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What I hear from friends closer to Apple than I am is that FW is alive
and well, but that general consumers don't care whether it's there or
not. The MacBook Pro and desktop Macs all have FireWire. If it were
eliminated from future iMacs or Mac Minis, I'd be forced to get a Mac
Pro, or figure
Perhaps instead of paying millions to a few at the top, they should spend
that money to retain the talent that's actually doing the work of the
company.
A very fine idea that will never happen.
It's ironic that most companies can exist and prosper without top
management, but will fail
You said to ultimately put into your Mac- then why use an old one.
Buy a new Hard drive; get an enclosure (15 bucks is max) and you are home free.
You can clone the drive and then replace the one in your computer.
The WD My Passport drive is new--got it last week on Black Friday. It
was
The capitalist caste system can be broken. It's not like the real caste
system where those who reject it are designated to be in the outcaste
caste, and others are told that their fate depends on accepting their
lot and hoping to be reborn in a higher caste. The capitalist castes are
a state
Doctors, nurses and teachers have powerful professional associations.
They're highly educated professionals.
Professional organizations are somewhat different than labor unions,
and they try to distinguish themselves from unions. I think that
professional organizations place more emphasis
hdmi out..no hdmi on apple
To the best of my knowledge, a DVI HDMI cable will achieve the
exact same result at the output end that an HDMI HDMI achieves. If
I am wrong on this, then please correct me
DVI and HDMI are the same for transmitting uncompressed digital video.
The
I do not disagree with anything you have written. Personally, I
think that a prime reason that high-tech computing professionals, as
they see themselves, shun the thought of organizing for their own
betterment is because they tend to associate such organization of
workers as being blue collar
A little less of your ego and you might actually consider what I'm saying.
We, you and I have no idea what technology will be here in a decade, two
decades, longer..it is presumptuous to assume you are just smarter than the
previous generations and will just grok it.
Who could have imagined
Oh so wrong. And Constance's complaint that there are only 24 hours
in a day just compounds the error.
I am constantly at client's sites and see first hand how people use
computers at work. It is painful. People do not know how to use their
computers efficiently and are totally clueless about
mike xha...@gmail.com escribió:
Check VLC, I think it's region free.
VLC, http://www.videolan.org/, works OK with our videos from Spain. Be
sure that your default video player doesn't open first when you insert
the DVD. Your computer may automatically reject the disk before VLC
opens it.
From Slashdot today [here we go again!]:
Patent Issued For Podcasting
on Friday November 20, @12:14PM
from the next-a-patent-on-the-eardrum dept.
...The EFF is reaching out for help after a company called Volomedia
got the Patent Office to grant them exclusive rights to 'a method for
It's the stupid cloud again! No. The cloud won't obscure computers.
Ridiculous, as in worthy of ridicule, as only in geek fantasies.
Computers are changing, but aren't going away any time soon, and neither
are Apple or MS, as long as they keep changing as technology evolves.
Apple is in a
mike escribió:
I get the feeling Betty is that farmer on the side of the road 100 years ago
ridiculing his neighbor for using a fancy tractor with one of those engines
to plow his field instead of the tried and true mule or team of horses.
Sure the next few years...decade...the horse was
from Slashdot [glad I just installed VirtualBox]:
Technology: Try Out Chrome OS In a Virtual Machine
Friday November 20, @09:55PM
Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 20, @09:55PM
from the that-didn't-take-long dept.
itwbennett writes: Some very generous Alpha OS geeks have snagged the
Does your phone have Bluetooth? I transfer pictures via BT to my S-E
phone. No phone number, no email necessary. I use the Bluetooth System
Preference on my iMac to do this. If your phone has WiFi you can also
transfer that way.
Betty
Tmobile for regular users has email addresses attached
From SlashDot:
Nathan Myhrvold, former CTO of Microsoft, is self-publishing a cook
book with scientific underpinnings. The man who presided over the
original iterations of Windows has built a laboratory kitchen
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/science/17prof.html , hired 5 chefs,
and plays
BIOS battery? Bad RAM?
There's some amazing deals coming up next week and for Christmas. BLACK
FRIDAY! YES!! Or she can buy $1100 worth of software with $1450 in
rebates and use the difference to get a free computer.
Betty
I said this myself, this zino thing isn't aimed at the mac mini, different
tools for different jobs. The zino doesn't need FW since it has the much
faster ESATA.
Sure looks like the Mac Mini. There are other form factors they could
have used, but making it look like a Mini clone in black sure
Hi;
I live on a boat. Salt air is notorious for killing electronics. I'm
building a new computer. I'm adding a water cooling system so I can
eliminate fans (not for speed). Now I'm wondering if I can seal the box up
so no air enters. Ideas? Anybody tried this?
TIA,
Victor
Since both Panasonic
Oh, look! The Inspiron Zino has a *tray-loading* DVD burner! Of course,
it's Inspiron, not Latitude. Why it's like a multi-color Mac Mini with a
huge fan!
Zino has no FireWire; Mini does and can be easily modded to use eSATA.
The Mini can connect to HDMI with a DVI-HDMI cable, so direct HDMI
Verizon Doubles Early Termination Fee and More
Thursday November 12, @04:27PM
If you buy a smartphone through Verizon, be prepared for an increase in
the early termination fee. Verizon is doubling the phone-subsidy to
$350. What's more, Verizon also actively charges customers for
accidental
I agree, Betty. Reliable tech news is limited. The W Post and NY
Times have some good tech writers, but that is about as far as I go
for general US news media. Even NPR does not have a good tech
reporter (except for Science Friday, but that is mostly science, not
tech news). Most general
My old phone had the hiccups and accidentally sent 40+ text messages to the first person in my phone book. After I called her to apologize, I called T-Mobile. They said it looked like a mistake and deleted charges for those messages. Would Verizon, ATT or Sprint give credit for a mistake?
This
LTE is only being built out by VZ from what I've read. 20-30 markets by
2010, ATT is a no go on LTE. I've heard rumors that Tmobile is further a
long then some believe and may be introducing killer prices and speed around
Q1 2010.
Verizon is not the only one. T-Mobile was first with LTE, with
Oh, please. He said it has the same legal status AS a religion (or a
philosophy). He didn't say that it IS a religion (or a philosophy). Someone
tell me this wasn't intentional.
We can expect Fox News and the New York Post to deliberately
misrepresent issues in headlines. It's Murdoch's M.O.
mike xha...@gmail.com escribió:
This is a problem with every news site. Check NYT or LATIMES or any other
news paper.
This is a somewhat recent phenomenon. I've worked on several newspapers
and have done work for magazines and books. Newspaper headlines were
edited carefully just as was
Chinese iPhone Has No Wi-Fi
---
by Glenn Fleishman gl...@tidbits.com
The combination of mobile broadband and Wi-Fi in the iPhone has long
been one of its selling points, and seamless data roaming between
cell and Wi-Fi...Not so in China. The iPhone model for sale
First, I forgot that the Droid is by Motorola. Could this be that
company's last gasp at mobile phones? My Moto SLVR was a very attractive
phone that made me sound like I was calling from an undersea cave--on
both Cingular and T-Mobile networks, plus Vodafone, Orange, Telefonica
in Europe. Its
He might have been wanting to take screenshots
You mean like on the iPhone and iPod Touch? That's build-in, no extra
app needed. Can Droid do screenshots too? Can it select and save images?
Betty
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I believe that after a given period of time they are required to give you an
unlock code to allow you open your phone up for any service provider that fits.
(In this case GSM) you can then subscribe to a service and put in the SIM card.
I think that you should be able to use any hardware
Both the unlocking and jailbreaking are done with software?
Depends on the phone. Some phones need a special SIM to unlock, others
must be connected by cable to a PC with bluetooth turned off. Some
phones all you need is an unlock code which is calculated using the
IMEI, model number,
I can buy the same part at the local hardware store, Home Depot or Lowes. Same
packaging same number.
Yes indeed. He pointed that out Same packaging same number but not the same
product in the box.
That was your plumber trying to justify charging you a higher price.
No markup. I was
It does flash most the time. Why wouldn't they do it without gsm?
iPhone is a world phone. CDMA is mostly US and Japan. Apple can sell
more GSM phones than CDMA.
Verizon still wants the iPhone, as noted in recent news. It will take
Apple a year or so to reengineer hardware and software for
Did I miss something? I don't own a cell phone so I'm not real
interested in that discussion, and I sure don't want to read the
review, but is this some sort of new tech? How and why does a cell
phone take pictures of itself?
Some phones have cameras on the front and back of the phone. You can
-free-sms-text-messages-from-iphone-and-ipod-touch-via-aim-and-ichat/
That might be a good start for you.
On Nov 3, 2009 9:26 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
What app can do SMS? I can send texts via email, but how can I receive
texts on my iPod? Nobody uses email any more, according
In WA state, unlimited calling and a data plan for an iPhone is $130/ mo.
It's only $70 / mo where you are?
Cavan [and some of my friends] has an iPhone 3G with unlimited data, and
450 minutes with rollover. He texts using the data plan or WiFi rather
than SMS, but has the additional text
Why are you adding all that unrelated stuff together? Just to make a
point with people that can't add???
If you're tired of hearing about cloud computing then you're on the wrong list.
For those of us who are on the road a lot, all of the items are
important to be connected well enough to
No, I've never seen the name as derogatory. Most 'clouds' are good, aren't they?
Down south storm clouds are not a good omen and often portend very bad weather.
Especially green clouds that warn us to take cover from tornadoes!
Most clouds around here are not so good, especially since
Tony B ton...@gmail.com escribió:
Why don't you guys start your own thread to whine about cell phones? I
started this thread to discuss online storage - the cloud. Serious
topic hijacking.
Tony,
You hijacked this thread.
Tony sez: ...But have you seen modern cell coverage maps of the
Online backups:
$1.78-$4.60 per month for backup service, PLUS the faster broadband
service for home/office, PLUS the mobile data plan, PLUS the cellular
modem plan for a notebook. These can easily add up to well over
$100/mo., could be upwards of $150-$200/mo.
EXPENSIVE, unless you stay
What app can do SMS? I can send texts via email, but how can I receive
texts on my iPod? Nobody uses email any more, according to the kiddies
[except this email].
Betty
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Since Mike is so desperate to find out what the Droid can't do
that the iPhone can, here's two:
Because the Droid is built for Verizon's mostly CDMA network, you
don't have simultaneous data and voice. So you can't for example
do a web search for restaurants while making dinner plans with your
Don't fall for this. The person claimed he needed to read his emails
when he wasn't online. I pointed out the fallacy involved. Namely,
that if he had a job that *really* required this, he could get cell
coverage over most of the country.
Of course, it turned out he really has no such need, and
But have you seen modern cell coverage maps of the country? What part
are you in that you can't get your email anywhere you need it? Offline
access just isn't a factor any longer.
Have you seen how expensive cellular data plans are? Most people with
mobile phones don't have them. Most people
Flash drives break when you need them most, yet survive the most brutal
abuse.
I found Bob's 8GB flash drive in the washing machine last week--after
the laundry was washed at the heavy duty setting. I opened it and hung
it up to dry with everything else, waited a day for it to dry. It works
Betty, I have OS 3.1 on my iPod, and it won't play the newest videos (the top 3) either.
My friend can't play them on his iPhone with 3.1 either.
Time to loudly embarrass Apple for making their site incompatible with
their hardware.
http://tinyurl.com/yjtwgwn
Does this mean I have to upgrade the OS from 2.x to 3.1? [at least it's
half price now]
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I have an iMac G4 (iLamp) running OS 10.4.11. I would like to make
it wireless. It takes the old airport card (I could get that off
ebay). Should I use that or should I get a USB wireless adapter
(this iMac only has USB 1.1)? Thanks
Could you use a wireless access point to act as a bridge,
It is currently set using the Ethernet. It connects to my wireless
DSL modem/router. The printer is connected to iMac and shared with
our wireless laptops. My iMac is over 7 years old, so I was thinking
when I replace it that I would make it my wireless print server. I
was wondering if I
http://movies.apple.com/media/us/mac/getamac/2009/apple-mvp-broken_promises-us-20091023_480x272.mov
Totally vicious and totally funny!
Movie doesn't play on my iPod Touch. Does this mean I have to break down
and buy the 3.1 OS to view the movie? [At least it's half price now.]
Finland: Broadband Is a Legal Right - BusinessWeek
Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:49:06 -0700
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/10/
finland_broadba.html
People need broadband connections to live normal lives
Agreed.
However, if you have a DV camcorder to use as a web cam, you'll look
more fabulous than with the cheapo web cam. Don't run out and buy one
just for the web. The cheaper camera might be better because it has
terrible resolution, thus will use less bandwidth. You have to RTFM for
the
Time warp. No wonder you think Apple's market share is 3%.
Could be 3-5% or 10-12% depending on which statistics you choose.
When you choose to count the number of computers that are sold, Apple
may well be in the 5% range. The data skews upward to above 12% when you
count the computers in
Just got a Mac Mini and realized I don't have a USB keyboard to jack
into it. Other than it being a nice keyboard, is there something
about a Mac keyboard that's worth the $35 or so premium? If I run
Parallels, should I expect any problems with Windoze (probably Win7)?
The Mac low-profile
Hey young fella!
Old people invented the cloud many years ago. Do you remember ARPANET? I
do. I used it. I used punch cards for Fortran programs that I fed into a
Burroughs mainframe that was the 3400 block of Market Street in Philly.
You mean good old Unicol. I spent quite a few nights
Cloud changes its name every few years.
The new idea is not cloud. I have drawing templates from 30 years ago
(pre-internet) for drawing clouds. The new idea is storing all your data in
the cloud. Previously we lacked enough bandwidth to do such a thing and
storage costs were too high.
When
Hey young fella!
Old people invented the cloud many years ago. Do you remember ARPANET?
I do. I used it. I used punch cards for Fortran programs that I fed into
a Burroughs mainframe that was the 3400 block of Market Street in Philly.
My Mom retired in December at the age of 87 because she
At 05:25 PM 10/15/2009, Sue Cubic wrote:
I want to know---what is the cloud?
It is wherever your data is when it isn't on your own equipment and you haven't
the foggiest idea where it really is.
Heh heh, FOGGY, heh heh, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Hah! The cloud! Foggy!
Cloud changes its name every
http://tinyurl.com/yk57ff9
It is not just Apple. Are not most products that are sold via download sold
with no-refund policy? Even boxed software is sold this way too. If the box
is opened you can't return it. The problem is that anyone can demand a
refund and keep using the software.
I guess
I think the problem was Verizon. I Googled smtp verizon filtered for the
last 24 hours and got 376 hits. 13,100 hits in the last week. Lots of mad
people.
Apparently Verizon is so panicked about handling spam that they are dropping
standard email support. The posts linked to
I just kept all my mail on gmail after I signed onto to VZ.
I have GMail too, but retrieve it with Thunderbird or online through
Yahoo. I don't like the online interface. Much harder to sort than basic
Yahoo, or Thunderbird client, but filters OK. Don't like their SMTP
server settings
Is this a good reason to jailbreak your iPhone? Are lite versions of
apps available through Cydia?
Original Message
Subject: [MD_Apple_Corps_List] Apple's Iphone app Policy
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:40:11 -0400
From: Gerry...
Apple's Iphone app Policy
-- See
On Oct 12, 2009, at 6:05 AM, computerg...@att.net wrote:
Thank you everyone who replied to my post a while back. Briefly, I am trying
to save web pages
in my computer, rather than print them out and have lots of paper laying
around. Per the advice here,
I updated my Firefox to the latest
I want to save some images from the web and the options safari gives me are save as web
archive or page source
Advantages to either?
I can see disadvantages to both. If you save as Page Source, all you
have is the HTML code with no images, animations, etc. Save as Web
Archive in Safari and
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Any likelihood that it was consumer backlash?
More like world phone envy, or at least T-Mobile envy. T-Mobile has been
selling WiFi phones for a year or so. They're popular, like the ones
from HTC. Only problem, they were originally crippled so that they only
worked with T-M WiFi.
WiFi
Go to amazon.fr and search on plume waterman.
Let me know if it works.
In France you're likely to get more returns at Kelkoo, same search
terms, http://tinyurl.com/ylyt7qr. Many of the items are in Amazon
marketplace, but many are elsewhere too.
Try
Most annoying thing is that the print options in most programs seem to have
changed and there is no option in the File Menu for making a selection - it
now is all or nothing. We had to update one peice of software.
I think that was a Leopard change, and only in some programs.
In Preview, for
The font problem is worse than you report. It messes up TrueType and
OpenType fonts too. Some apologists for Apple say that you can just
adjust the type specs to get spacing back to right, but these are
hopeless programmers who know nothing about typography. The numbers
that they say to randomly
Eric S. Sande escribió:
Besides when you order from China, you have to figure out if it's the real thing,
No you don't. It's guaranteed to be junk, even if it's designed and
supervised by European engineers.
I'm guessing that won't be a popular statement. But I KNOW that
Americans can
I don't think they do that in Europe, at least, not in France.
I'm pretty familiar with what US audio equipment goes for in
Japan and Australia. It's a 20-30% percent markup over US
list, that it gets bought says something for the quality of the
product.
Of course it's all high end
Which one did you order and from who?
What do you want to buy?
I've had good luck with several eBay stores. The last order I made at
Meritline had half shipped from the US [blank DVDs and DVD-RW] and half
from Hong Kong [card readers, SIM card, etc]. I've used other HK vendors
too and all
The Touches are all microphone-capable. In the most recent
generation, the larger capacity Touches come with Apple
earphones that have the built-in microphone, but the entry-level
8GB Touch comes with regular earphones. For my previous
generation Touch, I bought and use a microphone by Monster
Finding web stores sellers from other countries on Google search in
the U.S. produces unsatisfactory results for me. Specifying the
Google search domain from other countries has proved for me to
produce a limited number of links. Question: Is there a good way of
finding web stores
Question: Is there a good way of finding web stores internationally?
Not really. It has to do with tariffs and trade, generally.
Foreign exchange and VAT make a difference too. The dollar is down
against the Euro, after going up in the Spring. Makes a difference when
the Euro was $1.30
What UMPC's do you recommend Betty?
dan
Since I can't fit one into my budget--just into a pocket--I can make a
wishlist. I like the Panasonic Toughbook U1 for size, but it's heavy.
Something like that would be nice, but needs to be lighter. Itronix
GoBook® MR-1 is better, but not much
Thanks Betty ... I agree with you about small size being important for road
warrioring. And I think the small powerful ones have to weigh more ... because
they have more guts...
I am interested to know the how's and why's of your going with an iPod Touch and a separate phone. How come you
I was going to add, I think UMPC's have been overrun in the public market by
either netbooks or the iPod touch. I only see UMPC's in the workplace
replacing what would have gone to touchscreen notebooks. I'd examine what
you need this for and then see if the iPod touch can suit your needs.
Financial Times' how to spend it magazine defined netbooks well on
their Sept. 19, 2009 technopolis page. The prose is
delightful--describes the attraction perfectly:
Samsung N310 Mini-Notebook
It's only two years since the word netbook emerged to describe a
mini, handbag/man-bag-sized
A friend asked if I could convert a few VHS tapes to DVD. I've done
many, so I said OK. One tape he gave me is a commercial movie--obscure,
but one of his favorites--and it's never been released as a DVD. It has
Macrovision.
Is there a legal way to do this conversion without buying expensive
Yet again. If this were MS pulling this stunt, they would certainly be
pilloried. And probably sued by the EU. Where's the outrage here?
I'm outraged that some Windows programs update without informing users!
And our HP notebook came with dozens of undocumented programs installed,
not even a
Are you saying the HP you owned would install NEW software
you did not already have installed or was updating software on your system
already? Also, there is a very easy solution to these so called
undocumented programs...hit the start button.
The Windows PCs don't have a list of preinstalled
What do you really want/need? An ultra-mobile PC or a small notebook?
*That's a very good question and not really sure of the difference. Think
a small notebook though. *
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The original small hand-held PCs with 4 to 7 inch displays that came out
at some 3 or 4 years ago were mostly
Bad PC Sales Staff Exposed
Barence writes An undercover investigation has revealed how Dell's
online sales staff take liberties with the truth when trying to sell
customers new PCs. One member of staff told an undercover reporter that
he would need a PC with a good graphics card to download
I download my gmail to Thunderbird. Something happened that caused
Thunderbird to no longer recognize that my account existed along with
folders containing hundreds of messages. Since nothing I tried fixed
the problem, I ended up deleting my default folder and reloading
from my previous week's
Just got it. So far it's a loud paperweight. Loaded drivers and
utilities on PCs and Macs. None can see or print to it. Ethernet cable
makes lights blink on printer and router, utility finds it--nothing
happens.
Any tips for using this printer wirelessly or wired? Prefer to use wired
or
Editing a photo does not take near the video ram a video does.
Keyboards are keyboards. Want a full size one, plug it in.
I can edit photos on my mobile phone. I can surf the 'net on my phone or
iPod. Add a keyboard to a netbook and it isn't portable any more
[rollups and virtual keyboard,
Lack of an optical drive for burning DVDs isn't necessarily an obstacle
in a 'netbook'. The SD card slot can make up for DVD burner and hard
drive or small flash drive. You can save to the SD card the kinds of
things you'd normally burn to disk, and your drive space is limited
only by the
phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com escribió:
US Chamber of Commerce cites #19 rank, wants tougher IP laws
http://tinyurl.com/lkcdsh
IP laws won't be effective in the US until the copyright and patent laws
are rewritten to be in compliance with Article I, Section 8 of the
Because we are no longer the home of the brave and land of the free.
We are the home of the Corporate Entity and land of the Connected.
Stewart
Touché!
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What I do find is that one side only mentions the problems with the other
side. For every Madoff there is a government bureaucrat like Geithner
ripping us off. For every wall street banker there are guys like Ted
Stevens or Charlie Rangel.
Actually, what I think is that each side either
What makes you think I believe it's a golden devil? iPod touch = the cool.
Also on a related note of sorts. I emailed the list about choices in cell
phones and service, and the comments were all helpful. I had almost decided
for sure I was going to get the new mytouch from Tmobile. I had
HTC has been selling phones under the big carriers for quite awhile. An
unlocked Hero would run 750 to 1000 dollars, it's 180 with the 2 year
contract discount.
HTC Hero US phones start around $500--$350 for a Euro model with 3G that
doesn't work on US frequencies. You'll be paying a lot
Quick Voice
ShoutOUT [soon?] http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10185457-1.html
Jott
I would appreciate recommendations for an iPhone app. where the text could
perhaps be used in a note, email or SMS perhaps?
Who are the contenders and are they ready for prime time?
thanks in advance,
Energy is only as free as the technology to capture and distribute it.
The advantages in manufacturing are cancelled out by the costs. Are the
corporations that want to use microgravity for production going to
absorb all the risks? Or is this yet another example of socializing risk
with
Yeh ... and the US announced something er other about wanting to shut
the Space Station down in 2015 ... a mere years after completion so
we can pay for manned missions going back to the moon or to Mars or
just wandering around out in space...Why would that be? ...Anybody
notice a striking
Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com escribió:
According to physicist Dr. Robert Park of UMd and the American
Physical Society:
You beat me to it. I was just about to post this. If, God forbid, a
terrorist someday forces me to put on a Terps sweatshirt, I will be
able to resist giving up the goods
Jeff Morris jmor...@clarkswb.net escribió:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnc0CeUT-Lc There is an old saying,
and judging by the posts on here it is 100% accurate: You can't
reason people out of positions they didn't reason themselves into.
Too many people are partisan without ever really
On Sep 9, 2009, at 9:31 AM, Jordan wrote:
The nice Apple keyboard that I use on the iMac has a problem. The cde and 3
keys have stopped working. Is there anything I can tinker with that might fix
this? It's a couple years old, but does anyone think Apple will do anything for
me on this?
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