August 2010 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] PulseAudio in [extra]
by Tom Gundersen 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hi Jan, I saw your plan, <http://gist.github.com/444917>, regarding moving pulseaudio to the extra repository, and I was curious if it is still going forward? I'm using PA with KDE myself, and would be happy to help with anything in order to move the packages to extra. I noticed two things about your plan: 1) the package pavumeter is listed as out-of-date/obsolete here: <http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/AboutPulseAudio#RelatedSoftware>. So maybe it is not worth moving it to [extra]? 2) In order to make KDE work with PA, "kdemultimedia" and "phonon" have to be recompiled with PA support turned on. In case PA is disabled or not installed, the programs degrade nicely to the old (ALSA) behavior. So no need to maintain separate packages. On a side-note, there is currently a bug that causes Phonon+Gstreamer+PA to misbehave (particularily in Amarok), this is fixed upstream and everything should work well once gst-good 0.10.24 has been packaged. Cheers, Tom

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[arch-general] did kdemod-legacy repo go away?
by David C. Rankin 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Guys, I must have missed a note advising that the kdemod-legacy repo was removed from the pacman repos. Every time I update I get the following error: error: failed retrieving file 'kdemod-legacy.db.tar.gz' from chakra-project.org : Not Found error: failed to update kdemod-legacy (Not Found) So is it true? Is it gone for good? If so, it would be a sad epitaph on the desktops head-stone. ("Killed at its prime") Currently,(at least before 2 days ago) kdemod-legacy installed perfectly with the only updates required being libjpeg, libpng and poppler-qt3 - all available at AUR and with it taking less than 1.7G of static space on a drive, seems like it would make Arch a much more robust distro to continue the offering and list is as an asset rather than having an empty check mark in the "KDE3 available" column. What's the scoop? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] FF Browser Tip for Archers who like a darker desktop (DR, you listening?)
by David C. Rankin 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Guys, Here is a quick browser tip for firefox. About a year ago I stumbled across 'NightShift - Eyecare' that did a fantastic job at basically inverting the way firefox rendered pages darkening the display and providing immediate relief to tired eyes: NightShift - Eyecare (good title) http://userstyles.org/styles/18192 It's not for all pages, but when you need to read a page or two of text and you don't want to stare into a bright display, it is worth its weight in gold. Last night, I had to rebuild my firefox install (moving ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-sav and starting new). Looking for nightshift again (not remembering what it was called and searing 'night' on userstyles.org, I stumbled across 'Midnight Surfing' and gave it a try. Wow, it worked better in some circumstances. That was cool, so I thought I would pass it along to the list: Midnight Surfing http://userstyles.org/styles/23516 It can be a great tool to stick in your toolbox for the right circumstance and since stylish integrates nicely with FF providing the little status bar on/off dialog for the styles, you can flip it on/off with no effort at all. Install stylish before going to userstyles.org and you can then just load the styles into firefox. Get stylish at the mozilla addons site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/latest/2108/addon-2108-l… Enjoy! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins
by Thomas Dziedzic 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have pushed the new python (3.1) and python2 (2.7) packages to the new [staging] repo so rebuilds can start there. Remember the staging repo should never be used outside a build chroot... If you do, everything python related will break on your system. > > TUs will not be able to start uploading rebuilds yet as they do not have a staging equivalent, but we will sort something out for them once we get all the db-scripts/devtools changes tested for the main one first. The package pool is going to save us a heap of issues when this gets moved so it is worth the wait. > > > The key things to remember with the rebuild are: > > - build in clean chroots. Most packages will detect "python2" or "python-2.7" once they see no "python" and use that. Some will need simple patching. > > - change your dependencies to python2 > > - check files for #!'s with "/usr/bin/python" or "/usr/bin/env python". If you have those you will need to do a sed to change them to python2. > > > If you come across a package that you can not easily fix, add it to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Python_Todo_List#Packages… and I will take a look at it. > > Have fun, > Allan > > > This would probably be also a good time to remind the maintainers that there are still packages left for the community cleanup.. only a few are still remaining. I would like to finally see the community cleanup marked as "complete" :) emerald-themes - ronald gnochm - dgriffiths grub-gfx - orphan kydpdict - jswierczynski libnewt - dgriffiths libnsbmp - dgriffiths libnsgif - dgriffiths libtrash - jswierczynski magickthumbnail - orphan man-pages-cs - jlichtblau man-pages-pt_br - jlichtblau mandvd - jlichtblau mdf2iso - dgriffiths miniracer - dgriffiths mt-daapd - orphan noyau - orphan nrg2iso - dgriffiths pork - jlichtblau premake - dgriffiths pstreams - dgriffiths pygoocanvas - orphan python-certtool - orphan python-geotypes - orphan python-gnupginterface - aschaefer python-pysqlite-legacy - ronald qt-recordmydesktop - dgriffiths qucs - spupykin sfarkxtc - jlichtblau shfs-utils - jlichtblau texlive-bibtexextra-doc - shusmann texlive-core-doc - shusmann texlive-fontsextra-doc - shusmann texlive-formatsextra-doc - shusmann texlive-games-doc - shusmann texlive-genericextra-doc - shusmann texlive-htmlxml-doc - shusmann texlive-humanities-doc - shusmann texlive-langcjk-doc - shusmann texlive-langcyrillic-doc - shusmann texlive-langextra-doc - shusmann texlive-langgreek-doc - shusmann texlive-latex3-doc - shusmann texlive-latexextra-doc - shusmann texlive-music-doc - shusmann texlive-pictures-doc - shusmann texlive-plainextra-doc - shusmann texlive-pstricks-doc - shusmann texlive-pstricks-doc - shusmann texlive-publishers-doc - shusmann texlive-science-doc - shusmann

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Large packages in repositories
by Thomas Dziedzic 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > > A package went in so big today that it made reporead blow up on my > local database due to the installed size being > 2GB: > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/sage-mathematics/ > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/sage-mathematics/ > > File > "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/postgresql_psycopg2/base.py", > line 44, in execute > return self.cursor.execute(query, args) > django.db.utils.DatabaseError: integer out of range > > I'm wondering if we need to be more careful when it comes to these big > packages entering our repositories. This one is especially suspect as > of its 71096 files (and 71094 in the other architecture), a ton of > them are things like *.py, *.pyc, *.html, or *.png files. This is ripe > for splitting into a -data package (or not including some of this > junk, if it is that, at all). > > mysql> select count(*), substring_index(path, '.', -1) from > package_files where pkg_id = 49860 and path like '%.%' group by > substring_index(path, '.', -1) order by count(*) desc limit 25; > +----------+--------------------------------+ > | count(*) | substring_index(path, '.', -1) | > +----------+--------------------------------+ > | 29787 | png | > | 9410 | py | > | 6602 | pyc | > | 1804 | h | > | 1722 | html | > | 1659 | txt | > | 1168 | pyo | > | 988 | doctree | > | 988 | rst | > | 886 | hpp | > > > tl;dr: I think we need some standards with these huge packages, and > people need to be a lot more cognizant as to how big they are. We have > lost more than one mirror due to complaints over needed space and > stuff like this doesn't help. > > If any TU's would like to forward this along and solicit their > thoughts I'd appreciate it. > > -Dan > There was a 4 day long thread about this in aur-general http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2010-August/009854.html

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Re: [arch-general] FF Browser Tip for Archers who like a darker desktop (DR, you listening?)
by Sergey Manucharian 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Excerpts from Filip Filipov's message of Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:08 +0300: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Filip Filipov <pilif.pilif(a)googlemail.com> > Date: Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 18:39 > Subject: Re: [arch-general] FF Browser Tip for Archers who like a > darker desktop (DR, you listening?) > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > > > > > Indeed nice stuff, but... > > Stylish is supposed to work with Chrome, and I tried it with > > Chromium 5.0.375.99 - an error message "unable to open a > > transaction to the database" keeps popping up... > > > > Cheers, > > Sergey > > > > just tried it with http://userstyles.org/styles/18192 on Chromium > 5.0.375.125 . wenn installing I deleted the first 3 lines: > @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); > @-moz-document url-prefix(http://), > url-prefix(https://),url-prefix(about:blank) > { > body,html {min-height: 100%!important; } > Hi Filip, Thanks! This works! > hi, this was my mail as answer to yours but it seems no-one is aware > of my mail. May be am blocked??? I'm not sure, but your email has been addressed only to me, not to arch-general(a)archlinux.org ... Cheers, Sergey

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.2-1
by Martín Cigorraga 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

I want to give my 2 cents of feedback to this issue posted in [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.2-1 : (I had the impression that it might be heating up my laptop more than normal, but then I was doing backups last night, and I'm feeling a part of my laptop that I'm not sure if it's normally warm anyway. Is there a way to measure this? The estimated battery life from GNOME looks pretty normal, if that's an indication of heating by way of power-usage.) -Isaac I do think you have a valid point on the heat issue. The fans on my laptop are notably louder with 2.6.35. Not by a bunch, but from quiet to a low "ssshhhhsshhhsshhh" that you cannot mistake. But given it runs great, it is a big step forward from my 2.6.34 woes... David C. Rankin I'm having fan noise issue since latest kernel update. While system does run smooth, there's a notable increment of noise from the fan that seems to be running a little faster. On the other hand the videocard cooler seems to run as silent as ever. Kernel: 2.6.34.3-1 from [core] Catalyst: 10.7-3 from [catalyst] My system: Linux archbox 2.6.34-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 11 00:23:15 CEST 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux ATI Radeon 5750HD Regards, -Marín >

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[arch-general] telepathy-butterfly broken
by Auguste Pop 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

after a recent update, i found out that telepathy-butterfly is broken. /usr/lib/telepathy/telepathy-butterfly, running manually from a console, complains about requiring papyon >= 0.5.0, while to he package state it requires papyon >= 0.4.9. but there is NO papyon 0.5.0 out there according to the following web page: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/papyon/releases is this a bug or just a little version issue that we have some workarounds?

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.19-1
by Tobias Powalowski 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Open Letter (Plea for Medical Help/Assistance) to World Leaders
by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

My Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982 Scanned documents in the (currently 40) photo albums of my Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982#!/profile.php?id=100… ============================================================================================================================================== To: The Linux Community I am a big fan of Linux. In fact, I am running Fedora 11 x86_64 64-bit Linux on my home multimedia desktop tower system. In order to run multiple other Linux distributions at the same time without rebooting my home personal computer, I am using the open source Xen Type 1 hypervisor/virtualization solution. You may check out my work and in-depth technical details on VGA Pass-through for add-on PCI-Express x16 graphics card to Xen-based Windows XP Home Edition 32-bit guest operating system/HVM domU running inside my Fedora 11 64-bit host operating system at the xen-devel (Xen developers) mailing list at the following internet links from July to November 2009. July 2009: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-07/index.html August 2009: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-08/index.html September 2009: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-09/index.html October 2009: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-10/index.html November 2009: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-11/index.html You may also watch High-Definition (HD) videos of Intel VT-d VGA Pass-through for PCI-Express x16 graphics card to Windows XP Home Edition HVM domU guest operating system at my Youtube account. Please visit the following Youtube link to watch my videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/enmingteo My works on the open source Xen virtualization Intel VT-d VGA pass-through, Building a Rocks HPC Cluster with Xen Hardware Virtual Machines (HVM), How to Setup a Virtual Supercomputer Center or HPC Cluster using Xen Virtual Machines, and Using Xen Virtualization Environment for Development and Testing of Supercomputer and High Performance Computing (HPC) Cluster MPICH2 Applications were also listed on the official Xen.org website. http://www.xen.org/support/tutorial.html Besides running Fedora 11 64-bit Linux as my host operating system (my heavily customized Xen Paravirt-Operations Domain 0 or Parent Partition in Windows Server 2008 speak with various pv-ops Dom0-patched self-compiled kernels), I am also running other Linux distributions like Fedora 12 i386 32-bit Linux, FreeBSD amd64 UNIX, openSolaris 64-bit UNIX, openSUSE 11.2 Linux, NPACI Rocks HPC Cluster, Slackware64 13.0 64-bit Linux, and Ubuntu 9.10 Linux, either as para-virtualized (PV), or fully virtualized guest operating systems/domU. Non-*NIX operating systems like Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 have to be run as Hardware Virtual Machines (HVM) under a Xen pv-ops Dom0 Linux operating system. You may want to refer to my picture/screenshot tutorials of installing various Linux distributions, UNIX variants like FreeBSD, and UNIX operating system openSolaris as virtual machines/guest operating systems under a Linux host operating system at my wordpress.com website. Please click on the following internet link: http://enmingteo.wordpress.com/ This is my secondary IT blog. My primary IT blog is http://teo-en-ming-aka-zhang-enming.blogspot.com/ Since Google Inc. announced the release of the open source 32-bit Chromium OS (which is actually a stripped down Ubuntu 9.10-based Linux operating system) for netbooks last year, I have made an un-official port of chromiumos to the x86_64 64-bit architecture, which I called ChromiumOS64 myself. In the later stages of development, I have added Jeremy Fitzhardinge's Xen paravirt-ops Dom0 capability to my un-official ChromiumOS64 project (ChromiumOS64-Xen). My ChromiumOS64 and ChromiumOS64-Xen projects are listed at the official Xen.org website. Please visit http://www.xen.org/community/projects.html I am also enthusiastic about customizing and compiling my own Linux kernels. To add basic security to my home personal Linux multimedia computer, I have installed the open source Snort Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) and the open source OSSEC Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS). A basic iptables script is also in force. I am also running SETI@Home (BOINC client) on my Linux PC to contribute to the search for extraterrestrials. And not forgetting that I have compiled Linux from Scratch (LFS) 6.5 from scratch following the LFS 6.5 Handbook and installed the PacMan Package Manager, essentially making it an ArchLinux Linux distribution. I hope that the above information that I have provided may be useful to you. ============================================================================================================================================== --UPDATED 11 August 2010 4:56 A.M. Singapore Time --UPDATED 22 July 2010 11:09 A.M. Singapore time [***URGENT***] 15 June 2010 Tuesday 5:50 P.M. Singapore Time To (long list of recipients): Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters without Broders) International Comittee of the Red Cross International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies World Health Organization United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs President of the United States of America Barrack Obama First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama United States House of Representatives Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosy U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner United States Senate President of the U.S. Senate Joseph R. Biden, Jr. President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate Daniel K. Inouye U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland David Cameron President of the Fifth French Republic Nicolas Sarkozy Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Australia The Honorable Kevin Rudd MP Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Ma Ying-jeou President of the European Union Jose Manuel Barroso Members of the European Parliament The Oprah Winfrey Show The Rachel Ray Show The Ellen DeGeneres Show Larry King Live TV Show Charlie Rose TV Show International Court of Justice International Court of Human Rights European Court of Human Rights European Court of Justice Public Broadcasting Service American Broadcasting Company (ABC) National Broadcasting Company CBS Broadcasting Inc. Fox News The CW Television Network Ion Television Bloomberg Television America One Omni Broadcasting Network CNN BBC News Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Amnesty International The Carter Center Every Human Has Rights The Wall Street Journal USA Today The New York Times Los Angeles Times The Washington Post Daily News New York Post San Jose Mercury News Contra Costa Times The Oakland Tribune Chicago Tribune Houston Chronicle The Arizona Republic The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia Daily News Newsday The Denver Post Star Tribune St. Petersburg Times Chicago Sun-Times The Plain Dealer Oregonian !The Oregonian The Seattle Times The Dallas Morning News Detroit Free Press The San Diego Union-Tribune San Francisco Chronicle The Star-Ledger The Boston Globe The Kansas City Star The Sacramento Bee St. Louis Post-Dispatch The Sun The Orange County Register The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Indianapolis Star St. Paul Pioneer Press Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Orlando Sentinel Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Arkansas Democrat-Gazette The Courier-Journal South Florida Sun-Sentinel Las Vegas Review-Journal The Cincinnati Enquirer Miami Herald Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The Columbus Dispatch The Charlotte Observer Fort Worth Star-Telegram The Buffalo News The Virginian-Pilot The Tampa Tribune The Record The Times-Picayune Omaha World-Herald The Oklahoman The Detroit News The Commercial Appeal San Antonio Express-News Austin American-Statesman The Hartford Courant The News & Observer The Tennessean Boston Herald Investor's Business Daily Richmond Times-Dispatch Democrat and Chronicle The Palm Beach Post Fresno Bee The Blade The Florida Times-Union Asbury Park Press The Press-Enterprise The Birmingham News The Des Moines Register The Salt Lake Tribune Arizona Daily Star Daily Herald The Morning Call Akron Beacon Journal Dayton Daily News Lexington Herald-Leader Tulsa World Knoxville News Sentinel Grand Rapids Press The Providence Journal Press-Register Albuquerque Journal The News Journal Wisconsin State Journal The Post-Standard Los Angeles Daily News Sarasota Herald-Tribune The Post and Courier The News Tribune The Journal News The Times of Northwest Indiana The Gazette La Opinión The State Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era The Daily Telegraph Financial Times The Sunday Telegraph The Sunday Times The Guardian The Observer The Independent The Times Independent on Sunday The Herald The Press and Journal The Daily Telegraph The Courier Sunday Herald Scotland on Sunday The Sunday Times The Scotsman The Times The Independent The Guardian The Western Mail Y Cymro New York Times columnist William Lewis Safire Former President of Singapore Devan Nair Former Solicitor-General of Singapore Francis Seow, Harvard Law School Visiting Fellow Secretary of Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin Singapore Citizen/Singaporean Seelan Palay TIME.com Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Alfred Kissinger Dear Sir/Madam, RE: Open Letter (Plea for Medical Help/Assistance) to World Leaders I have uploaded photos, videos, and audios of myself, scanned images of my ECG Graphs, laboratory blood test reports, X-Ray films and medical documents to Facebook (Facebook account: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)) and other preferred multimedia sharing sites. Hopefully, my online accounts, including Facebook, will not be compromised by my antagonists. I hope that the content (text, video, and audio) in my data sharing sites will remain fully intact without unauthorized alteration, modification, and deletion by my adversaries. And hopefully nobody will close my Facebook account without my authorization and consent either. I am exceedingly concerned that I might have heart/coronary artery disease and that it might be in the late stages. My physical symptoms are: 1) Aching in the upper left of my chest since beginning January 2009 90% of the time, sometimes it may migrate to the right side 2) Shortness of breath from time to time 3) Palpitations in the last few days (I can feel my heart beat very hard and irregularly) 4) Muscle aches in the hands and legs, sometimes my hands(palms) will cramp 5) Involuntary movement of fingers/thumbs occasionally 6) Facial spasms occasionally 7) Sometimes I will feel my body "vibrating" anywhere from head to toe 8) When I tried to feel the pulses on my wrists, the pulses will "disappear" after a while. This is contrary to what doctors, nurses, and others have been telling me. That my pulses are consistent. 9) Sometimes when I am just about to fall asleep, I will get a sudden jerk or have a feeling that I am falling or my heart is going to pop out 10) giddiness/dizziness/light-headedness from time to time 11) Sometimes I will feel weak after just waking up, especially in the hands 12) discomfort at the back of my head from time to time I have visited many doctors at Accidents and Emergency (A&E) departments of many general hospitals here but they all try to brush me off and tell me I am fine. My request for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for the brain and (more specifically the) heart is usually declined. It seems that the doctors are stalling for time, dragging and delaying until maybe it is too late to do anything for me. I have been unemployed since 1st October 2009 and have depleted all my personal savings. In May 2009, which is just last year only, I have done a MIBI heart perfusion study (radioisotope IV + gamma camera) and the cardiologist/heart specialist told me I have NO heart/coronary artery disease (even though I have high cholesterol and it could be managed). LVEF was 64% and MIBI was negative for ischemic at Stage 2 Bruce (as at 21st May 2009). How could it then have progressed, from NO heart/artery disease to the above-mentioned physical symptoms, in such a very short period of time?! This is all very very very strange. Could it be some other problem instead? Heart/coronary artery disease takes many many years to develop. As you can observe, I am nowhere as obese as Moses Lim, a Singaporean Mediacorp TV actor. References, photos, and videos of Moses Lim: (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Lim (2) http://moseslim.com/content/ (3) http://www.xndo.net/moseslim.html (4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sHKOiegnS8 Yet he is already 60 years old. I also had a grandmother who was very very obese and she was able to live until 60+ years old. There are many many people who are far fatter and have far greater builds than me. They do not have any physical complaints like mine. Why do I have weird/strange physical symptoms like giddiness/dizziness, chest aches, muscle aches in the limbs, shortness of breath, hyperventilations, and palpitations all of a sudden at 32 years old? Foul play?!?!?! Could it be that my neighbours have been frightening/terrifying/threatening me everyday 24x7 non-stop for the past 3-4 years with all sorts of terrible/horrible things that can happen to me? Maybe my heart couldn't take the stress under such an intensive, constant and prolonged psychological abuse? I have also heard them talk about me to various people while I am at home. I think they do that purposely. But I have had totally no say at all from start to finish because I am not allowed any chance for direct involvement. I am being excluded and not given any chance to know anything. They also seem to have gathered/amassed a lot of private information about me. I seriously wonder how they do that. They appear to be extremely resourceful and motivated. There appears to be some intrigue and shroud of secrecy around me. These people know all of my online monikers and email addresses. They have been submitting online forms using my identity and have even attempted to submit password reset instructions for me without my knowledge and consent. I actually overheard my neighbours claiming to have passwords/complete access to all my email accounts and other online accounts. They may also create phony email accounts and send messages impersonating as me without my knowledge. Thank you very much for your kind attention and concern. PS. (1) My neighbours have claimed that they will never stop or waver in their psychological warfare on me unless I commit suicide. Or they will wait patiently until I have a heart attack or stroke. How callous they are! I want to live and live to a ripe old age. And I wish for a long and healthy life too. (2) I have a severe panic attack on 27 May 2010 Thursday and several panic attacks after that. Due to the panic attacks and the severe anxiety caused by my neighbours, I have been warded in Changi General Hospital (Ward 14) for 2 weeks (from 1st June 2010 to 15th June 2010) (EDIT: It's actually four weeks (from 1st Jun 2010 to 2nd July 2010)). I am actually on home leave today to write this letter (15 June 2010). I will be going back to the ward at night, hopefully before 8 P.M. (3) Most of the nurses in Ward 14 CGH have been very nice and friendly to me. Hopefully they are not putting on a false front. But the doctors there are as obstinate as mules. They stubbornly and stoutly refuse to give me any advanced heart imaging tests, e.g. MRI (preferred), CT-scan (not preferred), echo cardiogram, and ankle brachial index (ABI) tests. (4) I have a medical appointment at the National Heart Center Singapore on 17 June 2010, which is next Thursday. I hope that the heart specialist there will allow me to do the advanced imaging tests (brain/heart) that I want and tell me the absolute truth about my medical condition. (5) My neighbours have strangely and repeatedly commanded me hundreds of times to apply to work in a casino else I would not get medical treatment. Strange? Baffling? A casino environment is not suitable for me and I do not want to work in a casino. I want to work as an Information Technology (IT) engineer. This is my preferred profession. (6) After discharging from CGH on 2nd July 2010, I still have not managed to get any advanced medical imaging tests (MRI) for my heart/brain. The doctors at CGH have consistently refused to do the tests for me. (7) I went for an ABI test at National Heart Center Singapore on the day of discharge from CGH (2nd July 2010). The results appear to be okay. Please refer to my facebook account for the details of the test results. (Rt: 1.05 Lt: 1.04) (8) I am given a full echo cardiogram appointment at the National Heart Center Singapore on 2nd Sept 2010. But I am still not given any MRI tests for my heart/brain. Strange. (EDIT: I have brought forward my echocardiogram appointment to 11 August 2010 Wednesday 2:00 P.M. Singapore Time) (9) I am writing point number 9 onwards until point 29 on 11 Aug 2010 Wednesday Singapore Time. Please take note. (10) During my one month hospital stay at Changi General Hospital (Ward 14) from 1st June 2010 to 2nd July 2010, my neighbours did not come to harass me. The physical symptoms which I have described above (except my chronic chest pain) gradually subsided. Except for the very first day in the hospital ward when I have a number of panic attacks while talking to Dr. Sim Ching Ching in a consulting room and the following morning while talking to Dr. Lui, I did not have any more panic attacks and my anxiety levels decreased during the rest of my hospital stay. (11) After my discharge from CGH on 2nd July 2010, the disturbances from my neighbours have substantially decreased in frequency. I do not know why but all of a sudden, from 31st July 2010 Saturday Singapore Time onwards, my neighbours have re-started or resumed their operations in harassing, frightening, terrifying, threatening, and conducting psychological warfare on me in much increased intensity. They keep talking to me every few minutes every day 24x7 day and night. It's not a face-to-face talk that you might imagine. I didn't converse with them much. They just keep talking to me unilaterally. In Housing & Development Board (HDB) apartment flats in Singapore, you could hear your neighbours in the units to your immediate left, to your immediate right, and also in the units immediately above and below you, if they are to talk sufficiently loud. If you stay on the 2nd story, you could even hear people talking in the void deck (ground floor) and as well as from the carpark. It's a psychological warfare by my neighbours to instill fear and increase my anxiety. (12) My neighbours have proudly claimed that they have strong and powerful backing from their masters. They told me that they cannot stop harassing me at all because they are under orders/instructions from their masters. (13) I have thought of relocating my domicile but my neighbours claimed that even if I moved to another location in Singapore far far away from them, another set of people would be tasked to harass me and take over from them. (14) Shortly after graduating from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) degree in December 2006, I joined the Defense Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) in the Infocomm Infrastructure Division in February 2007 as an Information Technology (IT) engineer, administrating Linux, UNIX, and Windows Servers in its data center. DSTA is an agency under the Singapore Ministry of Defense. (15) Sometime before I left DSTA in August 2007, my neighbours and their friends *first* started to harass, stalk, and conduct psychological warfare on me by instilling fear and increasing my anxiety at home and almost everywhere I go. (16) Within a short period of time, I managed to secure a job as an IT engineer in National Computer Systems (NCS) Ltd, a subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications, in September 2007. The job, as far as I could remember, was to maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers, Windows Servers, and also perform daily tape backup operations in the data center. A strange phenomenon occurred during my stint in NCS Ltd. Colleagues and staffs in other departments started to whisper and gossip about me. When I approached them, none of them appeared to be willing to tell me anything. I had conjectured that some chain emails could be circulating about me in the organization. It seemed that some rumour mongering activities were going on around me in the organization. Without hesitation, my neighbours and their friends came into my mind. They had probably approached some people in NCS Ltd, who were probably very happy to entertain them and start the chain emailing around in the organization. My neighbours and their friends were soon operating in the surrounding area and began to harass me. I could not remember the exact date I started to develop panic attacks. They were of a much milder intensity than those which occurred between 27th May 2010 and 2nd June 2010. I was warded in Singapore General Hospital from 31st Jan 2008 to 5th March 2008. Just before the one-year contract expired, I left NCS Ltd. (17) Between leaving NCS Ltd and joining Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd, I was warded in Singapore General Hospital (SGH) a number of times for panic attacks. (18) After recovering from the panic attacks, I joined Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd in February 2009 as an IT/IS engineer. Asiasoft Online is an online game playing company in Singapore. The company offers online games such as Maple Story, Audition, Cabal, GetAmped, Sudden Attack, Yulgang, Monster Forest, Raycity, and Warriors of the 3 Kingdoms. I am in charge of all the Linux game servers in the company. My biggest and proudest achievement cum project was to setup and configure a fully working IP Security (IPsec) Virtual Private Networking (VPN) tunnel for the company. IPsec VPN is much harder and more complicated to setup than OpenVPN (which is based on SSL or Secure Socket Layer). My next task was to setup and configure a secondary/backup mail exchanger for the company using qmail MTA (Mail Transfer Agent). qmail is much harder and more tedious to configure than postfix MTA. (Yahoo! Singapore is using qmail MTA.) By far, sendmail MTA is the hardest and the most complicated in the Linux world to setup and configure. I was also in charge of the two Domain Name Service (DNS) servers (primary and secondary) in the company and maintaining and updating all the IPv4 forward and reverse zone records. Being in charge of the DNS servers allowed me to learn a bit about Sender Policy Framework (SPF), DomainKeys and DKIM. If my memory does not fail me, the DNS servers were installed by me using Fedora Linux and BIND 9 daemon/service. It is quite simple actually. The final assignment for me in the company was to install and configure all the Yulgang game servers. Majority of the Yulgang game servers are using openSUSE 10.2 32-bit Linux. Only a few Yulgang servers are using Windows servers. (William Phoon Choon Keong, who was my former IT department manager in Asiasoft Online before Melvin Lee came in to replace him towards the end of July 2009, installed and managed the Yulgang Windows game servers.) GetAmped is using Solaris UNIX. During the relocation of the company office from Singapore Post @ Paya Lebar to Tampines Central, I had a chance to play around with CISCO switches and routers and learn some CISCO IOS commands (mostly forgotten by now). But networking is not my forte. I am mostly an IT infrastructure engineer. I have yet to take the CCNA. By the way, the same rumour mongering that happened in NCS Ltd also surfaced in Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd. (19) My father suffered from a mild stroke on 13 September 2009 in which his left side of the body was affected and he was warded for 19 days. He was discharged from Changi General Hospital Singapore on 1st October 2009. On the same day, I resigned from Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd. (20) After resigning from Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd on 1st October 2009, my neighbours and their friends suddenly and unexpectedly increased their force and intensity tremendously in harassing, frightening, terrifying, threatening, and conducting psychological warfare/abuse on me, culminating in a severe panic attack on 27 May 2010 Thursday and several other panic attacks after that, leading to my hospitalization on 1st June 2010 in Changi General Hospital for a period of 32 days, and discharging on 2nd July 2010, which I have already described above. The 27 May 2010 panic attack was an extremely terrible experience for me. I thought I was having a heart attack and going to die. I was having a hyperventilation and my heart rate goes up to almost 150 beats per minute. Both my palms were totally cramped up. My heart was also aching. It took about an hour before the panic attack subsides. (21) As at 11 August 2010 4:03 A.M. Singapore Time, I am still having chest pain in the upper left side of my chest from time to time. Although the doctors at CGH stubbornly pinned everything on panic attacks and anxiety symptoms and ruled out the possibility of a heart/coronary artery disease, I am taking no chances at all. It is after all my life. I really suspect that I might have an underlying heart/coronary artery disease condition which could have been masked by my panic attacks and anxiety symptoms. I have a suspicion that my main blood arteries or veins in the chest could have been narrowed. Otherwise what could have given rise to a chronic chest pain since Jan 2009? I want a MRI test for my chest and a functional MRI (fMRI) test for my brain as well. I want to live and I want to live to a ripe old age. I want to have a long and healthy life. (22) Sometime in October 2009, my neighbours were saying that I have appeared on Singapore's national Mediacorp TV in the corridor of our apartment block. I could not independently verify whether I have appeared on the national TV during this period or some earlier period. But the strangest thing was that people started to avoid me. My relatives (maternal side) were initially reluctant to talk to me over the phone. They did not even visit my house during Chinese New Year 2010. My secondary school friends, polytechnic friends, army friends, NUS friends, NCS friends, Asiasoft Online friends, and ClubSNAP photography friends were suddenly refusing or were afraid to answer my phone calls! I have about 300 people on my Windows Live MSN list and more than 250 people have deleted me from their MSN list. Total strangers in the streets and public places started giving me weird looks, or whispering about me, or taking a few steps back away from me. Even patients, nurses and other staffs in government general hospitals were doing the same thing. What is actually going on? If I really did appear on the national TV, what was actually being reported about me? I want to know the answer. Maybe the Reporters without Borders could help. (23) One day in Shenton Way, I overheard a stranger in a food court saying that my neighbours and their friends were discussing about me on Singapore's Mediacorp radio stations. I could not independently verify whether I have actually been brought up on radio stations in Singapore. There are so many radio stations in Singapore! So which one should I tune in to? And what are the timings? (24) My relatives (maternal and paternal sides) did eventually visit us recently. My relatives (maternal side) visited my house 1-2 weeks ago after receiving a phone call from my mother in hospital. She was admitted on 9th July 2010 together with the assistance (or rather the presence) of CGH Medical Social Worker Miss Cerene Wong. My relatives (paternal side) visited our house a few days back though I don't even recognize them. Please note that I am writing this on 11 August 2010 Wednesday Singapore Time. (25) I am extremely baffled by my neighbours' knowledge of my conversations with doctors and nurses in Changi General Hospital Singapore and Singapore General Hospital. I am also baffled by their knowledge of my medical appointments and when I change my medical appointments. Who gave them all these information? (26) My neighbours told me that their masters' intention and motivation is to systematically destroy me. (27) Please don't fix me. Please. Please don't make my life miserable for eternity. Please. Please Please Please. Please leave me alone in peace. Please. Please don't make me keep on having panic attacks. I will definitely suffer from heart attacks very early on in life due to the protracted psychological abuse putting the extra strain on my heart. Please. Please Please Please. (28) I am hoping to get a job in the IT sector within the next 1-2 or 3 months. I am currently waiting for my mother to be discharged from the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) hospital. Dr. Malu (think I got the name wrong) there has already told me she would be discharged within a few days or a few weeks. Please don't do the same thing to me (harassing, frightening, terrifying, threatening, and psychological warfare/abuse) for my next job again. Please. I am anticipating that you will do it with an extremely high probability. (29) Please don't persecute me. Please. Please. Please. Yours sincerely, Mr. Teo En Ming Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Name: Zhang Enming Citizenship: Singapore Citizen/Singaporean Facebook: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Mobile Phone (Starhub Prepaid): +65-8369-2618 MSN/Windows Live Messenger: teoenming(a)hotmail.com For online photos of me when I was a kid, please scroll down to the bottom of my signature. MY ONLINE PHOTO(1): http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/6264/enmingteodscf2510.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(2): http://i41.tinypic.com/adnfx5.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(3): http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7534/enmingteodscf2511.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(4): http://i40.tinypic.com/dc7hmq.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(5): http://i.imgur.com/SIICh.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(6): http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2233/enmingteodscf2512.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(7): http://i40.tinypic.com/2u8l62r.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(8): http://i.imgur.com/CLifZ.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(9): http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/fa956dddab.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(10): http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/f93b37b773.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(11): http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/ce0cd663ef.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(12): http://img5.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5415/54156759ac8ecbba1e2368c63d203a… MY ONLINE PHOTO(13): http://img9.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5415/5415679e958679286a919425aca4c2… MY ONLINE PHOTO(14): http://img4.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5415/54156847596a5a067d2a7267362ebf… MY ONLINE PHOTO(15): http://xs.to/image-68D0_4BEB7F90.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(16): http://xs.to/image-A7E3_4BEB7FE7.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(17): http://xs.to/image-E303_4BEB802E.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(18): http://i39.tinypic.com/bet4yf.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(19): http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/5139/teoenmingzhangenming.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(20): http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/a0e0744c82.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(21): http://img6.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5415/5415686db861b07e07c010d8b610b1… MY ONLINE PHOTO(22): http://xs.to/image-4016_4BEB806B.jpg Dip(Mechatronics) BEng(Hons)(Mechanical Engineering) Alma Maters: (1) Singapore Polytechnic Graduated 1998 (2) National University of Singapore Graduated 2006 My Primary Blog: http://teo-en-ming-aka-zhang-enming.blogspot.com My Secondary Blog: http://enmingteo.wordpress.com My Youtube videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/enmingteo Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore ZIP: 470103 Place of Birth: Singapore NRIC/National Identity Card No: S78*6*2*H Date of Birth: 5th March 1978 Race: Chinese Dialect Group: Hokkien Height: 1.78 meters Online photos of myself when I was a kid: (1) http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/9020/nursery01.jpg (2) http://i40.tinypic.com/k4jhhf.jpg (3) http://imgur.com/Ywca3.jpg (4) http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/2db37a4403.jpg (5) http://img8.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5416/54166180c1dec144cde2b6275ad5da… (6) http://xs.to/image-C02E_4BEBBF47.jpg Email: space.time.universe(at)gmail.com Alternate email #1: teoenming(at)hotmail.com Alternate email #2: teo.en.ming(at)gmx.com

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