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Friendly Seduction
Sara Banks is a virgin. Apparently that word can make a grown man run scared--at least that's what her last boyfriend did. Now she's on a mission to shed her good-girl persona and start living. But the best Helios, Arizona, has to offer pales in comparison to her best friends Rob and Marc. She'd love nothing more than to go home with them--either of them. If only they could see past their childhood friend to the woman she's become.
Rob and Marc can't believe their eyes when they enter the hottest bar in town and see tomboy Sara dressed to kill, doing the bump and grind on the dance floor. Once they learn she's finally single, the hunt is on. Each is determined to prove he's the only man Sara needs. But to get the girl of their dreams, the best plan of attack might just be a joint, friendly seduction.
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Excerpt from Friendly Seduction by Gillian Archer
Sara Banks was feeling no pain as she bounced to the music with Mr. Bushy Brows. Damn it, what was his name? She probably shouldn't call him that to his face. He was her first choice for a one-night stand. Although given the slim pickings, he was probably her only choice.
At least he had been until Rob and Marc showed up to rain on her little parade. She'd have a hard time sneaking out with Mr. Bushy Brows if those two shadowed her all evening.
But did she really want him? Was he the one for her? She peeked up at his face but just couldn't get past those eyebrows. They looked like two furry caterpillars. Especially when he wiggled them like that. Did he think that was hot?
Definitely not.
"I'm gonna grab another drink," she shouted above the pounding music as she pulled out of his sweat-dampened arms. Ugh. She swore she could feel a slimy residue on her hips.
She darted through the crowd. No need to give him the opportunity to hang around any longer.
When she reached the bar, she collapsed on a stool and lifted a finger at the bartender. No more communication required. He plunked a frosty bottle of hard lemonade in front of her but waved her off when she started to dig into her tiny clutch. He jerked his head, signaling behind her. Sara turned on her barstool and her breath stalled in her chest. Her euphoria disappeared in an instant.
Marc towered over her and he looked pissed.
Sara grabbed her bottle, hopped off her stool and started for the dance floor. Three steps later she froze when Marc's hand curled around her elbow.
Fuck. A. Duck.
She just couldn't get a break tonight. Sara blew her bangs out of her eyes and met Marc's glare with one of her own.
"Thanks for the drink." She turned to get away from his big-brother stare but couldn't shake his grasp.
"We need to talk."
She didn't try to hold back the eye roll. "Ah, no we don't. I need to find a dance partner and you need to find some other helpless little woman. Because this damsel doesn't need saving." She jerked her arm again but Marc held firm.
"Well, why didn't you say so, princess? I'd love to dance." Marc plucked the bottle from her and slammed it on the bar before steering her toward the dance floor.
Crap. Sara tripped over her feet as she struggled to keep up. Her short, little legs were no match for Marc's long, lean ones. After finding a small clearing a few feet from the DJ, he pivoted and brought her into his arms with a flick of his wrist. She stumbled, crashing into his chest.
Mmmmmmm and what a firm chest it was. Unlike most of the men's here, Marc's chest was solid the old-fashioned way, from hard physical labor. His calloused fingertips sent shivers down her spine. What she wouldn't give to feel those calluses rubbing her in a far more sensitive place than her bare arms. Crap. She couldn't think like that. Marc was a friend. Her best friend, or one of them anyway. He obviously felt as if he had to play the overprotective older brother tonight.
She fought the urge to whine and stamp her feet. Why tonight of all nights? All her plotting and primping would go to waste. Her plan of a simple one-night stand wilted beneath the glare of Sergeant Sourpuss. But why easygoing Marc? It was usually Rob who played the overprotective, save-the-damsel-in-distress caveman. Marc was the one she could count on to crack a joke and lighten the atmosphere.
She peeked up at his face. Judging by his stony expression, he probably wasn't in the mood tonight.
"Um, Marc?" she whispered before mentally slapping herself. There was no way he was going to hear her over--
"What, princess?" His growl vibrated the rock-hard chest beneath her ear.
"Where's Rob?" She cursed under her breath. That wasn't what she wanted to say.
Why did she go from confident She-Ra warrior to helpless Victorian virgin just because some tall, gorgeous man put his strong, firm arms around her? And his calloused fingers rubbed her exposed back in short, tantalizing circles, making her wonder what they would feel like when he parted her thighs and--
Stop. She shouldn't think that way about her best friend. Friend. Not the guy she was here to pick tonight to help her--
Wait a minute. Why hadn't he answered her?
"Marc?" Her head tilted back to meet his gaze and she searched his hazel eyes.
He seemed...conflicted. The muscles in his cheek flexed as he bit down, anger evident in the curl of his lips. But his eyes...they were sad. As if he had just lost his best friend.
"Oh God. Is he okay? What happened? He was just here!" She panicked at the thought of Rob hurt, in pain. The sexually induced haze cleared from her brain as she pulled away and looked around the room for his trademark auburn cropped hair.
"Sara, he's fine. He's just--"
"Right here," a deep voice finished behind her.
She knew that voice. Had heard it mature from a gorgeous alto to its current husky baritone. Sara sagged into Marc's arms as all the tension left her body. Rob was okay.
But that still didn't explain Marc's conflicted emotions. Or the tension the throbbing music couldn't mask. Something was up with the two most important men in her life. And she was literally caught in the middle.
"Mind if I cut in?" Rob's husky voice in her ear caused the tiny hairs on the back of her neck to vibrate as a shiver rocked her body.
God, his voice was hot.
"Actually, we're in the middle of--"
"No, I'd like to dance with you, Rob." She didn't know why there was so much tension between them but it was probably better if she separated them quickly. With the looks Marc was tossing over her shoulder, bloodshed was sure to follow.
"Looks like you're the better man, Rob. Congrats and all that." Marc pulled away from her before stomping over to the bar, grabbing her drink and taking up residence on the barstool.
"What's--" she gasped as Rob pulled her into his arms. From one hard chest to another. Wow, these guys smelled good. She cleared her throat. "Uh, what's up with you and Marc?" Sara tried to look into his blue eyes but couldn't get past his lips.
"Nothing. We're good."
Sara snorted. "Uh, yeah, I don't think so. Marc's not good. He just walked away like someone with their panties in a wad. You guys have a fight or something?"
"I didn't ask you to dance so we could talk about Marc." With that, Rob pulled her in close until her groin rubbed up against his jean-covered thigh.
Was that... He wasn't... He couldn't be! Sara couldn't believe she felt Rob's erection rubbing against her belly. It had to be just the fit of his jeans.
Yeah sure, the little voice in her head answered sarcastically. His jeans and the sock he hid in his pants.
Oh God.
But it couldn't be over her--Rob had never shown even the slightest hint he saw her as anything other than a friend. Crap, she was beginning to hate that word, friend. Lord knew she had a special ability to make any erection disappear. Just ask her ex.
He probably just got an erection from dancing with another girl and wanted some time to cool off before he went home with another woman. Like every other Friday night.
"Sara?" Rob murmured in her ear.
"If you get any stiffer, someone's gonna call the morgue."
Sara's lips curled. Normally Marc was the funny one but she appreciated Rob's effort to lighten the mood. But he had her beat in the stiffy competition. She gave in to his subtle demand and let her body melt into his. For once in her life she wanted to indulge in the fantasy of being with Rob. If only for one dance.
They moved to the smooth beat of the music. Heaven. Sheer heaven. Sara couldn't imagine a more perfect place to be than in Rob's arms. Unless it was in Marc's. She tensed at the thought. Shit, she couldn't even let herself pretend for one moment that this would last forever, since apparently she couldn't even choose between them in her fantasies.
She pulled back to get some distance from him. She needed to think and feeling his body against hers just confused her.
"What's wrong, darlin'?"
She tried not to whimper as Rob ran his thumb over her trembling lips. She couldn't help but think if only. If only Rob wanted her like she wanted him. If only he weren't her best friend. She'd give anything to throw caution to the wind and throw herself at him. If only she weren't afraid of the damage it would do to their friendship when he politely turned her down.
And that's what he would do. There was no way a man like Rob would even look twice at her if she hadn't been his friend since childhood. Short, chunky tomboys like her never drew the attention of guys like Rob. Or Marc.
If only.
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The Opposite of Me : A Novel
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Veteran journalist Pekkanen debuts with a promising yet pedestrian post-chick lit novel about a successful New York ad exec who's passed over for a promotion then unceremoniously canned. Workaholic Lindsey Rose leaves Manhattan for her family's Maryland home, resuming her role as the smart, capable daughter. Years of jealousy surge into overdrive at her beautiful twin sister Alex's engagement party when she watches her lifelong friend Bradley, possibly the guy that got away, begin to fall under her sister's golden spell. After the obligatory ugly duckling makeover, Lindsey, no longer the plain daughter, continues to hide her new look from her family. Away from them, however, a newly confident and gregarious Lindsey emerges, one able to parlay her advertising skills into a new position at a matchmaking service. It takes a terrifying medical diagnosis and a visit to her parents' musty attic to complete Lindsey's transformation. Though the story is Lindsey's, Alex also plays a large part, though her selfishness is so relentlessly portrayed, it's difficult to determine just who she is. The pace is slow, and the story just adequate.
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Excerpt from The Opposite of Me by Sarah Pekkanen
Lights were never on this early. I quickened my step.
The light was on in my office, I realized as I drew closer. I'd gone home around 4:00 A.M. to snatch a catnap and a shower, but I'd locked my office door. I'd checked it twice. Now someone was in there.
I broke into a run, my mind spinning in panic: Had I left my storyboard out in plain view? Could someone be sabotaging the advertising campaign I'd spent weeks agonizing over, the campaign my entire future hinged on?
"Lindsey! You scared me half out of my wits!" my assistant, Donna, scolded as she paused in the act of putting a steaming container of coffee on my desk.
"God, I'm sorry," I said, mentally smacking myself. If I ever ended up computer dating--which, truth be told, it was probably going to come down to one of these days--I'd have to check the ever-popular "paranoid freak" box when I listed my personality traits. I'd better buy a barricade to hold back the bachelors of New York.
"I didn't expect anyone else in this early," I told Donna as my breathing slowed to normal. Note to self: Must remember to join a gym if a twenty-yard dash leaves me winded. Best not to think about how often I'll actually use the gym if I've been reminding myself to join one for the past two years.
"It's a big day," Donna said, handing me the coffee.
"You're amazing." I closed my gritty eyes as I took a sip and felt the liquid miracle flood my veins. "I really needed this. I didn't get much sleep."
"You didn't eat breakfast either, did you?" Donna asked, hands on her hips. She stood there, all of five feet tall, looking like a rosy-cheeked, doily-knitting grandma. One who wouldn't hesitate to get up off her rocking chair and reach for her sawed-off shotgun if someone crossed her.
"I'll have a big lunch," I hedged, avoiding Donna's eyes.
Even after five years, I still hadn't gotten used to having an assistant, let alone one who was three decades older than me but earned a third of my salary. Donna and I both knew she wore the pants in our relationship, but the secret to our happiness was that we pretended otherwise. Kind of like my parents--Mom always deferred to Dad's authority, after she mercilessly browbeat him into taking her point of view.
"I'm going to check in with the caterers now," Donna said. "Should I hold your calls this morning?"
"Please," I said. "Unless it's an emergency. Or Walt from Creative--he's freaking out about the font size on the dummy ad and I need to calm him down. Or Matt. I want to do another run-through with him this morning. And let's see, who else, who else . . . Oh, anyone from Gloss Cosmetics, of course.
"Oh, God, they're going to be here in"--I looked at my watch and the breath froze in my lungs--"two hours."
"Hold on just a minute, missy," Donna ordered in a voice that could only be described as trouser-wearing. She bustled to her desk and returned with a blueberry muffin in a little paper bag and two Advil.
"I knew you wouldn't eat, so I got extra. And you're getting a headache again, aren't you?" she asked.
"It's not so bad," I lied, holding out my hand for the Advil and hoping Donna wouldn't notice I'd bitten off all my fingernails. Again.
Then I stroked it a second time. Because this wasn't an ordinary presentation day. So much more was riding on today than winning another multimillion-dollar account. If I nailed my pitch and added Gloss Cosmetics to our roster of clients . . . I squeezed my eyes shut. I couldn't finish the thought; I didn't want to jinx myself.
I smiled, remembering that campaign. It had taken me two weeks and three focus groups to decide on the word blissful instead of peaceful. Yet my whole campaign was almost torpedoed at the last minute because the model I'd chosen had the exact same hairstyle as the airline owner's ex-wife, who'd convinced him that true love didn't require a prenup. If I hadn't spotted a five-dollar tub of hair gel in the makeup artist's case and begged the client for thirty more seconds, our agency would've lost a $2 million account on account of a chin-length bob. Clients were notoriously fickle, and the rule of thumb was, the richer the client, the crazier.
The one I was meeting today owned half of Manhattan.
I grabbed the mock-up of the magazine ad my creative team had put together for Gloss and scanned it for the millionth time, searching for nonexistent flaws. I'd spent three solid weeks agonizing over every detail of this campaign, which I'd get maybe ten minutes to present in our conference room in-- I looked at my watch and my heart skipped a beat.
The worst part, the part that gnawed at my stomach and jolted me awake at 3:00 A.M. on nights when I managed to fall asleep, was that all my work, all those marathon stale-pizza weekend sessions and midnight conference calls, might be for nothing. If the owner of Gloss rejected my ads--if something as simple as the perfume I was wearing or a splashy adjective in my copy rubbed him the wrong way--hundreds of thousands of dollars in commission for our agency would slip through my fingers like smoke. Once a Japanese tycoon who owned a chain of luxury hotels sat through a brilliant, two-months-in-the-making campaign presentation our agency's president had personally overseen--I'm talking about the kind of creative vision that would've won awards, the kinds of commercials everyone would've buzzed about--and dismissed it with a grunt, which his assistant cheerfully translated as "He doesn't like blue." That was it; no chance to tweak the color of the ad copy, just a group of stunned advertising execs with the now-useless skill of saying, "Konnichi-wa!" being herded like sheep to the exit.
I gulped another Advil from the secret stash inside my desk drawer, the one Donna didn't know about, and massaged the knot in my neck with one hand while I stared at the mock-up ad my team had created for Gloss.
After Gloss Cosmetics had approached our agency last month, hinting that they might jump from their current agency, our agency's president--a forty-two-year-old marketing genius named Mason, who always wore red Converse sneakers, even with his tuxedo--called our top five creative teams into his office.
"Gloss wants to kick some Cover Girl ass," Mason had said, swigging from a bottle of Lipton iced tea (they were a client) and tapping his Bic pen (ditto) against the top of his oak conference table. Mason was so loyal to our clients that he once walked out of a four-star restaurant because the chef wouldn't substitute Kraft ranch for champagne-truffle dressing.
"Gloss's strategy is accessible glamour," Mason had continued. "Forget the Park Avenue princesses; we're going after schoolteachers and factory girls and receptionists." His eyes had roved around the table so he could impale each of us with his stare, and I swear he hadn't blinked for close to two minutes. Mason reminded me of an alien, with his bald, lightbulb-shaped head and hooded eyes, and when he went into his blinkless trances I was convinced he was downloading data from his mother ship. My assistant, Donna, was certain he just needed a little more vitamin C; she kept badgering him to go after the Minute Maid account.
"What was the recall score of Gloss's last commercial?" someone at the other end of the table had asked. It was Slutty Cheryl, boobs spilling out of her tight white shirt as she stretched to reach a Lipton from the stack in the middle of the conference table.
"Can I get that for you?" Matt, our assistant art director, had offered in a voice that sounded innocent if you didn't know him well.
Matt was my best friend at the office. My only real friend, actually; this place made a sadists' convention seem cozy and nurturing.
"I can reach it," Cheryl had said bravely, tossing back her long chestnut hair and straining away as Matt shot me a wink. You'd think that after a few hundred meetings she'd have figured out an easier way to wet her whistle, but there she was, week after week, doing her best imitation of a Hooters girl angling for a tip. By the purest of coincidences, she always got thirsty right when she asked a question, so all eyes were on her.
"Cover Girl's last commercial, the one with Queen Latifah, hit a thirty recall, and Gloss's latest scored a twelve," Mason had said without consulting any notes. He had a photographic memory, which was one reason why our clients put up with the sneakers.
I could see why Gloss was testing the waters at other agencies. Twelve wasn't good.
The recall score is one of the most effective tools in advertising's arsenal. It basically tells what percentage of people who watched your commercial actually remembered it. Cheryl, who's a creative director like me, once oversaw a dog food commercial that scored a forty-one. She ordered dozens of balloons emblazoned with "Forty-One" and blanketed the office with them. Subtlety, like loose-fitting turtlenecks, isn't in her repertoire. And I swear I'm not just saying that because I've never scored higher than a forty (but just for the record, I've hit that number three times. It's an agency record).
"I want five creative teams on this," Mason had said. "Have the campaigns ready for me three weeks from today. The best two will present to Gloss."
"I need this account," he'd said, his pale blue eyes latching onto mine.
"Is the budget that big?" I'd asked.
"No, they're cheap fucks," he'd said cheerfully. "Name the last three clients we signed."
"Home health care plans, orthopedic mattresses, and adult protection pads," I'd rattled off.
"Diapers," he'd corrected. "Ugly trend. We're becoming the incontinent old farts' agency. We need the eighteen to thirty-five demographic. Get me this account, Lindsey." His voice had dropped, and Cheryl had stopped shuffling papers. She and I had both leaned in closer to Mason.
"I don't have to tell you what it would do for you," Mason had said. "Think about the timing. We're presenting to Gloss right around the time of the vote. You bring in this one on top of everything else you've done . . ." His voice had trailed off.
I knew what Mason was implying. It wasn't a secret that our agency was about to decide on a new VP creative director. The VP title meant a salary hike and all the sweet side dishes that went along with it: a six-figure bonus, a fat 401(k) plan, and car service to the airport. It meant I'd be able to buy my sunny little one-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side, which was about to go co-op. It meant first-class flights and obscene expense accounts.
"I'm on it," I'd said, scurrying out of the office and diving into the world of Gloss Cosmetics.
Now I was surfacing for the first time in three weeks.
Mason loved it; now I just needed to perfect my pitch to the owner and CEO of Gloss. I glanced at my watch again. Ninety-six minutes until their limo was due to pull up in front of our building. I'd be downstairs in seventy-six, waiting to greet them.
I pressed the intercom button. "Donna? Have the caterers arrived yet?"
"Don't you think I would've told you if they hadn't?" she snapped. She hates it when I second-guess her. "They bought red Concord grapes, though."
"Shit!" I leapt up so quickly I knocked my coffee to the floor. I grabbed a handful of napkins from my top drawer and swabbed it up. "I'll run out to the deli right now--"
"Relax," Donna said. "I already did. Green seedless grapes are in our freezer. They'll be ready in plenty of time."
Red grapes instead of green. It's the simple things that can annihilate a career.
Cheryl was thirty-three, four years older than me, and she worked hard. But I worked harder. I lived, breathed, and slept my job. Seriously; if I weren't so chastened by Donna's disapproving huffs when she noticed the imprint of my head on my couch cushion, I'd barely have any reason to go home at night. Even though I'd lived in New York for seven years--ever since Richards, Dunne & Krantz came recruiting at my grad school at Northwestern and made me an offer--I'd only made one real friend in the city: Matt. My job didn't leave time for anyone or anything else.
"Lindsey?" Donna's head poked into my office. "It's your mom on the phone. She said she's at the hospital."
I snatched up the phone. Could something have happened to Dad? I knew retiring from the federal government wouldn't be good for him; he'd immediately begun waging a vicious gardening war with our next-door neighbor, Mr. Simpson. When I was home for Thanksgiving--two years ago; last year I'd missed the holiday because I had to throw together a last-minute campaign for a resort in Saint Lucia that was suffering a reservations lull--I'd had to physically stop Dad from climbing a ladder and sawing off all the branches of Simpson's trees at the exact point where they crossed over our property line.
"Oh, honey, you'll never believe it." Mom sighed deeply. "I bought a subscription to O magazine last month, remember?"
"Ye-es," I lied, wondering how this story could possibly end in a mad rush to the hospital to reattach Dad's forearm.
"So I bought the November issue and filled out the subscription card that comes inside," Mom said, settling in for a cozy chat. "You know those little cards that are always falling out of magazines and making a mess on the floor? I don't know why they have to put so many of them in. I guess they think if you see enough of them you'll just go ahead and subscribe to the magazine."
She paused thoughtfully. "But that's exactly what I did, though, so who am I to cast stones?"
"Mom." I cradled the phone between my shoulder and ear and massaged my temples. "Is everything okay?"
Mom sighed. "I just got my first issue of O magazine today, and it's the November issue! Which, of course, I've already read." Her voice dropped to a conspiratorial whisper: "And so has your father, but you didn't hear it from me. That means I get only eleven issues and I've paid for twelve."
"Lindsey?" It was Donna again. "Matt's here. Should I send him in?"
"Please," I said, covering the mouthpiece.
Mom was still talking. ". . . almost like they're trying to trick you because they say 'Save fourteen dollars off the cover price' but if you end up with two of the same issue and you paid for them both, you're really only saving ten forty-five with tax--Dad sat right down with a paper and pencil and did the math--and--"
"Mom," I cut in. "Are you at the hospital?"
"Yes," Mom said.
"Um, Mom?" I said. "Why are you at the hospital?"
"I'm visiting Mrs. Magruder. Remember, she had a hip replacement? She won't be able to manage stairs for six weeks. Last time I was here I noticed the waiting room only had copies of Golf Magazine and Highlights and I thought, No sense in me having two copies of O magazine. Maybe someone else can enjoy it. And there's a recipe for low-fat cheesecake with whipped cream--the secret is applesauce, of all things--"
"Mom, I'll take care of it." I cut her off just before the pressure in my head began boiling and shrieking like a teapot. "I'll call Oprah's office directly."
Matt stepped into my office, one eyebrow raised. He was wearing a black blazer, which looked good with his curly dark hair. I'd have to tell him black was his color, I thought absently.
"Thank you, honey," Mom said, sounding the tiniest bit disappointed that she couldn't milk it a bit longer. "It's so nice to have a daughter who knows the right people."
"Tell Stedman we should go fly-fishing again sometime," Matt stage-whispered as I made a gun out of my thumb and index finger and shot him in the chest.
"By the way, did you hear about Alex?" Mom asked.
"Oprah," Matt croaked, rolling around on my office floor and clutching his chest. "Rally your angel network. I'm seeing . . . a . . . white . . . light."
"The TV station is expanding Alex's segments!" Mom said. "Now she'll be on Wednesdays and Fridays instead of just Fridays. Isn't that wonderful?"
When people learn I have a twin, the first thing they ask is whether we're identical. Unless, of course, they see Alex and me together, in which case their brows furrow and their eyes squint and you can almost see their brains clog with confusion as they stutter, "Twins? But . . . but . . . you look nothing alike."
Alex and I are about as unidentical as it's possible to be. I've always thought I look like a child's drawing of a person: straight brown lines for the hair and eyebrows, eyes and nose and mouth and ears generally in the right places and in the right numbers. Nothing special; just something to pin on the refrigerator door before it's covered by grocery lists and report cards and forgotten. Whereas Alex . . . Well, there's no other word for it: she's flat-out gorgeous. Stunning. Breathtaking. Dazzling. Apparently there are a few other words for it after all.
She started modeling in high school after a talent scout approached her at a mall, and though she never made it big in New York because she's only five foot six, she gets a steady stream of jobs in our hometown of Bethesda, in suburban Washington, D.C. A few years ago, she got a part-time job for the NBC affiliate covering celebrity gossip (or "entertainment," as she loftily calls it). For three minutes a week--six now that her appearances are being doubled--she's on camera, bantering with the movie review guys and interviewing stars who are shooting the latest political thriller film in D.C.
I know, I know, I hear you asking what she looks like. Everyone wants to know what she looks like. Alex is a redhead, but not one of those Ronald McDonald--haired ones with freckles that look splattered on by Jackson Pollock. Her long hair is a glossy, dark red, and depending on the light, it has hints of gold and caramel and chocolate. She can never walk a city block without some woman begging her for the name of her colorist. It's natural, of course. Her skin defies the redhead's law of pigmentation by tanning smoothly and easily, her almond-shaped eyes are a shade precisely between blue and green, and her nose is straight and unremarkable, the way all good, obedient little noses should be. My father can still fit into the pants he wore in high school; Alex got his metabolism. My mother hails from a long line of sturdy midwestern corn farmers; I got hers. But no bitterness here.
"I'll call Alex later and congratulate her," I told Mom.
"Oh, and she booked the photographer for the wedding," Mom said, winding up for another lengthy tangential chat. Alex's upcoming wedding could keep our phone lines humming for hours.
"I've got to run," I cut her off. "Big morning. I'm going after a new account and the clients are flying in from Aspen this morning."
"Aspen?" Mom said. "Are they skiers?"
"The really rich people don't go to Aspen to ski," I told her. "They go to hang out with other rich people. My clients have the mansion next door to Tom Cruise's."
"Are they movie stars?" Mom squealed. The woman does love her People magazine. And so does Dad, though he'd never admit it.
"Even better," I said. "They're billionaires."
I hung up and took a bite of blueberry muffin, but it tasted like dust in my mouth. It wasn't the muffin's fault; it was the unpleasant thought tugging at me like an itch. I'd told Mom about my presentation so the message would get back to Alex: You're prettier, but don't ever forget that I'm more successful. Don't get me wrong; I love my sister--she can be generous and outspoken and funny--but no one can push my buttons like Alex. Around her, I light up like a skyscraper's elevator control panel at rush hour. We're complete opposites, always have been. It's like our DNA held a meeting in the womb and divvied up the goods: I'll trade you my sex appeal strands for a double dose of organizational skills, my genes must've said. Deal, Alex's genes answered, and if you'll just sign this form relinquishing any claim to long legs, you can have my work ethic, too.
If Alex and I weren't related, we'd have absolutely nothing in common. The thing about Alex is that she doesn't just grab the spotlight, she wrestles it to the ground and straddles it and pins its hands to the floor so it has no chance of escaping. And it isn't even her fault; the spotlight wants to be dominated by her. The spotlight screams "Uncle!" the second it sees her. People are dazzled by Alex. Men send her so many drinks it's a wonder she isn't in AA; women give her quick appraising looks and memorize her outfit, vowing to buy it because if it looks even half as good on them . . . ; even cranky babies stop crying and give her gummy smiles when they see her behind them in the grocery store line.
If Alex weren't my sister, I probably wouldn't be nearly so driven. But I learned long ago that it's easy to get lost and overlooked when someone like Alex is around. In a way, she has made me who I am today.
I pushed away my muffin and glanced over at Matt. He was sprawled on my couch, one leg hooked over the armrest, half-asleep. How he always managed to stay calm amid the chaos and frenzy of our agency was a mystery. I'd have to ask him for his secret. When I had time, which I didn't right now, since I was due downstairs in forty-four minutes. Mason was letting me greet the clients, since I was presenting first, and Cheryl would get to walk them to their car afterward.
"Can we do one more run-through?" I begged.
"We did twelve yesterday," Matt reminded me, yawning. He opened one sleepy-looking brown eye and peered up at me.
"You're right, you're right," I said, lining up the pencils on my desk at a perfect right angle to my stapler. "I don't want to sound overrehearsed."
"Knock it off, OCD girl," Matt said, pulling himself up off the couch and stealing a bite of my muffin. "Mmm. How can you not be eating this?"
"I had a bowl of Advil for breakfast," I told him. "High in fiber."
"You're beyond help," he said. "What time is the party tonight?"
"Seven-thirty," I said. "Is Pam coming?"
Pam was Matt's new girlfriend. I hadn't met her yet, but I was dying to.
"Yep," he said.
Tonight was our office holiday party.
"Nervous?" Matt asked me.
"Of course not," I lied.
"Step away from the Advil," Matt ordered me, slapping my hand as it instinctively went for my desk drawer. "Let's get your storyboards into the conference room. You know you're gonna kick ass, Madam Vice President."
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Allow access to Cookie/Session middleware on 'upgrade' events #342
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Dominic Pettifer Jonathan Ong Thomas Muldowney Erin
Dominic Pettifer
I want to access cookies and session objects during an upgrade event. eg:
app.on('upgrade', function(req, socket, head) {
var someValue = req.session.someValue; // Doesn't work
Cookie and Session middleware is hooked up properly and accessible from app.get/post/put/delete methods, just not from special events such as 'upgrade' even though the Connect session cookie token is available in the raw HTTP request headers eg.
var connectCookie = req.headers['cookie'];
FYI: an 'upgrade' event is fired on a WebSocket handshake. During the handshake it would be ideal to get hold of the logged in user (stored in the current session). Also WebSocket frameworks for node.js as such rely on the 'upgrade' event, hence why I believe this feature would be desirable for anyone building web sites that use WebSockets.
Thomas Muldowney
This makes websockets, within an overall site context, extremely difficult.
Bump for this.
I'm having to use a custom cookie parser as a workaround since this isn't available.
It would probably just involve suppressing the original upgrade event, creating a custom one that is sent through a certain config chain before being sent to the upgrade handler.
Jonathan Ong
connect isn't going to wrap around http servers. create a separate app to handle http.createServer().on('upgrade', app).
Jonathan Ong jonathanong closed this
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In the years before they formed Steely Dan and released the band's debut album Can't Buy a Thrill in 1972, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen made numerous demonstration recordings of their songs under the auspices of their manager, Kenny Vance of Jay & the Americans. Vance began leasing these recordings for commercial release in 1983 with the album Becker & Fagen: The Early Years, and since then they have been repackaged over and over in various combinations, appearing on such albums as Berry Town, Sun Mountain, Old Regime, and Stone Piano. Twenty-eight different songs (plus an alternate version of the song "Sun Mountain") have turned up on one album or another, and The Roaring of the Lamb presents half of them. Steely Dan fans who have never heard any of these tracks may be pleasantly surprised. None of Becker and Fagen's vaunted studio perfectionism is present on these primitive and usually spare tracks, but the work comes only a short time before the polished Steely Dan commercial recordings, and it is identifiably by the same performers. In fact, "Barrytown" later turned up on the third Steely Dan album, Pretzel Logic. "Android Warehouse," meanwhile, is basically a demo of "The Caves of Altamira" from the fifth Steely Dan album, The Royal Scam. Most of the tracks feature only Fagen on lead vocals and piano, and Becker on bass and harmony vocals, though some are more developed arrangements presumably including Demian (featuring guitarist Denny Dias, later of Steely Dan, drummer John Discepolo, and singer Keith Thomas), the band with whom they were playing at the time. As long as buyers aren't expecting the usual Steely Dan sonics, they may enjoy a glimpse into the band's beginnings.
Fecha de formación: Los Angeles, CA, 1972
Género: Rock
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0.150961 | <urn:uuid:7dfdcfcc-8346-44e0-8da6-e51e36c68aca> | en | 0.992511 | ok i probably shouldnt be starting a new fic right now but on the other hand this is all ive written for this fic... im sure i'll continue it eventually but updates may take awhile for lack of time - feel free to throw ideas at me :) (and reviews are always good motivation :) and yay! my first twilight fic :) ive wanted to write one for so long :)
i know i havent updated masked happiness yet (sorry) - its next on my list and i will when i find the time, i have no intention of not finishing it, it may just take awhile (and i know i keep saying that but the next chapter needs finishing and editing first and i want to do it properly)
disclaimer is on profile
onwards... :)
Breathing Softly
Breathing softly. The sound soothed Edward to a state as close to sleep as he was able to get. Watching Bella breathing, her eyelashes fluttering against her cheeks every so often when she dreamt, soothed Edward. He could watch her, hold her in his arms and see her sleeping, see her breathing, and know she was alive.
He had thought she was dead. The thought had scared him like nothing else in his unnaturally long lifetime, had depressed him more than he thought was possible. It had ended his life again, very nearly for good. And it was her that had saved him as well. Not for the first time, but the in most obvious way so far. She had hurtled into him, probably giving herself bruises against his hard, unforgiving frame, and begged and pleaded until he understood that he wasn't dead yet and that she wasn't either. What did he do to deserve her?
They had been back from Volterra for a week. The whole incident, the last six months – it was as though it never happened. Of course it all had consequences, it seemed that nothing was the same, but in this moment, in watching Bella – his Bella – sleep, everything melted away and nothing mattered. It was as though none of it had happened. He knew that he was incapable of sleep but at the moment, he felt he was the one who was dreaming.
It had happened. It had all happened. In this moment he could ignore how gaunt Bella looked, how pale and thin she looked. How like him she looked. He could ignore the dark smudges beneath her own eyes, so much like his. And her eyes, oh her eyes. In this moment, with them safely shut, he could ignore the heart-breaking mixture of desperation, fear, helplessness and the worst of them all, hidden deep behind the others like it was as natural as breathing for her, the complete and utter faith that he knew she still had in him.
The look of child-like hope in her eyes whenever she opened them in the morning and the following look of ecstatic surprise when he was still there made him want to cry. She didn't deserve this. And it made him wonder how she woke up when he wasn't here, all those mornings he'd missed. Had she woken up with those hope-filled eyes? What was the look that replaced the hope when he wasn't there? He didn't want to think about it but he knew he had to. He had to think about it everyday. Every time she opened those eyes that he frequently fell into, drowned himself in. He had to think about it to remind himself that this was where he needed to be, always. He needed to be here, looking right back at her, making sure the hope was replaced by something positive.
And if one day his presence brought something negative instead, if his presence ever became the reason her face fell in the mornings like his absence apparently had for the last six months, then he would leave. He would be gone instantly, so fast her face wouldn't have time to fall completely. No, he reminded himself, not that fast. Never again that fast. No, he would explain this time. Honestly. He wouldn't lie to her a second time and he couldn't do it anyway… to either of them. He was far too selfish. No, he would make sure she smiled before he left, and he would always watch her, keep an eye on her. He would never really leave again.
He cringed inwardly that he had actually left. If it came to it again, if she ordered him away he would go, but never so far that he couldn't see her anymore. He would be her shadow, behind cars and trees, flitting after her, looking after her, loving her from a distance, what she would probably refer to as her 'guardian angel'. He smiled at that, gazing down lovingly at her as she slept. She already does.
He knew he was getting too far ahead of himself, he always did, she always told him so. Instead he spent his time watching her. Committing every millimetre of her skin, her face, her features, her hair, all of it to his long, perfect memory. He gazed for an immeasurable amount of time at the rise and fall of her chest, just where her neck ended and her collar bone cast a slight shadow. Not slight enough, he thought with a frown, it was still more pronounced than it should have been. Than it had been. Edward shook his head free of the thoughts and began again.
If this was the only way he'd learn to stop over analysing everything, by watching Bella sleep, well it almost wasn't worth learning the lesson just for the chance to repeat it every night.
He kept a completely still vigil by her side through the night, not moving once and just watching her take deep, slow breath after deep, slow breath. The first small glimpse of sunlight that spilled over the windowsill set millions of tiny lights reflecting off of every surface of Edward that was exposed to it. It was to be the only glimpse of sunlight all day, as the sun slipped quietly behind the dense cloud cover immediately afterwards, but seeing his own reflected rainbows shining warmly from Bella's face and her eyelids fluttering in reaction made Edward grin.
He was glad that on some level she hadn't missed the glimpse of sunlight. She loved sunlight.
She lay still again for a few moments more before letting out a small, almost inaudible whimper as her body began to wake up and her mind refused to, even as it complied. Her hand that lay next to her head on the pillow between them curled, making a loose, incomplete fist before releasing again. Edward watched raptly.
She let out her small sound again as she unconsciously rolled slightly, facing Edward a little bit more. Her eyelashes fluttered again and he watched, utterly enthralled by every movement, as they slowly opened, the ever-present morning hopefulness shining blearily up at him. He smiled gently but with so much tenderness that it made her momentarily breathless. He smiled.
And her face fell.
a cliff hanger so soon in a story that may take awhile to update... does that make me mean? heh sorry, but please please please review and let me know what you think - first twilight fic, i need to know what im doing right/wrong and what people would like to see next too :)
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Title: A Man Called Father
Pairings: Various
Summary Notes: I've been wanting to do something like this for a while, and now I'm focusing on the older generations, I figured I should go ahead and do it before I ran out of time. As a fatherless child in a sense, I've always been drawn to father/child relationships. Thus, the following chapters will be any of the Naruto characters and their father, and everything in between. If I've forgotten anyone, let me know.
Now, for any of you dobbers out there, this is *not* a challenge of any kind. It's simply inspired by the following quote:
A father never feels worthy of the worship he sees for him in his child's eyes. He's never quite the hero his daughter thinks, never quite the man his son believes him to be, and this worries him. So he works too hard to try and smooth the rough places in both himself and the road for those of his own who will follow him, more precious than his own life...his children.
And now, onward!
Nara Shikaku is not a demonstrative man. He is a Nara, and Nara are reticient. That aside, it is simply his nature; he is a quiet, reserved personality, preferring to slip quietly about like his shadows. Even to his beloved wife, he is somewhat shy at times, though fortunately, Yoshino is a perceptive woman, and perfectly willing to love him unconditionally.
Thus, he finds little reason to be troubled by the display of deep emotions. One would even go so far as to say he is wary of emotional outbursts, disliking the disruption towards or around his calm disposition. It affects his mind, and when his mind is affected, his body follows, and with it, his fighting capacity.
All in all, Shikaku likes to think he has complete control over his emotions. He will become ruffled on his terms, and no one else's. Nothing is allowed to unbalance his sharp mind.
And yet, he finds his emotional self-control strangely lacking as he stares down at this little form. This...creature of reddened skin and skinny limbs and a thin mop of black hair, that is far, far too small and fragile for him to hold in arms rough and hard from shinobi training.
"His name is Shikamaru, Shikaku."
The little creature opens his eyes and glares up at him sleepily, those narrowed, dark eyes clearly conveying his displeasure at being awoken by his father shifting about. Dark and narrow and sleepy...Nara eyes. His eyes.
My son...he's my *son*...
Nara Shikaku is not a demonstrative man. But in this one, brief yet overwhelming moment, Shikaku bows his head to Shikamaru's just as small, chubby hands reach up to touch the scars on his face.
And he cries. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6018079/1/A-Man-Called-Father | dclm-gs1-304500000 |
0.060699 | <urn:uuid:6565710f-7197-42fd-a7c4-160401490ecb> | en | 0.991062 | First attempt at writing Sherlock. I should get a beta reader later since I am most definitely not British. I plan for this to be a collection of one-shots. Please enjoy and review.
Molly Hooper was quite relaxed as she finished stitching up the cadaver. Today had been quiet and without anything-or anyone –to add any unneeded stress to her day. The dead woman in front of her (sixty-two years of age, average height, overweight, mother of three, grandmother of eight, married forty years) had died from complications from diabetes, just what Molly had suspected. Blood tests in the lab and her work in the mortuary had confirmed that. Statements from the husband and children added to her conclusion. Despite their attempts to get her to eat healthier and take her medication like she should, this woman couldn't commit herself to living a better life for herself.
After the woman was put away and Molly washed up, she was finally able to collapse in a chair and finish up the paperwork. At this rate, she might even be able to go home early and without a visit from a certain consulting detective either. She had not seen him since he was last in here two days before. That day had been rather trying. She overslept, was nearly half an hour late for work, Sherlock had already begun snooping through her list and running experiments in the lab, he pestered her constantly about wanting to see this body and that body and when was she going to get him that foot for an experiment he needed to prove a man's alibi?
She tried ignoring him as best as she could until he decided to make some snide remark on the quality of her work. The she snapped and told him off, proved that he was wrong and she was right about the cause of death of two of the cadavers lying on metal slabs in the mortuary. In her tirade she only managed to register just a little bit that Sherlock was rendered speechless and John Watson and Detective Inspector Lestrade were snickering at the scene. Sherlock Holmes, dumbfounded and shrinking back from a small and normally even tempered pathologist. Molly smiled to herself at the thought.
The door to the mortuary creaked open and Molly could hear light footsteps walk several paces in. They didn't come anywhere close to her. The owner of the footsteps was keeping their distance. Molly turned around in her chair, confirming her suspicions. Of course Sherlock would stride in here right toward the end of Molly's shift. No doubt he would be expecting her to drop any plans for the evening-which were sadly, nonexistent and he probably knew that, too-to help him with some sort of experiment all because he was bored. There was something quite different about him this evening. He seemed almost…hesitant. Sherlock Holmes never hesitated about anything. Of course, he was also a great actor when he wanted something. Then there was the way his arms went behind his back-hiding something, obviously.
"What are you hiding?" Molly asked. Sherlock remained motionless and silent, giving no indication that he heard Molly speak at all. She turned back to the paperwork. If he wasn't going to speak, neither would she. Maybe he was hesitating, maybe he was deducing, and maybe he had an entirely different purpose altogether, but it took almost a full minute before Sherlock walked over to her desk. Molly could detect a very strong scent that was definitely not Sherlock's cologne-and even that smelled different today. Wordlessly, Sherlock place a bouquet of flowers on her desk. Just two days before, Molly had made Sherlock speechless with words. Now he had made her speechless with this silent gesture.
"I was informed, numerous times, by both John and Lestrade, that I might have been an arse the other day. Alright I was an arse," Sherlock added before Molly could say the exact same thing. "Your work has been nothing but phenomenal in all the years that I've known you and I should know better than to question it or imply that your conclusions were wrong. I am truly sorry for what I said." Sherlock cleared his throat. No doubt, admitting all of this was somewhat difficult for him. "I researched on the internet and asked John about what to do when you act like a complete prat to a woman and both suggested flowers."
Molly smiled up at him. "Thank you for buying me the flowers. And for apologizing to me."
Sherlock was looking at the wall, most determinedly not looking at Molly. "No need to thank me for the flowers. I didn't buy them. I didn't steal them, either," he added hastily when Molly opened her mouth to protest. "I helped the owner of a flower shop on a case once. Eliza is always happy to repay the favor. It's why Mrs. Hudson always gets flowers on her birthday."
Molly smiled once again and filed the report away in its folder. "Did you need anything?" Molly asked. "A look at a cadaver? Body parts? Did you want to run some sort of experiment in the lab?"
Sherlock finally looked down at her and shook his head. "No. You are obviously finishing up with work and wish to go home. Your plans for the evening are most likely, eating dinner, feeding Toby, and watching some banal show or another on the telly. You do not wish to stay here any longer than necessary. However it is late in the evening, so I will remain here until you are ready to go and you can get into a taxi. At that point I will be assured that no unexpected attacks will occur on you tonight. You are the only competent pathologist they have here at Bart's. My mind would be at ease knowing you get home safely. Why are you looking at me like that?"
Molly ducked her head down. "No reason, really. You just never offer anything like that. Usually when it's you and John here, he's the one that insists you two stay and walk me out. It's not really like you to do remember to do something like that."
Sherlock adjusted his scarf. "Go get your things," he said quietly. Molly left him in the mortuary to his own thoughts. She was right: he never did things like this. He had been feeling different as of late. He'd been acting different, too, according to John. He was used to being considered odd, but apparently, he had been acting odder than usual. He would have to think about this with his violin later.
"I'm not watching telly tonight, by the way," Molly said from the doorway of the mortuary. Sherlock looked at her, waiting for her to continue. "I'm watching a film from one of my DVDs."
"Let me guess," Sherlock said, holding open the door and letting Molly pass. "Is it a musical?"
Molly shook her head, amused. "No."
"Then it must be a period drama. One based on Jane Austen's works that Mrs. Hudson and millions of other women enjoy watching so much?"
"Wrong again."
Sherlock's brow furrowed. "I suppose it could be some sort of documentary or a comedy. Or an action movie. Filmmakers will add scenes and plot points purely for the sake of drawing in a female audience. A James Bond film?"
"I'll be watching The Sting," Molly finally told him. Sherlock shrugged.
"Never heard of it," he admitted. Molly laughed.
"That doesn't surprise me at all."
Sherlock would forget to be the gentleman and escort a lady safely to a cab late at night. John's influence is strong. Internet cookies go to the person who can spot the My Fair Lady reference. It is rather obvious. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8121737/1/Wallflower-in-the-Mortuary | dclm-gs1-304530000 |
0.082791 | <urn:uuid:c6b95c6c-d624-43cb-b6fc-feb7470253a9> | en | 0.982345 | A watched pot never boils, Emma knows, although admittedly she only cooks once every few weeks, throwing pasta together when she can't face another night of eating out. No, a watched pot feels like it will never come to the boil, and a watched door will not produce the one person she's both dying to see and dreading the arrival of.
Henry keeps catching her eye, now and every other time they both look back at the room filled with people in a botched attempt at pretending neither of them were staring at the white double doors that form the entrance to Storybrooke's Great Hall.
Paige takes pity on Henry first, dragging him into the throng of people on the dancefloor. Emma knows about the diamond ring tucked into the corner of Henry's sock drawer, but they don't talk about these things now he's home from college on something like a permanent basis. They're closer to roommates now that he's been out in the real world, and it's peaceful in its own way. Emma likes not being the only one to buy beer for the fridge these days; she's learned to take the perks where she can find them.
It's getting a beer that distracts her in the end. Her father insists on taking her to the bar, as though simply bringing her a bottle of the same beer she drinks at every event is too much for him to remember. They're in conversation about the turnout, about how happy Snow looks to be holding court for the evening once more, when the hush falls over the room.
Not a real hush, anyway, because the music is still blaring over the crappy PA system, but the talking and yelling that mingled with old pop songs has stopped in an instant. Even without that, the hairs on the back of Emma's neck are standing on end, and there's only one person who ever had that effect on her.
"Regina," she says, striding across the room to shake the other woman's hand. Someone turns the music down, and the murmuring begins. "I'm glad you could make it."
"Mom!" Henry says, scurrying across the floor without any concern about looking cool. The relief on Regina's face when Henry pulls her into a hug is so palpable that Emma almost feels dizzy to look at it.
Thankfully, the private moment between mother and son is enough to make most people do the decent thing and turn away. The music starts back up, and Emma exhales slowly.
"Emma," Regina says, once Henry releases her. He towers over her now, the Charmings' height now evident in him. "Thank you for inviting me."
"You're always invited, Mom," Henry reminds her. "We're just glad you could make it this time."
"Henry, can you-"
"Scotch, neat. Got it," Henry says, shaking his head but smiling. His close-cropped hair shows off the face that turned out so much like his father's, a man he spent a handful of days with and never saw again; it's just another thing they don't talk about, and one that Emma's goddamned grateful for.
"You trained him well, in New York," Emma teases. "I'm surprised he didn't have the drink waiting for you."
"I can't believe it's been six months since he graduated," Regina admits, dark eyes tracking Henry's movements on the other side of the room. "I hoped he would go back, do his Masters degree, but..."
"You wanted to keep him there longer," Emma accuses, but there's no malice in it.
"Perhaps," Regina admits, tucking fur-lined gloves into her sleek red purse, and putting that under her arm in a practiced gesture. Her coat is already unbuttoned, and Emma steps behind her to slip it from Regina's shoulders, because habits apparently still die slow and hard out here in Maine.
In deep red velvet, dark enough to look almost black in the shadows, Regina is as stunning as ever. Emma tries to hide it, but too late, and the hitch in her breathing gives her away. She looks instead at the jewels that shimmer at Regina's ears, and then at her throat. Rubies, like drops of blood, and even with all the memories the sight brings, Emma can't tear herself away.
In her own simple black pantsuit she feels dowdy, even though two hours ago it felt like trading up from her signature jeans and leather jacket, just a couple of sizes larger these days because forty is creeping up and sleepy towns don't do a lot to keep a girl active.
"Let's sit," Emma says, steering Regina with a light touch that barely grazes her elbow, towards a table in the back corner of the room.
By the time they're seated in adjacent chairs, no more than a few inches between their knees, Henry has returned with Regina's drink. Emma takes a long pull of her beer to preempt any need to clink glass on glass, or worse, make any kind of toast. Paige hovers behind Henry, still wary, still mistrusting Regina with those eyes that are so very much like Jefferson's, without the widened whiteness of crazy.
"Mom, I know I haven't seen you in a few weeks, but I'm supposed to be helping with the-"
"Go," Regina says, reaching for his hand and squeezing it. "I'm staying tonight, so if we don't get time now, you can take me to breakfast."
Emma swallows hard at that little piece of news. The B&B is being refurbished since Ruby finally decided to sell it last year, which implies that Regina is inviting herself to a night in her old home. It certainly wouldn't be the first time, but Emma doesn't dare to presume anything about Regina's visits anymore.
"So, I have a guest?" Emma asks when the kids leave, recruited by Snow for some organizing task or other.
"Problem?" Regina asks, quirking one eyebrow as she downs the double (Henry knows better by now) in one gulp.
"Just wondering why we're wasting our time here," Emma says simply.
"Well," Regina says. "Give it half an hour, make them squirm a little more."
"Deal," Emma agrees, leaning back in her chair and unbuttoning the single button on her blazer.
"There's something we need to discuss," Regina warns, and the darkness in her voice is unfortunately familiar. "Tonight, preferably."
"Whatever you want, Regina," Emma replies, because that's just the way of things these days.
Talking gets forgotten somewhere on the drive home.
Emma's one beer over the limit but not about to arrest herself. The Bug was consigned to the town scrapheap long ago, right by the boundary that Emma can't cross, and these days she gets around in a truck that used to be Michael's, sold at a knockdown price in exchange for a couple of years' worth of parking tickets disappearing.
Regina couldn't look more out of place, in her designer dress and killer heels, but she says nothing about the takeout wrappers and empty bottles that litter the floor of the passenger seat. She stares for a moment when the truck first guns into life, but seems satisfied that Emma is still driving stick, that some things don't change, and as soon as they're out on the main road Regina's hand comes to rest on Emma's thigh, her touch warm even through the fabric of the black pants.
"It's been longer, this time," Emma points out when she pulls the truck into the driveway that used to be Regina's, but it's where Emma calls home these days.
Regina struts around the front of the truck, and no doubt there's a bitchy reply forming on her lips, but she reaches Emma before the words can spill and then they're kissing, Emma's back pressed against the window and her hands already grasping at Regina's silky dark hair.
"Too long," Regina admits when they part for air. Her lipstick is smudged, half of it no doubt smeared on Emma's willing lips now, obliterating the pale gloss that was her one concession to dressing up for the evening. "We really do have to talk, first."
"If you're going to tell me you're marrying some stockbroker son-of-a-bitch..." Emma mutters, but Regina looks up in surprise.
"I'm not dating," she says. "I mean, socially, a dinner here and there. Nothing more."
"Henry said there were guys sometimes. I mean, that was the deal," Emma blusters, trying not to sound like the jealous mistress in the equation, even if she's never asked for anything more. She hasn't exactly lived like a nun in Regina's absence.
"Drinks. Dinner. The occasional night at the opera," Regina confirms with a shrug. "But no, I won't be marrying anyone to secure my social station again, not in this life or any other."
"Come inside," Emma says, because the air is cold enough for snow and they've already lingered far too long. She hangs back for just a second, the cold determination in Regina's voice about marriage bringing up some old, unanswered questions, but a moment later it already feels like the wrong thing to ask.
They're in the foyer when Regina grabs her by the arm, eyes wild and unable to stop the words from tumbling out.
"I've done it!"
"Done what?" Emma says, ignoring the prick of recognition in the pit of her stomach.
"Found the way out of your deal," Regina confirms, putting Emma's most dangerous and scarcely forgotten hope into words. "The deal that you used to save my life. I can get you back your freedom."
Emma can't breathe at the thought of finally leaving this town again, almost eleven years after consigning herself to it for the rest of her life.
"Don't say that," she snaps after a minute, a lifetime of cynicism taking over once more. "It's a price I was happy to pay." They've talked about this a hundred times, maybe. Over the years of talking to Regina and not, of kissing and not, of only exchanging sullen glares over the top of Henry's head, to achieve this fragile peace sometimes feels like enough; and Emma Swan has always known not to ask for too much.
"To be trapped here? While everyone else can come and go?" Regina scoffs. She knows Emma too well to be tricked so easily. "No, I don't think so. Your eyes lit up like the Fourth of July at just the mention of it, so don't you dare lie to me now, Emma Swan."
"It's fine," Emma says, peeling away from Regina's vice-grip on her arm, heading towards the living room. Nothing is quite as fancy as Regina left it, the day she was run out of town, but Henry keeps track of the things that Emma misses. "So long as Henry comes often enough. I think he's staying through the summer to finish this design he's working on. And... well, it's nice to see you sometimes, too."
"I want more," Regina says quite bluntly, biting her lip after making the admission. After all this time, after all those years of terrorizing people, she still expects a bad reaction to simply stating what she wants. "It was fine with the distraction of Henry at Columbia, but no more. I'm not living like this."
"The deal was pretty clear," Emma says, gripping the back of a stylish armchair that's not remotely comfortable to sit in. "It's how we got rid of Gold. It's how I kept Henry alive. It's how I kept you."
"You should have let him kill me, you know," Regina says. "That was my destiny. Especially after I killed Baelfire."
"Neal," Emma corrects, out of habit. "And he was trying to take Henry from us. I'm every bit as guilty as you. Won't breaking the deal let him come back?"
"No. The banishment is permanent. But the Blue Fairy has ruined my life for long enough," Regina says bluntly. "We have to depose her. Put someone sympathetic in her place. Someone who'll let you change the terms of her deal and leave. Then we can be together. Near wherever Henry wants to go, if he'll have us there."
"I'm here to safeguard their magic," Emma reminds her. "They're terrified it'll run out, like the fairy dust, so I'm the Strategic Magic Reserve."
"They want to secure the magic that's in you," Regina reminds her, pacing now, although the heels have been kicked off by the sofa as though she's still the Mayor, as though she still lives here. "If the fairy dust stops growing, and they think yours is the only magic left, do you think they'll still let you walk around untouched? They will drain it from you."
"That doesn't sound like something I'd survive," Emma concedes. "Mostly because I'm thinking they're going to drill me like those bits of Alaska where nothing but birds live."
"You wouldn't," Regina says, blunt as ever.
"Moms?" Henry's voice echoes in the hallway.
"In here, kid," Emma answers. He appears a moment later, cautious about peering round the door.
"Oh, you're decent," Henry says. "Did you explain to her?" He directs that one at Regina and Emma hangs her head, because of course they're in it together.
"Almost," Regina says, her smile benevolent as she ushers him into the room. He folds his lanky frame onto the sofa and watches them both expectantly. "I was just getting to the good part."
"About how you found a way to take her magic out?" Henry asks, because in some ways he's still just a kid with a book that he believes every word of, even when the rest of the world laughs. "And give it to the fairies?"
Emma searches desperately for the memories of when talk like this made her roll her eyes, or turn away in disbelief. She comes up blank, and it only frustrates her further.
"It's not without risks," Regina explains. "And my own magic is rusty from all the time away from here. But if we wait until the end of my 48 hours, I have hope I can do it. Presenting them with your magic should be enough to get us what we want."
"Hope is kind of in short supply these days," Emma says, but she can already feel the flickering ember inside her whoosh into flame. For all the sensible reasons not to be caught up in this scheme, she needs it too much not to respond to Regina's cautious optimism. "But damn, I'd like to go further than the town limits again."
"We could all live in New York for a while," Henry suggests. "I heard Ruby might be making her way back from California soon, too."
"No promises," Emma cuts him off. "There's still a lot to discuss."
"Yeah, discuss naked," Henry sasses under his breath, already standing to leave them be. "I'm going to turn in. Breakfast at Joe's, Mom. Don't forget."
"Joe's?" Regina asks, momentarily puzzled. "Oh, Granny's."
"Yeah," Henry says, leaning in to peck each of them on the cheek. "Sleep tight."
"I can't help feeling that Henry had a point," Regina says, barely concealing the smirk once he's left the room. "I've told you the plan, and we'll get into the specifics later."
"You know," Emma says, letting Regina take her by the hand. "You were still the prettiest girl at the ball, tonight."
"That," Regina sniffs. "Was no ball."
"Well, it sure wasn't a hoedown," Emma argues, because that's how they communicate and the thought of being able to do it every day has left her feeling light-headed. Regina being allowed back for two days every two months or so has never been enough.
"Shut up and take me to bed," Regina groans, as they approach the staircase.
"Yes ma'am."
Emma wants to take her time, wants to savor every line and curve that she's been dreaming of for the past nine weeks, and so often before that, but Regina is drunk on power again. They're fucking before the bedroom door even closes, fingers inside each other in determined strokes as Regina backs Emma against the wall.
"What," Emma gasps. "Happened to patience?"
"Fuck patience," Regina growls, her mouth against the base of Emma's throat.
Emma's spent a lot of her life being told she's not the brightest bulb in the tanning bed, but even she has never been stupid enough to consider arguing with a proposal like that.
"I don't trust the fairies," Regina says later, sitting up against the headboard with one white sheet barely covering her. Emma, flat on her back, tilts her head to stare at Regina, upside down. "But they're our only hope."
"And I'd be totally done with magic?" Emma asks, considering the energy she can feel buzzing quietly in her blood sometimes. "I mean, the true love baby crap wouldn't make it just come back?"
"Almost certainly not," Regina responds. "Even less chance if you go out into the world where nothing magical can happen."
"This felt pretty magical," Emma says, blushing furiously at her admission. No matter how many intimate moments they have, she can't ever quite feel like the kind of person who says these things. Regina smiles at the token effort, though, running her fingers absent-mindedly through the jumble of Emma's curls.
"Of course," Regina says quietly. "You don't have to come with me, when you're free. I would understand if you wanted to run very far, very fast."
"We need to be able to come back," Emma hedges. "I'm not giving up on my family, not now." She leaves unspoken her concern over Storybrooke's degraded infrastructure, of the cracks that have shown up since the fairies took charge of everything important and left her parents as little more than community organizers with slightly fancier titles; a long way from King and Queen of anything.
"Yes," Regina sighs, taking the non-answer as confirmation. "And I'll help you with anything you need to get set up in-"
"Regina," Emma says, rolling over and wrapping an arm around Regina's thighs. "I'm coming with you. To you. However you want to put it."
"Oh," Regina says, smiling down into her chest.
"I'm going to suck at it," Emma warns. "I mean, I'm better at the sleeping over and people in my space. My little sister hasn't exactly given me a choice there, and Henry's not really much better."
"And if your parents object?" Regina queries.
"Let them," Emma shrugs. "They've mostly given up on setting me up with some nice guy, at least. And I only get the lectures after your visits if Snow is drunk and emotional."
"She's drunk tonight-should we be expecting her to start yelling from the garden?"
"I think we're safe," Emma says, wriggling into place at Regina's side, waiting for the little huff of air and movement on Regina's part. It's taken far longer than it should have to be this comfortable with each other, to be able to touch in ways not designed to bruise or to thrill.
It's the love that Henry taught them, pulled from each of them like a physical force, that got them through. On the nights they've been lost and at a loss with each other, remembering how to feel for Henry has pushed them further along the path to loving each other, even if they still don't dare to call it that.
"We'll finalize the plan over breakfast," Regina explains, trying and failing to stifle a yawn.
"I'm helping my parents with the clean up in the afternoon," Emma murmurs. "Can you play nice for a few hours?"
"I'll be at the library," Regina says, the words stiff. "Belle won't be much use, but I know some of the old books found their way there. And I'll talk to Nova, of course."
"Maybe you can take Lily, keep her out from under our feet," Emma suggests, biting her tongue to keep from laughing.
"I am not a babysitter," Regina snaps. "And it's not like they'd ever trust me with their other daughter."
"Well, I trust you with this one," Emma says suddenly, before pressing her face into Regina's shoulder and letting sleep pull her down.
They wake far too early for a Sunday breakfast, and when Emma's response to Regina's quiet grumbling about morning breath is to drag them both into the en suite bathroom for tooth brushing and then a very thorough joint shower, the early hours pass in a happy whirl.
Henry is waiting for them downstairs, and Emma finds herself misty-eyed at the way Regina comes to a dead halt in the doorway, hand over her heart at the sight of Henry in such a familiar spot, hunched over a bowl of cereal and flicking through a comic book.
"I'm hungry," he says, off Emma's accusatory glare. "I couldn't wait all morning for you two to surface."
"Manners, Henry," Regina says, but she ruffles his short hair on the way past anyway. She looks far more relaxed now, dressed down in gray slacks and a shirt borrowed from Emma's closet. Actually, the shirt might have been Regina's to start with, but these years of visits that aren't long enough and Emma's inability to change much about a place she can't feel at home in, have left their lives with jumbled fragments.
"We should get going," Emma says, picking up her truck keys from the counter. For the first time in far too long, she's actually eager to get on with the day.
Emma's stacking the last of the chairs, laughing at the way her father keeps slowing everyone down by dancing through the space with Lily in his arms, when the doors fly open, slamming against the wall. Regina comes marching in, every inch the Queen, and various people scatter out of habit.
Only the Charmings hold their ground, and Emma treats Regina to a quite spectacular eyeroll before turning back to the chairs.
"Emma!" Regina barks, some of her natural melodrama dulled by Emma's refusal to engage. "I spoke to Nova, but more importantly, I was right!"
"You usually are," Emma says, taking her time about turning around. "But I assume you mean about the magic stuff."
"What magic stuff?" Snow demands, insinuating herself between the two women, offering a tight smile that's fooling no one. "Because if you remember, Regina, the condition on you being allowed to visit Henry here in town is that you don't use magic when you're here."
"I'm well aware," Regina snaps, but Emma takes over before the old hurts can rise up and cause another argument.
"Regina thinks she's found a way to get me out of this town," Emma says. "I mean, I could come back to visit. But it would break the deal that's keeping me here."
"Emma," David says, his once-boyish face crumpling into a frown. "You know we wished that for you a thousand times, but the fairies insist there is no way to break the deal."
"They also insisted there was only one space in the wardrobe forty years ago," Emma snaps, because with this glimmer of hope she no longer has the focus to hide her frustration from them. Her parents are kind and loving and supportive, but Emma still can't talk to them about the nights she's driven to the town boundary and wondered if it wouldn't be worth the quick, merciful death that came with crossing it. They somehow believe that the loneliness that once made her run all the time is filled by having parents a few decades too late.
Regina, at least, knows that it isn't. She understands hurts that won't heal and voids that won't fill. She steps past Snow and lays a possessive hand on Emma's shoulder, reminding her silently of exactly that.
"Your blue friend has caused enough trouble for one lifetime," Regina says, and the fire is dancing in her eyes again. Emma knows the Evil Queen was never truly vanquished, knows that in all her time alone Regina still obsesses over past slights and scores in need of settling, but it's still uncomfortable to watch. Mostly, Emma scolds herself, because she finds the whole 'princess of darkness' thing almost unbearably attractive. "We simply mean to effect a change in leadership: Nova agrees that it's needed, and she'll put her own name forward. Then we can negotiate new terms."
"You've never believed in negotiation," Snow snaps, arms crossed over her chest in defiance. "Why on earth would we trust you now?"
"I'm not asking for your trust," Regina states, quite plainly.
"She has mine," Emma says, her voice tight as she offers support.
"And mine," Henry says, ruffling Lily's black curls as he steps into the little standoff. "I want both my moms to be happy; we've all waited long enough."
"Why are you only considering it now?" David asks, unusually sharp, but even he's learned a lot in the past twelve years. "If it's so simple, why not do it right away?"
"I didn't know I wanted to," Regina admits. "You remember the terms Emma and I first parted on. If not for Henry, I would never have come back here in my allocated hours. And somewhere along the way..."
"I wasn't ready to try, either," Emma confirms. "It's only with Henry being away at college that I've realized how much I want to get back to the real world; back to my world."
"Emma, your world is-"
"Don't," Emma pleads, cutting her mother off. "That was never my world, Mom. I think I proved that when I ran around trying to shoot ogres."
"If there's to be a plan," Snow resumes, changing tack. "I insist we be involved. Not just to keep an eye on Regina."
Regina looks as though she's about to object, but mercifully bites her tongue.
"Yes," David agrees. "We want your happiness, too, Em. Let us help."
"I don't need help," Regina fumes, but Emma takes her hand and squeezes firmly. "But... I suppose, it may make things a little easier. If you do as you're told for once, Snow White."
"Anything for Emma," Snow says, tilting her chin the same way Henry does when his mind is made up. Emma can't be sure if she does the same herself, but she smirks to see that Regina does. Someday they might all appreciate what they've learned from each other, but Emma isn't hopeful that it will be today.
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"What about your magic?" David asks, obviously uneasy.
"Well," Emma sighs. "I guess we should explain."
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Why would you want to do that? – Mitch Jun 18 '13 at 6:37
Well, OP also wants to do this: askubuntu.com/questions/309273/… – user25656 Jun 18 '13 at 7:20
On a lighter note, why would an UbuntuLover want to do such things ;) ? – user25656 Jun 18 '13 at 7:23
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Weblogs -- described by one of their creators as the "pirate radio stations" of the Web, are a new, personal, and determinedly non-hostile evolution of the electric community. They are also the freshest example of how people use the Net to make their own, radically different new media. A look at Weblogs plus a list of a few identifiable existing species in the electric community. Feel free, of course, to add your own.
Electric Community Part Two:
Here Comes the Weblog
The members of electronic communities like Slashdot come together in the first place because of some shared interest - in this case a complex, sometimes highly technical range of acquired knowledge - Linux, open source, programming. An individualistic community with a common purpose, sites like this attract focused, like-minded participants, programmers and developers whose shared experience was mastery of a complex operating system, a willingness to endure technical hurdles, and an almost secret common language.
Newcomers, drawn to see what's going on or foraging for information themselves, often enrage the established dwellers of an e-community. They don't know as much, ask stupid questions, speak a different language. Intruders, they throw the ecological balance out of whack.
Mark Stefik of the Information Sciences and Technology Laboratory at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, likens this resentment to the problem of assimilation when natural disasters or wars cause mass exodus to new lands. When the rate of immigration exceeds a certain level, the resulting chaos in the host country can evoke tremendous resentment and backlash.
Size is a factor, too. As an electric community grows, so do the maintenance costs - hardware, bandwidth, the pressure coherently present more and more information, the need for revenue to support all these functions. As more and more people move through the site, it's harder to recognize addresses, message styles, or individual personalities.
So an electronic community faces, from the beginning, a serious dilemma --- whether to stay small, but remain marginal, or to grow, and becoming more profitable and acquiring more bandwidth and software. In a sense, it suffers either way. If a community stays small, it starves. If it grows, it suffers in a different way. The WELL, one of the first and most important electronic communities (I've been a member for years) has survived by remaining small, smart and simple.
Many of its members have reasons for avoiding too much hostility. They have continuing, powerful, very personal ties to one another. Topics range from science and technology to culture, movies and parenting. And the WELL has been successful in part by providing strong, experienced moderators with authority who discourage eruptions of hostility and keep conversations on track without discouraging free speech.
E-communities without personal forums - jobs, parenting, family life - have a tougher time forming a sense of community, since there's no real way for members to get to know one another. People aren't attacking human beings they know, but disembodied voices and messages.
From the beginning, the Net and the Web have been about individuals creating their own media. This process evolves constantly as people online struggle to find communities where they can glean information, keep up with new technologies, receive help, make human contact.
Some online sociologists use the club analogy when it comes to differentiating large and public versus small and exclusive e-communities.
Exclusive discussion groups - those that limit membership and topics - are like private clubs in that they offer membership by invitation or even fees. In these smaller e-communities, people can speak more freely, perhaps say things they wouldn't say in public.
Stefik writes: "To take the private-club idea another step forward, consider the possibility of private clubs with exclusive memberships, rules about confidentiality with real bite, and limits on the ability of the excluded public to post'There might be private newsgroups for people who are generally inaccessible - for example, major financiers, philanthropists, leaders of powerful companies, or even scientists."
The recent surge in classy, well-designed, intensely-linked weblogs - almost all, essentially reflecting the interests and tastes of their creators and a small number of like-minded people -- suggests a non-commercial version on Stefik's idea.
The weblog isn't a new term on the Net, but it's being used in a new way. One previous definition of weblog is an archive of activity on a web server. Another is an online diary. But in the context of the e-community, the weblog is new, and evolving rapidly, despite the fact that specialized and idiosyncratic sites have been around for some years.
On Camworld.com, Cameron Barrett has written about and developing his notion of the weblog - he calls it a small, eclectic site, usually maintained by one person, with a high concentration of repeat visitors, plentiful WWW links, and a zero tolerance for flames.
Barrett, an interactive designer, writes on Camworld ("Anatomy Of A Weblog" ) that he heard the term "weblog" for the first time a few months ago, but isn't sure who coined it.
Weblogs are a perfect example of the biological evolution of electronic communities. Very personal foraging sites, they are limited in membership, their links continuously updated, and are often focused on a single subject or theme.
They seem to almost all be ideologically opposed to hostility, including essayish commentary and observations. Because the site creator limits and approves membership, they don't need to be defended as intensely as bigger sites, nor do they attract - or permit - posters who abuse others. One obvious payoff is that the flow of ideas is strong, uninterrupted and impressive.
Barrett calls weblogs "microportals. Some weblogs: Smug; Flutterby; Scripting News; ; Stating the Obvious -- I was startled to come upon a column by Rogers Cadenhead about why I don't belong on Slashdot (weblogs may be less hostile, but don't look for sweet, either); Obscure Store, and Joshua Eli Schachter's very smart memepool.
Some webpools are designed by their creators simply to revolve around what they find interesting. Writer Keith Dawson describes webpools as "filtered news," but as with anything having to do with the Net and the Web, there are lots of different points of view.
The Christian Science Monitor newspaper, e-mails Christine Booker, was "weblogging" their own publication earlier this week. That is, an editor provided synapses of articles of interest, with links and particularly notable quotes. The editor was providing pre-digested highlights of his paper, only without commentary. Thus "weblogging" has even come to journalism, not usually an institution on the forefront of digital change.
The point is, Booker wrote, instead of asking readers to scan headlines to decide what to read, they have a section at the top of their World report that says, in effect: our international editor puts foreign news coverage in perspective so that you can go straight to the meat. In a different way, that's what weblogs do - interesting stories for pre-selected communities.
Booker, who designs and manages websites for the University of Washington Department of Surgery, and is an avid reader of weblogs, says it's important to convey their personal nature. "Even sites that don't contain any original content or much commentary give me a glimpse into the mind of the weblogger. What someone chooses to link tells me what they're interested in, what they think is funny, what they find absurd. Some webloggers offer links embedded in one or two lines of more or less oblique commentar" (jjg.net) Booker says that as far as she can tell, many, if not most of these sites started very informally and then, one way or another, the URL got passed around soon these "hobby sites" developted devoted audiences, readers who visit them at least daily, sometimes more.
Jesse James Garrett, content editor for Ingram Micro's Web site and editor of the weblog jjg.net says that "weblogs are the pirate radio stations of the Web, personal platforms through which individuals broadcast their perspectives on current events, the media, our culture, and basically anything else that strikes their fancy from the vast sea of raw material available out there on the Web. Some are more topic-focused than others, but all are really built around someone's personal interests. Neither a faceless news-gathering organization nor an impersonal clipping service, a quality weblog is distinguished by the voice of its editor, and that editor's connection with his or her audience."
One of the best weblogs I found was Peter Merholz's peterme.com. "How freakin? cool is this?" he asks in the lead item for May 12, writing about tracking satellites live and real-time using a 3D Java applet. The site mixes the best of web design and technology - interface, design, web development - with pop culture: movie reviews, an essay on the late cartoonist Shel Silverstein.
Merholz has decided, "for what it's worth," to pronounce "weblog" as "we? - blog."
While weblogs don't have the reach and influence - thus, the commercial potential -- of larger, more inter-active and open sites, it's easy to imagine them as powerful supplements to the major foraging sites. And, depending on their members, could be influential at sharing memes, essays and ideas.
Cameron Barrett's thoughts on weblogs can be found here, along with his list of favorites. Keith Dawson, who runs the Tasty Bits of Technology Front site - in some ways a pioneer, classic weblog, also has written about weblogs at here.
To me, weblogs may embody personalized media on the Net - enterprising geeks creating interesting new sites that set out to define news in different ways, to be both interesting, coherent, and more civil. This is the complete opposite structure of conventional media, which is top-down, boring and inherently arrogant.
They may be among the first e-communities to successfully overcome online hostility and abuse as well. That alone could make them highly popular.
Weblogs, however personal, are foraging sites in the classic sense of the term.
But Weblogs aside, the idea of electronic communities as encompassing distinct biological types is irresistible. And it makes sense. I'd identify these species of electric villagers. Add your own:
FORAGERS ( Stefik would call them Wolves): the people running sites or submitting and linking to discovered information.
LURKERS (Stefik's Spiders): The largest group, professionals, academics, researchers and others whose needs for information is practical, and who wait for it, usually in silence.
FISHERMEN: People who trawl selected sub-topics or discussions for specific data, such as information about a kind of information or software.
HELPERS: Electronic communities often have a compliment of knowledgeable veterans who welcome newcomers, and are happy to counsel them in the ways of the site. The helpers don't see newcomers as a threat, but an opportunity for the village to grow and prosper.
IDEOLOGISTS (as in priests and theologists): Vigilant for deviations from what they perceive as the site's purpose, they disagree and criticize, sometimes sharply, but rarely with venom or cruelty.
DEFENDERS (as in warrior bees or ants): Ideologically- driven flamers who seek to keep their communities pure, free from intrusive outsiders, whom they see as threatening and de-stabilizing.
ANONYMOUS COWARDS (Spies, informers, information bringers and Braying Hyenas): Two types, people with legitimate information that they can't share under their own names, and exhibitionists who get to express hostility without consequence. The single biggest cause of the destruction of communities, they are the most frequently cited reason newcomers flee, veterans tire and advertisers move on to more hospitable environments.
TECHS (worker bees and ants): The people in any community for whom the construction of the site is its own reward. They are constantly working to offer options and services, improve software and access.
Some questions: What does an electric community need to work? Are there other identifiable types of e-community members? Are new kinds of sites like weblogs the future, or a minor step on the evolutionary chain?
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Closed clubs (4)
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RedGuard (UID: 16401) | more than 14 years ago
I find the notion of a closed community, enforced
technologically or socially, somewhat scarey. It
seems less a utopia than a retreat from the kind
of vibrant intellectual life that might
characterise the internet in a less privatised
society. One of the intriguing things about
slashdot is the heterogenous range of views and
topics, more like a cafe (of the Left bank sort,
if a bit too near the CS department for comfort)
than the university common room.
Nanomedia (4)
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Wah (UID: 30840) | more than 14 years ago
That's my term for the same idea. One billionth part of the collective running a medio source. /.'s a perfect example. Some of the live webcasts (using shoutcast or icecast) also fit under the same umbrella, altough at present their reach is much less. I wrote a paper on it, e-mail me if curious. Basically it's a shift in the role of gatekeepers from those with the money and power, to those who build the media (from Rupert Murdoch and Scott Sassa to Rob Malda and the like) User submissions and self-moderation are also part of the model. There is a catch-22 in getting one started, but they seem to be very self-sustaining and can be applied to any demo, psycho - graphic group, from hobbyists to professional. Computer gaming also has a number of them, although in all my surfing /. seems to be the overall tightest.
Weblogs are great (3)
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yoz (UID: 3735) | more than 14 years ago
These days I get most of my web reading from links on weblogs of one kind or another - I'd personally count Slashdot as a weblog. I read Ars Technica, Scripting News, Robot Wisdom and Tomalak's Realm, and I'm on Haddock which has several great links every day.
NTK is often listed as a weblog, innaccurately - it's a weekly mag. But it's completely brilliant. Subscribe.
Also, h2g2.com (The HitchHiker's Guide To The Galaxy, online) has, amongst its many fab features, the ability for users to create their own weblogs on their homepages, with forums hanging off each entry. Worth a look, and I'm not just saying that 'cos I work there.
Nits. (5)
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Eric S. Smith (UID: 162) | more than 14 years ago
From the eye-have-a-spelling-chequer department: "an editor provided synapses of articles." That'd be synopses, surely.
So, how is something like Slashdot different from, say, a newsgroup? Why is this worth talking about?
I'd suggest that it's the topics (articles) provided by the maintainer of the site that provide a focus for discussion. Sure, things diverge, but people aren't compelled (or, rather, don't feel compelled) to make their own entertainment. Consider the quality of discourse on a newsgroup devoted to a TV show during (a) the regular season, and (b) the summer hiatus. When there isn't a new episode to discuss every week, things can get a bit strange.
Then there are the impenitrably tiresome interpersonal disputes that crop up on newsgroups. Here, since threads of comments are collected in bunches under different articles, last week's deathless flamefest is buried deep in the old articles. On a newsgroup, threads go on for months, sometimes...
That said, I prefer trn's interface to this one. But it's still the best of the Web discussion forum designs that I've seen, especially with the nested display (though it doesn't quite work in Lynx...).
One further nit: Mr. Katz is still using question marks for apostrophes. At least, that's how it turns out on my screen. Surely there's a filter that could be run?
Anonymous Cowards (1)
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Buz (UID: 79108) | more than 14 years ago
I think that often, anonymous cowards are just people who feel the need to comment but are just too lazy (or busy) to register.
Cool, but can you make a living at it? (1)
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wakebrdr (UID: 13565) | more than 14 years ago
Yes, Slashdot is cool. But I have other interests too that have nothing to do with computers. I've considered setting up a "Weblog" related to various interests, but I need a job. Is running a weblog profitable? Or is it something that you sell everything you own to get started and then hope for additional investments and/or IPO?
Weblogs -vs- Web Diary, and the community issue. (3)
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Rahga (UID: 13479) | more than 14 years ago
Don't get the two confused.
Weblogs (which is really a crappy crappy name, btw) are, more than anything, constantly updated sites with news and links of interest, centered around a topic, maintined by people who know what good information. that pertains to the topic, is. If you took a poll of /. readers, you'd find that a good deal of them depend more on these "weblogs" for computer based news that they need or have an intrest in far more than in most of the mainstream channels of communication, such as magazines, TV, radio, C|Net websites, where "Vanilla" content (edible, but not really rich in taste or geared for people with specific tastes) is the norm.
To say that they are really about personal information, that is different. Most of those would be construed as diaries. Very few people have real interest or concern about the details of other peoples lives, not enough to make a "community" around it. though personal info does sometimes hit weblogs, that's not really a major part of content.
And like it or not, "communities" do not develop through web sites. Period. They develop through newsgroups, e-mail, internet chat, etc., interactive forums, and other places means by which direct communication AMONG members may take place, many of which are based on or around websites &weblogs. However, websites & weblogs have audiences, as do TV stations, newspapers, magazines, etc. Websites and Weblogs deliver information TO an audience, commmunication really isn't AMONG an audince. In that aspect, audience size really does not have a direct bearing on weblogs. There is no requirement where weblogs must interact with their audience.
Web forums are really the only place where Web-Anything can have a community.
Of course, this just my point of view :)
It's often needed (2)
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yoz (UID: 3735) | more than 14 years ago
Having experienced many online communities that are both open and closed, I'd say they're both valid. Some communities are just about sharing open information and opinions, others rely deeply on trust and confidentiality, or want a certain relatively-guaranteed level of quality in content, which you can't get in a well-known open list. The trouble is that often closed communities can be accused of being cliquey and elitist... that can be true, but it's for a purpose.
Jorn Barger's Robot Wisdom (2)
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DHartung (UID: 13689) | more than 14 years ago
One of the best and most varied weblogs I've come across, and updated multiple times daily. He pulls "headlines" from various newsy-fungible sites and follows it with a section of reviewed material, covering everything from anthropology, to pop music, to Linux, to web-design, using pull-quotes to highlight what he found interesting. He surfs Slashdot and points to good stuff here. I probably check out 1/2 of the links, and a good number of the sites end up on my permanent bookmark list. It's all informed by a philosophy grounded strongly in state-of-the-art AI concepts.
Robot Wisdom Weblog
Re:Closed clubs (4)
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Outland Traveller (UID: 12138) | more than 14 years ago
I agree completely. Closed communities imply control over information, and from what history has shown us so far I don't feel this would be in the public interest.
This debate is similar to the debate over moderation we had earlier. You have to balance the annoyingness of noise with the danger of censorship. You might find yourself one day surrounded by people who say what you want to hear, closing off your mental horizons, and obfuscating the truth.
The censorship that exists in Western society today is often very subtle- it involves defining the scope of debate so as to exclude a wide swatch of viewpoints and dangerous questions while still providing a good facade of open discussion.
Yes, there are a lot of problems with public forums, but the solution shouldn't be a closed community. That seems to me to be lazy, oversimplistic, and even dangerous.
BTW- does anyone else dislike the name "weblog"? A weblog to me is in /var/log/apache/. There's got to be a better name than this!
Re:Closed clubs (2)
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Anonymous Coward | more than 14 years ago
The problem with democracy is that everyone can state their opinion - even those that don't have one.
Closed societies is the only way to filter out trendies and people who start their emails along the lines of:
I don't know anything about {law,technology,topic at hand} but for some reason I feel it necessary to give my worthless {legal,technological,whatnot} interpretation about this matter...
It's time people stopped wafting on the blissful concept that democracy creates good content. The only way to generate good content is through application of extreme discrimination in what gets published/posted. Slashdot (with filter set to 0) is an example of democratic content. Dr. Dobbs is an example of discriminatory content. I'd rather read Dr. Dobbs. :)
And just to avoid the boring "well whaddahellareyou reading slashdot for, then?" I'll answer it now: Rob does a great job of selecting news which are of interest to me personally.
ps: Please note the absence of an apologetic little "well... erm... that's my two cents".
The Net is like society it's diverse (2)
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Khalid (UID: 31037) | more than 14 years ago
Thanks Jon I have learned something now, though This is not a radical novelty, e-communities have always existed, what is ne is the "name" the "conpect" and as we now, as soon as you name something, in a certain sens you create it, if it's really original. This is true for ideas, this is also true for software, "Apache", "Linux", "Open Source" are "concepts" or "mems" when they are transmited.
Anyway, I believe that different kinds of communities, will thrive, secret ones, open communities, mercantiles, etc, what is really new is the strong belonging to a virtual community sentiment, the Open Source community has this strong feeling.
I think
Very Poor Name Choice (4)
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Quinn (UID: 4474) | more than 14 years ago
"Weblog" is a pretty damn common term for a web server's access log. I'd assume anyone running a website has seen it used in that sense, so why was it co-opted to describe this phenomena?
2 good weblogs ... (1)
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Anonymous Coward | more than 14 years ago
Well, I think they're good ...
Robot Wisdom and A&L Daily
Re:Closed clubs (2)
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PapaZit (UID: 33585) | more than 14 years ago
I completely misinterpreted the blurb about this article. I was expecting something like this, or maybe an article about loner geeks who spend their Friday nights digging through server logs.
Re:Cool, but can you make a living at it? (1)
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Anonymous Coward | more than 14 years ago
Running a weblog is not profitable (having run one for two years now).
If you're obviously trying to make a profit off it (ad impressions, whatever) it's going to make your audience suspect your motives for posting various links.
Putting up an Amazon associate thingy is as far as I've gone, and it doesn't produce enough revenue so far to come close to breaking even.
Do it as a hobby, or as a way to generate interest in using your services as a consultant, or for fun, but don't expect it to support you.
Re:Very Poor Name Choice (3)
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RobotWisdom (UID: 25776) | more than 14 years ago
ME! ME!! ME!!!
Guilty! Guilty!! Guilty!!!
I picked it. And I even did an AltaVista search and a DejaNews search to see how often it was used in the other sense, which was not much at all in 1997.
So bugger off... ;^/
Re:Nits. (0)
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Anonymous Coward | more than 14 years ago
When editors can provide synapses via the Web, I suppose we'll truly be wired.
Mining the Web (1)
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timc (UID: 31015) | more than 14 years ago
I rely on Slashdot to keep me informed day by day, but if I had more time I'd use The Mining Company more. They "mine" the Web for useful nuggets. It's broken down by topic.
Re:Weblogs -vs- Web Diary, and the community issue (1)
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anitar (UID: 100150) | more than 14 years ago
I agree that Katz does seem to have conflated weblogs and online journals (aka web diaries), and they aren't exactly in the same space.
but you'd be surprised at the interest that people do take in other folks' lives. Archipelago ( http://www.spies.com/~islands ) is a selective ring of OLJs, but there are zillions listed on Open Pages ( http://www.hedgehog.net/op/ ), good, bad, or indifferent. most have their audience. readers feel free to give feedback on what the authors write, and many journals include a forum where this is done publicly.
Re:Mining the Web (0)
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Anonymous Coward | more than 14 years ago
Don't you mean about.com?
Oops, I mean about.e-commerce.com.
Re:Very Poor Name Choice (0)
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gavinhall (UID: 33) | more than 14 years ago
Posted by DratSomeoneTookMyName:
No, you bugger off... ;-(
Hey, look everyone, I'll come up with some idea, like a name for people that use ;^/ instead of ;-) or ;) and call that person, let's see... a "cookie", cause I did a search of anonymous ftp sites back in 1993 and there were no references to web "cookies" back then. Re-dic-u-lous.
No, you made a bad choice. The term 'Weblog' refers to the logs that web server software keep. The name is already in common use (at least amoung geeks, and aren't we all geeks here?).
It's a good idea to come up a term for what you are talking about, but please come up with another word for it.
-adam a
MS and open source (0)
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Anonymous Coward | more than 14 years ago
That comment about open source made me think about MS 'Linux attack group'. Open source lets the community power software projects like Linux that really scare MS. I think they know the only way to break Linux is to break the community. Spreading lies and confusion. I can't help but think back to the Terminator. Where they created those bastards to infiltrate the human organisations.
Ok... I need sleep... lol
My choice (2)
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Wah (UID: 30840) | more than 14 years ago
iterated in another post...Nanomedia (voice of a one-billionth part)
it rolls off the tongue and AFAIK isn't already a word.
You can carbon black test my jaw (5)
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tomwhore (UID: 10233) | more than 14 years ago
Portals, weblogs, top50 sites.....
I guese its time for another episode of "Name that fuzzy warm feeling"
Watching as the users of the net name, rename, invent, reinvent, rereinvent and then rename the reinvention is almost, almost mind you, fun to watch.
I understand the need to name things, people spend years of thier life in school to learn the names of things, to learn the nature of the names meanings, and maybe sometimes even interact with the things they name.
You name something, you make an attachment to it. It becomes something not otherly, but something of you. You can lay an easy hand on the worn handles.
The country was there before Lewis and Clark took to yelling out names from a cannoe ("Hey Lewis, what do you want to call this wet stuff we are drowning in?""What about ITSFUCKINGCOLD River?" "I doubt if Mr Jefferson is gonna go for that." "OK call it the Columbia for all I care.")Once named the country was not the great unkown, it was the North West passage, it was Oregon and Washington.
Look also to the old Mark Twain tale of the name game in Extracts from Adam's Diary
Knowing this we can clearly see the zeitgiest of the web clawing at any chance for worth, and in this attempt to name a thing that is.
Remeber back to the begining of the web, when the content was sparse but everyone had to put up a page. These pages were often personal insites scattered with lists of links (remeber well lynx and its grandfather gopher, links of links with the content under it all). One of the critism of early web sites were that they were too personal, that no one would want to read someones list of interests, likes/dislikes (think playboy centerfold material) and quipy witisms .
But some of those sites flourished. Blues News and Daves Classics to name but two. Very much the creation and mindset of a person and in some cases a group of people.
Weblogs is a horrible name. There is already something called a web log. This is another ding in paint of the web users creativity, not only are they renaming something that has pretty much always been on the web, but they are renaming it to something that already names a thing.
Instead of WebLog I can thnk of a few more usefull and vastly more enjoyable names.
Curiosity Cabinets
Steamertrunks Of Ripe Underwear
Things That Make Your Modem Go Hmmmmmmmm
A rose by any other name etc etc (or to update the steinesque wordage "a lamer in any other syntax would still be as /_@/\/\3"
So here we are, another name for what already is. Its not that I dont dig the meme and procedures for creation of great sites spreading to wider minds, but can we please rework the Gee Wizz Press Blurbs stage of its evolution more often? Please, for me?
Call me Ishmiel. better yet, Call me a taxi.
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th0m (UID: 16656) | more than 14 years ago
you thought the cadenhead / theobvious.com piece was bad; did you ever see what lloyd wood had to say about it?
"Grrl's" Pills and Extra Pills are Funny. (0)
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Anonymous Coward | more than 14 years ago
Grrl Pills and Extra Pills are pretty funny links/logs/whatevers.
Re:Weblogs are great - hi Yoz (0)
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Dicky (UID: 1327) | more than 14 years ago
Did you give that book to your sister?
Re: h2g2 - sorry to say, I went a couple of times on the day it opened, and haven't been back since. It just didn't seem to have anything to hold me. That's life, I suppose
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Anonymous Coward | more than 14 years ago
Oh, come on - who is too busy to register? Lazy, sure, but busy? If I recall correctly, Slashdot registration took me about 30 seconds. Why am I still posting as an AC, you ask? Because I forgot my username/password and I'm too lazy to re-register. ;-)
Okay, now I have to complain about this: Katz, stop using Micro$uck products to write your articles. I'm sick of seeing question marks where I should see apostrophes.
"Meta-Sites" (1)
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Thag (UID: 8436) | more than 14 years ago
Yech. Nanomedia should mean "very small media" like quantum computing or something. No thank you. Please don't take it personally.
I prefer "meta-sites": a website about other websites, composed of commentary about other sites' content and the issues raised by same.
Jon Acheson
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timster (UID: 32400) | more than 14 years ago
I think that often, Anonymous Cowards are trying to get a feel for the community before joining it as a named member. They want to maybe post a couple notes to see how they're received, so they can be more productive and on-topic after they register. Also, it seems to me that when communities fall apart, it's because of major disagreements among older, long-established members with a significant following. I'm sorry, but I don't really see any validity in the statement that AC's are the most common destructive force. They're an important part of Slashdot, in my opinion, and I wouldn't want that to change. Anybody agree with Katz on this issue? I'd like to hear examples if anyone can provide some.
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tomwhore (UID: 10233) | more than 14 years ago
Yep, but how would a journalist looking to stay "relevant" ever hope to keep themselve in a steady job?
"how do you afford your internet life style" paraphrased from Cake
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Anonymous Coward | more than 14 years ago
The thing that destroys the community sites (let's call 'em this way, ok?) is _not_ the anonymous cowards, it's _lack of activity_.
If somehow /. lost half of the people that reads it, it would start to shrink exponentially (since _everything_ that's open tends to be exponential by nature). The opposite is also true: /. grow from an (according to Taco's writings) small section of his old website, to become _THE MOST IMPORTANT SITE OF THE LINUX COMMUNITY!!!_ (sorry for screaming, but it's true.)
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tomwhore (UID: 10233) | more than 14 years ago
On the destructive force of anon
Well lets look at the problem this way, why is it that the "community" (an over used word on this medium) is in dire threat of the anon voice?
Is the resolve or the voice of the community so frail as to make it possible for others to sack it whole?
For me what anon posts is held to the same scrutiny as what a named user posts, that is the "Content" is the judge, not the name. A name is a handle, it is not the message.
Anon allows expressions for some who are tied to the old Name/Content dilema. It can be used for bad as well as for good. those that are willing to throw the content out with the name are the same ones who should be first up against the wall when the shithouse blows its lid.
Of course human nature what it is, this sort of mentality will live on in each batch of podlings that are hatched on the sceen.
"dont judge a book by its cover
cause by night im one hell of a lover" Dr Frank N Futer
Another Good "WebLog" ... (1)
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Anonymous Coward | more than 14 years ago
This one is for lefties ... Common Dreams
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Anonymous Coward | more than 14 years ago
There are simple tools to map to real encodings from whatever the hell MS decides to make up. I think one's called "demoronizer."
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Anonymous Coward | more than 14 years ago
I'm more concerned about the rigid bans on flaming. There *is* a real difference between worthless ad hominem attacks and deeply earnest disagreements, but I have trouble believing anyone with a strong interest in the subject of discussion will always objectively distinguish between them in the heat of the moment.
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Anonymous Coward | more than 14 years ago
Or don't want our opinions du jour going down on our Permanent Record, available years after we've reconsidered. Or simply don't want to be harassed by every net.kook out there. If some cretin brought a TV crew to one of our parties, I wouldn't be able to speak my mind there either.
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Anonymous Coward | more than 14 years ago
I think that often, anonymous cowards are just people who...are just too lazy (or busy) to register.
...Or too paranoid. Some of us aren't mad about giving out personal information...even if it's just an email address. I read in magazine that most of the time, people just give bogus information when asked to register for something.
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Siege (UID: 20609) | more than 14 years ago
You know, if you used a real E-mail to submit your account, you can just type in the username and tell Slashdot to send your password to you.
But that would be following instructions.
Be quiet... (0)
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Anonymous Coward | more than 14 years ago
or else some jerk will patent the concept.
"Weblogs" inferior to USENET and mail lists ... (1)
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Zach Frey (UID: 17216) | more than 14 years ago
... at least as far as building "online community." I've been thinking about this for a bit, and I think this is simply a property of the interface. Follow a healthy USENET group or mail list on a topic you care about for a while, and notice the percentage of posts that actually engage what another person has written. It's so high that USENET developed the (sometimes software-enforced) protocol that you ought to provide at least as much original as quoted text. Now, look at the comment threads on slashdot. See the difference? And /. has a higher percentage of interaction than other sites such as freshmeat or themes.org.
Now, "weblogs" (awful name) are superior to USENET groups and mail lists in (1) filtering noise and highlighting useful information, and (2) providing archiving and search capabilities. But that's not the same as building "community", unless you simply mean a group of people with similar interests and viewpoints. But it doesn't get people interacting at the person-to-person levels that old-fashioned NNTP and SMTP (or the even more old-fashioned face-to-face) do.
I also find that newsgroups and mail lists can provide an opportunity for more thoughtful discussion. I've many times sat on a USENET or mail message for a day or two before responding, in order to give some thought or do some research before responding. With slashdot? Why bother responding to a toping that's no longer on the splash page?
As for the closed vs. open debate -- both are good in there own way. There are times that I want to mix it up in the rough-and-tumble marketplace of ideas. There are times I want to quietly discuss issues with folks who are moderately like-minded. It is wonderful that both kinds of fora (open to the world and unmoderated, limited subscription and moderated) can exist.
thoughts of a weblogger (3)
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genehckr (UID: 23251) | more than 14 years ago
As an active weblogger (I'm behind GeneHack ), here's my two centavos on the issues that are being raised.
First, the name. It's done, people. We (the people doing the weblogging) call them weblogs. There might be a temporary confusion with web server logs, but that will pass. Soon, people will realize that weblog != web server log.
Second, the point. I weblog (it's a noun! it's a verb!) mostly for myself. I comment on biological issues and anything else I find interesting; the key word being comment. Some weblogs just post pointers to interesting sites; personally I find those less interesting than those that post commentary, either on events or content elsewhere on the web. Additionally, sometimes I'll put an item up on GeneHack so that I remember to look at it again; my archives serve as a log of what I thought was worth saving. On a weblogger-heavy mailing list I frequent, weblogs were described as "bookmarks in time" by Brigitte Eaton, who runs the eatonweb weblog . That's a good capsule summary of what I'm trying to do.
Third, the community issue. I agree that weblogs aren't a good way to generate a community, at least not a large or tightly-knit one. That's not the point. Filtering content is the point; commenting on that content is the point; being active on the web instead of passively grazing is the point. I don't participate in much of the web-based community stuff, like /., for example, because (despite recent innovations) the signal:noise ratio is still way too low. People who email me because of something on GeneHack are much more reasonable to deal with. People who I mail because of items on their weblogs are much more reasonable to deal with. That's much, much more rare on /. and other such sites.
Fourth, and finally, why I read weblogs. The filtering by different people with different tastes and different backgrounds. By checking 10 or 15 sites daily, I'm able to assimilate way more information than I would be able to all on my own, with a good slice of commentary thrown in. After visiting different sites for a short while, I have a fairly good idea of the viewpoints and interests of the authors; I have an idea of how they filter information. Weblogs allow me to get the point of view of smart people in varied fields; more people than I could reasonably meet and interact with in meat space. I find that valuable.
Whew! If you made it to the end of this ramble, congradulations. If you haven't yet, check out some of the sites mentioned in the article. Visit for a few days; find the sites you like. We're a varied lot, and there's something for everyone. If you can't find a site with your point of view, start your own...that's the point.
Inappropriate Content (0)
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Baldrson (UID: 78598) | more than 14 years ago
Picking the first link of Katz's I came to, (http://camworld.com/) I found a "weblog" site where, right under another article by Katz on that site was a link to the following article:
EduWatch: A Proposal to Prevent Children from Accessing Inappropriate Information on the Internet
An enlightening excerpt:
This proposal does not violate anyone's right to publish. A person can still view his pornography, but in the appropriate place. A group can profess its hate, but in the appropriate place. Someone can publish whatever he or she wants, but it would be assigned to the correct category.
A person who publishes inappropriate material where children might gain access to it (in the news category, for instance), would be fined and the page would be transferred to the correct channel. Our government would have a new source of revenue to help pay for improvements in the Internet infrastructure. If you don't want to get fined, don't publish things where children can find it. Simple.
Well, all I can say is, HEAR HEAR!!!
There shall be two categories:
1) Web content inappropriate for children.
2) Web content appropriate for children.
Anyone caught placing any other web content under category 2 should be fined by the US Federal Government. Now, some of you are shouting. I can hear you already. It certainly isn't a panacea for all our society's problems. It won't end world hunger. It won't stop murderers and rapists. It won't stop wars. I'm not claiming that it will. However, it will help us keep inappropriate material and dangerous information out of the hands of our children. And, after all, isn't protecting our children the goal of each and every one of us?
Everybody's going to have a weblog! (1)
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LadyNymphaea (UID: 15396) | more than 14 years ago
Almost everybody's personal site has had something like a message board for years. They called them "guestbooks." Now you can even get message boards for free and you don't even have to know any programming languages to put them up. I helped my 10-year-old cousin put up a site last year (now defunct, she lost interest) and it had a guestbook, chat applet, message board, and poll, all obtained from various sites offering free ad-supported utilities. We even put up links to pages that she liked once or twice a week and put up the reasons why she liked them. I suppose you could call it a weblog, although the focus was on Lisa Frank and Beanie Babies rather than Linux or new media. We called it "her homepage." In fact, I've seen a few "weblogs" run by adults based on Beanie collecting. I run a sort of weblog, which I more or less describe as a "vertical portal" if I want to get fancy (it's actually a links list, but that's not cool any longer) dedicated to fairies. I've been doing that for 3 years.
In short, this isn't anything new, and it's already become co-opted by the masses. Even the under-12 crowd is doing it now.
Re:Inappropriate Content:who decides? (1)
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kyosuke (UID: 29298) | more than 14 years ago
Who decides what's appropriate for children?
And what is a 'child' exactly? Less than 8? Less than 12? Less than 18? Does the attainment of a given birthday automatically make all given people 'ready to handle' so-called 'inappropriate content'?
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jkottke (UID: 13651) | more than 14 years ago
Eventually, someone will make money off of the weblog concept....just not very much. As a general rule, people don't pay for content on the Web...most Web publications are free. However, some pubs offering premium content (WSJ, Playboy, etc.) are making money from subscriptions, and premium quality weblogs will be no different. People will pay for constantly updated pointers to the best information in a specific subject area.
As an example, antique collectors might pay a small subscription fee for a weblog that keeps track of the best auctions currently running on eBay.
In the end, it's important to remember that the content of a weblog is essentially the same as a magazine like Newsweek: timely + information + opinion. Weblog or not, if a publication is timely enough, has good information (or in the case of a weblog, pointers to good information...the pointers become the information), and the readers enjoy/identify with the opinions, then there is the potential for that publication to make money.
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tomwhore (UID: 10233) | more than 14 years ago
All well and good...But how is this differnt from the way a PLETHORA of sites have been run for years?
Giving it a hypeflash name does nothing to make it New or Noteworthy
And to be one Slashdot??? Come on, its like newbie fodder bait.
What the trendheads and fashion stylist call WEBLOGS have been around for years. Its a great idea that does not need a new buzzword attached to it.
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RealUlli (UID: 1365) | more than 14 years ago
I don't worry about that. They'll probably do some damage, but at the same time they'll advance cryptography and responsibility for one's postings. Scorefiles will probably get a rather big boost, too.
Just say, "I read only postings that are signed by the author, and only if the author is new, or recognized by me for his high quality."
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Ratface (UID: 21117) | more than 14 years ago
I've found that logging on from the many different machines I use, I can't always be bothered to log in each time I post a comment.
Also, your cookie information will get lost between www.slashdot.org and slashdot.org - a jump that I have found occurs sometimes between different areas of the site. This is another reason why I will sometimes post A/C.
Not this time though ;-)
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Simes (UID: 11695) | more than 14 years ago
The word instantly said "web server log" to me, even though I'd never seen it used anywhere before. So I'd go with the "bad choice" vote.
Surely there were lots of other words you could have chosen which would have had even less possibility for confusion?
A Home Page by any other name would be as quirky.. (0)
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Anonymous Coward | more than 14 years ago
Once upon a time we were all going to have interesting, content-rich home pages. Then reality came along: most people have nothing interesting to say themsleves and can't even organize the interesting things they do stumble across intelligbly. Or they haven't the time - that's my excuse. :-)
So now some folks have crossed the idea of slashdot - which is a good idea run into the mud by 'way too much tolerance for flaming idiots and muddled thinking by a big-name Author - with the idea of a home page and... well, it may be the wave of the future at that. As long as they stay small and intensely personal (and intensely weird - it's the same thing) they can retain their attraction. Of course, any one will likely only appeal to a very tiny fraction of the market - but that's the strength of this. The problem with mass media is IMO exactly that they must aim at the broadest possible market; it may be the case that big-name portals and even Slashdot, if it pursues commercial success instead of staying a slightly quirky "news for nerds" site, must succumb to this same blandness that scalds with innoffensiveness. That isn't to say they would therefore be unsuccessful - it's always September on the net.
Apologies to anyone who expected this to come to a nice neat point. It's too early in the morning for that. Which reminds me that I need to get coffee.
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Winged (UID: 51560) | more than 14 years ago
> And, after all, isn't protecting our children
> the goal of each and every one of us?
Uh, no. I'm not of the opinion that 'protecting the children' is a good idea, enforceable, or even desirable. I can understand the POV of the people who do want to do this. I can accept that people don't believe the way I do.
But, what's 'inappropriate'? What's 'dangerous'? It's not so much the information that's dangerous (for example, I have the information on how to make methamphetamine, which is interesting from a purely scientific viewpoint), but what you do with it (if I pulled out the household equipment and picked up the raw materials and started to dabble in it, I'd likely blow my apartment to bits). 'dangerous' information often leads to less-dangerous (and extremely useful) results.
Another question I have is, "Who decides when someone's mature enough to have access to this information?" I know many, many 18 year olds (and 20 year olds, and 26 year olds) who I wouldn't trust with the methamphetamine recipe, but I know plenty of 12 through 15 year olds who I -would- (mainly because they're interested in chemistry, or applied sciences, and I think they'd look at it to see what could be done, and heed the warnings that it could blow up in their faces).
And sex. (pet peeve coming up) This neo-Western culture we live in in the US has determined that sex is something that shouldn't even be discussed with a kid, much less let them find any information out about. You can find this in some of the self-rating PICS systems in existence -- http://www.safesurf.com/ssplan.htm (SafeSurf) for example. (I like SafeSurf better than the default one that comes with MSIE, btw, but not much.) It rates a 'technical reference' of any sexual theme at level 3 -- above 'subtle innuendo' and 'explicit innuendo'.
I personally think this is pious poppycock.
Sex is openly discussed in other cultures, and their kids are as healthy (if not more so) than the kids in the US.
-Mat Butler
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gavinhall (UID: 33) | more than 14 years ago
Posted by htmlgod_1:
I can guarantee you that you can end up spending your life savings on it and make nothing off of it... I am one of the owners and creators of www.PlanetRadio.net and I have spent just about everything on it... Why do I do it? Because I love music and I love what I do!
Moderators are stupid (Score: -1; Offtopic) (0)
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Anonymous Coward | more than 14 years ago
You just did what I wanted. Hahaha!!!
Nature and structure of the weblog (0)
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Anonymous Coward | more than 14 years ago
For some reasons weblogs seem to be heralded as something new yet to me it looks like old news (no pun) in a somewhat fancier packaging. in fact, it looks just like the original idea of, yes, Usenet News.
Originally News was supposed to build up a document, it still has a few of those remnants, in the form of Keywords: and Summary: fields. But how many use them is another question. In the end News devolved from the academic style paper publising type writings, through September into the current more informal chatting with the occational SNR to keep interest alive. Many newsgroups are garbage though, perhaps only of interest to anthropologists.
This old style lives on in one place: the RFCs. These are still kept in the formal thorough style.
Then came weblogs. In came information richness in the form of extensive linking and markup and also focussing, but at the same time the structure took a hit and went linear (with some noted exeptions such as this place). So to me, having experienced News before September, this looks like a welcome return to older principles.
Hopefully the focus will remain though I am not entirely sure it will resist entropy.
There is another solution though: project Xanadu. An old, old vision before web and even news, it builds on the document buildup metaphor and also allows room for dicussion links. My guess is that this is the next wave, and it willbe just in time for taking advantage of structured text too. Probably the web browser companies will seize on the idea, unless a free software project gets underway first.
what's a weblog? (1)
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gavinhall (UID: 33) | more than 14 years ago
Posted by D-Rider:
I can probably visit all the ones mentioned in the article and comments and figure out what they are, but I find it odd that an article about them doesn't bother explaining it. I've never heard the term before. I get two distinct and contradictory impressions from the article.
One, it's a fancy name for a well maintained web site. That sounds like someone wanted a new name to make some artificial (i.e. non-existant) distinction as to why his web page was "different" and not "just a homepage".
Two, it's a private club of some sort that exists as some sort of web site. This sounds like just something else to be excluded from, so that the people not excluded can feel all elite and superior at the "expense" of everyone else (most of whom probably don't care anyway).
Granted, I could spend an hour or 3 looking at the links in the article and have a more accurate opinion, but the point is, the article should have at least made some attempt at defining this term. A quick poll of my "peers" on IRC shows that many others don't know this term either, so it's not (only) that I'm hopelessly out of touch.
web log = link list (1)
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floyd (UID: 8635) | more than 14 years ago
I agree with much of what Katz has to say, but I have to admit, the hype around weblogs really baffles me. They're just link lists with a snarky comments, and there's very little that's revolutionary about that.
I think Teeth Magazine recently said it best:
• There can't be that much lint in all your navels at the same time.
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An archaeologist investigating a chultun
Entrance to chultun at Xunantunich.
A chultun (plural: chultunob' or chultuns) is a bottle-shaped underground storage chamber built by the pre-Columbian Maya in southern Mesoamerica. Their entrances were surrounded by plastered aprons which guided rainwater into them during the rainy seasons. Most of these archaeological features likely functioned as cisterns for potable water.
Chultunob' were typically constructed in locations where naturally occurring cenotes[1] were absent (such as the Puuc hills, which sit hundreds of feet above the Yucatán Peninsula aquifer). While many were constructed to collect water, not all may have served that purpose. Some may have been used for storage of perishable comestibles, or for the fermentation of alcoholic beverages. After a chultun ended its usefulness, many were used for discarding refuse or for human burials. This makes chultunob' an excellent source of information on both the life and death of ancient settlements of the Prehispanic Maya.
1. ^ Sinkholes formed in limestone karst.
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HMS Revenge at sea, July–August 1940
Name: HMS Revenge
Laid down: 22 December 1913 (Barrow-in-Furness)
Launched: 29 May 1915
Commissioned: 1 February 1916
Fate: Scrapped 1948
General characteristics
Class & type: Revenge-class battleship
Displacement: 28,000 tons standard 31,200 tons max
Length: 624 ft (190 m)
Beam: 88 ft (27 m), later expanded to 102 ft (31 m)
Draught: 28 ft (8.5 m)
Propulsion: Steam turbines, eighteen boilers, four shafts, 40,000 hp (30 MW)
Speed: 23 kn (43 km/h)
Complement: 997
8 x 15 inch (381 mm) guns in twin turrets
14 x 6 inch (152 mm) guns in single casemates
2 x 3 inch (76 mm) anti-aircraft guns in single mountings
4 x 47 mm guns in single mountings
4 x 21 inch (533 mm) submerged torpedo tubes
HMS Revenge (pennant number 06) was the lead ship of the Revenge class of battleships of the Royal Navy, the ninth to bear the name. She was launched during World War I in 1915. Although the class is often referred to as the Royal Sovereign class, official documents of 1914–1918 refer to it as the Revenge class. She was commissioned in 1916, just before the Battle of Jutland.
First World War[edit]
Shell damage to the German battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger after being engaged by HMS Revenge and other British warships at the Battle of Jutland.
Revenge was present at the battle of Jutland, where she was under the command of Captain E. B. Kiddle, and served in the powerful 1st Battle Squadron, second in line behind Marlborough flying the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney. The first ship to be engaged by Revenge along with the other ships of the squadron, was the light cruiser, SMS Weisbaden, which had been disabled by the battlecruiser HMS Invincible. Before the Weisbaden sank, she was able to torpedo the Marlborough, which although already damaged, was able to continue in action. Revenge then engaged the leading German battlecruisers which appeared out of the mist, landing five hits on the SMS Derfflinger, two of which caused explosions within the main gun turrets. A single hit was scored on SMS Von der Tann, damaging her superstructure. Finally, Revenge fired her 6-inch batteries against the German 6th and 9th Destroyer Flotillas which had attacked the squadron with torpedoes. Although none of the British ships were hit, in avoiding the incoming torpedoes, the squadron turned away, allowing the German battlecruisers to make good their escape. In the subsequent pursuit, the Marlborough had to reduce her speed due to the earlier torpedo damage, so Admiral Burney transferred his flag to Revenge by means of the destroyer HMS Fearless, although the chase eventually had to be abandoned. Revenge had fired 102 armour piercing shells from her main armament and 87 rounds from her 6-inch guns; she also launched a single 21” torpedo without result and had fired at the Zeppelin L11 with her 3-inch anti-aircraft guns.[1]
The day before the Grand Fleet departed their base to confront the surrendering German High Seas Fleet in Operation ZZ, a visit was made by senior members of the British Royal Family: King George V, Queen Mary and Edward, Prince of Wales. The King and his son visited USS New York, HMS Lion (flagship of the Commander-in-Chief David Beatty, when he commanded the battlecrusiers at the Battle of Jutland), and Revenge, flagship of the Second-in-Command. Queen Mary had tea in Revenge.
Inter-war years[edit]
In January 1920, the 1st Battle Squadron was detached to the Mediterranean due to crises in the region. While there, Revenge supported Greek forces and remained in the Black Sea, due to concerns about the Russian Civil War until July, when she returned to the British Atlantic Fleet.
In 1922, Revenge, with her sister ships Ramillies, Resolution and Royal Sovereign, was again sent to the Mediterranean due to further tension in the area, in no small part due to the forced abdication of King Constantine I of Greece. Revenge was stationed at Constantinople and the Dardanelles throughout her deployment. She rejoined the Atlantic Fleet the following year.
In January 1928 she was paid off for refit at Devonport Dockyard; this included her 3-inch anti-aircraft guns being replaced by 4-inch guns and a control system was installed to direct them from a station on the foremast. Two of the 6-inch guns were removed from the foc’sle deck. She was recommissioned in March 1929 into the British Mediterranean Fleet. A further minor refit in May 1931 added two platforms for the new eight-barrelled 2-pounder pom-pom anti-aircraft guns, although only the starboard set of guns was actually fitted due to a shortage.[1] On 16 July 1935, Revenge was part of the Naval Review of 160 warships at Spithead in celebration of George V's Silver Jubilee. Later that year she was stationed at Alexandria due to potential dangers posed by the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
In 1936 she was paid off for another refit. She was recommissioned a year later into the 2nd Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet. Early in 1939, her single 4-inch guns were replaced with four twin Mark XVI 4-inch guns and the fire control system was upgraded with a second system being added astern. She finally received the port multiple 2-pounder pom-pom and two four barrelled Vickers .50 machine guns were fitted on either side of the control tower.[1] On 9 August 1939 she was part of another Fleet Review, that was observed by George VI. Revenge was now becoming rather antiquated and slow, but she was still used a great deal throughout the war, being assigned to the North Atlantic Escort Force, together with her sister-ship Resolution.
Second World War[edit]
A wartime photograph of a working party scrubbing the deck of HMS Revenge's fo'c'sle.
On 3 September 1939 at the start of hostilities, Revenge formed part of the Channel Fleet based at Portland and escorted troop convoys carrying the British Expeditionary Force to France. On 1 October, she was ordered to prepare to take up convoy escort duties in the South Atlantic, because of the threat posed by the German "pocket battleship", Graf Spee; however, on 5 October 1939, in a change of orders, she was attached to the North Atlantic Escort Force based at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Fulfilling another urgent need at the same time, Revenge and her sister ship Resolution were to carry gold bullion to Canada, which was needed by the Anglo-French Purchasing Board in New York, to pay for arms bought from the United States. 148 boxes of gold bars, worth a total of £2 million, were loaded onto each battleship at Portland; they departed on 7 October and arrived in Halifax nine days later.[2]
After several convoy escorts, Revenge was again used to transport gold, this time to a value of £10 million, departing from Plymouth on 28 January 1940. On 7 February, she collided with a small British tanker while a convoy was forming up off Halifax; although damaged, she continued as an escort, returning to Halifax on 18 February for repair.[2] On 12 May 1940, she accidentally rammed and sank the Canadian Battle-class trawler HMCS Ypres which was acting as a boom defence vessel at Halifax, although without loss of life. For the duration of the war that she served, whenever Revenge came to Halifax, the crews of other gate ships would make elaborate and exaggerated "Abandon Ship" manoeuvres in mockery.[3] On 30 May, Revenge took part in Operation Fish, the removal of all of the United Kingdom's gold reserves to Canada, in case of invasion, leaving the River Clyde with £40 million worth of bullion on board, bound for Halifax.
On 3 July 1940, while at Plymouth, boarding parties from Revenge took control of the French battleship Paris and the large submarine-cruiser Surcouf, in case their crews decided to return them to Vichy France where they might fall into the hands of the Germans. The first British sailor to board the Surcouf, Leading Seaman Albert Webb, was shot dead by a French officer, who was in turn shot dead by a British officer. On the following day. Revenge resumed Operation Fish, this time with a cargo worth £47 million, repeating this on 11 August with £14.5 million from Greenock.[2]
On 15 September, Revenge arrived in Plymouth where she came under the control of Western Approaches Command, in case of an invasion. If the German amphibious landing, codenamed Operation Sealion, had gone ahead as planned, Revenge would have been the only British capital ship in the English Channel area. Unknown to the British high command, Hitler had ordered that the invasion be postponed indefinitely on 17 September; however in the early hours of 11 October, HMS Revenge formed the main element of Operation Medium, which aimed to bombard invasion transport ships and barges that were still concentrated in the French port of Cherbourg. Revenge, six destroyers and a screen of Motor Gun Boats formed the striking force, while a covering force of three cruisers and six destroyers aimed to prevent German naval forces from interfering. There was a simultaneous air raid by RAF Bomber Command who also dropped flares to illuminate the target. During the 18 minute bombardment, Revenge fired 120 15-inch shells at the harbour while her escorts fired 801 rounds from their 4.7-inch guns. The British force came under accurate fire from German heavy coastal artillery but were able to retire undamaged, Revenge managed to make 21½ knots on the return journey, just faster than her designed maximum speed. On 13 November 1940, she resumed North Atlantic convoy duties, which continued without major incident well into 1941.[2]
In August 1941, following the Atlantic Charter between the United Kingdom and the United States, it was proposed that the four Revenge-class battleships should be sent to bolster Singapore against possible Japanese aggression. Winston Churchill was opposed to this scheme, calling the old battleships "coffin ships", so the newer HMS Prince of Wales and the faster HMS Repulse were sent instead as Force Z; both ships were sunk by Japanese naval bombers on 10 December. Revenge and Royal Sovereign were sent instead to the Indian Ocean for convoy escort duties, arriving in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on 31 August to collect a convoy bound for Cape Town and Kilindini in Kenya. She subsequently operated from Trincomalee in Ceylon.[2]
HMS Revenge at Greenock after her return from the Indian Ocean in September 1943.
In March 1942, after a refit at Durban which included new radar equipment, Revenge joined the Eastern Fleet as part of 3rd Battle Squadron, based at Addu Atoll which was more secure than Trincomalee. In April 1942, the Fleet's commander, Admiral James Somerville, withdrew his force from the Indian Ocean to avoid contact with a superior Japanese fleet which he narrowly avoided. Thereafter, convoy escort operations were conducted from Kilindini, and there was a further refit in Durban during the autumn. In February 1943, with the rest of the fleet, Revenge participated in Operation Pamphlet, the escort of a convoy carrying the Australian 9th Division back to their country to allow them to be involved in the Pacific theatre. By September 1943, she had returned to home waters.[2] In October 1943, she was withdrawn from operational service due to her very poor condition, being reduced to Reserve status. However, Winston Churchill remarked in a memo that the venerable battleship should be put to better use and so he embarked on Revenge to sail to Malta, as a leg of the journey to the Tehran Conference being held in Iran.[citation needed]
In May 1944, her main armament was removed to provide spare guns for the battleships Ramillies and Warspite, as well as monitors which were to be vital during the bombardment of the beaches of Normandy during Operation Overlord. She spent the rest of the war as part of the stokers' training establishment HMS Imperieuse.[2]
On 8 March 1948 she was placed on the disposal list, being sold for scrap four months later. Some of Revenge's gun turret rack and pinion gearing was reused in the 76 metre diameter Mark I radio telescope built at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, in the mid-1950s.
1. ^ a b c Woodward, Steve (13 January 2008). "Revenge Class Battleship - HMS Revenge". Ships Nostalgia Directory. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
2. ^ a b c d e f g Mason, Geoffrey B, Lt Cdr RN (Retd) (10 April 2012). "SERVICE HISTORIES of ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS in WORLD WAR 2 - HMS REVENGE - Royal Sovereign-class 15in gun Battleship". Retrieved 26 January 2014.
3. ^ Switky, Robert (2013), Wealth of an Empire: The Treasure Shipments that Saved Britain and the World, Potomac Books Inc, ISBN 978-1612344966 (Chapter 10)
See also[edit]
• Claude Choules, the last living British World War I veteran, served aboard HMS Revenge during the Great War.
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Kingdom of Goryeo
고려국 (高麗國)
고려왕조 (高麗王朝)
Tributary state of the Mongol Empire and Yuan Empire after Mongol invasions(1259-1360)[1]
Goryeo in 1374
Capital Gaegyeong
Languages Middle Korean
Religion Korean Buddhism, Korean Confucianism, Korean Taoism, Korean shamanism
Government Monarchy
- 918 - 943 Taejo (first)
- 949 - 975 Gwangjong
- 981-997 Seongjong
- 1046 - 1083 Munjong
- 1351 - 1374 Gongmin
- 1389 - 1392 Gongyang (last)
Military government leader
- 1170-1171 Jeong Jung-bu (first)
- 1171-1174 Yi Ui-bang
- 1196-1219 Choe Chung-heon
- 1270 Im Yu-mu (last)
- Later Three Kingdoms rise 900
- Coronation of Taejo June 15, 918
- Unification of the Later Three Kingdoms 936
- Korea-Khitan Wars 993 - 1019
- Mongolian invasions 1231 - 1270
- Completion of Tripitaka Koreana 1251
- Abdication of Gongyang July 17, 1392
Today part of South Korea
North Korea
Goryeo, also known as Koryŏ (Hangul: 고려; hanja: 高麗; Korean pronunciation: [koɾjʌ]; 918–1392), was a Korean dynasty established in 918 by King Taejo. This kingdom later gave name to the modern state of Korea.[2] It united the Later Three Kingdoms in 936 and ruled most of the Korean peninsula until it was removed by the leader of the Joseon dynasty in 1392. The Goryeo dynasty expanded its borders to present-day Wonsan in the north-east (936–943) and the Amnok River (993) and finally almost the whole of the Korean peninsula (1374).
The name "Goryeo" is derived from "Goguryeo", one of the ancient Three Kingdoms of Korea, which changed its name to "Goryeo" during the reign of King Jangsu of Goguryeo (in the 5th century). The English name "Korea" derives from "Goryeo."[3]
Goryeo adopted a Silla-friendly Hubaekje-hostile stage in the later Three Kingdoms, but in 927, Goryeo was defeated by Hubaekje in present-day Daegu. Wang Geon lost his best supporters in the battle. For 3 years after the battle, Hubaekje dominated the Later Three Kingdoms but after a defeat at the Andong in 930, Hubaekje lost his power.
The Later Three Kingdoms era ended as Goryeo annexed Silla in 935 and defeated Hubaekje in 936. Wang Geon moved the capital to his hometown Kaesǒng, and ruled the Korean peninsula as the first King of Goryeo. Wang Geon married a daughter of the Silla royal family and let most nobles keep their lands. Even though Wang Geon ruled the united nation for only 7 years before his son took the reign after his death, the succession was not challenged.[4]
Political structure[edit]
A Goryeo painting depicting the Imperial/Royal Palace.
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The terminology used in the court of Goryeo was that of an empire, not of a kingdom. The capital, Gaegyeong (Korean: 개경，Hanja: 開京,) was called "Imperial Capital" (Korean: 황도, Hanja: 皇都) and the palace was referred to as "Imperial Palace" (Korean: 황성, Hanja: 皇城). The nation also utilized a system of multiple capitals: Gaegyeong (modern-day Gaeseong), being the main capital, and Seogyeong (Korean: 서경, Hanja: 西京) (modern-day Pyongyang), Namgyeong (Korean: 남경, Hanja: 南京) (modern-day Seoul), and Donggyeong (Korean: 동경, Hanja: 東京) (modern-day Gyeongju) as secondary capitals. The mere use of this system and the nomenclature or use of the character "京“ implied that Goryeo functioned internally as an empire.
Other terms, such as "Your Imperial Majesty" (Korean: 성상, Hanja: 聖上), "Empress" (Korean: 황후, Hanja: 皇后) "Imperial Crown Prince" (Korean: 태자, Hanja: 太子), "Empress Dowager" (Korean: 태후, Hanja: 太后), and "Imperial Ordinance" (詔 or 勅) also suggest that Goryeo adopted the title system of an empire. However, Goryeo, when enshrining its rulers, did not use the title of "Emperor" (Korean: 황제, Hanja: 皇帝). Instead, the title of "Great King" (Korean: 대왕, Hanja: 大王) was used to posthumously enshrine Goryeo monarchs. When enshrining its rulers, however, it did use "temple names" such as Taejo (Korean: 태조, Hanja: 太祖); this is a practice mere kingdoms did not take part in. Imperial titles, like Emperor or "Haedong Emperor" (Korean: 해동천자, Hanja: 海東天子, lit. the Son of Heaven Ruling the Land East of the Sea)" were also used.
After the Mongol invasions, all of these terms were prohibited by Mongol rulers, and Goryeo monarchs were forced to insert the character “忠” (Korean: 충, romanization: "chung"), meaning loyal, into their posthumous enshrinement names. This is why the monarchs after Wonjong had this character "忠” in their posthumous names, up until Gongmin. As Mongol power diminished, rulers no longer used "忠,” but still were unable to restore the use of the temple name.
In order to strengthen the power of the central government, Gwangjong, the fourth emperor, made a series of laws including that of freeing slaves in 958, and one creating the exam for hiring civil officials. To assert power internationally, Gwangjong also proclaimed Goryeo an empire, independent from any other country of its day.
The fifth king, Gyeongjong, launched land-ownership reformation called Jeonsigwa (Korean: 전시과, Hanja: 田柴科) and the 6th king, Seongjong of Goryeo appointed officials to local areas, which were previously succeeded by the lords. Between 993 and 1019, the Goryeo-Khitan Wars ravaged the northern border.
By the time of eleventh king, Munjong of Goryeo, the central government of Goryeo gained complete authority and power over local lords. Munjong and later kings emphasized the importance of civilian leadership over the military.
Khitan invasions and Jurchen expedition[edit]
In 993, the Khitan Liao Dynasty invaded Goryeo's northwest border with an estimated 60,000 troops. However, after Seo Hui's negotiation with Khitan, they withdrew and ceded territory to the east of the Amrok River (also called Yalu River) when Goryeo agreed to end its alliance with Song Dynasty China. However, Goryeo continued to communicate with the Song, having strengthened its position by building a fortress in the newly gained northern territories.
General Yun Gwan (1040 - 1111) and his army.
In 1018, the Khitan army invaded for the third time with 100,000 troops. In Heunghaejin stream, General Gang Gam-chan ordered the stream to be blocked until the Khitans began to cross it, and when the Khitans were mid-way across, he ordered that the dam be destroyed so that the water would drown much of the Khitan army. The damage was great, and General Gang led a massive attack that annihilated many of the Khitan army. Barely a few thousand of the Liao troops survived after the bitter defeat at Kwiju one year later.
Meanwhile, the Jurchen tribes lived to the north of Goryeo. The Jurchens always rendered tribute to the Goryeo monarchs, but the Jurchen tribes grew strong, and were soon united under Wanyan. They began to violate the Goryeo-Jurchen borders, and eventually invaded Goryeo. In 1087, the first version of the Tripitaka Koreana was completed, after many years of labor.
In 1107, General Yun Gwan led the newly formed Goryeo army, a force of approximately 17,000 men called Byeolmuban, and attacked the Jurchens. Though the war lasted for several years, the Jurchen were ultimately defeated, and surrendered to Yun Gwan. To mark the victory, General Yun built nine fortresses to the northeast of the Goryeo-Jurchen borders (Korean:동북 9성, Hanja:東北九城). In 1108, however, General Yun was given orders to withdraw his troops by Goryeo's new ruler, King Yejong. Due to manipulation and court-intrigue from opposing factions, he was discharged from his post. Along with this, the opposing factions fought to make sure that the new nine fortresses were returned to the Jurchens.
Power struggles[edit]
Monarchs of Korea
1. Taejo 918–943
2. Hyejong 943–945
3. Jeongjong 945–949
4. Gwangjong 949–975
5. Gyeongjong 975–981
6. Seongjong 981–997
7. Mokjong 997–1009
8. Hyeonjong 1009–1031
9. Deokjong 1031–1034
10. Jeongjong II 1034–1046
11. Munjong 1046–1083
12. Sunjong 1083
13. Seonjong 1083–1094
14. Heonjong 1094–1095
15. Sukjong 1095–1105
16. Yejong 1105–1122
17. Injong 1122–1146
18. Uijong 1146–1170
19. Myeongjong 1170–1197
20. Sinjong 1197–1204
21. Huijong 1204–1211
22. Gangjong 1211–1213
23. Gojong 1213–1259
24. Wonjong 1259–1274
25. Chungnyeol 1274–1308
26. Chungseon 1308–1313
27. Chungsuk 1313–1330
28. Chunghye 1330–1332
29. Chungmok 1344–1348
30. Chungjeong 1348–1351
31. Gongmin 1351–1374
32. U 1374–1388
33. Chang 1388–1389
34. Gongyang 1389–1392
The House Yi of Inju (Korean: 인주 이씨, Hanja: 仁州李氏) married the Kings from Munjong to the 17th King, Injong. Eventually the Yis gained more power than the monarch himself. This led to the coup of Yi Ja-gyeom in 1126. The coup failed but the power of the monarch was weakened; Goryeo underwent a civil war among the nobility.
In 1135, Myo Cheong argued in favor of moving the capital to Seogyeong (present day P'yŏngyang). This proposal divided the nobles of Goryeo in half. One faction, led by Myo Cheong, believed in moving the capital to Pyongyang and expanding into Manchuria. The other one, led by Kim Bu-sik (author of the Samguk Sagi), wanted to keep the status quo. Myo Cheong failed to persuade the King and rebelled against the central government and made a country named Daebang, but failed and was killed.
Military regime[edit]
In 1170, a group of army officers led by Jeong Jung-bu, Yi Ui-bang and Yi Go launched a coup d'état and succeeded. King Uijong went into exile and King Myeongjong was placed on the throne. Effective power, however, lay with a succession of generals who used an elite guard unit known as the Tobang to control the throne: military rule of Goryeo had begun. In 1179, the young general Gyeong Dae-seung rose to power and began an attempt to restore the full power of the monarch and purge the corruption of the state.
However, he died in 1183 and was succeeded by Yi Ui-min, who came from a nobi (slave) background.[5] His unrestrained corruption and cruelty[5] led to a coup by general Choe Chungheon, who assassinated Yi Ui-min and took supreme power in 1197. For the next 61 years, the Choe house ruled as military dictators, maintaining the Kings as puppet monarchs; Choe Chungheon was succeeded in turn by his son Choe U, his grandson Choe Hang and his great-grandson Choe Ui. On taking power, Choe Chungheon forced Myeongjong off the throne and replaced him with King Sinjong, but after Sinjong died he forced two further monarchs off the throne until he found the pliable King Gojong.
Mongol invasions[edit]
Relocated Goryeo pagoda
King Gongmin (1330–1374) and the Queen Noguk.
In 1231, Mongols under Ögedei Khan invaded Goryeo, following the aftermath of joint Goryeo-Mongol forces against the Khitans in 1219.[6] The royal court moved to Ganghwa Island in the Bay of Gyeonggi, in 1232. The military ruler of the time, Choe U (최우), insisted on fighting back. Goryeo resisted for about 30 years but finally sued for peace in 1259.
Meanwhile, the Mongols began a campaign from 1231 to 1259 that ravaged parts of Gyeongsang and Jeolla provinces. There were six major campaigns: 1231, 1232, 1235, 1238, 1247, 1253; between 1253 and 1258, the Mongols under Möngke Khan's general Jalairtai Qorchi launched four devastating invasions in the final successful campaign against Korea, at tremendous cost to civilian lives throughout the Korean peninsula.
Civilian resistance was strong, and the Imperial Court at Ganghwa attempted to strengthen its fortress. Korea won several victories but the Korean military could not withstand the waves of invasions. The repeated Mongol invasions caused havoc, loss of human lives and famine in Korea. In 1236, Gojong ordered the re-creation of the Tripitaka Koreana, destroyed during the 1232 invasion. This collection of Buddhist scriptures took 15 years to carve on some 81,000 wooden blocks, and is preserved to this day. In March 1258, the dictator Choe Ui was assassinated by Kim Jun. Thus, dictatorship by his military group was ended, and the scholars who had insisted on peace with Mongolia gained power. Eventually, the scholars sent an envoy to the Mongols, and a peace treaty was contracted between the Mongol Empire and Goryeo. Some military officials who refused to surrender formed the Sambyeolcho Rebellion and resisted in the islands off the southern shore of the Korean peninsula.[7]
The treaty permitted the sovereign power and traditional cultures of Goryeo, and implied that the Mongols had no plans of controlling Goryeo.[8] The Mongols annexed the northern areas of Korean peninsula after the invasions and incorporated them into their empire. After the peace treaty with Goryeo, the Mongols planned to conquer Japan by allying with Goryeo troops again; in 1274 and 1281 two campaigns to Japan took place; however, it failed due to a heavy storm (called the Kamikaze) and strong military resistance.
The Goryeo became "quda" (marriage alliance) state of the Yuan dynasty and monarchs of Goryeo were mainly imperial sons in-law (khuregen). The Kings of Goryeo held an important status like other important families of Mardin, Uighurs and Mongols (Oirat, Hongirat, and Ikeres).[9][10] It is claimed that one of Goryeo monarchs was the most beloved grandson of Kublai Khan.[11]
The Goryeo Dynasty survived under Yuan influences until King Gongmin began to push Yuan garrisons back around 1350. By the 1350s Goryeo regained its lost northern territories.
Most beneficial aspects of the Mongol domination of Eurasia was cultural exchange and flourishing international trade between east and west.[12] The Mongols certainly learned Korean ideas and technology and those benefits of the growing world empire also influenced the knowledge of cartography and production of pottery in Goryeo.[12][13] Due to high military preparedness of the Goryeo and Mongol allies in Korea, particularly during the Sambyolch'o rebellion in Cheju and southernmost Korea and Mongol invasions of Japan, and the awareness of Kamakura in Japan led to the decline in Wako (Japanese pirates) raids into Korean peninsula.[14] No more raids of Japanese again heard until 1350 when the Mongols were suffering from massive rebellions in China.[15]
Last reform[edit]
Yeom Jesin (1304–1382) was the main political opponent of the monk, Shin Don, who was in power.
When King Gongmin ascended to the throne Goryeo was under the influence of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty. He was forced to spend many years in the Yuan court, being sent there in 1341 as a virtual prisoner before becoming king. He married the Mongol princess Queen Noguk. But in the mid-14th century Yuan was beginning to crumble, soon to be replaced by the Ming dynasty in 1368. King Gongmin began efforts to reform the Goryeo government and remove Mongolian influences.
His first act was to remove all pro-Mongol aristocrats and military officers from their positions. Mongols had annexed the northern provinces of Goryeo after the invasions and incorporated them into their empire as the Ssangseong (쌍성총관부, 雙城摠管府) and Dongnyeong Prefectures (동녕부, 東寧府). The Goryeo army retook these provinces partly thanks to defection from Yi Ja-chun, a minor Korean official in service of Mongols in Ssangseong, and his son Yi Seonggye. In addition, Generals Yi Seonggye and Ji Yongsu led a campaign into Liaoyang.
But after the death of Gongmin's wife Queen Noguk in 1365, he fell into depression. In the end, he became indifferent to politics and entrusted that great task to the buddhist monk Shin Don (신돈, 辛旽). But after six years, Shin Don lost his position. In 1374, Gonmin was killed by Choe Man-saeng (최만생) and others.
Goryeo in 1374
In 1388, King U (son of King Gongmin and a concubine) and general Choe Yeong planned a campaign to invade present-day Liaoning of China. King U put the general Yi Seong-gye (later Taejo) in charge, but he stopped at the border and rebelled.
Goryeo fell to General Yi Seong-gye, a son of a Yi Ja-chun, who put to death the last three Goryeo Kings, usurped the throne and established in 1392 the Joseon Dynasty.
Foreign relations[edit]
During the 10th century, the Khitans tried to establish relations with Goryeo at least on two occasions. In 942, the Khitan ruler Taizu sent an embassy with a gift of 50 camels to Goryeo, but Taejo refused them, banishing the envoys and starving the camels to death.
Goryeo had maintained relations with most of the Five Dynasties and southern kingdoms in China. By 962, formal relations were established with the Song dynasty. Relations with Song were close, with many embassies being exchanged between Goryeo and Song, but relations would be interrupted by the rise of the Liao and Jin dynasties.
After about 30 years of peace, the Khitans invaded Goryeo. It failed and after two other failed attempts, a state of peace was established in the Far East. For around 100 years, the Far East was relatively peaceful and Munjong strengthened the Liao-Song-Goryeo line.
In 1102, the Jurchen threatened and another crisis emerged. But after Jin agreed to a tributary relationship with Goryeo, peace was maintained and Jin never actually did invade Goryeo.
Tension continued through the 12th century and into the 13th century, when the Mongol invasions started. After a series of battles, Goryeo capitulated to the Mongols, with the direct dynastic rule of Goryeo monarchy.[6]
# Trading country Import Export
2 Liao dynasty Horses, sheep, low-quality silk Minerals, cotton, marble, ink and paper, ginseng
3 Jurchen Gold, horses, weapons Silver, cotton, silk
4 Japan Mercury, minerals Ginseng, books
5 Abbasid dynasty Mercury, spices, tusk Gold, silver
A Goryeo painting which depicts the Goryeo nobility.
At the time of Goryeo, Korean nobility was divided into 6 classes.
• Gukgong (국공, 國公), Duke of a nation
• Gungong (군공, 郡公), Duke of a county
• Hyeonhu (현후, 縣侯), Marquis of a town
• Hyeonbaek (현백, 縣伯), Count of a town
• Gaegukja (개국자, 開國子), Viscount of a town
• Hyeonnam (현남, 縣男), Baron of a town
Also the title Taeja (Korean: 태자, Hanja: 太子) was given to sons of emperor. In most other east Asian countries this title meant crown prince. It was similar to Chinwang (Korean: 친왕, Hanja: 親王) of the Korean Empire.
Yi Je-hyun (1287–1367), an early Korean Neo-Confucianism scholar.
Ksitigarbha painting, Goryeo Korea
Buddhism in medieval Korea evolved in ways which rallied support for the state.[16]
Another important advocate of Seon/Gyo unity was Uicheon. Like most other early Goryeo monks, he began his studies in Buddhism with the Hwaeom school. He later traveled to China, and upon his return, actively promulgated the Cheontae (天台宗, or Tiantai in Chinese) teachings, which became recognized as another Seon school. This period thus came to be described as "five doctrinal and two meditational schools" (ogyo yangjong). Uicheon himself, however, alienated too many Seon adherents, and he died at a relatively young age without seeing a Seon-Gyo unity accomplished.
Gwangyeongseopum Byeonsangdo, Goryeo buddhist painting.
Among such Muslims was Samgha who was renamed Jang Sunnyong, he married a Korean and became the founding ancestor of the Deoksu Jang clan. His clan produced many high officials and respected Confucian scholars over the centuries. Another Muslim named Seol Son fled to Korea when the Red Turban Rebellion erupted near the end of the Yuan dynasty. He, too, married a Korean, originating a lineage called the Gyeongju Seol clan.
Tripitaka Koreana[edit]
Goryeo celadon[edit]
Celadon incense burner. National Treasures of South Korea.
Lacquerware with Mother of Pearl Inlay[edit]
During the Goryeo period, lacquerware with mother-of-pearl inlay reached a high point of technical and aesthetic achievement and was widely used by members of the aristocracy for Buddhist ritual implements and vessels, as well as horse saddles and royal carriages. Inlaid lacquers combine texture, color, and shape to produce a dazzling effect in both large and small objects. Although Korean lacquerware of the Goryeo period was highly prized throughout East Asia, fewer than fifteen examples are known to have survived, one of which is this exquisite box in the Museum's collection. This paucity of material is largely attributable to the fragility of lacquer objects and, to a certain extent, to wars and raids by foreign powers, notably those launched from Japan by Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536–1598) in the late sixteenth century.
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Construction techniques[edit]
In 1234, the world's first metal movable type printing was invented by Choe Yun-ui in Goryeo. Sangjeong Gogeum Yemun were printed with the movable metal type in 1234. Technology in Korea took a big step in Goryeo and strong relation with the Song dynasty contributed to this. In the dynasty, Korean ceramics and paper, which come down to now, started to be manufactured.
During the late Goryeo Dynasty, Goryeo was at the cutting edge of shipboard artillery. In 1356 early experiments were carried out with gunpowder weapons that shot wood or metal projectiles. In 1373 experiments with incendiary arrows and "fire tubes" possibly an early form of the Hwacha were developed and placed on Korean warships. The policy of placing cannons and other gunpowder weapons continued well into the Joseon Dynasty and by 1410, over 160 Joseon warships had cannons on board. Choe Mu-seon, a medieval Korean inventor, military commander and scientist who introduced widespread use of gunpowder to Korea for the first time and creating various gunpowder based weapons.
See also[edit]
2. ^ Kyu Chull Kim (8 March 2012). Rootless: A Chronicle of My Life Journey. AuthorHouse. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-4685-5891-3. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
3. ^ "Koryo Dynasty". Encyclopedia of World History II. p. 238.
4. ^ Encyclopedia of World History, Vol II, P238 Koryo Dynasty, Edited by Marsha E. Ackermann, Michael J. Schroeder, Janice J. Terry, Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur, Mark F. Whitters, ISBN 978-0-8160-6386-4
5. ^ a b http://enc.daum.net/dic100/contents.do?query1=b18a0209a |Daum Encyclopædia Britannica
8. ^ 국사편찬위원회, 고등학교국사교과서 p63(National Institute of Korean History, History for High School Students, p64)[1][dead link]
10. ^ The Mongols Co-opt the Turks to Rule All under Heaven: Crippled the Dual-System and Expelled by Chinese Rebellion by Wontack Hong
11. ^ Baasanjavyin Lkhagvaa-Solongos, Mongol-Solongosyin harilstaanii ulamjlalaas, p.172
12. ^ a b Thomas T. Allsen - Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia, p.53
13. ^ Namjil- Solongos-Mongolyin haritsaa: Ert, edugee, p.64
14. ^ Henthorn, William E. (1963). Korea: the Mongol invasions. E.J. Brill. pp. 226–234.
15. ^ Benjamin H. Hazard-The Formative Years of The Wakō, 1223-63, Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 22, No. 3/4 (1967), pp. 260-277
18. ^ Wood, Nigel. "Technological Parallels between Chinese Yue wares and Korean celadons." in Papers of the British Association for Korean Studies (BAKS Papers), vol 5. Gina Barnes and Beth McKillop, eds. London: British Association for Korean Studies, 1994; pp. 39-64.
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Mallos gregalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Superfamily: Dictynoidea
Family: Dictynidae
Genus: Mallos
Species: M. gregalis
Binomial name
Mallos gregalis
(Simon, 1909)
Mallos gregalis is a spider species belonging to the Dictynidae biological family.[1] Social living is unusual in spiders because their anatomy predisposes them to be predators and it is difficult for spiders to discriminate speciesmates from other prey items. M. gregalis spiders live in Mexico. Discovered by French naturalists in the previous century, M. gregalis were again brought to light in the 1970s by Wes Burgess,[2] [3] working for Scientific American and the North Carolina Mental Health Research Foundation. M. gregalis live in groups containing thousands of individuals together on a sheet-like spider web. Like other social spiders, the unique qualities of M. gregalis' web help make their social lifestyle possible.[4][5] Their web preferentially transmits the vibrations of flies caught in the web while dampening out the vibrations caused by other spiders, thus allowing the M. gregalis spiders to distinguish between the prey and each other.[6] The smell of previously eaten fly bodies helps attract other flies to M. gregalis' web.[7]
1. ^ Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
2. ^ Burgess, J. Wesley. (1976): Social Spiders. Scientific American, vol 234, pp 99-106. (1976).
3. ^ Burgess, J. Wesley. (1978): Social behavior in group-living spider species. Template:Peter Merrett, Editor (1978): Arachnology. Symposia, Zoological Society of London, Number. 42. Academic Press, London.
4. ^ Burgess, J. Wesley and Witt, Peter N. (1976): Spider webs: Design and engineering. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, vol 1, pp 322-335.
5. ^ Witt, Peter N. and Burgess, J. Wesley. (1978): Spider webs: Design and engineering. Naturwissenschafteliche Rundschau, vol 31, pp 269-282.
6. ^ Burgess, J. Wesley. (1979): Web-signal processing for tolerance and group predation in the social spider Mallos gregalis. Animal Behavior, vol 27, pp 157-164.
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(Read caption) US President Barack Obama has a lei around his neck as he talks with US Senator Daniel Akaka and Rep. Mazie Hirono upon his arrival in Hawaii for a vacation Wednesday.
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President Obama has made it to Hawaii to join his wife, daughters, and dog on vacation. He arrived just before midnight Wednesday, local time, after winging in on Air Force One from Washington following a press conference. In his first official act of relaxation, he donned a green lei after he stepped off the plane.
Now all the US political world is holding its breath as it awaits the results of an important policy decision the president is likely to make at some point during his projected 11 days in an island paradise.
The question facing Obama is this: What flavor of shave ice will he pick at Island Snow?
Ronald Reagan cleared brush at his California ranch during his breaks, and George H.W. Bush terrified the Maine sea life by roaring about in a sleek power boat. Bill Clinton played golf and talked while on vacation, and George W. Bush rode his bike on his Texas acres. Mr. Obama, on the other hand, takes his girls out for a frozen dessert-like substance. It’s a tradition.
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The COM+ tracking service enables you to build your own administrative and diagnostic programs that track the status and performance of running COM+ applications. COM+ tracking provides statistical information about the use of COM+ applications as well as status information, such as whether a COM+ server application instance is paused or has been recycled. Tools can use tracking information in diagnostic monitoring or for display purposes. For example, the Component Services administrative tool uses COM+ tracking to display the status of COM+ application instances in the COM+ Applications and Running Processes folders.
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Tracking data for all COM+ application instances may be retrieved at any time.
Supports only a COM+ events-based subscription mechanism for consumers.
Supports both a COM+ events-based subscription mechanism and polling on a COM local server interface.
Notifications when a method is called or returns.
Average call response time, number of method calls that succeeded or failed in a recent time period, number of objects currently in a method call.
Notifications when an object is added to or obtained from the object pool.
Number of objects in the pool, total number of objects.
Notifications when a COM+ server application is started, paused, or recycled.
Status of the COM+ server application process (for example, whether it is paused or recycled).
Notifications of transaction start, prepare, abort, and commit events.
No equivalent.
Notifications of successful and failed method call level authentication attempts.
No equivalent.
Although COM+ tracking is more limited in terms of data scope and flexibility for calculating metrics, the metrics it provides should be sufficient for a wide variety of administrative and diagnostic programs. Using COM+ tracking, when possible, can simplify the design of these programs. Additionally, using COM+ tracking in production systems can have a significantly lower performance impact, making it more appropriate for real-time monitoring tools.
How COM+ Tracking Collects Data
When a COM+ server application process is started, COM+ registers the process with the tracker server, a component of the system application. Components in COM+ library applications and services without components (SWC) contexts also support tracking. When a library component or SWC context is created in a process, COM+ registers the process with the tracker server if it has not been registered already.
COM+ updates statistics for a tracked process when certain events occur in the process, such as the creation of an object or the completion of a method call. Updated data is periodically submitted to the tracker server, at which point it becomes available to consumers. The tracker server is also responsible for calculating some of the metrics used by the COM+ application recycling and hang monitoring features. This data is also available to consumers.
Tracking data is organized according to the process that generated the data. Data at the level of individual COM+ applications or components in the process is also available for consumers that need this information.
Events versus Polling
COM+ tracking supports two mechanisms for a consumer to obtain tracking data from the tracker server, a COM+ events-based subscription mechanism and a COM local server interface.
Programs that need to be notified periodically with updated tracking data can register a subscription for the IComTrackingInfoEvents event interface. Roughly every three seconds, the tracker server calls each subscriber's IComTrackingInfoEvents::OnNewTrackingInfo method, sending the most recent tracking data in the form of a collection object. This object implements the IComTrackingInfoCollection interface, and subscribers can navigate this collection to find the data they are interested in.
For various reasons, it might make more sense for a program to poll tracker server for data. For example, a monitoring tool may need updates much less frequently than a program that displays status in a user interface. Also, a program may use only a small portion of the tracking data available for the system (for example, a tool might only monitor the performance of instances of a single COM+ application). The subscription model sends each subscriber the tracking data for all COM+ applications in each notification, and it is the responsibility of the subscriber to find the data it wants. Finally, COM+ events is a best-effort event notification mechanism. Reliable message delivery services are not provided, and there is no way for a subscriber to detect that the tracker server failed to send it a notification.
A program that needs greater control over its retrieval of tracking data can use the IGetAppTrackerData interface of the tracker server.
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Valkyre + 267d ago | Well said
ddurand1 + 267d ago
you started off ok.
but you finished with an opinion.
each consumers opinion is the only thing that matters.
ThanatosDMC + 267d ago
What improvements?
windblowsagain + 267d ago | Well said
I find that statement funny.
I use the ps3 controller for my pc as well.
Polysix + 267d ago
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mewhy32 + 267d ago
heres another category where the ps4 wins.
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loulou + 267d ago
playing kz2 with an xbox controller really made that game for me
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PiperMCFierceson + 267d ago
I can play with both I just need like 10 minutes with either or and then I'm use to them again .
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Parasyte + 267d ago
It all comes down to personal preference.
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devilhunterx + 267d ago
You have uneven thumbs?
MysticStrummer + 267d ago
The character of Hellboy was based on him.
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Benchm4rk + 267d ago
Na just fanboys that can't understand someone who has an unbiased view
MASTER_RAIDEN + 267d ago
Parasyte + 267d ago
Did you read the article?
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MASTER_RAIDEN + 267d ago
didnt read the black parts. thanks guys lol.
Funky Town_TX + 267d ago
The DS3 is too light IMO. That is great news.
badz149 + 267d ago
too light is bad now?
MasterCornholio + 267d ago
Sounds like the improvements are extremely well done with the new controllers.
Cant wait to get my hands on the DS4.
MWong + 267d ago
I like both controller changers. Thank god, M$ decided to remove that eye sore of a protruding battery. I have always loved the Sony DS controllers, they just improved upon a great controller.
No_Limit + 267d ago
Can't wait to test drive the rumble triggers on Forza 5 and Dead Rising on launch day.
MWong + 267d ago
I think 4 rumbles might be a bit much, but we'll see.
Redgehammer + 267d ago
I always turn off rumble since it makes the games feel fake to me. I have shot real guns, driven real cars, and had real wrecks, and rumble emulates none of those to me.
stage88 + 267d ago
Day DS4 and its new features :D
HALOisKING + 267d ago
ps controller sucks for fps games imo x1 controller for the win imo
despair + 267d ago
why? Other than your name which means you love Halo I assume, what about the X1 controller is better for you than the PS4. The main complaint people had was the positioning of the sticks and that's a fair assessment but just saying it will 'suck for fps games imo" is not explaining anything.
HALOisKING + 267d ago
y do i need to explain its my op u shouldnt care about my op
vinniects + 267d ago
with the xbox controller it is not just about the placement of the analog sticks but it also has better resistance when moving the sticks. the ps3 controller's analog sticks are to easy to move. it causes a lot of over aiming when you are use to the 360 controller
Foliage + 267d ago
That's because you got used to the huge dead zones on the 360 controller.
A real gamer wants a more controllable and reactionary experience. No one wants to have to fight beyond a huge dead zone to get the character to react.
mxrider2199 + 267d ago
you said the ps controller sucks for fps as a fact not as an opinion
Hicken + 267d ago
Saying you prefer the 360 controller for shooters is your opinion.
Saying the PS controller sucks for fps is an opinion stated as fact.
Interestingly enough, I'm pretty damn good with the Dual Shock, when it comes to fps, and not so good with those weird-ass asymmetrical analogs on the 360 pad.
moparful99 + 267d ago
If this truly was the case then I wouldn't fare better with shooters on my ps3 then I do with the 360.. I have BLOPSII on both consoles and my KDR is much better on the PS3 and I have 3 times as much play time on the ps3.. Both controllers work great for shooters there's no added advantage or immediate improvement with one over the other.. ITS ALL PREFERENCE
Funky Town_TX + 267d ago
I gave man hands so I like man sized controllers. The xbox 360 controller is great, but has a terrible d-pad. The PS3 controller as a great d-pad. I have not used a DS4 or a xbone controller, but it looks like both companies have made improvements.
leogets + 267d ago
depends on ya console choice,that's when u get used to playin with the controller u have.I'm used to Sony so when I play my Bros Xbox the controller feels horribly foreign.. my thumbs are adjacent to each other lol
WeedyOne + 267d ago
This article did a good job explaining the differences but it REALLY NEEDED MORE PICS so I could see with my eyes the differences they were pointing out. One pic of each controller is not enough!
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mochachino + 267d ago
I got the impression that DF prefferred PS4s triggers but really like X1s trigger rumble feature.
SpinalRemains + 267d ago
You prefer what you're used to.
The idea that offset sticks or symmetrical sticks have an advantage over the other is ridiculous.
Its the same as driving a car. You prefer what you're accustomed to, but one does not have an advantage.
Why would your left hand prefer the analog higher up but your right hand be fine with placement? It makes no sense. Logically one would think the ds makes more sense, as their hands are symmetrical and they hold it as such. Neither is true, however. It is only preference or acclimation.
One can become accustomed to either without any issues.
moparful99 + 267d ago
Well said and very true!
maniacmayhem + 267d ago
Love the new Xbox controller and with the force feedback triggers it should make games more interesting.
Can't wait to give that d-pad a whirl too. Gawd I hope they fixed that. If so then the XboxWon's controller would win hands down.
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ChipdiddyChip + 267d ago
I have always preferred the xbox pad to the ps pad due the fact the xbox pad is more comfortable in my hands and better for racing games and shooters imo.
If the ps4 pad is similar to the ps3 pad, I know I will definitely not like it. Ill just have to wait and see.
hellvaguy + 267d ago
Both seem like they are top notch and comfy controllers. For me, im not interested in a touch pad and x1 controller is using superior wifi direct technology. Also replaceable batteries is a must for me. So I gotta give ms the edge for now.
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hellzsupernova + 267d ago
I hated the replaceable batteries they were awful. That's the biggest downside in the Xbox controller
hellvaguy + 267d ago
So instead of being able to change out batteries you rather just pay for a brand new controller? Lol makes no sense at all.
I mean every few months to a year (depending on how much you use them), your going to lose capacity. That's just the nature of rechargeable batteries.
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hellzsupernova + 266d ago
Ok let's clear one thing up I've had the same controller for years and granted its not as good as when I first got it it doesn't need replacing anytime soon your being ridiculous.
edwoods + 267d ago
Here's the problem with symmetrical dual sticks: they are not ergonomically friendly. I hate the xbox one with a passion but will admit a lot of research has gone into making both the 360/one controllers and the reason for a raised left analog is because in FPS games(etc) most of ur movements are ups and downs (walking forward and backing up, while strafing is secondary. The higher placement of the left stick allows for those primary movements much more comfortable because it is a natural extension motion of the thumb, where as on the ps4 u have to move ur thumb in a left or right motion in respect to the hand. The right analog on the xbox is left the conventional way because thumb extension motion is already in proper placement for the two directions primarily at play here. That would be turn left/right, where looking up and down are secondary. Now you know why the xbox controller not only feels better for fps but is much more ergonomic and well thought out.
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Hicken + 267d ago
That argument is weak. If you were doing that with the left thumb, then it should be the same for the right thumb. It should feel just as natural for the right as the left.
Sorry, but your explanation fails.
edwoods + 267d ago
no, just fail at understanding what i said. iif you would have read my comment as to why the right analog is better in its normal position then you would understand. the right analog should be in its convnetional position because left and right turning are the primary uses for it, with looking up and down being secondary. Therefore, if you moved the right as the same position as the left, you would be making looking up and down the thumb extnesion movement when you want it to be looking left and right. i know you dont understand what im saing but that only because ur a moron.
Hicken + 267d ago
Interesting. I guess my experience in fps doesn't count for anything, but I'd have thought the ability to quickly and easily move either stick to ANY position would be most ergonomic.
What you describe MIGHT give benefits to access, but they'd be marginal, at best. At the same time, they'd hinder motion in the less used directions, as you call them, making the attempt to actually MOVE IN those directions more difficult.
Ergonomically speaking, it makes more sense to hinder the more natural movements for the sake of making the less natural movements easier to do. It creates a balance that would allow you to move evenly in all directions from both sticks.
Our brains are pretty symmetrical. This means they respond better, on the whole, to symmetrical systems. It's why asymmetrical faces and bodies aren't generally as attractive as symmetrical ones. All of our senses operate based on a sense of symmetry, from balance to hearing. Even the taste zones on our tongue are symmetrically placed.
The most ergonomic systems, from chairs to cars to controllers, take advantage of our natural need for symmetry.
Nice try, though.
hellvaguy + 267d ago
Actually your brain isn't symmetrical in how it thinks. So you really picked a poor example. One side is for logical thinking, the other is for abstract thoughts.
If symmetry is the standard for which all things should follow, why are all most all pitcher's and quarterbacks right handed and hardly any can throw with their non-dominant side? Why isn't every baseball player a switch hitter? Or for that matter, even simple tasks like I cannot use a pen or hammer in a nail with my left hand. Also my mouse on my pc isn't symmetrical either, its for right handed people. Need I go on?
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Hicken + 266d ago
I didn't say our brains THOUGHT symmetrical. Try and pay attention.
Nor did I say it was the "standard" for all things. Your examples, by the way, are worse, as we, as a society, encourage the use of one, dominant side. Hell, I'm left-handed, but bat and throw right. As a child, my teachers tried to force me into being right-handed. Being ambidextrous is most beneficial, as the loss of an arm or use of one limb for whatever reason does not become nearly as debilitating.
Simply put, people who predominantly use their right hands liked being a majority- see any other discrimination in the history of mankind.... only this one not so harsh- so they encouraged their style and discouraged or shunned any others. Militaries- those primarily relying on sword and shield- taught things from this majority perspective; losing the right hand was the same as death for a soldier, but being able to use the left hand just as effectively would have been a devastating force. The staircases in castles wound clockwise so the defenders could more freely use their sword arms than the attackers, who'd be hampered by the inside wall; attackers able to effectively use a sword in the left hand would not have had this problem.
The things you speak of are functions of our society(or societites), built that way for the purposes of congruence, of uniformity. Not necessarily how our brains work; a LOT of what we do as a species ignores, contradicts, takes advantage of, or otherwise clashes with how our minds work.
That mouse of yours, by the way, is easily remapped for a left-handed person; the standard mouse is pretty symmetrical.
PFFT + 267d ago
Both controllers should be great. And finally all of Sony fanboys dreams have come true. They can finally double click their mouse while playing Killzone!
SlapHappyJesus + 267d ago
Personally, I've always preferred the feel of the xbox controller. The 360 pad is probably my favorite pad to date. With the One's controller seemingly just an improved version of 360's, I definitely plan on grabbing one for use on the PC.
DVAcme + 267d ago
The XBox VS PS argument for shooters and racing games, I believe, is a matter of taste. While I'm a PS fan, I can see why people'd like the XBox controller for those genres, but I still play those genres perfectly fine on my DS3, and I like the fact that it's a good all-around controller for any genre.
Oh, but one thing is very much true: the PS controller is LEAGUES better for fighting games. Like, not even close.
sincitysir1 + 267d ago
I have both and both are fine for any game. IF you're good at said game. Me? I kick ass at any game on any console with any controller any day any hour any minute any week of the month in any given year. Seriously. *kisses thumbs* I rock. BUT I will say I HATE controller that require batteries. Fucking stupid. Далі з'їзду далі рідше узвткщцт удачу!!!
GamersHeaven + 267d ago
Great thing about Dual shock imo is that its great for every genre that's why it stayed the same for some many years.Improving the width and space of the analogs fixing the trigger buttons will make a huge difference Sony will be improving on greatness :D
jdawg222 + 267d ago
i think the AA battery thing seals the deal for me. why??
hellvaguy + 267d ago
U release that means freedom right? U can buy AA rechargeable batteries or xbox rechargeable battery packs? PS controllers when the battery goes dead, so does your controller.
shadow2797 + 267d ago
You can actually replace the battery in the PS3 (and probably PS4) controller. I hate having to switch batteries, and I don't keep up with all my rechargeable ones. It's too much hassle. Store-bought rechargeable batteries all seem to lose there charge capacity relatively quickly, too. Hopefully the One will support a Play and Charge kit.
Meanwhile, my PS controllers from 2007 still hold their charges like new. Personally, I wish the AA battery option was the accessory, but MS knows that no one would buy it.
hellvaguy + 267d ago
"Meanwhile, my PS controllers from 2007 still hold their charges like new"
Wow maybe they are magical batteries with unicorns running around in there. Wait no they're not. They only make 2 types of batteries ni-cad and lithin ion. They really aren't anything special.
And yes xbox and x1 have plug and play controllers without being charged. That's nothing special.
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jdawg222 + 265d ago
yeah i still have 2 controllers from 07 with plenty of battery life. i dont use one of them because the d-pad buttons were sticking and the left analog stick started to suck. but batteries... still fine.
jacobie74 + 267d ago
u guyz are so stupid sony is the best at this sony is the best at that sony make the best controller sony make the best games sony got better first party... sony fans like sony for all the wrong reason yea i converted over to sony but not cuz i like sony but for the better deal and yea i think sony need to make two controllers one for bitch ass small hands dudes and a reverse analog one for real gamers
kingPoS + 267d ago
It's funny how some fans seem treat the trigger buttons as if there were the only ones that mattered. I absolutely despise it when games force me to use the triggers to aim, shoot or whatever. In a fare amount of games you'll have two or three controller setup options.
How many stuck with classic option in GTA 4... I know I did.
Custom button configs should be a standard not an exception.
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thehitman + 267d ago
All im curious is can I use my DS3 on my PS4.
Foliage + 267d ago
You would be missing a touch pad.....
thehitman + 267d ago
I know but its important to not have to quickly buy another ds4 because I have friends and family who I play with a lot and I already have like 4 DS3.
hellzsupernova + 267d ago
You cannot
level 360 + 267d ago
Last time, a unanimous win by XBox360 control pad over rival PS3.
This time, even with the next-gen consoles and corresponding control pads still to see the light of day at retail/web shops, the verdict is most definitely a PS4/DS4 win over XBox ONE's.
XBox ONE - is a proper evolution from XBox360 and honestly so, since 360's a very cohesive design.
PS4/DS4 - revolutionary I think explains it all, compared to tried and tested and quite ancient ( minor changes since PS1 days ) PS3 control pad.
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Foliage + 267d ago
PS didn't have to change their controller; they've stuck with the best design offered for a system.
You x-fanboys are incredibly delusional.
360 Controller suffered from:
- Cheap materials; how many analog sticks have you worn out?
- Stiff analog sticks
- Huge ass unresponsive deadzones for the analog sticks
- The worst "d-pad" in console history
- Bumper buttons that are near useless; you need to strain your fingers to get to them
- Squeaky triggers
- Start button far too close to the X button (frustrating for people with big hands)
- Asymmetrical analog sticks; which is completely retarded. Try this test: Hold the controller, and mimic the same actions on both analog sticks; see how inconsistent it is? Your fingers need to fight in different directions. It makes no sense at all.
- BATTERIES? SERIOUSLY? Holy... pile of shit
The ONLY positive is how it rests in the palms; the rest is complete garbage.
fullmetal297 + 267d ago
Have you seen how much effort they have put into controller? The amount of stress test they performed to make sure the controller can handle all type of drops. Rumble on the triggers for a more tactile feeling and Wi-Fi direct as the means of connecting the controller to your console.
I use an xbox 360 controller for my games on PC and it feels comfortable in my hands and I have no problems with its asymmetrical sticks. I may not like Microsoft's policies, but at least I give credit to them where it's due.
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RE_L_MAYER + 267d ago
im guessing xbox one has new improved technology in controller to help fish move out of the way
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A locally known Long Island developer and political fundraiser was shot in the head Monday outside Oheka Castle, the popular estate he owns and runs as a hotel and event space, police said.
Gary Melius, 69 years old, was shot while entering his vehicle in the castle's parking lot at around 12:30 p.m. by someone wearing a mask, said Suffolk County Police Department Det. Sgt. John O'Sullivan.
Mr. Melius was in stable condition. Zuma Press
No suspects have been identified, and "it doesn't appear to be an accidental shooting," Det. Sgt. O'Sullivan said. Mr. Melius was in surgery Monday evening and is in stable condition, he said.
"He is in good spirits. It was a miraculous situation and he will make a full recovery," said Ronald Rosenberg, Mr. Melius's attorney and close friend, who saw Mr. Melius before the operation.
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"It's shocking everybody here," David Pennetta, a local official who has worked with Mr. Melius on real-estate projects, said of the shooting.
The French chateau-style Oheka Castle was built in the early 1900s and is listed on the National Register of Historical places. Mr. Melius said he first bought the castle in 1984, sold it, then bought it back. It was abandoned and in a state of disrepair before he led its restoration and conversion into a hotel and event space. Mr. Melius said he put in $40 million in renovationsinto the estate, painted with murals of the sky and including spiral staircases and a subterranean poker room.
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In 2013, Mr. Melius was a central figure in a controversy that led to the resignation of Nassau County Police Department Commissioner Thomas Dale. Mr. Melius called Mr. Dale and asked him to arrest on perjury charges Randy White, a witness in a court case against Nassau County executive candidate Andrew Hardwick. Mr. Melius was supporting Mr. Hardwick's run.
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I am learning how to manage databases for my company and while I have pretty good understanding of using a database, I can definately see that it is completely different administering a database.
My possition is we are a small team and we previously had no one manageing the database servers, if something went wrong we would fix it but there was no pro-active maintenance.
I am putting together some documentation of best practices that we should be using, fixes to problems discovered, and methods to prevent issues from occuring. At the moment my managers are reluctant to patch the DB Servers (OS and DB Software), which I believe is insanity but they are senior and "know best".
Our environment is Server 2003, with 5 DB Servers, three MSSQL 2005 and two MSSQL2000. The DB servers are all private and do not face the internet. They are behind our firewall. The fact they are not public is the reasoning behind the managers reluctance to patch the servers.
What I would like to know is:
How people manage patching of the SQL Servers and OS? Is it necessary to patch them? List item When do you apply patches (immeadiately, after a couple days to wait for problems to be encountered and documented, other)? List item White papers, technical documentation, good blogs, etc that you can recommend. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I believe that they should be patched to at the least the most recent SP and perhaps the second recent Cummalative Update, but I dont have any form of best practices to base this on so would be most keen to learn what people do.
If you need further information please dont hesitate in contacting me.
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My advice: yes, patch them. As we have seen even today, malicious content can and will make it into your internal network. Thoughts contrary to this are just plain naive and irresponsible. Slammer was an eye-opener back in the day and a lot has been done to lock SQL down to prevent this, but new threats arise blah blah blah.
With regards to the db servers, it's pretty much the same as your other servers. Put together an install plan, put together a rollback plan, apply the patches in a test environment, when comfortable apply them in production. They should be assessed for priority along with all other patches.
I agree, not patching is insanity. If your business relies on these systems and they're not patching because of discomfort with administering SQL Server then get someone into SQL admin training.
Edit: To your comment, on your test server you duplicate your production environment as closely as possible. To test your patch process you perform the entire process on the test server. If it fails then there's a decent or better chance that it'll fail in production also. Don't patch production until the patches in a test environment are stable.
On application servers you also want to make sure that your app continues to work as designed after the patches are installed so you will want to not only make sure the system itself survives the patch but that you run through the functionality of your application.
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What sort of testing should I be doing on the test server? – Lima Jul 1 '09 at 14:06
See the edit in my answer. – squillman Jul 1 '09 at 14:33
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Patching databases should be no different than patching anything. Test, then deploy.
Obviously this requires a test system to patch first, but if these databases are as critical as the senior people in your organization believe them to be, I'm sure they have test systems deployed already and ready for testing. ;)
I always find it interesting when people refuse to patch systems because they are "internal only" and therefore secure. I guess you have no computer on your LAN that accesses the Internet and no possibility of ever doing something with a piece of software that will trigger a data corrupting, server crashing bug in the unpatched original release of the software.
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Agreed with the above regarding "yes you must patch, and yes, test the patches first".
I will note however, as you mention that your team is new to DB administration, that I find MSSQL to require patches less frequently than Windows. The way it goes for me, I set windows update to "download only" on our test machine, then some night when we're feeling brave we tell Windows to go ahead and install, reboot, then run our regression tests.
The production machine is set the same way - download only, don't install the patches. So if our tests go well on the test machine we wake up at 5 AM the next day and tell the production machine to install the patches as well, let it reboot, then do some simple tests to ensure that the app is still working. We normally do this no more than once per week, as we don't like to wake up at 5 AM, but of course if the description of the patch sounds unusually dire we'll rush it.
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Yikes. Well you definitely want to patch them as SQL Slammer et al operate BEHIND the firewall so .... Anyway, "back in the day" I would manually patch them from the SP's that come out from time to time after testing on a backup server. Nowadays I just let "Microsoft Update" catch any SQL Server-related patches. Seems to work just fine.
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COMMENTARY | Once upon a time, the Philadelphia Phillies dipped into the bargain basement and pulled out Shane Victorino and Jayson Werth. I'm talking bargain here, folks.
In 2007, the Phillies paid these guys $1.26 million combined. That season, the Phillies won their first of five straight National League East titles and the two bargain outfielders would be key contributors to a World Series championship the following season.
Both blossomed into All-Stars and eventually priced themselves out of the Phillies' budget. Last season, they cost two other teams a combined $29 million.
I bring this up to exemplify that very often major league teams have to be very lucky to succeed. These days, most teams can't afford to exceed the luxury tax, at least on a regular basis. Few teams can hold on to great stars for their entire careers, or sign top talent on demand to fill in holes. It requires creativity with budgeting money while building a contender. Sooner or later, you've got to find a player who will have a huge year at a reasonable cost.
That's what the Phillies hope they got in Marlon Byrd this week. The Phils have a real deficiency of right-handed power bats and need help in the outfield. Byrd is coming off a career year, hitting .291 with 24 homers and 88 RBIs for the New York Mets and Pittsburgh Pirates. He was a big reason the Pirates made the postseason for the first time in 21 years. The Phillies signed him to a two-year deal worth $16 million.
On the surface, it sounds like a great deal. But there are red flags to consider as well. He's 35 years old and has a past of offensive inconsistency and performance-enhancement drug use. So there's no way of knowing which Marlon Byrd will show up in a Phillies uniform next season.
But in a sport of hiring gambles, this is a good gamble by general manager Ruben Amaro, Jr. In today's free-agent market, $8 million per for two seasons is not unreasonable for a player with those numbers in a contract year. If Byrd can hit 20 homers in each season and play reasonable defense, he's an upgrade that's worth every penny.
The need to take such a risk is why free agents get signed. Just ask the Los Angeles Angels. They signed two of the most expensive free agents ever in recent years, Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton, and certainly haven't gotten the bang for their buck they were expecting.
The 2014 season will be a season of hope for the Phillies. They need players who have struggled with health or performance in recent years to return to form. They need close to vintage Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins and Jonathan Papelbon if they want to contend. There's no way around that short of incredible years from a Byrd and/or a Domonic Brown to compensate. They may bring back Carlos Ruiz and/or Roy Halladay looking for that same blast from the past.
And then there are the hot stove rumors about big-ticket players such as David Price and Jose Bautista, more believe it when you see it things. Those kinds of deals would involve being very creative and probably be very risky long-term for the Phillies. But they sure would add a lot of buzz again to Philadelphia baseball.
The Byrd signing indicates the thinking is there's another run to glory left in these Phillies. Why not think that? These guys have all been great and know what it takes to win. And if player maneuvering doesn't go much beyond Byrd, that still leaves the Phillies room to be second-half sellers. They could easily return to the youth movement mode that ended last season if necessary.
So there's no need to sweat any risk surrounding Marlon Byrd. It's a time to hope for the best and keep your fingers crossed.
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I am using Subsonic ORM by Rob Connery with Backbone.Js to build javascript single page demonstration application. in one of the service end point there is a contract that send all the records existing in the data source like below
[ScriptMethod(UseHttpGet = true)]
public TaskCollection GetAllTasks()
TaskCollection coll = new TaskCollection();
return coll;
but seems that each Task in the collection is polluted with loads of properties that are required only on server side. This is the JSON returned on request
"__type": "DAL.Task",
"Taskid": 1,
"Taskname": "welcome to india",
"Createdon": "\/Date(1334591056903)\/",
"Modifiedon": "\/Date(1334591056903)\/",
"ValidateWhenSaving": true,
"DirtyColumns": [],
"IsLoaded": true,
"IsNew": false,
"IsDirty": false,
"TableName": "task",
"ProviderName": null,
"NullExceptionMessage": "{0} requires a value",
"InvalidTypeExceptionMessage": "{0} is not a valid {1}",
"LengthExceptionMessage": "{0} exceeds the maximum length of {1}",
"Errors": []
all i require is CreatedOn,ModifiedOn and TaskName, TaskId . How do i make sure only these are sent down the wire using SubSonic ORM
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Most ORMs call this a "projection", basically making a query requesting a subset of columns to be returned. You may try googling for "subsonic projection", the top 4 results are all links to stack overflow. – Michael Maddox Apr 17 '12 at 11:15
@MichaelMaddox don't understand a thing either I am dumb or have no time to view SubSonic in details speaking of which the domain name subsonic project has also expired :( – Deeptechtons Apr 17 '12 at 11:42
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Here's a couple of ideas...
Use the viewmodel to autoselect the properties:
public class TaskView
public int TaskID { get; set; }
public string TaskDescription { get; set; }
var results = new Select().From(Tables.Task).ExecuteTypedList<TaskView>();
Use an anonymous type
var qry = new Select(new string[] { Task.Columns.TaskID, Task.Columns.TaskDescription }).From(Tables.Task);
var resultList = new List<object>();
using (IDataReader rdr = qry.ExecuteReader())
while (rdr.Read())
TaskID = rdr[0].ToString(),
TaskDescription = rdr[1].ToString(),
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View model might fit the bill ( but still this is overwork I am abstracting more and more) anonymous typed?? i use .net 2.0 so i don't get to use goodness c# 3.0 provides :( – Deeptechtons Apr 17 '12 at 11:44
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I don't use SubSonic, but I have to admit this does seem like a good example of where you might want to use a ViewModel, that is, a model that is populated from your Model specifically for the view. Now as far as binding the ViewModel to the Model, and/or possibly generating properties for many ViewModels from the model for the view (because generating ViewModels can definitely be tedious and error prone for a bunch of models), well, I've heard of several general solutions. I'm actually trying to find a solution I'm happy with myself; in the meantime I've been forced to hand write them until I find a better solution. I believe if you're wanting strongly typed ViewModels, you can use a tool like AutoMapper, though I've never used it myself. I've also seen solutions which use or inherit from a C# dynamic and then modify the accessors (though I think that might be slightly problematic to generate JSON from).
The primary reason I've used ViewModels is that I can easily control the format of the Dates. But that might be done better by using a different JSON serializer. Of course, the use of ViewModels can also allow you flexibility to change your data layer as needed. But I have to admit, it's been tedious. I think my implementation can be handled better with a bit of automation, but I don't know how to handle that so far.
I realize this is only a partial answer. I'm curious what other answers might come up.
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I found one tool on codeplex http://webservicestudio.codeplex.com but not really happy with it. Are there any free tool like this to test web services methods? if yes. please provide some links.
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Look at Soap UI and Load UI. It's almost all you need.
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How about SoapUI, WCF Test Client? They are free. Though you need to have Visual Studio in order to use WCF Test Client.
Since no proper tagging on the question, similar kind of questions are answered before.
Tools for testing web services
Web Services Testing
Is there an alternative for WCF Test Client application with better Facilities?
every answer in the above questions would get you what you are looking for. Not satisfied yet? This link posted by Steve Miskiewicz in one of the questions above might help. Otherwise please add more technology specific information on to the question.
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Is ASP.NET/C# a requirement? I have used JDeveloper before to create proxies and test web-services and I have never had an issue with it. It allows for custom input and other diagnostics.
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See the struct I used bellow. I wish to solve this problem in a portable way.
The code I used for finding the absolute address of the struct was: (char*)data - sizeof(struct block); (where data is the address to the data in the struct block). It did not work on this struct.
I made a test program seen bellow where the last assert fails.
If I change unsigned int free:1; to unsigned int free; both prints will print 12 and thus sizeof has given me the expected result.
Thanks in advance.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <assert.h>
struct block {
size_t size;
struct block* next;
unsigned int free:1;
char data[];
int main(void)
struct block* avail;
struct block* b;
avail = malloc(sizeof(struct block) + 10);
printf("%zu \n", sizeof(struct block)); // prints 12
printf("%zu\n", avail->data - (char*)&avail->size); //prints 9
b = (struct block*)((char*)avail->data - 9);
assert(b == avail);
b = (struct block*)((char*)avail->data - sizeof(struct block));
assert(b == avail);
return 0;
EDIT: seems like I found the answer here on stack overflow:
how to get struct's start address from its member's address
It gives me correct absolute address.
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possible duplicate of how to get struct's start address from its member's address – RedX Jul 2 '12 at 12:49
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The only guarantees you have regarding the layout (and size) of
struct block {
size_t size;
struct block* next;
unsigned int free:1;
char data[];
are that the addresses of the members (resp. the unit containign the bit-field) are increasing in the order of their listing, the members are suitably aligned for their types, and there's no padding at the start of the struct, so a pointer to the struct, suitably converted yields a pointer to its first member. The compiler is free to insert more padding between the members than needed for alignment.
However, usually, the padding inserted is only what is needed for alignment. Also the size and alignment requirements of size_t and struct block* are in most implementations the same, both 4 bytes on a 32 bit system and 8 bytes on a 64 bit system. Then the size of struct block is a multiple of k = sizeof(size_t), and the first k bytes are occupied by the size member, the next k bytes by the next pointer.
After that comes an unsigned bit-field of width 1. Such a small bit-field fits into any unit of storage, thus the implementation is free to choose a unit of storage of any size for it. Natural choices would be
• one byte, since it's the smallest possible unit,
• sizeof(int) bytes, since " A ‘‘plain’’ int object has the natural size suggested by the architecture of the execution environment".
Now, if the unit to contain the bit-field is chosen to have the size of one byte, as was the case for your implementation (and mine), the data member is typically placed directly after that, at an offset of 2*k+1 bytes, since the alignment of char is 1. If the unit for the bit-field is chosen to be int-sized, the offset of data will most likely be 2*k + sizeof(int), which on 32-bit systems is probably equal to sizeof(struct block), but not on 64-bit systems.
You can with very high probability bring the implementation to make
offsetof(struct block, data) == sizeof(struct block)
by inserting an unnamed bit-field of appropriate width (CHAR_BIT * sizeof(size_t) - 1) between free and data, but the only way that is portable and guaranteed to work is
struct block *b_addr = (struct block*)((char*)(avail->data) - offsetof(struct block, data));
as stated in Greg Hewgill's answer to the linked question.
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sizeof(struct block) - sizeof(char*) should give you the size of the struct block, not including the data field. So, if you have a pointer to data, you should reach the beginning of the structure.
b = (struct block*)((char*)avail->data - (sizeof(struct block) - sizeof(char*));
assert(b == avail);
I have not tested it, though.
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Flexible array members are not pointers, and do not count toward the base size of the structure, so this would yield an incorrect result. – Justin Spahr-Summers Jul 2 '12 at 18:11
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I have a problem that I can not get my head around. I have created a sticky nav which when the page is scrolled, it becomes fixed at the top. It should then return to its normal position if the user scrolls back up. I have this working perfectly on my localhost, but when I upload it online, the sticky nav just keeps jumping straight to the top as soon as you even scroll a little bit of the page, and it never returns to its normal position. This is just an issue in web
Could anyone please help with this? My example is: http://debourg.ch/dev/syselcloud/design4/
The jQuery concerned is:
var yOffset = $("#local-nav-wrapper").offset().top;
$(window).scroll(function() {
if ($(window).scrollTop() > yOffset) {
'top': 0,
'bottom': 'auto',
'position': 'fixed'
} else {
'top': 'auto',
'bottom': 0,
'position': 'absolute'
The CSS concerned is:
#local-nav-wrapper {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
padding: 10px 0;
z-index: 6000;
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the nav works fine on my screen, MAC FF 11 – Huangism Oct 9 '12 at 12:46
yea it's just webkit browsers that seem to pose the issue. – user1280853 Oct 9 '12 at 14:04
just tried on mac chrome and it works as well – Huangism Oct 9 '12 at 17:03
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If you work in IE try and replace $(window).scrollTop() with document.documentElement.scrollTop or window.scroll(0,0). Maybe it helps.
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It didn't work at all when I tried this, anymore suggestions? Many thanks – user1280853 Oct 9 '12 at 14:05
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I am using Doxygen and GraphViz Dot to generate some collaboration diagrams for a C# project. The problem is generic collections (like List<>) are not recognised by Doxygen. Does anyone have a solution to this?
I found this comment that doesn't seem very hopeful, but was wondering if there are any work-arounds.
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Using Doxygen 1.8.2 (latest release as of right now), generics look fine to me. Are you using an older version or is there something else that isn't working right? – Patrick Quirk Nov 24 '12 at 19:54
I have edited your title. Please see, "Should questions include “tags” in their titles?", where the consensus is "no, they should not". – John Saunders Nov 30 '12 at 5:35
Did you remove Doxygen from the title? – Dave Hillier Dec 23 '12 at 0:30
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According to Doxygen's changelog, generics in C# were not being indexed prior to version (released October 6). I don't see a corresponding bug for it, though looking at previous releases they've been supported for some time now.
As my comment above states, I don't see any issues using the current release (1.8.2). If that's the version you're using, please specifically mention what isn't working.
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there are Issues with Generics and Some thirdPartyControls. I had same Problem. If List<> not supoorted, you can Convert List to Corresponding Array of Objects. Array will support in any Controls and Products.
Just see the example.
Need To convert DataTreeNodeCollection (List) SubNodes into DataTreeNode[]
DataTreeNode[] subNodesArray = new DataTreeNode[SubNodes.size()];
foreach (DataTreeNode node in SubNodes)
subNodesArray[count] = node;
Here I converted List to Array.
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hi bradmarxmoosepi, Please let me know, if you have any doubts. – Akshay Joy Nov 30 '12 at 5:31
Or you could use SubNodes.ToArray() – Christoffer Nov 30 '12 at 5:51
Hi Christoffer, List<> is .Net 2.0 feature. So that's why Used this code. that also one way. – Akshay Joy Nov 30 '12 at 6:17
@Akshay Suggesting not using generics at all just to get around an apparent doxygen limitation is not a good answer. – Patrick Quirk Feb 15 '13 at 4:06
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If only the named arguments of a S4 generic function are defined in a method, substitute() works as expected:
> setGeneric("fS4", function(x, ...) standardGeneric("fS4"))
> setMethod("fS4", signature("numeric"),
+ function(x, ...) deparse(substitute(x))
+ )
[1] "fS4"
> fS4(iris[,1])
[1] "iris[, 1]"
However, if one adds an extra named argument to the method's definition, substitute() ceases to correctly return the argument as it was passed:
+ function(x, y, ...) deparse(substitute(x))
+ )
[1] "fS4"
> fS4(iris[,1])
[1] "x"
Any clues on why this happens and, most importantly, how it can be worked around?
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Take a look at
showMethods(fS4, includeDef=TRUE)
which shows
Function: fS4 (package .GlobalEnv)
function (x, ...)
.local <- function (x, y, ...)
.local(x, ...)
The way that S4 implements methods with signatures that differ from the generic is by creating a '.local' function with the modified signature, inside a function with the generic signature. substitute then evaluates in an incorrect environment. The underlying problem is not related to S4
> f = function(x) deparse(substitute(x))
> g = function(y) f(y)
> f(1)
[1] "1"
> g(1)
[1] "y"
> h = function(...) f(...)
> h(1)
[1] "1"
and any attempts to evaluate in the the 'right' environment will be thwarted by arbitrary constructs provided by users.
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Given the following code, do i need to remove the observer at any point? I feel like i do..
App.Views.MyView = Ember.View.extend({
init: function ()
var self = this;
// Add observer
self.addObserver('App.Path.To.ItemsObject', self, self._itemsObserver);
return this._super();
_itemsObserver: function(){
//Do something
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Yes you have to. You can use the events of willInsertElement and willDestroyElement for this task. See Doc of Ember.View
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I need to do some operations on a matrix of values that take at most one byte (values form 0 to 20 most likely). Since the matrix is rather large I figured I'd do these operations on the GPU using OpenCL and storing the matrix as an image. The thing is that I failed to find any hints to whether OpenCL has support for single channel images... and I wouldn't want to pass around more data than I actually use.
Is there any support for single channel images?
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As mentioned in the Previous Answer use CL_INTENSITY and CL_LUMINANCE.
It is expected that the latency of addressing calculations is hidden better for Image objects, but texture cache is not kept coherent with respect to image writes, so any image read to an address that has been written to via an image write in the same kernel call returns undefined data.So developers prefer to use regular buffers only.
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Since not even the asker upvoted your post, I did. – Dudeson Mar 20 '13 at 10:17
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There is CL_INTENSITY and CL_LUMINANCE. But if you don't need image related functions (as I would assume if you want to manipulate matrices) you are better off with a regular memory buffer.
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OP didn't specify what he's doing with the data. Moreover, caching assumptions depend on the actual hardware and are not required by the specification. And if available, accesses to global memory can be cached via local shared memory. – matthias Mar 19 '13 at 8:59
maybe you can answer this question then stackoverflow.com/questions/15322206/… – user2088790 Mar 19 '13 at 9:18
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I have the following code :
$results = $Q->get_posts($args);
foreach ($results as $r) {
print $r['trackArtist'];
This is the output :
My question is, if trackArtist is an array, why can't I run the implode function like this :
$artistString = implode(" , ", $r['trackArtist']);
Yes, it is a string indeed, but from the other side it leaves as an array so I assumed it arrives as an array here also. There must be some processing done in the back.
Any idea how I can extract the information, for example from : ["DUKY","LOQUACE"]
to get :
Thanks for your time
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This seems not to be an array but maybe an object? – Zeal Apr 4 '13 at 14:28
Why do you think that trackArtist is array? – hjpotter92 Apr 4 '13 at 14:28
Try var_dump($r['trackArtist']); instead of print(); to check if it is actually an array. – Gerald Schneider Apr 4 '13 at 14:28
What makes you think trackArtist is an array? – Mark Baker Apr 4 '13 at 14:28
echo "<pre>"; print_r($results); echo "</pre>"; whats the Output ? – Fawad Ghafoor Apr 4 '13 at 14:29
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It's probably a JSON string. You can do this to get the desired result:
$a = json_decode($r['trackArtist']); // turns your string into an array
$artistString = implode(', ', $a); // now you can use implode
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Thank you !! It works ! – Gabriel Gray Apr 4 '13 at 15:03
You're welcome. – Mischa Apr 4 '13 at 15:03
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It looks like it's not actually an array; it's the string '["DUKY","LOQUACE"]' An array would be printed as Array. You can confirm this with:
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To me content of $r['trackArtist'] is NOT an array. Just regular string or object. Instead of print use print_r() or var_dump() to figure this out and then adjust your code to work correctly with the type of object it really is.
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I guess he meant $r['trackArtist'] is an array, not 'trackArtist'. – Mido Apr 4 '13 at 14:42
yep. I refered to that. Edited – Marcin Orlowski Apr 4 '13 at 14:44
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I'm doing my PhD research in A.I. and I've gotten to the part where I have to start using CUDA libraries for my testing platform. I've played with CUDA before, and I have a basic understanding of how GPGPU works, etc, but I am troubled by the float precision.
Looking at GTX680 I see FP64: 1/24 FP32, whereas Tesla has full FP64 at 1.31 TFLOPS. I understand very well that one is a gaming card, while the other is a professional card.
The reason I am asking is simple: I cannot afford a Tesla, but I may be able to get two GTX680. While the main target is to have as many CUDA cores and memory, float precision may become a problem.
My questions are:
1. How much of a compromise is the small float precision in Gaming GPU's?
2. Isn't 1/24 of a 32bit float precision too small? Especially compared to previous Fermi of 1/8 FP32
3. Is there a risk of wrong computation results due to the smaller float precision? I.e in SVM, VSM, Matrix operations, Deep Belief Networks, etc, could I have issues with the results of the algorithms due to the smaller floating point, or does it simply mean that operations will take longer/use more memory?
Thanks !
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These opinion-soliciting questions are in general not a good fit for stackoverflow. Before your question gets closed let me state my opinion: If you can afford two GTX 680, you can also afford a GTX Titan where you get native FP64 speed (1/3 FP32 just as on Tesla). That saves you the pain of multi-GPU programming (unless that is what you want to learn). And it even comes close to the FP32 speed of two GTX 680 and has the other goodies of compute capability 3.5 like up to 255 registers per thread. – tera Apr 16 '13 at 1:54
@tera Thanks, that makes much more sense. I was looking at the 1/3 F32 of titan after I posted. And no, I don't want to get into multi-GPU programming, just importing cuda libraries. – Alex Apr 16 '13 at 1:59
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These are very subjective questions.
It's not entirely clear that you understand the difference between C or C++ float and double datatypes. FP32 vs. FP64 refers to float and double in C or C++. The numbers of 1/8 and 1/24 that you refer to are not affecting precision but they are affecting throughput. All of the GPUs you mention have some FP64 double-precision capability, so the differences don't come down to capability so much as performance.
It's very important for you to understand whether the codes you care about depend on double-precision floating point or not. It's not enough to say things like "matrix operations" to understand whether FP32 (float) or FP64 (double) matters.
If your codes depend on FP64 double, then those performance ratios (1/8, 1/24, etc.) will be relevant. But your codes should still run, perhaps more slowly.
You're also using some terms in a fashion that may lead to confusion. Tesla refers to the NVIDIA GPGPU family of compute products. It would be better to refer to a specific member of the Tesla family. Since you mention 1.31 TFlops FP, you are referring to Tesla K20X. Note that K20X also has a ratio between FP64 throughput and FP32 throughput (i.e. it can be even faster than 1.31 TFlops on FP32 codes).
If your algorithms depend on double they will still run on any of the products you mention, and the accuracy of the results should be the same regardless of the product, however the performance will be lower, depnding on the product. If your algorithms depend on float, they will run faster on any given product than double, assuming floating point throughput is the limiting factor.
You may also want to consider the GeForce GTX Titan. It has double-precision floating point performance that is roughly on par with Tesla K20/K20x.
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Thank you, you just verified what I was starting to understand. The lower FP in GTX family affects the rate at which double precision is processed, correct? Also, yes, I am using Sparse Matrices of doubles, and that is the primary reason I am concerned about float precision. From both your answer and the comment above, it seems like GTX Titan may be the best compromise between the two. – Alex Apr 16 '13 at 2:16
Yes, for most members of the GeForce family, the double-precision throughput is significantly lower than various members of the Tesla family. GTX Titan is the exception. Since the principal target of GeForce is consumer graphics and gaming, which do not depend on FP64 at all, the lower FP64 throughput there does not matter. K10 on the Tesla side is also an exception in the other direction, as it has relatively low FP64 throughput. – Robert Crovella Apr 16 '13 at 2:21
Depending on the nature of the sparse matrix processing, the code may becomes bound by memory throughput before it become bound by DP throughput, even with the lower DP throughput of a gaming GPU. It depends on the ratio of FLOPS / bytes. – njuffa Apr 16 '13 at 4:56
@njuffa Are you referring to the device memory? – Alex Apr 16 '13 at 13:37
Yes, the memory on the graphics card. I should have probably be clearer and said that sparse matrix code may be limited by the throughput of global memory, rather than the throughput of the floating-point units in the GPU. – njuffa Apr 17 '13 at 9:31
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I'm trying to use Jersey with Jackson in Android, but I got the following error:
Could not find class 'javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory', referenced from method org.glassfish.jersey.message.internal.MessagingBinders$MessageBodyProviders.configure
Here is my code:
public static List<Task> getAllTasks() {
WebTarget target = client.target(TARGET).path(ALL_TASKS_RESOURCE)
.queryParam("lang", "en");
List<Task> tasks = target.request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE)
.get().readEntity(new GenericType<List<Task>>() {});
return tasks;
I found out that StAX XML parser is not a part of Android, but there are some alternatives. I just don't understand why Jersey wants to stream XML, and not just fetch it from the server and let Jackson to map it to POJO?
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I have a Cocoa program that is editing hundreds (sometimes thousands) of third-party files and I want to create a log-type output for the end user to see (although I don't need things like timestamps). Currently I am simply appending strings to the outlet:
@property (unsafe_unretained) IBOutlet NSTextView *finalText;
self.finalText.string = [self.finalText.string stringByAppendingFormat:@"Final results:\n"];
but this is extremely inefficient. When I run that code on 700 files with the above code (all of the commenting) turned off it takes 4 seconds to execute, with the above code turned on it takes 40 seconds to create the necessary 8,000 lines of output. Oh, and did I mention that Xcode says that my memory usage spikes to over 2GB during the processing? Yikes!
I understand that what I am doing is inefficient but I don't know the best way to be efficient. What is the best way to create 8,000 lines of text that the end-user can see at the end? Would something like Lumberjack be the best solution?
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Need to see more code to comment on the efficiency. You may just be blocking if you're doing everything on the main thread. – uchuugaka Jun 30 '13 at 23:56
How about creating a string, and when it reaches a certain size, you write it to a file, then provide the user with a filename to look at? – 7stud Jun 30 '13 at 23:56
I saw someone suggest on another question to use textStorage but I need to use formats (adding variables to the output) and I don't see a way to use formats with textStorage items. – Matthew Kelling Jul 1 '13 at 0:07
Make a string using stringWithFormat, then make an attributed string out of that and append it. Be sure to clean up the autoreleased temporary objects though. – Catfish_Man Jul 1 '13 at 2:14
Go download Hex fiend (source available) and study how it does I/O. The answers below are only likely to work by coincidence and, even then, may not meet your performance needs. This is a tricky area, btw, but also a very interesting one. The key is to reduce I/O, be it memory or, especially, disk. Part of that is avoiding autorelease pools, a part is using the I/O capabilities of the system efficiently. – bbum Jul 1 '13 at 3:07
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[self.textView.textStorage appendAttributedString: ... ]
That will do much less work. Also, wrap that in @autoreleasepool to clean up the temporary objects promptly.
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Thanks! I ended up creating some textStorage variables that I dumped into the textView at the end of the code. Now there is no noticeable impact on time or memory usage when I create the needed output! – Matthew Kelling Jul 4 '13 at 7:15
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Lumberjack is great for logging. Also, you should use NSMutableString to avoid creating copies of same string again and again.
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I had Lumberjack working but I didn't know how to read back in the .log files (how to find it on the user's HD). Also the .log file includes the timestamp and such, is there a way to not include that? – Matthew Kelling Jul 1 '13 at 0:15
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You should use this:
NSData *data = [[NSData alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:url];
That will take one or two milliseconds with a 300GB file, and will only load the entire file into RAM if there is enough RAM available. If there isn't enough RAM available it will only load the parts of the file you actually read and also heuristically/predictively read parts the operating system thinks you are going to read.
NSString is a convenience wrapper around CFString. If you drop down to the lower level CFString API you will be able to write your code so that it uses less RAM (for example, by partially decoding large files). Partially reading a string from a file is complicated, you will need to learn how UTF-8 works and make sure you don't cut the data half way through a UTF-8 sequence. I would try to avoid CFString if you can get acceptible performance with NSString.
Also, do you have a for or while loop iterating through all of the files? Make sure you have an "autorelease" pool in your loop:
NSArray *urls = <# An array of file URLs #>;
for (NSURL *url in urls) {
@autoreleasepool {
NSError *error;
NSString *fileContents = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url
encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&error];
/* Process the string, creating and autoreleasing more objects. */
(from http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Articles/mmAutoreleasePools.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000047-SW2)
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Thanks, will take a look at that. To be clear the information that I am sending to the end user is not directly tied to what is in the files, IE: I am reading a file, doing something to the file, then telling the user what I did to the file. What is in the file is not being shown to the user. – Matthew Kelling Jul 1 '13 at 0:51
Are you sure about that? The docs give no suggestion that -initWithContentsOfURL: will check the amount of RAM available, and it don't expect it to – Mike Abdullah Jul 5 '13 at 15:36
Yes, I'm sure - I have tested it. When I init an NSData object with a file that does't fit in RAM, it takes a fraction of a millisecond to create the object (it would take a few minutes if reading the entire file). I can access amy part of the file immediately. If the file fits in RAM (maybe it's only 8GB and my system has 12GB) then my app will use that much. It is being mapped as virtual memory/swap and the kernel tries to keep those files in RAM but chucks them out (based on least recently used areas of the file) if the RAM is needed for anything else. – Abhi Beckert Jul 5 '13 at 22:18
I wonder why I was downvoted? My answer is the result of years of experience/experimentation to find the best way to do what the question asks. – Abhi Beckert Jul 5 '13 at 22:25
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I am trying to find a module that can help to ask a question to end an authentication. for example when I connect in ssh, the module ask me to resolve a equation or to answer to a question.
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no one knows! :s – user2354740 Aug 28 '13 at 20:27
solved, i wrote it myself. – user2354740 Aug 28 '13 at 20:29
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I am new to elasticsearch and am trying to understand how to setup elastic search in our environment - my requirements are fairly basic:
1. Environment is multi-tenant
2. Simple setup is three datacenters, each datacenter needs to be a redundant copy - so we can fail two datacenters and there will still be one standing.
3. We will scale up each datacenter as needed, users can access elastic search from each of the three data centers.
4. search will be used for files, emails, IMs, calls etc.
My questions are:
1. does this topology / setup lend itself to elasticsearch natively? If so, how?
2. How do I know how many shards I need? Do I just overallocate for fun?
3. I assume I should have one index per tenant? And I should have just one cluster? Why would I want more?
4. I have spent hours trying to find info on this, if you might accuse me of prematurely posting - please let me know where there is a good topological overview
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I'm looking through a very large hydrodynamics code in c which has, often, some very poor variables choices. Including a global variable named just 'g'. Similarly, there's a file with a variable named 'geom' and lots of other variables which contain the substring 'geom' (e.g. geometry, geomAL, geom_arb, etc.).
Is there any way to search for variables that exactly match a regex, instead of partially?
For example: searching for 'geom' does not match 'geomAL'. Obviously emacs doesn't a priori know where a variable starts or ends, but could this be constructed as a function for c-mode?
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The Emacs regular expression engine (C-M-s <regexp>) has various operands for this sort of thing, such as the word boundary \< and \> zero-width assertions. So \<geom\> would match geom alone and (depending on your mode's syntax table) perhaps also the prefix in geom_something. Try \<geom\>[^_] if you need to exclude the underscore suffix.
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Sorry folks, I edited this answer instead of my own by accident. Is there a way to cancel edits? – mvw Aug 30 '13 at 13:52
@mvw: It was rejected by the reviewers. You can also rollback an edit by clicking on the "edited" link and looking for the rollback link in the header of the previous edit before the unwanted one. – tripleee Aug 30 '13 at 14:04
I personally prefer the \b operand, which I find a little easier to type then, < or >. – Bruce Connor Aug 30 '13 at 20:38
@BruceConnor Thanks! That's indeed a little more pleasant – zhermes Aug 31 '13 at 14:04
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You can use C-u C-s \_<g\_> which will search for the symbol g using a regular expression search with symbol-boundary markers. Or in a recent enough Emacs you can do M-s _ g which will do essentially the same (M-s is the "search prefix key" in which M-s _ is isearch-forward-symbol).
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http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/RegularExpression has pretty much everything you need if you want to use emacs regexps.
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Have you tried out the Emacs TAGS system? It should be able to parse the vars out and it might offer exact lookups. See here: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsTags
Generate the tags table with the etags helper:
etags *.c
Look for a tag with
M-. your-var-name
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I'm trying to define a macro that generates an anonymous function taking one argument named it, for succinctness, so that instead of
(λ (it) body)
I can write
(λλ body)
(In other words, (λλ body) transforms to (λ (it) body))
(define-syntax-parameter it #f)
(define-syntax λλ
(syntax-rules ()
((_ body)
(λ (x) (syntax-parameterize ((it x)) body)))))
(λλ (< it 0)) ; For testing
I get operators.rkt:13:28: ?: literal data is not allowed; no #%datum syntax transformer is bound in the transformer environment in: #f at (define-syntax-parameter if #f), but as far as I can tell, this is exactly like the example given in racket's doc for how to use define-syntax-parameter. I can suppress the error by replacing #f with a function (I used member, but not for any real reason), but after doing that, I get operators.rkt:17:38: x: identifier used out of context in: x. What am I doing wrong?
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You left out the syntax-id-rules part in the example. It's the part that specifies that it should expand to x. Alternatively, you can use make-rename-transformer:
#lang racket
(require racket/stxparam)
(define-syntax-parameter it #f)
(define-syntax λλ
(syntax-rules ()
((_ body)
(λ (x) (syntax-parameterize ([it (make-rename-transformer #'x)]) body)))))
((λλ (< it 0)) 5)
((λλ (< it 0)) -5)
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To clarify this further, the thing that the syntax parameter is "bound to" lives at the syntax world -- so you don't want to use x since that's a runtime thing, instead you want to use #'x. But you really want to create a kind of a macro that expands to #'x, and therefore the syntax-id-rules or the more convenient make-rename-transformer shorthand. – Eli Barzilay Sep 20 '13 at 2:07
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Syntax parameters are not the only way to implement the macro you have in mind. A simpler (IMO) way is to just use datum->syntax to inject the identifier it:
(define-syntax (λλ stx)
(syntax-case stx ()
((_ body ...)
(with-syntax ((it (datum->syntax stx 'it)))
#'(λ (it) body ...)))))
To use your example:
(define my-negative? (λλ (< it 0)))
(my-negative? -1) ;; => #t
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Actually, I believe this is a fine use of syntax-parameterize. See Barzilay et al.'s "Keeping it Clean" paper. – stchang Sep 19 '13 at 17:42
Fair enough, I'll soften my wording a bit. I still think it's overkill when datum->syntax will do, but your answer is good (+1). – Chris Jester-Young Sep 19 '13 at 17:47
I think the key is that you can get non-hygiene in syntax-rules and not have to switch to the heavier syntax-case. – stchang Sep 19 '13 at 17:48
@stchang That is actually a very good point, and I'll remember that next time before I start telling people "no, you can't break hygiene in syntax-rules". :-P – Chris Jester-Young Sep 19 '13 at 17:54
argh. ...sorry, but as someone who invested so much effort on explaining why it's a bad idea, it looks like I'm morally obliged to downvote you on this one (for the first time...). The main real (and highlevel) problem with datum->syntax is that it looks like it works, only it can bite you later horribly. It's especially effective at getting bugs that are bad enough to make people go back to the "simple world of defmacro". – Eli Barzilay Sep 20 '13 at 2:03
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I have 2 tables product_history having 3 columns
1. id
2. product_id
3. admin_id
And another table(product_data) is to store data like..
1. admin name
2. product name
3. product description
4. product number .... etc.
Now I want to write a Mysql Trigger like. when record insert in product_history table I need to fetch all products and admin related information from product table and admin table and insert those records in product_data table.
How can I do this?
Basically I want to use select query with in Trigger body, but that select query can return multiple records. Is it possible?
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I think that you can retrive this information without need to insert data in another table, you can have: admin_id in your product_data table (and your admin_name, but would be redundat).
With your current idea, in your current product_data you should have a product_id field to related with your other table.
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but I knowingly need to insert that records in product_data table. Its my requirement. – Abhijeet Dange Dec 20 '13 at 4:18
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For our current J2EE project based on JBoss, we need to interface with a remote system using message driven beans and a JCA resource adapter provided as a RAR file by a third party. I would like to package and deploy the entire project as an EAR file to our JBoss server. Most notably, the RAR file should be embedded within the EAR file and not be deployed globally.
All of this is working fine so far, but I'm not particularly happy with the way the RAR file is referenced. The jboss.xml packaged with the MDB for example, currently looks like this:
While this is generally working fine, it will break when the EAR file is renamed to "test2.ear". Is there a way to reference the embedded RAR file without hard-coding the containing archive's name?
Edit: Almost two months later, I still haven't found a real answer to this question. Asking around, all I got were those two helpful suggestions: "Use Maven properties and filtering", and "Don't include the RAR within the EAR." I strongly suspect that currently there is no way to handle this properly in JBoss. So I'll give up on it and just accept the only answer I got here.
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are you using maven to build? If so, you can set a maven property that names the ear file and use that name to set values in resources files using a placeholder
e.g xxx
then use
just make sure you set the resources that will have the placeholders
something like this:
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Thanks for your answer! I must admit that in the meantime, I cross-posted this here: community.jboss.org/message/529160 The most useful answer I got so far was quite similar to what you are suggesting. I am using maven, and I have settled for using resource filtering. But it still doesn't feel quite right, more like a work-around. – cg. Mar 9 '10 at 9:34
Accepted the only answer I got here now. See my edits above. – cg. Apr 9 '10 at 12:25
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Our app servers (weblogic) all use log4j to log to the same file on a network share. On top of this we have all web apps in a managed server logging errors to a common error.log. I can't imagine this is a good idea but wanted to hear from some pros. I know that each web app has its own classloader, so any thread synchronization only occurs within the app. So what happens when multiple processes start converging on a single log file? Can we expect interspersed log statements? Performance problems? What about multiple web apps logging to a common log file? The environment is Solaris.
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Have you experienced any actual log corruption? I would be surprised if the answer is no, but otherwise I can't imagine why you are asking the question. – Yishai Apr 7 '10 at 21:52
No log corruption yet, that I'm aware of. I'm asking because I couldn't believe they had set it up this way and wanted some feedback to confirm my suspicions. – Andrew Apr 7 '10 at 22:06
I should have clarified that a single log file is not a requirement; it was more design by coincidence. A few have mentioned the proper technique for a single log file is to use a network log service, or the application's server log service for per server logging. – Andrew Apr 8 '10 at 14:43
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This is generaly bad idea to have not synchronized write access to a file and certainly bad programming practice. The only case it might work is an append to a file on local machine - everybody just adds lines at the end of file.
But, since your file is on the network share, it will probably quickly turn into garbage. You didn't tell which distributed filesystem you are using, but for NFS you can find following explanation on open(2) man page:
Of course this is C, but since Java is implemented in C it cannot do any better than that (at least not with regard to system calls:-)).
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I believe it is NFS but they don't let me near the servers. So what about multiple web apps in same server logging to the same file? That would be one process. – Andrew Apr 7 '10 at 22:10
One process, many threads this is still the same. Also, aren't different web apps launched in separate processes? Anyway, this has a chance to work as at the beginning of my answer. But it is a bad idea to depend on that. – pajton Apr 7 '10 at 22:15
All web apps of a server run in the same process. Ok, so it would be safe on the Unix level, but could still get interspersed logging. – Andrew Apr 7 '10 at 22:20
Interspersed for sure and might work. It would be best to test it in your environment. If it works for a certain period of time it will probably work. – pajton Apr 7 '10 at 22:22
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In prudent mode logback will safely handle multiple JVMs possibly on different hosts writing to the same network-shared file. It can even deal with temporary network failures. Performance should be quite acceptable for few nodes, say 4 or less. For 5 or more nodes all logging heavily you may notice a performance hit.
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We have a requirement where we need to produce a single file from all the managed server running the same application . we developed a java logging server which opens ups a port and listen for log event. we used the log4j socket appender to write log event to the same port and created a single file.
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We use org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender to log to a single machine using syslog, and it has worked well for us. I would recommend looking into that as an alternative.
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Good suggestion. I imagine the calls are asynchronous so not much performance penalty – Andrew Apr 7 '10 at 22:11
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This looks like a really bad idea (corrupt logs, uncertainty of the source of a given log entry are two reasons that come to mind). If you are using Log4j in Weblogic like this, I suggest doing it by-the-book. This will allow you to use one file for the whole app server without any issues.
The suggestion of syncronizing the log writing makes no sense to me, as you would be basically blocking all applications in the app server when they write a log. If logging is frequent, that will slow everything down significantly.
As for multiple app servers, you need to use something other than file based logging if you want them all consolidated. There are a few ways to do this, one is to log to different files and have a different process combine them, but the better option is probably to use a network based logging repository, using Log4j's SocketAppender or some other method (nathan mentions SyslogAppender which is great if you want a Syslog) to ensure that the file access does not get corrupted.
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Best case I would imagine you have a potential performance problem with sync access to the log file resource. Worst case would be some of the scenarios you mention.
I would ask two Qs: a) what was the desired goal with this config and b) can you find a better technical solution to achieve the goal.
My guess is that you have a sysadmin who wants to get a "single log file for the system." The file is thrown on the network share to make it easy to get to. The better answer for the goal might be multiple files, local to each system and something like http://www.splunk.com/ for a nice monitor.
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If at all possible use a different file for each instance. This will give the best result with the least effort.
The logback alternative to log4j has a prudent mode to its log writer which explicitly jump through hoops to ensure that new things are written at the end of file. I don't think that will work on network shares then.
If you MUST have a central logging location, then consider setting up a server accepting log events and writing them to the appropriate files. This will ensure it is only a single process actually accessing the file system, and will let the JVM help all it can in terms of synchronization etc.
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Logback's prudent mode works on network shares. For a few server nodes, say 4 or less, it will work quite nicely. – Ceki Apr 8 '10 at 21:10
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I generate htm files dynamically using php and .htaccess. I read somewhere that I should remove Etags for files of type text/html? Is that correct? I am wondering if I use etags and If i don't change the content, I could save some bandwidth. I would appreciate if you guys could tell me if I can use etags for htm files.
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As far as i know the Etag is an http header is generated by the HTTP server used by the cache system.
The idea:
• You ask to stackoverflow.com the image logo.png
• stackoverflow.com will answer to you with a HTTP 304 (content not modified, etag: XXXXXX)
• Your browser before ask the image again will check the cache for a resource called: logo.png, from the website: stackoverflow, with the etag: XXXXXXX
• If the browser find it, it will load the image from the cache, without downloading
• If it can't find it, it will ask again to the web server to download it.
so... for what propose you want use the ETags ?
If you want understand more about the ETags could be interesting download HttpFox for firefox.
Apache have his own cache system and it's used when you download or require any "static" download, like html files and images.
If you want do it on dynamic context you must implement it by yourself.
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Etags can be usefull speeding up your website, even with dynamic content (like php scripts). Especially on mobile connections this is important, since connection speed is slower. I use ETag headers on some mobile websites like this:
Hint: You must not include curent time or other often changing content in the page, because this prevents it from beeing cached by the client (the browser).
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I'm using Eclipse with the Android SDK. I installed The SDK platform Android 1.6, API 4 using Android SDK and AVD manager, but I can't find the corresponding documentation in the list of the available packages (there's only the doc for the API 7). Where can I find it?
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The documentation for API 7 includes the documentation for all previous versions. It's just an offline copy of the Android Developer website. Just as you can see there, next to every method and class in the 'reference' section there's a note saying "Since API x", telling you when it became available.
By the way, and this is my personal opinion only, but there isn't much point in developing for v1.6. As you can see from the official statistics, one third of devices are still running v1.5. It's better to use the trick described here about settings the minimum SDK version to 3, yet targetting SDK 4 to allow you to support multiple screens but ensure compatibility with all versions.
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Ok, thanks for the tip. – jul Apr 29 '10 at 12:24
This doesn't answer the question. The documentation is changed from one version to another and I would to see the old version. – kilaka Aug 29 '12 at 11:37
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Well in the documentation, you see "Since API level x". If whatever was not available yet in Android 1.6, you'll know. You'll also know if certain things are deprecated.
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It seems Google have added an option to see the old documentation. Don't know since when. Anyhow, thank you Google.
When choosing an old API level, the non-available API is grayed out.
See example below for http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.ContactsColumns.html
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This is one of my first try with Map Reduce on AWS in its Management Console. Hi have uploaded on AWS S3 my runnable jar developed on Hadoop 0.18, and it works on my local machine. As described on documentation, I have passed the S3 paths for input and output as argument of the jar: all right, but the problem is the third argument that is another path (as string) to a file that I need to load while the job is in execution. That file resides on S3 bucket too, but it seems that my jar doesn't recognize the path and I got a FileNotFound Exception while it tries to load it. That is strange because this is a path exactly like the other two...
Anyone have any idea?
Thank you
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This is a problem with AWS, please check Lesson 2 at http://meghsoft.com/blog/. See if you can use FileSystem.get(uri, conf) to obtain a file system supporting your path.
Hope this helps.
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Sonal, thank you for your suggestion. I think this should be the right way. Moreover, I found that a FileInputStream instead a string path can be enough for my needs: I tried with classifierPath = args[2]; FileSystem inputFS = FileSystem.get(URI.create(classifierPath),conf); ObjectInputStream objectClassifierStream = new ObjectInputStream(inputFS.open(new Path(classifierPath))); loadedClassifier = CRFClassifier.getClassifier(objectClassifierStream); but I'm still having problem when I load objectClassifierStream: exception "Bad Header". Maybe I made a mistake in my code? Thank you. – zero51 Jun 15 '10 at 5:53
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thank you for your suggestion. In the end the solution was using the DistributedCache.
Loading the file before to run the job I can access inside the Map Class everithing I need by overriding the confiure method and taking the file from the distributed cache (already loaded with the file).
Thank you,
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I want to write a master-slave application in Erlang. I am thinking at the following things I need from the architecture:
• the slaves shouldn't die when the master dies, but rather try to reconnect to it while the master is down
• the master should automatically start the remote nodes if they don't connect automatically or they are down (probably the supervisor behaviour in OTP)
Is there a OTP oriented behaviour to do this? I know I can start remote nodes with slave:start_link() and I can monitor nodes with erlang:monitor(), but I don't know how this can be incorporated in a gen_server behaviour.
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The functions erlang:monitor_node/2 and erlang:monitor_node/3 are also available. – Roberto Aloi Jul 2 '10 at 17:07
Did you see the distributed applications section? erlang.org/doc/design_principles/distributed_applications.html – Zed Jul 3 '10 at 9:21
We need some clear terminology here. Do you want to distribute your application over multiple erlang VMs (that is run multiple node()'s) or do you want to build a fault tolerant tree of processes? It is not entirely clear from your question. – I GIVE CRAP ANSWERS Dec 6 '10 at 15:07
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I agree with the comments about using erlang:monitor_node and the use of distributed applications.
You cannot just use the slave module to accomplish that, it clearly states "All slave nodes which are started by a master will terminate automatically when the master terminates".
There is currently no OTP behaviour to do it either. Supervision trees are hierarchical ; it seems like you are looking for something where there is a hierarchy in terms of application logic, but spawning is done an a peer-to-peer basis (or an individual basis, depending upon your point of view).
If you were to use multiple Erlang VMs then you should carefully consider how many you run, as a large number of them may cause performance issues due to the OS swapping OS processes in and out. A rule of thumb for best performance is to aim for having no more than one OS process (i.e. one Erlang VM) per CPU core.
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If you're interested in studying other implementations, Basho's riak_core framework has a pretty good take on decentralized distributed applications.
riak_core_node_watcher.erl has most of the interesting node observation code in it.
Search and you'll find there are quite a few talks and presentations about the framework.
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Before I begin, my reason for not using OAuth is I believe it is not really something we should be using on this project, we're targeting a platform that will be packaged and resold to companies, which connect to their own set of uses that we really don't want to have accounts that we are not %100 in control of, we don't want it to be a shared-login with other services, and we don't want to force people into getting a google/yahoo/openID/aol/facebook/blogger/wordpress/whatever account.
Now then, What I would like is the best way to let users re-set a password.
I hate the concept of secret-questions: What school did you goto? Well, lets check your facebook page. What was your first-grade teacher? Lets just ask them casually.
I hate using one-time-passwords via email: Since when is email secure? Your boss reads it. Your sending out spam emails to me every day. It went into your junk-bin. It's not sent encrypted.
I don't want to use a password to reset a password either. This just doesn't make sense.
I'm really out of ideas here for the best way to do this, so I figure I would ask the community.
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Your problem is that you need to outsource trust. If the user forgets their password, you no longer have a direct way to trust them, so you have to use an outside source to reestablish your relationship.
If you think email is insecure (which it is, actually), you could try telephone. Give them a call with the temporary password. Or a fax. Or snail mail, or an SMS, etc.
This is as secure as the phone lines/postal carriers over which the reset travels, and in most areas, telephone intercepts or tampering with the mail is strictly punished by the law.
If that's no good, consider issuing users an OTP token, or smartcard, or something.
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By telephone is also a reasonable method - you need to collect the phone number from them when you first register the user or have a trusted way to look it up when you need it. – Von Aug 20 '10 at 15:18
It may be worthwhile to note that the organization I'm first to deploy at maintains about 7000 user accounts, which is probably a slightly higher than median average for other organizations. – Incognito Aug 20 '10 at 15:21
@user257493: If they have that many users, they have support staff. If the users are within the company, a face-to-face ID check might be a viable option. – Borealid Aug 20 '10 at 15:23
The company will have between 5 and 20 people, all of which are doing the lines of business already without time to play help desk please reset my password. Nor are they trained to deal with a Mallory calling pretending she's Alice. – Incognito Aug 20 '10 at 15:28
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Barring being able to vet the person in person, I think you've listed all the reasonable options I've seen. In my opinion the one-time-password via email is the superior option as people tend to at least want to keep their email private. I personally hate secret questions - too big of a chance of the answers being public (see Sarah Palin email incident). If you are going to do secret questions, at least let the user choose their own questions.
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Here's my other problem with secret questions. I always input something else (like my fist against the keyboard a few times) because I don't like the idea of a simple back door into my account – Incognito Aug 20 '10 at 15:14
I always generate purely random answers for secret questions (the same way I generate pass phrases actually). – Von Aug 20 '10 at 15:18
The point of secret questions seems to be missed by the people implementing them. The questions need to be more personal and are not public knowledge. E.g. Who was your first crush? What is your shoe size? What was your first car? – It Grunt Aug 20 '10 at 15:21
I have a big problem with questions that can so easily be socially engineered from me, I really don't want to act like a psycotic shut-in afraid to tell people my first girlfriend's name was Michelle because they could use that knowledge to break into my accounts. – Incognito Aug 20 '10 at 15:24
@It Grunt: If you give the answer to one site, it's not a secret anymore. Benjamin Franklin said "the only way three people can keep a secret is if two of them are dead". These questions are a flawed idea. – Borealid Aug 20 '10 at 15:25
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I think this requires a difficult implementation but sending new password to user's mobile phone as a text message may be an alternative solution. Mobile phones are much more secure than personal inbox.
Then, users are asked to enter their mobile phone numbers. Users that doesn't want that functionality are provided new passwords by email.
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Make users select a secret image (or images). Or make user upload their own image.
This works better than secret questions. Secret questions have two common problems:
1. user gives an answer that can be easily obtained by others.
2. user knows about first problem and instead of a real answer gives a random answer, later on forgetting themselves what it was.
By making user to select secret image(s) or better yet upload their own images. It'll be easier for user to recall it later when recovering the password, since it's easier to make visual associations.
When recovering the password present user with several choices to pick the right image.
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That's a massive inconvenience and prone to some of the same problems as secret questions. – Incognito Aug 28 '10 at 15:41
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So you actually want the user to prove that he is who he claims he is, without revealing information about himself (assuming you can get ANY information with social hacking)
There are 3 ways for authentication: Something you are (biometrics), Something you have (dongle for example) and Something you know (password,response...). 2 or 3-way authentication is much more secure than 1-way.
Password reset/recovery, by definition reduces the security of the authentication procedure, because its now not A, but (A or B). (A= password, B=recover-password)
Therefore, even if your authentication procedure is 1-way (password), your recovery processes should be a 2-way authentication.
Let's see what are your options for the password recovery process:
1. Something you are (SysAdmin that recognize you - usually not good for 5000 workers organization, Voice-print - too expensive to implement, ...)
2. Something you have (e-mail account, phone number, ...)
3. Something you know (personal details)
Notice that corporate-ID tag with picture is a 2-way authentication (both something you are and something you have).
I think the best procedure is for the employee to physically go to the IT department, show his picture ID, and ask for a password reset.
If this is infeasible (too far - a remote branch for example), try to use a deligator who is recognized and can be trusted over the phone, so the employee will have to show the ID-tag to a local deligator.
If you can't use the 'Something you are' - you're left with something you have (e-mail, phone-number,your own PC) and something you know (personal details...). You can't escape it.
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There is no social hacking, the users are giving me information about where they live, travel documents, and other things just to use the system. – Incognito Aug 29 '10 at 16:04
"What was your first-grade teacher? Lets just ask them casually" - This is social hacking. – Lior Kogan Aug 30 '10 at 7:50
Ah I mis-understood. I thought you meant how facebook draws connections between products you might like based on other things, or runs face-recognition software. I do have access to a lot of sensitive data that ID thieves would love, but I'm unsure if I want to use that as verification/secrets. – Incognito Aug 30 '10 at 14:39
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This is part of cachegrind output. This part of code has been executed for 1224 times. elmg1 is an array of unsigned long of size 16 x 20. My machine L1 cache size is 32KB, 64B cache line size and 8-way set associative.
1. for (i = 0; i < 20; i++) 78,336 2,448 2 50,184 0 0 1,224 0 0
2. {
3. telm01 = elmg1[i]; 146,880 0 0 73,440 0 0 24,480 0 0
4. telm31 = (telm01 << 3) ^ val1; 97,920 0 0 48,960 0 0 24,480 0 0
5. telm21 = (telm01 << 2) ^ (val1 >> 1); 146,880 1,224 1 48,960 0 0 24,480 0 0
6. telm11 = (telm01 << 1) ^ (val1 >> 2); 146,880 0 0 48,960 0 0 24,480 0 0
7. }
A. The reason I have put it here, is that in the 3rd line inside the for loop, I see a number of I1 misses (one L2 miss as well). It is somewhat confusing and I could not guess the reason why?
B. I am trying to optimize (time) a portion of code. The above is just a small snippet. I think in my program memory access a costing me a lot. Like in the above example elmg1 is an array of 16 x 20 size of unsigned longs. When I try to use it in code, there are always some misses, and in my program these variables occur a lot. Any suggestions?
C. I need to allocate and (sometimes initialize) these unsigned longs. Can you suggest which one should I prefer, calloc or array declaration and then explicit initialization. By the way will there be any difference in the way cache handles them?
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Have you tried to unroll the loop?
1. I wouldn't worry about L1 misses right now. Also one L2 miss out of 1224 times is ok, the cpu has to load the values into the cache at some point.
2. What percentage of L2 misses does this code cost compared to the rest of the program?
3. Use calloc(), if the array size is always the same and you use constants for the size, then the compiler can optimize the zero'ing of the array. Also the only thing that would effect the cache lines usages is alignment, not how it was initizliated.
edit: The number where hard to read that way and read them wrong the first time.
lets make sure I am reading the numbers right for line 5:
Ir 146,880
I1mr 1,224
ILmr 1
Dr 48,960
D1mr 0
DLmr 0
Dw 24,480
D1mw 0
DLmw 0
The L1 Cache is split into two 32KByte caches one for code I1 and one of data D1. IL & DL are the L2 or L3 cache which is shared by both data and instructions.
The large number of I1mr is instruction misses not data misses, this means that the loop code is being ejected from the I1 instruction cache.
I1 misses at line 1 & 5 total 3672 which is 3 times 1224, so each time the loop is run you get 3 I1 cache misses with 64Byte cache lines that means you loop code size is between 128-192 bytes to cover 3 cache lines. So those I1 misses at line 5 is because that is where the loop code crosses the last cache line.
I would recommend using KCachegrind for viewing the results from cachegrind
Edit: More about cache lines.
That loop code doesn't look like it is being call 1224 times by itself, so that means there is more code that is pushing this code out of the I1 cache.
Your 32Kbyte I1 cache is divided into 512 cache lines (64bytes each). The "8-way set associative" part means that each memory address is mapped to only 8 out of those 512 cache lines. If the whole program you are profile was one continuous block of 32Kbytes of memory, then it would all fit into the I1 cache and none would be ejected. That is mostlikely not the case and there will be more then 8 64byte blocks of code contenting for the same 8 cache lines. Lets say that your whole program has 1Mbyte of code (this includes libraries), then each group of 8 cache lines will have about 32 (1Mbyte/32Kbyte) pieces of code contenting for those same 8 cache lines.
Read this lwn.net article for all the gory details about CPU caches
The compiler can't always detect which functions of the program will be hotspots (called many many times) and which will be codespots (i.e. error handler code, which almost never runs). GCC has function attributes hot/cold which will allow you to mark functions as hot/cold, this will allow the compiler to group the hot functions together in one block of memory to get better cache usage (i.e. cold code will not be pushing hotcode out of the caches).
Anyways those I1 misses are really not worth the time to worry about.
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A. That's ok, but why there are cache misses at line 5, whereas there is less at line 3, 4. Do I need to specify the alignment thing myself, I read that malloc by default provides 8/16 byte alignment. – anup Nov 1 '10 at 8:57
yes, malloc should provides atleast 8byte alignment, but that is not the same as 64Byte cache alignment. Cache alignment is important only when you have an array of objects that are 64bytes each. If the array is not allocated cache aligned then accessing any one item in the array might cause two cache misses instead of one. But cache alignment isn't an issue in this case. – Neopallium Nov 1 '10 at 10:34
Thanks for your reply. But, one thing that I did not understand what these has to do with 3 cache lines? There should be more number of cache lines. – anup Nov 1 '10 at 10:52
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i want to send with an api some POST data with a large information data from server a to server b. Into server b, i receive only a part of posts data even if with htaccess i increased POST size and other.
php_value upload_max_filesize 400M
php_value post_max_size 400M
php_value max_execution_time 500
php_value max_input_time 400
php_value memory_limit 400M
There is a limit of posts data sent with a curl? or.. anybody know how to solve this problem?
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max_input_vars might also be hindering your curl post, if you're sending numerous parameters through. It has happened to me before - you can't change the setting on runtime, but only through php.ini.
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Sending data via POST does not have a limit except for the one you have set in your server (php_value post_max_size 400M);
you might want to check your timeout value, try increasing your current value:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 60);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
This might be closing your connection in server A before the entire request is sent to the server B.
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The limit is 241 characters.
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And any solution to could send my datas with curl? – oriceon Dec 3 '10 at 10:29
there might be one, but there is none of i know actually – Thariama Dec 3 '10 at 10:36
maybe the limit can be influenced using other setting parameters, but i suggest you have a look if you are really able to transfer 241 characters or less/more (you will need to create a testcase for this and play around with the data you submit) – Thariama Dec 3 '10 at 10:38
How can a post allow 241 characters only? even get support more than 2000 characters – ajreal Dec 3 '10 at 12:25
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I want to create a custom template engine like velocity or freemarker which will be used in struts 2 based application. Why I don't want to use any of the available template engines is because, I want to keep the HMTL fixed and editable by dreamweaver means no struts tags or JSTL. The values will be injected with Xpath or simple string replacement of values of existing HTML tags. I require:
plain HTML + some configuration (properties/xml) + data =>
HTML populated with data + some dynamically generated javascripts
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What is your question? – Steven Benitez Dec 7 '10 at 13:34
How do I write a template engine like freemarker? How to integrate my template engine with struts2? – samarjit samanta Dec 8 '10 at 1:17
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1) Define a package with the name of your result type and the class that will be called when an action returns that result type.
<result-type name="myResultType" class="com.awesome.MyResult"/>
.... actions and other things...
2) Implement the Struts 2 result type class:
package com.awesome;
public class MyResult extends StrutsResultSupport{
//1) read the the target file
//2) process/transform the target file
//3) write out the transformed file as the result
There is a good description of this in "Apache Struts 2 web application Development" by Dave Newton. I know the above class isn't implemented but I bet you can find what you need from here.
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Thanks, I am using that now. For other, who wish to use this I can give you some pointers. Open up struts default look for interceptors implementing class FreemarkerResult.java and XSLTResult.java are two classes I read through and its fairly simple as to what they do. I would also recomment going through http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/filters-137243.html about java Filters especially if you want to modify the response. HttpResponseWrapper is required. One more thing exists PreResultListener, which can manipulate invocation object just before result is going to be evaluated. – samarjit samanta Dec 21 '10 at 8:16
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I'm having a bit of confusion about how to render text in a pure AS3 project. There are classes like flash.text.StaticText but these are designer-only, you can't create them in code. I was half-expecting the Graphics class to have text-rendering options but alas, no.
Specifically I was going to add a label above each player's sprite with their name, health %, etc. So I expected to add a child text-element or draw text using Graphics in some way... it's read-only and should not support user-input, I just want to draw text on-screen.
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You can use TextField class for this. Please check the reference. All fields and methods are self explanatory.
A possible example.
var myField:TextField = new TextField();
myField.text = "my text";
myField.x = 200;
myField.y = 200;
addChild(myField); // assuming you are in a container class
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Don't forget selectable = false, it is commonly overlooked. – alxx Feb 4 '11 at 14:38
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I'm not able to navigate down to the HashSets in my datastructure
I declared an array of Map[] and populated it with HashMap with K of Integer, and V of HashSet of String but was unable to add items to the HashSet.
I've trimmed the code down to illustrate ...
private Map[] myMaps = null;
myMaps = new Map[numRepeats];
myMaps[0] = new HashMap<Integer,HashSet<String>>();
myMaps[0].put(0, new HashSet<String>());
The popup in NetBeans shows I can get to java.util.Map with
but using the map.get(0) method I thought would return the HashSet
shows I've got to generic java.lang.object, not to the HashSet. Since I need to use the HashSet.add() method next this means I'm stuck. I would appreciate suggestions.
Thank you
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You have an array of maps of sets? You need some classes in there, or you're going to be tearing your hair out while debugging! – corsiKa Feb 20 '11 at 18:39
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When you define your map, you could define it with the full types involved, so:
private Map<Integer, HashSet<String>>[] myMaps = null;
Then, you wouldn't have to cast it back (assuming all your maps in myMaps will be of that type).
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Thank you - assumption right, so I did this - it worked! (-: – bobox Feb 20 '11 at 19:08
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Unfortunately, Java Generics make it rather tricky to have an array of a generic class. However, it is possible, and it will solve your problem in a typesafe way.
1st. declare your map like this
private Map<Integer,Set<String>>[] myMaps = null;
2nd. use a utility function to allocate
public static <T> T[] newMapArray( int size )
return (T[])java.lang.reflect.Array.newInstance(Map.class, size);
3rd. allocate myMaps like this
myMaps = newMapArray(numRepeats);
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Thanks. umm, it's early days in Java for me and that looks a plateful. I'll study it and read around the suggestion. In the meantime I'm using Map<Integer, HashSet<String>>[] myMaps = null; (because I understand it).thanks – bobox Feb 20 '11 at 19:14
@bobox I certainly can understand why that looks intimidating. The nice thing about it is you can put it in some utility class and reuse it anywhere you like. Also, it hides the unchecked casts. – karoberts Feb 20 '11 at 19:53
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You need to cast it to HashMap<Integer,HashSet<String>>.
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Thanks, there's a consensus with Dante617 that this is the way fwd – bobox Feb 20 '11 at 19:09
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Could someone please tell me if there is a way to capture extra joystick buttons? I mean buttons number 5,6,7,8 and so on.
I use this code to capture button down event :
procedure MMJOY1BUTTONDOWN (var LocMessage: TMMJoyStick); message MM_JOy1BUTTONDOWN;
But the problem is that it just captures the 4 standard buttons, not any extra buttons.
Thanks a lot
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The Multimedia Joystick API does not support generating window messages for buttons 5+, you have to poll their status manually using joyGetPosEx(). Otherwise, you should use DirectInput from the DirectX API instead, as it replaces the older API.
Update: Alternatively, you can use the Raw Input API to receive event notifications directly from the joystick hardware. See CodeProject for more details:
Using the Raw Input API to Process Joystick Input
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I've done a fair bit of research on this. I'm also pretty familiar with how to change just about every color in VS. I also found a neat site that has a theme maker on it. I don't think it's supported.
How do I make variables have their own color (strings, bools, ints, etc..) ?
I'm slowly getting used to it, but looking at oject.var.ToString(); and having it all show the same color is very frustrating/hard on my eyes. (example) In notepad++, I write my $variables in php and they show any color I want, separate from everything else. I really don't see why it can't be done. VS knows what everything is unless there's a syntax error or you haven't defined it yet/etc.. I know I can change the color on a broad scope that changes the colors on everything else too, so that doesn't help..
Thanks for any help!!
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ReSharper offers an extensive set of additional language constructs for which you can independently assign the color, including variables/fields/parameters/etc. – Kirk Woll Mar 12 '11 at 1:16
Really? That all shows up in the same color in your IDE? Have you tried playing with Options -> Environment -> Fonts and Colors? You won't get as fine of control as you could with ReSharper, but as extensions aren't supported in the Express version, this is about the best you can hope for. But what you've shown wouldn't be all the same color the way that I've set up VS. – Cody Gray Mar 12 '11 at 8:54
Yea, I played with just about every setting in Fonts and Colors. I fine tuned my own style and everything. It's just not natively supported. I can't afford to buy the full version of VS and ReSharper, so I'll have to make due with my current situation. What values have you changed to make objects/methods/variables have their own color? – PiZzL3 Mar 12 '11 at 16:16
Keywords, Identifiers, and all of the different "User Types". C#'s syntax highlighting is much better than what VS supports for C++. All of these schemes have modified the colors of methods and variable names. Interfaces, delegates, enums, value types, and more can all have their own unique colors. Yes, ReSharper may be great, but I'm cheap too so I haven't bought it either. – Cody Gray Mar 12 '11 at 18:27
@Cody Gray: I re-looked into those settings and variable, method, and object colors are all determined by the "Identifiers" color setting. This doesn't allow me to set them individually. I don't need to change Keywords or User Types/etc... As in my original example object.variable.method(); all shows the same color so matter what setting I change. This is incredibly difficult to read. Especially when things like this happen this.breakfast.today = reallyBigWaffleFactory.makeMeSomeWaffles(insertMoneyHere, waffleMix, addWater, milk, toppings).getPancakesInstead();. – PiZzL3 Mar 13 '11 at 4:26
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I am not 100% sure whether it has it, but ReSharper extends the color coding logic with new color classes. Other than that, it is a must have extension.
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I made a similar comment, but I now realize the OP wants it for the express edition. I believe MS intentionally prevents plugins (such as ReSharper) in that edition. – Kirk Woll Mar 12 '11 at 1:20
I'm gonna download the demo to test it on express.. but man that looks really really really cool.... Is it worth that much cash? – PiZzL3 Mar 12 '11 at 1:46
Sadly it doesn't show up on the express version.. – PiZzL3 Mar 12 '11 at 4:14
Sadly indeed, the Express versions of Visual Studio do not support add-ins. You would need to get a full VS version, and yes, ReSharper is worth each penny paid. – Sebastian Zaklada Mar 12 '11 at 20:04
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Visual Studio does not support this, unless you used some sort of plug-in or third party tool.
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This is probably really simple but I am absolutely stumped. While the CSS for the sidebar (#primary) doesn't have a margin specified, a margin-right: 605px; is being applied somehow to the #primary div.
To fix the problem, I played with some relative positioning inside the containing div, but this is causing positioning discrepancies between Firefox and Chrome.
You can find the site in question at elsbethroseboutique.com. I know it's in bad shape, it's a work in progress :)
The solutions I'm looking for are either how to address the positioning differences between the two browsers; or ideally, how to remove that margin.
Screenshots:(red line added for reference)
http://elsbethroseboutique.com/images/chrome_elsb.jpg http://elsbethroseboutique.com/images/firefox_elsb.jpg
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I couldn't really see a difference between the browsers (FF & Chrome). Are you able to upload a screen grab to outline the exact problem? – Dan Apr 5 '11 at 5:06
Yep, screenshots posted above. – Analyticus Apr 5 '11 at 7:24
Geeze, I suppose it's not that simple! – Analyticus Apr 6 '11 at 17:28
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This was a Chrome specific bug, where the developer tool told me there was a margin-right:605; when inspecting #primary. I think this was happening because there was no float property in place (although I can't understand why this was a problem if there were discrete values for height and width).
After floating #primary left, the problem appears to be solved and there is no longer a margin taking up the remaining space.
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I don't see any discrepencies between Firefox and Chrome. Your code is quite the mess. What you need to do is identify the bloc of code you're having a problem with and post that. Even though I don't see the margin issue, often when I have a margin-right: problem that I can't find it turns out to be a margin-left: from another div. Hopefully that helps.
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The #container element is a few pixels lower than the #primary element in chrome, but above the #primary in Firefox. If you use Chrome's inspect element (or firebug on Firefox), you can see there's a margin-right of 605 pixels being applied. This causes it to take up the entire width of the wrapper, and would force the container below it. The hack I used to fix it, was just to position it relative to the top of its containing div, but somehow this causes the discrepancy. – Analyticus Apr 5 '11 at 6:32
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Get Firebug and you can click on the element and see any styles applied to it.
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I just realized: this is only showing up in Chrome dev tools, not firebug. Very, very strange. Must be a browser thing. – Analyticus Apr 8 '11 at 18:17
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Have you tried to use a MailboxProcessor of T from C#? Could you post sample code?
How do you start a new one, post messages to it, and how do you process them?
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While you can use MailboxProcessor<T> directly from C# (using the C# async extension) as pointed out in my other answer, this isn't really a good thing to do - I wrote that mainly for curiosity.
The MailboxProcessor<T> type was designed to be used from F#, so it doesn't fit well with the C# programming model. You could probably implement similar API for C#, but it wouldn't be that nice (certainly not in C# 4.0). The TPL DataFlow library (CTP) provides similar design for the futrue version of C#.
Currently, the best thing to do is to implement the agent using MailboxProcessor<T> in F# and make it friendly to C# usage by using Task. This way, you can implement the core parts of agents in F# (using tail-recursion and async workflows) and then compose & use them from C#.
I know this may not directly answer your question, but I think it's worth giving an example - because this is really the only reasonable way to combine F# agents (MailboxProcessor) with C#. I wrote a simple "chat room" demo recently, so here is an example:
type internal ChatMessage =
| GetContent of AsyncReplyChannel<string>
| SendMessage of string
type ChatRoom() =
let agent = Agent.Start(fun agent ->
let rec loop messages = async {
// Pick next message from the mailbox
let! msg = agent.Receive()
match msg with
| SendMessage msg ->
// Add message to the list & continue
let msg = XElement(XName.Get("li"), msg)
return! loop (msg :: messages)
| GetContent reply ->
// Generate HTML with messages
let html = XElement(XName.Get("ul"), messages)
// Send it back as the reply
return! loop messages }
loop [] )
member x.SendMessage(msg) = agent.Post(SendMessage msg)
member x.AsyncGetContent() = agent.PostAndAsyncReply(GetContent)
member x.GetContent() = agent.PostAndReply(GetContent)
So far, this is just a standard F# agent. Now, the interesting bits are the following two methods that expose GetContent as an asynchronous method usable from C#. The method returns Task object, which can be used in the usual way from C#:
member x.GetContentAsync() =
member x.GetContentAsync(cancellationToken) =
( agent.PostAndAsyncReply(GetContent),
cancellationToken = cancellationToken )
This will be reasonably usable from C# 4.0 (using the standard methods such as Task.WaitAll etc.) and it will be even nicer in the next version of C# when you'll be able to use the C# await keyword to work with tasks.
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Thank you for your detailed answer. I'll give it a shot! One piece is missing -- actual usage from C# 4.0. – GregC Apr 7 '11 at 21:29
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This solution requires the C# "async CTP" but take a look at Agent/MailboxProcessor in C# using new async/await
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Question is specifically geared towards C# 4.0, since I have my hands tied. I'd use F# in a heart-beat for this, but I can't just yet. Does Async CTP have a go-live license? – GregC Apr 7 '11 at 13:23
As Tomas P. points out, the crux of this problem would be in the tail-recursive call causing a StackOverflowException. I am looking for alternatives. – GregC Apr 7 '11 at 13:26
@GregC, no it doesn't have a go-live license. It's only a preview, as the name implies, you shouldn't use it in production – Thomas Levesque Apr 7 '11 at 13:29
it's hard to unlearn a powerful programming paradigm. Once you know it, you refuse to implement things the old simpleton way. – GregC Apr 7 '11 at 13:31
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How can we increase the performance of an application. My application is written using Java, Hibernate, Servlets, Wsdl i have used for web services. I have executed some of the tests on linux machine, so that i can get proper TPS of the execution.
but still , i am not satisfied by the performance.
So for this, what all steps i should try to increase the performance.
adding to above, i have executed code coverage and used find bugs in the code prominently for each and every test and every service i have written.
Individual suggestions are invited.
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Well, if you are not satisfied with the performance, did you attempt to find out where it was unsatisfactory. I'm afraid that statement of yours came out like a rant. – Vineet Reynolds Jun 14 '11 at 10:50
What exactly did you do to measure the performance? Is there any specific performance issues you are trying to resolve? What exactly does your application do? – abalogh Jun 14 '11 at 10:52
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Profile your application, and remove all of your bottlenecks.
In addition, or better before, take a day or two and read as much from the Java Performance Tuning newsletters as you understand.
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You should monitor your application with a tool like VisualVM, JProfiler etc. to determine the performance bottleneck(s). It is pointless to tune the application without knowing where the actual performance problems are located.
In a professional environment, I suggest dynaTrace that can show you performance bottlenecks along the execution path. The tool can show you exactly where the application spends its time.
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I have used VisualVm to figure out, how much time is taken by each and every critical service and database hits. With those stats, i can say that i am somewhat happy with service but unhappy with database hits. – M.J. Jun 14 '11 at 11:12
At least you found out what to tune. Database tuning guides are avaiblable for all major databases. Sometimes creating a missing index is enought for a problem. – Daniel Jun 14 '11 at 13:02
For instance, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2980359/web-page-database-query-optimization includes some proposals to decrease the hit number. In general, I would suggest caching as a good way to reduce the database hit number. – s106mo Jun 14 '11 at 19:34
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Is the performance related to disk I/O or network I/O? In a high throughput system (from DB point of view) Hibernate might not be the best way to go. If you have a lot of writes I would recommend you use a different mechanism to write to database -- perhaps simply switching to simple JDBC might speed it up? Secondly, is it the case that your webservices are taking too long to get back with results? SOAP is not the fastest protocols really -- have you looked at something like REST maybe coupled with JSON ?
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For servlet to service execution flow, i am using JSON only. I am using wsdl in case when other system is invoking some of my service. – M.J. Jun 14 '11 at 11:13
and have you measured the network trip for each request, JSON or WSDL? – Liv Jun 14 '11 at 11:14
network, as in JSON i have figured out, but how can we measure for WSDL? – M.J. Jun 14 '11 at 11:30
use some timers in your code and record the time it takes from the moment you make the call till your result comes back. – Liv Jun 14 '11 at 11:30
I should add -- you could use something like JETM for this: jetm.void.fm – Liv Jun 14 '11 at 11:32
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I have a wpf application where I extended the RichTextBox to provide some specific functions. Lets call that new class BetterTextBox.
Now, when I click in that TextBox TextBox.OnPreviewMouseLeftButtonUp is called and I am getting the CaretPosition:
protected override void OnPreviewMouseLeftButtonUp(MouseButtonEventArgs e)
PressedOffset = Document.ContentStart.GetOffsetToPosition(CaretPosition);
public static readonly DependencyProperty PressedOffsetProperty
= DependencyProperty.Register("PressedOffset", typeof(int),
new FrameworkPropertyMetadata()
DefaultValue = 0,
BindsTwoWayByDefault = true,
DefaultUpdateSourceTrigger = UpdateSourceTrigger.PropertyChanged,
public int PressedOffset
get { return (int)GetValue(PressedOffsetProperty); }
set { SetValue(PressedOffsetProperty, value); Console.WriteLine("klöjgf");}
<Window x:Name="MainWindow">
<BetterTextBox />
MainWindow has MainViewModel as DataContext. What I want to do is, when a MouseClick in BetterTextBox occurs, a function in MainViewModel should be called. How can I get out of my UserControl a call a function in the MainViewModel?
I tried something like this:
<Window x:Name="MainWindow">
<BetterTextBox PressedOffset="{Binding ElementName=MainWindow, Path=MyFunction"/>
public int MyFunction
set { callMyRealFunction(); }
But that doesn't work. There is also a way to register a CallbackFunction for PressedOffsetProperty, but I am not sure how to register there a function from the MainViewModel which is not static.
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Create another dependency property of type ICommand say 'TextClickCommand'. Create a command in your viewmodel and bind to TextClickCommand and execute this on MouseClick.
Edit: You can do it even the other way around create a IsTextSelected bool dependency property in textbox bind to this bool using a propery in view model and call your method in view model property setter.
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Sry, I can't really follow you. Can you be more precisly? I am already doing your "Edit" without luck or not? I also googled for Commands and there is a bunch of results and I am getting lost. – KasF Jun 30 '11 at 7:57
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Just solved by doing
<BetterTextBox PressedOffset="{Binding Path=Parent.DataContext.SelectFromOffset,
RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}}"/>
from WPF Usercontrol interaction with parent view / viewmodel
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I've run into the following issue, which seems to be a pretty common one. The exception is Cannot update entity: [...] nested exception is java.sql.BatchUpdateException: ORA-24816: Expanded non LONG bind data supplied after actual LONG or LOB column. It looks like Oracle does not like binding large values (> 4000 chars) to parameters after a LOB or CLOB. Has anyone solved this issue?
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This is: ORA-24816
*It's a limitation, and that LONG bind variables must come last in a statement. *
source: http://www.odi.ch/weblog/posting.php?posting=496
Solution: By renaming the fields in the hibernate model so that the clob column has a name that comes later than the varchar2 column when ordering alphabetically (I prefixed the clob field in the java class with a 'z'), everything works fine because then the clob parameter comes after the varchar parameter in the query hibernate builds.
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I found that with XML-mapped entities I could change the order of the properties in the config to get the clobs to the end of the INSERT/UPDATE statement. E.g. <property name="shortField1"/><property name="shortField2"/><property name="reallyLongField" type="text"/> – Josh Johnson Sep 12 '12 at 12:40
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My task is to populate another select list based on what is choosen from one select list, querying populating data from database.
I think it goes something like:
2. On select list onChange method a query like select id, description from table where child_id=_id_ is executed.
3. Child select list is populated based on that query. Maybe the result of query is returned in a controller method?
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I would like to recommend you to use Google, because simple search will provide you the answer.
This code sample will show you the way how to do it:
$.getJSON("/getSubCategories?id="+$(this).val(), function(j){
var options = '';
Now the Server side:
@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, value = "/getSubCategories")
public String handleRequest( @RequestParam("id") int id) {) {
now build your json string as optionValue and OptionDisplay.
String json = service.getSubCategories(id);
return json;
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What keywords did you use? I tried google.. – mjgirl Jul 25 '11 at 8:51
How to build the json String ??? – Abhishek Singh Oct 9 '13 at 10:57
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If I want to redirect a user in PHP, all I've ever known to do was use the header('Location:' http://www.example.com) but I've been reading that this isn't the best way to redirect a user from page to page internally. What are some other options you can redirect a user?
Example: at the bottom it says:
Something Important to Remember
...I don’t recommend, for example, using header() to bounce your users around to different pages; there are better methods that reduce the number of page loads and give the user a more fluid experience...
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you can also redirect from client side: window.url = 'newUrl'; – ThatGuy Aug 1 '11 at 15:50
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The snippet you provided is referring to issues where page1.php might execute some code followed by header('Lodation: http://www.example.com/page2.php'); and where page2.php then executes some code followed by header('Location: http://www.example.com/page3.php'); etc. This is very bad for user experience, and not very good for managing code either.
In cases where you genuinely need to redirect a user (301 redirect is probably the most common), using header is perfectly acceptable.
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I don't quite understand the difference in what your saying. Do you mean don't have 2 redirects in a row? – Howdy_McGee Aug 1 '11 at 16:21
@Howdy_McGee, multiple redirects, or redirects when an include would be more appropriate are issues. It is quite common for beginners to create a php page to do a very specific task, and then instead of using include, trying to use header to pass the user on to another page. I typically avoid headers unless I decide that I need to send a browser a particular header. If a page has moved permanently, use the 301 redirect header and the new location, if a resource wasn't found, send out a 404 header, and possibly populate the page with a sitemap. – zzzzBov Aug 1 '11 at 17:28
I see, I try to avoid using 'includes' unless i'm including a header.php or footer.php because from my understanding it loads everything inside the 'includes' even php which would mess with load time. I understand what your saying though with the 301 and 404. I think javascript is my base option when redirecting to a custom error page though like the poster above stated. – Howdy_McGee Aug 1 '11 at 17:33
@Howdy_McGee, includes are the best way to make PHP modular. They're very quick. If you're making an entire library, you should be putting classes and functions into their own scripts, or at least boxing them into groups of similar functions. If you're mixing display logic with business logic, then you should read up on the MVC (Model View Controller) paradigm, because mixing view with controller is a bad idea. – zzzzBov Aug 1 '11 at 18:12
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It isn't bad. However you could add 301 response code to make it more better, it is also better for Google to determine he should not visit that "old" site anymore.
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
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Well what if it is just a simple "do some code then redirect" instead of a permanent redirect? – Howdy_McGee Aug 1 '11 at 16:23
so use it before this header and after that put there this code (2nd line) – genesis Aug 1 '11 at 16:41
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This is the accepted method for PHP-based redirection. If you can accomplish the redirect prior to PHP script execution, then you should - through .htaccess or server-level aliasing.
Check out the manual on header: http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php
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It's always sensible to avoid using header() internally because sometimes headers are already called. JavaScript redirects are absolutely fine and are used systematically in a lot of web applications. Browsers and search engines don't discriminate against or dislike JavaScript redirects. A simple example:
<?php echo '<script type="text/javascript">window.location.href="index.php"</script>'; ?>
Or using a variable:
<?php echo '<script type="text/javascript">window.location.href="' . $page . '"</script>'; ?>
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Well if this is true it seems like the best answer unless somebody wants to argue it. – Howdy_McGee Aug 1 '11 at 16:50
JavaScript redirects are the worst way to do redirects. You ought to know whether headers have been called or not based on whether you've used a header call or whether you've sent any output with echo or similar. If you've partially sent output to the user, why would you want to then direct them away from that data? Additionally, any user without JavaScript enabled will not be able to follow the redirect. I would also like to see verification about SEO for JS redirects. – zzzzBov Aug 1 '11 at 18:10
In complicated web apps (especially those with partial views) you don't always know whether the script has previously used a header() function or not. This is why I said it's usually sensible to avoid all potential errors by using JavaScript. The OP said he wanted to redirect a user - he didn't mention anything about maintaining the use of data, variables or existing PHP functions. And the percentage of users with JavaScript enabled is something ridiculous like 2% (or so Verisign argues - bit.ly/nZ75ql). You can always echo out a noscript tag. – hohner Aug 1 '11 at 18:16
@Jamie, "you don't always know whether the script has previously used a header() function or not" WTF are you talking about?! Of course you can tell whether headers have been sent. – zzzzBov Aug 1 '11 at 20:21
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Just use
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It does not explain why or if it's bad – genesis Aug 1 '11 at 15:50
Nothing bad about it. It's just the accepted method for PHP. – Mark Aug 1 '11 at 15:52
This is what i'm trying to avoid... – Howdy_McGee Aug 1 '11 at 15:53
What I think that the writer of the examples tries to say is that what he wrote are just examples just like he said. In most of the cases in the example it isn't necessary to do a redirect. – Mark Aug 1 '11 at 15:57
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I have written a program (using Borland C++ builder) that works fine with normal default windows settings. But certain users have changed their systems to have a bigger font than normal (as in, they changed the windows theme or changed system settings to have the font bigger for bad eyesight, etc). This makes a lot of my text and fields wrap out of visibility. I remember having to conquer this issue years ago, but I can't seem to find any information on how to do it anymore -- not even where to start.
So the question is: Does anyone know how I can account for changing system fonts in my forms? Preferably, I'd love to just keep MY font size the same in-program size regardless of what the system wants, but I don't believe that's an option.
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Set each form's Scaled property to true. Each form will be resized according to the font scaling prevailing on the machine which shows the form.
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I encode a picture following the link How to encode series of images into H264 using x264 API? (C/C++), but every time x264_encoder_encode(encoder, &nals, &i_nals, &pic_in, &pic_out) returns 0.
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A bit vague to be answered; I suggest enabling logs in ffmpeg and checking; BTW, doesn't a return value of 0 indicate success? – vine'th Sep 6 '11 at 3:59
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What does x264_encoder_delayed_frames return? According to KillianDS's edit at the bottom, x264_encoder_encode may return 0 if there are delayed frames.
When you use other parameters there will be delayed frames, this is not the case with my parameters (mostly due to the nolatency option). If this is the case, frame_size will sometimes be zero and you'll have to call x264_encoder_encode as long as the function x264_encoder_delayed_frames does not return 0. But for this functionality you should take a deeper peek into x264.c and x264.h .
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Is there a similar function as CharInSet in Delphi Prism? If not, how would you do it?
I looked online and on StackOverflow, but they speak in terms of Delphi not Delphi Prism for .NET.
I also found out that the include method for setting an element to a set is not available either.
what are the replacements, if any, for these method?
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Use the in operator to test membership. Use the + operator in place of Include. A method like Include could not exist in Prism since sets are immutable in Prism.
See here for full details.
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@ David - Oh good. I have been doing exactly what you said in your answer. I was just wondering if there were any other options. Thanks. – Thayananthan Narayanan Sep 8 '11 at 19:02
Heh, in Delphi, CharInSet() is actually the replacement for in, since Delphi sets can only contain ordinal values up to and including 255. – Rudy Velthuis Sep 9 '11 at 11:36
@Rudy Indeed so. Looks like Prism gets it right. – David Heffernan Sep 9 '11 at 11:41
Prism is on .NET, and there, "characters" were always Unicode. I have no idea how in Prism, Pascal-like sets are realized, but I bet not the same way as in Pascal. – Rudy Velthuis Sep 9 '11 at 12:23
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I want to list all the directories that start with . in the current directory. I don't want the previous directory (..) to be listed so I had the regular expression something like this. I am using csh
ls .[^.]*
It works fine on UNIX variant platforms but in solaris, I am still using the csh but it lists me only .. directory. How can I specify the regular expression with the exact functionality in Solaris. It works in bash but I have to use csh only as it is guaranteed to be available on each SOLARIS box in our org.
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grymoire.com/Unix/CshTop10.txt HTH. I can't imagine why a bourne shell wouldn't be on all of your solaris boxes. – Will Hartung Sep 21 '11 at 5:12
Confirmed on Solaris 9. I'd suggest using tcsh instead, but if you can't count on bash I suppose you can't count on tcsh. Incidentally, that's a file matching pattern, not a regular expression. I think grep, as mu is too short suggested, is your best bet. – Keith Thompson Sep 21 '11 at 5:21
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You can do this with /bin/sh, but with a slightly different syntax; it uses ! rather than ^ to negate the set of characters:
ls .[!.]*
Note that this is a file matching pattern (a glob), not a regular expression.
But given the variations you're seeing in the glob syntax supported by various shells, you might be better off using grep with actual regular expressions.
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Character classes in globs in csh don't support negation...
From the man page in Solaris:
is two characters separated by a dash (-), and
includes all the characters in between in the ASCII
collating sequence (see ascii(5)).
So... you could create a character class that includes a range from \040 (space) to '-' (the character before '.', then from '/' to '~' (the remaining printable ascii characters).
ls -a .[\ --/-~]*
This seems to work for me, but I haven't checked the output with a fine-toothed comb.
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csh? Wow, I didn't know they still made that :) Your ls .[^.]* works on OSX's csh so I don't know what's going on with the Solaris csh. A crufty backup would be something like this:
ls `ls -a | grep '^\.[^.].*'`
The -a for ls tells it to include all the dot-files in the list and then a bit of grep for dealing with the dots. That matches what ls .[^.]* does in OSX's csh, hopefully it will work with Solaris's as well.
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I want to test does my gwt-log module works as expected in my application. I want to generate some error on client so the little box with error notification show up (it also contains the button "Show more" or something like that which shows the full stack trace if you click on it). I once got it, but if I repeat that same scenario, it simple won't show up. I tried to add exception to handler for edit button:
view.getGridButton().addListener(Events.Select, new SelectionListener<ButtonEvent>() {
public void componentSelected(ButtonEvent ce) {
throw new RuntimeException("Button Generated Error");
... but this doesn't throw exception visible in console, log or screen (browser).
Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Integer.parseInt("a"); will generate an exception for you – pistolPanties Oct 11 '11 at 11:20
@pistolPanties : I tried this but it happens nothing; nothing visible in console, log or screen. I even tried through debug mode. Debugger comes to this line for parsing integer and eventually comes to point where it throws InvocationTargetException , but still nothing. – Mario Oct 11 '11 at 12:31
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I think this may be the issue:
Exceptions: try, catch, finally and user-defined exceptions are supported as normal, although Throwable.getStackTrace() is not meaningfully supported in web mode. See:
Are you in web mode when you are running this? Remember that GWT compiles the java code to javascript code under the covers. You may have to use JSNI in order to accomplish this.
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I finally found out the cause of the problem. In my Error handler, I called the method Log.error(...) with the error trace and IP address. The problem was in method for fetching IP address, so the log didn't show up in my log file. Your answer @pistolPanties works after this. Many thanks.
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If you launch a Sketchflow project, a SF player is hosting the sketched screens and interacts with them. The idea of one Silverlight application hosting another and interacting with it is very interesting to me.
Can someone point me to some posts/papers describing how this can be implemented? How the events raised in hosted application can be bubbled to the application "in charge"? Something with the application profiler funcionality.
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It doesn't work quite the way you are thinking. The main app is the SketchFlow Player app and the sketched screens are created in a control library that is used by the main app. There are not 2 separate apps in this case, just 1 main app, which uses resources compiled into a separate dll (the screens control library).
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I see, I didn't realize it can be that simple. But I'm still curios about the "profiling" and hosting. – Karel Frajtak Oct 24 '11 at 15:23
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So I have a Python text-processing script, and I need to create a web page with two textareas.
The first one is for data input, and the second one is for (async) on-the-fly displaying the result of passing the data to my script. What is the easiest/fastest way to achive this with Python?
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I believe using bottle micro web framework whould be the easiest and fastest. you could also checkout flask microwebframework which is pretty much the same idea
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You can use lightweight web framework like bottle to create a web server. The server then serves a html that contains some javascript firing AJAX requests containing the data to be processed to your webserver, which in turn responds with the processed data.
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Is it possible to feed rows in a tablelayout from cursors? If yes, how?
My cursor.
cursor = db.rawQuery("SELECT _id, countryName , capitalName FROM country WHERE countryName LIKE ?",new String[] { "%" });
adapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, R.layout.capital_list_item,cursor, new String[] { "countryName" , "capitalName"},new int[] { R.id.countryName, R.id.capitalName });
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Shortly and sweetly, No.. You can't use Cursor Adapter in TableLayout
You can use Cursor Adapter only in ListView, Spinner and GridView...
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basically all subclasses of AdapterView – njzk2 Dec 6 '11 at 10:51
thanks, I'll look into gridview. – Binoy Babu Dec 6 '11 at 10:53
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When creating a GLX context, you have to specify whether you want direct rendering or not. Direct rendering provides a performance advantage sometimes, so it's preferable to use that, but it can't be used with a remote X-server.
Is there a simple and reliable way to determine if my application is connected to a local server?
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s/advantage sometimes/advantage always/ It's just a question of "hardly noticeable" or "order of magnitude" advantage. – Nathan Kidd Sep 18 '12 at 18:02
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I think you can just request a direct rendering context, and GLX will fallback to an indirect one if appropiate. Source: http://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/man/xhtml/glXCreateContext.xml
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In addition to the answer of @gpeche, you can test if a context is direct with glXIsDirect. Note, that by using Vertex Buffer Objects the performance differences between indirect and direct rendering are neglectible: All data is kept server side and only (short and small) drawing commands are used, that cause the rendering of large batches.
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Is there a way to configure CakePHP for it to work well with Twitter Bootstrap? I realize this question has already been asked here, but the answer wasn't really complete.
There are also quite a few tutorials out there, but they are all either outdated or just not working, example: Build a PHP application using CakePHP and (twitter) Bootstrap, Part 1.
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Assuming that the css file is included in your layout in your view for forms you can use the follwoing:
'inputDefaults' => array(
'div' => 'control-group',
'label' => array('class' => 'control-label'),
'between' => '<div class="controls">',
'after' => '</div>',
'class' => 'span3',
'error' => array('attributes' => array('wrap' => 'div', 'class' => 'alert alert-error'))
) ));
'after' => '<span class = \'help-inline\'>Minimum of 5 characters.</span></div>'));
I found this method to work perfectly with cake2.0 and bootstrap 2.0
This will produce the following
<div class="control-group required error">
<label for="UserPassword">Password</label>
<div class="controls">
<input name="data[User][password]" class="span3 form-error" type="password" value="" id="UserPassword">
<span class="help-inline">Minimum of 5 characters.</span></div>
<div class="alert alert-error">You must provide a password.</div>
The html above is after the form has been submitted and an error has been returned.
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Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for! – skimberk1 Feb 29 '12 at 23:55
You're welcome. I saw your post last week when I was looking for the solution myself. – Jamie Mar 1 '12 at 0:17
@Jamie thanks for answer! Much appreciated :-) I was wandering if its possible to integrate the <span class="help-inline"> in the control div when a validation error is triggered? It looks better than the alert IMO. – Sid Aug 15 '12 at 10:56
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Bootstrap doesn't use any server-side code.
Except for LESS CSS, which you can either compile down to regular CSS on the server, or as the LESS CSS site shows you can have the browser compile it using less.js like this:
<link rel="stylesheet/less" type="text/css" href="LESS_FILE_HERE.less">
Just link all the .less files using stylesheet/less and the less.js file and it should work.
Other than that Bootstrap is just HTML and Javascript. just put all the javascript in the webroot/js folder and make a layout for the main HTML and get going.
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I wanted to know how to make the forms and buttons work with Bootstrap, but this is the best current answer. – skimberk1 Feb 17 '12 at 23:00
Doesn't help, the question was how to make CakePHP print bootstrap compatible html markup. – Vince Feb 20 '13 at 21:27
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I have done this. What you will need to do is the following:
• create the layout App/Views/Layouts/default.ctp
• copy the bootstrap html into that
• update the layout with the cake specific code
It works like a charm
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Have a look at the CakePHP plugin AssetCompress which handles LESS compiling for you if you have NodeJS and LESS installed on your server.
Then you just need to include the CSS files in your layout and style the forms using the Bootstrap classes.
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I wrote up a short post on how to get Bootstrap working with CakePHP here: http://wp.me/p2bC00-2s
This should help you in getting everything setup. If you have any further questions, feel free to comment on the post and I'll see if I can help.
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Checkout our Twitter Bootstrap Helper
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For the curious, this plugin does work, but it forces you to use (and remember) new methods to create form output. The slywalker plugin uses standard Cake method names. – Costa Mar 11 '13 at 3:46
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IMHO, the best Twitter Bootstrap plugin (+ recommended by one of the Cake devs in the bug tracker) is:
What's handy about this one is that it uses Cake 2's aliasing for the helpers so you don't need to change any of your view code.
So the regular $this->Html-> and $this->Form-> in all your old code will output Bootstrap markup. Awesome.
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Note that this plugin is not compatible with Bootstrap 3. The author started a new plugin with Bootstrap 3 support, but it's very bare bones and barely does anything at this point: github.com/slywalker/cakephp-plugin-boost_cake (personally I just modified the previous plugin to output the new BS3 class names) – Costa Nov 9 '13 at 2:13
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Here's a newer one:
Github page:
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+1, easy to use and works well. – boj May 7 '13 at 18:42
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Maybe you like this plugin: https://github.com/BradCrumb/lesscompiler.
It's a CakePHP Component that automatically compiles less files to css files. I just tested it with Bootstrap and it works find
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Lets make it simple and update this. The fastest and easiest way to do this is as follows and is current as of v:2.9
Download the 3 folders for the bootstrap here: http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/getting-started.html
Then unpack them and move: css/bootstrap.css css/bootstrap.min.css css/bootstrap-responsive.css css/bootstrap-responsive.min.css
-THEN MOVE-
-THEN MOVE-
Then, in the code editor of your choice(I prefer Netbeans) open the file:
It should look like:
* PHP 5
* Copyright (c) Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
* Licensed under The MIT License
* For full copyright and license information, please see the LICENSE.txt
* Redistributions of files must retain the above copyright notice.
* @copyright Copyright (c) Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
* @package app.View.Layouts
* @since CakePHP(tm) v
$cakeDescription = __d('cake_dev', 'CakePHP: the rapid development php framework');
<!DOCTYPE html>
<?php echo $cakeDescription ?>:
<?php echo $title_for_layout; ?>
echo $this->fetch('meta');
echo $this->fetch('css');
echo $this->fetch('script');
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
<h1><?php echo $this->Html->link($cakeDescription, 'http://cakephp.org'); ?></h1>
<div id="content">
<div id="footer">
$this->Html->image('cake.power.gif', array('alt' => $cakeDescription, 'border' => '0')),
array('target' => '_blank', 'escape' => false)
Find this:
Below it add this:
echo $this->Html->css('bootstrap');
echo $this->Html->css('bootstrap.min');
echo $this->Html->css('bootstrap-responsive');
echo $this->Html->css('bootstrap-responsive.min');
Find this:
echo $this->fetch('script');
Below it add this:
echo $this->Html->script('bootstrap');
echo $this->Html->script('bootstrap.min');
***Remember earlier when I said I was going to explain why the files MUST be in the webroot directory(For anyone new to MVC)? The above code is how Cake includes its scripts and css. The Method it uses for this looks in app/webroot/js for javascript files; and respectively in app/webroot/css for css files. This makes iNcluding js and css files a synch. If you want the js/css files included GLOBALLY include them default.ctp.
*If you only need a script for use with one view/page then use this same code on the view file you need it on.
It might sound a little complicated but it should only take 3 min to include the twitter bootstrap globally in this way.
Hope this helps!
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Why are you including both the minified and the normal versions of the files? bootstrap.min.css contains exactly the same css as bootstrap.css and likewise for the other files Including both just introduces needless http overhead. Your answer also doesn't solve the issues involving things like the formHelper as bootstrap expects a certain html format which the Cake helpers don't produce out-the-box. – harryg Sep 17 '13 at 9:24
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I agree with @Costa, Slywalker's plugin is the best solution. Here's the new version of his plugin, working with both Twitter Bootstrap 2.x and 3.x branches.
This plugin is far better as it extends nicely Html Helper, Form Helper and alerts.
Fork BoostCake Plugin for CakePHP 2.x at Github
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I had the same problem using slywalker / cakephp-plugin-boost_cake. I opened a ticket and he had it fixed in a few hours. He updated to 1,03 and told me to use it like this:
<?php echo $this->Form->input('email', array( 'label' => array( 'text' => __('Email:'), ), 'beforeInput' => '<div class="input-append">', 'afterInput' => '<span class="add-on"><i class="icon-envelope"></i></span></div>' )); ?>
I hope it helps some one else, too.
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Here is my problem today. I have a revenue (4M) and a rebate for each of the twelve months (a chart with 12 lines). My total rebate is the sum of the 12 rebates. Until there, no problem.
However, I would like to do a simulation and thus do a chart with 11 different values (revenue ranging from 3M to 5M) in order to see how the rebate would change. Here comes the problem, I would like to avoid having a 12 lines chart for each of my lines in my simulation chart.
Is there any way to do this on Excel (without using VBA).
Thank you very much for your help
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I am confused. Are you using a ratio to determine what the simulated rebate would be? – Pynner Feb 6 '12 at 21:10
exactly. I would like to do a chart with different values of revenues, and for each revenue i'd get a different rebate. I would like to automatize it in other words – SammyDow Feb 7 '12 at 8:44
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A relatively easy way to get where you want to go is to create your simulations in seperate rows on one tab/area ("data"), then place your chart with the particular set of data to be visualized in a second tab/area ("chart data"). Using a key (ie "X") and vlookup you can flip between data sets. See the picture below... I've put them onto a single tab to show everything in a single screen.
Hopefully this makes sense.
chart sample
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Thank you very much for the time you took to answer me. However it is not exactly what I wanted to do. My chart (chart_1) will not look like the one you have. It will rather be 5 columns (per example 5M CA, 4M CA, ..., 1M CA) and 3 rows (3 different methods to calculate the rebate). However the problem is that the result of each cell is the result of a long calculation based on another chart (chart_2) with 12 months. The problem is that to find all the values of chart_1, each time I need to change the CA in chart_2, and then I copy paste the result in chart_1 and I would like to automatize it – SammyDow Feb 8 '12 at 8:34
mostly you need to re-organize your data to automate your solution. I'd need a fair bit more detail to give you specific help. In general you will layout the data such that a simulation fits onto a single row (Regardless of complexity). Once you have that done you can copy down rows and change input parameters fairly quickly. – Pynner Feb 8 '12 at 17:01
Hey Pynner. Thank you again for your answer. The problem is not so much about having one line but it is about having the initial chart you have (the data chart). Would there be any way for me to send you the file so you it could be clearer about what I am talking about ? – SammyDow Feb 9 '12 at 8:00
if you can post it somewhere for me to download, i'll take a look at it. doesn't seem to be any way to Private message my email on this site. – Pynner Feb 11 '12 at 2:17
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1) you cite two human studies and a rodent study. Neither human study has a placebo group. This is generally considered unacceptable in studies of pain control because both "active " medications may have placebo effects that can be considerable in subjective scale studies like these. We can't tell from these studies whether a placebo would have caused the same degree of symptom relief.
2) both studies are sponsored by drug companies; in fact, in one of them the authors thank the drug company rep for design and data analysis of the study!! What you need to know about drug companies is that they reserve the right to publish or not publish a study they pay for. So they may have commissioned 20 identical studies done by different groups, with 19 of them being unpublished and showing no benefit and this published one showing possible benefit.
3) in the rutin study the authors point out that the enzyme is quickly metabolized to homovanillic acid (a dopamine metabolite) and other products. They profess they have no idea why an enzyme would work. Why are such studies done, you asked? Because the companies that make the product pay people to do them.
4) the rodent study is irrelevant as rodents have very different GI tracts than we, and may for example absorb some peptides directly from the roof of the mouth, for example.
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On Tuesday, August 23, 2005 a storm located near the south of the Bahamas called Tropical Depression Ten reacted with a tropical wave creating an intense tropical storm. On Wednesday, August 24, 2005, a tropical storm rising in the Caribbean was named Katrina. On Thursday, August 25, a day later, the tropical storm grew to the size of a hurricane. Later that day, Katrina made the shore of the east coast of Florida killing four people and leaving about 1,000,000 Floridians without power. The storm was expected to hit the Florida panhandle next, while it was travelling at tremendous speed through the eastern Gulf of Mexico. On Friday, August 26, Katrina had grown from a category 1 hurricane (the least intense) to a category 2, and it had doubled in size from Wednesday. Later that day, the next projected landfall of Katrina was to the left of the Florida panhandle, planning to hit Mississippi and Alabama. On Saturday, August 27, Katrina grew to a category 3 hurricane in the middle of the night. The path of the hurricane switched and was projected to hit New Orleans. On Sunday, August 28, Katrina was upgraded to a category 4 hurricane during the night, with winds that exceeding 145 mph. That morning Katrina grew to a category 5, which is the most catastrophic of all hurricanes. On Monday, August 29, 2005 Katrina made landfall in Mississippi and Louisiana where levees were being breached and the city began to flood.
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Hurricane Katrina began as a very low pressure weather system, which then strengthened to become a tropical storm. Hurricane Katrina's sustained wind speed was approximately 200 km/h.
Hurricane Katrina started as any other hurricane, as the result of warm moisture and air from the oceans surface that built into storm clouds and pushed around by strong forceful winds until it became a powerful storm.
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Hurricane Katrina began as a tropical storm in the Bahamas. It grew in size and speed as it moved towards southern Florida. It passed through Florida into the waters of the Gulf of
it started in dukingfeild off the coast of blackpool! But seriuosly: It started in the Atlantic Ocean.
Hurricane Katrina began as a tropical depression (a group of thunderstorms) near The Bahamas on August 23, 2005; it grew in strength to become a hurricane.
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The region of the Earth's magnetic field that is shaped by the solar wind is called the magnetosphere. This region causes the particles in the solar wind to travel around the planet. The shape of the magnetosphere is a hemisphere on one side and a long tail-like shape on the other.
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The solar wind causes the heliosphere around the earth but it helps to shape the magnetosphere. Various particles from the solar wind go into the magnetosphere and create the auroral oval lights show.
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I can say from personal experience that this does work. Didn't work on my HX850 (because of the Gorilla Glass, maybe?), which is how I ended up with the W9, but it did work on my XBR9.
^^^ I haven't. But if you're talking about ANY broadcast medium, they will employ compression to save bandwidth. So you're def on the right track by checking with a BR disk.
I think the answer is in the wording they used:•Provides HDMI® 2.0 compatibility (Applies to 4K models only)Supports 4K 60p (3840X2160p (59.94/60Hz) YCbCr 4:2:0 8bit, 4096X2160p (59.94/60Hz) YCbCr 4:2:0 8bit)And the second sentence is not its own bullet point, but an explanation of the bullet point above it.They're not going to provide 4K support to 1080p sets (even if they could) because they wouldn't be able to extract $3000 out of your wallet then!.
I can confirm that they do not work with the W9. Just like you, I had purchased my second 2 PS3 glasses to work with my HX850, and was bummed that they didn't work with the new set. No, the new glasses aren't nearly as comfortable and don't block out light from the side like the PS3 ones, but at least 4 were included free with the set!
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To be fair, there are definitely people who have had IR issues for more than those small windows of time, so I think it's completely fair to say that claims that it isn't an issue anymore are wrong. Some people have it, some don't. I, for one, could never get a plasma, as most of my viewing is through HTPC.
Honestly, they're close enough that I use them both. Cinema 1 for accurate, lights-off viewing (save for my bias lighting) and 2 for accurate, lights-on or some-sunlight viewing. The only things I change are Resolution and Backlight.
I think it was discussed earlier in the thread, but it depends on the Picture mode you’re using. Cinema 1 and 2 have some slightly different processing, with 2 having a little more sharpening. So I have Resolution set to 10 for Cinema 1 and 5 for Cinema 2. If you have a PC hooked up to the set, the difference with viewing text makes the difference easily apparent.
That option should be at the very beginning during the initial setup. It'll ask if it's for store or home use.
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0.038695 | <urn:uuid:d0d9954b-3f84-4bf4-9b7c-7bc4a82ee8e9> | en | 0.973813 | How do I get a no contact order dropped? And long can it last?
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My boyfriend and I were drinking one night and got in a push and shove fight! I feel into the ottoman/couch, he also had scratches on him from me, I ended up with brusied ribs and they are charging him with interfering with a 911 call and a domestic we been to court 4 times already including his bail release, I never wanted the no contact order, and have asked them at each court date to lift it, I also compleated a safety plan class and wrote a letter to the judge but the prosecutor told me they dont take letters, I'm obviously dont feel my safety is at risk and want to move forword with our lives and take counseling together and drinking classes please help with more ideas on how I can get this no contact order lifted it's ruining our lives
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1. Andrew M. Leone
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Answered . The no contact order will last as long as the case is pending. If he is found guilty, or pleas, one condition of his sentence may also be no contact.
The judge is the only person who has the power to lift the no contact order. If your boyfriend has an attorney, you could talk to him about tryong to get the.order lifted.
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Answered . You do not have any direct ability to have the NCO dropped. Generally, when a Court looks at these requests, it wants to know that you have no further safety concerns, and that there is little chance of you being hurt further.
You can simply continue to ask to have it dropped. In most jurisdictions there is a victim’s advocate service, whose chief function is to deliver your input and wishes to the Court. In addition, many prosecutors have a similar staff member in their office. You can and should share your views with these people.
Finally, your boyfriend is facing serious criminal charges, and should seek an attorney. Even a misdemeanor domestic assault carries significant collateral consequences in terms of jobs, housing, and other rights. In addition to the simple domestic charge, he is also facing a gross misdemeanor which can carry as much as a year of custody time (as a maximum). If convicted, he may be unable to contact you for the duration of probation which could be 2 years, for the misdemeanor or much longer for the gross misdemeanor.
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Alan Green: Obscene rants have no place in our game
Do you remember the days when supporters, however passionate they were about their own team, generally restricted any taunting of opponents to the good-natured variety?
Or, am I being naïve?
Whatever, that's certainly no longer the case.
Supporters of both clubs will deny it but one of the reasons I dread matches between Liverpool and Manchester United, wherever they're played, are the sickening songs about 'Hillsborough' and 'Munich'.
Football really can push entirely normal people to extremes.
Now Newcastle fans are usually of the most amenable sort. Though they've got to put up with the regular under-performing of a club they expect to win trophies, they're as couched in good humour as they are in those black and white shirts.
So why those appalling racist chants at Middlesbrough's Egyptian striker Mido?
And let's not have any nonsense about it being just harmless fun.
Calling someone a 'paedo' and a 'bomber' isn't funny in anyone's language.
I was watching mute television pictures of the game while I was at Old Trafford waiting for the Spurs' match and assumed Mido was way over the top with his 'shushing' gestures.
I was wrong and the only joke in the circumstances was that the player was booked.
So the FA is holding an enquiry. Why?
Isn't it already obvious what went on?
The only question surely is deciding what punishment they can inflict and that, I accept, is difficult.
How can Newcastle be blamed when it didn't happen at St James Park?
And, if you were to think of banning Newcastle fans from away games, you'd be financially punishing the other clubs involved.
I don't have an answer.
And I worry about what might happen to the Oldham player Lee Hughes in the coming weeks.
I have no sympathy for what he did three years ago, causing death by dangerous driving and then running away from the scene.
I might think, as many do, that his punishment wasn't severe enough, but the law took its course and Hughes served his time.
Though, and he admits as such, he will live with what he's done for the rest of his life, he has every right to try to rebuild his career as a footballer.
What, should we prefer him to have an anonymous job on a building site or as a postman rather than doing what he knows best?
That's not our right, it's his, but I dread what opposing fans have in store for him.
If I go to a game as a 'fan' and I really dislike what or whom I'm seeing, I never yell abuse.
My silence is as much condemnation as I care to muster and I frequently despise some of the things I hear shouted around me.
Wouldn't we live in a far better football world if others followed the example of Goodison Park and Anfield this last week in their wonderful tributes after that shocking murder on Merseyside?
Yes, many Everton and Liverpool fans in recent years have gone far too far in their bitterness towards each other but I know of no other city that can unite so magnificently in common grief.
Crocked Becks still rules roost
SO much for the "peak condition" claims by his spokesman.
David Beckham's latest injury will keep him out of England's critical European Championship qualifiers over the next ten days.
Anyone could see it coming even if he didn't.
All medical advice pointed to an increased risk of injury while undertaking that ludicrous transatlantic schedule in pursuit of a hundred England caps.
What gets me is the response of the people supposedly 'in charge'.
Steve McClaren explained that the reason Beckham played the whole game against Germany was that "Beckham wanted the minutes".
So, he's back running the England team, is he?
And Frank Yallop, the lame duck coach of LA Galaxy, said he picked the player against Chivas barely 30 hours later because "Beckham wanted to play".
It beggars belief, doesn't it?
At least, we should all be relieved that Beckham says he'll be better prepared for the European Championship than anyone playing in the Premier League.
Yes, sure, if you say so and IF England, Beckham or not, qualify.
Crouch is only fourth choice at best for Pool
PETER Crouch reckons his goal against Toulouse the other night is a clear sign to Rafa Benitez that the England striker should be in the Liverpool starting eleven.
Sadly, for Crouch, I think it's to the contrary.
He should have had a bucketful of goals in that Champions League qualifier, certainly a hat-trick before half-time, and Fernando Torres, sitting on the bench, must have regretted that he didn't get the chance to come on.
What with Andrij Voronin and Dirk Kuyt as well, Benitez has four top class strikers to call on.
At least two will be disappointed every single game and Crouch, perhaps sensing he's 'fourth pick' at the moment, is the first to have had a little moan at the coach.
While Liverpool are doing well, Benitez knows he's doing 'his' job properly and the players - arguably the manager has two good choices for every position except goalkeeper - must get on with it.
I don't know if Benitez has a 'first choice' striker pairing yet. Mine would be Torres and Kuyt and I'd pick Benayoun ahead of Pennant . . . but what would I know?
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How Julie Gostic became a nuclear ‘sleuth’
How does someone decide to make a career of tracking rogue nuclear materials – or identifying the radioactive sources used in a “dirty” bomb and understanding how radioactivity moves through the environment?
In Julie Gostic’s case, the motivation was the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The lubricant was a US Department of Energy research grant.
She earned an undergraduate degree in biophysics and toyed with the idea of a medical career. Then 9/11 struck.
“It was a call to duty,” Dr. Gostic says. “I’m horribly uncoordinated; you’d never want to put a gun in my hand. So how could I contribute?”
The answer lay in her biophysics training. That led to a master’s in radiological sciences and a job at Sandia National Laboratory. There, she worked on projects aimed at helping countries improve controls over nuclear materials in hospitals and university labs – materials that, in the wrong hands, could be used for dirty bombs. But she still couldn’t answer her own questions about how radioactive materials move through the environment.
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are designed to operate at a relatively low pressure and are made with a thick rubber seal and locking mechanism to keep the contents intact. There is a small relief valve on top that rocks and hisses while cooking to maintain constant pressure. I don't understand the concept for a bomb unless the whole lid locking mechanism allows sufficient pressure to build up from some sort of chemical reaction and then kaboom if and when the locking mechanism factor of safety is over come???
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Republic of Benin (Republique du Benin)
Location: Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean; between Nigeria and
Area: 112,620 sq. km (slightly smaller than Pennsylvania)
Natural Resources: small offshore oil deposits, limestone, marble, timber
Geographical Notes: Sandbanks create difficult access to a coast with no natural
harbors, river mouths or islands.
Nationality (noun/adj.): Beninese/Beninese
Population: 6,590,782
Note: Estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess
and death rates, lower population and growth rates and changes in the distribution of
population by age and gender than would otherwise be expected (July 2001 est.).
Growth Rate: 2.97% (2001 est.)
Birth Rate: 44.23 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Infant Mortality Rate: 89.68 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life Expectancy: 49.94 years
Ethnic Breakdown: African 99% (42 ethnic groups, most important being Fon, Adja,
Yoruba, Bariba), Europeans 5,500
Religious Breakdown: indigenous beliefs 50%, Christian 30%, Muslim 20%
Languages: French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in the south),
tribal languages (at least six major ones in the north)
Type: Republic under multiparty democratic rule. Dropped Marxism-Leninism
December 1989. Democratic reforms adopted February 1990. Transition to multiparty
system completed April 4, 1991.
Capital: Porto-Novo is the official capital; Cotonou is the seat of government.
Independence: Aug. 1, 1960 (from France)
Legal System: Based on French civil law and customary law.
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal
International Disputes: none
GDP: $6.6 billion (2000 est.)
Per capita GDP: $1,030 (2000 est.)
Division of Labor: NA
Industries: textiles; cigarettes; beverages and food; construction materials; petroleum.
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Arizona recruit Brandon Jennings has a big decision on his hands. What is that decision you ask? Well, he's in the process of deciding whether or not he should forgoe college and start playing professionally in Europe. I read this story on and Jennings wants to go to Arizona. But, he does face some hurtles with his college entrance exams...this will be his third time taking them..and he won't find out his results for a little while. So, he and his mom have hired an attorney and are going to explore the options of playing in Europe. The University of Arizona coaches are aware of his idea..and Jennings is expected to start summer school at Arizona soon.
Which leads us to the NBA's age rule. It's clear that the rule doesn't fit. The age rule is unecessary for the game of basketball. At first when the age rule was instituted by the NBA I thought that this was a decent idea..maybe it would get some kids to stay in school for 3-4 years but, that just isn't the case. I've seen the light sort of speak on this subject. There are certain players who are just NBA ready and, making them go to school for a year is a waste of their time and the universities.
Most of the time these "one and done" kids are the kids that would be questionable to get into college in the first place, I'm not saying that this always the case. College is something that people choose to go to. It shouldn't ever be something that you're forced to do. Generally the one and done kids are usually the students who don't care about an education..I'm not saying that it's always the case..they're are some very smart students who are there for just one year. But, most of the time those kids don't care about their education. If the kid feels like he's ready why is the NBA making them go through something that they for the most part just don't care about.
I see why college football has that rule. Most football players aren't ready coming straight from out of high school. I think the NBA needs to look at what the MLB does. If you're a high school baseball and you want to start playing pro baseball right away go for it...and then if you choose to go to college go do that. The NBA needs to start letting high school players back in the's just wasting the kids time as I said before. It's usually the guys who are in school for a year and gone who get suspended for cheating in class or who get suspended for just not going to class....why make them. They don't want to be there..they'd much rather be in the NBA so let them. How much can a guy mature in a year going from high school and into a year in college...these are usually the times where you make a lot of not a whole lot. The NBA needs to wake up and get rid of this horrible rule.
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#1Rizaadon007Posted 9/28/2013 1:51:57 PM
topic title - Results (45 votes)
X for attacking, O for artes
75.56% (34 votes)
O for attacking, X for artes
20% (9 votes)
Other - I like to be different.
4.44% (2 votes)
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I prefer using O for attacking and X for artes, because that's the way I'm used to them being from playing Phantasia, Eternia, Abyss, and Vesperia. I got used to it being the other way around in Graces f, but that's only one where that style works for me.
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#2EtherealistPosted 9/28/2013 7:40:42 PM
My first PlayStation-based Tales game was a Japanese import, so I've always opted to use the circle button for normal attacks.
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#3beautheschmoPosted 9/28/2013 8:02:23 PM
Both, I guess, I just go with whatever is default, for the most part.
It does present a bit of a problem when I'm trying to juggle multiple games at once, though. Like right now, I'm trying to juggle NDX, Rebirth (when I'm traveling for work) and Xillia 2 (when I have time at home). I switched Xillia 2 to English standards since I just played through X1, but haven't fiddled with Rebirth or NDX, so most of my gaming sessions start with me emptying half my TP pool/emptying all my FGs before I remember that they are set differently.
#4Milla_MaxwellPosted 9/28/2013 8:08:43 PM
I usually leave it as default, except in the case of when I buy a game twice.
Symphonia: A = Attack, B = Techs
Abyss: X = Attack, O = Artes
Graces... you can't change it
Vesperia 360 I changed because having B as normal attacks is just wrong... B should never be normal attacks.
Vesperia PS3 I changed to match Abyss
Xillia (jpn) I left as default (and changed it to match the Japanese Default when the English version came out.)
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#5peter_888Posted 9/28/2013 8:33:59 PM
x for attack and o for artes
#6Red HazePosted 10/1/2013 8:44:28 AM
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#7Arc166Posted 10/1/2013 9:09:27 AM
The default.
#8VeghEstherPosted 10/1/2013 11:18:56 AM(edited)
I prefer the American button set up that's why when I played FF7 in English that uses the Japanese setup of O = accept command and X = Cancel I had to change it to X = Accept and O = Cancel.
So once I do play on buying Xillia if X isn't already used for normal attacks and O isn't used for Artes by default I'll reverse the 2 buttons since I find it easier to use Ares = O and X = normal hits.
However if a tales of game doesn't use the L1 or R1 + O button for artes shortcut keys I will change it to use them that way.
NDX is too easy 100% job class mastery = Mel and Dio at levels over 150 (and the max level is 200) yet I still used X = fight command and O = spells/artes for its controls.
Once all jobs in NDX are mastered I let Dio use the jobs that are basically the Guy/Reid/LLoyd/Cless Artes setup let Mel be in a magic attack class job and use Cless and Mint my final 2 NDX party members.
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Whats the differece between franks camera and chucks?
I saw that chuck has a camera and so does frank but chucks looks like a film one and franks looks digtal. What's the differce?
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No difference except chucks is digital, nothing gameplay wise, if that's what your asking.
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How do I get past the blue energy door in the Cryo Labs of Mothership Zeta?
Specifically, on the first floor of the room you're in when you enter (with the teleporter to Cryo Storage). There's a door on the first floor that the guides are telling me leads to some Alien Captive Logs and a health gateway. None of them mention that there's a blue force field blocking the entrance or how to get past it.
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I don't remember where the panel is to open it, but there is one nearby. Just scope it out for a bit and you should find something you can activate to get rid of the forcefield.
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Sally will open them for you when you go through the quests.
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Well i remember when I went thru that section I had the unfrozen soldier with me and I talked to him at one point and he said that the cryo lab goes into a lockdown of someosrt and we'd just have to "wait it out". Maybe that is what's going on with that door. Either that or like Hattoru said there's a switch nearby that will open it....
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1 Problem
Can I have a generic numeric data type in Haskell which covers
Answer: In principle you can define a type like
data GenericNumber =
Integer Integer
| Rational Rational
| Double Double
and define appropriate instances for
class et. al.
That is, when using
s you will encounter exactly the problems
type would also negate the type safety that strongly typed numbers provide, putting the burden back on the programmer to make sure they are using numbers in a type-safe way. This can lead to subtle and hard-to-find bugs, for example, if some code ends up comparing two floating-point values for equality (usually a bad idea) without the programmer realizing it.
2 Solutions
2.1 average
average xs = sum xs / fromIntegral (length xs)
and you may prefer
average :: [GenericNumber] -> GenericNumber
average xs = sum xs / genericNumberLength xs
with an appropriate implementation of
. However, there is already
and you can write
average xs = sum xs / genericLength xs
2.2 ratios
You find it easy to write
1 / 3 :: Rational
but uncomfortable that
1 / floor pi :: Rational
does not work.
The first example works, because the numeric literals
are interpreted as rationals itself. The second example fails, because
always returns an
number type, where
is not an instance. You should use
instead. This constructs a fraction out of two integers:
1 % 3 :: Rational
1 % floor pi :: Rational
2.3 isSquare
It may seem irksome that
is required in the function
With a
type, one could instead write
isSquare :: GenericNumber -> Bool
isSquare n = (floor . sqrt $ n) ^ 2 == n
but there is a subtle problem here: if the input happens to be represented internally by a non-integral type, this function will probably not work properly. This could be fixed by wrapping all occurrences of
by calls to
, but that's no easier (and less type-safe) than just including the call to
in the first place. The point is that by using
here, all opportunities for the type checker to warn you of problems is lost; now you, the programmer, must ensure that the underlying numeric types are always used correctly, which is made even harder by the fact that you can't inspect them.
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NEW YORK - The obvious question when you're talking to an actress who has just finished a collaboration with Woody Allen, an actress like "Blue Jasmine" star Cate Blanchett, for instance, is whether that specific collaboration an actor's dream. After all, so many performers have produced some of their best (in many cases, award-winning) work under the director's helm. But the answer isn't necessarily the one you might expect.
"It's an actor's dream and an actor's greatest fear, I think," Blanchett says. "Obviously when you hear he's interested in working with you, you take the call, and you've already said 'yes' before you take the call. There's such reverence and awe for his work that the danger is you can make your offerings to this sacred altar, but in fact he's a bit profane as a filmmaker. He's extremely practical and I really relished it."
The script, about an Upper East Side New York socialite who loses her privileged lifestyle when her husband is busted for investment scumbaggery, was impeccably structured, Blanchett says. But within that there was a lot of opportunity to nail down the character through specificity and attention to detail.
"She's on a cocktail of Xanex and alcohol but there's no discussion with Woody about any of that stuff," Blanchett says. "It was important to chart all of that -- when she was taking what, when she was on what -- because obviously films by their nature are shot out of sequence. And she's a very broken individual with an incredibly romanticized sense of self, so she's unreliable. You couldn't always trust what she's saying about her situation and what is true and what wasn't."
And that's great insight into the tragedy of the story, Blanchett says. Many of Allen's films get at a sort of truth through a tightrope walk between highs and lows, never bogging down in the dramatic or the comedic alone. "It's about always trying to keep it buoyant and keeping the absurdity of the situation alive," Blanchett says. "I think that's the challenge when you're in one of Woody's films. He's a total shapeshifter, and so you don't know which way it's going to land. His films, to me, when they're at their absolute best, they're always true. How absurdly deluded some of these characters are. And it's also the incompatible warmth of some of the various characters that produces the comedy, I think."
Keeping the absurdity alive wasn't her responsibility alone, of course, and another tight Allen ensemble helped inform Blanchett's performance along the way. Filling out the cast this time around are Alec Baldwin (who worked with Allen on his last film, "To Rome with Love"), Sally Hawkins ("Happy-Go-Lucky"), Bobby Cannavale ("The Station Agent"), Peter Sarsgaard ("An Education"), Andrew Dice Clay (HBO's "Entourage") and Louis CK (FX's "Louie").
"I don't know how else to do it unless I'm doing it with other people," Blanchett says. "I've been doing theater back-to-back for five years and not making films at all, really. There were a lot of theater animals in the cast, Bobby Cannavale and Sally and Alec and Peter. And then you've got the two unique stand-up presences as well. Everyone really threw themselves at the material."
The actress did plenty of people-watching in New York to help build the character. But she says that even though Allen's characters are so particularly drawn, there's a universality to them. "Something I find quite pathetic, in the true sense of the word, is the loss of identity that happens to a lot of women when they attach themselves to a partner," she says. "They lose a sense of self. That's something you don't necessarily observe sitting in a restaurant."
Indeed, the film called for Blanchett to tiptoe into some truly dark areas as a result of that take on the character. She's not the sort who has a tough time breaking free of such a thing, however. "I've got three boys and they're a great leveler," she says. It's more about winding up into it than out of it. But there were times when the need to dig all of that back up was a challenge.
"The ending we shot a couple of times because he wanted to write something slightly different," Blanchett recalls. "And so I thought, 'Oh, phew, we've got that out of the way,' and then you had to go back and revisit it. He wanted to do it in one set-up, so it was quite sort of theatrical in that way. You had to just be on."
More to the point, though, Blanchett admits that, while she has no trouble compartmentalizing, as an actress, she never truly rids herself of characters and whatever tragic flaws might inform them.
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ALTOnce upon a time in a kingdom far far away (well, not that far if you live in California), there lived the queen of all the Dwarves and she lived in a granite quarry. Her name was Heather, and she had long black hair and was cursed at birth with a ladybeard that she shaved every morning. In the quarry she had all the little workers carve out a huge palace of burnished stone. One day an Evil Queen (who will once and forever be played by Andy Cohen) declared that Heather must throw a party for all the princesses in the realm so that they could come and do battle and only the victorious should leave. Heather's palace was the perfect place, because while it is hard to get blood out of a stone, it is very easy to wash blood off of one.
The occasion for the party was that Heather was changing her last name to Dwarf, which was the last name of her husband Terry, the king of the Dwarfs. They lived happily in their rock quarry with their little rock-eating children for many years, but finally she decided to change her name because the Evil Queen told her it would break the curse and make her beard disappear forever. The key ingredient for this bit of hocus pocus was a very grand cake with her new initials "H.D." inscribed on it which all the guests would eat in unison and then her curse would be broken. However, if even one person eat even a tiny bit of the cake before midnight all would be spoiled.
OK, enough of this fairy tale, at least for now. Let's start talking about Heather's party and all the crazy nonsense that was swirling about. The first guests to arrive are Tamra and her new fiance Eddie the Honeybear (doesn't he look like the clear plastic bear that honey comes in?). Heather is very happy that she is there with her gigantic diamond ring that covers up a literal scar from her last relationship. Everyone was happy for Tamra about her engagement except for Vicki who thinks they are moving too fast. When did Vicki turn into a troll turd of the highest order? Well, I guess she always has been, but she's been especially stinky this past year. She's talking about how Tamra got engaged only "six months after her divorce got finalized." Um, yeah Vicki, but she's been seeing the guy for two damn years. Isn't that long enough? You started dating Brooks while your ex was still living in the same house as you (and may have even been emailing with him while you were still married). Who do you think is moving fast. Argh.
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Alright, next up is Gretchen and Slade who pulled up in a Stage Coach from Petticoat Junction. Gretchen had a pink dress with ruffles with black piping and a flower in her hair and her tits spilling out, and she looked like she just got off her shift serving sassparilly at the saloon in Deadwood. But then Slade pulled up in the Delorean from Back to the Future and the door opened skyward and a little puff of smoke emerged and he came right from the '70s where he was wearing a black blazer and turtle neck like he was trying to be the white Shaft. They walked into the Granite Palace together and Gretchen said, "Ooooh. Pretty flowers" (they were quite nice) and then a waiter offered her a "Vanilla Pomegranate Martini" and she spontaneously vomited all over him and her dress, but luckily her bright pink emission was the same color as her dress, so it just blended and she walked into the party.
Gretchen and Slade really didn't do anything last night. That's when I like them the best. When they're doing absolutely nothing. Gretchen and Slade could sit on a couch for the rest of their lives watching reruns of SVU and I'd be totally fine with that. Once a year we could check in and say, "How you guys doing?" and they'd say, "Oh, just fine. Can you get us some pretzels?" and that would be absolutely perfect.
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Mktg Hi. My dad has bought a Voyager and is a bit confused about what is going on. He said Chrysler was pulling out of the UK, and he has only just got the car. He's a bit worried about parts, and things like that.
Chrysler Right, I can completely understand that. As far as we are aware, we haven't been notified of any drastic changes such as that. Fiat does own 20% of the company, but we haven't been made aware of specific changes. I don't think he has to worry about it at all.
Mktg I think it was about Fiat. He said they were looking to change the European market and it would result in the cars being rebadged.
Chrysler That's right. I do believe there have been discussions about a five-year plan implementation, but I don't think he has anything to worry about.
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