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Perl for noobs
by James Pluck 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

Hi all. I'm working on SEOing a website for a client and part of the site is perl based. I have need of a good reference/tutorial/beginners-guide-to book on perl for a short term borrow (I prefer hard-copy manuals to the web where possible) to get me up to speed so that I can optimise this site without causing headaches for the client. Can anyone help out? I've had a quick glance through the WLUG library and can't seem to find anything (I'm gonna have another in-depth look but I don't recall seeing any books on Perl in there and I know I haven't ordered any recently. J -- James Pluck PalmOS Ergo Sum Laurence J. Peter - "It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week."

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Fwd: New Features in OpenOffice.org 3.1, an Early Look
by Ian McDonald 31 Jan '09

31 Jan '09

To me this looks bigger than from 2.4 to 3.0 and looks like heading in the right direction. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz> Date: Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:25 AM Subject: New Features in OpenOffice.org 3.1, an Early Look To: ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz Sent to you by Ian McDonald via Google Reader: New Features in OpenOffice.org 3.1, an Early Look<http://www.osnews.com/story/20818/New_Features_in_OpenOffice_org_3_1_an_Ear…> via OSNews <http://www.osnews.com/> on 1/21/09 OpenOffice.org 3.1 is 65 days away, and developers are finishing up more than 1000 issues targeted for this Microsoft-Office-killer packing an army of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. Major new features include antialiased drawings, solid dragging, translucent selections in Writer, improvements in Chart axes and labels, improved grammar checking, macros and full support for SQL including syntax highlighting in Base, and many more. Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to OSNews<http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.osnews.com%2Ffile…>using *Google Reader* - Get started using Google Reader<http://www.google.com/reader/?source=email>to easily keep up with *all your favorite sites* -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/, http://www.jandi.co.nz Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz

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Installing Open Office 3.0
by Glenn Stuart Morrissey 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

hi there all I have just downloaded Open Office version 3.0 (64bit) onto my acer (Im running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy). I was expecting a program that would install the applications on my computer but there wasn't one. I attempted to run synaptic Package Manager to pick up the downloaded DEBS packages, but it doesn't appear to have recognised the newer packages, only the older 1:2.4.1 packages. There is a update script, but I cant even begin to understand it. Is there anyone who has experienced this? Glenn Morrissey.

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Re: [wlug] FW: Ubuntu Pocket Guide - for free
by Peter Reutemann 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Please post to the mailing list, when you reply. > I am using Adobe Acrobat 5. Which is the one that works - I would be glad to > know? Should be fine. What did you use for unzipping the file that you downloaded from the web page? Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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nut and virtualbox
by Glenn Ramsey 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Hi, Recently on my Ubuntu 8.04 box the UPS monitor 'nut' stopped working. I just tracked down the problem and thought I'd mention it in case anyone else has the same issue, and hopefully someone might suggest a better solution than mine. I had installed Sun's version of virtualbox and it made vboxusers the group of all the /dev/bus/usb/* nodes (not sure if the standard version also does this). This meant that my UPS which is a USB type was not accessible to nut since it expects the group to be nut. I have worked around this by adding the nut user to the vboxusers group. I assume the issue is caused because in /etc/udev/rules.d/ the nut rule is at 52 but the virtualbox rule is at 60, which reconfigures what the nut rule did. I could also fix this by commenting out the USB rule for virtualbox but I don't really like having non standard configuration because inevitably some future update will break something. Is there some other way to fix this or should I report it as a bug? Glenn -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077 http://www.componic.co.nz

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Re: [wlug] FW: Ubuntu Pocket Guide - for free
by Peter Reutemann 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

> The final .pdf file seems corrupted and doesn't work – after downloading it > from either of the two download locations. But thanks anyway. I've just downloaded the zip file (!) again and extracted the PDF. Works fine for me. What tool are you using for displaying the PDF? Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Ubuntu Pocket Guide - for free
by Peter Reutemann 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Should get people going, who are new to Ubuntu... Found here: http://lifehacker.com/5139752/ubuntu-pocket-guide-available-as-a-free-downl… Download: http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com/ Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Lunch Event: 2009 NZCS National Update - General Progress and Certification
by David Hallett 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

2009 NZCS National Update - General Progress and Certification 03 February 2009: 12:30pm - 2:00pm The Hub at Wintec City Campus, Gate 5 Tristam Street, Hamilton Join NZCS President Don Robertson and CEO Paul Matthews as they present an update on national activity including detailed information about the main drive for this year - the Certification initiative being implemented in 2009. NZCS Work Programme NZCS Chief Executive Paul Matthews will outline the achievements thus far in the context of the overall Work Programme for 2008/2009 including the issues NZCS has addressed and is addressing and why. This will include NZCS's work for the ICT profession, computing and ICT education standards and the community at large, and the plans for 2009 and beyond. NZCS Professional Certification Next NZCS President Don Robertson, who also chairs the Certification Working Group, will cover the background information and research that has lead to the development of the Professional Certification/Charter Programme. This programme is designed to ensure NZ ICT professionals gain the same opportunity as our counterparts in other countries by having their level of professional competency and skills accredited against an internationally-accepted standard. The professional certification and recognition programme for ICT professionals is happening - this is your chance to find out more. Have your say, or find out more More importantly, however, this event will give you the opportunity to have your say about the current direction of NZCS and the profession generally. Whether you think we've got it right or wrong, we want to know about it. This is a not-to-be-missed event for members and non-members alike. If you're not a member, this is your chance to come along and hear what NZCS stands for and what we do on a national level to further the interests for the ICT profession. Light lunch provided. Registration required at the following URL: http://www.nzcs.org.nz/events/waikato_bop/6-2009_NZCS_National_Update_-_Gen… Regards, David Hallett, BSc, MNZCS Pulsar Computer Solutions Ltd P.O. Box 15-516 Hamilton, New Zealand Phone: +64-7-210 5520 Mobile: +64-21-802 256 Email: david(a)pulsar.net.nz

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Fwd: Hands on: testing the KDE 4.2 release candidate on Windows
by Ian McDonald 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz> Date: Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:48 PM Subject: Hands on: testing the KDE 4.2 release candidate on Windows To: ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz Sent to you by Ian McDonald via Google Reader: Hands on: testing the KDE 4.2 release candidate on Windows<http://feeds.arstechnica.com/%7Er/arstechnica/index/%7E3/3DOU7ndjqV0/testin…> via Ars Technica - Front Page Content <http://arstechnica.com/> on 1/26/09 [image: companion photo for Hands on: testing the KDE 4.2 release candidate on Windows]<http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/01/testing-kde-42-release-cand…> After the official release of KDE 4 last year, I took a close look at nascent projects that aimed to port the desktop environment to other operating systems. These ports have matured significantly over the past twelve months and are beginning to approach the point where they are robust enough for general use. The open source KDE desktop environment, which is one of the two most popular Linux desktop stacks, underwent a significant transformation during the transition to version 4. Many parts of the environment were written from scratch and large parts of the underlying development infrastructure were overhauled. One of the major changes that accompanied this transition was the adoption of Qt 4, the next major version of KDE's underlying toolkit. Qt licensing changes that coincided with the launch of Qt 4 made it possible for the KDE developers to port the desktop to Windows and Mac OS X. The porting effort was also greatly simplified by KDE's adoption of the CMake build system. Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to Ars Technica - Front Page Content<http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.arstechnica.com…>using *Google Reader* - Get started using Google Reader<http://www.google.com/reader/?source=email>to easily keep up with *all your favorite sites* -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/, http://www.jandi.co.nz Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Due to this being a public holiday, and because our planned speaker for Sunday fell through, and because some members will be in Wellington for Simon Phipps presentation, the committee has decided to skip the January meeting.

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Any suggestions?
by Michael McDonald 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

I've been asked to recommend a system for an 80-yr old first time user living in the South Island. My first choice would be naked DSL, VOIP phone, Ubuntu. However, there may be constraints like dialup access only. Do you have any "off the cuff" alternative solutions/suggestions? Michael

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LCA2010 in NZ
by John Billings 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

It was just announced that Wellington will host the next years LCA. www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz I couldn't be happier having just attended my first conference and being able to confirm what an unbelievable experience it ss. There is an amazing amount of work that goes into putting on the conference so I look forward to seeing if wlug can assist in some way. A thought I had today was helping to fund members to go if they are interested. I'll be discussing that idea with the committee this year and keeping in touch with the lca10 team. Anyhow greetings from Hobart, I didn't forget about WLUG while I was here and have a few leads on presenters for the next year. Best, John

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Due to this being a public holiday, and because our planned speaker for Sunday fell through, and because some members will be in Wellington for Simon Phipps presentation, the committee has decided to skip the January meeting.

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Fwd: Thursday Curry Night
by cmoman 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Thursday Curry Night Date: Thursday 22 January 2009 From: Peter Bryant <p.repliesignored(a)rimuhosting.com> To: wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Hi. Curry this afternoon anyone? On Thursday afternoon the RimuHosting guys normally gather at the office; drink a beer or two; talk about the latest goings on in the Linux universe; how rubbish all the current US tv programs (excepting BSG and FOTC) are; and do a tackle-by-pass analysis of the RimuHosting Rebooter's previous night's 5-a-side soccer performance. Since John is away at Linux conf we've voted to go do a curry instead. And since curries and Thursday's and technology seem to have a certain correlation (albiet one that appears to be 404 http://hamilton.thursdaynightcurry.com/) we're opening the invite to any geeks/IT folks who'd like to join us. Liz & Paul, Ivan Meridith, David Hallett, Carl Jones, Glenn Enright and I will be there at least. Hello India, 76 Alpha St, Cambridge. From 5PM. (From 4PM till they open at 5 we'd likely be next door at the Stables bar). We'll probably be there till 7PM for latecomers. Just this one night only: Thurs 22 Jan. Just show up. Or feel free to ping me via IM per http://rimuhosting.com/support/aboutrh.jsp Regards, Peter http://rimuhosting.com -------------------------------------------------------

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Simon Phipps in NZ
by Graham Lauder 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

Simon Phipps, head of Open Source Projects at Sun is in NZ on the 25th and 26th of this month. He's speaking in Wellington 5 pm on Monday the 26th. Is there a possibility that an engagement could be organised at Waikato Uni for him. He is a brilliant speaker and has a wealth of knowledge and opinion on Open Source in general. I'd be prepared to do any donkey work required. Obviously it would have to be a morning session on the Monday or evening on sunday to allow him to get to Wellington. -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org OOoGear: For the Well dressed OOo Advocate http://ooogear.co.nz

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ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A meeting is scheduled for this date, but you haven't told us what you want it to be yet. If you're seeing this message, feel free to suggest or offer to present a meeting topic - the MeetingTopics page might be a good place to start.

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LCA
by John Billings 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

I'm starting to pack my bag for http://linux.conf.au/ Wondering if anyone else from WLUG is going?

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El Reg: Sun MySQLers barred from Oz
by Bryce Utting 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/13/sqlers_barred_from_oz: > Several Sun MySQLers have been denied short stay business visas to > Australia - yes, Australia - as they attempted to attend a Linux > conference in Hobart, Tasmania. > > According to a blog post from Kaj Arno, vice president in charge of > "database community" at Sun Microsystems, several employees - many of > whom worked with MySQL - have been barred from entering Oz. Apparently, > the Australian government is worried they'll unfairly compete with local > businesses. #include stdjokeaboutinsufficientconvictions.h butting

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Radeon HD 3450 Graphics Card and a Acer 22" LCD Screen
by Glenn Stuart Morrissey 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Hello All Hey I have a Radeon HD 3450 Graphics Card and a Acer 22" LCD Screen. When I enable the Radeon restricted driver, the desktop area is now larger than my screen are abut most of it is not my background image but black screen. I wanted to enable the driver to run flightgear, but its just so damn ugly with big black bands of solid black that I can stand it no longer and disable the Radeon driver. When I do that I get my normal desktop back that does not scroll beyond the limits of the screen, but flightgear becomes completely unrunable due to it becoming agonisingly slow. Is there anything that i can do without having to replace this graphics card? Glenn Morrissey.

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fstab & Chown
by Glenn Stuart Morrissey 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

When I log on linux, my /dev/sda1 drive is mounted, fdrom fstab: # /dev/sda1 UUID=b52f4246-04ea-4d35-b3b9-37a316709f81 /media/Data ext3 user,relatime,errors=continue-ro 0 2 but i can't access the drive until i mount it with: glenn(a)glenn-amd1: mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media/Data now I can see the 160 gig drives icon on my desktop, but if I move any documents to the drive, i get a 'you don't have permission' message. I then change the permission on the drive: glenn(a)glenn-amd1:/media$ sudo chown -R glenn /media/Data glenn(a)glenn-amd1:/media$ ls -al total 16 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-01-09 20:29 . drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 2008-12-31 11:13 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2008-12-31 11:02 cdrom -> cdrom0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-31 11:02 cdrom0 drwxr-xr-x 3 glenn root 4096 2009-01-04 09:39 Data -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-01-09 20:29 .hal-mtab I have to do this every time that I log on to Ubuntu. There has go to be an easier way. Glenn Morrissey.

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chown
by Glenn Stuart Morrissey 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

Hi there all, sorry for the dumb newbie question: I have created a directory in my /usr directory called 'scilab'. I would like to have read/write permission for that directory and for directories within. glenn(a)glenn-acer:/usr$ ls -al total 168 drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2009-01-06 22:35 . drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2008-12-19 16:14 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 36864 2009-01-03 00:27 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-19 16:09 games drwxr-xr-x 36 root root 4096 2008-12-22 01:03 include drwxr-xr-x 167 root root 69632 2009-01-03 00:27 lib drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-22 21:34 lib32 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2008-12-17 23:37 lib64 -> lib drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 2008-07-02 21:47 local drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2008-12-27 23:46 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-01-06 22:39 scilab <----------- drwxr-xr-x 317 root root 12288 2009-01-03 00:27 share drwxrwsr-x 6 root src 4096 2008-12-19 16:10 src drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-12-20 13:10 X11R6 glenn(a)glenn-acer:/usr$ Would I be right to assume that I needed the ownership of scilab to be glenn instead of root, i.e: drwxr-xr-x 2 glenn glenn 4096 2009-01-06 22:39 scilab how do I command Linux to change from root to me? Glenn

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Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 No 27 (as at 31 October 2008), Public Act
by Andrew Crosby 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

If you do not know about this law, you should have a quick read, then call you local mp and tell them what you think http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2008/0027/latest/DLM1122643.html Kinda bothers me Andrew

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Updating Ubuntu without broadband
by Ian McDonald 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Seems like a potentially useful bit of software described here: http://www.osnews.com/story/20724/Keryx_Updating_GNU_Linux_Without_Broadband -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/, http://www.jandi.co.nz Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz

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fstab
by Glenn Stuart Morrissey 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Hey there all This is a copy of my /etc/fstab file: glenn(a)glenn-amd1:~$ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/sdb5 UUID=4e473668-0492-4c4f-b96c-4a96aa93ac7d / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /dev/sda1 UUID=b52f4246-04ea-4d35-b3b9-37a316709f81 /media/Data ext3 <------ user,relatime,errors=remount-rw 0 2 # /dev/sdb1 UUID=c6178b22-d682-4414-81ba-514c100ffe40 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 glenn(a)glenn-amd1:~$ Athough the drive (dev/sda1)is listed in the file browser, when I click on it, it returns with this error: 'Invalid Mount Option when attempting to mount this volume'. Can anyone tell me what is wrong with my fstab table? Glenn.

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Mounting and FSTAB entries
by Glenn Stuart Morrissey 03 Jan '09

03 Jan '09

Hi everyone I have a question about drives being mounted automatically when Ubuntu (or any Linux system) boots. I have a 160 Gb drive (/dev/sda1) that I have manually mounted in my /usr/local directory. What I am asking is what would be the correct syntax for writing an entry in the /etc/fstab file that allows /dev/sda1 to be mounted when the computer boots. glenn(a)glenn-amd1:~/Desktop$ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/sdb5 UUID=4e473668-0492-4c4f-b96c-4a96aa93ac7d / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /dev/sda1 UUID=b52f4246-04ea-4d35-b3b9-37a316709f81 /usr/local ext3 relatime 0 2 # /dev/sdb1 UUID=c6178b22-d682-4414-81ba-514c100ffe40 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- I have manually mounted the drive: glenn(a)glenn-amd1:~/Desktop$ mount /dev/sdb5 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro) tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) /proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw,mode=755) securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/glenn/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=glenn) /dev/sda1 on /usr/local type ext3 (rw,relatime) /dev/sdc1 on /media/disk type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096) glenn(a)glenn-amd1:~/Desktop$ Thank you. Glenn.

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