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Introduction Hosts: MrX Dave Morriss We recorded this on Sunday May 26th 2024. We were pleased to discover that our favourite pub where we've had lunch in the past, The Steading, had not closed permanently following the sale of the premises. That's where we met for lunch. Thus the show title: The Steading is now back on course1. After lunch we as usual adjourned to Dave's Citroen car (Studio C) in the car park, and recorded a chat. Topics discussed YouTube channel recommendations (Dave) AT Restoration: Ahti is a furniture restorer from Estonia. The episodes contain no speech, just ambient sounds, but there is English text on-screen at times. Music is included for the final part where the item is shown in its before and after states. Shows some amazing skill in repairing all kinds of old furniture as well as some new builds. I found a surprise inside the 150 year old chair/armchair restoration: In this episode Ahti restores an armchair and shows the woodwork and upholstery required. Phil Vandelay: The channel is about designing and building cargo bikes, machines, furniture and more. The earlier shows contain no speech, just on-screen explanations. In later episodes there is more description and explanation. The level of engineering is high, and the host develops his metalworking workshop and skills as episodes progress. How to Build your own Cargo Bike (Short Version!): recent re-edit and re-release of the original. This seems to be the second cargo bike he has built, and later he builds yet another, this time electric. How to Build a DIY Cargo Bike (Plans available!): full version of the build. Ocean Conservation Namibia: A Namibia-based team rescuing Cape fur seals from entanglements in marine garbage. The seals are mainly on the beach and the team runs to intercept the ones they spot with garbage around them. They net them and remove whatever they have picked up and release the seals. In many cases the fishing line, net, or other junk has cut deeply into the seal's skin and muscle, and would kill them if not removed. Episodes are usually daily and mostly short. 34 Seals Rescued In One Day!: a recent episode, one of the longest. Digressions! Talking about varnishes for wood. Dave forgot the name of the varnish-like finish shellac, which is used in the technique of French Polishing. Woodwork: MrX made a stand for his music keyboard Dave made an unfashionable chair in the 1970s (similar in design and colour to the outer chairs in the image) Image copyright © https://www.design-market.co Grass-cutting, etc: Repairing a strimmer (aka string trimmer) Plastics: Bakelite was one of the earliest plastics Dave owns a valve radio which has a Bakelite case Computers owned over time (MrX) Sinclair ZX Spectrum: Released in 1982 Z80 (8-bit) CPU The original Spectrum had rubber-like keys MrX had a modified system with a keyboard upgrade - the DK'Tronics The Spectrum was used for Amateur Radio purposes: Morse code decoding Slow Scan Television (SSTV) RadioTeletype (RTTY) Dragon 32: Released in 1982 6809 (8-bit) CPU Better keyboard Centronics parallel (printer port) MrX had a pen plotter at one point, possibly an Epson Dave mentioned that he had used flat-bed pen plotters and large drum plotters at work The Dragon 32 was used for Packet Radio This is a data transfer protocol based on X.25 (called AX.25, Amateur X.25) Commodore Amiga: Released in 1985 Motorola 68000 series CPU, 16-bit and 32-bit models AmigaOS operating system; blitter AX.25 software Intel i386 PC Running Windows 3.1 PK232-MBX packet radio modem (manual) The PK232-MBX was similar to a telephone modem except it connected to radio. The MBX was a super deluxe model that had some extra features. It could do all the same things that the basic PK232 could do (see details from manual linked above) plus it could also do WeFax (WeatherFAX) and had a basic Packet-Radio mailbox facility. The two models could deal with morse code, Baudot and ASCII RadioTeletype (RTTY), AMTOR (Amateur Teleprinting Over Radio) and Packet-Radio, using in-built software. The connected radio would switch between transmit and receive to send and acknowledge packets of information. The computer was connected by serial RS232 connection. Basic commands were used to control the modem. Any computer capable of talking over RS232 could be used. Currently a Dell Optiplex ex business machine: 4GB of RAM and a Pentium Dual-Core E5500 CPU clocked at 2.8 GHz Ubuntu 18 LTS & Windows 7, needed in order to reprogram Amateur radios Digressions: Dave remembered seeing an example of the Nascom 1 at Lancaster University around 1978/79. This was a single board computer kit using the Z80 CPU. Comparing a VAX "mainframe" with a Raspberry Pi: Not simple! From 1987 Dave managed two clustered VAX 8700s. These were single CPU systems with a 32-bit word length and up to 512MB of memory. It's possible for a Raspberry Pi to emulate a VAX running the VMS operating system, though Dave has no direct experience. With the RPi 4 and 5 there's a good chance that performance compared to an actual VAX might be similar if not better. This is just guesswork however! Apollo Guidance Computer: MrX discusses the development of these systems at NASA, which had to be small and very reliable. Use of integrated circuits which were very expensive and variable in quality. Use of rejected chips in other projects so they were not wasted. Finding information about things from the 1970s and 1980s: It's surprisingly hard to find much about technology, IT and so forth from that era. Information that existed on paper, in newspapers and magazines from that time has apparently never been recorded and made searchable. Burroughs Corporation: Dave worked on a Burroughs B6930 mainframe in the early 1980s at Heriot-Watt University. The Burroughs terminals model TD830 ran on two coaxial cables to connect to the mainframe and to each other in a sort of "bus" configuration. Dave has a new PC waiting to be set up. It's from TUXEDO Computers in Germany. It's an AMD Ryzen 7000 Raspberry Pi development: MrX is having difficulty finding time to work on his. Dave has set up two RPi 4B systems which boot off USB SSDs, one Pi running Pi-Hole. He has further plans for both, but hasn't done much yet. Dave also has a RPi 5 with a Pimoroni card under it holding a 500GB NVME M.2 card. The plan is to boot it off this disk, but it needs a case and a means of mounting to a DIN rail. Various computer problems: Dave had problems after an upgrade of Debian Testing on his main desktop, since the previous of these shows. The upgrade left the PC in an unusable state with no desktop manager, and it took some time to repair it (installing and configuring from the console). MrX upgraded a Raspberry Pi successfully, then applied another upgrade which failed. He was able to revert to the previous state luckily, but still has an out of date OS. Dave's laptop running KDE Neon failed due to not upgrading it frequently enough, so in this case, since it had nothing of importance on it, he just installed Linux Mint over the top of it! MrX still has a usable Eee PC, though the battery has failed. This is the model 700. Dave also has a Eee PC, the 1000 model, but hasn't used it for a while. Steady as she goes - a Nautical expression. A cry to a helmsman to keep on the current course.↩︎

En este programa hacemos nuestro peculiar repaso a algunas noticias de la actualidad commodoriana. A continuación destripamos la revista norteamericana INFO número 31 con el equipo habitual formado por David Asenjo (https://twitter.com/darro99), Narciso Quintana "Narcisound" (https://twitter.com/narcisound), Jonatan Jiménez (https://twitter.com/jsabreman) y Paco Herrera (https://twitter.com/pacoblog64). Las noticias que hemos comentado en el programa son: - ¡Se acabaron los disquetes! Tanto Psytronik como Fusion Retro Books anuncian que dejarán de distribuir software moderno en disquetes de 5.25” por falta de suministros: https://www.facebook.com/psytroniksoft - Nueva disquetera de 3.5, compatible IEC de C64, de C256 Foenix: FNX1591: https://c256foenix.com/accessories/?v=04c19fa1e772 - Recuperada por la UPV obra de Moebius en formato Amiga: https://www.upv.es/noticias-upv/noticia-14002-obra-inedita-d-es.html - Demo de Doom para C64 + RAD (expansión de 1,4GHz y 512MB de RAM que usa el VIC-II para gráficos): https://youtu.be/tG2TMkBB6JU - En el capítulo 3x03 de El Mandaloriano aparece un posible C64 modificado. - Preservado por Dave Haynie el libro Advanced Amiga Arquitecture Book. - Fotos de un prototipo de placa de Amiga 3500. - Explora Commodore: posibles stands y conferencias, concurso de sprites, torneos.

Guillaume et Emmanuel discutent de l'état des versions de Java utilisées, de Java String template, et de beaucoup de failles de sécurité. On pourra presque se renommer Les Cast Sécu ;P On y ressussite aussi la rubrique débutant et discutons du piège de la classe URL. Enregistré le 20 mai 2022 Téléchargement de l'épisode LesCastCodeurs-Episode–279.mp3 News Langages L'état de Java selon newrelic Java 11 commence enfin à être utilisé plus que Java 8 en prod (48% vs 46%) Dans les versions non LTS, c'est Java 14 qui a l'air d'avoir le plus de succès non LTS en prod est 2,7% Après Oracle, c'est la distrib de AWS qui est pas mal utilisée suivi par adoptium Beaucoup d'utilisation de Java dans des containeurs (70%) avec 1 seul core, donc aussi moins de bénéfices dans l'utilisation de G1 pour le GC Toujours dans les containeurs, les applis Java tournent souvent avec moins de 512MB de RAM (45%) String templates en Java les string template c'est ce qui a fournit log4shell donc attention Replace certains usages de stringbuilder , stringfromat et messageformat Beaucoup de langages offrent ça (bash ahah) Exemple d'usage html, json, yaml etc Ils veulent permettre des règles de transformations et de validation (escape caractère) Peut même éviter le,passage par l'étape du passeur Objet template a le template et la policy Embedded expressions: chaînes de caractères, arithmétique, invoque méthodes ou champs, pas besoin d'échapper les double guillemets. Lignes multiples Quid capture des variables locales sans l'avis du développeur. Pas d'exemple meta où le template est importé ou construit. Un article détaillé sur ce qui est nouveau niveau GC dans Java 18 Librairies Quarkus 2.8 et 2.9 WebAuthN Confluent Schema Registry Kotlin Scala RESTEasy Reactive est la couche par défaut GraalVM 22 Elasticsearch Dev Services Outillage Un nouveau décompilateur avec du code plus lisible Tous plus ou moins un fork de celui d'intellij maintenu par JetBrains, le fork d'avant est de Minecraft Reconstruit des constructions de plus haut niveau et plus moderne. Exemples Sécurité Une vulnérabilité dans struts 2 Un problème qui n'avait été que partiellement corrigé. Lié à OGNL'et une double évaluation via %{…} sur du contenu venant de l'utilisateur. Le gros trou de sécu sur les signatures Java 15–18 attaque sur les approches ECDSA (elliptic curve digital signature algorithm), typiquement plus modernes cibles Java web start, Java applets, web services qui utilisent ECDSA (JWT, SAML, OIDC Id tokens, WebAuthN version Oracle Java 7, 8, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, OpenJDK 15, 17, 18 (backport Oracle) Comme un psychic paper de dr who: peut signer numériquement un papier sans infos (paramètres de la courbe peuvent être à 0 ce qui permet de valider tous les messages (0) L'interprétation pour un framework comme Quarkus Spring4Shell avec risque de remote code execution (unfolding) Mitigations: mettre a jour 5.x, mettre a jour tomcat (tactique), setDisallowedField pour excludes les accès aux getter/setter class, passer a Java 8 La RCE est basée sur la navigation non restreinte de class.module.classLoader Spring MVC Early Announcement Spring Cloud exploit announcement Spring MVC Exploit Announcement Spring4Shell HelpNetSecurity assessment Spring4Shell Sonatype Assessment Qualys assessment Personal Security Checklist Recense les bonnes pratiques en terme de sécurité numérique Selon différents thèmes Authentication Browsing the Web Email Secure Messaging Social Media Networks Mobile Phones Personal Computers Smart Home Personal Finance Human Aspect Physical Security Google offre aux clients Google Cloud des libairies validées en sécurité Une équipe de maintenance Open Source chez Google Loi, société et organisation Apple va supprimer au téléchargements les applis non mises a jour depuis 3 ans et peu téléchargées ça a fait réagir et râler Des applis finies Mais surtout une résumassions c'est du taf (nouvelles règles, peut être mise à jour de framework) Du cote de Apple c'est nettoyer un peu la longue queue d'applis Et encourager les gens à rester au top (eg privacy infos) Les duchesses ferment leur slack aux hommes pas fait de gaité de cœur mais réaction aux événements temps des Modérations plus passe sur les posts d'hommes que de femmes Sensation de pas laisser la place aux femmes Maladresses et manques de respect Coupé dynamisme et la sécurité de parole Et beaucoup d'hommes et du coup sentiment d'épier Les duchess feront toujours des événements mixtes mais cet espace avait perdu son utilité première Comment la guerre en Ukraine ébranle la tech russe fragilisation fuite des cerveaux (depuis 2014 et la crimée (cerveaux emprunts de plus de liberté) manque .5 à 1 millions de developpeurs Karspersky et les doutes de ses clients (80% du chiffre d'affaire à l'étranger) Yandex moteur de recherche protégé car marcher local mais démission du CEO Default de paiement (endettement) e.g. VK 400 millions de dollars Envisager de raid de disque dur pour consommation locale Outils de l'épisode Faire le la configuration conditionnelle dans git includeIf permet de faire la condition Utile pour changer l'email entre bureau et perso par exemple. 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Google had first launched Android Go in December 2017. Five editions of Android Go have been launched since then. Android Go is a lighter version of the Android operating system that most of us are familiar with. It has been designed for low-end and ultra-budget smartphones. Specifically, it is intended for use in smartphones with 2 GB of RAM or less. It has platform optimizations that reduce mobile data usage. Also, it has a special suite of Google Mobile Services that are less bandwidth-and resource-intensive. Even the memory footprint of Google Play Services has been reduced. Android Go has been focusing on optimizing the latest Android releases so that they can run smoothly on budget devices. And what has been the impact? Smartphones with less powerful processors, smaller memory, and less available mobile data have been able to use Android software. Given that it works with entry-level smartphones with between 512MB and 2GB of RAM, Android Go has resulted in more affordable devices that have Android features that are essential for a smartphone experience.   And, how is all this made possible? First of all, a lighter set of Google apps, such as Google Chrome, all of which require less memory, storage space and mobile data, is used. Then there is a light version of the Google Play Store. While it features the entire Android app catalogue, it also highlights apps that require less data, storage, or memory. At the end of the day, most budget mobile phones are not capable of handling heavier-duty apps. With Android Go, however, those who buy low-end handsets, particularly in developing countries, get to enjoy a relatively advanced smart-phone experience. 

In this episode, Amy and James talk about their desk setups and all the gear they use to write code and create audio and video content.SponsorsVercelVercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance. Their platform enables frontend teams to do their best work. It is the best place to deploy any frontend app. Start by deploying with zero configuration to their global edge network. Scale dynamically to millions of pages without breaking a sweat.For more information, visit Vercel.comZEAL is hiring!Zeal is a computer software agency that delivers “the world's most zealous” and custom solutions. The company plans and develops web and mobile applications that consistently help clients draw in customers, foster engagement, scale technologies, and ensure delivery.Zeal believes that a business is “only as strong as” its team and cares about culture, values, a transparent process, leveling up, giving back, and providing excellent equipment. The company has staffers distributed throughout the United States, and as it continues to grow, Coding Zeal looks for collaborative, object-oriented, and organized individuals to apply for open roles.For more information visit softwareresidency.com/careersShow Notes0:00 Introduction2:25 ComputersAmy: MacBook Pro 15" 2018, 2TB and 32G RAMJames: MacBook Pro 15" 2018, 512MB and 16G RAM6:33 Mice and KeywordsApple Magic MouseApple Track PadApple Magic KeyboardLogitech M570 Wireless Trackball MouseLogitech MX310:50 DesksJames: Jarvis Adjustable Standing Desk from Fully, 72"x36"Amy: Autonomous Smart Desk Pro 70.5"x30"12:13 Office ChairsAutonomous Ergo StoolAutonomous Ergo Chair ProIkea Office Chair13:42 Cable ManagementCable TiesWire TrayCable BoxCable Tray for Autonomous DeskRubber Cable HoldersWhite Gaff tapeVelcro Wrap15:25 Docks / HubsCal Digit TS3 USB HubUSB Hub17:49 MonitorsJames: Two 27" LG MonitorsMonitor for 2 MonitorsAmy: 49" Samsung Ultrawide MonitorErgotron Monitor ArmErgotron HX Heavy-Duty Tilt Pivot – Add-on for HX Monitor Arm12 South Arc12 South HiRise Stand (for iPhone)20:19 Sponsor: ZEAL23:15 Cameras and Recording GearAmy: Nikon Z6Nikon Z6 Film Maker's KitJames: Canon M50Sigma f1.4 16mmElgato Cam LinkAtomos NinjaNikon 24mm - 70mm Kit LensThink Media YouTube Channel for Gear and Camera Recommendations28:12 Audio EquipmentAmy: Rode Podcaster MicScotch.io@chris_sev on TwitterShure SM 7BPre AmpAudio InterfaceRode Swivel Arm32:09 LightingElgato Key LightCheap Softbox KitRing Light34:10 Sponsor: VercelNext.jsNext.js 11 AnnouncementNext.js Conf35:12 External StorageSanDisk 2TB Ruggedized DriveSeagate Passport DriveWestern Digital Passport DrivesSynology NAS Drive39:45 Extra PeripheralsRemarkable Tablet 2Wireless Bose HeadphonesStream Deck from ElgatoBenQ LightFoot Rest / Calf StretcherAir Pods ProWacom TabletAstro Pad app on iPadAnchor Wireless ChargerEmber Mug43:38 Grab Bag Questions: What is the next thing you'll change in your setup?45:26 Picks and Plugs45:38 Amy's Plug: Learn Build Teach Discord Server46:20 Amy's Pick: Storage Caddy47:04 James's Pick: Readme.soKatherine Peterson on TwitterKatherine Peterson on James's Twitch Stream48:20 James's Plug: James Q Quick on YouTube ChannelUsing Async AwaitSvelte Crash Course

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FreeBSD Qt WebEngine GPU Acceleration, the grind of FreeBSD’s wireless stack, thoughts on overlooking Illumos's syseventadm, when Unix learned to reboot, New EXT2/3/4 File-System driver in DragonflyBSD, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/) Headlines FreeBSD Qt WebEngine GPU Acceleration (https://euroquis.nl/freebsd/2020/07/21/webengine.html) FreeBSD has a handful of Qt WebEngine-based browsers. Falkon, and Otter-Browser, and qutebrowser and probably others, too. All of them can run into issues on FreeBSD with GPU-accelerated rendering not working. Let’s look at some of the workarounds. NetBSD on the Nanopi Neo2 (https://www.cambus.net/netbsd-on-the-nanopi-neo2/) The NanoPi NEO2 from FriendlyARM has been serving me well since 2018, being my test machine for OpenBSD/arm64 related things. As NetBSD/evbarm finally gained support for AArch64 in NetBSD 9.0, released back in February, I decided to give it a try on this device. The board only has 512MB of RAM, and this is where NetBSD really shines. Things have become a lot easier since jmcneill@ now provides bootable ARM images for a variety of devices, including the NanoPi NEO2. I'm back into the grind of FreeBSD's wireless stack and 802.11ac (https://adrianchadd.blogspot.com/2020/07/im-back-into-grind-of-freebsds-wireless.html) Yes, it's been a while since I posted here and yes, it's been a while since I was actively working on FreeBSD's wireless stack. Life's been .. well, life. I started the ath10k port in 2015. I wasn't expecting it to take 5 years, but here we are. My life has changed quite a lot since 2015 and a lot of the things I was doing in 2015 just stopped being fun for a while. But the stars have aligned and it's fun again, so here I am. News Roundup Some thoughts on us overlooking Illumos's syseventadm (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/OverlookingSyseventadm) In a comment on my praise of ZFS on Linux's ZFS event daemon, Joshua M. Clulow noted that Illumos (and thus OmniOS) has an equivalent in syseventadm, which dates back to Solaris. I hadn't previously known about syseventadm, despite having run Solaris fileservers and OmniOS fileservers for the better part of a decade, and that gives me some tangled feelings. When Unix learned to reboot (https://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2020/07/when-unix-learned-to-reboot2.html) Recently, a friend asked me the history of halt, and when did we have to stop with the sync / sync / sync dance before running halt or reboot. The two are related, it turns out. DragonFlyBSD Lands New EXT2/3/4 File-System Driver (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DragonFlyBSD-New-EXT2FS) While DragonFlyBSD has its own, original HAMMER2 file-system, for those needing to access data from EXT2/EXT3/EXT4 file-systems, there is a brand new "ext2fs" driver implementation for this BSD operating system. DragonFlyBSD has long offered an EXT2 file-system driver (that also handles EXT3 and EXT4) while hitting their Git tree this week is a new version. The new sys/vfs/ext2fs driver, which will ultimately replace their existing sys/gnu/vfs/ext2fs driver is based on a port from FreeBSD code. As such, this driver is BSD licensed rather than GPL. But besides the more liberal license to jive with the BSD world, this new driver has various feature/functionality improvements over the prior version. However, there are some known bugs so for the time being both file-system drivers will co-exist. Beastie Bits LibreOffice 7.0 call for testing (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-office/2020-July/005822.html) More touchpad support (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/07/15/24747.html) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Casey - openbsd wirewall (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/364/feedback/casey%20-%20openbsd%20wirewall.md) Daryl - zfs (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/364/feedback/daryl%20-%20zfs.md) Raymond - hpe microserver (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/364/feedback/raymond%20-%20hpe%20microserver.md) - Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***

2 Stuehle - nur Echt mit Ohne Umlaut! In diese Folge steigen wir ganz kurz ein über Meinungen und objektiven Journalismus und landen dann nach 5 Minuten beim eigentlichen Thema: Fake oder Original - mit über 40 will man nicht mehr enttäuscht werden im Leben. Nicht von Leuten und auch nicht von Fake-Produkten. Ist es OK, T-Shirts mit 4 Streifen zu kaufen oder lasst Ihr die Finger von nachgemachten Produkten? Wo sind die Grenzen? Wann ist der höhere Preis für Qualität gerechtfertigt und wann nur Statussymbol? Verkauft Ihr Eure Sachen später wieder? Jens Innenraumüberwachung dreht durch und Alex lernt vielleicht mal, wie es ist, wenn er immer unterbricht :-) Würdet Ihr ein Fake-Produkt bewusst verschenken? Markenjunkies in der Jugend: Jens - Adidas Alex - Bekennershirts Alex Begegnung mit dem Uhrenverticker am Schiefen Turm von Pisa Apple Watch AlexiBexi Retro Spielekonsolen Jens Gameboy mit nachgerüsteter Hintergrundbeleuchtung und hier gibt es die Multigame-Cartridges Bei Uhren schnell gelernt: Das Original hat persönliche Geschichte und ideellen Wert Autoteile gefaked ABER wenn die Qualität des Originals nicht stimmt: dann gerne auch Fakes Apple Kopfhörer DJI Osmo Pocket Nachbau teilweise besser Gitarren! - Harley Benton Klavier Klassische Musik - Fake oder nicht? Tchaikovsky Thomann Harley Benton Gitarren Selbst bauen / machen Alex Traum: Oldtimer als modernes Elektroauto Zahlen, Daten, Fakten Aktuelles Betrugsnodell mit Online-Shopping Fieses Bereichern mit Notsituation anderer Mundschutz verblasst! Kanken Rucksack Fake zurück geschickt Fake USB-Sticks mit 512MB statt 16 GB --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/2stuehle/message

¿Qué accesorios utilizar en fotografía nocturna?   Como os dijimos muchas veces nos encontramos con compañeros fotógrafos que quieren cambiar de equipo, pensando que con un mejor equipo van a tomar mejores fotografías nocturnas, y no es así.  https://youtu.be/HxclMOwqVV8 Lo interesante a la hora de salir en busca de una buena fotografia nocturna es tener una buena planificación, no solo de la fotografía, si no de como capturarla para sacarle el máximo partido a la localización con nuestro equipo.   Os recomendamos un libro de procesado avanzado que puede ayudarnos mucho a la hora de conseguir ese plus que nuestro equipo no nos da.   Se titula Técnicas Avanzadas de edición digital os dejamos el enlace a continuación.     Todo un lujo tener un libro como este, ojo es un libro electrónico no esta en papel.   Cual es el mejor objetivo para fotografía nocturna?   Después hablamos de los objetivos y os hable de mi experiencia con 2, principalmente con la marca Samyang y con Irix.   El primero es un objetivo "Barato", que da buenos resultados, pero su calidad/precio ha quedado en entredicho con la aparición de nuevas marcas como por ejemplo Irix.     Como os dijimos en el directo, es una opción, pero si queremos una calidad superior nos decantamos por Irix 15 mm     Por la diferencia de precio no hay color.   Tarjetas de memoria para fotografía nocturna   Os hablamos también de la importancia de una buena tarjeta de memoria. Hay muchas pero vamos a centrarnos en SD, que es el standard ahora mismo, y hay que fijarse en algunas peculiaridades.     Hasta ahora podemos encontrar: normal, HC y XC.   SD -> 16MB, 32 MB, 64MB, 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB. No soportan el BUS UHS.   SDHC-> 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB. Soportan BUS UHS.   SDXC-> 64GB, 128GB, 200GB, 512GB, 2TB. Soportan BUS UHS.    Tipo de BUS UHS   UHS-I: 104MB/sg Velocidad máxima de lectura/escritura.   UHS-II: 312MB/sg Velocidad máxima de lectura/escritura.   Clase de BUS UHS   U1: 10MB/sg Velocidad mínima de escritura.   U3: 30MB/sg Velocidad mínima de escritura.    Clase   Clase 2:    2MB/sg   Clase 4:    4MB/sg   Clase 6:    6MB/sg   Clase 10:  10MB/sg   Capacidad de almacenamiento   La cantidad de memoria que puede almacenar esa tarjeta.   Tipos de tarjetas según las siglas   Las siglas SD, SDHC y SDXC vienen dadas por la capacidad de las mismas. SD (Security Digital) fueron las primeras que se lanzaron compitiendo con otros formatos, como las XD o las Memory Stick, y su capacidad llegaba a alcanzar los 32GB. Luego llegaron las SDHC (SD High Capacity) que otorgaban mayor confianza y velocidad en el guardado de archivos grandes y, en teoría, son capaces de llegar a las 2TB, pero la SD Association estableció su límite en 32GB. Y por último las SDXC (SD eXtended Capacity), las cuales llegan a 2TB y por cuenta de que guardan mayor cantidad de datos, necesitan más velocidad, por lo que vienen con BUS, además están preparadas para poder ser formateadas en exFAT.   Los buses se crearon para las tarjetas de mayor rendimiento, pues era necesario que fuesen capaces de escribir a gran velocidad grandes cantidades de datos provenientes de los vídeos FullHD en adelante (2K,4K...), sin que la grabación del dispositivo fuese detenida por culpa de la tarjeta.   Después de estos datos técnicos os recomendamos un par de tarjetas:         Como veis a la hora de realizar una buena fotografía nocturna son muchas las cosas a tener en cuenta, desde la planificación, la preparación y tener claro cómo tenemos que realizar la fotografia que tenemos en la cabeza.   Como plus os dejamos el enlace a una pequeña power bank pero muy eficiente:     Nos vemos en el proximo directo.

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder talk about the new features of Sysinternals ProcDump v9.0Multiple Dumps per trigger in multiple Dump Sizes:-mm Write a 'Mini' dump file. (default) Includes the Process, Thread, Module, Handle and Address Space info-ma Write a 'Full' dump file. Includes All the Image, Mapped and Private memory-mp Write a 'MiniPlus' dump file. Includes all Private memory and all Read/Write Image or Mapped memory. To minimize size, the largest Private memory area over 512MB is excluded. A memory area is defined as the sum of same-sized memory allocations. The dump is as detailed as a Full dump but 10%-75% the size. Note: CLR processes are dumped as Full (-ma) due to debugging limitations-mc Write a 'Custom' dump file. Include memory defined by the specified MINIDUMP_TYPE mask (Hex). -md Write a 'Callback' dump file. Include memory defined by the MiniDumpWriteDump callback routine named MiniDumpCallbackRoutine of the specified DLL-mk Also write a 'Kernel' dump file. Includes the kernel stacks of the threads in the process. OS doesn't support a kernel dump (-mk) when using a clone (-r). When using multiple dump sizes, a kernel dump is taken for each dump sizeKernel Dump Support:Complete Thread Stack – Kernel & UserOpen the User and Kernel Dumps in separate debuggersMatch the TIDs from the User Dump, with the TIDs from the Kernel Dump, to get the entire stackAwesome tool for hang debugging!Debugging the Kernel DumpDump includes the kernel stack (memory) of every thread in the process (Running, Ready or Idle)Dump has the Process PID and each Thread TID. There is no PEB or TEB information.View the Kernel Call Stack for each Thread in the Process: !process -1 17 Debugging the User DumpView the User Call Stack for each Thread in the Process (e.g.): ~*k !pde.deep

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder talk about the new features of Sysinternals ProcDump v9.0Multiple Dumps per trigger in multiple Dump Sizes:-mm Write a 'Mini' dump file. (default) Includes the Process, Thread, Module, Handle and Address Space info-ma Write a 'Full' dump file. Includes All the Image, Mapped and Private memory-mp Write a 'MiniPlus' dump file. Includes all Private memory and all Read/Write Image or Mapped memory. To minimize size, the largest Private memory area over 512MB is excluded. A memory area is defined as the sum of same-sized memory allocations. The dump is as detailed as a Full dump but 10%-75% the size. Note: CLR processes are dumped as Full (-ma) due to debugging limitations-mc Write a 'Custom' dump file. Include memory defined by the specified MINIDUMP_TYPE mask (Hex). -md Write a 'Callback' dump file. Include memory defined by the MiniDumpWriteDump callback routine named MiniDumpCallbackRoutine of the specified DLL-mk Also write a 'Kernel' dump file. Includes the kernel stacks of the threads in the process. OS doesn't support a kernel dump (-mk) when using a clone (-r). When using multiple dump sizes, a kernel dump is taken for each dump sizeKernel Dump Support:Complete Thread Stack – Kernel & UserOpen the User and Kernel Dumps in separate debuggersMatch the TIDs from the User Dump, with the TIDs from the Kernel Dump, to get the entire stackAwesome tool for hang debugging!Debugging the Kernel DumpDump includes the kernel stack (memory) of every thread in the process (Running, Ready or Idle)Dump has the Process PID and each Thread TID. There is no PEB or TEB information.View the Kernel Call Stack for each Thread in the Process: !process -1 17 Debugging the User DumpView the User Call Stack for each Thread in the Process (e.g.): ~*k !pde.deep

What use is an F-call? I've just built myself v1.0 of a Raspberry Pi SDR. It still has some way to go until I can show it off - needs a touch screen, a power supply that runs on 12V, some user interface elements, but the functionality is there. If you're unfamiliar with the nature of a Raspberry Pi, it's a single board computer, the size of a credit card, has Ethernet, USB, HDMI, audio, video and a MicroSD card slot. My version comes with 512Mb of memory. It's 17mm high. This is a tiny fully functional computer. From a geek perspective, it's running a version of Debian Linux, called raspbian. It's the same version of Debian as my main computer, Wheezy, which means that everything you have on your main computer, you could theoretically use on a Raspberry Pi. I've plugged in a USB Television Dongle, one that allows it to be reprogrammed into a versatile receiver. After a little bit of programming, nothing too complex, I can now see wave forms and spectrograms of 2 MHz of bandwidth. I'm aiming to make this enclosed and self-contained, so I can take it with me in the field and use it as a pan-adapter with my Yaesu 857d. So far it's cost me $38 for the Raspberry Pi, $15 for the SDR dongle. I'm waiting for a screen to come back in stock, but in the mean time I've just plugged it into my monitor on my desk. It's only a little hack, but it was fun to do. I'm Onno VK6FLAB

Coming up this week, we'll be showing you how to chain SSH connections, as well as some cool tricks you can do with it. Going along with that theme, we also have an interview with Bryce Chidester about running a BSD-based shell provider. News, emails and cowsay turkeys, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines PIE and ASLR in FreeBSD update (https://www.soldierx.com/news/Position-Independent-Executable-Support-Added-FreeBSD) A status update for Shawn Webb's ASLR and PIE work for FreeBSD One major part of the code, position-independent executable support, has finally been merged into the -CURRENT tree "FreeBSD has supported loading PIEs for a while now, but the applications in base weren't compiled as PIEs. Given that ASLR is useless without PIE, getting base compiled with PIE support is a mandatory first step in proper ASLR support" If you're running -CURRENT, just add "WITH_PIE=1" to your /etc/src.conf and /etc/make.conf The next step is working on the ASLR coding style and getting more developers to look through it Shawn will also be at EuroBSDCon (in September) giving an updated version of his BSDCan talk about ASLR *** Misc. pfSense news (https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1347) Couple of pfSense news items this week, including some hardware news Someone's gotta test the pfSense hardware devices before they're sold, which involves powering them all on at least once To make that process faster, they're building a controllable power board (and include some cool pics) There will be more info on that device a bit later on On Friday, June 27th, there will be another video session (https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1367) (for paying customers only...) about virtualized firewalls pfSense University (https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1332), a new paid training course, was also announced A single two-day class costs $2000, ouch *** ZFS stripe width (http://blog.delphix.com/matt/2014/06/06/zfs-stripe-width/) A new blog post from Matt Ahrens (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_05_14-bsdcanned_goods) about ZFS stripe width "The popularity of OpenZFS has spawned a great community of users, sysadmins, architects and developers, contributing a wealth of advice, tips and tricks, and rules of thumb on how to configure ZFS. In general, this is a great aspect of the ZFS community, but I'd like to take the opportunity to address one piece of misinformed advice" Matt goes through different situations where you would set up your zpool differently, each with their own advantages and disadvantages He covers best performance on random IOPS, best reliability, and best space efficiency use cases It includes a lot of detail on each one, including graphs, and addresses some misconceptions about different RAID-Z levels' overhead factor *** FreeBSD 9.3-BETA3 released (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-June/078959.html) The third BETA in the 9.3 release cycle is out, we're slowly getting closer to the release This is expected to be the final BETA, next will come the RCs There have mostly just been small bug fixes since BETA2, but OpenSSL was also updated and the arc4random code was updated to match what's in -CURRENT (but still isn't using ChaCha20) The FreeBSD foundation has a blog post (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/06/freebsd-93-beta3-now-available.html) about it too There's a list of changes (https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/9-STABLE/relnotes/article.html) between 9.2 and 9.3 as well, but we'll be sure to cover it when the -RELEASE hits *** Interview - Bryce Chidester - brycec@devio.us (mailto:brycec@devio.us) / @brycied00d (https://twitter.com/brycied00d) Running a BSD shell provider Tutorial Chaining SSH connections (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/ssh-chaining) News Roundup My FreeBSD adventure (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/*bsd-17/my-freebsd-adventure-continued-4175508055/) A Slackware user from the "linux questions" forum decides to try out BSD, and documents his initial impressions and findings After ruling out (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/*bsd-17/pc-bsd-10-0-is-now-available-4175493047/page2.html#post5142465) PCBSD due to the demanding hardware requirements and NetBSD due to "politics" (whatever that means, his words) he decides to start off with FreeBSD 10, but also mentions trying OpenBSD later on In his forum post, he covers the documentation (and how easy it makes it for a switcher), dual booting, packages vs ports, network configuration and some other little things So far, he seems to really enjoy BSD and thinks that it makes a lot of sense compared to Linux Might be an interesting, ongoing series we can follow up on later *** Even more BSDCan trip reports (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/06/bsdcan-trip-report-li-wen-hsu.html) BSDCan may be over until next year, but trip reports are still pouring in This time we have a summary from Li-Wen Hsu, who was paid for by the FreeBSD foundation He's part of the "Jenkins CI for FreeBSD" group and went to BSDCan mostly for that Nice long post about all of his experiences at the event, definitely worth a read He even talks about... the food *** FreeBSD disk partitioning (http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2096) For his latest book series on FreeBSD's GEOM system, MWL asked the hackers mailing list for some clarification This erupted into a very long discussion (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2014-June/045246.html) about fdisk vs gnop vs gpart So you don't have to read the 500 mailing list posts, he's summarized the findings in a blog post It covers MBR vs GPT, disk sector sizes and how to handle all of them with which tools *** BSD Router Project version 1.51 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsdrp/files/BSD_Router_Project/1.51) A new version of the BSD Router Project has been released, 1.51 It's now based on FreeBSD 10-STABLE instead of 10.0-RELEASE Includes lots of bugfixes and small updates, as well as some patches from pfSense and elsewhere Check the sourceforge page for the complete list of changes Bad news... the minimum disk size requirement has increased to 512MB... getting pretty bloated *** Feedback/Questions Fongaboo writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21X4hl28g) David writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20DELplMw) Kristian writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2tmazORRN) ***

Windows Phone Central podcast, episode 160 for 22 May, 2013 Conversation this week The Lumia Lineup completed by the 925 Memory gap: 512MB devices are looking increasingly limited The news you care about Xbox One Want to go to New York? HTC Product chief departs the company Apps worth your attention Mass Effect Infiltrator amoungst a slew of Nokia exclusive games Itsdagram Drag Racing Events near me - Eventbrite app Windows 8: Photoshop express Community Comments from last time Live questions and comments Credits You can find us all on Twitter @wpcentral, @daniel_rubino, @coppertop004, @RichEdmonds, @JayTBennett, @segacon, @Big_D5, @samsabri, @marcham93 This has been a Mobile Nations podcast, go to Mobilenations.com for more great shows covering everything mobile, or head over to the WPCentral Forums if you'd like to get involved with our community in discussing more about Windows Phone news, devices and apps. Thanks to the WPCentral Store for sponsoring the podcast. Thanks also to these great artists for the music and to CCMixter.org for offering a great database of Creative Commons music! Swim below as Leviathans by Fireproof Babies GONE by djsociopath

What a week – Microsoft decrees itself a devices and services company, Best Buy is price matching Amazon, and the Raspberry Pi now sports 512MB! We discuss the creeping migration from the “own your software” model to a “software as a service” rate plan, and start to realize that our minds may be changing on [...]

Estructura para comprobar pertenencia a un conjunto, de forma probabilística. http://podcast.jcea.es/podcastz/7 Notas: 01:00: Filtros Bloom. Tecnología interesante y desconocida. 01:30: El número de huellas ha ido creciendo, y la estructura de datos que usamos, "set()", tiene un coste en memoria proporcional al número de elementos. Estábamos usando 1.5GB en 32 bits, y 3GB en 64 bits. 04:30: Las huellas eran 40 millones de números (y creciendo) de 32 bits. Son 150MB en disco, pero 1.5/3 gigabytes al cargarlos en un "set()". 05:40: Idea simple para reducir los 1.5/3GB a 512MB: como trabajamos con números de 32bits, podemos tener una matriz de 232 bits y ponerlos a cero o a uno según ese valor esté en la lista o no. Esto son 512MB. 07:15: Como tenemos una matriz de 232 bits, pero solo un 1% estará a UNO, los 512MB resultantes se pueden comprimir muy bien, típicamente al 11% (unos 55MB), aptos para ser transmitidos por Internet. 08:40: La matriz así generada no tiene falsos positivos ni falsos negativos, pero como los datos de entrada son una lista de 32 bits, que es una "reducción" de la fuente real original, esa lista ya induce falsos positivos. Es decir, diferentes valores en el origen que generan el mismo número de 32 bits. 10:10: Para el cliente, reducir el consumo de memoria a 512MB sigue siendo insuficiente. Su objetivo es llegar a ocupar solo 64-128MB. Lo consigo reducir a 32MB, usando un filtro Bloom. 11:00: Si en vez de introducir falsos positivos en la reducción de 128bits a 32 bits, podemos utilizar los 128bits originales y usar una estructura de datos con falsos positivos, una estructura "probabilística". 13:50: Explicación de cómo funciona un filtro Bloom y su tasa de falsos positivos. 14:55: "Te lo voy a explicar a ti, a ver si explicándotelo me aclaro" :-). 17:10: Explicando el concepto de "colisiones" y por qué son inevitables. Falsos positivos. 23:00: Controlamos la tasa de falsos positivos añadiendo más o menos bits y controlando el número de bits puestos a UNO por cada valor original (y el número de bits que deben ser UNO para tener un "hit"). 25:30: Ahora en cada búsqueda tenemos un 2% de falsos positivos en vez del 1% inicial, pero hacemos dos búsquedas, así que la tasa de falsos positivos es del 2% del 2%, o 4 de cada 10.000 (aproximadamente). 30:30: Filtro Bloom. Hay un número óptimo de búsquedas. Las ecuaciones están en la Wikipedia. 35:45: Un filtro Bloom no se puede comprimir, su entropía es máxima. 37:00: ¿Cómo "desdoblamos" los valores?. Es decir, que a partir de un valor de entrada, podemos poner varios bits a UNO, de forma no correlada. 40:30: En la bibliografía de la Wikipedia se estudian algoritmos y el impacto de rendimiento que supone que los bits puestos a UNO no sean completamente no correlados. Por ejemplo: Kirsch, Adam; Mitzenmacher, Michael (2006), "Less Hashing, Same Performance: Building a Better Bloom Filter", in Azar, Yossi; Erlebach, Thomas, Algorithms - ESA 2006, 14th Annual European Symposium, 4168, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4168, pp. 456-467, doi:10.1007/11841036 43:20: Estamos abusando de las matemáticas del filtro Bloom, así que antes de distribuir el filtro hacemos una simulación con él en el servidor. 45:30: Un filtro Bloom tiene falsos positivos, pero NO tiene falsos negativos.

Gareth, Tracy and Matt are in for the last podcast of the year. This week there are reviews of the HTC Sensation XL and the Huawei S7 Slim. Your hosts also name their favourite phones, tablets, apps and events of the year and give a couple of predictions of what to expect next year. As per usual, listen to Gareth, he’s always right. The others are wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong!Direct Download iTunes Download the iPhone AppDownload the Android AppRSS FeedRegulars - Gareth, Matt, Tracy and JamesEmail us: Podcast@tracyandmatt.co.uk  Tel: 0208 123 3757 Show Notes HTC Sensation XL with Beats Audio Review Xperia arc S Comp Samsungs to get Ice Cream Sandwich Festive BlackBerry bargains Phone of the year Tablet Table ViewSonic previews new product range Huawei Ideos S7 Slim review Tablet of the year Bargain Basement Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY White 8GB £149.99 on Pay & Go + 11 Free games Samsung Galaxy S Wifi  £129.99 Tablo 7" Tablet 1GHZ Dual core, 512MB ram, 4GB rom, gingerbread and capacitive screen! £99.97 Listeners Garden Prizema-tron Voice messages... App Attic Spool Resistor Color Code for iOS NORAD Track Santa for iOS App of the year http://www.itrainspotter.com/ Disappointment of the year Biggest story of the year Predictions for 2012 ------Email us: Podcast@tracyandmatt.co.uk  Tel: 0208 123 3757Gareth Myles – @garethmyles James Richardson – @jpr7373 Matt and Tracy Davis -   @tracyandmattMany thanks to The Stetz for the music Subscribe in iTunes to our weekly podcastRSS Feed for our weekly podcastDownload the iPhone AppDownload the Android App

Links Mentioned in this Episode: Sponsor - Hover - Save 10% on Domain name registrations Apple - Press Info - iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours AFP: Big demand for new iPhone in Australia AppleInsider | iPad now 97% of tablet traffic, eclipses iPhone, iOS remains mobile leader Facebook finally unveils Apple iPad app - Computerworld Foxconn to make iPads in Brazil, eyes $12 billion plan - chicagotribune.com If you're updating your iPad to iOS 5, read this before you do New Apple Software Adds Features to Older Phones - Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret - Mossblog - AllThingsD How to Get Ready for the New iPhone 4S | PCMag.com iPhone 4S reviews The iPhone 4s  Guide | The Wirecutter What can you say to Siri? | TUAW Apparently Siri has some pretty strange responses up her sleeve First iPhone 4S Deliveries Made to German Customers Ahead of Official Launch - Mac Rumors Some German iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Delivered Early | Gadget Lab | Wired.com iPhone 4S sticks with 512MB of RAM, reports say | Apple - CNET News iPhone 4S Teardown - iFixit AnandTech - iFixit iPhone 4S Teardown Confirms 512MB Verizon iPhone 4S SIM unlock rules clarified as Sprint reports total lockdown - SlashGear Sprint and Verizon confirm iPhone 4S Micro SIM unlock for international travel - Engadget Sprint explains iPhone 4S unlocking policy: phones will be unlocked, then locked, then unlocked again -- Engadget Apple Updates iPhone AppleCare Plan to Include Accidents | Wired.com AppleInsider | Genius Bar iPhone policies tightened to make AppleCare+ more attractive iCloud - Learn how to set up iCloud on all your devices. Apple issues iPhoto update to support iCloud, more | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews Of 74 iPhone rumors posted since July 24, 78% were bogus - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech Stupid Apple Rumors      Apps Mentioned in this Episode:  Tii  Photoshop Express iAudition Clefit Facebook for iPad

  Links Mentioned in this episode: YouTube - Today in iOS Jailbreak App Demo - FBPhotoSave iOS 4.3 available for download from Apple | ZDNet Apple - Support - iOS 4.3 drains my battery iOS 4.3 released, numerous security vulnerabilities patched Apple iPad 2 GPU Performance Benchmarked - AnandTech  Want new gesture controls in iOS 4.3 on your iPad? Here's how iPad 2 totally sold out, 70% to new buyers - Fortune Tech New “AirPlay Enabled Apps” Section Appears In App Store Is iOS 4.3 Killing Your Battery Life? 'iPhone 5' cases show not much will change from iPhone 4 iPad - iPad WiFi - iPad WiFi + 3G - Apple Store (U.S.) Apple iPad 2 Shortage Favors Motorola Xoom in Tablet War Study comparing Android to iPhone Web browsing speed flawed AT&T Cracking Down on MyWi Tethering? iPad 2 3G antenna causing problems with mic clarity Five iPad 2 Parts Sourced From Japanese Suppliers Hackers steal nude photo from Scarlett Johansson's iPhone  AT&T aggressively moving against unauthorized tethering AT&T cracking down on jailbreak tethering? [UPDATE] | Cult of Mac AT&T Cracking Down on MyWi Tethering Apple's iPhone again tops J.D. Power satisfaction ranking - Computerworld Apple iPad 2 with Wi-Fi + 3G - AT&T iPad Plans - Wireless from AT&T Apple - NO AIRPLAY after update to 4.3 AT&T-Mobile: AT&T buys T-Mobile USA for $39B - Fortune Teardown of Apple's iPad 2 reveals slightly bigger battery, 512MB of RAM     Apps Mentioned in this episode: Tii App Rocket Jock A Hug and a Kiss Sketchbook Mobile Bingo Machine Tip Rater Golf Caddie Pro Resistor Converter FBPhotosave - Cydia Calengoo Taxi Magic  

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Hosted by Eric McClintock, Danton Berube, Brendan Farmer, and Mark Stewart. Listen Here: Download Here Aerosoft announces more details on: Aerosoft Flight Simulator 2012 Announced on Aerosoft forums on October 1st: Gentlemen, I will make this a short and sweet post. Last weekend we had a lot of meetings regarding the new possible simulator to be done by Aerosoft. Now first of all I got to state that we are NOT yet ready to say that there will be one. But I can say that the probability is a lot larger now. From 50% last week to 80% now. We are currently investing officially money in this project. We are currently using the unofficial name Aerosoft Flight Simulator 2012. A brilliant name if I say so myself, we got our name (Aerosoft) in it, we got what we intend to do (Flight Simulator) in the name and we even got the release year in it. I do not expect this name to be used for the release btw, but for now lets call it AFS2012, okay? Mathijs also mentions (Joking or not) Easter 2012 as a possible release date? Read all details, and participate here.   Related: Aerosoft Simulation4U Section Okay, not exactly brand new. But we just wanted to talk about the new Simulation4U section at Aerosoft. What are your thoughts? Avsim Chicago Social Chicago O'Hare Hilton on Saturday, October 10th, 2009, at 6:00 p.m. If you are under the age of 21 you must be accompanied by an adult. RSVP with Avsim for entry. Danton and Eric are also thinking about going... If you are going, let us know! Also: Avsim File Library now accepting uploads! Our tech team has been hard at work since the commencement of the AVSIM restoration to bring the website back to its previous state. We are happy to announce that as of today, our Library upload capability has been restored. Your uploads will go through the same process as before, approved and edited by the Library Managers ans then placed on our electronic shelves for your access. Thanks to all of our Library users for their patience. Let the uploads begin.... http://avsim.com $100 Hamburger: Palm Springs VOR We highly recommend downloading the full document here, you will find screenshots and sectionals! If you flew the two previous $100 Hamburger flights (Lost in Traffic, and the ZLA Swarm Event) you should now be a master of your COM radios and your Transponder. In this flight were going to learn how to use your NAV radios to navigate the airways using VORs. What is a VOR? (VHF Omnidirectional Range) I think this definition from the excellent website navfltsm.addr.com (Recommended by Danton) sums it up best:  The VHF Omnidirectional Range navigation system, VOR, was probably the most significant aviation invention other than the jet engine. With it, a pilot can simply, accurately, and without ambiguity navigate from Point A to Point B.  The widespread introduction of VORs began in the early 1950s and 50 years later it remains the primary navigation system in the overwhelming majority of aircraft.  The basic principle of operation of the VOR is very simple: the VOR facility transmits two signals at the same time. One signal is constant in all directions, while the other is rotated about the station. The airborne equipment receives both signals, looks (electronically) at the difference between the two signals, and interprets the result as a radial from the station.  The GPS, Global Positioning System, is making inroads onto the navigation scene and offers a flexibility unavailable with either NDB or VOR systems. However, it is supplementing these systems, not replacing them. What is a DME? (Distance Measuring Equipment) Aircraft use DME to determine their distance from a land-based transponder by sending and receiving pulse pairs - two pulses of fixed duration and separation. The ground stations are typically collocated with VORs, as shown in the picture above. In short, VORs allow you to navigate to a specific location, from anywhere as long as you are in range. DME’s tell you how far away you are from a particular VOR Point. The positives are pretty obvious over Dead Reckoning. Since a VOR transmits in ALL DIRECTIONS you can navigate to a specific geographic point from any direction. You are no longer relying on specific headings, and correcting your headings when you are off course. A DME is helpful, but not needed as we will learn in our flight.   A basic tutorial on how to tune to a VOR and navigate… First and Foremost… Select an aircraft you are comfortable with flying, and are fairly familiar with where the instruments are at and how to operate them. NAV Radio VORs are activated by entering the provided frequency into your Navigation radio (In this case, NAV 1 is just right of COMM 1, and NAV 2 right below NAV 1). The Navigation radios are activated  by clicking the “Nav 1” or “Nav 2” buttons. After tuning either of the NAV radios to a valid frequency, you will hear a Morse Code tone with the VOR’s station ID. These codes can be found on the sectional chart for that particular VOR. It is a great idea to tune the frequencies you will need while on the ground.   Omni Bearing Selector (OBS) After you have tuned your NAV 1 radio to the correct frequency, you will need to use your OBS knob (In the photo above, the lower left knob) to narrow on to the VOR, this is done by rotating the knob until the Arrow is pointing to your VOR. This process is done after takeoff past 1,000 feet, as VORs are only line of sight. ­­ Here is an example of a tuned OBS. In this case the VOR is facing 12 o’clock in front of my airport. This can face any direction, as long as the arrow is straight: You will follow the OBS similar to how you would follow your heading indicator.  You may need to keep on tuning the OBS while in flight, since your orientation may change. The goal is to keep the arrow straight. Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) If you aircraft has DME, and the frequency you are tuning has both VOR and DME capabilities, you will see the distance away from your VOR: In this case, we are 12.1nm from the VOR we are tracking. If the frequency does not have DME capabilities, you will not see any information here.  Our Flight If you were up with us during the Swarm 2009 Event, you will find this flight fairly familiar. We will be taking off from Van Nuys (KVNY) and landing at Palm Springs (KPSP). We will not be using any headings for this flight, instead you will be provided with VOR frequencies. You will need to key them in to your Navigation radio, and follow the VOR using the OBS Gauge. Cruise Altitude: 5,000-6,000ft Aircraft: A Single/Double Prop Aircraft that you know well Weather: Real World Weather (15 Minutes) -Depart: KVNY Runway 16R (Or Active Runway) -Fly EAST, POMONA (POM) VOR/DME – Frequency 110.4 -RIVERSIDE (RAL) VOR – Frequency 112.4 -Fly through Banning Pass (Slightly North after passing RIVERSIDE VOR) while tuning to PALM SPRINGS (PSP) VOR/DME– Frequency 115.5 -Land: KPSP Active Runway Flight Notes 1. Watch what happens when you get close to the POM VOR. You will notice that as you get closer, you will be fine tuning it more and more. Since you’re nearly on top of the VOR station, it will get very touchy when you are near it. At some point you will need to give up on fine-tuning the OBS knob and pass the VOR, I found the cutoff distance around 1.5nm or so away. When you pass the VOR, you will see your arrow flip, as the VOR is now behind you. Remember this behavior because the second VOR (RAL) does NOT support DME, so you will need to use the sensitivity of the OBS Arrow to determine how close you are to the VOR, and when you have passed it. 2. Through the Banning Pass, you will need to adjust your altitude as needed. 3. Near the PSP VOR in real life there are many Wind Turbines. If you look up the sectional, you will see the highest windmill is 1980ft MS Sectionals I would encourage everyone to use the tools we have recommended over the past months such as SkyVector.com and create their own flight map. However, here is one that you can use just to make sure you have the right idea when making your own. I’ve covered up the Headings that SkyVector puts in with their flight planning tool, as navigating using just headings would make this learning exercise worthless! This burger flight is designed to introduce you to the Nav Radios, the OBS, and the DME on your aircraft, and how to navigate using VORs, and how a VOR acts differently from a VOR/DME. When You're Done... Share your results in the forums!! Review: Aerosoft's Discus Glider X Product Information: Fully professional development (over 20 months). Ten high detail models (for example just the VC of the BT model has 146384 polygons, more than double of what FS2004 could compile) using all the FSX options. Highly advanced flight models that are accurate even in spins and other no standard attitudes. Over 100 non standard sounds (like flying with open windows, side slips, pending stalls etc) all triggered by FSX variables and conditions using Aerosoft Sound Control. Full working water ballast system. Two Static ports (with selector) to avoid problems when using the auxiliary engines. Dozens of non standard animations, up to elements that move under high G load. Very realistic flexing wings created with a new technology. All instruments accurate, including TEC and NETTO variometers. Not like this simplified gauges in the default glider in FSX. Real usable yaw string that will make coordinated flight a lot easier. All models include a highly realistic C4 Flight Computer that allows then pilot to calculate ideal speeds and routes. Includes a licensed copy of Winch X! . Designed with full support of Schempp-Hirth, SDI Variomers and the SOAR online glider community. Includes a FSX manual (English) and the actual 'real' manuals for the gliders and C4 Flight Computer (English and German) Click for more information on the Discus Glider X from Aerosoft. Written review by Eric: Introduction This product sparked our interest because at the time there were no payware gliders for FSX, so we were naturally intrigued when the Discus Glider X finally made its appearance. We are not extremely knowledgeable in Gliders, so we are all entering the Discus with fairly clean slates when it comes to how a glider acts, and how it should fly. As you would expect from any commercial payware, the installation process was very straightforward. Included is a copy of WinchX, a freeware program that improves FSX’s default winch system. Without WinchX you can not winch any aircraft with an engine, which poses a problem with towing two of the three discus models which have small onboard engines. WinchX installs automatically after Discus Glider X does, and no additional configuration is needed. Aerosoft also recommends two additional freeware programs, Cumulus X and Sim Probe which both improve the way FSX calculates thermals. It would have been really nice if Aerosoft were able to include these two programs the same way they did with WinchX – But this could be due to technical or licensing reasons. The install process for these two programs does require some configuration, but everything is outlined in their respective ReadMe files. The Model Three main models are included: B – A traditional glider with no motor. BT – A glider with a small motor included. You will still need to use something like WinchX to get airborne, but the motor can be deployed for getting you between thermals, or to get a little extra boost when you’re a little short from the airport. BM – A glider with a larger motor included. This motor is powerful enough to take off under it’s own power, and does not need a winch to get airborne. However, with WinchX you will get to your desired altitude much faster than using the motor. The documentation mentions that the “BM” model is very rare, and only 10 of these models were actually made. It should go without saying, but don’t expect much from either the BT or the BM motors... It is a glider after all, and the motors are only designed for getting you back to the airport in one piece. The motors are activated via a switch in the cockpit, and specific instructions must be followed to start the motor. These procedures are outlined in the product manual, and differ between the BT and the BM models. I found the flight model itself to be truly “as real as it gets”. A lot of attention was put into creating a realistic flight model, which is extremely important in a glider as you are relying on a true to life glide ratio, and control surfaces performing as they should. The Discus Glider X has been flown and real Discus pilots have verified the flight model. Testing the model, you can tell when the glider is performing well and when it isn’t. If you jerk the rudder left or right, you will almost feel the jerking motion in your chair as the glider violently jerks, and then side slips. It is a similar situation to the Ailerons and other control surfaces. One thing I would love to do if given the opportunity is to fly this model with a good quality force feedback stick. If force feedback is supported, it will nearly take the amount of realism over the edge... The model behavior is so well, it is a shame that when you feel the aircraft struggling you aren’t able to feel it in your joystick. The Sound I would normally put the sound under “The Model”, or just stick it in a sentence somewhere... But I think the attention to detail in the Discus Glider X is deserving of its own category. This model includes more than 100 non standard sounds. Going back to the previous section, when you make hard movements on the control surfaces, in addition to feeling it in the behavior, you can HEAR the glider slipping in the air, and it is all integrated perfectly with the aircraft model. Considering a glider is designed to be flown without an engine (BT and BM models can obviously be excluded) you aren’t listening to the buzz of an aircraft engine... You’re hearing the wind over the wings, and your rudder, ailerons, and elevator interacting with the air racing by. The combination of the excellent flight model, and the Aerosoft sound system is a perfect match. The Cockpit Believe it or not, a glider is a lot more advanced than you’d think! They can have sophisticated flight computers, and gauges not typically found in your standard C172. In addition to all of the instruments, the Discus Glider X features a fully functional ballast system. The model (B, BT, or BM) you choose dictates which virtual cockpit layout you get, and which gauges you get. But overall, you get the following gauges with the Glider X: Compass Airspeed Indicator Altimeter C4 Competition PDA/GPS TEC Variometer Electrical Netto Variometer Engine operation switch/Hobbs meter/RPM Meter Yaw String Without going into each and every gauge, I will just mention that they are all very well modeled, and look realistic in the Virtual Cockpit even zoomed and at high resolutions. The C4 Competition flight computer can surprisingly be a very complicated instrument; Aerosoft actually includes the actual manuals from the manufacture, which can be followed with this gauge. The last gauge I will touch on is the compass... I know you’re probably laughing right now, asking Who Cares! It’s a compass... But I think that such a simple instrument is usually overlooked in most payware models, and the one included in the Discus Glider X is phenomenal. The slight movements of the aircraft are reflected in the vertical and horizontal movements of the compass while in flight... And frankly I’ve never seen anything like it in FSX – You really have to see it to appreciate it. Documentation As with every Aerosoft product, the documentation is overall pretty good. It goes into the functions of most of the more advanced instruments and gauges with the model – Which for anyone not familiar with some of the specialized instruments for gliders will need to read to understand what their purposes are. Aerosoft provides basic “Getting Started” documentation – Which is about 15 pages of material not counting copyright and title pages. This is well labeled, and has many screenshots, which I found very helpful. Also provided are full flight manuals for the “B” and “BT” models, C4 Competition Flight computer, and WinchX. However, one item missing altogether in the “Getting Started” documentation is any information on the Water Ballast system. The Flight Manual probably includes information on this – But you will have to find it in the 177 pages. There is also very little information on the C4 Competition computer system in the “Getting Started” documentation, just a paragraph on what the computer is and its basic function. While the full manual IS included, it could be a little overwhelming for new pilots. There is also a pretty good Easter Egg in the documentation... Nice! Nitpicking... In my testing of the Discus Glider X, I did notice one item that could be improved on. This is in no way a deal breaker... But I think it should be mentioned.. Cabin reflections not in sync with what they should be! See below, the reflection looks great, right?   Now if I take out the GPS/PDA, the reflection does not show this change: ...Nothing major, but it would add a little extra bit of realism if the reflection textures were refreshed for major changes – Such as the PDA and the pilot (The pilot can be toggled off and on depending on your preference). I don’t expect a different set of reflection textures to be made for every single movement in the VC (Such as moving the throttle or ballast lever), but for major changes like those mentioned above, it would be a nice addition. Taking a couple steps back though, this model has been in development for 20 months, and the flight model was completely re- written several times... So if it comes down to putting extra time into the flight model, or the reflections, I would choose the flight model. But it would be a nice change to put in a service pack maybe? If you’ve made it this far though, and you’re interested in the Discus Glider X, don’t let this tiny bug get in the way. Overall... Overall, you have to ask yourself if you are a glider person or not. If soaring through the skies, riding the thermals with maybe a little bit of aerobatics tossed in sounds like a great time to you, then I would recommend the Discus Glider X without hesitation. If you have been interested in the default glider included with FSX, you will find this to be MUCH improved and a more realistic aircraft. After flying the Discus Glider X for a few days, I went back to the default glider included with FSX – The difference is night and day. After flying this model, the default glider feels completely disconnected from the control surface, and the cockpit to be very basic at best. I would recommend some great scenery to go with it though. A unique experience with a glider is that you have almost a full range of vision. Unlike a small GA aircraft like a C172, you don’t have the engine & prop in your vision, nor do you have the wings or passenger seat. You have uninterrupted vision from the front, side to side, and vertically. If you’re looking to explore a massive scenery expansion (Like Tongass Fjords, Switzerland Pro, Orbx FTX, etc) this glider is perfect to do that. You are able to get lower, slower, and closer than you can with any other aircraft out there. There are a few small things that in my opinion could be tweaked (Such as the basic documentation and the reflections), and would keep me from giving this a “Perfect” rating... But it is still 99% there. Pros: Top notch flight model Detailed, and real to life VC and instrumentation (No 2D Cockpit) WinchX is almost necessary, and included with this Sound system = Excellent Overall, good documentation is included No performance hit noticed, FPS friendly Cons: Basic documentation could have been more in depth about the C4 Competition, and does not mention ballast system at all. Reflection issue System Reviewed on: Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 4GB DDR2 RAM nVidia GeForce 8800 512MB FSX & Windows 7 Thoughts from Danton... Soaring in Australia Eric, Brendan, and I take the Discus up for a joint flight around Ayres Rock in central Australia.  After winching up from the nearby airport, we circle around Uluru and then race back. 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Despite having an engine, I take advantage of thermals and ridge lift to gain the range I need for the journey. I start to get some sense of how the C4 computer works in conjunction with the GPS and a flight plan, at least to the point of estimating my altitude at my destination to know when I have climbed high enough. The Alps are beautiful, but I am glad my glider has an engine. 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I dump my water ballast and make my way towards the Salzburg airport. On final, however, I am a little high and fast, so I deploy my speed brakes. They do the trick and get me into the proper glide slope. When flying the Discus, I recommend following Aerosoft’s advice of setting the throttle level to control the speed brakes, giving you much finer control. 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Second, in the unfortunate event of a crash, even the non-motorized Discus B sometimes explodes in a fireball, causing you to wonder whether the ballast tank may have been filled with avgas (although the attached screenshot doesn’t really capture the occasionally huge conflagration). 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Danton is also thinking about using an LCD TV as a monitor for flight simulator, have you tried this, or have anything to say? Let us know!! Reminder: Mission Design Contest Just as a reminder, we are still taking submissions for the mission design contest, find out how to enter here.  

Ashayo joins Aprillian in a discussion of their week of gameplay in Azeroth. The two talk about what they've been doing in World of Warcraft and alts as well as Dual Boxing. Aprillian admits to not liking some of the pressure in regularly run instances. They also discuss secondary sklls as they pertains to alts. Thanks Blizzard! What we've Been doing Aprillian Went into Hellfire Citadel with Auntrilia (Level 63 Hunter) and Rilfire (Level 60 Hunter) with Ashoyo's Hilde and Jekle     Hard for me to do the organized shooting thing.   Setting up stuff, I kind of like to just fight.  Ashayo knows the best ways.  I felt a lot of pressure. Went to Zul Farak with Aprillian (Level 43 Warlock), Treshel (Level 53 Hunter) and Auntrillia.  I was doing pretty fine, of course Auntrillia is overpowered.  I take my time make sure my 3 are in position  I mentioned in gchat that I was doing this and someone offered to join me.  They needed some of the quests finished. Practicing ignoring people in Trade - Cuts down for a small time.  A couple of times I hit invite instead of ignore and people accepted Secondary Skills: Email: I'm Nîmrod. I play a level 70 hunter main the Eitrigg realm. On my main account I have the level 70 hunter, a level 70 warrior, and a level 45 rogue I'm working on. On my secondary account I have a level 58 hunter, and a level 45 warrior. I noticed you guys were talking about dual boxing and I thought I'd share something not many people know. I play on a Macintosh. I am able to play two accounts simultaneously on the one machine! My Mac is a fairly powerful one. It's an 8-Core machine. 8 3GHz intel Xeon cores and 8GB of RAM, with an ATI 1900 graphics card with 512MB on board. I have two monitors attached, an Apple 30" display and an Apple 24" display. On the Mac, you just have to create a copy of your WoW folder and poof, you can launch two separate WoW processes. WoW is very self contained, not spreading crap all over your hard disk, and we Mac folks don't have to worry about antiquated constructs like registry files. I log into both accounts all the time using the one machine. My performance is still great. I've even done this on my Mac laptop. I open two instances of WoW on the one screen in small windows, but it works. I wouldn't want to play long that way though. It's much nicer on the large flat screen monitors. I like the podcast very much. Keep it up! Thanks, Nîmrod. The American Heritage Dictionary offers two distinct definitions of animrod -- either a hunter, or a person regarded as silly or foolish. The dictionary goes on to explain that the second meaning probably originated with the cartoon character Bugs Bunny. The wily Bugs used the term in its original sense to refer to dithering hunter Elmer Fudd, whom he called a "poor little Nimrod." Over time, however, the "hunter" meaning got dropped, and the "dithering" connotation stuck. Hi Aprillian: I just listened to my first episode of your podcast (#53) and wanted to let you know that I thought it was great. I've subscribed to it through iTunes and will definitely catch future episodes. I met Ashayo last night for the first time. We ran Shattered Halls together and he mentioned the podcast. He was fun to group with and an excellent guest on your show. Best of luck to you, Molsan