![]() ![]() Like the Venture and the Cavalcade, the XII was turned over to us with just a few hundred break-in miles on the clock. Our Voyager XII was so new, in fact, that a staffer had to fly to Kawasaki’s Lincoln, Nebraska, assembly plant and ride the bike south to Dallas, Texas, where he joined up with the rest of the group for the ride to the Atlantic Ocean. The newest of the Japanese bikes is Kawasaki’s Voyager XII, a downsized and more frugally equipped tourer that supplements the 1300 Voyager but has little in common with that six-cylinder jumbobike. This year, however, with some serious upgrades, including another lOOcc in the most potent engine ever to take up residence in a touring bike, the Venture is once again poised to take a shot at top billing. Since then, the Wing has come back strong and man-Īged to stay a step ahead of the Yamaha. ![]() Three years ago, the then-new Venture was good enough to wrest the title of Best Tourer away from Honda in our Ten Best competition. ![]() Yamaha, of course, anted up with its latest Venture Royale. We would have much preferred to test the refined LXE model, with its fairing lowers and four-speaker stereo but that model was not yet available when we left for Daytona, although we did manage to shanghai one for a two-day riding impression a week after our return. Suzuki provided a new Cavalcade LX, a bike unchanged from the debut-model that so impressed us last year. But before leaving, the Wing was treated to new OEM tires and a major servicing at a local dealer, includingĪn overhaul of the bike’s suspensionleveling system, which had been giving us problems. Our test SE-i started the crosscountry adventure with 10,000 miles already on the odometer, racked up as part of a long-term evaluation we’re conducting on the machine. The 1985 Aspencade won the touring category in Cycle World’s annual Ten Best awards presentation last year, so the 1986 Wing came into this comparison with the home-court advantage. Honda’s entry in our coast-tocoast-to-coast comparison was the Gold Wing Aspencade SE-i. And our goal was not just to have fun in the sun and enjoy the races in the world capitol of speed, but to ride from the Pacific to the Atlantic and back again in search of the ultimate all-American touring bike. Our modes of transportation were the top-drawer touring bikes from the four Japanese companies, and one each from America and Germany. During the last days of winter we set out from our Newport Beach, California, offices, bound for Daytona Beach, Florida, and the annual Cycle Week festivities. Which is just what a team of Cycle World riders did. But factor in two weeks of open time, a garage full of the best touring motorcycles available, with another one waiting in Nebraska, and it’s time to start packing the company credit cards and gathering up the road maps. IT’S TOUGH enough to resist the call of the open road under normal circumstances. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() This new application looks like it may make things easier. We essentially fight with the current available applications to try and do what we want. I'm hoping that it's SO good that it helps improve our documentation here. And only $99 to start? Brilliant.įinally, proving yet another rumor to be true, Apple unveiled iWork. It's the iPod for when I don't NEED 20 GB of music. For me, the shuffle is the perfect companion to my iPod. I have an old Rio, tiny thing with tiny storage which uses an AA battery, that I sometimes used, but it just wasn't an iPod, didn't have AAC support and took BATTERIES, rather than being rechargeable. MacGourmet Deluxe 4 allows you to create an account on the Mariner Cloud server. ![]() At first blush, well you might think, "why would anyone want an MP3 player without a display?" If you look at it the way I did, you can see why: "I own an iPod (actually 2, a first gen and a 3rd gen) and really, my iPod is too big and too expensive for me to want to take it to the gym, or for a walk, etc. In addition, Apple released the iPod shuffle. I even want one, just because it's COOL! You have to figure that there are more than a few current Mac users who will buy these as a second machine as well. Ignore the Mac naysayers, they don't know nearly as much as they think they do. ![]() Now, with the mini, I know even MORE people who are ready to take the Mac plunge. They are fed up, and the Mac is just too GOOD. I personally know a lot of people, people who are PC users and have never owned a Mac, that are already switching. People are fed up with having to be system admins at home just to read their email and browse the web. I'm hoping this will boost the number of Mac users, and the number of potential users for our products.ĭvorak, Thurrott and the like can go on and on about how the Mac share is shrinking, but I'm telling you, from an anecdotal standpoint, the Mac market, even without the mini, was poised for a jump in market share. People who have already paid $300 - $400 for a way cool iPod will have a MUCH easier time buying a new Mac, a computer with none of the spyware or virus headaches of their Windows PCs, a computer that is as cool, or cooler than the iPod they love, when the WHOLE computer is only one or two hundred dollars more than what they paid for their iPod. The new Mac mini (note the lowercase 'mini' just like the iPod) is positioned to be the ultimate switcher Mac. "Give us a Cube we can afford!" the people screamed. The failed Cube only made the demand greater. For years, people have been clamoring for that elusive $500 Mac. ''We want to bring even more people into the digital revolution," Jobs said. In case you've been living under a rock the past few days, and haven't heard about what was unveiled at Macworld yesterday, Apple debuted a new "computer for the masses," the Mac Mini. ![]() ![]() Let’s see which are the principal incidents that affected nuclear plants in the last years. There are many actors, such as cyber criminals, hacktivists, nation-state actors, cyber terrorists and script kiddies, that are threatening critical infrastructure worldwide ![]() Who are the threat actors that could hit a nuclear plant? ![]() In the last years, security experts and authorities confirmed at least three cases of cyber-attacks against Nuclear plants. Stuxnet is the demonstration that it is possible to use a malicious code to destroy operations at a nuclear plant. Stuxnet was designed with a number of features that allowed to evade detection its source code was digitally signed, and the malware uses a man-in-the-middle attack to fool the operators into thinking everything is normal. ![]() In Natanz, it is used to control the valves and pressure sensors of up to six cascades (or 984 centrifuges) that share common feed, product, and tails stations” states “ A Technical Analysis of What Stuxnet’s Creators Tried to Achieve ” written by the expert Ralph Langner. The S7-417 is a top-of-the-line industrial controller for big automation tasks. “The cyber-attack against the Cascade Protection System infects Siemens S7-417 controllers with a matching configuration. The Stuxnet targeted a grid of 984 converters, the same industrial equipment that international inspectors found out of order when visited the Natanz enrichment facility in late 2009. Nation state hackers hit the plant of Natanz in Iran in 2010 interfering with the nuclear program of the Government of Teheran. Stuxnet is the malware developed by experts from the US and Israel with the intent of destroying the Iranian nuclear program. The most popular case of a cyber-attack against a nuclear plant is Stuxnet, which was launched more than five years ago. Nuclear plants are composed of an impressive number of components such as SCADA/ICS, sensors and legacy systems that could be hit by a hacker. Unfortunately, the response is affirmative. Is a cyber-attack against a nuclear plant a possible event? Nuclear plants are critical components of any countries critical functions depend on their operations, and an incident could have dramatic effects on the population. Overall Strategy Hints: (No spoilers.) The secret to a successful start is patience! You need to breed and sell common plants until you have enough money to purchase the better soils that will support the more fragile hybrid plants.Let’s think for example to a refinery or a nuclear plant, in both cases a cyber-attack represents a threat to the infrastructure, its processes, and people that work within. There are a lot of 'nice-to-have' things in the game, but don't purchase them until you have gotten a good start and are producing enough money. Pay attention to the prices you are getting for certain plants and pick the ones that are the most lucrative to breed and sell. Even in the beginning of the game, there are common ones that will produce cash faster. ![]() To get a very successful start in Plant Tycoon: If you spend too much money on the wrong things, your plants will die and you'll have no money left to buy seeds and supplies (that's when you have to start all over with a new game).
![]() ■ : Compassionate engagement to GDS Posts Download ■ : Cancellation R38 P Praveen, PA, Secunderabad Dn. ■ : Observance of Vigilance Awareness Week from to Download ■ : Final answer keys in respect of Limited Departmental Examination (LDCE) for LGOs and Competitive examination for GDS for promotion to the cadre of PAs/SAs for the vacancy year 2021 held on - Telangana Circle Download ![]() ■ : Rule-38 Inward Memo-2021 dtd Download : LSG (P) General line promotions for the year 2021 Download : Final answer key in respect of LDCE for promotion to the cadre of postman /mail guard from eligible MTS & GDS for the vacancy year 2021 held on ■ : Limited Departmental Competitive Examination for promotion to the cadre of PA (CO/RO)/PA/SA from MTS(CO/RO)/Postman/Mail Guard/MTS and Competitive Examination among GDS for recruitment to the cadre of PA/SA held on – Declaration of marks ■ : Transfer approval memo on Rule-38, Case of Sri Hanuman Prasad Mirotha ■ : Limited Departmental Competitive Examination for promotion to the cadre of Postman/ Mail Guard from eligible MTS and GDS held on -Decleration of Marks ■ : The Minutes of All India Pension Adalat Meeting, held on ■ : Adhoc Promotions in PS Group'B' cadre ■ : Down gradation of Grade-I Stenographer Sparsh Guidelines Sparsh Application Sparsh Sample Project Sparsh Hindi advertisement Sparsh English advertisement : GDS Rule 3 Inter Region Transfers dated : Limited Competitive Examination (LDCE) for Post of MTS from eligible GDS for vacancy year 2021 held on -Declaration of marks : Extension of Last date for receipt of application - Philately Scholarship Scheme "Deen Dayal SPARSH Yojana 2022-23" ![]() : Philately Scholarship Scheme "Deen Dayal SPARSH Yojana 2022-23 - Level 2" : Grant of Fresh/Renewal of Scholarshops for the academic year 2021-22 : Draft Circle Gradation list of PA Cadre of Telangana Circle as on : Draft Circle Gradation list of LSG(P), General Line Cadre as on : Limited Departmental Competitive Examination for promotion to the cadre of PA (CO/RO)/ PA/SA from MTS (CO/RO)/ Postman/ Mail Guard/ MTS and Competitive Examination among GDS for recruitment to the cadre of PA/SA held on - Declaration of marks : Declaration of result of Limited Competitive Examination (LCE) for Post of MTS from eligible GDS for vacancy year 2022 held on ![]() ![]() > With multiple pages it starts to appear broken, w/read error and file pathnames > Document content seems OK and looks good with Zoom/ single page, scolling down. > pics inserted as links (as previously). > Made a new doc using 3.4 with same format (5.5x8.5 portrait pages) with all > My 16 page doc with mostly pictures is still VERY BROKEN in 3.4 Beta The document is "confidential" and "internal use only". To check, I have just unzipped one of the images from document 1 and opened it ![]() Tested with the same document on a Mac (transferred via ssh) in NeoOffice andīoth documents showed perfectly in that setup. "Read Error" appeared) and the pictures were present in the PDF. I could succesfully export the document to PDF (before the Opened they show perfectly well, but after some time (see case descriptions) the Length Method Size Cmpr Date Time CRC-32 Nameģ38 Defl:N 211 38% 12:30 6c8290fa Dialogs/dialog-lc.xml Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.3-b01, mixed mode) Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_17-b04) I understand that OOffice hangs together with the system java? If so, could thisīe a memory corruption issue which can be traced back to the JVM? The java Belowįollows some configuration and document information. ![]() Permanently if saved - did not try this as these documents are important. Found many messages in forums saying images disappear In both cases closing & reopening the document restores the images, but new work Copy new text into ascii text editor & close OO without saving Scroll back and note that image is replaced by broken image icon and textħ. Scroll to point where new text is requiredĦ. Document contains 22 pages, 1 embedded PNG imageģ. ![]() ![]() Image(s) (may) disappear and broken image icon is displayed along with textġ. Document contains 10 pages, 5 embedded PNG imagesĤ. ![]() ![]() Without Phil Spector’s romantic tropes or the Beach Boys’ harmonies, they wouldn’t have had anything to punk/puke up. Throughout, Ramones rely on old values for base matter to transform from gold to grot. There’s no cessation of relations between then and now in fact, the relationship is symbiotic. Even on Chain Saw, for all the allusions to slasher cinema and punk boredom (‘ Sitting here with nothin’ to do’), the real reason Joey sounds so forlorn is because his girlfriend has gone to watch the titular Texan massacre and he won’t see her for hours (‘ She’ll never get out of there’). ![]() On the cover of Let’s Dance, they nail their colours to the mast and it’s the past: what appears to be cheek and desecration is actually not-so-secret love and guilty pleasure. ![]() I Don’t Wanna Walk Around With You (‘ I don’t wanna walk around with you/So why you wanna walk around with me?’) sounds less cruel and nihilistic than childishly churlish, while on I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend, Ramones play the part of the submissive, insecure male, in a state of feeble longing (‘ Do you love me babe?/What do you say?’), which hardly suited the punk credo of ‘no feeling’. The controversial exhortations ( Beat On The Brat, Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue) are balanced out by embarrassingly timid demurrals (the reason they Don’t Wanna Go Down To The Basement is because they’re scared!), that employ arcane beatnik argot (‘ Hey, daddio’). Ramones is equal parts homage and sabotage, as much of a launchpad for future generations as it is a love letter to the 50s and 60s. It’s quite an achievement that after four decades of extreme metal and hip hop, the references to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (on Chain Saw), male prostitution ( 53rd & 3rd) and Nazis (on LP closer Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World) still have the power to disconcert, if not outright disturb.īut for all its air of new-era violence, what surprises is how in hock to history it is, and how tame many of its sentiments are. As with Taxi Driver, that other significant 1976 arty-fact, you could pause it anywhere and ‘freeze-frame’ an iconic moment. Even if you’d never heard it before, virtually every note, of Side One at least, is recognisable: the language of cartoon mayhem – Blitzkrieg Bop, Beat On The Brat, Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue, Chain Saw – and Joey Ramone’s pretty-vacant vocals, the ‘ Eh-oh, let’s go!’ and ‘ Wun-tew-free-faw!’ chants, Dee Dee’s pummelling bass, Johnny’s sped-up dentist-drill guitars and Tommy’s double-time glam beat. Listening to the album today, you have to wade through 40 years of hype before you can make your mind up. ![]() |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |