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Vintage scene icon12/31/2023 Retro AddictionĬool kid on the vintage store block, Retro Addiction, has all the goodies to curb your …err… retro addictions. At this Auckland gem, you can find a mix of all kinds of retro wear from all eras, plus a killer selection of shoes, bags, costume jewels and those oh-so-cool coloured sunnies you loved (and let’s face it, still do) back in ’02. It’s eclectic, funky and will have you trawling through its racks for hours on end. It’s safe to say that Vixen is nothing short of a vintage icon on the K' Road strip. If you’re in the mood for a good old-fashioned shop-till-you-drop hunt of retro, head to this Auckland store and fish yourself out the goodies. Tatty’sĪlthough not predominantly a vintage store, Tatty’s is home to some beautiful vintage pieces. From the likes of Great Gatsby inspired gowns, to denim overalls, Jet Set Bohemian has all your vintage bases covered. There ain’t any other way to describe it. Jet Set BohemianĬool kids look no further, this Auckland store offers a taste of total vintage heaven. This is a must for your vintage store bucket list. The store describes itself as a lover of ‘all things wow’ and ‘the era of defining pieces’. In keeping with its unique name, Smoove provides its customers with fun, original and colourfully styled garments. Looking for a wacky and wonderful Auckland vintage store? Look no further, Smoove has you sussed. Hurry down and pick up a one-of-a-kind graphic tee, retro activewear, pair of Levi's or denim trucker jacket. They've even hosted queen of thrifting, Billie Eilish, and music icon Troye Sivan for vintage shopping sprees. Their team personally hand pick a wide range of clothing from across the USA, and ensure each piece is personally cleaned and cared for. If American vintage clothing is your vibe, Vulcan Lane boutique Magichollow has got you covered. Here at Urban List, we’ve got you covered and have made the hunt for vintage just that little bit easier. Whether you’re on the hunt for some mean shoulder pads, fresh 90’s threads or a frock straight out of the '50s, Auckland has provided us with a bunch of wonderfully epic vintage stores. So it’s only fitting that we Aucklanders are kitted out for the occasion, right? Well thankfully, Auckland is full to the brim with all sorts of cool and quirky vintage stores to help us look tip-top while we go about our city. It’s pretty well established that Auckland is full of cool, hip and unique things to do.
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List of current pandora radio ads12/31/2023 My wife Sue loves Pandora and for Valentine’s Day 2022, I bought her Pandora Premium. Recently a reader of this blog, told me that he listened to commercial free Radio Tunes on his Amazon smart speakers and I’m a subscriber once again. I was hooked and remained a subscriber, only leaving the service when I got my first Amazon Echo and Radio Tunes (formerly known as Sky.FM) wasn’t available on the service. But that wasn’t all, that fee also increased the audio quality of the stream. Those were the only two announcements and they lasted about 30-seconds in length, but over time, it was like Chinese water torture so, I went online to find out how much it would cost to become a premium subscriber, learning it would cost me only $49/year. They only stopped the music twice an hour, once to tell me that I could hear this music without interruption by becoming a premium subscriber and the other announcement was about how they were looking to hire more IT personnel. They offered more than one flavor of Smooth Jazz music programming and it quickly filled my appetite for this musical genre. Not finding any radio station in the greater New York City area that programmed the Smooth Jazz format, I would search online and discover Sky.FM. It was in 2008, when New York’s CD 101.9 WQCD dropped its Smooth Jazz format to switch to playing rock music with the new call letters WRXP. To the radio listener, the amount of clutter increased and in essence, made their favorite radio stations less listenable. That means the number of ads that air in a single commercial break, as well as the total number ads broadcast each hour.Ĭlear Channel recognized this listener issue, but by introducing shorter length ads, the “Less Is More” initiative added more elements to each stop-set. If there’s one thing radio listeners tend to always agree on, when it comes to improving the radio listening experience, it’s reducing the number of commercials. Listeners don’t consider the length of a commercial break, but the number of different elements that air in a break. For example, the time it would take to run four minute length commercials, with Less Is More stations could now run six half-minute commercials or twelve 15-second commercials etc. This meant more ads could be run in a spot break. Each of my radio stations now aired ads that were as short as 5-seconds down to 1-second in length. It does not store any personal data.When I was a market manager for Clear Channel, the company president introduced a new concept for reducing our commercial load, he called it “Less Is More.” It sounded good on the surface, however instead of reducing on-air clutter it introduced shorter length commercials. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.
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Readcube papers vs papers312/31/2023 At least Papers3 also searches the document with some levels of simple groupings on internal searches. This is useless when you have an article from 1966 that did not import well and therefore only has the title “A New Finding in Physics” that is supposed to be handled by the search on the same grouping list that I gave above. You CAN run complex REGEX searches in Bookends, but only on the meta-content to an article. Neither Bookends nor Papers3 are well-enough equipped to set up group searches on content that is already in your database. For example, I would be looking for a menu or preferences simply saying (Set) Search Engines, not looking for a menu File : Import Filter Manager (which, since “import” is also a verb, could be taken to mean “import the filter manager as a file”). I am still struggling with what I consider to be a complex or cumbersome or counter-intuitive layout of the menus and preferences and terminologies in Bookends. Papers3 allows you to merge duplicates (sometimes poorly though) while Bookends make you think “What the heck am I doing … I don’t want to REMOVE duplicates, I want to compare/combine/merge them”? And when you are going to “remove” them in Bookends, you have again to do the process in a tedious one-at-a-time, move to a hit list first approach. Then … Then … Then … In Papers3, they are all run at once. In Bookends, you must run each resource one at a time. Papers3 has a far better approach to searching multiple resources on the internet. Consider ((au: somename) OR (au: someothername)) AND ((all: some term) NOT (all: someterm)). Papers3 does far better than Bookends at allowing you to set up group searching methods on internet searches. I suspect (and have heard in passing somehow) that Papers/Readcube has lost/dropped their rights to access certain Web portal databases that gave them the data they needed to do these two functions. I can state categorically these findings so far:Ĭertain functions that Papers3 once had as best in class are now no longer reliable. I am just doing a knock-down, drag-out evaluation between Papers3 and Bookends.
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Secrets of the lost tomb review12/31/2023 Prince's Half-Sister Cruelly Denies Sinéad O’Connor Documentary Use of "Nothing Compares 2 U": "Prince's Version Is Best"ġ972 Concert Doc ‘Elvis On Tour’ Sees The King Starting To Unravel Stream It Or Skip It: ‘On the Come Up’ on Paramount+, Where A Young Rapper Discovers That Success Isn’t One Dimensional Whoopi Goldberg Corrects Writer Who Thought She Was Wearing a Fat Suit in Awkward 'View' Moment: "That Was Me" Stream It Or Skip It: 'Prince Andrew: Banished' on Peacock, About The Heir With The Most Dirty Laundry “Panicked” Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Clashing With Netflix Over Upcoming Docuseries Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Trapped 13’ on Netflix, in Which the Kids Trapped in the Tham Luong Cave Share Their Story ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Nudity And Drug Fueled Party Scene Was All Real, Reveals Jordan Belfort’s Ex-Wife Woman Crush Wednesday: Bella Ramsey Soars in 'Catherine Called Birdy' Who Were The Two Guys In 'Blonde'? The True Story of The Charlie Chaplin Jr., Eddy Robinson Jr and Marilyn Monroe Throuple Jennifer Lopez's 'Shotgun Wedding' Trailer Hides The Most Insane Movie Twist of The Year Stream It Or Skip It: 'Yvonne Orji: A Whole Me' On HBO Max, A Comedian In Therapy Providing Therapy For Viewers Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’ on Apple TV+, a True-Story Dramedy in Which Zac Efron Schleps Brews to His Pals in the Vietnam War Stream It Or Skip It: 'Hasan Minhaj: The King's Jester' On Netflix, A 'Patriot Act' Postscript On The Jurisprudence Of His Jokes
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Store keeweb database on android phone12/31/2023 Some plugins exists to integrate Keepass into some browsers. Keepass also come with a lot of plugins that can customize your experience. However, Keepass is smart enough to detect changes and prompt users to either sync the changes, overwrite the changes or simply discard the changes made. If the database is located on a file share, multiple users can have access to the file and make changes. Using file permissions, it’s possible to control who can read or write information into the database. Keepass offers you the possibility to open a database from a local computer (where the Keepass software is installed), from a network share or from an URL. It would be possible with Keepass to create a centralized password manager solution meaning that the database file can be located on a centralized location. However, Keepass is simple enough to implement a first password manager solution. Keepass comes with a lot of options that a user might need to learn to take full advantage of the software solution. Keepass has problably not the most beautiful user interface and look a little bit outdated but Keepass has proven to be a secure and relatively simple to use. Keepass is cross platform and can be installed on Windows, Linux, MacOS and on mobile OS (Android, iphone). To access the database, you will need to remember a single password which will then grant you access your list of password. Keepass allows you to store all your password into a single encrypted database. When looking for a password manager solution, which is free and open source, one of the most popular solution that shows up is the Keepass solution. This post is simply listing possible candidates for a simple to use, effective and still secure password management solution…. This post is not really about how to use the tool and provide detailed instructions on how to install and customize the tool. We have looked at three software which are To overcome this situation, we decided to look for a open source and free to use solution that would fit the initial needs and requirements of this customer. strict corporate policy not to use online password manager services !!!). Moreover, it was required to have the password manager solution to be kept in-house (i.e. Given the current situation, no budget or funding would be made available to buy and implement a professional password manager software solution. Passwords in clear text was the norm or only certain individual would know password to application x or application z. Recently, we were working in a small corporate infrastructure where no password manager solution was implemented. This post will explore quickly some free password manager solution that would fit any personal usage but can also be used in corporate environment if there is a need to implement a quick and easy password manager solution and keep the solution in house. Companies are usually looking for in house password manager solution. However, corporate usage will be more problematic as security officers would be reluctant to rely on cloud based Password manager solutions. You can use LastPassword, Bitwarden, 1Password, DashLane,… Online password manager can be a good solution for personal use. There is plethora of online solutions that can be used to store and protect your passwords. The trend is definitely about cloud based solution. Password manager can be used for personal use but can also be useful in corporate environment where a team needs to store and/or share certain passwords to access corporate infrastructure IT systems. This is why we can see a proliferation of password manager solution on the market. This proliferation makes it difficult to remember all these passwords. Password manager software solution are kind of trendy nowadays and there are a necessity since you need to use different passwords to access different web sites and/or applications.
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Last man sitting trailer12/30/2023 You’ll see part of the fascinating discussion Monday on Tucker Carlson Tonight at 8pm ET on Fox News. The legendary Kid Rock sits down with Tucker for a rare one-on-one interview. The full interview airs Monday on Fox News. “I’m not in bed with any big corporate things at the end of the day, there’s nobody that beholden to, no record companies no corporate interests no nothing, you can’t cancel me. “I am uncancelable… because I don’t give a fuck.” However, to kick off the new album, ol’ Bob Ritchie will be making an appearance on Fox New’ Tucker Carlson Tonight.Īnd in the teaser, Kid Rock made his point very clear… you can’t cancel him. Rock is also ready to launch his Bad Reputation Tour, which he says may be the last large arena tour of his career, featuring support from Grand Funk Railroad, Jason Bonnam, and Foreigner, with special appearances from Trey Lewis. With what’s sure to be the most polarizing record of the year with Bad Reputation, the new album features politically charged songs like “We The People” and “Don’t Tell Me How To Live” as well as more mild country and rock tunes like “Last Dance,” and “Rockin’.” RIFF Outdoors ApKid Rock Says He Cannot Be Canceled If you ever get the invite to Kid Rock’s, you might wanna take it. “It’s the most wild, rockstar, hillbilly type shit… it’s when you give a real redneck fuckin’ insane amounts of money, they build something like this.” A twenty-person hot tub that looks like a mine, a gold covered walk-in shower, an old church that was converted into a horse stable, and more. With Theo moving to Nashville, they got to talking about other folks in Nashville, like Bob Ritchie, AKA Kid Rock.Īnd according to Joe, Kid Rock has a SPREAD.Ī 27,000 square foot mansion that looks just like the White House, there’s only two bedroom in the whole place. If you’re not familiar with Theo, he’s absolutely hysterical and he’s got a great special on Netflix right now. On a recent episode of the The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe was chatting with fellow comedian and Nashville resident Theo Von. Over the past few months, Kid Rock made a ton of headlines with the release of his new album Bad Reputation, as well as the anti-snowflake, anti-cancel culture anthem, “Don’t Tell Me How To Live.”īut if you wanted to know how Kid Rock actually lives, just listen to the party pad he has out in Nashville. WWE JJoe Rogan On Kid Rock’s Nashville Mansion: “Two Bedrooms… The Rest Of The House Is Party” just lifted the ring with a tractor!!! #SummerSlam /HBJPzZmEgb
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Ubuntu openzfs 2.012/30/2023 When ZFS first came out, Sun's position was that they could support removal of vdevs, but it wasn't worth the effort because enterprise customers (their entire user base, since this was on Solaris) never wanted to do that. Is this something the ZFS devs are even considering fixing? Or is it just impossible to fix? I must admit that when I saw version 2.0 I was hoping for fixes to the single biggest pain point ZFS has: no ability to change vdev topology, no way of removing vdevs from pools and no way of rebalancing data when adding vdevs to pools. Though maybe some way to visualize quotas might be interesting, but you can have quotas total more than the size of pool. zfs also doesn't have "volumes" in the traditional sense, for for example resizing doesn't really make sense. Adding disks is pretty simple, but there's still a chance you fuck something up, especially if you mean to add some disks in as a mirror and forget to specify that it should be a mirror. I'm not sure if there are any GUIs for stuff like that. Not a deal breaker, but just curious if anyone has streamlined this yet. If I need to recover my FreeNAS array it doesn't sound like I can just grab my Mint live USB and diagnose the problem in a GUI. If you blow up your Windows install you can just pop your data disk into another Windows box and you're good. I've complied the kernel from source for Gentoo minimal installs, but these days I have enough to manage that I just want something simple that is trivial to manage and fix. Trust me, it's not that I can't do the commands, it's more that I don't want to. I can use parted / gparted for all standard file systems to quickly resize volumes, but according to their feature matrix that's still not a thing for ZFS. Add a disk, remove a disk, resize the pool through the GUI. Pop 3 disks into the system, create a pool on it. I'm just curious if there is anything you can do post install. The fact that you can use Ubuntu to setup a ZFS pool during install is good. So no I wouldn't expect the full blown feature set to ever be in the GUI. If you're looking for a GUI to do everything zfs/zpool/zdb do, I don't think there's anything for you. If you're asking for a distro that lets you pick zfs during a graphical install, I believe newer version of Ubuntu do that. Outside of an appliance with a web ui are there any desktop distros you can configure ZFS through the GUI? I'd prefer to not spend 3 days having to dig up commands to setup the array and then having to re google a bunch of articles when I want to make changes.įreeNAS is probably your best bet if you're looking to set up some kind of appliance-like NAS. I tried recreating the cache file using the command below but auto-import still doesn't work (after a reboot) and re-running the zpool import -c command above has no effect # zpool set cachefile=/etc/zfs/zpool.So the real question is what Distros are out there which make setting up ZFS a piece of cake? I've thought about playing around with it before, but I'd really like a nice streamlined UI to set up ZFS with. rw-r-r- 1 root root 4016 Jan 27 08:03 zpool import -c /etc/zfs/zpool.cache -aNĬannot import 'storage-myserver': one or more devices is currently unavailableīut no issues importing the pool using this command zpool import storage-myserver I then tried mounting my pool using the cache ls -al /etc/zfs/zpool.cache Jan 27 09:12:22 myserver systemd: rvice: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Jan 27 09:12:22 myserver systemd: rvice: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Please fix rvice, rvice, rvice not to pull it in. Jan 27 09:12:21 myserver udevadm: rvice is deprecated. I found this in the logs: journalctl -b | grep zfs I just never bothered fixing it until now. The problem happened even before 21.10 was out. Setup: Ubuntu 21.04 (with latest updates).
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Ucsd online elinks12/30/2023 At the other end of the spectrum are the updated sites that are added to the net, perused at What's new this week and New Medical site added this week. Tracing of the history of medicine is depicted in engaging sites such as history of medicine at and Medical history on the net at. Internet contains Medical topics ranging from “the history of Medicine” to “new medical sites” that are added every week. The largest and comprehensive Medical directory are accessible as Medmark at, Medmatrix at, Medguide, Medtap, Galaxy Guide to Medical Topics at, Medical Education Online and Virtual Hospital Major Links. Medical resources or Medical directories deal with a huge catalogue of topics by categorizing them, usually by specialities. For a list of search engines, Beaucoup is a site that has compiled a variety of 1600 search engines in various categories including metasearch engines. The popular metasearch engines include All the Web at, Google at, Dogpile at, Hotbot at, Metacrawler at and Savvysearch at. Metasearch engines function as “yellow pages of yellow pages” and query multiple search engines, echoing the oft repeated sentiment “Why search when you can metasearch?”. Search engines have evolved further with the introduction of Metasearch engines. The current popular search engines include Yahoo, Alta Vista, Excite etc. Most of the search engines have a blank field where the topic is typed, and utilise a search button, which needs to be clicked, displaying in a period of usually less than ten seconds a list of sites. Search engines are comparable to yellow pages, delivering a list of sites pertaining to any medical topic. The first strategy employs Search Engines. However, the best method of information retrieval from the Web is not known. These include medical search engines, general-purpose search engines, medical meta-lists, and commercial sites on the Web. At the moment a variety of techniques are used to access medical information on the Internet. Ĭlearly, it would be impossible to browse and evaluate all the million sites. It is therefore not surprising that medical teaching has evolved from Vesalius to the Electronic library. Of these, it has also been estimated that there are close to 100 million web pages dealing primarily with Medicine. The Internet has approximately 800 million web pages at the moment, with a remarkable tendency to grow further. Once one becomes familiar with Internet there are many sites offering a variety of Internet related features. Another web site dealing with basic information on computers is “What is Computers?”. These include the under mentioned:Ī concise and informative online basic primer of Computers in Medicine is available from the BMJ group of publications: ABC of Medical Computing. The Internet is so vast that practically every aspect of human interest including medicine, communications, commerce, science, media, law, art etc is represented in some form or fashion.įor those who are desirous to learn the Net on the Net itself, there are a host of sites that fulfill the need. Telecommunications on the Internet are standardized by a set of communications protocols, the TCP/IP protocol suite, that describe routing of messages over the internet, computer naming conventions and commonly used internet services such as e-mail. Over the last few years there has been an exponential explosion in the number of computers added to this network. In the 1980s, ARPANET was superseded by NSFNET, a series of networks created by the National Science Foundation, which established the present-day structure of the Internet. The Internet was created in 1969, when the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defence funded up an experimental long-distance telecommunication network consisting of only four computers. This review article describes the world of Internet when applied in the context of Medicine and attempts to briefly overview the gamut of medical web sites on the internet in order to provide the reader a nutshell view of the powerful and magical world of internet. From recreation to applied science and technology and from Critical Care Medicine case scenarios to pathology specimens and digitized radiology images, the Internet has become increasingly useful for medical practitioners. Created initially to suit the requirements of the military in United States of America, it has now broken all barriers and has been seamlessly integrated into the personal computer. The Internet is a vast network of computers spanning the entire globe.
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Www.hud foreclosed homes.com12/30/2023 This Internal Revenue Service website is a portal to finding homes and other property seized by the tax agency for nonpayment of federal taxes. Buyers should contact the local USDA-RD office for more information on the property and how to buy it. Here, you’ll find a small number of single- and multi-family homes, farms, and ranches. The United State Department of Agriculture-Rural Development and the USDA-Farm Service Agency list properties on this website. Potential investors and other home buyers can find one- to four-unit residential properties that the Department of Housing and Urban Development acquired from foreclosure actions on FHA-insured mortgages. Subscribers receive detailed information on the listed properties, tax roll data, files provided by the lender, local school districts and other listing details. After the free 7-day trial, it’s $39.80 per month. Address: Zip Code: Your Trial Price: Just 1.00. First Name: Last Name: Email: Phone: Your Trial Price: Just 1.00. Members get access to RealtyTrac’s proprietary information, including auctions dates and locations, pre-foreclosure addresses, owner information, bank loan amounts and more.į. Foreclosed Homes as low as 10,000 Save up to 50 on amazing deals in your local area Register To View Property Details Sign up for a 21 days Trial. There’s a free 7-day trial after that, it’s $49.95 a month, with discounts on multi-month packages. Foreclosure Listings – Subscription Sites This site allows users to search for real estate owned or bank owned foreclosed properties, by zip code or other methods. And, while we're on the subject of Realtors, you can also check with local real estate companies and their agents directly to search for foreclosed homes.īank of America-owned properties and foreclosures. You can focus your search using a zip code and/or city. Similarly,, also used by new-home seekers or sellers, can help you find foreclosures. You can fashion your own method of searching, filtering by cost or location. The popular website used by home sellers and buyers alike has its own search site for foreclosure listings. It lists homes in foreclosure that Freddie Mac is selling to investors or potential home buyers. had his eye on a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) property. This site is owned by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, also called Freddie Mac. Buying a house is already a tedious process, and buying a foreclosure adds. Owned by the Federal National Mortgage Association, known as Fannie Mae, offers free listings of thousands of homes in foreclosure being sold by Fannie Mae. Equator offers free listings of homes in foreclosure – under “buy,” click on “foreclosure homes” – alongside short sales, open-market listings, and properties available through the Hubzu auction process. |