Survival International – the movement for tribal peoples
Tribe discovered, amazing photographs!
Eds links for 2008-05-30: Survival International – the movement for tribal peoples
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Monthly Archives: May 2008
New Synology Disk Station Manager + More!!
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Synology® Released Disk Station Manager 2.0 June Beta Which Features Extra Data Protection-Network Recycle Bin, and Download Enhancements (May 29, 2008) Synology® today released the Disk Station Manager 2.0 June beta, featuring extra data protection, download enhancements and performance improvement, AFP performance improvement, extra IP camera models support, and others. "There are chances that we delete files accidentally," said Edward Lin, marketing director of Synology, "we are delighted to provide users with an extra protection to their data by adding the Network Recycle Bin feature so they don’t have to worry about deleting files unintentionally." The Network Recycle Bin works for all CIFS connections. The shared-folder level design ensures all deleted files are recoverable from the recycle bin folder. All deleted files are kept in their original file structure to offer an easy-to-search environment. The Download Station enhancements include DHT support, 25% performance increase, BT encryption support, and flexible seeding rule settings. "The download performance enhancements imply a shorter time needed to download the same files," commented Rosiel Lee, product manager of the Synology Disk Station Manager 2.0, "this pushes the Green idea we have always kept in mind another step forward." The DHT support allows trackerless torrents download. "It means you do not need to connect to a tracker in order to download, but connect to a distributed DHT Network to find other peers," explained Allen Kao, RD manager of Synology. "The upgraded Download Station also supports both TCP and UDP trackers, and Peer Exchange Protocol, all are for increasing the ability to find more peers when downloading." In addition, flexible seeding options are also available in this beta. The new beta includes the following improvements:
Availability The beta is now available at http://beta.synology.com
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Closing of Hyves RSS Tool
Since Hyves now supports RSS feeds (just append "/rss" to your Hyves url). I am going to close my online Hyves2RSS Tool at http://kijker.tv. So if you are using it, please change your urls to the new hyves RSS functionality.
One last screenshot for the Internet Archives:
Eds links for 2008-05-26: Tag Galaxy
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Eds links for 2008-05-23: Top 25 Hoe download ik een YouTube video? – Frankwatching
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Eds links for 2008-05-22: Software Secret Weapons: 20 Basic Plots For Story Generators
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Software Secret Weapons: 20 Basic Plots For Story Generators
interesting to include in my newest novel
Somebody to love
(Jefferson Airplane, Woodstock, 1969)
(Jim Carrey, the cable guy)
Janis Joplin – Summertime (Live Gröna Lund 1969)
wow!
I’m in a sort of Janis Joplin Frenzy, there are an awful lot of good video’s on YouTube! Somehow the songs cause a sort of addiction in my brain to hear more Janis.
I wonder how a duet between Axl Rose and Janis Joplin would sound. That would rock.
Here is another good performance, it was choosen as #7 of greatest rock performances ever, it’s Janet’s performance at Woodstock "Piece of my heart"
Although my favorite is ball & chain (promise me to put your speakers to the max), this the best performance ever by anyone:
Eds links for 2008-05-21: The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
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The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
A very good story, read it.
Eds links for 2008-05-20: Online veiling van machines en inventaris – Troostwijk Veilingen
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Online veiling van machines en inventaris – Troostwijk Veilingen
Online veiling van inboedel van faiiette bedrijven.
How to turn off Windows Firewall the sneaky way
I had installed a web application on one laptop which I wanted to test from another laptop. Somehow I couldn’t get through to the webserver and I noticed that the webserver laptop had all the windows firewall settings greyed out due to some company x policies.
Thinking… trying stuff..
services > windows firewall > stop (!)
genius lol!
Risk Express: portable RISK Game
While updating the risk.startpagina.nl I found the Risk Express edition on the Hasbro site, it is out for a while but I haven’t written about it yet.
This is a mini version for Risk Addicts, like me, which we can bring along on vacation or to party’s and which can be played within 20 minutes.
It can be played with 2 to 6 players.
You can download the manual in PDF format here to give you an indication of the game. I haven’t had the game in my hands "physically" but it looks pretty cool to play.
In this portable game all territories are cards. Which makes it handier than carrying along a big board.
Each of the so called territories / country cards looks something like this:
What you see the right is an example card, e.g. North America.
If you conquer North America you will get 3 points, the one with the most points at the end of the game wins. Complete territories give extra points and, different than the board game, if you completely conquer a continent noone can re-conquer it.
On this specific card you see 3 lines of icons:
- 1 line consisting of a cavalry icons and a cannon icon
- another line consisting of a cavalry icons and a cannon icon
- and a line with 3 soldiers
You need to break through all three lines before you can conquer the country. Which means that you have to dice all the icons on the lines with your 7 attack dices whereafter you get to conquer the country.
E.g. suppose you throw:
This means that you can place the cannon and the cavalry (horse) icon on the first line of defense. You can not place the other dices all at once because you can only conquer 1 defense line per dice roll.
The next roll you might throw this:
In this roll there are neither a cavalry+cannon nor the 3 soldiers so you can not conquer any defense lines, so you must put 1 dice away and roll again:
Now you have a roll in which you have a cannon and a horse (artillery and cavalry) which you can put on the second line of defense, You now only need to conquer the third line of defense (3 soldiers):
you have 4 soldiers which is more than enough to conquer the defense line with the three soldiers, so now you have conquered North America!
Pretty simple. There is also the "general" icon on the card. This should be used/diced when another player already has the country and you want to conquer that territory.
There are some minor house rules you can introduce: if you do not manage to conquer the country you could create the rule that the other players can then continue the fight to conquer the country.
As said, I do not have this version yet, so I can not say anything about the playability or real strategies you could form around playing the dice/card game. If you have played it let me know how it was.
Edward de Leau
http://risk.startpagina.nl
Eds links for 2008-05-18: nu.nl/algemeen | Tienduizenden kinderen verhongeren in Myanmar
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nu.nl/algemeen | Tienduizenden kinderen verhongeren in Myanmar
10.000′s of children are going to starve in MyanMar and I’m wondering if I am going to eat 4 or 2 pasteitjes.
My mind hurts from thestone / the stone monument
I decided to start again with "the Unknown" on thestonemonument. (read my previous blog about it here).
So I fairly quickly solved 7 out of the 9 puzzles of the Unknown: Celebrity Status, Gravity, Enlightenment, The Watchers, Eye of the Storm, Top Secret and The Movement. (For the movement I got a nudge on the forum and I remembered the answer I gave years ago).
Puzzle "The Matador" took me some longer time. But I solved it some moments ago. I really had to put the word(s) correct. I didn’t do that the first time so I dwelled for some time in all kinds of directions. But what the heck, I am happy 
On to the last puzzle "Entertainment Value". If I solve this one then I have solved all puzzles of "The Unknown" and I will then allow myself to enter the big enigma. update: Solved all!
my nudges (only if you really need them):
The Unknown
- 1Z The Matador: notice the color of the money
- 1X Gravity: too easy for a nudge
- 1W Celebrity Status: Mulder would like it
- 1Y Enlightment: one percent inspiration
- 2X Watchers: McDonalds would like it
- 2Y Eye of the Storm: too easy for a nudge
- 3Y The Movement: Free Stuff project
- 3X Top Secret: too easy for a nudge
- 3W Entertainment Value: this one can haunt you for years
Eds links for 2008-05-14: Solar System Visualizer
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Solar System Visualizer
Very cool simulation of our solar system