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Don't we just love MS and the great software they offer us? ;-)

Don't take tis too seriously, of course

Regelmatig kijk ik de statistieken van deze weblog eens na. Zo kan ik bijvoorbeeld melden dat 2 augustus tot nu toe de drukste dag was met 1983 bezoekers, en dat Liferea, Feedreader en Mozilla Thunderbird de populairste tools zijn om deze RSS-feed te volgen. Wat echter steevast leuke informatie oplevert, zijn de "refering searches". Hier kan je zien welke zoektermen men gebruikt heeft in Google of een andere zoekmachine om op deze pagina's terecht te komen. Blijkbaar mag je echt rare dingen ingeven om toch nog hier terecht te komen.

• reisjes naar parijs
• overschot mosselen verwerken
• het fun huis
• kabouterbos belgium software :-D
• Josiane Van Der Elst

Ik weet niet of ik die mensen heb kunnen helpen in hun zoektocht naar informatie :-D De meeste zoektermen zijn echter eerder termen ivm linux, ipw2200, wlan, (k)ubuntu, kismet,... Hopelijk hebben die mensen iets aan mijn schrijfsels hier h

I Ching hexagram 01, depicted |||||| is named ? (qián), Force. Other translations: R. Wilhelm/C. Baynes, The Creative; G. Whincup, Strong Action; E. Shaughnessy (Mawangdui), The Key.

• Inner (lower) trigram is ? (||| ? qián) Force = (?) heaven
• Outer (upper) trigram is ? (||| ? qián) Force = (?) heaven

Gisteravond ben ik, voorzien van slaapzak en matje, afgezakt naar het verre Menen voor een feestje bij vrienden. Het is een fantastische avond geworden, die volledig in het teken van de chocolade stond.

Alles begon met een overheerlijke chocoladefondue, met zowel melkchocolade als mijn favoriete fondant. Voor wie dit nog nooit gedaan heeft, is De Chocoladebar een aanrader, waar je je smaakorganen kan verwennen met chocoladefondues in alle maten en soorten. Het was alleszins geweldig. En voor echte chocoladeliefhebbers (ja, ik beken schuldig) komt er natuurlijk nooit een einde aan :oops:

Als de meeste magen dan uiteindelijk toch begonnen tegen te spruttelen, werd het tijd om alles wat te laten zakken. Gezellig met z'n allen in de zetel doorzakken voor een goeie film. En om in de sfeer te blijven, is er natuurlijk geen betere dan Chocolat. Jaja, zelfs met overvolle magen blijft die film nog altijd superverleidelijk en krijg je terug zin in dat heerlijke bruine goedje. We konden het dan ook niet laten om de fonduepotten aan te vallen en vingertje voor vingertje nogmaals te genieten. Als kers op de taart was er dan nog ijs, wat uiteraard Dame Blanche was (of chocolade-ijs voor de liefhebbers).

Dat het ontbijt oa bestond uit chocoladekoeken en niemand echt veel honger had, is niet verwonderlijk zeker? De echte chocolademelk (gemaakt uit de overblijvende chocoladefondue aangevuld met melk) mocht natuurlijk ook niet ontbreken.

Echt wel een overheerlijke avond/nacht/ochtend. Het water komt me nog steeds in de mond als ik eraan terugdenk. Een overdaad aan chocolade is gewoonweg onmogelijk, al reclameert mijn maag soms wel een beetje. Zeker en vast voor herhaling vatbaar! Ik denk dat ik dat boek "chocoladedesserten" nog eens uit de kast ga halen om wat overheerlijke inspiratie op te doen. B-)

En dan nu: studeren XX(

Hichis? (???; -ch?) is a town located in Kamo District, Gifu, Japan.

As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 5,016 and a density of 55.44 persons per km². The total area is 90.47 km².

External link

• Official website in Japanese

Mimosa was a science fiction fanzine edited by Richard and Nicki Lynch. It won six Hugo Awards for Best Fanzine and was nominated 13 times. Published from the 1980s until 2003, Mimosa focused on discussions of the history and impact of science fiction fandom. Contributors included Forrest J. Ackerman, Sharon N. Farber, Dave Kyle, Walt Willis, and Mike Resnick.

Mimosa also featured a great deal of fan art, including covers by Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist winners including Joe Mayhew, Brad W. Foster, Teddy Harvia, Ian Gunn.

The final article featured in the final issue of Mimosa, "Footprints in the Sand" by Michael A. Burstein, is one of several articles in the late 1990s and early 2000s that highlight the eventual death of science fiction fandom.

External links

• Best of Mimosa collection

The Railway Express Agency was a rail express service, at one point the only one in the United States. Originally the American Railway Express Agency, its name was changed in 1927. It filed for bankruptcy in 1975.

This rail-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Sometime ago, I wrote I was impressed by the automatic printer detection and configuration of Gnome/Cups. I didn't know how it was possible to detect and configure that network printers fully automatic in a windows-only environment where the support team doesn't take into account linux users.

Today, I discovered how that's possible. In fact, it's quite simple. I was doing a test with wireless acces points and a wireless controller. I was monitoring traffic between those devices and noticed my own computer was sending packets to some multicast adresses. Google learned me the multicast address where my computer was sending these packets to, is used by Apple Bonjour or RendezVous. So it seems that every device (network shares and printers,...) meeting the requirements for automatic configuration with Mac OS X, also automaticly works with Linux. Very nice! Thank you, Apple!

Na enkele kleine opmerkingen heb ik de tekst hier en daar aangepast. Deze is vanmiddag verstuurd naar de pers, het kabinet onderwijs, enkele Vlaamse parlementsleden en enkele betrokkenen aan de UGent met volgende begeleidende mail:

Vorige week berichtte de media, met voorop De Standaard, uitvoerig over de zaak Vandamme aan de Universiteit Gent. Dat de UGent daarbij in een negatief daglicht geplaatst werd, doet geen goed aan het imago van de universiteit en nog minder aan de waarde van mijn diploma en dat van mijn medestudenten. Ik zie dit bericht dan ook naar de hierover berichtende media, de kwaliteitskrant De Standaard in het bijzonder, als een persoonlijk recht van antwoord. Alvast bedankt voor uw aandacht.

De binnengelopen reacties waren uitermate positief en enthousiast. De Standaard echter liet mij hetvolgende weten:

Geachte heer Dedecker,

ik moet vaststellen dat u aan geen enkel van de vereisten om voor een recht op antwoord in aanmerking te komen voldoet. Overigens vergist u zich geheel met uw complottheorie. Alle betrokkenen bij de berichtgeving in deze zaak, van de auteur over zijn chef tot de hoofdredacteur, zijn oud-studenten van de UGent en zijn daar, terecht, net even trots op als u. Twee van hen zijn zelfs oudstudenten van professor Vandamme.

met vriendelijke groeten,

Bart Sturtewagen
Adjunct-hoofdredacteur De Standaard

Dat het geen officieel "recht van antwoord" was, wist ik wel al en was volgens mij wel duidelijk, hoop ik. Bovendien heb ik het niet louter over de berichtgeving in de zaak-Vandamme, doch over de algemene berichtgeving van De Standaard over de UGent en de KULeuven. De berichtgeving over de zaak Vandamme is al bij al nog vrij braafjes, doch dat is de overige berichtgeving, met zelfs tal van onjuistheden (zie tekst) helemaal niet.

Hopelijk komen er nog wat reacties op en heeft de UGent de boodschap begrepen.

Mijn vorige post is blijkbaar niet in dovemansoren gevallen. Verschillende personen binnen de GSR hebben al positief gereageerd. Er werd dan ook voorgesteld om een opiniestuk te schrijven en naar de kranten te sturen. Aangezien een boodschap van een student, recht uit het hart, beter overkomt dan een inderhaast bijeengegoten geforceerd standpunt van de GSR, heb ik mij aan het schrijven gezet en mijn boodschap van gisteren herwerkt tot een opinie die klaar is om ingestuurd te worden.

(bijgewerkte versie)

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The Non-Manufacturing ISM Report on Business is a purchasing survey of the United States service economy, published by the Institute for Supply Management since June 1998. Its results are a popular economic indicator and forecaster.

Its primary index is the Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index.

The other indices are

• New Orders
• Employment
• Supplier Deliveries
• Inventories
• Prices
• Backlog of Orders
• New Export Orders
• Imports
• Inventory Sentiment

Business Activity, New Orders, Imports, and Employment indices are seasonally adjusted.

The report is based on data compiled from monthly replies to questions asked of more than 370 purchasing and supply executives in over 62 different industries representing nine divisions from the Standard Industrial Classification categories.

Dat onze universiteit de voorbije week een aantal keren in de pers gekomen is, zal iedereen wel gemerkt hebben. Jammergenoeg was dat in een niet al te proper daglicht, alles draaide immers om de jarenlange malafide praktijken van de genoemde professor Vandamme. Dit doet allesbehalve goed aan het imago van de UGent. Echter, je moet dat ook van een andere kant bekijken: in Gent zijn de studenten mondig genoeg om, evt met hulp van studentenvertegenwoordigers, decanen, professoren, assistenten en andere medewerkers van onze universiteit, de hele zaak aan te pakken ipv onder de mat te vegen. In de UGent durft men denken ipv netjes in de pas te lopen! Wouter is hier, samen met studentenvertegenwoordigers en anderen, een volledig jaar aan bezig geweest. We mogen trots zijn dat de democratie in onze instelling sterk genoeg is om deze rotte appel te verwijderen en een tuchtprocedure op te starten ipv voor een doofpotoperatie te opteren. Het kan onze universiteit en de kwaliteit van ons onderwijs en diploma alleen maar ten goede komen!

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Ik was dit vorig keer vergeten te vermelden, maar een hele tijd na datum heb ik alsnog een antwoord gekregen van Ars

Afi The putative ancestor of the class of small farmers and craftsmen in the Song of Ríg in Norse mythology.

See also AFI.

The Oroqen people (????) (also spelled Oroqin and sometimes Orochen and Orochon) are an ethnic group in northern China. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. They live in Inner Mongolia and along the Heilongjiang river.

This ethnic-group-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

A yoga instructor performing an asana

Asana is a Sanskrit word that literally means a seat but in the practise of yoga refers to a pose or posture. In Patanjali's yoga sutras Asana means, mainly, sitting for meditation.

The practice of asanas involves stretching and moving the body into various positions. With practice, the body can be made to remain a given position for a longer period of time, comfortably. When a degree of comfort is attained in a given posture, it becomes Asana. In general, however, the term is also used to refer to physical yoga exercises in general.

The practice of asanas is very good for muscle flexibility, and many practitioners believe the positions massage and bring balance to the various internal glands and organs of the body, and that they facilitate and balance the flow of prana (vital energy) in the body.

This physical aspect of yoga has been much popularised in the western world and is practiced by a great deal of people, including many celebrities like Madonna, which has given rise to a misconception that asanas are all there is to yoga. This is not true. Yoga asanas such as shirsasana (headstand), etc. (see below) are actually part of Hatha Yoga, which itself is just one of several different ways of practising and approaching yoga. For example, in Pantanjali's work referred to above, Asana is classified as the third rung in the ladder of the practice of Raja Yoga, which consists of 8 limbs: Yama and Niyama, which are ethical obligations, Asana, Pranayama, which is breath control, Pratyahara, which is sense withdrawal, Dharana, which is concentration, Dhyana, which is meditation, and Samadhi, which is the experience of unity with God.

Conditions for a Good Asana

Students taking a yoga class

The Asana should be firm and easy. It should be steady and not cause discomfort of any kind. Any tightness or tension observed in the body should be consciously relaxed. It should be a comfortable posture in which he or she can sit for a long time. The Asana should be effortless both in the body and in the mind. Absolute ease of relaxation is the sign of perfected Asana. The breathing should be a natural rhythm, through the nose, breathing into the belly and not into the chest.

According to Hatha Yoga practitioners, when this bodily control is achieved, they are free from what they call the 'pairs of opposites', such as heat and cold, hunger and thirst, joy and grief, and so on.

Selected Asanas

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of yoga asanas ( since in reality, any bodily position comfortably held could be an Asana ). There is a wealth of knowledge in books and on the internet, but it is better to begin practicing with an experienced yoga instructor, who can see if you are performing the position correctly, and can prevent you from hurting yourself by overstretching. These days, it is not difficult to find yoga instructors, although good ones are perhaps harder to come by.

The Hatha Yoga Pradipika By Swami Svatmarama (External link) suggests the following "sitting for meditation asanas". Other translations of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika have more to say about the sitting asanas, albeit cryptically.

• Svastikasana: "Sitting straight on level ground, squeeze both feet between calves and thighs [of the opposite legs]. This is svastikasana."

HYP Chapter 3 Asanas: sutra #19

• Virasana: "Place one foot upon the other thigh and the other foot below the opposite thigh. This is virasana."

HYP Chapter 3 Asanas: sutra #21

• Siddhasana: "Press one heel into the place below the sex organs [the perineum] and put the other heel just above this region [close to the abdomen]. Press the chin upon the chest, sit up straight, with controlled organs, and fasten the eyes between the eyebrows. This is siddhasana, whereby all obstacles on the path to perfection are removed"

HYP Chapter 3 Asanas: sutra #35

• Vajrasana: "Place the right heel above the sex organ and the left heel over the right. This too is siddhasana."

HYP Chapter 3 Asanas: sutra #36
"Some call this siddhasana; others say it is vajrasana, or muk-tasana, or guptasana"
HYP Chapter 3 Asanas: sutra #37

A drawing of a girl in padmasana, the lotus position

• Padmasana: "Place the right heel upon the base of the left thigh and the left upon the right thigh. Cross the arms behind the back and grasp the toes, the right ones with the right hand and the left with the left. Press the chin on the breast and look at the tip of your nose. This is called padmasana and cures all diseases."

(The secret teaching is that there should be a space of four inches between the chin and the breast" Sri Nivasa lyangar. The Hatha Yoga Pradipika of Yoga Swami Svatmarama (translation with commentary) (Adyar, 1949), p. 22. -Trans.)
HYP Chapter 3 Asanas: sutra #37

Yoga Poses

Yogaasana can be relaxing, gentle, athletic and invigorating.

• Backbends
• Forward bends
• Spine twists
• Arm balances
• Seated poses

External links

1. Sri Swami Chidananda The Philosophy, the Psychology, and Practice of Yoga http://www.SivanandaDlshq.org/
2. Sri Swami Krishnananda The Yoga System http://www.SivanandaDlshq.org/
3. Download the complete text of Sri Swami Krishnananda's and Sri Swami Chidananda's material quoted above from: http://www.dlshq.org/download/download.htm
4. Hatha Yoga Pradipika by Swami Svatmarama Foreward by B. K. S. Iyengar. Commentary by Hans Ulrich Rieker. Translated by Elsy Becherer. Harper Collins, Aquarian/Thorsons, 1972. Complete text online, 321 Kb. http://lib.ru/URIKOVA/SANTEM/SVATMARAMA/hyp.txt_with-big-pictures.html

The combination Kismet-Ethereal just rules! Make sure you use the latest version of those packages as well as your drivers, especialy when you have an Intel IPW2200-based one, as there are multiple new versions released. Gentoo-users will have to enable the ~x86 keyword.

Capture your stream with kismet (very well configured by default!) and open the dump file (/tmp/Kismet-2005-07-29...dump) with ethereal and have fun. The protocol is much more implemented in the latest version of ethereal now. Management frames can be full inspected. The version of ethereal on the allready mentioned great Auditor Security Collection LiveCD is an older one and doesn't support that stuff completely.

One of the great benefits with this combination on a linux machine is that you can capture and analyse all IEEE 802.11 frames, data as well as management frames, with the full headers as they were sent on the radio. With the windows drivers and capture programs, you can only capture the data inside the data packets, no headers, no management packets. That's why expensive commercial applications like AirMagnet provide their own drivers for a small selection of cards. That's the only way they can capture the most interesting information on a windows machine. So standard (free) linux tools are just great for wireless solutions and analysis, I love it!

Hija,

as some of you might now I'm currently employed (just one month) at some nice company called Dedigate, where I'm allowed to do some nice coding stuff etc (ok, also less exciting things ;-)) whilst getting payed. As I'm behind a computer screens >8h/day over there, trying to write some good code, I'm not in a real coding-mood when I get home (don't flame me, I'm just some normal human being). This implies I rarely blog, as I don't like to blog about my "normal" life.

Nothing too fancy happened lately, except the fact I saw Arsenal (not the football club) live at BoomTown (wiiiii :-)), the DConf project was released to the wolves, and I got 20 years old today (07/28) (got a nice little present from my favourite girl, the piano and violin scores of the Brahms piece I blogged about before, thank you!).

I'm quite tired now, guess I need some good sleep to be able to get to work again tomorrow. 2 weeks to go :-)

Hudson Oaks is a city located in Parker County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 1,637.

Geography

Hudson Oaks is located at 32°45'2" North, 97°41'49" West (32.750427, -97.696978)¹.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.6 km² (2.5 mi²). 6.6 km² (2.5 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics

As of the census² of 2000, there are 1,637 people, 546 households, and 475 families residing in the city. The population density is 247.9/km² (641.7/mi²). There are 569 housing units at an average density of 86.2/km² (223.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 96.09% White, 0.79% African American, 0.37% Native American, 0.43% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 1.28% from other races, and 1.04% from two or more races. 3.97% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 546 households out of which 46.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 78.6% are married couples living together, 4.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 13.0% are non-families. 10.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 3.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 3.00 and the average family size is 3.23.

In the city the population is spread out with 31.6% under the age of 18, 5.2% from 18 to 24, 29.0% from 25 to 44, 25.1% from 45 to 64, and 9.1% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 103.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 102.7 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $69,659, and the median income for a family is $74,688. Males have a median income of $57,292 versus $31,818 for females. The per capita income for the city is $24,528. 4.5% of the population and 4.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 5.4% of those under the age of 18 and 12.7% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

External links

• Maps and aerial photos
  • Street map from Google Maps, or Yahoo! Maps
  • Topographic map from TopoZone
  • Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA
  • Satellite image from Google Maps or Microsoft Virtualearth

Met de vakantie is het weer wat moeilijker elkaar te bereiken en deftig overleg te plegen rond standpunten ed. Echter, net in de vakantie wil men een uitermate belangrijke beslissing nemen, namelijk omtrent de herinvoering van de repets aka parti

Zoals verwacht ook vandaag weer een brok nieuws over prof. Vandamme, tegen wie de UGent een tuchtprocedure gestart heeft. Drie artikels in De Standaard waarin een ex-boekhouder een boekje openslaat over de prof. Jammergenoeg zijn de bewuste artikels enkel voor geregistreerde lezers van De Standaard:

• Vandamme wilde zijn bedrijf redden: Oud-boekhouder legt uit hoe professor Vandamme te werk gaat.
• Voormalige boekhouder van Vandamme bevestigt malafide praktijken: Voor het prestige en voor de euro's.
• Melkkoeien van Vandamme: De voormalige boekhouder van Bikit doet een boekje open over de vehikels die professor Fernand Vandamme gebruikte om geld binnen te doen stromen.

De stroom is op gang gekomen, weldra zijn de praktijken eindelijk te einde. Proficiat, Wouter!

Tamrat Desta (born 1978) is an Ethiopian singer and vocalist. He was born in a small town called Tiqur Wuha, located between the two larger towns of Shashemene and Awasa, the second of three children, all boys. After few years, his family moved to Shashemene, and he again moved to Awasa where he finished high school. All three towns are approximately 150 kilometers south of the capital Addis Ababa.

In 1998, he moved to Dire Dawa, located 515 kilometers east of Addis Ababa, to live with his guardian and work at Cherqa Cherq Yekenet Buden where he received basic training as a vocalist and playing with a band.

In 1999, he moved to Addis Ababa to pursue his music career. In 2004, he released his first album Aneleyaleym, for which he received wide acclaim. Most of the lyrics on this CD were written by Habtamu Bogale, and six of the tracks' melodies were by Tamrat.

External link

• A conversation with Tamrat Desta by Ethiolive

Het hek is helemaal van de dam nu. Wat velen al wisten maar discreet behandelden, is nu op grote schaal naar buiten gebracht op de voorpagina van De Standaard en in het VRT radionieuws. Enkele links: het artikel - 10 jaar wanpraktijken - VRT-radiobericht - ingescande documenten.

Ik heb een sterk vermoeden dat er in de loop van de week meer boven water komt.

The Airport - Lindbergh Terminal light rail station is on the Hiawatha Line in the Twin Cities region of U.S. state of Minnesota. It is the only underground station on the Hiawatha Line, and is located 70 feet (20 meters) below ground level under the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP) Transit Center. The twelfth stop southbound, it is a center-platform station and is typically accessed by escalator or elevator. Service began at the site when the second phase of the Hiawatha Line opened on December 4, 2004.

The Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport serves about 34 million passengers annually and is one of the main hubs of Northwest Airlines. Because of this, the Lindbergh Terminal Station is one of the most important on the line. The Hiawatha line creates a direct connection between the airport, downtown Minneapolis and the Mall of America.

The location of this station directly below a major airport makes it unique. The tunnel and the station both had to be carefully designed to meet Federal Aviation Administration safety requirements. Passengers can access this station from the Transit Center, which is reached by either taking a people-mover (called a "tram" locally) from the ground-transportation level of the main terminal, or by exiting from the skyway security checkpoint.

This station was excavated after the two main tunnel tubes were constructed with a tunnel boring machine (though cut and cover was used near the ends of the tunnels). During the excavation of the tunnels, a buried river valley was encountered a few hundred feet south south of the station. The walls of the station are painted to look like an outcrop of Saint Peter Sandstone through which the tunnels have been bored. A large installation on the ceiling of this station is meant to look like an aircraft wing.

Lindbergh Station is largely unheated, but maintains a temperature of roughly 50–60°F throughout the year because of its underground location. Small spot heaters are available (as they are at all Hiawatha Line stations).

Notable places nearby

• Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport

External links

• Airport - Lindbergh Terminal Station

Tien fantastische dagen zijn in een hels tempo gepasseerd. Na de Dag van de lege portemonees van gisteren is ook deze editie van de Gentse Feesten aan haar einde gekomen. Ik vond 't alvast dik in orde, heb mij beestig goed geamuseerd. Jammer dat ik een paar keer heb moeten overslaan wegens oververmoeidheid en een zieke vriendin, nietemin was't een beestige tijd. Op naar volgend jaar!

Bloedige islamitische rechtspraak, een analyse waarom Iran homo's ophangt.
De-gou-tant gewoon. Zijn dit mensen of beesten? Ik ben echt enorm verontwaardigd dat mensen tot zoiets in staat zijn.

En om welke reden? Godsdienst? Ik dacht dat de islam een boodschap van vrede was, met respect voor elkaar. En dan gisteren in het nieuws: een doodleuke aankondiging dat steeds meer mensen zich tot de islam bekeren zonder ook maar

Career
Awarded:	25 January 1963
Laid down:	25 January 1965
Launched:	6 August 1966
Commissioned:	1 September 1967
Fate:	Active in service as of 2005.
Homeport:	NS San Diego, California
General Characteristics
Displacement:	9521 tons light, 17252 tons full, 7731 tons dead
Length:	173.7 meters (570 feet) overall, 167 meters (548 feet) waterline
Beam:	30.4 meters (100 feet) extreme, 25.6 meters (84 feet) waterline
Draft:	7 meters (23 feet) maximum, 7 meters (23 feet) limit
Complement:	61 officers, 600 men

USS Dubuque (LPD-8), a Cleveland-class amphibious transport dock, is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city of Dubuque, Iowa. Her keel was laid down on 25 January 1965 by Ingalls Shipbuilding. She was launched on 6 August 1966 and commissioned on 1 September 1967 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. In November 1967, the ship arrived at its first homeport of San Diego, California after transiting the Panama Canal.

From 1968 until 1975, Dubuque made five Western Pacific deployments that saw extensive duty in Vietnam. In a highly publicized event in October 1968, the ship returned 14 repatriated prisoners of war to North Vietnam. From 1969 until 1971 the ship conducted ten "Keystone Cardinal" troop lifts to Okinawa as part of the "Vietnamization" of the war. From February to June of 1973 the ship operated helicopters that conducted naval mine clearance operations in Haiphong Harbor as part of Operation Clean Sweep. In April 1975 the ship participated in the evacuation of Saigon and the rescue of refugees fleeing South Vietnam.

On 15 August 1985 Dubuque departed San Diego for its new homeport of Sasebo, Japan. The ship arrived in Sasebo on 4 September 1985 to join the Seventh Fleet Overseas Family Residency Program. Since joining the Seventh Fleet, the primary mission of the ship was to support the US Marine Corps in the Western Pacific.

Official ribbons as of March 3, 2002

In May 1988 Dubuque deployed to the Persian Gulf and served as the control ship for mine sweeping operations to protect US-flagged tankers during the Iran-Iraq War. For its participation in this operation the ship was awarded a Meritorious Unit Citation. In 1989 the ship participated in the contingency operation to evacuate American personnel from the Philippines during a failed coup attempt.

Immediately following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, Dubuque received tasking in the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Desert Shield. The ship functioned as the leading element of Amphibious Ready Group Bravo, which transported Marine Regimental Landing Team Four to Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia during the critical early stages of the multi-national build up.

Need information from 1992 to present.

On 30 July 1999, Dubuque was relieved by USS Juneau (LPD-10) as part of the forward-deployed naval forces. Since that date she has been once again homeported in San Diego, California.

From June to September of 1999 Dubuque participated in the first SHIP-SWAP with her sister-ship USS Juneau (LPD-10), where each ship's crew remained in their original home ports, allowing Dubuque to return to the homeport of San Diego.

Dubuque has received three Battle Efficiency Awards and participated in countless amphibious exercises and operations throughout the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans.

See USS Dubuque for other ships of this name.

External links

• USS Dubuque official website

• nvr.navy.mil: USS Dubuque
• navsource.org: USS Dubuque
• navysite.de: USS Dubuque

I'm working on a new Jabber bot: HangBot. It should be able to let the user play small text-based games. Atm, playing Hangman (which is the game the bot is named after) and some other basic functions work. The next task on the list is making the menu-class more flexible so other games can be added easily.

The hangman game is finished (it works as it should), but I still need to find a good dictionary for the game to pick words from. 'Ikke' proposed some files in /usr/share/dict/, but those are too difficult, and they're in English (I'm looking for both English and Dutch dictionaries). If anyone knows where to find a fitting dictionary (rather short, simple words), please comment it.

People named David Koch:

• David H. Koch, United States businessman and politician
• David Koch, Australian financial analyst and presenter

Babaloma is a small town in Kwara state of Nigeria. It is located about 75km from Ilorin, the state capital, and 45km from Jebba, a major city that was located in Kwara State but was moved to Niger State by the Gen Babangida administration. There is evidence that Babaloma was initially settled from the nearby Oyo State.

Babaloma is known as a stop over town especially when the major road that linked Niger state and Kwara state passed through it. Babaloma was one of the first towns in the area to have electricity and piped borne water. Babaloma is situated on the major Osin River, which it treats and pumps both through out the town and to surrounding towns and villages. Abiodun Ajide

De Gentse Feesten zijn nog lang niet ten einde. Gisteren was aldus weer een fantastische avond met goed gezelschap en veel plezier. Zoals de voorbije dagen begon onze avond (na een lekkere pizza in La Rustica) met de dansinitiatie van Boombal. Alweer dolle pret, doch

The (Roman Catholic) Diocese of Nakhon Sawan (Dioecesis Nakhonsauanensis, Thai: ?????????????????) is located in central Thailand. It is a suffragan diocese of the archdiocese of Bangkok. The bishopric seat is currently vacant.

The diocese covers an area of 93,547 km², covering 13 provinces - Chainat, Kamphaeng Phet, Lopburi, Nakhon Sawan, Saraburi, Sukhothai, Tak, Uthai Thani, Uttaradit.

As of 2001, of the 8.2 million citizen 9,237 are member of the Catholic Church. It is divided into 28 parishes, having 27 priests altogether.

History

The diocese was erected on February 9, 1967, when it was split off from the archdiocese of Bangkok.

Bishops

• Louis Chamniern Santisukniram: November 5 1998 - July 1 2005 (became Archbishop of Thare and Nonseng)
• Joseph Banchong Aribarg: May 24 1976 - November 5 1998 (Resigned)
• Michel-Auguste-Marie Langer: February 9 1967 - May 24 1976 (Resigned)

External links

• Website of the diocese
• catholic-hierarchy.org

	Catholic Church in Thailand
Archdiocese of Bangkok: Chanthaburi - Chiang Mai - Nakhon Sawan - Ratchaburi - Surat Thani Archdiocese of Thare and Nonseng: Nakhon Ratchasima - Ubon Ratchathani - Udon Thani edit

In 1988, Brian Wilson released his first solo album outside of the Beach Boys. Mostly co-produced by Russ Titleman, the album was mostly critically praised upon release, but charted at only #54.

• Note: When Brian Wilson was reissued in 2000, the credits to several songs were revised. Wilson was, in 1988, still under the care of Dr. Eugene E. Landy, who was alleged to have taken advantage of Brian in various ways, including claiming songwriting credits for himself and his girlfriend Alexandra Morgan. These credits are marked with an asterisk, and are not on the 2000 reissue.

Track Listing

1. Love and Mercy (Brian Wilson/Eugene Landy*)
2. Walkin' the Line (Brian Wilson/Eugene Landy*/Alexandra Morgan*/Nick Laird-Clowes)
3. Melt Away (Brian Wilson/Eugene Landy*)
4. Baby, Let Your Hair Grow Long (Brian Wilson)
5. Little Children (Brian Wilson)
6. One for the Boys (Brian Wilson)
7. There's So Many (Brian Wilson/Eugene Landy*/Alexandra Morgan*)
8. Night Time (Brian Wilson/Eugene Landy*/Alexandra Morgan*/Andy Paley)
9. Let It Shine (Brian Wilson/Jeff Lynne)
10. Meet Me In My Dreams Tonight (Brian Wilson/Andy Paley/Andy Dean)
11. Rio Grande (Brian Wilson/Andy Paley)

Ook gisteravond waren de Gentse Feesten alweer meer dan geslaagd. Het was echter immens druk, hoogstwaarschijnlijk doordat de meeste mensen vandaag een dagje vrij hebben. Je kon niet al te makkelijk passeren, vele pleinen afgesloten en de duveltent binnenraken was geen gemakkelijke opgave.

Voor de gelenheid hadden we afgesproken met de studentenvertegenwoordigers van de GSR om de teamgeest te bevorderen. Voorafgaand heeft mijn schatje mij echter serieus laten afzien op de volksdansinitiatie van Boombal. Allesbehalve makkelijk, die volksdansen, uiterst vermoeiend, maar dolle pret. Uiteindelijk daagden we met z'n achten op op de GSR afspraak: voorzitster Sara Willems, Stijn Baert, Stefaan Stroo, Peter Huygebaert en vriendin, aanstormend voorzitter Bram Spiessens (kwam er later bij) en ikzelf met Lynn. Uiteraard kwamen we naderhand nog een aantal gekenden tegen. Dat 't dolle pret was, kunnen onderstaande foto's getuigen. (klik op de foto voor een groter exemplaar)

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Vandaag viert Belgi

Sam Rayburn Reservoir is a reservoir in the United States located in Texas, 80 miles north of Beaumont. It was formerly known as McGee Bend Reservoir until 1963 when it was renamed after Sam Rayburn. The reservoir is fed by the Angelina River. The capacity of the reservoir is 3,997,600 acre-feet. Construction began September 7, 1956 and began serving its purpose on March 29, 1965. The main purposes of the reservoir are flood control and power generation. The reservoir is operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth district.

External links

• Handbook of Texas Online, Sam Rayburn Reservoir

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Ons weekendje Parijs gaat helaas niet door wegens het wegvallen van onze slaapplaats. En ons alternatiefje, een dagje ligfietsen gaat ook niet door, want nu blijkt dat De Ligfiets gesloten is tijdens de Gentse Feesten.

Echter niet getreurd: het weer zit goed en er zijn nog zes dagen vol spetterende Gentse Feesten om volledig uit de bol te gaan! En met het verlengde weekend kan dat helemaal niet meer stuk!

Blijkbaar ben ik niet alleen met mijn bedenkingen bij de peilingen van De Stemmenkampioen. Volgens De Morgen en enkele specialisten is dergelijke peiling zelfs een gevaarlijk spelletje. Wat het cre

Morgen is het eindelijk zover! Ik zal om 20u afzakken naar het Baudelopark om aldaar op het Boombal mijn danskwaliteiten te proberen opdrijven. De plaats van danspartner is ondertussen reeds ingenomen door mijn schatje B-)

Vanavond was het gezellig rondhangen alvast weer dik in orde :-D

The Dornier Do 12 Libelle III (German:"Dragonfly III") was the third of a line of small German flying boats of the 1930s. It started with the Dornier A Libelle I and then the Dornier A Libelle II. The aircraft was also amphibious and would carry 3-4 people. It was powered by a single Argus As 10 engine initially, then switched to a Gnôme-Rhône Titan 5 Ke engine, which was mounted in a pod above the fuselage. It first flew in 1932 and went on to be used by the DFS to pull gliders.

Specifications (Dornier Do 12)

General characteristics

• Crew:
• Capacity:
• Length: 9.00 m (29 ft 6 in)
• Wingspan: 13.00 m (42 ft 8 in)
• Height: 4.20 m (13 ft 9 in)
• Wing area: 28.0 m² (301 ft²)
• Empty: 1,075 kg (2,370 lb)
• Loaded: 1,400 kg (3,090 lb)
• Maximum takeoff: kg ( lb)
• Powerplant: 1 Argus As 10, later 1 Gnôme-Rhône Titan 5 Ke, kW ( hp)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 210 km/h (130 mph)
• Cruising speed: 170 km/h (105 mph)
• Landing speed: 80 km/h (50 mph)
• Range: 580 km (360 mi)
• Service ceiling: 5,100 m (16,700 ft)
• Rate of climb: m/min ( ft/min)
• Wing loading: 50 kg/m² (10.2 lb/ft²)
• Power/mass: hp/lb ( kW/kg)

See also

• List of military aircraft of Germany
• List of aircraft of the WW2 Luftwaffe
• List of RLM aircraft designations
• List of flying boats

Yesterday, I uploaded a new index page for realnitro.be. It's a small page, just to have something that refers to this blog, to some sites I made and to my e-mail adress. (I might add my JID too.) I don't know if the page is working in IE as it should, but I might look into that later today.

Having passed my exams in july, I have a lot of free time (three months minus some vacation work), so I'll probably be able to post some more interesting stuff on this blog for the months to come. (I might adjust mabber.py a bit to make it work again on eduserv, and I should finish that little glade/gstreamer-experiment too some day.)

Perot Systems is an IT company based in Plano, Texas, United States. The company trades on the New York Stock Exchange as PER.

Perot Systems Corporation was founded in 1988 by Ross Perot, Texas billionaire, better known as a candidate for President of the United States (in 1992 and 1996).

Peter Altabef was made the president and CEO in 2004.

Diversity

Perot Systems received a 14% rating by the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index in 2004. When Ross Perot returned to the company's helm in 1998 he closed its domestic partner benefits program.

External links

• Perot Systems official website

Van mijn goede voornemen om niet te lang te blijven op de Gentse Feesten en op tijd in mijn bed te kruipen om er vandaag vroeg uit te geraken, is niet veel in huis gekomen. Maar ja, wat wil je? Als je hoort dat om 23u Stef Bos naar het St-Baafsplein komt, dan kan je toch maar moeilijk naar huis gaan h

Hela is also the German name for Hel, Poland and the cruiser SMS Hela

In biological and medical research, a HeLa cell is a cell which is derived from cervical cancer cells taken from a woman named Henrietta Lacks, who died from the cancer in 1951, and circulated (without Lacks's knowledge or permission) by George Gey. These cancer cells are considered "immortal" (that is, they do not die of old age and can divide an unlimited number of times, unlike most other human cells), and have been grown in cell culture in an unbroken lineage ever since.

This cell line was propagated for use in cancer research. Initially, the cell line was said to be named after a "Helen Lane", in order to preserve Lacks's anonymity. The cells proliferate abnormally rapidly, even compared to other cancers.

HeLa cells have been transformed by human papillomavirus 18 (HPV18), and have different properties from normal cervical cells.

They are used as model cancer cells and for studying cellular signal transduction.

HeLa cells have proven difficult to control. They sometimes contaminate other cell cultures growing in the same laboratory, interfering with biological research. The degree of contamination is unknown, because few researchers test the identity or purity of already-established cell lines. It has been claimed that a substantial fraction of in vitro cell lines are actually HeLa, their original cells having been overwhelmed by a rapidly growing population derived from HeLa contaminant cells. It has been estimated that the total mass of HeLa cells far exceeds that of the rest of Henrietta Lacks' body.

Some researchers have argued that these cells are a separate species, because they reproduce and spread on their own; in 1991 it was named and described as Helacyton gartleri.

External links

• Cell Data from ATCC

Voor de cultuurbarbaar die het nog niet wist: de Gentse Feesten zijn weer begonnen. Van 16 tot en met 25 juli staat Gent weer helemaal op z'n kop dankzij dit fantastische cultureel volksfeest. Vandaag heb ik al een eerste bezoekje gebracht en genoten van uitstekende pleinartiesten met vuur en kettingzagen aan het Belfort, de Duveltent, het St-Baafsplein, de Vrijdagsmarkt en een terrasje aan het Vleeshuis. De sfeer was fantastisch, de opkomst enorm, de Duvel, Gentse Tripel en oliebollen hebben gesmaakt. B-) De avond was alvast goed geslaagd voor mij. Het deed me echt verlangen naar meer. Mijn statement dat de Genste Feesten voor mij niet goed zullen lukken wegens de stage, heeft plaats moeten maken voor de hoop elke avond wel minstens voor eventjes te kunnen afzakken naar het oude stadscentrum voor een tijdje puur genot.

Tot morgen!

Deze week heb ik, mede door mijn vermoeidheid niet echt veel tijd gehad om te bloggen. Ik was dan ook vergeten om jullie op de hoogte te houden van mijn resultaten op studiegebied waarvan de laatste onzekerheid donderdag verdwenen was. Een trouwe lezer mij hierop attent maakte.

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Livingston is a town located in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,342.

Geography

Livingston is located at 30°29'55" North, 90°44'54" West (30.498721, -90.748371)¹.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 8.1 km² (3.1 mi²). 8.1 km² (3.1 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics

As of the census² of 2000, there are 1,342 people, 539 households, and 377 families residing in the town. The population density is 166.1/km² (429.8/mi²). There are 581 housing units at an average density of 71.9/km² (186.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 96.05% White, 2.98% African American, 0.07% Native American, 0.22% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.67% from two or more races. 0.52% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 539 households out of which 34.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.9% are married couples living together, 15.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 29.9% are non-families. 25.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 11.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.49 and the average family size is 3.00.

In the town the population is spread out with 26.1% under the age of 18, 11.2% from 18 to 24, 27.0% from 25 to 44, 23.9% from 45 to 64, and 11.8% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 35 years. For every 100 females there are 95.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 87.9 males.

The median income for a household in the town is $32,813, and the median income for a family is $41,625. Males have a median income of $33,958 versus $20,795 for females. The per capita income for the town is $15,075. 12.9% of the population and 10.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 7.7% of those under the age of 18 and 21.4% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

External links

• Maps and aerial photos
  • Street map from MapQuest or Google Maps
  • Topographic map from TopoZone
  • Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA
  • Satellite image from Google Maps

I played a little with GConf today. Here's some little introduction to it.

We'll be doing 3 very simple things today:

1. Read out GConf key values


2. Set key values


3. Read out values, and register to value changes

Reading out a string from the GConf tree

Reading out a value (in our case a string) is very simple: first of all you need to know which string you want to read. In this sample we'll try to get the value of the default browser. Then you create a GConfClient, a proxy to the GConf system, you query gconfd using the proxy, get the value and do something with it.

Here's the code:

/* 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;
}

As you can see this is very straight-forward.
Now compile and run the code:

ikke@marslander ~/Projects/gconf $ gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags gconf-2.0` -o reader reader.c
ikke@marslander ~/Projects/gconf $ ./reader
Working with key "/desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec"
Value: "mozilla"

Setting a key value

To set a key, once more we just need a GConfClient proxy, and call a function to set the new key value:

/* 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;
}

Again, compile the code and play around with it:

ikke@marslander ~/Projects/gconf $ gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags gconf-2.0` -o setkey setkey.c
ikke@marslander ~/Projects/gconf $ ./setkey
Working with key "/extra/test/key"
Value "testval" set
ikke@marslander ~/Projects/gconf $ ./setkey test2
Working with key "/extra/test/key"
Value "test2" set

Now you might want to alter reader.c and compile it again so it reads out this new key instead of the one we used before.

Using change notifications

At last we'll be using one of the more advanced features of GConf, change notifications. This means we can register a callback to a key change, so when the key's value is changed (in-process or by another process) we'll be notified of this.
One again this is very easy: get a GConfClient proxy, figure out to which key you want to subscribe, find out the container directory, tell gconfd you want to register to that "directory", add a key change event handler, and you're done. This might sound confusing, read the code sample to see how easy it is.

/* 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;
}

50% of this code is equal to "reader.c". The only "special" things is adding a callback notifier in main(), and the callback function itself.
You should notice GConfValues got a type: in this sample we check whether the key's type equals to "GCONF_VALUE_STRING", otherwise we don't "process" the value.

Once more, compile and run this code:

ikke@marslander ~/Projects/gconf $ gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags gconf-2.0` -o listener listener.c
ikke@marslander ~/Projects/gconf $ ./listener
Working with key "/extra/test/key"
Initial value: "test2"

At this point, the program just hangs due to our GMainLoop. The key value is the one last set with ./setkey

Now open a new console, go to the directory where setkey is located, and execute it giving some new value. Then watch what's going on at the terminal where "listener" is running:

ikke@marslander ~/Projects/gconf $ ./setkey "a longer test key"
Working with key "/extra/test/key"
Value "a longer test key" set

In the "listener" console, we see this:

Value changed: "a longer test key"

Jay, change notifications working fine :-)

In this sample we only worked with string values, GConf also supports floats, integers, booleans, lists and even more. Check out the API docs for more information.
If you want to read more about GConf, e.g. its internals, you might want to check this tutorial by the GConf author, Havoc Pennington. Notice this is an old document, so the code samples in there won't work anymore, the GConf API has changed quite a lot since then. The ideas explained in the article are still relevant though, so it's worth reading.

The Quartier Latin is an area in the Ville-Marie borough of Montreal, surrounding UQAM and lower Saint-Denis Street, between downtown and the Village gai. It is known for its theatres, artistic atmosphere, cafés, and boutiques.

It owes its name, a reference to the Quartier Latin in Paris, to the presence of the nascent Université de Montréal in the 1920s. In the 1940s the university moved out and headed for a new campus on the north slopes of Mount Royal, far from the downtown borough. In the late 1960s UQAM was born and established itself in the Ville-Marie borough, giving a modern underpinning to the name. A large junior college, the CEGEP du Vieux-Montreal also moved in at about the same period.

The Grande Bibliothèque du Québec joined these educational institutions in 2005.

Arcosanti is an experimental town that is being built in central Arizona, 70 miles (110 km) outside of Phoenix. Paolo Soleri, using a concept he calls arcology (architecture + ecology), designed the town to demonstrate ways urban conditions could be improved while minimizing the destructive impact on the earth.

Arcosanti is being built on only 25 acres (0.1 km²) of a 4060 acre (16 km²) land preserve, keeping its inhabitants near the natural countryside. The Arcosanti web site describes how an arcology functions in Arcosanti: "The built and the living interact as organs would in a highly evolved being. Many systems work together, with efficient circulation of people and resources, multi-use buildings, and solar orientation for lighting, heating and cooling."

As of 2005 Arcosanti stands some fraction of 1% complete. Existing structures include a three-story visitors' center / cafe / gift shop, the bronze-casting apse (half-dome) carefully situated to accept maximal winter sun and minimal summer sun, two large barrel vaults, a ring of apartment residences around an outdoor amphitheatre, a community swimming pool, and Soleri's suite. A two-bedroom 'Sky Suite' occupies the highest point in the complex and is available for overnight guests.

In Arcosanti, apartments, businesses, production, technology, open space, studios, and educational and cultural events are all accessible, while privacy is paramount in the overall design. Solar greenhouses are planned to provide gardening space for public and private use, and act as solar collectors for winter heat.

The city serves as an educational complex where workshops and classes are offered. Students from around the world are constructing Arcosanti. In addition, about 50,000 tourists visit Arcosanti each year.

Funds to build Arcosanti are raised through the sale of art objects, the most famous being cast wind chimes. More funds are raised from workshop tuitions, which people ("workshoppers") pay for a five week hands-on experience. The workshops are the principal means by which Arcosanti is constructed.

External links

• The Arcosanti Web Site
• The Arcosanti Work Song (c)1972
• Sky Suite guest review

Ik ben kapot XX(

De voorbije twee nachten maar een paar uurtjes geslapen. Ik moet er echt veel te vroeg uit, om 6u, maar kan echt niet in slaap geraken zo vroeg, ook al ben ik doodmoe, ik word gewoonweg terug wakker en actief 's avonds. Vannacht bijna helemaal niet geslapen: veel te laat gegeten door omstandigheden (en dan nog wel frieten met mosselen, uitermate zwaar), veel te warm en irritante muggen. Ik moest er toch weer om 6u uit en ben vandaag maar om 21u terug thuisgekomen: heel de dag gewerkt (en vooral gewacht) in de Thalys. Gelukkig moet ik morgen maar om 9u45 in Brussel-Zuid zijn, kan ik toch weer wat langer slapen: ongeveer een half uurtje treinen van hieruit in plaats van de normale 1u30 naar Wolfstee.

Deep End was a short-lived supergroup founded by guitarist Pete Townshend of The Who and featuring David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. The group also included bassist Chucho Merchan, percussionist Jody Linscott, keyboardist John 'Rabbit' Bundrick, backing vocalists Billy Nicholls, Cleveland Watkiss, and Chyna, and a five-piece brass ensemble called The Kickhorns. The group performed two 1995 charity concerts at London's Brixton Academy (a third was cancelled due to poor ticket sales), which were later released as the album Deep End Live!; a concert at the MIDEM trade fair in France, and appeared on The Tube.

This music article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Kaminokawa (????; -machi) is a town located in Kawachi District, Tochigi, Japan.

As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 30,885 and a density of 566.49 persons per km². The total area is 54.52 km².

External link

• Official town website (Japanese)

In contradiction to my previous posts, always using the latest version isn't that good.

As I told you, last week, I upgraded the packages IPW2200 and ipw2200-firmware to the latest version available. The big problem with those drivers is, I now have corrupt packages. When I came home, I couldn't connect to my WAP. Infact, I could register my client, but I didn't get an IP by DHCP. When I captured the stream with Ethereal, I saw DHCP-requests from the client, but no answer from the server. /var/log/messages gave me more information and told me there were corrupt packages. I can't give the exact error message right now, I'll post it when I've some time. I'll have to take a look closer to it.

Another problem is kernel 2.6.12. I installed this one, but then my USB mouse isn't working anymore. I've allready read on some site the mouse handling is changed in this version, but I'll have to find out how to fix this. Maybe the problem is related with the fact that hotplugging my mouse doesn't work right now. A little task for when I've some time... If you have similar experiences, please, be my guest.

Vandaag proefjes gedaan met wireless acces points op hoge temperatuur: gewoonweg het toestelletje in een oven gestopt, gebakken op 75

While I was disappointed about printing in linux some time ago, today I was supprised about the way gnome/cups handle network printers. At the office where I'm doing an internship, we have two network printers in our subnet. I was impressed when I opened the gnome printer manager and I saw those two printers allready detected and completely configured. B-) I didn't have to do anything, I even didn't know when they were installed. I just love it!

(note: I didn't test printing allready ;-))

Vorige week heb ik hier eindelijk mijn contract getekend. Uiteraard bevat dit een paragraaf ivm geheimhouding. Gedetailleerde info zal je hier dus niet meer terugvinden. Nu ja, hetgeen hier al gepost geweest is, is ook niet echt dermate gedetailleerd om van een inbreuk te kunnen spreken. Nu ben ik alleszins weer bezig met leuk speelgoed.

Voor de rest valt het hier wel mee. Ik wou bij deze toch nog een teken van leven geven ;-) Ik heb het ontzettend druk, moet vroeg weg en ben laat thuis, dus niet echt veel tijd om dit blogje up to date te houden. Dit weekend is de pc ook niet aangezet geweest: de vrijdag was het proclamatie van mijn schatje met een restaurantbezoekje erna B-) Zaterdag een bezoekje aan haar pappie met een BBQ'tje 's avonds en jammergenoeg werd ik ook verplicht tot shoppen... Zondag dan een fietsnamiddagje, veel te lang geleden en het is pijnlijk vaststellen dat mijn conditie een ware ramp geworden is. Ik ben gewoonweg kapot.

Anyway: back to work now!

Richard Murphy, is an architect based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and principal architect in Richard Murphy Architects.

History

Murphy was educated at Newcastle and Edinburgh Universities, and has taught at the latter. He formed his practice in 1991, which has since grown to over twenty architects, and is now housed on Old Fishmarket Close, in the Old Town of Edinburgh. The practice made its name designing small scale extensions to houses and mews conversions, and found great success with buildings for the arts, particularly lottery-funded projects. His work, in its desire to create contemporary architecture but with a sense of place and history, shows the influence of Carlo Scarpa, who he has done academic research into. In 1998 he presented a Channel 4 documentary on Scarpa, directed by Murray Grigor. In 2004 the practice exhibited at the Venice Biennale.

Controversy

Murphy has sometimes attracted controversy. The conversion of John Muir's birthplace in Dunbar attracted angry letters from around the world, in the belief that he was destroying the house as it was when Muir was born. It was in fact simply replacing an older interior representing how the house 'may have been' at the time.

His Mews House on Circus Lane in the New Town of Edinburgh was dubbed the 'Japanese House' by the local press, and felt an inappropriate design for a World Heritage Site, though it subsequently won planning permission.

The proposed Sean Connery Filmhouse would be built over Festival Square in Edinburgh. The square, part of The Exchange Business district designed by Terry Farrell, is felt by many to be a failure. The square is often empty, and as Murphy pointed out, is, despite its name, one of the few places in the city without any presence of the Edinburgh festival in the summer. The MSP Brian Monteith even dubbed the square Ceausescu piazza. Despite this, the Sheraton Hotel is deeply against the proposals, as the building would be right in front of the hotel, and block residents' views of Edinburgh Castle.

Proposed work

• 5-Star hotel on the former Edinburgh Royal Infirmary site, Edinburgh (within in masterplan drawn up by Norman Foster)
• Sean Connery Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Notable completed work

Projects by year of design

• Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 1991
• Maggie's Centre, Edinburgh, 1994 + 1997 extension
  • Nominated for 1997 Stirling Prize
• Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, 1996
• Eastgate Theatre & Arts Centre, Peebles, 1998
  • Nominated for 2004 RIAS Best Building in Scotland
• Caernarfon Arts Centre, Wales, 2000
• Oloruso Restaurant, Edinburgh, 2001
• John Muir Birthplace, Dunbar, East Lothian, 2001
• British High Commission, Sri Lanka, 2002

External links

• Official site
• Richard Murphy: Ten Years of Practice at RIBA website

Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot is the name of a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada. Its population is 94,084. (2001)

Geography

The district includes the Regional County Municipalities of Acton and Les Maskoutains.

History

The electoral district was created in 1933 as St. Hyacinthe—Bagot and was first used in the Canadian federal election of 1935.. In 1947 the name was changed to Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot. In 1966, it was merged with parts of Chambly—Rouville, and from Richelieu—Verchères and renamed Saint-Hyacinthe . It reverted to the name Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot in 1980.

List of Members:

1. Joseph-Théophile-Adélard Fontaine, Liberal, (1935-1944)
2. Joseph Fontaine, Liberal, (1945-1957)
3. J.-H.-Théogène Ricard, Prog. Cons., (1957-1972)
4. Claude Wagner, Prog. Cons., (1972-1978)
5. Marcel Ostiguy, Liberal (1978-1984)
6. Andrée Champagne, Prog. Cons., (1984-1993)
7. Yvan Loubier, Bloc Québécois (1993-present)

This Canadian government-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Madeleine Kunin speaking 11 October 2004

Madeleine May Kunin (born September 28, 1933) is a Swiss-American diplomat and politician. She was born in Zurich to a Jewish family, and moved to the United States as a child. She was the governor of Vermont from 1985 until 1991, as a member of the United States Democratic Party. She was a member of the administration of President Bill Clinton, serving as deputy secretary of education of the United States from 1993 until 1997, when she became the ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

This politics-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Cover of Cyberpunk 2020

Cyberpunk 2020 is a cyberpunk role-playing game published by R.Talsorian Games, set in the near future.

Overview

Based on the works of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling and other "mirrorshades" authors, the feel of the game is meant to be very much style over substance, in what can be considered a distinctly 80's kind of way. The age of the game is today most easily seen from its timeline, which extends to before the fall of the Soviet Union. There are also some aspects of modern 21st century life (such as Internet and cell phones) whose existence in the game is noticeably divergent thanks to this.

The range of characters players can adopt is very diverse, ranging from hardwired mercenaries with psycholinked weapons and boosted reflexes, to Armani-wearing corporate mega-yuppies who make and break national economies with the stroke of a pen.

The basic rules system of Cyberpunk 2020 (called Interlock) is skill-based instead of level-based. With player being awarded points to be spent on their skill sets. New skills outside their expertise can be learned but in-game time needs to be spent on this. A large part of the system is the player characters' ability to augment themselves with cyber-technology and the ensuing loss of humanity as they become more machine than man.

Cyberpunk 2020 is a game with a dark film noir feel if played right, though certain oversights in the basic system can make the average game session devolve into a 1980s action movie with a triple-digit body-count.

What is significant about Cyberpunk 2020 compared to many other roleplaying games is the freedom given by the basic system in character creation. Although each player must choose a character class or "role" from those given in the basic rules, there is enough variation in the skill system meaning that no two members of the same class are alike. A character can also be a total non-combatant (something that is not quite possible in Dungeons & Dragons even to this day).

Another feature that endeared the game to players and Games Masters alike is the inherent lethality. A typical starter-level character facing off against three police officers is very likely to suffer a quick death. Unlike Dungeons & Dragons, this is a factor that is not liable to change as the character gains experience (there are no "hit points"). No matter who the character is, a single bullet can result in a lethal wound. This encourages a more tactically-oriented and sneaky game play, which is accordance to the rough-and-gritty ethos of the Cyberpunk genre.

The World of Cyberpunk 2020

Cyberpunk 2020, as the name implies, takes place in North America in the year 2020. The game's default setting is the fictional city of Night City located between Los Angeles and San Fransisco on the west coast of the United States. Later supplements to the game have contained information about rest of the US and the world.

Following a vast economical collapse and a period of martial law, the United States government has had to rely on several megacorporations to survive. This has given them a veritable carte blanche to operate as they will.

The Megacorporations

• Arasaka, a Japanese zaibatsu conglomerate whose megalomaniacal CEO wishes to realize his dream of Japanese world power.
• Biotechnica
• Eurobusiness Machines (EBM), information technology corporation.
• Kendachi
• Merril, Asukaga & Finch, financial analysts.
• Militech, American arms contractor.
• Mitsubishi-Koridanshu
• Zetatech

Sequels

Cybergeneration

Cybergeneration is a follow-up to the original Cyberpunk 2020 game. It is set roughly 10 years after 2020 and is heavily dependant on the concepts and application of nano-technology. A nano-plague is mutating and morphing the youth of society, driving them underground, as society dramatically fears their capabilities and differences. "Cybergen" was originally published as a supplement for Cyberpunk, but later re-released as a fully featured game in its own right.

Starblade Battalion

Starblade Battalion, a setting for R. Talsorian's related Mekton RPG, postulates a more distant future to the Cyberpunk 2020 world (set in the year 2180), where the "primitive" ACPA technology of 2020 has evolved into 15-meter-tall giant robots called Mektons. Between Cyberpunk and Starblade Battalion, the Earth suffered a devastating global ecological disaster called the "Ecocollapse" and is now governed by a totalitarian Green government called the United Stellar States Alliance. Humanity's interstellar colonies are governed by a manipulative corporatist government called the Pleiades Confederacy. The Starblade Battalion setting has been noted for its similarities to Gundam, particularly in that neither antagonistic party is particularly "good", and the primary division is "My side" and "their side."

Cyberpunk V.3

Cyberpunk V.3 (also known as Cyberpunk Version 3 or it's working title of Cyberpunk 203X) is the next-generation of the Cyberpunk 2020 role-playing game. The setting has been heavily updated from it's last event book series, Firestorm, which covered the opening of the Fourth Corporate War. The aftermath of the Fourth Corporate War has resulted in widespread corruption of the Net and major losses of hardcopied data, to the point that all data is intangible and recorded history is in doubt (an example that pops up in Pondsmith's gatherings at conventions and releases on the Internet is that history has been corrupted that many people in the world now believe Richard Nixon, instead of resigning over Watergate, commited suicide on camera). The war has also lead to the collapse of nations, the world economy, and many of the staple megacorporations. This civil upheaval leads to the rise of the altcults, alternative cultures similar in vein to the phyles from Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. In fact, Cyberpunk V.3 has more to do with the new postcyberpunk literary movement and transhumanism than with the Gibson-Sterling mirrorshades movement.

Cyberpunk V.3 is notorious for its overtly long development period and often rumored release dates.

External links

• Homepage of R.Talsorian Games, publisher of the game
• Views From the Edge, a forum dedicated to Cyberpunk 2020 and the genre in general

The University of Washington Medical Center is a hospital in the University District of Seattle, Washington. It is one of the teaching hospitals affiliated with the University of Washington.

The 2004 issue of U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Hospitals" ranks the UWMC 9th out of 2,113 hospitals nationwide, in a tie with New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Many UWMC programs score high in specialty rankings, as well: rehabilitation medicine (2); endocrinology (7); orthopaedics (9); geriatrics (10); oncology (10); gastroenterology (10); otolaryngology (12); pulmonology (14); nephrology (16); neurology/neurosurgery (17); rheumatology (18); gynecology (20), and urology (27).

The University of Washington Medical Center opened on May 4, 1959. It grew out of the medical school that the university opened on October 2, 1946. It is home to the world's first pain center and was the location of the world's first long-term kidney dialysis, developed by UW professor Belding Scribner, M.D.

External links

• University of Washington Medical Center

Michael Anthony Gallego born October 31, 1960 in Whittier, California was a Major League Baseball infielder.

Mike's career last from 1985 to 1997. Mike played for the Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, and St. Louis Cardinals.

Mike attended the UCLA.

External link

• Baseball-Reference.com - career statistics and analysis

As I told before, always use the latest version if you have troubles with some piece of software. Such a stupid mistake made me loose lots of time today and yesterday. I had troubles gettig my wireless card in monitor mode. When your card is in monitor mode, you only recieve packets without sending some, so you can't be seen by other hosts but you can listen to all trafic and detect hosts or access points. This is the setting used by Kismet and other programs to analyse your network. Other modes are Managed and Ad-Hoc.

When I used the command iwconfig eth1 mode monitor at my Gentoo-installation, I always recieved an error message "this mode is not supported" or "illegal operation" or something like that. The strange thing was that the software on the Auditor Security Collection LiveCD worked without any problem. After lots of digging into things like iwpriv, wich has lots of more possibilities, I discovered that I was running an older version of IPW2200 and IPW2200-firmware wich doesn't support monitor mode. The version in the stable branch wasn't the latest available version, I had to use the packet from the unstable branch, wich works fine. So if you also have this problem, just add those two ebuilds to your package.keywords file with the ~x86 keyword, upgrade them and everything should work fine :-D

Vandaag zonder problemen netjes op het werk geraakt. B-) Morgen mag ik echter weer eens te voet gaan vanuit Wolfstee, mijn fiets staat namelijk nog op het bedrijf. Ik heb kort nog wat literatuur doorgenomen nog wat analyse software ge

Richard M. Hamilton is a web designer and the webmaster of The Police Notebook ([1]). He has worked in law enforcement for over 30 years as a police officer, instructor, supervisor, and administrator.

Vandaag ging het al heel wat beter dan gisteren :-) In Mechelen was ik nog op de verkeerde trein gestapt, namelijk die naar Antwerpen ipv Lier/Herentals, die vanop hetzelfde perron vertrok, doch een paar minuutjes vroeger. Echter geen probleem, het volgende station was immers Mechelen-Nekkerpoel, wat op nog geen minuut rijden ligt van het station van Mechelen zelf. Beide treinen stoppen daar, dus geen probleem. In Wolfstee stond er na mijn voorval van gisteren uiteraard geen fiets op me te wachten. Te voet is het ook nog doenbaar, doch je stapt er wel een tijdje op.

Vandaag heb ik mij een beetje beziggehouden met wat research rond de huidige draadloze netwerken. Vooral de fysische kant dan, met de verschillende types antennes, hun plaatsing en verloop van de signaalsterkte. Ook nog wat geknoei met de installatie van software voor de detectie en het onderzoek naar de sterkte van aanwezige draadloze netwerken.

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The Maelor is an area of Wales, lying in the county borough of Wrexham. It originated as a commote of the Kingdom of Powys, focused on Bangor-Is-y-Coed.

The Maelor was first divided from the rest of Wales by the construction of Offa's Dyke in the eighth century, but was reclaimed by Wales during the reign of Stephen of England. In around 1202, the Maelor was first divided into two halves, separated by the River Dee, when it was split between two Welsh lords.

In 1282 - 1283, Edward I of England conquered the area east of the River Dee, which became known as the English Maelor (Welsh: Maelor Saesneg). The western area remained Welsh and became the Welsh Maelor (Welsh: Maelor Gymraeg).

In 1397, under Richard II of England, the English Maelor was merged with the County Palatine of Chester to form the Principality of Chester. With the creation of the Kingdom of England and Wales in 1536, the county of Denbighshire was created, containing the Welsh Maelor, while the English Maelor became an outlier of Flintshire, administered from Overton. The English Maelor was also known as Flintshire Detached, and sometimes simply as the Maelor.

In 1974, both halves of the Maelor became part of the Wrexham Maelor district, which in 1996 became part of the county borough of Wrexham.

Jaja, het was echt mijn dagje niet vandaag. Het was de eerste dag van mijn stage bij Siemens, en ik heb nog geen enkele dag gehad met zovele malen pech na elkaar...

Het begon al 's ochtends vroeg. Opstaan om 6u is echt mijn ding niet. Als ik dan ook nog eens nietsvermoedend onder de douche ga staan en merk dat we gedurende drie dagen geen warm water hebben, is de dag al goed gestart. XX(

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Donna Pescow (born March 24, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress.

She is best known for her role as Annette in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever, and later starring on her own television series, Angie, for two seasons from 1979 to 1980. Her most groundbreaking role has been Dr. Lynn Carson on the soap opera All My Children, which she portrayed from 1982 to 1983. Her character was the first lesbian on the daytime serials.

She played Donna, the mother of Evie, in the children's comedy show Out of This World.

From 2000 to 2003, she played the mother, Eileen Stevens, on Even Stevens, a sitcom that aired on The Disney Channel.

Everywhere you try something that doesn't work, always make sure you're using the latest version available! They say this in every manual, but you don't know how many people are violating this rule. But of course, one can say that the version that's delivered with your distribution isn't the latest, but that can't be a problem.

Why am I telling this? Seems logical. OK, it's logical, but most people sometimes forget it. And I'm also telling this again because people who are using (K)UBUNTU and having problems with their wireless networking, can find a clue in this. When you follow the (nice explained!) steps in the Ubuntu Wiki about installing ndiswrapper, you just use the version delivered with that version of your distro. When I did this yesterday at the notebook of a friend, seems I installed version 0.2rc2 wich is very old. Off course I ran into trouble.

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Since yesterday, exams are finally done! Done! Finally!

Yeah, the last one, speech processing. It was quite hard, harder than I thought, but I was ready with studying, execpt a few pages that were to hard, I thougt. But at the exam, also those pages were asked! Indeed, it was very difficult. When I recieved the questions I thought "oh, shit". But after all, I think I have answered enough to pass. Let's hope.

Also yesterday (ok, two days ago, but I'm still awake so I say yesterday :-)), my girlfriend had her thesis presentation. It'll also be OK, she told. The jury said it was OK, very good, and she answered most questions. With that last one, a big part of her life ends. University career as student is done. She wants to go for a PhD next year, so she won't leave university and our home ;-)

I also bought her a little present. Something because she closes a period and also because I won't see her much while I'm doing my internship at Siemens. We had some drink and a nice evening with some friends, all OK :-)

Gridiron football is a term that refers to both American football and Canadian football. The term came about after it was observed that the field of play in each sport, because of the many lines marking it, resembles a gridiron.

The word "gridiron" alone may refer either to the field or to the sport; however, in North America it's usually only used to refer the field. In some other English-speaking countries--particularly Australia and New Zealand--it is the primary term used to refer to the sport, differentiating it from other forms of football such as Australian rules football, association football (soccer), or rugby football. In the film and TV industries a gridiron is a grid made of steel and/ or iron pipes

In recent years the term has come to be used much more liberally in American Football. John Madden for example uses it to refer to the game itself. "Lets get back to the gridiron" is a type of phrase he and other announcers use when play resumes after a timeout or commercial break. This and other terms are used to glorify the tactics and strategies used in American Football to almost war-like stature.

Barbara Bermudo (born June 15, 1975 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico) journalist.

Barbara hosts "Primer Impacto" is a Spanish language news program which covers tragedies and incidents dealing with human nature and is popular among the Hispanic population in the United States. Barbara joined the programme in 2002; the co-presenters are Jackie Guerrido and Carmen Dominicci.

In 2003, Barabara participated as "herself" in the film "Chasing Papi", starring Roselyn Sanchez, Jaci Velasquez and Sofia Vergara.

In 2004, Barbara hosted "Lo Que no vio de Premios lo Nuestro" (What you didn't see in Lo Nuestro Awards) and "Noche de Estrellas" (The Night of Stars).

Barbara has made television appearances in "El Show de Cristina", "El Escandalo del Mediodia" (The Midday Scandal) and "Que Bodas" (What Weddings).

See also

• List of famous Puerto Ricans

The concept of interpretability is one in mathematical logic. Assume T and S are formal theories. Slightly simplified, T is said to be interpretable in S iff the language of T can be translated into the language of S in such a way that S proves the translation of every theorem of T. Of course, there are some natural conditions on admissible translations here, such as the necessity for a translation to preserve the logical structure of formulas.

This concept, together with weak interpretability, was introduced by Alfred Tarski in 1953. Three other related concepts are cointerpretability, logical tolerance, and cotolerance, introduced by Giorgi Japaridze in 1992-1993. See also Interpretability logic.

References

• A.Tarski, A.Mostovski and R.M.Robinson, Undecidable Theories. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1953.
• G.Japaridze and D. de Jongh, The logic of provability. Handbook of Proof Theory. S.Buss, ed. Elsevier, 1998, pp. 476-546.

External links

• Giorgi Japaridze: Homepage
• Giorgi Japaridze: Research and Publications

Monday, I've done my exam Information Theory. Didn't go well. I thought I'd studied enough, but the exam was very hard with large time-consuming question. Nobody was done on time, but I've hardly completed half of it. So I think I'll fail for that one, but let's hope for the best.

Next one is friday, speech processing. Harder than I thought. Large parts of the course handle signal processing and statistics, my two big problems of the second year. I'll do my best ;-)

I also had contact with Dirk Steel about my internship at Siemens. I allready have to start monday! Just a week quality time with my lovely girlfriend isn't possible :-( We'll be together now friday after my exam and her thesis defence. I've cancelled VTK Weekend for me. Saturday, I have a BBQ with people from student representation boards all over Flanders. Let's hope I can spend a large part of my sunday with my sweetheart...

Now the exams have finished it's time when start working
on the fedora stateless server. First thing we need
too do is find a bigger hard disk because the current
one isn't big enought to build an image.
And then the big moment: testing :-)

(sorry, post was in protected tree instead of published for a long time)

Aanrader voor wie tijdens de examens 's avonds op zoek is naar een (korte) pauze: Film Kort op Canvas. Sinds 31 mei toont Canvas gedurende de zomer elke dinsdagavond om middernacht een kortfilm van eigen bodem. Enkele weken terug was dat Flatlife, de film waarmee de Vlaming Jonas Geirnaert de Prijs van de Jury binnenhaalde op het Filmfestival van Cannes. Vandaag was het de beurt aan My Bonnie, vertoond op het Internationaal Filmfestival van Vlaanderen Gent in oktober 2004, eindwerk van Nele Meirhaeghe en winnaar van de Prijs voor het Beste Debuut op het Internationaal Kortfilmfestival Leuven. Ik heb zonet gekeken: echt een prachtige film!

Film Kort, elke dinsdag om 0u00 op Canvas!

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Op 21 juli zullen alle vlaggen in Heuvelland halfstok hangen. Dat heeft de gemeenteraad van de West-Vlaamse gemeente maandagavond beslist. Het voorstel kwam van oppositieraadslid Georges Declercq (Gemeentebelangen), die daarmee zijn steun wil betuigen aan de burgemeesters van de kieskring Brussel-Halle-Vilvoorde.

De gemeenteraad keurde het voorstel goed met 8 ja-stemmen van de oppositiepartij Gemeentebelangen, negen onthoudingen van de meerderheidspartij CD&V en twee neen-stemmen. E

The tool known as the adze serves for smoothing rough-cut wood in hand woodworking. Generally, the user stands astride a board or log and swings the adze downwards towards their feet, chipping off a piece of wood, and walking backwards as they go, leaving a relatively smooth surface behind. However, in general it can be used for various cutting operations.

The head of the adze is oriented to the haft like a hoe, or plane, and not like an axe, whose cutting blade would be perpendicular to the blade of an adze.

History

Linearbandkeramic shoe-last adze, amphibolite

Prehistoric Maori adzes from New Zealand, used for wood carving were made from nephrite, also known as jade.

In central Europe, adzes made by knapping flint are known from the late Mesolithic onwards ("Scheibenbeile"). Polished adzes and axes made of ground stone, like amphibolite, basalt or Jadeite are typical for the Neolithic period. Shoe-last adzes or celts, named for their typical shape, are found in the Linearbandkeramic and . admin . 10:56:22 pm . 1 Words . Articles . . No views

Dr. Aamir Liaquat Hussain is also accused in the Pakistani media as Dr. Fake. Currently he is a minister of state for religious affairs in the government of Pakistan. He is an active member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement or MQM, alleged for acts of terrorism in Karachi Pakistan.

External Links

• Dr Fake [1] (http://www.satribune.com/archives/200503/P1_fake.htm)
• Musharraf's Dr Fake Caught [2] (http://www.satribune.com/archives/200505/P1_drfake.htm)
• MQM's Fake Aalim Online [3] (http://www.satribune.com/archives/200505/P1_drfake2.htm)
• The Story of the Censored 'Truths' [4] (http://www.satribune.com/archives/200505/P1_ary.htm)
• Independent's story [5] (http://weeklyindependent.com/feature1.htm)
• Daily Ummat's invastigative story [6] (http://ummat.com.pk/Kahanian/misc_stories/aamir_liaquat.htm)
• Dr. Aamir Liaquat Hussain's Naats [7] (http://www.pakmarkaz.com/islam/naats/amirliaquat.html)

Dit gerucht werd dinsdag aangekondigd op de nieuwsgroep be.radio in deze draad. In deze draad werd ook al duidelijk dat de domeinnaam radio538.be begin dit jaar van eigenaar veranderde en zowel de .be als .nl variant naar dezelfde pagina's verwijzen.

Nadien wist Koen Godderis te melden dat het bericht aan hem bevestigd was. De boodschapper is echter nogal controversieel en geen onbekende, getuige hiervan dit en dit bericht op de weblog van LVB. Ieder denkt er dus het zijne van. Afgaande op een uurtje luisteren naar de livestream denk ik dat Radio 538 wel een welgekomen zender in het Vlaamse radiolandschap zal zijn met een zeker potentieel.

Blijkbaar zijn Vlaams-Nederlandse projecten in. Deze week werd immers ook aangekondigd dat de Nederlandse zender Noordzee FM, die onlangs overgenomen is door De Persgroep, mede-eigenaar van de Vlaamse MediaMaatschappij (VTM, Kanaal Twee, JIM en Q-Music), vanaf binnenkort gaat uitzenden onder de naam Q-Music en zich meer gaat spiegelen aan de Vlaamse versie, met een nieuwe format en de baseline Q is good for you.

Censorshit is a song writen by Joey Ramone from The Ramones for their album Mondo Bizzaro. It refers to how Joey thinks on Censorship so he is calling it Censorshit.

Opgelet als u van het vrouwelijke geslacht bent en een uitstapje maakt in Amsterdam. U kan immers onverwacht een tongzoen te verwerken krijgen van de Amsterdamse seriezoener!

AMSTERDAM - De Nederlandse politie heeft de jacht geopend op een man die in Amsterdam vrouwen lastigvalt door hun vanuit het niets een tongzoen te geven. De

Gisteren berichtte De Standaard zowel in de krant als in haar weblog over Kabouter Spam:

Jan Peumans is Vlaams volksvertegenwoordiger voor de N-VA. Af en toe stuurt hij een e-post om de media van zijn bestaan op de hoogte te brengen. Gisteren stuurde hij tien berichten. Allemaal dezelfde.

Zijn reactie hierop is alvast geslaagd, vind ik :-D Vandaag schreef De Standaard immers hetvolgende:

Dit bericht bereikte de redactie, een dag nadat het Vlaamse parlementslid Jan Peumans (N-VA) 11 keer hetzelfde persbericht stuurde via e-mail. Het leverde hem de titel op van Kabouter Spam. Wat zegt Peumans nu: ,,Aan de slachtoffers van Kabouter Spam. Gelieve onderstaand bericht zorgvuldig te lezen, het zal slechts

So, I'm at LinuxTag currently, bloody tired, but well, having quite a good time after all (god I hate qwertz). I wouldn't say it's superb (talks tend not to go deep enough etc), but meeting some guys you've known on IRC for a while already in real life now is just great. Hacking on some things together (too bad I still havent got a laptop, which disables me from doing any real hacking myself, actually, we can only work together on one machine which does give problems from time to time), grabbing a beer (not to much, as beer is not as free as the speech couterpart ;-)), discussing things, just hanging around... Well, pretty much the things everybody does in here :-)
I won't write too much now (waaaaaay too tired), a larger "report" including some pictures might follow later (although that later might become "not within 2 weeks", as the following week I'll hardly be at home).

Fortunately we got some great wheather (although sometimes it tends to be too hot :-/)

Taft is the name of some places in the United States of America:

• Taft, Alabama
• Taft, California
• Taft, Florida
• Taft, Kentucky
• Taft, Louisiana
• Taft, Minnesota
• Taft, Missouri
• Taft, Montana
• Taft, North Dakota
• Taft, Oklahoma
• Taft, Oregon
• Taft, South Carolina
• Taft, Tennessee
• Taft, Texas
• Taft, Virginia

People named Taft:

• William Howard Taft, 27th President of United States
• Robert Alphonso Taft
• Bob Taft

(See Taft family)

De Deense minister Bendtsen, die zich eerder nogal op de vlakte hield over softwarepatenten, trekt nu in een brief ineens fel van leer tegen het onderwerp.

Uit een brief, die in handen van de Webwereld-redactie is gekomen, blijkt dat Denemarken niets ziet in de lichtlijn zoals die nu wordt voorgesteld. Het land sluit zich hierbij aan bij de critici in het Europees Parlement.

Laten we hopen dat vele anderen snel volgen!

Het volledige artikel kan je lezen op Webwereld.

In differential geometry, the Weyl curvature tensor is the traceless component of the Riemann curvature tensor. In other words, it a tensor that has the same symmetries as the Riemann curvature tensor with the extra condition that its Ricci curvature must vanish.

In dimensions 2 and 3 the Weyl curvature tensor vanishes identically. In dimensions ≥ 4, the Weyl curvature is generally nonzero.

The Weyl tensor can be obtained from the full curvature tensor by subtracting out various traces. This is most easily done by writing the Riemann tensor as a (0,4) valent tensor (by contracting with the metric). The (0,4) valent Weyl tensor is then

where n is the dimensional of the manifold, g is the metric, Ric is the Ricci tensor, s is the scalar curvature, and hOk denotes the Kulkarni-Nomizu product of two symmetric (0,2) tensors:

The ordinary (1,3) valent Weyl tensor is then given by contracting the above with the inverse of the metric.

The Weyl tensor has the special property that it is invariant under conformal changes to the metric. That is, if g′ = f g for some positive scalar function then W′ = W. For this reason the Weyl tensor is also called the conformal tensor. It follows that a necessary condition for a Riemannian manifold to be conformally flat is that the Weyl tensor vanish. It turns out that in dimensions ≥ 4 this condition is sufficient as well. In dimension 3 the vanishing of the Cotton tensor is a necessary and sufficient condition for the Riemannian manifold being conformally flat.

See also

• Curvature of Riemannian manifolds
• Christoffel symbols provides a coordinate expression for the Weyl tensor.

Microsoft wil het omstreden en uitvoerig verworpen SenderID verplicht invoeren op alle MSN- en Hotmailadressen.

SenderID is een techniek van Microsoft die spam zou moeten bestrijden. De implementatie is allesbehalve waterdicht omdat deze gebasseerd is aan de koppeling van domeinen aan IP-bereiken. Juridisch is de oplossing allesbehalve bruikbaar omdat deze beschermd wordt door patenten en men bijgevolg risico loopt op claims. SenderID wordt dus allesbehalve goed onthaald.

Nu wil MS die techniek invoeren bij alle hotmail- en MSN-adressen. Mails die daar binnenkomen en waarvan de afzender geen gebruik maakt van SenderID, zullen onmiddellijk als spam aanzien worden. Op die manier probeert Microsoft de aanvaarding en het gebruik van SenderID bij andere gebruikers te stimuleren.

Een gevolg hiervan is echter dat de gebruikers van de hotmaildiensten op die manier een mailbox krijgen met bijkomende nadelen: vele berichten zullen onterecht als spam aanzien worden. Je mag dan zeker je volledige spammap doorsnuisteren om te zien of er toevallig geen geldig bericht tussenzit. En deze zullen er zeker tussenzitten! Velen hebben hotmail nu al verlaten en gekozen voor de talrijke kwalitatief betere services, dit effect zal hierdoor enkel vergroot worden!

Bron: ZDnet. Meer informatie over waarom SenderID verworpen wordt is eveneens daar te vinden in de links onderaan het artikel.

Prosecco is a variety of white grape grown in the Veneto region of Italy, and also gives its name to the sparkling wine made from the grape.

The grape is grown in the Conegliano and Valdobbiadene wine-growing regions north of Venice. Its late ripening has led to its use in dry sparkling (spumante) and semi-sparkling (frizzante) wines, with their characteristic bitter aftertaste.

The cocktail Bellini made with sparkling wine and peach juice should properly be made with Prosecco wine.

The Italian Prosecco should not be mixed with Dalmatian Prosecco, which is a special sweet wine (sherry), made out of dried grapes.

So, I'll be heading to Germany tomorrow after my last exam, to attend at LinuxTag on Friday and Saturday. Most likely I will be at the Social Event too.
If you're reading this and you're coming as well, let me know, maybe we can meet :-) Leave a comment or send me some email, although I cannot promise I'll be able to check my email/blog comments over there... (I hope there'll be some public terminals)

Ependyma is the thin epithelial membrane lining the ventricular system of the brain and the spinal cord canal. It is not found in mammals, for which the meninges are the counterpart of the former.

Dat internationalisering van het onderwijs in is, dat wisten we al langer dan vandaag. Dat er vooral binnen Europese instellingen samenwerkingsakkoorden afgesloten worden en masters gezamenlijk georganiseerd worden, is niet nieuw. Aan de UGent hebben we bijvoorbeeld de specialisatieopleiding textieltechnologie die verloopt in samenwerking met universiteiten uit Finland, Zweden, Litouwen, Nederland, Polen, Duitsland, Frankrijk en Groot Brittani

You scored as Satanism.

Your beliefs most closely resemble those of Satanism! Before you scream, do a bit of research on it. To be a Satanist, you don't actually have to believe in Satan. Satanism generally focuses upon the spiritual advancement of the self, rather than upon submission to a deity or a set of moral codes. Do some research if you immediately think of the satanic cult stereotype. Your beliefs may also resemble those of earth-based religions such as paganism.

Atheism          83%

Satanism         83%

Agnosticism      79%

Paganism         75%

Buddhism         58%

Islam            50%

Judaism          42%

Christianity     25%

Hinduism          0%

To reassure all people in my environment: no, I'm not that evil. I don't like torturing (except my girlfriend). I don't burn animals or make people suffer or what else. Let's hope some people in my environment can confirm that to make sure the CIA or whatever doesn't put me on a list of dangerous persons ;-)

Wetenschappers van de UGent hebben menselijke embryo's gekloond. Anders dan de Koreanen vorig jaar, vertrokken ze van onrijpe eicellen. Het is voor zover bekend de eerste keer dat volwassen menselijke cellen in Europa worden gekloond en de eerste keer vertrekkende vanuit onrijpe eicellen. Dit is een belangrijke stap in het onderzoek naar stamcellen

Een kloonembryo van de UGent, in vier groeistadia, van linksboven naar rechtsonder.

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An auxiliary bishop, in the Roman Catholic Church, is an additional bishop assigned to a diocese because the diocesan bishop is unable to perform his functions, the diocese is so extensive that it requires more than one bishop to administer, or the diocese is attached to a royal or imperial office requiring the diocesan bishop's protracted presence at court. According to canon law, no bishop can be ordained without title to a certain and distinct episcopal see which he governs either actually or potentially, therefore auxilary bishops are titular bishops to sees that no longer exist.

Canon law requires that the diocesan bishop appoint each auxiliary bishop as vicar general or vicar episcopal of the diocese.

Reference

• Catholic Encyclopedia - Auxiliary Bishop (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02145b.htm)

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Check the first comment here. Rodrigo has some good points in his post, gives some hints on how to solve the problem, tries to be constructive.
Anonymous Coward replies.

Ignore, let's move on.

This article is about the writer. For the professor of sociology and history, see John Markoff (professor).

John Markoff (born October 24, 1949) is an American writer and journalist. Markoff is a computing and technology writer for The New York Times.

Markoff was born in Oakland, California and grew up in Palo Alto, California. He graduated from Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, in 1971 and received a masters degree from the University of Oregon in 1976.

He wrote a series of articles about Kevin Mitnick, who was then a fugitive on the run from a number of law enforcement agencies. He also co-wrote Takedown, which later became a film that was released direct to video in the United States.

He was accused by Jonathan Littman of journalistic impropriety, of overzealous prosecution of Mitnick by the government, of main stream media over-hyping of Mitnick's actual crimes, and of the legality of Tsutomu Shimomura's involvement in the matter. Littman, of course, chose to ignore the irony of the fact that he himself had profited from a sensationalized account of Mitnick's time as a fugitive, in his own book on the incident. In his book he recounts how he invited Markoff to lunch after Markoff had referred a Playboy assignment on Mitnick to Littman and then stiffs Markoff for the lunch. Further controversy came over the release of the movie Takedown, with Littman alleging that portions of the film were taken from his book The Fugitive Game without permission.

Bibliography

• The High Cost of High Tech (with Lennie Siegel) - 1985
• Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier (with Katie Hafner) - 1991
• Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw (with Tsutomu Shimomura) - 1995
• What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry - 2005

Philip:
Don't get too frustrated ;-) Lots of people know about these issues. Lots of them care. But as you mentioned, people need to get together, and come out with real-world solutions for real-world problems.
You're right when you state there's a lot of flaming on xdg. But not on all subjects. Take D-BUS and HAL, two promising technologies that get widely accepted, and are truly desktop-agnostic. Both Gnome and KDE start to make heavy use of it.
I'm not really familiar with the copy-paste issues. But as far as I know there is a clipboard specification on fd.o. If that's not sufficient for new applications, everyone is free to propose extensions for the specification. But why do we need a spec if applications don't use it? Currently Gnome got no real clipboard manager, I heard KDE does though.

Some parts of the desktop should be standardised, and shared between both (or should I say "all"?) Desktop Environments we got in the Free Software world. A normal non-techie desktop user wants to be able to copy-paste between Kmail and Gaim without any problem. And he's right when he wants this.
Low-level non-interfacing libraries like D-BUS and HAL should be shared too. It'd be pointless if both Gnome and KDE would start writing up something like HAL. I've been following HAL development for a logn time already, and it's taking lots of effort and thorough decission-making to develop it (kudo's to the devs, especially David :-)), so duplicating something like it is a wasted effort. We could use the amount of work the devs put in the 2nd implementation elsewhere.
Same goes for D-BUS: we all know the story of CORBA and all it's implementations. Finally, with D-BUS, sending some simple dumb signal becomes a matter of writing 3 lines of code (now don't count, it's just a number), a dev does not have to write up IDL files and whatever more. Some people told me once only the guys that wrote Bonobo know how to use it, and maybe they were right (although I know D-BUS and CORBA/Bonobo aren't 100% the same thing, bleh).

But where is the line? I mean, if both Gnome and KDE should share everything (not only in standards, something they should share, but also in libs) we can as well just start dropping one of them and only developing on the other one. And we all know what happens when someone gets a monopoly ;-)

So (finally, the key matter): DConf. I did follow the lengthy discussions (url is just one of the many threads) when they were on xdg. And I must admit, at that time, sometimes they bored me to that. I also laughed when I read that "Over my dead body" comment. Actually, I used it several times to demonstrate what's going on between Gnome and KDE. Although there's one big thing to note: the comment was made by someone who was, afaik, no KDE developer. Waldo, who is one, did participate in a positive manner IIRC.

Now why do people accept something like HAL, and tend to be against something like DConf? I think it's fairly simple: currently both KDE and Gnome got their configuration infrastructure, KConfig and Gconf. Almost all apps who target one of these environments use the corresponding configuration libraries and standards. This is a large part of all desktop apps, including some of the largest (well, except the Mozilla and OOo stuff).
So I can understand some people are a little reluctant when all at once someone on xdg comes to tell them we need a new, common configuration interface. I'm not saying this is a good thing, just trying to understand how they think:

• When KConfig or Gconf would be dropped one day in favour of Dconf, lots of code that accesses configuration settings should be rewritten to use the new API's
• It is possible even the internal logics of this code will need to be rewritten, if they use some special features of the system they use now that won't be included in Dconf
• "We already got a config system that does what we need, why can't the (fill in other/'rival' DE) guys just use ours?"
• "Dconf offers this and this, but hell, I don't need all that! It only makes my simple I-administrate-one-desktop life more difficult"

and there could be more than 100 other reasons.

So what's the big difference between, say, HAL and Dconf? HAL is new. Desktop developers can just say "Hey, that's some cool new technology, let's write some application (gvm/ivman/kvm/...) around it, or add some functionality to something we got now (gnome-vfs/kioslaves/...) using it".
Dconf will also be something new. But the functionality it offers won't be. So existing things will have to be adapted or rewritten.

Summary: I agree with you on large parts of your rant. Basic libraries like GStreamer should be adopted by both platforms (as long as the development team does, well, a good job... together), duplicating effort is useless there.
Standards should be written and implemented, so a normal desktop-user shouldn't care whether he's running KDE applications or Gnome apps in some random environment. Copy-paste between two Gnome apps should be as easy/workable as doing it between a Gnome and a KDE app.
But we should not make just one melt pot of both platforms. Some concurrention is a good thing ;-) I hope you're not saying something like "Hey, let's drop GTK+, let's use Qt too, to avoid duplicate efforts".
As for ISV's: it's not a bad thing they should choose between GTK+ or Qt. Both platforms got their strengths, every ISV got it's preferences and knowledge. And both platforms get vendors that use them: GTK eg by VMWare, Qt by Skype. But we should make sure indeed VMWare can run flawlessly on a desktop running KDE, taking care VMWare should not use any special tricks to get that working (eg configuration management). Like this all ISV's can choose their preferred platform, without being forced to ask the client "Hey, what desktop are you running?"

Somewhat unrelated: we, in the FOSS world, should make sure we get more enterprise-ready (and Dconf is one step in the right direction). We are not limited to single-desktop employments. There are some good efforts like Sabayon, or Fedora Stateless, and maybe some non-Gnome-based counterparts I don't know of, but these need much more attention, as they are not completely usable yet (as you can see while reading our experiences with Fedora Stateless). 100-workstation deployments should become fun for the administrator, not a hell as it is now. If we could ever reach that goal, FOSS would get the oportunity to get a strong share in the corporate desktop market, as deploying concurrent desktops in a big environment isn't always a breeze either these days (wink@Jeroen and DICT, if someone'd ever read this).

Bleh, I dislike writing long rants as I'm not good at it so I stop here. By the way, didn't we agree not to blog on Dconf and keep it silent for a while? ;-)

Completely unrelated: I got some email from Nokia saying I'll get a code to get one of their N770's at 99

I guess most of you saw the Windows Picture and Fax viewer at least once already:

(click on the tumbnail for a full scale view)

Now what's so special about this? Let's take a closer look:

Is it just me who doesn't get the logics behind this? Guess I won't ever become a good UI-designer...

If anyone got a good explanation for this, please let me know.

Next to that: I haven't been working too much on coding lately, trying to study. I might overhaul the opluginmanager API completely once more, playing around with some idea's to make it more usable from languages other than C, so as long as I didn't decide on the final design (on which I'd still love to get some input) it's stalled a little.

I'll have my last exam on Thursday afternoon, then probably I'll take off to Germany to visit LinuxTag (let me know if you're coming), I'll be at Rock Werchter one day, then the VTK Weekend follows, our annual GAO barbeque,... Busy times to come :-)

The Etolin Strait is a strait in western Alaska, at about 60

Op de voorbije vergadering van de faculteitsraad kwam ook het voorstel aan bod om het keuzevak "stage" te vervangen. Het voorstel was een tijdje daarvoor, oa op aandringen van de studentenvertegenwoordigers, reeds uitgevoerd besproken en vormgegeven. Het is dan ook zonder noemenswaardige problemen goedgekeurd op de faculteitsraad. Navraag bij de decaan leerde mij dat het bestuurscollege hem de garantie gegeven heeft dat het voorstel ook daar snel zou goedgekeurd worden zodat het reeds volgend academiejaar van toepassing kan zijn op de stages van deze zomer. Totnogtoe gingen we er vanuit dat de complexe programmahervormingsprocedure pas volgend jaar voltooid zou zijn, zodat ons voorstel pas in academiejaar 2006-2007 van toepassing zou zijn. Goed nieuws dus.

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Zoals hier aangekondigd, heb ik vandaag een bezoekje gebracht aan de vestiging van Siemens in Herentals. Uiterst interessante boel daar :-D

Dirk Steel, de persoon die daar mijn stage zal co

Voor wie het nog niet wist, er wordt ook maandelijks naar de kiesintenties gepeild. Dit door de krant Het Laatste Nieuws, allesbehalve mijn favoriete dagblad, maar kom. Deze peiling kwam vooral onder de aandacht de voorbije weken toen op korte tijd drie peilingen bekendgemaakt zijn: eerst die van de VRT en De Standaard, vervolgens die van VTM en La Libre Belgique en als laatste die van De Stemmenkampioen. Alledrie gaven ze een steeds dieper wegzinken van de VLD aan. Peilingen, op zich niet dermate interessant, doch deze vind ik wel een specialleke. Door gebruik te maken van een vast panel dat minstens maandelijks bevraagd wordt, kan men interessante informatie bekomen. Zo stelt men bijvoorbeeld telkens een weekvraag waarvan men het antwoord kan weergeven in functie van de kiesintenties van het panel. Ook de peilingen van de sterkte van de partijen binnen de kartels leveren interessante informatie op. Door het vaste panel kan men ook de verschuivingen beter in kaart brengen. Uiterst interessante materie voor politiek ge

Live country recording by the American rock and roll band The Supersuckers. Released in 2004, it was recorded live at a bar called The Tractor Tavern in Seattle, Washington.

Track List

1. Creepy Jackalope Eye
2. Doublewide
3. Sail On
4. Pretty Fucked Up
5. Killer Weed
6. Born With A Tail
7. Alabama, Louisiana or Maybe Tennessee

This album-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Live_at_the_Tractor_Tavern&action=edit).

Stupid me, I wrote this one yesterday, wanted to modify a typo today, but clicked the "delete" button instead of "edit" :oops:

Wednesday, I had my exam Information Security. It was a bit harder to study than expected. The first part, wich deals about the mathematic aspects of encryption, calculation with prime numbers, was the boring and most difficult part. First I thought it was an oral closed book exam, but Tuesday someone told me it was open book, wich was also explained on one of the first slides, wich I skiped :oops: So, open book means you don't have to learn that stuff by heart, wich was very welcome news and gave me lots of extra hope :-D

The examn wasn't that hard, more about the applications instead of the maths. I expect it to be very good.

Next one is one of the most boring ones: Information Theory on monday the 27th. So lots of time, but no time to party. :-/ I'll work a few days on Speech Processing to make sure three days will be enough for that one.

Tomorrow, I've also an appointment with someone at Siemens Herentals about an internship. Very nice, I hope it'll be OK. The big problem however is: how to get there in a reasonable time. When you check websites like Antwerken, you see the Antwerp Ring is a complete mobily chaos, especially when you have to go to the E313. Another possibility is by the Brussels Ring, but then you also have the big traffic jams and all that stuff. I'll drive the direct way :-D From Ghent to Dendermonde and by Mechelen and Lier to Herentals. I'll start here at 7.30 am to arrive there at 10 am. Damn, too early to get out of my bed XX(

Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995) was an American baseball player, regarded as one of the best of all time. He played his entire professional career for the New York Yankees.

Career

Mickey Mantle was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma. He was named in honor of Mickey Cochrane, a famous baseball player, by his father, who was an amateur player and fervent fan. Apparently his father was not aware that Cochrane's real name was Gordon, and in later life, Mickey Mantle expressed great relief that his father had not known Cochrane's real first name, as he would have hated to be named Gordon. Mantle always spoke warmly of his beloved father and said he was the bravest man he ever knew. "No boy ever loved his father more" he said. Sadly, his father died of cancer at the age of 39 just as his son was starting his career. Mantle said one of the great heartaches of his life was that he never told his father he loved him.

"Mutt" Mantle taught his son how to be a switch-hitter. He had played shortstop in the minor leagues, but on arrival at the Yankees, he became the regular right fielder (playing only a few games at shortstop and third base in 1952 to 1955). He moved to centerfield in 1952, replacing Joe DiMaggio, who retired at the end of the 1951 season after one year playing alongside Mantle in the Yankees outfield. He played centerfield until 1967, when he was moved to first base. Among Mantle's many accomplishments are all-time World Series records for home runs (18), runs scored (42), and runs-batted-in (40).

Mantle also hit the longest measured home-run ever in a major league game. On September 10, 1960, he hit a ball that cleared the right-field roof at Tiger Stadium in Detroit, which based on where it was found, was estimated years after the fact to have traveled 643 feet. Another Mantle homer at Griffith Stadium in Washington, DC on April 17, 1953 traveled 565 feet from home plate to the spot it was retrieved by a local boy.

In 1956 Mantle won the Hickok Belt as top professional athlete of the year. This was his "favorite summer," a year that saw him win the Triple Crown (.353, 52, 130) and the first of three MVP awards. On January 16, 1961 Mantle became the highest paid baseball player by signing a $75,000 contract.

On December 23, 1951, he married Merlyn Johnson in their hometown of Commerce; they had four sons. In an autobiography, Mantle said he married Merlyn not because he loved her, but because his domineering father told him to. The couple had been separated for 15 years when he died, but neither ever filed for divorce. Mantle lived with his agent, Greer Johnson. Johnson was taken to federal court in November 1997 by the Mantle family to stop her from auctioning many of Mantle's personal items, including a lock of hair, a neck brace and expired credit cards.

Mantle announced his retirement on March 1, 1969 and in 1974, as soon as he was eligible, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame; his uniform number 7 was retired by the Yankees. (He had briefly worn uniform number 6, as a continuation of Babe Ruth's 3, Lou Gehrig's 4, and Joe DiMaggio's 5, in 1951, but the pressure on him that this caused led to his being switched to number 7 later in that season.) When he retired, the Mick was third on the all-time home run list with 536. In 1983, Mantle took a job promoting an Atlantic City casino, and was suspended from baseball by Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. He would be reinstated in 1985 by Peter Ueberroth, Kuhn's successor.

Mantle's last days

Mantle received a liver transplant on June 8, 1994 after his liver had been damaged by years of chronic alcoholism, cirrhosis, and hepatitis C. He spent time at the Betty Ford Clinic to kick the bottle for good. Mantle spoke with great remorse of his drinking in a Sports Illustrated article called "My Life In A Bottle". He admitted he had often been cruel and hurtful to family, friends and fans because of his alcoholism and sought to make amends. He became a born-again Christian before he died due to his former teammate Bobby Richardson sharing his faith with him. Mickey Mantle died on August 13, 1995 in Dallas, Texas at Baylor University Medical Center after his liver cancer spread through out his body. He was interred in the Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Dallas. Mantle had asked his good friend country singer Roy Clark to perform his favorite song "Yesterday, When I Was Young" at his funeral. Listening to the verses, one can see why the song was his favorite. "I lived by night/I shunned the light of day/ and only now I see how the years slipped away/I ran so fast time and youth ran out/so many songs in me won't be sung/I now must pay for yesterday when I was young."

In eulogizing Mantle, Bob Costas described the legend as "a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic."

He loved cherry pie and slept with his socks on inside out.

External links

• Mickey Mantle's career statistics on the Baseball Almanac site (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=mantlmi01)
• Mickey Mantle's bio on the Baseball Historian site (http://www.baseballhistorian.com/html/mickey_mantle.htm)
• Mickey Mantle's career statistics on the Baseball Library site (http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/M/Mantle_Mickey.stm)
• Mickey Mantle's career statistics at Baseball-Reference.com (http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mantlmi01.shtml)
• http://www.themick.com/
• Mickey Mantle's First Home Run (http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/submit/Ceresi_Frank4.stm)

Sources

• Mickey Mantle: His Final Inning by American Tract Society, 1998, ISBN 1-55837-138-9

This week I also set up my webserver and mysql for testing purposes. Installation of b2evo is very easy, straight forward. I tested a bit with configuration, modifying some styles and arranging things to handle it like a homepage with profile and files and that stuff. Very good stuff, recomended to everyone. I'm sure I'll use that engine at peterdedecker.net. First, I have to finish my exams of course, but then I'll make the migration from this server (eikke.com) to my own domain.

I also gave Planet a try. Also here, installation was done speaking in a few minutes and configuration is very easy. I played a bit with it, but it is just a nice piece of software. I think I'll use it in a plan that's breading in my head for now. More news'll follow.

Hank Stine (born 1945) was an American science fiction editor and writer.

Stine published a handful of science fiction novels in the lates 1960 and early 1970s, beginning with Season of the Witch in 1968.

Stine took over the position of editor of Galaxy after the departure of John J. Pierce in 1979, and edited two issues of the magazine.

Stine later underwent sex-reassignment surgery (a theme which had informed some of his writing, such as Season) and changed her name to Janine Stine.

Queer is the title of an early short novel (written 1951–1953, published 1985) by William S. Burroughs. It is a partialsequel to the tale in his earlier novel, Junkie.

The novel tells the semi-autobiographical story of a brief love/lust affair and the influence of drug-taking, set in 1940s Mexico andSouth America. It also has a detached cinematic quality that is absentfrom his later novels.

Originally intended to be published as a followup to Junkie in the 1950s, Burroughs' publisher rejected Queer,claiming that he would be prosecuted for immorality. Due to its themes,Queer finally found a publisher as part of Burroughs' contract with Viking Penguin, in 1985.

Despite being a queer author, Burroughs has, in the words of Russell (2001) "been totally excluded from the 'queer canon'".

An Erling Wold opera of the sametitle, based on the novel, premiered to acclaim in the US in 1998.

Further reading

• Russell, Jamie: Queer Burroughs, Palgrave MacMillan (2001). ISBN 0312239238

Hija,

Today I implemented an idea I had been playing with for some time already: make a daily RSS feed of Wikipedia articles.
Why? If you add this feed to your aggregator, you'll be served a random article every day (or maybe twice a day, still have to decide at which frequency the cronjob should run) to expand your global knowledge, not only regarding tech-stuff ;-)

The blog page is here, you can find links to the RSS/Atom/... feed on the right.

Things could be somewhat buggy for now (there are lots of articles with lots of markups, some of them forbidden by b2evo, so I have to filter them out) but as more articles are aggregated, I'll be able to squash them :-)

I hope you like (and use) the service ;-) Spread the word!

This must be the greates Gnome tip I ever read (the dragging part at least). Now finally one doesn't need to crawl through one Save and one Open dialog to send a simple screenshot to some buddy. Thanks Karel!!!

Next to that: this is some of the most insane projects ever. A Unix shell written in JavaScript, that can be run from a browser. Check the "Open Shell" link on top of the page. Pretty nifty, didn't look at the code yet, will do that later.

Started working on the "save and restore enabled plugins" functionality today. I decided to use GMarkup instead of libxml2 so I don't add another dependency (next to glib), and the config strings are so easy formatted GMarkup is more than sufficient to parse them. But it made me discover once more how much I hate dreaded SAX parsing. Someone who enjoys writing SAX based parsers must be on a serious crack overdose :crazy:

In januari namen Cindy De Smet en Erwin van Hunen, bekend van de Podcasting-software Doppler, het initiatief om een Geek Dinner te organiseren in Gent. Toen al gingen er stemmen op om ook eens een Blog Dinner te organiseren, afgestemd op bloggers

Vandaag kreeg ik onderstaand berichtje in mijn mailbox.

Beste Mijnheer Dedecker,

U zal waarschijnlijk intussen al op de hoogte zijn dat ICTO, in overleg met de decanen, DOWA en de Academisch Beheerder, als tijdelijke oplossing en in afwachting van een studentenportaal waarop een door de studentenvertegenwoordigers beheerde infosite thuis hoort, voor de faculteiten PPW, Ingenieurswetenschappen en LW een *"Studentenvertegenwoordiging"* infosite heeft aangemaakt. Om de studenten maximaal te helpen en tijd te besparen hebben wij reeds de studenten per studiejaar in een groep gestoken.

(...)

*Wij zullen indien gewenst ook voor andere faculteiten een "studentenvertegenwoordiging" infosite openen op vraag van de decaan.

We zijn dus goed vertrokken! De infosite staat er al, heb ik gezien, doch voorlopig heeft enkel de Decaan de juiste permissies. We hopen dit op zo kort mogelijke termijn in orde te brengen zodat de FR-stuvers dit gezamenlijk kunnen beheren, meldingen online plaatsen, documenten ter beschikking stellen,... De andere faculteiten zouden normaal snel moeten volgen, alle stuvers in de GSR proberen dit reeds voor hun faculteit in orde te krijgen.

Je ziet ook dat er in die mail sprake is van een "studentenportaal". Uiteraard heb ik nagevraagd wat hiervan de bedoeling is, met volgend antwoord als gevolg:

Beste Peter

Hoever de plannen van de studentenadministratie staan ben ik van plan na te trekken maar de algemene beleidsbeslissing is eind december 2004 genomen ; het is dus zeker de bedoeling dit centraal te implementeren ( niet door ICTO) maar zoals U waarschijnlijk al weet is iedereen zwaar overwerkt en hebben de essenti

I implemented Python plugin loading this afternoon. It's almost finished, only calling functions does not work yet (thats only like 10 lines or so, but my eyes start to hurt). It's using the Python plugin base class I blogged about yesterday.

The code is far from perfect, it might leak like hell etc, but hey, it's working ;-) You can't debug or clean code that is not working at all :-)

Here's the current output of the test loader I wrote:

** (process:19360): DEBUG: Loading all modules in .libs
** (process:19360): DEBUG: Suffix for .libs/libtestplugin1.so is valid, loading module
** (process:19360): DEBUG: [OPluginManagerPlugin] [test-plugin1] Got an init function
** (process:19360): DEBUG: [test-plugin1] Init with data "test-init-data"
** (process:19360): DEBUG: Module .libs/libtestplugin1.so is valid, adding
** (process:19360): DEBUG: Suffix for .libs/libtestplugin2.so is valid, loading module
** (process:19360): DEBUG: Module .libs/libtestplugin2.so is valid, adding
** (process:19360): DEBUG: Loading all modules in .
** (process:19360): DEBUG: Suffix for ./TestPlugin.py is valid, loading module
Creating new OPluginManagerPythonPlugin instance: PythonTest
** (process:19360): DEBUG: Module ./TestPlugin.py is valid, adding


Found 3 modules
** (process:19360): DEBUG: Dumping module 0:


================================================
Dumping data for: .libs/libtestplugin1.so, type is "native"
=================
* Name: test-plugin1
* Summary: A simple test plugin, full-featured
* Description: This is a sample test plugin, to test the OPluginManager functionality, giving sample usage of all possibilities
* Version: 0.1
* URI: http://www.eikke.com
* Authors:
        ikke
        -----------
                Email: eikke eikke com
                URI: http://www.eikke.com
* Module got an init function
* Module got a data free function
* Module got a configure function
================================================



** (process:19360): DEBUG: Dumping module 1:


================================================
Dumping data for: .libs/libtestplugin2.so, type is "native"
=================
* Name: test-plugin2
* Summary: A simple, small test plugin
* Description: This is a sample test plugin, to test the OPluginManager functionality. It only offers limited functionality
* Version: 0.1
* URI: http://www.eikke.com
* Authors:
        ikke
        -----------
                Email: eikke eikke com
                URI: http://www.eikke.com
        John Doe
        -----------
                Email: foo@bar.com
                URI: http://www.foobar.foo
* Module got no init function
* Module got no data free function
* Module got no configure function
================================================



** (process:19360): DEBUG: Dumping module 2:


================================================
Dumping data for: ./TestPlugin.py, type is "Python"
=================
* Name: PythonTest
* Summary: A little test plugin
* Description: Some longer description of this test plugin
* Version: 0.1
* URI: http://www.eikke.com
* Authors:
        Ikke
        -----------
                Email: eikke eikke com
                URI: http://www.eikke.com
* Module got no init function
* Module got no data free function
* Module got no configure function
================================================



** (process:19360): DEBUG: Deleting 3 modules
** (process:19360): DEBUG: [OPluginManagerPlugin] Freeing "test-plugin1" data
** (process:19360): DEBUG: [OPluginManagerPlugin] Running free function
** (process:19360): DEBUG: [test-plugin1] Freeing data "Test plugin 1 data"
** (process:19360): DEBUG: [OPluginManagerPlugin] Freeing "test-plugin2" data
** (process:19360): DEBUG: [OPluginManagerPlugin] No free function provided

As you can see, it loads 3 modules: 2 native (C) ones in .libs, one fully fledged, one minimal, and loads one Python plugin.
The Python plugin code is very simple, but can still offer almost the same flexibility as the C interface does:

from OPluginManagerPlugin import OPluginManagerPlugin, OPluginManagerPluginAuthor

class TestPlugin(OPluginManagerPlugin):
        def __init__(self):
                tmpauthor = OPluginManagerPluginAuthor("Ikke", "eikke eikke com", "http://www.eikke.com")
                OPluginManagerPlugin.__init__(self, "PythonTest", "A little test plugin", tmpauthor, "Some longer description of this test plugin", "0.1", "http://www.eikke.com", self.Init, self.FreeData, self.Configure)

        def Configure(self):
                print "Configuring"

        def Init(self, init_data):
                print "Initializing with data \"" + init_data + "\""
                return "testplugindata"

        def FreeData(self, data):
                print "Freeing \"" + data + "\""

def OPluginManagerPluginInit():
        return TestPlugin()

I should learn how to work with Python lists etc to be able to implement multi-author functionality etc though.

I updated CVS heavily, so you can find (and checkout) all current code here. Please play around with it and let me know what you think of it (as a comment here or on the live.gnome wiki page), so I know what I should enhance, add,...

Oh, I got one more terrible exam today (part 2 of the one I got yesterday). Life's great :-p

I tried to stabilize the OPluginManager interface today, after a terrible exam. Look at the OPluginManager page at live.gnome.org to get a view of the current structure.

I updated the test cases I got here locally (one example is the plugin code I got on that wiki page too). The directory-loader is finished too, almost everything is in place now actually, except the UI part and the "only-load-enabled-modules" feature. These things should be fairly trivial (don't we love that word, NVDB?) to implement.

Here's a sample app:

#include <glib.h>

#include "o-plugin-manager.h"
#include "o-plugin-manager-plugin.h"

gint main(guint argc, gchar *argv[]) {
        gint cnt = 0;
        gchar *dir = NULL, *dir2 = NULL, *modulepath = NULL;
        const OPluginManagerPlugin *plugin = NULL;
        OPluginManager *manager = NULL;

        g_type_init();

        manager = O_PLUGIN_MANAGER(o_plugin_manager_new());
        o_plugin_manager_load_modules(manager, ".libs", "test-init-data", NULL);        

        g_print("\n\nFound %d modules\n", o_plugin_manager_get_num_modules(manager));

        /* Check whether we got a 0'st module, call its configure function */
        if(o_plugin_manager_get_num_modules(manager) > 0) {
                plugin = o_plugin_manager_get_module(manager, 0);
                g_debug("Dumping module 0:\n");
                o_plugin_manager_plugin_dump(plugin);
        }

        g_object_unref(manager);

        return 0;
}

As you can see, this code loads all valid modules in .libs with the string "test-init-data" as init data, then checks whether a 0st plugin is available, and dumps the plugin info.

This is the current output:

** (process:14246): DEBUG: Loading all modules in .libs, suffix is so
** (process:14246): DEBUG: Suffix for .libs/libtestplugin.so is so, loading module
** (process:14246): DEBUG: [OPluginManagerPlugin] [test-plugin] Got an init function
** (process:14246): DEBUG: [test-plugin] Init with data "test-init-data"
** (process:14246): DEBUG: Module .libs/libtestplugin.so is valid, adding


Found 1 modules
** (process:14246): DEBUG: Dumping module 0:


================================================
Dumping data for: .libs/libtestplugin.so
=================
* Name: test-plugin
* Summary: A simple test plugin
* Description: This is a sample test plugin, to test the OPluginManager functionality
* Version: 0.1
* URI: http://www.eikke.com
* Authors:
        ikke
        -----------
                Email: eikke eikke com
                URI: http://www.eikke.com
        John Doe
        -----------
                Email: foo@bar.com
                URI: http://www.foobar.foo
* Module got an init function
* Module got a data free function
* Module got a configure function
================================================

** (process:14246): DEBUG: Deleting 1 modules
** (process:14246): DEBUG: [OPluginManagerPlugin] Freeing "test-plugin" data
** (process:14246): DEBUG: [OPluginManagerPlugin] Running free function
** (process:14246): DEBUG: [test-plugin] Freeing data "Test plugin data"

Here libtestplugin.so is the plugin you can see in the live.gnome wiki.

I also tried to implement a plugin structure in Python, although I'm no Python-expert at all. Current code is available here.
To give a little overview: every Python-based plugin should be a class extending from OPluginManagerPlugin, in this sample PluginTest is an implementation. There should be one fixed-name function in the __main__ module that returns an instance of this plugin class. Like this we just have to call that fixed-name function in our C wrapper, get it's return value in a PyObject *, then check whether it's type descends from OPluginManagerPlugin, and if that's the case start using the object as if it's just an OPluginManagerPlugin, we don't have to care about the details.
The code needs lots of enhancements and cleanups. If you could elaborate on this, please contact me. Especially the function-pointer part (passing (int)0 if no function is given) is ugly: I need to be able to check whether the var is a real function pointer before I call it, not only checking whether it's != 0. Next to this, I should figure out how to do proper error handling. Once that's done, I should be able to write a small wrapper plugin in C so I can start using plugins written in Python from within C.

As I wrote in my previous article, I did not know yet how to handle Python objects, and call their member functions.

After getting some help from Adam "adamh" Hooper, it became clear this is actually very easy to do.

Here's some code (I'm not reposting the whole C file, just append this to the end, it should be clear):

g_debug("Calling pytest::test using the helper function");
PyObject_CallMethod(ret, "test", NULL);

Py_XDECREF(ret);
ret = NULL;
        
g_debug("Calling pytest::test, no helper function");
g_debug("Creating a new pytest object");
ret = PyInstance_New(PyDict_GetItemString(dict, "" MODULE_NAME), NULL, NULL);
g_assert(ret != NULL);
PyObject_CallMethod(ret, "test", NULL);
Py_XDECREF(ret);

Watch out: you should not Py_XDECREF(ret) before doing this, of course.

As you can see there are 2 ways to achieve our goal:

• In the first part of the snipper, we use "ret". This is the return value of the global function called "test", which is a "pytest" instance (the "test" function ends with return pytest()). We just call PyObject_CallMethod(object, name, args) to call the function.
• In the first "solution" we use some ugly hack to get a pytest instance. In the second part we use a cleaner method, by calling PyInstance_New(type, constructor_args, kw). As you can see, we get "type" in the same way we got the entry point to the global "test" function. Now again we can just call a method on the object as in the first part.

This should be the output now:

** (process:13267): DEBUG: Initializing Python
** (process:13267): DEBUG: Setting PATH
** (process:13267): DEBUG: Trying to import "pytest"
** (process:13267): DEBUG: Success loading global test function
In main test function, argument is "testarg"
Initializing a pytest object
** (process:13267): DEBUG: Calling pytest::test using the helper function
In pytest's test function
** (process:13267): DEBUG: Calling pytest::test, no helper function
** (process:13267): DEBUG: Creating a new pytest object
Initializing a pytest object
In pytest's test function

Looks like Python/C interop is not that hard actually :-) You can find the final code here.

Thursday, my exam Multimedia Networks was OK, I think. With three exams done and three to go, I'm in the middle now. Next one is Information Security wich is really interesting. Seems not that difficult and I allready used lots of those things in practice, so normally it should go well.

Still 20 days to go and counting!

As I wrote on the OPluginManager overview page, I'd like to provide functionality to write plugins in Python. To achieve this I need to be able to call Python code from C (as the base OPluginManager framework is C-based). After asking around a little and reading some code samples (mostly in the Epiphany extension loading code) I figured out the basic calls one needs.

Here's what we need to do:
First we need some Python code. Take this as a test (pytest.py):

 class pytest:
        def __init__(self):
                print "Initializing a pytest object"

        def test(self):
                print "In pytest's test function"

def test(a):
        print "In main test function, argument is \"" + a + "\""
        return pytest()

Now we want to call some of this from C (pytest.c):

/* We want Python functionality */
#include <Python.h>
#include <glib.h>

/* To make life easier for us */
#define MODULE_NAME "pytest"

gint main(guint argc, gchar *argv[]) {
        /* The module object */
        PyObject *module = NULL;
        /* Objects we need to get a reference to a function */
        PyObject *dict = NULL, *func = NULL;
        /* Stuff we need to be able to load a module not in PYTHONPATH */
        PyObject *path = NULL, *pwd = NULL;
        /* Args we offer to the called function, and a reference to the return value */
        PyObject *args = NULL, *ret = NULL;

        /* Initialize the Python framework */
        g_debug("Initializing Python");
        Py_Initialize();

        /* "pytest.py" is in ".", so we need to alter the module search path
           "." is not in it by default */
        g_debug("Setting PATH");
        /* Get the current path (this is a list) */
        path = PySys_GetObject("path");
        /* Create a value to add to the list */
        pwd = PyString_FromString(".");
        /* And add it */
        PyList_Insert(path, 0, pwd);
        /* We don't need that string value anymore, so deref it */
        Py_DECREF(pwd);

        /* Load the module */
        g_debug("Trying to import \"%s\"", MODULE_NAME);
        module = PyImport_ImportModule("" MODULE_NAME);
        /* Check whether we succeeded */
        if(module == NULL) {
                /* If not, print the error message and get out of here */
                PyErr_Print();
                PyErr_Clear();
                g_warning("Failed to initialize \"%s\"", MODULE_NAME);
                return 1;
        }

        /* Get a dict from the module
           I should look up the API, but I presume this is something like
           "function_name" => function_entry_point */
        dict = PyModule_GetDict(module);
        /* Get the entry point of our "test" function
           This is -not- the pytest:test function */
        func = PyDict_GetItemString(dict, "test");

        /* Check again whether we succeeded, and whether the function can be called */
        if(func != NULL && PyCallable_Check(func) == TRUE) {
                g_debug("Success loading global test function");
        }
        else {
                /* Something bad occured, print out the Python error and abort */
                g_debug("Failed loading %s", MODULE_NAME);
                if(PyErr_Occurred()) {
                        PyErr_Print();
                        PyErr_Clear();
                }
                return 1;
        }

        /* We want to offer some args to the test(a) function
           These args should go into a tuple */
        /* Create a tuple with one element */
        args = PyTuple_New(1);
        /* Add a new element to the tuple, at position 0, a new string with content "testarg" */
        PyTuple_SetItem(args, 0, PyString_FromString("testarg"));

        /* Call the test function, with the "args" tuple as arguments */
        ret = PyObject_CallObject(func, args);
        /* Something went wrong.
           I must admit I still have to figure out what the return value of CallObject actually is.
           What would ret be if test(a) returns nothing? */
        if(ret == NULL) {
                /* Print error and abort */
                PyErr_Print();
                PyErr_Clear();
                g_warning("Failed to call test function");
                return 1;
        }

        /* Free the returned value, and the args tuple
           We don't really free, we unref the objects.
           I should look up what the difference between XDECREF and DECREF is. DECREF seems to be a standard unref thing */
        Py_XDECREF(ret);
        Py_DECREF(args);

        return 0;

        /* Maybe we should free the module too, and deinitialize Python
           This is not done in the code I read though */
}

Comments inline. This code might look huge, but actually it mostly consists of error checking ;-)

We need a rather "large" line to compile this:

gcc -o pytest -g `pkg-config --cflags --libs glib-2.0` -I/usr/include/python2.3 -lpython2.3 pytest.c

(You should adjust this to match your Python version if necessary)

When we run the program, this is what we get:

** (process:30233): DEBUG: Initializing Python
** (process:30233): DEBUG: Setting PATH
** (process:30233): DEBUG: Trying to import "pytest"
** (process:30233): DEBUG: Success loading global test function
In main test function, argument is "testarg"
Initializing a pytest object

Which is somewhat what we could expect.

In this sample I only use a global method, I don't use any Python object (like "pytest"). I must admit I don't know how to do this yet :oops: but hey, I'm just taking my first steps :-)

• Created an initial page on OPluginManager on live.gnome.org.
• Started writing a longer article on women in the FOSS community, now Gnome-Women was launched (actually, did that yesterday ;-))
• Sent an email to the author of this article in our local newspaper to explain crackers are no hackers (and the other way around). WikiPedia got some decent information on this issue.
• Did not study enough :-(

TODO:

• Continue working on the OPluginManager design, then implement some more of it. Get to learn some more on GObject<->Python/Mono interaction, and Python/Mono<->native calling code (ie how to allow using an OPluginManager object in Python/C#, and how to allow OModuleLoader/OPluginManager to work with Python/C# based plugins).
• Finish the mentioned article
• Poke jdub to get some response (even if it's negative) ;-)
• Write some of my ideas on the Tag based desktop down, decide wether to send it to desktop-devel@gnome or xdg@fdo, and do so accordingly.
• Study!!!!

Alle scholen van het basis- en secundair onderwijs ontvangen volgende week een uitgebreide handleiding over het gebruik van vrije software. Minister van Onderwijs Frank Vandenbroucke wil hen zo laten kennismaken met de toepassingen die mogelijk zijn in klasverband. Daarnaast is een zogenaamde "leermiddelendatabank" ontwikkeld op de educatieve portaalsite Klascement. Eind 2005 krijgen alle scholen ook een cd-rom met vrije software en testresultaten van scholen. Minister Vandenbroucke trekt voor deze acties 40.000 euro uit.

Prachtig nieuws vanuit het kabinet onderwijs dus. Lees hier de volledige persmededeling.

Een tijdje geleden kreeg ik samen met enkel medestudenten en mensen van de Dienst Studentenactiviteiten een rondleiding in de Thermische Centrale, die momenteel omgebouwd wordt tot het nieuwe studentenhuis. (klik hier voor foto's) De gids, professor Mees van de Vakgroep Architectuur en Stedenbouw en tevens architect van het nieuwe studentenhuis, had na de rondleiding ook nog heel wat te vertellen over de vroegere functies van het gebouw en de omgeving. Zo had hij een interessant verhaal over hoe er vroeger een professor aan de universiteit was die zich bezighield met het maken van limonade. Om deze te koelen, werd er ijs aangevoerd vanuit Noorwegen, langs de Schelde, en dan via een tunneltje naar twee grote koelreservoirs geduwd. Dat tunneltje heeft men nu terug vrijgemaakt met de renovatie van de stookcentrale en men is van plan daar een hekken voor te plaatsen en verlichting te installeren, zodat iedereen alsnog een zicht kan krijgen op de historie van de gebouwen in de buurt.

De Thermische Centrale, gezien vanop de Muynkkaai

Vandaag vond ik op de weblog van Skender een interessant artikel hierover. Aanpalend aan die koelinstallatie, kan je immers het Emma

I'm not willing to offend any Debian user, but this is just hilareous:
This release includes a number of up-to-date large software packages, such as the K Desktop Environment 3.3 (KDE), the GNOME desktop environment 2.8, the GNUstep desktop, XFree86 4.3.0, GIMP 2.2.6, Mozilla 1.7.8, Galeon 1.3.20, Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2, Firefox 1.0.4, PostgreSQL 7.4.7, MySQL 4.0.24 and 4.1.11a, GNU Compiler Collection 3.3.5 (GCC), Linux kernel versions 2.4.27 and 2.6.8, Apache 1.3.33 and 2.0.54, Samba 3.0.14, Python 2.3.5 and 2.4.1, Perl 5.8.4 and much more.

So

• KDE 3.3
• Gnome 2.8
• XFree86 4.3.0
• GCC 3.3.5
• Linux kernel 2.6.8

are up-to-date now? Right :roll:

Disclaimer: I guess I could be flamed now as some some stupid Gentoo user thinking he's ultra 1337 etc etc, that's not my intention at all, I just think this is funny

[edit]As just seen on IRC:
17:48 <Em> the debian world must be in an uproar. you know. with gearing up for the next release in 2009
*grin*[/edit]

Vannacht had ik hier reeds een bericht geplaatst als verslag uit de computercommissie. Ondertussen heb ik al meer nieuws over het gebruik van Minerva voor de studentenvertegenwoordiging. Zoals je weet, had Joke Renneboog via decaan Geert De Soete van de Faculteit Psychologie en Pedagogische Wetenschappen kunnen bekomen dat dit systeem ingevoerd werd voor hun faculteit. Ik heb in mijn vorig bericht reeds gemeld dat diezelfde Geert De Soete deel uitmaakt van de experten in de begeleidingsgroep ICTO. Nu wist hij via Joke te vertellen dat die begeleidingscommissie slechts een paar keer is samengekomen en dat dit al een hele tijd geleden is. Niet bijzonder actief dus en weinig kans om ons voorstel erdoor te krijgen, tenzij we zelf een vergadering bijeenroepen waarmee we ons niet zo geliefd zullen maken.

Echter niet getreurd, er is immers ook heel goed nieuws te vertellen. Zie onderstaand mailtje.

From: Geert De Soete
To: Joke Renneboog
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: Uittreksel stuver-verslag computercommissie

Joke,

Ik heb vorige vrijdag met prof. Tine Lenaerts gesproken over het veralgemenen
van de infosite voor de studentenvertegenwoordiging naar de andere faculteiten.
Zij zal akkoord gaan op voorwaarde dat - zoals bij ons - de decaan ervoor
verantwoordelijke is.

met vriendelijke groeten,

Geert

Fantastisch nieuws toch? Nu komt het erop aan om in elke faculteit met de decaan te overleggen om het systeem er ook daar door te krijgen. Aangezien onze decaan van de FirW er wel voor te vinden was, doch het niet gedaan kreeg van Prof. Wieme, kan dit voor ons al geen probleem zijn. Laat maar komen, die handel!

The exams have started in a bad way. Hardly anybody had enough time to answer all questions of our first exam ('Transportverschijnselen'). Lets hope for the best.

As some people already know, I'm going to buy a PDA (or something similar) in the near future. The ones I am/was interested in are: the Palm Lifedrive, Dell X30 or X50, or the (to be released) Nokia 770. The LifeDrive is too expensive and slow I'm afraid, and the Dell's, well... they use Windows :-p . So I'll probably buy that Nokia 770. There are a few features of it that I'm worried about though:

• Will it support VPN over Wifi?
  (needed to connect to our University network)
• Will it support pdf reading?
• How long will the battery last?
  (the site says three hours, I know)
• Will there be linux desktop software to upload files to the 770?
• I hope there will be apps to view .ppt (powerpoint) files.
• And last, but not least: When will Nokia release it?
  (the sooner the better :-p )

I still have to check out the prices for those mini memory cards the 770 uses too. Lot's of things to think about. ;-)

Om de ge

Bad examn today. The exercises were bloody. I completed one fully, one half and half, and left the third open because out of time. The third one looked difficult because it was one of the last chapter wich was a difficult one, but a few subquestions were easy. Damn, I shoold have taken that one before the others.

Let's hope it's enough for a 10...

I also had a meeting with the computer commission of our university in the afternoon. A few things were discussed, like the keeping of your e-mailadres and the VPN-protection. I'll give a more detailed report (in Dutch) when I'm back in Ghent, I left my papers there.

Just sit back and relax. Enjoy

If you really want to know what it is: Johannes Brahms' "Sonate nr. 3 in d Op. 108", by Yossif Ivanov (BE), 2nd price at the Queen Elisabeth concours last week. A magnificent piece in a superb performance. Partial movie is here, you need the latest WMP codecs to play it when running Linux.

Na de verpletterende afkeuring van de EU-grondwet door Frankrijk en Nederland, is vandaag in het Vlaams Parlement beslist dat er in Vlaanderen geen referendum komt over de grondwet. De mening van alle stemgerechtigde Vlamingen zullen we dus nooit kennen. Misschien maar best ook, want het Franse verhaal is duidelijk een stem tegen de huidige regering, een anti-stem als het ware. Zelf ben ik gematigd voorstander. Enerzijds gaat de grondwet niet ver genoeg, kan men geen individuele commissaris afzetten zonder de gehele commissie af te zetten en is ze met haar 800 pagina's bezwaarlijk een grondwet te noemen. Anderzijds vormt de grondwet een goed fundament om van te vertrekken, om de EU een gezicht te geven en transparanter te maken en is het een goede poging om het gebrek aan democratie op Europees niveau te dichten. Zo zou het Europees Parlement bijvoorbeeld meer macht krijgen ten nadele van de Raad van Ministers. Een goede zaak vind ik persoonlijk.

Met de referenda in de verschillende landen, circuleren er ook allerlei "testjes" om te zien of je, volgens jouw opvattingen, voor of tegen de grondwet zou moeten stemmen zonder de 800 pagina's door te nemen. Een mooie is bijvoorbeeld deze website, gemaakt voor het NL-kiespubliek. Dit zijn mijn scores:

Uw opvattingen komen voor 90% overeen met de Grondwet.

Mate van overeenkomst met de grondwet per thema:
Europese instellingen: 81%
Sociaal beleid en economie: 100%
Milieu en landbouw: 100%
Justitie: 87%
Defensie en Buitenlands beleid: 87%

Hopelijk wordt de crisis snel bezworen en kan het Europese project verdergaan.

En ik heb morgen ook een crisis te bezweren: examen wachtlijntheorie :-/

No comment ;-) Let's go for it.

This morning, I finally did my first exam. Finally. Finally I'm coming in the right rhythm for examinations. My first one was computer graphics, a very easy one. The syllabus was that small I can express my study time in hours instead of days :-D That way, it was very difficult to start studying instead of taking vacations. So I think it 'll be OK, I answered all questions, so let's hope they're right B-)

Now, right after an exam, I can't motivate myself to study the next one, so I did some other stuff, like reading the newspaper and so on. I also prepared a statement text that I'll use on the next meeting of the computercommission of our university. If you're interested and you understand Dutch, you can read it here. Now the rest of our board has to approve it and then I can defend it on the meeting next friday, right after my next exam. And that one isn't that easy. It's also one of the most boring courses in our course list: Queueing Theory. Let's hope it'll be allright.

So now I think my break was long enough, let's eat and then study!

It's been quite a while since I posted here. So here's a little update. I'm preparing for my exams, the first one is friday. I can feel the exam stress already, which is good, because I need some stress to study. (if there is no stess, I waste my time with surfing and gaming) I've got 5 exams this semester, 3 difficult ones, and 2 easy ones (surprisingly, the easy ones are computer-related ;-) ). The 3 difficult ones come first, so after those, the worst part is over and the fun begins. :-p

Now, about that weird word 'Sauerbraten' in the title. Sauerbraten is 'Cube 2'. (I have posted about Cube before.) The first 'relatively mature' release is availiable for download here. Saurebraten runs on linux and windows. If you want to try Saurerbraten out, you should extract the .zip file somewhere on your harddrive. Linux users should go to sauerbraten/sauerbraten and run 'sauerbraten_unix'. (you might have to change the permissions of sauerbraten/sauerbraten/sauerbraten_unix and sauerbraten/sauerbraten/bin_unix/linux_client to make sure they are executable) Windows users should execute sauerbraten\sauerbraten\sauerbraten.bat. Remember that this is an early release, so many things might still change. I think the looks have improved a lot, but some features still annoy me: I hate those stupid ogre models and the other monsters. They just don't fit in a FPS game.

Oops, my break is over. Back 2 the books. >:( Cya!

I've been working on my OPluginManager lately (not too much, got to study too, and watched the Queen Elisabeth concours of course ;-)).

This is what I got now (it's my first GTK code ever, so I'm quite happy with it):

This is the "plugin" code:

#include "plugins/o-plugin-manager-plugin.h"
#include "plugins/o-plugin-manager-plugin-data.h"

#define TEST_PLUGIN_MSG "[test-plugin] "

static gpointer plugin_init(gpointer d, GError **e) {
        g_debug("" TEST_PLUGIN_MSG "Init");
        return (gpointer) g_strdup("Test plugin data");
}

static void free_data(gpointer d) {
        g_debug("" TEST_PLUGIN_MSG "Freeing data \"%s\"", (gchar *) d);

        g_free(d);
}

static OPluginManagerPluginAuthorData author = {
        O_PLUGIN_MANAGER_PLUGIN_DATA_AUTHOR_MAGIC,
        "ikke",
        "eikke eikke com"
};

static OPluginManagerPluginData plugininfo = {
        O_PLUGIN_MANAGER_PLUGIN_DATA_MAGIC,
        "test-plugin",
        "A simple test plugin",
        "This is a sample test plugin, to test the OPluginManager functionality",
        "0.1",
        "http://www.eikke.com",
        &author,

        NULL,
        plugin_init,
        free_data
};

O_PLUGIN_MANAGER_PLUGIN_REGISTER(plugininfo);

As you can see it's braindead easy to write a plugin :-)

The code is quite a mess at the moment, the UI is just plain ugly and inaccessible, there's no I18N support, but well, as you can see, one day it might work :-)

Lots of guys I know are in Stuttgart right now, visiting GUADEC. I wish I could be there too :-( Have a great time!!!

Just had a little chat with Ruben on Vim, where he suggested me to put my .vimrc etc online.

So I did, this is my current GVim setup:

(Thumbnail is link to original image)

And here's my current .vimrc. If you know any other fancy tricks I could use, please let me know :-)

A lot of useful information on configuring your Vim is available here.

Printing in Linux: it doesn't go automatic. Ok, one can say you just have to follow the Gentoo Printing Guide wich is very clear and makes installing a printer very, very easy (just a few commands), but I think we could expect more, especially more automated and integrated in gnome.

First off all, when you have a plain linux installation, gnome and all stuff you need, with no printing devices configured: printing works. You can just print a file without configuring a printer. The big problem is that the printed document doesn't look very good. A plain color is made of textures for example, looks like printing with the first color printers or with kind of colored-grayscales. Off course I want better, so I followed the gentoo guide.

What is it all about? First of all you need to have cups and foomatic installed. No problem, cups should be installed as dependency of gnome and you still can install foomatic if you need it. Maybe CUPS/Gnome could advice you to install foomatic when configuring a printer that has some benefits when having foomatic installed. If you have an HP Deskjet printer, you also need to install the HPIJS driver wich acts like a postscript interpreter between the postscript output and the printer device. Also this one could be recommened when configuring a HP device in CUPS/Gnome. That's all for software requirements. The configuration could be automated more. Normally, you have to create a PPD-file for your printer by hand (just give the model and hardware number to foomatic) or download the right one from linuxprinting.org and place it in the cups directory. I think it must be possible to grep the required information when attaching a printer device with USB. When connecting, gnome should detect the right model, generate the appropriate ppd file and install the printer in cups. Maybe a dialog box should appear informing the user that the printer is added to cups and asking if he/she wants to review the configuration or sharing properties. This would be a real integrated desktop experience.

I'm almost finished with my project work. Today I wrote the report of my project in information security. We had to develop a system to make online train ticket purchasement possible with the necessary fraud protection. The train speculator has to be able to verify the ticket in very less time without consulting a database containing the online transactions. We developed a system based on encrypted information printed on the ticket as barcode.

For the last project we just have to work a little bit on the report. It was about testing an algoritm for on the fly pitch extraction of recorded speech. This information is needed to compress digital speech as good as possible.

I also have some news about my internship. As I told you before, I've chosen a thesis where I have to work on development and testing of a fast handover system for wireless connections on trains. I also told you I had a meeting to arrange an internship with Siemens on the same subject. Now, the prof has sent me a e-mail with the good news he has contact with Siemens and they're interested in such kind of internship. If everything goes well, I can do some work on their Chantry technology. It should cover a few days/weeks working in Herentals and do some tests with the equipment in Ghent. Normally there'll be a meeting around the 17th of July or afther the examinations. Let's hope everything goes well :-D

Ok, I admit, I also want one. Just check Planet Gnome if you don't know what I'm talking about.

Some new Topaz mockups were created, showing another (more radical IMHO) view on what Gnome3 should become, like these before. If you want to comment on them, desktop-devel is the place to be.

Since today, I got write access to Gnome CVS, mostly thanks to Philip and Ronald. Thank you guys! Just got the documentation building of asyncworker working (I hope at least ;-)), patch submitted (edit: and committed. My first one :-)). I'll import my first work on OPluginManager somewhere later this week.

And I may not forget to send out some emails to find some holiday job. As I'm a lazy bum, I still didn't send them :oops:

It looks like I have to release the current code I got for OModuleLoader/OPluginManager. Well, here it is. Still needs a lot of love, but hey ;-)

Mijn project is blijkbaar toch nog niet af. Ik dacht dat ik klaar was, alle scriptjes nog een laatste maal getest, wat esthetische veranderingen aangebracht en de boel doorgestuurd. Ik werk nog wat aan het verslag en bedenk dat het wel handig zou zijn mocht ik die figuur ter beschikking hebben. Zodus, ik laat mijn matlab-script nog eens lopen, doch komt daar ineens een totaal andere figuur uit. Ja, debuggen dan maar...

Het probleem met die scriptjes is dat die heel lang duren om uit te voeren tussen twee veranderingen door. En wat doe je ondertussen? Juist ja, wat rondsurfen. Heb op die manier een tof blogje gevonden, Yet Another Blog. Ergens op LVB.net stond een comment of trackback met een link ernaar, beetje beginnen lezen en best wel fijn :-) Blijkbaar eigendom van een Leuvense jongedame die wonder-boven-wonder ook jabbergebruiker is en een van de weinige vrouwen was die je tegen het lijf kon lopen op FOSDEM. Een zeldzaamheid dus :-) Doch, mocht je dit lezen, neem dan zeker hier eens een kijkje voor wat meer open source feminisme ;-) Een van mijn favoriete sites trouwens, die laatste.

Best wel leuk om zo eens een blogje te lezen van iemand die denkt dat geen kat haar pennetrekjes leest. Altijd fijn om eens te volgen hoe het er in iemands leven aan toe gaat, zeker als het over de bedgeheimen gaat... Er zit een stukje voyeur in elk van ons ;-)

Anyway, mocht je dit lezen, blijven gaan met die gele banaan B-)

Op de nieuwsgroep be.comp.os.linux, of kortweg bcol, loopt al enkele dagen een thread over het oprichten van een Oost-Vlaamse Linux User Group. Er is ook een forum en een irc-kanaal #lugov op irc.freenode.net gestart.

Nadat de naam lugov.be geregistreerd was door een zeker bedrijf en men die naam niet wou vrijgeven, zijn we eindelijk zo ver gekomen om zelf een nieuwe naam voor te stellen zodat we met de oprichting van start kunnen gaan. Een van de meest gehoorde voorstellen is GNAL, wat staat voor "GNAL's Not A Lug" als subtiele verwijzing naar GNU ;-) Andere voorstellen zijn te vinden hier in de thread of op het forum. GNAL is niet echt mijn favoriete naam, maar er zijn nog andere namen in de running en er kunnen nog mogelijkheden toegevoegd worden. Kijk daarvoor even op bcol of op het forum.

We zijn nu nog op zoek naar een of meerdere lokalen waar we eens in de maand kunnen samenkomen. Een lopende denkpiste is contact op te nemen met enkele scholen in de buurt en een voorstel te doen waarbij de LUG zorgt voor ondersteuning in ruil voor de maandelijkse beschikbaarheid van een lokaal met internetaansluiting.

Zin om mee te helpen? Tips voor de locatie? Heb je een voorstel voor een betere naam? Voel je vrij om een post op bcol te gooien of hier een berichtje achter te laten. ;-)

Did you ever run in this situation where you need to #define some string, and use it both as a function name and as a string? As you might have discovered it is not easily possible to do this.

I ran into this problem today, and found out you got to solve it using 2 extra macro's (thanks to this page):

#include <stdio.h>

#define xstr(s) str(s)
#define str(s) #s

#define FOO foobar

void FOO() {
        printf("In %s\n" xstr(FOO));
}

int main() {
        /* This won't work because FOO is no string */
        /* printf("FOO is \"%s\"\n", FOO); */
        printf("FOO is \"%s\"\n", xstr(FOO));
        FOO();
        return 0;
}

which gives the desired result:

FOO is "foobar"
In foobar

and inspecting the output of nm, the function is correctly called "foobar", not "FOO". Jay!

[edit] Once more I just got blown away by what glib offers you. G_STRINGIFY is defined by default when you include glib.h (in glib/gmacros.h more precisely).

Kleren politie-stripact in beslag genomen

HERENT- Bij de controle van een voertuig trof de politie van Herent zaterdag twee inzittenden aan die volledig gekleed waren in een politie-uniform. De nep-agenten wilden in een caf

After Philip was talking about his GQueueThread/ASyncWorker on #gnome-nl, I was tempted to write some Glib-extension too, and so I did.

You might remember the extra exercise in my article on GModules and vtables, about loading all modules in the current directory and use them. Well, I created a generic object to handle this, because it's a functionality needed quite frequently in plugin-based programs.

I called this "GModuleLoader" ;-)

Here's a sample client application, loading 2 modules:

#include <glib.h>
#include <gmodule.h>

#include "g-module-loader.h"
#include "g-module-loader-module.h"

gint main(gint argc, gchar *argv[]) {
        GModuleLoader *l = NULL;
        guint cnt = 0;
        GPtrArray *modules = NULL;

        g_type_init();

        /* Create a new GModuleLoader */
        l = (GModuleLoader *) g_module_loader_new();
        g_assert(l != NULL);

        /* Load all modules in ".libs", with "simple-test" as data.
         * We do not want any error reporting (yet) */
        g_module_loader_load(l, ".libs", "simple-test", NULL);

        g_print("\n\nLooping through all loaded modules, printing the data\n");
        /* Get the list of all modules */
        modules = g_module_loader_get_modules(l);
        if(modules == NULL) {
                g_object_unref(l);
                g_error("No modules in list, aborting");
                return 1;
        }
        
        /* Loop */
        for(cnt = 0; cnt < modules->len; cnt++) {
                GModuleLoaderModule *m = NULL;
                gchar *data = NULL;
                GModule *mod = NULL;

                /* Get the GModuleLoaderModule */
                m = (GModuleLoaderModule *) g_ptr_array_index(modules, cnt);
                /* Normally we don't ever need the real GModule,
                 * because we use a vtable with all tables we need as returned
                 * data from the init function */
                mod = g_module_loader_module_get_module(m);
                if(m == NULL) {
                        g_error("Module in a GModuleLoaderModule should never be null");
                        return 1;
                }
                /* This is the data returned by the module init function.
                 * Most times this will be a vtable/struct */
                data = g_module_loader_module_get_module_data(m);

                g_print("%s:\t%s\n", g_module_name(mod), data);
        }
        g_print("\n");
        
        /* Clean up */
        g_object_unref(l);
        
        return 0;
}

I hope this is understandable :-)

Here's the code for "module1.c", the source for libmodule1.so. "module2.c" is almost the same: s/M1/M2 and s/module1/module2:

#include <glib.h>
#include <gmodule.h>

/* This is a fixed name, the module init function
 * It takes a pointer (given by the client code)
 * and can return some data (most of the time a vtable/struct, we keep it 
 * simple here) */
G_MODULE_EXPORT gpointer module_get_data(gpointer data) {
        gchar *s = NULL;
        
        s = (gchar *) data;
        if(s != NULL) {
                g_print("\n[M1] Module1 loaded with data \"%s\"\n\n", s);
        }

        return g_strdup("[M1] module1data");
}

/* Same thing, fixed name.
 * This function takes a pointer to the data given by module_get_data
 * and is called when this data should be freed */
G_MODULE_EXPORT void module_free_data(gpointer data) {
        gchar *s = NULL;
        
        s = (gchar *) data;
        if(s != NULL) {
                g_print("\n[M1] Freeing module1 data \"%s\"\n\n", s);
                g_free(data);
        }

        return;
}

As you can see I'm using fixed names in the plugins, I don't think there's any other way to do this kind of things. None of these 2 functions are required though.

Here's the output of the test application:

# ./simple-test
** (process:24094): DEBUG: Loading all modules in .libs, suffix is so
** (process:24094): DEBUG: Suffix for .libs/libmodule1.so is so, loading module
** (process:24094): DEBUG: Loading data for .libs/libmodule1.so

[M1] Module1 loaded with data "simple-test"

** (process:24094): DEBUG: Module .libs/libmodule1.so is valid, adding
** (process:24094): DEBUG: Suffix for .libs/libmodule2.so is so, loading module
** (process:24094): DEBUG: Loading data for .libs/libmodule2.so

[M2] Module2 loaded with data "simple-test"

** (process:24094): DEBUG: Module .libs/libmodule2.so is valid, adding


Looping through all loaded modules, printing the data
.libs/libmodule1.so:    [M1] module1data
.libs/libmodule2.so:    [M2] module2data

** (process:24094): DEBUG: Deleting 2 modules
** (process:24094): DEBUG: Freeing data for .libs/libmodule1.so

[M1] Freeing module1 data "[M1] module1data"

** (process:24094): DEBUG: Closing module .libs/libmodule1.so
** (process:24094): DEBUG: Freeing data for .libs/libmodule2.so

[M2] Freeing module2 data "[M2] module2data"

** (process:24094): DEBUG: Closing module .libs/libmodule2.so

It should be fairly easy to follow all steps, find out the module_get_data and module_free_data calls, etc.

It's working fairly well now, I'll try to enhance it some more, test it better and document it, then maybe I'll send some email to the Glib list ;-)

The exams are coming and I still have a lot of projectwork to do. Today, I should have had my last class this year, but the prof sent an e-mail announcing the lesson was cancelled. So, within one week, at the 30th of may, I'll have my first exam. Five to go, from may the 30th till july the first. Well spred in time, so it should be not that heavy, but it's a very long time where I'll see my girlfriend very less :-( I'll miss her :|

But a remaining problem is the amount of projectwork that still has to be done. Today, I finally finished my work for computer graphics. I still have to do some work for Information Theory (very boring statistics), Speech Processing (wich isn't that easy too) and Information Security (wich can be complete soon). So let's hope it doesn't take that much time. We'll see. I hope I can finish information theory and information security tomorrow.

I also have a kind of todo-list with things I want to do with my gentoo when I take a break, after one exam or just after the whole period:

• Choose a new Gnome-theme
• Check how I can make wpa_supplicant requesting a new IP when I move from one wlan to another one. Also following point should be taken into account.
• Write some script for my VPN-tunneling: it should always be started except when I'm registered at the VTK-hotspot, but when I'm not at the students home or at a university hotspot, I only want to get traffic for news.ugent.be and smtp.ugent.be and maybe some internal UGent-websites go through the tunnel. Just a routing script thus.
• I want to search for a system to detect when my VPN-connection is down. It should be easy if the tunneling device went down too, but that isn't. The only method I know for now, is sending pings to some server and inspect the packet loss. There has to be a better, quicker and less consuming method. I'm using vpnc, so if you know a sollution, you're very welcome to leave a message ;-)
• Find out why my x-server crashes when I'm using my two synaptics-things at the same time. I have a touchpad and some little thing between the g and h button to move my cursor. When I'm using the two together, sometimes my X crashes.
• I want to find out why my USB-mouse doesn't work when X is allready running while I attach the device. Now I always have to restart X. Must be some simple problem.
• Now I have the weather-applet in my panel, giving me the current weather situation, but I also want a forecast.
• I want to get the internal smart-card reader working. I have such a thing built into my computer (Dell D810) and want to experiment a little with the new Belgian electronic identity card aka eID. I also want to test some bank-functions like reloading my proton and so on. I just want to play with it :-)
• Make software suspend and hibernate working. Ubuntu Linux configures this automaticly, see this installation report. That last one is also an interesting one for D810 users who want to install linux on their machine ;-) It seems more people are buying a D810 or D800 so the counter of installation reports increases.
• Follow the Gentoo on Laptops Guide