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Proposed merger[edit]
I'm proposing that Thymine dimer be merged into this page. All the information on the thymine dimer page is pertinent for other pyrimidine dimers. While thymine dimers are the most commonly formed, CT dimers and CC dimers are also formed at significant rates [1], and the CC and CT dimers are actually more likely to result in mutations due to the "A rule" that causes As to be inserted when the template is doubtful[2]. I can add the material from Thymine dimer to this page and then add a discussion based on the references above, and I think it will be more informative than having the two articles separate. Agathman (talk) 16:00, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
- Okay, I've set up a draft of the proposed new Pyrimidine Dimer page here: User:Agathman/CPDs_Working_Page. There has been no comment since the merger proposal went up, almost 3 months ago, so I'm about ready to replace the Pyrimidine dimer page with my draft and replace the Thymine dimer page with a redirect to that one. If anyone cares, please say so soon.
- Sounds good. I will rescue the highly chemical bit abuot cyclobutanes. Thymine dimer is not very impressive as it stands, so your work is a real improvement.--Smokefoot (talk) 16:23, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
|This article may be too technical for most readers to understand. (September 2010)
- Although this article is about a technical subject, the lead should be made easier to understand. For example, the word "translesion," although correct, is not in the dictionary. Bwrs (talk) Bwrs (talk) 03:34, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Not 6-4 and left handed DNA[edit]
In the figure illustrating the types of dimers, 6-4 photoproduct is shown incorrectly. What is shown is a so-called "spore photoproduct" (http://www.photobiology.com/photoiupac2000/nichol/index.htm). The structure of 6-4 is quite different (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=cmed&part=A3935, Fig. 15.2) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 11:44, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
- The SP product is okay according to 2006 paper by Buis et al ... doi:10.1074/jbc.M603931200. Your ref (http://www.photobiology.com/photoiupac2000/nichol/index.htm) gets its structure for Figure 15.2 from Taylor et al J Am Chem Soc. 1987; 109: 2834–2835, which might be obsolete. Medical sources occasionally are way behind on their chemistry.--Smokefoot (talk) 01:24, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
The image 'DNA_UV_mutation.svg' shows a left-handed DNA, it should be a right handed DNA. This a fundamental mistake.
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- ^ Brash DE, Rudolph JA, Simon JA et al. (November 1991). "A role for sunlight in skin cancer: UV-induced p53 mutations in squamous cell carcinoma". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 88 (22): 10124–8. PMC 52880. PMID 1946433.

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A system for image enhancement and, more particularly, a system for enhancing the quality of a quantized image.
1. A method for modifying an image comprising:
(a) receiving an image having a first bit depth;
(b) modifying said image using a Sieve filter performing a summation operation that replaces the value of a target pixel with the value of central pixel in said summation operation when said target pixel differs from said central pixel by a value larger than a threshold to create a modified image resulting in a second bit depth different than said first bit depth in such a manner that the higher frequency content with respect to the lower frequency content of said image is attenuated, and attenuating the lower amplitude content of said higher frequency content with respect to the higher amplitude content of said higher frequency content;
(c) modifying said modified image based upon said modified image and said lower frequency content of said image.
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(a) receiving an image having a first bit depth wherein modifying said image to a second bit depth would result in artifacts, wherein said first bit depth is less than said second bit depth;
(b) modifying said image to another bit depth different than said first bit depth in such a manner that the lower amplitude higher frequency content with respect to the higher amplitude lower frequency content of said image is attenuated to reduce said artifacts that would have otherwise occurred;
(c) wherein said modifying includes using a Sieve filter.
23. A method for modifying an image comprising:
(a) receiving an image having a first bit depth wherein modifying said image to a second bit depth would result in artifacts, wherein said first bit depth is less than said second bit depth;
(b) modifying said image to another bit depth different than said first bit depth in such a manner that the lower amplitude higher frequency content with respect to the higher amplitude lower frequency content of said image is attenuated to reduce said artifacts that would have otherwise occurred;
(c) wherein said modifying includes using a Sieve filter.
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/762,443, filed Jan. 21, 2004 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,400,779, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional App. No. 60/535,917, filed Jan. 8, 2004.
This invention relates to a system for image enhancement and, more particularly, to a system for enhancing the quality of a quantized image.
As the state of the art of digital signal technology advances, related technologies such as digital image processing has experienced a corresponding growth and benefit. For example, the development and proliferation of facsimile communications allows images to be encoded into digital signals, transmitted over conventional telephone line, and decoded into a close representation of the original images. Image data are also digitally encoded for ease of storage, modification, copying, etc. As is common experience with growing technologies, the field of digital image processing is also experiencing problems with applications in new areas.
Problems in the area of digital image processing relate generally to achieving a balance between acceptable image distortion and bit-depth representations. In order to increase the efficiency and therefore the usefulness of digital image decoding schemes, the coding system must provide a coded set of image data that is more efficient to store, transmit, etc., than the original image data and must reproduce a decoded image with some minimum level of quality. However, the conversion of relatively high bit rate image data to lower bit rate data virtually always entails a loss of image quality.
One straightforward method for digitizing an image is to create an artificial grid over the image and to assign a value to each grid space representing the color of the original image at that grid space. If the grids are made small enough and the values represent a large enough range of color, then the image may be encoded and decoded with small image quality degradation. For example, display screen images are made up of an array of pixels, i.e., picture elements. On a black and white screen, each pixel has a value of one or zero representing the on/off state of the pixel. In a one-to-one bit-to-pixel coding scheme, each pixel value is represented as a 1 or as a 0 and the entire screen image is encoded. The result of the encoding is an array of binary values. To decode the image, the array values are translated into a screen image having pixels on or off in the same order in which they were originally encoded.
If the image is comprised of more than two distinct colors, then more than a 1-bit code must be used to represent the pixel values. For example, if four distinct colors are present in the image, a 2-bit binary code can represent all of the values. If the image includes 256 distinct colors, an 8-bit binary code is required to uniquely represent each of the color values. The memory requirements for such coding schemes increase as the number of distinct colors in the image increases. However, with high bit-depth representation schemes, the quality of the image that results will be good as long as the digital image transmission or recovery from storage is successful.
To reduce the size of the encoded digital image, the bit-depth representation of the image may be reduced in some manner. For example, an image with a bit-depth of 6 bits per pixel requires significantly less storage capacity and bandwidth for transmission than the same sized image with 16 bits per pixel.
Decoded images, constructed by a low bit-depth representation, generally suffer from the following types of degradations: (a) quasi-constant or slowly varying regions suffer from contouring effects and amplified granular noise, and (b) textured regions lose detail.
Contouring effects, which are the result of spatial variations, in a decoded image are generally fairly obvious to the naked eye. The contouring effects that appear in the slowly varying regions are also caused by the fact that not all of the variations in the intensity of the original image are available for the decoded image. For example, if a region of the original image included an area having 4 intensity changes therein, the decoded image might represent the area with only 2 intensities. In contrast to the contouring effects, the effect of the granular noise on the viewed image is often mitigated by the very nature of the textured regions. But it can be both amplified or suppressed due to quantization, as well as altered in spectral appearance.
Kundu et al., U.S. Pat. No. 5,218,649, disclose an image processing technique that enhances images by reducing contouring effects. The enhancement system identifies the edge and non-edge regions in the decoded image. Different filters are applied to each of these regions and then they are combined together. A low pass filter (LPF) is used on the non-edge regions, and a high-pass enhancer is used on the edge regions. Kundu et al. teaches that the contour artifacts are most visible in the non-edge areas, and the LPF will remove these edges. Unfortunately, problems arise in properly identifying the edge regions (is a steep slope an edge or a non-edge?). In addition, problems arise in setting thresholds in the segmentation process because if the contours have a high enough amplitude, then they will be classified as edges in the segmentation, and thus not filtered out. Moreover, the image segmentation requires a switch, or if statement, and two full-size image buffers to store the edge map and smooth map, because the size of these regions varies from image to image, all of which is expensive and computationally intensive.
Chan, U.S. Pat. No. 5,651,078, discloses a system that reduces the contouring in images reproduced from compressed video signals. Chan teaches that some contours result from discrete cosine transformation (DCT) compression, which are more commonly called blocking artifacts. Chan observes that this problem is most noticeable in the dark regions of image and as a result adds noise to certain DCT coefficients when the block's DC term is low (corresponding to a dark area). The resulting noise masks the contour artifacts, however, the dark areas become noisier as a result. The dark areas thus have a noise similar to film-grain-like noise which may be preferable to the blocking artifacts.
What is desirable is a system for reducing contouring effects of an image. Because the system does not necessarily affect the encoding or transmission processes, it can be readily integrated into established systems.
The foregoing and other objectives, features, and advantages of the invention will be more readily understood upon consideration of the following detailed description of the invention, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
The present inventor observed that the many of the objectionable contouring effects in images appear in regions of the image that are generally free from a significant number of edges or otherwise high texture. The present inventor similarly observed fewer objectionable contouring effects in regions of the image that have a significant number of edges or otherwise high texture. After consideration of this difference in observing objectionable contouring effects, the present inventor considered that the human visual system has lower sensitivity to these contour effects in the high frequency regions of the image and the human visual system has higher sensitivity to these contour effects in the low frequency regions of the image.
In order to preserve the quality of the image, the system preferably (albeit not necessary) reduces the effects of the objectionable contours without having to add noise to the image in order to hide them. Thus the system is suitable for use with images that are otherwise free of image capture noise, such as computer graphics and line art with gradients. Moreover, it would be preferable (albeit not necessary) that the technique is implemented without decision steps or if statements to achieve computational efficiency. Also, the technique should require not more than a single buffer of a size less than or equal to the image, and more preferable a buffer less than 30, 20, or 10 percent of the size of the image.
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To reduce the false step edges of contouring the image is preferably low-pass filtered 102. The low-pass filter applied to the image also acts to increase the bit depth, since the low pass filter is primarily an averaging operation (averaging across a neighborhood of pixels), and the averaging results in a higher precision. Other techniques may likewise be applied to effectively modify the bit depth of the image. In some cases, the system may also modify the bit depth by switching the number of bits used for processing the image, such as 8 bits to 16 bits. One way of characterizing an increase in the bit depth of an image is to modify in any manner an image to 2N different levels, where N≠P. Alternatively, the image may already have a bit-depth needed/desired for the output (P=N), but the image itself may have a limited bit depth of P (P<N) from a previous operation. In this case, the value of P should be known or otherwise determined. Alternatively, the image may have a bit-depth of N, but the image itself may have a limited bit-depth of P (P<N).
The result of the low pass filtering of the image is to modify the image to achieve a bit depth of N. In most cases the bit depth N is the desired bit depth in the final image, such as an image having bit depth N to be displayed on a N bit display. The low pass filter should be sufficiently wide (in the spatial domain) to reduce most false steps (contouring) due to the bit-depth limit P. It is noted that the low pass filter likewise reduces other desirable image information within the image, so merely low-pass filtering the image is insufficient. Note that the low pass filter also reduces much useful image information, such as by severely blurring the image, so this step is insufficient to properly rectify the undesirable contouring.
The low pass filter 102 may be implemented as Cartesian-separable 1-dimensional filters. The use of a pair of 1-dimensional filters is more computationally efficient than a 2-dimensional filter. The filter preferably has a rectangular shape. The size of the low pass filter kernel may be based upon the viewing distance and the pixels per inch of the display. For a 90 pixel per inch display viewed at 1000 pixel viewing distance, the kernel size should be more than 11 pixels to remove the visibility of a contour edge, but the present inventor determined that the kernel size should actually be more than 31 pixels to remove the low frequency modulation component of the false contour. Accordingly, the kernel size should be based upon the low frequency modulation component of the false contour, as opposed to merely the visibility of the contour edge.
The resulting image from the low pass filter is primarily the low frequency components of the image. It is likewise to be understood that any suitable filter may be used, such as one that generally attenuates the high frequency components with respect to the low frequency components of the image.
The system may subtract 105 the low pass filtered image 102 from the original bit-depth limited image 100 having false contours. This in essence reduces the low-frequency content of the input image, while primarily leaving the high frequency content. However, the subtraction 105 also results in another attribute, namely, the high frequency portion of the remaining image contains the high frequency portion of the contour artifacts. The result of this operation may be referred to as the HP component 107. It is also noted that the result of the low pass filter 102 is that the low frequency portion of the remaining image from low pass filter 102 contains the low frequency portion of the contour artifacts. Accordingly, the contouring artifacts are separated in some manner between the low frequency and high frequency components of the image.
The subtraction process 105 leads to a bit-depth increase of 1 due to the sign. For example a subtraction of two images with 0 to +255 results in an image with a range from −255 to +255. Hence the high pass component 107 has N+1 bit depth (this is based upon a source image being padded to N bits before the subtraction operation). Padding may include inserting 0's and/or 1's to the least significant bits that are missing from the lower bit depth representations relative to the higher.
It is noted that the output of the system may not need N+1 bits, but it should be able to carry a sign, and thus have a zero mean level. If only N bits are used and one bit is dedicated to the sign, then only N−1 bits are available for addition to the low pass filter image (in the last addition step). In that case some edge sharpness and detail may be lost.
As previously described, the result of subtracting the low pass filtered image from the original image results in an image that maintains high frequency false contour information. It has been determined that the high frequency false contour information that should be reduced are those having a low amplitude. Accordingly, the low amplitude information should be reduced with respect to the high amplitude information. To reduce the low amplitude high frequency false contour information a coring function 110 may be applied. Other techniques may likewise be used, if desired. The coring function 110 may include a hard-threshold coring function, such as for example, if abs(HP)<b then HP=0, else HP=HP. This effectively reduces the contours, especially if the low pass filter is sufficiently large.
Unfortunately, simply applying a hard-threshold coring function, while acceptable, resulted in unexpected additional artifacts that appear like islands of color, and as ringing of step edges. After consideration of these unexpected artifacts, it was determined that a transitioned coring function will both reduce the low amplitude high frequency false contour information, and reduce the additional color islands and ringing of steps edges. A modified transitional coring function, may be for example, as:
CVin is the input code value of the HP image to the coring function, while CVout is the output code value of the coring function. M is the merge point that is where the coring behavior ends (or substantially ends) and the coring function returns to the identify function (or other suitable function). A and α are parameters selected to ensure two conditions at the merge point, M, namely:
The first criterion ensures that the coring function has no discontinuity in actual value, and the second ensures that the 1st derivative is continuous. The first criterion keeps the tone scale monotonic in the HP band, and the second avoids mach band type artifacts. Thus this coring function could even be applied to the low pass band without such artifacts. It is noted that the coring function preferably has a slope that equals 1 that intersects with the origin of the plot as well as no second order discontinuities.
The criteria may be restated as follows:
An example of the coring functions for the value of M=8 with A=11.3 and α=0.25, is shown in
Another example of the coring function for the value of M=4 with A=5.6 and α=0.5 is illustrated in
Referring again to
The number of gray levels is given by N or P, which are bit-depths, so the numbers of levels is 2N or 2P However, another embodiment is to not use bit-depth to determine the number of gray levels, but the numbers of gray levels directly.
In a particular implementation, each of the steps shown in
In a typical implementation the bit-depth of the input and output images are known in advance. This is typically the case in many applications, such as display an eight bit image on a 10-bit display.
While the implementation illustrated in
To reduce the occurrence of ghosting artifacts, the present inventors came to the realization that a linear low pass filter tends to smear sharp edges because a sharp edge has high energy on the high-pass frequency band and this energy does not efficiently pass through the low pass filter. When a pixel with value I is close to a sharp edge, the output of the low pass filter, the low pass component IL, is quite different from I. In other words, the high pass component IH=I−IL is substantial. Because the selected coring functions passes its input signal without modification to its output if an input-signal IH is larger than a threshold, the substantial IH is unchanged after coring and consequently I is unchanged. As a result, the decontouring technique using a linear low pass filter maintains areas close to sharp edges unchanged. With noise in other areas is reduced, the noise in the areas close to sharp edges become prominent. In other words, the noise in regions not sufficiently proximate the sufficiently sharp edges is reduced to a greater extent than the noise in regions sufficiently proximate the sharp edges. This phenomena is further illustrated by
A modified low pass filter may be used to preserve sharp edges. For example, a Sieve filter may be designed to be a low pass filter while preserving sharp edges. The sieve filter utilizes a 1-dimensional or 2-dimensional rectangular or other suitably shaped window, where the current pixel I(x,y) is at the center of the window. The filter may compare all the pixels I(i,j) in the window with the central pixel I(x,y). The filter may average those pixels whose value differences with the central pixel I(x,y) is within a threshold T. Because this filter drops pixels that are not within the threshold, one may refer to this type of filter as a sieve filter. Because a sieve filter does not satisfy the conditions of linear filter, it is referred to as a nonlinear filter. Mathematically, the output of the sieve filter, ILP(x,y), is calculated by
A block-diagram of an exemplary sieve filter is shown in
One technique to determine the threshold is by presetting or learning based on the local information. Learning may use histogram of the window.
The sieve filter mathematically defined by Equation (1) and illustrated by the diagram of
When a pixel's difference with the central pixel is bigger than the threshold T, instead of dropping the pixel from summation in Equation (1), Equation (2) replaces the pixel's value with the central pixel's value in summation. Equation (2) has the advantage over Equation (1) that the denominator in Equation (2) is fixed, which is preferable by hardware implementation. The corresponding diagram is shown in
The implementation hardware block-diagram using a sieve filter (horizontal 31 taps and vertical 5 taps) is shown in
As it may be observed the low pass filter may be any non-linear low pass filter, as desired. In addition, the low pass filter may be any spatially-varying low pass filter, as desired. Also, the low pass filter may be any spatially-varying non-linear low pass filter.
It is noted that if the system has access to the image and it is desirable to reduce the bit-depth in subsequent image processing, such as display on a lower bit depth liquid crystal display, while maintaining a high image quality for the reduced bit depth, then a particular class of image processing techniques may be used, such as for example, dithering techniques. Several different types of dithering techniques have been developed, such as for example, amplitude dithering, spatial dithering, and phase dithering. For example, a properly designed amplitude dither technique may preserve the image entropy at low frequencies, while allowing for entropy losses at high frequencies.
However, if the image that is acquired already has a lower bit-depth than desired, and a dithering technique was not previously applied to the image, then the dithering techniques do not assist in removing the undesirable distortion. In other words, dithering techniques are traditionally used for pre-processing of images. The reason for this pre-processing limitation is because the entropy loss has already occurred at the low frequencies due to quantization, which acts to reduce the amplitude resolution uniformly across all frequencies.
While the described implementations effectively reduce the contour artifacts, it was determined that it also removes a significant amount of low amplitude detail. While such a result is satisfactory for most cases because the viewer is unaware of exactly how the image should really appear, it turns out to be particularly detrimental in the facial region of an image, where there is a higher expectation of the appropriate texture by the typical viewer.
To reduce the loss of low amplitude texture detailed, the present inventors came to the realization that one may separate the case where the low amplitude information is due to the image texture (which is generally isotropic) versus the case when the low amplitude information is due to a false contour (which is generally non-isotropic, a.k.a., structured error). Generally isotropic information ("iso" meaning one or the same, and "tropic" meaning space or direction) has generally the same texture in all directions. For example, clean sand on the beach may be considered generally isotropic. For example, generally non-isotropic information has different textures in different directions. In many cases, the non-isotopic information has the characteristic of an edge. Accordingly, generally isotropic information has more uniform texture relative to generally non-isotropic information. This additional filtering may be included with the coring.
While a plurality of different filters may be used, it is preferable to use a single filter, which is more computationally efficient in many cases. The accumulation of local special activity may be determined in a suitable manner, such as for example, a single sigma type filter or a single sum of absolute differences ("SAD") type filter.
The preferred system uses a version where the lowpass filter is implemented in two Cartesian separable steps (i.e., a cascade of H and V steps.), and the filter width spatially is =31 pixels, with a uniform (rectangular) impulse response. For many images a filter width of 17 or 25 is acceptable. Typically a width less than 17 does not work exceptionally well for image of size greater than 512�512.
The system may accumulate local activity, if desired, over a local region around a pixel of the image to be cored (examples include standard deviation, a, over a local 9�9 window, or SAD, over a similar local window). One may select different coring functions based on a local activity index (or continuously adjust coring function based on a local activity index). Local activity measure could be taken from the mean of the local window, but is more preferably around the zero activity point of the HP image (i.e., 0, unless a pedestal offset is used.). The coring function has merge point where coring reverts to an identity function. At this merge point, the slope of the coring equals the slope of the identity function (typically=1).
The processing of the image may result in an image having a bit depth greater than the desired output bit-depth "N" for the image. Accordingly, the bit depth of the input image may have been the same as, or less than, the desired bit-depth of the output image which during the image processing technique for reducing the contouring effects is increased to a bit-depth greater than the desired bit-depth of the output image. The present inventors came to the realization that with an image having a greater bit depth than necessary for the output image, as a result of previous image processing for de-contouring effects (e.g., low pass filtering), there is the potential that a dithering technique (which may be included together with the coring) (e.g., bit depth extension) may be applied to the image when reducing the bit depth to the desired output bit depth. As previously discussed, dithering techniques are typically not considered applicable for overcoming bit-depth limitations for image processing when the image provided has a bit depth less than the bit depth of the output image. The image may be modified with a dithering technique, such as for example, amplitude dithering, spatial dithering, and phase dithering. The dithering technique may allow the bit depth to be reduced without noticeable visible loss from R+1 to N. Preferably, an amplitude based dither pattern is applied that is characterized by the frequency spectrum that is approximately matched to the inverse of the human visual spatial frequency response.
Another technique that may be applied is to increase the bit depth of the high pass component 107 to a greater bit depth, such as "R". In this manner, a more accurate coring function may be applied in the R-bit space. In some implementations, this may be accomplished by modifying the bit depth of the input image to R bits before the subtraction that form the high pass component 107.
The dithering technique may be applied to the low pass filtered image, if desired. This reduces the effects of contouring effects as a result of quantization while similarly increasing the quality of the output image.
The dithering technique may be applied to the input image by first expanding the bit depth of the image. While spectrally shaped "noise" may be used, in addition "white" noise may likewise be used, if desired. The low pass filter will effectively modify the "white" noise to a "high pass" noise, which has the general desired spectral characteristics.
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I'd heard about Vocatura's Bakery, at 695 Boswell Ave. in Norwich, here and there over the years. There were whisperings of their amazing bread baked on premises. But then I'd forget what it was called, and then I'd have trouble finding it online, and, well, you know how it is.
I finally dragged my butt over there other day. There's no going back to chain sandwich shops. At Vocatura's, you're in for a true Italian grinder, and a large really is a solid foot long, as long as my forearm.
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I'm sure they could smell the novice on us. We gawked at the menu, unable to decide what we wanted. Should we get a hot grinder, guaranteed to satisfy with its warmth alone? Or should we go for the true Italian grinder experience, complete with salt, pepper and oil?
The girl behind the counter, clearly used to moving the line quickly, took our order and assembled our salami, capicola, ham and cheese grinder, large, in the blink of an eye. She piled on tomato slices and a handful of lettuce, barely reacting to my dining companion's "It's so fluffy!" commentary on the lettuce.
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Potato Pizza Aiola
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|Red potatoes
|4 Pound
|Olive oil
|3 Tablespoon
|4 Clove (20 gm), minced
|Chopped oregano/1 teaspoon dried oregano
|1 Tablespoon
|Canned italian peeled tomatoes
|14 Ounce, drained and chopped (1 Can)
|Grated parmesan cheese
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|1 1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Ground pepper
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
1. Preheat oven to 350°. Cook potatoes in a large saucepan of boiling salted water, for 10 minutes only. Drain potatoes and remove skins. Cut potatoes into 1/2-inch slices.
2. Brush an 11 x 7-inch baking dish with 1 teaspoon olive oil. Place one third layer of potatoes in baking dish, overlapping slightly. Season with one third each of the garlic, oregano, tomatoes, remaining olive oil, Parmesan, salt, and pepper. Repeat layers twice, using remaining ingredients. Bake 40 minutes, or until potatoes are tender when tested with a knife and lightly browned and bubbly.
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Updated Post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/brandonlinton/archive/2014/01/03/compliance-baseline-for-adobe-flash-player-configuration-settings.aspx
In this post i am going to go over how to disable Adobe Flash Player Automatic Updates with a CI item and Baseline. In a follow up post i will walk through the steps to Deploy and maintain Flash Player Patches via System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and System Center Updates Publisher 2011. By leveraging Compliance Settings in ConfigMgr we can easily track compliance and remediation of the Adobe Flash Player Automatic Updates mms.cfg file across the enterprise. Every admin has his own way of getting this out to the enterprise and each has its trade offs. Personally i feel this is the simplest way to achieve this and retain flexibility of how i deploy Flash Player.
At the end of this post you can find "Disable Adobe Flash Player Automatic Updates.zip" file which can be used to import the CI and Baseline directly into your Compliance Settings Node of the Console.
Guidance on how to configure Adobe Flash Player Auto Updater can be found at: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/administration-configure-auto-update-notification.html
1) Open the ConfigMgr Console and Expand Assets and Compliance --> Compliance Settings --> Configuration Items and select "Create Configuration Item" from the ribbon.
2) In the Create Configuration item wizard fill out the Name, Description and assign an appropriate category and select next.
3) On the Supported Platforms screen select any OS level you would like this CI to be evaluated against and select Next.
4) On the settings screen select New.
5) In the Create Settings screen supply a Name, Description, Set the Setting Type = "Script" and the Data Type = "Boolean".
6) Select Add Script under Discovery Script.
7) In the Edit Discovery Script screen select VBScript and paste in the code at the end of this article and select ok.
8) Select Add Script under Remediation Script.
9) In the Edit Remediation Script screen select VBScript and paste in the code at the end of this article and select ok.
10) Click on the Compliance Rules tab and select New.
11) On the Create Rule screen enter a Name, Description, select warning for the noncompliance severity for reports and ensure to check the box marked "Run the specified remediation script when this setting is noncompliant" and select OK.
12) Select OK to apply the settings.
13) Select Next on the Settings screen.
14) On the Compliance Rules screen select Next.
15) Select Next on the Summary screen.
16) Select Close on the Completion screen.
17) Select Configuration Baselines from the left pane.
18) Supply a Name, Description and assign an appropriate category for the Configuration Baseline.
19) Select Add --> Configuration Items to add Configuration Data to the Baseline.
20) Select add and then choose the CI that was just created and select OK.
21) Select OK to save your Configuration Baseline.
22) Right Click the newly create Baseline and select Deploy.
23) Select Remediate noncompliant rules when supported and configure your schedule to fit your needs.
24) Select Browse to choose your desired collection to deploy to. Select Device Collections from the drop down menu and choose your desired collections and select OK.
25) Select OK to save changes.
26) On your client system you can see that the Baseline has been applied but has not evaluated yet.
27) You can also see that the mms.cfg file does not exist.
28) Click Evaluate and you will now see that the Baseline is Compliant.
29) You will also see that the folder structure has been created and the mms.cfg file with AutoUpdateDisable=1 is created inside the folder structure.
Discovery Script:
Dim sFilePath, oWindir Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set oArch = oShell.Environment("System") oWindir = oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%WINDIR%") Select Case LCase(oArch("PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE")) Case "x86" ' x86 sFilePath = oWindir & "\System32\Macromed\Flash\" Case "amd64" ' amd64 sFilePath = oWindir & "\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\" Case Else ' other Wscript.quit(1) End Select If fso.FileExists(sFilePath & "mms.cfg") Then Wscript.echo "TRUE" 'Wscript.echo "File Exists! " & sFilePath & "mms.cfg" Else Wscript.echo "FALSE" 'Wscript.echo "Cant Find File! " & sFilePath & "mms.cfg" End If
Remediation Script:
Dim sFilePath, oWindir Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set oArch = oShell.Environment("System") oWindir = oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%WINDIR%") Select Case LCase(oArch("PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE")) Case "x86" ' x86 If NOT fso.FolderExists(oWindir & "\System32\Macromed") Then fso.CreateFolder(oWindir & "\System32\Macromed") End If If NOT fso.FolderExists(oWindir & "\System32\Macromed\Flash") Then fso.CreateFolder(oWindir & "\System32\Macromed\Flash") End If sFilePath = oWindir & "\System32\Macromed\Flash\" Case "amd64" ' amd64 If NOT fso.FolderExists(oWindir & "\SysWOW64\Macromed") Then fso.CreateFolder(oWindir & "\SysWOW64\Macromed") End If If NOT fso.FolderExists(oWindir & "\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash") Then fso.CreateFolder(oWindir & "\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash") End If sFilePath = oWindir & "\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\" Case Else ' other Wscript.quit(1) End Select If NOT fso.FileExists(sFilePath & "mms.cfg") Then Set strm = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream") With strm .Open .CharSet = "UTF-8" .WriteText "AutoUpdateDisable=1" .SaveToFile (sFilePath & "mms.cfg"), 1 .Close End With 'Wscript.echo "Creating File! " & sFilePath & "mms.cfg" Else 'Wscript.echo "File Exists! " & sFilePath & "mms.cfg" End If
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Great post and am looking to implement this over the next week or so. Thank you. Looking forward to your follow up post you mentioned, if you still plan on writing it.
Great post, defintely going to try it out.
Did not change the settings for the cfg file if it already existed. Ran and I still show it as set to 0
I am able to find out we require to enter another value SilentAutoUpdateEnable=0 (.WriteText "AutoUpdateDisable=1" & VbCrLf & "SilentAutoUpdateEnable=0"), However one thing i am not able to find out is that in some users with XP machines some have the mms.cfg file already there , this script doesnt work on those any suggestions how we can modify the script so that if mms.cfg changes as per the new mms.cfg settings in machines where mms.cfg file already exist with wrong values.
You could do one of two things either setup your detection rule so that it never evaluates to true causing the script to always be copied down or you could also modify the detection script to also do a ReadLine and check for compliance in the file itself then copy the file down if not compliant. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee198708.aspx I might revisit this and add the additional detail into an updated Powershell version of the script as i am moving everything over to POSH as the days of XP come to an end.
Hey I'm trying to figure out how to set the detection rule so that it never evaluates to true, any help would be great thanks.
HI Ray did you read the updated blog post at the top of this article? it has a baseline in it with logic that verifies the file exists and the content inside the file so it always populates the correct info. Does this not work for you? If you want to do what you are asking just set the detection rule to a path that will never exist.http://blogs.technet.com/b/brandonlinton/archive/2014/01/03/compliance-baseline-for-adobe-flash-player-configuration-settings.aspx
I read right past it thanks for the update it's a very good article.
Thanks! works great.
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