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WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush surprised many over the weekend by all but guaranteeing a Twins World Series victory.
"The last time the Minnesota Twins had a player hit 30 homeruns was 1987 and they won the World Series," the president pointed out. "Earlier this month, Justin Morneau, a fine young American, hit his 30th homerun of the season. That means the Twins are going to win the World Series this year, it is the only logical conclusion that can be reached."
When an alert reporter quickly pointed out that Morneau is Canadian, Bush shrugged off the mistake as "bad intelligence."
"It is important to also remember that in 1987 there was a Republican, Ronald Reagan, in the White House," Bush continued. "Last time I checked I am still a Republican."
Vice President Dick Cheney followed up the press conference with an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press.
"We not only know the Twins will win the World Series," Cheney told Tim Russert. "We know how many games it will take."
Russert however, seemed less interested in baseball predictions than other issues facing the nation. When he pressed Cheney on Iraq, the vice president stayed on message, "The people of Minnesota should expect a victory parade strewn with rose pedals this fall."
Staying on the offensive, the president sent a delegation, led by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, to meet with baseball commissioner Bud Selig. Rice gave a presentation using charts, graphs, photos and a vile of pixie dust that was allegedly sprinkled on the Twins.
Selig thanked Rice, but remained unconvinced, "We appreciate Secretary of State Rice taking the time to visit with us." the commissioner said. "But we are committed to staying the course and letting the season play itself out."
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by Ben Tesch
Who Owns the Back of a Baseball Card?
The case was fascinating on several counts. The court held that baseball's right to publicity was not greater than fantasy providers' 1st Amendment right to republish newsworthy information, even if they use that information for commercial purposes.
Most important, the court found that player statistics are not copyrightable. In all, the opinion is a grand slam for fans.
Posted at 3:57 PM on August 21, 2006
by Ben Tesch
I'm not sure if you knew this, but there is apparently a rivalry between the Yankees and Red Sox. Who knew? I didn't. Surprisingly, the game between the two was on FOX this weekend, so I was able to get the run-down. Lucky for me they also spared no expense on the background of this rivalry. Not only did this recap last almost 30 minutes, but they were able to talk to current and former players (and many more) all about it. They even laid out the definition of rivalry, and showed many historical clips of the preceding events.
I took a bathroom break somewhere in between the interviews with Bill Buckner's grandma and Bucky Dent's mailman about their thoughts on the Boston Massacre, so I may have missed something good. Lucky for me, for the next weekend series they play, I will get to hear it all over again.
(By the way, the Yankees just swept the 5-game series. Time for FOX to come up with a new catchy name for this one to add to the highlight clips!)
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Re^2: Hash order randomization is coming, are you ready? summaries most of the relevant material quite well.
I have much respect for you and p5p, I mean no disrespect with my comments, I'm grateful for perl, but please listen to the stinkers now while its early :) sometimes they have points, even if they don't understand the topic thoroughly
:) I came up with those links (after I noticed my earlier "What?" got --), and its lacking a lot of details -- I guess I just don't get it. I'm not quite ready to call it garbage like BrowserUk , but I'm certainly thinking about it :) new smells aren't pleasant
I'm thinking this change is one of those things I think should be delayed for at least another 5 years until warnings can warn you about it, and the docs contain something more demonstrative , and aren't set to permanent limbo mode (forgive my lack of precision in my wording)
"Don't depend on this" is beginning to chafe, grate even :) why not a hash pragma so it DWIMs (whatever that would be)?
Also, when claims are made about performance in the docs, link to it, for example Switch perl's hash function to MurmurHash-32 (v3) and hash randomization by default. � perl5-porters � ActiveState List Archives
I thought we had "per process hash randomization" from 5.8.1, and nothing I linked earlier describes something new/different -- this thread makes it sound its more random than that -- yup, I don't get it, docs aren't clear
Reading that PERL_HASH_SEED now takes a hex value instead? Code parsing this output, should it exist, must change to accomodate the new format. ? Change for the sake of change?
Yup, I hate that variable now :) ${magic variables}-- I think I'm onto something with the hash pragma idea and delaying introduction -- improve the docs/interface while its new and you know what its all about
I thought we had "per process hash randomization" from 5.8.1, and nothing I linked earlier describes something new/different
Until 5.18, only some hashes are randomized (with a per-process seed). Starting with 5.18, all hashes will be randomized (with a per-process seed).
From a programmer's perspective, nothing has changed. It means you can't rely on the order in which the keys of a hash a returned by keys (except the documented exception). This is nothing new, yet dmq's change caused many distributions on CPAN to start failing. (The problems tended to be with the tests themselves, not the modules being tested.)
Actually so far its about 1/4 real bugs, 3/4 test bugs.
The real bugs have tended to be deep ones that would be really hard to debug without hash randomization but are pretty obvious with it.
From a programmer's perspective, nothing has changed. It means you can't rely on the order in which the keys of a hash a returned by keys (except the documented exception).
If the few of p5p are to make changes that can break the code of the many perl users, even if those breakages come as a result of dependence -- accidental or otherwise -- upon long-term actual -- if undocumented -- behaviour, is it unreasonable to ask that the reasoning behind the change that causes that breakage be publicly known?
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About two or three weeks ago, I started getting a flashing icon in the corner of my screen every time I turn on the screen. It flashes a few times and then disappears. I've tried google for answers, but everybody else simply describes the REPLACEMENT of app icons. This is actually behind the app icons. It looks like a gear with a little blue circle in it. Unfortunately, I've started to notice my apps crashing too. I've looked through all of my apps several times and can't think of what it might be. The only thing I've installed recently is Juice Defender (life saver, if you've never tried it). Has anyone seen this? Any ideas? Thanks, in advance!
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...Fixed radio to fixed radio you probably won't be able to tell most of the time. Talking to the USCG over Rescue 21? Probably not discernible. However, calling a marina when the dockmaster has a handheld and is out walking the docks? It will make a difference that may mean the difference between contact and not...
...Don't kid yourself. The GX-2150 does have a splitter. It's built in to the radio. All the same deficits apply.
I am familiar with most of what you describe, though I do not have nearly as much experience. It's obvious that splitting the antenna output two ways would reduce the strength by 3 dB. As you point out, S/N is just as important, and is why I have my home TV antenna amplifier right at the antenna (so I'm amplifying the purest signal, and not amplifying the noise that my wires pick up).
As a technical matter, the GX2150 does have a splitter somewhere in there, since there are at least 3 radios - the standard VHF radio, and the two separate receivers dedicated to AIS channels 87 and 88. But unlike when you mix and match two devices from two different manufacturers, the GX2150 is designed, tested, warranteed, and reviewed as a single unit, so the complications that you describe are addressed by the manufacturer. So while I don't dispute the theoretical issues that you mention for splitters, as a practical matter I've never heard any complaints about the GX2150 having "all the same deficits." In fact, the reviews that I have seen have been overwhelmingly positive. Can you point me to some test results that show that the GX2150 has difficulties hailing dockmasters at marinas?
As for your suggestion about installing an AIS antenna on the spreader of a small boat, since small boats have short spreaders, the antenna would have to be pretty close to the mast. Wouldn't the presence of the mast so close to the antenna create a blind spot due to shadowing of the signal? Personally, I'd rather have the antenna at the masthead where it gets an unobstructed 360 degree view, and maximum distance to the horizon.
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The Singapore air show is not known for its mega-orders. Scheduled early in the year, any last minute orders from 2013 would have come out in December. The show is also firmly focused on Southeast Asia. It came as a great surprise, then, that one of the show's biggest orders came from an Indian carrier. Even more surprising was the carrier making the order, Air Costa, and the aircraft it signed up for: 50 Embraer E-Jet E2s with purchase rights for 50 more.
Although India is often touted as one of the world's most promising future markets for aircraft, when compared with regional rival China it is a laggard in aircraft orders – and especially aircraft deliveries. In any given month, data from Flightglobal's Ascend Online database shows India receiving just three to four aircraft, mostly narrowbodies.
That's not to say that India doesn't have potential. "South Asia's demographics are highly favourable to the growth of air transportation," says Boeing in its Current Market Outlook. "The region has a large population (totalling 1.7 billion people in 2012), and the share of this population entering the workforce is growing. The region's real GDP is forecast to grow an average 6.6% per year between 2012 and 2032, by the end of which period, India could have the world's fourth-largest economy if current trends toward economic policy liberalisation, market reform, and investment continue."
Ascend shows that there are 375 airliners operated by Indian carriers, and firm orders for 399 aircraft. Chinese operators, by comparison, have 2,038 airliners in service, and firm orders for an additional 728 aircraft.
Of India's in-service aircraft, 285 are narrowbodies. Widebodies account for just 49 aircraft, followed by turboprops with 37. Regional jets account for just four aircraft – hence the stir caused by Air Costa's Singapore surprise order. In regard to firm orders held by Indian carriers, narrowbodies again dominate with 316, followed by regional jets with 51 (all for Air Costa). Indian carriers have firm orders for just 32 widebodies.
"There are around 40 ATR42s or 72s or Bombardier Q400s currently operated in India, and these are flown in regional networks with demand profiles that cannot sustain multiple daily 150- to 180-seat services," says Rob Morris of Flightglobal's Ascend advisory service.
"To some extent these regional networks evolved as part of a regulatory process which required airlines operating on trunk routes to have some element of their fleet capacity serving smaller "social" routes. The turboprop networks have sustained because their lower operating costs can render some of these routes economic. The challenge for Air Costa will clearly be to manage their unit costs in the current and future competitive environment to deliver the profitability that appears to date to have eluded previous operators of regional jets in India."
He notes that other operators have tried to operate regional jets in India over the years, but none of these have succeeded.
"In pure demand terms there are a large number of potential routes where passenger potential is well suited to regional aircraft," Morris says. "But the current yields in India, which has become a highly competitive market with pricing set on trunk routes by low-cost airlines, doesn't appear to presently be suited to regional jet economics."
One step up the ladder from regional jets are narrowbodies, which dominate India's airliner fleet. Ascend shows that there are 150 A320 family aircraft flying for Indian carriers, slightly ahead of the 135 Boeing 737 aircraft in the country. The orderbook, however, indicates that the A320 is set for domination of the Indian market in the coming years, with 265 examples on firm order, compared with just 51 737s.
As for widebodies, Indian operators have a modest 32 aircraft on order. Of these, only a fraction (three 777-300ERs for flag carrier Air India) are large, long-range aircraft. The majority are 24 787s, also planned for Air India, and five A330-200s planned for Jet Airways. There are no A380s or 747-8Is in the backlog of Indian operators, although the former Kingfisher Airlines had orders for five A380s.
A key issue that has held back orders of widebodies in the subcontinent is the failure of major Indian airports such as New Delhi and Mumbai to emerge as hubs on routes from the Asia-Pacific to Europe. Although geographically they enjoy similar advantages to the Persian Gulf hubs such as Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and (to a lesser extent) Doha, and have a massive travelling population at their doorstep, India's big airports have vastly underperformed in the key area of international hub traffic.
In 2012 India's ministry of civil aviation decried the "leakage" of international passengers to major overseas hubs.
"Indian airports have the potential of extracting significant hub traffic from its regional competitors, given its natural growth of traffic and the geographical positioning of India," the ministry said in a discussion paper.
The ministry stated that international traffic originating or terminating in India for the year ended March 2011 was 37 million. Of this total, 22 million passengers flew directly to their destination, while 15 million connected through a hub outside India. Of this 15 million, it said 11.4 million comprised "leakage" of passengers that could potentially flow through a hub within India such as New Delhi or Mumbai, as opposed to an overseas hub such as Dubai or Singapore.
Developments in 2013, following New Delhi's 2012 decision to allow foreign carriers to hold 49% of domestic airlines, could see the "leakage" situation exacerbated. Etihad's acquisition of a 24% stake in Jet Airways effectively allows Jet to feed the Middle Eastern carrier's Abu Dhabi hub. Aside from adding 20 A320s to India's domestic market, the planned joint venture between Singapore Airlines and Tata Sons will feed SIA flights operating from key Indian cities to SIA's Changi hub. Concrete details about the joint venture's route network have yet to be made clear, but the wider SIA group sees India as crucial to its growth strategy.
Boeing's Current Market Outlook paints a bleak outlook for widebodies in South Asia. It estimates the market will take zero large widebodies, either 747-8Is or A380s, in the next two decades. As for medium widebodies, such as 777-300ERs, it foresees a market for 170 aircraft, and a requirement for only 140 small widebodies, such as 787-8s. Boeing foresees an immense market for single aisle jets, however, predicting demand for 1,450 such aircraft. It predicts a requirement for just 30 regional aircraft, a class of aircraft it does not make.
Embraer chief commercial officer John Slattery, however, recently told Flight International that it can "comfortably" sell 100 E-Jets to Indian carriers in the next five years. He believes there are parallels with the development of China, where "Tier 3" regional cities are ideal markets for regional jets. He says a number of domestic Indian routes now served by turboprops on "a monopolistic basis" are ripe for competition from regional jets.
Predictions about the future of a country as large and complex as India must always be handled cautiously, but it is all but certain the country's airline market will continue to be characterised by intense competition. There is a very real danger that new entrants will recreate the situation of overcapacity that prevailed until the spectacular implosion of Kingfisher in 2012. Nonetheless, for the longer term the world's big airframers have a superb opportunity to sell metal in a massive country that will not produce a viable indigenous aircraft for decades to come.
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COLUMBIA — One way to get involved and make friends in college is to join a club.
English at MU, or "EMU," is just one option, and you don't have to be an English major to join.
One of the goals of the club is to "bring kids together that share an interest in the creative culture," said Kyle Burton, the editor in chief of EPIC, a magazine that English at MU publishes..
EPIC is the club's spring project. Produced entirely by undergraduates, it contains fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction, art and photographs. The magazine's 500 free copies are distributed around campus.
Burton described it as "a forum for the creative community to showcase themselves."
The magazine needs readers as well as contributors.
Volunteer readers review submissions and look for well-developed stories with "clean" editing, emotional, intellectual and psychological complexity, or something purposely devoid of the previous criteria.
There are also leadership positions — president, vice president and publicity chairs. Burton said the club is also hoping to get new members who know how to use InDesign to produce the magazine.
During the first half of the year, the club organizes social events, workshops, and community service opportunities. The club meets biweekly to plan the upcoming events.
The level of activity depends on the number of members willing to commit and organize. The social aspects of the club depend on what the group makes of it, leaving the club "malleable" to allow everyone to do something they want, Burton said.
The club attends readings in Columbia, organizes workshops for the writers and holds networking events such as "Pizza with the Profs." Every year, the club meets at Cooper's Landing on the Missouri River to bond and eat together.
"Spoken Word" is a yearly reading event that draws about 40 people to listen to members and other writers read excerpts from their poems or stories.
The club also completes service projects during the year, such as volunteering at the Columbia Boys and Girls Club and running food drives.
There are no dues, and you only have to commit the time you want to spend with the club.
For more information, visit EMU's website.


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Subject: | Re: Demigods: Are They Cliche? |
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Date: | July 10, 2012 at 3:15:54 AM |
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I don't think it's cliche, I've only seen it in the Percy Jackson books. Just make sure it's not to sImilar.Oh, and welcome!
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Curly Celebrates 4th of July
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The guests arrive and enjoy mingling before lunch.
Water balloons and Super Soakers were the sport of the day! Here is Nickey. "Where is that Bear. This one has his name on it!"
Here is one of Curly's fans. Linda is a good friend of Mums.
This is another of Curly's adoring fans, Kathy, Mums' partner in crime.
Come back next year Curly We enjoyed your visit! Click Here to visit Curly's Great Pumpkin Hunt in Texas.
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Dr. Deborah Thomas is Professor of Psychology at WSCC. Dr. Thomas was recognized in May for twenty years of dedication at WSCC. She is a TIBI Board Member- The International Behaviorology Institute, Ltd. Dr. Thomas was recently honored at Fort Frye High School's Annual National Honor Society Teacher Recognition dinner. She worked in clinical practice as a child and family therapist in West Virginia and has been licensed as a counselor and social worker.
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Justin Dentmon and Lance Thomas Named
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Head Coach Brad Jones and Staff to Coach the West
NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2012 � Twenty of the NBA Development League�s top prospects, including eight who have NBA experience, have been chosen to play in the sixth annual NBA D-League All-Star Game Presented by 26 Seconds on Saturday, Feb. 25, on Center Court at NBA All-Star Jam Session. The game will air live on NBA TV at 2 p.m. ET.
Chosen to the NBA D-League All-Star West Team are Justin Dentmon and Lance Thomas (Austin Toros), currently a member of the New Orleans Hornets; Brandon Costner, Gerald Green, and Elijah Millsap (Los Angeles D-Fenders); Blake Ahearn and Andre Emmett (Reno Bighorns); Greg Smith (Rio Grande Valley Vipers); and Jerome Dyson and Marcus Lewis (Tulsa 66ers).
Selected to the NBA D-League All-Star East Team, playing host to the West Team in Orlando, are Tyrell Biggs (Canton Charge); Edwin Ubiles (Dakota Wizards); Keith McLeod (Erie BayHawks); Darnell Lazare and Walker Russell, Jr. (Fort Wayne Mad Ants), currently a member of the Detroit Pistons; Marqus Blakely (Iowa Energy); Charles Garcia (Sioux Falls Skyforce); and JamesOn Curry, Jeff Foote, and Jerry Smith (Springfield Armor).
Austin Toros head coach Brad Jones and assistant coaches Taylor Jenkins and Alex Lloyd will coach the West, while Iowa Energy head coach Kevin Young and assistant Gene Cross will helm the east. Young and Cross are each making their first NBA D-League All-Star appearance, while they represent an Energy team who has sent coaches to the NBA D-League All-Star Game for the last three seasons. Jones is also making his first trip to the NBA D-League All-Star bench. Both coaching staffs were selected based on their teams having the highest winning percentages in their respective conferences through Feb. 7. Prior to the game, Jones and Young will choose starting lineups for each of their teams.
A combination of voting by the league�s 16 head coaches and fan balloting on nba.com/dleague was used to select the 20 NBA D-League All-Stars, 10 from each conference. Players who have been selected must be on an active NBA D-League roster to compete in the NBA D-League All-Star Game.
The shot clock during the game will be extended to 26 seconds in order to drive awareness to the fact that a student drops out of high school every 26 seconds in America. The goal of 26 Seconds, a State Farm Public Awareness Campaign, is to increase the high school graduation rate.
Two of this year�s NBA D-League All-Stars, Russell and Thomas, are currently in the NBA after earning GATORADE Call-Ups this season. Russell, who earned his call from the Mad Ants to the Pistons on Jan. 20, is averaging 4.0 points and 2.8 assists in 19.2 minutes over 11 games for Detroit, including an NBA-career-high 12 points and six rebounds on Feb. 1 at New Jersey. Thomas, who earned his second GATORADE Call-Up of the 2011-12 season on Feb. 6, has yet to appear in a game for the Hornets.
Last season, eight of the 20 NBA D-League All-Stars who played in Los Angeles went on to earn GATORADE Call-Ups to the NBA later in the year. At the end of last season, almost one-in-four NBA players had NBA D-League experience. Over the NBA D-League All-Star Game�s five-year history, 59 of the 100 players have had, or subsequently earned, NBA experience.
�We�re thrilled to bring 20 of the NBA�s top prospects to Orlando to participate in NBA All-Star festivities,� said NBA D-League President Dan Reed. �The NBA D-League All-Star Game presented by 26 Seconds gives NBA fans an opportunity to watch future NBA players while enjoying our signature brand of exciting, fan-friendly basketball for the sixth consecutive year at NBA All-Star Jam Session.�
Four players with NBA experience highlight the West Team�s roster, including Green, who was the NBA�s Slam Dunk Champion in 2007, before competing again in 2008. Joining Green on the West squad are fellow NBA D-Leaguers with NBA experience Thomas, Emmett, who played with the Memphis Grizzlies during the 2004-05 season, and Ahearn, who has earned two GATORADE Call-Ups to the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs, respectively.
Four members of the East Team come to the NBA D-League All-Star Game with NBA experience, including Russell, Blakely, who earned a GATORADE Call-Up to the Houston Rockets last season, Curry, who was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in 2007 and earned a GATORADE Call-Up from the Armor to the L.A. Clippers in 2010, and McLeod, who has seen action with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors and Indiana Pacers.
Five players who went to NBA training camps in 2011 make up the West Team�s roster, including Dentmon who is averaging 22.8 points and 5.1 assists for the Toros, and Dyson, who is averaging 19.3 points and 4.3 assists for the 66ers. Both were with New Orleans during the preseason. D-Fenders teammates Millsap, who is averaging 20.5 points and 6.7 rebounds, and Green, who is averaging 18.6 points and 4.6 rebounds, each played with the L.A. Lakers during the preseason. Lewis spent the preseason with the Milwaukee Bucks and is averaging 14.3 points and 13.2 rebounds for the 66ers. Smith, who is averaging 16.8 points and 8.3 rebounds for the Vipers, and Costner, who is averaging 22.2 points and 5.3 rebounds for Los Angeles round out the West Team�s roster.
All six additional players on the East Team roster spent time in NBA training camps in 2011, including four with their NBA D-League team�s parent team. Smith, who played with the New Jersey Nets during the preseason, is averaging 17.7 points and 5.2 rebounds for the Armor; Biggs, who was with the Cleveland Cavaliers in training camp, is averaging 16.3 points and 5.8 rebounds for the Charge; Ubiles, who is averaging 20.7 points and 5.7 rebounds for Dakota, spent time with Golden State during the preseason, and Lazare, who was with the Pacers in training camp, is averaging 18.5 points and 8.0 rebounds for the Mad Ants. Additionally, Foote is averaging 14.6 points and 8.5 rebounds for Springfield, having spent training camp with the Portland Trail Blazers; and Garcia, who was with the Atlanta Hawks during the preseason, is averaging 14.9 points and 6.6 rebounds for Sioux Falls.
Tickets for NBA All-Star Jam Session can be purchased on NBA.com/allstar/2012 or on Ticketmaster.com. For more information on the NBA Development League, log onto nba.com/dleague.
The complete 2012 NBA D-League All-Star teams are listed below.
Pos. | Player (Team) | Ht. | Wt. | Collegefont> |
F | Marqus Blakely (Iowa) | 6-5 | 220 | Vermont |
F | Tyrell Biggs (Canton) | 6-8 | 240 | Pittsburgh |
G | JamesOn Curry (Springfield) | 6-4 | 200 | Oklahoma State |
C | Jeff Foote (Springfield) | 7-0 | 265 | Cornell |
C | Charles Garcia (Sioux Falls) | 6-10 | 230 | Seattle |
F | Darnell Lazare (Fort Wayne) | 6-8 | 240 | Louisiana State |
G | Keith McLeod (Erie) | 6-2 | 190 | Bowling Green |
G | Walker Russell (Fort Wayne) * | 6-0 | 175 | Jacksonville State |
G | Jerry Smith (Springfield) | 6-2 | 190 | Louisville |
F | Edwin Ubiles (Dakota) | 6-6 | 204 | Siena |
Head Coach: Kevin Young (Iowa)
Assistant Coaches: Gene Cross (Iowa)
Athletic Trainer: Jeremy MacVarish (Iowa)
Pos. | Player (Team) | Ht. | Wt. | Collegefont> |
G | Blake Ahearn (Reno) | 6-3 | 190 | Missouri State |
C | Brandon Costner (Los Angeles) | 6-9 | 235 | North Carolina State |
G | Justin Dentmon (Austin) | 6-0 | 185 | Washington |
G | Jerome Dyson (Tulsa) | 6-3 | 180 | Connecticut |
F | Andre Emmett (Reno) | 6-5 | 220 | Texas Tech |
F | Gerald Green (Los Angeles) | 6-8 | 220 | Gulf Shores Academy, TX (HS) |
F | Marcus Lewis (Tulsa) | 6-8 | 245 | Oral Roberts |
G | Elijah Millsap (Los Angeles) | 6-5 | 215 | Alabama-Birmingham |
C | Greg Smith (Rio Grande Valley) | 6-10 | 250 | Fresno State |
F | Lance Thomas (Austin) * | 6-8 | 225 | Duke |
Head Coach: Brad Jones (Austin)
Assistant Coaches: Taylor Jenkins (Austin), Alex Lloyd (Austin
Athletic Trainer: Nixon Dorvilien (Austin)
* - Indicates a player currently in the NBA


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Monday, June 13, 2011
Girly Carousel Thank You Card
Sharing a quick card that I did for three different challenge blogs. First, it fits the tic tac toe challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays (used the row chipboard, gems, emboss). There is a "Girly Things" challenge at Paper Sundaes (so I used pink and flowers). :) I also used the sketch at Clean and Simple for inspiration. The chipboard is by Crate Paper. The embossing folder is by Sizzix. The clear sentiment sticker is by Diecuts With A View while the flowers are by Prima Marketing. The yellow rhinestones are by KaiserCraft. Thanks for stopping by. Do you have lots of plans for this sunny Monday? :) I think today is going to be a lovely stay at home and create day. :)
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Published: Friday February 1, 2013 MYT 12:00:00 AM Updated: Wednesday April 17, 2013 MYT 12:01:21 AM
by s. ramaguru
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will have Germany, England, Pakistan and South Korea for company when they host the FIH World League semi-finals from June 29-July 7.
The four teams are automatic qualifiers for the semi-finals based on their FIH world rankings.
Malaysia received an automatic berth after being selected as the host country. The tournament will be held in Johor Baru.
The International Hockey Federation (FIH) confirmed the five teams for the second semi-final yesterday.
The tournament will have eight teams in the fray. Three more teams will be picked after Round Two of the World League.
Holland will host the first semi-final in Rotterdam from June 13-23. The teams who have automatically qualified for Rotterdam are hosts Holland, Australia, Spain and New Zealand. Four more teams will join the fray after Round Two.
The top four teams from each semi-final will then play in the final round and these teams will gain automatic berths to the 2014 World Cup.
Malaysia were initially scheduled to play in Round Two in Elektrostal, Russia, at the end of May. Their place in that tournament will now be taken by the Czech Republic. The other teams are Russia, Japan, Austria, Ukraine and Egypt.
Germany were originally scheduled to host both the men's and women's Hockey World League semi-finals as well as the Women's Junior World Cup (from July 27-Aug 4 in Moenchengladbach). However, they have chosen to host only the Women's Junior World Cup due to financial restrictions.
As such, Malaysia will now host the men's Hockey World League semi-final while the women's event will be hosted by another country.
FIH president Leandro Negre was pleased to have found an alternative host despite the short notice.
"There is not a doubt that the month of June will be historic and fantastic for our sport. I would especially like to thank Malaysia for stepping in to be hosts on short notice. It is further evidence of the spirit of cooperation that we enjoy in international hockey."
The Hockey World League Round Two recently kicked off with a women's five-team tournament in Cape Town, South Africa.
Hosts South Africa and Belgium became the first two teams to earn a spot in the Hockey World League semi-final through the qualification process.
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The U.S. Supreme Court this morning agreed to consider whether an injunction against the state's tough immigration law is illegal.
And, in doing so, they are likely to rule on just how far states can go in enacting their own laws in the area.Without comment the justices accepted the petition by Gov. Jan Brewer to review the action of U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton in blocking the state from enforcing key provisions of SB 1070. The court gave no reason.


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In other playoff games: Caddo Lady Bruins continued its dominance after they beat Allen to become regional champions. Colbert Leopards are district champions with a win over Wright City and Colbert Lady Leopards fell to Wright City. Boswell Scorpions beat Caddo Bruins 64-38. And the Calera boys fell to Haworth 65-50. The Bennington Bears, girls and boys, loss in the first round of regional play on Thrusday night. The Silo Lady Rebels beat Wayne on Friday night.


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I hope that it is not a porn video.
Thinking of starting a twitter war, but who with? Any suggestion? -Niz
Love it :p though I'm not sure who'd be evenly matched ;)
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Charlie Sheen :p (but I guess he has other things on his mind right now like being a grandfather ;))
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He started a war with a guy called Roger Perron. It's really funny XD
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Assuming you have been following this column, or are already familiar with federated security scenarios based on WS-Trust or WS-Federation protocols, you may also be familiar with the concept of Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). SAML describes messaging protocols for active and passive federation but also describes the most common XML-based security token format used in federation: the SAML assertion. SAML assertions (or SAML tokens) are typically issued by a security token service (STS) based on WS-Trust and WS-Federation.
In earlier installments of this column I discussed how to implement active and passive federation scenarios with Windows Identity Foundation (WIF). In most of these articles, the use of SAML assertions was implied if not explicitly stated—but I neither explored the contents of the SAML assertion nor explained how those contents relate to a claims-based security model. In this two-part article, I'll discuss common features of a SAML assertion and show you how to build one using WIF components while also commenting on some common interoperability considerations.
A Quick Review of Token Issuance
Figure 1 illustrates the primary flow of communication for both active and passive federation scenarios—that of token issuance. A request for a security token is sent to the STS typically accompanied by credentials to authenticate the subject of the call (the user). The STS (in this case, also an identity provider) authenticates the user and issues a security token for that user. The security token often contains claims describing the user and her roles, permissions, or rights in the system for which the token was issued. Figure 1 illustrates the use of a SAML assertion to achieve this. Ultimately, the SAML assertion is sent to an application or service (the relying party) and is used to authorize access to features and functionality.
For active federation scenarios, the protocol used to request the SAML assertion is WS-Trust and involves a client-side proxy as the token requestor. Passive federation scenarios are based on WS-Federation and rely on browser redirects to achieve the same result: the browser as the requestor. Both protocols describe a mechanism for safely transporting SAML assertions issued by the STS, to the relying party. Now let's talk about SAML in more detail.
The SAML Assertion
SAML describes a security assertion (token) format; a set of messaging protocols describing mechanisms for requesting or resolving assertions, or otherwise interacting with the assertion provider (a SAML authority); and a set of profiles describing the flow of communication and how to bind messages to specific protocols such as SOAP and HTTP. There are two core versions of the SAML specification: SAML 1.1 and SAML 2.0. Differences between the two are mostly syntactical changes making protocol messages and assertions incompatible between versions on the wire—this due to improvements made as the standard evolved.
Although SAML messaging protocols and profiles describe how to safely transport SAML assertions, federation based on WS-Trust and WS-Federation also supplies profiles for requesting and issuing SAML assertions. For the purpose of this article I will focus only on the SAML assertion itself. SAML 1.1 has a strong implementation base, whereas SAML 2.0 tends to be the preferred format for new system development. The two assertion formats still essentially carry the same information, but I will refer to SAML 2.0 naming conventions here as I discuss what is contained inside an assertion.
From a simple viewpoint, a SAML assertion carries statements about a subject (the user) from a SAML authority (the STS in this case). If the STS is at an identity provider, it will also authenticate the user before asserting claims about her (see earlier articles that discuss claims-based security models). At the core of the assertion are a few important elements: the issuer, the subject, and relevant statements about the subject. Figure 2 lists these and other elements of a SAML assertion, describing their purpose in summary form to provide additional context.
Element | Description |
Issuer | Describes the issuer of the token. Often includes an X509 distinguished name. |
Signature | A digital signature used for integrity protection. This allows the relying party to verify that the token contents were not tampered with en route. |
Subject | The subject of any statements included in the assertion. Often includes subject confirmation so that the relying party can verify the sender's relationship with the subject of the assertion. |
Conditions | Indicates the time range for which the assertion is valid and specifies the intended recipient or audience for whom the assertion was produced (usually the relying party). |
Attribute Statement | One or more attributes associated with the subject. Outside of the SAML specification attributes are often referred to as claims. |
Authentication Statement | Describes when, where, and how the subject was authenticated. |
Authorization Statement | The result of an access control request to a SAML authority. Indicates whether the subject can access resources specified in the request. |
Advice | Optional information related to the assertion. This is typically associated with an authorization decision and may be ignored by the relying party. |
Note: Keep in mind that the SAML assertion has many features, and in my summary I am purposely simplifying the interpretation.
Of the three types of statements—the authentication statement, the attribute statement, and the authorization decision statement—the attribute statement is the one of interest for this discussion as it is the statement that an STS will typically produce when issuing tokens. The attribute statement holds a collection of attributes (referred to as claims when working with WIF) describing the subject of the assertion. In a scenario where the STS from Figure 1 is an identity provider, the STS would first authenticate the user associated with the request, gather claims for that user, and produce an attribute statement within the SAML assertion with the issued claims. Although it is possible to augment this with authentication and authorization statements, these are not issued in typical STS implementations based on WS-Trust and WS-Federation, so I will table these for another conversation.
Now that you know what goes into a SAML token, let's talk about how you might create one using WIF components and in the process explore some of these elements in greater detail.
Generating SAML Tokens
When you employ WIF to implement a claims-based application or service, you typically will not work directly with security tokens. In federated scenarios, when the relying party receives a message accompanied by a SAML assertion, the assertion is deserialized and its attributes hydrated into a ClaimsPrincipal. The relying party may look at claims associated with the ClaimsPrincipal to authorize access. If you build a custom STS with WIF, you are equally shielded from the gory details of producing a SAML assertion. You supply the claims you want included in an attribute statement, and the runtime handles the rest.
Despite the happy path where SAML assertions are produced and processed for you, there are a few cases that give cause to rolling some code to produce SAML assertions, including these:
- Unit testing without the need to federate with an STS
- Testing how WIF produces various SAML assertions against another application, to resolve interoperability issues
- When building a custom STS, you may need to control features of the issued SAML assertion.
- Some applications act in a token-issuing capacity, though they are not formally an STS, and must issue SAML tokens in response to incoming requests.
WIF provides a very easy object model for producing both SAML 1.1 and SAML 2.0 assertions. Figure 3 summarizes the list of relevant components.
Component | Description |
SamlSecurityToken, Saml2SecurityToken | Runtime object for interacting with SAML 1.1 or SAML 2.0 assertions. |
SamlAssertion, Saml2Assertion | Runtime representation of a SAML 1.1 or SAML 2.0 assertion. Used to produce a SamlSecurityToken or Saml2SecurityToken. |
Saml11SecurityTokenHandler, Saml2SecurityTokenHandler | Utility class for serializing, deserializing, and generating SAML 1.1 or SAML 2.0 assertions. |
SecurityTokenDescriptor | Utility class that supplies common information required to produce SAML assertions. |
Functionality is similar for both SAML 1.1 and SAML 2.0 assertions, but I will use SAML 2.0 to illustrate. For the remainder of this article, as I discuss producing SAML 2.0 assertions, I'll refer to them as SAML without specifying a version number.
The Saml2SecurityTokenHandler is the driver for working with SAML assertions. You can use the Saml2SecurityTokenHandler to produce a runtime representation of a SAML assertion from XML, to serialize a runtime representation to XML, and to produce a SAML assertion purely at runtime. Ultimately, a Saml2Assertion is generated that can be used to initialize a Saml2SecurityToken for runtime interaction using a claims-based programming model.
To construct a Saml2SecurityTokenHandler programmatically, you first initialize a SecurityTokenDescriptor with the required elements. Requirements vary depending on whether you're producing a SAML assertion for passive federation (bearer token) or active federation (holder-of-key tokens). Further, they can vary when interoperating with other platforms. I'll break this down per scenario.
Producing Bearer Tokens
In this section I'll describe how to create a SAML token that uses the bearer subject confirmation method—the default format for passive federation scenarios based on WS-Federation. Figure 4 illustrates the passive sign-in request to the STS and resulting sign-in response that carries the SAML 2.0 bearer token.
Of interest are the public and private keys, how they are applied to signing and encryption activities, and of course the contents of the SAML token. The SAML token is signed by the STS using its private key, and the relying party will verify this signature to ensure that the token contents was not tampered with en route. In addition, the relying party will check that the token was issued by a trusted STS—checking that the signature is cryptographically related to the STS public key held by the relying party. The SAML token is also encrypted for the relying party using its public key. Only the holder of the relying party private key (presumably the relying party) can decrypt the token and view its contents.
Let's discuss how to produce the signed SAML 2 bearer token shown in Figure 5 using WIF.
<Assertion ID="_67703f8a-814b-4516-a9b8-8b9fd445815a" IssueInstant="2010-06-01T04:28:42.788Z" Version="2.0" xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:assertion"> <Issuer>CN=busta-rpsts.com</Issuer> <ds:Signature xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"> <ds:SignedInfo> <ds:CanonicalizationMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xml-exc-c14n#" /> <ds:SignatureMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmldsig-more#rsa-sha256" /> <ds:Reference URI="#_67703f8a-814b-4516-a9b8-8b9fd445815a"> <ds:Transforms> <ds:Transform Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#enveloped-signature" /> <ds:Transform Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xml-exc-c14n#" /> </ds:Transforms> <ds:DigestMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#sha256" /> <ds:DigestValue>i0ivz62hF7I+g7rIeRhmCRXvuFR0I6pyvBwz7ZoZ9rk=</ds:DigestValue> </ds:Reference> </ds:SignedInfo> <ds:SignatureValue>mNXilO7se71c9RA2j9+fxfkghTjocW…asduFPZggHUgQ==</ds:SignatureValue> <KeyInfo xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"> <o:SecurityTokenReference xmlns:o="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/ oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd"> <o:KeyIdentifier ValueType="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-x509-token-profile-1.0#X509SubjectKeyIdentifier">31PLIxTikChLcYPk3XyFB7D+dXA=</o:KeyIdentifier> </o:SecurityTokenReference> </KeyInfo> </ds:Signature> <Subject> <SubjectConfirmation Method="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:cm:bearer" /> </Subject> <Conditions NotBefore="2010-06-01T04:28:42.734Z" NotOnOrAfter="2010-06-02T03:28:42.734Z"> <AudienceRestriction> <Audience>http://localhost/RelyingPartyApplication</Audience> </AudienceRestriction> </Conditions> <AttributeStatement> <Attribute Name="User"> <AttributeValue>Michele</AttributeValue> </Attribute> <Attribute Name="Permission"> <AttributeValue>Read</AttributeValue> <AttributeValue>Write</AttributeValue> <AttributeValue>Update</AttributeValue> <AttributeValue>Delete</AttributeValue> </Attribute> </AttributeStatement> </Assertion>
You can start by creating a SecurityTokenDescriptor and setting the appropriate TokenType, Lifetime, and AppliesToAddress, as follows:
SecurityTokenDescriptor descriptor = new SecurityTokenDescriptor(); descriptor.TokenType = "http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/oasis-wss-saml-token-profile-1.1#SAMLV2.0"; DateTime issueInstant = DateTime.UtcNow; descriptor.Lifetime = new Lifetime(issueInstant, issueInstant + new TimeSpan(8, 0, 0)); descriptor.AppliesToAddress = "http://localhost/RelyingPartyApplication";
The Lifetime property is used to set the IssueInstant attribute of the token and the NotBefore and NotOnOrAfter attributes of the <Conditions> element. AppliesToAddress initializes the <AudienceRestriction> element of the <Conditions> element—so that the relying party can verify that the token was intended for it.
To initialize the <AttributeStatement>, you need only create a ClaimsIdentity with the collection of claims you want to be included as attribute name and value pairs and assign it to the Subject property:
List<Claim> claims = new List<Claim>() \\{ new Claim("User", "Michele"), new Claim("Permission", "Read"), new Claim("Permission", "Write"), new Claim("Permission", "Update"), new Claim("Permission", "Delete") \\}; descriptor.Subject = new ClaimsIdentity(claims);
For the TokenIssuerName, you can supply the X509 distinguished name of the STS authentication certificate—which may be the same certificate used to sign issued tokens. To supply signing credentials to the SecurityTokenDescriptor, you must first get a reference to the signing certificate as an X509Certificate2 instance. From this you can create a SecurityKeyIdentifier and produce a SigningCredentials instance, as shown in Figure 6.
X509Certificate2 signingCert = CertificateUtil.GetCertificate(StoreName.My, StoreLocation.LocalMachine, "CN=busta-rpsts.com "); SecurityKeyIdentifier ski = new SecurityKeyIdentifier(new SecurityKeyIdentifierClause[] { new X509SecurityToken(signingCert).CreateKeyIdentifierClause<X509SubjectKeyIdentifierClause>() }); X509SigningCredentials signingCreds = new X509SigningCredentials(signingCert, ski); descriptor.SigningCredentials = signingCreds;
Note: Certificates created with makecert.exe do not include a subject key identifier and thus cannot be used in this manner. You should produce certificates with Windows Server or purchase a certificate from Verisign or an equivalent provider.
To produce a Saml2SecurityToken from this information, create a Saml2SecurityTokenHandler and call CreateToken() passing the descriptor, as follows:
Saml2SecurityTokenHandler tokenHandler = new Saml2SecurityTokenHandler(); Saml2SecurityToken token = tokenHandler.CreateToken(descriptor) as Saml2SecurityToken;
You can now write this token to a memory or file stream to see output similar to Figure 5, as follows:
string path = "saml2bearer.xml"; FileStream fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write); XmlDictionaryWriter xmlwriter = XmlDictionaryWriter.CreateTextWriter(fs); tokenHandler.WriteToken(xmlwriter, token); xmlwriter.Flush(); xmlwriter.Close(); fs.Dispose();
To encrypt the bearer token for a particular relying party, you can set the EncryptingCredentials property of the descriptor. The process is similar to SigningCredentials. First you load the certificate from the certificate store and produce a security key identifier. Then you construct EncryptingCredentials from the security key and security key identifier. You must also provide an encryption algorithm, which typically defaults to that shown in Figure 7.
X509Certificate2 encryptingCert = CertificateUtil.GetCertificate(StoreName.TrustedPeople, StoreLocation.LocalMachine, "CN=busta-rp.com"); SecurityKeyIdentifier encryptingSki = new SecurityKeyIdentifier(new SecurityKeyIdentifierClause[] { new X509SecurityToken(encryptingCert).CreateKeyIdentifierClause<X509SubjectKeyIdentifierClause>() }); X509AsymmetricSecurityKey encryptingKey = new X509AsymmetricSecurityKey(encryptingCert); EncryptingCredentials encryptingCreds = new EncryptingCredentials(encryptingKey, encryptingSki, "http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#rsa-oaep-mgf1p"); descriptor.EncryptingCredentials = encryptingCreds;
Producing Holder-of-Key Tokens
Producing a SAML token that uses the holder-of-key subject confirmation method is required for active federation scenarios based on WS-Trust. This type of token includes a proof key to further mitigate man-in-the-middle attacks. Figure 8 captures the highlights of this flow of communication and the related keys involved in the exchange. Compared to Figure 4, the main addition is that of the proof key, shown as produced by the STS in this scenario. The client requests a token and, as in the previous scenario, signs the token with its private key and encrypts it using the public key of the relying party. In addition, the STS produces a key pair (the proof key) and embeds the public key portion in the encrypted SAML token. The response to the request includes the private key encrypted for the client, and the client must use this key to sign requests sent to the relying party. The relying party then verifies that the proof key embedded in the SAML token indeed has a cryptographic relationship with the key used to the sign the incoming request.
Note: This is merely one of many possible ways to work with proof keys. Proof keys can be symmetric or asymmetric. Proof keys can be generated by the client, by the STS, or negotiated with key material provide by both parties. The WS-Trust specification discusses these possibilities at length, but the following discussion should at least give you an idea how to produce a SAML token that includes proof.
The code to produce a SAML holder-of-key token is identical to that discussed in the previous section, with the exception that the Proof property of the descriptor is set as shown in Figure 9.
X509Certificate2 proofCert = CertificateUtil.GetCertificate(StoreName.My, StoreLocation.LocalMachine, "CN=proof"); SecurityKeyIdentifier proofSki = new SecurityKeyIdentifier(new SecurityKeyIdentifierClause[] { new X509SecurityToken(proofCert).CreateKeyIdentifierClause<X509SubjectKeyIdentifierClause>() }); descriptor.Proof = new AsymmetricProofDescriptor(proofSki);
Doing this alters the <Subject> element of the token shown in Figure 5 to include a new subject confirmation method and to include <SubjectConfirmationData> with a <KeyInfo> section referencing the proof key, as shown in Figure 10.
<Subject> <SubjectConfirmation Method="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:cm:holder-of-key"> <SubjectConfirmationData a:type="KeyInfoConfirmationDataType" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <KeyInfo xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"> <o:SecurityTokenReference xmlns:o="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd"> <o:KeyIdentifier ValueType="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-x509-token-profile-1.0#X509SubjectKeyIdentifier"> 31PLIxTikChLcYPk3XyFB7D+dXA=</o:KeyIdentifier> </o:SecurityTokenReference> </KeyInfo> </SubjectConfirmationData> </SubjectConfirmation> </Subject>
There are alternative ways to include <KeyInfo> that are sometimes better for interoperability with Java platforms, and I'll discuss those techniques in Part 2.
What's Next
In this article I showed you how to produce SAML tokens in code so that you can do things like produce test harnesses for interoperability testing or produce tokens from client applications without federating with an STS. In the next article, Part 2, I will show you how to handle some interoperability issues and how to produce a custom ClientCredentials type that suppresses federation to produce SAML tokens at the client.


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CVS-Summary is a program that generates an HTML summary of CVS activity, very similar to that provided by the popular ViewCVS script. CVS-Summary differs from ViewCVS in that it dumps the summary information to static HTML files which can be served by non-CGI capable web servers.
Python is required to run CVS-Summary. CVS-Summary has been tested on with Python versions 1.5.2, 2.1.3, and 2.2.1.
CVS-Summary can be downloaded from the
SourceForge project page
Installation of CVS-Summary is simple. Just unpack all the files in the tarball to a convenient location; as long as you keep all the .py files together, it doesn't matter where you put them. There is also a dir.gif file in the tarball that should be copied to a convenient place on your web server (e.g. a central image directory).
CVS-Summary has a couple of parameters that can be tuned by modifying constants at the top of the cvs-summary.py script. These parameters are described below:
On the index screens, directories are displayed with a little folder icon next to them. The DIRIMG parameter specifies what URL the icon can be found at (e.g. http://www.xyz.com/dir/to/image/dir.gif). dir.gif is included in the distribution tarball and should be copied to a convenient location.
The umask value is used for calculating what files file permissions will be used on created files and directories. If you don't know what this should be, just leave it at 022). Note that a leading 0 is necessary to specify octal file permissions.
If we made diffs of every single file revision against every other revision, we could eat up *a lot* of disk space on large projects. Setting this limits the number of diffs made per file. By default, only the 10 most recent diffs will be created for each file.
CVS-Summary must be invoked from within your CVS working directory (sandbox). The cvs-summary.py script currently takes two command line parameters:
-o output_directory
The -o switch specifies where the generated summary files should be placed. If your CVS repository is on the same filesystem used by your web server, this will generally be a subdirectory under your website's document root.
-t title
The -t switch applies a title to your project. This title appears on some of the index and summary pages.
Example usage
/path/to/cvs-summary -o ~/public_html/project-cvs -t "My Project"
Why should I use CVS-Summary instead of ViewCVS?
If you work in an environment where ViewCVS is able to run (i.e. you have access to a webserver with CGI support or can run your own server process), then you should probably be using ViewCVS. CVS-Summary is intended for environments where users do not have these luxuries (university computer systems are one prime target).
CVS-Summary only lets me see diffs between file revisions. Why can't I view the full text of my files?
CVS-Summary was initially created for use in a university setting so one of my main goals was to keep the size of the summaries relatively low. I will probably add support for viewing a file/revision's full text in a future version of CVS-Summary.
I'd like to thank the following people/groups for directly or indirectly playing a role in the development of CVS-Summary
ViewCVS is a wonderful system and I tried to make CVS-Summary as similar to ViewCVS as possible. I also borrowed the version of difflib.py used by ViewCVS (which they backported from Python2 to Python 1.5)
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CVS-Summary includes an RCS file parser created with PLY. I was very impressed by how well-designed and easy to use PLY was compared to some of the other parser generators I came across. Although PLY requires Python 2, I was able to hack it up so that it would run on Python 1.5. The backported versions of lex.py and yacc.py are included in the distribution tarball.
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Olaf submitted the first few bug reports for CVS-Summary as well as patches to fix them.
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