupsave is to subsequently be updated to a newer puppy. However, the updated pupsave cannot be remastered in the normal way, but requires the special "upgrade" version of the remasterpup script. To remaster such an updated pupsave, first uninstall the modem-modprobe fix and immediately re-install it (or a later version of it). As part of the installation, the special temporary remasterer will be offered and should be used at that point. (This is not necessary if the new puppy already has the fix.)
Note that if the
fixed-and-updated pupsave
is updated again for an even later puppy, no special action is required because the "pre-update" version of the update script is retained. But re-installation of "modem-modprobe" is required whenever the updated pupsave is used in a remaster.
Back to top
Joined: 17 May 2009
Posts: 367
Location: Q8
Posted: Tue 26 Apr 2011, 04:10
Post subject:
Hello Richard; is there a way to use Hauwei modem e180 with xtreme puppy 420?
Back to top
Display posts from previous:
All Posts
1 Day
7 Days
2 Weeks
1 Month
3 Months
6 Months
1 Year
Sort by:
Post Time
Post Subject
Page 9 of 13
[193 Posts]
Goto page:
View previous topic
View next topic
Forum index
Advanced Topics
Jump to:
Select a forum
Forum index
|___ House Training
| |___ Beginners Help ( Start Here)
| |___ Users ( For the regulars )
| | |___ Usuarios de habla Hispana
| | |___ Für deutschsprachige Anhänger
| | |___ Pour les francophones
| |
| |___ HOWTO ( Solutions )
| |___ Bugs ( Submit bugs )
|___ Advanced Topics
| |___ Additional Software (PETs, n' stuff)
| | |___ Package Collections / Repositories
| | |___ Browsers and Internet
| | |___ Business
| | |___ Compiling
| | |___ Desktop
| | |___ Documents
| | |___ Drivers
| | |___ Educational
| | |___ Engineering/Science/Simulation
| | |___ Eye Candy
| | |___ Filesystem
| | |___ Games
| | |___ Graphics
| | |___ Multimedia
| | |___ Network
| | |___ Security/Privacy
| | |___ System
| | |___ Utilities
| | |___ Virtualization
| | |___ Unsorted
| |
| |___ Cutting edge
| | |___ Multi-session live-CD/DVD
| |
| |___ Hardware
| | |___ Audio
| | |___ Networking
| | | |___ Dialup
| | | |___ Ethernet
| | | |___ Wireless
| | |
| | |___ Printers
| | |___ Video
| |
| |___ Puppy Derivatives
| |___ Puppy Projects
| |___ Next Puppy Development
| | |___ 4.x
| | | |___ Bugs (4.x dev)
| | | |___ Usability Issues (4.x dev)
| | |
| | |___ 5.x
| | |___ Bugs (5.x dev)
| | |___ Usability Issues (5.x dev)
| |
| |___ Localization Project
| |___ Documentation Project
|___ Taking the Puppy out for a walk
| |___ Announcements
| |___ Puppy Power
| |___ Suggestions
| |___ Misc
|___ Off-Topic Area
|___ Programming
|___ Security
|___ Truly off-topic conversations
post new topics in this forum
reply to topics in this forum
edit your posts in this forum
delete your posts in this forum
vote in polls in this forum
attach files in this forum
download files in this forum
Powered by
© 2001, 2005 phpBB Group
[ Time: 0.1577s ][ Queries: 13 (0.0577s) ][ GZIP on ]

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Bathroom Safety Shower Tub Bench Chair with Back, Blue
Send to a friend
Bathroom Safety Shower Tub Bench Chair with Back, BlueEasy, tool-free assembly of back, seat, and legs|Aluminum frame is lightweight, durable, and corrosion proof|Legs are height adjustable in 1" increments|Legs are angled with suction-style tips to provide additional stability
Recipient :
* Required fields
Cancel or
Drive Medical
Warning: Last items in stock!
Availability date:
The Ultimate in Safety, Security and Stability The Drive Medical Blue Bathroom Safety Shower Tub Bench Chair with Back guarantees your bathing experience can be a safe and pleasant one, minus the worry and unease that arises from fear of falling while in the tub or showering.Designed for maximum comfort, efficiency, safety, and ease of use, the Drive Safety Shower Chair is strong, durable and dependable. It's everything you need in a shower safety bench seat.So, if you experience dizziness, or you're unsure of your footing due to mobility issues when it comes time to bathe...You can now rid yourself of the stress and worry as bathing once again becomes relaxing and pleasurable, thanks to Drive Medical's Blue Bathroom Safety Shower Tub Bench Chair with Back. Go ahead...Experience the Drive Difference Now!
No customer comments for the moment.


text:
He is the cooooooool WOLFMAN!
BIO: Hellmut Wolf aka The Wolfman
Genre: New Age, Rock, Funk, Urban, Reggae and Trance/ Dance
The Wolfman is an extraordinary artist whose career spans over four decades and four continents. He started his music career as a flute player, and then quickly picked up the Saxophone as second instrument back in his hometown Koblenz, Germany. He's played with a variety of bands over the years and everything from small pubs to major stadium arenas. Throughout the years, The Wolfman released a variety of albums and singles, MOST self produced as an Indie Artist. Let me say, once you heard this gentleman's snazzy music notes you will be infected to…
View original post 326 more words


text:
A Little Dim Sum Place, SS2
>> Sunday, June 20, 2010
Venue: A Little Dim Sum Place, SS2, Petaling Jaya
Occasion: Gathering of friends
Overall comment: Not the place for proper, authentic dim sum. It's more like a youngster's fast-food kinda dim sum place minus the piping hot, steamed dim sum, pushed on a cart. Like it or not, this place has its constant flow of crowd! I'm amazed...
Halal: No
Total bill = RM42.65 (inclusive of Chinese tea for 3 persons & service tax)
It was one of those random weekends where 3 friends just gathered for breakfast. Not knowing where to go, we just headed to a nearby dim sum restaurant that we've never been before. Some place with air-conditioner is always preferred, but after considering the quality of the food that we had, we may not go there another time (it's just a personal preference)...
A Little Dim Sum Place is very easily located as it's smacked right at the heart of the busy SS2 (PJ) area. It's near the police station, beside Maybank, facing the field near the morning market, so I doubt you'll miss it.
We're just very selective young ladies when it comes to food. To us, this is more like a fast-food dim sum place, than the usual dim sum restaurants with carts carrying piping-hot steamed dim sum being pushed around the tables (which we much prefer). Perhaps that's what the owner intended this place to be (since its name is "A LITTLE Dim Sum Place") - a small place where substantial variety of dim sum are served *shrugs* :)
Nevertheless, here's what we had for some light breakfast (mind you, because of the price, we shared everything...hahaha...):
To be honest, it's a rather small bowl of porridge. The consolation is that there were century eggs in the porridge & some minced pork as well. Taste-wise, it's nothing to shout about.
Thank goodness the prawns were fresh. If not, we would cry "foul"! Hahaha...yes, yes, we're picky eaters. I won't want to pay RM1.50 for a dumpling with prawns that aren't fresh! The dumpling's skin was slightly too thick though...
Rip-off. Scallop was over-cooked & in our humble opinion, it isn't worth paying RM2 for a so-called scallop dumpling that doesn't satisfy. Much room for improvement!
This wasn't too bad albeit being too salty for our liking. Somehow, the SS2's Medan Selera offers a much better version of this "Hong Kong Chee Cheong Fun". This (rice noodles) wasn't smooth enough.
We thought this sounded rather interesting, so we ordered it. The name tells it all: Banana-Mango Prawn Fritters - hmm...the taste of bananas over-powered the mangoes. If you enjoy something sweet & salty at the same time, you may want to try this. It's quite costly though...
SS3's Yong Tau Foo stall serves better stuffed eggplant!
Too small a portion & we hardly ate any yam. We felt that the dish had too much 5-spice powder, which somehow ruined the natural taste & fragrance of the yam & pork ribs.
View PerutBesi in a larger map
This post is just based on our personal opinions. Go ahead to give this place a try & who knows, you may actually prefer this place to some other dim sum places around town ;) Do share your experiences with me. I would love to hear from you! :D
Stay tuned with PerutBesi for more updates!
A Little Dim Sum Place
12, Jalan SS2/63
47300 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan.
Tel: (+603) 7873 1876
Presentation: * * 1/2
Price: * * 1/2
Environment: * * *
Taste: * *
Service: * * 1/2


text:
Sydney Insurance Brokers
Sydney Insurance Brokers offer Entertainment Insurance Commercial Insurance Public Liability Insurance Business Insurance Private Health Insurance
+ Recent listings in this category: Insurance
Please contact us for an appraisal of your unique insurance needs and an obligation-free quote. NOT... more details
Insurance solutions for the entertainment, sports and leisure industries from specialist brokers to... more details
Looking for an insurance broker? The ACE IRM Insurance Broking Group advise clients on the best... more details
Frank Health Insurance is your best insurance provider that gets the idea that you don't want to... more details
No matter what kind of Tradie you are, no matter where you are in Australia, Accord have quick,... more details
Expatriate medical and health... more details
NRMA offers range of insurance products online. Compare car insurance products and get a quote... more details
General Insurance Australia provides personalised general insurance service for all businesses... more details
Allianz Australia offers a wide range of insurance and risk management products and services such... more details
If you're in the market for health insurance, come and check out our site. We help you pick the... more details
SEO Service Australia
from SEO Service Australia
Free Property Investment DVD
from PropertyBooks.com.au
+ Popular Website Link Directory CategoriesBusiness Services Accommodation Business Health & Beauty Home Improvements Automotive Real Estate Web Designers Finance & Investment Weddings Other Sports & Recreation Health & Medical Food & Beverage Legal Building & Construction Cleaning Services Photography Computer Services Internet Marketing & Advertising Gifts Education & Training Entertainment Health & Medical - Dentists View More...
+ Recent Listings in the Website Link DirectoryBespoke Baby Pro Pest Control Gold Coast Altitude Aviation Truck Wreckers Melbourne Melbourne Cash for Cars Vic Recyclers Absolute-it Total Wreckers Noble Cash for Cars Doctor Drain North Melbourne Concrete Cleaning Toowoomba Adam Insights ANZ Lotto Cash For Car Scrap Sydney Hobart Cash for Cars


text:
Malloy: Travel ban in state to go into effect at 4 p.m.
HARTFORD — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Friday announced that there will be a ban on motor vehicle travel on limited access highways in the State of Connecticut beginning at 4 p.m.
These prohibitions do not extend to emergency response and recovery vehicles, including public safety vehicles, utility vehicles, and vehicles carrying essential personnel or supplies.
"As the weather gets worse over the next few hours, we need to keep the roads clear, so that emergency-related personnel and utility crews can reach those that may need our help," Governor Malloy said. "By traveling in these conditions, you are not only putting yourself in danger, but you are potentially risking the lives of first responders, utility workers and other residents. Please be safe."
The travel ban will remain in effect until further notice.
The State of Connecticut coordinated the travel ban with Massachusetts and New York.


text:
Is Jim a vegetarian?
You are here: Home ‹ Board index ‹ Welcome ‹ JCOs Playground
Jim Quiz
All games, quizzes, and other fun 'spam' (not advertisements) goes here!
I guess so. hes dating a blonde.
In what movie does Jim say "I believe i've created a monster"
(I just saw this movie recently and I love it )
umm 3 dogs i think... not too sure.
btw the answer to "I believe i've created a monster" is Once Bitten. Its Jims very last line.
Next question: What is the name of Jims father?
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 7 guests


text:
Download Example 1
Lead Channel
Download Example 2
Rhythm Channel, Clean Funky
Download Example 3
Rhythm Channel, Tremolo Effect
Clips recorded with a 1978 Greco EG-700
Watch a video review of the amp on page 2.
Mark Bartel of Tone King Amplification (a member of the Premier Builders Guild) knows well the payoff that comes from putting those elements together right. He designs his amps with a very simple philosophy—distill great guitar tones down to their basic elements, and then design an amplifier around them. His amps have already attracted the ears of Mark Knopfler, and his latest creation—the Tone King Galaxy—will likely impress the famous and anonymous alike with its capacity for big, clear 6L6 tones, low-end girth, and snarling sounds when it's wide open.
To Boldly Go . . .
The turquoise-and-white Galaxy is a showstopper. Stacked on the matching 2x12 cabinet, its Jet Age style looks like a cross between a '57 Chrysler and a mid-century television—it really looks like it should be making a martini while broadcasting John Glenn's Mercury mission and kicking out Ventures tunes. The head is fairly light, weighing in at 36 pounds. Even when hauling the head and the 35-pound cabinet together, I was surprised at how light the whole set is—especially given that the cab houses two 12" Tone King 33 speakers (which are made by Eminence) andan optional Tone King Ironman attenuator. (The latter uses a transformer-coupling design rather than a resistor-based build to attenuate volume. According to Tone King's Bartel, this facilitates the most transparent and clean attenuation possible. Either way, the attenuator enables you to enjoy the Galaxy at home just as easily as at the club or studio.)
Bartel says one of the most critical factors in capturing a great guitar tone is superior speaker cabinet design. He's built hundreds of test cabinets—examining factors such as wood type and grain direction, as well as different coatings and fastening methods—to achieve the proper voicing for the Galaxy. The cabinet can be elevated with four removable wooden legs (not shown), and doing so only accentuates the amp's likeness to old tube televisions. It took some elbow grease to loosen and remove the feet, but that's probably a good sign that there's no immediate danger of stripping the mount. But while it was a relatively straightforward procedure, a slide-out design would be quicker for gigs.
The build quality of the Galaxy was just as impressive as its knockout looks. I was unable to find any finish or construction flaws. The tips of the screws holding on the cabinet's rear baffle were visible inside the cab, but I really had to feel around in there to find them. Every knob turned smoothly but also had a pleasing resistance that's nice for setting precise levels—and keeping them there.
Though it's a 2-channel amp, the Galaxy is simple as could be. The clean Rhythm channel has Volume, Treble, and Bass knobs, and things are just as easy on the Lead channel, which makes do with Volume, Tone, and Mid-Bite knobs. The latter fine-tunes the midrange growl. A traditional long-spring reverb unit and tremolo lend space and texture to the Galaxy's tone. And this thing has tons of tone on tap. With 60 watts of power from a quartet of cathode-biased 6L6 power tubes, the Galaxy obviously takes a page out of the vintage Fender book. Keen-eyed amp aficionados will notice an empty tube socket next to the leftmost 6L6. That socket is coupled with a large switch that lets you toggle between an optional 5AR4 tube rectifier (for a looser feel) or an internal circuit that emulates a 5AR4—in case you're willing to sacrifice some tube authenticity for convenience.
Out-of-This-World Tone
It's tempting to look at the Galaxy's retro looks and assume the tones are purely a retro exercise, too. But while it's rich with tones that typify the late '50s and early '60s—from surf-able cleans to biting blues—it's capable of much, much more. I plugged in a Strat, flipped to the Rhythm channel, and set the attenuator to wide open. With a single Am7 chord, I was treated to some of the cleanest, punchiest, most harmonically rich tone I've ever encountered. Memories of a long-lost vintage Bandmaster filled my head as I laid into the strings with varying degrees of pick attack to explore the Galaxy's impeccable touch sensitivity and satisfying tonal body.


text:
Hiking 'hood? No-plow street now loses parking
The neighborhood already reeling from getting declared a no plow zone in December just got another unhappy surprise when residents learned that they can no longer park at the end of their cul-de-sac. Now, some residents of this south-of-downtown neighborhood say they don't know where they'll park.
"I have a roommate, a 23-year-old nurse who works nights," says resident Maurie Sutton. "She's going to have to walk through a neighborhood that isn't safe."
And safety isn't the only concern at Roy's Place, a recent 18-lot development at the intersection of Rougemont Avenue and Hartmans Mill Road.
"My 88-year-old grandmother is coming," says Sutton. "She can't walk up the hill."
The City, however, contends that unless it enforces the ban, another safety situation looms: insufficient room for emergency vehicles.
"That loop road is just wide enough for fire access," says city planner Brian Haluska, "so any on-street parking restricts fire trucks. The fire marshal will not permit anything to do that."
Resident Michael Lichtenstein says he doesn't recall any mention of such restrictions in the sales documents.
"I'm an attorney," says Lichtenstein. "Something like that would have jumped out at me."
But Haluska says the development's site plan, approved in 2005, always stipulated just eight parking spaces on the straightaway leading into the neighborhood–- no spaces on the loop around which most of the 16 existing residences stand.
"That's the way the plan was approved," says Haluska, "and that's the way it needs to be implemented."
Residents, one of whom is a Hook staffer, were in an uproar in late December when their plowing requests to the City after a nearly two-foot-deep snowfall were rebuffed. City officials claimed that no plowing would occur because the developer had never finished the sidewalks and other infrastructure. The developer denied the allegation; but in February, for the next major snowfall, he brought in his own snow-moving crews.
It turns out the City's copy of the site plan went missing for over a year, and that the City's warnings about the unfinished items were sent to the wrong address.
"It was made to look like my errors," says the developer Bobby Banks, who notes that the correct address was on his original application.
"Yeah, it was a mistake," says City planning director Jim Tolbert. "That doesn't relieve him of his responsibility."
Banks says he'll begin installing no-parking signs around the curve by the end of March. That means that any guests or second cars–- as each residence has a single-vehicle-driveway–- must scramble for one of the eight spaces on the straightaway.
"Not everybody has two cars," points out planning chief Tolbert. "If their realtor didn't tell them that, I'd be perturbed."
Courtney Modecki is feeling plenty perturbed. "If I'd known all this," she says, "I probably wouldn't buy here."
Sutton is even more emphatic. "I would never, ever have bought a lot here if I'd known."
27 comments
all I know is that there is one sexy momma up in Roys Place!
CC, Roy's Place is most certainly a PUD.
It does seem to be.
Go the city assessor's website http://realestate.charlottesville.org/LandRover.asp and type in "102 Roys Place."And for Willoughby, which uniquely spans the city and the county, http://www.realcentralva.com/idx/mls-474568-918_royer_dr_charlottesville... Search for "planned" and "Willoughby."
They ought to make their dissatisfaction with parking allotments clear to the Planning Commission.
Looks to me they could clear up the parking/fire truck issue by having the developer come back and get rid of the green grass covered circle in the center of the road which is creating the driving hazard.
So they should ignore one law but enforce another after the fact? What a gem of rational thought you are. No, the city shouldn't have plowed the streets until it was properly adopted, because they would have been open to more lawsuits.
The city provides fire service to both public and private property in the city, the county and UVA. It has also been know to help out in other surrounding counties.
Fight the power!!!
I believe Willoughby subdivsion is consider a successful PUD.
Can anyone direct me to a successful PUD? the foundational idea of cluster-development is good, the preservation of green, but in practice... the green part has more been dollars in the pocket of the tax-man.
oh, what is the development-community?
New development is not synonymous with PUD. Is there any indication that Roy's Place is a PUD? Willoughby?
There are many more problematic PUDs than successful ones. Since these "oops" moments are continuing to occur, perhaps a moratorium on any new PUDs would be a good idea.
It was a bad idea to sign off on a plan with inadequate parking. It's doubtful that the real estate agents marketing the homes were upfront about the parking situation either. The residents are paying the price.
I really have to wonder why this cul-de-sac is being singled out lately for so much harassment. Is it the city's way of getting back at Bobby Banks perhaps? There's other cul-de-sacs in the city that have the same problems. You couldn't get the smallest fire truck the city has through Locust Lane Court because of the parking situation. You can hardly get a large SUV through. The same is almost true of St Charles Court. Almost all of the residents on both Locust Lane Court and St Charles Court have 2 and 3 cars per residence.
Yeah, this cul-de-sac is being singled out for harassment, IMHO! Nothing new for the public officials in this "All American City".
It looks from the picture posted that there's enough room between houses to add driveway access to their backyards, should be enough room back there to park another car or two? Even if an individual property doesnt have enough room, the city has a five foot side yard set-back, two adjacent homeowners can deed the five feet along the edge of their property to each other as access easments, then each can reach the back of their property via that 10 feet for the purpose of parking.
Deleted by moderator.
look at it this way - there will be plenty of room for the snow plows to navigate around the cul de sac once all your cars are parked two blocks away!
I don't think they can avoid the parking restrictions by keeping the street private. The site plan says no parking on the cul de sac, and so the City could pull their Certificates of Occupancy if the neighborhood refuses to abide by the fire marshal's decision.
Gas Bag, no it isn't being singled out for harassment. The plan was done and approved, based on certain guidelines of the time. I lived in an area where we had a street long adopted by the city, and it became a nice hangout for kids. There really was only room for parking on one side of the street and a single car could barely get through.
Guess what? I had the fire marshall take a look and viola, parking on one side of the street now.
Was our area getting harassed? No.
These people can always keep their street to themselves, and take care of it, and have all their parking.
Yeah, I get really mad at the city, but its refreshing to see them actually stick a developer to the terms, instead of letting them all blather excuses, like the Pavilion did, and alter the plan.
I want to be a hook staffer.
The fire marshal is one bad dude! second to the judge's office above the cops!
Sux to live in Charlottesville
I would also advocate for a street name change. Oh, you live at Roy's Place? No, I live at my place.
The city was wrong not to plow but they are right to enforce the no parking due to fire safety.
QUOTE - ââ?¬Å?Yeah, it was a mistake," says City planning director Jim Tolbert. ââ?¬Å?That doesn't relieve him of his responsibility."
Jim, whose responsibility is the enormous traffic circle your city works installed in the middle of the intersection of 2nd St NE, Park Plaza, and Parkway? Thanks to its location and the silly oversize of it, the intersection is now off-limits to fire engines, city busses, school busses, and moving vans.
And of course someone living in the neighborhood intentionally leaves a car parked at the narrowest point in the circle, so as to create as much hazard as possible for the US Mail, UPS, FEDEX, etc.
Would it surprise anyone if it turned out that both the car and the loudest voice yapping for "traffic calming" belong to the same person? Wouldn't surprise me.
You and the fire chief seem to have no problem allowing parking in that circle, even after you reduced the roadway to narrower than developer Bobbie Banks made his!
Are you going to do anything about that, Jim? Like ban parking around the intersection circle? Or are you afraid to mess with the North Downtown Association?
Gas Bag, Locust Lane is a private street so the residents can do as they (or the HOA) wish with parking. The residents of St. Charles Court are likely in for a shock when the no parking signs go up on their street prior to it being accepted by the city. As I have said before, do the research and know what you are buying.
Rush, I will agree there's a lot of confusion (in my mind at leastg) about whether St Charles Court, Locust Lane and Locust Lane Court have been accepted by the city yet. The only reason they're even on my radar screen is because my daughter wants to buy a house on St Charles Court for some ungodly reason. I allow her to look at what's for sale occasionaly, but there's no way I, my wife, amd my daughter could ever move to and live there. We have 6 vehicles in this family right now. Could be 7 very shortly. I wouldn't inflict that misery upon the residents already living there. The neighbors would probably muder me in my sleep! :)
Respectfully, you seem to know more than I do. Who picks up the trash on all 3 streets each week? Who plows the snow on all 3 streets? And what fire department would respond on all 3 streets? Whether any of them are private streets, do the same traffic hazards in access not exist when and if the city fire trucks need to get in there quickly?
It seems to me like the Fire Marshal's same rules would or should apply to even privately owned streets.
ps - the city collects taxes on all the property located on the above 3 named streets. This is just like Roy's Place, maybe they shouldn't be collecting taxes if they are not going to plow snow, collect trash and provide fire services.
And yes, I know the trash collection is a sub-contractor now. But people still have to purchase the trash stickers from the City of Charlottesville, an additional "taxation" we didn't have 10 years ago.


text:
Today in History
Today is Tuesday, April 9, the 99th day of 2013. There are 266 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On April 9, 1913, the first game was played at Ebbets Field, the newly built home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who lost to the Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0.
On this date:
In 1413, the coronation of England's King Henry V took place in Westminster Abbey.
In 1682, French explorer Robert de La Salle claimed the Mississippi River Basin for France.
In 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
In 1939, singer Marian Anderson performed a concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after being denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
In 1942, during World War II, American and Philippine defenders on Bataan capitulated to Japanese forces; the surrender was followed by the notorious Bataan Death March.
In 1947, a series of tornadoes in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas claimed 181 lives.
In 1959, NASA presented its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, 91, died in Phoenix, Ariz.
In 1963, British statesman Winston Churchill was proclaimed an honorary U.S. citizen by President John F. Kennedy. (Churchill, unable to attend, watched the proceedings live on television in his London home.)
In 1983, the space shuttle Challenger ended its first mission with a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
In 1993, the Rev. Benjamin Chavis was chosen to head the NAACP, succeeding Benjamin Hooks.
In 1996, in a dramatic shift of purse-string power, President Bill Clinton signed a line-item veto bill into law. (However, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the veto in 1998.)
In 2005, Britain's Prince Charles married longtime love Camilla Parker Bowles, who took the title Duchess of Cornwall.
Ten years ago: Jubilant Iraqis celebrated the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, beheading a toppled statue of their longtime ruler in downtown Baghdad and embracing American troops as liberators. In Afghanistan, a U.S. warplane called in to support allied Afghans under fire mistakenly bombed a house, killing 11 civilians.
Five years ago: America's war commander in Iraq faced Congress for a second day; Army Gen. David Petraeus told lawmakers he was unlikely to endorse any fresh buildup of troops even if security in the country were to deteriorate. The Olympic torch was rerouted away from thousands of demonstrators and spectators who had crowded San Francisco's waterfront to witness the flame's symbolic journey to the Beijing Games during its only North American stop.
One year ago: A Florida special prosecutor said a grand jury would not look into the Trayvon Martin case, leaving the decision of whether to charge the teen's shooter in her hands alone. (Prosecutor Angela Corey ended up filing second-degree murder charges against George Zimmerman, who pleaded not guilty, claiming self-defense.) Olympic gold medal diver Mark Lenzi died in Greenville, N.C., at age 43.
Today's Birthdays: Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner is 87. Satirical songwriter and mathematician Tom Lehrer is 85. Naturalist Jim Fowler is 81. Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo is 80. Actress Michael Learned is 74. Country singer Margo Smith is 71. Country singer Hal Ketchum is 60. Actor Dennis Quaid is 59. Humorist Jimmy Tingle is 58. Country musician Dave Innis (Restless Heart) is 54. Actress-sports reporter Lisa Guerrero is 49. Actor Mark Pellegrino is 48. Actress-model Paulina Porizkova is 48. Actress Cynthia Nixon is 47. Rock singer Kevin Martin (Candlebox) is 44. Rock singer Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance) is 36. Actress Keshia Knight Pulliam is 34. Rock musician Albert Hammond Jr. (The Strokes) is 33. Actor Charlie Hunnam is 33. Actor Ryan Northcott is 33. Actor Arlen Escarpeta is 32. Actor Jay Baruchel is 31. Actress Leighton Meester is 27. Actor-singer Jesse McCartney is 26. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jazmine Sullivan is 26. Actress Kristen Stewart is 23. Actress Elle Fanning is 15. Classical crossover singer Jackie Evancho (ee-VAYN'-koh) is 13.
Thought for Today: "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959).
(Above Advance for Use Tuesday, April 9)
Copyright 2013, The Associated Press. All rights reserved.


text:
Content and Image Optimization
Are you looking for Cheap SEO Packages? We have carved out the best & cheapest SEO Packages as per your needs. Click here to see them.
Or, If you want a customised SEO Package, you can get a free quote plus a Free SEO analysis Report of your website by Clicking here.
If you any any Queries about our SEO packages or services, Feel free to Contact Us.


text:
Abaltat Muse™ Video-Driven Soundtrack Composer Version 1.1 Now Available
By TVTechnology
New Version of Abaltat Muse Packed With New Feature; Comes Bundled With Seven Abaltat Bands
SPIDDAL, COUNTY GALWAY, Ireland -- Dec. 3, 2007 -- Abaltat, a provider of radical music software solutions, today announced the release of Version 1.1 of its innovative Abaltat Muse™ video-driven soundtrack composer. Abaltat Muse is a professional software application for video editors that creates original, royalty-free, broadcast-quality soundtracks in minutes. A free 14-day full trial version of Abaltat Muse (3.11GB) is now available for download or shipping.
"This latest version of Abaltat Muse features complementary and seamless integration with Apple®, Avid®, Adobe® and Media 100® edit applications," said Siun Ni Raghallaigh, managing director at Abaltat. "We've also built in full MIDI export functionality to import directly into applications such as Digidesign® Pro Tools® and Apple's Logic®."
Abaltat Muse is easy to use. Simply drop a QuickTime® file of your edited picture sequence into the application and the software will compose a soundtrack based on an analysis of your pictures along with your selected parameters, such as tempo and style. Abaltat Band is what defines the style of music, and included free in Version 1.1 of Abaltat Muse is a rich array of Abaltat's plug-in virtual Bands, seven in total, giving the user access to a diverse range of musical genres, from classical to dub reggae.
Abaltat Muse composes the music and plays it out using a sample player and virtual instruments. The software incorporates technology from experts in the audio industry, namely Native Instruments™ and Garritan Libraries™. As a result, the audio and instrument quality is extremely high. The audio can be exported as AIFF or WAV files. The composition can be exported as a MIDI file, should the editor require a composer to do additional work on his or her composition.
Abaltat will showcase Abaltat Muse at the upcoming Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco January 14-18, at its booth S-1338.
More information about Abaltat Muse and other Abaltat products is available online at www.abaltat.com.
# # #
About Abaltat
Abaltat was founded in 2003 in Galway, Ireland, with a daring vision: to create radical 21st-century computer applications. Using a combination of highly experienced television editors, first-rate musicianship, and the most imaginative programmers in Ireland, the company has created a unique software product for video and film editors: the world's first video-driven soundtrack composer. More information is available at www.abaltat.com.
All trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
Future US's leading brands bring the most important, up-to-date information right to your inbox
Thank you for signing up to TV Technology. You will receive a verification email shortly.
There was a problem. Please refresh the page and try again.