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Finished my "scroll on the titlebar to change window opacity" patch today.

Because images say more than words:

(Image is link to original)

Scroll up on the title bar to make the window more opaque, scroll down to make them more transparent, in steps of 4%.
There might be some minor bugs in the code, and the code might be not-really-acceptable (breaking Metacity standards) but hey, it works :-)

You can find a complete "cvs diff" of my current local metacity-cvs-head branch here. It contains both the composite manager changes and the scroll-on-titlebar thingy.
The current composite manager will be dropped in favour of the GL-accelerated one in the spif2 branch. I still couldn't get that one working though :-(

[edit] In Bugzilla now, GNOME bug #325373.

I started working on "Planet UGent" today, just for fun, which should aggregate everyone who is somehow related to UGent: students, teaching staff,...
Templates taken from Planet Gnome and altered thanks to Peter and RealNitro. Still a lot of design work (top banner, CSS) to do though. And obviously, we need more feeds :-)

In the end I decided to try the patched metacity using the binary nvidia drivers, and I must confess, it works great. Some things (like alt-tab) seem to be broken, but transparency works without any speed issue.

While I was in that second X instance, I decided to give luminocity another try too and guess what... It was working great! I attempted to make a little movie of it with my DSC. The quality is very bad, but you should be able to get an idea of what we might get one day (optional, of course ;-))

Please don't leech the movie too much, it's 23MB... You can find it here (thanks to Zeus for the hosting ;-))

A Zeus member (the Gaim Guifications author) complained about the bubbles RhythmBox pops up when a new track starts.
As I'm always willing to help others (right :roll:) I made a little patch to make this behaviour optional.

It's small, ugly and untested, so use with care ;-) Against current RB CVS from cvs.gnome.org. Patch
You got to pass "--disable-bubbles" to ./configure, they're enabled by default.

Alver, let me know whether it works please so I can fix it if necessary :-)

As seen on #gnome-nl: Robin. Check it out! You do need a Mozilla-based browser (like Firefox) to use this.

I've been playing around a little more with Metacity and XComposite/XRender. I applied the patches from bugs #309152 and #310080 to current Metacity CVS-HEAD, fixed some things which broke the build, and replaced the running instance with the newly compiled one.

Here's the result:

(Image is link to full-size screenshot)

Some things to notice:

• The terminal in the upper left corner is the one I used to replace the running metacity. It looks like there are some problems taking control of existing windows: I was unable to use the old terminal any longer... It became usable again once I killed the new metacity and the system one took control
• The terminal in the center of the screen is made transparent using transset. Transset'ing a window removes the drop shadows :-(
• My sticky notes transparency is working fine! Notes can be moved and resized fine.
• The "Metacity compositing example" dialog box is generated using zenity. It's broken as I was dragging around the window whilst the screenshot was made, to give an example of how windows become transparent when moving them around.
• I made my desktop background light to make the window drop shadows more apparent.

Overall all this eye candy is still fairly slow. I'm on an NVidia Geforce2 MX440 GPU, using the open-source drivers. I *think* the binary ones support XComposite, but I won't try it as the binary drivers don't allow me to run 1400x1050. If someone got a spare Ati 92xx GPU around, let me know, I'm looking for one (paid if necessary B-)).

There's still a lot of work to do, but I hope one day we'll get there :-)

If you want to play around with this stuff yourself, get today's metacity cvs head from cvs.gnome.org, and apply this patch. ./configure using "--enable-compositor --enable-render" with --prefix to some directory, make && make install, and run "${prefix}/bin/metacity --replace"

[edit]
Thanks to some xorg.conf tuning (ModeLine) I got the nvidia binary drivers working on the resolution I want them to, so I'm running a GPU accelerated desktop now. Composite is working great... I backported my patch to metacity 2.12.2 and am running the patched version on my whole system now. See Gnome bug #309152 if you want the patch.

Next tasks:

• allow the user to set window transparency in the window menu, or by using the scrollwheel on the title bar
• Make drop shadows configurable (both on/off, size, intensity)
• Make the (ugly!) minimize effect optional
• Try to enhance the (ugly!) alt-tab behaviour

As per bug #150493:

This is "true" transparency using XComposite, not blending with the background or a screenshot.

It's fairly buggy, but that's caused by xcompmgr and Metacity's ignorance of Compositing (I think):

• When xcompmgr is running and you create a new note, it's not transparent although xprop says _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY is set to a correct value. Restarting xcompmgr makes new notes transparent
• Text of notes can't be changed
• Notes can't be resized or moved

The "Delete" and "Sticky" buttons work fine though. Really strange.

Metacity really needs a built-in compositing manager, like XFWM's.

Only 67% :-( Guess I'm too young to know about those k* tools ;-) Some questions are a little Debian-specific too, but hey :-)

I'm sorry Gnome-NL guys, but I must confess I'm running my desktop using the "C" locale (ie. english). There's one major problem with this: when I'm using Gaim with spell checking enabled, I'm always "wrong" as 99% of all time I talk to IM buddies, it's in dutch (nl_BE, or something close to that at least ;-)).
A very annoying issue that could be solved by disabling spell checking (*sigh*), which I don't want (hey, one has to *fix* problems, not go around them).

So I made this little patch (very simple, low profile patch, I know). It's against gtkspell 2.0.11, and as gtkspell seems to be no longer maintained, this is the version you got on your system most propably too.

To set a language to use for (gtkspell based) spell checking, just set the GTKSPELL_LANG environment variable, like this:
echo "export GTKSPELL_LANG=nl >> ~/.profile"
Then log out and log in again so the variable is incorporated in your environment.

Enjoy!

I didn't know about this before:

(that's "less index.html" in the lower terminal)

Cool! The image isn't fake, just try it for yourself.

So you want to play around with Gaim 2.0beta1 or CVS, you definately want the Bonjour/RendezVous protocol plugin to be able to IM with your buddies on your local LAN, but you haven't got Howl on your system as you believe Avahi is the way to go (good boy :-))?

Just apply this little patch. It's against current anoncvs from sf.net. You need to build avahi with avahi-compat-howl support.

I've been playing with creating GTK+ widgets using Cairo lately. As I had to write some text for some bloody Word-task (university stuff) I started writing a widget for an "OXO" game, and make a little tutorial on how to make something alike. The task is done (I even had to remove some parts of the text :(), the tutorial isn't finished yet as there are some issues left with the widget.

Anyway, writing 2D drawing code using Cairo is really fun. Sometimes you need some maths to get some tasks done, but it's fun to experiment and the possibilities are almost endless.

Here's a little sample of what I got now, click on the image for a full-scale screenshot:

Some parts of the "logics" inside the widget are still buggy (-> the code to check whether a move is a winning one or not).

I start to get rid of the spammers on my blog. There's still some comment- and trackback-spam, but at least most spambots can't leech several gigabytes of my bandwith anymore. There are still requests done, but they get a 300byte answer, or even less.
One issue left: if I get 2 identical requests (same HTTP_REQUEST, HTTP_REFERER etc), one using HTTP/1.0 and one using HTTP/1.1, my mod_rewrite rules generate another response: 403 (5 bytes) when using HTTP/1.0, 301 (352 bytes) when using HTTP/1.1:

216.195.35.XX - - [16/Dec/2005:14:24:58 +0100] "GET /index.php/all?skin=stockholm HTTP/1.1" 403 5 "http://spamhost/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
216.195.35.XX - - [16/Dec/2005:14:25:05 +0100] "GET /index.php/all?skin=stockholm HTTP/1.1" 301 352 "http://spamhost/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"

Can anyone explain me what causes this?

Thanks to RubenV who helped me out when creating the mod_rewrite rules :)

Sigh. Luckily we got Nat ;-)
I still got my lockups on high IO load, or my mouse starting to go all over the screen and generating random clicks while doing so on high load, after which I get warnings in dmesg the psmouse driver lost ticks. Guess what part of my machine's stack causes that B-)

Although I'm not a big Ubuntu lover, this is most certainly a good thing.
Who doesn't know the "Metro"? :-)

[edit] Looks like Peter saw it too ;-)

After my previous article on Valgrind I started using it more and more, and discovered another nice feature of it. Just check this sample:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <assert.h>

#define MESSAGE "test"

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
        char *t = NULL;

        /* Hey, everyone makes mistakes */
        t = (char *)malloc(strlen("" MESSAGE) * sizeof(char));
        assert(t != NULL);
        strcpy(t, "" MESSAGE);

        printf("%s\n", t);

        free(t);

        return 0;
}

Compiling and running looks ok:

$ gcc -g -Wall -Werror -o test2 test2.c
$ ./test2
test

But luckily there's Valgrind to tell us the code is horribly wrong:

$ valgrind --tool=memcheck ./test2
==13483== Memcheck, a memory error detector for x86-linux.
==13483== Copyright (C) 2002-2004, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==13483== Using valgrind-2.2.0, a program supervision framework for x86-linux.
==13483== Copyright (C) 2000-2004, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==13483== For more details, rerun with: -v
==13483==
==13483== Invalid write of size 1
==13483==    at 0x1B906485: strcpy (mac_replace_strmem.c:199)
==13483==    by 0x80484B2: main (test2.c:14)
==13483==  Address 0x1BA5C02C is 0 bytes after a block of size 4 alloc'd
==13483==    at 0x1B906B82: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:131)
==13483==    by 0x8048472: main (test2.c:12)
==13483==
==13483== Invalid read of size 1
==13483==    at 0x1B968B6B: _IO_vfprintf (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.5.so)
==13483==    by 0x1B96DF36: _IO_printf (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.5.so)
==13483==    by 0x1B93DF36: __libc_start_main (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.5.so)
==13483==  Address 0x1BA5C02C is 0 bytes after a block of size 4 alloc'd
==13483==    at 0x1B906B82: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:131)
==13483==    by 0x8048472: main (test2.c:12)
test
==13483==
==13483== ERROR SUMMARY: 2 errors from 2 contexts (suppressed: 13 from 1)
==13483== malloc/free: in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
==13483== malloc/free: 1 allocs, 1 frees, 4 bytes allocated.
==13483== For a detailed leak analysis,  rerun with: --leak-check=yes
==13483== For counts of detected errors, rerun with: -v

This should be fairly self-explaining... I guess most C programmers forgot to allocate strlen(msg)+1 (the end '\0') at least once in their life...

By the way: hello Planet Grep :-)

Lately I've been working on the new webserver machine for VTK. Today I configured mod_security for Apache2, partially by using the rules one can find on gotroot.com.
On the site a little script is provided to update the rules automagicly (in a cronjob or something alike), but when I started using the script I didn't like it for several reasons.
So I decided to rewrite it to suit my needs. You can find my enhanced version here.

The machine now also runs PHP4 and PHP5 side by side thanks to this great documentation (and the Gentoo PHP herd developers, obviously). PHP4 as an Apache module (because this is the "default", so it must run as efficient as possible), PHP5 using the CGI interface for all .php5 files.
We can't make "the big switch" to a PHP5-only server due to our bloody PhpBB forum which is not PHP5 compatible. And as our forum is one of the biggest PHP consumers on the server, I don't want to run PHP4 as CGI and only run the forum this way.

[edit]
I enhanced the script a little more, here's a diff:

--- update_mod_security_rules.sh        2005-12-02 14:46:02.000000000 +0100
+++ update_rules_v2.sh  2005-12-04 14:34:33.000000000 +0100
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 APACHESTART="/etc/init.d/apache2 restart"
 MODSECPATH="/etc/modsecurity"
 APACHEPID="/var/run/apache2.pid"
+APACHECTL="/usr/sbin/apache2ctl"

 #Modules
 #If you want the "exclude" rules, they should be the first entry in the list
@@ -59,10 +60,21 @@

 echo "Make sure you got \"Include ${MODSECPATH}/all.conf\" somewhere in your Apache config"

+${APACHECTL} configtest > /dev/null 2>&1
+if [ ! "x$?" = "x0" ]; then
+        echo
+        echo "There's something wrong in Apache's configuration:"
+        echo
+        ${APACHECTL} configtest
+        echo
+        echo "Exiting, not restarting Apache"
+        exit 1
+fi
+
 # try restart
 if [ "$UPDATED" -gt "0" ]; then
         echo -n "Restarting apache: "
-        /bin/kill -HUP ${PID} 2>/dev/null
+        ${APACHECTL} graceful
         # did it work?
         if `/bin/kill -CHLD ${PID} >/dev/null 2>&1`; then
                 echo "ok."

The script

This blog is under a massive referer spam attack at the moment by multiple spambots. I'm trying to get rid of them using .htaccess, but it hardly works.
Those spambots already consumed all my monthly bandwith, so I really need them to go away. If someone knows how to do this (I googled around, no usable help), please let me know asap, otherwise I'll be forced to take this blog down for some days I'm afraid... Maybe I should switch to WordPress here too.

My sincere apologies if I broke something in the blog setup, or if some people are unable to reach the site although they're not spammers.

Read this.

Reminds me on an article on "Web 2.0" in our newspaper some days ago, and a "readers reaction" on it yesterday. Obviously 2 people who don't understand what it's all about. Sadly enough.

Nice work, RealNitro!

Due to the fact that the screenshot tool had a bug at the time I gave remote X windows a try on the N770, I could't post any 'proof'.

But, that screenshot-bug has been solved, and I connected my N770 to the fresh install of Ubuntu Linux so I could take shoot some screens. It took me about 4 minutes to make my N770 talk to the pc (Ubuntu recognised my usb bluetooth key immediately, it really wasn't hard at all). I installed the openssh-server on the pc (enabled it in Synaptic, and pressed Apply, easy stuff), started it, and logged in with my N770.

This time I used some new command line options (thank you daf):

ssh -X user@server -c blowfish -C

And I started oowriter2 again:

(Larger image)

and a few seconds later (the pc is quite old):

(Larger image)

Then I gave The Gimp another try, but the lag was still there. It was better a bit faster than without the compression settings for the ssh connection, but nowhere near usable. :-(

btw, has anyone tried this keyboard with the N770 yet? Does it work? Or should/will it work? Plz let me know!

Everyone writing C or C++ code should know what a memory leak is. You allocate some memory, and never free it.
It can be very hard to make your code memleak free, or even just to know whether your code contains any memleaks.
Luckily, in the Free Software world, we got a great tool to check our code for memleaks (or other errors): Valgrind.

As I don't have time to write a lot now, I'll just give a very simple sample of it's usage.

Here's my code (very bad code, obviously, but hey ;-)):

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

static void function() {
        char *test = (char *)malloc(100 * sizeof(char));
        test[0] = '\0';

        printf("Function\n");

        /* Leaking 100 chars here, 100 bytes */
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
        int *i = NULL;

        function();
        i = (int *)malloc(50 * sizeof(int));
        printf("Done\n");

        return 0;

        /* Leaking 50 ints here. On x86, this is 50*4=200 bytes */
}

As you can see, we leak memory twice: once 100 bytes, once 200.
Let's compile and run our code:

$ gcc -o test -Wall -g test.c
$ ./test
Function
Done

Great, our code works fine (or at least, it looks like it).

Now we introduce valgrind. First we'll do a simple memory allocation check:

$ valgrind --tool=memcheck ./test ==18819== Memcheck, a memory error detector for x86-linux.
==18819== Copyright (C) 2002-2004, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==18819== Using valgrind-2.2.0, a program supervision framework for x86-linux.
==18819== Copyright (C) 2000-2004, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==18819== For more details, rerun with: -v
==18819==
Function
Done
==18819==
==18819== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 13 from 1)
==18819== malloc/free: in use at exit: 300 bytes in 2 blocks.
==18819== malloc/free: 2 allocs, 0 frees, 300 bytes allocated.
==18819== For a detailed leak analysis,  rerun with: --leak-check=yes
==18819== For counts of detected errors, rerun with: -v

Valgrind tells us we leaked 300 bytes, in 2 blocks (one malloc call returns one block, obviously).
It also tells us to re-run the test with the --leak-check=yes flag, which is a good advice:

$ valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=yes ./test
==18826== Memcheck, a memory error detector for x86-linux.
==18826== Copyright (C) 2002-2004, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==18826== Using valgrind-2.2.0, a program supervision framework for x86-linux.
==18826== Copyright (C) 2000-2004, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==18826== For more details, rerun with: -v
==18826==
Function
Done
==18826==
==18826== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 13 from 1)
==18826== malloc/free: in use at exit: 300 bytes in 2 blocks.
==18826== malloc/free: 2 allocs, 0 frees, 300 bytes allocated.
==18826== For counts of detected errors, rerun with: -v
==18826== searching for pointers to 2 not-freed blocks.
==18826== checked 1404368 bytes.
==18826==
==18826== 100 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 1 of 2
==18826==    at 0x1B906B82: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:131)
==18826==    by 0x80483B5: function (test.c:5)
==18826==    by 0x80483F4: main (test.c:14)
==18826==
==18826==
==18826== 200 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 2 of 2
==18826==    at 0x1B906B82: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:131)
==18826==    by 0x8048400: main (test.c:15)
==18826==
==18826== LEAK SUMMARY:
==18826==    definitely lost: 300 bytes in 2 blocks.
==18826==    possibly lost:   0 bytes in 0 blocks.
==18826==    still reachable: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
==18826==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
==18826== Reachable blocks (those to which a pointer was found) are not shown.
==18826== To see them, rerun with: --show-reachable=yes

Great, here Valgrind tells us exactly what we're doing wrong.
There are 2 blocks where we leak memory:

• The first one is at code path
  main (test.c:14) -> function (test.c:5) -> malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:131)
  leaking 100 bytes.
  The vg_replace_malloc.c file isn't ours, it's a valgrind file where the malloc() wrapper (which keeps track of our allocations/free's/...) is located. We're mostly interested in the "function (test.c:5)" part. If we look at line 5, we see this is

  char *test = (char *)malloc(100 * sizeof(char));

  our first allocation. And indeed, if we look further, we never free these 100 chars.
• Second is at main (test.c:15). Again, we can look at this line:

  i = (int *)malloc(50 * sizeof(int));

  and indeed, we never free these allocated integers again. We allocated 50 ints, and on x86 one int is 32 bits (4 bytes), so we leak 200 bytes (and valgrind was correct once again :-)).

Obviously, valgrind got much more options or checks:

$ valgrind
valgrind: Missing --tool option
Available tools:
        memcheck
        addrcheck
        cachegrind
        corecheck
        helgrind
        massif
        lackey
        none
        callgrind
valgrind: Use --help for more information.

I don't know all of them, actually I only use the memcheck thing, but even when only using one tool, it can be a very useful program.

I got one minor issue with valgrind currently: when it detects memory leaks in some program, it still returns 0 in the end, so it's not easy to integrate valgrind checks in automake's "make check" target. If someone got any pointers how to do this, please let me know!

Some topics on internettablettalk.com have great views on what the N770 might have to offer in the future. One nice possibility is forwarding X sessions to a N770. I started with forwarding Gedit from my pc to my N770, but later on I had a go at 'oowriter2' (OpenOffice.org 2 Writer), Supertux and The Gimp. My experiences about those apps on the N770 are at the end of this post. First I'll tell you how to try it yourself.

Some basic requirements:

• a computer running the X-server and sshd (a decent linux box ;-) )
• a (fast) network connection between your N770 and the server
• openSSH for the maemo platform

To install openSSH on your N770, download the openSSH .deb package to your N770. Next,open an X-terminal, and gain root access. If the .deb openSSH package is on your mmc, navigate to it:

cd /media/mmc1/

And install openSSH (it doesn't install using the graphical package installer):

dpkg -x ssh_*.deb /

Caution: make sure that your servers sshd allows X forwarding! Time to connect to the server:

ssh -X user@server

Change user to your login-name, and change server to your servers IP or domain name. The first time you log into your server from your N770, ssh wil ask you a question. Answer 'yes'. Then it will ask your password. Enter it. You should get a command prompt as 'user' on your server. Time to execute a program! I use the Gnome desktop environment, and the default text editor (like notepad in Windows -- but waaay better ;-) ) in Gnome is Gedit. The command to start Gedit from a terminal is 'gedit' (duh! :-p ). Execute

gedit

Give it some time to start, and you'll see Gedit running on your N770! To try any other programs, just tap their commands into the terminal and have fun!

But there are a few downsides. The first big downside is text-input: The onscreen-keyboard does not appear when you put the cursor inside a text-field of an X-forwarded window. Copy-pasting text is possible though. Maybe people with working Bluetooth keyboards will be able to type some text. Is somebody willing to try? One other downside is that X-forwarded windows vanish when they are minimized. There seems to be no way to get them back, killing the parent program and restarting it is the only solution. (You can kill the parent program by bringing your X-term back up, opening 'X Terminal'->'Terminal'->'Send Ctrl-some key', and tapping the 'c' keyboard button.) The fullscreen button didn't work aswell. Gedit just doesn't recognise/receive the signal emited by that fullscreen button, I guess.

Beside those little anoyances, Gedit ran quite smooth. So I decided to start the OpenOffice.org 2 Writer. And it worked too! The gui wasn't 100% snappy (i.e. scrolling was laggy), but it seemed fast enough to be usable. Later that day, I decided to give Supertux a try. (Supertux is a Super Mario clone.) The verdict: not playable. The bluetooth connection between my pc and my N770 just wasn't fast enough to transfer all that graphical goodness without (a LOT of) lag. The Gimp suffers from the same problem. Drawing with your stylus is possible, but the result lags several seconds behind.

A possible solution for the lag problems would be to compress the data that's being sent between the X-server and the client (your N770). A FreeNX-client would be great as the NX protocol is in fact a compressed (and secured) forwarded X-session. (FreeNX is a free alternative to NoMachine NX.)

It's been a (very) long time since I have posted here (again), but I bought myself a Nokia 770 last week, and it took me a lot of time to get it on the net, so I thought I'd share how I got it to work.

First off, some interesting links:

• Host to host bluetooth on the gentoo wiki
• Enable root access on the maemo wiki
• Bluetooth networking howto on the Maemo wiki
• X Terminal for the Nokia 770
• IP Masquerade howto

You need to have your bluetooth stick working first. Gentoo users should read the first parts of the host to host bluetooth howto, other distro's should consult the proper information on the community forums/wiki. (Don't scan for other devices yet, just setup your kernel and BlueZ.)

Then open the X Terminal on your 770 and be root. Enter:

hcitool scan

The scan should display your pc's bluetooth name and its bluetooth ID. If the scan cannot find your computer, check again if your bluetooth stick is really working. Scanning for your 770 on your computer is no use, since your 770 will remain invisible. Now let's pair your 770 with the pc. Execute the following on your 770, but replace 00:10:20:30:40:50 with your computer's Bluetooth ID:

hcitool cc 00:10:20:30:40:50

If you get an error, try:

rm /etc/bluetooth/link_key

If the pairing works, you will be asked to enter the PIN code of your pc. There is no need to try to connect from your pc to your 770, it will not work anyway (your pc cannot see your 770, remember). Next, make your computer listen for an incoming (network) connection. As root execute:

pand --listen --role NAP

Now, on your 770, connect to your pc:

pand --connect 00:10:20:30:40:50

(Replace 00:10:20:30:40:50 with your pc's Bluetooth ID again.)

If the connection has been set up, the following command should work on your 770:

ifconfig bnep0 192.168.2.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.2.255

Warning: if your local network already uses the 192.168.2.* subnet, replace the IP with another one that isn't in a subnet your pc is a part of!
On your pc, execute the same command, but change the IP:

ifconfig bnep0 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.2.255

We're almost there now. Your 770 and your pc are part of the same subnet now! Let's try to ping the 770. On your pc:

ping 192.168.2.2

If you installed the ssh server, you can run it now, and log into it from your pc.

Now, let's set up the internet connection forwarding. First off, let your 770 know that your pc is its gateway to the internet:

route add default gw 192.168.2.1

Also add a dummy internet connection:

gconftool -s -t string /system/osso/connectivity/IAP/DEFAULT/type DUMMY

On your pc, display the content of /etc/resolv.conf:

cat /etc/resolv.conf

And add the rules to the /etc/resolv.conf file on your 770. For each line do:

echo "line" >> /etc/resolv.conf

All that's left to do is making your pc act as a router for your 770. One way to do that (not the easiest one), is to use a program called iptables. In this howto I will explain how to setup iptables on gentoo. Again, if you use an other distro, check the community forums and/or wiki. On gentoo, emerge iptables. You might have to recompile your kernel, just follow the 'Kernel Support' chapter of this howto on the gentoo wiki. To configure iptables, you can read this guide, or, if you just want a quick solution, use this script. As root, paste it inside a file. Then comment out IPTABLES=/usr/local/sbin/iptables, and uncomment #IPTABLES=/sbin/iptables. Change INTIF="eth1" to INTIF="bnep0". You might have to change EXTIF="eth0" too. (I had to change it to vpnlink because I connect to the internet with a vpn.) When you finished changing the script, make it executable, and run it. There should be no errors. Now save the script:

/etc/init.d/iptables save

and start iptables:

/etc/init.d/iptables start

If you want to start iptables everytime you boot, do:

rc-update add iptables default

You should be able to surf with your 770 now! I plan on writing a few script to make the linking more automatic. Plz share your comments here, and post any mistakes in the howto.

So, you got SSH access to your Nokia 770, but can't edit any files? Try my Nano package...
It doesn't work yet in the xterm application (I didn't try myself yet, RealNitro told me ;-)), looks like there's some issue with that terminal's CTRL-key emulation...
Anyway, it's meant to be used over SSH, not for on-device purposes...

Now I still should be able to get USB networking working somehow :-( Didn't spend any more time on it though...

Porting Avahi to the Maemo platform seems to be quite hard (if not impossible) because of the DBUS version conflict (Avahi needs DBUS >= 0.34, whilst the Maemo platform is still based on DBUS 0.2x). There's a DBUS 0.3x branch in Maemo's SVN repository, but that's not stable yet, and will only be used in the InternetTablet2006 releases, so I gave up on Avahi for now :oops:.
Instead, I'm trying to create a good package of Howl now (I know, I don't like the Howl API either), then I'll attempt to build a small (Hildon?) application on top of it, just as a test case for "the real thing" ;-)

*edit*
It works inside my scratchbox (i386) :-)
Built an arm deb package too, installed it on my "real" device, the software runs (no ld errors), but I couldnt test it yet as I don't have a wireless network at home, and didn't manage to get USB networking working yet :-(

Today I had a little chat with Michiel on #gnome-nl regarding the use of C++ classes in C code (he started learning C again ;-)).

I was fascinated (well, sort of) by this, and tried to get something working. Here's the result:

• First we need a C++ class, using one header file (Test.hh)

  class Test {
          public:
                  void testfunc();
                  Test(int i);
  
          private:
                  int testint;
  };
  

  and one implementation file (Test.cc)

  #include <iostream>
  #include "Test.hh"
  
  using namespace std;
  
  Test::Test(int i) {
          this->testint = i;
  }
  
  void Test::testfunc() {
          cout << "test " << this->testint << endl;
  }

  This is just basic C++ code.

• Then we need some glue code. This code is something in-between C and C++. Again, we got one header file (TestWrapper.h, just .h as it doesn't contain any C++ code)

  typedef void CTest;
  
  #ifdef __cplusplus
  extern "C" {
  #endif
  CTest * test_new(int i);
  void test_testfunc(const CTest *t);
  void test_delete(CTest *t);
  #ifdef __cplusplus
  }
  #endif
  

  and the function implementations (TestWrapper.cc, .cc as it contains C++ code):

  #include "TestWrapper.h"
  #include "Test.hh"
  
  extern "C" {
  
  CTest * test_new(int i) {
         Test *t = new Test(i);
  
         return (CTest *)t;
  }
  
  void test_testfunc(const CTest *test) {
          Test *t = (Test *)test;
          t->testfunc();
  }
  
  void test_delete(CTest *test) {
          Test *t = (Test *)test;
  
          delete t;
  }
  }
  

  Some things you should notice:

  1. typedef void CTest
     We typedef CTest to void. This way we can use "CTest *" in our C code as if it's a normal C type, whilst we have compile-time type checks (sort of at least :-)), and it's cleaner than always using "void *"
  
  

  2. The use of "extern "C" { }" around all functions (both definitions and implementations). We need this so the compiler won't name-mangle the resulting binaries. If you want to see what name-mangling is:

     $ cat test.c
     #include <iostream>
     using namespace std;
     
     void test() {
             cout << "test" << endl;
     }
     
     int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
             test();
             return 0;
     }
     $ g++ -o nmtest test.c
     $ ./nmtest
     test
     $ nm nmtest
     ***blablabla***
     08048818 t _Z41__static_initialization_and_destruction_0ii
     080487c4 T _Z4testv
              U _ZNKSs4sizeEv@@GLIBCXX_3.4
              U _ZNKSsixEj@@GLIBCXX_3.4
     ***blablabla***

     As you can see, our "test()" function has been renamed to "_Z4testv" by the compiler. This is needed to allow polyphormism in C++, but we don't want this in our C wrapper of course, as we want to know the name of the function we will call!
     This implies we need another function name for every polyphormistic (SP?) class function of our C++ class in the C wrapper.

• At last, we need some code to test our work (main.c):

  #include <stdio.h>
  #include "TestWrapper.h"
  
  int main() {
          CTest *t = NULL;
  
          t = test_new(5);
          test_testfunc(t);
          test_delete(t);
          t = NULL;
  
          return 0;
  }
  

  This is, once more, braindead simple (C) code, where we use the functions defined in TestWrapper.h.

• Last but not least, we need to compile everything. I made a basic Makefile to do this (Makefile):

  CFLAGS=-Wall -Werror -g -ansi -pedantic -std=c89
  CCFLAGS=-Wall -Werror -g
  LDFLAGS=-g -Wall -lstdc++
  
  OBJS=Test.o TestWrapper.o main.o
  PROG=test
  
  all: $(PROG)
  default: all
  
  %.o: %.cc
          $(CC) $(CCFLAGS) -c $<
  
  %.o: %.c
          $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $<
  
  $(PROG): $(OBJS)
          $(CC) $(OBJS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@
  
  clean:
          rm -f $(OBJS)
          rm -f $(PROG)
  

Now we can simply call "make" to build the project:

$ make
cc -Wall -Werror -g -c Test.cc
cc -Wall -Werror -g -c TestWrapper.cc
cc -Wall -Werror -g -ansi -pedantic -std=c89 -c main.c
cc Test.o TestWrapper.o main.o -g -Wall -lstdc++ -o test

Finally, we test the resulting binary:

$ ./test
test 5

which is the expected result.

Obviously, writing a wrapper like this by hand can be a boring task. It might be possible to automate/script this, but I don't know whether the result is worth the time one puts into it. Just use plain C, we don't need C++ ;-)

Thanks to Bram (and VTK Computer) I got an old 20Gb hard drive, which I needed to be able to install a Scratchbox environment and play around with the Maemo platform.
I managed to install everything by now (although I had one crash again :-(), so I hope I'll be able to start hacking on some apps/libs soon. One of the things I'd love to get working is Avahi, the GPL'ed mDNS stack.

The obligatory shot:

I just followed these steps. They contain one error though: when editing your ~/.bash_profile, you got to add a line containing

export LC_ALL=en_GB
too.

So, I just got my Nokia 770 connected to the UGent VPN nerwork, which means I can connect to the internet when I'm near one of the access points. It wasn't too easy, and editting long texts on the device is fairly boring, so I'll stop here. More news when I'm near a "real" computer ;-)

Cheers!

This theme mockup by Andreas Nilsson is actually pretty cool stuff IMHO, when used in an environment where young children/kids use the computer (eg in schools). I think it's pretty attractive, as long as the texts are easily readable.

Next to this, thanks to Philip and (obviously) Nokia itself, I was able to order my personal Nokia 770 from their Developer Program today. It should arrive in 1-3 days, so I'll be pretty stressed when checking the mail next days :-) When I saw (and even touched ;-)) the 770 at LinuxTag I was really impressed, let's hope it'll work well (/me crosses fingers for vpnc support) and bring a lot of pleasure on a development side :-)

Just found this wiki page which uses some other transcode options. I tried it, converted 2 seconds of a vnc recording to Xvid, and it works, jay :-)

Basicly:

$ emerge tightvnc vncrec transcode
$ vncserver
(enter password if necessary, edit the VNC xinitrc file,...)
$ vncrec -record test.vnc localhost:1
$ transcode -x vnc --use_rgb -i test.vnc -o test.avi -y xvid -k -f 10
$ mplayer test.avi

I'll try connecting to Vino now. Encoding takes a very long time, but well...

/me happy ;-)

After digging around a little more, I found vncrec, which works really well. Quality is good, computer doesn't lag while making the movie,... One major problem: the output format. Nobody can play these files, except if he/she got vncrec installed, which is *nix only.
It should be possible to convert .vnc files to some other format (video) using transcode. I tried this, but when playing the ouput file using mplayer (xvid encoded), I only get green and red noise. Not everyone got an xvid codec installed too, so I might want to use mpeg2 here or something alike. If only I would get a real video, and not just noise...
Transcoding a vnc file takes a lot of time too.

I'll keep you guys posted :-)

Could anyone please tell me how I can make a screencast in X? Istanbul doesn't work (segfaults and other errors), vnc2swf produces flash files, which I don't like, xvidcap doesn't want to compile,...

I'd really need to be able to create a little movie to convince some people @ university Linux is not all about command line magic like su, sudo, mount -t smbfs -o username=foobar //server/share /mnt/foobar and other 19[89]X commands...

I could use Istanbul's Gstreamer pipelines in some small application, but there's one major problem: ximagesrc's image quality is terrible.

Check it out here.

One major question: how well will it work for people exploring the web using a non-IE based browser?

Because the development of fedora stateless is quite frozen, we decided to drop it just an hour ago. We discussed a new strategy and have chosen for Ubuntu Kickstart. Kickstart, the automatic (recorded) installer for Fedora or SuSE is now ported to Ubuntu too since version 5.04 Hoary. We'll set up a PXE-boot enabled server wich will let the clients choose between windows or Linux, or just install Linux when we want it. Normally we should recieve new hardware next week, so the project will be kickstarted too ;-)

Typing this using one hand, as I was so stupid to dislocate my left wrist last saturday night. At least, I hope it's only dislocated, and not broken. And yes, it does hurt.
I might get a picture later.
Got some GIM design drawings completed lately, but only on paper, I need to dia'ize them (which won't be an easy job now). I hope I'll be able to show some of the work soon.

So, today is Software Freedom Day 2005. Here in Ghent, VTK/WVS organises a little event in co-operation with several companies and organisations. There's a movie in Film Plateau ("Revolution OS"), a little get-together afterwards, and maybe some food. All of this free (as in beer), except the food, obviously.
More information can be found here (in Dutch).

I'm trying to work on the GIM design some more, and working on the new PDC at VTK. More on this later.

What will the Internet look like in 2015? What are giants like Microsoft and Google up to? Who are the other players?

Find the (possible) answer on these and other questions here (requires a Flash player, unfortunately).

Complete nonsense? A bit of truth? Maybe even worse than presented here? Let me know in the comments!

Thanks to Bram ;-)

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It's late, I'm not in an english mood :-)

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It's late, I'm not in an english mood :-)

Barry County is the name of two counties in the United States, both named for U.S. Postmaster General William T. Barry:

• Barry County, Michigan
• Barry County, Missouri

This blog is moved!

I finally moved my blog to my own domain, peterdedecker.net. So, if you're reading this through an RSS-feed, please update this entry in your aggregator to the new one.

Of course, this is only applicable to the ones who are just reading Peter's Blog, the blogs of Ikke, RealNitro and the FSU-blog stay at this location.

Thanks for hosting until now, Ikke!

An epanodos (or epanados) is a figure of speech in which the parts of a sentence or clause are repeated in inverse order.

Examples:

• "O more exceeding love, or law more just? Just law, indeed, but more exceeding love!" (Milton).

Sinds vrijdag is het eindelijk gedaan. De zes weken stage bij Siemens. Niet dat 't geen fijne tijd was, daar niet van, maar er mocht wel een einde aan komen. Elke dag vroeg uit mijn bed moeten en 's avonds laat thuis zijn terwijl alle anderen verlof hebben, is niet zo fijn. Bovendien wordt 't ook wel s tijd om wat te studeren voor de tweede zit.

Wat de stage betreft: het was zeker de moeite waard. In een bedrijf als Siemens krijg je eens totaal ander materiaal in je handen. Tests opstellen voor nieuwe technieken, zelf iets testen, nieuwe technieken bestuderen, meevolgen van en meewerken aan interessante state-off-the-art projecten zoals het internet op de Thalys of I-City,... En de bende geeks die daar rondliep was ook wel fijn :-) Ik wist trouwens niet dat Linux zoveel gebruikt werd: settopboxen, access points, routers/gateways,... Alles draait linux! U heeft waarschijnlijk meer linux in uw huis dan u dacht ;-) Echt wel de moeite waard en een aanrader aan al wie twijfelt om een stage te gaan doen! Dat dit voor zes studiepunten meetelt, is uiteraard uitermate mooi meegenomen. Maar 't mag ook wel, want zes weken is lang en met de reistijd erbij waren het wel lange dagen.

Nog meer goed nieuws: mijn schatje is terug! Jaja, terwijl ik aan't werken was, heeft zij doodleuk een reisje gemaakt naar Normandi

Dr. Daniel Jackson makes an amazing discovery while translating the Ancient writing on the colonnade that SG-2 discovered on planet P3X-439. The writing talks about a library of knowledge and Daniel suspects it contains a repository — the same type of device that once downloaded the Ancients' knowledge into Col. O'Neill's brain and would have cost O'Neill his life had not the Asgard intervened and removed the alien data from his mind.

However, SG-2 spots a Goa'uld reconnaissance drone while on the planet, which means that system lord Anubis is also aware of the repository's existence. SG-1 must get to it first, so that they can, once and for all, learn the location of the Lost City of the Ancients and use that race's advanced technology to save the galaxy from Goa'uld oppression. Should this knowledge fall into Anubis' hands, nothing will be able to stop him. This time, SG-1's plan is to remove the repository rather than downloading it into a human, and then to bring it back to Earth and find a safe way to retrieve the data. The Asgard and other alien allies are not responding, so Stargate Command is on its own.

SG-1, SG-2 and SG-3 are dispatched to P3X-439, where Daniel and Maj. Carter try to remove the repository from the monument — with no luck. Suddenly, a full-scale Goa'uld attack rocks the monument, as Alkesh fighters carpet-bomb the area. There is no choice: Someone must download the Ancient knowledge into his or her brain. O'Neill assesses that Carter is too valuable, and that Daniel will be needed to translate the Ancient language that whoever goes through with this will be speaking when their consciousness is taken over and replaced by that of the Ancients — resulting in neural overload and death. So he does it again: O'Neill steps up to the repository, where the face-hugging arms come out, grab O'Neill's head and pump Ancient knowledge directly into his brain.

The teams return to Stargate Command, where they must face the inevitable: O'Neill's human consciousness will soon be obliterated and he will begin speaking in Ancient. Not long after that, his human physiology will no longer be able to handle the strain and he will die.

Meanwhile, in Washington, newly inaugurated President Hayes has found a replacement for Gen. Hammond, in an attempt to put a friendly face on the Stargate Project when it goes public. She is Dr. Elizabeth Weir, a multilingual political negotiator who will be able to confer with leaders of other countries, who no doubt will want shared control of the stargate.

Indeed, there's already someone within the administration itself who wants control of the stargate — Vice-President Kinsey, who has pressured the president into this bold move. Kinsey informs Weir in no uncertain terms that he is best person to have on her side when she takes over Stargate Command — and the last person she'd want to cross.

President Hayes, completely aware of Kinsey's history with Hammond, informs the general that he does not want him to retire. He knows full well that Hammond's experience will remain invaluable in the near future — but politics is politics. All offworld teams are recalled and the stargate is shut down for a three-month review process.

No one at Stargate Command is happy about that, or about Dr. Weir taking command. For her part, Weir doesn't intend to allow Kinsey to use her as a puppet to control the stargate. She is also aware of O'Neill's impending death and intends to deal with it. Kinsey wants O'Neill and the rest of SG-1 gone, but O'Neill's knowledge of the Lost City is crucial to winning the war against the Goa'uld.

The Goa'uld, meanwhile, are now an immediate threat to Earth: Teal'c's mentor, Bra'tac, arrives through the stargate with the dire news that Anubis knows Earth has the repository of Ancient knowledge, and he is about to attack. In three days, he and his army of Kull Warrior supersoldier drones will arrive.

Kinsey thinks this is all a ruse to keep the program running and SG-1 in place. But Weir knows better. — and because the knowledge in O'Neill's head is the only chance of saving Earth … well, Kinsey's private agenda be damned. She's in charge of Stargate Command now, not him. She believes that the threat to Earth is real and that America owes Col. O'Neill the chance to make what might be his ultimate sacrifice. Judging from the Ancient word that issues from his lips, the time for that sacrifice is coming soon.

Bra'tac returns home to Chulak. Teal'c goes with him, in the hope of procuring warriors and ships to protect Earth. O'Neill is about to give Teal'c the "if I don't see you again speech." But Teal'c is certain they will. The rest of SG-1 hopes he's right.

Edgar Vincent Griffin is a British Conservative politician. He was a councillor for St Johns Wood Terrace Ward on St Marylebone Borough Council from 1959 to 1965. Griffin is the father of Nick Griffin, Chairman of the British National Party and his wife Jean is a councillor for the BNP. In August 2001 he was expelled from the Conservative Party after being found guilty of "assisting" the BNP, when he answered his wife's BNP hotline in his home because she was out posting letters.

External links

• telegraph.co.uk "Expelled Tory laments 'one silly mistake'"
• guardian.co.uk "Duncan Smith sacks backer with BNP link"

KIM-OPLEIDING

Na het bekendmaken van de ,,Vandamme-affaire'', over het inhoudsloze KIM-postgraduaat aan de Ugent (DS 27 juli) haastten de KULeuven, de VUB en de UA zich om te verklaren dat dergelijke wanpraktijken bij hen niet mogelijk zijn ,,vanwege de vele controles''. Ik betwijfel dat ten zeerste. Over die KIM-opleiding werd wel degelijk een anonieme studentenevaluatie georganiseerd. Geen enkele student, op

Eerder was al te lezen dat het Vlaamse onderwijs de mogelijkheden van vrije software gaat verkennen. Dit is blijkbaar niet alleen zo in Vlaanderen, maar ook in Frankrijk. Daar krijgen de middelbare scholieren begin volgend jaar CD's van de overheid met vrije software en een Linux Live CD. Hopelijk wordt het een groot succes!
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Sarah Knauss (September 24, 1880 - December 30, 1999) was considered the "world's oldest person" by Guinness World Records from April 16, 1998 until her death in 1999. At 117, Sarah set the record for the oldest "new" titleholder (which corresponds to the highest "valley" on a graph of the oldest living persons over time).

Sarah DeRemer Clark was born in a small coal mining town, Hollywood, Pennsylvania (which no longer exists), and died in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 1901 she married Abraham Lincoln Knauss. He became a well-known Republican leader in Lehigh County. Upon the 1998 death of Marie-Louise Meilleur, she became the oldest recognized person in the world. Following her death, Eva Morris of England became the oldest recognized person in the world.

Knauss was a homemaker and insurance office manager. Her daughter, Kathryn Sullivan, who was 96 at the time of Sarah's death, once explained Knauss' three-digit age by saying:""She's a very tranquil person and nothing fazes her. That's why she's living this long."

In 1995, when asked if she enjoyed her long life, Knauss said matter-of-factly: "I enjoy it because I have my health and I can do things." Her passions were said to be watching golf on television, doing needlepoint, and nibbling on milk chocolate turtles, cashews, and potato chips. "Sarah was an elegant lady and worthy of all the honor and adulation she had received," said Joseph Hess, an Administrator of the Phoebe-Devitt Homes Foundation facility where Knauss died quietly in her room. Officials said that, to their knowledge, she had not been ill.

Knauss lived through seven U.S. wars, the sinking of the RMS Titanic and Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic. She was older than the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty, and was already 88 when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in July 1969.

In addition to her daughter, Knauss was survived by several grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren.

At age 116 she was recognized as the United States national longevity recordholder, then thought to be held by Carrie White (1874?-1991). It is now thought that the record should have been held by Lucy Hannah (117 years 248 days) who died in 1993. In any case, Sarah extended the U.S. record to age 119. She lived to see her daughter turn 96. Most scientific circles consider her to be the second-oldest person ever, after Jeanne Calment (the Izumi claim to be 120 being largely bypassed).

She is considered to have been the last living member of the Missionary Generation.

Preceded by: Marie-Louise Meilleur

Oldest Recognized Person in the World

Succeeded by: Eva Morris

(image) (caption)
Appears in	manga: Yu-Gi-Oh! (Original manga) Yu-Gi-Oh! R anime: Yu-Gi-Oh! (Duel Monsters) (2nd series anime) movie: Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light
Debut	Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist Volume 1, Duel 1 Original Japanese manga Vol. 7, Duel 60
Birthday	October 8
Sign	Libra
Age	24
Height	188 cm (6.16 feet)
Weight	65 kg (143 pounds)
Blood type	A
Favorite food	Wine and Gorgonzola cheese
Least favorite food	Cuttlefish and squid
Status at debut	Honorary Chairman of Industrial Illusion (I²)
Relations	Lost love: Cynthia (Cecelia Crawford in the English anime) Kohai: Yakou Tenma Right-hand man: Croquet (Crocketts in the Japanese versions)
Seiyu	Jiro Jay Takasugi
English voice actor	Darren Dunstan

Maximillion J. Pegasus, known as Pegasus J. Crawford (?????J???????) in the original Japanese anime and manga, is a fictional character in the manga and anime series Yu-Gi-Oh!. In the English Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses video game, and in the instruction booklet for Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, his original name, Pegasus Crawford is used, while in the other games his English anime and manga name is used. Pegasus is unusual in that his English name is used in the English manga while most Yu-Gi-Oh! human characters keep their Japanese names in the English manga. In the video game Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom, the character representing Pegasus within the virtual world of the game is named Pegasus J. Kroitzel.

Pegasus, an antagonist, is the Honorary Chairman of Industrial Illusion (I²) and the creator of the game of Duel Monsters (Magic and Wizards in the Japanese manga). Pegasus, an American, possesses the Millennium Eye (throughout the Duelist Kingdom saga), and is to trying take over the Kaiba Corporation for its Solid Vision technology so he can use it to see his deceased love, Cynthia (Cecelia Pegasus in the English anime, who is his wife in the English anime). A possible reason on why the name was changed is because "Cynthia Crawford" resembles "Cindy Crawford". Pegasus plans to use that technology in conjunction with the seven Millennium Items. Using Seto Kaiba's technology with the items' magic is said to be able to give the power of Life over Death and would bring Cindy back to life.

Pegasus first met Cynthia at a party thrown by his businessman father in Las Vegas 14 years ago. He says she died when he was 17. It was unclear whether or not they married in the original Japanese.

After her death, Pegasus searched the world looking for anything that could possibly revive the dead. His quest led him to Egypt where their beliefs of an afterlife intrigued him. There he met Shadi, the ghost of a guardian of the Millennium Items, who gouged Pegasus' left eye out and replaced it with a gold metal one called the Millennium Eye after Pegasus passed its test.

Pegasus soon learned of the ancient Shadow Games that were played in ancient Egypt and began to obsess with their powers. He created a new game in the United States basing a card game on the duels used in the ancient version. Combining the magic of the Millennium Items with these cards had the same effect as using them with the stone slabs originally used. One notable problem he had was with the Egyptian God Cards, whose magical powers were too great for him to manage. Fearing for his life, he returned to Egypt, and had Ishizu Ishtar, a current guardian, bury them in the Pharaoh's tomb.

Pegasus has a habit of calling Yugi Mutou (Yugi Moto in the English anime) "Yugi-boy" and Seto Kaiba "Kaiba-boy" in the English anime and manga. This is assumed because of his childish personality, since he still enjoys cartoons, and even created cartoon monsters.

In the manga, after his Millennium Eye is torn out, he disappears without a trace and is presumed dead.

In the Japanese second series anime, Pegasus is the inspiration for Dungeon Dice Monsters, a game that Ryuji Otogi (Duke Devlin) created. Pegasus' defeat at the hands of Yugi is the reason that Otogi challenges Yugi in both second series anime versions.

In Yu-Gi-Oh! R, Pegasus' k?hai (protégé), Yakou Tenma, takes over Industrial Illusions after Pegasus is defeated.

In the game Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 8: Reshef of Destruction in Japan), Pegasus takes an alias. In the Japanese version, he takes the name Taiyo Tenma (???? Tenma Taiy?). In the English version, he takes the name Sol Chevalsky.

Contents 1 Notable Dueling Cards 1.1 Monster Cards 1.2 Magic Cards 2 Reference

Notable Dueling Cards

Pegasus is best known for his Toon World card. Other cards in his deck are:

Monster Cards

• Blue Eyes Toon Dragon
• Red Archery Girl
• Toon Mermaid
• Toon Summoned Skull
• Ryu-Ran
• Manga Ryu-Ran
• Toon Dark Magician Girl
• Toon Masked Sorcerer
• Toon Gemini Elf
• Toon Alligator
• Parrot Dragon
• Relinquished
• Thousand-Eyes Idol
• Thousand-Eyes Restrict
• Illusionist Faceless Mage
• Dragon Piper
• Bikuribox

Magic Cards

• Toon Table of Contents
• Toon World
• Shine Palace
• Toon Rollback
• Doppleganger
• Prophecy

Reference

• Kazuki Takahashi (2002). Yu-Gi-Oh! Characters Guide Book - The Gospel of Truth (???????????????????????). Shueisha. ISBN 4-08-873363-0

The Yu-Gi-Oh! Directory

Composition Japanese Manga: Yu-Gi-Oh! (original manga) (in future updates) | Yu-Gi-Oh! R Japanese Anime: Yu-Gi-Oh! (first series anime) (only in Japan) | Yu-Gi-Oh! (second series anime) (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters) | Yu-Gi-Oh! GX English Manga: See this link English Anime: See Yu-Gi-Oh! (second series anime) Movies: First Yu-Gi-Oh! movie (only in Japan; see this link | Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light Characters Protagonists: Yugi Mutou (Yugi Moto) | Dark Yugi (Yami Yugi) | Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler) | Hiroto Honda (Tristan Taylor) | Anzu Mazaki (Téa Gardner) | Ryo Bakura | Miho Nosaka (Melody) Antagonists: Dark Bakura (Yami Bakura) | Pegasus J. Crawford (Maximillion Pegasus) | Marik Ishtar | Dark Marik (Yami Marik) | Noah Kaiba | Dartz | Rafael | Valon | Amelda (Alister) Other Characters: Seto Kaiba | Mokuba Kaiba | Sugoroku Mutou (Solomon Moto) | Shadi | Mai Kujaku (Mai Valentine) | Shizuka Kawai (Shizuka Jonouchi, Serenity Wheeler) | Ishizu Ishtar | Ryuji Otogi Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Protagonists: Jaden Yuki (Judai Yuki) | Alexis Rhodes (Asuka Tenjouin) | Syrus Truesdale (Sho Marufuji) | Hayato Maeda (Chumley Huffington) Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Antagonists: Jun Manjoume (Chazz Princeton) | Cronos de Medici (Vellian Crowler) Other Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Characters: Ryo Marufuji (Zane Truesdale) | Daichi Misawa (Bastion Misawa) See Also: Yu-Gi-Oh! main characters | Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and manga characters | Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, manga or movie only characters Merchandise Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game | Duel Disk Yu-Gi-Oh!-related books (not including manga) In English: Yu-Gi-Oh!: Monster Duel Official Handbook | Yu-Gi-Oh! Enter the Shadow Realm: Mighty Champions In Japanese: Yu-Gi-Oh! (novel) | Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game Duel Monsters Official Rule Guide - The Thousand Rule Bible | Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game Duel Monsters Official Card Catalog The Variable Book: See this link | Yu-Gi-Oh! Character Guide Book - The Gospel of Truth Yu-Gi-Oh!-related video games - See this link Edit this template

Het gaat weer goed met de ruimtevaart. Na het bange afwachten op het resultaat van de Discovery-missie is iedereen nu terug hoopvol voor de toekomst. De NASA wist te melden dat de shuttle nog nooit in zo'n goede staat teruggekeerd is van een ruimtereis. Daarnaast is vandaag ook nog een Ariane 5 vertrokken die meteen het record van de lancering van de zwaarste telecommunicatiesatelliet ooit op haar naam mag schrijven. Alleen een Ariane 5 is in staat om zo'n beest van 6,5 ton in een geostationaire baan te krijgen. De Europese en Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisaties beleven hoogdagen!

British Knights' is a brand of shoe.

De BBC scoort de laatste tijd enorm goed bij mij. Echt een omroep zoals het hoort: alles wat betaald wordt door de staat, ook gratis aan de burgers ter beschikking stellen. Zo moet het zijn. Velen herinneren zich wel nog de actie waarbij je een week lang de muziek van Beethoven kon downloaden. Wat velen echter niet weten, is dat de BBC nog veel meer weggeeft.

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Sommigen onder ons hebben misschien al de promovideo voor 175 jaar Belgi

Als je een dezer dagen door de Ottergemse Steenweg rijdt, kan je misschien nog een stukje van mijn vel tegenkomen. Inderdaad, ik heb er net het asfalt van heel dichtbij bekeken. Aan een goede snelheid aan het doortrekken toen het achterste tandwiel ineens het contact met de as verloor. Recht op mijn bek dus. Resultaat: een schelleke vel eraf aan de ellebogen en een rugzak en pc op mijn kop gekregen. Respect voor de vriendelijke man op de mobilette die direct stopte en vroeg of hij iets kon doen! Maar ja, buiten rechstaan en te voet verdergaan (naar de apotheker, om ontsmetting) kan je niet veel anders doen h

The past months, I had cow spots as wallpaper. Now I thought it could be the time for a new one. With all the news about Discovery this week and space being a passion for years, I decided to take a look at NASA's and ESA's wallpaper sections. Lot's of beautiful stuff to find there. The background of my current desktop (click for a larger image) is not some modern art by humans, but it's a masterpiece created by nature itself! I love those pictures and it was really hard to cut some of it to give the image the same ratio as my widescreen.

Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy or Erb's muscular dystrophy is a type of muscular dystrophy that includes Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Becker's muscular dystrophy, and a large number of rarer disorders.

The term "limb-girdle" is used to describe these disorders because the muscles most severely affected are generally those of the hips and shoulders -- the limb girdle muscles.

Common symptoms of limb-girdle muscular distrophy are muscle weakness, myoglobinuria, pain, myotonia, cardiomyopathy, elevated serum CK, and rippling muscles.

The muscle weakness is generally symmetric, proximal, and slowly progressive.

Generally pain is not present with LGMD, and mental function is not affected.

LGMD can begin in childhood, adolescence, young adulthood or even later. The age of onset is usually between 10 and 30. Both genders are affected equally. When limb-girdle muscular dystrophy begins in childhood the progression appears to be faster and the disease more disabling. When the disorder begins in adolescence or adulthood the disease is generally not as severe and progresses more slowly.

The distal muscles are affected late in LGMD, if at all. Over time (usually many years), the person with LGMD loses muscle bulk and strength. Eventually, he may need a power wheelchair or scooter, especially for long distances.

While LGMD isn't a fatal disease, it may eventually weaken the heart and lung muscles, leading to illness or death due to secondary disorders.

LGMD is typically an inherited disorder, though it may be inherited as a dominant, recessive, or X-linked genetic defect. The result of the defect is that the muscles cannot properly form the proteins needed for normal muscle function. Several different proteins can be affected, and the specific protein that is absent or defective identifies the specific type of muscular distrophy.

Treatment for LGMD is primarily supportive. Exercise and physical therapy are advised to maintain as much muscle strength and joint flexibility as possible. Assistive devices may be used to maintain mobility and quality of life. Careful attention to lung and heart health is also required.

Right now, I'm watching NASA TV with RealPlayer in a corner of my screen while working on wireless tests. It's nice to follow the mission this way and hear and see status updates while working. First two landing attempts were cancelled because of the bad weather in Florida. Next opportunity is at 13.06 CEST (engine burn) and another hour and 6 minutes later Discovery should touch the ground in California.

Constantine II (Causantín mac Áeda) (874?–952) was king of Scotland from 900 to 942 or 943. He was the son of King Aedh, first cousin of the previous king Donald II, and first cousin once removed of his successor Malcolm I, to whom he left his kingdom upon abdicating and becoming a monk. Constantine's reign is the second longest reign in Scottish history.

Constantine succeeded Donald to the Scottish throne in 900. If a coronation took place, then there is no surviving record of it.

During his reign, Constantine had to fend off Viking (or Norse) raids from the north and west. The earliest of these involved driving the Vikings away from Scotland, and this reached a triumphant climax at the Battle of Scone in 904, after which the Vikings were forced to withdraw from Scotland. However, by then, the Vikings had laid waste to much of Scotland, and in particular the Dunkeld and Alba areas.

Constantine later struggled to win land from, or at least not lose land to, his neighbour to the south, the Saxon area of Northumbria, where the Vikings, led by Viking king Ragnall, had resettled themselves. Constantine was involved in two battles with Ragnall (referred to as the Battles of Corbridge) in that area in 914 and 918, both of which resulted in Scottish victories and ultimately a cessation of hostilities there with the Norse.

When he was not involved in fighting Vikings, Constantine remodelled the Christian church of the day to be more Gaelic in nature. This included a Synod at Scone in 906, and he introduced the mormaer (earls) system to Scotland.

Constantine married at some point in his life, but virtually nothing is known of it. The date and place of the marriage are unrecorded, and his wife's name is likewise forgotten. It is known, however, that the marriage produced at least three children: two sons and a daughter.

Constantine's daughter, whose name is also no longer known, married Olaf III Guthfrithson, the Norse king of Dublin at the time, in 937, in order to establish a more stable relationship with the Norse. At least three children later came from this marriage. If it was intended to contribute to holding back Northumbria, it did not. Constantine was defeated at the Battle of Brunanburh by King Athelstan of England in 937. One of Constantine's sons, Cellach, died in this battle.

In 942 or 943, Constantine abdicated in favour of Malcolm and entered a Culdee monastery in St Andrews, Fife, and eventually became Abbot there. He died peacefully in 952, and was probably buried at the monastery. Constantine's surviving son, Indulf, later became King of Scotland.

Preceded by: Donald II

King of Scots

Succeeded by: Malcolm I

Binnenkort verdwijnen enkele kanalen van de analoge kabel. Ik kan me echter wel inbeelden dat kanalen zoals CNN, BBC World en ARTE wel gemist zullen worden door de studenten-homebewoners. Ik heb dan ook eens rondgezocht naar wat de mogelijkheden zouden kunnen zijn in de universitaire gebouwen met het interne TV-netwerk. Het ontvangen van het digitale signaal zou wel mogelijk moeten zijn, denk ik, een returnpad voor het interactieve deel echter niet. En de prijs zou normaal ook moeten meevallen: ofwel een waarborg van 50

Wie dacht dat het begrip aflaten in de hedendaagse maatschappij niet meer bestaat, heeft het bij het verkeerde eind. Aflaten zijn een gedeeltelijke of volledige kwijtschelding van de staffen voor begane zonden, uitgereikt door de paus. In het verleden hadden de pausen een bloeiende handel hierin en konden de rijkeren voor een mooie som hiermee hun zonden afkopen.

Vandaag de dag bestaan die dingen blijkbaar nog. Paus Benedictus XVI heeft namelijk beslist dat de deelnemers aan de Wereldjongerendagen in Keulen kunnen rekenen op dergelijke aflaten. Wilt u ook een aflaat, maar bent u verhinderd om naar Keulen te trekken? Bid dan voor de deelnemers en u krijgt gedeeltelijke kwijtschelding van uw zonden.

Bron: dit artikel in De Standaard.
Edit: de bronverwijzing is een artikel uit het snelnieuws, nu staat er ook een ander artikel: Kom naar Keulen, verdien een aflaat

Since a time ago, I had some strange mouse (and sound) problems. I was using a 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 kernel compiled manually with everything working. The only strange thing was some message appearing at boot time (more exactly when /etc/init.d/alsasound was started) pointing me at the fact that there was a problem with the program reading the file "/etc/asound.state". I took a look into that file, but all I saw were @'s and other strange signs, so it seemed it was a binary one. Normally there are no binary files in /etc, so I thought it might be corrupted and I removed the file. (In fact: it is the file where your mixer levels are stored, so removing it couldn't cause any problems) Since then, sound wasn't working anymore.

Another problem I had, was when I compiled a new 2.6.12 kernel starting from the old .config file and using "make menuconfig". When booting that kernel, my USB-mouse didn't work anymore. Touchpad and the "clit" (that little "button" between the g and h on some laptopkeyboards) worked perfect. It even didn't work anymore when I recompiled the old 2.6.11 kernel with the config gathered from "zcat /proc/config.gz > .config" because I lost the original one. So these two 2.6.11 kernels should be identical, but the newly compiled one didn't make my USB-mouse work the way the old one did. Strange stuff, isn't it?

So, thanks to the nice guys on bcol the problem is solved now. In my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, I had three sections "InputDevice": one for my keyboard and two for my mice (USB and touchpad/clit). One was using /dev/input/mouse0, the other one /dev/input/mouse1. Toni (Dutch weblog) explained me that I could better use /dev/input/mice as this is some virtual device combining the input from all mouse-devices. I even shouldn't merge the two sections and there options, just change the device. And yes, this works! And with the new kernel, I also have sound working! There must be some file corrupt in the old kernel image. Thanks, Toni!

Next thing on the list is following the Gentoo Power Management Guide, when I have some time.

Contents 1 Dates of Sessions 2 Major Political Events 3 Officers 3.1 Senate 3.2 House of Representatives 4 Members of the Seventieth United States Congress 4.1 Senate 4.2 Representatives

Dates of Sessions

1927-1929

Major Political Events

Officers

Senate

• President pro tempore - George H. Moses

House of Representatives

• Speaker of the House - Nicholas Longworth

Members of the Seventieth United States Congress

Senate

• Henry Fountain Ashurst (D-AZ)
• Alben William Barkley (D-KY)
• Thomas Francis Bayard (D-DE)
• Hiram Francis Bingham (R-CT)
• Hugo Lafayette Black (D-AL)
• John James Blaine (R-WI)
• Coleman Livingston Blease (D-SC)
• William Edgar Borah (R-ID)
• Sam Gilbert Bratton (D-NM)
• Smith Wildman Brookhart (R-IA)
• Edwin Sidney Broussard (D-LA)
• William Cabell Bruce (D-MD)
• Theodore Elijah Burton (R-OH)
• Arthur Elijah Capper (R-KS)
• Thaddeus Horatius Caraway (D-AR)
• Royal Samuel Copeland (D-NY)
• James Samuel Couzens (R-MI)
• Charles Samuel Curtis (R-KS)
• Bronson Murray Cutting (R-NM)
• Porter Hinman Dale (R-VT)
• Charles Samuel Deneen (R-IL)
• Clarence Cleveland Dill (D-WA)
• Thomas Coleman Du Pont (R-DE)
• Walter Evans Edge (R-NJ)
• Edward Irving Edwards (D-NJ)
• Woodbridge Nathan Ferris (D-MI)
• Simeon Davison Fess (R-OH)
• Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (D-FL)
• Lynn Joseph Frazier (R-ND)
• Walter Franklin George (D-GA)
• Peter Goelet Gerry (D-RI)
• Frederick Huntington Gillett (R-MA)
• Carter Huntington Glass (D-VA)
• Otis Ferguson Glenn (R-IL)
• Guy Despard Goff (R-WV)
• Frank Robert Gooding (R-ID)
• Arthur Robinson Gould (R-ME)
• Frank Lester Greene (R-VT)
• Frederick Lester Hale (R-ME)
• William Julius Harris (D-GA)
• Byron Patton Harrison (D-MS)
• Daniel Oren Hastings (R-DE)
• Harry Bartow Hawes (D-MO)
• Carl Trumbull Hayden (D-AZ)
• James Thomas Heflin (D-AL)
• Robert Beecher Howell (R-NE)
• Hiram Warren Johnson (R-CA)
• Andrieus Aristieus Jones (D-NM)
• Wesley Livsey Jones (R-WA)
• John Benjamin Kendrick (D-WY)
• Henry Wilder Keyes (R-NH)
• William Henry King (D-UT)
• Robert Marion La Follette (R-WI)
• Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo (R-NM)
• Cyrus Ambrosio Locher (D-OH)
• Earle Bradford Mayfield (D-TX)
• Kenneth Douglas Mckellar (D-TN)
• George Payne Mclean (R-CT)
• William Henry Mcmaster (R-SD)
• Charles Linza Mcnary (R-OR)
• Jesse Houghton Metcalf (R-RI)
• George Higgins Moses (R-NH)
• Matthew Mansfield Neely (D-WV)
• Peter Mansfield Norbeck (R-SD)
• George William Norris (R-NE)
• Gerald Prentice Nye (R-ND)
• Tasker Lowndes Oddie (R-NV)
• Lee Slater Overman (D-NC)
• Lawrence Cowle Phipps (R-CO)
• William Bliss Pine (R-OK)
• Key Bliss Pittman (D-NV)
• Joseph Eugene Ransdell (D-LA)
• David Aiken Reed (R-PA)
• James Alexander Reed (D-MO)
• Arthur Raymond Robinson (R-IN)
• Joseph Taylor Robinson (D-AR)
• Frederic Mosley Sackett (R-KY)
• Thomas David Schall (R-MN)
• Morris David Sheppard (D-TX)
• Henrik David Shipstead (Farmer-Labor-MN)
• Samuel Morgan Shortridge (R-CA)
• Furnifold Mclendel Simmons (D-NC)
• Ellison Durant Smith (D-SC)
• Frank Leslie Smith (R-IL)
• Reed Leslie Smoot (R-UT)
• Daniel Frederic Steck (D-IA)
• Frederick Frederic Steiwer (R-OR)
• Hubert Durrett Stephens (D-MS)
• Claude Augustus Swanson (D-VA)
• Elmer Augustus Thomas (D-OK)
• John Augustus Thomas (R-ID)
• John William Thomas (D-OK)
• Park William Trammell (D-FL)
• Millard Evelyn Tydings (D-MD)
• Lawrence Davis Tyson (D-TN)
• Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg (R-MI)
• William Scott Vare (R-PA)
• Robert Ferdinand Wagner (D-NY)
• David Ignatius Walsh (D-MA)
• Thomas James Walsh (D-MT)
• Francis Emroy Warren (R-WY)
• Charles Winfield Waterman (R-CO)
• James Eli Watson (R-IN)
• Burton Kendall Wheeler (D-MT)
• Frank Bartlett Willis (R-OH)

Representatives

• Charles Laban Abernethy (D-NC)
• Ernest Robinson Ackerman (R-NJ)
• Charles Robinson Adkins (R-IL)
• Richard Steere Aldrich (R-RI)
• John Clayton Allen (R-IL)
• Miles Clayton Allgood (D-AL)
• Edward Berton Almon (D-AL)
• August Herman Andresen (R-MN)
• Abram Piatt Andrew (R-MA)
• Daniel Read Anthony (R-KS)
• Samuel Shaw Arentz (R-NV)
• William Wright Arnold (D-IL)
• James Benjamin Aswell (D-LA)
• Oscar Louis Auf Der Heide (D-NJ)
• William Augustus Ayres (D-KS)
• Isaac Augustus Bacharach (R-NJ)
• Carl George Bachmann (R-WV)
• Robert Low Bacon (R-NY)
• William Brockman Bankhead (D-AL)
• Henry Ellsworth Barbour (R-CA)
• James Montgomery Beck (R-PA)
• Joseph David Beck (R-WI)
• Carroll Lynwood Beedy (R-ME)
• Edward Mcmath Beers (R-PA)
• James Thomas Begg (R-OH)
• Thomas Montgomery Bell (D-GA)
• Victor Luitpold Berger (Socialist-WI)
• Eugene Luitpold Black (D-TX)
• Loring Milton Black (D-NY)
• Schuyler Otis Bland (D-VA)
• Thomas Lindsay Blanton (D-TX)
• Sol Lindsay Bloom (D-NY)
• Frank Probasco Bohn (R-MI)
• William Dayton Boies (R-IA)
• Henry Leland Bowles (R-MA)
• Frank Llewellyn Bowman (R-WV)
• John Calvin Box (D-TX)
• John Joseph Boylan (D-NY)
• Charles Joseph Brand (R-OH)
• Charles Hillyer Brand (D-GA)
• Clay Stone Briggs (D-TX)
• Elbert Sidney Brigham (R-VT)
• Frederick Albert Britten (R-IL)
• Edward Everts Browne (R-WI)
• Gordon Weaver Browning (D-TN)
• James Paul Buchanan (D-TX)
• John Theodore Buckbee (R-IL)
• Alfred Lee Bulwinkle (D-NC)
• Clark Lee Burdick (R-RI)
• Olger Burton Burtness (R-ND)
• Thomas Jefferson Busby (D-MS)
• Robert Grey Bushong (R-PA)
• Robert Reyburn Butler (R-OR)
• Thomas Stalker Butler (R-PA)
• Joseph Wellington Byrns (D-TN)
• Guy Edgar Campbell (D-PA)
• Harry Clifford Canfield (D-IN)
• Clarence Andrew Cannon (D-MO)
• John Francis Carew (D-NY)
• Patrick J. Carley (D-NY)
• William Leighton Carss Farmer LaboriteMN)
• Albert Edward Carter (R-CA)
• Wilburn Edward Cartwright (D-OK)
• John Joseph Casey (D-PA)
• Emanuel Joseph Celler (D-NY)
• William Wallace Chalmers (R-OH)
• Virgil Munday Chapman (D-KY)
• James Mitchell Chase (R-PA)
• Carl Richard Chindblom (R-IL)
• Charles Andrew Christopherson (R-SD)
• Frank Andrew Clague (R-MN)
• Robert Henry Clancy (R-MI)
• John Davenport Clarke (R-NY)
• John Joseph Cochran (D-MO)
• Thomas Cunningham Cochran (R-PA)
• William Wolfe Cohen (D-NY)
• Cyrenus Wolfe Cole (R-IA)
• William Purington Cole (D-MD)
• James William Collier (D-MS)
• Ross Alexander Collins (D-MS)
• Don Byron Colton (R-UT)
• George Hamilton Combs (D-MO)
• Thomas Terry Connally (D-TX)
• William Patrick Connery (D-MA)
• James Joseph Connolly (R-PA)
• Henry Allen Cooper (R-WI)
• John Gordon Cooper (R-OH)
• Parker Gordon Corning (D-NY)
• Edward Eugene Cox (D-GA)
• Joe Eugene Crail (R-CA)
• Louis Convers Cramton (R-MI)
• Charles Robert Crisp (D-GA)
• Robert Crosser (D-OH)
• Frank Robert Crowther (R-NY)
• Maurice Edgar Crumpacker (R-OR)
• Francis Dugan Culkin (R-NY)
• Thomas Henry Cullen (D-NY)
• Charles Forrest Curry (R-CA)
• Frederick William Dallinger (R-MA)
• George Potter Darrow (R-PA)
• Frederick Morgan Davenport (R-NY)
• Martin Luther Davey (D-OH)
• Ewin Lamar Davis (D-TN)
• René Louis De Rouen (D-LA)
• Joseph Thomas Deal (D-VA)
• Stephen Wallace Dempsey (R-NY)
• Edward Everett Denison (R-IL)
• Clement Cabell Dickinson (D-MO)
• Lester Jesse Dickinson (R-IA)
• Samuel Jesse Dickstein (D-NY)
• Frederick Haskell Dominick (D-SC)
• Robert Lee Doughton (D-NC)
• Lewis Williams Douglas (D-AZ)
• John Joseph Douglass (D-MA)
• Isaac Hoffer Doutrich (R-PA)
• Cassius Clay Dowell (R-IA)
• Thomas Aloysius Doyle (D-IL)
• Herbert Jackson Drane (D-FL)
• Patrick Henry Drewry (D-VA)
• William Joshua Driver (D-AR)
• Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer (R-MO)
• Charles Aubrey Eaton (R-NJ)
• Charles Gordon Edwards (D-GA)
• Richard Nash Elliott (R-IN)
• Edward Theodore England (R-WV)
• Harry Lane Englebright (R-CA)
• Edward Everett Eslick (D-TN)
• Harry Allison Estep (R-PA)
• John Morgan Evans (D-MT)
• William Elmer Evans (R-CA)
• Charles Lee Faust (R-MO)
• Edward Hart Fenn (R-CT)
• Hamilton Hart Fish (R-NY)
• Hubert Frederick Fisher (D-TN)
• Roy Gerald Fitzgerald (R-OH)
• William Thomas Fitzgerald (R-OH)
• James Martin Fitzpatrick (D-NY)
• Thomas Brooks Fletcher (D-OH)
• Franklin William Fort (R-NJ)
• Frank Herbert Foss (R-MA)
• James Archibald Frear (R-WI)
• Arthur Monroe Free (R-CA)
• Richard Patrick Freeman (R-CT)
• Burton Lee French (R-ID)
• Louis Adams Frothingham (R-MA)
• James Franklin Fulbright (D-MO)
• Hampton Pitts Fulmer (D-SC)
• Allen John Furlow (R-MN)
• James Ambrose Gallivan (D-MA)
• Stephen Warfield Gambrill (D-MD)
• Milton Cline Garber (R-OK)
• Frank Cline Gardner (D-IN)
• John Nance Garner (D-TX)
• Daniel Edward Garrett (D-TX)
• Finis James Garrett (D-TN)
• Allard Henry Gasque (D-SC)
• Ernest Willard Gibson (R-VT)
• Charles Laceille Gifford (R-MA)
• Ralph Waldo Gilbert (D-KY)
• James Peter Glynn (R-CT)
• Benjamin Martin Golder (R-PA)
• Thomas Alan Goldsborough (D-MD)
• Godfrey Gummer Goodwin (R-MN)
• George Scott Graham (R-PA)
• Robert Alexis Green (D-FL)
• William Raymond Green (R-IA)
• Arthur Herbert Greenwood (D-IN)
• William Voris Gregory (D-KY)
• William Walton Griest (R-PA)
• Anthony Jerome Griffin (D-NY)
• Ulysses Samuel Guyer (R-KS)
• Lindley Hoag Hadley (R-WA)
• Fletcher Hoag Hale (R-NH)
• Albert Richardson Hall (R-IN)
• Homer William Hall (R-IL)
• Thomas William Hall (R-ND)
• William Cicero Hammer (D-NC)
• Clarence Eugene Hancock (R-NY)
• Guy Urban Hardy (R-CO)
• Butler Black Hare (D-SC)
• Thomas Walter Harrison (D-VA)
• William Wirt Hastings (D-OK)
• Gilbert Nelson Haugen (R-IA)
• Willis Chatman Hawley (R-OR)
• James Miller Hazlett (R-PA)
• Ira Greenlief Hersey (R-ME)
• Andrew James Hickey (R-IN)
• Joseph Lister Hill (D-AL)
• Samuel Billingsley Hill (D-WA)
• Homer Billingsley Hoch (R-KS)
• Harold Giles Hoffman (R-NJ)
• David Giles Hogg (R-IN)
• William Perry Holaday (R-IL)
• Joseph Lawrence Hooper (R-MI)
• Clifford Ragsdale Hope (R-KS)
• David William Hopkins (R-MO)
• Robert Griffith Houston (R-DE)
• Edgar Griffith Howard (D-NE)
• Everette Burgess Howard (D-OK)
• George Burgess Huddleston (D-AL)
• Grant Martin Hudson (R-MI)
• Claude Benton Hudspeth (D-TX)
• James Anthony Hughes (R-WV)
• Cordell Anthony Hull (D-TN)
• Morton Denison Hull (R-IL)
• William Edgar Hull (R-IL)
• James Thomas Igoe (D-IL)
• Edward Michael Irwin (R-IL)
• Meyer Michael Jacobstein (D-NY)
• William Francis James (R-MI)
• Lamar Francis Jeffers (D-AL)
• Thomas Albert Jenkins (R-OH)
• Albert Johnson (R-WA)
• Jed Joseph Johnson (D-OK)
• Luther Alexander Johnson (D-TX)
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/* GConf test reader
 * Compile using
 *      gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags gconf-2.0` -o reader reader.c
 */

#include <glib.h>
#include <gconf/gconf-client.h>

/* Path to the key we'll be working with */
#define GCKEY "/desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec"

gint main(gint argc, gchar *argv[]) {
        /* Our proxy */
        GConfClient *gclient = NULL;
        /* String to store the GCKEY's value in */
        gchar *val = NULL;

        /* Initialize the GConf subsystem */
        gconf_init(argc, argv, NULL);

        g_print("Working with key \"%s\"\n", "" GCKEY);
        
        /* Get the default GConf proxy */
        gclient = gconf_client_get_default();
        g_assert(gclient != NULL);

        /* Get the value of GCKEY */
        val = gconf_client_get_string(gclient, "" GCKEY, NULL);
        if(val == NULL) {
                /* Key was not set before */
                val = g_strdup("<unset>");
        }
        g_assert(val != NULL);

        g_print("Value: \"%s\"\n", val);

        g_free(val);

        return 0;
}

/* GConf test writer
 * Compile using
 *      gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags gconf-2.0` -o setkey setkey.c
 */

#include <glib.h>
#include <gconf/gconf-client.h>

/* Path to the key we'll be working with */
#define GCKEY "/extra/test/key"

gint main(gint argc, gchar *argv[]) {
        /* Our proxy */
        GConfClient *gclient = NULL;
        /* New value */
        gchar *val = NULL;

        /* Initialize the GConf subsystem */
        gconf_init(argc, argv, NULL);

        if(argc > 1) {
                val = g_strdup(argv[1]);
        }
        else {
                val = g_strdup("testval");
        }

        g_print("Working with key \"%s\"\n", "" GCKEY);
        
        /* Get the default GConf proxy */
        gclient = gconf_client_get_default();
        g_assert(gclient != NULL);

        g_assert(val != NULL);
        gconf_client_set_string(gclient, "" GCKEY, val, NULL);

        g_print("Value \"%s\" set\n", val);

        g_free(val);

        return 0;
}

/* GConf test listener
 * Compile using
 *      gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags gconf-2.0` -o listener listener.c
 */

#include <glib.h>
#include <gconf/gconf-client.h>

/* The GConf PATH we'll want to monitor */
#define GCPATH "/extra/test"
/* Path to the key we'll be working with */
#define GCKEY "/extra/test/key"

/* This is the callback function for GCKEY changes */
void key_changed_cb(GConfClient* client, guint cnxn_id, GConfEntry *entry, gpointer user_data) {
        /* Store the new key value */
        gchar *val = NULL;
        /* A local GConfValue */
        GConfValue *value = NULL;

        /* Get the value from the provided entry */
        value = gconf_entry_get_value(entry);
        
        /* This should not happen, but one never knows */
        if(value == NULL) {
                val = g_strdup("<unset>");
        }
        else {
                /* Check value type, we want a string */
                if(value->type == GCONF_VALUE_STRING) {
                        /* Get the key value
                         * We use g_strdup because we'll g_free(val) later */
                        val = g_strdup(gconf_value_get_string(value));
                }
                else {
                        val = g_strdup("<wrong type>");
                }
        }
        g_assert(val != NULL);

        g_print("Value changed: \"%s\"\n", val);

        g_free(val);
}

gint main(gint argc, gchar *argv[]) {
        /* Our proxy */
        GConfClient *gclient = NULL;
        /* String to store the GCKEY's value in */
        gchar *val = NULL;
        /* A simple mainloop */
        GMainLoop *loop = NULL;

        /* Initialize the GConf subsystem */
        gconf_init(argc, argv, NULL);

        g_print("Working with key \"%s\"\n", "" GCKEY);
        
        /* Get the default GConf proxy */
        gclient = gconf_client_get_default();
        g_assert(gclient != NULL);

        /* Get the value of GCKEY */
        val = gconf_client_get_string(gclient, "" GCKEY, NULL);
        if(val == NULL) {
                /* Key was not set before */
                val = g_strdup("<unset>");
        }
        g_assert(val != NULL);

        g_print("Initial value: \"%s\"\n", val);

        g_free(val);

        /* Watch GCPATH */
        gconf_client_add_dir(gclient, "" GCPATH, GCONF_CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE, NULL);
        /* And specify a callback function for GCKEY changes */
        gconf_client_notify_add(gclient, "" GCKEY, key_changed_cb, NULL, NULL, NULL);

        /* Create a mainloop and run it */
        loop = g_main_loop_new(NULL, FALSE);
        g_assert(loop != NULL);
        g_main_loop_run(loop);

        return 0;
}