Also earge(mailto:mdchaney@doublewide.net) Michael to contact someone in the media regarding this story. It would make a wonderful headline.
"Generous Linux user pays past-due domain fee" "Bill Gates recieves charity from generous Linux user" "Worlds richest man doesn't pay his bills" ..the list goes on.. _________________________
If you've indeed payed the bill, I beg you, please get a hold of someone in the media. This could be such a fantastic headline. and be sure to refer to yourself as a linux user. please please. If you really payed it. use the publicity. _________________________
I would bill microsoft a huuuuuge amount (for working a holiday) get a hold of the media, and explain how is MS doesn't pay your invoice, you will stop payment on the 35.00 domain fee and render hotmail broken again.
Now that you've payed it, Squat it! _________________________
As most/.ers are well aware, Hotmail uses FreeBSD to operate the mail system (a choice made by the original owners b4 micros~1 bought the company. micros~1 is currently hiring skilled engineers with FreeBSD experience (as this/. article shows).
Are you interested in being associated with a mail system that goes down more than a presidential intern?:) Now's your chace to work for the evil empire. _________________________
Michael Raymer is the principal investigator for this reaserch project and his many goals include One working quantum ligic gate in three years.
For those to lazy to click the link:
Physicists at the University of Oregon have secured a $1.5 million federal grant to lead a three-university effort aimed at developing an advanced micro-processing device called a "quantum logic gate." The quantum logic gate could allow for a number of dramatic technological advances, including efficient processing of encrypted information and the much heralded, but still speculative "quantum computer." "Our three-year goal is to build one working quantum logic gate," says UO physicist Michael Raymer, who is the principal investigator overseeing the project which includes collaboration with researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Arizona. "The funding will enable us to build up a new laboratory dedicated to this work." The quantum logic gate would put to use the peculiar qualities of quantum mechanics in the service of enhanced communications technologies. "Quantum mechanics is often portrayed as weird behavior not understandable to us, almost a defect in nature," Raymer says. "But this is a case where we turn this on its head and try to use these weird quantum properties to do something useful." Once a single logic gate is developed, it could be used to create quantum processing devices with capabilities that potentially could be used in practical applications. One application already conceived for quantum information processing is in the area of encryption--increasingly important with the explosion of e-commerce and growing concerns about on-line security. In this conception, each bit of information would be encrypted on a single photon of light. This is in contrast to current state-of-the-art fiber-optic communication techniques in which each bit is encoded in a pulse of light made up of millions or billions of photons. Then devices built of numerous quantum logic gates might be used to process such encrypted information. "Using this method, one can encrypt and decode messages so that there is no known way for eavesdroppers to break the encryption," Raymer says. "Quantum physics has surprisingly provided an answer to the problem of information security." A second, though more speculative, use of the quantum logic gate would be as the building block for a "quantum computer" in much the same way as a transistor is the basic building block of today's computer. Quantum computing has been recognized in the past five or so years as one of the most exciting areas of research, combining computer science theory and quantum physics. "There are some very hard questions that need to be considered about the ultimate feasibility of this concept," Raymer says. "A few years ago physicists were quite skeptical, but very recent theoretical proofs about the possibility for operating these computers robustly in spite of noise, or errors, have astounded people." Raymer notes that while the development of the quantum computer is still perhaps 20 years in the future, if one were ever built, it would be used "for certain special tasks and might operate thousands to millions of times faster than the largest parallel processor computer" available today. These promising developments have, in part, led to rapid growth in the federal government's interest in funding research in this area. The granting agencies for the UO's quantum logic gate project are the Army Research Office and the National Science Foundation, and Raymer notes that project results will be published openly in the scientific literature. Two other UO physicists, Peter Sercel and Hailin Wang, as well as student researchers will join Raymer in the project. The work will be carried out at the Oregon Center for Optics, a research center recently founded at the University of Oregon for the investigation of theoretical and experimental aspects of light, including lasers and other optical technology. _________________________
As the LWN Linux year in review points out, it's been a good year for open source, and a good year for skilled coders.
Among the many things I'm thankful for this holiday season is.
1) A warm, caring loving family 2) Faith 3) Open source hitting major media. 4) Open source hitting wall street. 5) micros~1 finaly recognized as a monopoly 6) Linus 7) The thousands of programers world wide that make this comunity grow and thrive. 8) A computer that just works (thanks to numbers 6 and 7) 9) Triple digit Karma;)
Ok so I made some stupid comments which I will never apologize for. I should have made more comments to everyone in general. I also did not mean to post under this story. I don't have a life, and making such posts would prove it. Linux users do not start these debates about which OS is better. It's almost always the windows users. It wouldn't be so annoying if windows was actually a decent OS. It is not. When MS-Bob came out you heard people talk about how it copied the Mac. Nobody seems to mind that Windows copied Linux. I am a CS major and at my University we have a row of windows boxes. Several CS students do all there programming on these boxes and look down on those who do not. I happen to make better grades than they do and my programs work just fine on Linux using GCC. Why they open their mouths, like many windows geeks, is beyond me. Comparing windows to Linux is like comparing a college team to the pros. Windows 2000 has yet to hit the shelves, so they're kinda still in college. They have added too many features to mention. I have used Linux and can say that it is stable, easy to use, easy to setup, and works with almost all hardware. Windows is gonna release a new service pack everyday and if we're lucky we may see Windows catch up with Linux and offer a journaling file system. WOW. Welcome to the 90's Windows.
"Getting Borked"=When a political apointee is put on the political hot seat. "Being Downsized"=Politicly Corect way of firing somebody. I would like to offer a new term to the group. "Getting Blackdowned"=Open Source developers being whiped from the face a project when it reaches a usefull stage.
Perhaps the OSLDF could have been able to help the blackdown group when they 'Got Blackdowned'.
Like other law groups protecting differant legal issues in the courts, what the Open Source comunity is in need of is a Open Sourse Legal Defence Fund.
The OSLDF can challenge patent assersions in court showing prior art in the standards and protocols and argue when an obvious implimentation of this prior art is needlesly patented.
The OSLDF can challenge patent prospectors to show there source code in order to show that there particular implementation is indeed unique and worthy of patent protection.
The OSLDF can fight for the small guy who doesn't have the means to launch a legal defence when his rights are violated under the GPL.
The OSLDF could grow as large as the ACLU is today, looking for landmark cases to protect the civil liberties of open source programers.
The OSLDF funding would be drawn (in the form of tax deductable donations) from the many users of open source. As Open source delevopment touches more and more industries and walks of life, the funding will also grow.
Patent prospectors. Like so many oil drillers in texas, IP lawyers drill down with obvious patents hoping to strike an "LZW" (read:widley used) cash gusher. Like so many domain squatters, this kind of IP speculative prospecting should be stoped cold at the patent office.
From the article : A new breed of prospector has landed in California and every other technology epicenter to help companies discover their hidden treasures. Like their predecessors of the nineteenth century, they come from many walks of life. Many of them are lawyers.
What isn't mentioned in the article is that each time an IP prospector chooses to try a patent, it cost money. The cost of each atempt to lock up the obvious is passed needlessly along to the user.
And which browser might that be? That browser would be Mozilla, now in M12, soon to be M13 and will be ready for cross-platform, open-source deployment. The M8-M12 Milestones are very impressive
If users were given a standard toolbox list so they knew which was used for what they could pick and choose the ones they like and still have tons of variety.
Things I'de rather do than run Windows. . .
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1) tongue surgically forked 2) forehead ridged with implants 3) breath fire 4) lift car batteries with chains running through his nipples. bring it, ok? fine! it's all good, just no more BSOD
We may well be getting offtopic, but let me first thank you for an educational and enlightening post. You've brought up many valid and informative points that are spot on. If you would indulge me for a moment, I would like to shine some light on some other areas.
Last thing first, like Mores law, Metcafs law (N^N) is a self serving observation of a trend, not a scientific fact. This trend is directly related to how open the network is, and is based on a trust model. As more companies are added, look for companies/governments to set barriers to connectivity (Read:AOLs IM,.AUs oppressive laws, proprietary broadband boxen..ect.)
US internet companies are in a strong position to gain a disproportionate share of the value of the GLOBAL process.
I'm sure many over the border users will attest to the fact that there isn't much global about the internet today. A(merican)SCII text being pushed from domain to domain registered by NSI.
If our good friend Mr. Berners Lee had chosen to name his approach to hypertext "European Wide Web" (EWW just doesn't have the same ring to it:) ) would you be toughing the eventual penetration in the EU community instead of extrapolating projections globally?
I would put forth that the reason the global penetration is so low is because there's nothing world wide about the world wide web. It's very American, and it's growth should be extrapolated as such.
It costs most companies between $50 to $100 to handle each and every purchase order and requisition. There is NO NEED for this
I can assure you there is a need for this. ISO 900* certification is just one example of the many G&A tasks that can benefit from automation, but never be replaced by it. The question still on my mind is how much of the ~30% G&A cost is expected to be resolved be increasing connectivity? 2%? 5%? maybe 8%? connectivity and convergence is a communications evolution, *not* to be confused with revolution. We have been in the midst of the evolution for over 30 years, and it will continue to evolve. Some examples:1)wearable computers =your beeper 2) Instant global communication =Iridium 3) Computing extending human capabilities =Palm Pilot 4) Wireless Computing extending human capabilities =Palm 7 Again, note the emphasis on evolution, not revolution.
All of these solutions were achieved because the capitol and technology just happened to be around at the time. Where would the Palm7 be without a well distributed PCS network? Where would PCS be with out a well distributed Cellular network . . Again, note the emphasis on evolution, not revolution.
So to sum up the act of internetworking is in the midst of a 30 year evolution and will continue on that path. Just because 95% of people are just waking up to that fact does not mean we should loose our heads with over speculative projections. I thank you for your time and attention and welcome any comments.
Oh!. and one more thing: Companies like AT&T are not spending $2000 per house that their cable goes by just for internet shopping. It's abouttelephone + videophone + interactive video + all sorts of ecommerce + telecommuting + banking +...
Take the $2000 and extrapolate that over the life of the twisted pair phone network in the USA and it's a trivial investment. Fact is, this is the first time AT&T has actually has been asked to increase bandwidth to the end users (something that shouldn't be shocking and amazing), So this particular out-pouring of capitol should be spread over the life of the network they are upgrading.
System Administrator Hotmail in Sunnyvale, CA [snip] We need someone to administer the Hotmail system of 45 million plus users...[snip]... solid troubleshooting skills, system installation and configuration, fundamentals of security, [snip]
No wonder Hotmail is easier to crack than a cookie jar.
I would like to take a moment to expand on the earlier comments, and focus more on other/.ers.
The false perception that internetworking is something new is forcing companies to concentrate on 'position position position' instead of actually applying the tech to make a buck.
I'm sure I'm not alone, being stuck in a meeting with someone who doesn't understand the value of a network. Someone who, when describing the internet uses words like "exciting" and "new". (reminds me of the old loveboat theme:).
When you find yourself in a meeting with someone who has seen one to many.com advertisements and wants pie in the sky things out of your network, use these little tools to deflate there position and keep them grounded in reality and out of the hype high.
1) Bring several printouts of Hobbes' Internet Timeline to the meeting and let them take it home to read.
2) Use the term 'Internetworking' instead of internet to illustrate that this isn't anything new.
4) Point out the many protocols that have run over IP, each proclaiming themselves to be the new new thing.
I have found these tools to be both educational and informative on many occasions, and it helps bring the discussion down to a real world level where real work can be done. So the next time you find yourself in a meeting with 'consultant-of-the-week'. I hope you find these tools useful.
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Thank you for pointing this out to me. I will be more diligent of this fact in future posts on/. Thank you for taking the time to post:)
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BTW, the POSIX_ME_HARDER part was hilarious. Made my morning.:)
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Also earge(mailto:mdchaney@doublewide.net) Michael to contact someone in the media regarding this story. It would make a wonderful headline.
"Generous Linux user pays past-due domain fee"
..the list goes on. .
"Bill Gates recieves charity from generous Linux user"
"Worlds richest man doesn't pay his bills"
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If you've indeed payed the bill, I beg you, please get a hold of someone in the media. This could be such a fantastic headline. and be sure to refer to yourself as a linux user. please please. If you really payed it. use the publicity.
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Now that you've payed it, Squat it!
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enjoy the outage!
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If there ever was a need for a "no content" choice in moderation, I think this post would fit the bill. :)
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Are you interested in being associated with a mail system that goes down more than a presidential intern? :) Now's your chace to work for the evil empire.
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For those to lazy to click the link:
Physicists at the University of Oregon have secured a $1.5 million federal grant to lead a three-university effort aimed at developing an advanced micro-processing device called a "quantum logic gate." The quantum logic gate could allow for a number of dramatic technological advances, including efficient processing of encrypted information and the much heralded, but still speculative "quantum computer." "Our three-year goal is to build one working quantum logic gate," says UO physicist Michael Raymer, who is the principal investigator overseeing the project which includes collaboration with researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Arizona. "The funding will enable us to build up a new laboratory dedicated to this work." The quantum logic gate would put to use the peculiar qualities of quantum mechanics in the service of enhanced communications technologies. "Quantum mechanics is often portrayed as weird behavior not understandable to us, almost a defect in nature," Raymer says. "But this is a case where we turn this on its head and try to use these weird quantum properties to do something useful." Once a single logic gate is developed, it could be used to create quantum processing devices with capabilities that potentially could be used in practical applications. One application already conceived for quantum information processing is in the area of encryption--increasingly important with the explosion of e-commerce and growing concerns about on-line security. In this conception, each bit of information would be encrypted on a single photon of light. This is in contrast to current state-of-the-art fiber-optic communication techniques in which each bit is encoded in a pulse of light made up of millions or billions of photons. Then devices built of numerous quantum logic gates might be used to process such encrypted information. "Using this method, one can encrypt and decode messages so that there is no known way for eavesdroppers to break the encryption," Raymer says. "Quantum physics has surprisingly provided an answer to the problem of information security." A second, though more speculative, use of the quantum logic gate would be as the building block for a "quantum computer" in much the same way as a transistor is the basic building block of today's computer. Quantum computing has been recognized in the past five or so years as one of the most exciting areas of research, combining computer science theory and quantum physics. "There are some very hard questions that need to be considered about the ultimate feasibility of this concept," Raymer says. "A few years ago physicists were quite skeptical, but very recent theoretical proofs about the possibility for operating these computers robustly in spite of noise, or errors, have astounded people." Raymer notes that while the development of the quantum computer is still perhaps 20 years in the future, if one were ever built, it would be used "for certain special tasks and might operate thousands to millions of times faster than the largest parallel processor computer" available today. These promising developments have, in part, led to rapid growth in the federal government's interest in funding research in this area. The granting agencies for the UO's quantum logic gate project are the Army Research Office and the National Science Foundation, and Raymer notes that project results will be published openly in the scientific literature. Two other UO physicists, Peter Sercel and Hailin Wang, as well as student researchers will join Raymer in the project. The work will be carried out at the Oregon Center for Optics, a research center recently founded at the University of Oregon for the investigation of theoretical and experimental aspects of light, including lasers and other optical technology.
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Among the many things I'm thankful for this holiday season is.
1) A warm, caring loving family ;)
2) Faith
3) Open source hitting major media.
4) Open source hitting wall street.
5) micros~1 finaly recognized as a monopoly
6) Linus
7) The thousands of programers world wide that make this comunity grow and thrive.
8) A computer that just works (thanks to numbers 6 and 7)
9) Triple digit Karma
How about you ?
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Best wishes to all of you.
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That's actually quite funny. I give ya an A+ for creativity Thank you :)
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Moderators: moderate this up ! !
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Ok so I made some stupid comments which I will never apologize for. I should have made more comments to everyone in general. I also did not mean to post under this story. I don't have a life, and making such posts would prove it. Linux users do not start these debates about which OS is better. It's almost always the windows users. It wouldn't be so annoying if windows was actually a decent OS. It is not. When MS-Bob came out you heard people talk about how it copied the Mac. Nobody seems to mind that Windows copied Linux. I am a CS major and at my University we have a row of windows boxes. Several CS students do all there programming on these boxes and look down on those who do not. I happen to make better grades than they do and my programs work just fine on Linux using GCC. Why they open their mouths, like many windows geeks, is beyond me. Comparing windows to Linux is like comparing a college team to the pros. Windows 2000 has yet to hit the shelves, so they're kinda still in college. They have added too many features to mention. I have used Linux and can say that it is stable, easy to use, easy to setup, and works with almost all hardware. Windows is gonna release a new service pack everyday and if we're lucky we may see Windows catch up with Linux and offer a journaling file system. WOW. Welcome to the 90's Windows.
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"Being Downsized"=Politicly Corect way of firing somebody.
I would like to offer a new term to the group.
"Getting Blackdowned"=Open Source developers being whiped from the face a project when it reaches a usefull stage.
Perhaps the OSLDF could have been able to help the blackdown group when they 'Got Blackdowned'.
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The OSLDF can challenge patent assersions in court showing prior art in the standards and protocols and argue when an obvious implimentation of this prior art is needlesly patented.
The OSLDF can challenge patent prospectors to show there source code in order to show that there particular implementation is indeed unique and worthy of patent protection.
The OSLDF can fight for the small guy who doesn't have the means to launch a legal defence when his rights are violated under the GPL.
The OSLDF could grow as large as the ACLU is today, looking for landmark cases to protect the civil liberties of open source programers.
The OSLDF funding would be drawn (in the form of tax deductable donations) from the many users of open source. As Open source delevopment touches more and more industries and walks of life, the funding will also grow.
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From the article :
A new breed of prospector has landed in California and every other technology epicenter to help companies discover their hidden treasures. Like their predecessors of the nineteenth century, they come from many walks of life. Many of them are lawyers.
What isn't mentioned in the article is that each time an IP prospector chooses to try a patent, it cost money. The cost of each atempt to lock up the obvious is passed needlessly along to the user .
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And which browser might that be?
That browser would be Mozilla, now in M12, soon to be M13 and will be ready for cross-platform, open-source deployment. The M8-M12 Milestones are very impressive
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Xwindows manager manager ?
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Geek leader (got it)
Developers (got em)
More apps (need it)
Stability (got it)
Browser (got it)
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1) tongue surgically forked
2) forehead ridged with implants
3) breath fire
4) lift car batteries with chains running through his nipples.
bring it, ok? fine! it's all good,
just no more BSOD
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Last thing first, like Mores law, Metcafs law (N^N) is a self serving observation of a trend, not a scientific fact. This trend is directly related to how open the network is, and is based on a trust model. As more companies are added, look for companies/governments to set barriers to connectivity (Read:AOLs IM, .AUs oppressive laws, proprietary broadband boxen..ect.)
US internet companies are in a strong position to gain a disproportionate share of the value of the GLOBAL process.
I'm sure many over the border users will attest to the fact that there isn't much global about the internet today. A(merican)SCII text being pushed from domain to domain registered by NSI.
If our good friend Mr. Berners Lee had chosen to name his approach to hypertext "European Wide Web" (EWW just doesn't have the same ring to it:) ) would you be toughing the eventual penetration in the EU community instead of extrapolating projections globally?
I would put forth that the reason the global penetration is so low is because there's nothing world wide about the world wide web. It's very American, and it's growth should be extrapolated as such.
It costs most companies between $50 to $100 to handle each and every purchase order and requisition. There is NO NEED for this
I can assure you there is a need for this. ISO 900* certification is just one example of the many G&A tasks that can benefit from automation, but never be replaced by it. The question still on my mind is how much of the ~30% G&A cost is expected to be resolved be increasing connectivity? 2%? 5%? maybe 8%? connectivity and convergence is a communications evolution, *not* to be confused with revolution. We have been in the midst of the evolution for over 30 years, and it will continue to evolve. Some examples:1)wearable computers =your beeper
2) Instant global communication =Iridium
3) Computing extending human capabilities =Palm Pilot
4) Wireless Computing extending human capabilities =Palm 7
Again, note the emphasis on evolution, not revolution.
All of these solutions were achieved because the capitol and technology just happened to be around at the time. Where would the Palm7 be without a well distributed PCS network? Where would PCS be with out a well distributed Cellular network . . Again, note the emphasis on evolution, not revolution.
So to sum up the act of internetworking is in the midst of a 30 year evolution and will continue on that path. Just because 95% of people are just waking up to that fact does not mean we should loose our heads with over speculative projections. I thank you for your time and attention and welcome any comments.
Oh!. and one more thing: Companies like AT&T are not spending $2000 per house that their cable goes by just for internet shopping. It's abouttelephone + videophone + interactive video + all sorts of ecommerce + telecommuting + banking + ...
Take the $2000 and extrapolate that over the life of the twisted pair phone network in the USA and it's a trivial investment. Fact is, this is the first time AT&T has actually has been asked to increase bandwidth to the end users (something that shouldn't be shocking and amazing), So this particular out-pouring of capitol should be spread over the life of the network they are upgrading.
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Hotmail in Sunnyvale, CA
[snip] We need someone to administer the Hotmail system of 45 million plus users...[snip]... solid troubleshooting skills, system installation and configuration, fundamentals of security, [snip]
No wonder Hotmail is easier to crack than a cookie jar.
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The false perception that internetworking is something new is forcing companies to concentrate on 'position position position' instead of actually applying the tech to make a buck.
I'm sure I'm not alone, being stuck in a meeting with someone who doesn't understand the value of a network. Someone who, when describing the internet uses words like "exciting" and "new". (reminds me of the old loveboat theme:).
When you find yourself in a meeting with someone who has seen one to many .com advertisements and wants pie in the sky things out of your network, use these little tools to deflate there position and keep them grounded in reality and out of the hype high.
1) Bring several printouts of Hobbes' Internet Timeline to the meeting and let them take it home to read.
2) Use the term 'Internetworking' instead of internet to illustrate that this isn't anything new.
3) Point out this is an evolution of many high minded ideas and compromises that have evolved internetworking to where it is today.
4) Point out the many protocols that have run over IP, each proclaiming themselves to be the new new thing.
I have found these tools to be both educational and informative on many occasions, and it helps bring the discussion down to a real world level where real work can be done. So the next time you find yourself in a meeting with 'consultant-of-the-week'. I hope you find these tools useful.
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Thank you for pointing this out to me. I will be more diligent of this fact in future posts on/. Thank you for taking the time to post :)
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Ter velcom :)
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