tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76699892941855667582024-03-13T10:34:13.619-07:00Sanny Blogs- My rumblings about everything under the sun :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938978736265109094noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669989294185566758.post-65608261563416072862016-12-21T05:53:00.001-08:002016-12-21T05:53:59.126-08:00Syria and ISIS for Dummies - Learn How Qatar, Turkey and USA armed opposition in Syria<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Proposed Qatar-Turkey Pipeline that would go through Syria and into fertile European Markets.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">#1 </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Syrian President Bashar Al Assad refuses to sign an agreement for a proposed Qatar-Turkey gas pipeline via Syria which would offer Saudi Arabia trillions of $ from the EU market. To protect Iranian and Russian interests in EU, Assad refuses to sign the Qatar deal. Turkey is the biggest consumer of Russian Gas via Gazprom and the Qatar pipeline would cripple the Russian and Iranian economy. So, Assad refuses to sign the deal and stands by his allies Iran and Russia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"># 2</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Jordan and USA with the help of NATO create an armed opposition to rebel against Syrian President Bashar Al Assad because he didn't sign the agreement. So, he needs to go! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the media, this was portrayed as a democratic revolution with the Free Syrian Army (FSA).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani head of Qatar (Left) and Bashar Al-Assad Syria President of Syria (Right)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"># 3</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Syria with the help of Hezbollah and Iran counter these rebels.. CIA finds that the "democratic revolution" is not going the way it is planned even after the Chemical Weapons propaganda in mass media. CIA contracts Al Qaeda, al-Nusra and other vendors to begin training new mercenaries and gives them access to weapons and money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"># 4</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A new armed opposition rises in the middle east - They call themselves the ISIS (Islamic State). Of course, it is only logical that they have state of the art weapon systems such as the American-made Humvees, missile launchers, rocket launchers, modern M16A rifles.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">- http://i.imgur.com/mRrJ0aY.jpg</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">- http://goo.gl/MgxXR0</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">- http://goo.gl/G9FPcX</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">- http://goo.gl/yMxpe8</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"># 5 </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Obama and NATO declare ISIS the biggest threat to the world and must mobilise forces to wipe them off the planet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"># 6 </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Russia, who is the major supplier for gas in Turkey and other European countries is now very annoyed at American foreign policy and American intervention. (Baltics and Ukraine are recent examples of American intervention)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But of course, Putin also agrees that ISIS is a terrorist organisation and must be wiped out. Russia launches attacks against the ISIS. Iran and China join in. Russia and allies are laughing at NATO's stupidity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"># 7</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">USA's defence secretary Ashton Carter publicly states that Russia will pay for airstrikes against ISIS in Syria. Hahaha - http://goo.gl/hNChky</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(But isn't Russia helping the world by wiping out ISIS?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"># 8</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Terrorist" attacks begin to take place in Europe - in Ankara (Turkey), Beirut (Lebanon). ISIS claims responsibility.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"># 9</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Paris bomb blast! Of course, ISIS claims responsibility again. NATO is gathering public support to mobilise forces to enter Syria and wipe out ISIS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why is the USA so interested in Syria? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Natural Gas is the next "oil" of the world. Control and supply of this resource is crucial for the USA to maintain control of the Dollar as the leading trade currency. USA requires the Qatar-Turkey pipeline to be operational as quickly as possible. Liquefied Natural Gas exports is the next big trade for the USA and EU is a massive market which they don't want to lose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of course, this also requires strong geopolitical control which has resulted in war crimes by the USA in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon and the recent Ukraine incident. The idea is to remove existing democratic or non-democratic governing bodies that are opposed to USA's requirements and install a puppet government who would accept all conditions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Does USA think the world is stupid? Everyone can see what they are doing. All it takes is some reading on the internet. The people who formulate such bloody policies and help corporations must be tried in the International Court for war crimes. It is high time that the idiots in that government realise that their foreign policy does not fit in the framework of modern society.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938978736265109094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669989294185566758.post-74928227063423838302015-11-13T00:50:00.001-08:002015-11-13T00:50:50.850-08:00ProgList - Episode 4 (October 2015)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L2YhJ_U_lfM" width="480"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938978736265109094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669989294185566758.post-74261427968955622712015-11-12T07:56:00.001-08:002015-11-12T07:56:39.783-08:00Isko Laga Dala Toh Life Jingalala<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And it so happens that I sit down to watch Cricket with my room-mates on the TV and after every Over, we are constantly told about the different online shopping options aaaand the different online selling options. Just buy bro... Just buy and just bhej bro.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We're told about Water Purifiers that can make the purest water with all the minerals we have been missing since childhood.. The super awesome </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"no-gas" deodorants that turn women just craaazy, the brand new smartphone taking things to the next level and the macho man in love with his new underwear. Of course, I wouldn't miss out on telling you that a hot woman always accompanies him when he is looking at himself in the mirror modelling his latest purchase of Rupa Frontline - "mera warrior sirf Rupa Frontline pehenta hai." ..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We're also told about how we should be in awe of the best chocolate on the planet - by showing us visuals of women and men greasing their mouths with chocolate. And we are also told how we should worship and shower women with Diamond necklaces and earrings to continue gaining their love. But of course, a pressure cooker will do too. After all, jo biwi se kare pyaar, toh Prestige se kaise kare inkaar?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Children are being dropped to school or being picked up from school in that</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> new car that conjures flowers out of thin air as it breezes by.. And don't forget that new bike that can instantly grant us the best driving skills.. Wait.. maybe it's the new Castrol engine oil or those super grip MRF tires.. I don't know..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Also, don't forget to drink Mountain Dew before you start doing anything adventurous. Remember you are carrying a cooler with 10 rupees Mountain Dew bottles.. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.. <strike>Chutiyap</strike> Dar ke aage jeeth hai. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After you have done something adventurous, drink mountain dew again. But Sprite says fuck all this.. Sprite only cares about how thirsty you are and it only bhujaye pyaas.. something that water can't even dream to accomplish.. But on the other hand, Katrina Kaif is not impressed. She prefers mangoes. She knows mangoes can not just bhujaye pyaas, it can also lagae aag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And please.. Don't forget Dish TV.. Everybody from Amitabh Bacchan to Amir Khan swear by it.. Isko laga dala toh life jingalala.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">... Please can you bring Cricket back on?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Kya apke toothpaste mein namak hai?"</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938978736265109094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669989294185566758.post-88606280362514103852014-09-09T07:28:00.003-07:002014-09-09T07:28:32.338-07:00GOG 6th Year Birthday celebrations continue - 80% off on Video Game Classics from Year Two<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In continuation of updates starting yesterday, GOG has a new list of Games on which they're offering up to an 80% off.<br />
<br />Featured on this list include gamer favourites Master of Orion (series), Might and Magic, Arcanum, Myst, Blood Rayne and Serious Sam, just to name a few. All games that you purchase on GOG are DRM-free.<br />
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<a href="http://www.gog.com/promo/6th_birthday_promo_year_two_090914?pp=5e540d008531ea36696020361b9ea6561f1f5307" target="_blank"><b>Check out their SECOND promo HERE (Offers expire in 24 hours everyday)</b></a></h3>
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I don't want to sound evil ha ha, but if you want to see what you missed yesterday, check this,<br />
<a href="http://www.gog.com/promo/6th_birthday_promo_year_one_080914?pp=5e540d008531ea36696020361b9ea6561f1f5307" target="_blank"><b>Check out their first promo HERE (Offers expire in 24 hours everyday)</b></a></div>
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Good Old Games (GOG.com) has turned 6 years old and they're celebrating their birthday by offering up to 80% discounts on classic, indie and other games in their catalog. Happy Birthday GOG!<br />
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Since they started in the year 2008, the discounts begin with the games they added to their catalog in that year.<br />
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GOG has been moving ahead strongly with their DRM-free philosophy and all games purchased from their catalog are DRM FREE!<br />
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<a href="http://www.gog.com/promo/6th_birthday_promo_year_one_080914?pp=5e540d008531ea36696020361b9ea6561f1f5307" target="_blank"><b>Check out their first promo HERE (Offers expire in 24 hours everyday)</b></a></h3>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938978736265109094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669989294185566758.post-89731560280364051802014-06-05T21:12:00.000-07:002014-06-05T21:12:03.714-07:00AMD Aims to Revolutionise Commercial PCs with New AMD PRO A-Series Line of APUs - Press Release<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<td align="center"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Compute Cores* (CPU + GPU)</span></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11.2</span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.2</span></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10 (4 CPU + 6 GPU)</span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 3.2 GHz/1.9 GHz</span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4 MB</span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">553 MHz</span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11.2</span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.2</span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DDR3-1600</span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1x8 Gen2</span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">19 W</span></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A6 PRO-7050B w/ Radeon™ R4 Graphics</span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 (2 CPU + 3 GPU)</span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.0 GHz/2.2 GHz</span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 MB</span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">553 MHz</span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11.2</span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.2</span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DDR3-1600</span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1x8 Gen2</span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">17 W</span></span></td>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938978736265109094noreply@blogger.com0Hyderabad, Telangana, India17.385044 78.48667116.9002155 77.841224 17.8698725 79.132118tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669989294185566758.post-80896033437830113672014-05-30T11:04:00.001-07:002014-05-30T11:04:21.342-07:00Plini - Tarred and Feathered<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/FCSxuZJL3Ww" width="480"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938978736265109094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669989294185566758.post-15518358190299990662014-04-07T15:32:00.001-07:002014-04-07T15:32:32.376-07:00AMD Radeon R9 295x2 - Unboxing, Benchmark, Specifications<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/FGTVGZ7NyaI" width="480"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938978736265109094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669989294185566758.post-71045554606693733912014-03-25T07:10:00.000-07:002014-03-25T07:10:11.016-07:00How to reduce Gaming Mouse Sensitivity in Linux - Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Arch Linux or others<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've been using a Razer DeathAdder for a long time now. I just recently installed Elementary OS on my new Laptop and I got my DeathAdder working fine. However, the sensitivity is so much, that you have to acquaint and adapt to use it to perfection.<br />
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After some searching on Google, I found that there are a lot of very simple solutions to fix this problem. The following simple commands can be used to reduce parameters of ANY MOUSE!<br />
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<b>If you are running Ubuntu 10.04 - 14.04 OR Fedora 12-20</b><br />
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<b>Step 1:</b> Open a Terminal<br />
<b>Step 2:</b> Run this command to find how Linux recognizes our mouse<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">xinput --list --short </span></b><br />
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It will output something like this,<br />
<script src="https://gist.github.com/sansubr/9762340.js"></script>
Now we know what name Linux uses to refer to our mouse. In my case it is a "Razer Razer DeathAdder."<br />
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<b>Step 3:</b> Set the constant deceleration for the Mouse. Run the command to do so,<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">xinput --set-prop "Razer Razer DeathAdder" "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 5</span></b><br />
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This command reduced my mouse sensitivity considerably. You can play around with the value to get the setting you're comfortable with.<br />
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<b>Step 4: </b>To make this setting remain, we need to add this to Gnome's list of startup applications.<br />
Use the following script, save it with <anyfilename>.sh<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> #!/bin/sh</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">xinput --set-prop "Razer Razer DeathAdder" "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 5 </span></b><br />
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Run chmod + x on the file above to give it permissions to execute. <br />
Now, go to your System Settings -> Startup Applications and add this to your startup applications.<br />
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<b>If you are on Arch Linux or other derivatives of Arch</b><br />
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Arch Linux has a wonderful Wiki page that tells you how to do it using <b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">razercfg</span></b> if you own a Razer mouse.<br />
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<a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/razer" target="_blank">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/razer</a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938978736265109094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669989294185566758.post-30238070623265411832014-03-18T03:38:00.000-07:002014-03-18T03:38:16.705-07:00Read how Soft Drinks (Coke and Alternatives) destroy Human Body - Esophageal cancer, Bone Softening, Tooth Decay and more<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Coca-Cola or "Coke" is the most valuable brand today. The beverage is a poison to the Human System and the Evolution of Mankind itself. The level of acid in Coke is equivalent to the level of acid in a Battery - In tests, it shows that it can clean surfaces equivalent to or in most cases, better than a toxic household cleaner including Colins, bathroom bowl cleaners like Harpic and so on.<br />
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It's getting cheaper and easier to buy Coke in India and many other countries than it is to get access clean water. Coke uses “public relations propaganda” to convince consumers and entire nations that it is an “environmental company” when really it is linked to pollution, water shortages, and disease.<br />
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People who consume soft drinks such as Coke have a 48% increase in heart attack and stroke risk, compared to people who did not drink the sodas at all or did not drink them every day. A study published in the journal <i>Respirology </i>reveals that soft drink consumption is also associated with lung and breathing disorders including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).<br />
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<b>The carbonation in Coke causes calcium loss in the bones through a 3-stage process: </b><br />
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<li>The carbonation irritates the stomach. </li>
<li>The stomach “cures” the irritation the only way it knows how. It adds the only antacid at its disposal: calcium. It gets this from the blood. </li>
<li>The blood, now low on calcium, replenishes its supply from the bones. If it did not do this, muscular and brain function would be severely impaired.</li>
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But, the story doesn't end there. Another problem with most Coke is it also contain phosphoric acid (not the same as the carbonation, which is carbon dioxide mixed with the water). Phosphoric acid also causes a draw-down on the body's store of calcium.</div>
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<b>So Coke softens your bones (actually, makes them weak and brittle) in 3 ways: </b></div>
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<li>Carbonation reduces the calcium in the bones. </li>
<li>Phosphoric acid reduces the calcium in the bones. </li>
<li>The beverage replaces a calcium-containing alternative, such as milk or water. Milk and water are not excellent calcium sources, but they are sources.</li>
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<b>Esophageal cancer was very rare two generations ago — now, it's common. The basic mechanism works as follows:</b></div>
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<li>Mechanical damage to cells is a huge risk factor for cancer. It's why asbestos particles, for example, cause lung cancer. </li>
<li>All soft drinks cause acid reflux (stomach acid rising up past the esophageal valve). This is more pronounced when the body is horizontal (as in sleeping), but the sheer volume of Coke and soft drinks consumed in the USA means the acid reflux is well past the danger point. Any time you ingest a gassy drink, you are going to get belching–and acid into the esophagus. How much is too much? The research doesn’t say where the limit is–it only shows that most of us are far, far, far past it. </li>
<li>Stomach acid dissolves tissue — that's its purpose. The stomach lining does not extend into the esophagus, so the lower esophagus gets damaged by acid far more frequently in soft drink users than in non soft drink users. This results in a radical increase in cell mutations, along with a far higher level of free radicals.</li>
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Coke acts as an acidic cleaner. <b>The amount of acid in soda is enough to wear away at the enamel of your teeth</b>, making them more susceptible to decay. In tests done on the acidity levels of soda, certain ones were found to have PH levels as low as 2.5. To put that into perspective, consider that battery acid has a pH of 1 and pure water has a pH of 7.</div>
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<b>NOW - TO PROVE THAT COKE DOES NOT BELONG IN THE HUMAN BODY, THESE PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS WILL OFFER YOU PROOF!</b></div>
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<li>Removes grease stains from clothing and fabric </li>
<li>Removes rust; methods include using fabric dipped in Coke, a sponge or even aluminum foil. Also loosens rusty bolts </li>
<li>Removes blood stains from clothing and fabric. </li>
<li>Cleans oil stains from a garage floor; let the stain soak, hose off. Kills slugs and snails; the acids kills them. </li>
<li>Cleans burnt pans; let the pan soak in the Coke, then rinse. </li>
<li>Descales a kettle (same method as with burnt pans) </li>
<li>Cleans car battery terminals by pouring a small amount of Coke over each one. Cleans your engine; Coke distributors have been using this technique for decades. </li>
<li>Makes pennies shine; soaking old pennies in Coke will remove the tarnish. </li>
<li>Cleans tile grout; pour onto kitchen floor, leave for a few minutes, wipe up. </li>
<li>Dissolves a tooth; Use a sealed container…takes a while but it does work. </li>
<li>Removes gum from hair; dip into a small bowl of Coke, leave a few minutes. Gum will wipe off. </li>
<li>Removes stains from vitreous china. </li>
<li>Got a dirty pool? Adding two 2-liter bottles of Coke clears up rust. </li>
<li>You can remove (or fade) dye from hair by pouring diet Coke over it. </li>
<li>Remove marker stains from carpet. </li>
<li>Applying Coke, scrubbing and then clean with soapy water will remove marker stains. </li>
<li>Cleans a toilet; pour around bowl, leave for a while, flush clean. </li>
<li>Coke and aluminum foil will bring Chrome to a high shine. Strips paint off metal furniture. </li>
<li>Soak a towel in Coke and lay it on the paint surface.</li>
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<b>Now can you imagine what it does to your stomach lining? </b></div>
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Who needs the ‘household and cleaning’ section at the hardware store when we have Coke. Have you ever wondered what exactly Coca Cola is?</div>
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<b>After 10 minutes:</b> The sugar contained in a glass of Cola can cause a devastating “strike” on the body. The cause being the phosphoric acid which inhibits the action of sugar. </div>
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<b>After 20 minutes:</b> A leap in insulin levels in bloodstream occurs.</div>
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<b>After 40 minutes:</b> Ingestion of caffeine is finally completed. The eye's pupils are expanding. Blood pressure rises because the liver disposes more sugar into the bloodstream. The adenosine receptors become blocked thereby preventing drowsiness. </div>
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<b>After 45 minutes:</b> The body raises production of the dopamine hormone, which stimulates the brain pleasure center. Similar to the reaction Heroin creates. </div>
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<b>After 1 hour:</b> Phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in the gastrointestinal tract, which supercharges metabolism. The release of calcium through urine takes place. </div>
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<b>After more than 1 hour:</b> Diuretic effects of the drink enters in “the game”. The calcium, magnesium and zinc are removed out of the body, which are a part of our bones, as well as sodium. At this time we can become irritable or subdued. The whole quantity of water, contained in a coca cola, is removed through urination.</div>
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When having a cold bottle of Coke and enjoying its undeniable freshness are we aware of what chemical “cocktail” we are putting into our bodies? The active ingredient in Coca-Cola is orthophosphoric acid. Due to its high acidity, cisterns used for transporting the chemical have to be equipped with special reservoirs designed for highly corrosive materials.</div>
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<b>Let's have a look</b> at “the anatomy” of one of the most advertised products of “Coca-Cola Co.” – Coca-Cola Light without caffeine. This drink contains Aqua Carbonated, E150D, E952, E951, E338, E330, Aromas, E211.</div>
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<b>Aqua Carbonated</b> – this is sparkling water. It stirs gastric secretion, increases the acidity of the gastric juice and provokes flatulency. Filtered tap water is what is primarily used. </div>
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<b>E150D </b>– this is food coloring obtained through the processing of sugar at specified temperatures, with or without addition of chemical reagents. In the case of coca-cola, ammonium sulfate is added. </div>
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<b>E952</b>– Sodium Cyclamate is a sugar substitute. Cyclamate is a synthetic chemical, has a sweet taste, which is 200 times sweeter than sugar, and is used as an artificial sweetener. In 1969 it was banned by FDA, since it, as well as saccharin and aspartame, caused cancer in rats.</div>
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<b>E950</b>– Acesulfame Potassium. 200 times sweeter than sugar, containing methyl-ether. It aggravates the operation of the cardiovascular system. Likewise, it contains asparaginic acid which can also cause an excitant effect on our nervous system and in time it can lead to addiction. Acesulfame is badly dissolved and is not recommended for use by children and pregnant women. </div>
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<b>E951</b>– Aspartame. A sugar substitute for diabetics and is chemically unstable at elevated temperatures it breaks down into methanol and phenylalanine. Methanol is very dangerous as only 5-10ml can cause destruction of the optic nerve and irreversible blindness. In warm soft drinks, aspartame transforms into formaldehyde which is a very strong carcinogen. Symptoms of aspartame poisoning include: unconsciousness, headaches, fatigue, dizziness, nausea, palpitation, weight gain, irritability, anxiety, memory loss, blurry vision, fainting, joint pains, depression, infertility, hearing loss and more. Aspartame can also provoke the following diseases: brain tumors, MS (Multiple Sclerosis), epilepsy, Graves’ disease, chronic fatigue, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, mental deficiency and tuberculosis. Later, this substance was initially illegal due to its dangers but was again made legal in a suspicious manner.</div>
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<b>E338</b>– Orthophosphoric Acid. This can cause irritation of the skin and eyes. It is used for production of phosphoric acid salts of ammonia, sodium, calcium, aluminum and also in organic synthesis for the production of charcoal and film tapes. It is also used in the production of refractory materials, ceramics, glass, fertilizers, synthetic detergents, medicine, metalworking, as well as in the textile and oil industries. It is known that orthophosphoric acid interferes with the absorption of calcium and iron into the body which can cause weakening of bones and osteoporosis. Other side effects are thirst and skin rashes. </div>
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<b>E330</b>– Citric Acid. It is widely used in pharmaceutical and food industries. Salts of citric acid (citrates) are used in the food industry as acids, preservatives, stabilizers, and in the medical fields – for preserving blood.</div>
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<b>Aromas</b>– unknown aromatic additives </div>
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<b>E211</b>– Sodium Benzoate. It is used in production of some food products for anti-bacterial and anti-fungal purposes. It is often found in jams, fruit juices and fruit yogurts. It's not recommended for use by asthmatics and people who are sensitive to aspirin. A study conducted by Peter Piper at the Sheffield University in Britain, found that this compound causes significant damage to DNA. According to Peter, sodium benzoate which is an active component in preservatives, doesn't destroy DNA, but deactivates it. This can lead to cirrhosis and degenerative diseases like Parkinson's disease.</div>
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Soft-Drinks from both Coca-Cola and all its competitors are undeniably useful to clean the household. Definitely not to drink. What people are not aware is that they are being killed slowly.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938978736265109094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669989294185566758.post-71868342914024883822014-01-21T11:16:00.000-08:002014-01-21T11:16:50.738-08:00Say Hello to The Repopulation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjp7yIC6h6z8-aH4aFYNhAYvH6wQi60ZUDh2YXslcRjUSdhL3dNEYEc7QDxkka3COtkwvQUqiZGu8S3rO-ulISyMm3Pz4sH_s3nf2uXTi6l6A6VgLoaFw8Lrdtxw7Loh9hTv0hWdoVag/s1600/the-repopulation-feature-indie-spring-e1388688996294.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjp7yIC6h6z8-aH4aFYNhAYvH6wQi60ZUDh2YXslcRjUSdhL3dNEYEc7QDxkka3COtkwvQUqiZGu8S3rO-ulISyMm3Pz4sH_s3nf2uXTi6l6A6VgLoaFw8Lrdtxw7Loh9hTv0hWdoVag/s1600/the-repopulation-feature-indie-spring-e1388688996294.jpg" height="276" width="640" /></a>Hailed as one of the most anticipated sci-fi MMORPG of 2014, The Repopulation is a sandbox MMORPG with features seen in games like Star Wars Galaxies and Ultima Online. The game won the 2013 PAX Prime Rising Star Award from MMORPG.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hailed as one of the most anticipated sci-fi MMORPG of 2014, The Repopulation is a sandbox MMORPG with features seen in games like Star Wars Galaxies and Ultima Online. The game won the 2013 PAX Prime Rising Star Award from MMORPG.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">What stood out for me, personally, is the way you could play the game. You can either choose to play it like an RPG or a Third-Person Shooter, to either advance character with fighting or adopt peaceful means. So, technically, I’d have all the freedom to harvest, craft and trade without being forced into combat. You could either choose to participate in PVP or ignore it completely.</span><br />
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<li style="border: 0px none; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Featuring both a Standard and a Hardcore rule set for PvP on separate servers. Standard rules include large protected regions where players can avoid PvP completely if they wish, and no player looting is allowed.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px none; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Build cities in the open world or besiege the cities of your enemies.</span></li>
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Engagements</span></h4>
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<li style="border: 0px none; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">How players respond to an engagement will affect how it progresses or spreads.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px none; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Engagements are intended to get players working together from the early stages of the game or encourage exploration.</span></li>
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<li style="border: 0px none; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Many engagements have long-term and far reaching effects.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px none; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Settlements can turn into dungeons and towns can be overrun. Allowing this to happen can seriously alter the content available in an area.</span></li>
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Missions</span></h4>
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<li style="border: 0px none; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Generated missions are mailed to your character as job offers and are accessible from anywhere in the game using your in-game PDA system.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px none; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">NPCs can speak about things that have happened to them. You can inquire of them to ask questions about many things, revealing hidden bits of knowledge or even special missions.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px none; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Your actions will be remembered by NPCs, and they may attempt to exploit your tendencies.</span></li>
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Skills</span></h4>
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<li style="border: 0px none; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Players are not forced into combat roles. Crafting, harvesting, diplomatic, trapping, taming, entertainment, and other non-combat oriented skills can operate and progress independently of combat.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px none; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Skills increase automatically through use. Abilities are earned and not given automatically.</span></li>
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The second Kickstarter campaign was lauched because the first campaign didn’t reach the stretch goal (over-funding limit) set by the developers for this feature to be added.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A group of Japanese scientists have concluded that the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="border: 0px none; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Universe is a Giant Hologram</i>. They have also presented evidence to suggest that the Universe is nothing but a projection and a big hologram.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">They’ve managed to come to this conclusion after analyzing the hypothesis of the theoretical physicist <b style="font-weight: 700;">Juan Maldacena.<br />Juan</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was credited for finding the connection between the string theory and the gauge theory. According to the model published by Juan Maldacena, gravity in the universe arises because of the finest vibrating strings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">At the University of Ibraki, the team headed by <b style="font-weight: 700;">Yoshifumi Hyakutake</b>, calculated the the internal energy of the black hole, the position of its event horizon, which is a space-time boundary that separates it from the rest of the universe, and entropy. Corresponding calculations of the energy were made for open space. As a result, the calculations coincided. They’ve also published in their articles that Juan Maldacena’s assumptions are true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The official Environmental Protection Agency (EPA-USA) range for the Performance Model S equipped with a 85kWh Lithium-Ion battery pack is a whopping 426km making Tesla Motors’ Model S the electric car with the the greatest range available in the market. (Also topping the Tesla Roadster).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Model S has sold over 18,200 units globally that includes over a 1,000 cars sold in Europe, and over 4,900 cars sold in North America alone, ahead of the Chevrolet Volt (4,421) and the Nissan Leaf (3,695). The Model S was also the top selling car in Norway with a market share of 5.1% of all new cars sold in the country in September 2013, becoming the first electric car to top sales rankings in any country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Now on Steam<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=205091899" style="border: 0px none; color: #24890d; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Greenlight</a>, Chronology is set in a post-apocalyptic world and lets you play as The Inventor who knows how to travel back and forth in time. Using this to your advantage, you’ll need to undo the destruction of the world by traveling back and forth in time accompanied by your time-stopping friendly Snail and prevent the destruction from happening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Although this game reminds me of Braid, Chronology allows us to carry items back and forth in time to solve puzzles. You can also plant a seed in the past, come to the future and use the full grown tree to your advantage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The game’s artwork and aesthetic looks are fantastic. The Inventor is being voiced by Brett Dunnelly and The Snail is being voiced by Nicki Rapp (The Walking Dead, Psychonauts, Broken Age). The music is also being composed in-house. The soundtracks are now available for preview and can be pre-ordered via<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://chronology.bandcamp.com/" style="border: 0px none; color: #24890d; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for $7.</span></div>
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Built by DDRKirby and xellaya and as one of the entries for the Ludum Dare 28, Match Girl seems to be raking up some likes. The game puts you in the shoes of a little girl trying to make her way through a dark maze. Although there are torches that offer some light, you’ll need to use your matches to see things around you.<br />
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In each room of the maze, you can fire up a match to illuminate the entire place, but Hurry! You only get a handful of seconds to memorize the entire place. Also, to stay in sync with the theme of Ludum Dare 28, you only get to use one matchstick in every room. There are false platforms and moving blocks, rooms occupied by monsters that you’ll need to avoid. Split between two difficulty modes, there are 50 stages available to play.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The P&P Waste Paper Processor is one of it’s kind. A sexy looking gadget with one simple objective – Convert your waste paper into usable pencils.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This waste paper processor takes any paper of prescribed size and produces pencils on the other side. All it needs to work is your regular power source, pencil lead and glue. You just have to refill it with lead/ graphite powder and glue when it’s running out. Also included is a slot for sharpening pencils when you need it! There are also two modes of operation – Auto and Manual.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This waste paper processor is so revolutionary that it also went on to win the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.liteonaward.com/en/" style="border: 0px none; color: #24890d; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Liteon Award</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Say hello to the Jolla Phone – A smartphone that runs on the all new Sailfish OS. The phone’s making has one thing right in the core – The Smartphone Community. The 90 man team that developed Jolla has offices in Helsinki and Tampere, Finland and Hong Kong, the SAR of China.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938978736265109094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669989294185566758.post-59757093513425784692014-01-21T07:17:00.003-08:002014-01-21T07:17:52.469-08:00iOS RPG Lili Coming to PC, Support on Steam Greenlight<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">BitMonster Games’ roaming RPG Lili is all set to come to the PC – if we can give it a nudge<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=205833552" style="border: 0px none; color: #24890d; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Steam Greenlight</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The iOS version of the free-roaming RPG received critical acclaim from many popular media outlet reviewers and critics – VentureBeat, Touch Arcade, Wired, Kotaku and many more. BitMonster games is bringing the game with enhanced graphics to the PC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“On the mysterious island of Geos, Lili will meet a number of hilarious locals, explore beautiful environments, solve some puzzles, and even challenge an oppressive regime or two along her way. Lili uses an amusing “non-combat” system for dealing with enemies, and sorts out a few personal issues along the way” – BitMonster Games.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938978736265109094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669989294185566758.post-3997664423822734972013-05-20T16:05:00.002-07:002013-05-21T03:50:57.135-07:00Install Steam for Linux on openSUSE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Valve has done a brilliant job by porting their Steam client to Linux. This has not only fostered more Linux gaming communities, but has also opened another option of developers working on developing games for the Linux platform.<br />
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There are many resources on the internet for how to get Steam on popular distributions like Ubuntu and Linux Mint. This post focuses purely on how to get <b>Steam for Linux </b>on <b>openSUSE</b>.<br />
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openSUSE has it's very own installer for Steam on the public games repository thanks to all the hard work from the openSUSE community.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><i>+Open Build Service</i></a> has the package available and you could use the famous <i>1-click install</i> process to get Steam for Linux. <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/package/steam" target="_blank">Click here to go there</a>.<br />
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Have fun and enjoy the amazing gaming experience on your openSUSE installation :) </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938978736265109094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669989294185566758.post-10902054831837725792013-05-20T14:37:00.000-07:002013-05-20T14:37:38.536-07:00AMD's hUMA and how it can change Parallel Computing forever<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Background </strong>—<strong> High Performance Attached Processors, Handicapped By Architecture</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The application of high-performance accelerators, notably GPUs,
GPGPUs (APUs in AMD terminology) to a variety of computing problems has
blossomed over the last decade, resulting in ever more affordable
compute power for both horizon and mundane problems, along with growing
revenue streams for a growing industry ecosystem, most recently joined
by Intel’s Xeon Phi accelerators which have to potential to speed
adoption even further due to hoped-for synergies generated by the
immense universe of x86 code that could potentially run on the Xeon Phi
cores.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, despite any potential synergies, GPUs (I will use this term
generically to refer to all forms of these attached accelerators as they
currently exist on the market) suffer from a fundamental architectural
problem — they are very distant, in terms of latency, from the main
scalar system memory and are not part of the coherent memory domain.
This in turn has major impacts on performance, cost, design of the GPUs,
and the structure of the algorithms:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Performance — </strong>The latency for memory accesses
generally dictated by PCIe latencies, which while much improved over
previous generations, are a factor of 100 or more longer than latency
from coherent cache or local scalar CPU memory. While clever design and
programming, such as overlapping and buffering multiple transfers can
hide the latency in a series of transfers, it is difficult to hide the
latency for an initial block of data. Even AMD’s integrated APUs, in
which the GPU elements are on a common die, do not share a common memory
space, and explicit transfers are made in and out of the APU memory.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Cost </strong> — The necessity for additional buffer memory
in the GPU to store the working and prefetched data blocks adds cost to
the GPU. In addition, the logic to support high-speed data transfer adds
costs.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>GPU design </strong> — GPU designs have been tending toward
increased core count due to the need to operate on ever larger blocks of
prefetched data to improve the performance of current algorithms.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Algorithms</strong> — In a reinforcing cycle with current
designs, algorithms for GPUs are written based on the assumptions that
there will be a large transfer latency and that they cannot have
coherent memory access to the main system memory, reinforcing current
design practices.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>What’s New</strong></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Over the last few months, AMD has been quietly rolling out a new technology, <strong>h</strong>eterogeneous <strong>U</strong>niform <strong>M</strong>emory <strong>A</strong>ccess
(hUMA), to be implemented on future unannounced AMD products. hUMA will
fundamentally alter the relationship of the GPU to the main system CPU
by providing the GPU with peer access to the main system memory space
along with the scalar processor. The key technical features of hUMA will
include:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><ul>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Unified memory with bidirectional coherency and uniform access </strong>— This
is the truly transformational feature of hUMA if it works as planned.
The GPU and the scalar CPU will now share the same uniform memory space,
and both can now allocate and operate on common memory with no need for
redundant buffering on the GPU, and no need for explicit transfers.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Shared coherency domain </strong>— hUMA implements a common
coherency mechanism, which will open up the potential for multiple GPUs
operating on the same shared data and combinations of GPU and CPU in new
algorithms, since each will automatically have the latest version of
memory served either from cache or through a common cache-miss process.
This will certainly change the way GPU-based algorithms are implemented,
since developers can now be more flexible in where they perform
processing with no penalty for moving data blocks.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>GPU can take page faults and allocate memory </strong>— The GPU can take page faults, allowing it to work out of non-locked memory.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The potential impact on CPU/GPU integration is immense. As an
embryonic developer I developed significant code on real-memory systems
where a considerable amount of my time was spent juggling overlays of
data and code that were locked to physical memory, and the transition to
a uniform virtualized memory model transformed programming. While hUMA
will still require explicitly exposing parallelism in algorithms, it
will remove an unnecessary and inconvenient barrier to its proper
exploitation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Where Are The Products?</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today there are no hUMA products, but with the pacing of AMD’s
communications and the expectation of new processor generations from
both AMD and Intel, my guess is that we will hear from AMD on the
subject of hUMA products before the year is out. Because there is
currently also little or no hUMA software IP, we can probably expect
that the initial products will be in the server space targeted at lab
and HPC users, along with a push to promote hUMA software IP. Since
AMD’s server market has fallen to less than 5% according to some
observers, AMD has little to lose by trying to shake up the server
market again. Consider also that AMD has an architecture license for
ARM, so there is also the potential to cook up some interesting mixes of
very low power scalar ARM cores hUMA-coupled with GPUs in addition to
hUMA-based variations of current AMD APU designs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>What Are The Risks?</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">As always, with new technologies, there are risks. For hUMA as a
catalyst for increasing AMD’s market share, the risks are pretty
straightforward:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><ul>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Performance risks </strong>— Unified memory architectures
took a long time to shake out on PCs and still suffer performance
limitations compared to dedicated architectures for some applications.
Developers persisted due to potential cost advantages, and they now work
well enough to be mainstream. hUMA could suffer from performance
teething problems, delaying its acceptance. THre are also likely to be
upper limits on the number of GPU cores that can participate in the
cache coherency scheme, and while it is hard to predict, this number
will probably be well below the current 500 - 1000 cores of the highest
end GPUs.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Capturing developer mindshare </strong>— As I noted above,
having gone through a similar technology transformation, it is hard to
see that developers will not be all over this one. But, and this is a
very big but, when I was developing, nobody paid any attention to the
relative market shares of the mainframes we were working on. AMD faces a
classic chicken and egg problem — how to attract attention to a
transformational technology that will only pay off for some developers
if AMD gains market share, and AMD cannot gain market share without the
developers in the first place. The likely outcome is incremental
acceptance after an early demonstration phase where leading users
demonstrate hUMA advantages, and others follow.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Intel duplicates hUMA </strong>— The advantages of hUMA are
not a secret, nor are the difficulties engendered by today’s GPU
architectures. If Intel is working on a hUMA equivalent project, even
the threat of it could stall acceptance of AMD’s alternative. Currently,
Intel is not generating a lot of revenue from its Xeon Phi products, so
a change in product architecture might be more embarrassing than
expensive if they were to do so quickly. However, regardless of timing,
what is certain is that Intel will be forced to react to this move by
AMD in some fashion — the potential advantages for hUMA-based computers
is too significant to ignore.</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Recommendations</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">From a developer's perspective, hUMA resonates with overtones of Victor Hugo’s <em>“nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come” </em>(this
is actually a popular paraphrasing, not a literal translation). If you
are even peripherally involved in high-performance computing, this is a
development that you should be tracking very closely, and when the
products become available, get one and start developing — you could be
on the forefront of a major sea change in parallel application
development.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please note: This post was originally written by Technology Blogger - Richard Fichera on the <a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/richard_fichera/13-05-19-amd_quietly_rolls_out_huma_potential_game_changer_for_parallel_computing" target="_blank">Forrester Blog.</a></span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>This post has been re-blogged for sharing. All credits go to Richard Fichera and Forrester Blog.</i></span> </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938978736265109094noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669989294185566758.post-41005851046681966572013-05-14T14:33:00.001-07:002013-05-14T14:33:48.276-07:00A Song of Hope?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I rode up the flight of stairs,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Awaiting my new dawn of days,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Stone hearted I had become,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">To the passage of time I had succumbed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Climbing up, I realized,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">One more time why I was here tonight,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Time had finally come to let it go,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">For a welcome news now stands at my door.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What I saw, I beheld,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The eyes of the bearer or suspense,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I glimpsed her face, through her hair,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Her smile awoke that mystic flair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Like the air of mist of people and words,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I care did not, cut them with my sword,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">On my path I walked along,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sweet sound of the lady begetting strong,</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I reached the podium, heart beating that sound,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I lift my thoughts that were left forlorn,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I smiled at her, and so did she,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wondering what she was doing to me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The time had come to say goodbye,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">For the idiot stayed down on his side,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I told her still that I cannot leave,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A beautiful song, she whispered to me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now I stand at those crossroads strong,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Forbidding thoughts that have long gone,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Am I just a puppet for the master of time,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Can I pull the strings, take what's mine</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">These thoughts now, take a toll,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mystery and Splendour, amidst furore,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">What purpose lies in a hopeless fist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">That fights for nothing or stands very still,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">For hopes and dreams many lives fulfill,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">What I have I got to comfort my will,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">If I jump in, will she come along,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Or lose her too, to the past, begone! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tell me now, Oh! Divine Voice,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't hear you sing, see you in my sight,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Is she dreaming too, do I have a choice?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Or am I running round in a Fool's Paradise?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Have mercy now, will you heed my call,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Have I done something wrong, you've made me fall,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Stone hearted you've made me become,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In this passage of time to which I've succumbed.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938978736265109094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669989294185566758.post-77053439184592377542013-05-07T07:07:00.001-07:002013-05-07T07:07:11.016-07:00Keep Calm and Install Debian 7.0 Wheezy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Finally, after two years of being in development, the Debian development team announced that <b>Debian 7.0 "Wheezy"</b> is now out for people to download, try and install.<br />
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The Debian distribution has been known for its unwavering stability and rock-solid performance for many years.<br />
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Firstly, it is important to let you know that Debian Wheezy is based on the older and stable Linux 3.2 kernel. The latest version out is the 3.9 kernel used in other bleeding-edge distros like <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/" target="_blank">Fedora</a>. <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;"><b>What's new on Wheezy? </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Number 1 - Multiarch Support</i></b></span><br />
One of the core foundations of Wheezy's development has been the <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110726b" target="_blank">Multiarch support</a>. Technically, what this means is you can install 32-bit applications on your 64-bit installation of Debian Linux.<br />
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In their vision of building a true universal operating system, the Multiarch support allows cross building and better support for legacy 32-bit applications.<br />
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This will also enable live migrations from a 32-bit to a 64-bit application.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Number 2 - Deploying personal Clouds</b></i></span><br />
Debian is a driving force for "freedom" and with that in mind, they've added additional tools that allow users to deploy their own personal clouds and services. In technicality, a full "Software as a Service" offering.<br />
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Wheezy will feature ready-to-use packages that can use with OpenStack and
Xen Cloud Platform (XCP).<br />
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More on this can be read <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120425" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Number 3 -Software-Speech Installation</span></b></i><br />
For visually impaired users, who don't use a Braille device, this is possibly a blessing. The installation system is now available in 73 different languages out of which around a dozen of them are available for software speech synthesis.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Number 4 - UEFI Supported Boot</b></i></span><br />
Although the developer community hasn't added support for "Secure Boot"* yet, Wheezy adds support for installation and booting using the UEFI for new 64-bit computers.<br />
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* - If your computer came with Windows 8 pre-installed, you'll have to disable secure boot and then use your system's UEFI menu to install Wheezy.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>New Updates</b></i></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image Courtesy: Debian ;)</td></tr>
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<li>Apache 2.2.22 </li>
<li>Asterisk 1.8.13.1 </li>
<li>GIMP 2.8.2 </li>
<li>an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 3.4 </li>
<li>GNU Compiler Collection 4.7.2 </li>
<li>Icedove 10 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird)</li>
<li>Iceweasel 10 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox)</li>
<li>KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications 4.8.4 </li>
<li>kFreeBSD kernel 8.3 and 9.0</li>
<li>LibreOffice 3.5.4 </li>
<li>Linux 3.2</li>
<li>MySQL 5.5.30 </li>
<li>Nagios 3.4.1 </li>
<li>OpenJDK 6b27 and 7u3 </li>
<li>Perl 5.14.2 </li>
<li>PHP 5.4.4 </li>
<li>PostgreSQL 9.1 </li>
<li>Python 2.7.3 and 3.2.3 </li>
<li>Samba 3.6.6 </li>
<li>Tomcat 6.0.35 and 7.0.28 </li>
<li>Xen Hypervisor 4.1.4 </li>
<li>the Xfce 4.8 desktop environment</li>
<li>X.Org 7.7 </li>
<li>more than 36,000 other ready-to-use software packages, built from
nearly 17,500 source packages</li>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Getting Debian 7.0 Wheezy</b></span></span> <br />
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Head over to the <a href="http://www.debian.org/distrib/" target="_blank">Debian Project page</a> for download methods, installation instructions and more.<br /><br />
There are more features on Debian 7.0 that I have not elaborated here. You can find all the missing information <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b><b>Problem: </b><b>PackageKit cannot install unsigned packages.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you've just installed Fedora 18 or upgraded to Fedora 18, you may have noticed that you are unable to install 3rd party applications like <span style="font-size: small;">Dropbox, <span style="font-size: small;">Ope<span style="font-size: small;">ra, <span style="font-size: small;">Google Chrome, Skype and many others</span></span></span></span> on your computer.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The installation exits with a message "Missing Security Signatures" whether it's installed directly or via a Terminal.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Why is this happening?</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was seeing the same issue on my fresh install of Fedora 18. Ideally, PackageKit-based tools allowed the installation of 3rd-party software by requesting root authentication.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After some searching and reading on the Internet, I <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890616" target="_blank">found</a> that this issue was caused by a bug that didn't allow PackageKit-based tools on Fedora 18 to install unsigned third-party packages anymore.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This bug did not affect the installation of official packages as they were signed with a trusted key anyway.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>How to fix this?</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b>
The PackageKit maintainer released an update (PackageKit-0.8.7-1.fc18)<b><br /></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Update your computer as you would normally do to fix the problem.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>New to Linux? - Read below</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>On a fresh install</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Option 1:</b> Just type "Software" in the Gnome search, open the tool and run an update. Let the update go through it's process.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Option 2: </b>Open a terminal and type </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">su</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">yum update</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This should run an update on your computer which will automatically update PackageKit.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now that your Fedora 18 is updated, try installing anything, it should work fine :)</span></span></div>
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I've finished working on my new track - "Darius and the Kyrus." Actually, it's been a while since I finished the track and uploaded it. This post comes late.<br />
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What's with the name "Darius and the Kyrus" you may ask. Good question, I don't know. Naming music is really difficult for me. When I compose or improvise, I try expressing feelings build around the mood of the song.<br />
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After I finished this track, it somehow made me think of a fusion between the old and the new, man and nature, architecture and glory. <br />
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I was reading about the Achaemenid Empire while listening to the track. The Kyrus is a river next to which the magnificient city of Persepolis was built by Emperor Darius. I just had to name it Darius and the Kyrus.<br />
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Anyway, here it is :)<br />
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Follow me on <a href="https://soundcloud.com/zealot-od" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/megadeath8317" target="_blank">YouTube</a> for more!<br />
I'd love to listen to your comments/feedback. Thanks for listening!<br />
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IceCrown - Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd Cover)<br />
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