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link[2].port-vlan.ports = vc-1 |
link[2].port-vlan.priority = 0 |
set link[2].port-vlan.ports lan-1 |
Note: I've had reports that this doesn't completely work when your account is provisioned with multiple static IP addresses. If you have problems and are willing to lend me some time to test things with you, email me at earlz -AT- earlz dot net |
Possible Problem: If your modem seems to "hang" when doing apply with the bridge mode configuration and you can't use the save command, then that means you tried to do it from port-1. Change which port on the NVG510 your computer is plugged into(or use Wifi if you're extra brave) |
Other Dangerous Things |
From this bootloader, you can change a lot of things AT&T probably would frown upon. Basically, you can make it look like another modem. I'm not for sure about this though and will have to test it and research it more. I don't recommend changing anything in the mfg section. If you do one of these kind of hacks, be prep... |
Same goes for trying to boost wifi power or use channels not specified for use in your country. The FCC is real! (btw, don't tell them about my FM transmitter project ;) ) |
Older Versions |
This is a new hack that should work on old firmware. However, if you're interested in the old hack(that only works on old firmware), you can see the wayback machine for a historical copy. |
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Tag Archives: Wim Wenders and Photography |
What Barthes’ Camera Lucida Means in the Digital Era |
French Post-Modernist Intellectual Roland Barthes, Pondering the Studium/Punctum Distinction With the Aid of Non-filtered Gauloises |
Consider this Part Two of my previous post on Barthes’ Camera Lucida. There, I gave what I considered the gist of Barthes’ thesis on Camera Lucida, the main point you as a photographer can take away from the book. My intent was to de-mythologize the book and make it intelligible to an educated lay readership. In my opi... |
Which is not to say Barthes didn’t have much to say. He did. He just suffers from the annoying tendency of “French Intellectuals” to make their thought sound more profound than it really is by expressing it in jargon that obscures it. This has had the unfortunate result that it’s also allowed less interesting thinkers ... |
While I’m not denigrating Barthes’ thought, it’s instructive to compare Barthes’ Camera Lucida with Susan Sontag’s On Photography, written about the same time. Where Barthes is maddeningly opaque – he speaks of “the wound” of the punctum, the “Dearth-of-Image,” the “Totality of Image,” i.e. the usual jargonist clap-tra... |
The Camera Obscura, Predecessor of the Photographic Camera |
The question I posed at the end of Part One was this: What, if any, are the implications of Barthes’ ideas, as expressed in Camera Lucida, for ‘post-analog’ (i.e digital) photography? After posing the question, I then suggested the answer should be fairly obvious. As I see it, it’s this: Digital capture has severed th... |
At the time Barthes wrote, when photography was the result of analog processes identical to those of the camera obscura (see above), we could rightfully assume that a photo necessarily dealt in the real and was more or less faithful evidence of the real. While someone could manipulate an analog photograph to a certain... |
Digital capture doesn’t “stencil off” anything; rather, it turns everything into computer code which then needs to be reconstituted by more computer code. The “digital revolution” isn’t about simply providing more efficient photographic tools; rather, it’s a profound revolution of how we recreate the visual with simila... |
The blind already exist. They’re the smug enthusiasts who think an interest in “photography” only means better cameras with greater resolution, easier capture and hassle-free output, who would dismiss those like Wenders who recognize something more profound at play while they simultaneously embrace – no, celebrate – th... |
**Indexical Signs = signs where the signifier is caused by the signified, e.g., light enters a camera lens, is focused on a silver halide substance, and produces a negative via a photochemical process. Iconic signs = signs where the signifier resembles but is not directly caused by the signified, e.g., a digital “phot... |
*** For an example of what passes for intelligent discourse in Semiotics, this from the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, literally opened at random : |
The phenotext is constantly split up and divided, and is irreducible to the semiotic process that works through the genotext. The phenotext is a structure (which can be generated, in generative grammar’s sense); it obeys rules of communication and presupposes a subject of enunciation and an addressee. The genotext, on ... |
To create your very own post-modernist essay, go here and click on the generator at the top of the page. |
Benjamin Franklin for Kids and Teachers - The American Revolution Illustration |
The American Revolution |
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Benjamin Franklin |
Ben Franklin is one of the most loved and well known founders of the United States of America. He was quite a personality. He was a writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, musician, and diplomat. |
He wrote Poor Richard's Almanac, which made him rich. The only book that outsold Poor Richard's Almanac in the colonies was the Bible. |
He used pseudonyms (pen names) to write humorous letters that expressed his point of view on many subjects. These letters were published in various newspapers, including his own newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette. Some of the names he used were Silence Dogood, Alice Addertongue, Anthony Afterwit, Martha Careful, Miss ... |
He was Deputy Postmaster General for North American under the British for over 20 years. He created new and more efficient routes that greatly reduced the time it took to received a letter. |
He taught himself German, French, and Italian. He played the violin, the harp, and the guitar. He also composed music. |
He served as ambassador to several countries including England, France, and Canada. The English were not that fond of him. Most Englishmen thought of American colonists as rude and coarse. Ben Franklin did not appreciate their attitude at all. But the French loved him! |
The French called him a "natural man" because they thought of the American colonists as ideal humans, more rustic than those living in the urban centers of Europe. |
Franklin played up this image. He always wore his coonskin cap when he was in France. He wrote his daughter a letter and said, "My picture is everywhere, on the top of snuff boxes, on rings, on busts. My portrait is a best seller. Your father's face is now as well known as the man in the moon." |
He turned his popularity in France into a tremendous advantage for the patriots. While serving as Ambassador to France, Ben Franklin was able to persuade the French to support the colonial effort with large amounts of money, supplies, and manpower, including ships and experienced military leaders. This was enormously i... |
Ben Franklin was also a scientist. He discovered many laws about electricity, and invented many things including the lightening rod, bifocals, street lights, swim fins, and the Franklin stove. He never patented any of his inventions. He believed that inventions should be freely shared. |
Shortly after the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, Benjamin Franklin created the first United States coin in 1787. One side had a design of 13 linked circles and the statement "We Are One". On the other side, the coin said, "Mind Your Own Business". |
He created the first lending library, the first hospital, the first volunteer fire department, and was the driving force behind the establishment of fire insurance. |
One of the most interesting things about Franklin was his willingness to change his mind when faced with new facts. Franklin was incredibly curious and always sought new information, a personality trait that contributed greatly to his success as a spy (when he served on the committee of Secret Correspondence in 1775.) |
There is a wonderful story about Ben Franklin that may or may not be true. But it sounds just like him. For quite a while, Ben Franklin believed that African people were less intelligent than white people. One day, he visited an African-American school. The kids in that school convinced him that blacks and whites were ... |
It is true that after the Revolutionary War, Ben Franklin did work hard to abolish slavery. He did not accomplish this in his lifetime, but he did convince quite a few people that slavery was wrong. |
And somehow, in his busy life, he found time to help write and sign the Declaration of Independence at the age of 70, and later, to sign the Constitution of the United States of America. |
This quick look at Benjamin Franklin mentions only a few of his many accomplishments. Even with such a quick look, I think you can see why Ben Franklin is one of the most loved and well known founders of the United States of America. |
Liberty's Kids - An American in Paris (video, animated) |
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In Praise of Ben (video, animated) |
Games, Interactives, Sites for Kids about Ben Franklin |
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The Articles of Confederation |
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Lipstick on a Pig |
Lipstick on a Pig October 22, 2018 |
The dilemma moderate evangelical pastors/leaders find themselves facing is, well, the other evangelicals. The majority. Or, more specifically, the, “81%.” While evangelical pastors and leaders are almost evenly split regarding their approval of the sitting president’s job performance, their congregants, their people... |
What to do? These moderate evangelical pastors and leaders are learning that their people are being discipled and formed, not by them, but by Fox News, conservative social media, and other right-wing sources. |
One of the things they have been trying to do, is come to grips with the fact 81% of white evangelicals voted for Trump. Like the rest of the nation, they too have been trying to wrap their heads around such a disappointing, and revealing, statistic. The latest effort is this article by Ed Stetzer and Andrew McDonald... |
As much as moderate evangelical leaders want to try and salvage, and put the best face on, what happened this last presidential election, here are five reasons the findings of this survey fail to do that and amounts to, at the end of the day, putting lipstick on a pig. |
Before we start, let’s address a quibble, the article’s title, “Why Evangelicals Voted for Trump: Debunking the 81%.” Strange, I couldn’t find a significant, “debunking,” anywhere in the article/survey. To debunk something is to show it as false. There is nothing false about that percentage or its implications. The... |
Now, first, the writers note the 81% number fails to address, motivation. The 81%’s vote wasn’t an, “enthusiastic,” vote. Seriously? Do we care at this point? Imagine a person drives a truck, one that is on fire and loaded with garbage, into your living room. The driver gets out, smiles, and offers, “It’s okay, I w... |
Second, we learn the 81%’s vote was more about the economy than the Supreme Court or pro-life issues. Here was really the only surprise. But, are we supposed to take comfort in this finding? In my view, this makes the motivation for their vote even less understandable or worthy of sympathy. At least we might unders... |
But to learn they voted with the almighty dollar, mammon, foremost in mind is unbelievably worse. This reveals an even more shallow, unwise, and selfish motivation for their decision. For me, this was the most disappointing and shameful finding. This also undercuts the next finding that they would cross party lines ... |
Third, we are informed the 81% were taking the long view with their vote. Again, a very disappointing finding. It tells us white evangelicals decided to ditch their long-held advocacy of the idea that, “character matters,” that candidates had to be decent people, honest, and ethical, (regardless their political views... |
So, if the writers were hoping we would see how strategic, reflective, and purposeful, the 81% were being, please, just stop. There is nothing to admire about throwing up one’s hands and basically saying: If we can’t beat them, let’s join them. |
Fourth, the writers finally get to the finding there is not enough lipstick to make up for: |
“Many evangelicals are willing to overlook personal character when voting.” |
Moderate evangelical pastors and leaders: This should bother you greatly. This reveals a deep disconnect between the pastors/leaders and evangelicals in the pews when it comes to political theology and Christian ethics. The above finding is the result of a failure to disciple; or, the result of actually forming a per... |
They go on: |
“Put another way, many evangelicals struggle to hold favored candidates to the same standards expected of rivals.” |
Or, we could be honest and put it a way that actually captures what this finding means: Hypocrisy. And again, it is the result of ceding their congregants’ discipleship and formation to outside, non-Christian, sources. Isn’t there a verse somewhere that talks about protecting one’s flock from wolves in sheep’s clothi... |
Fifth and finally: |
“Many of the 81 percent were not influenced by church leadership…Put another way, many evangelicals are likely turning to culture—and often the most outraged voices [emphasis added]—rather than the church for political discipleship.” |
Exactly. But here’s a question: Was the, “political discipleship,” ever offered? And what about the political discipleship that actually pointed people toward Trump (Jeffress, Graham, Falwell, Jr., etc.)? Too many evangelical pastors were either silent out of ignorance or fear of their conservative congregations, or... |
So, moderate evangelical pastors/leaders, what say you? What are you going to do about the findings in this polling? Please decide quickly, because I’m not sure the rest of us, the world, or the good name of, “Christian,” can take much more of your people listening to everyone else, except, you. |
The writers end on a positive note: “… [they hope these findings] help evangelicals submit their political engagement to God’s Word, in God’s community, and under the discipleship of godly people rather than to a party, politician, or pundit.” |
I should add that I like and respect Ed Stetzer and I would bet many of the findings of this polling bother him as well, even as he tries to put the best face on them. I just think there isn’t enough lipstick in the world to make this look pretty. |
White evangelical pastors and leaders: Get your own house in order. Stop worrying about who can marry whom, bathrooms, cakes, scary women, or the black and brown people moving into your neighborhoods. Start worrying about the findings of this survey and the fact that rather than, “debunking,” it confirms our worse su... |
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• Phil Ledgerwood |
Thanks for the article, Darrell. |
Regarding enthusiasm, I completely agree with you. In terms of damage done, there’s not really a difference between wholehearted and halfhearted endorsement. |
In terms of sharing a planet with people, I would say the -reasons- behind that lack of enthusiasm can be important. Why would someone not be happy about voting for Trump but do so, anyway? Are they a single issue voter where Trump fell on their side? Do they feel that Democrats simply cannot be allowed to win no m... |
I, too, was surprised that it was about the economy, but this seems to be playing out in certain strains of evangelicalism. Did you see Pat Robertson’s caution about offending Saudi Arabia because we might lose tons of money and jobs in arms contracts? |
I’d actually be interested in an analysis, not of the election, but of the voting patterns in the Republican primaries. Because, there, you generally have widespread agreement on the issues between the choices, but Trump still won. I wonder where all these unenthusiastic voters were, then. I know the stock answer i... |
On the other hand, I still remember Wayne Grudem, who was rabidly anti-Trump during the primaries (he said voting for Trump was morally irresponsible), changing his tune and telling Tony Perkins that he was very alarmed at the transgender restroom issue, and he thought Trump was our best chance of having that sorte... |
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