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0.303636 | <urn:uuid:b788cbff-6cc0-4101-9a8b-474c585c8f33> | en | 0.986421 | Author's Note: I finally decided to rewrite this fic. The original sounded really stupid to me. It's part of the Ultra Rodimus series, but it doesn't fit in at all. So I took this time to rewrite it so that it fits into the storyline instead of being out in left field somewhere.
Disclaimer: The character of Ultra Rodimus is mine. Everyone else belongs to somebody with a lot more money than me.
A New Life
The light of the fierce plasma storm raging silently in the cold of space reflected off the window of the retreating shuttle and in the eyes of the bot standing on the other side, staring out at what had been the planet he'd spent his entire life on. His entire universe had come crashing down around him.
Sandstorm had been built on Paradron and had been a teacher of history at the university all his life. Life had been good, far from the wars and conflicts that raged across most of the quadrant. Everyone had known of the ancient war their ancestors had fled, but it was so far away in time and space that no one thought about it. It was none of their concern.
But it had found them.
It had begun with two strange Transformers crashing on the planet. Sandstorm had recognized their insignia from the ancient texts; they were Decepticons. He'd tried to warn the Paradronian leaders of the danger, but they had ignored him. The result had been an entire army occupying the peaceful world, enslaving its occupants and forcing them to make weapons. A distress call had been sent, and another army, bearing the Autobot insignia, the same symbol Sandstorm himself bore, had arrived. They were not interested in taking the planet; they wanted to free it. And they had almost done so. Then the Decepticons had planted a bomb in the core, making sure that if they couldn't have Paradron, no one would. The Autobots had begun evacuating, but there were too many people and not enough time. When the planet blew, more than half of her people died with her.
The survivors filled the half dozen shuttles, huddled together, many silent, others weeping softly. Sandstorm stood apart from the others, staring out the viewport, feeling empty. What would he do now?
A door hissed open. Footsteps, almost silent, crossed the room toward him. Sandstorm sensed a presence at his side, but didn't take his eyes from the sight of the ball of fiery plasma that marked where his home had once been.
"It was a beautiful planet."
The words startled Sandstorm out of his trance. He'd heard that voice before, yelling orders over the Autobot communications frequency. Those orders had been instantly obeyed. It was the voice of the Autobot leader.
Spinning around, he looked up.
The bot standing beside him was quite young, and the most unusual bot Sandstorm had ever seen. He didn't look like a Transformer; there was no indication of what his alternate mode might be or if he even had one. He was very tall, a bit more than two heads taller than Sandstorm was, and very slender of build. In some ways he looked fragile, as if one blow would break him in half. But he also radiated the feel of strength, a strength that was completely at odds with his slender form. Then Sandstorm took a closer look.
To his surprise, the young bot was not as fragile as he looked. His armor had a gentle gleam as light reflected over its surface, covered in scorch marks. It looked more durable than anything Sandstorm had ever seen before. The Autobot leader was anything but fragile. He could most likely take more punishment than any of his warriors.
In color, he was mainly a light smoke-grey. Tiger stripes alternating vivid blue and bright crimson ran down his spine and limbs. In the center of his chestplate was the red Autobot faction insignia. A long silver braid hung down his back, the end just below knee level. Privately Sandstorm thought he was very handsome.
The other bot turned to look at the pacifist. He had an elegant profile, without any of the hard lines the others had. His features were smooth. Instead of being standard Transformer optics his eyes were almond-shaped, slightly vertical, the irises a brilliant emerald green, the pupils black and slitted.
"I am sorry for your loss," the young leader rumbled softly, his voice a deep bass with an underlying purr to it. "I did all I could, but there was no way we would have reached the core in time to defuse the bomb. We saved as many of your people as we could, and I sincerely wish we could have gotten them all."
Sandstorm said nothing. He gazed up at the young bot for a moment, then turned back to the window. The taller bot waited a moment longer, waiting for some kind of response, then backed away. He left the room as quietly as he'd come, the door hissing shut behind him.
A few minutes later the door opened again and someone else crossed to where he stood. Sandstorm glanced over and saw that it was the other triple changer, the green and silver one he'd first met. The other bot, Springer, he remembered, regarded him for a long moment, blue optics narrowed slightly.
"You were rude to Prime," Springer finally said.
Sandstorm didn't reply. He looked away, but Springer refused to be ignored. He grabbed the pacifist's arm and spun him around.
"Grieving for the loss of your home is no excuse to be rude," Springer hissed, eyes flashing. "He apologized to you and your people and you think he's not sincere. He is. He understands better than you seem to think. You think he doesn't know what it's like to lose close friends? He does. He even lost his own life once." The green triple shook him. "You owe him an apology."
With that, he let go and stalked away.
Sandstorm stared after him, stunned. Then he turned back to the fading view of Paradron's remains, his mind whirling. He had been rude to the Autobot leader, and it was considered inexcusable by Paradronians to be so rude to anyone. Heaving a sigh, Sandstorm walked out of the area occupied by the pacifists.
Out in the corridor, he asked a passing Autobot where he'd find Ultra Rodimus. The other Autobot, a red and blue one almost as tall as Sandstorm was, his helmet crested with a gold chevron and the doors of his alternate mode spreading out behind him like wings, eyed him for a long moment, then led him to another section of the shuttle.
"He's in here."
"Thank you." Sandstorm walked through the door.
The lights were dim, making it hard to see. The light from the windows, fortunately, silhouetted the slender robot standing silently on the far side of the room. The young leader said nothing, but Sandstorm knew that his presence had been noticed. He slowly crossed the chamber until he stood beside the other robot, looking out at the stars. For a moment he was silent. Then he sighed silently and turned to face the taller bot.
"I apologize for my behavior," Sandstorm told him softly, and the other bot finally looked at him. "You were trying to show me kindness and I threw it back in your face. It was very rude of me, and for that I deeply apologize."
A faint smile touched the young leader's lips. "Springer must've had words with you, eh?"
Sandstorm snorted. "He did."
"Springer can be quite direct," the youth admitted. "I'm more lenient than he is, though. You are forgiven."
The orange and yellow pacifist smiled up at him, then turned back to the starscape sliding past. A comfortable silence reigned for a few moments. After a time, he looked back up at his companion. "My name is Sandstorm."
The Cybertronian took his offered hand. "Ultra Rodimus."
"That's a mouthful."
Striped shoulders rose in a shrug. "I didn't choose it. It was given to me."
"Not a name that's likely to be forgotten, it's so unusual."
Ultra Rodimus chuckled. "Oh, my name won't be forgotten. There's a list of accomplishments as long as my arm attached to it."
Sandstorm echoed his chuckle. Then they lapsed back into silence. This time the silence lasted for a longer time.
"What's Cybertron like?" Sandstorm finally asked.
Ultra Rodimus sighed. "Nothing like Paradron, unfortunately. Once it was a beautiful planet, similar to your homeworld. But the wars that raged across its surface have left terrible scars. And the last major battle fought there was not even between Cybertronians. Yet it did more damage than the rest combined."
Blue optics looked a question at him. Ultra Rodimus's shoulders slumped, and he waved toward the chairs by the wall. "Better sit down, this might take a while."
"I am a historian," Sandstorm informed him calmly. "I am used to long tales."
The taller bot snorted and walked over to a chair, settling into it. Sandstorm chose to settle cross-legged at his feet, elbows on knees, optics fixed intently on the Autobot leader's face. Ultra Rodimus blinked at him for a moment, then leaned back, crossed his arms over his chest, and began to relate Cybertron's long history of bloodshed and warfare.
It took a long time telling.
Sandstorm absorbed every word, adding it to the histories he already knew. That was what he did, keep records. By the time Ultra Rodimus finished describing his own death and rebirth, Sandstorm had developed a deep sympathy for the one fated to lead the Autobot army and carry the weight of the galaxy on his shoulders.
"I'm sure I've missed a lot in between," Ultra Rodimus warned. "You could ask Kup or Magnus if they have anything to add."
The door hissed open. The same bot who'd led Sandstorm there poked his head in. "Prime, we're approaching Cybertron."
"Thank you, Smokescreen."
The red and blue bot nodded and withdrew.
"How do you manage to remember who's who?" Sandstorm wondered.
"Mind like a steel trap," Ultra Rodimus responded, grinning. "Anything that goes in never comes out."
"Must make for one hell of a crowd in there," Sandstorm teased, and the Prime laughed.
Still chuckling, the two made their way to the shuttle's bridge. There Sandstorm got his first look at Cybertron.
The metal planet was massive and dark, with no sun to shine on its cold surface. At least four moons circled it, shedding a faint reflected light down onto the world. From a distance it looked beautiful. Then Sandstorm took a closer look and saw the scars.
Deep gashes cut through to the interior. Massive craters and the burned ruins of cities dotted the landscape. Other areas looked like they'd been smashed in, or ripped out by giant hands. There were very few lights dotting the dark surface. A thin field of metal scraps and bits of machinery formed a very faint ring around Cybertron, a barely visible haze that hinted at the ferocity of the fighting.
"Home," Ultra Rodimus rumbled softly.
"It doesn't look like I expected it to," Sandstorm told him.
The shuttles landed in a city Ultra Rodimus called Iacon. The pacifists slowly emerged, remaining in a clump, staring blankly at their new surroundings. Sandstorm looked up at the dark sky, full of unfamiliar constellations, shuddered slightly, and inched a little closer to Ultra Rodimus.
"Jazz and Ultra Magnus will find you quarters," Ultra Rodimus told the pacifists, gesturing at the two. Then he walked into the city, Sandstorm trotting along in his wake.
As the days passed, Sandstorm developed a friendship with the young Prime. He spoke to the older Autobots, writing what they told him in the history chronicles he was putting together. When he'd gathered all the information they had available, he retreated to the quarters assigned to him and began to document everything he'd been told. It took days of steady typing to get everything written down in his history files. Once he had finished that, he found himself wondering if there was anything else for him to do. The Cybertronian Autobots were warriors, and he was not. The other Paradronians were slowly finding places to fit in, mostly with the architect Grapple and his construction teams. Sandstorm did not have the skills or inclination for construction work, and Iacon had little need of an archivist. Not knowing what else to do, he went to see if Ultra Rodimus had any advice.
The young Prime was in his office, seated at his desk, hidden from sight by the massive piles of datapads covering its surface. He was sorting through the piles, swearing under his breath.
"Something wrong?" Sandstorm asked.
Ultra Rodimus had to come out from behind the desk to see him, the piles were so high. He carried one pad in one hand, three more in the other. There was a scowl on his face.
"Why is it that no one knows how to put these things in order?" he demanded rhetorically.
"All out of order, are they?"
"All jumbled together in no particular order and completely at random.. It's very frustrating. Doing paperwork takes a lot longer than it should because I have to sort through these massive piles to find anything!"
Sensing a chance to do something, Sandstorm's optics lit up. "May I help? Sort them, I mean."
The younger bot blinked at him, clearly amazed that anyone would willingly want to dive into the horrid amounts of paperwork that he had to deal with as Autobot leader, then a brilliant smile broke out on his face. "That would be a very great help; thank you."
Sandstorm returned the smile. Then he began lifting the stacks from the desk to the floor and began sorting them according to date and subject. Ultra Rodimus returned to his work, able to plow his way through it considerably quicker than he had before. Sandstorm sat cross-legged by the wall, surrounded by a sea of datapads, strangely content with his task. The quiet of the office was broken only by the clicking of Ultra Rodimus's keyboard, the occasional protesting creak of his chair as he shifted position, and the soft click of datapads against each other. Every so often Sandstorm would lift a sorted pile of pads back onto the desk, rewarded by a broad smile from the Autobot leader.
Several hours later Sandstorm was not even close to being finished. Other Autobots had been coming and going every now and then, usually bringing with them another pile of pads. Sandstorm would take them and add them to the piles to be sorted. Several Autobots stopped to watch him for a moment before leaving.
Finally Ultra Rodimus dropped his pen and stretched, yawning. "Oh, that's enough for one day."
Sandstorm looked up at him, then checked his internal chrono and grunted in surprise when he realized that he'd been sitting there for almost 12 hours. The time had flown by without him even noticing. Ultra Rodimus, leaning on the edge of his desk, grinned tiredly at him.
"I bet that now you're regretting offering to help me," he commented.
"No, I'm not." Sandstorm shook his head. "I'm grateful for having something to do."
The taller bot blinked once. "You actually like doing this?"
"Historian, remember. I'm used to massive piles of paperwork. Some of the old chronicles I had to work through made all of this look puny."
Ultra Rodimus stared at him, then chuckled and shook his head. "Most bots I know wouldn't touch all this paperwork with a fifty-foot pole even if you offered them a million energon cubes. It's a real surprise finding someone who actually likes it."
"You don't like it either, hmm?"
"Not in the least, but if it isn't done the army will fall apart at the seams. I just wish that my second-in-command and my other ranking officers would actually do their share instead of pushing it off on me."
Sandstorm gathered up all of the remaining datapads and arranged them in a neat pile for the night. Then he rose to his feet and followed Ultra Rodimus out.
"Meet you here tomorrow?" he asked.
Sandstorm entered recharge that night with a renewed sense of purpose.
He became a regular feature of Ultra Rodimus's office, usually seated off to one side sorting and arranging datapads. Other times he intercepted other Autobots before they could disturb the very busy young Prime, or told them off when they wanted to deposit more work on Ultra Rodimus and the youth was clearly exhausted. On more than one occasion Sandstorm actually walked right into the offices of Ultra Magnus and Kup and the rest of the command staff and dumped large heaps of datapads on their desks with the instruction to do it themselves.
"I'd say you've got yourself a secretary, Roddy," Magnus commented, eyeing the pacifist triple changer with some respect.
Ultra Rodimus looked up from his terminal, tapping his pen against his fingers absently, and smiled slightly. "Wasn't my idea. He appointed himself. He's a great help."
"It seems he's your unofficial assistant, so why don't you appoint him your official aide?"
"Don't think the thought hasn't crossed my mind."
"I'd be honored to assist you," Sandstorm cut in, looking from one to the other.
Ultra Rodimus blinked at him, but before he had a chance to say anything Magnus beat him to it.
"Then it's settled," the city commander announced, looking from the pacifist to his slightly annoyed leader. Ultra Rodimus gave him the 'evil optic', but didn't comment.
Sandstorm placed a hand on Ultra Rodimus's forearm. "I've been looking for something to do for months, Roddy. My talents are different from the other Paradronians. At least this will keep me from going out of my mind with boredom."
The younger bot smiled. "It might put you to sleep, though."
"Not much chance of that," was the calm reply.
As the months passed, their friendship deepened. It never went beyond friendship, but that didn't matter. Sandstorm knew Ultra Rodimus better than anyone. That was enough for him.
The other pacifists began to grow restless, homesick, and began to feel trapped inside Iacon's walls. Sandstorm told Ultra Rodimus, who began looking into the situation. Then the elected leader of the remaining pacifists, an older male named Windstar, informed Ultra Rodimus that they wanted out, to get away from the war and everyone associated with it. Ultra Rodimus explained to them that that was not possible.
"We will leave," Windstar told him.
Ultra Rodimus eyed him. "If you leave this city the Decepticons will finish what they began on Paradron!" he snapped back at the older bot. "Are you trying to get your people killed?"
No matter what he said, Windstar didn't listen. The pacifists were still set on leaving, but some were beginning to have doubts. Those who were beginning to believe that the young Prime knew what he was talking about dragged their heels when the time to leave came, hoping that something would happen to change Windstar's mind. Nothing did.
One of Windstar's supporters opened Iacon's massive gates. The pacifists began to file out. Those who doubted Windstar's decision were last to leave, looking back apologetically.
Ultra Rodimus's "sixth sense" began to tingle. He hesitated, then extended his minor power of empathy to the limits of its relatively small range. At that range he could only sense the strongest emotions, but that might be enough to let him know what was wrong. For a long moment, he sensed nothing.
Then his awareness brushed across a mind alive with rage and seething with hate, a twisted, diseased mind. He winced and pulled away from it, recognizing the insane, mindless hatred as coming from Galvatron. And where Galvatron was, the rest of the Decepticons couldn't be very far away.
"What is it?" Kup, having learned to recognize when his leader's weak empathy was giving him a warning, asked.
A shudder ran through Ultra Rodimus's body as he drew his mental feelers back behind his shields. "Decepticons. They're coming!"
Kup wasted no time in calling the Autobots to arms. Iacon's battle sirens began to scream, and the Autobots began pouring out of the city. The pacifists, alarmed by the sudden sirens and flurry of activity, gathered into a clump. Some, those who hadn't wanted to leave in the first place, turned tail and bolted back into the city, going for cover.
Windstar stood over the uncertain pacifists. "They activate the sirens to frighten us into staying! Ignore them and let us leave this place!"
He began to head away from the city, followed by a few nervous stragglers. The rest looked at each other, not knowing what to do. More of them joined the streams flowing back into the city, but most of them remained where they were. Windstar called for them to follow him.
Then the Decepticons descended through Cybertron's dark sky, and Windstar was the first to fall.
A wide beam of purple energy, a plasma cannon blast, streaked through the dark sky like a bolt of lightning. It struck Windstar full in the chest and blew right through, instantly vaporizing everything between shoulders and hips. What was left of the pacifist crumpled on the ground while Galvatron's insane laughter rang out from overhead.
The pacifists, already nervous, went almost mad with terror.
They scattered in every direction, mindlessly trying to get away. But they were helpless and the Decepticons cut them down like grain under a harvester's scythe. Within a few seconds over a dozen had been killed.
"Autobots attack!" Ultra Rodimus bellowed.
The firing began before he even finished issuing the command. Every weapon in Iacon opened fire on the Decepticons. Lasers screamed, missiles roared, metal shrieked as it tore, and the wounded cried out in agony. Over that were the war cries, the bellowed orders, and the insane laughter of Decepticons hunting down the helpless, terrified pacifists like animals, making a sport of the slaughter.
Ultra Rodimus let out a roar of rage. Grabbing his massive battleaxe, he charged out of the city and began rounding up the surviving Paradronians. Once the others noticed what he was doing, more of them came out to help. Finally, they succeeded in getting the small group of survivors, a mere fraction of their former numbers, back into Iacon. Sandstorm met them at the gates, running out to help his people.
Galvatron, seeing the pacifist triple changer, aimed his arm cannon and fired.
From the corner of his eye Ultra Rodimus saw the blast coming. He put on a burst of speed, hitting full stride and managing to reach Sandstorm slightly ahead of the deadly blast.
"Look out!" Ultra Rodimus threw himself forward, slamming Sandstorm out of the way while looking back over his shoulder to judge where the blast was.
That was a mistake.
He'd misjudged his timing. The hot plasma blast tore across his neck, where his armor was thinnest. Under the combination of force and heat it crumpled, leaving delicate circuitry exposed. Circuits were vaporized, fluid tubes ruptured, and a gaping slash opened across his throat. Pain ripped through his body. He collapsed on top of Sandstorm.
First Aid seemed to materialize at his side, followed seconds later by Magnus. The city commander lifted his leader off the dazed Paradronian and carried him inside. Springer helped Sandstorm to his feet and almost dragged him off the battlefield.
The other Autobots had seen their leader being shot, and they were furious. Their fire doubled, punching holes in the Decepticon ranks. Any Decepticon who fell out of the air had only slightly better survival chances than a snowball in hell, especially if they landed in the midst of a seething mass of enraged Autobots. Several Decepticons were actually ripped into their component pieces, which were then scattered all over the place and trampled. One Decepticon actually managed to crash behind Autobot lines without being noticed, but he didn't last long before the advancing Autobots crushed him to death beneath their feet.
Eventually even Galvatron realized that his troops were being very severely beaten, and he called for a retreat. Those Decepticons still able turned tail and ran, a few stopping to grab wounded comrades before their enemies could reach them. But even off the ground they weren't safe. The Autobot fliers took off in pursuit, bombarding their enemies with a hail of weapons fire. They didn't give up the chase until the Decepticons had been driven right out of the sector.
Once the Decepticons were gone, the Autobots began the task of cleaning up the debris. The remains of the fallen Decepticons were thrown into a heap for the scavengers, which could be seen gathering at a safe distance waiting for the Autobots to leave, to pick at. Red optics glowed in the shadows, advertising the presence of turbofoxes, cyber-wolves, and many turbo-rats. Once all the remains were out of the way, the Autobots began surveying the damage.
Sandstorm came to his senses in his own quarters. He sat up on the recharge bed, trying to remember what had happened. He remembered running out to help his people, someone shouting at him, and then something large slamming into him. Then he realized that the voice had been shouting a warning, and it had been Ultra Rodimus's voice.
Scrambling to his feet, Sandstorm bolted for the door. In the corridor he grabbed at the first Autobot he saw and asked where Ultra Rodimus was.
"He's in Repair Bay," was the answer.
Hastily thanking the Autobot, Sandstorm sprinted down the corridor until he reached the medical wing. The door slid open to admit him. He froze for a second, staring at the number of wounded bots awaiting treatment, the spilled fluids staining the floor, and the terrible cries of agony coming from every direction. There were so many wounded bots that they spilled out into the corridor. The medics were working as fast as they could, taking the most badly wounded bots first. Any pacifist with medical training who wasn't too seriously wounded was helping, taking some of the burden from the medics' shoulders.
A medic walked past Sandstorm, who reached out and caught his shoulder. "Where is Ultra Rodimus?"
"He's in there." The medic pointed to one of the treatment rooms.
"Thanks." Sandstorm headed to the indicated room and slipped through the door.
Ultra Rodimus lay on a repair table built to hold his large frame, powered down in repair mode. Fluids stained his armor and trickled across the table to slowly drip onto the floor. First Aid was working on something. Sandstorm edged along the wall to get a better look and spotted the massive gash torn in the Autobot leader's neck.
"What happened?" Sandstorm asked.
"He took a shot meant for you," the Chief Medical Officer responded without looking up. "Galvatron was aiming for you. Prime pushed you out of the way and took the shot in the throat. He saved your life, almost at the cost of his own."
Shocked, Sandstorm had to grip the wall to keep from falling over. Ultra Rodimus had risked his life to save Sandstorm's. He'd almost lost his life in the process. And that, by Paradronian law, meant that there was a debt owed.
"How is he?"
"Stable. I've got the fluid loss almost stopped, so he isn't going to bleed out. The circuitry is proving a little more difficult. Ultra Rodimus is built differently than any other Autobot. His systems and circuitry are far more advanced and therefore harder to repair. It will take some time, but he'll be back on his feet again."
Silently, Sandstorm nodded. Finding a spot where he had a clear view and wouldn't be in the way, he settled down to watch.
It took fully three days to finish the repairs on Ultra Rodimus. During that time, Sandstorm only left for brief periods of recharge. Then he would return, keeping a silent vigil at the Autobot leader's side. Other Autobots looked at him curiously. He ignored them.
Finally, a week after being wounded, Ultra Rodimus woke up.
A low moan brought Sandstorm out of his light doze. He leaned over the repair table, watching as Ultra Rodimus's fingers twitched, announcing his return to consciousness. A moment later, his green eyes opened. The pupils jerked and twitched until they could properly focus on Sandstorm's face.
A smile lit the pacifist's face. "It's me."
"Have you been here the whole time?"
"That you've been in here? Yes, I have."
"Because I felt I had to be."
Ultra Rodimus blinked at him, then let his head fall back onto the table with a groan. "I feel like slag," he grumbled.
"At least you're still alive to feel lousy," Sandstorm responded.
That got a snort out of the larger Autobot. Sandstorm hit the comm button. First Aid entered a few moments later, walking over to check on the groggy young Prime.
"You can go back to your quarters now, but I want you to take it easy for a few days," the medic told him.
"I will."
First Aid glared at him suspiciously, knowing that Ultra Rodimus had a tendency to push himself too hard. Then he turned to Sandstorm. "You keep an eye on him."
"Will do."
Ultra Rodimus groaned as he got to his feet, wobbling unsteadily. Sandstorm caught his arm, moving closer to help support the larger bot. The taller bot nodded to him gratefully. Then the duo left Medbay.
All the way to Ultra Rodimus's quarters Sandstorm kept the younger bot on his feet. Ultra Rodimus muttered directions, barely able to stand on his own. Sandstorm found the set of rooms without much trouble, waited for Ultra Rodimus to open the door, and helped him in.
The rooms were pretty bare, only a few personal objects placed here and there. Sandstorm made a face but refrained from saying anything. He almost dragged Ultra Rodimus into the bedroom, which was as spartan as the outer chamber. The recharge bed was simply a metal slab. Ultra Rodimus settled onto it, fell over onto his side, and was immediately out like a light.
Sandstorm watched him sleep for a moment, then began to explore the rooms. Eventually he found an attached storage chamber, which contained a lot of items Ultra Rodimus had picked up on his travels. Opening it, he was delighted by what he found there. Smiling to himself, he got to work.
Hours later, Ultra Rodimus woke up. Noticing that something had changed, he raised his head.
The light was dimmer than it should have been. The surface he lay on was covered by something soft to the touch. His view of the room was obscured by something. It took him a moment to realize that lengths of fabric had been hung from the ceiling, surrounding the bed. Pushing it aside, he stared.
A brightly-colored geometric rug covered the floor. Tapestries and pictures hung on the walls. A patterned hanging had been placed over the door. A couch stood against one wall, next to a bookcase full of real books from several different worlds.
The door hanging stirred. Then it was brushed aside and Sandstorm peeked in.
"Awake? How do you feel?"
"Better than I did a few hours ago." Ultra Rodimus tilted his head. "Why are you still here?"
"First Aid told me to keep an eye on you. And because I have to talk to you."
"About what?"
Sandstorm walked over, sitting on the edge of the bed. He took a moment to collect his thoughts, then explained the Paradronian law of life-debt to the young Prime. Ultra Rodimus reacted with shock and denial. He didn't want to hold any Autobot in servitude. Sandstorm calmly countered his arguments, waiting patiently for Ultra Rodimus to run out of things to say. Finding himself verbally backed into a corner, Ultra Rodimus finally conceded defeat. There was nothing he could do about it.
The older triple changer grinned at him and gently smacked him on the shoulder. "Don't be so nervous, big guy. Everything is gonna be fine."
And that is it for this rewrite. It's finally finished. At least now it makes more sense and fits into the rest of the series. So. Send me some reviews and let me know what you think. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1767052/1/A-New-Life | dclm-gs1-183940000 |
0.03871 | <urn:uuid:1123f2c1-8148-4436-9194-98368c91f2b8> | en | 0.989142 | Title: The Bandage Cuts Me Deeper
Summary: Majorly Edited. Sam and Dean travel to Wenatchee Washington to investigate a string of killings. But will the brothers be the next victims?
Chapter four; Everything That Isn't You
"Take care of yourself, okay?" Sam whispered before hugging Marie tightly. She nodded and looked up into his eyes. Sam smiled and put a hand on the top of her head. She mouthed "thank you" and hiked her bag higher on her shoulder when they pulled away. "Don't hesitate to call, either."
"Thanks, Dad." Marie said mockingly and rolled her eyes. Sam smiled and looked at Dean who had his hands shoved in his pockets, avoiding looking at Marie. Sam nudged him. Dean cleared his throat.
"Well, uh, so… bye." He said in a deep voice and patted her arm. Marie smiled and threw her arms around his waist.
"Bye." She whispered. Sam laughed and Dean groaned and put one arm around her hesitantly, but he was smiling. She let go of him and then walked towards the terminal. Marie had contacted her aunt Lois in Fernie Canada and that was where she was headed now. She turned to wave one last time before the flight attendant shut the double doors. Both brothers let out a sigh.
"What did I tell you Sammy?" Dean asked. Sam looked at his older brother. Dean rolled his head towards his brother and his mouth quirked up into a smile. "Little girls, they can't resist me." Sam socked his shoulder. "What, were you crushing on her?" Dean asked innocently. He gasped. "I think that's illegal, Sammy. You sick freak." Sam grinned and waved something in front of Dean's face.
The Impala keys. Dean grabbed for them, but Sam held them above his head.
"How did you get those?" Dean asked sternly. Sam pocketed them and shrugged. "Give 'em to me." Dean ordered. Sam started walking. "Sam…" Dean yelled sternly.
"Sorry… I can't hear you down there!" Sam yelled back and waltzed off with a gimp leg towards the parking lot.
The End. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3156464/4/The-Bandage-Cuts-Me-Deeper | dclm-gs1-183970000 |
0.224836 | <urn:uuid:2c6fa715-357d-424d-a07e-b17ffe607960> | en | 0.986985 | "Ok... its official. Sara is the biggest threat we face," Skipper affirmed in a stern tone, his brow narrowed in a way that creased his small forehead with lines from excessive frowning and glaring. "She can control anyone but, thankfully, only one at a time." He began pacing in front of his two remaining men, failing to keep a cool head as he practically talked to himself. "This is not how I wanted the zombie apocalypse to go down…"
Kowalski, on the other flipper, was rather calm, especially compared to Private and Skipper. He spoke in an official tone, one that was serious but cautious. "With a firm grip on Rico's mind, she will have access to his strength, his gut contents and whatever other abilities he possesses. This is bad."
Private let out a shaky sigh as the pressures of the fiasco pressed against him yet again. "You can make an antidote, right Kowalski?" The terrified cadet suddenly inhaled sharply and added with anxiety, "What if the humans are attacked?"
"Precisely, Private," Kowalski said with a curt nod. "That is why I should start working on it before the Zoo opens up to the public."
The commanding officer suddenly paused in his pacing but didn't bother looking up from the floor. "What's the time?" Skipper inquired, stiffening, the feathers at the back of his neck rising.
Kowalski reported, "0500 hours." His brow furrowed as he questioned, "Why?"
The flat headed penguin visibly relaxed. "Then they will be in hiding soon."
"What makes you think that?"
Skipper eyed him as he stepped carefully in front of the scientist. "Since when do monsters attack in the day?" he asked rhetorically in his usual suave tone. "Out of all the horror movies I've seen, they have always attacked at night."
Even Private was aware of this fact and made it quite clear. "That's true...Flora can't go out into the light, even if she wanted to."
"Maybe Sara's influence will waver in the morning as well," Kowalski added, pretending to ignore Private's comment. He didn't want to think about what would happen to Flora, like if she was to suddenly disintegrate into ashes at the smallest speck of sunlight. She was the last one Kowalski wanted to see dead, not that he wanted anyone to be deceased. Madison had already passed on but hopefully that would be the only death in this crisis. True, Julien has presumably died but he had indeed came back...as a werelemur. It seemed unlikely it'd happen to her too.
Skipper stalked away and grabbed the T.V remote, flicking it on as the early morning five o'clock news began. "Might as well see if they got out of the Zoo or not," he explained at the questioning stares Kowalski and Private gave him.
Chuck Charles was on the static screen, not having that good of a connection, with a popup view in the corner showing part of downtown New York. From there was a panic filled chaos. There were fires, upturned cars, fallen light poles and broken fire hydrants. All of the classic havoc responses that was complete with screaming citizens as they ran up and down the streets and sidewalks in a fearful frenzy.
"Hey, look, pretty pictures."
"This is Chuck Charles, downtown live at the scene. It appears that some new hybrid species of wolf is terrorizing all of Manhattan. This is unlike anything we've ever seen before, even worse than the missing and elusive Littlefoot."
Skipper and Private glared at Kowalski for a moment, who shrugged nervously, and said sheepishly, "It passed," before they looked back at the television screen.
"-authorities are attempting to contain this creature as soon as possible. Everyone is ordered to stay inside till this hybrid wolf is safely restrained. Here's a picture of this terrifying beast..."
The screenshot was blurry, one that showed the creature slobbering as it glared into the distance at the camera, but the guys knew who it was without needing closer inspection. The resemblance was uncanny; it was, unquestionably, Rico.
Skipper held a blank expression but sighed, closing his eyes as he took a much needed breath. "Well, that was quick."
"She gets around fast doesn't she?" Private mumbled.
"Ok, ok, this isn't a problem. We can fix this. Err, Kowalski, options."
Kowalski, however, wasn't paying attention and was staring with disturbing focus at the television screen, tuning out Chuck Charles. In the corner of the popup, where it showed the city, barely noticeable, was a silhouette resting on one of the only light poles that hadn't fallen over. He recognized the shape. It was Flora with her new bat wings folded in front of her, concealing her perfectly if it weren't for the partially dead daisy flower on her head. He had a deep frown set on his beak, as he longed deeply for his girlfriend. At the moment, he felt like he would do anything to be with her again.
A sudden slap knocked him out of his daze.
"Kowalski, snap out of it!" Skipper hollered.
"Right, sorry..." he mumbled, rubbing his sore cheek.
Skipper sighed and shook his head in disproval and impatience. "Just give me some options."
"Yes, yes, of course..." Kowalski said quickly but ended up trailing off. "On...what sir?"
"To fix this entire operation! Pay attention man!"
Kowalski rubbed the back of his head thoughtfully, avoiding eye contact by staring at the ceiling. "I suppose we need to move all the animals into a safer location first. That's all we can really do till I get a cure for this strange phenomenon. I advise caution; they are as unpredictable as Julien, maybe even more."
"Great," the commanding officer drawled out sarcastically as he turned off the television with the remote. "And he's one of them too...hey, bright side! No more late night parities!" He got glares in return. "Hey, I was just kidding! ... Maybe. Ok men...minus one...we are going to actively chase down Rico and our 'lady friends' and bring them back to the HQ, secure them and find a cure. Then bam, problemo solved!" He sounded confident but, inside, he was quite the opposite.
"You make it sound so simple," Private said with a timid half-smile, though it looked a bit forced.
"It's supposed to be simple, young Private," Skipper admitted with a shrug of his shoulders. "Blunt and brute force is the way to go in my book!"
Kowalski eyed his leader warily, a raised eye ridge in a questioning and skeptical manner. Obviously, he didn't completely approve of his methods. "What about logic, rational prediction and complicated attack and defense plans that will befuddle your enemies beyond reason? The elaborate traps and plans are always the brilliant method of winning in warfare, obviously."
"Well, I say, use a fist," Skipper insisted, "You don't need logic with those babies."
"Of course you don't," the strategist mumbled sarcastically, refusing to give eye contact with that remark. He resisted the urge to roll his eyes but forced himself to keep his gaze trained respectively to his commanding officer. "Skipper, with all due respect, I doubt that a fist is really the answer to this problem."
Skipper didn't appear at all offended. He smirked confidently, that usual air of arrogance and musk of danger and action circling around him in an intoxicating cloud. "Quite the contrary, Mr. Kowalski. Can that noggin of yours attack and subdue your enemies?" He didn't give his second in command a chance to answer. "Nope, didn't think so."
This irritated the scientist but he made no comment.
Skipper started to pace somewhat calmly in front of his men, prompting them to line up and straighten their spines, snapping off a salute. "Men, I'm not going to lie...this may be our toughest mission yet. There will be obstacles...and we might not make it out alive." The statement unnerved his remaining teammates, evident by their uncomfortable shifts of their muscles. "But I refuse to go down without a fight!" Skipper hollered, taking an abrupt halt in front of his men, outrage lining his actions. "As if I'm being taken down by some freakish mutants!"
Private's brow furrowed and he wrung his flippers tightly together. "Skippah, those 'freakish mutants' are our friends…"
The commanding officer sighed and gripped Private's shoulder, staring intensely into Private's eyes. "Private, they're not our friends anymore."
"…What do you mean?" the young penguin inquired hesitantly, though he had a good idea on the answer. He was going to learn that some questions didn't have good answers.
"Do you really believe that any cure Kowalski will make will fix this entire mess?"
Kowalski scowled at his leader, having been at a low tolerant rate already with him and everything in general. "Are you doubting my ability to find a cure?"
"A cure just won't fix this like magic. It's nothing personal," Skipper said, returning the scowl. He didn't get to form another sentence before Kowalski started talking, a tone that sounded offended and angered.
"Well, I do happen to believe it is personal," Kowalski said aloud, a tone in his voice that provoked Skipper's anger the slightest bit. It sounded…obnoxious. "I got a thought I wish to share and it's that 'I can invent anything.' Simple as that! It'll fix everything!"
Skipper crossed his flippers over his chest, giving Kowalski the speak-and-I'll-kill-you look. "Egotistical much, huh, egghead?" The insult hardly affected Kowalski and he simply crossed his flippers over his chest critically as well. "None of your wacky doodle mad science is going to fix this problem. Only a fist, some kicks and a whole lot of duck-tape."
"You don't think I can make anything successful do you?" He waved a flipper in front of his commanding officer's face when he tried to make an objection or remark. This only further angered Skipper and he clenched his flippers into ball shaped fists. "Actually, I correct myself. You don't think I can invent anything that won't eventually backfire or destroy the eastern seaboard and beyond."
"You can't even make a toaster," Skipper quipped and leaned in threateningly towards Kowalski, jabbing his chest with his flipper. "What kind of an inventor are you?"
Kowalski glared fiercely at his superior, fully aware of the building tension between the two of them. "So you do doubt my abilities," he snapped. "Well, I got news for you Skipper; I'm the only hope for them to revert back to their normal state, so I'd appreciate some confidence and respect."
"You're the only hope?" Skipper growled, saying it with such a distain that it only further provoked the scientist.
"Yes, I am! Face it; you wouldn't even have a chance without my superior intellect!" he retorted with a smirk. "Could you come up with a cure, I don't think so baby!" Kowalski smirked with arrogance, too smug and mockingly for Skipper's temper.
Private, who had been watching on silently, was backing away into the shadows of the arguing silhouettes of his two friends, unsure of what to do. His confidence and elated attitude has drastically decreased in the last couple of hours, leaving him a fearful ball of feathers. What he was witnessing were his two best friends, his role models, arguing with each other, years of tension building up to only the first stage of their anger. Why now of all times? Why at all?
The flat headed bird had one of the most intimidating glares Private had ever seen but Kowalski didn't seem one bit fazed by the look. "You know what? I bet my left flipper that this whole thing is your fault!"
"My fault?" Kowalski scoffed bitterly. "How could this possibly be my fault?" he shouted.
Skipper shoved his face near Kowalski's, giving him a penetrating glare as he hissed, "Nearly everything that goes wrong is your fault and, when it's not, it's usually Ringtail but I can't hold him accountable because of this wacked out conspiracy that you're involved in and responsible for!"
"We're all involved," Kowalski said lowly, giving off a dark look.
"And that's because it's your fault!"
"It is not! Have faith in what I-"
"In what?" Skipper cut off with a look that made Kowalski go silent. "What should I have faith in? Have faith in the soldier that has long passed the insubordination line! Have faith in my soldier that constantly blows up our HQ and threatens the exposure of our operations?" The angered penguin glared at Kowalski, who made the mistake of provoking Skipper beyond his tolerant limit. "I'm beginning to think I should suspend you from the lab forever!"
Kowalski gasped before glaring back. "How could you think such a thing? My lab is my baby!"
"Well put that baby up for adoption cause you might as well consider it gone!" Skipper growled.
"Skippah!" Private suddenly interjected, with such a high distress in his British accent that it made his superiors go silent, and he looked angered as he scowled. "Our friends, who need that cure, are out there and need our help! Will you two just stop arguing and get to helping them? I can't imagine them wanting this!"
The sudden outburst from the cadet dimmed Skipper's anger the slightest bit and he relaxed. His senses came back; at least enough to see that this cure was necessary and only Kowalski could concoct such a thing. He sighed and brought his eyes back to his subordinate, who didn't seem as calm as Skipper was. "Alright Kowalski, I'm giving you access to your lab to finish that mad science of yours that'll fix this mishap, comprende?"
Kowalski's non-existent brow narrowed. "So you're saying that after this I'm banned from my lab?" He received no response besides the look Skipper gave him. He turned his head to the side and glared at the floor, refusing to argue again in front of Private's eyes. He was still angry, yes, but he had enough sense to keep his beak shut this time. "I'll take that as a yes then."
Private hesitated and then piped out, "I think we should check on Becky and Stacy…maybe the other animals too." He hated this, how it was suddenly so awkward and how you could still feel the tension radiating off his two superiors with enough thickness that someone could cut it with a plastic knife. What those two needed was some fresh air to cool down. "What do you think, Skippah? ... K'walski?"
"Fine," Kowalski mumbled as if giving in to the request was one of the most bothersome things he had to do.
"Uh, good thinking Private," Skipper praised awkwardly, as if embarrassed that he had forgotten all about the other animals, and smiled slightly as he petted the young cadet's head. "I have taught you well." The remark boosted Private's confidence and he stood up straight, smiling in pride. It was nothing to be proud of but he was always thrilled when he received genuine praise from his leader. "We're placing this HQ on lockdown. Kowalski, you stay here and do…whatever you nerdlets do while Private and I round up the animals to a safer location. Got it men?"
"Yes sir," Kowalski and Private said simultaneously and saluted, though Kowalski didn't seem to be into it. He did, however, looked relieved that he would have some alone time in his prized lab.
Skipper pushed Private towards the ladder, giving him a brief order to go up. He then turned towards Kowalski, giving him a stern expression as he said, "Remember to put the HQ on lock down. And try not to blow anything up." He went up the ladder before Kowalski even had a chance to make a comment, much less process the full extent of his silent words said through his eyes. This was not the end of their argument; the look just said it all.
The fishbowl slid back over the hole, which Kowalski took as his cue as to lock down the HQ. Throughout his next actions, in an obnoxious tone, he mocked Skipper by imitating him.
"Remember to lock down the HQ Kowalski. Oh Kowalski, don't blow anything up! Don't forget to empty the toxic waste bin Kowalski, or we'll blow up and you know what happened to Manfredi and Johnson! Kowalski, quite trying to dissect Rico! What are you doing Kowalski, peanut butter doesn't go on whole wheat, it's unnatural! Kowalski, stop testing on Private, I think you broke him! Yeah, I'd like to break something…hint, it's Skipper!"
Kowalski trailed off, finding nothing useful or productive from his rant, and decided to actually lock the HQ. He did so by rapidly pressing the buttons on the security panel without falter, successfully covering the portholes and locking the First Prize entrance and fishbowl. He then proceeded to his lab and, once he opened the door, was greeted with the foul smell of death.
Kowalski instantly gagged when the smell wafted close enough for his brain to process the rank odor. "Oh sweet mercy!" he shouted in pure disgust. "That is diabolical!" He ran out of there as fast as penguinly possible, returning seconds later with an air freshener. He literally sprayed it everywhere and inhaled deeply, only to dry heave yet again. "Ok, that just made it worse! Curse you Febreeze!" He tossed the can away, not caring where it landed. "That is false advertisement!"
He composed himself with a cough, as if someone was watching him, and tried not to inhale that much of the pungent air as he approached Madison's corpse. As he walked over, he placed a gas mask on, which he was thankful for having. Kowalski stopped right before the table her body was laid at and pushed the various machines away. He timidly placed a flipper on her stomach, unable to get right to the task at hand. He was glad Private wasn't here to see him do this. He slipped his flipper to where the bullet-hole was, which was bigger than expected, and slowly started to part it open. He reached his other flipper to where a scalpel was and managed to grab it. Kowalski grimaced when he pressed it against what, upon closer inspection, was fur, and made an incision from the point of the bullet-hole and down, stopping to the lowest part of her abdomen.
Kowalski tried desperately not to lose his lunch as he parted the body open even further. The skin was hanging at the sides by the time he had done all the necessary incisions and pulls, which felt like he was trying to tear leather. He was now staring at her inner organs. Kowalski was speechless.
Her heart was STILL beating.
Her lungs were still expanding and deflating.
Her green blood was still flowing.
Her body was still ALIVE.
"Good golly," he whispered, staring at the still functioning body with awe next to morbid repulsion. But if it was still functioning then why was she supposedly dead? Kowalski was curious. He had only intended to inspect her body parts to see what this green slop had done to affect it but now…he had a new mystery.
As much as he hated to violate this scientific mystery, he had to know what was making her like this. He looked for where the bullet had penetrated but couldn't find the missing piece of silver. Surely it was still lodged in her skin, right?
"I've got a lot of work to do," Kowalski mumbled and loomed over the dead body, inspecting it to the best of his abilities once he got penguin fitted gloves on. He shifted through the organs, staining his recently sanitized and covered flippers green, and grimaced when he had to turn and remove some of the organs and parts to try and locate where the bullet was.
Kowalski suddenly shivered, feeling a strange cold chill in the room, which was odd. At first, he thought nothing of it, but then he wondered; why was there a draft? Hadn't he locked the HQ and, even so, how would a breeze reach his lab, much less the HQ itself? This thought processed right when he sensed another presence. He froze and stiffened when he felt a warm breath blow against the back of his neck.
I deeply apologize for my lack of updating. My excuse? School. That and I can be lazy. Ugh, I'm sick as I'm posting...I hope it looks alright. I'm use to having my pal beta read it for improvement but I got impatient so...here. (I've had this done for a while too -_-) Please review, encourage me to update again! XP | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7427030/11/Monster-Transformations | dclm-gs1-184060000 |
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This is my first time writing a fanfic and my writing is not good. I will translate each chapter into English. There will be some changes as my translation is not good. Those who like devil beside you's Jiang Meng/Ahmeng/Ahmon and Love keeps going's Mei Le, please forgive me. My writing is not good and I write very slowly, so I will not update very quickly. The ages, year and timing are all untrue. After Jiang Meng died, Qi Yue saw Yi Lie, a guy, who looked exactly like Ahmon. This is a story of Yi Lie, Qi Yue and Mei Le.
早上的焰火从窗外照亮了整个病房, 然而对于坐在病床上的齐悦来说,她的世界,正逐渐变得漆黑一片.
齐悦紧抱着江猛,恐怕一松手, 江猛就会消失. 他全身冰冷, 呼吸微弱, 仿佛一但有惊吓, 心电图就会立刻拉成一条直线. 都已经一个星期了… 阿猛还要一直昏睡着吗? 冰凉的眼泪从齐悦的眼眶滑落在阿猛冰冷的婚戒.
"喂! 阿猛! 你醒醒啊! 今天是我们第一个结婚纪念日. 你答应过我要给我一个大惊喜的耶!" 小悦说道, 希望阿猛会在这一刻醒过来.
小悦痴痴地看着阿猛, 心里十分恐惧. 她真的好害怕, 害怕失去啊梦. 小悦温柔地抚着阿猛几乎失去温度的脸颊. "你是恶魔, 所以你一定会一直缠着我的, 不是吗?"
被握在小悦手里的手微微地动了动, 呼吸加深.
"猛? 阿猛," 齐悦立刻察觉, "你醒了?"
江猛似乎听到了, 眼睛慢慢睁开.
他微微转头, 慢慢打量四周, 然后仰脸向齐悦微笑. "悦…" 阿猛的嘴唇轻轻蠕动, 声音几乎低不可闻, 但把耳朵凑在他唇边的齐悦听到了.
"我在这里." 齐悦握紧了江猛冰冷的手.
"小悦… 对不起…看来…我得失约了阿猛虚弱地说, 每一个字对他而言是一件艰难的事.
"不要… 阿猛… 你不能走. 你是恶魔!" 眼泪一滴一滴地掉落. 阿猛用微弱的力气擦干了齐悦的眼泪. "不要哭… 我喜欢你笑… 小悦答应我…你一定要幸福…" 阿猛温柔地说着. 齐悦强忍住快落下来的眼泪, 勉强扯出一张笑脸. 他知道, 现在小悦会答应他所有的要求. 但, 他觉得他每资格要求什么.
"阿猛-"小悦轻轻地说, 往前吻了江猛. 眼泪掉了下来. 这种感觉好舒服, 和往日一样能让她脸红心跳. 她不能没有他.国他是她的世界, 她的灵魂.
"小悦, 我爱你." 离开之后, 阿猛说道, "再见." 他缓缓闭上眼睛, 从此不再张开.
"猛, 我也爱你." 小悦抚着阿猛, 眼里充满着悲伤和温柔, 脸上露出淡淡的笑容.
那天, 车祸住院一个星期的江猛因为内部器官大出血停止了呼吸.
一双明亮天真的眼睛失去了光芒, 只剩下悲哀和痛苦.
The morning sun brightened the whole hospital room. However, for the girl sitting on the hospital bed, her world is getting darker with every second.
Qi Yue hugged Jiang Meng tightly, fearing that once she let go, he would disappear. His body was ice cold, his breathing weak, as if any outburst would cause his pulse line to pull into a straight line. It had been a week… Does Ahmon want to continue sleeping? A tear fell from Qi Yue's eyes onto Ahmon's ice cold wedding ring.
"Hey! Ahmon! Wake up! Today is our first wedding anniversary. You promised that you will give me a surprise!" Xiao Yue said, wishing that Ahmon would wake up instantly.
Xiao Yue gazed at Ahmon, her heart filled with fear. She was really afraid, afraid of losing Ahmon. Xiao Yue gently caressed Ahmon cold face. "You are the devil, so you will keep bothering me, right?"
The hand held by Xiao Yue moved, his breathing deepened.
"Mon? Ahmon," Qi Yue immediately felt it, "Have you waked up?"
Jiang Meng opened his eyes slowly, as if he heard it.
He turned his head, slowly observing his surroundings. . He turned his head towards Qi Yue and smiled gently, "Yue…" Jiang Meng's lips trembled gently, his voice close to zero, but Qi Yue who placed her ears at his lips, heard his words.
"I am here." Qi Yue gripped Jiang Meng's cold hand.
"Xiao Yue… I am Sorry… I…. I cannot keep my promise…" Ahmon weakly said, every word was a difficult task to him.
"No… Ahmon… You can't go. You are the devil!" tears dripped down. Ahmon weakly wipe away her tears. "Don't cry… I like your smile…. Promise me….you must be happy…" Ahmon gently said. Qi Yue suppressed her tears and forced a smile. He knew that right now, Xiao Yue would agree to whatever he request, but, he felt that he had no right to request anything.
"Ahmon," Xiao Yue softly said, she leaned forward and kissed Jiang Meng. Tears fell. This feeling was like the past, making her blush. She cannot lose him. He was her world, her soul.
"Yue, I love you." After breaking the kiss, Ahmon said, "Goodbye," He closed his eyes, never opening then again.
"Meng, I love you too" Xiao Yue caress Ahmon, her eyes filled with sadness and gentleness, her face with a faint smile.
On that day, Ahmon who was hospitalized because of a car accident stopped breathing as a result of internal bleeding.
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Former police officer Jack McCullough was sentenced to life in prison today for the 1957 murder of a little girl, ending one of the nation's longest and most notorious cold cases. McCullough, now 73, was sentenced in Sycamore, Ill., the same town where he kidnapped and killed Maria Ridulph on Dec. 3., 1957. Prosecutors alleged that a 17-year-old McCullough, who was known then by his birth name, John Tessier, approached Maria and her friend, Kathy, while they were playing outside of her...Full Story
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Entire Message Contains criteria two
Entire Message Contains criteria three
The result is no messages found. If I remove the third criteria I get messages. What I thought the ANY would take each criteria and OR them. Instead it appears to be AND ing them.
Any thoughts on how to implement criteria in an OR?
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You've got your rule set up correctly - if it's an ANY set of predicates it's as if there is an OR between them. It may be slow (and why nothing is showing up) because an Entire Message Contains has to search every email you have.
What happens if you have only criteria three and not criteria two - there may be an issue with criteria three that is causing the search to fail. (Check Console)
You can kludge a smart mailbox with AND and OR rules by using other Smart Mailboxes and the "Message Is In Mailbx" or "Message Is Not In Mailbox" predicate.
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Console? Where in console? I have chained multiple smart mailboxes together to get the result I want but this shouldn't be necessary if the filters worked the way they should – jdiaz Aug 18 '10 at 21:30
Console.app in the Utilities folder - if there is an error message it should show up there. I wasn't able to reproduce it on my end - but yes I agree that chaining mailboxes shouldn't be necessary. – Chealion Aug 18 '10 at 21:46
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For the "Entire Message" and "Contains" combination, you can use AND and OR to add multiple keywords. For example,
Contains messages that match ALL of the following conditions:
Data Received is in the date range "01/01/2011" to "31/12/2011" Entire Message Contains "invoice OR receipt"
This will give you all messages in 2011 that contain either "invoice" or "receipt"
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I had the Logitech MX-518 mouse, but it had been having issues with responsiveness, causing me to call support for a replacement. Instead of another 518, they sent me a Logitech G400 mouse because the 518 has been discontinued. This causes issues because, while the MX518 was supported by lomoco, the G400 mouse is unsupported. Running $ lomoco -s shows 001.003: 046d:c245 Unsupported Logitech device: Unknown.
What I would like to do is lock the DPI of my mouse to a single value and remap the DPI+ and DPI- buttons to PgUp and PgDn on my keyboard.
How would I accomplish this?
Logitech G400
The buttons are, in order:
1. Button 1: Left-click
2. Button 2: Middle-click
3. Button 3: Right-click
4. Button 4: Mouse Wheel Up
5. Button 5: Mouse Wheel Down
6. Button 6: None
7. Button 7: None
8. Button 8: Thumb Button #1
9. Button 9: Thumb Button #2
10. Button 10: Task Switcher Button
11. Button 11: None
12. Button 12: None
On the previous mouse (MX 518), buttons 11 and 12 were the DPI keys. One of the things that makes these buttons different than the rest is that applications such as xev do not recognize pressing them as an event, by default. On the MX 518 mouse, in order to make those buttons able to be altered / binded, they had to first be disabled. I believe that lomoco called it "Logitech SmartScroll / Cruise Control." On the G400, lomoco doesn't work and I am unaware of an alternative.
Also, here is some output from xinput, in case it is helpful.
user@localhost:~$ xinput list
⎜ ↳ Logitech Gaming Mouse G400 id=8 [slave pointer (2)]
user@localhost:~$ xinput list-props 8
Device 'Logitech Gaming Mouse G400':
Device Enabled (121): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (123): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
Device Accel Profile (248): 0
Device Accel Constant Deceleration (249): 2.000000
Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (250): 1.000000
Device Accel Velocity Scaling (251): 1.000000
Device Product ID (238): 1133, 49733
Device Node (239): "/dev/input/event4"
Evdev Axis Inversion (252): 0, 0
Evdev Axes Swap (254): 0
Axis Labels (255): "Rel X" (131), "Rel Y" (132), "Rel Vert Wheel" (247)
Button Labels (256): "Button Left" (124), "Button Middle" (125), "Button Right" (126), "Button Wheel Up" (127), "Button Wheel Down" (128), "Button Horiz Wheel Left" (129), "Button Horiz Wheel Right" (130), "Button Side" (242), "Button Extra" (243), "Button Forward" (244), "Button Back" (245), "Button Task" (246), "Button Unknown" (241), "Button Unknown" (241), "Button Unknown" (241), "Button Unknown" (241)
Evdev Middle Button Emulation (257): 0
Evdev Middle Button Timeout (258): 50
Evdev Third Button Emulation (259): 0
Evdev Third Button Emulation Timeout (260): 1000
Evdev Third Button Emulation Button (261): 3
Evdev Third Button Emulation Threshold (262): 20
Evdev Wheel Emulation (263): 0
Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes (264): 0, 0, 4, 5
Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia (265): 10
Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout (266): 200
Evdev Wheel Emulation Button (267): 4
Evdev Drag Lock Buttons (268): 0
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Have a look at the solution to a similar question. Give it a try and report back if it solves your issue. – Mark Rooney Apr 6 '12 at 5:18
@MarkRooney That question doesn't seem to help, unfortunately. In that case, the mouse wasn't functioning properly. In my case, the mouse works exactly as intended by Logitech. I just want to remap the DPI buttons to have useful functions. – Koviko Aug 8 '12 at 17:34
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@Koviko - I have a similar mouse - a Logitech MX1100 - that also has DPI buttons that aren't sent to the USB when pressed in default mode. I did some testing on my own, and eventually was able to figure out the codes to send the signal to switch the mouse into "Driver Mode", which then allowed me to use easygestures/xev to reassign the buttons.
If you want, I can walk you through the steps I used to determine how to switch it off (I now have a script that I simply need to run on startup, as a very hack-y workaround, but it's working at least), but it involves setting up a VM and having a secondary mouse and sniffing the raw USB traffic, and unfortunately seems likely to be very mouse-specific.
My steps (better ones almost certainly exist):
1) Have a Windows VM (with the Logitech SetPoint software installed; I used VirtualBox, because that's what I already had set up with WinXP for work), Wireshark, and gcc installed on your system. 2) Then I ran the following steps in a terminal:
sudo modprobe usbmon
sudo wireshark &
sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox &
3) Within Wireshark, choose to 'List the available capture interfaces...', and make a note of which USB bus number generates a ton of packets when you move your mouse around (mine was usbmon3, but I imagine that's purely based on which USB port your receiver is plugged in to).
3) From within VirtualBox (I needed to run as sudo in order to share the USB Controller), I edited the settings of the XP VM, and enabled both the USB Controller and the USB 2.0 (EHCI) Controller. Then I added a new USB Filter populated from an existing device, and selected my Logitech mouse's receiver (Vendor ID 046d, Product c245, for you) and then started up the VM.
(Note: After this point, I needed a second mouse plugged in, because I had to give control over my regular mouse to the Windows VM so that the SetPoint software could see that it existed as something more than a generic mouse.)
4) In the VM, I then launched the SetPoint software, and went to the screen that lets you set custom actions for various buttons. Then back in Wireshark, I started a capture on the USB bus for the mouse, then immediately went in to the VM/SetPoint, and changed the button assignment from DPI +/- to Keystroke Assignment, then immediately went back to Wireshark and stopped the capture. (I repeated this about 10-15 more times, changing the settings to different modes, mostly because I wasn't sure how much data I'd need, but after reviewing, I really only needed the first 1-2 captures.)
Assuming your mouse works vaguely similar to mine, which I'd guess it would, your capture would likely have a total of 16 frames, 4x GET DESCRIPTOR, then 3x(2xURB_CONTROL out + 2xURB_INTERRUPT in). What you're looking for are the 3 longer URB_CONTROL out frames. An example of one of my captured frames is:
0000 c0 80 64 36 00 88 ff ff 53 02 00 03 03 00 00 00
0010 5e 4b 25 50 00 00 00 00 f4 d9 08 00 8d ff ff ff
0020 07 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 21 09 10 02 01 00 07 00
0040 10 01 80 65 82 85 ff
What we're looking for are the last 7 bytes from the response (in the above, the '10 01 80 65 82 85 ff'), from each of the longer 'URB_CONTROL out' frames. Finally, I downloaded the source of the "g_hack" from Git, and cobbled in both my mouse product code at the top, and a new option (I set it to 0/1 with an if statement within them since it was just a very crude proof of concept) which would switch my mouse into "driver mode" or "DPI mode".
After that, all that was required was to set up the newly available mouse buttons in your choice of remapping programs (I used easygestures because that was the first thing with a UI I found - it may or may not have a superior replacement).
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Everything regarding g_hack becomes rather cryptic, to me. Could you post the code that you wrote somewhere so that this can be easier to follow? I'm not sure what to do with those last 7 bytes from Wireshark, where you tossed in your product code, or where you added your new option. – Koviko Aug 11 '12 at 18:15
Certainly! See here for my version. I've annotated each section with my username to easily jump, but you've basically got two places to add in the product code detection, and then two more places to add the 7 bytes you detected with Wireshark. – Icehawk78 Aug 13 '12 at 14:44
Sadly, I'm having difficulty adapting this to my packet captures. I only have 2 bytes on 0040. No matter what I put into send_msg, I get the error "error sending to device: Invalid argument." I also tried changing uref.report_id to 0x8E and to 0x20 in send_report, but I still got the same error. – Koviko Aug 14 '12 at 5:35
Are these captures the entirety of the exchange when you reassigned the buttons, or just the URB_CONTROL out frames? It looks like your mouse is using a slightly different protocol than the others I've looked at. If you can pastebin the entire exchange for each capture, I'll see if I can tease out a better attempt for you to try. – Icehawk78 Aug 15 '12 at 14:24
Here are the full exchanges for unassigning DPI+, assigning DPI+ to PgUp, unassigning DPI-, and assigning DPI- to PgDn. Only one of them actually has URB_INTERRUPT in frames. The rest are composed entirely of URB_CONTROL out frames. – Koviko Aug 15 '12 at 14:50
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by kajay on May 11, 2011
Romantic relationships are one of the main breeding-grounds for liars merely because when there’s commitment involved, inevitably, certain expectations are being set.
And if these expectations are not met, lies begin to do the compensating. It starts with white lies. Lies that people think are safe and harmless because it makes people feel good and reassured.
Say your wife asks you if she looks fat during her third trimester of pregnancy. Even if she looks like a whale, a white lie would indicate otherwise- where you’d probably say “You look like you just gained a few baby fats, Sweetheart, nothing to worry about!”
People generally consider white lies to be harmless because they are polite and sensitive to the feelings of one person. These are minor lies and may not necessarily show any physical or verbal traces.
On the other hand, well-evolved lies are much more complex.
Serious lies, such as making up stories to cover up Boys’ Night Out last night, or denying a crucial accusation which you know can cause critical and life-changing consequences when caught, are definitely detectable.
Think of your average poker game. If the stakes get higher, the players know that this is the time to be guile, cunning and deceitful.
From scratching your ass to the frequency of swallowing your saliva, your playmates can decipher your every move.
It’s more like a liar’s game. If you can bluff your way into a full house then it’s about time to cash in the chips and call it a night.
Thus, to let you know which cards are being played, here are some lie-detecting guides:
1. Too much eye movement
They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul, which is why it’s not surprising to see poker players wearing sunglasses.
A liar’s eyes will move a lot and shift quite frequently to avoid your gaze because the liar is afraid that you’d pick up on something from his or her eye expression.
Think of it as a defense mechanism known as ‘avoidance’. Eye contacts can create a connection and liar will try very desperately to ensure that doesn’t happen.
2. Staring too long
An unfocused pair of eyes is an elementary clue that a person is lying, but do not be fooled if your partner is also using prolonged staring as a lying weapon.
Since it is common knowledge that less eye contact can give a liar away, generations and generations of liars in this world have figured out a way to counter this by doing the exact opposite.
If your partner is staring at you for too long than usual while telling you about his out-of-town meeting on the weekends, then it can also be an indicator of lying.
Veteran liars do this quite well. They’ve lied so much in their lives that they have found a way to control their eye movements.
3. Pupil Dilation
Pupils are also indicators. No! These are not pupils as in grade school students we’re talking about. We’re referring to the pupil as in that dark, round point at the very center of your eyeballs that constricts with light and dilates when it’s dark.
Anyway, pupils usually dilate when a person is profusely lying. This is because adrenalin is being pumped harder in the body due to a sympathetic nervous system response.
And by the way, remember the words “Fight or Flight” in Human Biology?
It’s the sympathetic nervous system that’s responsible for producing chemicals in our body to help equip us with strength when we are faced with a stressful situation, such as a confrontation.
Whether we “fight” as in tell the truth, or “flight” as in make up a lie, our bodies show certain involuntary activities that are very hard to control. This is why your words may be saying “No” but your body is blatantly saying “Yes.”
4. Blinking
A good way to determine if your hubby is lying to you is to see how much blinking there is involved. Liars blink less frequently because they are trying to control their facial expressions.
They want to blink less in order to stare more closely into your eyes, to give you the impression that they want you to believe in.
That’s the thing about lying. You’re not only trying to give out a lie but you’re also trying to make sure that the person you’re lying to is buying it.
5. Looking Down
Liars look down when telling a tale. This is because they are not scanning the part of their brain that recalls information. You see, people who tell the truth usually look up when narrating a story.
This is a normal sensory coordination when a person is truthfully recalling certain details or events, as if one is searching for the memory ‘up there’ in his or her head.
A liar looks down because he or she is not trying to recall, instead, he or she is composing and making up a believable story to sell.
6. Poker face
Do you ever wonder how the poker face looks expressionless? Other than the eyes, the poker face controls the lower facial muscles.
Obsessive smiling, fake grinning, lip twitching, teeth-cringing and jaw-dropping movements are sure-fire clues of amateur liars. Veteran liars know this too well so they, instead, result to controlling their mouths while lying to you, hence the poker face.
7. Use of objects
Liars will fight tooth and nail to protect their secrets so they will unconsciously use objects to distract their interviewers during an interrogation.
Case in point, they will tap a pen on the table, play with their rings, pretend to look for things in their purses or simply type on their Blackberries while being questioned.
This creates a communication barrier between the interviewer and the “suspect”, thus letting them off the hook.
8. Shifting their weights
FBI investigators watch out for the behavior of criminals through their surveillance cameras. They know that the spoken words of a suspect are not always the basis for credibility and can practically have no value for them.
In a close investigation, authorities rely closely on the body movements displayed in the interrogation room. They review the tapes and watch for any hints.
A shift in weight before a suspect responds to a question buys him more seconds to think about what he or she is going to say.
So if your partner suddenly changes his sitting position, crosses his leg, scratches his buttocks, or stands up and sits right back on the chair, chances are, he or she is unconsciously taking more time to think of a way out.
9. Parroting
Whilst most of the lying involves the non verbal responses there are also verbal cues that can help you pick up on a lie. For after all, “less talk, less mistakes,” that’s what good liars know for sure.
So in the attempt to limit the talking a professional liar will not only skip on the miniscule story details but they will also use your own wordings or sentences to deny any allegations.
For example, “Did you go to the strip joint the night that we argued?” The liar typically replies, “I did not go to the strip joint the night that we argued.”
10. Too polite
People who are too polite can also be up to no good. Just because they say what you want to hear it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are telling the truth. Many law enforcers know this.
That’s why there are car chases. When they see a suspicious-looking driver on the road, police officers can tell if he or she is trying to mask the real hidden intentions by an uncharacteristic use of overly polite words.
“Good day, Officer. How may I be of assistance to you?”, “I shall be more than happy to put my shirt on and walk a straight line for you!”, “No, I’m afraid you are mistaken, Ole Dear Kind Sire, that bag of weed is for my son’s science project!”
Think of it this way, if your partner normally speaks like Tupac on normal days and one day he suddenly comes home talking like a Pope wouldn’t you find that disturbingly strange?
Knowing the signs of a lying partner can aid you in being one step ahead. Nonetheless, knowing if your partner is lying is just one step, it doesn’t end here yet.
The next part that you need to worry about is how to prove it, because just like what Tom Cruise’s character said in the movie, ‘A Few Good Men’, “It doesn’t matter what I believe in, it’s what I can prove!”
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0.166536 | <urn:uuid:1fb335bd-8d7f-4bb8-b3a3-67da8235a6d7> | en | 0.793705 | =head1 NAME WWW::AUR::Package - Query, download, and build AUR packages. =head1 SYNOPSIS use WWW::AUR; my $aurobj = WWW::AUR->new(); my $pkg = $aurobj->find( 'perl-www-aur' ); # or using WWW::AUR::Package directly ... use WWW::AUR::Package; my $pkg = WWW::AUR::Package->new( 'perl-www-aur' ); #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Accessors exist for package info fields... printf "ID: %d -- Name: %s -- Version: %s\n", $pkg->id, $pkg->name, $pkg->version; # Or retrieve the info as a hash, easier for printing... my %info = $pkg->info; print "ID: $info{id} -- Name: $info{name} -- Version: $info{version}" # Before extracting, pkgbuild() gets the PKGBUILD from the webpage... my %pkgbuild = $pkg->pkgbuild; print "pkgname: $pkgbuild{pkgname}\npkgver: $pkgbuild{pkgver}\n"; #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Check the source package file size before downloading... my $dlsize = $pkg->download_size; print "Source package size is $dlsize bytes.\n"; # PKGBUILD arrays are turned into array refs... printf "depends: %s\n", join q{ }, @{ $pkgbuild{depends} }; # download() method sets the src_pkg_path() accessor... $pkg->download; printf "Downloaded %s to %s.\n", $pkg->name, $pkg->src_pkg_path; # extract() method sets the src_dir_path() accessor... $pkg->extract; printf "Extracted source package to %s.\n", $pkg->src_dir_path; # build() method sets the bin_pkg_path() accessor... $pkg->build; printf "Build binary package and saved to %s.\n", $pkg->bin_pkg_path(); # After extracting, pkgbuild() is read from the file on disk... %pkgbuild = $pkg->pkgbuild; # Get the package owner maintainer object... my $maint_obj = $pkg->maintainer(); # Or maybe you only want their name... (this is faster) my $maint_name = $pkg->maintainer_name(); =head1 DESCRIPTION The package class is the most important class for the I distribution. Using a package object, you can lookup any information you need for the package as well as download, extract, and build the package with the makepkg command. =head1 CONSTRUCTOR $OBJ = WWW::AUR::Package->new( $NAME, %PATH_PARAMS? ); The constructor takes the package name as its argument. An error will be I with L if the package could not be found on the AUR. Path parameters are optional, see L for more information. NOTE: In order to look up a package by name, this module must query the AUR RPC first. Just keep in mind every WWW::AUR::Package object you creates requires an HTTP request. =over 4 =item C<$NAME> The name of the AUR package. =item C<%PATH_PARAMS> I<(Optional)> Path parameters. See L. =item B =over 4 =item Failed to find package: C<$NAME> This error is I-ed if the package with the given C<$NAME> could not be found. =back =back =head1 METHODS =head2 Package Info Accessors $IDNUM = $OBJ->id; (RPC Field Names) $NAME = $OBJ->name; $VERSION = $OBJ->version; $DESC = $OBJ->desc; ("Description") $CATEGORY = $OBJ->category; $URL = $OBJ->url; $URLPATH = $OBJ->urlpath; $LICENSE = $OBJ->license; $VOTES = $OBJ->votes; ("NumVotes") $OUTDATED = $OBJ->outdated; ("OutOfDate") $CTIME = $OBJ->ctime; ("FirstSubmitted") $MTIME = $OBJ->mtime; ("LastModified") These accessors correlate exactly to the keys returned to by the AUR's rpc.php output given. Most of the fields are self explanatory. =over 4 =item C<$CATEGORY> Instead of using an id number for categories, they are mapped to the name of the category. The following names are used for each corresponding category ID: =over 4 =item 1. daemons =item 2. devel =item 3. editors =item 4. emulators =item 5. games =item 6. gnome =item 7. i18n =item 8. kde =item 9. kernels =item 10. lib =item 11. modules =item 12. multimedia =item 13. network =item 14. office =item 15. science =item 16. system =item 17. x11 =item 18. xfce =back =item C<$VOTES> The I RPC field was renamed to, simply, I. =item C<$OUTDATED> The I RPC field was renamed to I. =item C<$CTIME> The I RPC field was renamed to I. =item C<$MTIME> The I RPC field was renamed to I. =back =head2 info %INFO = $OBJ->info; Returns all data from the info accessors as one hash. Keys are the same as the accessor names. =head2 pkgbuild $PKGBUILD_OBJ = $OBJ->pkgbuild; Parses the PKGBUILD file and returns it as a L object. If the package has already been extracted then the PKGBUILD is read from the PKGBUILD file extracted to disk. Otherwise, the PKGBUILD is read direct from the AUR webpage without downloading a source package file. =head2 download $SRCPKGPATH = $OBJ->download( $CALLBACK? ) =over 4 =item C<$CALLBACK> I<(Optional)> A code reference that will be called everytime a "chunk" of data is downloaded. Two parameters are passed to the supplied code reference: =over 4 =item 1. The number of bytes downloaded so far. =item 2. The total size of the package, in bytes. =back =item C<$SRCPKGPATH> The absolute path to the source package file that was downloaded. =back =head2 maintainer $MAINTAINER_OBJ = $OBJ->maintainer( %PATH_PARAMS? ) =over 4 =item C<$MAINTAINER_OBJ> The L object representing the maintainer of this package. =item C<%PATH_PARAMS> I<(Optional)> Optional path parameters to store in the new maintainer object. These will get passed to any package object that are initialized by it. =back =head2 maintainer_name $MAINTAINER_NAME = $OBJ->maintainer_name() =over 4 =item C<$MAINTAINER_NAME> The name of the maintainer of this package. This method is alot faster than C because it does not verify anything. This just scrapes the package's webpage for the maintainer name. =back =head2 Package File Methods $SRCPKGDIR = $OBJ->extract; $BINPKGDIR = $OBJ->build( %BUILD_PARAMS? ); undef | $PATH = $OBJ->src_pkg_path; undef | $PATH = $OBJ->src_pkg_dir; undef | $PATH = $OBJ->bin_pkg_path; After calling L a L object is stored inside the B object. All of the B methods are wrapped by the Package object. The I and I methods call L first if it has not already been called. I calls the I method in the L object, which will call the corresponding I method if it has not already been called. =head1 SEE ALSO =over 4 =item * L =item * L =item * L =back =head1 AUTHOR Justin Davis, C<< >> =head1 BUGS Please email me any bugs you find. I will try to fix them as quick as I can. =head1 SUPPORT Send me an email if you have any questions or need help. =head1 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright 2012 Justin Davis. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information. | http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/JUSTER/WWW-AUR-0.17/lib/WWW/AUR/Package.pod | dclm-gs1-184430000 |
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Login Function
These functions will log in a user based on a username and password being matched in a MySQL database.
// function to escape data and strip tags
function safestrip($string){
$string = strip_tags($string);
$string = mysql_real_escape_string($string);
return $string;
//function to show any messages
function messages() {
$message = '';
if($_SESSION['success'] != '') {
$message = '<span class="success" id="message">'.$_SESSION['success'].'</span>';
$_SESSION['success'] = '';
if($_SESSION['error'] != '') {
$message = '<span class="error" id="message">'.$_SESSION['error'].'</span>';
$_SESSION['error'] = '';
return $message;
// log user in function
function login($username, $password){
//call safestrip function
$user = safestrip($username);
$pass = safestrip($password);
//convert password to md5
$pass = md5($pass);
// check if the user id and password combination exist in database
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table WHERE username = '$user' AND password = '$pass'")or die(mysql_error());
//if match is equal to 1 there is a match
if (mysql_num_rows($sql) == 1) {
//set session
$_SESSION['authorized'] = true;
// reload the page
$_SESSION['success'] = 'Login Successful';
header('Location: ./index.php');
} else {
// login failed save error to a session
$_SESSION['error'] = 'Sorry, wrong username or password';
Values would be captured from a form and then passed to the main function:
login($username, $password);
All pages involved would have the messages function somewhere so proper use feedback is given:
1. kneep
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// log user in function
function login($username, $password){
//call safestrip function
$user = safestrip($user);
$pass = safestrip($pass);
first you use the full $username and $password variables, then you use short version of them…this will not work this way
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Thanks Chris,
i find your site very informative and a lot of good stuff that i learn from you
3. Tom
Hey Chris
Love the site – quick question about this snippet.
I had some issues with this, the sql query wouldn’t grab my username and or password until i moved…
//convert password to md5
$pass = md5($pass);
below the query snippet
im new to md5 function and im not sure if what i did was correct but its the only way it seems to be running correctly.
• Dyllon
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That just means your passwords in your database aren’t hashed.
md5 gives your string of text an irreversible 32 character hash code.
would come out to be:
it’s very useful for if anyone should get into your database, they won’t know the passwords of all of the users.
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If you don’t initialize the sessions calling a session_start() your session variables will always get by the false option…
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Hey, I was curious, If i was to use this, Do i need to paste it on every page that has to have a log in?
How do i make multiple pages where you need to log in from?
Email me your answer please. Thank you.
• Sankar
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Hi all,
I too searching for the same .. Why can’t you guys create a code for full login modules and post here. So that most of the people can use it.
Waiting for response. Atleast via E-mail.
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Hello Chris,
can I use this Login-function in WordPress too ?
Which modifications should I use if required ?
Is there an Video or Artikel about enduser-login, registration with wordpress ?
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The aim is to find as many words as possible in the time available. Get the longest word and you'll advance to the next level. Three words describe it... Simple Addictive Fun
Angry, Drunken Dwarves
In Angry, Drunken Dwarves, you are an angry, drunken dwarf. Why are you so angry? Who knows. But you've decided to take your aggression out on other dwarves, by dropping gems on their heads.
Braille Scrabble
A text-based implementation of TuxWordSmith for use in terminal. 1. Letter distribution computed fairly based on frequency of occurance of each letter with respect to installed dictionary. 2. The scoring is dynamically computed at runtime based on min/max values configured in config, and letter distribution
Crossword Builder
Create math or text crosswords in English, French and Portuguese-Brazillian. This application is designed to allow teachers to quickly produce well-designed, challenging activities. The application features a configuration panel where the user can either enter their own word-hint pairs, or generate math-crossword problems via a single button.
Eliot offers three different game modes: The free game mode is the standard one, ideal for having fun with your friends or family. The players play in turn on the board, each with his own rack. In the duplicate mode, all the players are faced with the same board and letters at the same time. It is mainly used in clubs and competitions since it takes away the chance (and tactics) component(s) of the game. The training mode allows to play alone and make progress for the duplicate. It gives more freedom than the multiplayer modes.
The object of the game is to find and uncover pairs of identically colored Oxyd stones. Simple? Yes. Easy? Certainly not! Hidden traps, vast mazes, laser beams, and, most of all, countless hairy puzzles usually block your direct way to the Oxyd stones. Enigma's game objects (and there are hundreds of them, lest you get bored) interact in many unexpected ways, and since many of them follow the laws of physics (Enigma's special laws of physics, that is), controlling them with the mouse isn't always trivial...
GNOME Sudoku
GNOME Sudoku is a GNOME-based puzzle game based on Sudoku, a popular Japanese logic game. It provides a simple interface for playing, saving, printing, and solving Sudoku puzzles and generates symmetrical puzzles with unique solutions. It features support for infinite undo, a rating of the difficulty of games, and a memory of all games you play.
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Margana is a interactive anagrammer that performs pattern-anchored anagramming. This means that your set of letters can be anagrammed so that all words of any size that fit anywhere within the pattern, but are anchored to at least one letter of the pattern, are returned. This is especially useful for players of Scrabble and other word games. The Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary 3rd edition wordlist (OSPD3) is included in the 'words' file in the distribution.
Pybik is an interactive, graphical, single player puzzle about the cube invented by Ernő Rubik. Besides the cube the program can handle towers and bricks (non cubic puzzles). Pybik also has solvers, pretty patterns and a collection of various moves. The cube can be manipulated with the mouse or keyboard. You can change the colors or images on the faces of the cube.
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1. Célio Pires Célio Pires
I'm developing (with Nelson Santos) an Ipad app for children and this is the first screen. The app consists in playing math with your fingers with exercices made by children parents. ;) it´s really cool.
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Whether they're being decimated by global warming, caught in fishing nets or being overhunted, here are some animals we've dedicated our efforts to saving. The Endangered Species Act was the driving force behind the legal challenges for these animals. Passed in 1973, the ESA is arguably the strongest of our nation's environmental laws. More on Earthjustice's work with the ESA »
ESA: 40th Anniversary.
Grizzly Bears
This species of bear can weigh up to 600 pounds and can outsprint a horse. Grizzlies eat plants and animals. Female grizzlies—often emerging in the spring with one to two cubs—are very protective over their offspring.
What's Happening Now On Sept. 21, 2009, a federal court action reversed a 2007 decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove ESA protections for grizzly bears in the Yellowstone ecosystem. The decision was in response to Earthjustice litigation challenging the Bush-era delisting.
In November 2011, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower-court ruling that reinstated Endangered Species Act protections for Yellowstone’s iconic grizzly bear population.
Photo: © Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com
Marbled Murrelet
Marbled murrelets are shy, robin-sized sea birds that nest in old-growth forests along the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington. Indiscriminate logging has wiped out up to 90% of west coast old-growth forests, and murrelets have suffered steep population declines as a result.
What's Happening Now In the early 1990s, Earthjustice successfully fought to get federal protections for marbled murrelets and their habitat.
Since then, Earthjustice has litigated a long list of cases all designed to prevent further damage to this sea bird. Most of this litigation has been aimed at preventing the continued loss of the big, old trees murrelets need for nesting.
(Killer Whales)
Orcas, also known as killer whales, live in a close-knit matriarchal family unit for their entire lives. Since the last ice age, the Southern Resident orca community has made its home in Puget Sound, the San Juan Islands, Haro Strait, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the northwest coast, with the entire population reuniting there every summer. These whales are among the most intelligent animals in the world with their own language and greeting rituals.
What's Happening Now In the 1990's, the Southern Resident orca population declined by 20%, with fewer than 90 remaining.
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Photo: iStockphoto
American Pika
The American Pika is a small mountain-dwelling relative of the rabbit that's adapted to cold alpine conditions. When temperatures climb above 75°F, they can die in less than an hour. Due to climate change these animals are moving to higher elevation as a result of rising temperatures and may soon run out of habitat.
What's Happening Now On Feb. 4, 2010, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied Endangered Species Act protections for the pika. This was in response to a challenge filed by Earthjustice, representing the Center for Biological Diversity, against the agency for failing to respond to a scientific petition submitted in 2007. Earthjustice may challenge the latest decision.
In October 2011, the California Fish and Game Commission designated the American Pika as a "candidate" for protection under the California Endangered Species Act, the first step towards full protection for the species in California.
Polar Bears
Alaska's Beaufort and Chukchi seas are home to one in five of the world's remaining polar bears. In 2008, polar bears were the first animal listed under the Endangered Species Act specifically due to the effects of global warming. Polar bears are threatened by a massive expansion of oil and gas drilling in their Arctic ocean habitat, threats of oil spills, and loss of habitat caused by climate change.
What's Happening Now On May 14, 2008, polar bears received Endangered Species Act Protection but the government failed to stop oil and gas activities in polar bear areas.
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Photo: © Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com
North Atlantic Right Whale
The critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whale has calving grounds off the coast of Florida and Georgia—and only 300–400 whales remain in existence. The loss of one individual whale could contribute to the extinction of the species. The species has been listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act since 1973.
What's Happening Now On Jan. 28, 2010, Earthjustice joined several conservation groups to challenge a military or naval training range 50 miles east of Jacksonville, Florida next to the only known calving ground for these whales.
The U.S. Navy's decision to build its $100 million Undersea Warfare Training Range would introduce multiple threats to these whales—ship strikes, entanglement, and noise disturbances—and to an area critical for whale calves and their mothers.
Many salmon populations are in severe decline up and down the west coast—in California, Oregon and Washington—because of human activities such as dam-building, water diversions, pollution and reckless logging in watersheds.
What's Happening Now Earthjustice has lodged suits to address the numerous salmon problems for years and there are several lawsuits pending in the courts now.
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Photo: Steve Mashuda
Sea Turtles
Sea turtles have existed for more than 150 million years—even before the time of many dinosaurs—and now all seven species are either threatened or endangered. Threats include the large-scale poaching of adult turtles, destruction of nesting beaches, and the hooking and drowning of turtles in fishing nets and longlines. Increasing ocean temperatures also present a serious challenge to survival.
What's Happening Now Earthjustice has two active challenges to protect sea turtles—one affecting sea turtles off the cost of Florida and another in Hawaii.
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Northern Spotted Owls
Due to logging of their old growth habitat, northern spotted owl populations have been declining for decades. Today, there are 2,000 or fewer spotted owl pairs scattered across western Washington, Oregon, and northern California. These owls are very territorial and sensitive to habitat disturbance. They prefer forests several hundred years old with high canopies such as the undisturbed, cathedral forests that once blanketed the Pacific Northwest. The greatest threat to these owls is the loss of this old-growth habitat from logging and forest fragmentation.
What's Happening Now Earthjustice filed a lawsuit in 1988 against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the northern spotted owl under the Endangered Species Act.
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Photo: © Galen Rowell / Mountain Light
Gray Wolves
Gray wolves have come close to extinction in the northern Rocky Mountains, with a population of less than 50 only two decades ago. There are more than 1,500 wolves in the northern Rockies today, but they still face dangers due to killing by humans.
What's Happening Now On Apr. 2, 2009 the Obama administration stripped ESA protections for the threatened species in the northern Rocky Mountain states of Idaho and Montana and parts of Washington, Oregon and Utah.
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Photo: © Galen Rowell / Mountain Light
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Atlus USA is celebrating one year of Demon's Souls today—the "biggest success" in the publisher's two decade history—giving devotees of the dark, dismal role-playing game a pair of World Tendency events to enjoy and/or suffer through.
Starting today, Demon's Souls first birthday in North America, the Kingdom of Boletaria is going "pure white," which players of the PlayStation 3 game know is a nicer change of pace. That lasts until October 18, Atlus says, when the game's world switches to "pure black" for the rest of the month, ending on Halloween.
Demon's Souls recently became a PlayStation 3 Greatest Hits release, meaning those of you out there who haven't enjoyed getting your ass kicked by Maneater(s) can do so on the cheap.
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Shocker: Health-Exchange Websites Can Be Done Right
That sure seems easy.
In the last few days, you might have seen a news story about something called The story usually goes like this: "The federal government may have screwed up when it tried to create the Obamacare web site, despite spending hundreds of millions on contractors. That's why three tech geeks thought they could do a better job. And after just a week of coding, they did it."
So have these guys solved all our problems? Is it now a piece of cake for everyone to find out what their insurance options are on the individual market? That would sure be a good thing, especially since nearly everyone complaining that their plans are being cancelled—the folks whose fate has suddenly become the most important moral and practical crisis facing America—seems to be taking their insurers at their word when they get those threatening letters instead of trying to find out what their choices actually are.
The answer is...sort of, maybe.
Darrell Issa, the Obama Administration's Best Friend
Darrell Issa smiles uncomfortably upon realizing he's posing with Judy Collins, whom he's pretty sure is some kind of hippie. (Flickr/Music First Coalition)
When Darrell Issa took the chairmanship of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform after Republicans took back the House in the 2010 election, he promised that he was going to be a dogged pursuer of the Obama administration. But at this point, I'm genuinely curious about how Republicans feel about Issa. Conservatives sincerely believe that the Obama administration is riddled with corruption, starting with the villainous president and going all the way down to the intern who makes copies in the basement of the Commerce Department. Yet Issa has turned out to be a strikingly incompetent clown, screwing things up spectacularly every time he tries to embarrass the administration and being so transparently sleazy in the way he goes about his work that he never succeeds in pinning anything on Obama.
Think about all the times Republicans thought they had Obama dead to rights and Issa couldn't deliver the goods. There was Solyndra, "Fast and Furious," the IRS scandal, and of course the one that keeps on giving, Benghazi. Obviously, the fact that they haven't mounted a successful impeachment based on any of these is mostly because there just hasn't been any criminal behavior. But every time it looks like Issa is about to whip something into a lasting scandal, he does something like what he did yesterday. First, Issa (or presumably his staff) leaks to CBS News a "partial transcript" of a closed hearing revealing that, in the words of their report, "the project manager in charge of building the federal health care website was apparently kept in the dark about serious failures in the website's security. Those failures could lead to identity theft among buying insurance." Sounds awful! But you'll be shocked to learn that neither of those things is true. Steve Benen has the details:
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Unfortunately, our enthusiasm for those alluring little numbers can end badly. In election off-season it's not so noticeable, with polls slowing to a relative trickle and our attentions focused elsewhere—or so far in the future that the ambitious dreams of Chris Christie and Hillary Clinton dancing in our heads outweigh any margins of error. But the polls are still there. Exhibit A: presidential approval ratings.
Who’s on First? Under Boehner, It’s Always the Senate.
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If someone is looking for the week that proved a perfect example of how the 113th Congress functions, it doesn’t get much better than last week. The Senate beat back a filibuster to pass a popular bill, with every Democrat joined by a handful of Republicans.
The House? Oh, they took the week off.
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The Democrats' Original Food-Stamp Sin
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“Today, 47 million Americans struggling to put food on the table will have to make do with less,” began the emailed press release from House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi’s office. The statement lamented the $5 billion cut to food-stamp benefits that took effect November 1, rolling back a 13.6 percent expansion to the program that was part of the 2009 stimulus package. The cuts leave “participants with just $1.40 to spend per meal,” the press release continued, adding that House Republicans want to subject food stamps to more cuts in the future.
But before Democrats completely rewrite the history of this body blow to the poor, a review of the facts would be in order. The seeds of this current food-stamp cut were sown by multiple deals made when Democrats held both chambers of Congress and the White House.
Bill de Blasio's Elements of Style
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When he wins New York City's mayoral election today, Bill de Blasio will have succeeded in branding himself the next big thing in progressive politics. But it remains to be seen which de Blasio shines through over the next four years: the former Hillary Clinton operative who admires neoliberal Governor Andrew Cuomo and is friendly with the real-estate industry, or the activist lefty who got arrested protesting the closure of a Brooklyn hospital and has promised to take on income inequality and the NYPD's sprawling anti-terrorism apparatus.
Long Live the Kludge
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Last week’s buzzword was “kludge,” as everyone from Paul Krugman to Michael Lind decided that the Affordable Care Act was a perfect example of “What’s Wrong With America.” It’s an argument that Steven Tales made recently in an important essay at National Affairs.
No, Obama Isn't Trying to "Pack the Court"
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Like a not very bright seven-year-old with a shiny new toy, the National Review has found an inane talking point to run into the ground. "Republican AGs vs. Obama’s Court-Packing Plan" announces one headline. "House Testimony on D.C. Circuit Court-Packing Plan" says another.
Super Sad Spy Story
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Let’s face it, unless Democrats win back the House in 2014, Obama will soon become a lame duck president. To some degree or another, it is a universal truth that second term presidents turn to foreign policy to burnish their historical legacy. Yet the continuous drip of revelations about the NSA’s vast array of surveillance programs is not only shaping up to be the biggest headache for the Obama administration but potentially, part of its defining legacy. And that is sad. Super sad.
Another Phony Obamacare Victim Story
In the last couple of decades, a particular technique of news story construction has become so common that I'm sure you barely notice it as something distinctive. It's the use of a device sometimes referred to as the "exemplar," in which a policy issue is explained through the profile of one individual, whose tale usually begins and ends the story. It's ubiquitous on television news, but print reporters do it all the time as well.
As the Affordable Care Act approaches full implementation, we're seeing a lot of exemplar stories, and I've been noticing one particular type: the story of the person who seems to be getting screwed. If it were true that most Americans were indeed being made worse off by the law, that would be a good thing; we'd learn their stories and get a sense of the human cost of the law. The trouble is that in the real world, there are many more people being helped by the law than hurt by it, and even those who claim to be hurt by it aren't really being hurt at all.
To see how misleading some of these exemplar stories can be, let's take this piece from last night's NBC Nightly News, which uses an exemplar named Deborah Caballaro (sorry if I've misspelled her name), a self-employed realtor from Los Angeles who buys insurance on the individual market:
The Biggest Design Flaw in
The pathway to disaster.
In my column today, I argue that the disaster has its roots in the government contracting system, where big projects that go past deadline and over budget is standard operating procedure. There is one particular design flaw, however, that I didn't get a chance to discuss there but is worth noting. My guess is that it wasn't given all that much thought, or at the very least, somebody had what sounded like a good reason at the time to do it the way they did. But the result was that the administration needlessly multiplied the headaches it would have with the rollout and made everyone's experience significantly worse, and it didn't have to be that way.
The Next Battle at the Fed
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With the Administration’s stunning decision to name Janet Yellen to chair the Federal Reserve, at least one major government institution will weigh in strongly on the side of economic recovery, right?
Well, maybe.
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So...thinking about old symbols, like the eternal knot.
I'm working alone.
Later: so...basic explanation: okay, so it's four circles and a square (the equations of circles and lines, etc.)
more detailed: more math. also, maybe how the distance between the circles affects the knot...yeah.
may 22: go into the basic mathematical definition of a knot. Is the eternal knot technically a mathematical knot (since it's not all circles? Maybe find another image with curves.) Also...history behind the knot maybe. If I do find another picture of the knot, talk about links? (this is knot theory... makes it fairly simple. ish. maybe some basic stuff about this in the more mathematical explanation.)
Then, keep going with the stuff that Diana said? ( it'd be super cool if I could make an animation showing the distance between the lines increasing and decreasing.) actually, the picture I have is the 8-18 knot (AKA a Carrick mat. that's decorative in knot tying, but the 8-18 is knot theory. Ha!) So...stuff about knot theory, it looks like, and who discovered it, when, etc. and then, keep going with the whole distance thing if that works out!
woot. so, probably not much knot theory--just basic stuff. (like, the first number and then the subscript and what they mean. carrick mat's unusual because it has eight crossings but you need eighteen moves to return it to the unknot.) and...functions. you can graph a circle as the square root of the radius minus x=y, etc. (it's on the paper.) use grapher, i guess. also, about the's not changeable. so, i'd have to make a new page and then copy&paste stuff. but...don't worry about it. okay.
Desmos graphing calculator-this is free, and it gives you lines in pretty colors. So, basically, under help, there's a video that shows you how to limit the domain and range of a line.
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I'm wondering if it's possible to take advantage of SR-IOV on bare metal hardware without using a hypervisor. In other words, being able to detect and use SR-IOV Virtual Functions as network interfaces on the underlying host (not in a VM).
A lot of SR-IOV capable hardware like the Intel 82599 chips talk specifically about plumbing the VFs into a hypervisor to be used as a network interface. I'm finding very little resources on being able to partition up an SR-IOV NIC on bare metal and I'm wondering if the technology is available yet?
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what benefits do you see in doing this? – tony roth Apr 20 '12 at 16:07
You can probably do that but as tony has pointed out, what's the benefit here? you can already do ip address aliasing and so forth. This is really only useful for virtualization because you remove the overhead of the linux software bridge. – Matt Sep 30 '13 at 2:12
Not only that, but SR-IOV VF adapters can use RDMA with the VM's. Something not available with a virtual software adapter. – Matt Sep 30 '13 at 2:13
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You can make use of sr-iov by assigning vlan id and some qos parameters (tx rate, PCP) to each vf.
I don't know whether in-card 802.1q header handling will save some cpu cycles, but qos options may help you shape traffic for different services
Some nice pics from intel: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/technology-briefs/virtualization-technology-connectivity-technology-brief.pdf
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Udo Schmitz writes "It's official now. Reuters confirms the rumors that Microsoft wants to take on Apple's iPod and iTunes. From the article: 'Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it plans to release a new music and entertainment player and accompanying software under the "Zune" brand this year, in a belated attempt to challenge the dominance of Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod player ... Microsoft sources said Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's entertainment and devices division, is working with J. Allard, vice president of its Xbox team, on the digital media player/software project.'"
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• by imaginaryelf (862886) on Friday July 21, 2006 @05:31PM (#15760174)
If they didn't have Apple to emulate?
• by mpapet (761907) on Friday July 21, 2006 @05:32PM (#15760181) Homepage
At this point it's about pride at Microsoft because none of their peripheral vendors can make a dent in Apple's market share.
They knock-off the iTunes and buy a bunch of media ads for the holiday sell-a-thon. By now the've paid for the retail slots too.
I think they've missed the boat though.
• Re:DRM? (Score:3, Insightful)
by Jeff DeMaagd (2015) on Friday July 21, 2006 @05:36PM (#15760209) Homepage Journal
Do you mean whether it will require DRM? All the current portable media players will play non-DRM media in some format or another, so I don't really understand the issue. Even that other player that's a four letter word doesn't require DRM media to operate. If you are against the player even supporting DRM, then you'll probably have a problem with this one too because I doubt Microsoft would sell a player that doesn't support DRM at all, afterall, Plays For Sure is a Microsoft technology, and I doubt the larger rights holders (the __AAs) would licence their media without it.
• Microsoft's "me too" products have not been very successful in the last several years.
An organization that doesn't have the creativity to create something often doesn't have even the creativity necessary to copying it successfully.
Are you willing to pay [costofwar.com] a lot to kill Arabs?
• by Kenshin (43036) <[email protected]> on Friday July 21, 2006 @05:38PM (#15760226) Homepage
It goes even further than that:
Creative: Zen
Microsoft: Zune
Apple must be somewhat pleased, as I imagine this will take Creative's army of lawyer's focus off them.
• Re:Tacospeak (Score:4, Insightful)
by Naomi_the_butterfly (707218) on Friday July 21, 2006 @05:40PM (#15760240)
Networked sharing of devices between friends, the sharing of media (yes, even purchased media in a limited "Controlled Sharing" way according to the RIAA), direct shopping for music whenever you're in range of a hotspot.
That's some pretty nifty stuff!
• by boxlight (928484) on Friday July 21, 2006 @05:43PM (#15760264)
Apple not only has a stranglehold on the music player market, they have insane product loyalty, and they own the elusive "cool factor" with the iPod brand.
At this stage, for Microsoft to try and get into this market comes across as desperate and pathetic. Microsoft can't use Windows as leverage in this proposition -- like they could when they killed the well-rooted Wordperfect, Lotus123, and later Netscape -- so the only way Microsoft can make a dent here is for them to do something extremely innovative. That's simply not Microsoft's M.O.
This time next year: MS "Zune" is a distant memory, and iPod/iTunes owns 85% of the online movie rental/download business, and Apple has begun to make serious inroads in the "home media center" market.
• Re:Market Speak (Score:5, Insightful)
by kfg (145172) * on Friday July 21, 2006 @05:45PM (#15760270)
Well, yeah, pretty much. Microsoft has already largely staked their future on this. It's the cornerstone of Trusted Computing.
• by Lally Singh (3427) on Friday July 21, 2006 @06:08PM (#15760407) Journal
Well, people weren't appreciating the iPod enough, so MS in all their generosity wanted to show people how bad a music player could be.
• hmmmm (Score:1, Insightful)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21, 2006 @06:31PM (#15760545)
Zen + iTunes = Zune?
• by TheZorch (925979) <thezorch.gmail@com> on Friday July 21, 2006 @06:42PM (#15760603) Homepage
Microsoft is obsessed with success. They can't stant it when anyone else is a success in a certain market that they aren't a part of, so what do they do? They dive head first into that market without any care for the consequences (eg. XBox, Origami, Windows LIVE, etc).
They are a software company, Google is a search engine/web advertising company. What does Microsoft do? They get into the search engine/web advertising business and directly target Google. They jumped into the game console business because Sony was success at it, and now they are taking on the iPod. I see a disturbing trend here. Microsoft is spreading itself thin here "like too little butter spread over too much bread" quoting Bilbo from LOTR. They gotten into to many different markets and now they are getting into the MP3 player/online music store business. Not to mention they are going up against a seemingly unstoppable powerhouse; iPod+iTunes.
The company is faultering, they are under severe preassure from the EU over anti-trust violations, Windows Vista will now be 2 years late and will not have all of the features they promised, they are loosing millions on the XBox 360 project, and they are swiftly loosing users of their staple software ei; MS Office and Internet Explorer to the likes of Open Office, Firefox and Opera.
Microsoft needs to go back to what they once were, a software company and stop trying to be a do it all business. No one corporation can be in all markets at once, Microsoft is trying, but it will ultimately be their undoing.
• by vought (160908) on Friday July 21, 2006 @06:45PM (#15760626)
Why do you think they preannounced this piece of shit two weeks before WWDC and five months before it'll ship?
Microsoft's business as usual: Preannounce, overpromise, underdeliver. Rinse, later, repeat. Bankroll everything with Windows and Office revenue, and damn the torpedos, we'll buy ourselves as much marketshare as we can.
You know what? Some day, the music will stop in Redmond. Maybe not anytime soon - maybe not even in the next ten years - but the gravy train's wheels will fall off as more companies like Apple and Google continue to introduce truly better alternatives to the same crap Microsoft keeps shoveling.
You think the itunes interface sucks? Most people disagree. I think the WMP interface sucks - and most iTunes users agree. Microsoft couldn't design it's way out f a paper bag - but look at the elegant and simple tools that Apple and google deliver - oh, wait - this is Slashdot - if I say Pages is a better writing and layout tool than Word, then I'm just a fanboy.
But it's true - Google Earth, Sketch, etc. are all powerful by dint of their simplicity. Office is a fucking nightmare. You can't just start typing in Word - oh, no.
At some point, people will get tired of it. I have faith in that.
• by jcr (53032) <jcr&mac,com> on Friday July 21, 2006 @07:02PM (#15760712) Journal
Yeah, it's almost as bad as their attempt to enter Google's market.
• by NullProg (70833) on Friday July 21, 2006 @07:10PM (#15760756) Homepage Journal
Apple not only has a stranglehold on the music player market
I disagree. Apple had to negotiate with the record companies (RIAA) in order to get an online store for music in the first place (read the articles on how the record companies what to restructure iTunes). Itunes is their store and they can pretty much do what they want with their store. Your not prevented from purchasing MP3's from Yahoo and downloading them to your iPod. Your not prevented from ripping your CDs and playing them on your iPod.
Are you going to complain about Walmart.com not selling K-Mart branded merchandise?
Food for thought.
• by Infonaut (96956) <[email protected]> on Friday July 21, 2006 @07:23PM (#15760822) Homepage Journal
The iPod has been at the top of the heap for a long time now, for good reason. They have created a seamless hardware/software experience that makes digital music easy enough for non gearheads to understand and enjoy. I have a 10Gb iPod and a shuffle, and use both all the time. They're excellent products, and they've changed the way I listen to music. In fact, the RIAA has even made more money off of me than they would have before, because I buy more music now.
Apple has done a lot right with the iPod/iTunes combo, but it's not a perfect combination just yet. Managing libraries across different computers and different users isn't as easy as it should be, for example. But in a larger sense, I get a bit nervous any time a single company dominates a market. Microsoft's operating system dominance has helped in many ways, but has also arguably hindered to an even larger degree. After it gobbled up Macromedia, Adobe is pretty much the only commercial game in town for graphic design software, Quark being the lone holdout of note, and they're essentially a one-product company. I don't like shelling out big bucks for Adobe product updates as I wonder if their prices would be cheaper and the software would be better if they had some serious competition.
The same is true for Apple. They've done an excellent job so far, and I want them to keep improving the iPod/iTunes combination. They *need* competition to keep them hungry, and when they're hungry, it's better for consumers like me.
I don't think Microsoft will be able to unseat Apple from the digital music throne, but if Microsoft blows this one it won't necessarily be beneficial for the digital music market in the long term.
• by drinkypoo (153816) <[email protected]> on Friday July 21, 2006 @07:38PM (#15760884) Homepage Journal
I miss my Amiga 500. What a superb machine, to get that entire O/S on two 3.5" diskettes.
Two? My OS came on one diskette. It also came with an AmigaBASIC disk. However, the entire OS is not on disk. There's also 512kB (for the A500) of ROM without which the system will not function.
• by calstraycat (320736) on Friday July 21, 2006 @08:22PM (#15761026)
According to this [thestreet.com] article, the music service and player will be incompatible with Microsoft's own PlayForSure format. So, Microsoft is planning to open a music store that sells music that is not only incompatible with the market-leading iPod, but also with every other mp3 player on the market today.
Does this strike anyone else as completely insane? With Napster, Yahoo, Creative, SanDisk, etc. already losing money competing with iTunes/iPod, does Microsoft really believe it can come into the market at this late with yet a third proprietary format and gain any traction at all? Is this move another sign of their arrogant belief they can do in every other market what the did in the PC space? Or, is it just desperation?
Does anyone here on Slashdot believe they can succeed with this strategy?
• by Cid Highwind (9258) on Friday July 21, 2006 @08:50PM (#15761135) Homepage
I think I posted a the same comment when MS announced the Xbox. Got modded up +4 or +5 insightful, too.
Look where the Xbox and Xbox 360 are now, I was totally wrong about the xbox, and that's why I think you are wrong about their music player. MS can and will use their piles of money to buy into another market, like they did when they rolled out Windows (financed by DOS money until they finally made a useful product at version 3.0), Office (financed with Windows/DOS revenue until it could take on Lotus 1-2-3, Wordstar, WordPerfect, et al), IE (licensed Spyglass code and bought most of Netscape's market share with Windows/Office money), Xbox, Windows Media Player, and every other MS product since DOS. Even if the first version sucks like a black hole they can keep pouring money into development and advertising until they gain a majority market share.
• Riiiight (Score:3, Insightful)
by SuperKendall (25149) on Friday July 21, 2006 @10:56PM (#15761502)
The 'sealed battery' iPod is an indication that:
1. Apple doesn't have a particulary good design staff.
2. They're cheap with their products.
3. Apple knows when to break the "rules" of design for good effect.
Do you think Apple has sold tens of millions of iPods because of, or in spite of, design. That is an obvious design area that someone obviously conciously made a choice on, what makes you think that feature was not meant as a positive feature for users like the others?
I'll summarize it for you - if batteries last long enough, consumers would rather charge a device than replace batteries. The choice to allow for easy user extraction of batteries also leads to design compromises in the case because you must now allow for a door. It also allows kids to take batteries out and loose them.
In short, I think Apple may know something you are not thinking about.
• Predictions: (Score:3, Insightful)
by crhylove (205956) <[email protected]> on Friday July 21, 2006 @10:58PM (#15761508) Homepage Journal
MS will do one of two things:
Enter the market with a solid piece of hardware that plays mp3s and doesn't require any drivers or DRM to hook up to a computer (with any OS), and then precede to dominate the market.
Enter the market with a sub-par piece of hardware that is barely as good as an ipod, and has their own wmv DRM on it, and then precede to flop in yet another market.
I'll take bets for either scenario.
• by Epeeist (2682) on Saturday July 22, 2006 @02:45AM (#15762098) Homepage
> They are a software company
No they aren't. They are a marketing company that just happens to produce software.
• by Zhe Mappel (607548) on Saturday July 22, 2006 @05:19AM (#15762340)
You've never seen an American movie or driven an American car, have you?
If you had, you wouldn't have such a misplaced faith in innovation. Things Microsoft can do to disturb Apple's market position include non-innovative yet time-tested measures:
Beat Apple on price
Appeal to the lowest common denominator
Subvert the supply chain (through deals with the music mafia)
Integrate Zune software in Vista (heard of a little thing called IE?)
I'll never own a Zune. I don't shop at Wal-Mart, either, but you know what? I hear it's kind of popular.
• by Crayon Kid (700279) on Saturday July 22, 2006 @05:31AM (#15762357)
I wonder how aros.org feels about this?
I wonder what they'll change it to after Microsoft gets done "explaining" that "Zune" is theirs for the taken, just 'cause they feel like it.
• Re:Whoooo! (Score:3, Insightful)
by Naomi_the_butterfly (707218) on Saturday July 22, 2006 @01:08PM (#15763341)
yeeeeeesh! I was just saying I'm willing to try something new because of my multiple bad experiences with the ipod. The bad experiences have reduced my apple-loyalty to nill and I'm willing to try the competition.
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by EvilIdler (#45140127) Attached to: How To Develop Unmaintainable Software
Apart from the small size, that looked a lot like something I was stuck with for a while. The source for that project varied from 100MB to 250MB, because of slightly different customised versions for clients. It was written in an ancient dialect of BASIC that runs on no current system, so it had to be emulated. It could have been replaced in 6 months by two dedicated programmers for far less than it cost to buy the rights to the whole thing in the first place, but only one of us was that dedicated. There was a third guy, but he was of course an external consultant dedicated to knowing this system, and charging in limbs for maintenance. It's possibly that the system I worked on was the code-bloated version of the accounting system above. It did both accounting and PoS tasks, and then some.
Comment: Re:yawn (Score 2) 488
by EvilIdler (#44917125) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 7 Slow?
The funny thing is that even older devices (at least iPhone 4 and iPad 2, possibly others) which can upgrade to iOS7 don't have all those flashy effects. The backgrounds in popups are relatively flat, mostly opaque on my iPad, for instance. So no, it doesn't look like they activated effects my device can't handle in an effort to make me upgrade :)
Comment: Re:Common Sense Advice (Score 1) 95
by EvilIdler (#44265397) Attached to: Amazon One-Click Chrome Extension Snoops On SSL Traffic
Occasionally something as simple as download links may stop working if you block Google Analytics, because the people who made the website are too stupid to simply parse weblogs for downloads. But other than that nothing of value is lost. Stock up on AdBlock, Ghostery and other goodies. Throw in Web of Trust for good measure.
Comment: Re:It's a trap? (Score 1) 83
by EvilIdler (#43694375) Attached to: Demonoid Resurrection Dismissed As Malware Was Legitimate
It took me 4-5 retries before I remembered the right password, of course. They also had my e-mail. At the very least they do have the original database with data going back 8 years. Whether we can trust the admins is still questionable - for all we know they could be setting up the biggest MAFIAA honeytrap yet ;) Also, there is nothing important or identifying on my profile, at least. The e-mail is an alias only used there, the domain is privacy-guarded to hell (and I'm the provider). Never use a real name, even if you just made a research account. Especially then :)
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Journal: I am a masochist 5
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I'm a masochist. No, not of the sexual variety. Of the slashdot variety. For some reason, not only do I still continue to read this site, I click on links to stories about cars and phones. The raging stupidity and arrogance is amazing.
And yet I come back.
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Journal: Does anything work anymore? 3
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Does anything around here work anymore? I go to the zoo.pl page (uid changed to mine to protect the guilty) to try to change friend/foe/neutral status, and I get:
Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at slashdot.org Port 80
I have to click in three different places to find the right link to let me do a JE.
I was gonna give a laundry list, but fuck it, it's just pissing in the wind. I figure Dice was able to buy it for, what, the price of one week of coffee at Starbucks?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QgG4hwKbH4 Pretty much like that.
http://youtu.be/ZHdsUICa7zY Eeh, not the best exit but in my defense it was the first one where I've been "on my own" at the exit. All previous times, someone's been holding on to me.
The second video is my 10th jump. I'm running out of levels to fail, though! I'm much rather take it slow and be sure I have it right than rush through the program.
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It seems that slashdot is learning from the users. If ever there was a Troll Tuesday for the front page, it is today. Let's see, we've got a story taking advantage of gender divides, a story taking advantage of Middle East division, several Apple stories, climate change/evolution, and a game console story. Still a few hours to go, so perhaps there is still time for a coding language story, a text editor story, and a distro/desktop story.
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Similar to the Warrant Canary, it may make sense for someone to create an "NDAA Canary", where it sends individuals an email once a day that each individual must respond to. Perhaps just by clicking a link in the email; or, perhaps by entering "something you know" so that it is less likely to be spoofed. Then, when citizens start disappearing into Guantanamo or wherever, we will be able to know about it even if they are unable to discuss it (through geography, or via gag order).
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Why the fuck can't I read the posts that I have created? Slashdot having a bad day? Here's the error I'm getting:
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Journal: Changing the signature again, and stupid programming tricks 3
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Old signature: The MIC is in charge; it doesn't matter who the meat votes in.
Wake up! It's 1984. - Oingo Boingo, 1983
New signature: Something positive, for a change.
Stupid programming tricks: the "Write in Journal" button is at the bottom of the page. There's new fancy Ajaxian code to auto-load new items when the user scrolls to the bottom of the page. So, the ability to click that button is a lot like those old annoyance applications with "click the button" which moved around the screen as the mouse got close to it.
In closing: WTF, why aren't my <p> tags working when I preview? This is wall-of-text! Oh well, the info is the important part, but presentation is also useful...
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Comment: Re:Duplicity. (Score 1) 963
by durin (#46471381) Attached to: How Do You Backup 20TB of Data?
I'm sure there must be something I'm missing in your reasoning.
How do you make sure that the files on the "other side" are not read by anyone? Sounds like you just transfer the files (presumably using rsync over ssh) and leave them plain on the remote server. With duplicity, the encryption and decryption is all handled on the client side.
Comment: Re:They don't know if it wasn't there (Score 1) 274
by durin (#46227671) Attached to: The Death Cap Mushroom Is Spreading Across the US
You're absolutely right. I didn't really consider that they'd never actually seen it before.
Although one would think that people would think twice when picking and eating mushrooms they have never seen before...
Oh well, people have done things way more stupid than that before.
Comment: People don't know this? (Score 2) 274
by durin (#46226157) Attached to: The Death Cap Mushroom Is Spreading Across the US
The Death Cap is something I learned as a child not to touch, and I teach my kids that too. It's pretty common where I live to learn which things in nature are edible and what to watch out for. I had the impression most people around the world had that kind of education "built in". Is that not the case in the US these days?
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Comment: Re:Old thinking. (Score 1) 152
by grcumb (#46502083) Attached to: Eric Schmidt On Why College Is Still Worth It
'The economic return to higher education over a lifetime produces significant compound greater earnings.'
That has been true in the past.
Not exactly. You know what was true in the past? That a good education made you a better person.
Now, I won't deny for a second that there were numerous social and economic factors in getting the 'right' education from the 'right' schools. It's true that being a 'gentleman' was inextricably tied up with class, economic status and the clannishness of the privileged. But it was still about being the right sort of person rather than a more-or-less necessary precursor to employment. The cost in those days was primarily to keep the riff-raff out, rather than any reflection of economic realities (conditions in some British colleges, for example, were abominable).
In spite of all the hypocrisy and all the cant, a liberal education was designed to improve the person. It had little or nothing to do with employment, except inasmuch as employers at the time wanted 'improved' people for a number of lines of work.
Full Disclosure: It's easy for me to talk. I was one of the last people through a system that actually did focus on a decent general education, at a level of government funding that allowed me to finish 4 years of a double major with only $10,000 in debt, payable at a pittance a month over a ten-year term. I'm an arts major who's also a CTO, by the way.
Comment: Re:I RTFA. Gibberish. (Score 4, Informative) 247
by hey! (#46499351) Attached to: Transhumanist Children's Book Argues, "Death Is Wrong"
Science fiction author "Gennady Stolyarov" isn't listed in Internet Speculative Fiction Database either, and the book's publisher, "Rational Argumentator Press" has a grand total of *one* publication, and its web presence is a section of Mr. Stolyarov's personal site. So what we're dealing with here is the self-published work by an unpublished crank sci-fi author -- not that there's any dishonor in being an unpublished crank sci-fi author. There's lots of us around.
I peeked inside the book, and what strikes me is that if you squint, this *looks* like a religious tract pitched toward children, right down to the colorful but stiff illustrations. Take a look at the cover, with it's child dressed in a blue oxford shirt, red tie and khaki chinos banishing death. This is peculiar, in a way that I applaud; an image pitched at children by someone so far out of the mainstream that she has no idea what a culturally "normal" child looks like. That's a good thing for the world, although it may not do much for the author's message. It's more important for people with an oddball streak to write books than people who think like everyone else.
This book appears to come out of the same impetus that underlies a lot of religious impulse: rage at the fact we're are going to die. It's a fact we *should* be uncomfortable with. Religion does the most damage when it makes us too comfortable with the prospect of death. The afterlife becomes a make-up session where we can do the things we put off line life like reconciling with estranged loved ones.
Anyone who regards speculation about technological singularity enabling indefinite human life extension as a "promise" is taking far too much comfort in what is, at best, an intriguing idea. But the universe itself has a finite lifespan; any being who could last to the heat death of the universe, or even a single 2 million century "galactic year" would be so far from human that calling it "transhuman" would be like calling ourselves "transprotozoans".
Whether we just disappear after a mere century or so, or survive as something unrecognizable as human, our opportunity to experience the universe as ourselves, as humans, is brief. We should make the most of it, no matter what we plan to leave behind when our human existence is done.
Comment: Re:professional lobbying (Score 1) 55
Well, "set a thief to catch a thief."
One of the reasons for the dysfunction we have in Washington is that all the rules that are supposed to protect the public interest have become so complicated that they actually promote crony capitalism. You need someone who knows how to hack the system to catch people hacking the system.
Comment: Re:Bada boom bada bing (Score 3, Interesting) 220
by hey! (#46489947) Attached to: Elon Musk Addresses New Jersey's Tesla Store Ban
Damn straight. They're out to fuck you blind.
Dealers try to mystify and generally complicate the process of buying a car by offering to arrange financing, making you a trade-in "deal" and obfuscating the true cost of the car. Fortunately you can get a detailed break down of the dealer's costs (including factory to dealer incentives) from Consumer Reports. Then you arrange financing elsewhere (or pay cash), sell your existing car yourself, decide on how much markup you'll pay, and resolve not to buy any additional services or warranties through the dealer. If you do those things you won't be walking into the dealership like a lamb to slaughter. They might as well try to fuck the Rock of Gibraltar. Some of them will try, but you just walk out the door and find a dealership that will sell you a car on your terms.
The last car I bought I walked into the dealer; the salesman saw I had the printouts and said, "I'm not stupid. How much are you going to pay?" I named a price 5% over the dealer's true cost. I could have opened with 3%, but I appreciated not having to go through the whole ridiculous ritual. It was a reasonable offer and the salesman immediately accepted. Half an hour later we finished up the paperwork; I dropped off a cashier's check the following day and drove my car off the day after that. It was all low-key and civilized, and by executing the deal quickly the dealership earned a fair paycheck for a couple hours of work.
This is the way buying a car should be: you tell the dealer which model you want, hand over a check and drive off. Letting the dealer do anything else "for you" is asking to be screwed over. Despite what the salesman claims, there is nothing the dealer can do to make your life simpler, except maybe fetching your plates from the motor vehicle registry. Do everything else yourself, including determining the price you'll pay for the car.
Comment: So it seemed simple at first... (Score 0) 347
by SuperBanana (#46486599) Attached to: EU Votes For Universal Phone Charger
Seemed simple at first. Everyone can just go with micro USB, right?
Then I realized that batteries are getting bigger (and able to handle faster charge rates), and it's way, way past due for cell phones to start supporting USB3.
So can they make two standards, USB2 micro and USB3 micro?
Also, here's the original EU press release: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/...
I don't see any mention of a specific standard...?
Comment: combustion engines: demonstrated unreliability (Score 3) 327
by SuperBanana (#46478691) Attached to: What If the Next Presidential Limo Was a Tesla?
Tesla can certainly bring it, but the internal combustion engine has over a century of demonstrated reliability.
Keeping in mind that electric cars have been around longer than gasoline cars, and than electric motors are used in the powertrain of every modern locomotive in the united states (and are the prime movers for almost any industrial plant)...not really, actually.
Car engines need a lot of maintenance due to all their sensors, electromechanical and mechanical valves, mazes of hoses and wiring (all of which has to deal with high temperatures), dependence on multiple fluid types (the fuel, the coolant, the lubricant) and need for so much cooling (gasoline engines waste 3/4 of their fuel on heat.) One of the reasons Tesla is getting away with not having dealers is that the cars are so much simpler drivetrain-wise. I imagine the only fluids that need changing are the brake fluid and probably the gearbox oil.
An electric car for the presidential limo would be brilliant, particularly since it typically doesn't need to travel very far most of the time, and an electric vehicle provides massive torque for handling the heft of all that chassis and armor. Adapting an electric drivetrain, in part because of how simple it is and how flexible one can be with component locations, would actually make it far easier on the coach builder. Tesla already has a dual-motor AWD drivetrain, so they've definitely got the oomph (although I suspect the dual-motor drivetrain motors are individually smaller.)
Comment: Re:Poor Record on Health (Score 1) 561
by hey! (#46475387) Attached to: White House: Get ACA Insurance Coverage, Launch Start-Ups
Sick citizens cost a state, not in on-the-book expenditures, but in lost productivity and higher hospitalization costs -- especially because of the large number of very sick people covered by hospitals' indigent care pools. This directly translates into higher dollar costs in health care and insurance.
The same insurance that would cost my family $8811/year in Massachusetts would cost an unbelievable $12576 in Mississippi, even though everything else is much more expensive here. Mississippi has the lowest cost of living in the country; Massachusetts is among the highest. Yet they pay 40% more for the same health insurance, when all things being equal you'd expect them to pay 30% less. Why? Is medical care cheaper here? Absolutely not. We're chock full of very expensive, high tech teaching hospitals where the cost of an aspirin would give you a stroke. We have the most expensive cost for medical procedures in the country of any state but Alaska.
So why is health insurance such a relative bargain here? Because we have by far the lowest rate of uninsured people in the country (4.0%) thanks to Mitt Romney's implementation of what later came to be called "Obamacare". Yes, our medical care is more expensive here but because we get preventive care and screening we use less of it.
Mississippi's uninsured rate is 15%, and consequently it's full of poor, unnecessarily sick people. the number of unnecessarily sick people. Here in Massachusetts when you hit 65 you can expect to enjoy 15 years of *healthy* life before your health fails. In Mississippi it's 10.8 years. Mississippi has a shocking infant mortality rate -- a total of 1% of live births. And all those unnecessarily sick babies who didn't get prenatal care cost people living in Mississippi a fortune.
So while Mississippi saves immediate cash outlay by not expanding Medicaid, that's penny wise and pound foolish. People carrying insurance end up spending so much more they could expand Medicaid for a fraction of the costs, and if you're a Mississippian you can expect to get more sick and die younger than any other state in the country. Some deal.
Mississippi has one of the highest rates of infant mortality in the country -- a shocking 1% (10 per 1000 live births) of newborns in Mississippi don't make it. Sick, uninsured babies are very expensive.
Comment: Re:I went back to corporate America because Obamac (Score 1) 561
by hey! (#46474715) Attached to: White House: Get ACA Insurance Coverage, Launch Start-Ups
>> few hundred bucks a month for health care
You don't have a family with kids..who occasionally get sick and broken bones, do you?
I have a family with kids. Under ACA my cost for a silver level plan, after my tax credit, works out to $712/month. That's a lot: almost as much as we pay for food. But considering how much we use the doctor and even the hospital, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
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I have compiled and build my cfd code, getting an a.out in the end.
I have done some revisions on my source code and I can't remember what I have changed.
Now, is it possible to see how "looked inside" the old a.out file to check which subroutines are used and executed?
What tools can I use? Also, the a.out was built using -O3, -ipo.
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With a profiler such as VTune or oprofile, you should be able to get a fair idea of time spent in various subroutines. The -ipo will prevent you from seeing some of the callees separate from their caller. You will see at best only the assembly code.
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When multi-file IPO is enabled the assembly output is inhibited (at least on Windows). You can use VTune as you say and then obtain Assembly code which you can copy and paste into another document (a few lines at a time). Single file IPO still produces assembly code though optimizations may be different.
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Ok I'll give it a try. Thanks!
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This piece of code causes segmentation fault:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#define SEGMENTSIZE 100
int main() {
char** send_buffer = (char**) malloc (SLIDINGWINDOW);
int i;
for (i = 0; i<SLIDINGWINDOW; ++i) {
send_buffer[i] = (char*) malloc (SEGMENTSIZE);
strcpy(send_buffer[i], "Hello, world");
printf("%s\n", send_buffer[i]);
The strange thing is if you put the content of the second loop into the first loop, it works!
Could anyone see why this happens? Many thanks!
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The size passed to malloc() isn't correct. You probably meant:
char** send_buffer = malloc (SLIDINGWINDOW * sizeof(send_buffer[0]));
send_buffer[i] = malloc (SEGMENTSIZE * sizeof(send_buffer[i][0]));
This is because the argument to malloc() is the number of bytes you're asking for, so you need to multiply the length you want by the size of the elements.
In addition, you should also check that the value returned from malloc() isn't NULL.
Note that I've removed the cast from the malloc call - in C, the cast isn't required, and can sometimes mask an error.
A further improvement would be to use strncpy() to ensure that you're not going to write characters after the end of the segment:
strncpy(send_buffer[i], "Hello, world", SEGMENTSIZE);
Note that in the case that the source string is larger than SEGMENTSIZE, then the destination string will not be null terminated. You can fix this with a:
send_buffer[i][SEGMENTSIZE - 1] = '\0';
after the strncpy().
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This will produce only enough space for SLIDINGWINDOW bytes:
You want enough space for SLIDINGWINDOW pointers:
malloc (SLIDINGWINDOW * sizeof(char*))
Your second malloc() is correct by luck; sizeof(char) is always 1.
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A more robust way to write it is char **send_buffer = malloc (SLIDINGWINDOW * sizeof *send_buffer);; more generally: some_type *foo = malloc(COUNT * sizeof *foo); – Keith Thompson Aug 27 '12 at 4:14
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I have a text and want to find some strings with regular expressions. My problem is i don't know how to make "&&-and" here.
I have text like this:
AB " something is here;
and here...
AB "new line
continues ... ";
I want to find all AB, which end with ";
My code i use for ";" :
var matches = Regex.Matches(tmp, "(AB) ([^;]*);", RegexOptions.Singleline);
But how can i make "(AB) ([^(\";)]*)\";" or just "(AB) ([^(\"&&;)]*)(\"&&;") ?
I would like to have:
" something is here;
and here ...
"new line
continues ..."
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And what exactly do you want to match? Could you perhaps show an example block of text, and then the part you want matched? – Mr47 Nov 5 '12 at 10:25
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^ can only negate character classes, which in turn cannot contain strings of characters (but only single characters). However, there is a similar concept for strings of characters (or in fact full-fledged regular expressions) called a negative lookahead:
@"(AB) (\"(?:(?!\";).)*\");"
This will now consume arbitrary characters (.) as long as they do not mark the start of a ";. Keep using the Singleline option, of course. You can do some reading on lookaround assertions here.
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please see my edit, what i want to achive. I tried your code but gives me some errors with @"AB ? – Uni Le Nov 5 '12 at 11:21
@UniLe note that I my snippet is not a regex but the full regex-string (as a verbatim string, which should always be used for regular expressions). if you want to capture the two parts separately, you can just add parentheses: "(AB) (\"(?:(?!\";).)*\");". However, this is a bit pointless in your case, because the first two characters of your match will always be AB and the characters from index 3 to the second-to-last index, will be the rest. – m.buettner Nov 5 '12 at 13:38
@m.buettned: thank you, your code works great. AB was just an example, it could be more of them like AB CD..., but what i wanted is your code, thanks once more – Uni Le Nov 5 '12 at 15:01
when i have a string AB 134 aBd " ... "; how would i change your code to to it? something like "(AB) ([0-9]) ([A-Za-z0-9]) (\"(?:(?!\";).)*\");" – Uni Le Nov 8 '12 at 9:09
@UniLe close, except for the fact that you need to repeat the character classes (otherwise they will just match a single character of the allowed ones): @"(AB) ([0-9]+) ([A-Za-z0-9]+) (\"(?:(?!\";).)*\");". Of course you can make all of the optional, so it still works with your initial examples: ``@"(AB)\s*([0-9]*)\s*([A-Za-z0-9]*)\s*(\"(?:(?!\";).)*\");"` – m.buettner Nov 8 '12 at 9:12
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I don’t think that AND operator exists or is even required. read this question
However to complete your string finding solution, this regex guide can help you a lot. Hope it helps.
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Try this Regex:
(?= subexpression) Zero-width positive lookahead assertion.
(?: subexpression) Defines a noncapturing group.
. Wildcard: Matches any single character except \n.
\s Matches any white-space character.
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what does my compiler dont' recognize \s? – Uni Le Nov 5 '12 at 11:22
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I am creating a web page using HTML and Javascript, I have included a help button using javascripts alert function so users get some information on how to use the web page.
I have researched endlessly to find out if it is possible to embed a video into an alert message. I have not found one web page that even comes to close to something like this, Is it even doable?
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Jquery UI dialog - alert cannot show anything except plain text – mplungjan Feb 10 '13 at 13:04
again i barely recoment you to check out some jQuery Beginner Tutorials on Youtube or so. give it a try – Ace Feb 11 '13 at 1:12
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You have to create you own javascript popup/alert/dialog box for the task or you can use jQuery UI dialog or Bootstrap Modal. You cannot show anything except plain text in an alert box.
From the documentation:
message is a string of text you want to display in the alert dialog, or, alternatively, an object that is converted into a string and displayed.
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Since the alert(...) function takes nothing but a string as parameter, these are your alternate options :
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I just tried to add addtional template file to include a block of content in right side bar but get failed.
Below is my effort
added in local.xml file
<reference name="right">
<block type="cms/template" name="right.side.template">
<action method="setTemplate">
I also tried this
<block type="cms/template" template="callouts/right_template.phtml"/>
and created a template file callouts/right_template.phtml.
But it is not loading the template file content in right side bar.
How do I go about? I have cleared the magento cache.
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I found it myself I was using wrong type type="cms/template". This should be type="core/template"
<block type="core/template" template="callouts/right_template.phtml"/>
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am opening command prompt using system command like system("start cmd.exe") and then running some batch file. I want to stop the batch file running in command prompt or close the command prompt window. Could you please help me with this.
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possible duplicate of How to close command prompt Window in Ruby? – Mischa Aug 3 '11 at 14:15
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If you want the command prompt to terminate you just write the following in your script..:
To stop the batch file I will use win32ole lib and send a CTRL+C combo like this..:
require "win32ole"
key = WIN32OLE.new('Wscript.Shell')
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In some academic circles, such as theoretical physics, during a presentation it is customary for the talking author to cite himself using only his initials, while leaving the remaining author names unchanged as per the citation style.
For instance, if my initials are DCG and I cite a paper that has me as an author, it should show up as:
[Lima, DCG, Horvath, 2010]
Is there any way to make this automatic in LaTeX? I use powerdot for presentations and natbib for references, and I have found nothing of the sort in their documentations. Maybe there is a way to replace the strings generated by BibTeX in the second LaTeX run, but I have no idea how to do it.
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The easiest method is to modify the .bbl file when the presentation is complete and the .bbl file is in its definitive form. Otherwise it would be necessary to act on the .bib file. – egreg Feb 11 '12 at 15:06
Yes, that would work, but I would like a more automatic method, such as a command to be introduced somewhere in the source code, so I don't have to worry about it later. – Sir Whiteout Feb 11 '12 at 15:38
This should easily be done with biblatex, which is easier to customize due to its use of LaTeX macros rather than the awkward bibtex language. – Timothée Poisot Feb 11 '12 at 16:17
Some Biblatex solutions: tex.stackexchange.com/q/22135/10119, and I am sure it can be done with biber too… I just can't find the question where this was implemented. – ienissei Apr 15 '12 at 7:03
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In relation to the comments I want to provide an approach using biblatex.
First of all I changed the definition of the output of authors and replace the name stored in \highlightname with the initials saved in the macro \shortform.
The main idea is inspired by P. Lehmann.
author = {Goossens, Michel and Mittelbach, Frank
and Samarin, Alexander},
title = {The LaTeX Companion},
publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
location = {Reading, Mass.},
year = {1994},
author = {Mittelbach, Frank and Goossens, Michel
and Samarin, Alexander},
title = {The LaTeX Companion},
publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
location = {Reading, Mass.},
year = {1994},
author = {Mittelbach, Frank and Samarin, Alexander
and Goossens, Michel},
title = {The LaTeX Companion},
publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
location = {Reading, Mass.},
year = {1994},
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EDIT 1: Fixed spacing problem
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Nice solution. But it looks like there is a trailing white-space before MG on the first line. – ienissei Apr 15 '12 at 6:56
@ienissei: Thanks. Fixed – Marco Daniel Apr 15 '12 at 11:44
Great solution indeed. But how does it account for middle names? – Sir Whiteout Sep 26 '12 at 17:40
@SirWhiteout: What do you mean? – Marco Daniel Sep 27 '12 at 16:03
The above solution does not work if the name to be shortened includes a middle initial. Is there a specific field to put it, or does the code have to be changed further to be able to deal with it? – Sir Whiteout Oct 1 '12 at 14:03
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The United Arab Emirates’ most extravagant city-state has a more or less transparent market economy and a degree of personal freedom rarely found elsewhere in the Middle East outside Israel and Lebanon. The government doesn’t micromanage the personal lives of its citizens as in Iran and Saudi Arabia, nor does it smother the economy with heavy state socialism as in Egypt and Syria. Its bureaucracy is efficient — investors don’t spend years acquiring permits and filling out paperwork before they can open a shopping center, a hotel, or a Starbucks. The Islamic religion is respected as it is everywhere else in the Middle East, but clerics don’t make the rules.
Lebanon and Iraq have both been hailed as possible models for the rest of the region, but they aren’t really. Maybe they will be someday, but they aren’t today. Freewheeling Lebanon is more or less democratic, but it’s unstable. It blows up every year. The Beirut Spring in 2005 ousted the Syrian military dictatorship, but shaking off Iran and its private Hezbollah militia has proved nearly impossible. Iraq is likewise still too violent and dysfunctional to be an inspiring model right now.
Many of the skyscrapering steel and glass cities of the Persian Gulf feel like soulless shopping malls. It wouldn’t occur to anyone to suggest that one of these places is “the Paris of the Middle East,” as Beirut has often been called. Dubai’s outrageous attractions and socially liberal atmosphere, however, makes it something like a Las Vegas of the Middle East as a traveler’s destination. And it really is something like a Hong Kong or Singapore as a place to do business.
It features prominently in Vali Nasr’s compelling new book Forces of Fortune, where he argues that the Middle East may finally liberalize politically after it has first been transformed economically by a middle-class commercial revolution. Most in the West haven’t noticed, but that revolution has already begun. And what he calls “the Dubai effect” is a key part of it.
“People in the region who visit Dubai,” he writes, “return home wondering why their governments can’t issue passports in a day or provide clean mosques and schools, better airports, airlines and roads, and above all better government.”
He’s right. Most Beirutis I know look down on Dubai as artificial and gimmicky, but just about everyone else in the region who isn’t a radical Islamist thinks it’s amazing.
It’s different geopolitically, too. The government is more sincerely pro-American than the nominally pro-American governments of Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Michael Yon put it this way when he visited in 2006 on his way to Iraq: “Our friends in the UAE want the Coalition efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan to succeed, and they are vocal about it. While much of the west, including many of our oldest allies, postures on about how the war on terror is a horrible mistake, the sentiment in the UAE is that it would be a horrible mistake not to face the facts about our common enemy, an enemy that might be just as happy to destroy the UAE as America.”
Its leadership has also stepped a long way back from the Arab-Israeli conflict. Neither Dubai nor any of the other UAE emirates have gone so far as to sign a peace treaty with Israel, but they also aren’t participating in the conflict or making it worse. Israeli citizens can and do visit, which is unthinkable almost everywhere else in the Arab world. A rotating tower designed by an Israeli architect is slated to be completed next year. There isn’t a chance that even Egypt or Jordan, both of which have signed peace treaties, would let an Israeli design one of their architectural set pieces.
Dubai has problems, of course, aside from the inevitable bursting of its financial bubble. Its government is a fairly benign dictatorship, especially compared with the likes of Syria and Iran, but it’s a dictatorship all the same. Many of its imported laborers live and work in ghastly conditions, and some are lured there under false pretenses.
It’s flawed, it’s weird, and its overall model of development can’t be ported everywhere else. Only so many cities can build ski resorts in the desert and underwater hotel rooms that go for $5,000 a night. But Dubai’s model needn’t be copied and pasted as-is, and Nasr’s “Dubai effect” is a powerful thing. The city proves to everyone who goes there that when an Arab Muslim country opens up its economy, keeps the clerics out of the saddle, and eschews radical causes, it can build places that are impressive not just by local standards but by international standards as well. If even half its foreign and domestic policies are adopted by its neighbors, the region will be a much nicer place for the people who live there, and less of a headache for everyone else. | http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2009/11/29/the-dubai-effect/ | dclm-gs1-186990000 |
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Zulte-Waregem 0 Wigan 0. Honours even in Belgium and the points are shared. The Latics will be delighted to take something on their European bow.
Not a great delivery from Watson, as he floats the ball over, and Boyce is pulled up for a foul at the back post. Wigan forced to race back into position. McCann with another important clearance, before Dicko hacks to safety.
De Fauw takes a chance and ends up having to muscle Watson to the deck. Opportunity to load the box and maybe steal a dramatic winner. Coyle sends plenty forward.
D'Haene challenging again, but can't trouble the target on this occasion. Wigan able to go long to Fortune. He needs support, and it doesn't arrive quickly enough. All about holding on now for the Latics.
Boyce breaks forward, and is then caught out of position. The ball won't fall kindly for Caceres and then Conte is unable to force a cross from the dead-ball line past Carson. Corner to Zulte.
Kums with a shot from a long way out which is easily blocked. Ball returned to the box and two Zulte players go down. Malanda wants a spot-kick, but he was tripped by a team-mate.
Another corner is fed in, but dealt with. Wigan can't clear their lines and Hazard fires goalwards inside the box. More handball shouts, but again nothing given. Survival mode at the moment for the Latics.
Hazard has to put the corner flag back in before taking the set-piece. More pushing and shoving. The delivery bounces inside the box and D'Haene is denied buy a fantastic block from McCann.
Another nice touch from Hazard, but he is forced away from goal. The ball ends up breaking to the edge of the box for Skulason, who sees a shot deflected behind.
Caceres popping up wide on the right again, and winning another throw. Patient build-up from the hosts, but no way through. Conte then skips past a couple of tackles and finds Naessens, who slips inside the box just as he was about to pull the trigger.
83 Final change for Wigan sees Powell replaced by Dicko.
Fortune all alone in the Zulte half of the field for Wigan. He is penalised while trying to run around Malanda. Watson questions the decision, but there was a shirt tug in there.
Space opening up for Powell for a moment, as he skips inside from the right wing. Again the ball runs away from him and the opportunity to get a shot away is gone. Bossut able to gather.
McClean working hard to get the ball back, but to no avail. Zulte running out of ideas as they lump long into the box. Wigan can't get out of their own half.
Zulte seeing plenty of the ball. A lot of probing going on from the hosts, but not a lot of penetration. They have been restricted to half chance or efforts from distance.
Still not happening for Powell as another pass aimed in his direction is allowed to run away from him. Conte threatens again at the other end of the field, but Boyce is there to hack clear.
Caceres wins a throw. He is prepared to drift wide and pull defenders with him. Wigan still holding form at the back.
Unfortunate for Fortune as he looks to slip past Duplus, but sees the ball bobble through his legs and out of play for a throw. Wigan supporters raise the noise level again. They have enjoyed their evening. They would like something to shout about on the field thought!
Malanda allowed to run the ball out. Wigan sitting deep. They have looked dangerous on the counter but can't slip too far into their shell. De Fauw allowed to drift a long way forward before skidding a 20-yard drive well wide.
De Fauw puts his head down to deal with a ball down the left, McClean puts his foot up, decision goes with the hosts. Fortune then pulled up for tugging at D'Haene's shirt.
Caceres involved straight away. He shows a neat touch to gather the ball and get it out of his feet. He shoots on sight, but down the throat of Carson.
73 Habibou has looked lively at times, but his race is run and Caceres is sent on in his place. Like-for-like change up top for Zulte.
Jeers from the crowd as another Zulte player goes down. McCann on Skulason again - running battle going on there. Watson able to fire long for Fortune, but he nods the ball straight out of play.
Naessens crowded out and Wigan can counter. Fortune picks out a clever run from Powell across his man, but his touch isn't the best once again and the ball runs across him allowing a Zulte defender to get back.
Skulason limps off after treatment, but should be back with us shortly. He doesn't look happy. Painful one rather than a game-ending one.
Break in play as Skulason goes down. He was caught by McCann - who has already been booked.
Watson delivers. Fortune flies in at the near post, but can't get a touch. The ball breaks to Perch on the edge of the box and his low drive forces Bossut into a smart save low to his left.
Perch has to poke clear under pressure, but Wigan can gather the loose ball. Powell, now operating on the right, slips past his man, but Duplus gets back at him. Powell wants a corner, and gets one.
66 The man who got Wigan into Europe, Watson, is sent on in place of Gomez. Double change by the Latics as McManaman also makes way for Fortune.
Shotton goes out to the right wing with Hazard. He stands up well and forces Zulte backwards. They are soon pressing again though and McClean has to concede a corner. The delivery is met by Duplus, but he nods wide when well placed.
A cross from De Fauw breaks to Hazard. He gets the ball back as Hazard lays it off into his path, but a half-volley fizzes well wide of Carson's goal.
McClean able to cut inside off the left flank. He shows why he likes to stay on his left side as he drags a poor right-footed effort well wide of the target.
Conte still pulling a lot of strings. He has plenty of runners to aim, but Perch is able to cut out a pass fed down the middle towards Hazard.
Skulason sees the ball run through his legs, but he can turn inside the Wigan box and get a shot away. The ball is blocked before it can reach Habibou or trouble Carson.
Brilliant from Naessens as he runs at Crainey and fires a great delivery across the face of goal. Habibou arriving at the back post but can't get a toe to the ball and force it into an empty net.
Habibou very deep as he looks to get involved. Wigan with plenty of bodies back and they keep the back door bolted. Powell then runs them out. Cross fed in towards Gomez is never going to reach the Spaniard.
58 Boyce runs the ball out. Hazard goes with him and ends up tripping the Wigan full-back as both men go to ground. Hazard the latest to go into the book. Not happy with the decision.
Gomez feeds a low ball into the box for Powell to chase. Good strength from Malanda as he allows Bossut to come sliding off his line and gather.
McArthur into Gomez, but he wastes possession with a terrible touch and pass. Zulte play their way out from the back. Kums looks left, but Hazard's header is wayward.
Conte with a clean strike from 25 yards out, but his effort is always going wide and never troubles Carson. End-to-end stuff, with legs starting to tire on a heavy playing surface.
Hazard picking the ball up all over the field now. Wigan need to keep an eye on him. Shotton sends the Latics forward, and goes left to Powell. Again he gets the ball caught under his feet. Not his night so far.
Good control from Habibou as he keeps Zulte heading forward. They go from right to left, finding the lively Conte. Hazard then lines up another long-range strike, which is blocked again.
Better from Powell as he gets the ball down and wins a corner. He had no support. Wigan go short and win another corner. Great delivery into the heart of the box which Shotton meets with the outside of his boot, but flicks wide of the post.
Conte through midfielder, with Naessens ahead of him. Wigan rocking again at the back, but manage to smuggle the ball clear. Relief for the visitors as the flag goes up. Two Zulte players offside.
De Fauw well forward again. He sends a cross to the near post which Carson comes for but is beaten to by Habibou. A glancing header slips narrowly wide of the upright. Let off for Carson.
Space for Hazard 35 yards out. He winds up a shot, but it is easily blocked. They can move forward through McManaman, but everything is square of him. Shotton now limping for the Latics.
Kums wide to De Fauw, but no way through for Zulte. Wigan have everybody back. No outlet for the Latics if and when they get the ball back. Hazard drops deep to get involved, before Malanda moves over halfway.
No Wigan player inside the Zulte half as the ball is fed back to D'Haene. Hosts seeing all of the ball at the moment. Powell over-runs as he tries to change that.
No changes from either manager at the interval. Expect both to turn to their benches sooner rather than later if things stay as they are. Zulte knocking the ball around early in the second half.
Zulte get the second half under way, with Hazard last to emerge from the tunnel.
Players back out and we are ready for the off once more. Hopefully we will get a few goals in the second period.
Smee says: "We need to bring on Espinoza to bring some pace to the game as he is keen and eager to find a solid place in the team. See this being a draw if Coyle does not mess up with silly tactics like he often does."
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Zulte-Waregem 0 Wigan 0. All square at the interval and we are still looking for a goal. Woodwork hit at both ends, but no breakthrough.
McClean too eager to get the ball onto his left foot and has it taken off him. Zulte looking to mount one last attack before the break. Wigan pull 10 men behind the ball and shut up shop.
One minute of stoppage-time to be played.
McCann muscled off the ball and Wigan are in trouble. Hazard picked out and drills across the face of goal. The ball breaks to Conte, who sees his shot beaten away by Carson. Wigan rocking.
McClean can't combine with McCann. No room to work with down in the corner and Zulte win a throw. Habibou looks to run them at the heart of the Wigan defence, but his touch lets him down.
Great direct run from McManaman as he races around Duplus, but his cross is cut out. Zulte can counter, with Shotton slipping. The ball is worked out to the left, where Conte sends a wild effort high over the top.
Carson fires long. De Fauw up above McClean. Wigan win a throw on halfway. They need to get the ball on the deck again and knock it around a bit.
41 Hazard over another set-piece. Refere gives those in the middle another talking to. When the delivery does arrive, it is cleared at the front post. Shotton runs the ball out and Naessens is cautioned for tripping him from behind.
Crainey can only slice behind as Naessens closes him down inside the box. McCann is down after taking a blow to the face off Malanda. No intent, but he was caught flush in the face by a flailing arm. Nose is bleeding but he should be okay.
Hazard goes square from the free-kick to Conte. He sends over a cross. Handball shouts fall on deaf ears. Wigan can't clear again. Home fans getting behind their troops now. They sense a goal could be coming.
Carson closed down by Habibou as he looks to clear and Zulte back on the ball. Hosts starting to grow into the game and pose more of a threat. Wigan need to up the tempo again. Crainey trips Naessens wide on the Zulte right.
Crainey delivers another free-kick into the box. Boyce nods down, but Powell caught on his heels and can't react in time. Zulte happy to hack up to halfway.
Corner played short. When the ball is delivered into the box, a glancing header from McClean bounces off the top of his own crossbar and to safety. Wigan can't counter through McManaman, who slides into the corner flag.
Naessens sees a cross from the right cut out on the edge of the box. Conte tries again, but Crainey is there for Wigan. The Latics can't get the ball away and Zulte keep pressing. Naessens drills across the face of goal, before Hazard sees a shot from 35 yards flick over the top.
Wigan looking to play their way out from the back. Zulte look to force the issue and Carson has to go long. All a bit scrappy at the moment. Not a lot of quality on show.
Shotton fails to connect with a long ball down the middle. He was given a nudge in the back by Habibou, though, and Wigan win a free-kick.
Malanda drifts into the Wigan half, but delivers a poor pass. McClean gets his head up and runs at Zulte. The ball breaks for Gomez, who feeds McCann on the left. He is in behind, but the flag goes up.
Hazard twists and turns looking for a yard of space 25 yards from goal. He finds one, but sees a shot blocked at source. D'Haene able to clear his lines as Wigan look for the feet of Powell.
McCann gets a head to the delivery, but there are too many bodies between him and the goal and Malanda can hammer clear. Zulte with another aimles lump down field which runs through to Carson.
McArthur hangs the ball high towards McClean, but no joy for Wigan. They are forced backwards before coming forwards again. Gomez opts against a shot from the edge of the box, but McCann sees one deflected behind by Skulason.
McClean thinks he has won a throw off De Fauw, but the decision goes the other way. Habibou crowded out as he collects the ball and McCann can look for Gomez. He breaks into the box, but Kums slides in to block his path.
Gomez tripped by Kums after stealing the ball of the Zulte midfielder's toe. The home side still struggling in the final third. They want too much time on the ball.
Boyce shows good strength to get in front of Habibou and block his route to goal. Wigan unable to piece an attack together as they look to counter at pace.
Habibou with a very ambitious volley from 30 yards as the ball drops in front of him. It does take a touch off Gomez on its way behind. Hazard takes the corner, which is nodded clear in the middle.
Crainey with a poor pass which is easily cut out by De Fauw. Kums carries Zulte forward and a cross is fed into the box. Hazard frustrated that the ball doesn't reach him.
McClean fires a cross against the boot of De Fauw. Throw to Wigan. Delivery could have gone in a little earlier. Gomez then lets the ball run of play, and Zulte get the throw-in. Odd decision from Gomez.
Crainey fails to find McClean, but refuses to give the ball up. Zulte can't string anything together. Wigan doing really well to close space.
Powell climbs well to touch on a Carson clearance. McClean chases and ends up leaving De Fauw in a heap. Conte comes over to suggest that the tackle was late, but no more than a free-kick. McClean actually appeared to win the ball.
Zulte back on the ball. Wigan working hard to press high up the field and keep the hosts pegged back inside their own half. Hazard eventually chips forward for De Fauw to chase, but the ball runs away from him and behind for a goal kick.
McClean glances down the line for Powell, but he fails to win a foot race with De Fauw. The ball is presented back to him, but he spins and sends a poor 25-yard effort high over the top. A night for keeping shots low and working the keeper.
Crainey flights the free-kick to the edge of the box, where Boyce can't win the aerial battles. Kums looks down the right for Naessens, but he can't keep the ball in play and remain in possession.
17 Crainey runs Wigan out from the back. McClean takes over and is sent crashing to the turf by Skulason. He is also cautioned. Two bookings in as many minutes.
16 McCann pulled up for a hefty challenge on Habibou. He was late and high as he slid in and becomes the first player to have his name taken.
Gomez puts McManaman under a bit of pressure. Wigan let off the hook inside their own half as Hazard clatters through the back of Gomez. Carson fires long, but De Fauw nods clear.
Duplus tries to bring the ball down on his chest, but slips. McManaman unable to benefit and Shotton ends up hacking into the stands. Zulte given no time and space in the final third.
Hazard can't bring a pass fizzed towards him under his spell. Not a night for being too wayward, with the ball skidding off the surface. Wigan playing the ball along their back four.
Hazard delivers. Malanda arrives on cue as the ball reaches the penalty spot. He is unchallenged, but powers a header high over the top. Decent chance for the hosts goes begging.
Hazard finds Conte wide on the right wing. He stands up Crainey, before firing a cross against the Wigan defender and behind for a corner. Pushing and shoving inside the box delays the taking of the set-piece.
Bright start from Wigan. They have settled quicker and already carved open a couple of half-chances. Powell has now been sent tumbling by Habibou inside the centre circle.
Shotton long towards Powell. He can bring McManaman into play this time. He looks to feed a pass in behind De Fauw for McClean, but the Zulte full-back reads his mind. Wigan work the ball from a throw into Gomez, who rather snatches at a shot from 12 yards and diverts it wide of the target.
Nice feet from Conte on the edge of the box. He is able to work a yard of space, skipping around Crainey, and drills low and hard into the grateful arms of Carson.
McClean the target of another cross-field pass. He can get a touch this time, but glances down the line and out of play. Zulte press forward again.
McManaman tripped inside the Zulte half by Duplus. Wigan end up going all the way back to Carson. Possession the priority at the moment. McClean can't get a head to a floated pass aimed in his direction.
Powell unable to gather the ball in again. He needs to hold it up if others are to get alongside him. Zulte look left again to Naessens, but the conditions work against him as the ball slips under his boot and out of play.
Head in hands from Coyle after seeing that effort graze the woodwork. He is taking this seriously. Zulte now back on the ball, with Hazard crossing halfway and breaking down the left flank. McManaman goes all the way with him and wins a goal kick.
A long ball over the top makes it's way through to Powell. His first touch isn't the best, but D'Haene and Bossut get themselves in a pickle and surrender a corner. Zulte fail to deal with the delivery and McArthur clips the post with a half-volley from the edge of the box.
Hazard involved for the first time, and is tripped. He has a big reputation and has started the season well for Zulte. The hosts also happy to spend the first few minutes getting a foot on the ball, rather than looking forward.
Wigan allowed to knock the ball around early on, with Zulte prepared to sit deep. Powell drops deep to get involved, and settles for a throw on halfway.
Wigan get us up and running.
Rain still falling. Conditions far from ideal. Pre-match formalities almost completed. Travelling support making themselves heard. Long way from a full house in Brugge.
Players out of the tunnel and we are almost ready for the off. Here's hoping an historic night for Wigan ends on a high.
Ground staff have been working hard to make the surface playable. A lot of rain has fallen and the pitch will be very heavy. Hopefully that won't take anything away from the game and the heavens won't open again.
For the record, tonight's referee is Marcin Borski from Poland.
Seven changes by Coyle might suggest that he isn't taking this particularly seriously, but the Latics line-up still has plenty of quality in it and I don't think they will be happy to just make up the numbers.
Wigan players have been out on the pitch soaking up the European atmosphere. This is a big occasion for the Latics and they will want to show that they belong on this stage. Positive results in Europe could help them in the league.
Coyle opts to go with Shotton at centre-half and Powell up top as Wigan look to their creative talents for inspiration. Former Leeds loanee Habibou leads the line for Zulte, while Chelsea fans will be keen to have a look Thorgan Hazard - Eden's younger brother who is on loan from Stamford Bridge.
Zulte team: Bossut, De Fauw, D'Haene, Malanda, Duplus, Skulason, Kums, Conte, Hazard, Naessens, Habibou. Subs: Bruzzese, Verboom, N'Diaye, Tarfi, Sylla, Caceres, Bongonda.
Wigan team: Carson, Boyce, Shotton, Perch, Crainey, McArthur, McManaman, Gomez, McCann, McClean, Powell. Subs: Nicholls, Garcia, Buxton, Watson, Espinoza, Dicko, Fortune.
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Can Wigan claim a positive result on Belgian soil or will Zulte prove too strong for Owen Coyle's side? Who will be the men to keep an eye on? Let me know your thoughts.
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The other two sides in Group D are Rubin Kazan and Maribor, so Wigan have some tough trips out on the road to take in during this campaign. Taking that into account, they will want to get off to a positive start.
Promotion back to the top flight is very much the priority for the Latics, so they need to ensure that Thursday night football in the Europa League does not become an unwelcome distraction.
Wigan are taking in their first continental adventure after landing the 2013 FA Cup. They are now plying their trade in the Championship, but will want to give a good account of themselves in Europe.
A second-place finish in the Belgian Pro League last season represented Zulte's best ever league standing and they have already sent APOEL crashing out of Europe this term - a side that has graced the Champions League in the past.
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#1turtleman64Posted 7/23/2012 12:08:20 PM
I seem to be at a loss here. The ingame manual doesn't seem to explain much in this department and the game samples given do little in the context of comments and such. I can program in modern languages but ironically enough, this old archaic language seems very cryptic to me, especially when I try to read other peoples code.
What are the exact commands for loading then drawing a sprite onto the screen? I can't figure it out at all! :(
#2GRNKRBYPosted 7/23/2012 12:35:01 PM
I need help with his too. There's that one sample program where you can draw over the backgrounds and sprites, but, when it prompts you to save, there's an always an error message for me and the program closes. Just not entirely sure if I'm naming the characters correctly, and not sure how to load any of the sample sprites into a program.
#3N64MarioPosted 7/23/2012 1:00:59 PM
the CHRED program lets you draw your own sprites for your games.
Be sure that the file name you save is 8 characters or less.
#4turtleman64(Topic Creator)Posted 7/23/2012 2:45:51 PM
That's not what I'm talking about. Maybe draw was the wrong word so lemme rephrase this.
How do I render sprites onto the screen?
#5N64MarioPosted 7/23/2012 3:05:51 PM
Yea, Draw was definitely the wrong word to use.
Anyway, the best thing you can do now is look over the help document in the game for your answer. It basically gives you the details of the existing sprite set, as well as a glossary of all the terms, what they mean, and what they do. . ;)
#6turtleman64(Topic Creator)Posted 7/23/2012 3:21:46 PM
As I said in the first post, the ingame documentation is of little help in explaining some of the built-in functions for the program.
#7N64MarioPosted 7/23/2012 6:17:07 PM
SPANIM 0, 2, 10, 0
Adding this line in a blank script seems to place a character sprite in the upper left corner of my screen.
You might want to mess with the numbers there until you're satisfied with the animation results.
#8turtleman64(Topic Creator)Posted 7/24/2012 10:13:31 AM
I figured it out. You load a sprite into memory using SPSET, and then you position it using SPOFS.
#9DClaxPosted 7/24/2012 9:14:12 PM
turtleman64 posted...
i don't get it. where do you use SPSET? do you use that while in CHRED or when writing a program? and if its when writing a program do you do that when you are editing it or when you are running?
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#10turtleman64(Topic Creator)Posted 7/25/2012 11:25:46 AM
To render a sprite on the screen first you use SPSET to inititalize the sprite. The same way you would declare and initialize a regular variable like an integer or string or whatnot, you do the same using SPSET. You then use SPOFS(sprite offset, I believe is what it stands for) in your gameloop to manipulate where and how you'd like to render the sprite on screen.
for example if I wanted to render the included skeleton sprite on the top screen at 100x, 100y, I'd do this. (using ' as comment markers)
'begin variable declarations and other initializations
ACLS 'Clears the console screen at the beginning of run-time.
VISIBLE 0,1,1,1,1,1 'Makes the console layer invisible. Refer to the manual for more info on the parameters
SPAGE 0 'Sets any sprite rendering to the top screen.
SPSET 0,130,5,0,0,0,16,16 'Here I will explain the parameters myself in order or appearance in a quotebox.
'0 is the sprite ID. Every sprite you use will have a unique spriteID so that whenever you'd like to manipulate anything about said sprite, this will be the identifier you use.
'130 is the number from the built-in sprite set (SPU2) that the foward facing skeleton character resides on.
'5 this is the pallet number. Should be self-explanatory, but it you've never tried your hand at rom-hacking or anything involving limited colors, the pallet is the chosen color set for the sprite. 5 will produce a blue skeleton character.
'0 horizontal rotation. 0 for none, and 1 to flip the sprite image horizontally. Think of it as mor of mirroring the sprite rather than rotation.
'0 vertical rotation. Same as above, except vertical
'0 Layer. Lower the number, higher the layer.
'16 Width, How wide the sprite is. The skull sprite, by default, s 16x16 pixels. Any less and it wouldn't show the whole sprite. Any more and it's wasted space for this particular sprite.
'16 Height, same as above.
POSX = 100 'Variable for X position of sprite. Could be named anything you want, it's just an integer.
POSY = 100 'Same as above, Except as Y position.
'end variable declarations
'Begin Game Loop 'Start of the Update phase, this is where the bulk of your gameplay code should go.
'anything involving input and changes to sprite variables goes here
GOTO @RENDER 'Finishes the update phase and goes to render the sprites using the newly updated sprite variables.
@RENDER 'Start the Rendering phase, this is where you will put all of your direct sprite manipulation commands in
SPOFS 0, POSX, POSY, 1 ' SpriteID, X position, Y position, and interpolation time (measured in 1/60th of a second, the desired time between the previous state and the new state. By default, go with 1 unless you're doing some advanced tweeking)
GOTO @UPDATE 'Finishes rendering stage and goes back to the update phase of the gameloop
'End Game Loop
There are other commands that can go in the render phase such as SPANIM and SPANGLE and SPSCALE, but What I've put here is the most basic form of a gameloop rendering one non-moving sprite onto the screen. It's basically the gameform of a 'HelloWorld' program. Hope This helped! | http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/663843-petit-computer/63497239 | dclm-gs1-187440000 |
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We need a Light type!
#1Tengu_spamPosted 1/8/2013 6:52:44 AM
And all the pokemon look like digimon! And animals! And Red and Blue were the best!
#2FuneralCakePosted 1/8/2013 6:53:13 AM
Spam indeed.
want some funeral to go with that cake?
#3Catcher_FreemanPosted 1/8/2013 6:53:33 AM
take dem goggles off bruh
The mac daddy of the Pokemon Black 2 board.
#4CheckmateD1Posted 1/8/2013 6:55:53 AM
Try harder bro.
#5gamester_12345Posted 1/8/2013 6:56:42 AM
Dark in Japan is known as the Aku/Evil type, outside of Japan it was known as Dark because the moves at the time was simply based around underhanded tricks which why their moves can cause serious mental and bodily harm on (usually) frail Psychics whilst Fighting types would be professionally disciplined at disarming and physical combat.
Who would win in a fight, a guy who brings a Knife, or the guy who would shatter concrete sheets with their hand?
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#6LandscapeManXPosted 1/8/2013 6:58:58 AM
I still feel that Fairy pokemon like; Jigglypuff, Togepi, etc belong in a different Type than normal.
There are so many normal pokemon,...
Official Great Toad Sage of this board.
#7Tengu_spam(Topic Creator)Posted 1/8/2013 7:32:54 AM
I was joking guys.
That's exactly what people were saying on the Black Board the first day they were up so I thought I would keep up the tradition. | http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/696959-pokemon-x/65124892 | dclm-gs1-187450000 |
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#1chicostickPosted 5/3/2012 2:08:49 PM
Hello folks,
Kinda late already but, I'm thinking of getting this for the PC. How does Multiplayer with servers, as I've been reading, works? I'm also interested on how often are there games where a lot of people are playing. If there a lot of people playing, do they get grouped up into different units and move as a squad (i.e. Alpha, Bravo Teams)?
Is the game more of an Arcade Shooter than let's say, a milsim Multiplayer?
#2evilvalisPosted 5/3/2012 2:54:35 PM(edited)
There is a single player mode. I do subjest you play this mode first before playing multiplayer. The shall give you a chance to adapt to the game graphics, guns, etc.
The main part of this game in online multiplayer. There are 64 "32v32" 32 "16v16" etc man servers, gets alittle hairy but fun. The server browser is a webpage "". Personally I don't like it, but I have gotten use to it. Some servers auto squad you, some don't. All depends on the administration settings on that server.
No, this not a arcade shooter. Hope that helps.
We are big kids with jobs and money to play with.
#3chicostick(Topic Creator)Posted 5/3/2012 3:06:13 PM
Thanks, that clears it up. I'm mainly interested in the 32v32 or 16v16 ones where you are put into a squad.
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Skill(Shots) for Kills Space Pirates!
Bulletstorm is all about killing people in crazy ways to rack up a nice score no matter what mode you're playing through. Thanks to the strength of Grayson Hunt, you can kick and slide into foes launching them into the air, where you can string together some nice combinations that will further your kill count and score. You'll hear lots of bad language here, and blood & gore aplenty, but it's all done in good health here and great way to to just let go of the realism games are trying to achieve and just have some plain ol' fun!
In Bulletstorm's Campaign, you play as Space Pirate Grayson Hunt, a former of Dead Echo where under the command of General Sorano, was tasked with doing some dirty work. When Grayson finds out the truth, he seeks out to confront the General. One thing leads to another, and you find yourself on an planet with very hostile locales.
These poor guys never stood a chance.
Hunt must boot kick and skillshot his way through everyone if he wishes to escape, and in the 5-7 hour campaign, all the elements that have brought him to the planet reveal themselves over time. It's a great ride and seems to be one that will have to continue down the line.
You could probably make it through a nice chunk of Bulletstom without even performing the ridiculous kills, but that's not too fun. For campaign, echoes, and Anarchy mode, scores = currency, so you'll want to pull off crazy kills to gain money to buy more weapons or just to simply upgrade your current ones. The leash you gain can also be upgrade too, and is essential to bring poor victims into your range while scanning the environment for ways to dispose of them.
Of all the ways to kill, I really liked performing the Voodoo doll skillshot. It's essential impaling enemies into objects, but you could pull it off in various ways. The chances you get to "blow out a man's asshole", occur only a few times, but are pretty hilarious and not to mention rack up a nice score to provide more points for upgrading.
Besides Campaign, you can enjoy Echoes mode which is a solo affair, but offers you a chance to compete with friends via the leaderboards. You are ranked per each level which takes your score and earns you a star rating.
The Multiplayer mode featuring four players is Anarchy mode. In this mode, you take on waves of enemies while racking up points and performing co-op skillshots. What sets this apart from the now common survival mode is that a certain score must be met to advance to the next round. You could breeze past the first few, but soon you will find yourself scrambling with friends to meet the required score for a round.
Overall multiplayer is a great addition and more content will be coming for players to enjoy.
Bulletstorm is really fun and has a great campaign, but at least for me, the fun ran out after trying all the modes a few times and completing the campaign. I'm not sure about it's longevity, especially after the Gears of War 3 Beta included with the Epic edition will begin.
If you can find it for a decent price and have friends that want to play with you online, I'd say do that, but a rental will also give you a nice chance to check out the great gameplay. This is a project ten dollar game as well, so just know that if you want to buy used or borrow it from a friend.
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In a sea of realistic, military and usually very dull looking first person shooters, here comes Bulletstorm trying to inject some fun - and most importantly, color - into the landscape. If you're a fan of non-serious FPS's like Serious Sam, Duke Nukem or Painkiller, then Bulletstorm's right up your alley since it's crass, brash, violent and is apparently so filled with awesome, if it were a chick, you'd wanna fuck it. (I'm gonna try to not swear as crazy as the game does but no promises). Howeve...
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One of the ABC comedy's fresh faces talks about coming onto 'Scrubs' in Season Nine
<p> Michael Mosley</p>
Michael Mosley
Credit: Nathaniel Taylor Photography
Michael Mosley doesn't have the resume of a sitcom star.
A glance over his TV and movie credits include a larger-than-normal number of cops, detectives and FBI agents. In 2009 alone, he played a sheriff on "The Mentalist," had a tragic turn on "Kings" and watched his wife fight for her life on "Three Rivers."
And in his current role, Mosley's playing a medical school burnout with a prison record.
Naturally, it's a comedy.
Mosley is part of the new cast of ABC's "Scrubs," playing Drew, an aspiring doctor with a troubled past who attracts the attention and excessive admiration of John C. McGinley's Dr. Cox and, in the process, the jealousy of Zach Braff's J.D.
It's Mosley's first regular half-hour gig, trying to reinvigorate an Emmy-winning comedy currently in its ninth season. No pressure or anything.
HitFix caught up with Mosley last week to chat about his intense and intensely funny character, how smoothly things work on the long-running show's set and whether the fresh "Scrubs" stars are still being hazed.
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HitFix: I know I'm interrupting your lunchbreak here. What episode are you guys up to?
Michael Mosely: We're doing Episode 12. We'll wrap that on Monday.
HitFix: That's 12 of 13?
MM: Yeah, 12 of 13 and that's that.
HitFix: Do you have plans for when the initial run is completed? Will it just be sitting around and waiting to see what comes next for "Scrubs" or do you have other work lined up?
MM: I've got a movie that I shot in Texas called "Restive" and I'm waiting to see what that cut's going to look like and I'm also working on a project with my fiance, we're writing a movie together.
HitFix: So you've got plenty to do while you're in the "Scrubs" holding pattern?
MM: As of right now, we don't know. We don't know. We don't know if there's going to be another order or another season. They're keeping their cards pretty close to their chest right now.
HitFix: After 12 episodes, has the "New Kid" hazing ended yet?
MM: Oh yeah. I think it's all pretty cohesive now at this point. Everybody's all in the same boat. I think it was mostly Zach who was doing most of the hazing.
HitFix: What did that consist of?
MM: Oh, he's just a great guy and he has a great time on set, keeps everything very light and very buoyant. He's a bit of a ball-buster at times, but he's a good guy to have around.
HitFix: Were you a "Scrubs" viewer before?
MM: I was. I liked the show. I always thought it was a unique, farcical kind of piece that I hadn't really seen before.
HitFix: Most of your TV work before had been on hour-long dramas. Had you been looking for the chance to show your comedy side?
MM: You know, I hadn't really done a comedy, except for "Alpha Mom," which was a ["Scrubs" creator] Bill Lawrence-helmed piece that we did two or three years ago. That was a pilot that never got picked up and I'd never done a comedy till then. After working with Bill, I was just blown away by how much fun it was. You get on these hour-long dramas and the mood on the set can be very serious and very epic, but when you work on the comedies, it's really just about being funny and keeping everything funny, so it's important that from the ADs to the producers to the PAs to the guys working at craftie, that we're all just keeping that ethos in the air. When I shot "Alpha Mom" with Bill, we'd do the scene two or three ways according to the script and then he'd say, "Just say whatever you want. Try and crack each other up." Or he'd give you new lines. It was such a fun way to work and I totally wanted to get on to do another comedy. I auditioned and tested for many of them over the years, but it was Old Bill Lawrence who gave me my second swing at it.
HitFix: He remembered your from that earlier pilot and reached out to you?
MM: Well, I auditioned for it and I came back in for him and for the other producers and then I tested Disney and ABC and now it's three months later and we've almost wrapped with Season Nine.
HitFix: Do you feel like you have to go extra distance to convince casting directors that, as a drama guy, you can be funny?
MM: I think if you're funny, then it works. That'd probably be a better question for my agent. In the beginning, I think they put me out as that dramatic like like, "Well, we'll give this guy a badge and a gun and have him chase bad guys somewhere down the line." Then I started testing for these comedies so I think that widened the horizons of my team. Then I started getting in more rooms and it became more of a possibility that inevitably one of them would come to fruition. I definitely think that typecasting is something that happens all the time. I wouldn't be surprised if there were a lot of whispers and murmurs when I would audition for some of these comedies in the past and people would probably think, "He's not that guy. He's not a funny guy. He's a serious FBI agent or something."
HitFix: You've done both pilots and established shows before, but "Scrubs" is a little of each at this point. Coming on, did it feel more like a new show, or more like a veteran?
MM: It felt like coming into a new show, but there are still these people who you've known for years, not known, but you've known them in some capacity on your television set. So having that around, definitely made it feel old. The cadence of the show is still the old "Scrubs." But I know it felt new to Bill and a lot of the writers and the showrunners. I know that they were treating it as a new thing and ABC wanted to keep the name brand. So they were pitching it as a continuation of the old. To me? Either one is great. It's terrifying and incredibly humbling to be asked to do the 9th season of a show that's already proven itself to be incredibly well received. Then it's also just as exhilarating to do something that's brand new.
HitFix: How entrenched are the old cast members and the veteran crew members on set? How smoothly does the show run now that it's been around this long?
MM: It works work. Bill is great. He's got "Cougar Town" right across the lot from us, so he'll poke his head in here, changing things up and give us notes and then producers will come in and they'll give us notes and a couple alt readings for jokes or lines, but it's really the most fun I've ever had on a set. Everybody is just so cool and so laid back and so relaxed and we just have such a great time. And it moves quick. We shoot it in five days. When you're doing the hour-longs, you've these crane shots or you've got explosions and it's Friday night at 5 in the morning. But with this thing, it just cooks. Bill, I'll literally be walking from one part of the lot to another to do a rehearsal for the next scene, and one time he drove by on a golf cart and he just shouted out an alt to one of the lines. I have no idea how he knew what we were going to shoot, but he just said, "Hey, Mike, on this one line right here, instead of saying it like this, say it like this, because I think it'll be funnier." And then he's gone. The fact that he's keeping both of these shows in his head at all hours of the day is just fascinating. I think the smoothness of the show can be attributed to Bill's talent as a comedy writer.
HitFix: In the beginning of production, though, when you just were starting, was there some sort of unavoidable Old Scrubs/New Scrubs division?
MM: Maybe when we were doing the read-through for the first table-read, us newbies might have kinda huddles in a corner and then all of the Old School, who hadn't seen each other for a while, they all were shaking hands and patting backs and happy to see each other. There was that, but there never a war or anything. There was never anybody trying to outdo each other. We were always geared to keeping that "Scrubs" soul that has always been there. We were there to keep that ball bouncing.
HitFix: What do you think the New Class has done to reinvigorate the show?
MM: I think that there's just new people who haven't been seen yet. I don't know if there was a Cole in the last eight seasons of "Scrubs." I don't think there was a character like that. And Denise is brand new. She was on last year, but she's being fleshed out this season. I don't think there's been anything like Drew on the show. I think that to take that world, with the traditional "Scrubs" gags and then putting the dress on three new people, you see how they wear it.
HitFix: We've heard a lot of outlying details about Drew's past, about his first med school burnout about his time in prison about getting shot by a 12-year-old... How much more do you know about the character and how important are those specifics?
MM: I think I know 13 episodes worth. I don't don't know all of the adventures he's had in the past 10 years, but I know a great many of them. I can't say too many of them, because I think the point is that they're supposed to be funny and surprises, but a lot of that is just in the head of Bill and the writers. We're let into the loop as the loop becomes clearer to them.
HitFix: The character details we have for Drew, they could be the backstory for a darker and more dramatic character. Do you treat them in the same way on a comedy as you would on a drama?
MM: Yeah. Absolutely. I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama. I think that ultimately, the less winking that's going on when you're doing comedy -- And this is just my own thing and maybe it's why I've never been hired in comedy except by Bill Lawrence -- but I think that the less winking you do with comedy, the better off you are. I think that the more committed the character is to the circumstances he's been given, it can then be either funny or tragic. I think that the writers can make it ridiculous enough that inevitably the audience will have to crack and start to laugh, as long as you're committed to it. That's not something I always do. I try not to wink, but it's not always easy. There's just a lot of people falling off of ladders and pratfalls and banana peels and stuff like that that are just in my brain somewhere, but I think ultimately the goal is to not wink at all and to really feel that stuff and to really be mad that I'm suddenly responsible for these kids and I don't know who they are and I couldn't care less. I want to really feel that and let the audience decide if it's funny or not. That's one of the things that "Scrubs" does and does well.
HitFix: So you just play the lines and let the context work out the tone on its own?
MM: I try. I might not always do it. I might find something funny and start to crack myself, in my head and in my heart. When you're saying things like "I lived in a yurt for two years," when you say things like that, it's a little ridiculous. You just try. The line between comedy and drama is very thin and I love movies like "American Beauty," or something like that, where the guy next to you is crying and you're laughing your butt off. To spoon-feed people their comedy is not the proper evolution of the art.
HitFix: You mentioned this was something "Scrubs" has been doing for a while. Was there anything you learned about the "Scrubs" rhythms from doing scenes with Zach or John C. McGinley?
MM: It's very easy to get caught up in the rhythm because they're so good at it and they've been doing it for so long. It's dry. The stuff just comes out and it's ridiculous, like you go on rants and in the middle you go, "What did he just say? Did he say what I think he said?" Those types of rants are what Cox is definitely known for. It's very contagious. You get on set and you find yourself slipping right into the rhythm. It's something that starts to happen, maybe through osmosis or something, it gets in your skin.
HitFix: The established stars didn't give you sample line readings in the start to ease you in?
MM: There are times when John will be like "If you don't tighten that up, it's gonna get cut." He knows that the script is like 32 pages and they're gonna need to cut these pages out in the end and these guys know how to cut the fat out like that. There are times would he'd give me little hints like that, or they'll give you a joke. But it's all in trying to make the best product we can. It's never overbearing. It's always a group effort, very egalitarian.
HitFix: Well given how long "Scrubs" has been on the air and given how many times it's cheated death, does anybody even mention ratings anymore? Does anybody get neurotic about that still?
MM: I don't think anybody's being neurotic at all. "Scrubs" has always had a very loyal fanbase. When it started out, it was an explosion because it was after "Friends," but I think there have been times where it has peaked and valleyed. But recently, it's just been about maintaining those loyal followers and keeping them on their toes and having fun. They're the ones the show's really geared toward now. I don't think ABC or Disney thought this thing was going to be "American Idol." They just wanted to keep the "Scrubs" family that's already been built. But no, nobody on-set is in any way flipping out or giving up or getting over-excited. It's even-keeled and everybody has a good time and is happy to have a job in this crazy world and happy to be laughing at our job every day.
"Scrubs" airs Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. on ABC.
Daniel Fienberg
Executive Editor
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Baci Ceremony in Laos
Baci Ceremony, Vientiane
We were invited to take part in our own Baci Ceremony while we were in Vientiane. Prior to our own ceremony I knew nothing about what happened or why they had the ceremonies.
In Laos a Baci ceremony is carried out for both sad and happy events so it might be for a marriage, a birth of a child, a funeral/death, a welcome home, before or after major exams and before a long journey could all be reasons for a Baci ceremony.
There is no specific day or time for a Baci ceremony but just before noon or sunset appears to be a preferred time. The idea of the ceremony is a calling of the soul or in Laos "su kwan" also spelt ‘sou khuan’ .
The idea of kwan is the soul of a person but more than that; vital life force of any being. In Laos it was believed in ancient times that humans consisted of thirty two parts and these were watched over by kwan. The human works best when all his kwan are in the body and the idea of the Baci ceremony is to call all the kwan back to the body from wherever they have wandered off to.
The Pha kwan or Pha Khuan
When we arrived in the middle of the floor was a wonderful creation called the pha kwan. This is made from banana leaves , marigolds and white threads. It is wider at the bottom like a pyramid and must take hours to create. This creation is usually made by older woman in the village or community.
This flower creation is set on a white cloth in the middle of the room. The person who is to carry out the ceremony sits cross legged in front of the pha kwan and he is called a maw pawn or mohkwan or mor phon. The maw pawn is usually an elderly man, often an ex monk and he chants the sort of poetry during the ceremony. The maw pawn also knows the auspicious days when it is best to hold a Baci ceremony and that is worked out by using the lunar phases.
Around the pha kwan were a couple of sweets and dried and fresh fruit, hard boiled eggs which represent the foetus , a stalk of bananas which represented the community and each fruit being member s of that community, a whole boiled chicken with head feet and claws and finally as a bottle of Laolao whisky for purification.
Our Ceremony
We had to sit on the carpet around the pha kwan and the white strings that were attached to the pha kwan were taken and handed to each of us to hold. The maw pawn also held one white string too. And began his Buddhist or animist chanting which is him calling the wandering spirits back to the body.
The ceremony began by the maw pawn lighting a candle on the top of the Pha Kwan and then those taking part in the ceremony my husband and I laid our hands palm down at the edge of the pha kwan. The maw pawn then brushed our hands with the white strings saying "hai kuard nee, dee kuard kao" meaning "bad is swept out, good is swept in".
The next stage was he took the white strings and gave us each one to hold and he also held one end and he chanted some more and this was asking our spirits to receive the blessings.We then held the string between our palms while he continued to chant.
We were then told to say "ma der khuan euy" whixh according to our guide means "please come spirits". He then threw some bits of rice in the air over us . These rice grains we were told represented the spirits and the good luck that we had asked for in the ceremony.
After the chanting the maw pawn then tied the strings around our wrists. If this had been a big ceremony such as a pre wedding ceremony then everybody would have then come forward to tie a string around the wrists of the couple taking part. I think about three or four strings were tied around each of our wrists. As these strings were tied around our wrists he chanted some more words which were a sort of concluding blessing.
The final part of the ceremony was that the maw pawn poured a little shot of Laolao into small glasses and we each had one. This concluded the ceremony and we were instructed to keep the white strings on our wrists for at least three days and longer if we wanted our lost spirits to have the best chance of returning to us.
We got up to leave and we told that we were to take the beautiful pha kwan home with us. We sadly only had one more night in Vientiane so we took it back and had it in our hotel room for one night and then left it for the cleaner the next day so hopefully it might return her spirits too.
I kept my strings on for the rest of our holiday so hopefully all my spirits have returned to me. My husband took his off when we left Laos which was at least three days so I think he has been balanced too.
I found the ceremony really interesting. I am not sure i fully understand the whole thing. I am certain I understood not a word of the chanting but it was done with ceremony and was very serious too . The maw pawn didn’t speak to us at all except when doing his chanting and after the ceremony he disappeared very quickly. Out guide was greta and explained a lot of what went on to us so that we understood the ceremony and what happened a bit better than just sitting through it.
My husband can’t bend his knees and sit on the floor so he really struggled as you are meant to kneel and sit on your heels or sit cross legged and he can do neither so sort of had his legs bent to the side. This is something to consider if you have problems like this. You have to sit for about twenty minutes so my legs were just beginning to get pins and needles when we finished.
I thought it was lovely that we got to keep the pha Kwan and such a shame we only got to enoy it for one night. I hope the hotel cleaning staff got some pleasure out of it as so much work had gone into making it.
I am sure we paid for this in our tour but I am not sure what it cost. Selective Asia put together our itinerary for us and worked out all the flights etc while we just told them what we wanted to do.
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0.109489 | <urn:uuid:2a69dfb5-bafc-441c-b0dd-47a18ad4619a> | en | 0.960777 | Could today become the hottest day of the year?
Yesterday was the hottest day of the far.
The magic 30C was recorded in London, Rothamstead and Charlwood.
The last time we saw 30C was the 1st October last year.This could well be topped again today, with 31C possible in parts of the south-east
Across the south it'll be hot inland and muggy this evening and overnight.
Northern England, north Wales and areas of the north Midlands will be prone to more cloud and some drizzly rain but it'll remain warm - close in places.
Much of Scotland and Northern Ireland will be better and brighter than recent days.
Britain basks in hot weather
Britain is set to bask in more sunshine in the coming days as temperatures soar above 30C. | http://www.itv.com/news/update/2012-07-25/could-today-become-the-hottest-day-of-the-year/ | dclm-gs1-187740000 |
0.057738 | <urn:uuid:2efe7391-db68-442c-852d-6c6d008eb39c> | en | 0.88641 | The cause of appendicitis isn't always clear. Sometimes appendicitis can occur as a result of:
• An obstruction. Food waste or a hard piece of stool (fecal stone) can block the opening of the cavity that runs the length of your appendix.
• An infection. Appendicitis may also follow an infection, such as a gastrointestinal viral infection, or it may result from other types of inflammation.
In both cases, bacteria inside the appendix multiply rapidly, causing the appendix to become inflamed, swollen and filled with pus. If not treated promptly, the appendix can rupture.
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OP 2/11/13 11:49:58 AM#1
Having attained a Beta key from MMORPG and running the program at start, the first issue I found was its access. It seems the program has no certificate and has no known Windows identified creator. Alot of games are like this, but for a MMORPG I was surprised. I loaded the content anyway and for some reason the program requires complete computer access, meaning access to microphone, webcam and computer files. This was very surpising, why would a program that runs via Java with virtually no Beta download require complete access? Again no worries, I loaded it into a sandbox program to try out the game.
First Impressions as stated before the graphics are very simple, which I find acceptable considering the type of game. It starts out in a badly designed starter port where you create your characters identity. After doing so you are shipped off to the new world. Once in town you speak to a local guide and set up a beginner claim and are transported to your small area.
This begins the basic ladder of learning. The help feature seems obscure and doesnt explain much other than the abilities at hand, but I enjoy finding things out on my own, so I jumped in. To reach a new ability, you must study the items in your surroundings, which is tedious somewhat, especially considering the poor nature in which moving and targetting is layed out. I found the neanderthal movement and poor map views create a pointless hustle to and from.
Exploring and studying, and crafting things from scratch reminds me of Civilization somewhat, just more poorly conceived. This game is has alot of ideas and exciting possibilities, and I was excited to explore and uncover new skills, but the lack of proper explanation and poor movement and control I hope is changed or fixed by official launch. After collecting and crafting a few items I found the game to just leave me lacking ambitious drive.
I implore you try it out, very few games come along that break a mold, I feel this may be one of them, although at beta deployment Im yet unsatisfied. These are just first impressions, given to explain to anyone that may be interested in trying it out.
Thanks to the developers for offering up something different.
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2/11/13 12:11:11 PM#2
When i first started to try it , i felt the same . But after a week , i couldn't stand it .
For me , the game is a total let-down . Although the best thing about the game is it is almost 100% sandbox , you can build a lot of things , explore the land , the more you play , the more you get ...etc .. the perma death system totally ruins it .
It's not just because of the perma-death system , but the lack of justice . The stronger just get stronger and punish the weak , it is ridiculous for a sandbox game that it's better not to trust anyone , because most of them will try to grief you . In fact , the game support griefing and other crimes and the developers just love it .
The game has been beta for months but there's only a few players playing , only around 250 - 350 players at a time . Most of them are old players raiding around to kill other people .
If you are a player who love exploring the game and do stuff together with other people , the game may not for you .
It's sad to say , i like everything except griefing support and perma-death system . The current player base maybe enough for the developers ( only 2 people ) but not enough for me to keep playing the game .
That's just my 2cent
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2/11/13 12:51:42 PM#3
The game is a joke, gl with this flamming pile of poo.
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2/11/13 5:47:28 PM#4
Originally posted by birken
The game actually has potential , but they just fucked it up .
What they do is create a system that only satisfy a small group of player , that sucks.
But if you are a graphic fag that only play shitty WoW clones , games like this make no sense to you
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2/20/13 4:02:18 AM#5
Permadeath isn't exactly perma death. You retain your claim, you retain some skills (AFAIK), etc. There is also a great JUSTICE system where murders can be summoned while offline and killed and have all their stuff taken from them without activating the same system against the justice bringers.
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3/10/13 6:17:42 AM#6
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Originally posted by birken
I'm on the same opinion also. I've just tried it out again, but its absolutely pointless for a "normal" player. I've no problem with the perma-death system or open looting itself, but combined this with a very much grinding leveling system where you just need spend lots of boring, monotone work to get your character high and then grief without any consequence fucks it up.
This way there is a dozen of aggro harcore kiddie who lives out their perverted needs to grief other players. Ive made some suggestions on the official forums, but they spammed it over, not even giving the possibility for the devs to read it.
I've just said that somehow it should be made available, that regardless of you char level you always hava a certain chance to do a knock out if you are defending (not moving for 5 secs). They started moaning instantly that this would ruin ther precious fun of grinding for weeks just to be able to play god and grief normal players.
The strange thing, that even so these few fanboys say that this game was ment for them and everyone else just gtfo, looking at the extensive crafting building part of the game as an analoge it looks like this to me:
A few 5-6 year old kids are given a chess set, and then they try to set up the chess table with the figures and they just would like to start playing, when a dumb hyperactive kid rushes there, turns over the board with the figures and starts to berzerk and hit and beat the other kids with the chess board and the figures. And while doing that he is roaring like this: "DONT YOU SEE, THIS THING WAS MEANT TO BE USED LIKE THIS!!"
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3/10/13 6:24:52 AM#7
Fun game, really unforgiving. Took me ages to even learn how to fight stuff I wahrilled when I made my own slingshot but somone lured a bear to town and that was interesting and didn't end up going too well either did the unfortanate incidant of my trespassing a random containter only to be knocked out until the server had to get restarted (5 days later) thats what alts are for I guess. Not everyone would like it but it rewards you if you like walking around alot and picking up items. Other than towns you probly won't see alot of people in your travels so stay in your little corner or go around with friends and you should be fine. People aren't going ot kill you just because they can it takes alot of effort and you have to know what you are doing.
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3/10/13 6:34:13 AM#8
I tried and a few very quick observations. One its not a casual game and has some unfair, worthless things. Secondly the graphics are awful. This game needs some changes or it will be a footnote like many others before it.
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6/06/13 2:54:25 AM#9
Use the Wiki, the Youtube videos, and the Salem forums and you'll have a much easier transition into the game. This game is not for the feint of heart. It is unforgiving and hardcore building and farming. Be warned. | http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/582/view/forums/post/5605251 | dclm-gs1-187990000 |
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I wonder if it's a coincidence.
Putting up the Pre 3 for pre-order (no pun intended) and introducing a better version of the TouchPad and then announcing you're going to cancel the lot make it seem they had a plan they suddenly canceled for some reason.
Yet would they do this because of Google/Motorola Mobile? It's not even an official done deal yet and there are no indications where this will lead to. It might strengthen Android, it may also be the beginning of the end. Will HTC and Samsung continue with Android, dump it, or go along with while also looking at WP7.
One would expect these kind of decisions to be the result of months of planning and talks.
Why not give webOS a chance first? Sure, it probably already failed as a tablet, but why not give the phone version a chance. Apple was aiming for 1% market share when the iPhone was announced, so they thought they could make a profit with only 1% market share. Surely HP can grab at least 1% with the HP Pre 3.
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You are right when you say xNN is difficult to hack on. It takes a while to get used to epoptai's style. I keep telling myself I should sit down and refactor it one day.
One of the nice features xNN has, that bivnn yet lacks, is displaying the response nodes in their threaded order underneath a primary node. It's a really effective way of letting you see how busy a node is, long vs. deep, bushy vs. thin and so forth.
Secondly, for new nodes that are replies to older nodes that themselves have fallen of the end of the newest nodes, they get listed in a separate section, with a link to the parent node as well. This lets you jump straight to the parent node, so that you can read the response in context.
I think the default xNN behaviour in this section was to sort the titles alphabetically. Whatever, I didn't find it very useful. I hacked it to display by sorting the parent nodes ascendingly, which means you see the reponses to the oldest nodes first, and multiple new nodes to an old node are grouped together.
The final feature that xNN has is, put it this way, your HTML design skills are about on par with mine (that is, essentially non-existent). epoptai is a grandmaster paramount HTML designer who moved from designing web pages to writing Perl code without any formal training (which goes a long way in explaining why the code is as it is, and why the results look as good as they do).
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by blakem (Monsignor) on Sep 30, 2001 at 19:55 UTC
You're right, I wasn't going for a fancy HTML interface. I also avoided the threaded look, even though that functionality is built into the PerlMonks Modules. My primary goal was simply to generate the shortest list of links needed to catch up on my perlmonks reading. Since the threads aren't usually all that deep (atleast not like USENET) I didn't think the theaded functionality would be particularly helpful to me. Although, if someone wants to take the code and run with it..... ;-)
(ichimunki) re x 2: bivnn.cgi
by ichimunki (Priest) on Oct 01, 2001 at 16:33 UTC
Hmmm. I think I prefer blakem's plain text approach. On my browser, epoptai's page produces a font size that requires a magnifying glass to view. Thankfully my browser includes one, but pressing it increases all the text on the page and I had to press it a couple of times to get back to my default "regular" text size-- which is the size I expect most of the text on a page to be in. That's why that size is the default.Then he's gone and used form inputs as display elements. I suppose form elements can be seen as graphic widgets, but I have a tendency to expect them to do something.
So maybe our opinions differ about what is good web design, but blakem's code is solid Perl and that gives it a decent foundation upon which to build and add embellishments and prettifications. But as I said, I like it the way it is. :)
Odd that you should say that. The output from xNN and reputer is no smaller than the output of Perlmonks itself, plus, you have the source to make it bigger, which is not as easily accomplished here. (But you're right, I too dislike pages that use a blanket <font size="-1"></font>).
Could you elaborate on form inputs used as display elements? All the form elements I can get my hands on have a function, but I could be missing something.
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(I swear I responded to this, but that response seems to have gone missing-- maybe I previewed without submit.)
My bad. I was looking at the reputer demo on Konq 2.2.1. Under IE 5.5 (here at work) it looks a lot better. The xNN demo also looks quite nice on IE 5.5, but I suspect it is also going to have problems on Konq (I'll have to check it when I get home). But the fact that the pages change fairly dramatically between clients is exactly why blakem's plain old CGI-generated HTML is so great. It looked the same on both IE5.5 and Konq 2.2.1-- a big win in my book.
The form elements was talking about really do serve a purpose. They just don't do it on the demo page, so my apologies to epoptai for that unfair criticism.
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May 10 2013: Saying "metaphysics" means so many different things. The word is very inclusive. Are you saying we should focus only on hard science? We should not concern ourselves with anything outside of what science attempts to prove?
I think you may want to reconsider.
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May 11 2013: HI Henry,
you are right about metaphysics being a very open-ended word but I'm simply talking about the nature of reality and the metaphysical conclusions derived from it.
There is nothing wrong with questioning the nature of reality. What would philosophy be without questions?..In regards to the natural world and claims regarding the universe I don't think metaphysics has any value. I have professors who claim that the creation of the universe is consciousness. While this may be a possibility I don't think its likely and sure doesn't scale with what science (at least up to date) has found. If it is one day proven that consciousness is the source of everything then I will change my mind.
I think scientific questions should be left to science. Will there be overlap between other disciples like philosophy and religion? absolutely and when it comes to that the implications can be discussed there.
Also I'm not saying we should focus on hard science. I'm saying we should focus on the actual evidence. Not because we may lose value but because that is actually the way things are. I think there are many ways outside of science to do that such as philosophy.
I will gladly reconsider my point when I'm convinced that metaphysics (i.e. studying the nature of reality) can have a suitable purpose. If conclusions derived from it can scale with the actual evidence (be it scientific or not).
I took a class called power and oppression. Very interesting class and the approach by the professor was eastern mysticism. It was great. He mentioned that through meditation, we can understand the true harmony of the universe. How we should act in every moment. While I would love to explore that personally, I know many people do not have the time in there everyday lives to be able to do that due to work, school, family, etc. Contemplating such a reality would seem impractical in the real word.
I'm happy to be wrong in what I say but how can metaphysics be employed pragmatically?
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May 11 2013: You don't believe studying the nature of reality serves a purpose until we can measure our conclusions with actual evidence? How can we obtain evidence of anything unless we study it?
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May 11 2013: Great question, I'll try to address it the best I can,
Most of our lives, when people make claims about things we look for good reason and evidence. As I mentioned before, I don't think there is anything wrong with questioning. The act questioning is not what I have a problem with.
exploring these questions in more detail is a great thing and of course there are a multiplicity of ways of doing so (philosophy, science, religion, politics, etc)
The issue I have is the conclusions that are derived from these questions. Some of them seem insufficient from what the world actually is like (then again who knows what true nature of reality is?)
As for you first question "You don't believe studying the nature of reality serves a purpose until we can measure our conclusions with actual evidence?"
I don't think so in the sense of what goes in the world everyday. There are people who enjoy exploring these issues.. They enjoy the thrill of trying to understand what is real and what is not. or what is the true nature of their being...
I really believe that people look for good reasons and evidence for claims such as what everyone is doing in this post. The burden of proof is on me justify why I think metaphysics serves no purpose to philosophy or the world and everyone who responds will want me to provide a good reason (or evidence if necessary) as to why and everyone will outright tell me if I'm wrong, which I"m ok with.
So once again, I'm not trying to do away with questioning. Questioning is good. philosophy is a good tool of doing so...but I just think the conclusions that are derived should scale with the way things are or we can be honest enough to admit that we don't know as opposed to making insufficient claims (as I think my professors have done) or even myself in this particular post. If I am proven wrong and convinced that metaphysics in the way we are discussing it is valuable then so be it. I have learned something new.
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May 11 2013: What part of your philosophy class do you disagree with. Can you give me an example of something they tried to teach you that is in conflict with science?
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May 11 2013: oh yeah absolutely...
I was told that the origins of the universe is nothing. which he mentioned as not-a-thing. Something that is non-physical..to spare you details he was stating that consciousness is what gives rise to the physical world...I acknowledge that his claims is very eastern and I acknowledge that it is possible that he's right but I just don't think its correct based off what modern astronomers and astrophysics say (although some invoke quantum mechanics and relate subatomic particles to consciousness).
a couple of them also state that you can meditate your way into free-will. I am not purposing that determinism is true for I do not know but I hear that there is evidence to suggest that it might be although it may not be conclusive. He maybe right about meditation and obviously its difficult, if not impossible to approach subjective matters in an objective way.
Another issue is consciousness. Most of my professors believe that consciousness is independent of the brain and that all of our experiences are interdependent of the brain. Now although there is no evidence of consciousness in the natural world, there is reason and some evidence to suggest that there is a relationship to our experiences (if we link consciousness to experience) and our brains. When I present why I challenge the notion that consciousness may not be independent of the brain I'm told that I'm just deluded by my western thinking. Personally I'm open minded to consciousness being independent of the brain but I don't find it compelling.
Last but not least I asked him what happens if im 30yrs old, in great health and I reach enlightenment and go into nirvana. He stated that I just wither away. I understand the notion of the non self but I assure you that was not the response he gave me. He said I would no longer exist on this planet.
Perhaps I can't let my professors dictate the purpose of metaphysics but its hard not to when they have Ph. D's. sorry for the long response.
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May 14 2013: Wow . . . this is good! But on Second reading (3 days late) I have to repeat ALL of my other concerns. You have a LOONEY for a professor. I had one of those once. And spending too much time with a nutty-professor can destroy your academic career. I found that out the hard way. And this guy was so respected that he was able to destroy ALL of my academic opportunities otherwise! It isn't worth the risk.
I have an undergraduate degree in Psychology. There are no professionals in Psychology, Psychiatry, or Neuroscience who believe that Consciousness is independent of the brain! In fact all the empirical evidence from PET scans suggests that there is good evidence for consciousness inside the brain and also evidence for meditative states. All that from INSIDE the BRAIN! If the Professor of Philosophy are ignorant of both Physics, and Psychology as parallel and valid disciplines; and if they are likewise clue-less as to the fact that those academic findings are already entering the public consciousness, then let them all be damned!
Are they teaching Eastern Metaphysics or Western Metaphysics? Have they told you which one? And the idea that . . . I'm too angry to think about it! Mr. Hawkins! If you have the courage of your own convictions, and if you can afford to believe in yourself, do it! YOU are NOT the delusional one! Not at all! You do NOT need these people. They are cheating you out of the education you deserve. There is not one major, reputable University on Earth that would tolerate the drivel you are having to endure. Do these people send either you or your parents TUITION bills? If so, someone is being cheated!
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I'm responding to the number 6 comment made by Farrah. You complain about racism but yet still manage to call white people "crackers". Thats a hypocritical don't you think? I'm about sick and tired of some black people shouting racism when they themselves are guilty of the worst of it. I can listen to Chris Rock on HBO bash white people with cracker this and cracker that but let one white person even think of the "N" word, and all hell breaks loose. Why don't you practice what you preach.
2593 days ago
Pat Allen
All I have to say is Obama is one good looking man, not only will I vote for him, he can park his shoes under my bed anytime he wants too
2593 days ago
Oh Please... I'm white, and I have no problem telling Obama and Will Smith apart. I don't think it's a black white thing, I think it's a go to the eye doctor, you need glasses thing! Please!...Will Smith is SOOOOO much better lookin'. And I would rather vote for Will Smith myself!!! Will Smith for president, finally a candidate that we LIKE!!!!!
2593 days ago
...That's Neil WINTERS played by Kristoff St. John from "The Young And The Restless". No, he doesn't look like him, either, but Mr. Obama will definately have my vote based on his INTELLIGENCE and POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE should he win the nom.
2593 days ago
irene forbes
talk about RACIAL PROFILING !!
they're both black. End of "resemblance"
2593 days ago
They are both great, but, NO, no resemblance there! VOTE for OBAMA!!
2593 days ago
They do not look at all alike, except their teeth do look alike and their eye color!
Both are attractive, articulate, and intelligent. I will definitely vote for Obama if he is nominated!!!!! (and I'm white).
2593 days ago
there are some ppl out there that still think all blacks/asians/hispanics/indians/native american indians all look alike b/c they're too STUPID to stop and consider that there are subtle differences. but that's ok b/c all white ppl look alike, too! HA!
2593 days ago
If black people are smart they will not make the 2008 elections primary and or general a black/white issue. If Obama is the candidate in Nov 2008, he will need the votes of the tradtional white democrats to win! I have seen this happen on a smaller scale in local union elections with a black and white running as soon as the blacks started talking voting black to elect black the black candidate lost over 60% of his support from the white voters. I for one do not want to see that happen in this case, I will vote for the democrat what ever thier color but belive me some people wiil not if they feel it has become a racial issue!
2593 days ago
I think most people recognize the differences - and the similarities - both are attractive men (who happen to be black), and they have so much to offer - Will with his phenomenal talent to entertain, and Barack with his ability to inspire all of us to be better, to expect better.
Not every white person is a racist ass - don't judge us by the fool who stole the White House in 2000 - we look at the pool of candidates and see Barack as one of the best things that has happened in the political arena in a very, very long time. I feel confident that Barack will be on the ticket next year, whether as Pres or VP (think of it - Barack as VP for 8 years, getting the international experience he doesn't have yet ... then another 8 years as Pres - that would be ideal in my eyes, but then, I'm just one person) - any way you look at it, he's in it, and he's going to win - and we, as a country, will be far better for it, for a long time to come.
2593 days ago
Farrah is nothing but a racist himself to use text like he did. It's people like you that fuel this country with the racist attitudes you talk. Obama wouldn't want your vote he's not trash like you. How many white people have you you invited into your home I bet not one. I have many freinds of different color who walk into my home and are considered freinds, the only differents there not trash like you. You keep talking trash and you become one. I'm glad some people I know don't use the race card everytime something bad happens to them the've climbed out of poverty and became something working hard for it not like you.
2593 days ago
Smith and Barak??????? I thought that was pics of Jimmy JJ Dynomite Johnson.
2593 days ago
Did you not read when he said Older couple? They knew it was someone that or they had seen on TV, in the news, what ever. I don`t think it had any thing to with their color. And who knows Will Smith could run for Office one day.....LOL
2593 days ago
To Farrah: Talk about an ignorant racist, it was your bro Nagan and all the other corrupt sob's in La who fomented that situation in N O. Nagan ran out on the people, allowed the cops to run out on the people, gave false information to the White House, and to the FEMA rescue personnel even when FEMA could see people on TV stranded by their local state government - Nagan denied they were stranded, then made up false stories to cover his rear and his corrupt administration. Pres Bush has spent, according to Bono, a hundred times more money on poverty and the age affliction of Africa, 7 billion dollars in one program alone. Treatment for black africans went from less than 50,000 a day to over 1 million, to vote for someone because of their color is as bad as voting against someone because of their color. Try to get some facts before you run your ignorant mouth.
2593 days ago
They may not look alike, but Will could play the part, if they should ever do a movie about Obama. as for the comment about the president being racist, you all need to stop putting down the president and start supporting him. At least he stood up for something, instead of sweeping it under the rug, When you fight you don't know how it will come out. Somebody has to pay for the invasion to the U.S. Also this was not a draft war. These people volunteer, and knew what they were getting into. Only in America can we put the president down, and get away with it. How do you think this looks to outsiders. The man cannot base his decisions on popular opinion. And I'm democrat. I just don't believe the president gets off seeing our troops being killed, but that's the downside to war.
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Mmm Nuts?
Posted Nov 14 2012 10:00am
Are nuts good for you?
Of course they are!
A lot of people ask me will nuts make them gain weight?
Like anything it depends. Rarely does your body store fat from eating fat, however if you’re eating like 3-4 handfuls a day you may have a problem. Especially if you already have a dysfunctional digestive system. Fats will always slow digestion. We need them, and lots of varieties. But over eating them will cause digestive stress and reduce the nutrient intake of other foods. It’s not as big of an issue with the fat from raw nuts or fruits like Avocado’s, but we should still be concerned. Even small amounts of man made or animal fats on the other hand will likely cause complications.
There are two things to look out for in nuts: Quality and method of preparation. Most nuts are good for you, however when they store for long periods of time out of the shell or their cooked, they often lose their nutrients and can be harmful for your health.
Peanuts for example should always be consumed in moderation and only from good quality sources. It’s no secret there one of the most common allergens, as well they are often likely to grow the aflatoxin mould, which is among the most carcinogenic substance known.
It is especially important you get you peanut butters and any other nut butter from a natural source. Stay away from any with additives as there likely to have added sugar, vegetable oils, and poor quality nut sources.
Method of preparation is also key. If your nuts are roasted, or fried in hydrogenated oils your basically eating garbage. Many of the important nutrients are often void. It’s alright to enjoy your nuts with a little salt, but you must ensure the source is sea salt.
Experiment with all the different varieties.
Walnuts are great for inflammation due to the high omega 3 content.
Almonds are high in finer and full of nutrients. Almonds are actually best if soaked for 12 hours as if you were to sprout a seed. This releases more nutrients.
Cashews are high in the essential minerals iron, zinc, and magnesium.
Pecans are high in antioxidants.
Brazil nuts are high in selenium.
You’re not going to agree with every nut you put in your body. Start off with two separate half handfuls of raw nuts per day and see what happens. One of the greatest advantages of eating nuts is the feeling of satisfaction after you eat them. Due to the fat and fibre content your often full for an hour two after.
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Egypt political upheaval to deepen economic crisis
Wednesday - 7/3/2013, 8:34pm ET
FILE - In this Tuesday, June 25, 2013 file photo, Egyptian drivers wait outside in long queues at a gasoline station in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's descent into even deeper political turmoil puts any plans for economic reforms to secure a $4.8 billion IMF loan into a dangerous limbo. If put on hold, Egyptians will likely face a deterioration in the crisis, from worsening fuel shortages and blackouts, a further depreciation of the currency and a depletion of foreign currency reserves so severe it could make importing critical oil and food items difficult.(AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
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CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's descent into even deeper political turmoil will almost certainly put a multi-billion dollar international bailout on hold and lead to an even more painful economic crisis, with worsening fuel shortages and higher prices on basic goods.
The military's overthrow Wednesday of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi will likely put the implementation of austerity measures needed to secure that loan into a dangerous limbo.
It also put the $1.5 billion in annual U.S. military and economic assistance to Egypt in question.
President Barack Obama said he's ordered his administration to review U.S. foreign aid to Egypt, saying he's "deeply concerned" by the military's move, which he didn't call a coup. By law, the U.S. must suspend aid to any nation whose elected leader is ousted in a military coup.
The military moved in after four days of huge demonstrations against Morsi. Much of the anger grew from the country's dismal economic situation and the ever-growing burden it projects on already strapped Egyptians.
Analysts said Egypt could be moving toward a worst-case scenario economically -- from increasing fuel shortages and blackouts, a sudden and sharp depreciation of the currency that will make everything more expensive, and a depletion of foreign currency reserves so severe it could make importing critical oil and food items difficult.
"I think they are sort of entering uncharted territory," said Caroline Freund, an analyst at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington.
"Without political stability and policy predictability, investors and tourists are not going to come back," Freund said.
"There is no longer a middle class. They all became poor," she said. "I think this period of instability is going to be long."
Protracted fuel shortages are another source of anger and frustration. A common sight in the capital in the days before Morsi was overthrown was long lines of cars snaking around gas stations and blocking main roads in the city of about 20 million which already suffers from horrendous traffic jams.
A shortage of diesel, used by trucks and imported, is attributed to Egypt's dwindling foreign currency reserves. Other fuel shortages have been linked to corruption and sabotage. The shortages contributed to anger against Morsi.
To secure the IMF loan, Egypt is under pressure to phase out $14.5 billion a year in fuel subsidies that are a heavy drag on the budget. The government spends an additional $4 billion to subsidize food, most of it going to bread.
"Fighting unemployment and poverty is one of the essential aims of the new wave of revolution."
In the absence of an international rescue package, Egypt has relied on tens of billions of dollars of loans from wealthy Gulf countries such as Qatar and even oil-rich neighbor Libya to shore up fast-depleting foreign currency reserves, used to pay for imports and to prop up the value of the local currency.
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Restos de un Incendio is a collection of songs that appeared on Migala's three previous studio albums, but all of the songs have now been perfected. They've been re-recorded and adjusted as the band saw fit. With better arrangements, stronger playing, and a more focused intensity, the album easily sees Migala as masters of moody, atmospheric rock. The usual influences and comparisons are still in place: Godspeed You Black Emperor's epic instrumental fury, Nick Cave's introspection and intensity, Leonard Cohen's low-key yet emotional delivery, Tindersticks' poetic explorations, Arab Strap's modern slow-burn, and Ry Cooder's spatial painting. Acoustic guitars shimmer and jangle, accordions fade in and out of the ether, a piano twinkle causes tension, and Abel Hernandez enunciates with a beguiling honesty, his vocals stronger and more compelling than ever. That Migala is able to create an original sound, while suggesting such a wide range of influences, is a testament to how focused and honed they've made their art. Highlights abound, and there's a not a weak song among the 11 tracks, as the band shuffles around in truly inspired territory where delicate whispers and bombastic electric guitars never seem out of place or forced. If Sergio Leone is making movies in some sort of afterlife, he's surely including Migala's music as soundtrack material.
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Sensational 70's--not a sensation
Remade versions of 70's songs are not sensational. That's the problem with this album. So what appears to be a good buy of 36 songs for $9.99 isn't a bargain at all because a lot of the songs are not what you heard on the radio in the 70's or even on the albums. A lot of the tunes are remastered with new vocal variations or are not the group which made the song popular in the 70's. My husband and I were very disappointed with this album.
Why hasn't iTunes responded yet?
All these piece of crap re-recordings have been complained about by iTunes customers. Why hasn't Apple responded? What is their problem? I can't speak for everyone, but I personally have spent hundreds of dollars on iTunes material, and still they push this fake music on customers. I am very careful. I was nailed once with a fake remake, and it will not happen again. Why put this junk on the site at all? It's a terrible insult.
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A/N: Dear admin, I will delete this "chapter" in a few days again, so please, do not bother yourself by sending me a "please-delete-this-immediately-or-we-will-do-it-for-you" email. Thank you.
Wow, this has taken longer than I´d wish, but real life has taken a hold of me and is unwilling to let go. So I decided, instead of getting rid of it, to arrange with it. Real life will stay in the background as long as I work diligently, and I will have a few hours per week to work on my favourite subject – fanfiction!
This is a little appetizer for the Sequel to Delw Yomenie (Deadly Encounter). The first real chapter will be posted as soon as it is beta-ed, which will be (very) soon.
The sequel will be darker, stronger, more emotional, bolder and well…..more evil, than Delw Yomenie.
As some of you know, Delw Yomenie was my first fanfiction ever (besides the Teitho contest "What if", but I never got any feedback on that story before starting this one, so basically, DY was my "first" fanfiction ever) and I have improved since writing it (at least I hope so). Furthermore, DY was thought of while written, I had no idea where it was leading or what would happen next. This one instead, already has a developed plot and I hope that it will be more enjoyable to read than DY.
So, here the little "appetizer", hope you enjoy!
They can be found at most places. Some are made by mother nature itself, some are made by skilled hands. Many have been used to do good, most of them have not.
They are living in the deep forests, some dwell in deep chasms or caves, where no light ever reaches, other reside in rivers or lakes, water their element. Some love the cold, others the sun's warm rays; they are all different, but have one thing in common:
They bring out the death.
One by touch, one by smell… and others by being eaten.
Some are destined to only kill humans, the fragile, mortal souls being ripped apart from their bodies.
Others were made for the Elves, immortal and fair, but their spirit will never sail to the Undying lands once the evil does its work.
And others, are meant for all.
They have been analysed and catalogued, but with the passing of time some have vanished out of the healer's mind.
Until they are brought back to his attention by the cruellest way imaginable.
Some are stupid, they are so eager to do their work that they will kill you within seconds, minutes, maybe some few hours – if they can bear to wait that long.
They will crush your lungs or infect your heart, change your blood or make you hallucinate until the end.
They kill you fast, some painless, others not.
But they are so eager that you will have no time to worry about your fate or that of your family. Not for long, at least.
Some are wiser, their powers strong, sucking your strength, grinding your bones to ashes, nibbling at your flesh and making your blood so thick that it will become a lump in your veins, making you scream out your lungs and cry, whimper and whine, beg for mercy and a quick death.
If you have enough strength to scream, that is.
But they are not the ones you have to fear.
No, fear is reserved for those that are intelligent enough to stay hidden and a secret.
They claim your body bit by bit, they are like a secret weapon that one carries under his cloak, hidden and invisible.
You do not even know that it is there, but then, when you expect it the least, you are stabbed with it into your back.
And then you realize –too late- what has befallen you.
And some are even more evil.
They will come at you in phases, waves that make you weak like a child.
Then they retreat and you take a deep breath, willing to get over the experience and just when you begin to forget, the secret weapon strikes again, this time bringing you to your knees.
And when you see your body succumb to the evil in your veins, when you spit out the blood that has filled your lungs and feel the sweat trickle down your brow, then you know that your time on this arda will not find a pleasant ending.
Nor a quick one.
And you begin not only to worry for your own fate, but that of your family and friends as well.
One of these, the most intelligent one, long forgotten by most, a thing so evil that it has not been used for millennia, has found its way into willing hands, belonging to someone who is himself infected by a poison: hate.
And he wants his revenge.
Four set out from Imladris and soon they will go their separate ways.
One to the East, where a Kingdom calls for him,
Two to the West, where their home is, and
One to the North, where duty awaits his return.
Four set out from the shadows to follow.
One a poacher, good with bow and arrow,
One a hunter, cunning with traps and tracking,
One a killer, skilled with sword and knife, and
A former captain of men, a master in all these skills, eager to get his revenge.
The poison is taken, sleeping still, patiently waiting to strike.
But as fate has it, not only the initiated target falls victim to its spell.
A game of cat and mouse begins, more deadly than anything that they have encountered before.
Souls are tormented,
Sacrifices made,
Lives lost.
And before it ends, one has to make a decision that will not only tear his heart apart, but that will claim his very soul…..or his best friend´s life.
Read all this in: "The Roots of Evil".
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August 11, 2005
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or its characters and make no money of it. I'm not sure I would even if I owned them.
Warnings: This is my first HP fanfic which you got to see. I'm not a native English speaker, but I try. And this is going to contain SLASH! If you don't like it, you can still read it if you harbour masochistic tendencies. Flames are used to warm my cold little heart.
A/N: chapter edited for mistakes – nothing substantially changed in the plot, though.
Beta-ed by: Kathleen, Tigressa and Scarlett
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Chapter One
Another morning dawned with the sun shining into his generously furnished spacious bedroom. The smell of delicious breakfast on his bedside table kept fresh by a charm. His body was satisfied and his sheets rumpled from last night's activity. The person whose company he had enjoyed had already vacated his bedroom before he woke up, leaving him to his esteemed solitude, as she had been commanded to do. Life was just perfect this time of the day. He liked to submerge in his thoughts and the laziness of being who he was, living the life of the rich and carefree.
He was disgustingly rich. He was strikingly handsome. He was admittedly witty and cunning. He was a pureblood wizard from an old, esteemed family, married to a pureblood witch who was praised to be one of the most beautiful women in England. He was envied, respected and bowed down to by most of the wizarding world. Draco Malfoy's life was everything he had always wished for.
He was about to celebrate his twenty-fourth birthday in a few months. He reminded himself to be proud of being so young and already having accomplished all that. Had his father still been alive, he would have been proud of his son, he thought with a self-satisfied smirk creeping onto his face.
Yes, he would be proud of him!
Sure, he didn't have the nifty job in the Ministry, as his father had had – yet. He didn't have the Minister eating out of his palm (but he was sure his father wouldn't blame him, seeing as how Granger wouldn't ever trust him, no matter what he said, did or how much he paid to 'charity' cases). She was too young to be Minister of Magic, anyway. Draco was sure that after the masses' fear of wars and Dark Lords had died down, they would realise that fact, and replace her with someone more appropriate for the position – a pureblood wizard of a respected family with more experience in politics, obviously. She was too young, too idealistic and a Mudblood to boot. Draco didn't say it out loud, because he didn't want to be accused of having chauvinistic views, but he also thought that a woman was not suited to govern a nation. Of course Draco wouldn't be too surprised if he was the one requested to take that position after the Mudblood's timely retreat. His father's teachings hadn't been wasted on him; he knew exactly how he should use the considerable amount of galleons at his disposal.
Oh, he wasn't so conceited to actually believe that he would have a chance of being elected, had he applied to the position. But an invitation would look good in his political career; even more so, if he politely refused for now, kindly agreeing to take the position of advisory to the new Minister instead. He didn't doubt for a second that he would be able to, after such measures. That would suit better his purposes, anyway; to dictate from the shadows, while other people took the blame for his actions. The only setback would be that it wouldn't satisfy his vanity, but he wasn't the impatient type. (Well, not always at least.) He knew that good things came to those who could wait - and while he was waiting, he could still manipulate the strings from the background.
There was only one issue in his life that he couldn't wait for much longer, and that was the question of an heir. He was already twenty-three, and had been married for six years – the seventh anniversary of his marriage was nearing now. And he still had no successor; Pansy hadn't got pregnant even once throughout the six long years. If he didn't know that she was equally concerned by it (for very valid reasons), he would have suspected that she used some means of contraception on purpose.
Pansy was a trophy-wife. She was blonde (now), fair, slender, willowy, elegant and refined - at least when she wanted to be - with a figure of a Greek goddess and the face of an angel (after she had surgically corrected her nose in St. Mungo's and had lost a few pounds, to meet Draco's conditions for their marriage). Draco understood that she didn't wish to deteriorate her hard-acquired perfect figure by bearing a child, but she also didn't wish to be stripped of her titles and fortune as the Lady of the Malfoy Estates. Since the two issues had contradicted each other, she had to choose, and Draco didn't have a grain of a doubt which alternative she had chosen. Nine-plus-some months of not looking perfect were worth retaining the whole mountain of galleons and her position in wizarding society.
But time was running out on them. The law of the Malfoy family – some long deceased ancestor's magically legalised last will – had declared that the prevailing Lord of the Malfoy Estates had to produce an heir of his own flesh and blood before he reached the age of twenty-five. If he failed to do that, all of his titles and the family estates would go over to his nearest kin, the next in line who had already satisfied these requisites. (That had been how his grandfather became Lord Malfoy after feeding an abortive potion to the Lady Malfoy of the time, and so successfully impending the birth of the next heir in the last moment. Of course, the deed couldn't ever be brought into connection to him.)
Draco had several cousins who would have jumped at the possibility to get his inheritance, but one of them – the most likely to get his titles if he failed to produce an heir – was the worst of all. His name was Cyrus Malfoy. He was six years older than Draco and had had a son at the age of twenty. That son was guarded like some hidden treasure, as he was the means for his father to get what he wanted – the Malfoy Estates. Cyrus, just as every other Malfoy aside from Draco and Lucius had gone to Drumstrang, so he knew his business well enough, and Draco didn't doubt for an instant that he would have to be wary of him.
Now Draco had only three months until his twenty-fourth birthday; that meant he had approximately six months to impregnate his wife so that the child would be born before his twenty-fifth birthday. After a successful conception, it was a trivial matter to ensure that the gender of the infant would be male. The method was a combination of spells and potions, which could be purchased in Knockturn Alley. The ritual, with everything involved, was a bit on the dark side of magic, but not enough so that the Ministry would feel compelled to prohibit its use. It stood the test of time as a very common practice in the Malfoy family and most likely in other pureblood families as well. The degenerative side effects had been never spoken of, as being dangerous only in the long run. (Draco sometimes wondered why centuries wouldn't count as the 'long run' in his family.) There was also the possibility of miscarriage, but seeing that he could afford the best of the medical personnel and security measures, he wasn't overly worried about it. Besides, he would have plenty of time worry after he succeeded in getting his wife pregnant.
For the first few years of their marriage, they hadn't been overly concerned by the issue of an heir. Why should they have been? They had had time – or so they had thought. Neither of them had felt the need to have a child at such a young age. Instead they opted to enjoy their newfound freedom that their marriage brought them - as strange as that might sound -, and spend some of the money that had come with their becoming the new Lord and Lady Malfoy.
They hadn't married out of love, few of the members of rich pureblood families ever did. Sure, they had liked each other enough. They had a 'fling' – as Pansy liked to call it – with each other over the years they had gone to Hogwarts, and after it had ended, they still could tolerate each other's company enough to live under the same roof. But neither of them wanted to force the other to dedicate themselves completely to their marriage. Both of them were released from their parents' supervision, were of age and were free to do as they wished – with certain boundaries. Both had a row of lovers and flings – it had been tolerated if not expected of them, seeing as who they were. Discretion of course was a must, but both had been already experienced in the art of secrecy.
They hadn't ever been in love with each other, that was quite obvious. Not that either of them could relate to that particular phenomenon from close up. They understood each other; their personalities were similar, even if their field of interest was not. They considered the other a friend (in Gryffindor and Hufflepuff translation, closer to a business affiliate). So after Draco's twenty-first birthday – during the fourth year of their marriage – when there still had been no sight of a progeny, they had come together and sat down to a conversation regarding the matter.
Draco had insisted that Pansy see a mediwitch and be examined for the possible cause of her infertility. When Pansy had brought up the matter that maybe Draco should do the same, she got the answer that it had been already done, and the result had unquestionably confirmed that he wasn't at fault in their inability to produce an heir. Pansy noted the statement and submitted herself to the examination by no fewer then four mediwitches and wizards. All of the examiners had given the same result: she was in good health and hundred percent fertile.
So the next two years were spent with Pansy imbibing strengthening and fertilizing potions, counting ovulation periods and utilizing them to full extent while serving one's obligation as a wife – all that to no avail.
Now, with only six short months to spare, the time had come when Draco Malfoy had seen appropriate to give way to despair.
Draco Malfoy was an unparalleled individual. His uniqueness lay – true to a former Slytherin – in his exceptional ability of bending the facts. He was so good at it that most of the time he was able to convince not only his subjects but also himself of the truth of certain statements. When he had told Pansy that the fertility of his seed was not to be questioned, he merely expressed his wish for it to be so, when he had no real facts to underlay its authenticity whatsoever. Sure, he had always believed in his own perfection, and to undermine that belief with something as ridiculous as sterility would have been unthinkable. So the thought hadn't even crossed his mind. The little white lie, that his condition had been already examined and declared impeccable, had come naturally to him, and the truthfulness of the second part of that statement hadn't been ever questioned by his mind – until this time.
Now, lying in his bed early in the morning (it couldn't have been later than half past ten), he felt very foolish, thinking about it and questioning his sanity. Of course he was not faulty! He was a Malfoy, for Merlin's sake. Malfoys were perfect; that was almost a law of nature, much like gravity. No one questioned gravity, and not ended up in St. Mungo's psychiatric ward!
As ridiculous as the idea seemed, though, it had somehow found its way into his thoughts every time he didn't wish to question his state of mind, and had driven him nearly mad. So he had decided– just to ease his mind – that he would undertake the necessary measures and let himself be examined by a specialist who could then tell him that – just as he suspected – everything was in perfect working order with him; and then he would Obliviate every person who had witnessed this embarrassing manifestation of this uncharacteristic and un-Malfoy-ish insecurity. At least the thought that he would get to manipulate people into acknowledging his superiority was Malfoy-ish, and therefore made the whole scheme if not entirely acceptable, at least a bit more all right.
He had gone so far as to inquire about the requirements of such an examination in St. Mungo's. Of course, he paid the personnel who got involved to shut their mouths until it was over and then he would get to Obliviate them. Also, he had given the name of Pansy as the future recipient of the examination. Not much later though he realised that he couldn't possibly keep it in secret from everyone. The bucket of ice water hit his face when the social column of the Daily Prophet had released an article about the Lady Malfoy's possible malady of gynaecological nature. He had been lucky that Pansy, when she had first heard of the news, had thought that the Prophet had got wind of her earlier examinations and written about it just now and hadn't connected the news with her husband.
He had been distressed about the matter, but then realised that he had gone way too far to quit now. If he didn't pull through with this, he wouldn't ever find his peace of mind. He noticed that he was far too distraught to be able to deal with the matter rationally when two weeks later he had found himself sitting in the waiting room of a Muggle Urologist Doctor's practice as the nurse called his assumed name. For a second he debated weather or not to stand up and run as far away and as quickly as his feet would allow, but his body thought differently and brought him obediently into the examination chamber.
The procedure had been infinitely embarrassing and uncivilised, but at least it had been short. He tried to forget it as quickly as he could after he stepped outside of the building. The results arrived in his Muggle post office box he had set up for this reason only, two weeks later.
'Low sperm count' – the 'urologist' had written. Whatever that may mean, he wasn't about to believe a Muggle charlatan! Whatever had possessed him to take up such a measure? He was a Malfoy, and Malfoys were perfect. Who was a lowly Muggle to ever question that fact? | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2530541/1/The-Basket-Case | dclm-gs1-189450000 |
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Understanding LDAP Security Processing
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It’s Randy again, here to discuss LDAP security. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is an interface used to read from and write to the Active Directory database. Therefore, your Active Directory Administration tools (i.e. AD Users and Computers, AD Sites and Services, etc.) as well as third party tools are often going to use LDAP to bind to the database in order to manage your domain. As you can imagine, we rely on Windows security to authorize what users can do when accessing this important database. Access to this database is controlled by the Directory System Agent (DSA), which is represented by Ntdsa.dll on a domain controller. Ntdsa.dll runs as a part of the Local Security Authority (LSA), which runs as Lsass.exe.
The process of granting access is a two step process; Authentication and Authorization. This blog post will focus on the Authentication portion (verifying the user’s identity.) If you would like to learn more about the Authorization process, please read my post on security tokens. Objects in the Active Directory database conform to the same rules as other Windows objects. They have permissions and privileges that govern what the authenticated user can do.
I use the LDP.EXE utility in Windows 2008 to reproduce all of the scenarios that follow. This tool is a client GUI to connect, bind and administrate Active Directory. You also want to download Network Monitor if you are troubleshooting an LDAP problem or want to follow along in your own network traces.
If you open up LDP and choose “Connect…” under the Connection menu and do not put in any parameters:
And choose bind as currently logged on user:
The first thing that you will notice is that it just works. We locate a valid domain controller when we do not specify a target DC by leveraging the DC Locator process and we bind as the currently logged on user by leveraging the security packages included in Windows. So what do we see in a network trace? We will be filtering on LDAP when opening in Network Monitor 3.3.
Why do we get results in LDP.exe before we even Bind?
The first set of traffic that we see is a couple of LDAP Search Requests and Search Responses. You can see this in the Description field of the Frame Summary:
So why do we see an LDAP search request before we do the LDAP bind? This is because we first access the “RootDSE” partition of the Active Directory Database as an anonymous connection to query information on the rules to bind and authenticate to this DSA. We allow anonymous access to this root, but in Windows Server 2003 and later we deny anonymous access to all other partitions in Active Directory. You can change this setting by changing the DSHeuristics value; this will be a forest-wide change for the behavior of all domain controllers.
You can see the LDAP request parameters as “BaseDN: NULL” if you look at the Frame Details pane of the LDAP search request. Expand the “LDAP: Search Request “ , then expand the “Parser: Search Request” , then expand the “Search Request”:
“BaseDN” is the container where the search begins in the LDAP query. NULL is going to be the RootDSE of the domain controller. This is why results return in the right hand pane of the LDP utility before we even bind.
The “LDAP: Search Result” shows this same data if you expand the “LDAP: Search Result”, then expand the “Parser: Search Result”, then expand the “SearchResultEntry”:
Notice that the results in the trace are identical to what displays on the LDP.exe result pane. One important piece of information that we get is “supportedSASLMechanisms”. These are the supported security mechanisms that we can use in our LDAP bind. We will discuss this later in the post.
Why do we log on as ‘Null’ when we select to pass credentials?
So next we bind and select the default of currently logged on user. In the result pane of LDP it shows that we are logging on as ‘NULL’.
I consider this more as an idiosyncrasy of the tool and not completely accurate. When we perform the Bind, we do present ‘NULL’ credentials, but specify SASL as the authentication type. At this point, we are passing the authentication process off to the SASL mechanism to complete. We can see evidence of this in the network trace.
Looking at the Bind Request in the frame details pane, you will see some interesting information as you expand out the LDAP packet:
Here we see that we are passing NULL credentials, but negotiate SASL authentication. Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) is a method for adding authentication support to connection-based protocols. So basically, LDAP binds with NULL credentials because we are handing off the logon process to SASL and letting it do all the work. We see details of the negotiation process in the bind request and where we present the Kerberos session ticket as a result of selecting the GSS-SPEGNO SASL mechanism:
So how does SASL provide authentication?
For detailed information, you can check out the IETF explanation of SASL. Similar to how the Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI) uses security packages, SASL will use registered SASL mechanisms to complete the authentication process. During the initial LDAP query for supportedSASLMechanisms described earlier. We retrieve a list of all the mechanisms from which the client and server will choose. Below is a list of the default mechanisms in Windows Server 2008.
Authentication Protocols
GSS-SPNEGO, in turn, uses Kerberos or NTLM as the underlying authentication protocol.
GSSAPI, in turn, always uses Kerberos as the underlying authentication protocol.
Used to allow a client to authenticate itself using information provided outside of the LDAP communication. Can be used to present certificates to establish TLS or IPSec.
Encrypts authentication using Digest-MD5
The LDP tool allows you to choose various mechanisms and is a great tool to test connections when other tools fail. You can select the appropriate bind specifications in order to closely simulate what your application is trying to perform.
The application will decide how it will bind to the database by what functions are used to establish the connection (i.e. LDAP_Simple_bind, LDAP_Sasl_bind, etc )
What about LDAP signing?
If you have ever looked through security settings in Group Policy, you may have stumbled on a couple related to LDAP.
Domain controller: LDAP server signing requirementsNetwork security: LDAP client signing requirements
These are both under Computer Configuration \ Windows Settings \ Security Settings \ Local Policies\Security Options .
Signing LDAP traffic is a way to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. By signing the LDAP traffic, this guarantees that the LDAP response did originate from the DC of whom the request was made. With these settings enabled, computers would not be able to intercept the traffic and modify the data on the wire. You can see the digital signing value in the network trace below. This value will be on every LDAP response from the DC where signing is done.
What is a Simple Bind?
An LDAP Simple Bind will send username and password in clear text to provide credentials to the LDAP server. This is not secure, so if your application is using simple binds it needs to be reconfigured or updated. You can create a Simple Bind using this option in LDP.exe or calling the LDAP_Simple_bind function in your code. In a network trace we can see the username and password in the LDAP BIND Frame.
With Signing required in my domain, I was unable to perform a simple bind with LDP.exe. I received the error “LDAP_Simple_Bind failed: Strong Authentication Required”.
What is an Anonymous Bind?
As mentioned earlier, every LDAP connection is going to perform an anonymous bind to query RootDSE of the LDAP server. Also mentioned earlier, by changing the DSHueristics value on your AD Forest, you can permit Anonymous Bind LDAP searches for all the AD Partitions. The anonymous bind is still restricted by the permissions on the Directory Objects themselves. I did an anonymous bind and performed a search for all the user objects in the domain and resulted in only one user because I had manually granted permissions on that User object.
I also had to grant permissions on the Organization Unit that contained the user; otherwise the anonymous logon was unable to traverse containers where it had no permissions. I did not have to grant access to the Domain Naming Context at the root. I was able to set permissions in “AD Users and Computers” by selecting the “Advanced Features” option in the View Menu.
What about LDAPS?
LDAPS uses SSL/TLS technology to establish an encrypted tunnel between the client and the LDAP server. The tunnel is encrypted with the LDAP server’s PKI Certificate, this way no one else can read the traffic except for the client and LDAP server so the Client is free to perform a simple bind and safely pass the credentials in clear text. LDAPS is an entirely different subject that deserves its own post. Luckily James Carr has written it, check it out here.
Developers have a plethora of ways to bind to an Active Directory database. This provides supportability for numerous flavors of LDAP clients, but it does require some configuration on the part of the AD administrator. Farewell for now…
Randy “Baby Elvis, thank you verah muuuch” Turner
• I am running Windows Server 2008 as a DC, AD LDS, AD, WSUS, etc and I'm trying to bnd to the LDAP (via AD LDS) using a 3rd party utility. I can not bind to it at all ...then I found a KB to add userProxy class to the AD LDS but I'm unable to finish creating the object because the userProxy object class does not exist!
I DID import the 2 LDF files but the directions are not clear
Am I supposed to EXport the scheme from AD and import that into AD LDS?????
many KBs say use userProxy ....but in this TechNet KB, it is User-Proxy!
In http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731759(WS.10).aspx#BKMK_8 I am unable to add the child because the objectclass=userProxy does NOT exist ...and I've even looked at the 2 LDF files ...userProxy IS in there!
What am I doing wrong?
• Can you bind to port 389 with LDP.EXE from the same computer running the 3rd party utility?
• Here's a good one. We have a multi-tree forest. I ran a quick test using an LDAP browser.
basedn of tree1
bind creds for tree2
search base for tree3.
according to the trace, tree1 autentcated me via simple LDAP bind, but my cred info is stored on tree2. How is this possible? I thought I would get a referral from tree1 dc to tree2 dc.
Does the tree1 DC proxy the ldap bind request?
• You are most likely using Digest SSP when binding to the target LDAP DC. This is a challenge\response authentication where the LDAP DC itself will take the credentials and pass them to the user's DC in the user domain. If you take a simultaneous trace from the client and the target DC, you will see the ldap DC forward the authentication to the user's DC.
On the LDAP DC trace, you will see some traffic between the LDAP Bind Request and Response.
There will be an RPC connection between the two DCs on Logon(NRPC)
• Good point. This may be the case and here is why I think you are correct.
One of the details I forgot to mention is that the LDAP call is a GC lookup (3268)
This is what is probably happening
1) KDC\LDAP (tree 2)server looks up the user
2) KDC\LDAP Sees that he is in a different partition (tree 3)
3) The KDC\LDAP (tree 2) gets the DN of the user ID and determines it is in another tree (tree 3)
4) The KDC\LDAP (tree 2) proxies the authentication with the KDC\LDAP (tree 3) using digest
Do you have any docs\urls or blogs on this process?
• Because you are searching on GC, that DC can answer your query, there is no LDAP referral to a different DC, the first DC that the client talks with does host that partition.
Now all you have to worry about is authenticating the credentials of the client on the DC performing the LDAP Bind and LDAP Search.
Keep in mind that Kerberos has the client do all the authentication legwork. The client goes and gets the tickets and talks to all the DCs and just delivers the session key to the resource of which he is trying to connect.
NTLM and Digest are Challenge\Response authentication methods and makes the target resource do all the work. In this case it is the DSA (directory service attendant) on the DC. Do not be confused that this DC is authenticating the user. This could just as easy be a file share on a file server. In this case the service just happens to be running on a DC.
So with Challenge\Response, the resource requests some information from the client (in your case the user's name and password.) The Resource then asks the Domain Controller responsible for authenticating you the same question and provides him with the response that was given from the client. The DC then tells the resource wether or not the client is who he says he is.
This is the same transaction that you would see if the client was accessing a file share on a file server.
Here is a link to how NTLM works
Here is a link to how Digest works
• Great info, thanks.
• Is there a way to totally disable anonymous binds in AD?
That is any anonymous bind attempt would be rejected by an appropriate ldap error (like resultcode 48 - inappropriateAuthentication )
There are LDAP servers out which have a config/switch for totally disable anonymous binds like that.
Driving reason: There are many bad applications which do transfer blank passwords to the LDAP bind level. This way a successful anonymous bind is achieved, while the app wrongly assumes the user to be correct. The LDAP server could be a great help of a fix for such situations, while waiting for a proper fix.
• Anonymous binds have been disabled in AD LDAP since Win2003 (except to ROOTDSE, which must be anonymous to allow functionality of what LDAP version/controls/etc are supported) - if you are seeing them, someone may have turned those back on in your environment.
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chronicle Max Landis Teases Chronicle 2 Apocalypse
In an interview with Tbreak, Chronicle writer Max Landis reveals a small spoiler for the film on how the footage from Chronicle affects the events in the sequel:
While also revealing that director Josh Trank is unlikely to return for the sequel, he does tease the return of Alex Russell as “Matt Garrety”. “I loved Matt, and I felt really bad for him because I understood just how emotionally lazy he is and how he doesn’t really do what he’s doing. And that’s why I’m putting him through hell in (Chronicle) 2.
The low(er) budgeted Chronicle, which has made nearly $125 million worldwide, was basically a modern/American Akira about three high school friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery.
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i love the first movie. as long as the quality and passion for making the movie is there like it clearly was in the first movie (meaning no quick cash grab deal) then i’m all up for a sequel.
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Chronicle was cool, but was held back by the ‘found footage’ aspect. Hopefully the sequel won’t use this gimmick and explore the ideas further.
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Chronicle was great and was one of the only found-footage movies that is actually perfected. Because we know it’s fake so they play around with the effects of things rather than seriously trying to make it realistic. Look forward to seeing a sequel just as long as it is as good as the original.
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• Article by: CURT BROWN , Star Tribune
• Updated: March 26, 2010 - 8:44 PM
It's illegal for bars to serve drunken people, but enforcing the law is incredibly difficult, state and local authorities are finding out.
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nationaljoeMar. 26, 10 8:56 PM
hmm... 366 bars, 27 fines. another shining example of your tax dollars at work, folks.
bottomlineMar. 26, 10 9:41 PM
I don't like this at all. Bar employees "checked" to make sure that they are "good parents" to customers?? What ever happened to PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY by customers to WATCH THEMSELVES?
Or if a customer "easily drinks out of hand" ...why doesn't he "bring a friend" to "watch over him"??
This is ridiculous. Customer service employees have one function and one function ONLY ....listen to customers, and give them what they want. NOT be babysitters or parents. This is the job of friends or fellow partyers ,,,,
maxwellpowerMar. 26, 1010:11 PM
The only way the words responsible and drinking can work in a sentence is if it is in the context of lack thereof. You bottle babies don't have to worry. There's no evil boogieman lurking about in the bushes waiting to take your bottle away. You guys screw yourselves all by yourselves all the time - every time.
SupervonMar. 26, 1010:41 PM
There is no end to what the government will do. Let's get drinking out of bar and back into the car where it belongs.
johnnyg08Mar. 26, 1011:09 PM
The agents stats that they don't put a lot of resources into misdemeanor offenses...but unless the law changed, there are several misdemeanor DWI/DUI offenses and I'm pretty sure there's a good chunk of money going toward misdemeanor enforcement. That comment is simply not true.
reggie12Mar. 26, 1011:27 PM
Why couldn't they spend their time giving 366 rides home to people who probably shouldn't be driving? Wouldn't that make us safer? Seriously, 27 fines out of 366 bars? Where is the common sense!?!
tonytecMar. 26, 1011:44 PM
You should be held for your own actions. Period. Sure, you loose your inhibitions when you drink and then can drink beyond the norm. Your fault, plain and simple. I don't care if you are 15 either, there are no kids over the age of 12 who don't know the difference between what is right and wrong. I grew up inner city and even the biggest thugs knew they were thugs at 10, drunks at 10, or druggies at 10. Just more signed on each year. People make choices and we need to deal with our choices. Financial, ethical, and nutritional. We've gone way past too soft in A-meek-ica. Land of blame, home of the attorney fee.
mnfishrmanMar. 27, 1012:18 AM
Rides vs. DUI's. May be Less cops, less crowded courts, less lawyers, less people in jails, less ruined lives. Common sense, That's not the law enforcements style.........
bradtheissenlaMar. 27, 1012:23 AM
This story proves that between the Legislature and Law Enforcement, more must be done to stop the over pouring and over serving of intoxicated persons. It does no good to destroy someone's life with an arrest for being drunk, when the cause is the bartenders and servers who victimize their customers with over pouring and over service just to make a fast buck selling controlled substances.
joycen62Mar. 27, 1012:26 AM
I have seen lots of bartenders cut off patrons, who are rude and drunk, at the expense of their own income. Why is it that some people have 3 beers and become belligerent? Other people have 3 beers and are normal. Good bartenders see the difference. Why do some drunks drive at 90MPH, and other drinkers set the cruise control at the speed limit? The Point .10 is arbitrary and missing the bigger problem. We abhor the use of fishing nets that kill many fish who get caught accidentally. The bartender with many years of training is the states best ally. Get rid of these bartenders who are using it as a part-time job. The bartenders are dispensing medicine.
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1. Rayrah
2012-06-20 16:34
Haha, I'd be fine with some of my guy friends cooking for me. I really don't mind as long as it tastes good.
Push-ups are my way of unwinding, haha. Just don't give up hope! I know you will!
Ah, is that so? That's good to hear; it's nice to know not everybody is like Crapcom. Indeed.
You need to try Shadow of the Colossus; it's a seriously amazing game!
I'll see how I feel on the day. I'll probably end up going, though. Wow, Thai soup? That sounds deliciously fancy. And expensive! Haha, my body is ready for SAO. :3
Nah. My dad doesn't get hung over, and I seem to be the same. Oh. I didn't know that. And I feel a little better than before now.
Ahhh. Yes, good friends we are. Just a headache.
Hyperdimension Neptunia is basically about cute console girls fighting privacy. The first game is bad at a technical standard; the battles are repetitive, the dungeons are bland, the graphics are poor, and the music is pretty horrible. However, the characters are great, and the humor and references are hilarious. The second game (mk2) is an improvement; it's a much better game with a much better battle system. The 3rd game (V, for Victory) looks to be a step up from that. It's also the series my #1 waifu is from. :3 Also, my account on the forum of the company that localizes the games. :3
2. Yuno
2012-06-20 15:33
Story of the Flea:
A Japanese Scientist was studying flea behaviour and why they can infest so easily. One of the flees he decided to capture under a cup. Now flea's can jump very high! Almost three feet~ So he studied the flee under the cup. The flea jumped, but hit the top of the cup. He jumped again! However, he only hit the top of the cup. After a few days the flea stopped jumping and merely sat in the center of his cage. Once the scientist was finished studying and let the flea go. He noticed that the flea jumped only the height of the cup, despite the fact the cup was not there any longer! The flea would do so for the remainder of his life span.
This is why I don't like it when people abuse each other, or hurt each other. Sometimes it becomes a poison that weakens us for a long time. It makes it very difficult for us to jump beyond the height of the cup, when before we were doing it no problem. It is for this reason I often feel very compassionate towards people. They already suffer enough, I want to be a sanctuary.
3. Yuno
2012-06-20 15:24
You're quite right, there is always something new to discover about ourselves and about the universe as a whole. It is why I live through everything that I can. I want to know what happens next~
Hehe, Oh dear, there are others around the forums here and there. I'm happy to be your first female friend in the forum~ I am usually in and out. I recently came back to the forums to interact with people again. Now that I am meeting such wonderful people I am glad I returned!
Pester me? I don't think that is possible. I often have my skype on looking at many contacts with either the "busy" status or are offline. I just leave it on though, you never know when someone will chat~ Mmm, so what she said didn't have a good feeling. See when I picture that description I picture someone who smiles from the heart. So there smile is quite big and beaming. A clown is designed to mimic that, but of course it seems fake because it's painted on~ Yours I doubt is fake. Yes! I eat like a squirrel apparently hehe. OOh! Eating like a wolf. They eat very ravenously yet they don't make a mess. Pretty interesting~
Now it makes a little more sense. I'm worried about this "him" it sounds uncomfortable. You're right about CNN they're bought and paid for by the government. I did some digging on them before, and see them as not a legitamate form of infromation. I find it weird that they'd watch CNN when they live in Canada. We've so many better news stations in Canada!
Muuu~ That isn't good. I wish to emulate Kuan Yin and I believe in mercy and compassion. So I don't think I will barf. I find beauty in places when people find it hard to. Dogs, Cats, and other pure creatures of the earth can love us despite whatever flaw we have. Why can't humans? I won't barf because my case manager swears I am not human. Hehe~
Yes! You are right. Proper guidance is important. Many parent's forget that children although small are people too. People seperate from us, who live, think, and have feelings of their own. I don't condone actions such as violence, or verbal abuse. Words can cast spells, spells that bind us for an eternity. Reminds me of a flea study, but I will put that in a seperate VM I don't want to hit the word limit. I'm terribly sorry to hear about the way your parents treated you. It's something I hear from the US members often. I am ashamed that they are Canadian. They act more like American families I hear about. I can understand why one would not cry in an enviornment like that~
Thats great! I'll remember the rules as carefully as possible. A lot of them click. I really like: Rule 7: Justice and love will always win! I said that to my case manager today and he rolled his eyes at me.
That is a really nice sounding dream! It sounds like a really peaceful and safe place. I like the imagery of the snow, I find peace in winter too. Though I get cold very easily. Seeing that scene in my minds eye makes me feel peaceful. My dreams are usually "wishfulfillment" ones. My mind betraying my resolve~
Always a pleasure speaking with you ^.^
4. Rayrah
2012-06-20 12:24
Yeah. It's one skill I never bothered learning. :/
Eh, I'll worry about accommodation and whatnot after I see my results. It was such a damn headache to set everything up, only to see it all fall apart meh. I'm sure your roommate will be just fine. Most "messers" don't bother going to college.
Ah, that sounds like a very pleasant activity. And aww, why not? I'm sure you will! Just don't give up!
Well.. if it bombs.. we may not see another DmC (or am I mixing my facts up?).. that's the other side of the coin. :/
But that video. What the fuck. That was insane.. Hmm.. the MGS and DmC HD collections are so very tempting, but then again, so is the Shadow of the Colossus one..
Well, the "Anime Night" is on the 28th. These are really good friends of mine, but I dunno. Maybe.
Mint tea?? And nah, I'm not hung over, because I don't get hung over. I'm just extremely exhausted after the exams.
What makes you ask that? I'm just curious. I'll answer this question after I feel better, alright? I can't seem to gather my thoughts without my head seeming like it's about to explode.
5. Rayrah
2012-06-20 11:47
Ahaha, fair enough.
Ah.. that's a good mindset to have.. I can't cook to save my life (no, I'm serious. >_>), and if everything goes well, I'll also be living on my own soon. Meh. Need to find myself a friend who can. xD
Ah yeah, walks are good, too. Push-ups can be a great way of relieving stress, venting out any frustrations, and building strength all at the same time.
Haha, yeah. ._. The new Dante is just so.. ugh. Oh, the HD collection is out? Damn it.. I should totally get it. xD How is it? Any new content? And nice! :3
Well, they're into anime as much as me, but they don't watch it as much as me. Their tastes are also.. fairly different. So yeah, I'm more or less in the same boat as you. :/
Yeah, pretty much. Nah. They invited me to their "Anime Night" (LOL) after they found out about my interest in anime. Might tag along and see what's up. *shrug*
Ah, gotta go to a party soon, but I feel fucking horrible. I need to go talk to a person that could possibly give me a job there, too. Meh.
6. Rayrah
2012-06-20 10:52
Oh, dem crazy yanderes.
Ah, interesting. So you can cook? Ah, sports are good; a healthy mind is a healthy body, after all.
OH MAN, I forgot how fucking badass Dante is. I barely remember DmC 3, too..
Ah, rightio. My bad then. xD
I guess that's the disadvantage in living in such a big city. Plus, I've found that it's very difficult to find people who are as enthusiastic about anime as me. Well, there're 2 people that pretty much are, but they're very close friends of mine.
It wasn't a party or anything. We just had 1-2 cans of beer/cider and spent most of the night chatting. I showed them a bit of Steins;Gate and Baccano!, and they liked both.
7. Yuno
2012-06-20 01:54
Goodnight! Have wondeful dreams it's been fun talking to you~ Hehe I like that rule.
8. Yuno
2012-06-20 01:53
You're exactly right! I agree completely to what you say here. Finding out ourselves and going on a spiritual path is amazing and each step when there is progress touches the heart and mind in a way that is unexplainable. When I first studied Tao I had such an experiance. Since then I believe there are many paths, but one truth~ hehe
Oh hehe~ I always carry proof so people can't call me a liar. I hate lies, I hate lies so much... So I keep proof in a white box in my linen closet. If I don't have proof about something, I don't talk about it~ Awwh, it's okay no need to worry at all. There are a lot of guys in the forum so the mistake is commonly made by others too. Just not with me :3 hehe~ I don't mind though, I think it was fun surprising you.
Hehe, it's a long hard road. My brain likes to mix words around on me making it hard for me to read. However, I have figured out ways around it. I'm glad you enjoyed the Hobbit it's the first book I ever read and is very special to me~ Tyler? he is definitely in a better place. I brought him to the Tao temple and taught him. Then in a few months he was teaching me hehe~ He is fortunate that his fiancee went with him. So he has company ^.^ Ten years hmm~ I think that is about right. Many authors take a lot of time to write there books or get the first book done. I have faith in you~ I'm willing to help too! Oh really! That is great! My Skype account is in my profile, but I'll put it here for ease sake. pea.squirrel My mother calls me "pea" because I am really little. I am called squirrel by my dad because he claims I eat like one.
Awwh, I don't actually like living alone. Living alone with mental illness can be very tricky! Though I think it could be good for someone who is healthy. They can have a lot of space and do what they wish~ Hmm, that seems like a shallow reason to dislike someone. This is what I find most perplexing about people. I avoid people who hurt others physically, or are mean. Thats about it really~ They're missing out I say~
That is very sad for me to hear you say that. I don't think I'd barf to be honest. I have an iron tummy~ I haven't barfed since the movie Rec. That is because the camera is really shakey. Though it is smart not to give your real name and things on websites. I have had stalkers in the past because I put my real name down :S Never say never, I firmly believe that as long as you're not an alien there is someone for you ^.^
Thanks! It's the best way I think. This way a person learns the opposite methods and have a chance to grow. It's definitely equivilant exchange and a Tao principle too.
I'm glad you don't mind the length. SOME members don't like my endless typing haha~
Oh great! I haven't added anything to it in a while. I should put some of my new stuff on it. Hehe~ You'll be able to keep my lonely thread company. I've neglected it. Feel free to post about things you like or disliked I'd love to start talking in my thread again.
9. kenjiharima
2012-06-20 01:41
Same here and now I'll just quit Crappycom/Ca$hcom games. It's like even if they did make a game that is worthwhile and probably the best game ever made, it will be left out because of their bad reputation.
as for RE6 well it's like street fighter it's one of their golden goose, so it's gonna be taken care off, but I think that will be the final hurrah on RE6 and we might not get another.
10. kenjiharima
2012-06-20 00:58
For me the Crapcom fanboy has died. My new account is also banned again lol. I guess I'll just roll on the better memories when Crapcom is not monopolized by bad management. Still I love they're old school games and pretty much RE6 looks like a good game. The only new game that Capcom made that looks great is Dragons Dogma, I really think they put an effort on to this, though the management is holding back DLC again.
Dunno about their other new games I feel I don't wanna support those anymore because like you said "I'm not giving my money to a company who disrespects customers", those guys are the sheep.
The only thing remaining now is that if they make change, the only time that's gonna happen is that when they're not selling well anymore.
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What a poor picture that selfie was, half the people look decidedly green around the gills as if they were seasick the effect gets worse as you move further from the centre. Why 13 megapixels crammed into such a small space is not such a good idea that along with an absence of 64 bit real time processing is what makes the iPhone 5s camera so superior.
Even a stopped clock is right two times a day.
If only they didn't keep blathering on about how open Android is. See that's the difference, it's called hypocrisy and Google has it in spades. As usual people leap to Google's defence.
Android handset alliance = Iron Fist. Google up to their usual fun and games.
Yep, just like any of the big multinationals, pharmaceuticals, fossil fuels, foodstuffs, media, tech anything and everything and they all have every right under the law to do this. If you don't like it vote for the party most likely to change the laws, the government are the only ones with the power to change the legislation. Too bad their election campaigns are paid for by the corporations that can afford to do this stuff and the people are manipulated by media barons...
That and TV USB sticks which run Android.
Hey do you reckon travelling to every Apple store in the world on a "fact finding" mission would be covered by "legal expenses" or is that something only politicians can get away with? Note:- there may be a slight amount of sarcasm used in this post.
The version I had on my iPad automagically updated to the new coloured icon and now says Texas not London. Most of the performances will be mid afternoon, my local time.
Actually it is, if he didn't have a heart attack he probably would never have donated the defibrillators. As Marvin pointed out if he hadn't avoided (as opposed to evaded) taxes the ambulances may have been equipped at the governments expense, which is something our taxes should be spent on.
Bullshit. See the Australian Tax Office's recent payout of $880 million to News Corp after they lost the case. You can read all about it in the crap Rupert Murdoch's puppet hacks present as news in his newspapers.
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minimize costs and thus maximize profits.”
Discuss how well reasoned . . . etc.
The author claims that organisations tend to become more efficient over time and, thus, reduce their processing costs. He or she cites the price for color film prints as an example of this phenomenon. However, attentive reader might notice that is probably not a good example because it is from another industry and it, actually, weakens the conclusion. The author concludes by saying that the profits are expected to be maximized by the 25th anniversary of Olympic Foods without providing any evidence to support the conclusion. Stated in this way the argument manipulates facts and conveys a distorted view of the situation.
First of all, the argument readily assumes that organisations do things better over time and that doing things better leads to lowering the costs.
This statement is a stretch because the real-life examples of long-history companies show that at some point some of them become too lazy and rigid to be creative, and eventually, fail to achieve their goals. Moreover, some businesses do not focus on lowering the costs, while keeping their profits maximized by providing better quality of service and keeping their customers loyal.
This statement could be strengthened by stating that the companies in food industry are mostly becoming better over time and cost efficiency is the only way to maximize their profits.
Secondly, the argument claims that the cost of 50 cents for five-day service is lower than the cost of 20 centers for one-days service. However, if we divide the first cost by five days and compare only the costs for one-day service, we will see that 1984-cost is actually higher than the 1970-cost. This, probably, could be explained by the fact that the quality of print is much better, resulting in an increased price.
Nevertheless, this claim is again a weak and unconvincing since argument fails to compare the one-day costs of the service.
Thirdly, the argument concludes that 25-years is enough to reach mastery in the food industry and the profits will be maximized.
However, it is not clear how exactly the company is going to achieve this target. Is it going to cut the salaries or lay off some employees? Is it going to market new products? Is it going to attract new customers or make existing ones loyal?
Without these supporting examples of how exactly the company will achieve maximized profits, the reader is left with impression, that the claim is more of a wishful thinking rather than a substantiated statement. As a result, the conclusion has no legs to rely on.
In conclusion, the argument is flawed and unconvincing. It could be strengthened, if the author mentioned all the relevant facts to support his or her assumptions.
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