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Taylor Swift Releases First Fragrance Adby Hilton Hater at . Comments
What is the difference between Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian? In a word: talent.
In a second word: taste.
Consider the contrasting fragrance ads released by these stars this week, as Kim promotes "Gold" with an accentuation of her only valuable asset, while Taylor goes a more innocent, magical route in the following campaign for "Wonderstruck."
Named after an "Enchanted" song, "Wonderstruck represents that magical feeling of promise and hope and intrigue," Swift says of the perfume, which comes out in October. "It was fascinating to learn that you could layer so many different scents to create a beautiful end result."
So... would you prefer to smell like the sweat of Ray J? Or like teardrops on a guitar? Whose fragrance are you more likely to purchase?
Taylor sucks.
Kim's stupidly famous.
But, Taylor can't sing.
So, I picked Kim's. :P
Kim k is a self absorbed piece of no talent trash.
Kim"s ad is do trashy. And Paris Hilton did a perfume called gold the difference is paris hilton"s perfume smelled good and kims smells nasty.
Her purfume smells just like skunk piss! Just a little like her ass! Buy some guys! HA HA HA HA Fart on Kim and her degrading family!


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I get a lot of question about various configuration settings for the IIS FTP service, and most of the settings that I discuss with people can be configured through the FTP features in the IIS Manager. That being said, there are some useful configuration settings for the FTP service which I periodical send to people that have no user interface for setting them. With that in mind, I thought I would write a quick blog to point out a few of these obscure settings that I personally use the most-often or I send to other people.
I use this setting on all of my FTP servers because it seems a little more natural to me. Here's the scenario: the IIS FTP service supports two kinds of hostnames:
Real FTP hostnames are pretty straight-forward: an FTP client specifies the hostname with a HOST command when a user is connecting to the server. Once the IIS FTP service receives that command, the FTP service routes the FTP session to the correct FTP site.
That being said, the FTP HOST command is still rather new, so only a handful of FTP clients currently support it. Because of that, you can use FTP "virtual" hostnames with the IIS FTP service. By default that syntax uses the "vertical line" or "pipe" character to differentiate between the hostname and user name. For example:
When you are specifying your FTP credentials in your FTP client, you would enter your username like the preceding examples. While this syntax is valid for both the IIS FTP service and the underlying FTP protocol, it seems a little odd to most users (including me). With that in mind, we added a configuration setting for the FTP service that will allow you to use the more-familiar domain\username syntax like the following examples:
To enable this feature, use the following steps:
cd /d "%SystemRoot%\System32\Inetsrv" appcmd.exe set config -section:system.ftpServer/serverRuntime /hostNameSupport.useDomainNameAsHostName:"True" /commit:apphost net.exe stop FTPSVC net.exe start FTPSVC
More information about this feature is available in the IIS configuration reference at the following URL:
The FTP service caches user credentials for successfully-authenticated user sessions in order to help improve login performance, and I wrote the following detailed blog about this a couple of years ago:
Credential Caching in FTP 7.0 and FTP 7.5
I don't want to re-post an old blog, but I have sent several people to that blog over the years, so I thought that it was worth mentioning here since it seems to be referenced quite often. The problem that people seem to run into the most is that their old password is still valid for FTP after they have changed it, and this is caused by the FTP service caching their user credentials.
This is especially annoying for me personally when I am working on a development computer where I am creating an authentication provider. Unless I disable credential caching on my development computer, I can never seem to get any work done. To resolve this issue, I disable credential caching for the FTP service by using the following steps:
cd /d "%SystemRoot%\System32\Inetsrv" appcmd.exe set config -section:system.ftpServer/caching /credentialsCache.enabled:"False" /commit:apphost net.exe stop FTPSVC net.exe start FTPSVC
The blog which I mentioned earlier goes into more detail about setting a custom timeout interval for credential caching instead of disabling the feature entirely, and all of the settings for FTP credential caching are in the IIS configuration reference at the following URLs:
FTP Client Certificate Authentication is an often-overlooked feature of the IIS FTP service, and I think that this is due to two reasons:
My second reason cannot be understated; I usually have to set up FTP Client Certificate Authentication once or twice a year in order to test various scenarios, and each time I do so I am reminded of just how difficult it can be to get everything right, and equally how easy it is to get something wrong.
Fortunately I took the time a couple of years ago to write a blog which documents everything that it takes to configure the FTP service, and I have used my notes in that blog several times. In complement to my blog on the subject, Vivek Kumbhar wrote an excellent blog series with additional steps to configure your Active Directory for certificate authentication. With that in mind, here are all of the requisite blog posts that you would need to set up this feature:
As I have mentioned before, configuring this feature is not for the faint-of-heart, but it can be very beneficial from a security standpoint.
For more information about the settings that are required for FTP Client Certificate Authentication, see the following articles in the IIS configuration reference:
That wraps it up for today's post. ;-]
Note: This blog was originally posted at http://blogs.msdn.com/robert_mcmurray/
I have to download various files from time-to-time, and it's nice when websites provide checksum hashes so I can validate that the file I just downloaded matches the version on the server. (ON a related note, I wrote a blog several years ago which showed how to create a provider for the IIS FTP service which automatically creates checksum files when files are uploaded to a server; see my Automatically Creating Checksum Files for FTP Uploads blog post for the details.)
In order to calculate hashes for files that I have downloaded, several years ago I wrote a simple command-line application for Windows which uses several of the built-in algorithms in .NET's System.Security.Cryptography. And while I realize that there are probably other tools that provide this same functionality, I have used this little utility for years, and I've had several people ask me for copies. With that in mind, I thought that it might make a nice blog topic if I shared the code with everyone. (Note: It's a really simple sample; the .NET framework does all the real work for this application.)
Without further fanfare, here's the source code. In order to use this code sample, you need to create a new C# project in Visual Studio and choose the Console Application template. When the new project opens, replace the template's code with the following:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
class Hash
static void Main(string[] args)
// Verify the correct number of command-line arguments.
if (args.Length != 2)
// Show the help message if an incorrect number of arguments was specified.
byte[] hashValue = null;
// Verify that the specified file exists.
if (!File.Exists(args[1]))
// Show the help message if a non-existent filename was specified.
// Create a fileStream for the file.
FileStream fileStream = File.OpenRead(args[1]);
// Be sure it's positioned to the beginning of the stream.
fileStream.Position = 0;
// Use the specified hash algorithm.
switch (args[0].ToUpper())
case "MD5":
// Compute the MD5 hash of the fileStream.
hashValue = MD5.Create().ComputeHash(fileStream);
case "SHA1":
// Compute the SHA1 hash of the fileStream.
hashValue = SHA1.Create().ComputeHash(fileStream);
case "SHA256":
// Compute the SHA256 hash of the fileStream.
hashValue = SHA256.Create().ComputeHash(fileStream);
case "SHA384":
// Compute the SHA384 hash of the fileStream.
hashValue = SHA384.Create().ComputeHash(fileStream);
case "SHA512":
// Compute the SHA512 hash of the fileStream.
hashValue = SHA512.Create().ComputeHash(fileStream);
case "BASE64":
// Compute the BASE64 hash of the fileStream.
byte[] binaryData = new Byte[fileStream.Length];
long bytesRead = fileStream.Read(binaryData, 0, (int)fileStream.Length);
if (bytesRead != fileStream.Length)
throw new Exception(String.Format("Number of bytes read ({0}) does not match file size ({1}).", bytesRead, fileStream.Length));
string base64String = System.Convert.ToBase64String(binaryData, 0, binaryData.Length);
Console.WriteLine("File: {0}\r\nBASE64 Hash: {1}", fileStream.Name, base64String);
hashValue = null;
// Display the help message if an unrecognized hash algorithm was specified.
if (hashValue != null)
// Write the hash value to the Console.
PrintHashData(args[0].ToUpper(), fileStream.Name, hashValue);
// Close the file.
catch (Exception ex)
Console.WriteLine("Error: {0}", ex.Message);
// Display the help message.
private static void ShowHelp()
{/> Console.WriteLine("HASH.exe <hash algorithm> <file name>\n\n" +
"\tWhere <hash algorithm> is one of the following:\n" +
// Print the hash data in a readable format.
private static void PrintHashData(string algorithm, string fileName, byte[] array)
Console.Write("File: {0}\r\n{1} Hash: ", fileName,algorithm);
for (int i = 0; i < array.Length; i++)
Console.Write(String.Format("{0:X2}", array[i]));
When you compile and run the application, you will see following help message when you specify no command-line parameters:
HASH.exe <hash algorithm> <file name>
Where <hash algorithm> is one of the following:
When you specify one of the supported hashing algorithms and a filename, the application will display something like the following example:
C:\>hash.exe SHA1 foobar.zip
File: C:\foobar.zip
SHA1 Hash: 57686F6120447564652C20426F6220526F636B73
That's all there is to it. As I mentioned earlier, it's a pretty simple sample. ;-]
It seems that I have always had a difficult time explaining to people what I do at Microsoft. It's not that I'm unsure about what I do - the details of my job have always been crystal-clear to me and I love what I am doing. It's just that I can't find a way to explain things in a way that doesn't result in blank stares from anyone who isn't a geek. (This problem isn't limited to me, though; my non-technical wife simply responds "I have no idea what he does" when someone asks her what I do for a living.)
Here's a perfect example: when I was a Program Manager on the Internet Information Services (IIS) team, people would often ask me what I did for Microsoft, and I would reply with something like, "I help design and implement the web publishing protocols for Microsoft's web server."
Other Person: [Blank Stare]
I would attempt to remedy the situation by adding, "You know, I design Microsoft's implementation of Internet technologies like the File Transfer Protocol, WebDAV, and the FrontPage Server Extensions."
In a sometimes-futile effort to salvage the conversation from complete disaster, I would interject, "You like to use the Internet, right? Well, your computer is on one side of the Internet, and my team helps build the other side of the Internet. That's kind of what I do."
That comment would usually be met with a slight spark of recognition, which was sometimes followed by a half-muttered, "That's nice."
At one time or other during my tenure as a Program Manager on the IIS team I was responsible for a smattering of disparate technologies; things like FTP, WebDAV, FPSE, FastCGI, PHP, URL Rewrite, IIS Express, Log Parser, etc. Most of those technologies garnered little to no interest for the average person, and many of my coworkers found them pretty boring as well. Just the same, I personally found every one of those technologies completely fascinating. (Why else would I spend eight years trying to get just one new command added to FTP?)
A couple of years ago I left the IIS program management team and I joined the writing team which is responsible for documenting Microsoft's ASP.NET framework; and if you have to ask what that means, then you are probably not interested in the answer.
Still, people would ask me what I do for Microsoft, and I would try to explain my job with statements like, "I document the Application Programming Interfaces (or APIs) for Microsoft's ASP.NET."
I would try to nudge the conversation along by saying things like, "I help people write web code."
Skipping ahead in the conversation, I would usually make a last-ditch attempt by stating, "Let's say you wanted to create a website; if so, you might read something that I wrote in order to help you get started."
Sometimes this remark would illicit a hint of acknowledgment, but usually I just got another blank stare.
This leads me to a few days ago. My wife and I were at dinner, and a waiter asked me what I did for a living. In the back of my mind I started to say something like, "Well, these days I'm documenting a set of APIs that Java programmers will use with Microsoft Azure technologies [blah blah blah]..."
But what actually came out of my mouth was, "I could explain it to you, but I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want me to. Trust me."
I like that answer. I think I'll stick with it in the future. :-)
Shortly after I published my FTP ETW Tracing and IIS 8 blog post, I was using the batch file from that blog to troubleshoot an issue that I was having with a custom FTP provider. One of the columns which I display in my results is Clock-Time, which is obviously a sequential timestamp that is used to indicate the time and order in which the events occurred.
At first glance the Clock-Time values might appear to be a range of useless numbers, but I use Clock-Time values quite often when I import the data from my ETW traces into something like Excel and I need to sort the data by the various columns.
That being said, apart from keeping the trace events in order, Clock-Time isn't a very user-friendly value. However, LogParser has some great built-in functions for crunching date/time values, so I decided to update the script to take advantage of some LogParser coolness and reformat the Clock-Time value into a human-readable Date/Time value.
My first order of business was to figure out how to decode the Clock-Time value; since Clock-Time increases for each event, it is obviously an offset from some constant, and after a bit of searching I found that the Clock-Time value is the offset in 100-nanosecond intervals since midnight on January 1, 1601. (Windows uses that value in a lot of places, not just ETW.) Once I had that information, it was pretty easy to come up with a LogParser formula to convert the Clock-Time value into the local time for my system, which is much easier to read.
With that in mind, here is the modified batch file:
@echo off rem ====================================================================== rem Clean up old log files for %%a in (ETL CSV) do if exist "%~n0.%%a" del "%~n0.%%a" echo Starting the ETW session for full FTP tracing... LogMan.exe start "%~n0" -p "IIS: Ftp Server" 255 5 -ets echo. echo Now reproduce your problem. echo. echo After you have reproduced your issue, hit any key to close the FTP echo tracing session. Your trace events will be displayed automatically. echo. pause>nul rem ====================================================================== echo. echo Closing the ETW session for full FTP tracing... LogMan.exe stop "%~n0" -ets rem ====================================================================== echo. echo Parsing the results - this may take a long time depending on the size of the trace... if exist "%~n0.etl" ( TraceRpt.exe "%~n0.etl" -o "%~n0.csv" -of CSV LogParser.exe "SELECT [Clock-Time], TO_LOCALTIME(ADD(TO_TIMESTAMP('1601-01-01 00:00:00', 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss'), TO_TIMESTAMP(DIV([Clock-Time],10000000)))) AS [Date/Time], [Event Name], Type, [User Data] FROM '%~n0.csv'" -i:csv -e 2 -o:DATAGRID -rtp 20 )
When you run this new batch file, it will display an additional "Date/Time" column with a more-informative value in local time for the sever where you captured the trace.
The new Date/Time column is considerably more practical, so I'll probably keep it in the batch file that I use when I am troubleshooting. You will also notice that I kept the original Clock-Time column; I chose to do so because I will undoubtedly continue to use that column for sorting when I import the data into something else, but you can safely remove that column if you would prefer to use only the new Date/Time value.
That wraps it up for today's post. :-)
In the past I have written a couple of blogs about using the FTP service's Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) features to troubleshoot issues; see FTP and ETW Tracing and Troubleshooting Custom FTP Providers with ETW for details. Those blog posts contain batch files which use the built-in Windows LogMan utility to capture an ETW trace, and they use downloadable LogParser utility to parse the results into human-readable form. I use the batch files from those blogs quite often, and I tend to use them a lot when I am developing custom FTP providers which add new functionality to my FTP servers.
Unfortunately, sometime around the release of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 I discovered that the ETW format had changed, and the current version of LogParser (version 2.2) cannot read the new ETW files. When you try to use the batch files from my blog with IIS 8, you see the following errors:
Verifying that LogParser.exe is in the path... Done. Starting the ETW session for full FTP tracing... The command completed successfully. Now reproduce your problem. After you have reproduced your issue, hit any key to close the FTP tracing session. Your trace events will be displayed automatically. Closing the ETW session for full FTP tracing... The command completed successfully. Parsing the results - this may take a long time depending on the size of the trace... Task aborted. Cannot open <from-entity>: Trace file "C:\temp\ftp.etl" has been created on a OS version (6.3) that is not compatible with the current OS version Statistics: ----------- Elements processed: 0 Elements output: 0 Execution time: 0.06 seconds
I meant to research a workaround at the time, but one thing led to another and I simply forgot about doing so. But I needed to use ETW the other day when I was developing something, so that seemed like a good time to quit slacking and come up with an answer. :-)
With that in mind, I came up with a very easy workaround, which I will present here. Once again, this batch file has a requirement on LogParser being installed on your system, but for the sake of brevity I have removed the lines from this version of the batch file which check for LogParser. (You can copy those lines from my previous blog posts if you want that functionality restored.)
Here's the way that this workaround is implemented: instead of creating an ETW log and then parsing it directly with LogParser, this new batch file invokes the built-in Windows TraceRpt command to parse the ETW file and save the results as a CSV file, which is then read by LogParser to view the results in a datagrid like the batch files in my previous blogs:
@echo off rem ====================================================================== rem Clean up old log files for %%a in (ETL CSV) do if exist "%~n0.%%a" del "%~n0.%%a" echo Starting the ETW session for full FTP tracing... LogMan.exe start "%~n0" -p "IIS: Ftp Server" 255 5 -ets echo. echo Now reproduce your problem. echo. echo After you have reproduced your issue, hit any key to close the FTP echo tracing session. Your trace events will be displayed automatically. echo. pause>nul rem ====================================================================== echo. echo Closing the ETW session for full FTP tracing... LogMan.exe stop "%~n0" -ets rem ====================================================================== echo. echo Parsing the results - this may take a long time depending on the size of the trace... if exist "%~n0.etl" ( TraceRpt.exe "%~n0.etl" -o "%~n0.csv" -of CSV LogParser.exe "SELECT [Clock-Time], [Event Name], Type, [User Data] FROM '%~n0.csv'" -i:csv -e 2 -o:DATAGRID -rtp 20 )
Here's another great thing about this new batch file - it will also work down-level on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008; so if you have been using my previous batch files with IIS 7 - you can simply replace your old batch file with this new version. You will see a few differences between the results from my old batch files and this new version, namely that I included a couple of extra columns that I like to use for troubleshooting.
There is one last thing which I would like to mention in closing: I realize that it would be much easier on everyone if Microsoft simply released a new version of LogParser which works with the new ETW format, but unfortunately there are no plans at the moment to release a new version of LogParser. And trust me - I'm just as depressed about that fact as anyone else. :-(
For this next installment in my series about FTP clients, I want to take a look at WinSCP, which is an open source FTP/SFTP client that is available from the following URL:
For this blog post I used WinSCP 5.5.1, and it was available for free when I wrote this blog post. That being said, WinSCP's author (Martin Prikryl) takes donations. (And I think that it's a worthy cause; I like to support independent development work.)
When you open WinSCP 5.5, you will first see the Login dialog box, which will be empty until you add some sites to the list. The Login dialog allows you to create folders so you can categorize your sites, and the user interface is comparable to what you would expect in a Site Manager for other FTP clients.
When you are adding FTP sites, you have three choices for the protocol: FTP, SCP, and SFTP; you also have four choices for encryption: No encryption, TLS/SSL Implicit encryption, TLS Explicit encryption, and SSL Explicit encryption. (I'll discuss those later.)
When you open a site for which you did not save the password, (which I highly recommend), you will be prompted for your password.
Once your FTP site is opened, the main application window is displayed, and it resembles a two-column file explorer interface with local and remote folders, which you might expect from a GUI-based FTP client. (Note: WinSCP refers to this as it's "Commander" interface.)
That being said, if you change your application preferences, you can change the user interface so that it uses a single-column file explorer interface with a folder tree, which might be useful if you would rather use the FTP client as a drag-and-drop repository. (Note: WinSCP refers to this as it's "Explorer" interface.)
WinSCP 5.5 has support for automation through .NET and COM, and documentation about automating WinSCP 5.5 programmatically is available on the WinSCP website at the following URL:
WinSCP .NET Assembly and COM Library
There are several detailed automation examples on the WinSCP website that are written in C#, VB.NET, PowerShell, JavaScript, VBScript, etc., and the documentation is quite good. If you need to do a lot of FTP scripting and you are looking for a good way to automate your FTP sessions, you might want to consider this FTP client.
If you don't want to write a bunch of code, you can also automate WinSCP from a command line, and the documentation about that is available on the WinSCP website at the following URL:
WinSCP Command-line Options
Another great feature about WinSCP is that it can be downloaded as portable executables, which makes it easy to copy between systems. This is a great feature for me since I like to keep a collection of handy utilities in my SkyDrive/OneDrive folders.
WinSCP 5.5 has built-in support for FTP over SSL (FTPS), and it supports both Explicit and Implicit FTPS. To specify which type of encryption to use for FTPS, you need to choose the appropriate option from the Encryption drop-down menu for an FTP site.
Once you have established an FTPS connection through WinSCP 5.5, the user experience is the same as it is for a standard FTP connection. That being said, I could not find a way to drop out of FTPS once a connection is established, so FTPS is an all or nothing option for your sessions.
True FTP hosts are not supported natively, and even though WinSCP 5.5 allows you to send post-login commands after an FTP site has been opened, I could not find a way to send a custom command before sending user credentials, so true FTP hosts cannot be used.
WinSCP 5.5's login settings allow you to specify the virtual host name as part of the user credentials by using syntax like "ftp.example.com|username" or "ftp.example.com\username", so you can use virtual FTP hosts with WinSCP 5.5.
This concludes my quick look at a few of the FTP features that are available with WinSCP 5.5, and here are the scorecard results:
That wraps things up for today's blog. Your key take-aways should be: WinSCP 5.5 is good FTP client with a lot of options, and it has a very powerful automation story. As I mentioned earlier, if you have to do a lot of FTP automation, you should really take a look at this FTP client.
I had an interesting question earlier today which I thought was worth sharing. One of my coworkers was trying to use the code sample from my Programmatically Flushing FTP Logs blog, and he was getting the following error:
Unhandled Exception: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)) at Microsoft.Web.Administration.Interop.IAppHostMethodInstance.Execute() at Sample.Main() in c:\Projects\FtpTests\Program.cs:line 25
I knew that the code sample in my blog worked perfectly when I originally wrote it, so I figured that my coworker must be doing something wrong. (And every developer has said "It works on my computer..." at one time or other.) But I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt, so I copied the source code from my blog into a new Visual Studio project and I ran it.
Much to my surprise, I saw the same error that my coworker was seeing if I didn't step the code through with a debugger.
When I stepped through the code in a debugger, I saw the following error message:
At this point I was thinking, "What the heck? I know this code was working before..." I started to wonder if we had released a breaking change to the FTP service sometime during the past two years, but then it suddenly dawned on me: I hadn't started the FTP service on my computer.
That was the source of the problem: I usually have the FTP service configured for manual startup on my development computers, but the FTP methods to start and stop FTP sites and flush the FTP logs do not work when the FTP service is not running. Once both of us started the FTP service on each of our systems the problem went away.
I hope this helps. ;-]
I've written a lot of walkthroughs and blog posts about creating custom FTP providers over the past several years, and I usually include instructions like the following example for adding a custom post-build event that will automatically register your extensibility provider in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) on your development computer:
net stop ftpsvc
call "%VS100COMNTOOLS%\vsvars32.bat">nul
gacutil.exe /if "$(TargetPath)"
net start ftpsvc
And I usually include instructions like the following example for determining the assembly information for your extensibility provider:
Over time I have changed the custom post-build event that I use when I am creating custom FTP providers, and my changes make it easier to register custom FTP providers. With that in mind, I thought that my changes would make a good blog subject.
First of all, if you take a look at my How to Use Managed Code (C#) to Create a Simple FTP Authentication Provider walkthrough, you will see that I include instructions like my earlier examples to create a custom post-build event and retrieve the assembly information for your extensibility provider.
That being said, instead of using the custom post-build event in that walkthrough, I have started using the following custom post-build event:
net stop ftpsvc
call "$(DevEnvDir)..\Tools\vsvars32.bat"
gacutil.exe /uf "$(TargetName)"
gacutil.exe /if "$(TargetPath)"
gacutil.exe /l "$(TargetName)"
net start ftpsvc
This script should resemble the following example when entered into Visual Studio:
This updated script performs the following actions:
Let's say that you created a simple FTP authentication provider which contained code like the following example:
using System;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.Web.FtpServer;
public class FtpTestProvider :
private string _username = "test";
private string _password = "password";
public bool AuthenticateUser(
string sessionId,
string siteName,
string userName,
string userPassword,
out string canonicalUserName)
canonicalUserName = userName;
if (((userName.Equals(_username,
StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) == true) &&
userPassword == _password)
return true;
return false;
When you compile your provider in Visual Studio, the output window should show the results of the custom post-build event:
When you examine the output information in detail, the highlighted area in the example below should be of particular interest, because it contains the assembly information for your extensibility provider:
------ Rebuild All started: Project: FtpTestProvider, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------
FtpTestProvider -> c:\users\foobar\documents\visual studio 2012\Projects\FtpTestProvider\bin\Debug\FtpTestProvider.dll
The Microsoft FTP Service service is stopping..
The Microsoft FTP Service service was stopped successfully.
Microsoft (R) .NET Global Assembly Cache Utility. Version 4.0.30319.17929
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Assembly successfully added to the cache
Microsoft (R) .NET Global Assembly Cache Utility. Version 4.0.30319.17929
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
The Global Assembly Cache contains the following assemblies:
FtpTestProvider, Version=126.96.36.199, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=eb763c2ec0efff75, processorArchitecture=MSIL
Number of items = 1
The Microsoft FTP Service service is starting.
The Microsoft FTP Service service was started successfully.
========== Rebuild All: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========
Once you have that information, you simply need to reformat it as "FtpTestProvider, FtpTestProvider, Version=22.214.171.124, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=eb763c2ec0efff75" in order to enter it into the FTP Custom Authentication Providers dialog box in the IIS Manager, or by following the steps in my FTP Walkthroughs or my Adding Custom FTP Providers with the IIS Configuration Editor blogs.
FtpTestProvider, FtpTestProvider, Version=126.96.36.199, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=eb763c2ec0efff75
That wraps it up for today's post. As always, let me know if you have any questions. ;-]
I get a lot of questions about Active versus Passive FTP Connections, specifically when people are configuring their FTP firewall settings as described in my articles like Configuring FTP Firewall Settings in IIS and FTP Firewall Support, and I get related questions when people are trying to figure out why they can't use the command-line FTP.EXE utility that ships with Windows over the Internet. With all of this in mind, I thought that I would put together a quick blog that explains Active and Passive FTP connections and why those matter when you are connecting to an FTP server over the Internet.
Here is the briefest description that I can think of to describe the different between Active and Passive FTP:
That sums up the whole concept into two bullet points. Unfortunately, neither of those bullet points are the least bit significant to you if you don't understand what they actually mean, so I will describe them in detail below.
The following output shows the communication between an FTP client and FTP server using Active FTP to retrieve a simple directory listing, and I manually color-coded the output so that the client and server's responses would be a little easier to see:
OPEN ftp.contoso.com
Resolving ftp.contoso.com...
Connect socket #1920 to 169.254.10.1, port 21...
220 Microsoft FTP Service
HOST ftp.contoso.com
220 Host accepted.
USER robert
331 Password required for robert.
230 User logged in.
257 "/" is current directory.
200 PORT command successful.
125 Data connection already open; Transfer starting.
drwxrwxrwx 1 owner group 0 Feb 15 19:26 aspnet_client
-rwxrwxrwx 1 owner group 689 Jan 31 22:27 default.htm
226 Transfer complete.
Transferred 106 bytes in 0.008 seconds
221 Goodbye.
In the beginning of this exchange, the client connects to the server from one of its ephemeral data ports to the server's port for the FTP command channel. After negotiating the FTP host, username, and password, the client retrieves the name of the current directory. So far all of the client/server communication has taken place over the FTP command channel, and up to now the conversation is identical to Passive FTP, but that is about to change.
The client's next task is to request a directory listing, which is denoted by the LIST command. The server will return its response to the client over the data channel, so before FTP client can send the LIST command, the client has to specify whether to use Active or Passive. In this example, the client has specified Active FTP by sending a PORT command. The syntax for this command is PORT A1,A2,A3,A4,P1,P2, where A1 through A4 are octets of the client's IPv4 address, and P1/P2 are two bytes that make up a 16-bit (0-65535) port address on the client. (Note: if you are using IPv6, there is a similar EPRT command that works with IPv6 addresses.)
Here's what the information in the PORT command means: the FTP client is essentially telling the FTP server, "For the upcoming data transfer, you need to talk to me at this IP address on this port." This means that the FTP client is actively in control of how the subsequent data communication is going to take place.
If we analyze this information, you can easily see why Active FTP will often fail to work over the Internet. As a relevant example, if you were to use the FTP.EXE client that ships with Windows, it can only use Active FTP. So when a client computer requests something from the server that needs to use the data channel, the client computer sends its IP address via a PORT command. If the FTP client is behind a firewall or NAT server, then the client is going to send its internal, LAN-based address, to which the FTP server will more than likely fail to connect. For example, if you are on a LAN that uses a NAT server and you have a 192.168.0.nnn IPv4 address, that IP address is invalid over the Internet, so the server will never be able to establish a data connection to your client to send the data. (Note: This is the reason why many customers contact me with the following problem description: "I can use FTP.EXE to connect to my server, and everything works until I try to retrieve a directory listing, then it hangs until the connection times out." What is actually happening is the FTP server is trying to connect to the FTP client's IP address and port that were specified by the PORT command, but the connection does not succeed because the server cannot connect to the private IP address of the client.)
The following output shows the communication between an FTP client and FTP server using Passive FTP to retrieve the same directory listing as my previous example, and once again I manually color-coded the output so that the client and server's responses would be a little easier to see:
OPEN ftp.contoso.com
Resolving ftp.contoso.com...
Connect socket #2076 to 169.254.10.1, port 21...
220 Microsoft FTP Service
HOST ftp.contoso.com
220 Host accepted.
USER robert
331 Password required for robert.
230 User logged in.
257 "/" is current directory.
227 Entering Passive Mode (169,254,10,1,197,19).
Connect socket #2104 to 169.254.10.1, port 50451...
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection.
drwxrwxrwx 1 owner group 0 Feb 15 19:26 aspnet_client
-rwxrwxrwx 1 owner group 689 Jan 31 22:27 default.htm
226 Transfer complete.
Transferred 106 bytes in 0.008 seconds
221 Goodbye.
As I mentioned in my earlier example, the beginning of this conversation is identical to Active FTP: the client connects from one of its ephemeral data ports to the server's port for the FTP command channel. After negotiating the FTP host, username, and password, the client retrieves the name of the current directory as in my earlier example - and here's where the difference begins.
Once again the client's next task is to request the directory listing, which is still denoted by the LIST command. But in this second example, the client has specified Passive FTP by sending a PASV command. The server responds to this command with a reply that is in the format of 227 Entering Passive Mode (A1,A2,A3,A4,P1,P2), where A1 through A4 are octets of the server's IPv4 address, and P1/P2 are two bytes that make up a 16-bit (0-65535) port address on the server. (Note: if you are using IPv6, there is a similar EPSV command that works with IPv6 addresses.)
227 Entering Passive Mode (A1,A2,A3,A4,P1,P2)
Here's what the information in the response to the PASV command means: the FTP client is essentially telling the FTP server, "For the upcoming data transfer, you need to tell me which IP address and port I should use to talk to you." This means that the FTP client is passively allowing the server to control how the subsequent data communication is going to take place.
If we analyze this information, you can easily see why Passive FTP often works over the Internet; when the FTP server is in control of the communication parameters, it doesn't matter whether the FTP client is behind a NAT server, because the server is telling the client how it should communicate with the server.
All of this leads to an obvious question: what happens when both the server and the client are behind NAT servers or firewalls? This is where a little bit of configuration comes into play. If you read my Configuring FTP Firewall Settings in IIS and FTP Firewall Support articles, you would notice that you can configure the IIS FTP service to tell the FTP client which IP address to use; when your FTP server is located behind a firewall, you would configure your FTP server to send the external IP address of your firewall, and then you would configure your firewall to route FTP requests on that IP address to your FTP server. Since the FTP server is sending the external IP address of your firewall, the client knows how to communicate to the FTP server even though it is behind a firewall, even if your server is using a LAN-based internal IP address.
Having explained everything in my preceding examples, you should now understand what I meant earlier when I described the difference between Active and Passive FTP with these two simple points:
I hope this clears up some questions you might have about Active versus Passive FTP, why you sometimes need to configure your firewall settings for your FTP service, and why the built-in FTP client for Windows seldom works over the Internet.
That wraps it up for today's blog post. ;-]
In Part 1 of this blog series about adding custom FTP providers with the IIS Configuration Editor, I showed you how to add a custom FTP provider with a custom setting for the provider that is stored in your IIS configuration settings. For my examples, I showed how to do this by using both the AppCmd.exe application from a command line and by using the IIS Configuration Editor. In part 2 of this blog series, I will show you how to use the IIS Configuration Editor to add custom FTP providers to your FTP sites.
As a brief review from Part 1, the following XML excerpt illustrates what the provider's settings should resemble when added to your IIS settings:
<system.ftpServer> <providerDefinitions> <add name="FtpXmlAuthorization" type="FtpXmlAuthorization, FtpXmlAuthorization, version=188.8.131.52, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=426f62526f636b73" /> <activation> <providerData name="FtpXmlAuthorization"> <add key="xmlFileName" value="C:\inetpub\FtpUsers\Users.xml" /> </providerData> </activation> </providerDefinitions> </system.ftpServer>
The above example shows the settings that are added globally to register an FTP provider. Note that this example only contains the settings for my custom provider; you would normally see the settings for the IisManagerAuth and AspNetAuth providers that ship with the FTP service in the providerDefinitions collection.
To actually use a provider for an FTP site, you would need to add the provider to the settings for the FTP site in your IIS settings. So for part 2 of this blog series, we will focus on how to add a custom provider to an FTP site by using the IIS Configuration Editor.
Having said all of that, the rest of this blog is broken down into the following sections:
Before continuing, I should reiterate that custom FTP providers fall into two categories: providers that are used for authentication and providers that are used for everything else. This distinction is important, because the settings are stored in different sections of your IIS settings. With that in mind, let's take a look at the settings for an example FTP site.
The following example shows an FTP site with several custom FTP providers added:
<site name="ftp.contoso.com" id="2"> <application path="/"> <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="c:\inetpub\www.contoso.com\wwwroot" /> </application> <bindings> <binding protocol="ftp" bindingInformation="*:21:ftp.contoso.com" /> </bindings> <ftpServer> <security> <ssl controlChannelPolicy="SslAllow" dataChannelPolicy="SslAllow" /> <authentication> <customAuthentication> <providers> <add name="MyCustomFtpAuthenticationProvider" /> </providers> </customAuthentication> </authentication> </security> <customFeatures> <providers> <add name="MyCustomFtpHomeDirectoryProvider" /> <add name="MyCustomFtpLoggingProvider" /> </providers> </customFeatures> <userIsolation mode="Custom" /> </ftpServer> </site>
If you look at the above example, you will notice the following providers have been added:
As I mentioned earlier, you will notice that the settings for FTP custom providers are stored in different sections of the ftpServer collection depending on whether they are used for authentication or some other purpose.
Open the IIS Manager and click on the Configuration Editor at feature the server level:
Click the Section drop-down menu, expand the the system.applicationHost collection, and then highlight the sites node:
If you click on the Collection row, an ellipsis [...] will appear:
When you click the ellipsis [...], IIS will display the Collection Editor dialog box for your sites; both HTTP and FTP sites will be displayed:
Expand the ftpServer node, which is where all of the site-level settings for an FTP site are kept.
As I mentioned earlier, custom FTP providers fall into two categories: providers that are used for authentication and everything else. Because of this distinction, the following steps show you how to add a provider to the correct section of your settings depending on the provider's purpose.
Expand the customFeatures node, which is located under the ftpServer node for an FTP site; this collection defines the custom providers for an FTP site that are not used for authentication, for example: home directory providers, logging providers, etc. When you highlight the providers row, an ellipsis [...] will appear:
When you click the ellipsis [...], IIS will display the Collection Editor dialog box for your custom features (providers). When you click Add in the Actions pane, you need to enter the name of an FTP provider that you entered by following the instructions in Part 1 of this blog series:
Once you enter the name of your FTP provider in the Collection Editor dialog box for your custom features, you can close that dialog box. The Collection Editor for your sites will reflect the updated provider count for your FTP site:
Important Note: If you are adding a custom FTP Home Directory Provider, you have to configure the mode for FTP's User Isolation features. To do so, you need to expand the userIsolation node, which is located under the ftpServer node for an FTP site. Once you have done so, click the mode drop-down menu and choose Custom from the list of choices:
When you close the Collection Editor dialog box for your sites, you need to click Apply in the Actions pane to commit the changes to your IIS settings:
First and foremost - there is built-in support for adding custom authentication providers in IIS Manager; to see the steps to do so, see the FTP Custom Authentication <customAuthentication> article on the IIS.NET website. However, if you want to add a custom FTP authentication provider to an FTP site by using the IIS Configuration Editor, you can do so by using the following steps.
Expand the security node under the ftpServer node for an FTP site, then expand the authentication node, and then expand the customAuthentication node; this collection defines the custom authentication providers for an FTP site. When you highlight the providers row, an ellipsis [...] will appear:
When you click the ellipsis [...], IIS will display the Collection Editor dialog box for your custom authentication providers. When you click Add in the Actions pane, you need to enter the name of an FTP authentication provider that you entered by following the instructions in Part 1 of this blog series:
Once you enter the name of your FTP authentication provider in the Collection Editor dialog box for your custom authentication providers, you can close that dialog box. The Collection Editor for your sites will reflect the updated authentication provider count for your FTP site:
As I mentioned in part 1 of this series, I admit that this might seem like a lot of steps to go through, but it's not that difficult once you understand how the configuration settings are organized and you get the hang of using the IIS Configuration Editor to add or modify these settings.
In the Add a custom FTP provider to an FTP site that is not used for authentication section of this blog, I added a step to specify Custom as the User Isolation mode. Since this is something of an advanced feature, there is no user interface for enabling custom user isolation; this was a design decision to keep people from breaking their FTP sites. Here's why: if you enable custom user isolation and you don't install a custom Home Directory provider for FTP, all users will be denied access to your FTP site.
That being said, once you have enabled custom user isolation, the option to disable custom user isolation will "magically" appear in the FTP User Isolation feature in the IIS Manager. To see this for yourself, you would first need to follow the steps to custom user isolation in the Add a custom FTP provider to an FTP site that is not used for authentication section of this blog.
Once you have enabled custom user isolation, highlight your FTP site in the list of Sites pane of IIS Manager, then open the FTP User Isolation feature:
When you open the FTP User Isolation feature, you will see that an option for Custom now appears in the list of user isolation modes:
This option will appear as long as custom user isolation is enabled. If you change the user isolation mode to something other than Custom, this option will continue appear in the list of user isolation modes until you navigate somewhere else in IIS Manager. Once you have changed the user isolation mode to one of the built-in modes and you navigate somewhere else, the Custom option will not show up in the FTP User Isolation feature until you follow the steps to re-enable custom user isolation.
If you want additional information about configuring the settings for FTP providers, you can find detailed reference documentation at the following URLs:
Each of these articles contain "How-To" steps, detailed information about each of the configuration settings, and code samples for AppCmd.exe, C#/VB.NET, and JavaScript/VBScript.
As always, let me know if you have any questions. ;-]


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Are you want to use WhatsApp in your pc? Or you have not smart device and you want to use the WhatsApp. Are you have a old device and it is possible to use WhatsApp and connect with your friends.
But it is possible to use WhatsApp without smart device.Yes,It is possible to use this application in your laptop or PC.You need to follow the below the steps.
For use the WhatsApp you need to have smart device like android device,windows device or iOS device but you use the old device then you can not use this application.But don't worry.Here is the solution.
You can use this application on your PC or laptop by using Blue Stacks software on your laptop or PC.
Follow the below steps.
Using Blue Stacks:
Blue Stacks is the android device simulator for the PC.It's gives you a facilities to use the android application in your pc.Blue Stacks provide a platform to run the APK (Android Application Package) file.It is very easy and handy application. Blue Stacks has a user friendly GUI.So you can easily use blue stacks application.
How to install BlueStack online.
1). Install Blue Stacks applicaton in your PC or Laptop.You need to download this application by visit it's site: Blue Stacks .
2). Choose your platform and click on your platform tab.After that one file is download.You need to run this file.This files download WhatsApp file in to your device.And after that it is install in your device.
How to install Blue Stacks offline.
You can manually install Blue Stacks in your PC. For this you need to download offline version of that Blue Stacks.
1).You need to search "Blue Stacks offline download" or "Blue Stacks offline installer" in to the Google.
2). After that find out link and download offline copy of Blue Stacks.
3). And install it in to your system.
Install WhatsApp in Blue Stacks.
After successful installing Blue Stacks you need to install WhatsApp in to Blue Stack.You can download Blue Stacks inside the Blue Stacks or outside the WhatsApp.
Install WhatsApp inside the Blue Stacks.
1.Go to play store and search for WhatsApp.
2.Then click on to the install tab.
3.Wait for some minute.And you have the WhatsApp!!
Install WhatsApp outside the Blue Stack.
1). Search for WhatsApp APK file in to the Google.
2). After download this WhatsApp.apk file.Double click on that file.
Complete.You got the WhatsApp on pc.
Then after create your account in to WhatsApp.
1). Enter your mobile number,WhatsApp create account of that mobile number.Keep that device which has this number is running.It's must need for verification of your account.
2.) For verification there is two option call or SMS.
NOTE: I recommended to choose call option. SMS option is take more time then call option.
3). Get the verification code and enter this code.
4). Your account is create and enjoy your WhatsApp.
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'It's a good day for Chinese food for lunch," my dad pronounced.
Never mind that this phone request to my sister was taking place and the sun wasn't even up. Chinese food was on his mind, and in a big way. Soon as possible, he had to have it.
There's not a whole lot to laugh about when you're watching your father die of cancer, especially in those last weeks. You witness a once strong body grow too weak to even stand unassisted, see an independent man who was always on the go now confined to spending his days in a solitary room.
But the multiple requests for Chinese food never ceased to make me laugh for one simple reason: He never ate Chinese food before!
I thought I knew everything about my dad and food favorites: sardines on Saltines. A good corned beef sandwich, the way they used to make them on 87th Street. Lamb chops, nuts and popcorn.
So at first the Chinese food requests stumped me. When did this obsession with Chinese food begin?
"Six weeks ago," my sister explained. She'd brought it to him on a lark, hoping to wake up his taste buds. Boy, did she!
On a day off I brought Chinese food over. This is how unfamiliar he was with it: His request was for the "chicken-like dumplings" in "that sauce." (Translation: sweet and sour chicken.)
That day I thought he'd enjoy having a chance to share a meal with my sister and me. But instead of him joining our conversation with mom, he seemed lost in those "dumplings." It was as if he were in another place, maybe one where he was back in control and he could call the shots as he just had, even if it was only lunch. He was transported by something enjoyable in a life that was running short on happy moments.
We tried to make sense of it. "We call that crazy eating," one nurse said. It never seems to have anything to do with nutrients needed, according to experts I spoke to and Internet searches, but it's not uncommon. Cancer patients talk online about newfound cravings for Pop-Tarts, cherries, hummus.
Dad's food jags didn't end with Chinese food. Tomato soup — again, something he never ate before — became a lunchtime favorite, with — get this — the shrimp from leftover fried rice tossed in for extra oomph.
As the disease steamrolls on, you realize you're not going to change the approaching outcome, so you do what you can, however small, for your loved one.
So he'd ask and someone would go on a hunt for the food of the moment. Sweet rolls from Calumet Bakery, a Southeast Side treasure, one day. Menudo, which some think has healing powers, another early morning. "Sure thing, anything, Pops," always was the answer. And oh gosh, he was just so grateful that his food craving was being satisfied. He'd grab your hand, look at your face as if trying to memorize it for later, and say his thanks.
Once your dad's gone like mine is, every commercial, every mention of Father's Day is like someone jabbing your heart.
So I might need a laugh today. Think I'll get some of those "chicken dumplings" to cheer me up. With "that sauce," of course.


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Barricade your igloos the best that you can. And if you need supplies, send you pet moose out to get some.
Send 'em to Quebec.
Don't kid yourself there are more guns in Canada then you could shake a hockey stick at. But Canadians wouldn't have to worry if there was a zombie attack because Canada's Light Infantry - the Princess Patricia's would be sent in and they would soon drive the zombies back to H-E Double Hockey Sticks. Cheers!
I know it sounds funny but in all reality some of the Patricia's have special training which is a combination of British Commando, US Rangers and French foreign Legion. So they could easily sneak up on a zombie and snap its head off - not sure if a zombies head grows back but if it did the Patricia would try something else because there motto is - "We shall find a way" (but they say it in Latin). Anyway in case anyone is interested in fighting zombies I included a link to more info about the Patricia's. Cheers!
Thin their ranks with a moose stampede, then set have maple syrup moats to get the rest stuck. Then kill them with the kindness of the canadian neighborly personality
Come to America we have **** tons of guns. ;))
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I live in Alberta. I think I'm the only person I know who DOESN'T own a gun.
simple no problem...pretend to be a zombie like them..and they will leave you alone..they will then head south......we have guns.... ...problem over.
You will do what you always have done....depend on your guberment to see to your needs.
Hide in the caves under Niagara Falls and wait for them and push them into the current of the falls.
Actually, Canadians have a pretty high rate of gun ownership. You just don't blow each other away with them very often.
It will be OK they will recognize you as friends
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The life and contributions of Mad River Community Hospital founder Allen Shaw will be celebrated Saturday at the Adult Day Health Care building in Arcata.
Shaw died of natural causes on Memorial Day in Humboldt County, where he had lived for a quarter of a century. He was 96.
Shaw was a stock broker in Los Angeles when he learned a company he sold shares for named the American Hospital Management Corporation, which had built the nation's first dental hospital, was on the brink of bankruptcy. The corporation's board of directors voted to have him take over the institution, which he turned into an acute care hospital, and he was in the hospital managing business ever since, according to his family.
"He fell in love with medicine. He lost his mother at a young age and wanted to make an impact so that the same thing would never happen to anyone else because of lack of medical care," said his son Doug Shaw, who is now CEO of Mad River Community Hospital. "He was always trying to make things better. He loved the whole concept of putting people together and making stuff work. He was so optimistic and could dispel the worst times with a sense of humor."
Before settling in Arcata, Allen Shaw built and managed several other hospitals, including Esperanza Intercommunity Hospital in Yorba Linda, Circle City Hospital in Corona and Sutter Towers Hospital in San Francisco.
In the summer of 1968, he heard about a small community in Northern California that wanted its own hospital, and he flew from San Francisco to Arcata. In 1969, he created a partnership with doctors and community members to purchase Trinity Hospital near Humboldt State University, which was being closed, and received permission to build a newer hospital somewhere else in Arcata.
Mad River Community Hospital opened three years later and now admits over 2,500 patients, with visits from 40,000 outpatients every year, according to the hospital's Chief Operating Officer Steve Engle.
"The hospital has a focus on quality patient care and being a family-centered employer. This is the kind of hospital Allen Shaw created," Engle said. "Our staff enjoy Easter Egg hunts, Christmas parties, a community garden and other events that make their families part of our family."
Allen Shaw was an amazing, caring person and a visionary, hospital employee Michael Young said.
"He was always looking ahead," said Young, who has worked at Mad River Community Hospital since 1978. "People would say, 'That's not possible,' but he'd figure out how to get things done. He had all kinds of energy."
The hospital asks those who plan to attend the celebration to call 826-8201.
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Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Jim Scales said Tuesday that he is meeting personally with Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger about regaining control of payment-in-lieu-of-taxes money.
Scales spoke at a local NAACP meeting at the Glenwood Recreation Center in Chattanooga, but steered clear of the PILOT money question and other budget issues. He instead talked about school attendance and test scores.
He answered a question on the status of the money after the meeting. The school system wants to use the $6 million generated by the Volkswagen PILOT agreement to balance its budget, but county commissioners are holding on to all PILOT money while they decide whether to earmark it for school construction.
Coppinger said he has spoken with Scales, but said it's ultimately going to come down to what the commission wants to do. And while the commission isn't saying with certainty it will keep the money for school construction, there has been no action on the commission's part to put it back in the school system's budget.
Scales hopes he can change that.
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Coppinger said he hasn't recommended anything yet, and didn't indicate if he would make a recommendation.
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Aria's Room from PRETTY LITTLE LIARS| March 1, 2011 at 8:07 AM EST
Aria's room from Pretty Little Liars merges the old (vintage and vintage-inspired pieces) with the new (Urban Outfitters items.) That suits her personality just right. I first started loving Aria's room when I noticed her ruffled curtains.
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- Wrought iron book shelf hung on wall.
- Pillows, pillows, pillows! There's an image of The Statue of Liberty on one. Another has a traditional pattern on it in two tones of warm salmon pink. One is white with artsy flowers on it. Another is a caramel color with silver sequins all over it.
- Aria's bedroom walls are wallpapered with a textured, metallic wallpaper. The color is bronze/gold/olive green. Or somewhere in-between those tones.
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- Framed image of a light blue butterfly in a black shadowcase.
- A Bulletin board in a nice cream frame (just use a picture frame, paint it, and replace the main section.)
- Large-ish LCD TV on the desk.
- Butterflies stuck to the wall, much like Buffy Summers had.
- Ruffled tiers of curtains.
- Lamps everywhere with a yellow glow. You can actually get yellow bulbs from Mood Lites. I think you might also try these stained glass light bulbs.
- Mirror/Candle holder on wall.
- Chotskies like bird figurines, tiny lamps, little statues…
- Piles stacked high of hardcover books
- Wrought iron items
- Wooden wall shelf over the bed with wrought iron brackets
- The colors: brown, rust, olive, khaki, rose, gold, yellow
- Woven textile rug
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Thanks for this!! I really love Aria's room, but I feel like they don't show it enough for me to figure out exactly how it's decorated. I wish I could get my room to look this amazing and put-together! Great pictures
I absolutely love the pictures, but do you know where I can actually purchase these things? Like the daybed?
i've just finished downloading screencaps of the sets from a fantastic livejournal site. i'm going to post a thorough examination of this room on flickr tomorrow night. it is definitely my favorite of all the girls' (i really didn't find any for the blonde girl). i don't watch the show. the sets are my only interest. this girls' entire house is my favorite although it is quite dark with all the wood absorbing the light.
i just wanted to add that her curtains aren't cream: they're gray. the wallpaper is a mocha brown background with bronze metallic pattern on it. the bookshelf is a wooden beam braced on three iron brackets. you can get those sorts of brackets at say…anthropologie or home depot. (hers are the prettiest i've ever seen.) the daybed would be vintage. probably from a thrift store. you can see shot of pin grass bedskirt in one of your photos. that is an unexpected detail. and the mirror sconce is well placed because it reflects natural light into the rather dark room.
the number of lamps is surprising and well done. there are at least four, plus the ceiling lantern. that's a great way to light a room. the architecture really makes the space what with the sloped, slatted ceiling and the builtin window seat. i grew up in teh '80s and this room would have made my youth!
this daybed is really similar
I lovee her room!
can you do one of emily's room?
Where can I get the bedding? I really want her comforter/duvet. PLEASE HELP
funny you should ask. i just started experimenting with tumblr (click my name). i'm not sure if it's the right place for me to blog.
tell me what you think of it.
does aria's room have wallpaper on all the walls?
Can you one of Hannas room..
Can you do one of Hannas room* sorry>.<
i have to agree. finally seeing her room this week was a treat. i pulled a number of screenshots of it.
Does anyone know what the wrought iron book shelve hung on the wall is or where I can get one?
that isn't a wrought iron shelf. it's a wooden slat on top of iron brackets. you can get the wood at a hardware store or lumber yard. you can get similar brackets at places like anthropologie.com
Can you do one of Emily's room?
Can I say, her bed doesn't even look like a day bed. Just a normal metal bed frame. But Im trying to get her bedroom design to use it in my bedroom! I found this look-a-like curtains :http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=16809253&pushId=A_DECORATE&popId=APARTMENT&navCount=63&navAction=jump&itemCount=80&itemdescription=true&parentid=A_DECORATE&startValue=1&sortProperties=+subCategoryPosition,+product.marketingPriority
and wallpaper : http://www.wallpaperstore.com/scripts/Single.idc?Number=669031&PaperGroupID=669030&LogID=11866402&Page=1
oh and a buterfly painting :http://www.kohls.com/kohlsStore/art/animals/PRD~c22023/Butterflies+Framed+Canvas+Art.jsp
I found the same wallpaper! However the same color has sold out.
Her bed isn't really a day bed. It only looks like it because it's against the wall.
I wanna know the name of her wallpaper!
Hey, would you mind telling me where you found the same wallpaper? x
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The idiots running Hamas are the real reason for this whole fiasco.Why would you spend 5 years and millions of dollars on tunnels only to give Israel an excuse to invade by firing rockets at them. Why wouldn´t you just lay low until the time was right for a full attack? I wonder if Hamas started this this war thinking Obama had their back?
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Of course,Hamas was emboldened by Obama s cowardice and Muslim leanings. So Bibi should not listen to Obozo and keep going until the enemy is defeated.No crease fire,These savages will not stop. Finish what they had started.
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Israel is doing what the Muslim terrorists understand...showing them power. The assault is being carried out very thoughtfully, giving each Palestinian a taste of what it means to P.O. Israel. This should create something of an internal P.R. fiasco for the Hamas leadership.But! As was learned in the 1940´s Japanese, German and 1968 North Vietnam experiences, a population that is oppressed and controlled has no chance of altering the minds of those who oppress them. Like whipped dogs, they will just lay there and take it. The murder will continue to be exported from Gaza.
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It seems a fair number of folks are upset with their local retailers, due to a widespread practice of raising prices for ammunition lately. Perfectly understandable, but I think it may not be entirely justified, and I'd like to explain why and hear what others think. (warning: long post ahead, but it's not a simple topic)
Now, it's pretty clear that there's been speculative buying and plain panic going on to drive demand for ammunition recently. I mean, seriously, a run on .22lr?
But, in a sense, this may mean that prices didn't go up ENOUGH, which contributed to the shortage. An analogy to illustrate: imagine a city where the populace learns of an imminent disaster, let's say a flood, that will restrict their access to the outside world for a time, meaning little food coming in. Naturally, people want to stock food in preparation. A well-meaning mayor issues an edict: all food prices are frozen for the duration of the emergency, to prevent "profiteering". What happens? The shelves will be bare in no time, because although the price remains the same, the perceived value of food has gone up. It becomes a bargain, and everyone will buy as much as they can get theirs hands on, even if they have more than they really need; while those late to the store may arrive with money in hand and actually need more food, but there's none to be had.
Now, what if that edict didn't exist? Prices would go up, perhaps drastically, but it would more accurately reflect the perceived value of the food, which has nothing to do with how much it cost to make or what the price was before the crisis. It would cease to be a bargain, and people would buy only what they need. That person short on food and late to the store would have to pay more, but it would be there.
This analogy applies pretty directly to the ammo scare. Instead of a flood, the crisis was anti-gun politicians retaining control of government, creating an imminent threat of restricted supply. The perceived value of ammunition went way up, while the prices at major retailers barely budged. People saw it as a bargain and bought much more than they really needed. Suddenly the first-time gun buyer who really needs ammo to practice with and load for defense with his new carry piece can't find it, because the guy with 40 boxes in his safe decided it wasn't a bad idea to get 10 more. So what does he do? Looks around until he finds a retailer that performed the service he really needed - RAISING THE PRICE. He has to pay more, but since the opportunity buyers avoided the higher prices, this retailer at least has stock to sell. Maybe he can only afford half as much ammo, but he's a lot better off than if he had none.
In the absence of government edict, why did most major retailers avoid drastic price increases? My guess is that they were afraid of getting what some small retailers are getting now: angry customers who feel that a price jump must mean they're getting cheated.
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After she brought Ram Kapoor back to primetime, Ekta Kapoor gets Samir Soni (who was seen in Bigg Boss last year) to woo us in Colors' latest offering, Parichay. It's Kapoor's handiwork and though the first few episodes didn't show anything earth-shattering (in fact, I am sure, female viewers have been craving for Samir darshan which is not as much as I would have wanted it to be), the prospect of watching a good- looking, decent actor is incentive enough.
Soni plays a lawyer, Kunaal Chopra. We are told he was a lawyer who, for reasons best known to Kapoor and her writers, has quit the profession, taken to the bottle, is mostly depressed and the lost hope of a big family (parents, two brothers, one bhabhi and two nieces). We are told he's been a topper throughout and one of the most gifted lawyers in the business. Now, of course he dotes on his youngest brother, Anand, who's also studied to be a lawyer and has landed himself a job with a senior lawyer, Thakral and the bane of Kunaal's existence. Then there is a girl, who, by a case of mistaken identity, has fallen for Anand and is incidentally Thakral's assistant.
The show, like most Balaji Telefilms' products, has too many characters crowding the screen. I do understand the need for parallel stories to run a daily show but then if you have Soni as the protagonist, it's only fair he's seen more. Come on, I am more interested in what happened to Kunaal and his past than see a horizontally-challenged girl, eating samosas on one hand and exercising on the other! Sorry, not interested in Anand's love story either but that's TV today. The promos promise a lot and when it's time to deliver, they just fall short. Yet, Kunaal's sporadic outbursts and the simmering tension makes you go back to it for more, at least till the whole story is out. Guess, until then, I gotta grin and bear it.
Meanwhile, to give the makers their due credit, a few scenes are emotionally rich � like when Kunaal's mother starts praising her 'smart' beta, her daughter-in-law playfully pulls her leg saying, 'Ever since I got married, I have been hearing this!' or when Anand at the behest of Kunaal spends some tender moments with their mother and presses her aching back. Fortunately, most of the cast are decent actors and Samir Soni with his perennially raised eyebrow and lopsided smile is fetching alright!
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