Hi,
i wonder if anyone has expertise in tiled windowing environments like i3 or
qtile?
I want to automate the concurrent display of a limited number of
mixed-format files in a folder - pngs, pdfs, csvs etc.. I started out with
the idea that writing a bash script would be easy - count the files,
Wouldn't Modbus be a more suitable framework for out-of-band management?
It's normally used over RS-485 networks - a single pair multi-drop
configuration with a single master. It would have far lower overhead than
TCP/IP. You might start at www.modbus.org/tech.php
.
Cheers,
Kevin.
On 4 June
But they do - employers do pay you to use MS, otherwise their IT manager
might have to shoulder some responsibility. Kevin
On 24/06/2011 6:24 AM, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote:
and late model Ubuntu releases run very nicely on 8 core machines...
somebody would have to pay me
Silicon Chip mag this month suggests some ADSL routers are line-polarity
sensitive. Try swapping around the incoming phone wires to see. Kevin
On 10/05/2011 3:27 PM, GeraldCC gcsgcatl...@bigpond.com wrote:
On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 11:14:35 AM gonzo01 wrote:
I'm using Linux Mint 10.0 64 bit with
At risk of teaching how to suck eggs:
It's normal to pull something like a solenoid down to ground using an
N-channel MOSFET. For logic level gate drive the MOSFET neets to be a
logic-level device - something everyday like an IRF-540 won't completely
turn on at 5V - you need an IRL- version. I
Doesn't it actually get colder for a while after winter solstice?
k.
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 12:36 +1100, elliott-brennan wrote:
Maybe you should try it on January 2nd
mark adrian bell m487...@rocketmail.com Wed,
on January first,
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I'd wonder why when suggesting that Linux is rolling on too fast Peter
would want to load a beta product?
I've just spent the afternoon rescuing a brand new PC where the capital
city office of a rural business dropped a couple
Of course there is a logic analyser _using_ an Arduino:
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/LogicAnalyzer
I suppose you would want an analyser somewhat quicker than an Arduino to
find those glitches in the Arduino that cause your star project to
malfunction.
To get a little back on topic, the
I disagree - though I don't have hard data to demonstrate :-(. The
thermal-conductive paste on middle-aged machines is often very dry. Any
time I service a machine (dust blow-out, more RAM etc) I check the CPU
paste and usually renew it.
You can buy the stuff from electronics places. Beware -
A variety of responses. I would like to ask - why have a tricky
device-dependant USB driver at all? The Optus Huwei, Bigpond
whatever-it-is hub or a 3rd party device like an Ericsson W25/W35 is a
network device. Sure it's not so handy since it requires a power supply
and it's a bit lumpier for
I'm confused.
I thought the whole idea of DARPANet was that it was bomb-proof - there
was always another route open. How exactly are the Thought Police going
to sit on every possible route into Oz? How well does the Chinese
government censorship work, in terms of bandwidth filtered? I bet it's
I tried to flac a wav file yesterday on my ReadyNAS Duo (base model).
It was pitiful. Far quicker (i.e. 10 *) from my fairly ordinary
(Celeron 2.6 GHz single core) NFS client connection to the data on the
NAS. Definitely a processor set up for file serving only. I guess
these units were built
Save the environment - buy a NAS.
(my mirrored 2-disc NAS averages about 20 W)
Cheers,
Kevin
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 15:01 +1100, Mike Andy wrote:
Ok so i'm trying to figure out what to do with all my data when I
upgrade and i've got more options and ideas than i know what to do
with.
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want that the Duo doesn't have but some boxes do is
a 2nd Ethernet adapter. I presume with 2 adapters you can use the box
to do some firewalling / DMZ sort of stuff.
Cheers,
Kevin.
On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 15:51 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
2009/11/8 Kevin Shackleton kev...@reachnet.com.au
I have someone's PC with a fairly corrupt Windows setup - drops to BSOD
after just a few seconds. BSOD does not stay up long enough to read.
System runs fine with Ubuntu live boot (I initially suspected a hardware
problem like the power supply or CPU cooling).
Of course these poor mortals didn't
look in
communities.vmware.com/thread/26693
and
http://symbolik.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/vmware-any-any-update116/
hth
Kevin
On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 17:03 +1100, Ashley Glenday wrote:
Guys, I've tried googling this so please don't solve it too easily and
embarass me.
I've got a server
Daniel,
You explain quite excitingly what happens when your headers don't match
your kernel. I've never actually studied what the any-any script does -
perhaps you have an equally interesting summary of that?
Thanks,
Kevin.
On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 20:25 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
Get that
In my view wide-screen is weasel-speak for squat-screen (especially
for notebooks). But that's because I mainly do mapping where square (or
better still round) is the ultimate.
Kevin.
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 10:59 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Is there a way to have a single monitor behave as
or there is:
http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/
45 discs, 67 TB, under US$8k, in one box on SATA port multipliers. 50%
over the cost of raw drives.
I don't suppose blazing speed was their primary goal, but security was
up there.
Kevin.
In my dictionary 'transparent' is a newspeak word. You're supposed to
think that nothing is hiding it, but really it's the object itself you
can't see. Like what was written in the cover pages of the old Mace
Utilities manuals - This page left intentionally blank - like a
politician's promise.
Jumping substantially out of the $500 ceiling, are there any opinions on
the Seagate BlackArmor NAS devices?
They are Linux, have 2 Ethernet ports, so should have some potential for
firewall plus various server functions, all in a relatively low-power
package.
Kevin.
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 16:49
We have a number of Ericsson W25 Next-G access points on 9 GB
$110/month plans for broadband at several sites. Unfortunately at least
with our corporate contract we don't receive any feedback on usage. We
recently received a $1300 excess-usage monthly bill for one site, which
is most definitely
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 10:13 +1000, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
I'm pretty happy with the correa reflexa here:
http://www.ramin.com.au/annandale/veg-purple-flowers.shtml
That would be 'Correa reflexa' - binomial names are capitalised on the
genus and lowercase on the species, regardless of if the
On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 20:08 +1000, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote:
Even if it's *called* a hub.
The comms technical literature I have on the hardware generally calls
all hubs hubs - after all that's what they are isn't it - as in the
centre of a wagon-wheel? All hubs these days are switching
with xcopy I use /d (only copy files with newer date). Actually I
use: /d /s /y. Maybe these aren't optimal?
No-one has mentioned that rsync is actually VERY CLEVER at minimising
bandwidth and proudly announces at the end of the sync job that it's
done something like 1% of the bandwidth
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 18:36 +0800, Dion wrote:
Actually its a 16:10 ratio.
Terminology is curious.
Did anyone do the arithmetic? 1920/1080 = 1.8 = 16/9
However, that doesn't say anything about if items in a scene look blocky
or skinny - that depends on the ratio of the length and width of
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 09:21 +1000, Kyle wrote:
ARRRGGGH!!!
I've spent the better part of a couple of days trying to get a .ISO
image transferred to a USB stick to install to my netbook.
Can someone please point in the direction of an idiot-proof howto to
transfer a .ISO to .IMG or
To be more specific:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#kernel-changes
says:
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 ships with kernel version 2.6.26 for all
architectures.. This satisfies your requirement of 2.6.25+.
A little bit more reaqding will let you know that
Sorry - this is getting off topic from where I was looking for a
trustworthy (ie Linux) firmware on a drive box. But discussion all the
same . .
Maybe speed is important in some apps, but not my main concern. What if
you had just forked out $3k to digitise some (ok - at lot of) slides,
Any thoughts on multi-disc NAS devices, firmware capability and drive
formats? Looking at a mirroring dual-drive device for reliability, but
what happens if the box dies - are the drives ext2/vfat/proprietary?
Are they all SMB/ftp or do some require Windows-only client software?
Thanks,
Kevin.
up power all day to function as NAS.
Thanks,
Kevin.
.
On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 11:05 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
* Kevin Shackleton kev...@reachnet.com.au [2009-03-14 08:04:44 +0900]:
Any thoughts on multi-disc NAS devices, firmware capability and drive
formats? Looking at a mirroring dual
Curiously enough there is an article in this months Silicon Chip on
installing Puppy Linux on older machines.
The magazine publishes many articles on microcontrollers and PC-driven
electronics, so to pop in an article that might be more expected in a PC
magazine does not seem too off-topic to the
ditto that and check seating cooling (ie blow out dust from CPU
heatsink, re-apply that nice carcinogenic heatsink compound you get from
nerd shops). There's a product CRC Switch Cleaner Lubricant which
greatly improves contact problems though I suspect in the longer term
you get more dust stuck
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 07:47 +1100, elliott-brennan wrote:
I'm assuming this is a not a RAM problem and more like a HDD
Wouldn't a HDD failure come up as a message on the console?
The fact it happens cold and you have a new heatsink suggests it's not a
thermal problem.
I'd strip the components
Gentlepeople,
I started a thread a couple of weeks ago on this subject. Several
suggestions were that Ubuntu had a make bootable thumbdrive tool ready
to go. I did (eventually) get around to this solution and I'm happy to
say that it just worked in setting up an eeebuntu bootable thumbdrive
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 13:59 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
Actually, temperature has very little relationship with disk life, at
least when Google studied their consumer grade disk failure metrics.
The details: http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf
Regards,
Daniel
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 23:11 +1030, ishwor wrote:
Hi Jake and all,
Jake Anderson wrote:
office works is selling 1TB western digital external drives for $178.
Not to discourse you/others venture into buying a 1TB WD drive
but I bought it last month from OW and it blew up on me [the board got
SLUGgers,
I have fallen into a black hole regarding setting up a thumbdrive so
that I can install eeebuntu on my eee 701. I've found some very expert
advice if I were running Ubuntu or even Windows on my desktop, but
Debian Etch doesn't seem to rate a mention (unetbootin might work if I
could
Try SystemRescueCD to see past the new header structure and find if
there are any files left. It's a bit user-vicious but you'll manage . .
Maybe an addendum to Mary Gardiner's story on external backups:
unplug drive
I have a home external drive kept at work, against moments of weakness
such as
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 14:18 +1100, Theo Reimer wrote:
There is a companion product available for Telstra BigPond USB wireless
broadband modems that provides an ethernet gateway. It is called Maxon
EtherMax, available from Maxon Australia at Padstow. This device is
described as a USB docking
, one would imagine that buying this imagery meant your $200
product would be readily usable under any OS that could verify licensed
ownership through an open protocol such as a web logon.
Could you please detail the process by which I can access my purchased
data.
Thanks
Kevin Shackleton
Please excuse me for cc'ing SLUG into a statement to Garmin about the
compatibility of their products.
I considered that SLUG would be interested in the topic from both FOSS
consideration and from the technical aspects of having it just work.
I did register the product on another PC (w2k at
SLUGers
I apologise for a couple of emails I just bashed out. On wrapping up
this topic I realise I should have first asked SLUG if the group was OK
with the attack I made on Garmin Support before I launched it.
Kevin
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I'm having trouble finding the right syntax for using xargs to extract
multiple zip files that have space characters in the name. Using null
delimiters (eg like:
find *.zip -print0 | xargs -0 unzip
) is not doing it for me.
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On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 15:03 +1000, Armin Marth wrote:
JB Hi-Fi is selling the eeePC 1000 for $698 (10, atom CPU, 1GB RAM,
80GB HDD, wifi b/g/n, 1.3MP cam)
What's the next model - a 15 160 GB . . ?
Though the 700 is tight on screen space and the 900 at least gets over
1000 pixels wide, the
Perhaps I didn't use the right words in a Google search to seek a
solution to this problem - under Debian Etch when I put in a thumbdrive
in my PC while I have an active session but my daughter has another
session in the background, the thumbdrive mounts in her session and not
mine. Perhaps a
With this Verbatim card (good price!) you only get one external port and
on-card headers for the other 3. You'll need to add the cost of 3
backplane adapters, or scrounge some from 286 / 386 / 486 class machines
that usually had them. Beware though - there are two seemingly equally
common ways
Further to my post on nfs problems:
I tempoorarily achieved nirvana when I opened up (on my eeepc) the file
browser as root. As soon as this opened, the non-root file browser
filled with the previously un-permissioned contents of the exports. I
have not figured out why.
However, when I tried
I would use minicom, which is quite easy to set up as a serial terminal
and you can turn logging on and off. I used minicom today on my eeepc
at our cattle yards to look at what was happening when our electronic
weighing scales indicated to draft left or right - the dearly beloved
vendors have
I've set up some nfs entries in /etc/exports (in Etch) on my desktop PC
but though I can see the entries in my eeepc I don't have permission to
go into the entries.
The eeepc defaults to an automatic logon as user, with a userid of
1000 and a groupid of 1000. This corresponds to my default
On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 14:43 +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote:
post your exports file?
As in exportfs -ra? Had done that.
Perhaps I can get a log of why access isn't allowed?
k.
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On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 08:28 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
Do a df -k to see which partitions are full or close to full.
Do an
apt-get clean
to delete downloaded and finished-with .debs
Then start looking for large files.
You could also:
du -k
to find directories that use lots
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 11:26 +1100, DaZZa wrote:
You should patch it. There *is* an update for Microsoft products -
provided, of course, you're not running anything later than XP.
WIndows 2000 or earlier - forget it!
To be fair, there can't be many people running a version of Linux as old
as
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 07:26 +1100, ken Foskey wrote:
On my system this link was set up with the install. if wfcmgr will not
start then you should resolve this first.
strider: /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins
$ ls
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2008-02-02 22:05 npica.so
-
Thanks for your assistance Patrick and Alan.
Citrix ICA Client Version 6.3 did behave differently from the newer
clients - it returned an .ica file which unfortunately the system didn't
know what to do with - Iceweasel with the npica.so plugin wasn't the
right answer here. At the other end of
I have tried installing the Citrix ICA client versions 7, 9 and 10.6 in
Debian Etch, but for each of these the web access page still tells me I
need to install the client. I can log on but if I start an app I get a
timeout in opening the connection
There are issues noted with libXm.so preventing
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My point is that even as the technical guys get older and
slow down, they bring in young people to fill in the gaps
and then concentrate on the precision components themselves.
That enhances business growth and they pull in talent
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 10:21 +1100, Nigel Allen wrote:
Naturally the rack box only had one serial port.
I'd bet there are two serial ports but only one available at the
backplane. It's unfortunate that many motherboard facilities go to
waste because vendors don't supply the little lead and
Sounds a bit like surveillance (multi-camera) software. k.
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 16:56 +1100, elliott-brennan wrote:
If I take four separate video streams of my
children and create four separate collections of
still images:
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Hi,
I need to set up a simple file server in office.
Changing the thrust of the question - I'm looking at the hardware side of the
question at present at office and at home.
There are some cases around that are neat enough to hide in the lounge
(should I want to
Thanks Jeremy - I'll run on that basis. K.
On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 10:44 +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote:
On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 15:45 +0900, Kevin Shackleton wrote:
I guess I could remove this install and compile a source.
I would advise you to do that. I have had many pains with the
mt-daapd
I picked up a Sagem music player device. However, I haven't had any joy
with it seeing my shared mp3 folders, in Etch.
There is a Debian issue of mt-daapd for Etch, but it won't start. It
echoes a variety of error messages depending on what I've configured in
mt-daapd.conf:
Invalid config
I wonder if the list is clear about the difference between VMWare Server
and VMWare Workstation - what can / can't be done in each environment?
I know I'm not - and I have a licenced copy of Workstation at some cost.
Is there a 3rd party analysis of what I get for my subscription to
Workstation?
RS-422 RS-485 are more your industrial standards, bringing capability
of interfacing multiple devices and having longer cable runs (eg 1 km)
through the use of balanced pairs for Tx and Rx. The original RS-232
standard that defined a variety of pin functions (but not the use of
DB-25 connectors
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 14:00 -0700, Sergio Monteiro wrote:
Hi there.
I wonder if there is anyone there that is familiar with the Sun computer
video connector.
I'm sure this came through SLUG maybe 2000 or 2001. IIRC it takes a few
resistors soldered in the backshell. You'll need to get
suggestions to rename multiple files in a single directory to individual
shorter names?
eg
proj1file1
proj1file2
. . .
to
file1
file2
. . .
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Kevin.
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Some investigation hasn't shown me how the Gnome camera photo download
mechanism works. The problem is I have a couple of logons. The second
logon does not seem to have their own gnome configuration, so accepting
the popup's offer to save camera files does nothing
and /var/log/messages shows
Problem solved - it was a security problem running gthumb - not the
target directory at all.
Cheers,
Kevin.
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 15:01 +0800, Kevin Shackleton wrote:
Some investigation hasn't shown me how the Gnome camera photo download
mechanism works. The problem is I have a couple
Good point Tony!
$ file dt0 [that's what I named the file as]
dt0: PNG image data, 1024 x 768, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced
And I find . . that the file is an image from playing Club Penguin
under Iceweasel. It's overwritten the directory Desktop. Rather
naughty - is that something that
My fault - my 5 year old was playing games using my logon while I had a
terminal window open and somehow now the Desktop directory is an
ordinary file. Any ideas on how to set the directory attribute?
Thanks,
Kevin
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Ken,
The Desktop file does seem to be the ex-Desktop directory. Nothing good
in Trash. I'm assuming that my daughter managed to do something in
Gnome Browser or suchlike but I've not been able to repeat the trick of
turning it into a file. Which makes it hard to reverse-engineer.
Cheers,
broken symbolic links (eg to
../linux-kbuild-2.6.18/scripts. The more I try out different
solutions the worse I seem to be making the problem!
Perhaps the clearest step forward would be to compile a newer kernel?
TIA,
Kevin Shackleton.
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match to an antenna that's not too high gain - the rubber
duck is way short of being illegal. They are in WA not Sydney but I
think couriers do the run east.
I don't know anything about ssh'ing to them but you could contact the
vendor.
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Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and
adding myself to the audio group made no difference. It seems that I've
applied a solution without knowing what the problem was. Any clues as
to how to identify the problem?
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Most
with drives and go to Etch . .
Kevin.
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Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and
adding myself to the audio group made no difference.
If you type 'groups' in an xterm
for non-root]
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:00:46 +
On 20/09/2007, Kevin Shackleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and
adding myself to the audio group made no difference. It seems that I've
applied a solution without knowing what
An odd development in the last couple of days - xmms won't play any mp3s
for any user. ie the play slider does not show a knob after I try to
start a play. It's ok for root, so the relevant files are there. Using
FC7
Starting from a command line there is no error message, nor is there
in
Erik,
This machine does not have an audio group. I'll try out that concept
after work. Thanks,
Kevin.
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Any ideas about looking for the problem?
Most likely cause is that you
Thanks - ffmpeg does install and works thanks (though I haven't yet tried to
play in most people's environment). In fact synaptic might have been enough
- I haven't used it before and it found and fixed a stack of broken rpm
dependencies.
Kevin.
You could check out ffmpeg (available via
Dear SLUG,
I'm having difficulties installing dvdrip in FC7. Could not find a
repository to make life easy. After working through a practically
bottomless list of rpm dependencies I'm still getting problems like:
error: Failed dependencies:
perl(Event::ExecFlow) is needed by
relationship would be fine - it's usually
likely to be at least 5 km to another Bluetooth device.
Thanks,
Kevin Shackleton.
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On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 05:41 +1000, Mark Phillips wrote:
Hi Kevin,
I'm currently setting up a bluetooth network for configuration, testing
and monitoring of seismic nodes, couple of hundred across a couple of
K's. However I'm using the bluez utilities to get a IP connection. (And
I have
Update on this - thanks for the couple of replies.
I spoke with a tech at Aleis in Qld, who says the dongles have to be programmed
through the serial port using vendor-specific software.
This sets up the dongles to only talk to their pair partner (the present
situation). Maybe they also can
To explain more about my remove duplicate file problem . .
# rm -rv somefile
returns:
rm: cannot lstat `somefile': No such file or directory
The problem is in lstat, not rm. The problem is that it's not recursing
the directories.
Neither will Gnome File Browser search these directories.
The
I have a directory tree with a lot of duplicate leaves.
The command rm -r junkfile does not work, saying:
cannot lstat 'junkfile'
I even seeded the root of this tree with one of these files but still
the rm command did not recurse.
I know the command rm -rf * would get rid of these files with
Nice.
Did you know that software updates (maps) on consumer gps navigators are
typically $300? Like Directory Assistance, we're allowing public domain
information to be locked up by for-profit service providers regardless
of any value-adding.
/rant
Kevin Shackleton
On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 11:58
tried to pick up a trial copy from Nortel
but was only taken to an OSX version.)
Thanks,
Kevin Shackleton.
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Acknowledging the risk of being flamed for promoting the mag - Linux
Journal 153 Jan 07 has an article that's worth a read, on a 12-PC mixed
OS home network backup using Duplicity.
Kevin Shackleton.
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 12:11 +1100, Trent Murray wrote:
Hi all,
Can anyone recommend a backup
I have a response from a request to Trolltech for help in making
qtopiadesktop work. It doesn't really make Sharp, the Zaurus or
Trolltech look good, if it's open software and its support you are
looking for.
Kevin Shackleton.
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Subject:Re: [Issue
I have a number of issues with getting value out of a Zaurus 5500. I
would appreciate some mentor support if anyone is prepared to put in
some time - contact me off-list.
Kevin Shackleton
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