They are all doing a great job filtering my E-Mails and thus giving SPAM NO-CHANCE.
Here are some details about my E-Mail traffic from last week (end 2006):
Overall
Total number of messages checked: 357
Detected spam messages: 235
Detected ham messages: 122
Unknown messages: 0
Reported messages: 33
Revoked messages: 1
Do you remember GTA2 (Grand Theft Auto 2) and the awesome radio stations you could listen to while driving around and over pedestrians?
I have ripped them to mp3 and uploaded them for your listening pleasure. Download them here freely as mp3.
Play for one of these gangs and and listen to the radiostations in windows, on your ipod or ordinary mp3 player, burn to cd and listen to it while driving. Note: I am not responsible if you run over any pedestrians while listening.
The Sony VAIO Support is one of the best services I have every expirienced.
At Sony every department knows what the other one is doing due to their genius “eSupport” and case-system.
I always wondered what advantage “registering” your product I was having. Until late April I couldn`t imagine registering my device on some “portal”, just for statistics sake and some lame driver updates,
but when Heathrow officials grossly chucked my laptop in one of these plastic boxes my display got damaged and had to be repaired. That’s when I remembered the “Register your VAIO product” -icon on my desktop. I instantly created an account and filled in all my data. Such as serial number, product information, warranty expiration date, home address and phone number. All these data came handy lateron when creating a support case.
At first I thought no one would care and I wouldn’t get a reply anyway, so why even bother creating a support case?!
But then I thought, when I had a support case I’d give someone on the phone, they’d have more information about my problem than without and me having to retell my problem to some “hotline clerk”.
Anyhow, I created a case, waited some days – no reply.
I phoned their hotline at 0180 577 67 76 and after selecting my way through a menu I spoke to some “dutch accent having” guy. I told him my problem -that I had a one pixel wide red vertical line spanning my screen and some pixel errors on the display. He asked me stuff like “is it in windows only, etc.”. I told him to please lookup my case number and that I explained it there in german and english (as he couldnt really speak german I thought he might understand english). After some time he told explained to me what to comply with when sending in my precious sony vaio device.
- no battery
- no cd drive
- no accessories
- do data backups
- create an admin account without password
Easiest way to do all that is, just unplug everything, use the “create restore tool by sony” which you defaultly got installed and then put it all in a paper box (not the original box, he said, as a sony vaio laptop might easily be heisted by sight).
Well anyhow, I paid the shipment fees and waited.
After two days, he called me (that’s why entering your real data is important) and told me the device had arrived at repairs, but that they needed to order a new display and that they didn’t know when it was arriving.
That’s when I thought I’ll not be seeing my laptop for weeks – which really’d be a pain in the ass, as I need it on a daily basis.
Alas I mailed them that I need it urgently. I got no reply, but my laptop sent back to me two days after my mail.
Wow, not bad I thought, quick repair, all well done. But when I booted up my laptop, the red line and thus the error was still there.
Well it shifted to the very left side of the screen, but for “a new display” it just couldn’t be.
So re-logged onto the e-Support portal and told them my situation, that I am happy that I got my laptop back, but that it is totally inacceptable to have it not repaired and that I need it urgently.
I also abused them by email at support at (you are going to figure that out yourself [vaio link?.com!]) and got no reply. No reply? Well when I was out, they called in and told the one answering the phone, that they were picking it up for premium repair the next two days or so and that I should undergo the same procedure as last time when sending it in.
Alas I had to delete all my data again and restore the laptop.
Two days after calling, a DHL EXPRESS guy turned up with his own packing material, some sort of special box (pictures below) and an anti-static bag. It was well boxed and then driven to DUS airport and then flown to ECX airport in france. It should then be repaired.
That was thursday last week. THIS week, on monday on 8:54 in the morning I got woken up by the exactly same DHL EXPRESS guy and recieved my repaired and this time REALLY fixed Sony VAIO laptop back.
Today I was phones when I was out and asked whether my laptop was working correctly and if all was okay. Genius service, amazing!
What a success story, I can totally the recommend Sony VAIO support! German Version / Deutsche Version: Der Sony Vaio Support ist beste Support ?berhaupt. Erst eingeschickt, wurde dann nicht ganz repariert, zurueckgeschickt bekommen, angerufen und beschwert, dann wurde der laptop mit express bote abgeholt, innerhalb von 5 tagen ?ber das wochenende repariert und montags um 8:50 zurueckgebracht. Reperatur in Frankreich und per Luftpost hin und her, mit DHL eigener Verpackung. 2 tage spaeter wurde ich angerufen und es wurde gefragt, ob alles in ordnung sei. Das ist heftig! So einen Service und Einsatz bekommt man mit Sicherheit nicht, wenn man sich einen anderen Laptop kauft. Zwar ist der Preis ein wenig h?her als bei anderen -und wahrscheinlich auch besseren Laptops- aber ich denke nicht, dass sonst irgendwo ein Laptop mit DHL EXPRESS (w?rde ich sonst nie machen, wenn ich es selbst bezahlen muesste [?ber 60 euro!]) abgeholt wird und international verschickt wird um ihn innerhalb von 5 Tagen wieder beim Kunden abzugeben. Mit Sicherheit auch ein Grund warum Firmen und spezielle Einzelpersonen auf Sony und Dell (die einen guten “ersatzlaptopservice” haben) vertrauen.
1. In his speech “The future of Europe” Romano Prodi tries to explain the reasons for the British reluctance towards Europe. Especially during and after the Second World War Britain was an important partner of the other European countries and had a major influence on the happenings in Europe. At this time Britain had lost its chance to become an important member of the first European organizations (l.4ff). Britain’s reluctant attitude towards Europe relies on the fact,
that it is split from Europe from a geographic point of view (-> Island status)
and that the USA was and still is a close ally of the United Kingdom (l.10-12).
Prodi also explains Britain?s positions in the present by saying that it differs from the other members of the European Union. The British government and its population often dither concerning its attitude towards Europe between “fascination” and “perplexity” on the one hand and “sometimes frustration” on the other hand (l.15). This indecisive attitude between reluctance and affection makes a European integration very hard.
2. Prodi is off the opinion that the relation between the UK and Europe could be better than it currently is. He cannot understand why some people think that the EU wants to oppress the UK. (L.20-21) By using the colloquial expression “your fellow Europeans” Prodi wants to point out how absurd such an assumption of oppression is. To show that the EU is not a complete but an always changing organization Prodi uses the present progressive form “The Europe we are building” (l.22). To convince his audience that the European Union does not oppress national customs and cultures he uses a climax (to express our regional, national, and European identities without l 24-25). Prodi tries to compare the mixed culture situation in Britain with the situation of the EU to convince his audience that Britain is tolerant enough to fully accept the EU. By using the enumeration “England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland” (l.27) Prodi wants to show how divers and also tolerant the British mentality is. The expression “So I appeal to you” is a direct address to the audience. Prodi asks the British population to use its national tolerance in regard to the European Union. The word ?please? illustrates the importance of this sentence for Prodi. He uses the expression “European future” or “future of Europe” (l. 31+35) when he speaks of Britain’s policy to show how important the UK is for the European future. Prodi refers to Britain’s “island status” (l.36) to find reasons for its European isolation. To underline his assumption he uses a quotation of Winston Churchill in which he says that “each time the UK has to choose between Europe and the open sea, it will always choose the open sea” (l.37-39). The metaphor of the “open sea” in this context stands for national freedom and independence. The short sentences “That may be so. Britain is an island?”(l.39) show Prodi’s consternation concerning this fact. By using the word ‘But’ (l.39) Prodi wants to point out that there is still hope in regard to the relation between the European Union and the UK. The expression “deep down” (l.39) shows that the there isn’t a clear but more over a hidden connection between both.
The adverbs “culturally” and “historically” (l.40) illustrate the close connection between Britain and the EU. By using the anaphora “For their” (l.41-42) Prodi underlines his admiration towards Britain.
He cannot understand why the UK cultivates its relation to the USA but not to Europe which is far closer. The distance between the UK and the USA is shown by the number of ‘three thousand miles’. The nearness between the UK and Europe is illustrated by the verb ‘belongs’ (l.47). Prodi tries to find reasons for the close relation to the USA but he doesn’t find a right solution. The sentence ‘I don’t think it is the case’ shows that his previous assumption hasn’t been confirmed yet. It becomes clear that the main topic of Prodi’s speech is the relation between the UK and Europe. To emphasize his argumentation Prodi repeats arguments which he has mentioned before. (“Britain is culturally and historically part of Europe”) (l.52) Prodi uses a quotation of John Donne to show that it is very important for Europe that the United Kingdom won’t dissociate from it. At the end of his speech he says that Europe and the UK “could live without each other” but by using the enumeration “less wealthy, less strong and less secure” (l.58-59) Prodi points out that it would have negative consequences for both.
All in all it becomes clear that Romano Prodi is very emotionally influenced by the UK-European discussion. His speech is full of valuing words such as “proud”, “great admire”, “indispensable”, and “hope”. It seems as if it is very important to him that the UK increases its efforts to ameliorate their relation with the European Union.
Pro- euro: George Eustice, Director of the No Campaign: “This is the right decision for Britain – the time is not right to join. The euro isn’t working for those countries already inside the currency, with Germany on the brink of recession, unemployment rising and eurozone growth half the level in Britain.”
- Trade with the UK’s euro partners could grow between 5% and 50% over 30 years if the UK joins the euro
- The UK could be between 5% and 9% richer if it joins the euro (and trade grows at the upper end of expectations)
- Maybe consumers will benefit from increased competition in the UK service sector
- Prices should come down, leading to greater transparency and competitiveness
- Both large and small companies would benefit from diminished exchange rate volatility, especially in the manufacturing sector
- Holidaymakers and travelers would no longer incur the costs of currency conversion when traveling between Britain and other euro countries.
Anti-euro: Sir Richard Branson, chairman, Virgin Group “Having a separate currency from the consumers and competitors of our largest market is a big barrier to success.”
- A common European interest rate could lead to instability in the UK housing market
- Evidence shows that London has participated fully in euro financial markets, since the introduction of the single currency
- The UK financial services sector will remain competitive in or out of the euro? Uk doesn’t “need” the euro
- Some retailers would use the introduction of the euro to round-up prices
- The Bank of England will lose its power to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt
- The strength of the euro was supposed to be guaranteed by ensuring that the economies of all the participating countries were in a healthy state and had significantly converged at the time of joining by insisting that they met strict entrance criteria. In reality some members don’t meet the required budget deficit figure of 3% of GDP
The poem “Dover Beach” written by Matthew Arnold is about a human misery.
Nature especially the sea is used in order to draw a comparison between the fights of nature and the human misery.
The poem consists of four stanzas which have a different amount of lines. The first stanza consists of 14 lines, the second of six, the third of eight and the last line of nine lines. The rhyme scheme is very irregular. For example, in the first eight lines of the poem it is abacdbdc.
The first stanza can be divided into two parts. In the first part (line one to line six) the lyrical I describes the motions of the sea in a very positive way. The words ?to-night? (l. 1), ?moon? (l.2) and ?night-air? (l.6) show that it is night. To create a very harmonious mood the poet utilizes adjectives such as “fair”, tranquil? and ?calm?. Matthew Arnold uses an anaphora (?Gleams? and ?Glimmering? l.4/5), to underline the harmonious atmosphere of the first six lines. The word ?only? in line seven can be seen as a caesura. After line seven the harmonious mood of the first lines is changing into a sad mood. The word sea is personified by the verb ?meets? in line seven. The personification and the expression ?moon-blanched land? create a mystic atmosphere. With the words of sound ?listen?, ?hear? and ?roar? in line nine Arnold wants to activate the reader?s perception of senses to involve him in his poem. Also, he involves the readership by using the imperatives ?come? and ?listen?. The verbs ?begin? ?cease? and ?again begin? show that the pebbles? motions are a never ending movement. By using the words ?sadness? and ?tremulous? the pebbles? motions are illustrated in a woeful and threatening way.
The first stanza can be seen as a description of a present status, whereas the second stanza is a reference to the past. In the second stanza the poet uses ?Sophocles?, an ancient Greek philosopher, to show that the people for a long time thought about a comparison between sea and human misery. The verb ?hear? in line 16 and in line 20 can be regarded as a connection to the words of acoustic perception in the first stanza. The expression ?distant northern sea? is another connecting element between the both stanzas. By mentioning the countries England and France the first stanza is talking about the northern sea. The main topic of the first stanza is the motion of sea. The reader can only guess that it refers to human misery, but the second stanza talks about to the human misery in line 18.
The third stanza abstracts the image of the sea and uses it as a metaphor (?sea of faith?) to show that ?once? (l.22) humanity was more religious. The metaphor of ?bright girdle furled? emphasizes that faith was inseparable to earth. The words ?But now? in line 24 are a caesura. The first three lines of the stanza create a feeling of hope, whereas the last lines sound sad and hopeless.
The word ?only? show that the lyrical I feels only the sadness of the world. To amplify the negative mood of the last lines Arnold utilizes words such as ?melancholy?, ?drear? and ?naked?.
The last stanza refers to the misery of humanity and can be seen as a conclusion of the preceding stanzas. The lyrical I compares the world to a ?land of dreams? which is ?various? ?beautiful? and ?new?. This means that the world and the people who live on it might be happy and live together in peace. To underline the positive mood, the lyrical I uses the word ?love? at the beginning of the stanza. The verb ?seems? shows that it is only a dream or an illusion of the lyrical I which can never become reality.
Line 33 is a caesura, wherefrom the lyrical I describes his real life. The enumeration in line 33 and 34 ??nor love, nor light, nor peace?? shows the cruelness of the world. The plural form ?us? and ?we? illustrates that not only the lyrical I but also many other people feel the cruelness. The words ?sweep? and ?clash by night? both together form an allusion to the preceding stanzas. The motions of the sea are used to clarify the bad relations between other people.
The poem illustrates the contrast between hope and reality. There are many caesuras in the poem, which definitely show the changing mood of the lyrical I. It wishes a peaceful world, but it also knows that it is almost impossible.
Maybe Matthew Arnold refers to the industrial revolution which was a big change of life for everybody. Many people were very unhappy with their new life.
The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;–on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanch’d land, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the {AE}gean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl’d. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Faith
I honestly believe that Arnold is talking about how the question of faith has left the world in darkness. In the beginning of the poem, he expresses how calm everything seems, and it’s like any other night. However, as the poem progresses, he mentions how Sophocles heard the sadness in the Aegean sea, just as he was hearing the sadness in his own sea. In mentioning the Sea of Faith, he reveals that while it looks calm and normal on the surface, really, the sea is singing a song of sadness and despair. during this time, people began questioning religion and turning to Darwinism. Arnold is expressing how people used to not think twice about what they believed, but now the world was unsure. In telling his love to stay true to him, he is hoping that at least one thing in the world will remain the same and true. To him, the world was left in darkness by the threat against faith.
The solution to display a div on top off flash for the newer browser is the wmode option opaque or transparent.
[...] general embed object code here
parameter name stuff like movie source and quality here
[param name="wmode" value="opaque" /]
wmode=”opaque”>[end embed code]
the opaque part is the important thing to remember.
the other attributes remain the same
The following browsers currently support windowless mode:
Most of the old browsers dont support it, but as >90% use IE 6 + Firefox, that`s okay.
* Macromedia Flash Player version 6,0,65,0 (Windows) or 6,0,67,0 (Macintosh) or higher required for this feature. Source: google.com
1. Go into your phpMyAdmin panel.
2. For each tables structure, edit the first entry (which should be a primary key such as ID).
3. Delete the 0 in the default value and select “auto_increment” in the drop-down menu next to it (on the right).
4. Save.
5. Go to the next table and do the same.
Click for BSSID’s.
Netstumbler / Kismet / Wellenreiter – Summary-file on demand!
Going from Schlessisches Tor (U1) to Warschauer Straße (U1)
to S-Station Warschauerstraße (s5/s7/s9) to
Friedrichsstraße via Alexanderplatz, Ostbahnhof.
243 networks detected on the fly with some crappy 2220 bg intel card (ndis)
- not touching my orinoco for now.
the seduction/temptation might be too tremendous for me to resist :)
By the way, the graphic above is not even 790 byte at size. go png, go!
(edit: image lost in server transfer, bleh)
Act II clearly shows the problems and difficulties of different cultures and races living in the USA. Differences concerning the class system are also stated.
There are anti-Jewish tendencies and racism in America. Mr. Davenport can be regarded as a symbol of a typical racist (p.43 l.332), he “wouldn’t have a Jew, even if he paid” him (p.43 l.332). He is an arrogant (p.41 ll. 221-231) upper class member and the son of a millionaire (stage directions p.39 ll. 143-147 and p.39 l.155 “always travel on my own yacht”).
He stands in contrast to David, a humble Jew who was persecuted in Russia.
While David believes that all people are equal, that means their race and culture, Quincy Davenport thinks the opposite. He stands for other values of the American Dream than David does (material wealth, success). David believes in the main ideas of equality, freedom and liberty. It is hard for him to realize that some people (e.g. Quincy) have prejudice against other races such as jews.
After a recent breach in first layer security I wiped the domain to be safe and restored to a clean working copy. It will take some weeks to seed out the nasty bits and pieces that lead to this situation. Please bare with this not too bad 'default' theme in the meantime (I am on holiday till Mid July). Best, jz.
