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High-performance GUI-based ftp clients for Linux are hard to find. The graphical FileZilla ftp client closes the gap.
Although the name might lead you to think otherwise, FileZilla has nothing in common with the Mozilla project. The FileZilla project, which was launched in 2001 by Tim Kosse [1], was the SourceForge "Project of the Month" [2] in November 2003. In version 3, the developers have recoded the ftp client, which was originally released for Windows only, and ported the results to Linux and Mac OS X [3].
Besides a neat GUI, the GPL2-licensed ftp client includes features that put some commercial competitors to shame. Proxy support is included, as is support for encrypted protocols, such as FTPS, FTPES, or SSH File Transfer Protocol. A file and directory filter make sure that you only see what you are looking for. The program includes a download limiter, which lets you restrict the number of uploads and downloads and the maximum transfer speed.
FileZilla has made its way into the repositories of all the major distributions and can be installed by your distro's native package manager. Ubuntu users will need to enable the Universe repository, which only has the 3.0.0 through 3.0.1 versions, compared with the current 3.0.7. Because versions above 3.0.5 include various new features that I will be referring to in this article, it makes more sense to download the generic, pre-built package from the project homepage [3].
After the download, copy the tarball to the /opt folder and unpack at the command line with the command:
tar xfvj FileZilla_3.0.7_i586-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
Clicking on /opt/FileZilla3/bin/filezilla launches the program. When first launched, the application creates a .filezilla folder below its home directory, which is where the configuration files are stored.
The first settings are configured with the assistance of the network configuration wizard, which you can launch by clicking the item in the Edit menu. The wizard guides you step by step through the network configuration and provides a detailed description for each item you are prompted to configure.
Settings that relate to the client connection, transfer, or view are accessed via the Settings dialog, which you can access via the Edit | Settings menu. Connection lets you specify whether the client should use active or passive ftp to contact the server [4]. The Active mode and Passive mode items let you set up the details.
The input dialog for proxy support configuration appears by clicking FTP Proxy. To avoid consuming all the available bandwidth, you can restrict the upload or download speed in the Transfers dialog. The Threshold item lets you specify whether FileZilla should apply these restrictions strictly or less so. The speed limit applies to the sum total of current downloads. Simultaneous transmissions share the bandwidth you specify. The Concurrent transfers area lets you set the number of simultaneous transfers the program will allow (Figure 1).
Also, you can configure the View to suit your own taste. In File and Directory View:, the options are Explorer, Classic, Widescreen, and Billboard. Because the program applies the changes immediately, you can watch the program window to decide whether you like the new view. The Designs category gives you the option of changing the widget sets, but not the window layouts.
Edit remote file takes you to the settings for the new feature added in version 3.0.5 that lets you edit text files on the ftp server just like local files. To use this feature, just enter the path to your Default editor:.
Site Manager
FileZilla has multiple options for connecting to a server. For example, it has a quick connection below the menu icons, much like the address bar in a web browser. To use the quick connection feature, just fill out the fields and click Connect. The server stores a history of the sites you visit, and you can click the down arrow next to the Connect button to access them. As of this writing, the program does not have a feature for opening a server directly in the Site Manager.
The Site Manager works like the bookmarks in a web browser but has far more functionality. Clicking the Opens the site manager icon on the far left of the menu bar launches the Site Manager. Clicking the New Folder button lets you organize sites in directories that you create. To bookmark a server, first click the directory where you want it to appear, and then click New Site. Because you cannot shift entries around between folders, it makes sense to create a meaningful directory structure before you start creating entries.
Clicking on a server listed in the right window panel opens the corresponding settings. In the General tab, enter the connection data and server type (ftp, SSH File Transfer Protocol, etc.). The Advanced tab lets you specify standard directories for the client to use locally and remotely after logging on (Figure 2). The Transfer settings tab lets you decide whether to use active or passive ftp [4]. After completing an entry, you can just double-click to open a connection.
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NFL Player agent Alvin Grier has agreed to share his insights to scout.com's audience. In his first contribution to Scout, Grier sheds lights on what are the top negotiating ploys used by both sides in trying to resolve an NFL contract negotiation that may need a kickstart.
NFL Contracts – 15 Ways NFL Players and Teams Gain Leverage in Negotiations – Part One
By Alvin Grier, Sports Agent, ESA
When it Comes to Negotiations, it's All About Leverage
Let's talk contract leverage for a second.
Now granted, if you ever get lucky enough to get drafted (or make a team as an undrafted free agent) you'll have to wait at least four or five years before you'd probably ever have to deal with this, but it doesn't hurt to know it anyways.
Today I'm going to share a few examples of situations that shift the leverage to either the player or team's side, when it comes to asking for, or negotiating a contract with an NFL team.
Quite often, leverage is out of your control, but when you control it, you'd better take advantage of it.
It's not about being deceitful, it's just the way it goes when it comes to negotiations in any industry, not just pro football.
Because of all of the different scenarios that could exist, this is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all of the different scenarios that could take place.
What I'll do is list a high-level explanation of the scenario in bold letters, followed by a brief example of a situation that occured recently in contract negotiations between a player and an NFL team.
Note: I don't have inside knowledge of the strategy of the players in these situations, so I'm only going off of how things appear from the outside. The players and their respective agents (as well as the teams involved) could very well have other plans.
Leverage just tends to be something that's available for the world to see when it comes to pro sports because details, such as acquisitions, salary cap space, and contract details are pretty much readily available for public knowledge).
Let's start out with some of the ways a player can gain leverage.
How Players Can Gain Leverage
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1. Holding Out
Even when a player lacks any true leverage, holding out is something players do anyways.
It's like a trump card that the player always holds.
While it's indeed similar to a trump card, it doesn't always work.
When players lack true leverage, it doesn't have as much of an effect, but when it's all you have, it's all you have.
The player can hold out, hoping that the team wants him there so bad that they'd be willing to rework his deal or give him an extension.
As I type this, in mid-May 2012,
Dwayne Bowe
appears to be going this route.
He was given the franchise tag by the Chiefs earlier this off season, and he still hasn't signed it.
It appears that he's going to holdout, to try to see if him missing workouts is going to convince the Chiefs to do a new deal with him so he can report.
2. Being a Pro Bowler, All Pro and/or Super Bowl Winner
Even though he's 37, linebacker
London Fletcher
has some pretty decent leverage in his attempt to get what will likely be the last deal of his career.
As a three-time Pro Bowler, and being in the Pro Bowl as an alternate as recently as the 2012 Pro Bowl, it sweetens the deal for him, because it's proof that he's still a top-level linebacker, despite his age.
Don't get me wrong, being a pro bowler and having a Super Bowl on your resume doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to get anything you want in a negotiation.
Still, the leadership, experience, productivity, and pedigree someone like London can bring to your defense can definitely give you some much-needed leverage when it comes to negotiating for a new contract.
3. Being Irreplaceable
Now this one kinda goes along with the previous point, but you don't always have to be a current Pro Bowler.
Wes Welker
has been to the Pro Bowl four times now, and he didn't go to the 2012 Pro Bowl, but it doesn't take a football genius to know that Wes Welker is irreplaceable.
Unfortunately for Wes, he's trying to get a new contract with the Patriots, which is a team that is known to make any player feel replaceable.
Wes might've normally been able to use that leverage for a new contract with any other team but the Patriots.
In fact, he's already publicly stated that there's no way he's going to miss games in the 2012 season.
Patriots WR Wes_Welker
4. Being a Leader in Important Statistical Categories
Some say Wes Welker could've threatened not to report to camp and holdout for his new contract partially due to leading the league in receptions, yards after catch, for several years in a row, even though he was offered a $9.5 million one year deal as a franchise player.
On the flip side, as we already discussed, he gave up some leverage by making it clear that he didn't plan on holding out of any games during the 2012 season.
5. Threatening to Retire
You can gain leverage by threatening retirement, if you're a future hall of famer type player like
Ed Reed
, espcially since
Terrell Suggs
is injured, and may be gone for the entire 2012 NFL season.
Ed Reed has said that he wants a new contract.
He's also flirted around with retirement. Situations like this can put the team in a position where they need the player more than the average player, which gives Mr. Reed the leverage in this situation.
You can only get away with this one when you're an irreplaceable player like Ed Reed, who's arguably the best safety in the history of the NFL.
I'm not saying Ed's been bluffing on his thoughts of retiring, but even if he's serious, it's smart to play your cards right, and it appears that Ed Reed intends on doing just that.
6. Team Lacks Solid Options on the Roster at Your Position
Even though it appears Forte is serious about holding out now in 2012, many believe that the 2011 season provided more leverage for Forte, because not only was he a year younger (and we know that every year counts as a running back, especially), but the only other running backs the Bears had was an aging
Marion Barber
and Khalil Bell.
Forte was holding out, but decided to come back and join his teammates in training camp in 2011.
That very well could've been a great opportunity to get what he wanted.
In part two, we'll continue looking at some more ways players can gain leverage, then take a look at ways the teams can gain leverage.
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I'm doing a home reno.
All the in ground and under slab DVW pipes where done with ABC plastic. With the ABS there was no movement between the fitting and the overlap of the hub fittings provided larger seal area than the clamp does with a no hub coupling.
The couplings I'm using are Anaco/Husky (neoprene couplings, stainless band, 2 clamps). All the pipe is cut square but there's still flex and the neoprene over the rough cast iron doesn't seam to be the best way to provide a seal that should last 30-40 years.
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Thanks to social media, internet forums and review channels, the modern consumer has a convenient public platform at their fingertips and will spread negative sentiment about a business without thinking twice. The survey of 2,030 adults from the United States showed that the figure soared to nearly 60 percent (59.3%) among 25-34 year-olds - clearly demonstrating the generational importance of a channel that's likely to explode in relevance as Gen Y consumers' spending power increases.
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Cooling on global warmingMarch 29,2013Is spring actually here? We are definitely getting tired of snow stories. Its time for some sun. And then the drought stories!
At which point we will ask ourselves: What ever happened to worrying about global warming? You may remember what a big deal President Barack Obama made about climate change in his inaugural address. It definitely looked as if the ozone layer was making a comeback. Later, in the State of the Union speech, Obama came back to his battle cry again and urged Congress to get together, pursue a bipartisan, market-based solution to climate change, like the one John McCain and Joe Lieberman worked on together a few years ago.
Urging the House and Senate to follow the lead of the two most notorious shape-shifters in recent political history was perhaps not a favorable omen.
Nor was the fact that earlier this month, a deeply noncontroversial Senate resolution commemorating International Womens Day had to be taken back and edited because someone objected to a paragraph which had been in an almost identical version passed in the last Congress stating that women in developing countries are disproportionately affected by changes in climate because of their need to secure water, food and fuel for their livelihood.
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A provision expressing the Senates views on such a controversial topic as climate change has no place in a supposedly noncontroversial resolution requiring consent of all 100 U.S. senators, a Cruz spokesman said.
Do you think everything in the world is now about Sen. Ted Cruz? Sure seems like it. Although I would discount the rumors that he is responsible for the helium shortage or the sinkhole epidemic.
There was a time, children, when the Republican Party was a hotbed of environmental worrywarts. The last big clean air act of the Bush I administration passed the House 401-21. But no more, no more. Youre not going to get any sympathy for controlling climate change from a group that doesnt believe the climate is actually changing.
As former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay used to say, Only nature can change the climate a volcano, for instance.
Its sort of ironic. These are the same folks who constantly seed their anti-deficit speeches with references to our poor, betrayed descendants. (This is a burden our children and grandchildren will have to bear.) Dont you think the children and grandchildren would appreciate being allowed to hang onto the Arctic ice cap?
In his cheerleading State of the Union speech, the president did mention that if Congress, by any wild chance, failed to take action, the administration would do some things on its own. The Obama White House accomplished quite a bit without legislative help during the first term, imposing some big new regulations on automobile fuel efficiency, encouraging the production of biofuels and creating new standards on home appliances.
Its a pretty impressive record, given the fact that the mere implementation of a Bush-era regulation on light bulb efficiency was enough to spark the Michele Bachmann Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act, and Sen. Rand Pauls historic dual-purpose rant claiming that the administration favored a womans right to an abortion, but you dont favor a womans or a mans right to choose what kind of light bulb.
The light bulb standards survived. The world continues to turn.
But a carbon tax/fee is the key to controlling climate change. That or just letting the next generation worry about whether the Jersey Shore is going to wind up in Trenton. Currently, majority sentiment in Congress is to hope for the best and pass the baton to the grandchildren. (When it comes to rising-sea-level denial, the champion may be North Carolina, where the Legislature has voted to base state coastal management policy on historic trends rather than anything the current experts have to say.
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We were pretty stoked at how well it did. It was 42 counting Frank Lautenberg, who wasnt there, Whitehouse said in a phone interview.
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Using a large, 16x20 240dpi photograph....
I created a completely non-feathered mask of a subject against a background (mask-view reveals black and white with no greys)
I moved the subject with the content aware move tool. The portion where the sudbject used to be is clean and devoid of any trace of the subject.
The subject, now moved, is showing feathering in random parts of their formerly masked outline. The subject's hair is feathered to the point that the subject is missing nearly all of their hair which bleeds into the background. This is not a case of a bad mask. This was the doing of the content fill.
Can you post a screen shot of the before and after:
FAQ: How do I capture and post a screen shot or video?
More details about platform, etc may also be helpful:
That means that the selection is touching the hair and is trying to blend it. If you watch the sneak video for this feature, Bryan suggests Select>Modify>Expand... and push the selection out 5- 10 px.
I didn't see Bryan's video/suggestion, however, I did instinctively push out the mask by 5 pixels with the expand option in the example I posted.
Having read your suggestion, I tried a few variations (10px expanded, 20px expanded, 30px expanded) and I'm getting the same results. The girl's hair seems to appear better now than at 10px, but the male's hair seems to look the same, as well as his jacket. I always found the original content aware fill tool a little sloppy requiring human intelligence to "tidy up" the rough edges that content aware fills leaves behind. The move tools appears to be no exception and the way it works, post touch ups seem like more work than simply cutting into a new layer the old fashioned way.
30 pixel expanded mask (20 pixels looked about the same):
Using your image, I tried a different selection method, and just used a rough rectangular marquee to select the couple.
I even had to remove the "original" text from your post
Here's my result:
New technology sometimes requires new workflow to work with it! Funny here the simple rectangular selection made for a better run through with CAM. How about you?
Using a rectangular selection, predictably, yielded a highly unbelievable background.
As I said, the old method of cutting the subject out into a new layer and filling in the background contents with content aware fill seems to still be the only option if print enlargements and believability are of any concern.
The content aware move tool seems to work well as far as display viewing is concerned as is evident with some of the demonstration videos I've watche. I'm clearly pushing beyond its limits with my 16x20 print senario.
The problem with this new tool is that it requires a level of control much like in the "refine mask edges".
I didn't want to algorithm to destroy the image data 50-80 pixels into my subject's head! I just wanted a clean cut-out.
I understand it's trying to BLEND the subject into its new environment. But it did so Too drastically and without any user control.
Had there been some kind of panel that let me use a smart radius, or feather setting, contrast setting, that would have helped ME give the TOOL a better idea how my particular mask would best blend into its new environment. That might just comlicate it since it's meant to be a user-friendly "quicky" tool.... and go over people's heads. I personally love the mask refine tool and use it ALL the time. But I'll be honest, if these are the sorts of results that will be delivered with large sized images, my faith in it has started out very low.
the mask can be refined before-hand using the actual 'refine mask' control panel then making the move after the fact. (or just feathered in one big brush stroke)
While your results did preserve the integrity of the subjects, the background surrounding them is still very odd looking - meaning - another trip to the quick-mask and a cleaning of edges (if it were made into a new layer)... kind of rendering the tool a little silly considering, as I said before, it was probably designed to be a one-step tool in the first place.
Yeah Jon,
I was mostly concerned with testing the process. The process might vary from image to image. I created the selection of the figures very quickly using the quick selection tool and then expanded it using the Select > Modlfy > Expand 15 pixels like Jeff described. I took the screen shot of the selection in Quick Mask mode just because it is easier to see versus the standard blinking outline. I agree the background might need some work. Actually your background that was generated originally (with the tight selection around the figures) was pretty incredible and very believable. I still find using new the tool quite a bit faster than trying to accomplish the same thing in Photoshop CS5.
I must say the Content Aware Tools are pretty useless right now - they produce subpar results. I think you could introduce "High quality mode" where it would take much more time to calculate all the pixels, but with professional-looking results. Every example you show here is flawed - the edge is always visible, regardless of the selection.
I think it would be helpful if one had the option of defining the 'replace' source - ala the new patch Content Aware tool.
My beef - I do a very close selection on some of my examples, specify 'Very Strict' and it leaves a rather large chuck of the image behind. Shouldn't there be a setting for the tool if you have a near exact selection?
Try making a much larger and more generous selection, with plenty of space around the main subject, and then experiment with "Strict" or "Very Strict" Adaptations.
You can cycle between these Adaptations while the Selection is still active to see which mode works the best.
First, create an empty Layer above your main Layer;
choose "Sample All Layers" for the Content Aware Move tool and do the move on the empty layer;
and then use a layer mask on that layer to hide any unwanted bits or to feather the edges of the moved item.
While I agree with your method as I'd be willing to bet it is probably the best way to get around the tool's shortcomings, the fact is that it requires just as many steps to implement than the old CS5 method of doing this.... Again, defeats the idea of this being a 1-step trick.
I prefer to finesse my one-step tricks!
I am not a button-clicking auto-anything sort of operator!
Don't bother with a Layer Mask if it is too much trouble but do use larger selections than the ones which you apparently have been using; and also note the very nice feature of being able to use the Healing tools and CAM tool on an empty over-lying layer.
You could also use an eraser on your retouching layer if you are really Mask-allergic?!
While I appreciate masks, and generally do things on new layers anyway -- it still seems odd that it wouldn't account for all the section improving tools that have been introduced in previous versions. CAM seems to want users to be deliberately sloppy.
CAM just seems to like a little breathing-space to it's job properly so tightly drawn selections don't give it the margins that are necessary for its calculations.
Wildly unpredictable calculations, as shown above. It would work better with a 'No-Fly-Zone'
You'll find CAM less "wild", and discover how best to house-train it, as you work with it for a bit.
If you are using it in Extend mode, move your selected area so that active section is still overlapping the area from which it came.
You can repeat that several times to spread some texture over a wider area.
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A congressional report outlines $70 billion of unspent federal dollars that could have helped disaster victims, spurred highway construction and funded education programs.Lack of congressional oversight in spending only leads to more unneeded, wasteful spending, Coburn said.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who released the report today, said the languishing funds are due to "poorly drafted laws, bureaucratic obstacles and mismanagement, and a general lack of interest or demand from the communities to which this money was allocated," according to a release.
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- Nearly one-fourth of $35 billion in disaster grants is unspent at the Homeland Security Department. FEMA said the delays were caused by too many federal regulations.
- More than $1 billion in transportation funds are unspent in three states — Virginia, Maryland and Georgia.
- More than a decade after 9/11, billions are unspent of the $11.3 billion that Congress appropriated for direct aid and tax benefits to New York City.
- A program at the Energy Department to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. As of 2007, Energy had $30 million in reserves for this program.
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