Too true. Don't look to Russia in the future, look to Taiwan in the present. Where do many, if not most motherboards come from? Chipsets? Taiwan. I don't see Via knuckling under to the US Congress (Via still produces chips based on the Cyrix / Winchip cores). Sure, their CPUs do not boast as much performance as Intel's, but they are cheaper, and right next door to the largest markets in the world.
When stuff like this starts becoming part of international trade agreements (think prerequisite for WTO membership), then look out. Hopefully, self-interest and world demand for non-crippled hardware will keep the Taiwanese government from following the stupidity of the US Congress.
Buy them fresh. Many smaller florists only get them in once a week, you may want to call in advance (today) to find out what day they get delivered. Of course, if you are waiting until the 14th to give them away, they are better off stored at the florists.
Plan ahead. Valentines is peak season for florists - your best bet is to order a bouquet today for pickup on the 13th or 14th.
Get Floritech or a similar preservative to get the longest life from the roses - they should last a week at least. For bonus points, get the florist to place a water-filled vial on each stem (called waterpicks, IIRC), to give you a little more flexibility in transporting the roses home / to your significant other's (SO) place. Rosecareinstructions.
Buy a really nice vase which matches your SO's decor, and bring help your SO place the roses into it. Alternatively, you can get a florist to place a bouquet into a vase of your choice, as long as you can transport a vase full of water.
Buy one, three, six, or multiples of a dozen roses - two or four roses look too symmetrical in a vase. Also, ask for some greens (fern-like green stuff that helps to fill in the bare rose stems) and baby's breath. Of course, colourmatters
Look into rose preservation - you can dry roses easily at home, and make a decent arrangement. Do a google search, but even hanging them upside down beside a window should work.
we just had this happen in my high school chemistry class
High school chemistry. Wow, that must make you some sort of expert. I bow to your wisdom, unassailable one. Perhaps you got your temperature systems mixed up, as spontaneous combustion in air (autoignition) at 115C is a fair sight hotter than the typical classroom. 115F is not equal to 115C (and take a wild guess which is hotter).
Somewhere in there are instructions on how to
remove sodium blocks from the oil to use them.
You do know what happens when you remove sodium
from its oil container, right?
Umm... nothing? Sodium is not pyrophoric, phosporus is. Sodium metal removed from the oil will react slowly with moisture in the air to become sodium hydroxide (evolving small amounts of hydrogen gas). As NaOH is hydroscopic, eventually, you end up with a puddle of concentrated NaOH (caustic).
Now, if you placed the sodium into a bucket of water, the reaction would be a lot faster, and you would get enough heat to ignite the hydrogen gas, and possibly the sodium metal. It looks quite cool. watching a piece of flaming sodium skittering around on the surface of the water inside a bucket, propelled by the hydrogen gas which is bubbling off the sodium. Don't use a plastic bucket, as the sodium tends to stick to the edges, with unfortunate results. It is best to neutralize the waste water with a mild acid such as vinegar, and of course, to not try this at home. Or anywhere near anything flammable. In retrospect, doing this inside a hazardous waster storage facility might not have been the smartest thing I have ever done, even though nothing happened.
94 megs. Nice for those who do not have broadband, or $2 for a CheapBytes CD.
What more can I ask for? How about Python (you'll need it to configure the kernel using CML2 after 2.5.2)? How about a distro that is mature enough to not play games with kernel versioning?
Peanut Linux is loaded with E v16.5, X Windows 4.1.0, Kernel 2.5.0 with USB support.
And to think that some distro's consider the 2.4 kernels to be bleeding edge...I would be a wee bit hesitant to foist a 2.5 series kernel on an unsuspecting newbie. Sure, 2.5.0 is really 2.4.15, but what will they do next - have an apparent downgrade to 2.4.X, or ship a future development kernel further in the 2.5.x series. Peanut looks neat in principle, but their choice of kernel makes me wonder what other oddities are present.
Have not read Prachett, but definitely not Feist. He cannot go a single page without using the phrase "mystic" or "mystic powers". It took me a long time to notice, but once I did, I could hardly bear to read his books anymore.
Guy Gavriel Kay might make the list though. He is actually a decent writer, and has mastered the little things most pulp fiction writers miss - characterization, plot, beautiful descriptive language,broad vocabulary, etc. Books like Tigana, A Song for Arbonne, and The Lions of Al-Rassan have permanent residency on my bookshelf. Kay immerses the reader into his works.
dschl
Anyone who thinks hunting is barbaric should try visiting a chicken farm someday
David Horne achieved what many would even now consider impossible. He wrote a chess game, with AI, that ran on a poorly documented, buggy machine that contained only 1k of memory.
The Sinclar ZX81.
I don't code, but I imagine that would be tough to beat.
I did not mean to imply that you could tar up your/etc directory and expect to put it on a new installation of a radically different distro. The stuff in/home is what I was referring to. Not for everything, but certainly many user-defined customisations will survive a major transition - things like my.blackboxrc,.mozilla (cookies, favourites, etc). Things like vi settings, bash, and most applications will survive a major transition, and these are the things most users configure - the interface and the applications.
Oh, and removing web view was the first thing I tried. In researching at MSDN, it looks like my only hope may be to write or adapt an.htt file that kills the default view of summary information.
We migrated to Win2k at work last week (yes, we are a bit behind the times). Most people (existing W98 users) lost between several hours and a day in configuration. I spent a bit of time figuring out where the controls were and what the new settings were called, getting used to Outlook, and killing things like the annoying menu-hiding "feature". Then, I spent a bunch more time reconfiguring all of my application defaults (blue background in Word, and so on). What pissed me off about this is the inefficiency - the time wasted to reconfigure all my settings. Maybe the admins could have transferred my preferences and settings from W98/Office 97 to W2K / Office 2K, but I doubt it.
In comparison, I have a/home partition on my home Linux machine, which has kept my application and environment settings consistent between several installs of Mandrake and Debian. The next time you "tweak it to hell and back", keep in mind that Windows requires the same amount of tweaking to make it usable. Also, if you had taken the trouble to back up all of your.files, you could have enjoyed the fruits of your previous tweaking in a new installation.
As for network detection, when I installed a new motherboard, a year or so ago, I had to turn off PNP in the BIOS so that W98 could find my ISA network card (I had to have the BIOS configure PNP devices, set IRQs and such before booting the OS). Oddly, the current version of Mandrake at that time had no difficulties with PNP....
One last thing - we have a novell network at work, and Explorer has a stupid feature about diplaying summary information for Office files you select. It takes over five seconds for me to switch from selecting any Word or Excel files on the network server in NTExplorer because Explorer virtually hangs while it waits for the information to display that document.doc was saved by dschl, rather than just the default file size and name information it shows for things like Autocad or text files. I have not yet found a way to turn off this brain dead feature, and have never had such a slow file manager in any OS, including win 3.1, thanks to this "feature". I know that if Nautilus or Konqueror had such a feature, I could likely turn it off.
From the Changelog
-pre9:
- Chris Mason: reiserfs PF_MEMALLOC handling
-pre4:
- Chris Mason: ReiserFS pre-allocation locking bugfix
-pre3:
- Chris Mason: reiserfs mark_journal_new and bh leak fix
- Neil Brown: knfsd updates, including ability to export ReiserFS filesys
Also, there is a patch available for 2.4.5 at the Namesys website, where they stated on June 21:
Quota and KNFSD patch for 2.4.5 is renamed ( linux-2.4.5-reiserfs-quota+knfsd+umount-fix.patch. bz2) to indicate explicitly that it also contains umount-fix patch.
The one you likely want the most is the PR manager for Adobe Illustrator®, Cara Broglia.
Of course, a link to the Linux Advocacy HOWTO is always in order at times like this. As cbroglia will not be reading his/her e-mail for another 10-12 hours, why not wait until then. Sober second thought, and all that.
November 2000 Interview of the project leaders on/.
Bastille-Linux homepage. I believe it now installs on non-virgin Redhat and Mandrake systems, and 6.2 is definitely included in the list. All of the other links are great for learning to do it yourself, but in the meantime, you can lock down your box quite nicely with Bastille.
I have used it for a year or so, and highly recommend it.
The American Chemistry Society has an article on the front page of Chemical & Engineering News titled Electrifying Plastics. It discusses the research which led to the Nobel prize for two chemists and a physicist, and laid the foundation for organic electronics. At the moment, the article is publically accessible. As a side note for Hemos, the cover story is on nanotechnology , and covers the issues in some detail a general form.
Re:Correct Spelling is a waste of brain space...
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Just being picky here. You had too many "x" in your final sentence. You wrote:
"...and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet."
Why then does your final sentence say :
"Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld."
A total of FOUR "x" characters! Your post was a work of art though, and I truly appreciate your effort. Keep up the good work.
Darren
What I would give to see Jon's brain in a jar
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....think of how much the S/N ratio would improve on Slashdot
Somehow, the idea of reading anything which comes recommended by Katz does not strike me as a valuable use of time.
As a side note to the Soldier of Fortune rating, BC Ferries (Crown Corporation which operates almost all ferries in British Columbia, including those from Vancouver to Vancouver Island) announced that they would be removing all "violent" video games including "hand-held guns" (direct quotes from Minister Responsible for BC Ferries, Joy McPhail, as heard on CBC's afternoon show yesterday on my drive home).
What about games where you can hold a knife in your teeth? Would they be OK? Is a rocket launcher on a character's shoulder acceptable?
You get solid CO2 by reducing the pressure of liquid CO2. IIRC, the phase diagram for CO2 shows that it takes a pressure of around 5 atm for liquid CO2 to exist. Phase transistion involves sublimation from gas to solid (or vice versa) at atmospheric pressure (no liquid phase possible).Basically, when you release liquid CO2 from a cylinder to atmospheric pressure it will turn into a gas or solid, depending on the temperature.As the phase transition to a gas requires energy (heat), you will end up with mainly CO2 solids.
As for safety, your comment had me ROFLOL. Use either a well ventilated or a large room. You might recognize carbon dioxide's common name of "dry ice". Not that much of a hazard. They used 6kg of carbon dioxide in their cooling, which would occupy a total volume of approximately 3.4 cubic metres as a gas at STP (after it sublimes, which would take some time).Think of a box 1m high, 1m wide and 3.4m wide). Thus, a normal room (3m wide, 5m long and 2.5m high) with a volume of 37 cubic metres could in a worst case scenario end up with [CO2] of 10% or so. The only hazard would be if you had no air exhange, which is unlikely, as it could take hours to completely sublime.
Quite a lot, actually. And I think you can tell that the Slashdot population is predominantly young, unmarried, idealistic, and childless from their attitude towards this. Married, cynical, almost have 2 kids (1.5 months to go). I love my son, but given the choice between freedom and death, I do not feel that life would be worth living in the type of society you could be complacent in. Don't forget the government and their social engineering, which appears to have worked on you. Just continue keeping your head down, swallowing injustice, avoiding conflict, and you won't even complain when they take your children away for not indoctrinating them with politically correct beliefs. By the time that happens (not too far away), you might even agree with them. BTW, this actually has happened to certain minority groups. Right now in Canada, we are facing bilions of dollars of lawsuits over residential schools in the 1950's, when the government took almost all of the native children away from their parents. Similar events will happen again.
Not if I haven't been stupid. If I do start doing stupid things, I start endangering everyone around me. And if one of my neighbors starts doing stupid things -- what right does he have to endanger me and my family?
Read what you wrote there. That leads to anarchy - ever heard of the rule of law? Working to enforce that, and defend the original intent of your awesomely crafted constitution (for those of you in the US - Canada's constitution is a pile of garbage without even basic property rights) is what you should be doing. Otherwise, what are you really doing for your children - Gee son, I'm really sorry that you live in a totalitarian police state, but I have successfully kept my head down the last twenty years
There is someone on Slashdot with a.sig that reads "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean everyone's not out to get you". Hey, why should we make cops get warrants? They wouldn't do ANYTHING stupid like break into a childrens birthday party and shoot the family dog on a drug raid (happened up here last year). Or go to the wrong house, shoot repeatedly at a dog being held back by it's owner, and narrowly miss a woman and her sleeping baby downstairs (happened around 2 years ago in the town where I live). You would just accept this as a part of life, and not even disagree with the police actions. Hopefully you will change your mind before they bust your door down.
Next time you want to bitch about our "technological paradise", make sure you do the following first: -throw away your refrigerator, and forget about any form of food preservation -avoid medical attention for the rest of you life (and too damn bad that infant mortality was closer to 50% a few hundred years ago, not to mention the number of women who died during childbirth) -give someone else your TV, computer, telephone, clothing made with synthetic materials, and all other benfits of our "technological paradise" -grow all of your own food and make your own clothing -walk everywhere in bare feet, or leather shoes from an animal you butchered yourself
There is no era in earth's history with longer life expectancies and a higher standard of living than the present. Instead of appreciating what you have, and working towards fixing the problems which you see, why do you sit around whining? In addition, why are you posting flames as an AC - afraid someone might connect your obvious ignorance with your real name?
Given that evolution preaches natural selection of mutations, we would actually be assisting the external organisms in their development. In fact, if one were to rigidly follow the precepts of evolutionary theories, it is our duty to increase levels of radiation and corresponding mutation levels (notwithstanding that beneficial mutations are rather rare). Radiation is more of a concern for complex organisms, which we are unlikely to find. In fact, I doubt even simple life will be present.
BTW, probe weight = 100kg, plutonium mass = 5kg or less. If this thing has to be launched from earth, how many safety factors do you think will be built in? {hint - more than you can imagine} The designers of such a probe consider safety to be a design issue, not a cause for hysteria.
Darren
Too bad your greenpeace membership didn't include a science education
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Think again. Water makes up 70% of the cells mass of your desert mouse. At -189C, he would be rather solid. Basically, any bacteria has too much water in it to meet the challenge, and so does any more complex form of life.
Some viruses might not need liquid water, but they require a host, and fail to meet other conditions on availability of building blocks. Also, I seem to recall a debate on whether virii are really life.
Slashdot Mirror
Too true. Don't look to Russia in the future, look to Taiwan in the present. Where do many, if not most motherboards come from? Chipsets? Taiwan. I don't see Via knuckling under to the US Congress (Via still produces chips based on the Cyrix / Winchip cores). Sure, their CPUs do not boast as much performance as Intel's, but they are cheaper, and right next door to the largest markets in the world.
When stuff like this starts becoming part of international trade agreements (think prerequisite for WTO membership), then look out. Hopefully, self-interest and world demand for non-crippled hardware will keep the Taiwanese government from following the stupidity of the US Congress.
Umm... nothing? Sodium is not pyrophoric, phosporus is. Sodium metal removed from the oil will react slowly with moisture in the air to become sodium hydroxide (evolving small amounts of hydrogen gas). As NaOH is hydroscopic, eventually, you end up with a puddle of concentrated NaOH (caustic).
Now, if you placed the sodium into a bucket of water, the reaction would be a lot faster, and you would get enough heat to ignite the hydrogen gas, and possibly the sodium metal. It looks quite cool. watching a piece of flaming sodium skittering around on the surface of the water inside a bucket, propelled by the hydrogen gas which is bubbling off the sodium. Don't use a plastic bucket, as the sodium tends to stick to the edges, with unfortunate results. It is best to neutralize the waste water with a mild acid such as vinegar, and of course, to not try this at home. Or anywhere near anything flammable. In retrospect, doing this inside a hazardous waster storage facility might not have been the smartest thing I have ever done, even though nothing happened.
What more can I ask for? How about Python (you'll need it to configure the kernel using CML2 after 2.5.2)? How about a distro that is mature enough to not play games with kernel versioning?
And to think that some distro's consider the 2.4 kernels to be bleeding edge...I would be a wee bit hesitant to foist a 2.5 series kernel on an unsuspecting newbie. Sure, 2.5.0 is really 2.4.15, but what will they do next - have an apparent downgrade to 2.4.X, or ship a future development kernel further in the 2.5.x series. Peanut looks neat in principle, but their choice of kernel makes me wonder what other oddities are present.
Guy Gavriel Kay might make the list though. He is actually a decent writer, and has mastered the little things most pulp fiction writers miss - characterization, plot, beautiful descriptive language,broad vocabulary, etc. Books like Tigana, A Song for Arbonne, and The Lions of Al-Rassan have permanent residency on my bookshelf. Kay immerses the reader into his works.
dschl
Anyone who thinks hunting is barbaric should try visiting a chicken farm someday
Oh, and removing web view was the first thing I tried. In researching at MSDN, it looks like my only hope may be to write or adapt an .htt file that kills the default view of summary information.
In comparison, I have a /home partition on my home Linux machine, which has kept my application and environment settings consistent between several installs of Mandrake and Debian. The next time you "tweak it to hell and back", keep in mind that Windows requires the same amount of tweaking to make it usable. Also, if you had taken the trouble to back up all of your .files, you could have enjoyed the fruits of your previous tweaking in a new installation.
As for network detection, when I installed a new motherboard, a year or so ago, I had to turn off PNP in the BIOS so that W98 could find my ISA network card (I had to have the BIOS configure PNP devices, set IRQs and such before booting the OS). Oddly, the current version of Mandrake at that time had no difficulties with PNP....
One last thing - we have a novell network at work, and Explorer has a stupid feature about diplaying summary information for Office files you select. It takes over five seconds for me to switch from selecting any Word or Excel files on the network server in NTExplorer because Explorer virtually hangs while it waits for the information to display that document.doc was saved by dschl, rather than just the default file size and name information it shows for things like Autocad or text files. I have not yet found a way to turn off this brain dead feature, and have never had such a slow file manager in any OS, including win 3.1, thanks to this "feature". I know that if Nautilus or Konqueror had such a feature, I could likely turn it off.
-pre9:
- Chris Mason: reiserfs PF_MEMALLOC handling
-pre4:
- Chris Mason: ReiserFS pre-allocation locking bugfix
-pre3:
- Chris Mason: reiserfs mark_journal_new and bh leak fix
- Neil Brown: knfsd updates, including ability to export ReiserFS filesys
Also, there is a patch available for 2.4.5 at the Namesys website, where they stated on June 21:. bz2) to indicate explicitly that it also contains umount-fix patch.
Quota and KNFSD patch for 2.4.5 is renamed ( linux-2.4.5-reiserfs-quota+knfsd+umount-fix.patch
Public Relations Headquarters Contacts
The one you likely want the most is the PR manager for Adobe Illustrator®, Cara Broglia.
Of course, a link to the Linux Advocacy HOWTO is always in order at times like this. As cbroglia will not be reading his/her e-mail for another 10-12 hours, why not wait until then. Sober second thought, and all that.
So, now that we know what the XP stands for in Office XP, I wonder when MS will let on for what the XP in Windows XP really means?
The poll is missing a few options for what role we think Clippy is well suited for:
Now if only you could spell it.
One word: Bastille.
/.
November 2000 Interview of the project leaders on
Bastille-Linux homepage. I believe it now installs on non-virgin Redhat and Mandrake systems, and 6.2 is definitely included in the list. All of the other links are great for learning to do it yourself, but in the meantime, you can lock down your box quite nicely with Bastille.
I have used it for a year or so, and highly recommend it.
The American Chemistry Society has an article on the front page of Chemical & Engineering News titled Electrifying Plastics. It discusses the research which led to the Nobel prize for two chemists and a physicist, and laid the foundation for organic electronics. At the moment, the article is publically accessible. As a side note for Hemos, the cover story is on nanotechnology , and covers the issues in some detail a general form.
Just being picky here. You had too many "x" in your final sentence. You wrote:
"...and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet."
Why then does your final sentence say :
"Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld."
A total of FOUR "x" characters! Your post was a work of art though, and I truly appreciate your effort. Keep up the good work.
Darren
....think of how much the S/N ratio would improve on Slashdot
:)
Somehow, the idea of reading anything which comes recommended by Katz does not strike me as a valuable use of time.
Of course, neither does reading Slashdot
What about games where you can hold a knife in your teeth? Would they be OK? Is a rocket launcher on a character's shoulder acceptable?
As for safety, your comment had me ROFLOL. Use either a well ventilated or a large room. You might recognize carbon dioxide's common name of "dry ice". Not that much of a hazard. They used 6kg of carbon dioxide in their cooling, which would occupy a total volume of approximately 3.4 cubic metres as a gas at STP (after it sublimes, which would take some time).Think of a box 1m high, 1m wide and 3.4m wide). Thus, a normal room (3m wide, 5m long and 2.5m high) with a volume of 37 cubic metres could in a worst case scenario end up with [CO2] of 10% or so. The only hazard would be if you had no air exhange, which is unlikely, as it could take hours to completely sublime.
Quite a lot, actually. And I think you can tell that the Slashdot population is predominantly young, unmarried, idealistic, and childless from their attitude towards this.
.sig that reads "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean everyone's not out to get you". Hey, why should we make cops get warrants? They wouldn't do ANYTHING stupid like break into a childrens birthday party and shoot the family dog on a drug raid (happened up here last year). Or go to the wrong house, shoot repeatedly at a dog being held back by it's owner, and narrowly miss a woman and her sleeping baby downstairs (happened around 2 years ago in the town where I live). You would just accept this as a part of life, and not even disagree with the police actions. Hopefully you will change your mind before they bust your door down.
Married, cynical, almost have 2 kids (1.5 months to go). I love my son, but given the choice between freedom and death, I do not feel that life would be worth living in the type of society you could be complacent in. Don't forget the government and their social engineering, which appears to have worked on you. Just continue keeping your head down, swallowing injustice, avoiding conflict, and you won't even complain when they take your children away for not indoctrinating them with politically correct beliefs. By the time that happens (not too far away), you might even agree with them. BTW, this actually has happened to certain minority groups. Right now in Canada, we are facing bilions of dollars of lawsuits over residential schools in the 1950's, when the government took almost all of the native children away from their parents. Similar events will happen again.
Not if I haven't been stupid. If I do start doing stupid things, I start endangering everyone around me. And if one of my neighbors starts doing stupid things -- what right does he have to endanger me and my family?
Read what you wrote there. That leads to anarchy - ever heard of the rule of law? Working to enforce that, and defend the original intent of your awesomely crafted constitution (for those of you in the US - Canada's constitution is a pile of garbage without even basic property rights) is what you should be doing. Otherwise, what are you really doing for your children - Gee son, I'm really sorry that you live in a totalitarian police state, but I have successfully kept my head down the last twenty years
There is someone on Slashdot with a
Darren
Sorry, couldn't resist the troll bait.
Next time you want to bitch about our "technological paradise", make sure you do the following first:
-throw away your refrigerator, and forget about any form of food preservation
-avoid medical attention for the rest of you life (and too damn bad that infant mortality was closer to 50% a few hundred years ago, not to mention the number of women who died during childbirth)
-give someone else your TV, computer, telephone, clothing made with synthetic materials, and all other benfits of our "technological paradise"
-grow all of your own food and make your own clothing
-walk everywhere in bare feet, or leather shoes from an animal you butchered yourself
There is no era in earth's history with longer life expectancies and a higher standard of living than the present. Instead of appreciating what you have, and working towards fixing the problems which you see, why do you sit around whining? In addition, why are you posting flames as an AC - afraid someone might connect your obvious ignorance with your real name?
Darren
Given that evolution preaches natural selection of mutations, we would actually be assisting the external organisms in their development. In fact, if one were to rigidly follow the precepts of evolutionary theories, it is our duty to increase levels of radiation and corresponding mutation levels (notwithstanding that beneficial mutations are rather rare). Radiation is more of a concern for complex organisms, which we are unlikely to find. In fact, I doubt even simple life will be present.
BTW, probe weight = 100kg, plutonium mass = 5kg or less. If this thing has to be launched from earth, how many safety factors do you think will be built in? {hint - more than you can imagine} The designers of such a probe consider safety to be a design issue, not a cause for hysteria.
Darren
Too bad your greenpeace membership didn't include a science education
Think again. Water makes up 70% of the cells mass of your desert mouse. At -189C, he would be rather solid. Basically, any bacteria has too much water in it to meet the challenge, and so does any more complex form of life.
Some viruses might not need liquid water, but they require a host, and fail to meet other conditions on availability of building blocks. Also, I seem to recall a debate on whether virii are really life.
Darren
Ever read Larry Niven? Flatlander it is.
Darren