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George Galloway's speech to Parliament

DeepGeek — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:16:35 +0200

Gmail - Thunderbird - Enigma

DeepGeek — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:25:01 +0200

This won't dispose of the need to scan your spam folder through the Gmail interface periodically but it will circumvent performance issues.

Click Settings in Gmail
Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP
Choose "Enable POP only for mail that arrives from now on" (all mail will take a long long time)
Choose "keep LSNet-GMAIL Mail's copy in the Inbox". That way you can get your mail from another computer.
Click "Configuration instructions".
Click Thunderbird 2.0
You have already done Step 1,, click Configure. Keep these instructions handy, you will be back.
Go to http://filehippo.com/download_thunderbird/ download and install the latest version. I will answer questions about Thunderbird, Other clients will evoke grunts.
At step 5, do not choose Gmail, On my system, the correct path is Edit, Account Settings, Add Account, Email account, Next.
Enter your name and email address (which ends with "@ls.net").
Choose POP. IMAP is sexier but more connection intensive. Like a high maintenance mistress.
Enter "pop.gmail.com" as your Incoming Server.
Leave "Use Global Inbox" checked.
Set your "Incoming User Name" to your_user_name@downtowngalax.com. (that is the same as your email address).
Set the Account Name to anything you like but the default will work fine and you have to click on it in the next step.
Find your new account name and click "Server settings"
Change the port number to 995.
Click SSL.
Ignore the Google instructions to uncheck "Leave messages on server", you will want them there to access your mail from another computer.
OK.
Click "Outgoing Server"
The "Description" is arbitrary - "Gmail SMTP" will do.
The "Outgoing Server Name" is "smtp.gmail.com" and the "Port" is 465.
Check "Use Name and Password" and enter your user name again.
Choose SSL here too.
Click OK.
Click "Get Mail", enter your password when requested, let the "Password Manager" remember.

Now that was easy, wasn't it? I can attest that it is possible to screw up, even with these instructions, so if they don't work, sign in, leave a comment, and I will try to make them more helpful.

For extra credit, click OpenPGP,

Bordeaux for FreeBSD coming soon

DeepGeek — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:29:45 +0200

Over the last couple day's I have been working on the Bordeaux for FreeBSD 7 port. We now have everything compiling and running but a lot more testing needs to be done before it's ready for a final release. Internet Explorer, Steam and Office 2003 are the only applications ive gotten around to testing thus far. The good news is everything that I have tested works fairly well on FreeBSD.

If you're a FreeBSD user and need to run any of the software that we currently support on the Linux client you might be interested in helping beta test this build and future builds up to the final stable release. At this time we cant give out beta builds, but what we can do is if you purchase a licence from the store
for a Linux build then send a mail to support. This email is provided once you purchase a licence, and ask for a FreeBSD build I can send it to you.

If we get enough interest in beta testing we could start a beta testing mailing list as well.. So if your interested in helping out head over to the store and purchase a license and send us a mail. If you have a friend or know of someone interested in this please send them our way.

Bordeaux GUI running on FreeBSD 7
Internet Explorer 6 running on FreeBSD 7
Steam running on FreeBSD 7
Excel 2003 running on FreeBSD 7
PowerPoint 2003 running on FreeBSD 7
Word 2003 running on FreeBSD 7

The Eureka Project

DeepGeek — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:14:24 +0200

If embedded maps are required on a Drupal site, the solution is barely more complicated than adding and enabling the gmap module with a registered Google Maps API key. The key, available for any web site that is free to consumers, is required to use the free beta service from Google and is valid for all directories of (only) the registered site.

To introduce capabilities of the gmap module, we give you a map of the primary staff at LS Net. You can click each of the map pins for more detail about our team. The blue circle describes the effective boundary of our on-site service without per-diem requirements.

Javascript is required to view this map.

Unit Tests : General Rule #1

DeepGeek — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:32:39 +0200

Get a second opinion!

Several of the SimpleTest unit tests failed with this Drupal installation. However, much consoling came by simply running unit tests a second time.

Would the McCain Campaign Provoke a Conflict to Win an Election?

DeepGeek — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:54:04 +0200

On April 17th of this year, John McCain's chief foreign policy advisor, Randy Scheunemann, took $200,000 from the Republic of Georgia. That same day, John McCain talked on the phone with Mikheil Saakashvili (transliterations vary) and issued a statement condemning the Russians and vowing US support for the Georgian Republic.

This is the same fellow who help bring us the War in Iraq, which including contingent liabilities is going to cost us at least $3,000,000,000,000, millions of Americans their homes, all of us trillions in increased energy prices and thousands of American lives. Adventurism in Iraq and incompetence in Afghanistan have left American military at its lowest preparedness since the War in Vietnam. The meager military aid delivered to the Georgians (100 advisors and a modest supply of arms) emboldened the Georgians to assert control of South Ossetia which the Russians have held for years with disastrous consequences. And Osama is still around to remind us that we took the bait and bankrupted the American Economy.

While the new National Defense Strategy coming from Robert Gates shows movement towards "soft" power, the McCain campaign is a throwback to the worst war mongering of the neocons early in the Bush administration. When the generals begin to realize the limits of force, it's time for the politicians to tread the path of peace and reconciliation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Scheunemann
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-05-20-mccainadviser_n.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/12/AR2008081202932.html?nav=rss_politics
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Randy_Scheunemann
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/national_defense_strategy_073108.pdf

Tutorial: Inserting Images in your LSNet Submissions

DeepGeek — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:23:47 +0200

1. Login using your LSNet username and password.

2. Select "Create Content" and for content type, choose "Image." When the Create Image page appears, give your image a title.

3. Choose from the list of image galleries with the appropriate tag(s). For example, I saved this image at left in the image galleries "Humor", "Children", "History", and "Books." Hold down the "SHIFT" key to select multiple galleries.

4. Hit the Browse button, search your computer for the image you want, and upload it to the LSNet server. Remember your image filename so that you can find it on the server later.

5. Make sure the "Promote to Front Page" option under "Publishing Options" at the bottom is unchecked, unless you want to publish only an image to the web site with no text! Click "Submit."

6. Select "Create content" again, choose Blog, Story, or Page, depending on what you're submitting.

7. Open Rich Text Editor (Fckeditor program) and put all of your text in the box, either by directly entering it or by cutting-and-pasting it from somewhere else. When you are finished:

8. Click the little postcard on the FCKEditor toolbar, "Insert/Edit Image."

9. A window will appear with "Image Properties" at the top. Ignore all the Latin in the preview box. Next to the text box labeled "URL" click "Browse Server." This will make the "Resources Browser" appear with a file folder at the top and a list of all of the images in the image galleries on our server. Scroll down through the list until you find your filename and click on it. The server may have saved several versions (icon, thumbnail, inline) but the easiest to work with is your original image, "yourfilename.jpg.".

10. Now the Resources Browser window disappears and you are back to the box with "Image Properties" at the top. Your image should appear in the preview pane. From now on, you can reopen the "Image Properties" box by right-clicking on the image and choosing "Image Properties."

11. In the "Width" and "Height" boxes in your "Image Properties" window, you can now change the size of your image (pixels by pixels). Always decrease and increase by the same number of pixels for width and height to avoid distorting your image. If you mess up, the blue curly arrow on the right will reset your image at the original size. You can also enter a number of pixels for a border, horizontal space, and vertical space around your image.

12. To determine where in your post image appears, click on the arrow next to the "Align" box. My personal favorites are "Left" and "Right." for an inline image. In this article, I have chosen "Left," which makes the image appear on the top left with text wrapping around it to the right. If you experiment with different alignments, the latin text will reappear in your preview pane showing you how the text will look, but there will be no Latin in your final submission.

13. When you are happy with the size and position of the image, click OK.

14. Now you are back at the FCKEditor window and your image should appear.

15. Enter and format your text just as if you were using a word processor, then hit OK.

16. REMEMBER, ALWAYS PREVIEW BEFORE CLICKING "SUBMIT." Then you can go back into the Rich Text Editor (FCKEditor) and make any necessary changes.

Note on the image/artwork: The Old Woman in a Shoe image is from the Wikipedia entry on the nursery rhyme. It is a folding card from 1883 and is housed in the Noel Wisdom Collection, Special Collections Department, in the University of South Florida library in Tampa. I'm just crazy for Victorian art.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JIM TARVID

DeepGeek — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:40:57 +0200

Today is Jim Tarvid's birthday. We wish him our very best wishes for an Excellent Birth Day.

Bluestone River

DeepGeek — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:35:19 +0200

Rick's painting.

Photographs (Tonal Art or Halftones)

Photographs should be mounted on illustration board 1 to 2 mm thick, protected with an overlay. Indicate instructions for reduction and/or positioning below the photograph.

Related photographs should be economically presented as a composite plate. Often 6 photos per plate can be made proportional to the text page area. The full-page width to full-page height ratio is 0.72. Estimate somewhat less than this proportion in order to fit the caption of a page-width figure onto the page. Composite plates can also contain 2 or 4 photos per plate. Occasionally an odd number of photographs is necessarily grouped together, incorporating an area of white space within the plate. Photographs should have precisely squared edges butted neatly together. The printer will scribe white hairline rules between such photographs.

All photographs mounted on the same board should be printed on the same paper. Reductions of up to one-third of the original size are acceptable. Enlargement should not be requested.

Cropping: Place precisely squared-off vertical and horizontal crop marks outside the image of the photograph, indicating areas to be excluded.

Use neat, precision-cut single letters or numbers identifying figures within a plate.

Placement of anatomical labels within the photograph should be neat and uncrowded: (1) place leader lines to the area of interest or (2) supply labels on a transparent overlay. The author can remove the background around the subject with a rubylithe overlay or request that the printer opaque out the background or silhouette the subject (an additional expense).

Bread 102: Oven Sour Dough Bread

DeepGeek — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:57:11 +0200

I would like to urge people to make bread at home once in awhile. It is not THAT hard, although I am getting a machine assist from a Bread Machine dough cycle. What I am struck by, and want to share with the wider audience, is how much richer, filling, and more fulfilling home-made bread is as compared to not only sandwich bread, but also the fancier deli-style bread. Supposedly it is the same stuff, but somehow it's not. This is the stuff that made history, inspired legends, and fed mankind. I now am on my 3rd SourDough bread attempt. The first two used a bread yeast boost and turned out perfect. The third reminds me some of sourdough in my youth .. it did not rise much, but it did rise and is also very tasty.