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I have successfully implemented a old google style CHAT for the TRAC wiki system. In this document I describe the solution I have found.
There are a few constraints/requirements I was facing when starting this project:
- CHAT to integrate with the TRAC wiki system.
- Use BASH shell scripting for the server side and JQuery for the client side.
- Use the new technology called WEBSOCKET.
- Allows multiple conversations at the same time.
- Facilitate group conversations.
- Allow the same user to have several sessions opened at the same time (a user logged in from different computers or using more than one browser).
Open this website in two different browsers otherwise it wont work.
logon as:
browser A:
- username: newUser
- password: new
browser B:
- username: otherUser
- password: other
optionally you can register yourself and have more users to test it with
WebSockets represent a standard for bi-directional realtime communication between servers and clients. Firstly in web browsers, but ultimately between any server and any client.
It is an persistent connection between the client and the server and both parties can start sending data at any time.
It allows to send messages to a server and receive event-driven responses without having to poll the server for a reply.
meet websocketd
It turns anything that takes standard-in and standard-out into a websocket server!.
So long as you can write an executable program that reads STDIN and writes STDOUT, you can build a WebSocket server.
This is perfect for developing the server using BASH shell script!
WEBSOCKETs the good news
no need for polling for new messages.
WEBSOCKETs the bad news
Every time the page is re-loaded the connection dies and a new connection needs to be re-established... which is a process that takes a minute or so.
the Problem
TRAC reloads a page every time a link is clicked on.
the Solution
load TRAC into an iframe and have the wiki chat running on the parent page... clicking a link in the wiki page causes the content of iframe to be re-loaded but not the parent page where the chat code and the websocket connection reside.
child --> parent redirection
It is possible that the TRAC project (the child page) would be addressed directly. In this case I have added code into site.html in the template dir that will redirect to the parent page (index.html).
If that was the only thing we did, the site would be opening to the default page specified in the src attribute of the iframe which is not the intent of the user.
What I have done to remedy to this is to set a cookie within the child page with the url the user entered, access the cookie from the parent page as it loads and use its content to set the src attribute of the iframe.
child page code (site.html head section):

NOTE: I am using the JQuery cookiePlugin.
parent page (index.html) code:

NOTE: if the cookie was NULL it means that the user addressed the parent page, in that case I set a default ifrane src attribute. Also note that all there is in the parent page body is the iframe plus a bunch of scripts for the chat.
Removing the IFRAME vertical scroll bar
If the height of the parent page is not enough to contain the iframe automatically a scroll bar will be added to the iframe potentially we will have 2 vertical scroll bars: one for the parent page and one for the child frame into the iframe.
The following code is a JQuery plugin that will resize the parent page height adjusting to the iframe height.

NOTE: this code is found in the parent page (index.html) in the head section
Some more document sizing problems
When typing a new ticket in TRAC an automatic preview is shown which is updated periodically. In this case the iframe size is changed dynamically as you type.
I also have included code for showing the directory content as an expandable tree view, in this case the iframe size changes dynamically as you click the tree view.
In order to address these situation here is the code located into the child page site.html:

NOTE: is positioned at the bottom of the body section
The CHAT box
It is the box that is used to display the received messages and to input a new message.
- It has a title bar with the name of the recipient of our communication and close button.
- A content area where the messages received are displayed.
- A input text area for composing the new messages to be sent.
CHAT box JQuery Plugin
I have implemented the CHAT box as a JQuery Plugin and using the DialogBox? offered by JQuery UI.
The Plugin accept the following options:
- from: is the user using the chatbox. It is passed back to the sendCallBack function
- to: is the user we send the messages to. It is also the ID of the box and the name in the box title bar.
- width: is the width of the chatbox.
- sendCallBack(from, id, message): is the function called when the ENTER key is pressed in the input text area.from is the user name, id is the chatbox ID which is also the recipient name, and message
- closeCallBack(id): is the function called when the box close button is clicked. id is the chatbox ID being closed.
The Plugin offers 2 functions:
- MYchatbox.addTXT(id, text) where id is the chatbox ID which corresponds to the recipient name, text is the formatted text that is going to be displayed in the content area.
- MYchatbox.addMsg(id, from, message) where id is the chatbox ID which corresponds to the recipient name, from is the one that sent the message, and message is the message. This function will display the message in the content area prepended by from:.
When the Plugin is called it generates a chatbox in the right bottom corner of the browser, if more than one box is present it will position the chatboxes next to each other. If a chat box is closed, it will reposition the chatboxes side-by-side. If the browser is resized it will reposition the chatboxes to fit the new browser geometry.
NOTE: when a chatbox is closed the whole element is removed from the DOM loosing the content of the box. If the box is re-opened it is up to the calling program to add the content back if it wishes to.
If the messages in the content area don't fit a vertical scroll bar is shown and the content scrolls to bottom message.
CHATbox Usage Examples
Opening a new chatbox:
user='Matteo'; id='Marco'; closeBox = function(id) { DN[id] = 0; //cleanup when the box is closed }; sendme=function(from, to, msg){ console.log('send: '+msg); //your send logic goes here }; $().MYchatbox({from: user, to: id, sendCallBack: sendme, closeCallBack: closeBox});
adding some text in the content area:
box=$("#"+id); box.MYchatbox.addTXT(id, "html formatted text");
starting a websocket connection
There is some logic to determine whether the user is logged in or not. I the case the user is logged in if there is no connection already established a new websocket connection is started.
var serverIPaddress = $(location).attr('href').replace(new RegExp('http://', ''), '').replace(new RegExp('/.*', ''), ''); ws = new WebSocket('ws://'+serverIPaddress+':1212');
port 1212 is the one the websocketd is listening to.
I have added some logic to the code because I usually keep several browser TABs open with TRAC wiki pages.
I want only one page to establish the connection and the other pages poll in case the TAB with the connection get's closed to be ready to get a new connection started.
I use cookies to implement this cross TAB logic.
ws.onopen = function() {
in this function goes the code when the websocket connection is opened, including sending to the websocket server the user name and session ID.
ws.onclose = function() {
in this function goes the code when the websocket connection is colsed.
ws.onmessage = function(event) {
in this function goes the code executed when a message is received by the client. In my case I parse the message and see if it carries a user list, a command to be executed by the client, or a message to be displayed in one of the chatboxes.
the logged in user list
Every time a user logs in or just becomes available (a new websocket connection is made) or becomes unavailable (websocket connection dies) a new user list is compiled and sent to each of the users logged in and connected.
The user list is displayed on the left side of the page under the logo and above the navigation bar. Each user name in the user list is a link and when pressed it opens a chatbox to start communicating with that user.
sending a new message
Since originally this chat program was implemented using polling for new messages using at each poll an ajax call, also the sendme function responsible for sending the message was implemented using ajax call.
Because the sending happens only when the ENTER key is pressed it doesn't take up resources and thus I kept it as ajax implementation instead of converting it to use the websocket connection.
Once the message is sent the ajax call will execute chat_send.sh BASH shell script which will enter the message into the messages table in the DB.
It will also add an entry to the common file telling all the websocket servers a new message has been sent.
It will then add the message to the chatbox the user used for entering the text.
receiving a new message
Each websocket server (one for each session) gets the wakeup call that a new message has been sent and entered into the DB, then the WS server checks the DB if among the new messages is there any for the user they are serving.
In the case there are new messages for the user it serves, the websocket server relays the new messages to the client using the websocket connection.
Once the client receives it, the message gets added to a cookie. This allows me to keep history of the conversation even if the browser TAB where the websocket connection reside is close, since if there is another TAB with a TRAC wiki page open it will start a new connection and the conversation can be continued in the current TAB.
If the message comes and there is not chatbox for the conversation already opened, a new chatbox will be created.
the DB table for the messages
root@Lubuntu:~# mysql -pletmein -t <<< "use groupChat;select * from messages LIMIT 10;" +------+-----------+---------+---------+----------------------+------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | id | from | to | box | message | sent | recd | +------+-----------+---------+---------+----------------------+------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 1431 | newUser | gg11 | gg11 | go gg11 | 1397659634 | matteo0 matteo1397659542 newUser0 newUser1397659551 otherUser0 otherUser1397659547 | | 1432 | otherUser | gg11 | gg11 | yeah | 1397659653 | matteo0 matteo1397659542 newUser0 newUser1397659551 otherUser0 otherUser1397659547 | | 1433 | matteo | gg11 | gg11 | we will win | 1397659662 | matteo0 matteo1397659542 newUser0 newUser1397659551 otherUser0 otherUser1397659547 | | 1434 | otherUser | gg11 | gg11 | hello | 1397861499 | matteo0 matteo1397861062 newUser0 newUser1397861040 otherUser0 otherUser1397861098 | | 1435 | newUser | newUser | matteo | HI | 1398209795 | newUser0 newUser1398207807 | | 1436 | newUser | matteo | newUser | HI | 1398209795 | matteo0 matteo1398207790 | | 1437 | matteo | matteo | newUser | how are you doing%3F | 1398209833 | matteo0 matteo1398207790 | | 1438 | matteo | newUser | matteo | how are you doing%3F | 1398209833 | newUser0 newUser1398207807 | | 1439 | newUser | newUser | matteo | not too bad! | 1398209844 | newUser0 newUser1398207807 | | 1440 | newUser | matteo | newUser | not too bad! | 1398209844 | matteo0 matteo1398207790 | +------+-----------+---------+---------+----------------------+------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
same user multiple sessions
Since there is the possibility that the same user has multiple sessions opened (different computers or different browsers), in order to each session to get the new messages, the server assigned to each session will mark the messaged as received (recd field) with its user name and session number.
Group CHATs
There is a new button on the main TRAC navigation bar that will allow the user to start a group chat.
If a group chat already exists, there is the option of adding new users to the group chat.
The user can leave the group chat by pressing the "x" next to the group chat name in the user list. chat.goups_parentpage.js has the javascript code to handle this functionality and chat_leaveGroup.sh, chat_addGroup.sh were also added in the /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ directory.
NOTE in the table reported above, that some of the messages are sent to a group (gg11) which is meant to be sent to multiple users. When a WS server looks into the DB for new messages, it looks for the messages with the recd field with its username and a 0 appended to it, once the message is relayed to its client, it will tag the message with the username and its session number.
A new MySQL DB table has been added to support group chat: when a group is added the group name and the users that are part of the group get stored into a new record.
root@ip-172-31-44-196:~# mysql -uroot -pletmein -t <<< 'USE groupChat;select * from users;' +----+-----------+----------------+ | id | groupName | users | +----+-----------+----------------+ | 5 | gg11 | matteo newUser | +----+-----------+----------------+
The websocket server
Once the websocket connection is started (from the client side) websocketd runs an new instance of the script which works as the websocket server, in my case called chat_newMSGs.sh. Thus we will have a server running for each chat session. chat_newMSGs.sh is implemented using BASH shell scripting.
Identifying the CHAT session
The first thing the server does is to establish the identity of the user opening the session.
The first parameter that it receives is the username, although the username is unique the same user could have different TRAC sessions open on different computers (or the same computer but different browsers).
For this reason TRAC generates as a user logs in a unique ID which is stored into the web-browser and the TRAC DB, which is called TRAC_AUTH. Thus same user can be logged in more than once and each session will be uniquely identified.
I am using this to help identify the chat session as well; and it is the 2nd parameter the websocket server receives from the client.
Another parameter we find in the TRAC DB which is unique: it is the time in seconds of the user logged in which is a more manageable number (less digits). I have thus decided to use TRAC_AUTH to find out this time and use the time as CHAT session ID.
This ID is then passed back to the web-browser and used for between browser <--> server connection.
I realized this would be un-necessary as I could use the TRAC_AUTH instead, but for historical reasons I found myself doing this way and left it so.
Avoiding polling the DB for new messages
Using the websocket allows us to avoid polling for new messages from the client side (it was indeed my first implementation for this chat program, with a periodic ajax call to the server for checking on new messages for the user).
But all we have done is to transfer the problem to the server side as it is the server role now to look for the presence of new messages for the user.
Is there a way to avoid that?
One way is somehow to communicate to the server every time a user enters a new message into the DB, only at that time the server goes and checks if a new message for it has been entered. If it does find a new message for the user it is serving then will relay the message to the client for displaying.
Sending commands to the server from the server side
All the websocked provides is a way of connecting to the client where server's STDIN is a message from the client and the server's STDOUT is a message for the client.
What we need is a way for whoever is entering the new message into the DB to broadcast a message to all the servers (one for each chat session) waking them up from their "sleep" so that they can go and check the DB for new messages for their user.
I have used a named pipe for communicating to the server from other means than the client. So each server has its own pipe named according to its unique session ID.
When a new message is entered into the DB a new message command entry is recorded into a common file. Each server tails -f the common file to its own name pipe, receiving this way the "wake up" call.
Avoiding polling the DB for new users
The other polling that would be needed is for checking on the logged in user list, the above logic is used for this as well. When a new user logs in an new user list command entry is recorded into the common file and the new logged in user list is relayed to the client for displaying.
Avoiding polling for commands to be relayed to the client
The last use of the above logic is for a command to be sent to the client initiated by another server side code.
receiving commands from the client side
As mentioned earlier the STDIN is the server input from the client. Once the server has fished setting up the connection it starts a loop listening for commands coming from the STDIN.
Keeping a record of CHATs
When a new message is entered by any of the active chat users, the chat_send.sh script is called which will also append the message to a text file for each of the users involved in the chatting session.
Accessing to the CHATs record
I have added a new "Chats" button to the TRAC main navigation bar, when pressing the button it will open a wiki page [wiki:user/chat].
Stored into the wiki page I have the following script: user chat list Script which populates the page with the list of the user's chats.
- /cgi-bin/defs.conf defines where to find the sqlite db file
- /cgi-bin/chat_groupUserList.sh?groupName="'+id+'"' returns the list of users for the group
- /cgi-bin/chat_send.sh?from="'+from+'";to="'+to+'";message="'+msg+'";userID="'+userID+'"' adds the new message to the DB, writes the new message to the chat log files, flags the presence of a new message to the WS servers
- /cgi-bin/chat_getGroups.sh?user=%22"+user+"%22" returns the groups list the user is part of for "adding users to the existing group" function
- /cgi-bin/chat_addGroup.sh?users=%22"+users+"%22;newGroup=%22"+newGroup+"%22;groupName=%22"+groupName+"%22" adds a new group
- /cgi-bin/chat_leaveGroup.sh?user=%22"+user+"%22;groupName=%22"+groupName+"%22;type=%22leaveGroup%22" removes user from the group, if the group has less than 2 users the group itself is removed
- /cgi-bin/chat_list.sh?user=%22"+user+"%22" lists the chat logs for the user
- /cgi-bin/UserList.sh compiles the list of loggedin users and active groups and flags the WS servers for a new user list available
- /var/www/index.html the parent page
- /yourTRACprojPATH/template/site.html the child page
included within the index.html
-  jquery library
-  jquery cookie plugin
- <link rel="stylesheet" href="/chat/jquery-ui-1.8.2.custom.css" /> jquery UI
-  jquery UI
-  main JS code for implementing the CHAT
- <link type="text/css" href="/chat/chat_groups.css" rel="stylesheet" /> provide the groupchat support
-  provide the groupchat support
-  JQuery chatbox Plugin
- /yourWEBserverROOTdir/chat/groupChat.sql SQL file for creating chat DB
- /root/bin/chat_newMSGs.sh the WS server
- /root/bin/websocketd the WS deamon
- copy the /cgi-bin/ files into your cgi-bin directory and make sure they are executable (chmod +x filename)
- edit /cgi-bin/defs.conf file to fit your TRAC installation
- copy the /root/bin files and make sure they are executable
- copy the JS and the CSS files into /yourWEBserverROOTdir/chat/ directory
- copy the index.html file into /yourWEBserverROOTdir/ directory
- edit the index.html file and replace the projectPATH with your TRAC project path
- modify the site.html by adding the following code:
(site.html  section):
(site.html at the end of the  section):

- set the root user mysql password
- add the groupChat DB into mysql
mysql -u root -p yourROOTpassword < /yourWEBserverROOTdir/chat/groupChat.sql
- update all the *.sh files with a mysql command into them to reflect the password chosen
- edit /etc/rc.local file to start websocketd whenever the linux computer is started by adding to it the following code
source /usr/lib/cgi-bin/defs.conf sqlite3 $db "delete from auth_cookie;" #everybody is forced to logout nohup /root/bin/websocketd --port 1212 /root/bin/chat_newMSGs.sh & rm /.*fifo /.*.connected /.*.pid /.*.loggedIN echo -n > /tmp/.msgLoop.cmd; chown www-data:www-data /tmp/.msgLoop.cmd
- reboot the linux computer
- log in the WIKI and press the "Chats" button on the main navigation bar. It will try opening a page that does not exist yet, select to create it.
and paste the content found here: user chats list Script
parent page:
the /root/bin scripts: the cgi-bin scripts: the JQuery scripts: VirtualBox Appliance with Ubuntu Linux TRAC from TURNKEY and the wikiCHAT installed 250MB 7z file Download just extract it into your Virtualbox VMs directory. The VM is configured with 192.168.1.222 IP address, you might want to reconfigure to your like.Linux root password: letmein TRAC admin password: letmein MYSQL root password: letmein webmin port: https://IP:12321 webshell port: https://IP:12320
testing the CHAT
I have used the following tool which is a command line websocket client for debugging
Once connected you can use STDIN to send messages. Each line is a message. You can just as well open a peristent client connection that prints incoming messages to STDOUT and sends messages from STDIN interactively:
wssh localhost:1212
Please feel free to leave a comment
Comment by anonymous on Tue Apr 29 16:42:45 2014
Nice write up! I will try to learn more about Websockets!


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LOL! I'm in full support of punishments like this.
Amusing, but not a punishment. She's taped to 2 windows, and who has 2 interior windows in their home? Any child who's cooperative enough to be taped to the wall isn't likely to be so disobedient as to need it as a punishment.
Oh gawd, Jessica! He was just playing with her! I have two kids, do you have any idea how many times I've jokingly told them I was going to duct tape them to the wall, only for them to beg me to do so? I've never done it as it seems like a perfect waste of duct tape and I use my duct tape mostly for arts and crafts. But I don't see this child crying. Having kids, I know first hand that when they're being punished, they cry! There are no tears coming from that child's eyes. You're probably one of those people that go around calling CPS on a parent for spanking their child. Go take care of yours and stop worrying about everyone else's. And if you don't have any.. please keep it that way!
it appears to be a dance studio. what is sick about this though is that the child has duct tape covering their mouth. if the child started to cry and her nose became plugged up she could suffocate !
Funny, but didn't a guy get arrested for taking a picture of the same thing? He taped his daughter to the wall the same way, where is Child Services for this one?
Duct tape – turning "No, no, no" into "mppf" for forty years. (And shouldn't that be "done", rather than "down"?)
"Nicely Down"? Whoever wrote this title is an idiot.
Man, if parents got pissed at him for the shot of his kid without a helmet on, then they are going to crucify him for this one! I personally think it is HILARIOUS.
It would be funny, if not for the duct tape on the mouth. I hope that's not duct tape, but electrical tape or something that's not so sticky. That's going to hurt like a son of a b when it gets ripped of the skin, if the child doesn't end up with bloody lips, it will be a miracle. *wince*
Two totally different scenarios, that other picture the kid was much younger, obviously in distress, and small enough that it could have been done forcibly.
This kid is older, doesn't appear in real distress and big enough that she would have had to cooperate willingly
Amen to the mother of two's comment. Even if it was done as a joke it's still wrong. A picture was recently posted on here with her father doing a skateboard stunt right next to her. His choices are ridiculous. If a parent is going to act irresponsible and do stupid things regardless if his daughter was a willing participant,should not be able to have kids. Its a shame that just about anyone can can be a parent…it takes a responsible one to earn the title of mother and father.
it's fine.
as for mother of two:
whatever you are making with duct tape is definitely not "art" or "crafts". all your doing is duct taping two pieces of garbage together…although now that i say it out loud, it would be a lot easier for the garbage man to haul away all of your "crafts" if they were conveniently duct taped together.
White people are disgusting.
Man people will bitch about anything. LIGHTEN UP! Shit is hilarious and in good taste. I would hate to be a child to one of these bitchy parents because I wouldn't want a future of alcoholism and sex because I was diganosed with oppositional defiant disorder and suck too many dicks because I want piss off my parents.
haha! I saw that when tony tweeted it!!! I laughed sooooo hard! Not a fail! That is a win!
I would like to point out a few things that make me think that this was a joke set up pic for laughs. First of all, her hands are completely free. She does not look like she is in any distress. She looks bored, but not in any way hurt or scared. She is old enough that it would be difficult to do that without her cooperation and if it was done without it she would look alot more distressed. And, finally, Tony Hawk's kid has likely been doing stunts and things since she was old enough to want to be "like daddy" on a skateboard. There is a difference between child abuse and playing around with your kids.
I doubt gemini has kids. If so they are probably wearing helmets and wrapped in foam so they don't ever have to deal with a bruise or scratch. Or maybe living in a bubble…
kids like to do silly things, maybe duct tape over the mouth isn't the greatest idea in the world, still I'm sure she won't be traumatized for like because of this.
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One of the languages offered with an Odysen solution is the Hindi language. While using a different form of alphabet, it's one of the most popular languages used worldwide, here's a few facts about the language.
- 1. Spoken by almost 500 million people, making it the 2nd, 3rd or 4th most worldwide depending on the specific consensus, others are Mandarin, English and Spanish.
- 2. One of the official languages in India, the most widely spoken of several hundred used.
- 3. Has its roots with Sanskrit languages, going back to nearly 5,000 BC.
- 4. Became an official language in India in 1965.
- 5. The Hindi alphabet includes 11 vowels and 33 consonants.
- 6. Is spoken in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, South Africa, Mauritius, USA, Germany, Trinidad, Fiji, Surinam, Guyana, Yemen, Uganda, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh, Belize, Botswana, Kenya, Philippines, Singapore, Uganda, UAE, United Kingdom, Yemen and Zambia.
- 7. Is helped in popularity from Bollywood, the Hindi or India film industry, reaching audiences worldwide.
- 8. Hindi got its name from the Persian word Hind, meaning "Land of the Indus River", today of which mostly flows through Pakistan 93%, Tibet 2% and Northern India 5%. Also known as the great trans-Himalayan river of South Asia.
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Hi there,I would like to take baby food jars & make candles out of them for an upcomming baby shower. I have never made candles before.That is where you guys come in.......my plan is to melt votive candles & then pour into the beby food jars.......is that an OK idea??? Am I on the right track?? Will it come out OK??? Any other ideas?? Thanks for reading Wendy (sorry for the rambling) |
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I am assuming by now the baby shower has come and gone. If not, then yes, you can make candles out of the baby food jars. I have done that before, but I have actually made the candles, not just remelted. How are you going to handle the wick situation? The original wick in the votive will be the right size. If the wick is not tabbed, it will drift around once the candle burns down lower. Use hot glue to attach the tabbed wick to the bottom of the baby food jar. Susan |
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*sigh* its sooooooo sad...today was like....well the second day i've gone out to look for a junior prom dress and no success. i've went to both big malls and nothing...i've went to some small hole-in-the-wall stores and nothing...i'm ready to give up. i told my auntie that if i don't find anything i'm just going to get a tux and wear it to prom...but ah well there is like two dresses that i can wear but the first one which is a black one, idk i liked it the first time i tried it on but when i tried it again today...i didn't really like it...the second one is a green one and i like it but the whole cleavage part is driving me crazy lol....
hmmmm...idk we're probably gonna go looking again tomorrow and i'm hoping that i can find something...i'll try and post up those two dresses on here for all to see and you can tell me how they look...i just had to take pictures lol.
...ooooo btw i wanna get a lesbian id bracelet lol..i'll look for the yarn tomorrow maybe...i think its a pretty coo idea
Agh, I hate shopping for dresses. When I had to find a dress for my brother's wedding, my gosh, it took forever! I hate showing cleavage (like I have any to show anyway) and I even hate showing my collar bone. I hate that just because I'm the XX chromosome, it means I must wear a dress. I want to wear a tux to prom, but I have no money so it's up to my parents what they'll pay for. Most likely a dress >.<
Oh, will you post the pictures of you in the dress? Or just you in the dress? I hope the first because it'd be so much fun! I bet you'll look cute in whichever dress you chose! Good luck on the hunt.
By the way, do you have a date yet? Or planning to fly solo? Or are you just so hot that you can't choose? :D
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This is important! It's in the name of game! You'll be doing it a lot. It's how you get the precious ores that you so desire: iron, gold, redstone and more, but most of all: diamonds!
Buried Treasure
This is what we are after:
Ore | Where to Look | Uses | |
Coal | Anywhere underground, but most abundant below layer 40. | Torches, furnace fuel. | |
Iron | Anywhere underground, but most abundant below layer 40. | Crafting tools and armour and building railways. | |
Gold | Deep underground, below layer 30. | Crafting, brewing potions, powered rails. | |
Redstone | Below layer 16. | Redstone circuits, crafting, potion brewing. | |
Lapis lazuli | Below layer 30, most abundant near layer 12. | Decorative | |
Emerald | Below layer 30, only in "extreme hill" terrain. | Trading with Villagers. | |
Diamond | Below layer 16. | The best armour, tools and weapons. |
Where to dig?
As you can see from the table above, everything is available in layers 1–16. You will want to get close to bedrock and build your mine there.
However, there may be other underground structures in the way, such as abandoned mineshafts, cave systems or even strongholds. These things might make your route to bedrock more difficult than described here, but you will want to explore them on the way down.
Emerald ore is only found in "Extreme Hill" and "Extreme Hill" biomes; you can tell what biome you are in by pressing F3.
Altitude and Layers
What's all this about 'layers'?
The Minecraft world is 128 blocks high, from the bedrock at the bottom to the highest position you're allowed to place blocks. Sea level is about level 64.
What's my altitude?
Bedrock is found in layers 0?4, therefore if you are standing on the highest level of bedrock, you are standing on layer 4.
The other way to tell is to press F3 to bring up a messy screen of debug information, including your x,y and z coordinates. y is your height; the game reports both the level of your feet and your eye level, so if you are standing on top of layer 4 your feet will be at level 5 and your eye level will be 6.6.
Starting Your Mine
Start from somewhere low down, like a valley floor rather than the top of a mountain. You'll want to start digging in a safe place; a well-lit building or sealed cave, because it will likely be night when you come back to the surface. Since you've probably already built a house, why not start in the basement?
At the head of your pit, you'll want a crafting table, one or more furnaces, and some storage space.
At first, the only equipment you'll need (or indeed, have) is a few stone pickaxes, a couple of shovels, a pile of torches, and wood to make more torches. You should be able obtain more than enough coal for your lighting needs as you go along, and will soon find iron to make better tools. A suit of armour and some weapons will be handy if you should break through into a cave or abandoned mineshaft.
Some precautions:
Torches, torches, torches
Hostile mobs spawn in the dark. You will need to light the tunnels you dig and any caves you explore. If you are running out of wood for torches, it's time to quit mining and go cut down some trees!
Never dig straight down
Sooner or later you will dig away the block you're standing on and find yourself plummeting into a lake of lava or a creeper convention. You might learn from this mistake. (It is possible to more safely dig a vertical shaft if it's two blocks wide, and you correctly position yourself straddling the two blocks.)
Be careful if you dig straight up
If there is water or lava above the block you are about to dig, you should be able to see drips and know not to mine that block. Sand and gravel are also dangerous, however, as they can suffocate you and give you no such warning. Placing a ladder or sign at head level before digging upwards and it will stop anything nasty falling down.
Abandoned mineshafts, caves and dungeons
These places present their own dangers and are discussed on their own page.
Get Started
Dig a diagonal shaft, as deep as you can go. You will find minerals on the way; coal and iron at first. Use your shovel to clear gravel and dirt deposits. Place torches on the walls every 10 blocks as you go so monsters don't spawn! (More on lighting.)
You should find plenty of coal and iron ore on the way. When your pickaxes are worn out, or when you have a good amount of iron ore, you will want to return to the surface to smelt your iron and make better tools (and maybe iron armour).
You will probably want to make stairs to make easier to get up and down the shaft.
Hitting Bottom
Eventually, you will see bedrock, notice that there is a strange black fog, or press F3 and see your y coordinate approaching 6. This is the bottom!
You will probably want to build another base down here, with storage, furnaces, and maybe a food source and supply of wood.
Branch Mining
Now it's time to find those diamonds! A branch mine is a long main corridor, with other tunnels going off to the sides, so that you have a good chance of finding all the diamonds in the area. Opinions differ on the best strategy, but here are some ideas.
Main Corridor
I make a main corridor that's quite wide, with a railway down the middle. You don't need to be this ambitious, and it's a lot of stone to dig out, but you get the idea.
Side Branches
Efficient mining
What's the best pattern for side branches? You can read a detailed analysis here, but this is how I do it. The goal is to find as much ore as possible with a minimal amount of digging.
Diamonds are in the bottom 16 layers, so we want to see as many of those blocks as possible. In the diagram above, black blocks are where you should dig. Green blocks are the ones that you will be able to see directly. Grey blocks are the ones you won't see directly, but most ore veins are big enough that they will project into the green space. Mining with this pattern is therefore very efficient, and you will miss only the smallest ore veins.
If you are paranoid, decrease the horizontal or vertical spacing.
Which layers to mine?
There is a lot of lava in layers 5–10, including large lava-lakes. Some players prefer to avoid this by staying on layer 11 and above (y=13.6). I prefer to mine at all levels, although it means many of my lower tunnels are short. Whichever you choose, you must be on constant alert for lava!
Get Those Diamonds!
Dig each tunnel, looking out for ores along the way. Stop when you reach lava, or a cave system, or some other obstacle.


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Top 5 favorite Hawaii coastline areas: HAWAII Magazine Facebook poll results
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We asked and you let us know. Our Facebook ohana selected Kauai's Napali Coast as their favorite Hawaii coastline. This secluded 17-mile stretch along Kauai's north shore provides enchanting views of boundless ocean, deep narrow valleys, and opulent green cliffs. Unlike many of Hawaii's other coastlines, this one is accessible by land only through the Kalalau Trail, a rigorous 11-mile hiking trail. At the end of the trail, hikers get to sink their toes into the white sand of Kalalau Beach. While non-hikers cannot get to the coast in an automobile, they can enjoy the breathtaking beauty of the Napali area by way of boat tours, guided kayaking trips, and air tours.
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I would like recommendations on best way to cut an access opening in my roof about 2 foot x 4 foot. Original roofing and one replacement add to about 1 1/2 inches total dense black tarry/felty/papery stuff. This does not include underlying wood deck. I would like to use skill saw so that I can cut through roofing and wood deck separately. If I do, what would be the ideal blade to use. I realize it may not be of much use once I'm done. Are there other ways besides using skill saw. I made a small access opening from the bottom using a reciprocating saw - a miserable job. Thankfully the big opening will be from the top. Thanks |
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- Posted by millworkman (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sun, May 5, 13 at 9:40
If you don't want it to leak, call a professional as you sound over your head already! |
This is demo saw land (Sawzall). Make sure you have plenty of spare blades. A roofer would be a much better choice since they will know how to curb the opening and prevent water from entering. |
Most of the plunging and cutting can be done with a demolition saw. A recip saw may be needed for finishing the corners. How are you bracing for the rafters being removed? |
Here is a link that might be useful: Demolition Saw
- Posted by hollysprings (My Page) on Sun, May 5, 13 at 16:40
Disaster waiting to happen. Call a professional if you don't want the roof to collapse or your house to leak. |
The reason that you are receiving the variety of responses is that you have only asked, and elected to omit the why. All of the end products do not have a standard methodology for weather protection. |
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Thanks to the leadership and passion of a few Starbucks Employees, this group of park lovers took it upon themselves to create a trail maintenance volunteer weekend up at Mount Rainier. Now in their sixth year, they're responsible for miles and miles of Mount Rainier's most beloved and well-traveled trails.
Headed by Stacey Long Collins and Lesley Blyth, the group is made up of Starbucks employees from all departments, but with one important thing in common - their love for the national parks, and their desire to give back.
This year, the group spent two days on a popular stretch of the Wonderland Trail. About twenty people were responsible for replacing gravel with specialized dirt (made to withstand the weather and frequent use), sinking 23 silt bars (to slow the erosion process; they look like stairs on the trail), installing a six-foot culvert, cutting back overgrowth on three feet of either side of the trail, clearing out the lateral drainage system (running parallel to the trail), and hauling eight large yellow cedar logs from the trail to the main road to be used for the Narada Falls guard rail. Altogether, this group contributed 245 volunteer hours.
Starbucks has set a goal for their employees to log one million volunteer service hours by the year 2015. Additionally, Starbucks matches the hours these amazing volunteers work and gives a grant to Washington's National Park Fund on their behalf.
A big THANKS goes out to these dedicated volunteers AND to the wonderful women who continue to lead them year after year!
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A cousin-in-law on Facebook (I know, I know) put up something that a friend of hers said about the tragedy happening because everyone does not put wonderful, loving 'god' first in their lives, blah, blah, blah. I, of course, couldn't keep my mouth shut and said it had nothing to do with religion, moral people are moral people, and this guy was obviously insane. Then the cousin-in-law said she believes 'god' has something to do with EVERYTHING.
WHAT THE FUCK do you say to that? REALLY? Her 'god' had something to do with that? And WHY would you worship something that had the power, but didn't do anything to save those babies?????
I know, we talk about this all the time. I really just want to be a hermit. I hate dumb people, and there are WAY too many of them.
Yes, exactly my problem too booklover. That's why I made a discussion on when I come out Atheist people think I am morally depraved and I'm just a terrible person. They assume the worse about me.
We are good without god - but somehow they think you have to have god to be good.
I would expand on this. It seems to me that people without god are "gooder" on the whole than the god freaks.
There seems to be a feeling that if you have religion, then you don't really have to practice what you preach. The most "unchristian" acting people seem to be the most devoutly christian.
I know Steph. Their xtian 'god' isn't very good. We are WAY more moral than it is.
glad you posted this Mel. i've been upset all day at the "get god/jesus back in the classroom" facebook shit. Huckabee and Fisher spew this vile nonsense and people actually buy it. grrrrrr!!!
I know Matt, I know! I tried to keep FB just my daughter, sister, and niece, but just to be nice I added a few 'relatives' that aren't really related, and I can't STAND the STUPIDITY! I'm going to start un-friending again on there. Ugh!!!!!!!
That's awesome Patrick! Thanks for sharing this. I feel like sharing it on Facebook. Why shouldn't I? If those morons can put their religious bullshit on FB why am I given crap for posting my non-beliefs? Oh I know, because they're MORONS!!! :) ~ Melinda
A friend of a friend posted that the shooter could not have been a xtian because xtians do not kill or harm other people. I thought I was going to throw my laptop across the room in anger! But then I realized that there is nothing I could post to convince him or the other "like" people that would change their minds. I would, in their eyes, look like the "bad guy." I have found Facebook to be an exercise in restraint.
I know Larry! That's great you have restraint. I can't help myself, and then the morons start acting like they are superior to me because I am a lowly Atheist and THEY believe in GOD, so they are holier-than-thou. I am SO happy to have all you lovely, understanding people on here!
Reminds me of someone that I was childhood friends with posting a meme to the effect of "let's kill people in the name of our religion" ... "said no Christian ever" after the Benghazi attacks. I just posted two words in response.. "The Crusades". It unleashed a hell of a vitriolic attack by him and another childhood friend, basically saying "well that happened a long time ago, so it doesn't count" and for some reason one of them then telling me that I would have supported slavery in the 1800s because I am registered as a Democrat. (?) Needless to say, I have "defriended" them both.
Wow Patrick! WTF with the Democrat/slavery thing. I'm a Democrat too! lol. I lost a friend on FB over religion too. Their stance was SO ridiculous that I just thought "Good riddance!"
CAIR (The Council on American-Islamic Relations) has just taken out a bus-advert campaign in Chicago, with the idea of reclaiming the word jihad.
In Arabic the word refers to a difficult struggle to attain a worthwhile end. Radicals have hijacked the meaning of the word to justify terrorism in the name of Islam.
But like the word atheist, there are those that will only see the meaning presented by the press and common discussion, and could care less about its actual meaning. On this I think CAIR may be in a losing fight, though Muslims in the USA are generally better trusted than we are.
And unless I misunderstood your post, the GOP used to be the liberal party (think Lincoln vs. Yellow Dog Democrats and the civil rights movement).
Folk can and do change. But Christianity is hamstrung by its holy book, beyond which it cannot change unless the book is first revised. Since that won't happen (or at least has not since Luther, and all he did was remove some OT books and parts of others), I assume that ultimately Christians will not change. Unlike the Democratic Party.
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