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I wish people would stop parroting this fallacy all the time. Market share has nothing to do with how easy it is to break into a system.

Look at AROS! It has no security whatsoever, not even memory management between processes, so despite only having a hundred or so users, it must have zillions of virusses. But, of course, it DOESN'T. So far as I'm aware, nobody's bothered to write one, and it's unlikely any AROS virus would actually be effective.

All viruses require a reasonable level of market share to operate, because one of the principles they rely upon is a network effect, and you just plain cannot get a network effect without a decent market share. So marketshare is, very much, a pre-requisite for a successful virus. It's not the only one, but when people say "Mac OS X hasn't been attacked yet because it doesn't have enough marketshare", they're right. That's one fundamental reason. And unless you can show that any other reasons apply, it's likely to be the only reason.

Well look at the earlier days of the Mac. Mac OS 9 it had a smaller market share than we have now (~4.6% in 2001 according to IDC) and yet had more viruses. Only reason my a**.

I'm surprised we haven't seen anything major. Current installed base is <20 million (1997 numbers, Wikipedia), with almost all without any anti-virus stuff installed. You'd think that would be an interesting enough target.

These sorts of attacks are nothing new. If you are running an SSH server directly accessible from the Internet, check your /var/log/auth.log log sometime. You may be alarmed by the surprisingly large number of attacks you get every day, even if it is your home IP with no sort of domain name associated.

I like to run DenyHosts on my machines, which watches this log file and adds suspicious IPs to your /etc/hosts.deny. I generally have several new IPs added daily. Also disable remote root logins, because then the attacker has to guess a username and a password: an extra few bits of security (they try "root", then go on to "tester", "tester1", ... , "guest", "guest1", etc.). And, of course, use strong passwords for SSH accounts. In your logs you will find attackers employing dictionary attacks (which DenyHosts will quickly cut off).

The parser is true open source (the reference compiler is free as in beer). gdc is the GPL project that uses that to interface to the gcc back end for generating code.

Phobos is free as in beer. Tango is true open source (IIRC).

The view should do ZERO processing. That should settle it. Some templates allow for a minimal amount of if/else statements and some developers are just sloppy and stick in processing anyway when it should be moved to the controller.

The model should handle all data, the controller should handle processing and the container should handle higher level functioning for gathering the model, the view and the container.

See PHPulse as a very simple example.

Me too. links and w3m are much, much better than lynx. I use w3m all the time, especially for browsing bug-report databases and other text-heavy sites, but I use lynx only when nothing else is yet available, i.e. troubleshooting a tricky install.

Me too. links and w3m are much, much better than lynx. I use w3m all the time, especially for browsing bug-report databases and other text-heavy sites, but I use lynx only when nothing else is yet available, i.e. troubleshooting a tricky install.

For Vuze, formerly Azureus, there are Ono and P4P, which should do what you're looking for, although for different reasons. Unfortunately, they both rely on people in your region being interested in the same torrents you are, while P4P additionally benefits from an iTracker, an ISP provided tracker that's topology aware (they did some work to prioritize based on ping latency, using that as a distance estimate, but I don't know if it's a fallback mechanism). Due to the iTracker infrastructure and possibly conflicting supporters, there are some privacy concerns.

All I can say to this is: ditto.

The process of writing documentation almost always also questions the whole "why was it done this way?" Open source developers always get defensive when they hear something like that, and instead of improving the usability of their product, they generally are just dismissive of the problem.

This is my favorite example:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1865630&group_id=95717&atid=612382

The issue in the tracker *is* a bug in every GUI I've ever seen that has pull-down menus. The developer, instead of even slightly examining the issue, just responds rudely with an insufficient work-around. When the defense of the bug is posted beyond a shadow of a doubt, nothing happens. Will this bug ever be fixed? Unlikely.

I wish VMWare would consider FreeBSD for host-support, however, I think Qemu is catching up with VMWare. This is referring to Workstation. For servers, FreeBSD jails are advancing quite a bit. If the plan is to run FreeBSD servers, I would prefer jails over VMWare.

Speaking of jails, they now have support for multiple IP's per jail as of revision 185435. It also adds support for IPv6 addresses to jails.

For a nice front-end to Qemu, I recommend AQemu.

At my work, I'm forced to use a SLOT-A Athlon running XP with 32mb RAM. K-Meleon allows the machine to function. All other graphical browsers bring it down to its knees.

I wish people would stop parroting this fallacy all the time. Market share has nothing to do with how easy it is to break into a system.

Look at AROS! It has no security whatsoever, not even memory management between processes, so despite only having a hundred or so users, it must have zillions of virusses. But, of course, it DOESN'T. So far as I'm aware, nobody's bothered to write one, and it's unlikely any AROS virus would actually be effective.

All viruses require a reasonable level of market share to operate, because one of the principles they rely upon is a network effect, and you just plain cannot get a network effect without a decent market share. So marketshare is, very much, a pre-requisite for a successful virus. It's not the only one, but when people say "Mac OS X hasn't been attacked yet because it doesn't have enough marketshare", they're right. That's one fundamental reason. And unless you can show that any other reasons apply, it's likely to be the only reason.

If you have something like windows where security is bolted on after the fact, and OS that was never meant to be a multi-user OS connected to the internet (all these were added as features later on and done poorly) then you will have a system that is much harder to keep secure.

UNIX on the other hand was designed from day one to be networked multi-user OS, and security and separation of concerns was there from beginning.

It's frankly hilarious that Unix, on which the first worms operated, can be held up as some system that had security built-in from the start. It's also untrue that Windows, that is, the operating system known as Windows today, was "never meant to be a multi-user OS connected to the internet". Unless you're talking about Windows Me and its predecessors (98, 95, 3.1, et al), then that's completely false. Current versions of Windows (XP, Vista, 2003, et al) are derived from Windows NT, which was designed, from the beginning, to be "a multi-user OS connected to the internet".

In fact, Windows NT and its successors have a more advanced security model than Unix, allowing more than a separation of users and groups.

The issue with Windows is two fold. First, marketshare. And second, an over complex user-environment where too much functionality is available on the "user" side of the security wall. Both of these issues affected Unix up until the mid nineties, where its disproportionate share of Internet nodes and the amount of stuff running as the default user (which in Unix was root, which also happened to be the account with the most rights.)

There's little reason to believe that Mac OS X is protected from viruses by anything other than its low market share at this point. There's not a large enough group of users for network effects to take over. It is not an inherently secure operating system. The default user is generally set up with administration privileges, and it just takes a buffer overflow or other ordinary vulnerability in a client application like a web browser plug-in for a virus or worm to have complete access to the user's files, and enough access to be able to modify many of the applications the user is likely to run.

Fundamentally, Mac OS X has the same problem as Windows, and the same problem the "run-everything-as-root" Unixes did in the eighties and early nineties: too much functionality available to the default user. To fix this, you need to change the model somewhat. The very least Apple could do is set Mac OS X up so that the installer actively discourages setting up the default user as an administrator.

The only real problem I have is there doesn't exist a modern journaling FS which would work just as well on all 3 platforms.

I agree with you that's really important. I'd also like zfs to be that filesystem. However, as long as you don't need that drive to be the root drive of your respective file system, you might be interested in some of these links:

I can use ext3, but cannot plug it into a Mac.

Give this a try. The latest news is that you get write support in Tiger, but I use it in Leopard without problems.

Also don't worry about the ext2 part. Ext3 is designed to be backwards compatible with ext2. It can be mounted as ext2 (it just won't get journaling)

You didn't ask for it, so you might already know about this windows driver. There are actually a couple out there, I think that one works the best (which is kind of unfortunate, because it's freeware, but proprietary).

I can use NTFS, but cannot write to it on a Mac.

Sure you can, same way you do it in Linux, through fuse and ntfs-3g.

I can use Mac's FS, but cannot plug it into Windows (unless I pay for a proprietary driver every time I use that disk on a different machine)

Yeah, you got me there. MacDrive works really well, but I'd like a non-proprietary version myself.

For a removable drive that you can plug in anywhere, I'd go with ntfs actually. No FAT size restrictions, no permissions (actually a plus for a removable drive), and most linux distributions come with ntfs-3g installed by default. That means you only have to install the driver in mac os x

Open-source robotics hardware is all fine and dandy, but ultimately worthless without artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is Open-Source and needs Robot Bridgeware to connect open-source hardware devices to open-source AI Minds.

AI has been solved for open-source hardware in need of open-source intelligence.

I agree. The article implies that you always generate the HTML from the server side. An MVC compliant web browser app could easily be hand written HTML (view) and javascript (controller) making AJAX calls to server side scripts (model).

It seems pretty straight forward to me but that may be because I administer an open source project with this architecture.

ClearSite is prettier than Cacti, it's geared towards Cisco and HP network gear, but the new version coming in 2009 will blow the competition away! While it uses RRDTool also, it has a real-time Ajax search and a much better navigation scheme over Cacti. http://clearsite.sourceforge.net/coming-soon.html

ClearSite is prettier than Cacti, it's geared towards Cisco and HP network gear, but the new version coming in 2009 will blow the competition away! While it uses RRDTool also, it has a real-time Ajax search and a much better navigation scheme over Cacti. http://clearsite.sourceforge.net/coming-soon.html

Webminstats is probably the easiest tool I've ever used to monitor a system over the network. Should be fairly easy to add some eye-candy to it.

Hello all.

As the article got a variety of responses, I thought it might be just as good I chime in and clear up a few points.

I do admit the connection to Beethoven is rather weak, as you probably understand this was not my words, but the write's, anyway I thought his way of writing it conveyed the general meaning, if not totally correct in every sense.

Now to another apology: The web link. Yes, this site is hopelessly out of date. I guess the link have been messed up, as this points to my old site. A newer site (but this one also several months old) can be found at http://oeyvind.teks.no/results/
This page documents the research project covered by the article. There are also quite a lot of audio examples of fairly recent works (last year) at http://oeyvind.teks.no/results/ArtisticDocBrandtsegg.htm (everything after/including Motorpsycho was made with the new version of ImproSculpt4),

It sounds like the comments on the audio clips have been responses to music found on the old site, and yes, this is from 2002 (or thereabouts) and earlier, made with the previous version of ImproSculpt.

Some of you might find it interesting to have a look at the software,
the current version of Improsculpt can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/improsculpt/
and some other applications can be found at
http://oeyvind.teks.no/results/applications/partikkelapplications.htm
ImproSculpt is open source, feel free to change it in any way you wish, I'd be happy to help those so inclined to get started. The code on sourceforge also contains extensive user documentation, as well as (of course) documentation of the code.

As some of you correctly stated, I do rely on granular synthesis for substantial parts of the audio processing in ImproSculpt. And granular synthesis is admittedly nothing new.
But there is indeed something new about the kind of granular synthesis used here. Inspired by curtis Roads' excellent book "Microsound" I set out to design a monster granular synthesizer, capable of performing all types of time domain granular synthesis described by mr Roads. The point of doing it all in one single audio generator is to be able to morph seamlessly between different types of granular synthesis. While working on this design, I also came up with a few variants of granular techniques not covered in Microsound. Most notably, the new granular synthesizer is capable of "per grain" control over output routing, effects sends (you can send, say, every 5th grain to a reverb), mixing of several souce waveforms into each grain, doing frequency modulation inside grains, synchronizing the grain generator clock to an external clock source (or other instances of the same granular synthesizer. And so on. due to the extensive possibilities of this granular synthesizer, I decided to name it "partikkel", which is Norwegian for "particle". Even Curtis Roads have used "particle synthesis" as an alternate term to describe granular synthesis. The "partikkel" generator was designed by me, and implemented as an opcode for Csound by Thom Johansen and Torgeir Strand Henriksen. Anyone can get Csound for free (open source) and start working with "partikkel" to see what it can do. Admittedly, it is a monster, and not exactly user friendly. This is the reason why I created the partikkel applications (link above) to encourage other users to start experimenting with partikkel. all of the applications represent subsets of the partikkel features, taking something away to make something else easier to understand.

Now, ImproSculpt is not all about particle synthesis, there are other composition techniques involved as well. some of these work on melodies and harmonies in a somewhat more traditional sense. These algorithms analyze midi input notes, creating v

i always liked the oldie but goody AWStats http://awstats.sourceforge.net/

I dunno if that project is still maintained though.

I got bored with fancy data visualisations a few years ago.

One option I'm reviewing at the moment is Pandora FMS
http://pandora.sourceforge.net/

Not bad and there's a pre-built vm you can download to quickly give it a go.
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1236

I found Nisca better and easier to extend than rrdtool. I liked the fact it has full history so you can zoom in on the stats at any point in the past. But it is a difficult to set up for the first time and seems half-abandoned now.

Munin is a very useful monitoring tool that can be configured to warn of server issues (full-ish file systems, high load averages, etc.) You can also easily configure a web view that auto-updates at intervals with pretty graphs. You can monitor whatever you want via trivial shell script plugins.

Until they start selling lossless formats without DRM....I am not interested in buying any content online. The second they start selling lossless without DRM...I'll be the first one in line, and I can afford to buy a lot.

http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html#music

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

its easy and simple to use.

Virtualbox is a possibility for trying distro's although it will not help you decide if your hardware is supported well enough to run native.

You might take a look at the new vuze 4. They've changed things up some to make it more like the 2.X series and it seems to be far more lightweight than the 3 series (Kinda like comparing firefox 2 to firefox 3). I've seen 3.X versions sometimes use over 200MB of RAM. 4.0 currently taking 45MB with 14 seeds up. not exactly utorrent's runs-on-a-486-with-14MB-ram trick, but it works fine for a relatively modern system.

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/upgrade.php

I saw when I opened it in Safari the other day, are way too intrusive and made me reach for the Adblock which wasn't there.

But yet its so close to actually being there...

http://safariadblock.sourceforge.net/

Have you tried Download Statusbar? I have mine set to clear the bar after 5 seconds, but you can probably set it to 0 if you just want them to go poof.

And as for the above poster who wonders why I don't just give the old folks a shortcut? Because with Seamonkey it really makes it easy to copy/paste that recipe they are sure that Mabel will like,LOL! But that is what I love about Firefox,all the diversity. I give Seamonkey to the older folks, Kmeleon to those with older PCs or who only care about speed,and Flock to those that are into the social sites. With the FF codebase I can give everyone something for them and still not have to worry about the latest IE bug. Oh and those who haven't given it a shot should try Songbird. I have been using it myself as well as handing it out to my customers and it is really gotten quite nice.

My own interest in the retrocomputing scene is the old 8 bit systems, and for those, it's very practical to play with them. The best thing about the old 8 bits is that they are fun.

KidBasic, a.k.a. Basic-256 might interest you.
http://kidbasic.sourceforge.net/
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/09/14/basic/index.html

Why? Eve Online is one of the few games I've used where they have gotten DirectX to play nicely with the rest of the window management. Run Eve in a window and you can move your mouse around from it's window to every other window, including your web browser, and there's no problem. It even goes into the task bar as a normal window. I, personally, play Eve on a second computer which I have connected up to my primary computer via Synergy. I play it full screen, and yet, moving the mouse from my main machine to the machine running Eve is perfect. It's seamless. It's like they actually tested their shit before they threw it onto the market.

So yeah, they'd be better off dumping their broken in-game browser, but not to replace it, just because there's no need for it anymore.

This recent Slashdot thread (and the accomplishing article) discussed the effectiveness of brain training games.

In that thread, I pointed to Brain Workshop, an open source version of the game used in this study by Susanne Jaeggi, a psychologist at the University of Michigan. The study deals with improving "fluid intelligence" - the part of your mind that deals directly with the raw newness of experience or, as defined by Jaeggi, "the ability to reason and to solve new problems independently of previously acquired knowledge."

Others pointed out there's also a Javascipt version that's much more light-weight.

Link for those of us with whom the nerd is not strong.

Screenshots

As one of their two demos, they show how you can use the GUI to add an Amazon EC2 instance "in only five minutes" -- as opposed to typing one (1) command or using Amazon's own ElasticFox.

Wow. Even worse. Apparently there's more than one, because if you notice my previous comment...well, that wasn't the one I found.

http://joeq.sourceforge.net/

I already have a hackaround for OSX and Windows DRM and it runs on both PCs and Macs. ;)

Now I have to cancel my plans at buying a new Macintosh and make an AROS machine instead.

#1 AROS runs faster and has a lower memory footprint than OSX.
#2 AROS is free to use even on Non-Apple PCs.
#3 AROS does not have any DRM at all.
#4 AROS only needs an i386 or higher machine to run on, OSX needs modern hardware and more RAM than I can afford to buy to run smoothly.
#5 I don't use iTunes, all my songs are in DRM-less MP3 or OGG format. CD-RIPS or buying them from iTune competitors that don't use DRM and cost cheaper.

Give me a break - I don't remember the last time I used 5.13.0...

Maxima 5.16.3 http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.8 (aka GCL)
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
(%i1)

[ this is under Vista; I normally use it under NetBSD with sbcl - much faster ].

Maxima also sucks. Here's a session from just this afternoon.

[omf@midgar 14:45:36 ~]$ maxima
Maxima 5.13.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.8 (aka GCL)
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
provides bug reporting information.
(%i1) Q=matrix.... .....

(%i11) Q.T.transpose(Q);
(%o11) matrix([cos(t) (cos(t) T11 - sin(t) T12)
  - sin(t) (cos(t) T21 - sin(t) T22), cos(t) (cos(t) T12 + sin(t) T11)
  - sin(t) (cos(t) T22 + sin(t) T21), cos(t) T13 - sin(t) T23],
[cos(t) (cos(t) T21 - sin(t) T22) + sin(t) (cos(t) T11 - sin(t) T12),
cos(t) (cos(t) T22 + sin(t) T21) + sin(t) (cos(t) T12 + sin(t) T11),
cos(t) T23 + sin(t) T13], [cos(t) T31 - sin(t) T32, cos(t) T32 + sin(t) T31,
T33])
(%i12) trigsimp(%);
Universal error handler called recursively (:ERROR NIL
CONDITIONS::CLCS-UNIVERSAL-ERROR-HANDLER
""
  "Couldn't protect")
Universal error handler called recursively (:ERROR NIL
CONDITIONS::CLCS-UNIVERSAL-ERROR-HANDLER
"" "Couldn't protect")
Maxima encountered a Lisp error:

  Error in CONDITIONS::CLCS-UNIVERSAL-ERROR-HANDLER [or a callee]: Caught fatal error [memory may be damaged]

Automatically continuing.
To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
(%i13) Q.trigsimp(T.transpose(Q));
(%o13) matrix([cos(t) (cos(t) T11 - sin(t) T12)
  - sin(t) (cos(t) T21 - sin(t) T22), cos(t) (cos(t) T12 + sin(t) T11)
  - sin(t) (cos(t) T22 + sin(t) T21), cos(t) T13 - sin(t) T23],
[cos(t) (cos(t) T21 - sin(t) T22) + sin(t) (cos(t) T11 - sin(t) T12),
cos(t) (cos(t) T22 + sin(t) T21) + sin(t) (cos(t) T12 + sin(t) T11),
cos(t) T23 + sin(t) T13], [cos(t) T31 - sin(t) T32, cos(t) T32 + sin(t) T31,
T33])
(%i14) trigsimp(Q.trigsimp(T.transpose(Q)));
Segmentation fault
[omf@midgar 14:48:25 ~]$

Computer algebra systems are not the best to begin with, but Maxima has a very, very long way to go before it can compete with Mathematica. Most of my analytical work on a daily basis is done using Maxima and I can safely say that the program could be a lot better than it currently is.

How are the free alternatives coming along? Any recommendations?

I've used Maxima with good results. Not quite Mathematica, though.

Maxima is released under the GPL.

Mathematica 7 has launched, as noted in Stephen Wolfram's blog post. Among the new features are huge equation typesetting, transcendental roots, and discrete calculus. Looking back at the version 6 discussion, it's perhaps inevitable that comparisons will be made to CAR, CGsuite, GAP, Geogebra, Geometer's Sketchpad, Geometry Expressions, Geonext, LaTeX, Magma, Maple, Matlab, nauty, noneuclid, Pari, Sage, or SeifertView. In other news, the Wolfram Demonstrations project now has over 4000 interactive math demos.

Two solutions I use all the time when it gets to large scale (25+ servers) Slackware deployment :

1. shmux
2. ClusterSSH

I like shmux a bit better when it comes to lots and lots of machines to update, but ClusterSSH is better when you need to check a few things interactively before borking things up.

Of course, both require you to configure quite a few things, but a couple of nice shell scripts, one dedicated user (TCPWrappers is your friend!) and one SSH key pairs... and you are in business.

NIS or NIS+ are also good solutions if you are using Slackware.

All I see are Ada 95, Embedded C, and C++ support, not much third party driver support, and hardly any third party applications at all.

Might as well use AROS as it has more of that than the OS in TFA.

If you're just need an X server on Windows to connect to your *nix box, I suggest using Xming. It's free, lightweight, easy to configure, and one can quickly setup shortcuts to connect to a specific server and run a program. It's also very useful for getting around a content filter if you can access your own *nix server from the internet.

I don't have any affiliation with Colin Harrison, however I've used other X servers on Windows before and this has been the best. Here's my experience with different X servers: Exceed - Bloated, expensive, extra licensing fee for doing X11 over SSH, unstable copy and paste (in the past versions I used) ReflectionX - A bit bloated, expensive, funky interface Cygwin* - Too many unneeded apps included for just an X server, FREE, difficult to configure if you're not familiar with it Xming - Light weight, FREE, quick install, can use PuTTY's plink to do configure free X11 forwarding over SSH, copy and paste works, it just works

*In regards to Cygwin, I understand that it is more than just an X server, however it has been recommended a number of times to me as a solution for a free X server on Windows

I prefer vnc for all the above reasons plus it runs on just about every platform in existence.

You choose to not have a case sensitive file system and complain about it. I'll leave understanding what I mean as an exercise for the reader. Hint: disk utility.

Just don't reformat the root partition as case-sensitive! I tried that, and it broke many things.

I now divide the hard drive on my MacBook Pro into two partitions. The root partition is case-insensitive, and the second partition is case-sensitive and mounted at /usr/local. My Time Machine backup drive is formatted as case-sensitive so that it'll be able to deal with the /usr/local stuff.

I have a Perforce server running on my machine. I learned the hard way that the Mac version of Perforce assumes it's on a case-sensitive volume, and things break if it's on a case-sensitive one. However, there's an undocumented option to force the Perforce daemon into case-sensitive mode. "p4 help undoc" displays the documentation for undocumented options, oddly enough.

Many common programs from Unix-land are most easily downloaded and compiled (if necessary, where binaries aren't available) with FinkCommander.

If you're just need an X server on Windows to connect to your *nix box, I suggest using Xming. It's free, lightweight, easy to configure, and one can quickly setup shortcuts to connect to a specific server and run a program. It's also very useful for getting around a content filter if you can access your own *nix server from the internet.

I don't have any affiliation with Colin Harrison, however I've used other X servers on Windows before and this has been the best. Here's my experience with different X servers:
Exceed - Bloated, expensive, extra licensing fee for doing X11 over SSH, unstable copy and paste (in the past versions I used)
ReflectionX - A bit bloated, expensive, funky interface
Cygwin* - Too many unneeded apps included for just an X server, FREE, difficult to configure if you're not familiar with it
Xming - Light weight, FREE, quick install, can use PuTTY's plink to do configure free X11 forwarding over SSH, copy and paste works, it just works

*In regards to Cygwin, I understand that it is more than just an X server, however it has been recommended a number of times to me as a solution for a free X server on Windows

UFO: Alien Invasion (http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/) is trying to do this. It's not quite the same, and it's still in development, but it's very good.

Like Star Control II was such a great game. Who the hell on slashdot even remembers it?

Those who don't remember can play a Free version.
There are versions available on the project's download page for Windows, OSX, BSD, and Linux.

Obviously at least 5 people remember it for your post+sig to have been scored funny :)

I'm surprised nobody has linked to The Ur-Quan Masters...

You probably ought to give UFO: Alien Invasion a try. It's definitely not the same game, but it's created by a group of people clearly in love with the source material.