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Wrote on the subject of Bicentennial at June 3, 2010, 7:07 p.m...
hamei wrote:
A new Argentina!
The chains of the masses untied !

Looks like great fun, General. Hope you all had a good time :D


Hey there, Hamei! ;)
...yes!, looks like that! It was very impressive, great live music, many fireworks, theater, choreographies with swiss watch precission, and all the rest. And hey! ...the artist that closed the week is from my city! :) He's a bit like a train... just a tip... increase the bass-boost in your speakers a bit... and enjoy it! :P C5N BICENTENARIO: FITO PAEZ PARTE 1 ...and you can see more parts, including a couples that I like a lot more: C5N BICENTENARIO: FITO PAEZ PARTE 4 ... C5N BICENTENARIO: FITO PAEZ PARTE 5

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josehill wrote:
the ARA Libertad when it visited New York City for the celebration.


In this sense, I got to share with you a few pictures that should state a bit about the reciprocal activities between our countries... you know... you had the ARA Libertad, and we had this... the following picts are from the USS 'xxxx' (yes, what a shame, I can't recall the real previous USS name of this ship)

[EDIT: Well; I've asked it to my wife, and she said that the official that I've asked about the real USS name of the ship said that he could not answer this question for us... and yes, I recall it now. She's right.]

We visited it a couple weeks ago with the family. This ship was built (of course) and owned by U.S.A., before to get here his second life as institutional ship.

[EDIT: I mean, it is used for civilian/educational purposes... as institutional events, training, and things like that.]

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Yeap! ...I was there: REALLY! It is not a trick, or PhotoShop! :P

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The kids enjoyed it a lot, and we did it too!

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Wrote on the subject of Bicentennial at June 4, 2010, 5:58 a.m...
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GeneratriX wrote:
We visited it a couple weeks ago with the family.

They let you near the controls? Forget hamei calling you "General" -- from now on, I shall know you as "Admiral Diego!" :D


I've just shown my Nekochan's credentials and they granted me permissions to go as far or as close as I've always wanted! :P ...what do you think? ;)

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And a couple more things that were way cool but I can't post here because some of my family is there, or even me, right in the middle of the frame! :) There more pictures, yes. The ship looks incredibly well conserved, and I liked it a lot. I'd buy me one if I could! :D

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Wrote on the subject of Bicentennial at June 4, 2010, 6:28 a.m...
fu wrote:
Libertango!


Ahhh, Piazzolla! That's incredible!
...there are many excellent versions besides the original Piazzolla's performance, including the one from Beltango which is one of the best ones to my taste...

fu wrote:
the tango-in-the-street shot is fantastic, boy this used to happen all the time. is that you Dieguito, dancing w/ your wife ?


Yeap, the musicians were installed over the roof of taxis that were driving quietly over the avenue! ...and of course, they were couples dancing all around... but not me nor my wife my friend! :)

fu wrote:
good to read that Teatro Colon is ready to (re)open

saludos capitán :D


Yes, it is ready to work. They projected very emotive sequences of video all over the face of the Teatro by using pretty sophisticated gear and techniques, same as they do all over the face of the Cabildo, and the rocks and mountains from El Valle De La Luna. Very cool. I guess it was the first time it was done in this way for a patriot event in this country. We also had visits from representatives from many other countries, ranging all kinds of levels; figures from culture, different sciences... and of course... you can't kick them out: all kind of politicians! :)

Saludos Fu Manchu! ;)

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recondas wrote:
Bump <might also consider a complete Canon DSLR if you don't want to separate a lens>.


I don't know if you already know about this... but there is an old trick from old time photographs that works perfectly, and you can use your own actual lens.

It is originally called reverse mounting adapter... and in fact there are ready-made units for cheap. Pretty much this: 58mm Reverse Macro Adapter

I've never tried it with a zoom, but I can testify that it works like a charm with pretty much any normal prime lens... but I'm pretty sure it will work well too.

Then if you want to go for a more artisans path, you can add an auto bellows to you existing lens too... it works like a charm! I've tried it too: here is something like that , just for Nikon. They are not cheap, but they are excellent! You can do pretty much anything you want... no limits with it.

And then you can go for just another cheap route, as in the reverse mounting adapter, just adding a lens adapter at the front of your actual lens... they sell as kits of three or four front-lenses with a thread that fits your existing lens, pretty much as a filter works. They usually come in kits with +1, +2, and +4 Diopters front lenses. Just like that . From the three mentioned methods this is the lowest image quality one, but it still works fine for many things... I've tried it too!

Or... you can buy a macro lens as you intented from the start! That's another way to look at it!
And if you already knows all of the above, then perhaps someone else could find it useful... you know! :)
All the best,
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Wrote on the subject of Canon EF Lenses at June 4, 2010, 8:41 a.m...
recondas wrote:
Thanks for the tip Diego.

The camera is new to me and came with a 24-85mm zoom. I haven't acquired a prime lens yet, but if I find one I'll keep your excellent suggestion in mind.


Good luck with the hunt! ;)

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fu wrote:
ahh! so the're was a band in motion, slowly travelling through the city, spreading music all around...

just my kind of thing :D


Yup, it was very pleasant to look and hear... very specially if you like tango! ;)

fu wrote:
i'd love to pay a visit again soon, i suck @ tango but with the right girl, "el Firulete"...


Oh!, so are you some kind of "Virulazo"? :D

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Wrote on the subject of Bicentennial at June 6, 2010, 11:04 a.m...
fu wrote:
the maestro milonguero? (Nureyev admired him to the bone)


Yes, the same master! I did not know that Nureyev admired his talent... but I'm very sure that Virulazo -of course- admired Nureyev reciprocally! :)

fu wrote:
i wish i wish


Heheh!, me too... I don't know how to dance a tango or even a waltz!

fu wrote:
i'm just a crazy rock-n-roller :mrgreen:


Kewl! :)

fu wrote:
(i might ask for your help later Diego, i'm checking the website of Teatro Colon and i can't find anything in english. my spanish skills are not that good)


No problem, just let me know. I've visited a couple minutes ago both of the sites that I know for Teatro Colon, and you're right... there are no sections for english... of course you could try Google Translate too... but you know that it will not be too precise... but still:

TeatroColon.Org.Ar

Colon.Is.Com.Ar

Well, I have not a big knowledgement about the Colon, but anyway I'm sure that they'll launch some kind of international site soon... one of the above websites mentions something about that...

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hamei wrote:
I can understand some uneasiness about packages getting lost halfway around the world or being grafted by some Argentine Customs crooks or trashed by the Italian post office but Canada ? Silly.


Hey there!
...well, just for the record, and given the opposite situation, I have to say that shipping internationally from Argentine is slightly more complex than shipping locally inside the country. The reason is: you can ship locally from any post office around your town; but you only can ship internationally from the main post office.

For my own case this is not too far (5 Kmts.) and considering that there is only one main post office for each city, I guess things can be a lot worst for other people. I know from people at 100 Kmts. from it or more. On the other hand, there is a standard post office at less than 500 Mts. from here... so, as you can see... at least in this case there is a real difference between both cases. Add to this, you need to fill a form which will need your own signature.

So, if you ask... I can understand people refusing to take those extra cares to ship one package. Anyway, and despite of this fact... I've never refused myself any international shipping! :)

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glusker wrote:
We made very few of the Indigo2 transparent enclosures (less than 20) and I remember a lab cleanup when we threw most of those away.

Mark


What a shame! :)

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Oskar45 wrote:
Were you referring to your current avatar? :(


Not really, but... be my guest! :) I could not blame to Diego at all... a game is a game, and Germany was not a lot better, considering that they faced a relatively newbee team in matter of FIFA World Cups, right before to loose their chance against them! Ooops! ;) ...so, who am I to criticize to anyone? :P

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Welcome to the board, and wonderful GEEK spirit! :)
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Is DR4 already out there?

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Wrote on the subject of Anyone else watching for the DM-2? at Aug. 31, 2010, 8:20 a.m...
Wha-hoo!!! :)
NASA: The DM-2 test is in a planned 10 minute hold. It will fire at 11:27am ET.
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Wrote on the subject of Anyone else watching for the DM-2? at Aug. 31, 2010, 8:40 a.m...
Amazing!!! ...watching it fullscreen with a real 250W+250W R.M.S. full sized sound system was a wonderful experience! ...the combustion after the siren horns was a big surprise! :)
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Wrote on the subject of Anyone else watching for the DM-2? at Sept. 3, 2010, 3:10 p.m...
sybrfreq wrote: Translation: I need some fresh pants, please. :D


Heheh!, yup, for me and the rest of the family... we watched it all of us, and was a BIG surprise! :)

I've refused to register myself a Twitter account up to now, but I must reckon that the fresh news from NASA, and all the science channels are enough to make it worth the pains! ...but I'll keep with Twitter and I'll not go further than that... I've found that Facebook and the rest are too much for me... well... maybe Diáspora? :)

Anyway I feel way weird by using the tweets thingy... I'm in fact way surprised of myself by doing it! But me thinks this is a nice change! :D
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Wrote on the subject of Anyone else watching for the DM-2? at Sept. 8, 2010, 11:35 a.m...
Frapazoid wrote: I loved that sound when it ignites. Bam!


Yup, we need a bigger one! :)
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Wrote on the subject of Anyone else watching for the DM-2? at Sept. 12, 2010, 11:14 a.m...
MisterDNA wrote: I didn't know they were hosting another test or I'd have made the drive out to watch. The spectator area is about a mile away from the UUT, but you can still feel the blast at your core. Video does not do it justice, but if you can't be on-site, it's a good substitute.


I was just joking ( "we need a bigger one" ). The video, alone by itself is amazing enough if you excercise a bit your imagination... in fact, viewing it maxed out on my 22" monitor was very impressive, specially if you can add some nice audio system to it. Yeah, of course, nothing compares to a nice on-site watching, but since I'm in Argentina I feel lucky enough! :)
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Wrote on the subject of Cool (open source) software you would like to see ported... at Nov. 19, 2010, 8:40 a.m...
Maybe KTechLab ?
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Wrote on the subject of Cool (open source) software you would like to see ported... at Nov. 19, 2010, 4:51 p.m...
PymbleSoftware wrote: Brilliant.

http://ktechlab.org/


R.


Yup, the software is exactly that: Brilliant!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ktechlab/files/

...but maybe the webmasters behind the site are less pro-active than the sourcecoders! :)
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Wrote on the subject of OpenBSD works on SGI now at Nov. 21, 2010, 9:50 a.m...
nuts wrote: I have a LG L222WS plugged by vga with an adaptator. It works fine in 1680x1050 with a MGRAS video card (on IRIX only for the moment)


Cool, added both to The Octane Hardware Aggregator so I'll find them easily.
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Wrote on the subject of OpenBSD works on SGI now at Nov. 21, 2010, 10:19 a.m...
nuts wrote: My LG L225WS works too

the 2 screens are 22"


Okay; it is added too! :)
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Wrote on the subject of OpenBSD works on SGI now at Nov. 23, 2010, 6:33 a.m...
Should we ask to one of the Moderators to move the whole SOG relevant sub-thread to The Octane Hardware Aggregator or anything else? I know, it was my fault to ask here! :) Sorry, khalidschofield! :oops:
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Wrote on the subject of OpenBSD works on SGI now at Nov. 24, 2010, 5:21 a.m...
kev009 wrote: Add this link to wherever it is moved to:
http://ps-2.kev009.com:8081/sog/


Done! Added to The Octane Hardware Aggregator .
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zizban wrote: The goal will be to raise a $1,000-$2,000


It should not be difficult at all if it awakes some interest between the forum members. Count me in to contribute some money if the project advances. This is one of the more interesting additions we could count for IRIX.
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Wrote on the subject of USB Mass Storage at Dec. 4, 2010, 2:18 p.m...
josehill wrote:
PymbleSoftware wrote: The best way to a project failure is a all or nothing approach on a grandiose and overly ambitious plan. Start small have a small goal then build on it.

Regan's right. If people are serious, someone who knows what they are doing from a development perspective should identify a small, but meaningful piece of work, make that the first project, demonstrate success, and then proceed from there.


I agree with you. A small sample should rise the expectations a lot, and will probe the available firepower to the more hesitant. Mass storage is one of the biggest problems when you can't have good access to big/fast SCSI drives, and let's be honest: SCSI is everyday older, and the bigger sized drives are not so common for some countries... and the second hand market vary a lot.

Would not be fantastic to be able to use the same widely available drives from PeeCees?
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Wrote on the subject of USB Mass Storage at Dec. 4, 2010, 2:45 p.m...
zizban wrote: What do you suggest should be the first small step then?


A user space device driver for some world-wide popular and easily available COTS USB PCI Card? ...then a kernel driver for the same card? ...and then a 08h device driver for the mass storage class? What do you think?

[EDIT:] there is some well condensed information from X-Ample related to RISC OS about: USB Classes and of course the official one from Class Codes ...but I'm sure you know about them! :) [EDIT]
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Wrote on the subject of USB Mass Storage at Dec. 4, 2010, 3:22 p.m...
zski128 wrote: Count me in for $50.


Ditto! :)
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Wrote on the subject of USB Mass Storage at Jan. 20, 2011, 3:53 a.m...
jan-jaap wrote:
cesss wrote:
small appliance with an ethernet port on one side and an USB port on the other side, and with logic in the middle so that an arbitrary USB storage device can be used from IRIX via ethernet, using any mechanism already present on IRIX, maybe via NFS?

That's a pretty accurate description of a NAS ;)


I don't think anything like that will work, right? :cry:
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...except that your USB expectations can be reduced to some USB Modem.

But I think at some point Hamei wrote a thread about some kind of Multi-Port NAS that probably could work... and of course I don't know where the thread is! :)

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Wrote on the subject of USB Mass Storage at Jan. 20, 2011, 7:21 a.m...
karbonKid wrote:
This:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HIGH-SPEED-USB-2- ... 255c3b6183

Which is also sold as this:
http://bifferos.bizhat.com/


Wow!, this is very interesting! I really want mine right now!
It is not the unit that Hamei pointed up at some post, but looks perfect for the occasion. Any reports to confirm that it works reliably on any SGI box (I can't see why not!) with IRIX?

If these thing works... do we really need an USB Stack? I guess it is time to experience it, to see what is supported and what not. But it looks positively... positive! :)

Thanks for the links.

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Hey there, Biff! ...very nice development, it seems your boards would make some nice partnership along with our SGI equipment. Do you have any distribution chain for Argentina? Dealers, resellers, etc.
All the best,
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bifferos wrote:
Hi Diego,

Thanks. I'm afraid I know next to nothing about SGI, and only registered to post the clarification, so the forum 'captcha' was a little hard to figure out, but I got there in the end :) .


Hey, be careful to not purchase some SGI box or you will be assimilated! :twisted:

bifferos wrote:
At the moment we're a fairly small concern, and have no resellers, however we ship all over the world, and had no problems sending to Argentina so far.


No problem, I'm kinda an entrepreneur, so I guess I'm asking just out of curiosity since your board looks interestingly cool not only to allow USB over Ethernet on an SGI box, but also to try some other activities here. Good to know you ship over here.

bifferos wrote:
Although we've been selling the Bifferboards for a couple of years I feel there's still a lot of untapped potential. I've been meaning to get usbip working on this for some time ( http://usbip.sourceforge.net/ ). Pah... too many cool projects, and too little time :( .

cheers,
Biff


Well, if you can add a Parallel Port while you're at it, it would be very cool too! :-) ...you know: RTAI and a Parallel Port will make it a killer platform to develop some easily automated power appliances too.
All the best,
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Wrote on the subject of Abekas A82/A83 (eBay) at Jan. 29, 2011, 6:22 a.m...
I don't know if this is strictly related with SGI Hardware, but I recall a few products from Abekas for SGI... anyway, it seemed to me that maybe I should post it because someone else could find it interesting:

Abekas A82/A83 Upstand Composite Video Switcher Control

I'm not related with the ítem or the seller at all, or at least nothing more than you are by receiveing their "Check out the latest items from your favorite sellers on eBay" in your eMail box! :)
Enjoy it!
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Wrote on the subject of Abekas A82/A83 (eBay) at Jan. 29, 2011, 2:37 p.m...
fieldframe wrote: This Abekas beastie doesn't interface with an SGI, but the A60 and A66 video disk recorders do. The A60 (which holds 30 seconds uncompressed standard def video) and A66 (a whole 60 seconds!) connect to a standard ethernet network and you can rcp individual Quantel/Abekas .yuv frames to and from them. I believe you can connect the A66 via SCSI as well. I know the guy who developed the ethernet interface for the A60, he also developed quite a lot of other broadcast stuff for Quantel and SGI over the years.

The A60 was quite a monster, both in terms of rack space and electricity consumption.


Interesting, I knew a bit from the A60 and A66 because of a few brochure papers I had, but nothing about the A82/A83. Things like Abekas or even Chyron never were too popular here in Argentina, despite the fact I know about a few TV Channels here that used Abekas with SGI.

In fact once upon a time I've investigated if I could trick one of their DVR's to use something bigger than the standard couple of 4.5 GB SCSI disks. Of course I'm talking about many years ago, and I could not even tell you the name of such systems! :)
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Wrote on the subject of New Nekochan Wiki! at Feb. 13, 2011, 4:11 p.m...
Well, I really like how it looks when you wikify the kind of forum contents that one should consider permanent or stable, but I need to confess that I find myself very tedious the editing process for the Wiki pages.

So, if anyone else wants to do it, I'll be more than happy! :)

zafunk wrote: I'm with Jose. Wikify the aggregators and keep the individual threads going for discussion purposes.


Ditto!

I'm half-active with the MIPS/IRIX world, mostly because I'm doing almost all with PeeCees and Ubuntu, but I really want to keep the IRIX platform alive because here and there I spend time with it... sometimes, lots of time.
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Wrote on the subject of New Nekochan Wiki! at Feb. 13, 2011, 6:07 p.m...
I think ideally, any kind of well stablished and highly mature forum as Nekochan is, should include some kind of bots army running in background to condensate/summarize the permanent and/or stable contents into some Wiki variant.

I've always thought it should be that way for many reasons. The more formal style from Wiki contributes to a higher degree of order and structuration, has hierarchical menue entries, and from a casual standpoint it looks clearer than any forums, to not mention that it will be probably indexed faster by Google and all the rest.

I guess the only caveat is... I don't know (at least yet) from any kind of bot capable to do such task... so, you got to go over these little dialect one has to recall each time some editing is required... and when you're not doing it too frequently at all, some people (me!) could find it a bit difficult to retain or recall... :)

So, to put it clear: I really like the Wiki style and/or look and feel for things like that... but I'd have to go and try again...
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Wrote on the subject of New Nekochan Wiki! at Feb. 13, 2011, 7:43 p.m...
josehill wrote: Since long articles can be a little unwieldy to edit, I suggest creating new sub-categories for each wikified O2/Octane/Fuel Aggregator within the wiki Hardware: SGI Workstations category. Something like:

  • Hardware: SGI Workstations: O2 Compatible Hardware
  • Hardware: SGI Workstations: Octane Compatible Hardware
  • Hardware: SGI Workstations: Fuel Compatible Hardware

Within each of those categories would be individual articles for each class of component or peripheral.


IMHO it is a very, very, nice idea! I always thought of the the aggregators as some kind of middle stage before to reach the state of a definitive Hardware Compatibility List or something like that.
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Wrote on the subject of New Nekochan Wiki! at Feb. 16, 2011, 5:23 p.m...
fu wrote: after some bar-hoping google-hoping, your suggestions took me to Gwennel Web (win only, wysiwyg), MAMP (mac) & XAMP (win/mac/loon/solaris) for those who may want to run+test wikis locally). haven't tried any of them


Hey there, Fu!
...it seems after all here is something interesting to look at: Zim
I don't know if everybody here already knows this gem, but it is totally new for me, and I'm willing to try it.

Maybe another possible candidate for some IRIX port? I don't know what the dependencies are.

All the best,
Diego
GeneratriX
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Wrote on the subject of New Nekochan Wiki! at Feb. 17, 2011, 7:18 p.m...
Very nice!
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Wrote on the subject of USB Mass Storage at April 4, 2011, 1:35 p.m...
SBCAM wrote:
Any thoughts?


Hi!
Would not be necessary an inverted version of these converter?
...I mean, something like [Male Ethernet]-To-[Female USB] to be really useful for any SGI?

I don't know if it can be used inverted with a suitable set of adapters, probably yes because both protocols and physical interfaces should be bi-directional, but you'll need for sure a power supply on the USB side...

[EDIT] I've extended some concepts...[/EDIT]

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