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Straw Dogs (1971) [Blu-Ray]
Screenplay : David Zelag Goodman and Sam Peckinpah (based on the novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm by Gordon M. Williams)
MPAA Rating : NR
Year of Release : 1971
Stars : Dustin Hoffman (David Sumner), Susan George (Amy Sumner), Peter Vaughan (Tom Hedden), T.P. McKenna (Major John Scott), Del Henney (Charlie Venner), Jim Norton (Chris Cawsey), Donald Webster (Riddaway), Ken Hutchison (Norman Scutt), Len Jones (Bobby Hedden), Sally Thomsett (Janice Hedden), Robert Keegan (Harry Ware), Peter Arne (John Niles), David Warner (Henry Niles)
Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs is a great and troubling masterpiece, a film of such simultaneous depth and crudeness that it has elicited some of the most conflicting responses of his or any other filmmaker's career. For every critic who found it the work of a great and terrible genius, there were those like Judith Crist who labeled it the worst film of 1971 and declared "All anyone with an IQ of 70-plus can get out of this film is a case of the heaves."
Like Peckinpah's brilliant revisionist Western The Wild Bunch (1969), Straw Dogs is not just a violent film, but a film about violence, which is what makes it so difficult to watch. Violent films (whether they be war films, or cop thrillers, or even horror films) are often easily digestible because we aren't asked to consider the implications of the actions or in any way question our own complicity in the enjoyment of simulated bloodshed. So much cinematic violence is easy, fun, and escapist—it exists in its own thoughtless vacuum on the silver screen and never encroaches on our world.
Peckinpah's greatest contribution to modern filmmaking was not in making violence bloody and visceral in a way it had never been before, but in using that viscera to remind us of the nonchalant indifference we feel for so many of the victims of cinematic violence who die easy, painless deaths. Yet, at the same time, Peckinpah's depictions of violence are eerily beautiful and often exhilarating; despite the apocalyptic horrors of hundreds of men getting torn to shreds at the end of The Wild Bunch, who can honestly say that it was not a vicariously exciting ride, as well? Thus, Peckinpah, more so than virtually any other filmmaker then or now, was able to tap into the terrible paradox of violence: it is both repulsive and fascinating, and those two responses can never be reconciled.
Straw Dogs was Peckinpah's first non-Western, but the same themes and obsessions that drove his earlier films are very much in evidence, even if transplanted to a different time and place. Dustin Hoffman (hot on the heels of The Graduate and Little Big Man) stars as David Sumner, an American mathematician who is escaping the social turmoil of the United States in the early 1970s by retreating with his British wife, Amy (Susan George), to her family farm in the Cornish countryside. David is an intellectual, a man who lives primarily inside his own head and is thus largely disconnected from everything else around him, including his own wife. His escaping the racial, political, and social problems of his native country is not so much a sign of his lack of commitment as it is a symptom of his deep inwardness—so intent is he on his mathematical theorems that he can't be bothered by student war protests and the like.
Unfortunately, he finds the Cornish moors to be no less distracting. Peckinpah establishes this visually by depicting the countryside in drab shades of brown and gray. There is little life to be found in the surrounding fields, and the stone village near their farm is characterized by tension and moral ambiguity (the opening shots of children playing in a graveyard reflect the sadistic play of the kids in the beginning of The Wild Bunch). For various reasons, David draws the ire of the locals, most of whom are loutish men he has hired to build a roof for the garage next to his house. One of them, Charlie Venner (Del Henney), has "known" Amy in the past, and the others would like to get to "know" her, as well. David is largely blind to these past relationships, as he is to his own. His marriage to Amy is fraught largely unspoken anger and fragility because neither one of them seems capable of the maturity and tenderness needed to maintain a relationship.
For her part, Amy is silly and insecure, a woman-child who is fully aware of her sexuality, yet not in complete control of it. She reacts to David as a spoiled child would, erasing parts of his formulas from his blackboard or irritating him while he works by loudly smacking her gum. David is no better, though. He is withdrawn and demanding, constantly wanting Amy to leave him alone and refusing to pay her the attention she craves. His is almost craven in his disregard for her, and her childish behavior can be interpreted as a response to the way he treats her as one. Even when he attempts to be kind, he comes across as insensitive; for example, while trying to teach her to play chess, he encourages her by saying, "See, you're not so dumb."
The narrative momentum in Straw Dogs builds as the tension between David and the locals slowly rachets up to a point where something must break. The crucial turning point occurs when Charlie Venner and the others invite David out to go hunting, but then ditch him on the moors so they can return to his house and pay Amy a visit. This culminates in a rape sequence that has been the subject of much controversy, mostly because Amy appears to enjoy it. Although she at first fights Charlie off, midway through the rape her facial expressions and body language clearly suggest pleasure and desire, which so many have read as the apotheosis of the misogynistic fantasy that women not only ask to be raped, but also secretly like it.
Such a reading is understandable, but ultimately misguided because it does not take into account the narrative as a whole and the complexities of both Amy's character and the way in which Peckinpah depicts the rape. Amy is clearly a conflicted character, a woman of great sexual longing whose physical desires are unmet by her husband (not because of his physical slightness, but because he is too preoccupied with his own interests). She and Charlie have been together in the past ("There was a time, Mrs. Sumner, when you were ready to beg me for it," he taunts her near the beginning of the film), thus the rape is also an awakening of memories. Her responses are contradictory because the act itself is so fraught with confusion. With Charlie, the rape means one thing, but when another of Charlie's friends comes in and forcibly takes her from behind, it becomes something entirely different--any sense of conflict gives way to sheer terror, making the scene virtually unwatchable. Any suggestion of misogyny on Peckinpah's part cannot be sustained because he clearly means for us to feel for Amy and her suffering--it is her subjectivity we endure during the scene, not those who are assaulting her. This is particularly true of the following sequence in which she must face her attackers at a church social, and Peckinpah depicts her psychological distress through fast-cut subjective flashbacks that are like knives stabbing at her soul.
Of course, what this is all leads to is the moment when David must finally stand up for himself. This occurs when he accidentally hits the "village idiot," a man named Henry Niles (David Warner). Unbeknownst to David, Henry has just inadvertently killed a teenage girl (in a plot device lifted from John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men), the daughter of the town's beastliest drunk, Tom Hedden (Peter Vaughan). Hedden gathers together the rest of the men in town and descend on David's house, demanding that he turn over Henry to them so they can mete out their own justice (which is, of course, reflective of the kind of lynch-mob mentality that had plagued so much of the American South). David, for reasons that can only be attributed to his having finally been pushed too far, refuses to allow them into his house. "I will not allow violence against this house," he declares, although the warble in his voice suggests that he has not fully accepted the inevitable consequences of these words.
What follows is a brilliantly executed sequence in which David, completely alone, battles against the men outside who are trying to gain entry to his house. Even Amy is against him, refusing to aid him when he needs it and even working against him at various times. By the end of it, David has killed a half-dozen men in a variety of ways, all of them bloody and demeaning (the worst being one man who is caught by the neck in an antique bear trap). At its crudest, this scene is about David "rising to the occasion"--the mild-mannered, bespectacled intellectual who allowed himself to be pushed around and bullied finally fights back by finding his inner strength and embracing his potential for violence. Those who detest the film point to this reading, suggesting that the entire film is about little more than how Peckinpah feels a man is not a man until he has unleashed his inner animal.
Yet, such a reading is simplistic and short-sighted, not taking into account the tone of the scene and its aftermath. Yes, the "siege" sequence is an exciting piece of action filmmaking. Peckinpah and his editors pieced together a spatially and temporally complex orgy of violence that gets your heart pounding and your nerves rattled. And, however we feel about David and his contemptuous behavior throughout the film, we cannot help but side with him and cheer him on as he dispatches the louts one by one, giving them "what they deserve." But, when all is said and done, the film is darkened with a sense of defeat and pointlessness. As soon as the last intruder is dead, there is an almost immediate let-down as we realize that David's victory is really no victory at all. Yet, even then, the paradoxical nature of the film persists, as we realize that there was little else he could have done. Should he have turned Henry over to the lynch mob? Did his protecting Henry ultimately save him? Is David really any more of a man now that he has shed blood?
These are questions that are left dangling at the end of Straw Dogs, and they have no easy answers. The critics who dislike the film tend to feel that these questions are answered, which presumes a thematic simplicity that is not in evidence. Straw Dogs frustrates and compels not because it tells us easy things like "violence lurks in the hearts of men" (which it does), but because it ultimately refuses to make any absolute value judgments about such a statement. Peckinpah clearly believed that humans are inherently violent beings--he said as much in interview after interview. Yet, he was also a committed liberal democrat and humanist who detested the violence and scandal of the world around him. Thus, like its depictions of violence, the film's stand on David's descent into destruction to protect what's his is, in the end, ambiguous.
Straw Dogs Blu-Ray | |
Aspect Ratio | 1.78:1 |
Audio | English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround |
Subtitles | English, French, Spanish |
Distributor | MGM / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
Release Date | September 6, 2011 |
It has been eight years since the Criterion Collection released its excellent Straw Dogs two-disc DVD set, which replaced the previously available Anchor Bay DVD. MGM's new 1080p/AVC-encoded transfer improves on Criterion's efforts due to increased resolution, which adds more detail and enhances the film's textures without losing its filmlike look (there is a definite presence of grain in the image as there should be, but a blessed lack of dirt and damage). It also looks to me to be slightly brighter than the Criterion DVD transfer, although colors looks roughly the same (the palette is limited largely to blacks, grays, and browns, although there are occasional bursts of color in the clothing). MGM has also improved on the audio with a new, lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1-channel surround track that expands on limited fidelity of early '70s monaural. Granted, the remix isn't particularly bold (which is a good thing), keeping most of the sound limited to the front soundstage and only occasionally expanding to the surround channels, particularly when Jerry Fielding's haunting musical score comes into play, but it sounds clean and effective. | |
With only a trailer and three TV spots on the disc, the Straw Dogs Blu-Ray doesn't hold a candle to Criterion's DVD (which included a Stephen Prince commentary, a documentary on Peckinpah, and footage from the production), so hold on to it! |
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In an email to his supporters, McDaniel explained his decision to leave the 2014 Arkansas Governor's race.
"I sought public office to serve my fellow Arkansans and to lead on issues that matter to the State that I love. I have done that, and I will be forever proud of my record in the legislature and as AG. I had hoped that I could shape the 2014 gubernatorial debate with my vision for the future. Unfortunately, I am now convinced that if I run for Governor, this campaign would be about me personally, rather than Arkansas's future," said McDaniel.
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Not to get too far from this riveting topic but my first trip to Mias, I had a similar experience. First of all, I like Mias just fine for a drink and some really good wings. I wouldnt go by myself or even another girlfriend but as couples or a group it can be fun and close to home.
We were sitting at a bar(not THE bar)facing the (parkay wood)dance floor. I'm a people watcher so I wanna be able to have a good view. The bartender was friendly and I guess fairly normal. We were giggling about the stereotypical people who frequent bars like that(not ALL, just SOME). So, she says to us, "you see that blonde girl dancing with the long, haired gray headed man?". Let me say first that this girl looked in her mid 30's, clean cut, attractive enough...the man however looked like he hadnt seen a shower and a shave for weeks and at least 25 yrs older than her. We had already noticed them b/c this girl was seriously gettin' down. They danced every song together for at least an hour.
Thats when the bartender says,"yeah, they may be dancing together like that but she has no idea that he is the homeless man who basically lives in the lot behind the bar. He's here all the time and she's too drunk to notice."
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Dates Worse Than Fate
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011I've finished my novel!
It's called Dates Worse Than Fate. The Premise: terrible dates combined with terrible moments in human history! Would you like to read it? I would also like you to read it. But that requires a literary agent or publisher. Are you one of these people/entities? If so, well, confession: I love you. Please contact me! My info is on this page. I've only met one literary agent once. It was five years ago after I did a reading on the Lower East Side. She gave me her card, which I subsequently lost. Are you that particular literary agent? Well, confession: I love you– no, seriously, you were very beautiful!
Are you not a literary agent/publisher? Yeah, me either! But you can still help! I created a Facebook group in the hope that if many people joined it, the published book would spontaneously materialize from our collective desire. Please join it here! If you don't have Facebook, then you're a stronger person than I will ever be– just comment below this post if you would like to see the book in print!
Thank you, by the way, to all the posters in the comments sections who have said kind and encouraging things about my work. And also thank you to all the posters who have just said, like, really insane things that are sort of creepy in that way that only the internet is creepy. Confession: I love you most of all.
UPDATE (4/20/11): I've created a site for the book where you can read excerpts!
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American Legion Post 70: Meeting at 1800 on the third Tuesday of the month. For more information, please contact Thomas Crisp at 940-2793.
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The thin smartphone features a 2.4-inch TFT LCD screen on which you can view pictures at a resolution of 480 x 360 pixels. With the BlackBerry Curve you can also capture the memorable moments of your life by a 5 megapixel camera with 4x zoom.
In order to get a perfect picture, the phone camera also has applications like Face Detection, Image Stabilisation, Geo-tagging etc. The handset allows you to record the special moments at a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels.
The slender BlackBerry Curve 9360 has plastic body with a rubber buttons on the edge of the phone. You can do easy navigation with the help of the Touch Sensitive Optical Trackpad. The Blackberry has got a 3.5 mm headphone slot on the top of the phone so that it is convenient to carry in your pocket. At the back of the handset you can find the camera and the flash light. The right side of the phone has the volume rocker and the camera button.Battery and Storage
The Curve is powered by Lithium-Ion 1000 mAh battery which provides a talk time up to 5 hours. You can watch your favourite videos, track news on the handset for up to 6 hours. Music lovers can enjoy their favourite tracks on the phone for up to 25 hours. The handset can store 512 MB data in its internal memory and can expand up to 32 GB using microSD, microSDHC cards.Connectivity and Features
You can access Internet through Wi-Fi, GPRS, EDGE and 3G. Game enthusiasts can enjoy various games on the handset and can also download them with ease. Connectivity options like Bluetooth and USB port help you to exchange music and other files from other devices. The BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) application lets you to chat with another BBM user. You can also share the latest news and gossip through this application. The A-GPS helps you to determine locations easily.No matter where you are, you can keep tab on what's happening around the world through the Internet on the phone. Social applications like Facebook and Twitter are preinstalled so that you can connect with your friends and check the latest updates on the sites right from your smartphone.
In Sales Package | Handset, Battery (Li-ion), Charger, Headset, Data Cable, 2 GB microSD Card, User Manual |
Form | Bar |
SIM Type | Single SIM, GSM |
Touch Screen | No |
Keypad | Yes, QWERTY |
Business Features | Document Viewer, Pushmail |
Call Features | Conference Call, Speed Dialing, Loudspeaker, Call Timer, Call Divert |
Handset Color | Black |
Platform | |
Operating Freq | GSM - 850, 900, 1800, 1900; UMTS - 2100 |
OS | BlackBerry 7 OS |
Java | No |
Processor | 800 MHz |
Display | |
Type | TFT LCD |
Size | 2.44 Inches |
Resolution | HVGA, 480 x 360 Pixels |
Camera | |
Primary Camera | Yes, 5 Megapixel |
Secondary Camera | No |
Flash | LED |
Video Recording | Yes, 640 x 480 |
Zoom | Digital Zoom - 4x |
Other Camera Features | Geo-tagging, Face Detection, Image Stabilisation, Scene Modes |
Dimensions | |
Size | 60x109x11 mm |
Weight | 99 g |
Battery | |
Type | Li-Ion, 1000 mAh |
Talk Time | 5 hrs (2G) |
Standby Time | 336 hrs (2G), 288 hrs (3G) |
Memory and Storage | |
Internal | 512 MB |
Included Memory Card | 2 GB |
Expandable Memory | microSD, upto 32 GB |
Memory | 512 MB RAM |
Hot Swap Support | Yes |
Internet & Connectivity | |
Internet Features | |
GPRS | Yes |
EDGE | Yes |
3G | Yes, 7.2 Mbps HSDPA |
Wifi | Yes, 802.11 b/g/n |
USB Connectivity | Yes, micro USB, v2 |
Navigation Technology | A-GPS, with BlackBerry Maps |
Bluetooth | Yes, v2.1, Supported Profiles (HSP, HFP, OBEX, PBAP, DUN, A2DP, AVRCP, SPP, SSP, MAP) |
Audio Jack | 3.5 mm |
Multimedia | |
Music Player | Yes, Supports MP3, eAAC, WAV, FLAC |
Video Player | Yes, Supports MP4, H.263, H.264, WMV, 3GP, M4A, AVI |
FM | No |
Ringtone | MP3, 64 Polyphonic |
Other Features | |
SAR Value | The SAR Limit Set by the FCC/IC is 1.6 W/Kg |
Call Memory | Yes |
SMS Memory | Yes |
Phone Book Memory | Practically Unlimited |
Additional Features | Predictive Text Input, Password Protection, LED Indicator, Dedicated Keys, Optical Trackpad, Clock, Calendar, Memo Pad, Calculator, Voice Notes Recorder, Vibrate Mode, Sleep Mode, M3 and T3 Rating for Hearing Aids, Voice Input |
Important Apps | Instant Messaging, YouTube, BlackBerry App World, Vlingo, BlackBerry Protect, Facebook, Wikitude, Twitter, BlackBerry Messenger, Weather Forecast |
Warranty | |
1.5 year manufacturer warranty for Phone and 6 months warranty for in the box accessories |
A friend of mine bought this Blackberry Curve 9360 few days ago. Had the battery issue of not last whole day. Comparing the specs and battery capacity, it seems the problem should be on the settings of the mobile. Found out that PTT (Push To Talk) spot Feature is active be default and it should be deactivated to avoid battery drain. Have a nice day.
I got this phone two days back. I have used the curve 3G and bold 3(9780). But this phone is better than the two.
The best things about the phone are that:
It is slim.
It has a flash.
It has a very nice snap-on back cover which has no risk of a break down while opening or closing it.
It has got a small sensor on the back, which detects the back cover.
The design of this curve is verry attractive and the new trackpad it black and has a led inside it, which makes it look sexier when the phone's keypad lights up.
The keys of the qwerty keypad are very comfortable and have got appropriate spacing between each letter.
Another great feature about this blackberry is its metalic rim, which has a matte finish, which was not there on the cruve 3G and the bold 9780. this eliminates the risk of scratches appearing on your smartphone. :)
A few things not present in the phone are:
The back cover is fibre plastic, which should have been better.
Blackberry should have included a pocket holster for this phone in the box.
In all this phone is worth for money, being a part of the BlackBerry OS 7 family.
Guys let me tell u if ur a bb fan then this cell is a must.....bb as launched two sensational phones curve 9360 and bold 9790 when ur gonna buy curve 9360 who might as well think u would want to go for bold 9790....my advice is dont waste ur money just shut ur eyes and go for curve 9360 if ur looking for a fair deal cos i feel 9790 is over priced ....here is why...
ratings according to value for money
curve 9360 bold 9790
looks 10mm slim and 12mm not much difference
sexy 5 stars doesnt look as sexy as curve
3.5 stars
keypad little harder real soft keys very easy to type
but quite manag- 5 stars
able 3 stars
processor 800 mega hertz 1 ghz not much notecible diff
5 stars it is 4 stars
camera 5 mp led flash 5 mp led flash autofocus
4 stars 3 stars
screen non touch touch and type
price 18770 26330
go thru these u make ur choice .....really by far curve 9360 has really beefed up its features from previous curves and is complete value for ur money.
I got exactly what i wanted.
this is actually an amazing phone.
love every thing about it!
the design and its looks are absolutely fabulous.
its very sleek,so its always better to put silicon cover on it and hard covers may cause scratches to the phone.
no hanging,not complicated,lots of new features plus,good on the pocket!
this phone is just a big sensitive. but if you've got a screen guard and a cover, you'll love it.
i had 8520 earlier(a very sturdy phone) and after a while, it started to hang a lot.
i have this phone since 8 months and i'm loving it.
comes with a good OS, this is a perfect phone for girls and boys.
if you want a professional phone,you could go for higher models like the bold series.
but yes, this phone is surely capable of handling all sorts of stuff.
no exact need of thinking and stuff.
do your research and if you wanna go for a blackberry,this is quite good.
people d say it has battery problems, but, its nothing like that.
rather,you just need to charge it once a day or once in two days.
the battery life is pretty impressive.
*perfect phone*
I didn't buy this phone through Flipkart, although they have a good pricing with the freebie.
Excellent phone with good features.
1. Slim and light
2. Pretty decent construction quality (I have dropped it 3-4 times now and nothing bad happened. It works, no cracks or chips yet)
3. Beautiful 5 MP camera with good flash (although it is too bright for close-ups)
4. BlackBerry 7 OS is pretty smooth and fast, browsing is much better than previous versions
5. Screen resolution is great for this screen size (do NOT go for the 9380 which is a full-touch creen version with exactly the same features and also same pixel resolution for a bigger screen. So the 9380 clarity sucks!)
6. Facebook and Twitter integration is good
7. Email is as usual the best thing about BlackBerry, which continues with this model too.
1. The optical trackpad makes a funny creaking noise when swiping up or down
2. The BlackBerry apps reallu suck, so not much use with this phone
3. No official LinkedIn app for use on this model of the phone yet
4. Battery is very small and lasts for less than a day with heavy use (like watching a few videos and browsing for 20 minutes a day, in addition to low to medium call usage)
I would buy this phone if I had to get a quick replacement for an older BlackBerryphone and don't want to migrate to any other platform for e-mail purposes. The higher end models are just not worth paying 30K for and this medium-level model has all the advantages of the OS 7 without breaking the bank for features that one hardly will ever use.
Hope this helps!
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The offense of the Lady Panthers completely overpowered the Lady Mustangs at Friday night's Senior's Night game.
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The Lady Tigers traveled to Savannah High to face the Lady Blue Jackets last Tuesday. In a competitive match up, with neither team relenting, the Blue Jackets grabbed the win by only one point (43-42). Bradwell's Jamie McLemore (no. 4) put 17 points on the board for the Lady Tigers with Seandre Lee (no. 14) adding 11 of her own. Throughout the game, each team kept the offense going. At the end of the half ...
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The Bradwell Institute Tigers had their three-game win streak snapped in a heartbreaking loss to Wayne County this past Saturday, in Hinesville. The Tigers fell by a score of 45-47 to the Yellow Jackets.
The Long County Blue Tide boys basketball team got a little help in the 2-AA region race Friday when the McIntosh County Buccaneers beat the Appling County Pirates by a score of 55-47.
It was military appreciation night Friday as the Bradwell Boys hosted the Jenkins Warriors. As a tribute to the soldiers the boy Tigers stomped on the Warriors defeating them by 20 points (71-51). The Tiger's offense, dominated by #11 Deon Villasencio, was unstoppable gaining the lead quickly and ending the second period ten points ahead (37-27). The Tigers were hot on the three-point line with scores coming from Villasencio, Robert Sims (#10), and Young Mim-King ...
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Well, like most, I own an mp3 player, more specifically, a Venturer 512mb generic pile of junk. While one day listening to it, something weird happened, the head phone jack on it, cut out,however, i could still hear parts of the song, though heavily distorted, fumbling with it a bit, and it seemed that the contacts on either the headphone jacks were shot, or a solder had failed inside.
So i took it down to my local electronic repair shop (also known as my electronics teacher), and cracked it open. To my surprise, all of the solder holding the jack in, had failed. Problem solved?. After a quick resolder, it still does the same.
I was wondering, since there is no improvement after the repair, how could i go about diagnosing the problem further and repairing it?


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Swapchain not created with feature level 9_3 or below
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I have setup a project for a directx metro app, but when i run it with directx 10.1 hardware on a lower feature level (9_1), it will just crash after i create the swapchain. The console just has 1 simple message "D3D11: Removing Device." I am using an AMD Radeon HD 6570 with WDDM 1.2 driver. The game works fine in other feature levels (10 and above)
DXGI_SWAP_CHAIN_DESC1 swapChainDesc = {0}; swapChainDesc.Width = 0; swapChainDesc.Height = 0; swapChainDesc.Format = DXGI_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_UNORM; swapChainDesc.Stereo = m_stereoEnabled; swapChainDesc.SampleDesc.Count = 1; swapChainDesc.SampleDesc.Quality = 0; swapChainDesc.BufferUsage = DXGI_USAGE_RENDER_TARGET_OUTPUT; swapChainDesc.BufferCount = 2; swapChainDesc.Scaling = DXGI_SCALING_NONE; swapChainDesc.SwapEffect = DXGI_SWAP_EFFECT_FLIP_SEQUENTIAL; swapChainDesc.Flags = 0; // Once the desired swap chain description is configured, it must be created on the same adapter as our D3D Device // First, retrieve the underlying DXGI Device from the D3D Device ComPtr<IDXGIDevice1> dxgiDevice; DX::ThrowIfFailed(m_d3dDevice.As(&dxgiDevice)); // Ensure that DXGI does not queue more than one frame at a time. This both reduces // latency and ensures that the application will only render after each VSync, minimizing // power consumption. DX::ThrowIfFailed(dxgiDevice->SetMaximumFrameLatency(1)); ComPtr<IDXGIAdapter> dxgiAdapter; DX::ThrowIfFailed(dxgiDevice->GetAdapter(&dxgiAdapter)); ComPtr<IDXGIFactory2> dxgiFactory; DX::ThrowIfFailed(dxgiAdapter->GetParent(__uuidof(IDXGIFactory2),&dxgiFactory)); DX::ThrowIfFailed( dxgiFactory->CreateSwapChainForCoreWindow( m_d3dDevice.Get(), DX::GetIUnknown(m_window), &swapChainDesc, nullptr, // allow on all displays &m_swapChain ) );
I also tried running 3 samples from microsoft, and forcing the feature level to 9_1. They all show the same message (Device removed). Also when i try it on an actual DX9 device it will just crash. Other games such as cut the rope do seem to work fine (allthough laggish)
Anyone know what i did wrong with creating my swapchain?
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martedì 3 aprile 2012 13:37No such problem on my NV GtX570. try D3D_DRIVER_TYPE_REFERENCE ?
lunedì 16 aprile 2012 13:14
Oke, i found the problem myself :)
I did indeed use the reference driver to fix the warnings directx would spill out (mostly index buffers not being 16bit). Next was running the game in release mode and forcing directx to spill out all logs by using 'dxcpl.exe'.
Than it would crash on creating shaders, apparently not all shaders were using the correct version when compiling (should be 4.0 level 9_1). After fixing that the game would run and it would display 2d images perfectly fine. 3D and 2d mixed was still a big problem.
Turns out the fix for that is, is to enable the depth buffer before rendering (i was calling 'present' with the depthbuffer disabled).
Now its working perfectly fine. :)
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2. Diana Ross was staying at our hotel…high, but she refused to sign an autograph…low.
3. I didn't get a part in the movie…low, but I did get to try Chicken & Waffles for the first time…high!
Chicken and Waffles are a southern tradition. The roots of the recipe are somewhat debatable. According to Wikipedia recipes for the famous dish appeared shortly after Thomas Jefferson brought a waffle iron back from France. The waffle iron had been used for quite some time in Belguim to make…you guessed it…Belgian Waffles.
When it made it to the plantations of the south, house kitchen workers learned the recipe and began to use it for special occasions and celebrations when they were able to get chicken. Today, Chicken and Waffles has become an art. With places like Cali's famous Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles and Atlanta's Gladys and Ron's (owned by Gladys Knight!! – - clearly why I went there) giving it street credibility, the dish has now found a place in restaurants from fast food to full on gourmet!
The combination can be a little heavy though, so I tried to lighten it up a bit with Oven-Fried Chicken and Waffles.
Oven-Fried Chicken
- 1/2 cup nonfat buttermillk
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 1/2-3 pounds Chicken Breast, Wing, Thigh, Leg
- 1/2 cup whole-wheat flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons paprika
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt Freshly ground pepper, to taste
- Olive oil cooking spray
Whisk buttermilk, mustard and garlic in a shallow glass dish until well blended. Add chicken and turn to coat. Cover and marinate in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.
Preheat oven to 425°F. Line a baking sheet with foil. Set a wire rack on the baking sheet and coat it with cooking spray.
Whisk flour, paprika, baking powder, salt and pepper in a small bowl. Place the flour mixture in a paper bag or large sealable plastic bag. Shaking off excess marinade, place one or two pieces of chicken at a time in the bag and shake to coat. Shake off excess flour and place the chicken on the prepared rack. (Discard any leftover flour mixture and marinade.) Spray the chicken pieces with cooking spray.
Bake the chicken until golden brown and no longer pink in the center, about 25-30 minutes minutes.
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk Maple Syrup
Preheat a waffle iron and lightly grease. Into a large bowl, sift the dry ingredients together. In a clean bowl, beat the eggs. Add the butter and buttermilk and beat to combine. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, and mix well. Pour the batter into the hot waffle iron and cook until golden brown and lightly crisp. Remove and if desired, top with a slice of butter, and serve with the chicken and maple syrup


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spec5sx wrote:Does anyone know exactly how big a sky dome should be? I understand all the concepts of modeling a sky dome but, I can't find anything that says how large the model should be.
RSderek wrote:
This document details some key new features of TR2012 for route and scenario creators. This is written with the presumption that the user will have some familiarity with the existing tools and is not aimed at the novice user.
Route Editor:
Bulk Asset Blocks
The asset block is used for populating large areas with asset coverage, primarily for forests and woodland. Objects in the asset block will hug the terrain. The block is located in the foliage/water filter of the object browser list and is called "Asset Block". It is placed like any existing decal. Initially it will be an unpopulated 100x100 square on the terrain with draggable corners allowing for easy resizing.
Double clicking the asset block in the world will bring up a properties window allowing you to specify the following:•Dimensions – This can also be changed by dragging the corners of the object in the world.
•Density – This value is in objects per square km and is set to an initial value of 10,000.
•Scale – This is a scaling value which will alter the height of random objects in the asset block. For realistic scaling without stretching textures this value should be set between 0 and 1, with 1 meaning some assets in the block will be double the height of others.
•Rotation – This mainly applies to 3D objects in the block. Enabling this will add a random rotation to all assets in the block. Unchecking this option will align all the objects in the same way.
•Asset – Selects the asset which populates the block. As this tool is primarily for forest creations, any objects which are filtered under foliage/water or clutter in the browser list can be used in the block.
Note: If the terrain height is modified after an asset block has been placed on it then you will need to move the asset block slightly so that it sees the new terrain height and snap to it.
SCLALINE wrote:Click on the Foliage/Water filter, look for the A's if you have alot of assets its alphabetical so 3dtrains would come first if you have anything like that
its definately in there, make sure you have the kuju/railworks assets enabled
then name is Assetblock
ill do a tutorial i guess
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Toripony wrote: Can more than one stopping point be placed on top of a single siding marker? I assume this also attempts to resolve the whole discuusion of how much (little, or none) siding marker the route developer should place without limiting the scenario writer's options? I like being able to locate and label my route's sidings but still leave flexibility for other scenario writers to do things differently.
RSderek wrote:AI Improvements
AI engines can now pick up rolling stock as well as drop off. Simply author the instruction on the AI engine the same way as you would for the player. The rolling stock picked up must be in the pick up location at the start of the scenario (i.e. not dropped off in that location by another AI or player during the scenario).
Mazherman+75 wrote:I have tried this in a yard scenario where there is a speed limit of 25mph. The AI engine follows the path correctly, but when entering the track to pick up the cars, it did not slow down to the proper coupling speed. The result was an collision.
Then I thought that by lowering the allowable speed in that particular track to 2mph a coupling would occur. The engine did slow down but the result was still marked as a collision.
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So here's my very first meme-The Time Will Come hosted by Books for Company! It's a meme happening every Thursday, focusing on books on your bookshelf that you always meant to read, but never managed to get down to.
The day will come when I will finally turn the pages of...
I know, I know. I've heard SO MANY good things about the Infernal Devices, and every Mortal Instruments fan I've met has told me about how much they enjoyed this book. I loved The Mortal Instruments and I was initially looking forward to reading this series as well, but you know when you just don't feel the reading urge for a certain novel? It's not the book's fault. It's mine. But I hope I'll finally stop thinking, "Never mind, it's always going to be there when I want it" before Clockwork Prince (Infernal Devices #2) is released in December 2011.
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Last week Jez tweeted
I've quite enjoyed reading "Designing Your Day" by @nokiaatwork slideshare.net/NokiaAtWork/smarter-everyday-ebookdesignyourday
- Jez Nicholson (@jnicho02) May 10, 2013
Over the last couple of days I've read it as a pdf (it took me a while to work out how to get it in that format) and it was quite nicely put together. I've read, and blogged about, various time management/productivity books/methodolgies before and as a consequence there wasn't much new material in there, although, there was yet another reference to Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow which is about the 5th I've come across in various articles, recommendations etc - looks like I'll just have to read it!
What I really liked though was that the whole idea of productivity was tackled in a more creative manner, using a more design led process and terminology, rather than it being very business language. It also introduced me to this lovely quote from Tim Brown
Think of today as a prototype. What would you change?
which I really like. Well worth the reading time.
In a lovely bit of observational selection bias I read this
one of the company's main expenses was postage: each programmer would write their code on carbon paper (backup copies were needed in case the original was lost or damaged) and send it through the mail to their client's punchgirls. The code would be transcribed, the program run and any errors would get posted back to the programmer for correction
in the, well worth a read, article A Woman's Place about a group of freelance women programmer's in the 1960s/70s/80s yesterday, and then this morning saw this Inside the UK's last carbon paper factory, a lovely video showing the machinery and people working at York Haven, the last one-time carbon manufacturer in the UK.
It had never occurred to me that carbon paper would have been used as a backup for coding, but why not, it was an available "technology", and programs in the 60s were hand written before being made into punched cards.
My new loom arrived in a massive box. Inside it, along with a second heddle, were shuttles, cardboard strips, instructions etc. I'd put all of these things onto a shelf in my craft cupboard (this isn't what it started off being for, but it now, most definitely, is a craft cupboard) but I was a bit concerned about losing some vital part - like the threading hook for instance. As I was also looking for useful projects to make with my sewing machine, a bag to put all the weaving odds and ends in seemed like a good idea. And as it was going to need to be a long bag, it seemed like a good "Get to know your sewing machine" project.
A few years ago someone bought me a sarong. I'd never used it and so had put it into the pile of things to go to the charity shop during a recent sort out. However, when discussing my plans with Richard, he suggested that this might make a good fabric for a drawstring bag. He was right. The bag needed to be long enough to hold a 25" heddle, and wide enough to store an exercise book (where I make my notes). I aimed for 30" x 11" and cut out the two patterned areas from the sarong comfortably, and used my new A3 cutting board, metal ruler and rotary cutter to get some lovely, smooth edged pieces of fabric to work with. I also then cut two 30" x 2" strips for the ties. There is still some of the fabric left as well and it's now in my fabric bag waiting for another project to come along.
I followed this tutorial for the majority of the bag (I didn't really have enough nice fabric to line it), switching to this one for instructions on how to make the fabric ties. Both were really clear and detailed.
I double stitched the edges - first using a zig zag stitch, and then a normal running stitch. Partially to give it extra strength, partially for the extra practice. This all went pretty smoothly. The biggest struggle was wrestling 30 inches of bag to try and sort out the gusset. One side is pretty straight:
but the other is well off centre:
Overall, though, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The ties could be top-stitched a little more evenly, and the lines around the top of the fabric at the bottom of the drawstring pocket could have been straighter but all in all, not a bad effort. And a great use of fabric that was about to be thrown away too.
It was my birthday a couple of weeks ago, and I got some new toys. Richard bought me an Ashford Rigid Heddle loom (on which more in a later blog post when I've made something on it - but in the meantime you can admire the freshly oiled table surface in the photos - as I had to oil the loom before assembling it I figured I'd sand and oil the table too!). And my Mum bought me a sewing machine (or at least I bought it on her behalf).
I had my first sewing machine experience back in February when my friend nursed me through my fear and helped me make some lavender bags and a crochet hook case. It made me realise that maybe they weren't as scary as I'd thought, and I started considering buying one. I had a look around the internet, and came up with a few options. Then popped in to John Lewis after visiting the Wool House and saw the mini sewing machines. First impressions were that they were really light and transportable, meaning that they could be tucked away when not in use. And they weren't expensive, which mean that even if I didn't get on with it, and it ended up being tucked away in the loft for years, it wasn't a ridiculous amount of money wasted. I had a look online when I got home and found a few reviews that didn't write them off, so I decided to buy one.
Last weekend I plugged it in, and simply tried it out as a sampler, sewing lines of the different stitches. When I got to position J on the dial, a 2 tier zig zag, it didn't do quite what I expected, but I didn't think much more about it. On Wednesday I had a bit of spare time, and so figured I'd start making some lavender bags - these seemed like a good starter project, and I still had some squares left from the charm pack I'd bought as well as some odds and ends left over from other things. But, when I got the machine all set up and ready to go, I couldn't get the machine to sew a straight line. It seemed to be perpetually doing the scallop pattern of position I on the machine. It's like it wouldn't reset it's position. So I called up John Lewis's customer services line, who were helpful and immediately ordered a replacement for delivery. The replacement turned up yesterday, and so last night I made a start on the lavender bags.
In total I've made 9 of them. 6 were sewn last night, 3 today. All were stuffed and finished (by hand) today. I'm really pleased with some of them, moderately pleased with others - the ones I like the least are probably the green squirly ones, and that is more because of the fabric than the sewing. They are destined for my sock drawer. My favourites are the white and purple ones (the purple fabric was left over from lining of the Little Miss Two bag) just because the fabric works so nicely in this format. These are destined for my craft bag - one will go and sit with my finished blackwork items, the other was going to go into my crochet bag, but might go and join the lovely one my friend made me in my fabrics bag. The stripy greens ones are going to Richard (and are, like the last ones I made him, stuffed with rosemary and lavender to make them a bit more manly) and the pinks are going to go to Mum next time I see her. I even managed to get the lines to line up on this pink one which pleased me no end:
The machine behaved itself well. The manual is really good, and has simple step by step instructions (Richard also bought me this excellent book which I've been referring to on and off). I didn't sew myself to the table, or sew my sleeve up or anything similar. The speed of the machine via the foot pedal isn't ridiculously speedy - I'm sure it would be too slow for experienced sewers, but it isn't racing off without me, so I'm pretty comfortable with it.
I'm counting this as my first solo sewing machine success. Hopefully the first of many, but if not, at least I've managed it once and will be able to look back on this with a bit of satisfaction and hopefully encouragement.
I came across GeoGuessr yesterday and sent it around the office this morning as a bit of Friday fun - we have a room full of consultants and technologists who use maps and photographic representations of places as part of their day to day work and so it's interesting to observe how they've been detecting where the locations are when the mapping element is absent.
So far, comments I've heard have been:
"ooh, a sign for Victoria Bitter, must be in Australia" - It was
"Ah, the sea, and a sign in Portuguese - that could be Portugal, or it could be South America" - It was Brazil
"A tourist map on the wall of the hut, fantastic, that'll help. Now what country are we in?" - It was Nova Scotia
"They drive on the left, there is sunshine, must be Australia" - It was (though Australia is a really, really big place)
"Now is that kanji or Hangul" - it was kanji, it was somewhere in Japan
Without the mapping element, people have been looking at the imagery in much greater detail, "walking" around the area, looking for street signs, shop names, the people and the general environment. Like I say, really interesting to observe. Oh, and my best score so far is 12188.
I finished watching the final classes of the Surviving Disruptive Technologies coursera MOOC earlier this week, and I thought I'd jot down my thoughts on both the content, and the delivery mechanism.
This course was well organised, and the content flowed together really well, with video lessons referring to subjects covered in earlier lessons, all of which helped to provide continuity and reinforce the core messages.
As "homework" a lot of use was made of the discussion forums. We were asked to comment on subjects, or to provide more localised examples of services being disrupted etc. A lot of these discussions were very interesting, and attracted intelligent comment, debate and relevant links which have given different viewpoints. One topic that springs to mind particularly was about publishing - where we were fortunate enough to have a few fellow students who work in the UK publishing industry and who were willing to share their internal viewpoints which provided an interesting balance to the media led news articles perspective.
The example companies used were all, I think, American companies. This wasn't a problem and is expected from a university situated in Maryland, but it did mean that a couple of them were less well known internationally or that the scenarios faced were slightly different. The first few classes covered companies like Kodak, Blockbusters and Borders, comparing the latter two against Netflix and Amazon. When we compared Barnes & Noble against Amazon in the discussions, a lot of the international students had a bit of a problem as Barnes & Noble are very different outside the US.
Every week there was a "hangout", organised via Google hangouts but shared via YouTube. This enabled Hank, our professor, to have a conversation and discuss the key points for each week with students. I was invited to partake in a couple of them (as I'd been active on the forums), but couldn't for scheduling reasons. However, I did watch some of them. It seemed to be quite a good format allowing more interaction with the professor than via the forums alone. These, combined with the effective use of the discussion forums, meant that this was course seemed to have much more interaction and conversation than the Introduction to Philosophy one I did earlier this year.
I chose not to do the project side of this; I don't need a certificate for any purpose, so I watched the lectures, read the recommended articles, took part in the discussions in the forum but opted out of the essay element.
So, the core messages, the things to remember on how to survive those disruptive technologies. They were:
- Avoid denial - i.e. if you think there is something possible disruptive, don't pretend it doesn't exist. Instead evaluate it, make a strategy of the worst possible scenario, and plan for it
- Be bold - i.e. be prepared to change the business model and execute on it
- Change the organisation - i.e. be a leader, leaders make a big difference - Niccolo Machiavelli in The Prince was quoted here as saying
there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in it's success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things
All in all a good course, interesting material and well presented.
First of all an admission. This wasn't supposed to be circular. A while ago we were clearing out some of our garden space, and I found some sad looking cushions that had been protected from the worst of the winter weather but were looking decidedly sad. I removed the covers and found that the inners would be ok after a wash. So I decided I'd crochet covers for them. These were square cushion pads. I'd seen the squaring the big circle pattern and thought that I could adapt it to get it to the size I wanted, and so started.
Once I'd got to the end of round 6, when this pattern stopped, I realised that I had quite a lot more rounds to do. I attempted to adapt what had gone before, but soon realised that it wasn't working. So, I unravelled 4 or 5 rounds to get back to round 6 and had another look around the internet. I found this and this and consulted them both (they're pretty much the same) and used this as my pattern going forward. I got to round 17 and decided, with advice from Richard, to keep it circular. So that's what I've done. I ordered a lovely, feather-filled, 14" circular cushion pad from Design-a-Cushions which is pretty much the size that 17 rounds got me to, and started work on the back of the cover, following, round by round, the pattern of the front. I crocheted the two sides together using single crochet and have crocheted the pad into the cover.
The front of the cushion is miscellaneous DK blues, using up left overs, roughly ordered by quantity of yarn.
The reverse is all Sirdar Snuggly Baby Bamboo DK in Skittle, and has, sadly, resulted in me having to buy another 2 balls, and of course there's over half a ball left. So much for using it up eh!
Overall, despite it not being what I originally envisaged it to be, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I just need to find somewhere for it to live.
I have changed my plans for the square cushion pads at least twice in the past few weeks. Once I've settled on one or two (I have 3 cushion pads to cover - 2 of which are the same size, one of which is larger) then I'll get started, but at the moment I can't even decide what craft to use - weaving, sewing or crocheting. Decisions, decisions!
Last weekend Richard and I headed off to the beautiful coastal town of Bosham, West Sussex for a few days. I wanted to take some craft with me, but didn't want a massive bag as I had a suspicion (later proved right) that I'd do more snoozing than crafting. So I decided to take an empty piece of canvas, some thread and a couple of patterns with me.
Blackwork, at least in the size I'm working at, is an excellent travel project. I don't mean for doing on the move, I don't fancy my chances of threading a needle, or getting the right point on the canvas - I tried that once when I was making this and won't be trying it again in a hurry. I mean that it packs into a small bag, and needs very few accompaniments - a pair of scissors, a needle, some thread. It's pretty compact.
The pattern I chose to work up was adapted from the bottom right hand corner of this picture simplified and scaled to work on it's own. I chose to do it in red cotton for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I was curious to see how a different, non black, colour would work. And secondly, because I had red thread left over from the screen part of the calculator iPhone case and using up leftovers feels good :-)
This was quite a simple design, and I really like how it looks. Once I've done a few more of these squares, I think I'm going to attempt to turn them into lavender bags.
When I visited the Power of making exhibition the other year, one of the items featured was this curious stuff sugru. I didn't think much about it really until last week. I have a fitbit. I have dropped my fitbit on a couple of occasions and the top of it's plastic covering - near the spring - had broken off. Originally only a small bit of the plastic had come away, but the other week yet more fell off.
So I decided to give sugru a try and ordered a mini-pack.
It arrived a few weeks ago, and so the other weekend I decided to make my fix. I cleaned the fitbit surface, opened up a sachet of sugru, got it all over my hands, and the table, and then moulded it onto the fitbit. It was a bit like working with a dense modelling clay but wasn't too difficult to work with. I managed to get it to be pretty smooth through lots of stroking with my thumb. It took ages to get off my hands though - I'd recommend having a nail brush handy.
The end result seems to have worked ok. I'm not sure how long it'll last, but it feels much more robust when there aren't bits of metal peeping out. The rest of the sugru is sitting in my fridge (to extend the life of it) until I find something else that needs repairing.
I've had a draft blog post sitting around for almost a year with this title, and yesterday's experience at the Hayward Gallery's excellent Light Show has triggered me to actually write it properly.
The original post started as:
I've been to a few exhibitions and galleries recently and in (almost) every one has been the "No photography" sign with absolutely no guidance applied as to what this applies to - is it the art work, the associated media, the layout of the exhibition, the interesting cornices in the architecture of the room? It is just a blanket "No photography" sign. I fully appreciate the idea of copyright, and understand the restriction from that perspective, and I also understand that a blanket ban is easier to enforce but I can't help feeling that some guidance would be handy.
Personally, in the majority of cases, I want to take a quick snapshot of of the notes next to a piece in order to be able to look the artwork up later, to find more about it and maybe to write about my reaction to it. Nobody seems to object to me pulling out a notebook and pen and writing down the notes word for word, but I'm not allowed to photograph them.
As a result of my Light Show experience I have a further understanding of this, and whilst they did a reasonable job the attendants couldn't be everywhere at once. The concept and premise of the light show is that the exhibits all feature some form of illumination. They are designed to be focal points. The show "explores how we experience and psychologically respond to illumination and colour". They are not designed to compete with little white rectangles of mobile phone illumination. It didn't spoil my enjoyment of the exhibition, but it did make me think more about that "No photography" sign and situations where a blanket ban is not just easier to enforce, but also allows an exhibit to be experienced in the manner that the gallery/artist intended.
As we entered the exhibition we were handed a small booklet which has an image and description of the work being displayed. This isn't the first exhibition I've been to that does it, but I do think it is a really good thing - a combination of souvenir, and memory prompt all in one. This meant I didn't feel the need to either get a camera out to record the details of a piece I really liked (my favourite, incidentally, was Jim Campbell's Exploded View (Commuters)) in order to be able to link to it here later or to get my notebook and pen out and jot down details of other exhibits I enjoyed.
I rather like it when my perspective on things is challenged, and this did just that. Maybe not as the curators of the exhibiton intended, but it triggered further thoughts and a reaction.


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Many enterprise networks require redundant HA (High Availability) infrastructure for key systems like network firewalls. This article demonstrates how you can use a combination of open-source packages to build and manage a Linux-based HA firewall pair that includes support for many of the advanced features commonly found in commercial firewalls.
The collection of open-source packages that I use to create the HA firewall in this article are iptables, conntrackd, keepalived and Firewall Builder. The network diagram in Figure 1 shows the example environment that will be configured.
The example uses a pair of servers running Ubuntu Server 10.10 that will be configured to run in an Active-Backup configuration. This means traffic will be going through only one firewall at any given time. More complex Active-Active solutions also are possible, but are beyond the scope of this article.
The conntrackd and keepalived packages are installed on both servers using apt-get. Since many commands require root privileges to run, the examples are shown using user root to help keep things concise.
Conntrackd is a dæmon developed by the netfilter.org project, the same organization that develops iptables. Conntrackd synchronizes the state of active connections between two or more firewalls running iptables.
In an Active-Backup configuration, like the example in this article, each time a connection is allowed through the active firewall, information about this connection is sent to the backup firewall. In the event of a failover, the backup firewall already will have information about the active allowed connections, so that existing connections do not have to be re-established after the failover occurs.
The example here is based on one of the example configuration files that comes with conntrackd. This configuration uses the FTFW reliable protocol to synchronize the connection data between the firewalls. There is also a script called primary-backup.sh that provides integration between keepalived and conntrackd. For Ubuntu, these example files are located in the /usr/share/doc/conntrackd/examples/sync/ directory.
Run the commands listed below to copy the sample config file and failover script to the default directory for conntrackd, /etc/conntrackd/conntrackd.conf:
root@lj-fw-1:/# cd /usr/share/doc/conntrackd/examples/sync root@lj-fw-1:/# gunzip ftfw/conntrackd.conf.gz root@lj-fw-1:/# cp ftfw/conntrackd.conf /etc/conntrackd/ root@lj-fw-1:/# cp primary-backup.sh /etc/conntrackd
Open the /etc/conntrackd/conntrackd.conf file for editing, and find the section in the file called Multicast. Edit the default values in this section to match the example network environment shown in Figure 1.
Multicast { IPv4_address 220.127.116.11 IPv4_interface 192.168.100.2 # IP of eth2 interface, # used for conntrackd synch Interface eth2 Group 3780
Next, find the section at the bottom of the configuration file called IgnoreTrafficFor and edit the default values in this section to match the example network environment:
IgnoreTrafficFor { IPv4_address 127.0.0.1 # loopback IPv4_address 192.168.1.2 # eth0 interface IP IPv4_address 10.1.1.2 # eth1 interface IP IPv4_address 192.168.100.2 # eth2 interface IP }
Repeat the same process for the lj-fw-2 server, making sure to use the correct interface IP addresses for the lj-fw-2 server.
Two Interface Firewalls
This example uses a dedicated interface for the conntrackd synchronization traffic, which is recommended for optimal security and performance. If your firewall has only two network interfaces, modify the "Multicast" section of conntrackd.conf to use the inside interface name and IP address.
When the package is installed, an /etc/init.d/conntrackd script is created. To test the configuration, start conntrackd and then run the status command to verify it is running properly (note: conntrackd needs to be started on both the lj-fw-1 and lj-fw-2 firewalls):
root@lj-fw-1:/# /etc/init.d/conntrackd start root@lj-fw-1:/# conntrackd -s cache internal: current active connections: 1
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So much loveliness in one small package *swoon*
What a lovely profile you have!
You look wonderful watching and dreaming about the birdies.
What a lovely pic - you are quite a beauty! Love those eyes too!
Must be a pretty bird or squirrel you are watching. Angel you are looking really good. Hope you have a super day.
Your whiskers are so long and pretty, Angel!
Woooos! Awww... what a pretty girl!
~husky kisses~
-Kira The BeaWootiful
fabulous darling!
Angel, you look beautiful today! We hope your mom is coping with the end of tax season (and that they do really have a big party when it's all over!)
Angel, you are so lovely! What are you spying out here?
Gorgeous profile, but you already know that! Love those pretty eyes and long whiskers!
What a great shot and a beautiful cat!
What a sweet photo! Never mind the fact that you are dreaming of taking down a bird or two and having them for dinner!
That's a great photo, very unique.
Are you having fun with your Grampy?
Oh so pretty - a chin begging for some scritchies.
Woos - Phantom, Thunder, and Ciara
That's a great photo.
Waiting for mommy to come home :)
Purry pretty khytty!
PeeEssWoo: Hi Sadie!
I fully expect to see you licking your chops in the next frame:)
Oooh, such a sweet face. :) I love kitties.
Lovely picture Angel. Happy Wednesday :)
Beautiful portrait, Angel!!!
Play bows,
You are such a beauty Angel! Love you, Moon
how beautiful...
Those beautiful blue eyes of yours Angel ~ a little slice of heaven I think! :)
xo Catherine
Gosh you're gorgeous!
You wanna get those birdies, dontcha Angel??
Hi Angel
Wow.... you are such a beautiful girl :))))
Love your photo ....
Hugs Kareltje =^.^=
Are you looking for Mommy and Daddy, Angel?
They'll be home soon!
Angel seems to be looking for you too, or did you take that photo before you left.... Hmmm... Hope you are at least enjoying the scenery - Colorado is so beautiful!
Angel, "pictures speak louder than words"...