>My C: Drive has two partitions. One is much smaller and has the programs,
>windows, etc. The other much larger has only two files because I have a D:
>Drive with my data. How to I make C: without a partition? Or at least
>increase the first C: partition and decrease the second? Do I have to hav
>As area that most people will agree Americans tend to excel in and
>over rely on.
I hate to be disagreeable, but this is no longer something we excel at.
While propaganda from the greedy corporations that stole our Internet
will try to lull you into a false feeling of excellence, these days I
>I seem to remember reading that this browser keeps each tab in a
>separate "sandbox" so that if there is a problem on one tab/window, that
>tab or window can crash without effecting the others. If I am recalling
>correctly, it would explain why there are as many Chromiums under
>Process Name i
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz1b__MdtHY
>Long, but worth watching all the way through
At the end Bill Black starts calling it "a fundamental moral crisis."
That has a ring of truth to it. No excuses like "we live in an imperfect
world" here.
This suggests an easy solution for paying for cur
>How do you budget for finding a new energy source? Would we have
>electric light bulbs if Edison would have been on a budget? I know he
>probably funded it himself, but after the first 100 tries he'd cut
>himself off we'd be sitting in the dark. And I think fusion research
>is about a mill
>Interesting tool... Reverse lookup for images! Give it an image, and it
>can tell you the source.
>http://tineye.com/
It doesn't really tell you the source. It shows other places on the web
where that image is used. This could be a stock agency, which could
validly be called a "source", but i
>So the choice is to read one mag who supports enhanced interrogation, or one
>that thought Joe was a great guy when he was killing as many as 20,000
>Russians a month?
Those evil Ruskies are out to get us! OMG there's one under your bed!!
>That base is not nearly as broad as that of The Nation,
>many whose supporters are not wealthy.
Thank you. Why am I not surprised that I was being mislead? Maybe the
cons/neocons predilection for enhanced interrogarion comes from their
knowledge that they would otherwise never tell the truth.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10242260-2.html
I was surprised at how dull Alpha was. In contrast a Google search is
often the beginning of an adventure in learning. Google gives me lots of
hits that reprensent different options and viewpoints. I get
serependitious hits that teach me new t
>He was a moral absolutist. However much we try and move his message
>into the secular realm he first and foremost was always speaking of
>the spiritual realm. We live in a corrupt society (in more ways than
>one) and we will never see perfection here.
"Always speaking of the spiritual realm.
>Why aren't these
>people under arrest who where charged with over seeing this kind of
>stuff and chose to ignore it? Or weren't smart enough to see it even
>when they were told it was going on?
Because they were too busy executing their insider trades.
>Jesus never advocated one method or the other.
Was Jesus a moral relativist too? I didn't know that.
>"free Market" can be both good and bad. It can serve the purposes of both.
Good for the rich and bad for the rest of us, but the rich can afford to
buy indulgences to set things right with Go
>So you're saying outright that the station engineer sees this bad sync, but
>does nothing about it. And won't, unless forced by the FCC?
I don't know if a solution can be readily retrofitted so that future DTV
equipment can lock the two data streams together.
The current poor engineering is cle
>I only included that article as an example of the folly of looking to
>the govt. as a mechanism for "science," as was so loudly crowed here.
>Sure, you'll get science, and whole lot of waste and politicizing of
>science too.
I think yours is an accurate representation of how Bush ran things.
I
>I do remember him saying render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's
>and unto God that which is God's. .
I hope you got further than that in your study of Scripture.
I think "free market" falls more within the sphere of the money changers
than either Caesar or God. I don't recall Jesus having m
>Private philanthropists donate their money to universities for research
>all the time.
So we must wait for the crumbs to fall from the rich man's table? Mr.
Moneybags you are a real sweetheart.
>No, only when people conflate market shortcomings with govt. meddling.
Interesting choice of words
>All I'm suggesting is that they send out a signal that is synched.
>What happens after that is obviously out of their control (at this
>point). By them saying that they have "no control over a PBS feed" is
>just their way of passing the buck.
It is starting to look like DTV is more in the style o
>Under one you have fair market cost but some folks subsidize the
>other to make phone service ubiquitous to the masses. Under the
>other you start pricing people out of the market, but you can call
>cross country really cheap.
Correction: "you start pricing people out of the market, but *som
>You almost have to feel sorry for MS...almost. Apple is playing in
>the majors and MS is swinging away in the minors.
Good point. The M$ spots looked like somebody working too hard. The Apple
response seemed almost effortless.
>What you guys are forgetting (or just conveniently ignoring) is that the
>sync *is just fine* back at their location. If they throw it off enough so
>that yours looks good, that's going to throw it off for everyone else. And
>then it will change again for the next program.
>
>It's absurd to think
>Are you sure you know what a free market is?
A marketing term used to promote anarchy and rule by the rich. "Free
Market" is what made Bernie Madoff a billionare.
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>You'd think that something so wonderful could operate in the energy market
>without constant federal support.
You are happy when the government "leases" public land for coal, oil and
gas extraction and gets paid little of nothing for it, but when it acts
to promote a more balanced energy polic
>I do not see these messages when accessing Gmail? Where are these
>messages displayed? Maybe I am blind and just not seeing them. I use
>Camino on the Mac.
Does it remember your setting for that email address or just not show a
message?
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Apple responded to Laptop Hunters with just the right amount of
snarkeyness.
http://apple.com/getamac/ads/
The ones entitled "Elimination" and "PC Choice Chat"
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>From what I read it seemed a bit too early to try using it.
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Check Apple's prices on "previous model" iMacs. These are new and I have
seen them selling for less than refurbished Macs. Look at the MacMini for
as little as $420.
>I want to add to the refurbished Mac discussion. I've got to buy my
>second refurb due to my old one dyeing this last week whil
>My iMac is about 4 years old, and I think that the fan noise is louder
>than it was originally. I want to open it up and vacuum the dust out
>of it, but I recall reading that this may make a static electrical
>charge that could ruin some semiconductors. I would like to know if
I would giv
>Has anyone tried Prism yet?
Not yet, but I imagine this is going to be really hard for the
change-resistant among us.
>I'm trying it with gmail, but it seems odd - I keep looking for my other
>tabs.
Do tell us more.
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>my hard drive in the iMac had finally died. Now I'm
>wondering if I should/could get an external firewire drive and have
>it run the OS on the iMac, or just buy a new iMac. Any thoughts?
Depends on how old your iMac is. Tell me more.
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>I restarted my computer and restarted DiskWarrior, and it ran for
>about 3-1/2 days and then reported that it couldn't rebuild the
>directory, but to email Alsoft and tell them error no. xxx.
You may also want to send that info here:
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>I too have noticed this over the past month. Don't know if there's
>been a change in Google or Firefox which is causing this.
Me too. Quite annoying. Firefox Mac and Windows.
Usually FireFox works the best with Google. There are even some things
that don't work in Chrome, but work fine in FireF
>Think of the 60 years, of the thousands of homes, broiling in the
>Miami sun, and paying, and paying, and paying, for electricity to heat
>their water!
That's what happens when governments abdicate their responsibility to
govern. The so-called "free market" is full of such outrageous example
>Bottom line: if you're depending on a politican for
>science, you've got bigger problems to worry about.
Even when the politican appoints respected scientists and technologists
to fill science and technology posts?
Maybe you are stuck in the past? The cons/neocons are no longer running
the sho
>You should read up on those lawsuits in the EU...really ridiculous stuff.
>Kinda hard to claim IE has an monopoly when their marketshare is on a
>spiral...DOWN.
Windows 7 Raises Complaints...
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2346691,00.asp
"Our initial review suggests this is a blatant use o
>Apple has a strange baffling approval process.
Apple does seem to be overly conservative. Nevertheless M$ did launch a
PR attack against Apple over "offensive" apps.
Top 11 iPhone offensive apps
www.msnbc.com/id/30522704
>But RAID for home-use is almost always a bad idea. 1. It is not likely
>to be properly configured. 2. The home-user is not likely to understand
>how to manage it. 3. That user will have a false sense that the data is
>secure. 4. Because it adds complexity, the home-user is more likely to
>lose
>What they don't warn you about in RAID school though, is that after a
>failure, when the RAID is being rebuilt, your data is 100% vulnerable!
>And this striping process can take 24 hours or more for large disks!
RAID was designed back when 100MB (That's Mega, not Giga) was considered
a very larg
>For most home system even a NAS type of device could be a good means of
>backup.
Useful in a home where there are multiple computers and you want to share
files among them. Otherwise KISS backs no NAS.
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>Some will even continuously monitor your data directory for changed files
>and perform the backup "immediately." That may be a hazard, as a
>corrupted file could overwrite a good backup.
I have seen several cases where having that delay saved somebody's
cookies. Boy did they scranble to shut
>Do not use the RAID array as the backup. Have a separate regular backup
>to external hard drives. (or tape or CD/DVD if you wish). A good backup
>medium these days is a SATA hard drive mounted in one of these "bare drive
>docking stations" that has a USB (or Firewire, or E-SATA, or ..) interf
>But not at the same time. That is the failure that RAID is designed to
>mitigate. If you have multiple, simultaneous drive failures, you have much
>bigger problems than worrying about your RAID controller.
Read the Wikipedia entry on RAID. They say the opposite.
>All of the multiple safety sy
>It is for fault tolerance/uptime in case of a drive failure. If you are
>depending on RAID for backup, you will be sorely disappointed.
Jeff and I agree!
One of the dangers of using RAID outside of the data center is the false
sense of security it creates.
The data center uses it because they
>I just cannot stand out-of-sync audio and video.
I have found that I can sometimes fix this by powering my digital
converter box off and on.
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>Over a long IT career, I did go from knowing exactly which volume and
>track numbers had my data, to letting the OS manage the data, not caring
>where or even what type of media it was on. But that was within one
>responsible enterprise.
Thank you. Good example.
>I guess I AM having problems
>You bought that one?
>> As BHO recently announced, "Science is back."
Well I was it was gone for 8 years and now I see it again. Doesn't that
count as "back"? As the little kids say "Back Obama."
Today BHO is announcing that the government is back into enforcing the
antitrust laws. In the prev
>Exactly, I await your case to be made. It's so nice when we agree.
I don't have to make any case. You are advocating using something other
than a standard disk drive. So you have to make the case for doing
something abnormal. If there is no good reason to jump through all the
extra hoops to i
>I have yet to see a backup program offer to backup all the pictures
>'in' photoshop. Reason? It's a stupid concept.
Bad comparison. Photoshop is not a photo manager. The closest it comes to
that is Bridge with VersionCue and there I would say the pics are in
VersionCue. Adobe sells a photo mana
>Did no one read my post of a few days ago?
>The pictures are not "in Picassa".
>They are in:
>Tools=>Options=>General Save Imported Pictures in ...
You are not letting go of the old way of seeing things. The pictures are
"in Picassa" and the are "in iPhoto." These programs work differently
>Interesting math, adds up to a whole lot of BS, but interesting.
Yes, that whole arithmetic thing is just such a scam.
As BHO recently announced, "Science is back." If you can make a
scientific case for this old technology I welcome you to do so. But
calling it BS just doesn't cut it. Neither
>You leave out one crucial detail, RAID works. It has for a long time and
>will continue in many places. If you are afraid of it then don't use it,
>but you need not spread FUD around.
Buggy whips still work too gramps, but I prefer the iron horse. Why do
you insist on leading people astray?
>Isn't the exact location of the photos designated [by the user] in
>Preferences? Or, on a Mac, the photos would automatically be stored in
>the Pictures folder. On a PC it might default to My Documents. A good
>backup program would be set to look for changes, additions, deletions
>anyway.
Yes
>The guys at macbreak weekly have recommended drobo often..and no they aren't
>paid to do it. They just love it. With the background these guys have,
>I'll trust they know what they are doing.
They need to find products to fawn over. That's their shtick.
The head "guru" is a college dropout wh
>It's not redundant anymore? It doesn't provide mirroring or parity? It
>doesn't reduce the MTBF? All those assumptions are wrong?
I know it is tough to change with the times.
There are many ways to be "redundant". The way RAID provides it is
probably the least useful.
I already explained wh
>So if I understand you correctly: He can run the 10.3.9 combo
>updater even though he already is running OS 10.3.9 and it will fix
>problems with the OS (the run the software update). Well do that.
Yes. Combo updaters will often fix scrambled parts of the OS. A nice easy
fix,
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>On last week's show, one of the guys recommended a DROBO for external
>hard drive storage . I looked into it and I think this might be
>overkill for what I need, plus the up front cost is too high for me
Those guys are not "the guys." I find those guys quite distressing.
DROBO is a terrible
>You guys seem to be missing the simple point that she *already* has a RAID.
>She already enjoys the benefits of using RAID. I have no idea why some on
>the list are afraid of utilizing a proven technology when the situation
>calls for it.
RAID is not a "proven" technology. It is an obsolete tech
>My brother is having a problem with his Appleworks program. He
>is running it on an eMac with OS 10.3.9. The problem may have started
>after he "tried to fix somethings with Norton."
Definitely ditch Norton. Who knows what damage it has done.
In addition to the other good advice you have go
>My wife will be running Windows XP.
I just spent a few hours with the latest version of iPhoto. It actually
makes it difficult to maintain a files-in-folders mindset. It
automatically imports photos when the camera is connected with very
little user interaction. It organizes photos into "event
>WHERE the pics are is important because some of those pics should be
>backed up. Ask the average Picasa user where their pictures are, and
>you'll get an absurd answer like "They're in Picasa!".
That is a perfectly sensible and correct answer. No better and no worse
than saying that the files ar
Gramps exclaimed:
>Male bovine manure!
> What exactly is the connection between storing files in places
>unknown or invisible to the user and technological advances?
You probably still insist on calling it DASD too.
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>But I try to always buy higher quality media because one doesn't know
>when burning exactly where or if quality/ longevity will matter down the
>road.
That is an entirely different issue. Most CDs are marketed on price, not
quality. Cheap CDs are for data transfer or casual use, not for archiv
>I am curious too about this... I no longer have a turntable nor a desire
>to but have a big box full of my old LPs in the basement that I am
>debating what to do with...
Me too. I should walk them down the street to Orpheus. Oh my, I guess he
is not buying...
"Orpheus Records as we've known
>But from what I hear the sound quality on a good album is far
>superior (Brilliance, tone depth etc.) than a CD.
True for the first play, less and less true with each successive playing.
Even with audiophile equipment and careful handling I have played some
LPs to the point of failure.
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>So the question is 'What happens if I write an audio content to these
>purported "data" CDs ?"
Audio content is data.
The "audio" designation is for discs that include a royalty to the RIAA
to cover the cost of all the music they think you will be stealing.
Your friend will insist that they
>While I understand your point, if the amount of data to be transferred is
>not huge, and the computer is an old one that doesn't happen to have a
>USB2/fast port, you may just want to use the USB1 port as-is, rather than
>going to the trouble of installing a USB2 expansion card in the computer.
>i.e., First, users have no idea *where* they're keeping their
>pictures. Might be in c root, might be 15 levels down. File management
>techniques are one of the first things a digital photographer MUST
>learn. Not with Picasa.
This can be a problem for folks who can't let go of old ideas. Picasa
>Even USB-1.
Use of USB1 for data transfer is restricted to Laptop Hunters only.
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>All those users, encoding/decoding...take a hell of a lot of power.
Another good reason to use Macs.
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>It does not have to be free, open source, etc, needs to run on XP, and
>can't break the bank (I E Photoshop full edition).
Picasa is free and quite useful for basic editing and organizing. Online
sharing is very useful.
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>Whether or not the data was copied this time, it's still a good idea to
>insist, where possible, that all medical records use something other
>than a social security number as ID, for when the files really are
>compromised.
The right way to handle such data is to keep it in an encoded format a
>My motherboard has a 120gb limit for the internal ide drive (old dell 4400)
>.does that also go for an external USB2 drive or does that obey some other
>standard?
The drive enclosure has its own disk controller inside it. Your limit
will depend on whatever that controller can do.
>Cops have (Cyper ones) have many more cases to find plus their
>resources are limited.
I think they are not trying. Once a year they wake up and make a big
hullabaloo over a single case, then go back asleep.
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>How can the RIAA sue for songs copied but not actually taken?
How can the RIAA find so many people quietly enjoying music in the
privacy of their own homes, but law enforcement can't track down people
who are openly scamming for people to send them money?
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>Well, I guess that when I read the "vast majority of AMD chips support XPM",
>I don't interpret that to mean that "the vast majority of AMD chips don't
>support XPM".
>
>But that's just me.
That's why I wrote "Don't you think about what the words mean while you
are reading?" By excluding Semptr
>Actually if you'd been reading the posts you'd note I hadn't said anything
>about MS BS, just your BS. Maybe drink some tea or something, calm down,
>take a walk?
Go watch the calming fishes that cguys.org so thoughtfully provides.
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>I'm using Alsoft's DiskWarrior 4.1.1 on a WD 1 TB USB hard drive,
>connected to a 2 GHz iMac G5 with 2 GB RAM.
>DiskWarrior has now been on for about 48 hours.
Tough question.
I have never seen DW run anything like this long. Step 1 usually runs
quite quickly. Some of the following steps are
>As to "Ars says most of AMD's processors won't support XPM", you might want
>to re-read the article. What Ars actually says is that the "vast majority"
>of AMD's processors *will* support XPM.
No it says the Sempron won't. Sempron is AMD's budget chip and therefore
should represent the bulk of A
>Just another opening salvo in a cyber war that's sure to heat up as we
>become more connected. It will be interesting to see how low they can
>bargain the pirates. And what have they done with their website in the
>meantime?
How can one ransom back something that was copied and not actually taken
>XPM requires a virtualization mode that most, but not all, AMD and Intel
>processors support. I don't follow exactly what you think is so "bizarre"
>about this.
The words "goof up" were chosen by Ars, not by list member Mike. Ars says
most of AMD's processors won't support XPM and that Intel's s
>BTW, interesting last paragraph in the article.
I was more interested by the second to last paragraph. Banks and law
enforcement were uninterested in what the researchers had learned.
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>I have ordered, from the Apple Store, a refurbed Mac mini for this
>fellow as his first computer. He has been convinced that he does not
>have to have the same kind of computer that, as he put is, "everyone
>else has." The Mac mini was $419 and I also ordered from Apple a nice
>Canon printer, th
>Don't start getting facts in the way of Tom's BS
Have you presented any facts yourself? No, just fanatical M$ B$.
I know: HOW DARE THEY RUN BENCHMARKS! They should just humbly genuflect.
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>I would guess that a "nominal fee" would still involve a monthly
>charge. I'd rather just pay once up front.
It might. I vaguely remember something like $2.
>Understood about the single box = single channel. How would the
>distribution be done? Is there a recommended device?
Standard coax split
>Are there aftermarket boxes which will work?
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires that aftermarket boxes work.
They have to supply a "CableCARD" for a "nominal" fee. Like many other
laws under Bush, this requirement has not been effectively enforced. Nice
article on this at Wikipedia.
>Let's just conveniently forget the hundreds of hands-on reviews that *all*
>indicated much better performance on the same hardware over Vista. We found
>the one that says what you want it to say.
PCWorld is the first to run scientific benchmarks.
I find your don't-bother-me-with-the-facts atti
>"Mac Mini review that was faster for all sorts of reasons"
Despite your ureasoned commentary, the text you quote makes exactly that
point "faster for all sorts of reasons." That's the difference of looking
at parts vs looking at the whole. This magazine's speed test shows that
as a whole Win7
>A 44-1 ratio of the word "faster" over "slower."
Did you search on "unimpressive"?
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>When the subject was DDR3 RAM, the measly 2-5% increase in performance was
>worth real money to you. Now, a virtually identical range is imperceptible.
>Which is it?
>
>Oh, you have conflicting opinions again. Me? Surprised? Nah.
You have a talent for missing the obvious.
My comment about DD
>Time to send Fido back to trend analysis school. Even the article didn't
>say that Win7 is slower than Vista.
As you pointed out, testing used synthetic benchmarks. Vendors tend to
code for these well-known benchmarks. We expect real world experience to
be worse.
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>Wow. They couldn't even wait for the article to whip out the weasel words.
>*May* not be *much* faster? On a synthetic test?
Is this the best you could do?
I guess it is tough not having right on your side.
Why am I nor $urprised?
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"Speed Test: Windows 7 May Not Be Much Faster Than Vista"
http://www.pcworld.com/article/164485/speed_test_windows_7_may_not_be_much_
faster_than_vista.html
PC World's speed tests against Vista show Win7 is 1-4 percent faster,
below the threshold of human perception.
Why am I not $urprised?
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>beer and pizza!
Good plan. Count me in for beer and pizza too as long as it is not
Budweiser, the Vista of Beers.
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>I ordered a Tivax STB-T8 yesterday. Has good reviews, customers and
>review sites.
I have it and much regret the purchase. Poor sensitivity. Crummy remote.
Slow to change channels. Poor display of program info. Suspect they paid
for good reviews or the other boxes must be really bad. The RCA b
>A minor correction: 3 db is twice power, not 1 db.
Sorry, brain cramp.
>12 db is an increase in power of about 15.8.
A 1580% increase! You definitely want a good antenna.
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>I've given you the fish and the net and told you how to catch the fish
>and how to avoid pulling up old boots,
But the lake is a Superfund Site!
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>How do you tell, before you purchase, which antenna will give you the
>most "gain"?
Nice charts and discussion at hdtvprimer.com. See section on erecting
antennas.
SolidSignal.com has good info. Note new Channel Master model 4228HD
covers down to channel 7. Channel Master 4228 has the highes
>Since you only have a dozen Windows PCs or so, and can handle
>installing CS on them (not an insignificant nor quick process), I
>figured you could handle this. I could be wrong.
If the M$ stuff worked I would be a happy camper. As you said, installing
CS is not insignificant, it fills 2 DVDs a
>Nope, but you do have to have more than a gnat's worth of gumption.
>Start>>Settings>>Control Panel>>Automatic Updates>>download but don't
>install. Whew! Wipe brow.
Do you really run around the office, stopping at each PC to run
"Start>>Settings>>Control Panel>>Automatic Updates"? No wonder yo
>Adobe site says Win XP SP 2 is the requirement...
The installer halts and demands SP3. Who am I to argue?
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