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226 out of 238 calls for GRANULES proved profitable, with an average profit of 4% within 3 trading days.
The following are the details of the last 30 calls given by us for Granules India Limited (GRANULES).
1) On 18 Dec, 2020, we gave a SELL call for GRANULES. The scrip opened at 378.25 and reached a low of 321.4 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.56.85 i.e. 15.03%.
2) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 25 Nov, 2020. The scrip opened at 422 and rose to 425 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.3 i.e. 0.71%.
3) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 19 Nov, 2020. The scrip opened at 389.9 and rose to 401 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.11.1 i.e. 2.85%.
4) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 29 Sep, 2020. The scrip opened at 403.7 and rose to 406.9 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.3.2 i.e. 0.79%.
5) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 8 Sep, 2020. The scrip opened at 374.5 and rose to 383.9 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.9.4 i.e. 2.51%.
6) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 27 Jul, 2020. The scrip opened at 301.5 and rose to 308.8 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.7.3 i.e. 2.42%.
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8) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 10 Jul, 2020. The scrip opened at 228.5 and rose to 244.9 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.16.4 i.e. 7.18%.
9) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 2 Jul, 2020. The scrip opened at 213.7 and rose to 216.8 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.3.1 i.e. 1.45%.
10) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 9 Apr, 2020. The scrip opened at 175.95 and rose to 181 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.5.05 i.e. 2.87%.
11) On 19 Mar, 2020, we gave a SELL call for GRANULES. The scrip opened at 128 and reached a low of 114.1 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.13.9 i.e. 10.86%.
12) On 2 Mar, 2020, we gave a SELL call for GRANULES. The scrip opened at 161 and reached a low of 153.55 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.7.45 i.e. 4.63%.
13) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 17 Feb, 2020. The scrip opened at 175 and rose to 189 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.14 i.e. 8%.
14) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 7 Feb, 2020. The scrip opened at 161.7 and rose to 167.3 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.5.6 i.e. 3.46%.
15) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 17 Jan, 2020. The scrip opened at 146 and rose to 152.85 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.6.85 i.e. 4.69%.
16) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 10 Jan, 2020. The scrip opened at 133.9 and rose to 137 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.3.1 i.e. 2.32%.
17) On 2 Jan, 2020, we gave a SELL call for GRANULES. The scrip opened at 122.05 and reached a low of 120.2 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.1.85 i.e. 1.52%.
18) On 27 Dec, 2019, we gave a SELL call for GRANULES. The scrip opened at 124 and reached a low of 122.8 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.1.2 i.e. 0.97%.
19) On 9 Dec, 2019, we gave a SELL call for GRANULES. The scrip opened at 121.65 and reached a low of 118.85 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.2.8 i.e. 2.3%.
20) On 6 Dec, 2019, we gave a SELL call for GRANULES. The scrip opened at 127 and reached a low of 118.85 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.8.15 i.e. 6.42%.
21) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 29 Nov, 2019. The scrip opened at 129.2 and rose to 132.1 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.2.9 i.e. 2.24%.
22) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 23 Oct, 2019. The scrip opened at 116 and rose to 129.25 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.13.25 i.e. 11.42%.
23) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 22 Oct, 2019. The scrip opened at 102.9 and rose to 125.8 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.22.9 i.e. 22.25%.
24) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 18 Sep, 2019. The scrip opened at 105.3 and rose to 108.95 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.3.65 i.e. 3.47%.
25) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 13 Sep, 2019. The scrip opened at 104.15 and rose to 106.45 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.2.3 i.e. 2.21%.
26) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 12 Sep, 2019. The scrip opened at 99.8 and rose to 105.9 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.6.1 i.e. 6.11%.
27) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 11 Sep, 2019. The scrip opened at 94.05 and rose to 105.9 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.11.85 i.e. 12.6%.
28) We gave a BUY call for GRANULES on 9 Aug, 2019. The scrip opened at 98.5 and rose to 99.6 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.1.1 i.e. 1.12%.
29) On 19 Jun, 2019, we gave a SELL call for GRANULES. The scrip opened at 91.4 and reached a low of 90.5 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.0.9 i.e. 0.98%.
30) On 4 Jun, 2019, we gave a SELL call for GRANULES. The scrip opened at 110 and reached a low of 104.7 within next 3 trading days, giving an opportunity to book of profit of Rs.5.3 i.e. 4.82%.


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Q: Get specific key out of an array I have this array:
$client = new OAuth2\Client($client_id, $client_secret, $region, $locale, $redirect_uri);

$array = array('id'=>'13146');
$type = 'quest';
$r = $client->fetch($type,$array);
echo '<pre>';
print_r ($r);
echo '</pre>';

?>

The output:
[result] => Array
    (
        [id] => 13146
        [title] => Generosity Abounds
        [reqLevel] => 77
        [suggestedPartyMembers] => 0
        [category] => Icecrown
        [level] => 80
    )

I just want to read out the [title] and the [category]. I´ve tried a a couple of solutions but nothing works for me. Thanks.

A: To access title and category you need to do this:
echo $r['result']['title'];    // Generosity Abounds
echo $r['result']['category']; // Icecrown

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Ге́нри Уи́льям Фре́дерик А́льберт (; ) — принц, герцог Глостер, граф Ольстер,  (), британский фельдмаршал (1955), маршал королевских ВВС (1958), член британской королевской семьи, третий сын Георга V и королевы Марии. Титул герцога Глостерского присвоен ему отцом в день 28-летия 31 марта 1928. После отречения Эдуарда VIII и вступления на трон своего старшего брата Георга VI был объявлен регентом своей племянницы Елизаветы II до её совершеннолетия в случае смерти Георга VI (так как Георг VI умер в 1952 году, когда Елизавета уже была совершеннолетней, то это не понадобилось).

Биография
В 1940—1944 годах служил в ПВО Ольстера. Занимал пост генерал-губернатора Австралии с 30 января 1945 по 11 марта 1947. На момент своей смерти в 1974 году являлся последним рыцарем Ордена Святого Патрика.

Был женат на Алисе Монтегю-Дуглас-Скотт (25 декабря 1901 — 29 октября 2004; рекорд долгожительства среди членов королевской семьи), получившей после смерти мужа в качестве исключения титул принцессы Великобритании (обычно его имеют только члены семьи по рождению, а не браку). От этого брака родились два сына:
 принц Уильям Глостерский (18 декабря 1941 — 28 августа 1972), погиб в авиационной катастрофе, женат не был.
 Ричард (р. 26 августа 1944), после смерти отца в 1974 — герцог Глостерский, женат на Бригитте ван Дёрс и имеет потомство.

Звания в армии и Королевских ВВС
 Маршал Королевских ВВС (1 января 1958)
 фельдмаршал (31 марта 1955)
 полный генерал и главный маршал авиации (27 октября 1944)
 генерал-лейтенант и маршал авиации (17 сентября 1941)
 генерал-майор и вице-маршал авиации (1 января 1937)

Личный герб и награды

Награды

Как член королевской семьи, имел личный герб, основанный на гербе монарха Соединенного Королевства.

Блазон
Четверочастный щит: в первом и четвёртом поле герб Англии — три золотых леопарда с лазоревым вооружением в червлёном поле, во втором поле герб Шотландии — в золотом поле с червлёной двойной внутренней каймой, проросшей лилиями червлёный восстающий лев с лазоревым вооружением, в третьем поле герб Ирландии — золотая арфа с серебряными струнами в лазоревом поле. Поверх щита серебряное титло о трёх концах, крайние из которых обременены крестом святого Георгия, а центральный — червлённым леопардом с лазуревым вооружением и языком.

Щит окружает лента ордена Подвязки.

Щитодержатели: справа — британский, коронованный открытой короной детей суверена, лев c серебряным титлом (как в щите) на шее; слева — шотландский единорог с короной детей суверена и серебряным титлом (как в щите) на шее.

Щит коронован короной детей суверена с шапкой пэра внутри.

Нашлемник: золотой, коронованный открытой короной детей суверена, леопард с серебряным титлом (как в щите) на шее, стоящий на короне детей суверена.

Примечания

герцоги Глостер
Фельдмаршалы (Великобритания)
Маршалы Королевских ВВС
Президенты Футбольной ассоциации Англии
Графы Ольстер

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A seiche ( ) is a standing wave in an enclosed or partially enclosed body of water. Seiches and seiche-related phenomena have been observed on lakes, reservoirs, swimming pools, bays, harbors, caves and seas. The key requirement for formation of a seiche is that the body of water be at least partially bounded, allowing the formation of the standing wave.

The term was promoted by the Swiss hydrologist François-Alphonse Forel in 1890, who was the first to make scientific observations of the effect in Lake Geneva. The word had apparently long been used in the region to describe oscillations in alpine lakes. According to Wilson (1972), this Swiss French dialect word comes from the Latin word  meaning "dry", i.e., as the water recedes, the beach dries. The French word  or  (dry) descends from the Latin.

Seiches in harbours can be caused by long-period or infragravity waves, which are due to subharmonic nonlinear wave interaction with the wind waves, having periods longer than the accompanying wind-generated waves.

Causes and nature
Seiches are often imperceptible to the naked eye, and observers in boats on the surface may not notice that a seiche is occurring due to the extremely long periods.

The effect is caused by resonances in a body of water that has been disturbed by one or more factors, most often meteorological effects (wind and atmospheric pressure variations), seismic activity, or tsunamis. Gravity always seeks to restore the horizontal surface of a body of liquid water, as this represents the configuration in which the water is in hydrostatic equilibrium.

Vertical harmonic motion results, producing an impulse that travels the length of the basin at a velocity that depends on the depth of the water. The impulse is reflected back from the end of the basin, generating interference. Repeated reflections produce standing waves with one or more nodes, or points, that experience no vertical motion. The frequency of the oscillation is determined by the size of the basin, its depth and contours, and the water temperature.

The longest natural period of a seiche is the period associated with the fundamental resonance for the body of water—corresponding to the longest standing wave.  For a surface seiche in an enclosed rectangular body of water this can be estimated using Merian's formula:

where T is the longest natural period, L and h are the length and average depth of the body of water, and g the acceleration of gravity.

Higher-order harmonics are also observed. The period of the second harmonic will be half the natural period, the period of the third harmonic will be a third of the natural period, and so forth.

Occurrence
Seiches have been observed on both lakes and seas. The key requirement is that the body of water be partially constrained to allow formation of standing waves. Regularity of geometry is not required; even harbours with exceedingly irregular shapes are routinely observed to oscillate with very stable frequencies.

Lake seiches
Low rhythmic seiches are almost always present on larger lakes. They are usually unnoticeable among the common wave patterns, except during periods of unusual calm. Harbours, bays, and estuaries are often prone to small seiches with amplitudes of a few centimetres and periods of a few minutes.

The original studies in Lake Geneva by François-Alphonse Forel found the longitudinal period to have a 73-minute cycle, and the transversal seiche to have a period of around 10 minutes. Another lake well known for its regular seiches is New Zealand's Lake Wakatipu, which varies its surface height at Queenstown by 20 centimetres in a 27-minute cycle. Seiches can also form in semi-enclosed seas; the North Sea often experiences a lengthwise seiche with a period of about 36 hours.

The National Weather Service issues low water advisories for portions of the Great Lakes when seiches of 2 feet or greater are likely to occur. Lake Erie is particularly prone to wind-caused seiches because of its shallowness and its elongation on a northeast–southwest axis, which frequently matches the direction of prevailing winds and therefore maximises the fetch of those winds. These can lead to extreme seiches of up to  between the ends of the lake.

The effect is similar to a storm surge like that caused by hurricanes along ocean coasts, but the seiche effect can cause oscillation back and forth across the lake for some time. In 1954, the remnants of Hurricane Hazel piled up water along the northwestern Lake Ontario shoreline near Toronto, causing extensive flooding, and established a seiche that subsequently caused flooding along the south shore.

Lake seiches can occur very quickly: on July 13, 1995, a large seiche on Lake Superior caused the water level to fall and then rise again by three feet (one metre) within fifteen minutes, leaving some boats hanging from the docks on their mooring lines when the water retreated. The same storm system that caused the 1995 seiche on Lake Superior produced a similar effect in Lake Huron, in which the water level at Port Huron changed by  over two hours. On Lake Michigan, eight fishermen were swept away from piers at Montrose and North Avenue Beaches and drowned when a  seiche hit the Chicago waterfront on June 26, 1954.

Lakes in seismically active areas, such as Lake Tahoe in California/Nevada, are significantly at risk from seiches. Geological evidence indicates that the shores of Lake Tahoe may have been hit by seiches and tsunamis as much as  high in prehistoric times, and local researchers have called for the risk to be factored into emergency plans for the region.

Earthquake-generated seiches can be observed thousands of miles away from the epicentre of a quake. Swimming pools are especially prone to seiches caused by earthquakes, as the ground tremors often match the resonant frequencies of small bodies of water. The 1994 Northridge earthquake in California caused swimming pools to overflow across southern California.  The massive Good Friday earthquake that hit Alaska in 1964 caused seiches in swimming pools as far away as Puerto Rico. The earthquake that hit Lisbon, Portugal, in 1755 caused seiches  away in Loch Lomond, Loch Long, Loch Katrine and Loch Ness in Scotland and in canals in Sweden. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake caused seiches in standing water bodies in many Indian states  as well as in Bangladesh, Nepal, and northern Thailand. Seiches were again observed in Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal in India as well as in many locations in Bangladesh during the 2005 Kashmir earthquake.

The 1950 Assam–Tibet earthquake is known to have generated seiches as far away as Norway and southern England. Other earthquakes in the Indian sub-continent known to have generated seiches include the 1803 Kumaon-Barahat, 1819 Allah Bund, 1842 Central Bengal, 1905 Kangra, 1930 Dhubri, 1934 Nepal-Bihar, 2001 Bhuj, 2005 Nias, 2005 Teresa Island earthquakes. The February 27, 2010 Chile earthquake produced a seiche on Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, with a height of around 0.5 feet. The 2010 Sierra El Mayor earthquake produced large seiches that quickly became an internet phenomenon.

Seiches up to at least 1.8 m (6 feet) were observed in Sognefjorden, Norway, during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake in Japan.

Sea and bay seiches
Seiches have been observed in seas such as the Adriatic Sea and the Baltic Sea. This results in the flooding of Venice and Saint Petersburg, respectively, as both cities are constructed on former marshland. In St. Petersburg, seiche-induced flooding is common along the Neva River in the autumn. The seiche is driven by a low-pressure region in the North Atlantic moving onshore, giving rise to cyclonic lows on the Baltic Sea. The low pressure of the cyclone draws greater-than-normal quantities of water into the virtually landlocked Baltic. As the cyclone continues inland, long, low-frequency seiche waves with wavelengths up to several hundred kilometres are established in the Baltic. When the waves reach the narrow and shallow Neva Bay, they become much higher—ultimately flooding the Neva embankments. Similar phenomena are observed at Venice, resulting in the MOSE Project, a system of 79 mobile barriers designed to protect the three entrances to the Venetian Lagoon.

In Japan, seiches have been observed in Nagasaki Bay, most often in the spring.  During a seiche event on 31 March 1979, a water-level displacement of  was recorded at Nagasaki tide station; the maximum displacement in the whole bay is thought to have reached as much as .  Seiches in Western Kyushu—including Nagasaki Bay—are often induced by a low in the atmospheric pressure passing South of Kyushu island.  Seiches in Nagasaki Bay have a period of about 30 to 40 minutes. Locally, seiches have caused floods, destroyed port facilities and damaged the fishery: hence the local word for seiche, , from , meaning 'the dragging-away of a fishing net'.

On occasion, tsunamis can produce seiches as a result of local geographic peculiarities. For instance, the tsunami that hit Hawaii in 1946 had a fifteen-minute interval between wave fronts. The natural resonant period of Hilo Bay is about thirty minutes. That meant that every second wave was in phase with the bay, creating a seiche. As a result, Hilo suffered worse damage than any other place in Hawaii, with the combined tsunami and seiche reaching a height of  along the Bayfront, killing 96 people in the city alone. Seiche waves may continue for several days after a tsunami.

Tide-generated internal solitary waves (solitons) can excite coastal seiches at the following locations: Magueyes Island in Puerto Rico,
Puerto Princesa in Palawan Island,
Trincomalee Bay in Sri Lanka,
and in the Bay of Fundy in eastern Canada, where seiches cause some of the highest recorded tidal fluctuations in the world.
A dynamical mechanism exists for the generation of coastal seiches by deep-sea internal waves. These waves can generate a sufficient current at the shelf break to excite coastal seiches.

Underwater (internal) waves
Seiches are also observed beneath the surface of constrained bodies of water, acting along the thermocline.

In analogy with the Merian formula, the expected period of the internal wave can be expressed as:

        with

where T is the natural period, L is the length of the water body,  the average thicknesses of the two layers separated by stratification (e.g. epilimnion and hypolimnion),  the densities of these two same layers and g the acceleration of gravity.

As the thermocline moves up and down a sloping lake bed, it creates a 'swash zone', where temperatures can vary rapidly, potentially affecting fish habitat. As the thermocline rises up a sloping lake bed, it can also cause benthic turbulence by convective overturning, whereas the falling thermocline experiences greater stratification and low turbulence at the lake bed.  Internal waves can also degenerate into non-linear internal waves on sloping lake-beds. When such non-linear waves break on the lake bed, they can be an important source of turbulence and have the potential for sediment resuspension

Cave seiches
On September 19, 2022, a seiche reaching  occurred at Devils Hole at Death Valley National Park in the U.S. after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit western Mexico, about  away. Seiches were also observed in the cave after powerful earthquakes in 2012, 2018 and 2019.

Engineering for seiche protection

Engineers consider seiche phenomena in the design of flood protection works (e.g., Saint Petersburg Dam), reservoirs  and dams (e.g., Grand Coulee Dam), potable water storage basins, harbours and even spent nuclear fuel storage basins.

See also

Notes

Further reading

External links

General
What is a seiche?
 Seiche. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved January 24, 2004, from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
Seiche calculator
Bonanza for Lake Superior: Seiches Do More Than Move Water
Great Lakes Storms Photo Gallery Seiches, Storm Surges, and Edge Waves from NOAA
 Shelf Response for an identical pair of incident KdV solitons
Relationship to aquatic "monsters"
The Unmuseum
"The Legend of the Lake Champlain Monster" in The Skeptical Inquirer
Geological page

Limnology
Flood
Water waves
Water


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Q: Why does pd.to_numeric not work with large numbers? Let's say I have a large number in a string, like '555555555555555555555'. One could choose to convert it to an int, float or even a numpy float:
int('555555555555555555555')
float('555555555555555555555')
np.float('555555555555555555555')

However, when I use the pandas function pd.to_numeric, things go wrong:
pd.to_numeric('555555555555555555555')

With error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "pandas/_libs/src/inference.pyx", line 1173, in pandas._libs.lib.maybe_convert_numeric
ValueError: Integer out of range.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\path_to_conda\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\interactiveshell.py", line 3267, in run_code
    exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)
  File "<ipython-input-34-6a735441ab7b>", line 1, in <module>
    pd.to_numeric('555555555555555555555')
  File "C:\path_to_conda\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\tools\numeric.py", line 133, in to_numeric
    coerce_numeric=coerce_numeric)
  File "pandas/_libs/src/inference.pyx", line 1185, in pandas._libs.lib.maybe_convert_numeric
ValueError: Integer out of range. at position 0

What's going wrong? Why can't pandas to_numeric handle larger values? Are there any use cases why you would use pd.to_numeric instead of functions like np.float?

A: Because your number is larger that the maximum size of an integer that your system is capable of saving:
In [4]: import sys

In [5]: sys.maxsize
Out[5]: 9223372036854775807

In [6]: 555555555555555555555 > sys.maxsize
Out[6]: True

Here is part of the source code that raises the ValueError:
if not (seen.float_ or as_int in na_values):
    if as_int < oINT64_MIN or as_int > oUINT64_MAX:
        raise ValueError('Integer out of range.')

As you can see, because your number is not a float it treats it as an integer and checks if the number is in the proper range oINT64_MIN, oUINT64_MAX. If you've passed a float number instead it'd gave you the proper result:
In [9]: pd.to_numeric('555555555555555555555.0')
Out[9]: 5.5555555555555554e+20


The recent headline was "The WWII Holiday in Russia that is practically unknown in America," and I realized almost immediately that it must have been VE Day, victory in Europe. It had to be.
Born after 1995 during the onset of the Internet, Generation Z grew up playing video games. Recently students from this generation participated in a simulation that could lead to the reality of unmanned aircraft flying in the National Airspace System, NAS, along with piloted aircraft.
Civ-Mil held its Spring Mixer at Domingo's Mexican Restaurant with 90 people in attendance, filling every seat in the house and then some.
Whenever the Global Hawk begins a mission, it has to travel through a certain area of the atmosphere that, under certain conditions, can create ice on the aircraft, adding weight and aerodynamic drag.
When most people hear "tailhook" they think of U.S. Navy planes and aircraft carriers. However, almost all U.S. combat aircraft have a tailhook. That also goes for the Air Force's new F-35A Joint Strike Fighter.
Approximately 300 military retirees, their families and surviving spouses were welcomed to the 2016 Military Retiree Appreciation Day event held May 7 at the Oasis Community Center and base gym at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.


The National EMS Pilots Assn. (NEMSPA) has appointed Miles Dunagan as its next president elect and will be taking the reins at the annual Air Medical Transport Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, in September.
Dunagan has been a fixed- and rotary-wing commercial pilot for 27 yr with more than 8,000 hr of flight time as pilot in command. He has been a board member of NEMSPA since 2014.
One focus for Dunagan in his new position is line orientation flight training (LOFT). "We want to work directly with the FAA and the NTSB in designing air ambulance-specific LOFT scenarios that are based on past air ambulance accidents," said Dunagan. "This will provide both current and new pilots, as well as clinicians, with better real world, lessons-learned, training opportunities."
Dunagan has been involved with the helicopter air ambulance industry for the past 10 yr. He is a certified flight instructor and a graduate of the Transportation Safety Institute course on safety management systems. He is also a graduate of the AAMS Safety Academy.
Photo courtesy of the National EMS Pilots Assn.


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Labour Land Campaign
About Land Value Tax
What is Land Value Tax?
Benefits of Land Value Tax
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A green tax
The Labour Land Campaign responds to relevant Government and Labour Party consultations, and submits resolutions to Labour Party and Trade Union conferences.
Please ensure that your conference delegate supports our resolutions when they are debated.
LLC model Motion for Labour Party Conference 2019
LLC response to Labour Party 'Your Britain' consultation
Tax Unearned Income from Land and other Natural Resources
Register with the consultation in order to comment and vote on the LLC policy contribution.
Diane Abbott backs LVT
Diane Abbott today [20th September 2010] became the latest Labour Party leadership contender to back Land Value Taxation. In correspondence with LLC Secretary, Carol Wilcox, Diane Abbott's campaign team confirmed her support for the progressive tax, following Andy Burnham's declaration earlier in the month.
Burnham calls for higher taxes (including LVT)
Labour leadership candidate Andy Burnham has called for higher taxes to help pay off Britain's record deficit. The shadow health secretary said that putting up taxes could be the only alternative to devastating cuts to public services. Launching his leadership manifesto, he said that he would split the burden of tackling the deficit between 60% spending cuts and 40% tax increases, rather than the 80%-20% split the coalition Government was planning.
"The trouble with the spending cuts on the scale that the coalition are proposing is that they would wreck lives altogether," he told BBC Radio 4's The World at One. "My worry is, yes, they may bring down the deficit but in doing so they may change for ever the character of public services in this country and unpick the social fabric." One option in the manifesto was for a land value tax based on the estimated value of the land an individual owns – for most people the value of their homes, less the buildings and fittings.
Mr Burnham said that introducing the measure could enable other unpopular taxes to be scrapped. "If we move towards a land value tax we could end some of the most unpopular taxes such as stamp duty and inheritance tax," he said. "These issues are very important, particularly stamp duty because it stands in the way of young people putting down their roots and getting on in life." Another option could be a "solidarity wealth tax" where the total value of an individual's assets, less any debts, would be subject to an annual tax.
See further comments from Andy Burnham on LVT in an article he wrote for The Guardian website, 'Land value tax – not old or New but true Labour'.
General Election 2010 – Manifesto commitments
From the Lib Dem manifesto:
Reform business rates, creating a fairer system where rates are based on site values rather than rental values and are the responsibility of local authorities…
http://network.libdems.org.uk/manifesto2010/libdem_manifesto_2010.pdf
From Green Party manifesto:
In the long run we favour moving to a system of Land Value Tax, where the level of taxation depends on the rental value of the land concerned…
http://www.greenparty.org.uk/assets/files/resources/Manifesto_web_file.pdf
From the Co-operative Party manifesto:
The Government should replace council tax and national non-domestic rates with a land value tax…
http://party.coop/pdf/dat_news_file-70.pdf
Motion to CWU Conference 2010
The following motion has been put forward by the Croydon & South London Branch of the Communication Workers Union, for consideration at the CWU conference to be held on 23-24th May at Bournemouth.
This Conference instructs the incoming National Executive Council:
That a Land Value Tax would be a much better revenue stream for public benefit, far superior than previous attempts by Labour Governments to tackle land taxation such as the 1947 Development Charge, the 1967 Betterment Levy, and the 1976 Development Land Tax. The taxes thus raised turned out to be severely complicated and costly to implement and generated considerably less revenue than had been expected.
A Land Value Tax has much greater revenue-earning potential that would provide the government and local authorities with funds to allow investments in infrastructure and public services for the benefit of all. This in turn would provide the opportunity to reduce or withdraw other taxes that currently have an adverse impact on the economy and on welfare, including the potential to replace Council Tax as a first step towards introducing Land Value Tax on a wider scale and on a national basis.
Conference therefore instructs the NEC to promote this alternative Land Value Tax as a vehicle to tackle the housing crisis and provide much better revenue for general public development.
Additionally, the NEC to consider submitting this motion to the next TUC and Labour Party Conferences.
Labour's manifesto
Following the adoption of LVT in the Co-op Party manifesto, LLC members are lobbying Labour to follow the example set by its sister party. Carol Wilcox and Rob Evans [photo] took the opportunity to raise the issue with Ed Miliband at this year's Labour Party Conference in Brighton.
Now Miliband as Labour's manifesto supremo is appealing to Labour party members to bring forward their ideas to 'write Labour's manifesto together'.
Co-operative Party adopts LVT in its Manifesto
for the next UK General Election
[see: http://party.coop/pdf/dat_news_file-70.pdf ]
LVT adopted at Co-operative Party Annual Conference in Edinburgh, September 2009. These are the relevant excerpts from the Co-operative Party Manifesto 2009:
Land Reform – As we seek to bring stability to the financial system, it is only right that we aim to do the same for the property markets. A key policy concern for the future has to be to keep growth in house prices consistent with other parts of the economy. We should use taxation to change incentives within the property market, ensuring that we incentivise the productive use of land rather than expected capital gains in an upward market.
It is not only the failure of the banks that has brought us into these difficult times. In the twelve years preceding the credit crunch, the unprecedented growth that occurred in the UK housing market has had a dramatic effect in the downturn.
A significant cause of this has been the rising cost of residential land. As economic growth has occurred, this has led to inflationary pressures on the prices of residential land in scarce supply, or restricted in the places where everyone wants or needs to be. There is nothing new in all of this. The last 200 years have seen regular 15-20 cycles of economic growth and recession that have brought rapid uplift in land values, and ended in their implosion.
As we seek to bring stability to the financial system, it is only right that we aim to do the same for the property markets. Instability here has been a key determinant of every recession that we have faced over the last 30 years. Given this, a key policy concern for the future must be to keep growth in house prices consistent with other parts of the economy. Expanding the supply of homes in the UK will be crucial.
The Government should ensure it meets the target of an additional 3 million homes before 2020, as this will be crucial to making sure we do not begin the same cycle in the upturn. Community Land Trusts and Mutual Home Ownership can play a vital role in building the homes that are needed to meet demand (see Creating Sustainable Communities for more detail).
Yet tackling the problem of inflated land values is also important. There is significant evidence to suggest that the shortage of homes in the UK has been artificially created by a poorly functioning property market. This has had the effect of substantial growth in house prices, with the market rewarding those with property assets at the expense of people seeking places to live. In order to prevent similar problems emerging in the upturn, the Government should use taxation to change incentives within the property market, ensuring that it incentivises the productive use of land rather than expected capital gains in an upward market.
The Government should replace council tax and national non-domestic rates with a land value tax. While this would be a new method of taxation in the UK, countries such as Denmark, Hong Kong and Taiwan utilise land values to help their economies. Local Authorities in parts of Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and North America have all adopted local forms of land value taxation. This is likely to not only improve economic stability but also stimulate investment in more productive elements of the UK economy over the medium to long term.
The Co-operative Party, affiliated to the Labour Party, is the second largest UK centre left party and has representation in both Houses of Parliament (29 Co-op-Labour MPs & 12 members of the House of Lords), the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh and London Assemblies, as well as over 350 elected local councillors.
Motion passed at Co-operative Party Annual Conference 2008
The following motion was passed at the Co-operative Party Annual Conference held over 11th-13th September 2008:
This conference notes the ongoing debate about local government finance based on the Tories' Council Tax. Conference believes that in determining the debate local authorities should be allowed to evaluate the benefits or otherwise of the implementation of land value tax locally.
Motion to AGM of PCS Union
The Labour Land Campaign has carried a motion at a branch meeting of the
Public and Commercial Services Union. It will be debated at the Union's AGM in May. Please support the motion if you are a member. Or alternatively, use the text within your own Union's structures to further the cause of land value taxation.
LLC Motion (download as Word document)
Submission to consultation on Planning Gain Supplement
The Professional Land Reform Group has
responded to the consultation on the proposal from HM Treasury, HM Revenue & Customs and the ODPM for the introduction of a Planning Gain Supplement.
Download consultation response March 2006 : PDF : 115KB
Download consultation appendix March 2006 : PDF : 125KB
Conference resolution 2005
The Labour Land Campaign suggested the following resolution for the Labour Party annual conference this year, but it can also be used in Trade Unions and other organisations for a specific conference or just as a general resolution.
Resolution (download as Word document)
The Labour Land Campaign would be happy to speak to any organisation considering putting the resolution to its members. Email us for a chat or to request a speaker.
Submission to Policy Commission on Economy and Welfare
House Price Inflation : May 2004
Council Tax : May 2004
Unified Business Rates : May 2004
Barker Review of Housing Supply : March 2004
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Adventures of Spider-Man (1996-1997) #6
Adventures of Spider-Man (1996-1997)
Spider-Man faces off with the Puppet Master as a gallery show goes awry!
Don Hudson Andy Kuhn
Adventures of Spider-Man
Vol. 1: Sinister Intentions
Collects Adventures Of Spider-Man #1-6 And Adventures Of The X-Men #3. Action-packed adventures of the amazing arachnid, told in awesome animated style! Tune in as Spider-Man takes on some of his most fearsome foes — with a few surprises along the way! Aerial combat is in store as Spidey faces the Vulture's rage — but can he stand in the way of the rampaging Rhino's revenge? Then, the w
Collects Material from Spider-Man Magazine #1-19, Spider-Man Magazine Special #1-2. Spider-Man takes on his classic rogues' gallery in exciting adventures from the 1990s! Spidey must avoid the many arms of Doctor Octopus — but will he fall victim to Electro, Mysterio, the Scorpion and the Vulture? There's panic at the planetarium and a great train robbery to solve, but that's nothing co
Adventures Of The X-Men (1996-1997)
Collects Adventures of the X-Men #1-6, Adventures of Spider-Man #3. Animated-style adventures from one of the X-Men's greatest eras! Wolverine takes on the savage Hulk — but whose side are Havok and X-Factor on? And what does the gamma-powered Leader have to do with it all? Meanwhile, Beast and Gambit face the evil machinations of Mister Sinister — with a little help from Spider-Man! Thin
Adventures Of The X-Men: Tooth & Claw
Collects material from Spider-Man Magazine (1994) #1-13, Spider-Man Magazine Special (1995) #1-2. The X-Men were the breakout stars of the 1990s — and, not content with their own titles, they also stole the show with highly animated all-ages adventures in the pages of SPIDER-MAN MAGAZINE! Now these rarely seen tales are collected for the very first time! Join the X-Men's most iconic lineup
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[Victorian Web Home —> Visual Arts —> Illustration —> George Cruikshank —> Charles Dickens —> Next]
Oliver amazed at the Dodger's mode of going to work
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878
1846 (originally July 1837)
Etching on steel
Fifth illustration, The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress
Cruikshank's hand-colored version
Despite ill-treatment by Bumble, the master of the workhouse, and the Sowerberry establishment, Oliver is still somewhat naive about people — until he accurately assesses Fagin's motives as he witnesses Jack Dawkins and Charley Bates pick the pocket of a gentleman browsing through books at a stall in the Green or square at Clerkenwell.
[You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the person who scanned the image and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.].
Passage Illustrated in the 1846 edition
The old gentleman was a very respectable-looking personage, with a powdered head and gold spectacles. He was dressed in a bottle-green coat with a black velvet collar; wore white trousers; and carried a smart bamboo cane under his arm. He had taken up a book from the stall, and there he stood, reading away, as hard as if he were in his elbow-chair, in his own study. It is very possible that he fancied himself there, indeed; for it was plain, from his abstraction, that he saw not the book-stall, nor the street, nor the boys, nor, in short, anything but the book itself — which he was reading straight through: turning over the leaf when he got to the bottom of a page, beginning at the top line of the next one, and going regularly on, with the greatest interest and eagerness.
What was Oliver's horror and alarm as he stood a few paces off, looking on with his eyelids as wide open as they would possibly go, to see the Dodger plunge his hand into the old gentleman's pocket, and draw from thence a handkerchief! To see him hand the same to Charley Bates; and finally to behold them, both, running away round the corner at full speed.
In an instant the whole mystery of the handkerchiefs, and the watches, and the Jewels, and the Jew, rushed upon the boy's mind. He stood, for a moment, with the blood so tingling through all his veins from terror, that he felt as if he were in a burning fire; then, confused and frightened, he took to his heels; and, not knowing what he did, made off as fast as he could lay his feet to the ground. [Chapter 10, "Oliver becomes better acquainted with the characters of his new associates; and purchases experience at a high price. Being a short, but very important chapter, in this history," p. 42-43]
The theft of Mr. Brownlow continues his "progress" through criminal underworld in the tradition of Fielding's Jonathon Wilde and William Hogarth's The Harlot's Progress. For the London readers of the 1830s the scene would have seemed frighteningly real as it draws the viewer's attention to those executing the crime, since the light-fingered street boys would often abscond with the fruits of their crime without even being detected. In this case, the boys are pilfering the gentleman's tailcoat pocket, so that the victim, so thoroughly absorbed in reading, does not apprehend what is transpiring. Significantly in Cruikshank's illustration the bookseller (left) is observing with growing alarm what is happening to his customer, so that later he will be able to exonerate Oliver, despite magistrate Fang's determination to punish the petty theft to the full extent of the law. By sheer coincidence (or Fate) the victim of the petty theft is associated with the buried life of Oliver's mother in that he is the boy's great uncle, and was the best friend of Edwin Leeford, Oliver's natural father.
Significant as this moment is in Oliver's descent into the criminal underworld of London, the other illustrators seem to have been reluctant to have their work compared to Cruikshank's, and so reflected upon the incident in different ways: for example, while Eytinge offers a dual character study of the malefactors, Charley Bates and the Dodger, Mahoney depicts the hue and cry after Oliver, in which ironically, both Charley and Jack Dawkins join. Furniss explores the same scene selected for illustration by Dickens and Cruikshank jointly, but places Oliver, startled, in the background, and develops the dramatic scene in the round, so to speak, foreground the Dodger and Charley, and placing Brownlow with his back to the reader.
Relevant Diamond Edition (1867), Household Edition (1871), Darley "Character" (1888), and Charles Dickens Library Edition (1910) Illustrations
Left: F. O. C. Darley's "Oliver and Fagan [sic]" (1888). Right: Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s "The Artful Dodger and Charley Bates" (1867). [Click on images to enlarge them.]
Left: Mahoney's Household Edition illustration (1871) "Stop thief!". Right: Harry Furniss's "Oliver's eyes are opened" (1910). [Click on images to enlarge them.]
Bentley, Nicolas, Michael Slater, and Nina Burgis. The Dickens Index. New York and Oxford: Oxford U. P., 1990.
Cohen, Jane Rabb. "George Cruikshank." Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators. Columbus: Ohio State U. P., 1980. Pp. 15-38.
Darley, Felix Octavius Carr. Character Sketches from Dickens. Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1888.
Davis, Paul. . Charles Dickens A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Facts On File, 1998.
Dickens, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. Il. George Cruikshank. London: Bradbury and Evans;  Chapman and Hall, 1846.
Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Works of Charles Dickens. Household Edition. 55 vols. Il. F. O. C. Darley and John Gilbert. New York: Sheldon and Co., 1865.
Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Works of Charles Dickens. Diamond Edition. 14 vols. Il. Sol Eytinge, Jr. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867.
Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Works of Charles Dickens. Household Edition. Il. James Mahoney. London: Chapman and Hall, 1871.
Dickens, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist. Works of Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens Library Edition. Il. Harry Furniss. London: Educational Book Company, 1910. Vol. 3.
Lynch, Tony. "Clerkenwell, London." Dickens's England: An A-Z Tour of the Real and Imagined Locations. London: Batsford, 2012. Pp. 64-65.
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Soldier Honored: Brent Scott Cole
Dates: Died May 22, 2009
Hometown: Reedsville, West Virginia
Rank: Chief Warrant Officer
Chief Warrant Officer Brent Scott Cole, 38, of Reedsville, West Virginia, was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. CW4 Cole was killed in a helicopter crash during his third combat deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom on Friday, May 22, 2009.
CW4 Cole joined the Army in 1987 as a military policeman and was selected in 1998 to the Army's Warrant Officer Flight Program. He excelled as an Army aviator and began flying the AH-64 Longbow Apache helicopter. He had the responsibility for teaching new aviators the much-needed ability and skills to operate the greatest attack helicopter in the world. CW 4 Cole's military decoration include a the Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Medal for Valor, two Air Medals, the Army Commendation Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, the Joint Service Achievement Medal, the Army Achievement Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Army Good Conduct Medal, the National Defense Service Medal with a Bronze Star, the Iraqi Campaign Medal, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, the Afghanistan campaign Medal with on Campaign Star, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Non-Commissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon, the Army Service Ribbon, two Overseas Service Ribbons, the NATO Medal, the Multinational Force and Observers Medal. He has also been awarded the Combat Action Badge, the Senior Army Aviator Badge and the Parachutist's Badge.
While CW4 Cole led by example and was revered by his peers and leaders alike, his son remembers him for his humor and love for spending time together. His son said "Watching my dad work hard to take care of our family has made an impact on me. He always put us first even when he was not around. He said that I shouldn't do anything that I was not prepared to put my best foot forward. I have lived by that motto."
CW4 Cole's son is a Folds of Honor Scholarship recipient.


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to happen to someone with modem or ISDN connection!
I would be happy if this effect of the file selector could be removed somehow.
asking for a place (+ name) to put the file.
timeout when you eventually answer the file selector.
(relatively ;-) stable system (I know this doesn't happen in Linux .. ;-).


I don't know why he is winking but I suspect it has something to do with all the elves climbing all over him. Oh sorry...rude I know. He is about 11 inches tall.
I love this guy! Remember The Night Before Chritmas poem where he went back up the chimney (or something) with a "wink of his eye"...oh well, maybe he is allergic to the reindeer!!
I like him. Sort of Narnia looking.
I'm with ALI.. very narnia looking. I'm not big on blues but this one is quite striking.


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Details appear to have leaked about the upcoming Nintendo NX console, saying that it is a high-powered handheld which can plug into a TV docking station, features two detachable controllers, will use cartridges and is less powerful than current-gen hardware.
I really, really do not want to buy a Wii U again for my Wii U games. HOWEVER, if it supports digital Wii U games, I will just rebuy 'em when they're cheap (while still keeping my physical copies) and just use a different controller (hopefully) to play 'em like I'm doing with PS2 on PS4 games.
Its NINTENDO so I'll be buying it. Backwards compatibility doesn't bother me too much since I do own a Wii U. Wii U is totally worth getting for Wii U games though, especially when they go down in price once the NX comes out. Wii U has a great library and of course it also plays Wii games.
Really interested to see just how much of these rumours and leaks are true. Shouldn't be too long now until we find everything out for sure.
I hope they go to a true account system where digital titles are redownloadable.
Nintendo is seriously behind the curve on this. It's almost baffling it's been 10 years since the Wii and they still have not figured this out. Ridiculous, tbh.
So if this console is mainly a handheld, then what's gonna happen to the 3DS in the future?
What else would Nintendo do?
New(er) Nintendo 3DS XL coming this Holiday!
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This is essentially going to be the next iteration. Nintendo are merging their handheld division with their console one. That's if I am understanding this correctly.
Honestly, this leak isn't giving me high hopes about the NX. I really want Nintendo to succeed with this thing, but I just cant see this doing it if this is true.
Does anybody really think that the major 3rd party developers are going to be interested in a machine that isn't as powerful as what's already out there?
That's what I am thinking as well. I fear this may end up alienating third party developers once again.
Nintendo's first party line up is strong but can it sustain another generation with limited third party support?


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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 741, 4 December 2017
Welcome to this year's 49th issue of DistroWatch Weekly! These days it is increasingly common for companies selling computer hardware to offer Linux as a pre-installed option. However, most hardware retailers do not create their own Linux distributions. This week we look at one of the rare exceptions: Pop!_OS, an Ubuntu-based distribution created by System76. In our Feature Story, Joshua Allen Holm takes an early release of Pop!_OS for a test drive to find out how it performs. In our News section we explore a new feature for openSUSE Tumbleweed users who want temporary reprieve from package updates and talk about installing Q4OS on a Windows partition. We also talk about Fedora 25 reaching the end of its supported life and link to upgrade instructions. In our Tips and Tricks column we discuss a variety of command line tools for keeping processes running in the background, scheduling tasks and connecting to computers behind a firewall. Task scheduling is also the subject of this week's Opinion Poll and we hope you will share your preferred method for automating jobs in the comments section. Plus we provide a list of the distributions released last week and share the torrents we are seeding. This week DistroWatch.com will be transitioning to sharing all our web pages over a secure connection and we have the details below. We wish you all a fantastic week and happy reading!
Review: Pop!_OS 17.10
News: openSUSE's Tumbleweed snapshots, Q4OS can be installed on a Windows partition, Fedora 25 reaching its end of life
Tips and tricks: Keep terminal programs running, using the at command, reverse OpenSSH connections
Released last week: Linux Mint 18.3, Black Lab 11.5, Lakka 2.1
Torrent corner: Alpine, Antergos, Black Lab, deepin, Lakka, Linux Mint, Raspbian, Sabayon, SalentOS, SwagArch, Univention
Opinion poll: Scheduling tasks
DistroWatch.com news: Moving to HTTPS only
New distributions: Janus Linux
Pop!_OS 17.10
Pop!_OS is a new Linux distribution from System76, a company that has been in the Linux hardware business for twelve years. Until recently, System76 computers shipped with Ubuntu as the only pre-installed operating system option, but now System76 is taking more control over the user experience offered on their computers by releasing their own Ubuntu-based distribution. I was recently at All Things Open, a technology conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, where System76 had a booth. At their booth, they had Pop!_OS 17.10 running on a laptop for people to try. Their booth was very busy, but during one of their brief lulls, I went over to their booth and had a brief chat, and I got one of the USB flash drives they were giving out with the Pop!_OS installation image on it.
For this review, I installed Pop!_OS 17.10 using the flash drive I got at All Things Open, but Pop!_OS ISOs are available to download on the System76 website. They have an image for computers with Intel and AMD graphics and a separate image for computers with NVIDIA graphics. The NVIDIA image comes with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers pre-installed. The Intel/AMD image is 1.75GB and the NVIDIA image is 1.91GB.
I should note that while System76 does sell hardware, a System76 computer is not required to run Pop!_OS. The testing for this review was done using the Lenovo Ideapad that I currently use for all of my reviews. There were no compatibility issues beyond a problem with my laptop's webcam that is consistent across every Linux distribution I have tried.
Installing Pop!_OS
The installation process for Pop!_OS is similar to Ubuntu, but there are some key differences. The process begins by booting a flash drive or DVD, which loads the live desktop. The live desktop can be used to try out the distribution to see how it works before running the installer. The installer used by Pop!_OS is Ubiquity, just like Ubuntu, but Pop!_OS only uses Ubiquity to select the language and keyboard layout, and partition the hard drive. New user creation in Pop!_OS is moved to the system's first-boot process and is handled by a modified GNOME Initial Setup.
Pop!_OS 17.10 -- The customized Ubiquity installer
The two-stage installation process reflects System76's experience as a hardware company. The first part of the installation, the part handled by Ubiquity, includes the things that someone setting up a computer for someone else needs to handle, while the user gets to set up their own machine at first boot. This change to the installation work-flow is really handy for people who configure computers for others. Just install Pop!_OS through the end of the Ubiquity process, shut off the machine, and the machine's new owner can create their own username and password when they boot their new machine.
Pop!_OS 17.10 -- New user creation on first boot
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The Pop!_OS user experience
Pop!_OS is based on Ubuntu, but it has some notable and significant changes compared to Ubuntu 17.10. The most visible change is Pop!_OS's use of a customized GNOME experience that does not use the various tweaks found in the latest release of Ubuntu. Ubuntu customized GNOME their way and Pop!_OS went in a different direction. Pop!_OS is closer to the stock GNOME experience, but with a custom GTK theme, an icon theme based on the Papirus icon set, different fonts (Fira and Roboto Slab), and a collection of desktop wallpapers. There are also a few GNOME Shell extensions used to tweak a few behaviors: a suspend button in the top-right settings menu, an altered Alt-Tab behavior, and workspaces are always shown in the Activity overview without having to mouse over them to make them pop out.
Pop!_OS 17.10 -- GNOME Files with custom theming
The biggest usability change comes in the form of customized keyboard shortcuts. Pop!_OS changes the default GNOME keyboard shortcuts to prioritize different things when compared to stock GNOME. For example, switching virtual desktops is SUPER+UP or SUPER+DOWN, while functions for adjusting a window within a desktop are handled with CTRL+SUPER+UP for maximize, CTRL+SUPER+DOWN to restore to a non-maximized state, CTRL+SUPER+LEFT and +RIGHT to tile to the left and right halves of the screen, and moving a window to a different desktop is SHIFT+SUPER+UP or SHIFT+SUPER+DOWN. There are several more keyboard shortcuts, some new, some left as the GNOME defaults; the whole list is available on System76's Pop!_OS Keyboard Shortcuts page. As a GNOME user, it took some time to get used to the changes and I am still fighting muscle memory for some of the more common tasks, but the Pop!_OS shortcuts make sense and are well thought out.
Pop!_OS 17.10 -- Live desktop showing applications
While the aesthetic and usability tweaks are the most noticeable change, Pop!_OS's divergence from Ubuntu goes beyond a different look-and-feel. The software included on the ISO is very different from the selection included in Ubuntu. Pop!_OS's GNOME session uses Xorg, not Wayland, and it has a much smaller collection of graphical programs installed by default. Firefox serves as the default web browser, Geary is the e-mail program, LibreOffice (except for LibreOffice Base) is included and put into its own App Folder in GNOME Shell, but that is about it. The default software selection is so slimmed down that GNOME Videos pulls double duty as the default video and music application, instead of using Rhythmbox as the music player. The rest of the software included is the standard collection of GNOME utilities and a few Pop!_OS tools for installing additional software.
For developers, Pop!_OS comes with git, gcc, make, and other build tools pre-installed. While Pop!_OS does not pre-install every single possible program language, including some basic development tools by default provides a nice starting point and really sets Pop!_OS apart from many of the other Ubuntu-based distributions. Node.js, R, Ruby, Rust, etc., programmers will need to add packages to suit their needs, but thanks to Pop!_OS's Ubuntu-base, there are plenty of packages available.
Overall, the user experience in Pop!_OS is very good and well thought out, but there are a few issues. The biggest one is the fact that the Help application is a unmodified Ubuntu Desktop Guide, which in turn is GNOME Help re-branded and edited. Most of Pop!_OS does a good job at re-branding itself to differentiate itself from Ubuntu (at least where necessary; it makes sense that sources for software packages still say Ubuntu because they are pointing at Ubuntu repositories), but the Help program is the one major exception. Even if they tweaked the Help package to re-brand it, there is still the bigger problem, which is that the information contained within is sometimes inaccurate because the keyboard shortcuts listed in the help file do not match Pop!_OS's customized shortcuts. One other issue worth noting is that because Pop!_OS uses a custom icon set, the default icons for various applications are overridden by Pop!_OS specific icons. While I personally love the visual consistency and found that many of application icons were close enough to projects' official icons to be instantly recognizable, I can understand that this might not be preferred by upstream developers who view their icons as part of their brand (there is a GitHub issue open about this).
Installing software
As noted above, the default selection of graphical software is slimmed down, so most users are going to want to add packages of their choosing to their systems. Pop!_OS provides two graphical tools for doing this, both of which are forked from projects for elementary OS. Of course, for the command line savvy, apt and dpkg are also available.
Pop!_OS 17.10 -- The Pop!_Shop
The main program for installing and updating software is Pop!_Shop, which is a fork of elementary OS's AppCenter. This is a standard App Store-like experience with programs grouped by category. Pop!_Shop is really easy to use and has a nice selection of applications, but it does require AppStream metadata for applications to show up, so some applications might not appear in Pop!_Shop.
Pop!_OS 17.10 -- Eddy package installer
The other tool is Eddy, which is for installing .deb packages downloaded from sources outside the Pop!_OS and Ubuntu repositories. Eddy is the default application for running .deb files, so a .deb file downloaded for an external source, e.g., GitHub's Atom, can be installed just by double-clicking on the .deb file. If launched from its own application icon instead of by opening a .deb file, Eddy allows for dragging a .deb onto its window to install, or it can open a file picker dialog. If .deb packages are available in the Download folder, Eddy shows an option that will list all the packages available and let the user install one or all of the available .deb files.
Pop!_OS is incredible, especially for a first release. There are various minor things that need to be fixed, and they really need to replace the Ubuntu-branded Help file with a Pop!_OS specific one, but it is easy to tell that a lot of thought went into this release. System76 has spent the past twelve years making informed choices about hardware to provide their customers with a good Linux experience, now they are leveraging that expertise to curate software into their own distribution. Yes, at this stage Pop!_OS is mostly curating the good parts from upstream, but the overall package is what matters and, in this case, the overall package is great. If System76 can build solid relationships with various upstream sources, make UX decisions based on real user testing (like their design documents say the plan to do), and grow Pop!_OS's brand recognition in the maker-space and education fields, they have a distribution that is really, really worth watching. I highly recommend Pop!_OS to anyone, but especially to those looking for a distribution that is designed by makers for makers.
Pop!_OS has a visitor supplied average rating of: 8.8/10 from 119 review(s).
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openSUSE's Tumbleweed snapshots, Q4OS can be installed on a Windows partition, Fedora 25 reaching its end of life
Rolling releases, such as openSUSE's Tumbleweed, provide a regular stream of package updates, keeping users on the cutting edge of software. One of the drawbacks to using a rolling release distribution is there are a lot of updates and an upgrade in one dependency can trigger the upgrade of many related packages. Jimmy Berry is working on a solution which maintains the benefits of a rolling release while providing a snapshot of recent packages to cut down on the number of upgrades required when installing a new package. "Tumbleweed, being a rolling distribution, is constantly changing and packages are constantly being rebuilt against one another and updating requirements. As such it becomes necessary to update even when undesirable. For example, one is running snapshot 17 and the next day snapshot 18 contains a Qt update that rebuilt a large number of packages. When attempting to install an application that depends on Qt one is greeted with an ugly unresolvable error. It is then necessary to run a full update, likely very large with many unrelated changes, in order to simply install an application as would have been possible yesterday.
If a remote repository containing historical snapshots was available one could simply install the application and perhaps the handful of new dependencies it requires rather than having to update the entire system. This provides one with the benefits of a rolling distribution without requiring the constant change. A week later when a new kernel and DRM stack provides an exciting feature it is still easy to update everything and be running the latest code, but the user is not interrupted by having to update when it should not be necessary." More details on Berry's ideas and how they can be used with openSUSE's default file system (Btrfs) are described in his mailing list post.
The Q4OS team has introduced a new way of installing the lightweight Q4OS distribution on computers which run Microsoft Windows. Since partitioning a hard drive and installing a new operating system can be daunting tasks for new users, the Q4OS developers are making it possible to dual boot Windows with Q4OS without any partitioning required. "We are happy to introduce a first stable release of the Q4OS for Windows 10 installer. It allows everyone to install Q4OS alongside Windows in an easy way, with no need of modifying an existing Windows operating system, nor any of software installed, even with no need of repartitioning your disk drive. Simply download and run Q4OS installer, just like any other Windows application, and follow the installer instructions. The installer will install and configure your computer to be able to run Q4OS or Windows 10 in a dual boot mode. Once you perform the setup, you will be able to switch back and forth between Windows and Q4OS each time you restart your computer. This installer is compatible with Windows 10, as well as the 7 and 8 versions, and it's able to use Secure Boot, if available in the PC firmware. Secure Boot will allow you to boot Q4OS in a smooth and safe way." The Q4OS installer is able to install its operating system on the existing Windows partition by using a large loopback file which contains the Q4OS distribution.
Ryan Lerch has reported that Fedora 25 is nearing its end-of-life and will no longer receive security updates after December 12, 2017. "With the recent release of Fedora 27, Fedora 25 officially enters End Of Life (EOL) status on December 12th, 2017. After December 12th, all packages in the Fedora 25 repositories no longer receive security, bug fix, or enhancement updates. Furthermore, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 25 collection. Upgrading to Fedora 27 or Fedora 26 before December 12th 2017 is highly recommended for all users still running Fedora 25." Upgrade instructions for migrating from Fedora 25 to version 26 are provided.
Tips and Tricks (by Jesse Smith)
Keep terminal programs running, using the at command, reverse OpenSSH connections
This week I would like to share some commands I find useful on a regular basis. There is no theme tying them together, other than I find myself using them about once a week.
The first command line tip I would like to look at covers ways of launching applications and having them run in the background, even when the terminal closes. We can accomplish this by placing the & suffix at the end of commands. For example, we can launch Firefox and have it run while we continue to use the terminal by typing:
firefox &
Some command line shells will terminate programs they started when we close the terminal in order to clean up after themselves. We can avoid having our application closed by telling the shell to disown the program we launched. In the following example we open Firefox and then disown the browser's process to make sure it does not get terminated when we close the terminal:
While the above commands work well enough, there is one problem: desktop applications will often spew debugging information to the terminal while they are running. This means Firefox (or another application) may dump information into our terminal window where we are trying to work, which is both messy and distracting. We can work around this by redirecting output and having it discarded. We do this by sending all output to a file called /dev/null where the operating system merely discards it rather than saving it. The following example starts Firefox, sends all of its debug output to /dev/null to be deleted and disowns the browser so it will continue to run if we close the terminal. The "> /dev/null" part indicates where we want to send text output, in this case the null file. The "2>&1" lets the shell know it should send both normal output and error messages to the null file to be discarded.
firefox > /dev/null 2>&1 &
Sometimes we want to perform an action in the future, but do not want to sit around and wait to type in the command. There are a few approaches to scheduling tasks. Generally people use the cron command to schedule repeating tasks, or maybe sleep to handle short-term delays. Neither is ideal if we want to schedule one event to happen just one time in the semi-distant future.
For cases like this the at command is ideal. at lets us set up a command to be run at a specific time and date in the future. The at command is pretty good about recognizing dates and times in human-readable format. On the command line we specify the time we want something to happen and then the at command will display a prompt where we can type in the program we want to run. After we type the program to be run we can press Ctrl-D to return to the shell. Here is an example where we copy the contents of our Documents folder to a Backup folder at 5:30pm.
> cp ~/Documents/* ~/Backup/
> Ctrl-D
We can specify different days too. The following command clears out the contents of a temporary directory on the last day of November.
at 6:00pm Nov 30
> rm ~/temp/*
There are limitations, because of the way at processes jobs, by default it will not open graphical applications on our desktop at a set time. The at command is designed to handle non-interactive tasks and situations. Once a job has been run once, at forgets about it. This means if we schedule a task to happen at noon, it only happens at noon today, the task is not repeated at noon tomorrow.
Have you ever wanted to set up an OpenSSH server on your computer for remote access, but found there was a firewall in the way you were unable to adjust to allow connections through? Sometimes businesses or ISPs will block incoming connections and this gets in the way of people who want to be able to work on their computers while away from the home or office. There is a possible workaround for this situation which involves using another computer to relay the connection
Basically, we can tell our computer which is behind the firewall to connect to another computer where we have access. This other computer could be one of ours or a personal server or a VPS, the important thing is wherever this other computer is, it needs to be running OpenSSH and we need to be able to log into it remotely.
In this example I will refer to the computer behind the firewall as PC-Home and the remote system we can access whenever we want as PC-VPS. To grant ourselves access to the computer behind the firewall we need to open a connection from PC-Home to PC-VPS. The connection we will open will have a special property which allows the remote computer (PC-VPS) to send signals back to PC-Home, as if the firewall were not in the way.
On PC-Home we can initiate this connection by running the ssh command and specifying which remote computer (PC-VPS in this example) will act as our proxy.
ssh -R 12701:localhost:22 pc-vps
What the above command does is contact the remote computer PC-VPS and tell it to forward any connections it receives on port 12701 to our home computer (PC-Home) on port 22. Port 22 is the default OpenSSH port.
Now, if we are away from home, we can connect to PC-Home by bouncing the connection off PC-VPS. We can do this by running
ssh -p 12701 pc-vps
Whatever computer we are running contacts PC-VPS, which forwards our request to PC-Home along the channel which was set up earlier. Since the computer behind the firewall initiated the connection, the firewall does not block the incoming traffic and we can establish a shell session on our home computer.
The PC-Home computer can close the link at any time by terminating its OpenSSH connection to PC-VPS, disappearing again behind its firewall.
More tips can be found in our Tips and Tricks archive.
The Linux Mint team has announced a new update to the project's 18.x series. The new version, Linux Mint 18.3, is a long term support release and will receive updates through to the year 2021. The new release features an updated software manager which makes it easier to install third-party applications and should be noticeably faster. This release also includes Flatpak support and the software manager can work with Flatpak packages. "Popular software applications such as Spotify, WhatsApp, Skype, Google Earth, Steam or Minecraft are now featured and very easy to install. The user interface looks more modern and its layout is inspired by GNOME Software. It's simpler, more consistent than before and it makes the application look much cleaner. The Software Manager is now also much lighter and faster than before. It no longer uses Webkit, browsing categories and apps is almost immediate, and it launches 3 times faster than before. The backend was ported to AptDaemon and the Software Manager now runs in user mode. Consequently you do not need to enter any passwords to browse applications, and if you enter a password to install or remove an app, the authentication is remembered for a little while so you can install or remove other apps without having to enter that password again." Further details can be found in the project's release announcements for the Cinnamon and MATE editions.
Black Lab Enterprise Linux 11.5
Black Lab Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution which is currently available in two editions, Core and Desktop. Core is intended for use in low resource computing, server environments and embedded systems while Desktop features lots of applications for end users. The developers have announced the release of Black Lab enterprise Linux 11.5: "Today the PC/OpenSystems Open Source development team is pleased to announce the public release of Black Lab Enterprise Linux 11.5, the latest development of our open source project. We have made several enhancements which benefit both new users or veterans upgrading from our last release, or the one before that. Black Lab Enterprise Linux is a an excellent drop-in replacement for Windows, macOS or other distributions of Linux. BLEL 11.5 is distributed in two flavors, Desktop and Core. The first is full featured, offering everything users need : productivity software, games, software development tools, cloud and business applications. It's optimized for general everyday desktop use. Core is designed for embedded systems, IoT devices and users who want to build their own systems from the ground up; servers, appliances and specialized desktop environments can be brought out of Core. The user has total control of what is installed, including only a web browser and media player by default." Further information can be found in the distribution's release announcement.
Lakka 2.1
Lakka is a minimal Linux distribution which turns a computer into a gaming console. The distribution is based on LibreELEC and runs the RetroArch console emulator. The Lakka project has released a new version, Lakka 2.1, which features an updated Linux kernel, Samba 4 support and RetroArch 1.6.9. "After six months of intense development and bug fixes, the team is proud to announce the stable release of Lakka 2.1! This release is a huge step forward in many aspects: UI, emulator cores, and supported hardware. Change log: Merged LibreELEC 8.2 stable. Kernel updates for PC, RPi and more. New wifi drivers and fixes. Samba 4. RPi firmware updates. Switch back to OpenSSL. RetroArch updated to 1.6.9." People who are already running Lakka 2.0 can upgrade by placing the 2.1 image file into their system's Update directory and rebooting the computer. Lakka is available for many types of computers, including x86 PCs, Raspberry Pis, WeTek boxes and Odroid.
SalentOS 2.0
Gabriele Martina has announced the availability of a new version of SalentOS, a lightweight Debian-based distribution featuring the Openbox window manager. The new version, SalentOS 2.0 (code name Neriton), is based on Debian 9 "Stretch" and features UEFI support (though not support for Secure Boot). "With great pleasure the development team is pleased to announce the release of SalentOS 2.0 Neriton! The system, remember, is based on Debian Stable (Stretch) and is in continuity with the previous release (Luppìu). The main innovations: Debian Base Stretch (Stable). Kernel updated to version 4.9.0-4. Compatibility with the new UEFI standard - no Secure Boot. Updated and optimized all system management tools (Styler, Yanima). Introduced Dockbar (tint2). New wallpapers on-line verification system. Optimized the first installation wizard." More information can be found in the project's release announcement.
SalentOS 2.0 -- Running the Openbox window manager
Univention Corporate Server 4.2-3
Univention Corporate Server (UCS) is an enterprise-class distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux. It features an integrated management system for central administration of servers. Univention has released an upgrade to their 4.2 series, Univention Corporate Server 4.2-3. The new version features diagnostic tests to help trouble-shoot server and domain issues, along with various improvements to the web-based interface. The release announcement reports: "We are pleased to announce the availability of UCS 4.2-3 for download, the third point release of Univention Corporate Server (UCS) 4.2. It includes all errata updates issued for UCS 4.2-2 and provides various improvements and bug fixes especially in the following areas: For the UMC diagnostic module, a large number of additional functional tests have been added to help the administrator check the health of the server and the entire domain. The usability and configurability of the management system were further expanded. The design of the assistants and dialogues of the management system was revised with regard to usability aspects. Additional configuration options for the single sign-on of the management system have also been added, e. g. the configurability of the certificate used. When a UCS system joins a Microsoft Active Directory domain, more checks are now performed. This allows to display information about known problems, including hints on how to correct them." Further information can be found in the release notes.
deepin 15.5
deepin is a Debian-based distribution featuring a custom desktop environment, called Deepin Desktop. The latest version of the distribution, deepin 15.5, introduces several important features, including HiDPI support, fingerprint scanner, wi-fi hotspot sharing and support for installing Flatpak packages. "deepin is a Linux distribution devoted to providing beautiful, easy to use, safe and reliable system for global users. deepin 15.5 mainly added HiDPI, fingerprint scanning and Flatpak application format. It migrated Deepin Crosswalk to the new web application framework, pre-installed Deepin Clone and Deepin Recovery, newly added touchpad gesture, wi-fi hotspot sharing and color temperature adjustment as well as comprehensive optimization of network module and desktop environment. Applications in Deepin Family and applications related to Deepin Wine have been upgraded to the latest version. Details of these new features, a video of the Deepin desktop in action and screen shots can be found in the project's release announcement.
Raspbian 2017-11-29
Simon Long has announced the release of an updated build of Raspbian, a Debian-based distribution designed for the Raspberry Pi single-board computers: "We're pleased to announce that we are releasing the latest version of Raspbian 'Stretch' for your Pi today. This new release is mostly bug fixes and tweaks over the previous Stretch release, but there are one or two changes you might notice. The file manager included as part of the LXDE desktop (on which our desktop is based) is a program called PCManFM and it's very feature-rich; there's not much you can't do in it. However, having used it for a few years, we felt that it was perhaps more complex than it needed to be - the sheer number of menu options and choices made some common operations more awkward than they needed to be. So to try to make file management easier, we have implemented a cut-down mode for the file manager." Read the full release announcement for more information and screenshots.
Rocks Cluster Distribution 7.0
Philip Papadopoulos has announced the release of Rocks Cluster Distribution 7.0, a major new update of the project's specialist operating system for easy deployments as computer clusters. Rocks Cluster 7.0 is based on CentOS 7.4: "The latest update of Rocks, code name 'Manzanita', is now released. Manzanita is a 64-bit only release and is based upon CentOS 7.4. The Rocks-supplied OS rolls have all updates applied as of December 1, 2017." The brief release announcement doesn't give many details about the release, but the distribution's user guide has been updated to include notes about the "significant differences" compared to Rocks 6: "This section describes how to install your Rocks cluster frontend for Rocks 7. It is significantly different than Rocks 6. The minimum requirement to bring up a frontend is to have the following rolls: Kernel, Base, Core, CentOS, Updates-CentOS. Rocks 7 supports a network-only installation. All rolls must be located on a roll server on a network that is accessible by your frontend."
Qubes OS 4.0-rc3 (Announcement)
Berry Linux 1.26
Manjaro Linux 17.1-pre3
MX Linux 17-beta3
Sabayon 17.12
Alpine 3.7.0
Container Linux 1520.9.0
SwagArch GNU/Linux 17.12
Fatdog64 Linux 720-beta (Announcement)
OpenMediaVault 3.0.94
Antergos 17.12
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2017-12-20: Black Lab Linux 10.1 (see (roadmap)
2018-01-04: Ubuntu 18.04 Alpha 1
2018-03-08: Ubuntu 18.04 Beta 1
2018-05-01: Fedora 28 (see release schedule)
Scheduling tasks
In this week's Tips and Tricks column we discussed scheduling tasks to be completed in the future, using the at command. While at is good at setting up one-time jobs, regular tasks are often started by another tool called cron. This week we would like to find out how you schedule jobs which need to be run in the future.
You can see the results of our previous poll on battery life time in last week's edition. All previous poll results can be found in our poll archives.
I use at: 32 (3%)
I use cron: 377 (30%)
I use "sleep && command": 37 (3%)
I use a combination of the above: 123 (10%)
I use another tool: 59 (5%)
I do not schedule tasks: 632 (50%)
Moving to HTTPS only
DistroWatch has been available over secure, HTTPS connections for about two years now. With more and more of the web switching to encrypted connections we wanted to make sure our visitors had the option of visiting us using a verified, secure connection. At the time we continued to provide a plain HTTP option for people who were using older web and RSS clients, or who were facing performance issues when trying to use encrypted connections.
Since then the web has generally transitioned to enforcing HTTPS encrypted connections as the default behaviour. So much so that some browsers and extensions now flag DistroWatch as being insecure because we still provide unencrypted connections as an option. We have also found some search engines and distributions still link to us using the insecure option, though we have been providing HTTPS for almost two years.
In order to better protect our readers and to avoid being marked as insecure by security tools, we are going to start enforcing secure, encrypted connections to DistroWatch.com. This change is scheduled to take place on December 8, 2017. This transition should require no effort on the part of our readers, attempts to reach us using the insecure HTTP protocol will simply be redirected to the secure method.
Janus Linux. Janus Linux is a small and very lightweight distribution which features the musl C library and Busybox userland tools. The distribution provides a terminal interface only with no graphical desktop.
This concludes this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly. The next instalment will be published on Monday, 11 December 2017. Past articles and reviews can be found through our Article Search page. To contact the authors please send e-mail to:
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SmartOS is an open-source UNIX-like operating system based on illumos, a community fork of OpenSolaris. It features four technologies - ZFS (a combined file system and logical volume manager), DTrace (a dynamic tracing framework for troubleshooting kernel and application problems), Zones (a lightweight virtualisation solution) and KVM (a full virtualisation solution for running a variety of guest operating systems, including Linux, Windows, BSD and Plan9). SmartOS is designed to be particularly suitable for building clouds and generating appliances.
Tips and tricks: GRUB Customizer
Questions and answers: Picking a location for swap space
Questions and answers: Security updates - the what and the why
Tips and tricks: Gathering system information with osquery
Questions and answers: Preventing applications from stealing window focus
Tips and tricks: Working with media files on command line
Questions and answers: Games for Linux
Questions and answers: Why Ubuntu "fails" Shields Up port scanning and how to fix it
Questions and answers: Checking file system fragmentation


"A bubble, a Ponzi scheme and an environmental disaster"
While acknowledging the intention of bitcoin's developers to create an alternative payment system with no government involvement, "it has become a combination of a bubble, a Ponzi scheme and an environmental disaster", said BIS's general manager, Agustin Carstens.
Delivering a lecture co-hosted by Germany's central bank, Carstens said that authorities need to be vigilant as cryptocurrencies could undermine the public trust in the financial system.
But as the value of bitcoin—the best-known virtual currency—has tumbled from its December high of nearly $20,000 to less than half that value with wild daily swings, regulators have taken a more critical outlook.
"If the only 'business case' is use for illicit or illegal transactions, central banks cannot allow such tokens to rely on much of the same institutional infrastructure that serves the overall financial system and freeload on the trust that it provides."
He called for particular vigilance in allowing cryptocurrencies to "piggyback" on the financial system with links to regular bank accounts.
Carstens, formerly the head of Mexico's central bank, said that cryptocurrencies may not yet pose a systemic risk.
"But if authorities do not act pre-emptively, cryptocurrencies could become more interconnected with the main financial system and become a threat to financial stability," he said.


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Pakistan is on its way towards Digital Revolution
Pakistan is heading towards a digital revolution according to new data released by Lamudi.pk, Pakistan's best real estate website. This preparation can be seen in all the major tech cities, like Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi as well as smaller ones, like Gwadar and other emerging cities.
Lamudi Pakistan has gathered few points that indicates Pakistan stepping towards Digital Revolution:
Government Assistance: Pakistan's E-corridor
Recently, the State Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunications, Anusha Rehman, agreed with delegates from the China Investment Promotion Centre to award China an e-commerce development project in Pakistan that will provide an "e-corridor" and thus greater connectivity in the country.
Additionally, the deal intends to help the e-commerce industry by providing training to young entrepreneurs and building a world-class research Centre. It is also aimed at attracting larger, international companies to the nation.
Language Support in Tech: The Importance of Urdu
International tech giants are already attracted to Pakistan, and the latest version of Google's Android operating system features support for the Urdu language. The Silicon Valley tech pioneer's move to support our national language is a testament to their vision for the future of the internet in Pakistan.
Big Brands in Pakistan: Samsung Steps Out in Front
Samsung has a special place in the hearts and minds of Pakistani people. According to Lamudi data, over 40 percent of the real estate platform's users arrive on the site via a Samsung device. Moreover, to cater to all socioeconomic classes, the company has also released the Galaxy J Series of smartphones in Pakistan, providing the lower income classes with fast and inexpensive access to mobile internet.
A Rich Startup Environment: Everyone Is Involved.
In Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Rawalpindi as well as Multan, Faisalabad and Gujranwala, hundreds of startups are getting off the ground. From food delivery services to online car markets, Pakistan is full of inventive and driven entrepreneurs who are changing the national commercial landscape.
Saad Arshed, Country Director of Lamudi Pakistan, said,
The nation's economy, government and business sectors are all embracing the inevitable digital revolution with forward-thinking moves and positive policies. With this concerted effort from all parties involved, both public and private, a "Digital Pakistan" is much closer than we think.
All these points tell that the country is on the right track towards being digital. Some more steps can be taken to fast up the process. Government should try to speed up internet services in the country. Moreover, equal measures should be taken to promote ICT startups in the country.
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