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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14819 | Ranunculus populago
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Ranunculus populago
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Ranunculaceae
Genus: Ranunculus
Species: R. populago
Binomial name
Ranunculus populago
Ranunculus populago is a species of buttercup known by the common names popular buttercup and mountain buttercup. It is native to the Pacific Northwest and surrounding areas in the United States, where it grows in wet habitat, such as bogs, streambanks, and moist mountain meadows. It is a perennial herb producing an upright, mostly hairless stem up to about 30 centimeters in maximum height. Leaves have oval blades borne on long petioles. The flower has usually five or six shiny yellow petals each a few millimeters long around a central nectary and many stamens and pistils. The fruit is an achene borne in a spherical cluster.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14820 | Roger de Beaumont (bishop)
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Roger de Beaumont (died 1202) was Bishop of St Andrews (Cell Rígmonaid) (elected 1189; consecrated 1198).
He was the son of Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester. Roger's position as a younger son of the Earl of Leicester meant that Roger had to seek a fortune elsewhere, and did so withiin the church. Robert was a second cousin of William I of Scotland, being the great-grandson and grandson of Elizabeth of Vermandois respectively.[1] At Williiam's court Beaumont managed to obtain favour, eventually reaching the position of Chancellor of the King, a post which usually functioned as a prelude to ascending a high-ranking bishopric.
Bishop of Saint Andrews[edit]
So it was that, at Perth in April 1189, he was elected Bishop of St. Andrews. Roger, nevertheless, had to wait nine years for consecration, which was finally performed in 1198 at St. Andrews by the Bishop of Moray and the Bishop of Aberdeen.
During his time as Chancellor Beaumont had been party to the negotiations surrounding the nullification of the treaty of Falaise, and had lobbied the Pope to secure the independence of the Scottish church from the claims of both Nidaros and York to superiority. These demands of the pope were both met, with Clement III issuing a Bull in 1188 confirming that church in Scotland was answerable only to the Holy See. The following year, 8 months after Beaumont's election as Bishop, the English King Richard I nullified the Treaty of Falaise, and recognised the independence of the Church.
Bishop Roger, was witness to the foundation charter of Inchaffray Abbey in 1200, as earlier he had been for the Abbey of Arbroath in 1178, and it was during his tenure as Bishop that the first St Andrews Castle was built as an episcopal palace.
His episcopate came to an end when he died at Cambuskenneth on 7 July 1202. He was buried at St. Andrews. The next bishop of the see was William de Malveisin.
1. ^ Cowan Vol I, p.80. William's mother Ada de Warenne was daughter of Elizabeth of Vermandois' second husband the 2nd Earl of Surrey, whereas Roger's father was a grandson of her first marriage to the 1st Earl of Leicester.
Political offices
Preceded by
Walter de Bidun
Chancellor of Scotland
Succeeded by
Hugh de Roxburgh
Religious titles
Preceded by
Hugh the Chaplain
Bishop of St Andrews
(Cell Rígmonaid)
Succeeded by
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14821 | Champollion (spacecraft)
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Champollion was a planned cometary rendezvous and landing spacecraft. It was named after Jean-François Champollion, a French Egyptologist known for translating the Rosetta stone.
Rosetta surface science package[edit]
As originally envisaged, the joint NASA/CNES Champollion was to be one of two surface science packages for the Rosetta mission to comet Wirtanen, alongside the German-led RoLand. Champollion was to provide for return of cometary samples to Earth.
This part of the Rosetta mission was withdrawn in late 1996 due to lack of funding from JPL.
Deep Space 4 / Space Technology 4[edit]
Champollion (original concept)
Champollion (single spacecraft concept)
Champollion was revived under NASA's New Millennium program as Deep Space 4 / Space Technology 4, again as a joint project of NASA and CNES. In this version, Champollion would be a stand-alone project consisting of an orbiter and a lander, with the focus shifted somewhat to engineering validation of new technologies rather than pure science.
As of March 1999 [1], the baseline mission was to launch in April 2003, reaching comet Tempel 1 in 2006. The sample return element of the mission was at this point contingent on sufficient funding/resources, possibly being replaced with a demonstration of related capabilities.
The lander was approximately 1.5 m high weighing 160 kg; it was to autonomously navigate to the comet from 50 km altitude and anchor itself with a spike. The planned payload included:
The orbiter was to carry cameras and a dust monitor.
Later in 1999, Space Technology 4 was scaled back to a single spacecraft [2] with no sample return; it was cancelled entirely on July 1, 1999, due to budgetary constraints. [3] |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14824 | Steve Blechman
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Steve Blechman is a businessman and magazine publisher.
He was at one time Executive Vice President of Twinlab.[1] Blechman is currently the CEO, President,[2] and sole owner,[2] of Advanced Research Press, Inc. (ARP). ARP owns the bodybuilding magazine Muscular Development, and the fitness magazines Fitness Rx For Women, and Fitness Rx For Men. Under Blechman's guidance Twinlab acquired ARP in the 1980s. In 2001 Twinlab sold ARP to Blechman who then resigned from Twinlab.[1]
Blechman is the son of Jean and David Blechman. David Blechman started the supplement company Twinlab out of his garage in the 1960s and the company soon became successful and expanded. The company which, was named for his two sets of twin sons, was later run by his children among them Steve.[3] Steve worked for the company for 25 years before resigning when he bought ARP.[4] |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14825 | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
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Established 1992
Location Paseo del Prado, 8, Madrid, Spain
Director Guillermo Solana
Venus and Cupid holding a mirror, by Peter Paul Rubens.
The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, or in Spanish Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (named after its founder), is an art museum in Madrid, Spain, located near the Prado Museum at one of city's main boulevards. It is known as part of the "Golden Triangle of Art", which also includes the Prado and the Reina Sofia national galleries. The Thyssen-Bornemisza fills the historical gaps in its counterparts' collections: in the Prado's case this includes Italian primitives and works from the English, Dutch and German schools, while in the case of the Reina Sofia it concerns Impressionists, Expressionists, and European and American paintings from the second half of the 20th century.
With over 1,600 paintings the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection was once the second largest private collection in the world after the British Royal Collection.[1] A competition was held to house the museum in 1986 after Baron Thyssen, having tried to enlarge his Museum in Villa Favorita, searched for a location in Europe.
The collection started in the 1920s as a private collection by Heinrich, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon. In a reversal of the movement of European paintings to the United States during this period, one of the elder Baron's sources was the collections of American millionaires coping with the Great Depression and inheritance taxes, from which he acquired such exquisite old master paintings as Ghirlandaio's portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni (once in the Morgan Library) and Carpaccio's Knight (from the collection of Otto Kahn).[1] The collection was later expanded by Heinrich's son Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1921–2002),[2] who assembled most of the works from his relatives' collections and proceeded to acquire large numbers of new works to produce what is one of the world's finest private art collections.
The collection was initially housed in the family estate in Lugano in a twenty-rooms building modelled after the Neue Pinakothek in Munich. In 1988 the Baron filed a request for building a further extension designed by British architects James Stirling e Michael Wilford but the plan was rejected by the Lugano City Council.
In 1985, the Baron married Carmen "Tita" Cervera (a former Miss Spain 1961) and introduced her to art collecting. Cervera's influence was decisive in persuading the Baron to relocate his collection to Spain where the local government had a building available just next to the Prado. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum officially opened in 1992. A year later, the Spanish Government bought the collection outright.
The Baroness remains involved with the museum. She personally decided the salmon pink tone of the interior walls and in May 2006 publicly demonstrated against plans of the Mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón to redevelop the Paseo del Prado as she thought the works and traffic would damage the collection and the museum's appearance.
The collection[edit]
The Old Masters were mainly bought by the elder Baron, while Hans focused more on the 19th and 20th century, resulting in a collection that spans eight centuries of European painting, without claiming to give an all-encompassing view but rather a series of highlights.
One of the focal points is the early European painting, with a major collection of trecento and quattrocento (i.e. 14th and 15th century) Italian paintings by Duccio, and his contemporaries, and works of the early Flemish and Dutch painters like Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Dürer, and Hans Holbein. Other highlights include works by the most famous Renaissance and Baroque painters, including Antonello da Messina (Portrait of a Man), Titian, Sebastiano del Piombo, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, Murillo, Rembrandt and Frans Hals and portraits by Domenico Ghirlandaio and Vittore Carpaccio. Also important for the Museum's collection are Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works by artists like Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas and Vincent van Gogh, as well as twentieth century masterpieces, like a Cubist work by Picasso or late works by Piet Mondrian and Edward Hopper.
A collection of works from the museum is housed in Barcelona in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.
In 2011 due to "a lack of liquid funds", Carmen "Tita" Cervera decided to sell The Lock by English artist John Constable.[3][4] The painting, which belonged to her private collection, was sold in London the following year for £22.4 million, more than doubling the price paid for it in 1990.[5]
See also[edit]
1. ^ a b Jonathan Kandell, "Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, Industrialist Who Built Fabled Art Collection, Dies at 81," New York Times, 28 April 2002.
2. ^ Tomàs, Llorens; Laura Suffield (translator) (1998). Guide to the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (2nd edition ed.). Spain: Lunwerg editores SA. ISBN 84-88474-48-2.
3. ^ Brown, Mark (2012). "John Constable's The Lock to be sold at auction". Retrieved June 23, 2012.
4. ^ Garcia, Angeles (2012). "No soy gastosa. Los ricos también están en crisis". Retrieved June 23, 2012.
5. ^ Daily Telegraph, "Constable's The Lock sells for a record 22.4 million
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14828 | William Clyde Caldwell
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William Clyde Caldwell
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William Clyde Caldwell (May 14, 1843 – January 7, 1905) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Lanark North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1872 to 1875, 1879 to 1886, 1888 to 1894 and 1898 to 1905.
He was born William Caldwell in Lanark in Canada West in 1843. He worked in his father's timber company and later became a partner in the business. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Queen's College in 1866. Around 1872, he adopted the middle name Clyde, after the Clyde River in Lanark County where the family held timber limits, to distinguish himself from several other William Caldwells in the province. On his father's death, he inherited the company and several mills in Lanark. He became part-owner of a grist mill in Carleton Place and built a sawmill in Almonte. He also owned a woollen mill in Lanark. He was elected in an 1872 by-election to represent Lanark North in the Ontario legislature. In 1883, he moved to Kingston but kept property in Lanark. Caldwell was also a member of the Freemasons. He died in Lanark in 1905.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14830 | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
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The Most Excellent
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
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Zapatero in 2009
Prime Minister of Spain
In office
17 April 2004 – 21 December 2011
Monarch Juan Carlos I
Deputy María Teresa Fernández de la Vega
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
Elena Salgado
Preceded by José María Aznar
Succeeded by Mariano Rajoy
Leader of the Opposition
In office
1 July 2000 – 17 April 2004
Prime Minister José María Aznar
Preceded by Joaquín Almunia
Succeeded by Mariano Rajoy
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
14 March 2004 – 20 November 2011
Constituency Madrid
In office
22 June 1986 – 14 March 2004
Constituency León
Personal details
Born (1960-08-04) 4 August 1960 (age 53)
Valladolid, Spain
Political party Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Spouse(s) Sonsoles Espinosa (1990–present)
Children Laura (b. 1993)
Alba (b. 1995)
Alma mater University of León
Religion None (Agnosticism)
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (Spanish: [xoseˈlwiz roˈðɾiɣeθ θapaˈteɾo] ( );[1] born 4 August 1960) is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He was elected for two terms as Prime Minister of Spain, in the 2004 and 2008 general elections. On 2 April 2011 he announced he would not stand for re-election in the 2011 general election. He left office on 21 December 2011.
Among the main actions taken by the Zapatero administration were the withdrawal of Spanish troops from the Iraq war, which allegedly resulted in long-term diplomatic tensions with the George W. Bush administration; the increase of Spanish troops in Afghanistan; the idea of an Alliance of Civilizations, co-sponsored by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; the legalisation of same-sex marriage; reform of abortion law; a controversial attempt at peace negotiation with ETA; the increase of tobacco restrictions; and the reform of various autonomous statutes, particularly the Statute of Catalonia.
Personal life[edit]
Family background[edit]
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was born in Valladolid, Castilla y León, to Juan Rodríguez y García-Lozano (born 1928), a lawyer, and María de la Purificación Zapatero y Valero (Valladolid, 1927 – Madrid, 30 October 2000). He grew up in León, where his family originated.[2]
His paternal grandfather, Juan Rodríguez y Lozano (28 July 1893 – Puente Castro, León, 18 August 1936), was a Republican captain, executed by Francisco Franco's National army a month into the Spanish Civil War, for refusing to fight with them.[3] He was betrayed and his whereabouts were revealed by fascists in Valladolid, before Rodriguez Zapatero was born.[4] On the other hand, his maternal grandfather supported the coup d'état of Franco.[citation needed]
His maternal grandfather, Faustino Zapatero y Coronel, was a paediatrician and middle class liberal who died in 1978. His maternal grandmother María de la Natividad Valero y Asensio (Zamora, 9 December 1902 – Valladolid, 28 June 2006) was a right-wing conservative and died at age 103.[5] Zapatero was born in Valladolid not only because of his mother's attachment to her family, who lived there, but also because of the medical profession of her father.
Zapatero has said that, as a youngster, "as I remember it, I used to participate in late night conversations with my father and brother about politics, law or literature". However, he did not get on very well with his father at times. Sources say that his father refused to let him work or take any part in his law firm,[clarification needed] and this scarred him for life.[6] He says that his family taught him to be tolerant, thoughtful, prudent and austere.[7]
The memory of Republican Captain Rodríguez y Lozano was also kept alive by his last will, handwritten 24 hours before facing the firing squad, and which can be considered a final declaration of principles. The will comprised six parts, the first three bestowing his possessions on his heirs; the fourth, in which he asked for a civil burial and, the fifth, in which he requested his family to forgive those who had tried and executed him and proclaiming his belief in the Supreme Being. In the sixth, Zapatero's grandfather asked his family to clear his name in the future as his creed consisted only in his "love for peace, for good and for improving the living conditions of the lower classes".[8]
Zapatero is a supporter of FC Barcelona.[9][10]
Studies and teaching[edit]
He studied Law at the University of León, graduating in 1982. His performance as a student was above average before his pre-University year. According to his brother Juan: "He didn't study much but it made no difference, he continued successfully".[11]
After graduating, Zapatero worked as a teaching assistant in constitutional law at the University of León until 1986 (he continued working some hours a week without pay until 1991). It was subsequently found that he had been appointed by his department without the usual selection process involving interviews and competitive examinations, which if true, constitutes a case of political favouritism.[3] He has declared that the only activity that attracts him besides politics is teaching or, at most, academic research.[12]
Rodríguez Zapatero met Sonsoles Espinosa in León in 1981. They married on 27 January 1990 and have two daughters named Laura (b. 1993) and Alba (b. 1995).
Having received successive deferments because of his conditions as a university student and a teaching assistant, Zapatero did not do the compulsory military service. As an MP he was finally exempted.[13]
Zapatero enters politics[edit]
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Zapatero attended his first political rally, organized by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in Gijón in 1976. Some political parties had been legal since 21 July 1976, but the PSOE was not legalized until February 1977. The speech of Felipe González, the PSOE leader and future Prime Minister of Spain, who took part in the rally, exerted an important influence on Zapatero. He said, among other things, that "the Socialists' goal was the seizure of power by the working class to transform the ownership of the means of production" and that "the PSOE was a revolutionary party but not revolutionarist or aventurist [...], as it defended the use of elections to come to power".[14]
Zapatero and his family had been traditionally attracted to the Communist Party as it was the only party really organized before Francisco Franco's death in 1975.[citation needed] But, after the famous political rally in Gijón, they, and especially Zapatero, started to believe that the Socialist Party was the most probable future for the Spanish left.[15] At that time the Socialist Party was rebuilding its infrastructure in the province of León after having been outlawed following the Spanish Civil War.[16]
In 1977, the year of the first democratic elections after Franco's death, Zapatero supported both the Communist and Socialist parties. He pasted posters of both parties.[15]
He eventually joined the PSOE on 23 February 1979. The impression Felipe González had caused on him in 1976 played a fundamental role in his decision to join the party. In 1979, during the Congreso Extraordinario del PSOE (1979), the PSOE had renounced Marxism as its ideological base. He said nothing about joining the party at home, because he was afraid his parents would discourage him, considering him too young to join a political party.
In 1982, Zapatero became head of the socialist youth organization in the province of León. In July 1982, he met Felipe González at the summer school "Jaime Vera" and suggested that he make a "left turn" in the PSOE political program for the General Election of October 1982.[17] González answered advising him to abandon his conservative [leftist] viewpoint.[citation needed]
In 1986, he was elected to represent the province of León in the Cortes (Parliament), becoming its youngest member after the election held on 20 June. He was number two on the PSOE list for León.[18] In the following elections (those held in 1989, 1993, 1996 and 2000) he was number one on the list. In the elections of 2004 he ran for Madrid as number one.
Zapatero defined himself as a "left-wing conservative" at the time. He explained that he meant that, for sentimental reasons linked to his family, he came from the left that lost the Spanish Civil War and that what had happened between 1936–1939 (the duration of the war) and 1939–1975 (Franco's regime) had a very important significance for him. He further explained that the Spanish left needed to modernize and that "we are finding it difficult to accept the need for the Socialist Party to change many of its ideological parameters and overcome our own conservatism".[19]
In 1988 he became Secretary General in León after a complex internal fight for power that ended a long period of division. In fact, before the provincial conference held that year, Ramón Rubial, then national president of the PSOE, had asked the party in León to foster unity. Zapatero was elected as Secretary General at that conference, leading to a period of stability.[20]
In the 1980s and 1990s, the PSOE consisted of two factions: the Guerristas (supporters of Alfonso Guerra, former vice-president under Felipe González) and the reformers (led by Felipe González). The first group had a stronger left-wing ideology whereas the second was more pragmatic. The division became wider after the General Election of 1993, the last election won by the PSOE before José María Aznar's victory in 1996, when the bad results exacerbated the internal conflicts. Zapatero never formally joined either of those two groups.
In 1993, the Socialist Federation of León (FSL – Federación Socialista de León) suffered an important scandal. Some towns experienced unusually sharp increases in PSOE membership in a very short period of time. When some of the supposed new members were questioned by the press, they stated that they were unaware of their membership and that they did not live in the places where they were being registered by the party. It seems that some opponents of Zapatero in León, perhaps with the support of powerful Guerristas at the top of the Spanish Socialist Party wanted to increase their influence within it by increasing the number of members in the towns of León favorable to them. Their main aim would have been to take control of the Regional Socialist Section of Castilla y León in the conference to be held in 1994. Zapatero's support for the then Regional Secretary General, Jesús Quijano transformed him into the enemy of the Guerristas in the region as the FSL is the most important Provincial Section.[21]
In May 1994 two papers, El País and Diario de León, published several articles that suggested irregularities in his appointment as a teaching assistant by the University of León and in his keeping the job until 1991. The suspicions of political favoritism were due to his having been directly appointed without a prior selection process open to other candidates. On 20 May 1994, he held a press conference where he rejected these accusations. Zapatero attributed to "ignorance" or "bad faith" the content of the articles and linked them to the internal fight for the job of Secretary General of the Regional Chapter.[22]
In 1994, three regional conferences were held: two to elect the representatives of the party in León for the Regional and National Conferences to take place that year, and the 7th Provincial conference where the Secretary General was going to be elected.
Before they began, an agreement between the parties involved was drawn up. The new members who did not confirm they had joined the party voluntarily and who did not live in the areas where they were registered would be expelled from the party. Initially 775, and finally 577, new memberships were canceled out of 1160 suspicious memberships.
When the three conferences were held, the tension was very high and, sometimes it was even necessary to call the police.[23] All of them were finally won by Zapatero or his supporters.
The National Conference (held after most of the representatives elected in the first León Conference were Zapatero's supporters) was won by the reformers, at that time strongly opposed to the Guerristas. That was positive for Zapatero as the list of bogus party members was revised again. Their number grew from 577 to almost 900.[24]
Zapatero was finally reelected secretary general with 68% of the ballots in the 7th Regional Conference held in July 1994, following the removal of the false memberships.[25]
In 1995, new regional and local elections were held. The results were bad for the PSOE in León as they lost four seats in the mayoralty of León and two seats in the regional parliament of Castilla-León. The results were influenced by the bad economic situation and the cases of corruption assailing the party. Zapatero had personally directed the electoral campaign.[26]
In 1996, after the General Election, Zapatero kept his seat at the Congress of Deputies. The following year, Zapatero was again elected Secretary General of León and after the national conference held by the party that year he entered the National Executive (the party's governing body).[27]
The Association of Parliamentary Journalists awarded to Zapatero the "Diputado Revelación" prize (something like Most promising MP of the year) in December 1999 for his activities as a member of the Congress of Deputies. From 1996 until 2000, his most conspicuous contributions as an MP were his vigorous opposition to the electrical protocol proposed by the government (initially negative for the important coal sector of León), being the PSOE spokesman in the Commission of Public Administration[28] and probably his most important success as an MP: the passing of an amendment to the national budget of 2000 in November 1999 that increased the pensions of the non-professional soldiers who fought for the Republic during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939. They were made equal to those of the professional military. The initiative was defended by him in the name of the Parliamentary Socialist Group, proponent of the amendment.[29]
Appointment as Secretary General of the Socialist Party[edit]
On 12 March 2000, the PSOE had lost its second successive election to José María Aznar's People's Party. Zapatero held his seat, but the Socialist Party obtained only 125 seats, 16 fewer than in 1996. The defeat was especially bitter as the People's Party unexpectedly obtained an absolute majority for the first time and the socialist result was worse than in the previous election. Almunia announced his resignation on the very day the General Election took place.
Zapatero decided to run for the leadership of the Socialist Party in its 35th Conference to be held in June that year. Together with other socialist members, he founded a new faction within the party called Nueva Vía (New Way) in April 2000, to serve him as a platform to become Secretary General. The name of Nueva Vía is a mix of Tony Blair's Third Way (tercera vía in Spanish) and Gerhard Schröder's Neue Mitte (new center or nuevo centro in Spanish).[30]
On 25 June 2000 Zapatero officially announced his intention to run for the federal Secretaryship General at an Extraordinary Conference of the Socialist Party of León.[31] In his speech, he stated what can be considered his declaration of principles:[32]
1. To build a society that would accept all foreigners notwithstanding their color or cultural background.
2. To give priority to education and to create good jobs for youngsters.
3. To provide parents with more time to spend with their children and in taking care of their elders.
4. To promote culture and its creators, making it possible for them to grab the spotlight from those aiming only at economic interests.
5. To convert Spain into a country admired for helping those with more needs.
6. To force the government to help those with initiative and enterprising qualities.
7. To foster democracy, to lend distinction to politics and to promote values over temporary interests.
Pasqual Maragall was the only regional leader of the Socialist Party who officially supported him before the Conference was held. José Borrell also decided to support him.[33]
Zapatero ran against three other opponents (José Bono, Rosa Díez and Matilde Fernández).[34] Matilde Fernández was the candidate of the guerristas while José Bono was the candidate of the reformers. Rosa Díez is a Basque politician who was a kind of intermediate option.
Zapatero was a dark horse who had against him his inexperience and in favour his image of reform and being the only MP among the candidates. (All the Spanish opposition leaders had been MPs before winning the elections. A very important factor in Spanish politics where electoral campaigns last for only 15 days and to be widely known long before they begin is essential.) Bono was deeply disliked by the guerristas, who also favoured Zapatero.
Zapatero finally won by a relatively small margin (he obtained 414 votes out of 995 and José Bono obtained 405) on 22 July 2000.[35] The margin was relatively small because Bono had no likelihood of winning since the supporters of the other two candidates preferred Zapatero as their second choice. Zapatero accepted the cancellation of a run-off between himself and Bono because he was sure of his victory after only one ballot and he apparently did not want to humiliate his adversary.
After being elected Secretary General, he was congratulated by Lionel Jospin (then the Prime Minister of France), Gerhard Schröder (Chancellor of Germany) and José María Aznar.[36]
He moved to Madrid with his family that year. As a Congressman he had lived from Monday to Thursday in Madrid and the rest of the time in León.[37]
Opposition leader[edit]
This was the period when Zapatero was appointed as Secretary General of the PSOE in 2000 until he became Prime Minister of Spain on 14 March 2004.
Style of opposition[edit]
Zapatero has always claimed to base his political activity on his love of dialogue. When he was an opposition leader, he liked to contrast his behaviour with the "arrogant", "authoritarian" approach of the People's Party and, especially, that of its leader José María Aznar.
As a result, after being appointed Secretary General, he coined the term Calm Opposition (Oposición Tranquila) to refer to his opposition strategy. The Calm Opposition was supposedly based on an "open to dialogue", "soft", "constructive" attitude (talante constructivo, coined as talante) aimed not at damaging the government but at achieving the "best" for the people. (Zapatero has insisted on this point so many times that the term talante has become very popular in Spain.) Because of this supposed tactic, Zapatero received nicknames like "Bambi" or "Sosoman" (where "Soso"—meaning dull, insipid, bore—replaces "Super" in "Superman"), especially in the first months after being appointed General Secretary.
During Zapatero's years as an opposition leader (and later as Prime Minister), the tension between left-wing and right-wing supporters increased and, according to some opinions, a real radicalization of the society took (and is taking) place[citation needed]. Zapatero's supporters blame his opponents for that and the People's Party blames him stating facts such as the increase in the acts of violence committed against them, especially in the months before and during the war in Iraq.[38] As a result, a new term has become popular: guerracivilismo[39] (made up of a combination of the Spanish for Civil War and the -ismo suffix, equivalent to the English -ism), which would refer to the growing enmity of right and left-wing factions.
2000 and 2001[edit]
Zapatero's criticisms of the government were very active from the beginning, blaming the government for its inability to control the rise in the price of fossil fuel and asking for a reduction in the corresponding taxes.
In 2000, the British nuclear submarine HMS Tireless arrived at Gibraltar harbour to have its nuclear reactor repaired. Aznar affirmed that there was no risk for the population but Zapatero criticized him for his inability to force the British government to take the submarine to another harbour. After almost one year, the Tireless was repaired and left Gibraltar without having caused any known problems.[40][41]
Another point of friction came from the scheme to transfer water from the River Ebro to other areas, especially the irrigated areas in the South East of Spain, one of the richest agricultural regions in the world. The scheme had received support from, among others, 80% of the affected farmers and the Socialist regional governments of regions such as Extremadura, Andalusia or Castilla-La Mancha.[citation needed] Some Socialist politicians also supported it when they were members of the former Socialist government back in the 90s (e.g. José Borrell, the current leader of the European Spanish Socialist Group and former president of the European Parliament.[42] The scheme was mainly opposed by Zapatero, environmentalist groups, the Socialist regional government of Aragon and some of the citizens of the areas from which water was to be transferred. The main criticisms of the scheme were the supposed damage to the environment and an argued real lack of sufficient water for all of the affected parties (the proponents of the scheme answered back that there was no risk of a serious environmental damage and that in 2003, 14 times more water reached the sea than what was needed annually).[citation needed] The scheme, finally approved by the Government, was canceled by Zapatero soon after becoming Prime Minister.
Zapatero was the main proponent of the "Pacto de las Libertades contra el Terrorismo" ("Anti Terrorist Freedom pact) which was signed on 8 December 2000. At first, this pact was disliked and rejected[by whom?] but later was considered a cornerstone of the strategy against Basque terrorism in Spain not only by the Socialist Party but by the People's Party (currently, it is considered broken by the People's Party).[citation needed]
At the end of the year, the Mad Cow disease came back into the spotlight after its outbreak in 1996. Zapatero repeatedly criticized the Government's management of the crisis arguing that it was out of control.[43] As of March 2005, the disease had caused dozens of deaths all over Europe, though none in Spain.[citation needed]
In 2001 one of the biggest points of friction between the government and the opposition were the proposed reforms affecting the education system. The People's Party first introduced the so-called LOU, a law to change the university system, and later the LOCE (Organic Act for Education Quality), which affected secondary education. Zapatero strongly opposed both. The People's Party used its absolute majority in the Cortes to pass its reforms.
A regional election was held in the Basque Country on 13 May 2001. The socialists received 17.8% of the vote (against 17.6% in the previous 1998 elections) but lost one seat. Both, the Socialist Party and the People's Party had formed an alliance against the then ruling nationalist Basque political movements but the latter won again. The results were considered a failure.[44] Nicolás Redondo Terreros, the Basque Socialist leader during the election who was strongly opposed to Basque nationalism and to ETA, resigned after some internal clashes, resigning his seat in the Basque parliament and in the Federal Executive. He was replaced by Patxi López, elected on 24 March 2002.[45] López had actively supported Zapatero during his campaign to become Secretary General. [OCAM p. 257]
On 21 October 2001 a new regional election took place, this time in Galicia. The People's Party, led in Galicia by Manuel Fraga Iribarne, obtained a new absolute majority. The Socialist party increased its number of seats from 15 to 17, but, after several years of opposition the results were also considered bad.[46] These two negative results seemed to confirm that Zapatero's approach was not working.
On 19 December 2001 Zapatero travelled to Morocco, after the Moroccan government expelled the Spanish ambassador sine die. Javier Arenas, then secretary general of the People's Party, accused him of not being loyal to Spanish interests. Zapatero denied it and claimed that one of his purposes was to help solve the crisis.[47]
From 2002 to 2003[edit]
In 2002, Zapatero was chosen as the Socialist candidate for the next general election.
In 2002, the People's Party Government decided to reform the system of unemployment benefits, as it thought that there were too many workers who being able to find a job preferred to continue receiving public money. This led to a redefinition of those who were eligible for unemployment benefits. Left-wing parties and trade unions considered that redefinition an unacceptable reduction of rights. Zapatero became the political leader of the opposition against the reform (dubbed the Decretazo, because it was passed using a decree-law), which served him as his first important clash with Aznar's government.
A General Strike was announced for 20 June 2002 (the first since Aznar won the election in 1996). Although, according to official data (including the electrical power consumption and the number of working days calculated by the Social Security), the turnout was lower than 15%, the lowest since the restoration of democracy, neither the unions nor Zapatero believed the data and considered the strike a resounding success,[citation needed] with more than "10 million" workers having followed the strike. Whatever the result, both the People's Party government and the trade unions signed an agreement that satisfied both parties in November.
In May 2002, Felipe González declared in reference to the change in the Socialist Party that "My state of mind tells me that a change has taken place, that perhaps a second Suresnes[citation needed] has happened, but it has yet to be proved that a new project with content and ideas really exists", thus doubting Zapatero's leadership. That declaration was expressed in a public event also attended by Zapatero, who calmly expressed his disagreement. González ended his intervention by remembering that his candidate for Secretary General was José Bono, not Zapatero. González backtracked the next day, declaring that either his words had been incorrectly construed or he had expressed his ideas erroneously. José Bono himself confirmed his total support for Zapatero.[48] The incident seemed to confirm that Zapatero's strategy was not working.
On 22 October 2002 Zapatero spoke in the name of the Socialist Party during the debate about the National Budget. Initially, Jordi Sevilla was to have been the Socialist spokesman but, at the last moment, he was replaced in a surprise move. When Jordi Sevilla, after being called by the speaker, had already descended to the floor of the Congress of Deputies, Zapatero said to him "let me do it" and climbed to the orator platform. José María Aznar and other members of the People's Party had previously criticized him for not representing his party in the debate, suggesting a lack of the necessary political skills. Although the People's Party considered his action too theatrical, it seems it had quite a positive effect on his supporters.[49]
In November 2002, the oil tanker Prestige suffered an accident in international waters[50] off the coast of Galicia causing a grave oil slick which mainly affected Galicia, but also, to a lesser degree all the northern coast of Spain, and even the coast of France. The Prestige finally split and sank.
Zapatero blamed the Government's handling of the events during and after the accident.[51]
The main point of friction between Aznar and Zapatero, however, was the war in Iraq. Opinion polls showed that a clear majority of Spanish voters (around 90%) were against the U.S.-led attack against Saddam Hussein's regime.[citation needed] Among them, Zapatero who considered any action against Saddam's regime to be illegal and was opposed to the very concept of preemptive war.
On 26 May 2003 a Yakovlev Yak-42 plane carrying Spanish soldiers home from Afghanistan crashed in Turkey. The plane had been hired by an agency of NATO. Zapatero blamed Aznar and his government for neglecting aspects like the plane insurance or safety. Further, Aznar had rejected calls for a full inquiry into the crash.[52] After the 2004 March elections it was proven that there had been serious irregularities in the identification of the corpses resulting in a high number of mistakes.[52][53]
Concerning the European Constitution, Zapatero criticized the People's Party Government for fighting to preserve the distribution of power agreed by the 2001 Treaty of Nice in the new Constitution. Zapatero thought that Spain should accept a lesser share of power.
2003 local elections[edit]
On 25 May 2003, the first local and regional elections since Zapatero's appointment as leader of the Socialist party were held. The Socialist Party received a larger popular vote (which prompted Zapatero to claim his party had been the winner) but the People's Party obtained more posts in councils and regional governments. In general, there were not many changes in the results compared to those of the previous Elections held in 1999. The Socialists lost the Balearic Islands but got enough votes in Madrid to govern through a coalition with the communists of the United Left. The "victory" was welcomed by Zapatero, as the winner in Madrid had always won the next general election. However, an unexpected scandal, the so-called Madrid Assembly Scandal, negatively affected the socialist expectations of a victory in 2004.
After the Madrid election, the People's Party lacked two seats to obtain an absolute majority. This seemed to allow an alliance of Socialists and the United Left to seize power. But an unexpected event happened. Eduardo Tamayo and María Teresa Sáez, two Socialist Assembly Members (AMs) angry at the distribution of power in the future regional government between the United Left and the Socialist Party, started a crisis that led to a re-run of the Election in Madrid in October 2003 with the subsequent victory of the People's Party.
Zapatero did not accept the account of the Socialist AMs and tried to explain it as a conspiratorial plot caused by speculative interests of the house building industry that would have bribed the AMs to prevent a left-wing government.[citation needed] The People's Party, on the other hand, defended the theory that the anger of the two Socialist AMs was caused by Zapatero's broken promise about the referred distribution of power within the Madrid section of the Socialist Party. That promise would have been made some months before the crisis in exchange of support for one of his more immediate collaborators (Trinidad Jiménez), who wanted to become the Socialist candidate for mayor of Madrid (the Spanish capital).
It was known that Eduardo Tamayo had played an active role in Zapatero's appointment as Secretary General of the party (See Zapatero's years as an opposition leader#Appointment as Secretary General), together with José Luis Balbás, the leader of the internal faction to which Eduardo Tamayo belonged, who was also expelled from the party because of the scandal.
Zapatero's team had entered into contact with José Luis Balbás through Enrique Martínez and Jesús Caldera (then Minister of Labor), who already knew him.[54] In April 2000, Zapatero, Caldera and José Blanco had had lunch with Eduardo Tamayo in a restaurant in Madrid. Tamayo would later become a representative of Zapatero in the 35th party national conference. At the end of the month "Renovadores de la Base" (the faction of Tamayo and Balbás) decided to support Zapatero and the later agreed to be part of Zapatero's team.[55] He played an important role during Zapatero's promotion. For example, Balbás together with José Blanco controlled the list of delegates. It was a fundamental job, as the different tasks of promotion needed that list, at least, to contact the delegates for the conference.
This was used by Zapatero's rivals to introduce doubts over Zapatero's leadership of the Socialist Party and over his honesty.[citation needed]
During the Debate over the State of the Nation, an annual debate that takes place in the Spanish Congress of Deputies, Zapatero was harshly criticised by José María Aznar on account of the scandal. For the first time, the opinion polls showed that most Spaniards believed that the then Spanish Prime Minister had been the winner (Zapatero had always been considered the winner since his first debate in 2001).
The scandal was especially damaging for the Socialists because they had to overcome their reputation of being a corrupt party to again become the government of Spain.[citation needed] The two AMs' rebellion seemed to prove they were unable to solve their old problems.
Later, in October, a regional election took place in Catalonia, whose results were worse than expected for the Socialist Party. As most of the Autonomous communities of Spain hold the elections to their assemblies the same day, with the exception of Andalusia, Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque Country, coinciding with the municipal elections all over Spain, the results are hugely significant.
On 16 November 2003, the regional election for the Assembly of Catalonia was held. Two days before, Zapatero had predicted a historic victory for the Socialists' Party of Catalonia and the beginning of the People's Party defeat. The Socialist Party won the election in popular vote but CiU obtained more MPs due to the electoral law. The final results were 46 seats for Convergence and Union (CiU) (ten fewer than in 1999, the year of the previous election), 42 for the Socialist Party (ten fewer), 15 for the People's Party (three more), 9 for Iniciativa per Catalunya-Verds and 23 (nine more) for the Republican Left of Catalonia. Zapatero attributed the bad results to the consequences of the crisis of Madrid. However, Maragall became the President of the Regional Government after a Pact with Republican Left of Catalonia and Iniciativa per Catalunya-Verds.[56]
That alliance resulted in another setback for the Socialist Party when the Spanish newspaper ABC published an article stating that Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira, leader of Republican Left of Catalonia, had met some ETA members secretly in January 2004. According to ABC, Carod-Rovira had promised to provide ETA with political support if the group did not act in Catalonia, which seemed to have been confirmed by the ETA announcement of a truce affecting only that region some months later, before the general election of 2004. Carod-Rovira resigned as vice president of the Catalan government, but continued to be the leader of his party. The scandal damaged Zapatero's image, as ETA and political violence are controversial issues in Spain and Carod-Rovira's party was seen as a possible ally if Zapatero won the election.
At end of 2003 and the beginning of 2004 the Spanish political parties started to prepare themselves for the general election of 2004. All of the opinion polls elaborated at the time foreseen a defeat for Zapatero, as they always predicted a new victory for the People's Party.
The 2004 general election[edit]
Election campaign[edit]
The campaign for the General Election started a fortnight before 14 March 2004. Polls favoured the People's Party, with some polls predicting a possible repeat of their absolute majority.[citation needed]
Previously, on 8 January 2004, Zapatero had created a Committee of Notables composed of 10 highly qualified experts with considerable political weight. Its mission was to help him to become prime minister. Among its members: José Bono (his ex-rival for the Secretaryship of the party and later appointed Minister of Defence), Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra (president of the regional government of Extremadura and one of the most important socialist leaders), Miguel Ángel Moratinos (his minister of foreign affairs 2004–2010), Gregorio Peces-Barba (later appointed by him High Commissioner for the Victims of Terrorism, although he has already made public his resignation), Carmen Calvo (later appointed minister of culture), etc.[57]
Ten days later, on 18 January 2004, Zapatero announced that he would only become prime minister if the Spanish Socialist Workers Party received a plurality, renouncing possible parliamentary alliances in advance if that situation did not happen after the election. Minority parties (especially United Left, a communist party) criticized the decision, for they considered it an attempt to attract their own voters, who would rather ensure a defeat of the People's Party even at the expense of voting for an unfavorable party.[58]
Zapatero's slogan became "we deserve a better Spain", which was coupled with "Zapatero Presidente", or "(ZP)", which became a popular nickname of the then Spanish Prime Minister.
Campaign promises[edit]
• 180,000 new houses every year to buy or to rent
• Preservation of a balanced budget with no deficit but with a more flexible approach than that of the People's Party
• Bilingual education (English and Spanish, together with the official regional language in the areas where it existed)
• A computer for every two students
• A two-year maximum for legal processes or financial compensation
• Further investment in research and development
• Make the state-owned television company more independent from the government by making its director answerable to parliament, etc.[59]).[verification needed]
During the campaign, Zapatero harshly criticized the People's Party for its management of the Prestige crisis, its attitude towards the invasion of Iraq and the high cost of housing. Mariano Rajoy, the new leader of the People's Party after Aznar's voluntary retirement, on his part, attacked Zapatero's foreseeable future alliances with parties like United Left or Republican Left of Catalonia (a pro-Independence Catalan party).
One of the most important points of friction was the absence of televised debates between the candidates. Zapatero was the first to propose a debate to Mariano Rajoy. Rajoy accepted on the condition that Zapatero could not be alone but accompanied at least by two of his potential allies after the election: Gaspar Llamazares (the leader of United Left) and Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira (leader of Republican Left of Catalonia). Rajoy justified his decision on the grounds that, in his opinion, he was not running against the Socialist Party but against a "coalition" of forces opposed to the People's Party's policies. Zapatero never formally responded to this proposal and throughout the campaign he continued criticizing what he always defined as Rajoy's reluctance to defend his political program face-to-face. (Zapatero has promised to change electoral law to make televised debates compulsory.)
Madrid bombings[edit]
On 11 March 2004 the most deadly peacetime attacks in Spanish history took place. Several commuter trains were bombed, causing 191 deaths and outrage all over Spain. The attacks took place three days before the General Election and all electoral activities were suspended. The common sorrow, instead of promoting unity among Spaniards, increased the already bitter tone of the campaign.[60]
The People's Party government and Zapatero (who accused ETA in a radio statement broadcast at 8:50 am), initially claimed the attacks to be the work of ETA, an armed Basque nationalist separatist organization. Later, after an audiotape in Arabic was found in a van near a railway station where the perpetrators boarded one of the trains, Aznar declared that all of the possibilities were being investigated.[61] The government was accused of manipulating information about who was responsible for the attacks to avoid the consequences of public anger at a bombing motivated by its foreign policy – Aznar personally phoned the editors of the four national daily newspapers to tell them that ETA were responsible, whilst Minister of the Interior Ángel Acebes attacked those who believed that responsibility lay elsewhere, despite not offering any evidence for ETA's culpability,[62] and the state broadcaster TVE initially failed to report the protest outside the Popular Party's headquarters which ran through the night before the day of the election.[63]
Zapatero himself has repeatedly accused the Popular Party of lying about those who were responsible for the attacks. On the other hand, the book 11-M. La venganza by Casimiro Abadillo, a Spanish journalist who works for the newspaper El Mundo, claims that, before the General Election, Zapatero had told that newspaper's director, Pedro J. Ramirez, that two suicide bombers had been found among the victims (although the specialists that examined the bodies said they found no such evidence).[64] When he was asked in December 2004 about the issue by the Parliamentary Investigative Committee created to find the truth about the attacks, he declared that he did not remember what he had said.[citation needed]
Election day[edit]
The campaign had ended abruptly two days before it was expected to convene as a result of the bombings. The day before the elections – in this case 13 March 2004 – is considered to be a "Day of Reflection" under Spanish electoral law, with candidates and their parties legally barred from political campaigning. Despite this prohibition, numerous demonstrations took place against the government of José María Aznar in front of the premises of the People's Party all over Spain. There were some claims that most of these demonstrations were instigated or orchestrated by the Socialist Party, through the use of SMS text messaging from mobile phones belonging to the Socialist Party. The Socialist Party publicly denied these accusations.[citation needed]
As the demonstrations escalated, Mariano Rajoy himself appeared on national TV to denounce the illegal demonstrations. In reply, both José Blanco and Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba broke the silence from the Socialist Party's side, in separate appearances. In the end both sides accused each other of breaking the electoral law on reflection day.
In this climate of social unrest and post-attack shock, the elections were held on 14 March 2004. Zapatero's Socialist Party won the elections, with 164 seats in the Cortes, while the People's Party obtained 148. It seems likely that the election result was influenced to a greater or lesser extent by the Spanish public's response to the attacks[65] and the informative coverage by the different media and political parties. He took office on 17 April.
Influence of the attacks on the election outcome[edit]
An important point of controversy is if the purpose of the Madrid attacks were to force a Socialist victory; at issue as well was that, if that was the case, whether they succeeded in altering the final result. This has been called the "4 March theory" (that is, if the election had been scheduled for 7 March, the attacks would have taken place on 4 March) by Aznar, among others. No definitive data exists in favour of that possibility but some facts have been used to support it. Thus, the first question Jamal Zougam (one of the first arrested suspects) made when he arrived at the Courthouse on 15 March 2004 was: 'Who won the election?'.[66]
How the bombing influenced the results is widely debated. The three schools of thought are:
• The attacks themselves might have changed the electoral winner. A sufficient number of voters suddenly decided to vote for the Socialist party because they thought that if it won, Islamist terrorism would be placated.[citation needed]
• The handling of the attacks by the government, rather than the attacks themselves, might have changed the electoral winner. People who had the perception that the information about the attacks was being manipulated decided to vote the Socialist party as a response.[citation needed]
• The attacks might have changed the result but not the winner. The Socialist Party was going to win but with fewer votes. (Despite this claim, most polls before the attacks gave a victory to Mariano Rajoy.)
At least some of these controversies put a blemish on Zapatero's victory, as the shadow of what had happened the three previous days did not allow the Socialist Party to fully enjoy its triumph.[citation needed]
The electoral result was considered by some foreign media,[which?] especially in the US, an example of weakness that would encourage further terrorist attacks,[citation needed] as Zapatero had opposed George W. Bush's policy in the Middle East and had promised to withdraw the Spanish troops from Iraq.
The theory that the bombing affected the result is a counterfactual that cannot be verified. As elections in European states hinge on social and economic policies mainly, it is equally possible the terrorist events had no notable effect. In this regard, a majority of 74%[67] of the Spanish people were against Spanish involvement in the war.
On 13 June 2004 (three months after the General Election) the Election for the European Parliament took place. The Socialist Party tied with 25 seats vs 25 for the People's Party (out of 54), but narrowly won in popular vote. Although José Borrell was the official candidate, Zapatero played an important role in that campaign (as is usual in Spain).
Styles of
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
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Reference style Excelentísimo Señor (Don)
Spoken style Señor Presidente
Alternative style Señor Zapatero, Don José Luis
His style's defining word is (buen) talante, roughly "pleasantness", "niceness" or "good disposition", which is in brisk and carefully chosen contrast with the more confrontational and brusque premiership style of previous Prime Minister José María Aznar. Similarly, Zapatero has been quoted to shy away from adopting unpopular measures, having a "habit of showering public money on any problem" and, in all, being "averse to tough decisions".[68]
Withdrawal from Iraq[edit]
One of the first measures he carried out as soon as he took office was to withdraw every Spanish soldier fighting in Iraq, which he did in less than a month. This drew criticism from the right, who held the view that he was ceding to the pressure of the terrorists who attacked Spain. However, it was a measure announced by him before the general elections and supported by the majority of Spanish population.
Domestic policy[edit]
Much of Zapatero's work has been on social issues, including gender-motivated violence and discrimination,[69] divorce[70] and same-sex marriage.[71] The most recent social issue tackled has been the Dependency Law,[72] a plan to regulate help and resources for people in dire need of them, and who cannot provide for themselves and must rely on others on a daily basis. Zapatero has also made it clear that he values funding of research and development and higher education and believes them to be essential for Spain's economic competitiveness. At the same time, he increased the minimum wage and pursued other socialist policies. Scholarships were made available to all, and young adults received rent subsidies called “emancipation” money. The elderly got stipends for nursing care, mothers got $3,500 for the birth of a child, and toddlers attended free nurseries.[73][74] Legislation against domestic abuse was introduced, together with a law under which people who are dependent (for reasons such as having a disability) are entitled to a state pension. To safeguard dependents, a board was established that estimates for each person based on their disability what they are entitled to, as a right. Equally, people required to stay at home to look after the disabled are entitled to a dependency salary. In regards to migrants, 700,000 were granted amnesty in the first year of the Zapatero Government. Steps were also taken to address the vulnerability of people on temporary work contracts, making it more difficult for employers to fire at will and easier for workers to get mortgages.[75]
Economic problems[edit]
Facing a recession and rising unemployment, ZP pledged to cut government spending by 4.5% and raise taxes, but not income taxes. The Popular Party contends that ZP lacked a coherent economic plan and stated "There is no tax increase capable of filling the hole that you have created,". On 23 June 2008 Zapatero announced 21 reforms designed to aid economic recovery in a speech pointedly avoiding popular terms of the period such as 'crisis'.[76] Although government deficits are projected to increase to 10% of GDP, ZP promises to reduce it to 3% required by EU policy by 2012.[77]
In January 2011 Spain's Unemployment Rate had risen to 20.33% exceeding Prime Minister Zapatero's target rate of 19.4%.[78]
LGBT rights[edit]
The legalization of same-sex marriage in Spain on 1 July 2005 includes adoption rights as well as other rights that were previously only available to heterosexual couples. This caused a stir within the Catholic Church,[79] which opposed the measures and supported a demonstration attended by some 166,000 (according to official figures) and one million people (according to the organisers) in Madrid.[80]
In 2007, Zapatero's government was also responsible for a Gender Identity Law that allows transsexual persons the right to have their identity legally recognised, the criteria being one clinical evaluation and two years of treatment (generally hormone replacement therapy), and without demanding mandatory genital surgery or irreversible sterility. The law is, alongside with the legislation of some US states, one of the most simple and non-bureaucratic that currently exist in the world. Transsexual persons also have the right to marry persons of the opposite or same sex they have transitioned into, and to biologically parent children either before or after transitioning.[citation needed]
Regional territorial tensions[edit]
Zapatero has often declared that his government will not be "soft on terrorism" and will not allow regional nationalists to endanger Spanish unity. Some say[who?] that this comment was probably made for his party alliances with parties like Republican Left of Catalonia.
On 13 November 2003 in a rally in Barcelona during the election campaign that took Pasqual Maragall to power in the Generalitat, Rodríguez Zapatero gave a famous promise to approve the Statute of Catalonia:
I will support the reform of the Statute of Catalonia that the Parliament of Catalonia approves.[81]
In October 2005, a controversial[82] proposal to reform the Catalan statute arrived at the Spanish parliament after being passed in Catalonia. Zapatero, who had often expressed his support for a change of the statute (although he did not entirely support the draft passed by the Catalan Parliament), supported the reform.
Spanish Civil War remnants[edit]
In October 2004 Zapatero's government undertook the task of morally and legally rehabilitating those who were suppressed during and after the Spanish Civil War, by instituting a Memorial Commission chaired by Vice-Prime Minister María Teresa Fernández de la Vega.
On 17 March 2005, Zapatero's government ordered the removal of the last remaining statue of former dictator Francisco Franco that remained in Madrid.[83]
Reform of the education system[edit]
Zapatero along with some of the Government, 2011.
Just after he took office, Zapatero repealed the law reforming the Education System passed by the previous government and, in November 2005, introduced his own reform bill. The bill was opposed by the People's Party, the Catholic Church, the Muslim community, The Catholic Confederation of Parents' Associations and an important part of the educational community, often for disparate reasons. Complaints against the reform include the limits it imposes upon parents' freedom to choose a school, the decrease in academic status of voluntary religious education, the introduction of a compulsory course ("Education for Citizenship") and a perceived ineffectiveness of the reform in terms of combating poor educational results. The last complaint would be reinforced by the opinion that Spain has ranked poorly amongst the developed countries in the quality and results of its education.
After a major demonstration took place against this education reform, the government held a series of meetings with many of the organizations that opposed the reform, reaching agreements with some of them (especially parents' associations and teachers' unions). Some others, most prominently the People's Party and the Catholic Church remain staunchly opposed to it.
ETA declared what it described at the time as a "permanent ceasefire" that began on midnight 23 March 2006.[84] On 5 June 2007 ETA declared this ceasefire over.[85] After the initial ceasefire declaration Zapatero informed the Congress that steps would be taken to negotiate with ETA in order to end its terrorist campaign while denying that there would be any political price paid to put an end to ETA.[86] The PP grew concerned about the possibility of political concessions being made to the group to stop their ways, and actively opposed anything other than the possibility of an organized surrender and dismantling of ETA, refusing to support any kind of negotiation.[87] On 30 December 2006 the ceasefire was broken when a car bomb exploded in Madrid's International Airport, Barajas and ETA claimed authorship. Following this, Zapatero gave orders to halt initiatives leading to negotiations with ETA.[88] Demonstrations across Spain followed the next day, most condemning the attack, others condemning the Government's policies and a minority even questioning the authorship of the Madrid bombings.[89]
A massive rally in Madrid followed on 25 February 2007 promoted by the Victims of Terrorism Association (AVT in Spanish acronym), rejecting what are perceived to be concessions from the government to the separatists.[90]
On 10 March 2007 a new massive rally was held in Madrid gathering -depending on the source's relationships to the government- between 342,000 and over two million people.[91] This demonstration was organized by the opposition party PP and backed by the AVT and several other associations of victims, to not allow Iñaki de Juana Chaos out of prison and accusing Zapatero's government of surrendering to terrorism.[92]
During the meeting of the European Union Justice and Home Affairs Ministers held in Tampere on 22 September 2006, some of the European ministers reprimanded the Spanish authorities for the aforementioned massive regularisation of undocumented immigrants which was regarded as too loose and opposed to the policies of other State members (on 2 September and 3 alone, during the height of the last illegal immigration wave, 2,283 people arrived illegally in the Canary Islands having shipped from Senegal aboard 27 pirogues).[93][94]
Once they reach Spanish territory, the undocumented immigrants can travel freely -for the internal frontiers are basically open within the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom and the Ireland who maintain full border controls); thus, it is not unknown for some of them have other European countries as their final destinations. This started a short lived polemic between France's Nicolas Sarkozy and the Spanish premier Rodríguez Zapatero.[95][96][97]
Areas of foreign policy action[edit]
Gaddafi with Spanish President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero at the third EU-Africa Summit in Tripoli in November 2010.
Before being elected, Zapatero opposed the American policy in regard to Iraq pursued by former Spanish Prime Minister Aznar. During the electoral campaign Zapatero had promised to withdraw the troops if control in Iraq was not passed to the United Nations after 30 June (the ending date of the initial Spanish military agreement with the multinational coalition that had overthrown Saddam Hussein). Zapatero declared that he did not intend to withdraw the Spanish troops before that date after being questioned about the issue by the People's Party's leader Mariano Rajoy in his inauguration parliamentary debate as Prime Minister.
On 19 April 2004 Zapatero announced the withdrawal of the 1,300 Spanish troops in Iraq.[98]
The decision aroused international support worldwide, though the Bush administration claimed that terrorists could perceive it as "a victory obtained due to the 2004 Madrid train bombings". John Kerry, then Democratic party candidate for the U.S. Presidency, asked Zapatero not to withdraw the Spanish soldiers. Some months after withdrawing the troops, the Zapatero government agreed to increase the number of Spanish soldiers in Afghanistan and to send troops to Haiti to show the Spanish Government's willingness to spend resources on international missions approved by the United Nations.
On 8 June 2004, with the withdrawal already complete, Zapatero's government voted in the United Nations Security Council in favour of Resolution 1546 where the following could be read:
"The Security Council, Recognising the importance of international support [...] for the people of Iraq [...], Affirming the importance of international assistance in reconstruction and development of the Iraqi economy [...]
15. Requests Member States and international and regional organizations to contribute assistance to the multinational force, including military forces, as agreed with the Government of Iraq, to help meet the needs of the Iraqi people for security and stability, humanitarian and reconstruction assistance, and to support the efforts of UNAMI;"[99]
Latin America[edit]
An important change in Spanish foreign policy was Zapatero's decision to approach left-wing leaders such as Cuba's Fidel Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chávez. Zapatero played an important role in the improvement of the relationship between the Cuban government and the European Union.
At the end of March 2005, Zapatero travelled to Venezuela to sign a deal to sell military ships and aircraft to Venezuela worth around US$1 billion. The US government attempted to intervene but failed, accusing Venezuela of being a "dangerous country."
After the election of Evo Morales in Bolivia, Spain was one of the countries the new president visited during his first international tour.
At the 2007 Ibero–American Summit, Chávez called Zapatero's predecessor José María Aznar a fascist for allegedly supporting the 2002 coup attempt. Zapatero used his speaking time to defend Aznar, noting that he was "democratically elected by the Spanish people." Chávez kept trying to interrupt Zapatero, even as summit organisers turned off his microphone. King Juan Carlos, who was seated beside Zapatero, attempted to rebuke Chávez, but was stopped by Zapatero who, displaying significant patience, told him to wait a moment. When Chávez continued to interrupt Zapatero, Juan Carlos, in a rare outburst of anger, asked Chávez "¿Por qué no te callas?" (Why don't you shut up?). The king left the hall shortly afterwards when the President of Nicaragua began to criticize the Spanish government as well. Zapatero continued to participate in the negotiations, later delivering, to loud applause, a speech demanding respect for the leaders of other countries.
United States[edit]
The relations between José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and former U.S. president George W. Bush were difficult, mostly as a result of Zapatero's opposition to the war in Iraq.
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero addressing the United Nations General Assembly in 2010.
On 12 October 2003, during the Fiesta Nacional de España military parade held in Madrid, then opposition leader and presidential candidate Zapatero remained seated as a U.S. Marine Corps honour guard carrying the American flag walked past Zapatero and other VIPs. Everybody else stood as with the rest of the foreign guest armies representations.[100] He declared afterwards that his action was a protest against the war and certainly not intended as an insult to the American people.
Later on, during an official visit to Tunisia shortly after Zapatero was elected, he asked all of the countries with troops in Iraq to withdraw their soldiers. This declaration moved Bush to send a letter expressing discontent to the Spanish premier.[citation needed]
American troops were subsequently instructed to not take part during the traditional military parade on the Spanish national holiday in 2004 and in 2005, something which they used to, as both the Spanish and American armies –being NATO allies– are part of joint humanitarian missions; American troops returned to the military parade in 2006; this time Zapatero, being the Spanish premier, stood.[101]
Zapatero publicly stated his support for John Kerry as a candidate running in the U.S. Presidential election in 2004.[102] After the election took place, winner George W. Bush did not return Zapatero's congratulation phone call, though the White House firmly denied that Bush's intention was to snub the Spanish prime minister.[103] Meanwhile Zapatero repeatedly insisted that Spain's relations with the United States were good. In spite of that, Zapatero acknowledged years after that the phone conversation held with President George W. Bush was "unforgettable" and that when told that the Spanish troops were leaving Iraq, the American president had told him "I am very disappointed in you" and that the conversation ended in a "very cold" manner.[104]
Zapatero later told a New York Times reporter off the record that he had a "certain consideration" for Bush, because "I recognise that my electoral success has been influenced by his governing style", i.e., that Bush was so unpopular in Spain that he helped Zapatero win in 2004 and 2008.[104]
In March 2009, Spain announced that it would withdraw its forces from Kosovo. US State Department spokesman Robert Wood issued unusually strong criticism by stating that the United States was "deeply disappointed" by the decision. He said that Washington only learned of the move shortly before Spain announced it publicly. Spanish Defense Minister Carme Chacon made the announcement saying, "The mission has been completed and it is time to return home." Asked if the United States shared that assessment, Wood said, "Not at all."[105] Later on, Vice President Joe Biden stated that the American relationship with Spain goes beyond "whatever disagreement we may have over Kosovo".[106]
Zapatero's predecessor, José María Aznar, defended a strong Atlanticist policy. Zapatero has downplayed that policy in favour of a pan-European one. He has also sponsored the idea of an Alliance of Civilizations which is co-sponsored by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
In the writing of what was to be the European Constitution Zapatero accepted the distribution of power proposed by countries such as Germany and France. After signing the treaty in Rome together with other leaders, he decided to call for a referendum, which was held on 20 February 2005. It was the first referendum on the EU treaty, a fact highly publicized by Zapatero's government. A 'Yes' vote was supported by the Socialist Party and the People's Party and as a result almost 77% voted in favour of the European Constitution, but turnout was around 43%. However, this result came to nothing when a referendum in France voted to reject the European Constitution which meant that the EU could not ratify the treaty because support was not unanimous.
Presidency of the Council of the European Union[edit]
On 1 January 2010, Spain assumed the Presidency of the European Union for the first six months of the 18-month 'Trio' along with Belgium and Hungary. The development of the Stockholm Programme Action Plan, the impulse for the EU adhesion to the European Convention on Human Rights, the setting up of the new plan for effective equality between women and men, and the political decision to promote the European protection order, were all important advances achieved under the Spanish Presidency.
Within days, Spain's web site for its Presidency was defaced by a picture of the main character of a popular television show, Mr. Bean, the supposed lookalike of Zapatero[107] although the XSS attack lasted only several hours.
France and Germany[edit]
On 1 March 2005, Zapatero became the first Spanish prime minister to speak to the French National Assembly. He supported the PS candidate Ségolène Royal during her campaign for the 2007 French presidential election.[108]
Zapatero directly supported the SPD candidate, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, before the German election of 18 September 2005.
While Zapatero complained about Gibraltar's celebrations for the tercentenary of British rule and rejected the Gibraltarians' requests for Spain to recognise their right to self-determination, at the end of 2004 his policy changed and he became the first Spanish prime minister to accept the participation of Gibraltar as a partner on the same level as Spain and the United Kingdom in discussions both countries hold regularly concerning the territory. The decision was criticized by many in Spain as a surrender of their claim to sovereignty over Gibraltar as well as an alleged disruption of the Treaty of Utrecht. Zapatero said it was a new way to solve a 300-year-old issue.
Israel and Palestine[edit]
2008 election[edit]
On 9 March 2008, Zapatero's Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) won the general election with 44% of the votes.[109] Two days earlier, on 7 March, Isaías Carrasco, a PSOE Basque politician was shot dead in what is believed to be an attack by ETA, and which resulted in the agreed canceling of the final days of the campaign.[110][111]
After presidency[edit]
He left the office on 21 December 2011[112] and left the PSOE's Secretary General chair on 4 February 2012 to Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba.[113] On 9 February he entered the Spanish Council of State.[114][115]
On December 11, 2013 in an interview for the Catalan TV channel TV3 he explains how he feels insulted when people calls him "Catalan".[116]
See also[edit]
1. ^ In Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, acento, it is said explicitly that José Luis is pronounced [joseluís], i.e. IPA [xose'lwis] or [xose'lwiz]. The provided audio file confirms this.
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Prunus is a genus of trees and shrubs, which includes the plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and almonds. Around 430 species are spread throughout the northern temperate regions of the globe. Many members of the genus are widely cultivated for fruit and ornament. The fruit from this genus are commonly called the stone fruit.
Members of the genus can be deciduous or evergreen. A few species have spiny stems. The leaves are simple, alternate, usually lanceolate, unlobed, and often with nectaries on the leaf stalk. The flowers are usually white to pink, sometimes red, with five petals and five sepals. There are numerous stamens. Flowers are borne singly, or in umbels of two to six or sometimes more on racemes. The fruit is a fleshy drupe (a "prune") with a single relatively large, hard-coated seed (a "stone").[2]
Within the rose family Rosaceae, it was traditionally placed as a subfamily, the Amygdaloideae (incorrectly "Prunoideae"), but was sometimes placed in its own family, the Prunaceae (or Amygdalaceae). More recently, it has become apparent that Prunus evolved from within a much larger clade now called subfamily Amygdaloideae (incorrectly "Spiraeoideae").[1]
Linnean classification[edit]
In 1737, Linnaeus used four genera to include the species of modern PrunusAmygdalus, Cerasus, Prunus and Padus—but simplified it to Amygdalus and Prunus in 1758.[3] Since then, the various genera of Linnaeus and others have become subgenera and sections, as it is clearer that all the species are more closely related. Liberty Hyde Bailey says:[4]
Modern classification[edit]
A recent DNA study of 48 species concluded that Prunus is monophyletic and is descended from some Eurasian ancestor.[5]
Historical treatments break the genus into several different genera, but this segregation is not currently widely recognised other than at the subgeneric rank. ITIS recognises just the single genus Prunus, with an open list of species,[6] all of which are shown below, under "Species".[7]
One standard modern treatment of the subgenera derives from the work of Alfred Rehder in 1940. Rehder hypothesized five subgenera: Amygdalus, Prunus, Cerasus, Padus and Laurocerasus.[8] To them C. Ingram added Lithocerasus.[9] The six subgenera are described as follows:
• Prunus subgenera:
• Subgenus Amygdalus, almonds and peaches: axillary buds in threes (vegetative bud central, two flower buds to sides); flowers in early spring, sessile or nearly so, not on leafed shoots; fruit with a groove along one side; stone deeply grooved; type species: Prunus dulcis (almond).
• Subgenus Prunus, plums and apricots: axillary buds solitary; flowers in early spring stalked, not on leafed shoots; fruit with a groove along one side, stone rough; type species: Prunus domestica (plum)
• Subgenus Cerasus, cherries: axillary buds single; flowers in early spring in corymbs, long-stalked, not on leafed shoots; fruit not grooved, stone smooth; type species: Prunus cerasus (sour cherry)
• Subgenus Lithocerasus: axillary buds in threes; flowers in early spring in corymbs, long-stalked, not on leafed shoots; fruit not grooved, stone smooth; type species: Prunus pumila (sand cherry)
• Subgenus Padus, bird cherries: axillary buds single; flowers in late spring in racemes on leafy shoots, short-stalked; fruit not grooved, stone smooth; type species: Prunus padus (European bird cherry)
• Subgenus Laurocerasus, cherry-laurels: mostly evergreen (all the other subgenera are deciduous); axillary buds single; flowers in early spring in racemes, not on leafed shoots, short-stalked; fruit not grooved, stone smooth; type species: Prunus laurocerasus (European cherry-laurel)
Another recent DNA study[8] found that there are two clades: Prunus-Maddenia, with Maddenia basal within Prunus, and Exochorda-Oemleria-Prinsepia, but further refinement[1] shows that Exochorda-Oemleria-Prinsepia is somewhat separate from Prunus-Maddenia-Pygeum, and that, like the traditional subfamily Maloideae with apple-like fruits, all of these genera appear to be best considered within the expanded subfamily Amygdaloideae. Prunus can be divided into two clades: Amygdalus-Prunus and Cerasus-Laurocerasus-Padus. Yet another study adds Emplectocladus as a subgenus to the former.[10]
Japanese cherry (Prunus serrulata) in bloom
The genus Prunus includes the almond, apricot, cherry, peach and plum, all of which have cultivars developed for commercial fruit and nut production. The edible part of the almond is the seed; the almond fruit is a drupe, not a true nut. Many other species are occasionally cultivated or used for their seed and fruit.
Flowering cherries[edit]
A number of species, hybrids, and cultivars are also grown as ornamental plants, usually for their profusion of flowers, sometimes for ornamental foliage and shape, and occasionally for their bark. These ornamentals include the group that may be collectively called "flowering cherries" (including sakura, the Japanese flowering cherries).
The following hybrid cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. All are described as flowering cherries, and are valued for their spring blossom.
Other uses[edit]
Species such as blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), are grown for hedging, game cover, and other utilitarian purposes.
The wood of some species (notably cherry) is a specialised timber.
Many species produce an aromatic resin from wounds in the trunk; this is sometimes used medicinally. Other minor uses include dye production.
Many species are cyanogenic; that is, they contain compounds called cyanogenic glucosides, notably amygdalin, which, on hydrolysis, yield hydrogen cyanide.[22] Although the fruits of some may be edible by humans and livestock (in addition to the ubiquitous fructivory of birds), seeds, leaves and other parts may be toxic, some highly so.[23] The plants contain no more than trace amounts of hydrogen cyanide, but on decomposition after crushing and exposure to air or on digestion, poisonous amounts may be generated. The trace amounts may give a characteristic taste ("bitter almond") with increasing bitterness in larger quantities, less tolerable to people than to birds, which habitually feed on specific fruits.
Pests and diseases[edit]
Cherries are prone to gummosis.
Various Prunus species are winter hosts of the Damson-hop aphid, Phorodon humuli, which is destructive to hops Humulus lupulus just at the time of their maturity,[24] so it is recommended that plum trees not be grown in the vicinity of hop fields.
Corking is a nutritional disorder in stone fruit caused by a lack of boron and/or calcium.[25][clarification needed]
The lists below are incomplete, but include most of the better-known species.
Eastern Hemisphere[edit]
Western Hemisphere[edit]
Palaeobotanical models[edit]
The development sequence of a nectarine (Prunus persica) over a 7.5 month period, from bud formation in early winter to fruit ripening in midsummer
The earliest known fossil Prunus specimens are wood, drupe and seed and a leaf from the middle Eocene of the Princeton Chert of British Columbia.[26] Using the known age as calibration data, recent research by Oh and Potter[27] reconstructs a partial phylogeny of some Rosaceae from a number of nucleotide sequences. According to this study, Prunus and its "sister clade" Maloideae (apple subfamily) diverged at 44.3 mya (or 43 million years ago, well before most of the primates existed). This date is within the Lutetian, or older middle Eocene.[28] Stokey and Wehr report:[26] "The Eocene was a time of rapid evolution and diversification in Angiosperm families such as the Rosaceae ...."
The Princeton finds are among a large number of angiosperm fossils from the Okanagan Highlands dating to the late early and middle Eocene. Crataegus is found at three locations: Mcabee, Republic and Princeton, while Prunus is found at those locations and Quilchena and Chuchua. A recent recapitulation of research on the topic[29] reported that the Rosaceae were more diverse at higher altitudes. The Okanagan formations date to as early as 52 mya, but the 44.3 mya date, which is approximate, depending on assumptions, might still apply. The authors state: "... the McAbee flora records a diverse early middle Eocene angiosperm-dominated forest."[30]
The Online Etymology Dictionary presents the customary derivations of plum[31] and prune[32] from Latin prūnum,[33] the plum fruit. The tree is prūnus;[34] and Pliny uses prūnus silvestris to mean the blackthorn. The word is not native Latin, but is a loan from Greek προῦνον (prounon), which is a variant of προῦμνον (proumnon),[35] origin unknown. The tree is προύμνη (proumnē).[36] Most dictionaries follow Hoffman, Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Griechischen, in making some form of the word a loan from a pre-Greek language of Asia Minor, related to Phrygian.
The first use of Prunus as a genus name was by Linnaeus in Hortus Cliffortianus of 1737, which went on to become Species Plantarum. In that work,[dubious ] Linnaeus attributes the word to "Varr.", who it is assumed must be[who?] Marcus Terentius Varro.
1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Potter, D.; Eriksson, T.; Evans, R.C.; Oh, S.; Smedmark, J.E.E.; Morgan, D.R.; Kerr, M.; Robertson, K.R.; Arsenault, M.; Dickinson, T.A.; Campbell, C.S. (2007). "Phylogeny and classification of Rosaceae". Plant Systematics and Evolution 266 (1–2): 5–43. doi:10.1007/s00606-007-0539-9. [Referring to the subfamily by the name "Spiraeoideae"]
2. ^ European Garden Flora; vol. 4
3. ^ Linnaeus Carolus; Sprengel, Curtius (editor) (1830). Genera Plantarum Editio Nona (Genera plantarum, ninth edition). Gottingen: Dieterich page 402 for Amygdalus, page 403 for Prunus.
4. ^ Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1898). Sketch of the Evolution of Our Native Fruits. New York: The MacMillan Company. p. 181.
5. ^ Bortiri, Esteban; and others, E.; Oh, S. H.; Jiang, J.; Baggett, S.; Granger, A.; Weeks, C.; Buckingham, M.; Potter, D. et al. (2001). "Phylogeny and Systematics of Prunus (Rosaceae) as Determined by Sequence Analysis of ITS and the Chloroplast trnL-trnF Spacer DNA". Systematic Botany 26 (4): 797–807. JSTOR 3093861 . Abstract and first page for free.
6. ^ Do a search in the ITIS database on the scientific name Prunus for its current list.
7. ^ Other established species appear as well, which for whatever reasons are not yet in ITIS.
8. ^ a b Lee, Sangtae; Wen, Jun (2001). "A phylogenetic analysis of Prunus and the Amygdaloideae (Rosaceae) using ITS sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA". American Journal of Botany 88 (1): 150–160. doi:10.2307/2657135. JSTOR 2657135. PMID 11159135.
9. ^ Okie, William (July 2003). "Stone Fruits". Encyclopedia of Fruits and Nuts.
10. ^ Bortiri, Esteban; Oh, Sang-Hun; Gao, Fang-You; Potter, Dan (2002). "The phylogenetic utility of nucleotide sequences of sorbitol 6-phosphate dehydrogenase in Prunus (Rosaceae)" (PDF). American Journal of Botany 89 (11): 1697–1708. doi:10.3732/ajb.89.10.1697. The specification is Emplectocladus (Torr.) Sargent
11. ^ "RHS Plant Selector - Prunus 'Accolade'". Retrieved 29 May 2013.
12. ^ "RHS Plant Selector - Prunus 'Amanogawa'". Retrieved 29 May 2013.
13. ^ "RHS Plant Selector - Prunus 'Ichyo'". Retrieved 29 May 2013.
14. ^ "RHS Plant Selector - Prunus 'Kanzan'". Retrieved 29 May 2013.
15. ^ "RHS Plant Selector - Prunus 'Pandora'". Retrieved 29 May 2013.
16. ^ "RHS Plant Selector - Prunus 'Pink Perfection'". Retrieved 29 May 2013.
17. ^ "RHS Plant Selector - Prunus 'Shirofugen'". Retrieved 29 May 2013.
18. ^ "RHS Plant Selector - Prunus 'Shirotae'". Retrieved 29 May 2013.
19. ^ "RHS Plant Selector - Prunus 'Shogetsu'". Retrieved 29 May 2013.
20. ^ "RHS Plant Selector - Prunus 'Spire'". Retrieved 29 May 2013.
21. ^ "RHS Plant Selector - Prunus 'Ukon'". Retrieved 29 May 2013.
22. ^ Armstrong, E. Frankland (1913). "Glucosides". In Davis, W.A.; Sadtler, Samuel S. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis, etc. (Fourth ed.). Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co. p. 102. "Amygdalin ... is found in bitter almonds and in the kernels of peaches, cherries, plums, apples, etc. It is hydrolysed by emulsin to hydrogen cyanide, usually in their leaves and seeds"
23. ^ Cook, Laurence Martin; Callow, Robert S. (1999). Genetic and evolutionary diversity: the sport of nature (2nd ed.). Cheltenham: Stanley Thornes. p. 135.
24. ^ Rothamstead Insect Survey, Rothamstead Research (undated). "Damson-hop aphid, Phorodon humuli".
25. ^ Day, Kevin (1999-01-27). "Peach and Nectarine Cork Spot:A Review of the 1998 Season". University of California, Davis. Retrieved 2010-04-01.
26. ^ a b Stockey & Wehr, pp 234, 241, 245.
27. ^ Oh, Sang-Hun; Potter, Daniel (2005). "Molecular phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of tribe Neillieae (Rosaceae) using DNA sequences of cpDNA, rDNA, and LEAFY1". American Journal of Botany 92 (1): 179–192. doi:10.3732/ajb.92.1.179. PMID 21652396.
28. ^ A date of 76 mya is given for Rosaceae, which is within the late Cretaceous.
29. ^ Dillhoff & Leopold (2005), pp 151–166
30. ^ Dillhoff & Leopold (2005), p 165.
31. ^ "plum". Online Etymological Dictionary.
32. ^ "prune". Online Etymological Dictionary.
33. ^ "prūnum". Lewis's Elementary Latin Dictionary. Perseus Digital Library. 1890.
34. ^ "prūnus". Lewis's Elementary Latin Dictionary. Perseus Digital Library. 1890.
35. ^ "προῦμνον". Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon. Perseus Digital Library.
36. ^ "προύμνη". Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon. Perseus Digital Library.
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Note from the author:
This SWOT Analysis was produced not only to translate the reality of the Fedora Project through my eyes, but also to highlight some methodology that can be useful in the future for anyone willing to give continuity to this work. A SWOT is a tool used by Marketing Management to provide a self assessment of a project or venture and help to provide a good strategy for it. I believe it is an important tool and I will try my best to make it simple and easy to understand. I'm placing my efforts to translate the Fedora Project reality according to my own conceptions and knowledge about it. I understand the 'community' factor involved, but see it this way: if Fedora Project hired an independent consultant to perform this work, it would also translate their view, not YOURS or the Community or Fedora.
The subject of this document is the Fedora Project as a community that produces a product known as Fedora Linux, one of the most known Linux distributions available for several audiences, from Linux enthusiasts to Software Engineering Professionals, from students to power productivity users, and everyone else who wants to give it a go as an alternative to proprietary software available from several companies.
This document is composed of the following sections:
• Introduction - A small introduction to the document and the topics to that compose the same.
• Internal Environment Analysis - An analysis to the Internal Environment of the Fedora Project which consists on highlighting and understanding a set of key factors that can be fully controllable by the Fedora Project and that will qualify as Weaknesses and Strengths. This factors are to be selected as a self-assessment of the project and will be evaluated under a methodology explained later.
• External Analysis - An analysis of the External Environment of the Fedora Project which will provide a set of key factors, those that can not be in any way controlled by the Fedora Project and that might act as Opportunities or Threats to the project. They will be evaluated under four factors (Economy, Social/Demographic, Politic/Legal and Technological) that will be introduced later on.
• Analysis and Proposals for Action - The last part of the document will be an analysis from the SWOT itself (including Matrix) with a set of proposals for action to correct the possible points that might require immediate action from the Fedora Project.
• Critical Factors for Success & Critical Comparative Analysis - This points might not qualify for a typical SWOT Analysis, but they are of relevance and they should be present in this case, therefore I've taken the liberty of introducing them on this document.
SWOT Analysis
A SWOT Analysis is often divided in two different analysis, both very important for the strategical planning.
Julius Caesar
• External Environment - This will define the Threats and Opportunities of the Project and none of this factors can be controlled by the management, or in this case the Fedora Project. The External Environment is based on the following factors:
• Demographic/Social Factors - An analysis based on social and demographic factors. Given the nature of the Fedora Project it is also important to look at geographical data.
• Technological Factors - The technological factors in the Industry.
• Politic/Legal Factors - Legal and Politic factors. Factors like licensing and legislation are contemplated here.
• Economical Factors - The economical factors.
• Internal Environment - The internal environment provides the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Fedora Project. All this factors can be controlled by the Fedora Project and they are being evaluated according to:
• Men - Defines factors related to manpower, this includes contributors, enthusiasts, audience that is involved with Fedora, payed contributors and sponsorship in operational fields.
• Measures - The course of action taken to achieve the goals proposed, highly theoretical.
• Means - The operational field that implements measures on the operational theatre.
• Machines - The intellectual capital and physical support used to produce Fedora Linux, including infra-structure which is shared with other points.
• Methods - The methods used to weight measures and means.
The SWOT Analysis should provide information helpful in evaluating the Project's resources and capabilities to the competitive environment in which it operates. This is a instrumental resource in strategy formulation and selection.
Internal Environment
• Quality and Management
• Performance / Performance Improvements
• Technology
• There is a product called Fedora Linux;
Men; manpower related (no gender discrimination). This are The Fedora Project strong factors when it comes to manpower.
Payed/Sponsored Contributors/Contributions
Red Hat Inc., the main sponsor of The Fedora Project allocates resources to the Fedora Project from their own staff. This is a very positive factor for the Fedora Project as it can deploy in the industry new technology which otherwise would be harder to achieve. The symbiotic relation between Red Hat Inc. and the Fedora Project is one of the factors which strongly contribute to the First Foundation of the Fedora Project. It is also important to mention that most projects that are represented on Fedora Linux also might have contributions that share this charactristic (ex: linux kernel, GNOME, KDE). This contributions are important to the current status of many FOSS projects, including Fedora, and represent a strength within the Project Fedora, specially the contributions sponsored by Red Hat.
Volunteer Contributors
The Fedora Project has thousands of volunteer contributors working in several tasks. Everyday thousands of people contribute actively for several sub-projects of Fedora with thousands of hours of dedicated work to make Fedora Linux happen and keep the community growing. Many sub-projects are daily maintained by this people. This is the real muscle of the Fedora Project and the real life force behind it, the Fedora's contributors.
The Bazaar Model
Robyn Bergeron introduced me once with The Cathedral and the Bazaar. The model described in the Bazaar is outstanding. The proof that the most sceptic would require are long given. In a matter of manpower this model provides an outstanding solution to fast and feature rich development. This is without doubt the element that solved the manpower problem for many applications, and still does. We should not underestimate the Cathedral building. The Fedora Project Marketing Plan also mentions something interesting: general productivity user. This productivity user is usually something hard to decode. If this user is not computer friendly or Linux enthusiast the Bazaar Model sometimes might fail. A lot is around this "general productivity user" which at some point might be complicated for the Bazaar Model to handle.
Marketing Team
Marketing Team
The Fedora Project Marketing Team is responsible for many positive sinergies around the Fedora Project, namely on the Promotion (see [ Promotion - Marketing Mix) of the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project Marketing Team also has a very special strategical position working many times as a bridge between different teams and placing a special efforts on Ambassadorial Campaigns and Events.
Translation/Localization Teams
The L10N Project is responsible for translation and localization of Fedora Linux and Fedora Infra-Structure for at least 40 different languages worldwide. The contributions on this area are a Critical Factor for Success, and despite many times the work from this contributors remains un-noticed by the wider audiences, they provide one of the most important strategical factors for user base increase and market penetration.
Design/Artwork Teams
Design Team
Engineering Teams
Fedora Ambassadors
The Ambassadors initiative aims to deploy first line Public Relations and promote the Fedora Project amongst it's established and potential audiences. It is unclear how goals are defined and evaluated from my perspective as they seem to operate in a very closed group on a fully armoured structure. The work developed by Ambassadors in many fields, specially on event production and promotion is to be pointed as a strength and a critical factor for success (discussed on Critical Factors for Success more in-depth).
Events (FAD's, FUDCon's, etc)
The ammount of events where the fedoraproject itself or Individuals are present.
Free Media Program
Public Mirror System
Machines; These should be faced as every tool used to produce something in the Fedora Project.
My approach to sponsorship is generic, it is widely known that Red Hat Inc. is the official sponsor of the Fedora Project. But in the scope of this SWOT Analysis I would like also to keep an importance on the following:
• Red Hat Inc; The main sponsor of the Fedora Project and Industry leader. This creates very good synergies and energies on the Fedora Community. Considering symbiotic bond between Red Hat and the Fedora Project it is realistic to say that Fedora Linux has high notoriety and recognized value by the target audiences (defined in the Marketing Plan).
• Hosting sponsors; This sponsorship is important not only for the Community Infra-Structure but also for the free circulation of contents throughout several communities and FOSS projects. I would also like to mention that official Fedora Mirrors should also be contemplated as hosting sponsors. All together they deploy not only the Fedora Community infra-structure but also enable a powerful distribution channel for Fedora Linux.
• Mirrors: To all the local and international mirrors which allow such a great distribution channel.
• Human; Every single person that donates a part of their personal time to the Fedora Project.
It is through a wide set of sponsorships measurable in value and volume that the Fedora Project strives for providing a technological leading Linux distribution. Through this sponsorships I believe that most people will find the two human pillars of Fedora, Freedom and Friends.
The Fedora Project provides a large infrastructure to support it's community, which can actually be measured in value and volume. If we take into consideration the following:
• Community: The infrastruture oriented for the community. This includes example like Planet, wiki, IRC, logistics, etc.
• Fedora Project - FAS, Transifex, git, etc. All the technological platforms that are online with the goal of producing Fedora Linux.
LimeSurvey Platform
Lack of Contributors
Critical Factors for Success
User Base
• Voluntary Linux Consumer - Though the Fedora Project defines clear positioning and diferentiation, this might not be clear to all users specially because the promotion lacks of many details regarding about this. To successfully increase penetration rates amongst this users it is imperative that positioning and diferentiation is a part of the message, this can be done through comparative advertisement or using a more subtile approach. Though the Fedora Foundations provide good information regarding positioning and diferentiation (and considering that Fedora Linux inherits the notoriety of Red Hat as a part of it own), First and Features might not be enough to translate the correct message about it's positioning and diferentiation.
On one of my first approaches to the Fedora Project, I was told that other FOSS communities like openSuSE and Ubuntu were 'friends' sharing work for the same goal, FOSS. It is unclear to me on how to perform this goal without facing other distributions as competitors. This is a reachonable goal, but this specific segment demands Fedora Linux to engage other distributions as competitors and 'battle' for this so called Voluntary Linux Consumer.
This topic, the future user base displays 4 segments of Community that are deeply inter-connected between themselfs, and in most cases can through one you can fulfil others. From the strategical point of view this segments are so close to each other in some cases that merging them into one could actually provide a better effort to rally methods and means to successfully hit that audience with the correct promotion.
Value Perception by the User
Brand Notoriety
The Fedora Project inherits much of the notoriety of it's sponsor Red Hat Inc., and it's generally faced with confort from the audiences it targets. The reputation of Fedora Linux and Fedora Project amongst their user base can be generally understood as a excellent.
for the future...
Channels of Distribution
For any organization to deploy it's products successfully it requires good channels of distribution. In this field the Fedora Project's efforts have been worderfull and everything just works, on either providing software DVD/CD ISO's and also as deploying improvements and software updates.
• Online Software Repositories >
• (RPMFusion >) // not directly a Fedora Project, but indiretly
• Public Mirrors Network >
• Free Media Program >
• P2P Networks > //not influenced by Fedoraproject
• User Sharing >
• Other (e.g., etc.) >
Cultural Emphasis
External Analysis
Political/Legal Factors
Availability of Legal Department
Exportation Laws
General Public Licence
Free Software Foundation
Creative Commons
Socio-Demographical Factors
Alphabetism Rates
Internet Penetration Rates
Economical Factors
Red Hat Inc.
Product Available for Free
Channels of Distribution =
Technological Factors
Interaction with other FOSS Communities
Patent Free Software
Industry Standards
Interaction with Hardware Manufacturers
Interaction with Industry Leaders
Political/Legal Factors
Exportation Laws
Socio-Demographical Factors
Lack of Information
User Base increase by competitors
Economical Factors
Red Hat Inc.
Technological Factors
Educational Models
Competitor Movements
Interaction with Hardware Manufacturers
Comparative Analysis
Fedora and Ubuntu
Fedora and openSuSE
Fedora and Debian
Fedora and Slackware
Fedora and Arch Linux
Analysis and Proposals for Action
Marketing Mix
For this document we will use the "4 Ps" methodology for the Marketing Mix analysis. Currently new theories have developed new methodologies in this field that can push the original "4 Ps" up to 11 Ps and in one particular to 15 Ps. I am not aware on the current Academy decisions on this field, so I'm going to use the very basic approach of the 4Ps.
Fedora Linux
Internet/Local Resellers
Analysis on Fedora's Marketing Mix
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When I host the game my friend can't connect to me.
Our IP addresses are and
When I run second instance of Game.exe I can connect myself without any issues.
Both computers has Windows 7.
I tried to find some information on Google to configure Windows. There was advice to remove IPv6 protocol, but it doesn't help.
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Are you on the same local network? – ver Jan 15 '12 at 12:29
Yes, and I have similar trouble with Warcraft3 – Vyacheslav Loginov Jan 15 '12 at 14:07
turn off your firewall? – z - Jan 15 '12 at 14:11
Can the two computers communicate over tcp/ip at all? Can you successfully excute ping commands from each of them to the respective other? – Juergen Hartelt Jan 15 '12 at 14:17
yes, ping works – Vyacheslav Loginov Jan 17 '12 at 17:58
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Since the two computers are on the same local network, as you confirmed, it might be an issue of either network configuration in general or firewall configuration on at least one of the machines.
There is a support article on Battle Net about neccessary tcp and udp ports for Diablo2. I suggest to look it through, but the core info is:
Diablo II/Lord of Destruction: TCP Port 6112 and Port 4000.
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While, for security reasons, I wouldn't recommend disabling your Windows Firewall completely, it might help in diagnosing the issue. This article will help you disable it and in either event enable it again. It's also possible either an intermediate router or an additional piece of virus scanning software may be imposing yet another firewall.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14922 | Blogger Walks in on Massive, Hapless Tech ConspiracyS
The secret venture capital cabal Mike Arrington faced off against in San Francisco bar last night might be in serious trouble. But the conspiracy's hapless incompetence is actually rather comical.
Arrington dropped a bombshell of a post on TechCrunch late Tuesday, saying he walked in on a hush hush meeting of angel investors who together fund "nearly 100% of early stage startup deals in Silicon Valley." The group, he believes, may be guilty of collusion and price fixing; several members told Arrington the cabal discusses how to hold down the valuations members assign to early stage companies; how to block venture capitalist from investing in companies that outgrow the cabal; and how to undermine the successful startup incubator Y Combinator, which invests very small amounts in ideas too underdeveloped for angel funding.
Arrington, a former lawyer at the high powered Silicon Valley firm Wilson Sonsini, adds:
This isn't minor league stuff. We're talking about federal crimes and civil prosecutions if in fact that's what they're doing. I had a quick call with an attorney this morning, and he confirmed that these types of meetings are exactly what these [collusion and price fixing] laws were designed to prevent.
That's very somber. Sadly, it's hard to get too worried about these guys given their total inability to keep their big secret conspiracy at all under wraps. Not only did someone privy to the scheme leak the exact location of the group meeting, a public wine bar (!) and restaurant, to the publisher of TechCrunch, but several members of the cabal dished the group's darkest "secrets" to Arrington after the conspiracy meeting took place.
Blogger Walks in on Massive, Hapless Tech Conspiracy
And when Arrington crashed the meeting, did the conspiracy play it cool? Not by a mile:
Me: Hey!
Person who was talking: Oh, oh no.
Them: dead silence.
Me: so….
Them: Deafening silence.
But the cabal's most comical trait has to be its policy on taking notes. It seems notes are very much encouraged — so much so, one participant tells Arrington, that "there is a wiki of some sort that the group has that explicitly talks about how the group should act as one to keep deal valuations down."
A wiki. For the conspiracy.
Oh, San Francisco. You do not wear dark, evil plots well. Although there is a certain comedy value in your diligent application of open information-sharing systems to shadowy conspiracies. If you know anything about this Wiki of Secretly Taking Over the World, do clue us in. We're already chuckling.
[Pics: Arrington by Erik Solheim/Flickr; Bin 38 via] |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14925 | Cellphone Bacteria Warning: Not for the Squeamish
Okay, now that you're done with lunch it's time to gross you out. A UK newspaper reminds us that cellphones are just downright disgusting, and are even dirtier than toilets. That's because they're exposed to much more bodily bacteria than any toilet seat. A combination of being near your mouth with all that spit and stuff, and those cellphone electronics keeping the bacteria warm all day turns that handset into a teeming metropolis of creepy-crawley microbes, including such delectables as Staphylococcus aureus, the bacteria responsible for pimples, boils, pneumonia and meningitis.
Just keep in mind that there are literally billions of bacteria, virii, and other various insects and arachnids crawling all over your body right now. Reminds us of the Penn & Teller Bullshit episode where they took bacterial cultures from people's faces, hands and butts, and guess which was cleaner?
If you guessed butts, you're right, they were cleaner than faces and especially hands, the most bacteria-laden part of the body. Now forget all you just read and go on about your business. Have a nice day.
Wash your hands, caller [The Daily Mail, via personaltechpipeline] |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14926 | Palm's Pixi Up Close: A GalleryS
The Palm Pixi's oddly hard-bodied for a phone that's otherwise appropriately named. Even the matte rubber back feels stiff, and unforgiving. But the keyboard reminds me of Rice Krispies. In a good way.
When you stroke the gesture area between the screen and the keyboard, the glowing indicator stares out of the center like the eye of Gort, except bad things don't happen when it lights up. I kind of want to throw it at something, simply because it feels like it can take it. I won't. We'll have more later, of course, but for now, here's some photos.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14954 | by Beauford2013 - 7/14/13 8:06 AM
In Reply to: Audio Originates From Box by sunwatcher
I think you may have been on to something with the Rogers box, I went back through the settings and came across something called "Range", which I had seen before but really didn't know what it was. So for the hell of it I changed it, there were 3 options - normal, wide, and narrow. I changed it to narrow (it was on wide). That seems to have increased the volume by double.
Thanks for your help, sometimes just going through some options gets to the root of things. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14977 | This week on the io9 show, we ask why it is that NASA can put a robot on Mars, but Hollywood can't make any realistic movies about the red planet. We examine the worst Mars movies ever, and special guest Phil Plait (the good astronomer behind the Bad Astronomy blog) helps us figure out how realistic they are. Actually, you might be surprised what gets high marks for realism and what doesn't.
Be sure to catch more episodes of the io9 show on our YouTube page! |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14982 | IT Answers » Transfer Data To iSeries Sun, 16 Mar 2014 04:09:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 transfer problem on iseries Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:50:44 +0000 2 Client Access file transfer TO AS/400 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:40:45 +0000 Hi Gang, I have and end user who indicates nothing has changed…famous last words. A file transfer was set up by a former IT person on the endusers PC That transfered a TXT file from her PC to the aAS400 but now when she tries to transfer the data to the iseries….she is getting CWBTF0023(???) I normally set up transfers from Iseries to the PC…but I have not set up a transfer to iseries. If this has worked but now it does not….can anyone give me some ideas as to what and how to troubleshoot this issue? I appreaciate any and all suggestions.
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Upload Spreadsheet to AS400 using Excel addin – creates graphic fields for alpha fields Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:21:57 +0000 I am using the Excel addin to transfer excel files to our AS400. The file does not exist on the AS400 and when the transfer runs, the field created for the alpha fields is ‘Graphic’ when I display the file field definitions. I cannot read these fields in my RPG program – they are only text data. What do I have to do to get the fields defined as regular alpha fields.
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Data transfer .XLS to iSeries Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:30:23 +0000 It’s worked the last 4 tries (tho had to tweak each time), but now I just get basically one long field coming in. The comma delimitors are treated as just another character byte. While setting up a “power user” to take over this function (so no .fdf or other residuals from prior successful uploads), I took the steps …
(A) Transfer (via Client Access) from iSeries to PC to create the .fdf (tried as .csv and as “no subscript” for PC target filename) (B) Save the desired spreadsheet as a .csv (C) Run transfer to iSeries using this .fdf and opting to replace the existing physical file member (all fields are character).
Result was the proper record count, but not delimited.
Any ideas on what I might be missing ? Alternate schemes ?
I did try using the .xls and also Excel add-ins (seems to not translate the character data this way). Tried creating new iSeries file (no better). The A, B, C steps seem like the best option, but …
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File Transfer to iSeries from Excel 2007 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:23:26 +0000 I am using the iSeries Client Access for V5R4, and trying to transfer an Excel 2007 (.xslx) file. There is no corresponding file type to choose from (only goes up to Excel 2003 (BIFF8). Is there any other way to do this using Client Access
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How to transfer tab delimited text file to As400 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:27:09 +0000 How can I transfer a tab delimited text file to AS400 and retaining the delimiter to identify fields?
Alex Bernardo
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14991 | Dear Pumas: Our Vaginas Are Not Registered To Vote!S
Sarah Palin will not go away, and people like Amy Siskind think appealing to our ovaries will make women support her in 2012. Let me tell them something: basing our votes on identity is an idiotic strategy!
Okay, let me get this out of the way first. Amy Siskind is not talking to me. Queen PUMA over there isn't counting us folks with brown vaginas, as we are all obviously going to vote with the brown parts, not the pink parts. So, once again, "women" really means "white women," which is who she thinks should be voting for Sarah Palin.
Siskind begins her Daily Beast article with the circular logic that will characterize the piece in its entirety:
I am a lifelong Democrat who for the first time in my life voted Republican in the 2008 elections. I did this for one reason: McCain selected a woman as his running mate. For this act, I was accused of having lost part of my mental faculty: Some circa Victorian act of "voting with my uterus." Strange, that. The Democratic women were corralled to vote for Obama in 2008 because of one issue: reproductive rights. n other words, as my friend Cynthia Ruccia observed, "voting with their uterus."
Siskind complains Obama did not appoint enough women, but ignores the creation of the Council on Women and Girls, and HRC's women-centric security strategy. A while back, I had asked what makes a presidency feminist friendly. While I still question the ultimate legacy of the White House, I am 110% sure that every feminist bone in my body is screaming at the thought of Palin anywhere near the Oval Office. Top five reasons why Palin makes me want puke in my mouth:
Over two pages of blithering, Siskind directly refers to Palin only twice.
Here's the difference: Sarah Palin played women's basketball. That's how she got the nickname "Sarah Barracuda." And she's had to maintain that same toughness and sensibility as she entered the world of politics-which is, after all, no less a contact sport.
Well, fuck, if that's the logic, Sheryl Swoopes 2012! She made it to the WNBA. Can the Thrilla from Wasilla top that?
Siskind also says:
I know I'll hear from critics who claim that Palin would not share my policy views. But what makes them so sure? As governor of Alaska, didn't Sarah Palin appoint Justice Morgan Christen, who is pro-choice and a former board member of Planned Parenthood, to become Alaska's second female Supreme Court justice?
So the argument here is "she's got a pro-choice friend?"
You want women to vote for Palin? Show us something. Where's her plan on combating poverty? What's her plan for national security? Who is her team of advisers on the economy? What the hell is this woman about, besides a whole bunch of folksy ways and race-baiting?
Voting by identity alone is a stupid strategy. Just because someone is a woman doesn't mean she gives a fuck about women's rights. Just because someone is a POC doesn't mean he or she cares one iota about his or her community. You can't trust these nebulous notions of identity because everyone defines them differently. As such, the best strategy is to decide which issues are most important to you, and then vote along those lines.
If critics want to diss Obama, fine, but for the love of god, don't prop up some weak sauce candidate because she represents some mythical unified vadge-ocracy. It doesn't exist.
Should Women Back Palin in 2012? [The Daily Beast]
The Palin 'rape kit' controversy [Politifact]
Clinton aides: Palin treatment sexist [Politico]
Gov. Palin Says She Will Quit, Citing Probes, Family Needs [Washington Post]
Taking on Class and Race – The Candidates on Poverty [Racialicious]
Earlier: White House Council On Women And Girls Is Subject Of Criticism
Hillary Clinton Tackles Economics, Terrorism, Microlending In NY Times Profile
What Makes a Presidency Feminist-Friendly?
Just Say It: The Race-Baiting Tactics Of John McCain And Sarah Palin Are Reprehensible |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15009 | Muhon, 2009
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An Initial Study and Application of Basic Plant Characteristics That Aid in the Reduction of High Urban Temperatures
Jose Dan V. Villa Juan
Urban heat is an ongoing phenomenon that affects everyone living in urban environments. Unhealthy living conditions have been produced as a result of high temperatures in urbanized areas. There are many studies on this and the ways in which to mitigate these high temperatures. Botanical controls have often been used as mitigation measures, using vegetation as a means to bring down urban heat, however little study has been done on what actually comprise the characteristics of plants that help bring down high temperatures. This study stresses that plants should not just be analyzed at a superficial level but rather, analysis of plants and their capabilities should go much deeper, looking at anatomical/physiological characteristics for their proper application in controlling excessive heat in urban environments.
The objectives of the study is to understand what causes high urban temperatures and the botanical mechanisms that effect reduction in temperatures with prime focus on evapo-transpiration. The study is also an attempt to quantify a highly subjective (qualitative) component of Landscape Architecture of which are planting materials and planting design. These botanical mechanisms are applied in a method that can portray quantifiable reduction in high temperatures given by plants. The method gives an idea and an estimate on the cooling afforded by plants for given heat loads.
To answer these objectives, a method was developed for ascertaining temperature reduction extents of plants by applying existing standard conversion factors for temperature, heat/energy, transpiration, heat load and cooling capacity. The output of this method is an estimate only, largely due to the limitations in data for actual urban environmental conditions and lack of equipment in the measurement of botanical characteristics. From the methodology employed, the study was able to come up with general values that equate cooling given by plants with specific characteristics and that can be used in their proper siting in urban locations. The methodology results in a planting framework that dictates the correct use of plant species with measured cooling potential for the control of high urban temperatures. This would thus be a significant contribution to planting design.
The study impacts several entities as these have an effect on the total cooling potential given by plants and the total cooling of the urban environment. Firstly Landscape Architects and planting design, secondly Architects and the design of structures and thirdly Urban Planning and Design with the locations of buildings and structures. The study will also impact nursery as well as maintenance practices.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15016 | Why Was "Biohazard" Changed To "Resident Evil"?
Most of you are probably aware that, in Japan, the Resident Evil series is known as Biohazard. And if you're like me, most of you probably never stopped to wonder why.
See, my whole life, I just presumed it was "one of those things". That Biohazard was a kind of stupid name, and Capcom just felt like changing it. Never mind the fact that, when you separate it from its lore and familiarity, "Resident Evil" is an even stupider name.
Turns out that this whole time there was a reason. If you already know this, great, but if not, Capcom's Chris Kramer explains:
In late 1994, Capcom Entertainment in the US was starting to ramp up marketing plans for the game that would eventually become known as Resident Evil in the US. Capcom Japan had let us know that the name of the game was going to be ‘Biohazard' in Japan, but I pointed out to the person who ran marketing at the time that it would be next to impossible for Capcom to register the name in the US.
As an example, I pointed out that a crappy DOS-based game had just come out in the US called ‘Biohazard' (not to mention the New York hardcore band of the same name) and that we'd never be able to secure the mark. As a result, the head of marketing held a company-wide contest to come up with a new name for the game.
The winner of that competition was, of course, Resident Evil, being a pun on the fact the first game was set in a mansion. For the record, Kramer voted against it, saying the name was "super-cheesy".
GR Asks: Why was Biohazard renamed Resident Evil? [Games Radar] |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15017 | We only played a tiny bit of the Nintendo 3DS remake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, but what we did told us one thing. This is definitely a Metal Gear Solid game.
We struggled with the controls. Hey, it's a Metal Gear. Those controls are never that easy to handle. Unfortunately, the demo didn't include some of the more interesting features shown in the game's trailers, including a stealth-camouflage system that utilizes the 3DS' cameras.
We couldn't find Yoshi, either! We did tranquilize a crocodile. As you'll see, that wasn't a smart move. (Well, maybe lingering nearby was the mistake).
Anyway, enjoy. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15018 | This happens when you leave someone who enjoys the anime series Attack on Titan and who has some dancing skills alone in an empty room.
The Japanese edits and remixes of the powerful opening were already hilarious, but with this take, originally posted on NicoNico Douga, just reached a whole new level. Crazy skills!
【涼宮あつき】Shingeki no Kyojin OP 進撃の巨人OP【踊ってみた？】[YouTube]
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15036 |
Linking mwts and mwts2 to one another?
From: Kai Hendry <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:08:06 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To make both easier to find, would you agree we should add a link to
each test to point to each other?
I am still unimpressed by these URLs people are expected to type into
a mobile device. I would much prefer to see something short like
http://test.w3.org pointing to both tests really.
Oh btw I think I've hit 100% with a dev build of Chromium:
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15039 |
RE: verifying order of resources in a document
From: John Boyer <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 12:50:07 -0700
On that last one, I didn't finish the first set of comments due to a
distraction. Here it is.
It seems preposterous to say that most applications will not care about the
order of the elements in a conversation about digital signatures.
For starters, it is wrong on a theoretical level. Like it or not, the XML
1.0 spec does not forbid extensions languages from deriving meaning based on
the order in which the elements appear. If you want that, use RDF.
Second, it is wrong on a technical level. A hash itself is sensitive to the
order of the substrings within a given message to be hashed.
Third, it's wrong on a practical level, namely that you have not provided
any evidence of having sampled lots of applications. For example, the
single largest body of applications based on any kind of markup are HTML
forms, and they care very much about order. Even with separation of data
and presentation in XHTML forms (should it ever get built or supported), the
presentation must still be signed along with the data (and the manifest
notion in the Brown draft clearly allows for this). Hence order will matter
in the presentation signature. Most importantly, there is no sampling from
applications yet to come. If I can come up with valid, well-formed XML, we
should be able to sign it even if we don't like the markup language design.
Signatures should not break because we don't like this or that part of what
XML allows.
So, given that it isn't actually all that hard to write software that does
the things I'm describing (UWI has been doing it for almost two years now!),
why not see if we can conceive of a signature syntax that does a good job on
any valid, well-formed XML?
John Boyer
Software Development Manager
UWI.Com -- The Internet Forms Company
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15040 |
Re: Pseudo-Patent-Free Microsoft Standard
From: David Wall <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 20:14:56 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Companies are certainly free to obtain patents, but to do so lurking behind a so-called "standard" is absurd. By definition, a standard needs to be accessible to all -- otherwise it's proprietary.
If these patent tricks are backed by royalties, then those technologies will not become standards and the computing community will create alternatives.
David A. E. Wall
CEO & Chief Software Architect
Yozons, Inc.
724 17th Avenue
Kirkland, WA 98033 USA
Tel 425.822.4465 [email protected]
Fax 425.827.9415 www.yozons.com
Cell 425.442.2729
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15041 |
RE: Named Styles
From: Jelks Cabaniss <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 22:13:34 -0400
To: <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> > I would like to contribute one suggestion: named styles -- just like
> > in MS Word, Pagemaker, etc.
> I don't quite see what you are looking for.
> Can't you do this with <LINK REL="Alternate Stylesheet"> ?
Have you ever used named styles in Word? Instead of using the default Heading
1, Normal, etc., you create your own styles (they can be block and inline
styles), then you can select text and apply those styles. Many (probably most)
people don't bother with named styles, because they don't know about them;
instead, they just apply the formatting directly (bold, italic, different font,
whatever). But if you are using named styles, it's similar to using CLASS
attributes in HTML in that if you want to change the look of something, you only
have to do it in *one* place: the style definition.
You can *sort of* do that now with CLASS styling in CSS. But CLASS properly
used (IMO) should really apply to semantics, like <p class="legal">... What you
end up with today is a lot of stuff like <p class="ItalicRed"> which implies
that CLASS means STYLE information.
You *may* want to style a particular CLASS, but you also may not care about what
*type* of paragraph it is, just what it *looks* like ..."
Names are also things you can refer to later, like variables in a program.
Named Styles are just like CLASS names, except different. :)
Received on Wednesday, 21 October 1998 22:19:53 GMT
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15043 |
Re: First Class Header Proposals
From: Hugo Haas <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:03:14 +0100
To: Asir Vedamuthu <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Hi Asir.
* Asir Vedamuthu <[email protected]> [2005-02-07 05:01-0800]
> Attached docs are two variations of the First Class Header Proposal - A and
> B. There is one principal difference between these two proposals: A uses a
> set of element declarations and B uses a complex type definition to describe
> headers.
> Hope, these docs, SOAP Header Blocks in WSDL [1] proposal, Headers Proposal
> V1.2 [2], and other AD feature issues [3][4] provide sufficient info to act
> on LC76d [5].
A couple of questions about the requiredness of the headers:
- why do we need a mechanism to disable header generation? It seems to
me that either the binding supports headers, and then you should use
them if you need to, or it doesn't, and then that's it. Why would
one want to disable header generation for a particular binding?
- I don't understand the purpose of @required either; with your
element/type declaration, couldn't you express this with minOccurs?
Hugo Haas - W3C
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SubjectRe: [RFC 12/26] ext2 white-out support
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 06:13:35PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote:
> Introduce white-out support to ext2.
> Known Bugs:
> - Needs a reserved inode number for white-outs
You picked different reserved inodes for the ext2 and ext3
filesystems. That's good for a NACK right there. The codepoints
(i.e., reserved inode numbers, feature bit masks, etc.) for ext2,
ext3, and ext4 MUST not overlap. After all, someone might use tune2fs
-j to convert an ext2 filesystem to ext3, and is it's REALLY BAD that
you're using a reserved inode of 7 for ext2, and 9 for ext3.
Also, I note that you have created a new INCOMPAT feature flag support
for whiteouts. That's really unfortunate; we try to avoid introducing
incompatible feature flags unless absolutely necessary; note that even
adding a COMPAT feature flag means that you need a new version of
e2fsprogs if you want e2fsck to be willing to touch that filesystem.
So --- if you're looking for a way to add whiteout support to
ext2/ext3 without needing a feature bit, here's how. We allocate a
new inode flag in struct ext3_inode.i_flags:
#define EXT2_WHTOUT_FL 0x00040000
We also allocate a new field in the ext2 superblock to store the
"whiteout inode". (Please coordinate with me so it's a superblock
field not in use by ext3/ext4, and so it's reserved so that no one
else uses it.) The superblock field, call it s_whtout_ino, stores the
inode number for the "white out inode".
When you create a new whiteout file, the code checks sb->s_whtout_ino,
and if it is zero, it allocates a new inode, and creates it as a
zero-length regular file (i_mode |= S_IFREG) with the EXT2_WHTOUT_FL
flag set in the inode, and then store the inode number in
sb->s_whtout_ino. If sb->s_whtout_ino is non-zero, you must read in
the inode and make sure that the EXT2_WHTOUT_FL is set. If it is not,
then allocate a new whiteout inode as described previously. Then link
the inode into the directory as before.
When reading an inode, if the EXT2_WHTOUT_FL flag is set, then set the
in-memory mode of the inode to be S_IFWHT.
That's pretty much about it. For cleanliness sake, it would be good
if ext2_delete_inode clears sb->s_whtout_ino if the last whiteout link
has been deleted, but it's strictly speaking not necessary. If you do
it this way, the filesystem is completely backwards compatible; the
whiteout files will just appear to links to a normal zero-lenth file.
I wouldn't bother with setting the directory type field to be DT_WHT,
given that they will never be returned to userspace anyway.
- Ted
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15070 | David Jencks wrote: > Alex explained to me that for various legal scenarios its very desirable > to have triplesec guardian bind to a single application and use ldap > security to prevent it seeing anything outside that application. On the > other hand jacc requires you to deal with a set of application > components, called policy contexts, within a single application. My > original idea was to say application == policy context, but this > requires triplesec to have access to the entire realm in ldap, which > includes the users, so that won't work. > > So, currently the dn structure is hardcoded to be > > appName=foo,ou=applications, > > with profiles, permissions, roles, etc right below this rdn. In > particular there's code all over the place to take "foo" and turn it > into "appName=foo,ou=applications". > > I think we can simplify the code a bit, satisfy the "log into a single > application", and make the jacc stuff work by generalizing this rdn. As > far as existing code goes I want to pass in a rdn string wherever the > rdn is currently constructed (e.g. as above from "foo"). This will let > people set up the same kind of structure as they do now if desired, or > for jacc introduce another level > > contextID=myWar,appName=foo,ou=applications,.... > > and perhaps for other purposes add even more levels. > > Of course there may well be reasons this won't work, and in particular I > haven't tried to figure out yet if more or different objectClasses are > needed. Any comments would be more than welcome. David I'm still trying to understand what you mean. So you want to create different policy contexts (JACC jargon) underneath an application? What would be contained under these contexts? Alex |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15071 | Got it. You mean that %PRODUCTNAME% should be "Apache OpenOffice" for the release build. Whatever is OK for dev snapshots. Thanks. 2012/3/1 Raphael Bircher : > Am 01.03.12 07:14, schrieb Zhe Liu: > >> Hi, >> I find a lot of UI controls still show the name "" . >> Should all of them be changed to "Apache OpenOffice"? >> > Oh, normaly they should use %PRODUCTNAME% and this is Apache OpenOffice or > OOo-Dev for developer snapshots. The Name should never been hard coded > inside the appliaction and help. > > Did, you use en-US or a zh build? > > Greetings Raphael -- Best Regards >From |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15075 |
To: Jim Bernard <>
From: John F. Woods <>
List: current-users
Date: 11/01/1997 08:45:51
> > Hopefully, the 1.4 release cycle will not last nearly as long as 1.3 :-)
> As I recall, this was said of 1.2 and 1.3 as well.
Actually, I think the 1.2->1.3 gap *was* less than 1.1->1.2.
> If I may make a somewhat radical suggestion: why not simply dispense
> with releases altogether? Instead simply let portmasters (or other
> interested parties) put up snapshots (with source, please!) whenever the
> spirit moves and the tree is not too badly broken. Anyone who wants to
> put out a CD can simply gather up the most recent snapshots from each of
> the ports, perhaps with -current source thrown in for do-it-yourselfers.
In a sense, that's what the Linux world tends to do; each major CD vendor
tends to release CDs on their own schedule with their own favorite fixes,
and are only slightly influenced by each other and by whatever schedule
Linus has. The difficulty is support: when someone complains that their
NetBSD is broken, if they say they're running "1.2", you know off the bat
(well, eventually you know) what bugs they are known to have, so in most
cases you can give them a quick answer. (Of course, when the answer is
always "get -current", you introduce them to Constant Upgrade Hell.) With
the snapshot-per-port scheme, each portmaster ends up being the primary
support point simply because they're likely the only ones who know for sure
what went into each snapshot. Any portmaster without the resources of a
sizable company is likely to get buried by more than one or two such
snapshots per year. Either that, or the answer will, again, be "get
-current", in which case anyone who either doesn't want to compile their
own system or who simply doesn't have time to do so will instead switch
to FreeBSD or Linux. (And for the usual suspects who express utter shock
that *anyone* would not be *eager* to recompile their whole system on a
moment's notice: there's a boatload of stuff I'd be able to compile
*instead* if I didn't spend so much time chasing -current. It's all just
a hobby for me, so it doesn't matter to me, but *some* people actually
buy these expensive computer thingies to (you'd better sit down here) get
useful work out of them.)
There are also other problems of practicality: the tree is *often* broken
for some ports and not others, so without a concerted effort by the core
group you *can't* get simultaneous snapshots (and if the timing is solely
determined by the portmasters' day-to-day mood, you *won't* get them, either);
this means that someone intending to put out a multi-architecture CD has to
have a separate source tree for each architecture -- this is not the way to
encourage companies to package NetBSD on CD. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15078 | Subject: Re: pkg/33221: default exim configuration file
To: None <,,>
From: None <>
List: pkgsrc-bugs
Date: 04/09/2006 13:25:02
Subject: Re: pkg/33221: default exim configuration file
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 15:24:42 +0200
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 01:00:04PM +0000, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 09:05:00PM +0000, wrote:
> >> IMHO it is better for daemons to listen to loopback
> >> interface only by default. A patch for exim is below.
> >
> > This has been discussed before and rejected.
> Rejected?
> from pkgsrc-users mailing list:
I was refering to a different debatte than :-)
> > Why not to change exim's default configuration file like this,
> > i.e. to use it for local delivery only BY DEFAULT?
> David Brownlee <>
> I'm not adverse to this change, providing the MESSAGE documents
> it. For reference, do sendmail and postfix install from pkgsrc
> setup like this?
The point is that sendmail and postfix should not have such a default
config at all.
> > You have to explicitly
> > enable the daemon and you installed it -- why should you want a crippled
> > program?
> Just because it is safer behaviour and it is not needed for most cases.
In which case do you install a third-party package and don't use the
default mailer of the operating system? Changing this falls IMO into
POLA. To take your argument: newbies and new users normally don't
install arbitrary MTA.
Of course, David is the maintainer and has the last word :-) |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15081 | Subject: Re: [OT] Jumping PC164 to work with ATX power supply
To: None <>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <>
List: port-alpha
Date: 10/17/2001 14:01:35
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 07:16:04PM -0700, B. James Phillippe wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to install a PC164 board into a custom mini-tower case with a
> standard ATX power-supply. After having trouble, I did a Net search and
> discovered that the PC164 does not support soft-poweron, and thus doesn't
> work with a standard ATX power-supply. Further, I learned that it can be
> made to work by either using a modified power-supply or shorting the PSON
> and GND pins of the ATX connector on the mainboard. This effectively tells
> the power-supply that soft-poweron is always on, so the power-supply will
> activate at full power. This is ideal for me because my power-supply has
> an override switch on the back.
> I tested this theory by using a (plastic-handled!) screwdriver to short
> those pins and voila, instant power. Just to be safe, I measured the
> impedence of those pins with an Ohmmeter beforehand. :-)
> Anyway, has anyone does this before? I have a soldering iron and eltronics
> solder and am willing to give it a go. Anyone who has done this and had
> problems (or knows of other reasons I should proceed with caution) please
> let me know.
Use a conductive-ink pen (available from most electronics supply houses)
to short the pins, and save yourself the trouble of soldering, as well as
the danger of damaging your motherboard.
You could also just tie the pins together with wire-wrap wire; that's what
I did. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15086 | Subject: Re: How to detect net cable plug-in
To: None <>
From: David Young <>
List: tech-net
Date: 10/15/2003 03:15:26
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:56:45PM -0500, Nate Hill wrote:
> On Tue October 14 2003 17:19, der Mouse wrote:
> > > The problem is that link status is not really one of the exported
> > > attributes of net interfaces
> >
> > Something like it must be; ifconfig prints things like "no carrier"
> Of course it's available, the problem is the manner that one should
> employ to obtain such information. This problem exists because there
> have never been any standards associated with such a thing (as far as
> I know), the homogeneity found in network interfaces today is
> unprecedented. The best that can be done in this situation is an
> internally consistent interface to networking data structures and
> events.
How about adding the selected media word and media status word to struct
if_data and calling rt_ifmsg on media changes? I guess that RTM_VERSION
should be bumped with this change.
|
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15088 | tech-pkg archive
Re: pkg_admin audit frontends
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
At a quick glance; removing -Q from is going to cause problems for e.g.:
as it can't deal with compressed vulnerability file.
This shouldn't be hard to resolve :)
from what I can see all genreadme.awk does, that it won't be able to do with a compressed file, (without additional tools) is:
1) count the number of entries in the file
* IMHO this is cosmetic and could even be dropped
2) check the version of the file against what it expects it to be
* the current audit-packages already does this in pv_format() (I haven't checked the new pkg_admin code for equivalent functionality). ausit-packages will exit if the version is not up to date and we should just teach genreadme.awk about that possible condition and remove the logic for it to check the version in the script.
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I'm looking for a good introduction to Primes Numbers, their properties, and some of the better known theorems concerning them.
I would prefer references assume knowledge of undergraduate level real analysis.
Thanks to all in advance!
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It would help improve the quality of the recommendations if you provided some information on your mathematical background. This would ensure that the recommended books are not too simple or difficult for you. – Eugene Jun 4 '12 at 22:39
@Eugene I was thinking not placing any restrictions on the request may allow for a greater range; but, you're right, I'll specify a lower bound. – ThisIsNotAnId Jun 4 '12 at 23:12
An introduction to prime numbers shouldn't even involve real analysis! They are a basic mathematical creation coming from the integers. As for theorems/properties, there are millions spread over many different branches of maths...you need to tell us what questions about primes you would like to study/answer. – fretty Jun 9 '12 at 13:59
@fretty In the OP, I state the properties/theorems need to be "better known." Would this narrow it down to a particular set of number theory books? – ThisIsNotAnId Jun 10 '12 at 5:58
It doesn't tell me what kind of theorems you mean. Prime numbers are not a branch of maths but a type of number that behaves nicely. Your question is ambiguous, yet everyone else seems to have assumed you mean the prime number theorem in analytic number theory. Do you mean the classical number theory of what prime numbers are, how they provide unique factorisation and help to solve congruences. Or do you mean the algebraic number theory of how prime numbers split in number fields and how prime ideals are a generalisation. Or do you mean analytic number theory, PNT, Dirichlet's theorem...etc – fretty Jun 10 '12 at 7:25
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Try The Prime Numbers and Their Distribution by Tenenbaum and Mendès France.
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See also math.stackexchange.com/questions/153022/…. – lhf Jun 4 '12 at 22:33
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I liked Ribenboim, The Little Book of Big Primes. It has been updated. Or at Amazon
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Even assuming undergraduate real analysis I think John Derbyshire's Prime Obsession is worth a look, and then, for its treatment of the Prime Number Theorem and generalizations, G.J.O. Jameson's The Prime Number Theorem. I recommend these as a non-expert who found them accessible but not patronizing.
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Let $A$ be a finite, Abelian, additive group. Let $A^{*} = Hom(A, \mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z})$ denote the group of homomorphisms $f$ from $A$ to $\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}$. Take for granted that $A^{*}$ is an Abelian group (I have already proved this). Prove that $A$ is isomorphic to $A^{*}$ if $A$ is cyclic.
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What's the group operation on $A^*$? $(f \cdot g)(a) = f(a) \cdot g(a)$? – Clive Newstead Oct 30 '12 at 18:30
That is indeed the case! – user44069 Oct 30 '12 at 18:36
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Hint: If $A$ is cyclic, and $a$ generates it, then every homomorphism $f:A\to G$ is completely determined by $f(a)$.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15104 | Possible Duplicate:
Does progress towards hats only start when you enable it, or is it retrospective?
Can I earn the Gangnam Style series, Where Is He? series, or Guide My Sleigh series hats on questions or answers that were posted before Winter Bash opened, or only on new posts? It isn't clear from the Winter Bash hat description page.
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Hats can only be earned with activity performed after 19 December 2012 00:00 UTC. The exception to this is the L'Chaim hat, due to what it's celebrating and our own constraints.
Basically: get to posting! :D
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15105 | I have my own reasons to deactivate the account. I need to deactivate it for now and reactivate it later. How can I do it? I already tried writing "please delete me" in my about me and also filled up the form for which I was supposed to receive mail but the account is not deleted. Why?
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Because deletions require a human and at christmas time perhaps people are on holiday for a while? – Martijn Pieters Dec 23 '12 at 21:29
"deactivate it for now and reactivate it later" - there's no way to do this though; a deletion is final – Pëkka Dec 23 '12 at 21:30
ok so how can i delete it.....i followed the steps but it is not working..... – Kripesh Dec 23 '12 at 21:31
Just give it a bit of time. As Martijn said, deletion requires human oversight. It is currently Christmastime in the western world and, additionally, a weekend, so requests are likely to take some time – Pëkka Dec 23 '12 at 21:31
ok....thank you for the response – Kripesh Dec 23 '12 at 21:33
Do you have any hats you have to get rid of first? – Chris Gerken Dec 24 '12 at 22:42
If its irreversible then I will keep this account.....@Chris Geken....Sorry, i did not understand your question!! – Kripesh Dec 25 '12 at 2:01
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Deleting your account is not the same as deactivating it.
Deletions are basically irreversible. We cannot restore your account for you if you decided to delete it but then changed your mind.
We currently don't have a way to do what you want at all. If you don't want to use your account right now, but think you'll need it again in the future, your best bet is to just walk away and let it sit for a while.
(Note that we have some automated account cleanups, so if you go inactive for too long and meet any of those criteria, your account might get deleted anyway.)
That being said... I don't see any emails from you. I'll have to check to make sure our help form is working properly. But in the meantime, let me know in comments here what you'd like to do - delete your account or keep it.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15107 | I've been signed up for careers.stackoverflow since before it went live just to test the waters in case I ever needed to use it.
In the last 24 hours (including one at 11pm Sunday night) I received 'Hey, give us a shot back!' from Amazon and another firm called QuantLab.
This is only suspicious to me because:
1.) My CV, although 'published', literally has just a "//TODO :D" in it.
2.) These are the first 2 I have received, both in the scope of a day.
Did Amazon really contact me simply because I listed C# as a skill? Or could this be somebody ready to inform me I've won the Nigerian lottery?
Any other changes that would explain this anomaly? Or just a strange coincidence?
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You can't have just won the Nigerian lottery. It's being transferred to my bank account as we speak. Very friendly prince is sending it over. – squillman Mar 1 '10 at 23:27
@squillman: our exiled princess is sincerely grateful for your assistance in this sensitive matter of recovering her family fortune! – Ether Mar 2 '10 at 1:47
I also got messages from Amazon and Quantlab within 24 hours of each other. This made me feel special. Now I feel less special. – matt b Mar 4 '10 at 4:35
also meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40064/… – matt b Mar 4 '10 at 4:36
I just got one from Amazon listing a job for a bunch of cloud/aws/web buzzwords. I haven't answered on Qs on this - my profile makes it pretty clear I'm a c++/3d/image processing type. I suspect Amazon are using freelancers/some sort of recruiter bonus - so these may be 'unofficial' official spams – Martin Beckett May 22 '12 at 22:03
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We are looking closely at this. They are valid requests, as Geoff noted, but probably not the kind of thoughtful requests that we want on careers.
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This is a message received by our Sales Team at Fog Creek
Hello StackOverflow Community –
I do apologize for any concerns that our messages over the last few days have created. To clarify a few things I have asked the folks at StackOverflow to post this message on our behalf.
My name is Kate Brummett, the Recruiting Manager for Quantlab Financial. We are a Houston based, proprietary trading firm operating successfully since 1998. Because we do not require external investors or sell our products (basically we work for ourselves, which is nice) we have never really invested in creating a web presence. This obviously creates a challenge in the recruiting arena. Quantlab is an automated, global trading environment that is driven by state-of-the science research implemented by a cutting-edge technology team.
As a growing company, our recruiting efforts have taken us to pages like StackOverflow and JoelonSoftware.com because we hire Software Engineers, not just developers – people that are passionate, if not obsessive about writing creative, clean code to solve complex problems. The languages used are less important to our firm; the way you solve problems is our highest priority. We want to hire energetic, passionate engineers that enjoy working in creative, collaborative and challenging environments.
If you have any questions, or just want to chat about working for a trading firm, send me a note, I am happy to respond. [email protected]
Kate Brummett Recruiting Manager
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I, also, recieved the Quantlab one and I'm convinced it's spam. I already e-mailed careers about it.
This was what I got from them:
Hi There –
I came across your information on < link temporarily hidden > and I am interested in networking. My firm, Quantlab Financial is a science-driven, technology focused automated trading firm based in Houston, TX. We recruit all types of engineers from software to systems.
Even if you are not currently looking for an opportunity we would love to exchange contact information if your circumstances change. Quantlab also has a great referral program, if you refer a friend/colleague to Quantlab and we hire them, you receive a 1k referral bonus.
I look forward to hearing from you,
Jennifer Evans Quantlab Financial < email temporarily hidden >
It came with information in the employer box:
4200 Montrose Blvd Houston TX, 77006
The website leads to a Network Solutions "Under construction" page. The address is for The University of St Thomas in Houston, Tx. Specifically the ELS Language Building. Plug it into Google Maps and see for yourself.
If you do a search for Quantlab Financial on google.com you get a linkedin profile, a profile on business week, indeed and half a dozen other profiles that one person could easily create. No web page, no news reports, no official records or listings. You also get a about a bajillion postings on pretty much every job listing site out there.
I am absolutely convinced that the Quantlab one is a fishing scam. If it isn't, I'll eat my hat (and turn very red in the face). I have no idea about the Amazon one though, it could just be that you're that awesome ;)
Edit: I would add that I appear to have received the quantlab one at the exact same time you did. ~16 hours ago
Edit Again:
After much confusion, I'm now pretty sure that they are real. Austin (see comments) will confirm it as soon as he visits.
To Quantlab - my sincere apologies. I'll leave up my posts so that you guys can see what made me convinced you were a phishing scam. The primary culprits - the lack of web presence (or website) and the fact that Google Maps has your address listed as a language building at the University of St. Thomas. Putting up a website would probably help a great deal to allay suspicion in the future. I wish you luck in your recruiting, and apologize again for the trouble.
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Houston resident here... I drove by the address last Sunday (next door to one of my favorite pubs) and while I didn't investigate inside, the parking lot has several reserved parking spots for Quantlab. I'll try to swing by there tomorrow over lunch to see what's actually going on. Though I do agree that not having a web site is a bad sign. – Austin Salonen Mar 4 '10 at 19:54
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These requests are in fact valid. If you respond "interested" you will be taken seriously.
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I don't understand. Are you being sarcastic? – Andreas Bonini Mar 2 '10 at 0:52
He is one of the SO developers. I don't think so. – perbert Mar 2 '10 at 1:12
If the OP's CV is what he says it is, then they are kinda desperate, aren't they? – jmfsg Mar 2 '10 at 13:36
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My Conclusion, YOU ROCK
In one day you managed to get 66% percent of my total employer views in direct requests, I have been signed up to this service ever since it launched and have never been contacted and only had 3 views, despite having the C# tag and lots of reputationimigigs. I guess living in Australia sucks.
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Australia is not too bad, the number of search hits for C# in Manchester(UK) is no better but we get a lot more rain and cold weather! – Ian Ringrose Mar 2 '10 at 11:03
@Ian you and @eskerber will have to slug it out over whose city is colder and rainier. And when walking on ice, you had better C# or you will B♭. – JXG Mar 2 '10 at 14:29
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Kate Brummett noticed my comment on one of @Alcon's posts and has graciously offered a beer at the neighboring pub to stop by and visit. Like I said in my comment, the reserved parking does exist; so I'll see the inside tomorrow.
I'll also emphasize in person that they need a better web site.
If you trust my public CV, I don't work for them either.
Like I said earlier, I don't work for them. Kate gave me a tour of the company so yes, it is a real place. From what I saw, the employees are treated very well and I have no reason to think otherwise. I won't go into the perks but I will say I was very impressed. The office itself was gorgeous as well (I was reminded of the pics of the Fog Creek office when I got off the elevator).
Kate also assured me that they are working on the web site.
So if living in Houston appeals to you, you really should apply.
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Note that the request the employers sent you were about as sparse as your CV. They are merely approaching you the way you are advertising yourself.
You will show up in employer searches, and they will see you CV:
Then view your user page at SO:
And you will fit many open positions. Just because your CV is incomplete doesn't mean it's useless, and one of the nice features about careers is that employers have a second source (your SO page) to check out one form of your output.
In fact, having a sparse CV may work to your advantage if your SO profile is particularly good. If your CV leaves them wanting to know more, they will do a little bit more research.
Keep in mind that employers have to pay to use careers - it's not something spammers will usually do unless it's less than a penny per thousand people they can spam. So it's unlikely that we'll see any real spam on there for awhile.
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A great point, and one I've asked myself about. The question is, how many suckers does one need for the registration fee to pay off? – eskerber Mar 2 '10 at 15:08
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I'm adding this in a new answer because I think this needs airing. I've received responses claiming to be from StackOverflow careers and claiming that Quantlab is legitimate. However, what they claim in the response and what Quantlab told me in a response conflicts pretty seriously.
The first response I got from generic Stack Overflow careers was the following:
We will speak to this employer and find out more information. We believe they are trying to fill positions for this job:
-- Stack Overflow Careers [email protected]
However, the job they linked to is for a C# developer or a .net developer. I list both of those as one of my Dislikes in my careers Stack Overflow profile. If they are trying to fill that position, it makes no sense whatsoever for them to contact me.
Shortly after that I received a second response from Atilla (still [email protected]) with the following:
Thank you for your response, we always value our community!!
These guys are the definition of "Stealth Mode", I've spoken to them several times, they are real and not phishing. They just got funding and are looking to build out a team of programmers - Bootstrap Mode??. Either way, they are real: Thanks for the Help in keeping our boards clean, we appreciate it!!
Okay, I supposed I can buy that. A small team that just had funding and was trying to bootstrap could definitely not have much web presence. But then Quantlab responded to my initial response to their invitation telling them in no uncertain terms that I was convinced they were a scam and didn't appreciate the attempt. They responded with this:
Hi Daniel -
I certainly understand your concern regarding our lack of web presence. Actually we have been operating a very successful proprietary trading firm for 12 years. Because we trade our own capital and don't license any of our technology we are basically in business for ourselves. Great when you think about, but certainly makes recruiting a challenge.
My contact information is below, try my email, it works - even get it on my blackberry.
Kate Brummett Recruiting Manager, Quantlab Financial < email temporarily hidden > < phone temporarily hidden >
Wait, what? Someone needs to get their story straight! Either you've been around for 12 years and you're a very successful firm or you just got funding and you're in the process of bootstrapping. Which is it? And the fact that your e-mail and blackberry work tells me nothing. Mine do too, but that doesn't mean I'm not a spammer or scammer. And why are you giving out an address that points to the University of St Thomas? And a web address that leads to nowhere? If they were a real firm that was just going stealth mode, then they shouldn't be giving any address or web address at all! There's something very rotten going on in Denmark. I don't know what it is, but too much of this information conflicts, it doesn't add up. Someone is either very confused or not telling the truth.
If they are legitimate, then I apologize - but from what I've seen, I sincerely doubt it. And if they are a scam and someone bites they could screw some people over pretty seriously.
Edit: After a little more searching - looking for 'Quantlab Financial scam' ironically - I turned up a NASDAQ listing for them. On an a Securities and Exchange Fraud lawyer's site. They don't appear to be listing them as a fraud, but as legitimate though. And I found a few blog posts or articles listing them as a firm that does high frequency trading. I'm a little more willing to believe they aren't a scam.
But either they or Careers needs to work a little harder in the future to keep things straight. Because up until that point all the information I could see pointed straight to a scam.
Further Edit: I'm pretty convinced they are real now. See first post.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15109 | There are many questions about how to best handle English-as-second-language questions, answers, and comments, but I found none about improving the English of our English-as-second-or-third-language friends.
Editor Tarun attempted to improve the question by changing I to i, adding spaces before periods, and lowercasing the first word after periods. This might be idiomatic in his hometown, but it is not idiomatic English in the United States or any Commonwealth nation I've ever visited.
While I can (and did) point out the rules of English composition to him in a comment, my own comment is Noise, and probably misses a great deal many other small and large mistakes our English-as-foreign-language friends commonly make.
SO could benefit from a simple guide English for Programmers, and I'm curious if I overlooked an existing meta post with such a guide that I could use as a reference in future comments.
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The poor soul must have been programming in C for too long, if he defaults to i rather than I. – Andrew Grimm Apr 15 '11 at 6:46
@RegDwight, I've lost hours to English.SO myself :) but it feels completely out of scope for what's required: something that in ten or fifteen minutes specifies idiomatic English composition in a way that resonates with developers. – sarnold Apr 15 '11 at 7:13
Hey, I'm just plugging our site. I know it doesn't fit your particular purpose. Never stopped me before. (^_^) – ЯegDwight Apr 15 '11 at 8:25
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15110 | After I cast the 5th vote to close on this question, I saw that two of the answers were marked "deleted by owner X secs/mins/hrs ago" whereas all the other migrated questions that I've seen simply say "deleted X secs/mins/hrs ago" (example) without mentioning by whom. Here's a screenshot of the first question for those who can't view the deleted answers:
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This is not a major issue, but I'm curious if these deletions are really attributed to the owner and if it will count against them (serial deleted answers).
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When an answer is deleted by the original author, or a moderator, it will list the username and the time of nuking. (It will list the Community user if it was flagged as spam or offensive)
deleted by {username} {timestamp}
When you don't see a username it's because the question itself was deleted or migrated. In those cases you'll get the other version on the answer:
deleted {timestamp}
Users can delete their answer before the question vanishes. In which case, you'll see who deleted the post.
Any answers deleted before a question is migrated will not be shifted with the rest of the answers to the new site.
In those cases, the bus has left them at the camp and they're stranded while all the other kids are riding back home.
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No, this is not the case. All three answers have the same timestamp (incredible coincidence if the user deleted at the same time!), two of them say "deleted by owner" and one of them is present on SU. You can see the full screenshots in this question that I just asked. – yoda Jul 23 '11 at 2:20
Also, the users in question haven't logged-in in the past 5-6 hours. Psy and ascanio – yoda Jul 23 '11 at 2:23
Well that's a might puzzler there then – random Jul 23 '11 at 2:33
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The question was migrated.
These causes it and the answers to be automatically deleted by the system, after some time has passed.
No user deleted them - an automated process did, hence no name. The items with a name just mean that they were deleted prior to migration.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15111 | Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition
March 14–July 8, 2012
Both Roman-style tunics and Central Asian–inspired tailored garments were worn in Byzantium's southern provinces from late antiquity into the early Islamic era, as proven by scientific testing of burial finds. Roman tunics were usually made of linen or wool and could be long or short, with or without sleeves. Simple tunics were generally layered under more elaborate ones decorated with symmetrical ornaments on the shoulders and at the knees, including ornamental bands (clavi), roundels (orbiculi), and squares (tabulae). Tunics were shaped by belts and draping. Men and women wore cloaks; women wore scarves and veils as well. During the Byzantine and early Islamic periods, tunics of brightly colored fabrics, with separately woven and applied elaborate decorative elements, were widely popular. Central Asian–inspired Sasanian tailored garments consisted of a shirt, caftan, coat, trousers, gaiters, boots, and headgear. The shirts and coats had flared sides cut to shape, with decoration down the center and at the neckline, cuffs, and hemline. Men and women wore similar tailored garments, and women added shawls and veils. Children wore clothes similar to those of adults. Over time, the styles mingled, producing increasingly colorful decoration and elaborate ornament. |
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Optimizing Performance: Text
WPF includes support for the presentation of text content through the use of feature-rich user interface (UI) controls. In general you can divide text rendering in three layers:
1. Using the Glyphs and GlyphRun objects directly.
2. Using the FormattedText object.
3. Using high-level controls, such as the TextBlock and FlowDocument objects.
This topic provides text rendering performance recommendations.
This topic contains the following sections.
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides advanced text support including glyph-level markup with direct access to Glyphs for customers who want to intercept and persist text after formatting. These features provide critical support for the different text rendering requirements in each of the following scenarios.
• Screen display of fixed-format documents.
• Print scenarios.
• Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) as a device printer language.
• Microsoft XPS Document Writer.
• Previous printer drivers, output from Win32 applications to the fixed format.
• Print spool format.
• Fixed-format document representation, including clients for previous versions of Windows and other computing devices.
Glyphs and GlyphRun are designed for fixed-format document presentation and print scenarios. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides several elements for general layout and user interface (UI) scenarios such as Label and TextBlock. For more information on layout and UI scenarios, see the Typography in WPF.
The following examples show how to define properties for a Glyphs object in Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML). The Glyphs object represents the output of a GlyphRun in XAML. The examples assume that the Arial, Courier New, and Times New Roman fonts are installed in the C:\WINDOWS\Fonts folder on the local computer.
<StackPanel Background="PowderBlue">
FontUri = "C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\TIMES.TTF"
FontRenderingEmSize = "100"
StyleSimulations = "BoldSimulation"
UnicodeString = "Hello World!"
Fill = "Black"
OriginX = "100"
OriginY = "200"
Using DrawGlyphRun
If you have custom control and you want to render glyphs, use the DrawGlyphRun method.
WPF also provides lower-level services for custom text formatting through the use of the FormattedText object. The most efficient way of rendering text in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is by generating text content at the glyph level using Glyphs and GlyphRun. However, the cost of this efficiency is the loss of easy to use rich text formatting, which are built-in features of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) controls, such as TextBlock and FlowDocument.
The FormattedText object allows you to draw multi-line text, in which each character in the text can be individually formatted. For more information, see Drawing Formatted Text.
To create formatted text, call the FormattedText constructor to create a FormattedText object. Once you have created the initial formatted text string, you can apply a range of formatting styles. If your application wants to implement its own layout, then the FormattedText object is better choice than using a control, such as TextBlock. For more information on the FormattedText object, see Drawing Formatted Text .
The FormattedText object provides low-level text formatting capability. You can apply multiple formatting styles to one or more characters. For example, you could call both the SetFontSize and SetForegroundBrush methods to change the formatting of the first five characters in the text.
The following code example creates a FormattedText object and renders it.
protected override void OnRender(DrawingContext drawingContext)
string testString = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor";
// Create the initial formatted text string.
FormattedText formattedText = new FormattedText(
new Typeface("Verdana"),
// Set a maximum width and height. If the text overflows these values, an ellipsis "..." appears.
formattedText.MaxTextWidth = 300;
formattedText.MaxTextHeight = 240;
// Use a larger font size beginning at the first (zero-based) character and continuing for 5 characters.
// The font size is calculated in terms of points -- not as device-independent pixels.
formattedText.SetFontSize(36 * (96.0 / 72.0), 0, 5);
// Use a Bold font weight beginning at the 6th character and continuing for 11 characters.
formattedText.SetFontWeight(FontWeights.Bold, 6, 11);
// Use a linear gradient brush beginning at the 6th character and continuing for 11 characters.
new LinearGradientBrush(
6, 11);
// Use an Italic font style beginning at the 28th character and continuing for 28 characters.
formattedText.SetFontStyle(FontStyles.Italic, 28, 28);
// Draw the formatted text string to the DrawingContext of the control.
drawingContext.DrawText(formattedText, new Point(10, 0));
WPF includes multiple controls for drawing text to the screen. Each control is targeted to a different scenario and has its own list of features and limitations.
FlowDocument Impacts Performance More than TextBlock or Label
In general, the TextBlock element should be used when limited text support is required, such as a brief sentence in a user interface (UI). Label can be used when minimal text support is required. The FlowDocument element is a container for re-flowable documents that support rich presentation of content, and therefore, has a greater performance impact than using the TextBlock or Label controls.
For more information on FlowDocument, see Flow Document Overview.
Avoid Using TextBlock in FlowDocument
The TextBlock element is derived from UIElement. The Run element is derived from TextElement, which is less costly to use than a UIElement-derived object. When possible, use Run rather than TextBlock for displaying text content in a FlowDocument.
The following markup sample illustrates two ways of setting text content within a FlowDocument:
<!-- Text content within a Run (more efficient). -->
<Run>Line one</Run>
<!-- Text content within a TextBlock (less efficient). -->
<TextBlock>Line two</TextBlock>
Avoid Using Run to Set Text Properties
In general, using a Run within a TextBlock is more performance intensive than not using an explicit Run object at all. If you are using a Run in order to set text properties, set those properties directly on the TextBlock instead.
The following markup sample illustrates these two ways of setting a text property, in this case, the FontWeight property:
<!-- Run is used to set text properties. -->
<Run FontWeight="Bold">Hello, world</Run>
<!-- TextBlock is used to set text properties, which is more efficient. -->
<TextBlock FontWeight="Bold">
Hello, world
The following table shows the cost of displaying 1000 TextBlock objects with and without an explicit Run.
TextBlock type
Creation time (ms)
Render time (ms)
Run setting text properties
TextBlock setting text properties
Avoid Databinding to the Label.Content Property
Imagine a scenario where you have a Label object that is updated frequently from a String source. When data binding the Label element's Content property to the String source object, you may experience poor performance. Each time the source String is updated, the old String object is discarded and a new String is recreated—because a String object is immutable, it cannot be modified. This, in turn, causes the ContentPresenter of the Label object to discard its old content and regenerate the new content to display the new String.
The solution to this problem is simple. If the Label is not set to a custom ContentTemplate value, replace the Label with a TextBlock and data bind its Text property to the source string.
Data bound property
Update time (ms)
The Hyperlink object is an inline-level flow content element that allows you to host hyperlinks within the flow content.
Combine Hyperlinks in One TextBlock Object
You can optimize the use of multiple Hyperlink elements by grouping them together within the same TextBlock. This helps to minimize the number of objects you create in your application. For example, you may want to display multiple hyperlinks, such as the following:
MSN Home | My MSN
The following markup example shows multiple TextBlock elements used to display the hyperlinks:
<!-- Hyperlinks in separate TextBlocks. -->
<Hyperlink TextDecorations="None" NavigateUri="http://www.msn.com">MSN Home</Hyperlink>
<TextBlock Text=" | "/>
<Hyperlink TextDecorations="None" NavigateUri="http://my.msn.com">My MSN</Hyperlink>
The following markup example shows a more efficient way of displaying the hyperlinks, this time, using a single TextBlock:
<!-- Hyperlinks combined in the same TextBlock. -->
<Run Text=" | " />
Showing Underlines on Hyperlinks Only on MouseEnter Events
A TextDecoration object is a visual ornamentation that you can add to text; however, it can be performance intensive to instantiate. If you make extensive use of Hyperlink elements, consider showing an underline only when triggering an event, such as the MouseEnter event. For more information, see How to: Use a Text Decoration with a Hyperlink.
Hyperlink appearing on MouseEnter
Hyperlinks displaying TextDecorations
The following markup sample shows a Hyperlink defined with and without an underline:
<!-- Hyperlink with default underline. -->
<Hyperlink NavigateUri="http://www.msn.com">
MSN Home
<Run Text=" | " />
<!-- Hyperlink with no underline. -->
<Hyperlink Name="myHyperlink" TextDecorations="None"
My MSN
The following table shows the performance cost of displaying 1000 Hyperlink elements with and without an underline.
Creation time (ms)
Render time (ms)
With underline
Without underline
WPF provides rich text formatting services, such as automatic hyphenations. These services may impact application performance and should only be used when needed.
Avoid Unnecessary Use of Hyphenation
Automatic hyphenation finds hyphen breakpoints for lines of text, and allows additional break positions for lines in TextBlock and FlowDocument objects. By default, the automatic hyphenation feature is disabled in these objects. You can enable this feature by setting the object's IsHyphenationEnabled property to true. However, enabling this feature causes WPF to initiate Component Object Model (COM) interoperability, which can impact application performance. It is recommended that you do not use automatic hyphenation unless you need it.
Use Figures Carefully
A Figure element represents a portion of flow content that can be absolutely-positioned within a page of content. In some cases, a Figure may cause an entire page to automatically reformat if its position collides with content that has already been laid-out. You can minimize the possibility of unnecessary reformatting by either grouping Figure elements next to each other, or declaring them near the top of content in a fixed page size scenario.
Optimal Paragraph
The optimal paragraph feature of the FlowDocument object lays out paragraphs so that white space is distributed as evenly as possible. By default, the optimal paragraph feature is disabled. You can enable this feature by setting the object's IsOptimalParagraphEnabled property to true. However, enabling this feature impacts application performance. It is recommended that you do not use the optimal paragraph feature unless you need it.
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ActionOnUpdateConflict Enumeration
Enumerates all actions that can be taken when handling conflicting UPDATE statements.
Namespace: Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.BusinessLogicSupport
Assembly: Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.BusinessLogicSupport (in Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.BusinessLogicSupport.dll)
public enum ActionOnUpdateConflict
Member nameDescription
AcceptDefaultResolutionThe conflict is resolved using the default resolution rules.
AcceptPublisherDataThe conflict is resolved by accepting the update from the Publisher as the winning update.
AcceptSubscriberDataThe conflict is resolved by accepting the update from the Subscriber as the winning update.
AcceptCustomConflictDataThe conflict is resolved using custom user data provided by the business logic handler. The custom data is then propagated by the replication process.
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Adding the Data Flow Task Programmatically
Updated: 17 November 2008
Business Intelligence Development Studio includes a task called the Data Flow task, which is represented by the Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.Wrapper namespace in the object model. The Data Flow task is a specialized, high-performance task, dedicated to transforming and moving data during package execution. Like other tasks, the Data Flow task is wrapped by the TaskHost object, and from the perspective of the run-time engine, this task is just another task in the package. However, the data flow contains additional objects called data flow components. These components are the components that make data move from a source to a destination, sometimes through a transformation. The components define both the direction of movement and how data is transformed. Configuring the Data Flow task involves adding components to the task, and then connecting them to establish the flow of data and achieve the intended transformation.
There are three types of components within a Data Flow task: Data Flow Sources, Data Flow Transformations, and Data Flow Destinations, shown in that order within the SSIS Designer toolbox. These types are also referred to more simply as sources, transformations, or destinations. As implied by the names, data flows from a source to a transformation, and then to a destination. This is a simplistic description of the data flow to illustrate the concept, but the Data Flow task is flexible and powerful enough to handle multiple sources, and to connect together many transformations that send output to multiple destinations.
The Data Flow task is added to a package the same way other tasks are added. After the task has been added, it is configured by adding components to the data flow task, and configuring and connecting components in the task.
The following code sample shows how to add a Data Flow task to a package. This example requires a reference to the assemblies Microsoft.SqlServer.PipelineHost, Microsoft.SqlServer.DTSPipelineWrap, and Microsoft.SqlServer.ManagedDTS.
using System;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.Wrapper;
namespace Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Samples
class Program
static void Main(string[] args)
Package p = new Package();
Executable e = p.Executables.Add("DTS.Pipeline.1");
TaskHost thMainPipe = e as TaskHost;
MainPipe dataFlowTask = thMainPipe.InnerObject as MainPipe;
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Release History
17 November 2008
Changed content:
• Added the assembly, Microsoft.SqlServer.ManagedDTS, to the list of required assemblies for the code sample.
17 July 2006
Changed content:
• Replaced code examples with longer samples.
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CurrencyManager Class
Manages a list of Binding objects.
Namespace: System.Windows.Forms
Assembly: System.Windows.Forms (in System.Windows.Forms.dll)
public class CurrencyManager : BindingManagerBase
The CurrencyManager derives from the BindingManagerBase class. Use the BindingContext to return either a CurrencyManager or a PropertyManager. The actual object returned depends on the data source and data member passed to the Item property of the BindingContext. If the data source is an object that can return only a single property (instead of a list of objects), the type will be a PropertyManager. For example, if you specify a TextBox as the data source, a PropertyManager will be returned. If, on the other hand, the data source is an object that implements the IList, IListSource, or IBindingList interface, a CurrencyManager will be returned.
The Current property returns the current item in the underlying list. To change the current item, set the Position property to a new value. The value must be greater than 0 and must be less than the value of the Count property.
If the underlying data source implements the IBindingList interface, and the AllowNew property is set to true, you can use the AddNew method.
The following code example binds a TextBox control to a column in a DataTable, gets the CurrencyManager for the binding, and sets its position.
private CurrencyManager myCurrencyManager;
private void BindControl(DataTable myTable){
// Bind a TextBox control to a DataTable column in a DataSet.
textBox1.DataBindings.Add("Text", myTable, "CompanyName");
// Specify the CurrencyManager for the DataTable.
myCurrencyManager = (CurrencyManager)this.BindingContext[myTable];
// Set the initial Position of the control.
myCurrencyManager.Position = 0;
private void MoveNext(CurrencyManager myCurrencyManager){
if (myCurrencyManager.Position == myCurrencyManager.Count - 1){
MessageBox.Show("You're at end of the records");
myCurrencyManager.Position += 1;
private void MoveFirst(CurrencyManager myCurrencyManager){
myCurrencyManager.Position = 0;
private void MovePrevious(CurrencyManager myCurrencyManager ){
if(myCurrencyManager.Position == 0) {
MessageBox.Show("You're at the beginning of the records.");
myCurrencyManager.Position -= 1;
private void MoveLast(CurrencyManager myCurrencyManager){
myCurrencyManager.Position = myCurrencyManager.Count - 1;
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Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0
.NET Compact Framework
Supported in: 3.5, 2.0, 1.0
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"Aiden Pearce is using a device to control the city, so it's quite easy to imagine what we could do with that." (Watch Dogs, Wii U)
Sharius + 383d ago
let's them play snake game while the character's hacking?
zeal0us + 383d ago
They should just skip the wii u tablet and put that support to the overall wii u development.
Jadedz + 383d ago
I hope...
They don't nerf the Wii U version.
Blaze929 + 383d ago
"We're still investigating how we'll use the tablet on the Wii U"
Well, if they are still thinking how to use the main feature of the Wii U this far into development, probably safe to say it won't be all that phenomenal. Anything they use it for at this point will seem like gimmicks and not true thought and purpose.
Yeah even I can see how much sense it makes to use the tablet with this game. Hacking on wiiu might actually be more interesting than other platforms.
Link079 + 383d ago
They will make the WiiU version good i trust ubisoft and i'll pre-order soon as it's available in the UK in GAME or AMAZON UK ect.
Link079 + 383d ago
So Watchdogs is already running on WiiU so no dev problems there,the wiiu should get all the same extra's as ps4.
paul1974 + 383d ago
based on specs I see it like this:
1) PC and PS4 highest resolutions full 1080p and content, better fidelity of graphics due to extra ram!
2) Wii u 720p up scaled by wii u to 1080p with game pad functions and full content with visuals like criterion have given on need for speed
3) Xbox 360 and ps3 below 720p and full content! this is the case with COD black ops 2, less ram then wii u and lower quality GPU!
Was good to read its running already on Wii u :)
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Link079 + 383d ago
WiiU will have exact same resolution as ps4,pc will have true 1080p/60fps,in other words i think ps4/Wiiu will have Native 720p/60fps.
Simple as that.
WiiU NFS MOST WANTED U is basically equivalent to high/ultra on pc.
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paul1974 + 383d ago
in response! i can't see it being 60fps or required as I think only fast moving games need 60FPS like racers? I think 30FPS will still be the norm! I guess we have to wait and see! I am just happy to have this game and one to look forward too!
I am sure it won't be a let down! i mean are was very happy with zombiu!
profgerbik + 383d ago
Sadly NFS Most Wanted is by no means the definition of one of the greatest looking games around.
Don't get me wrong the Wii U version is clearly better looking than the others on consoles but still it's not a game that comes to mind when I think of graphical achievements.
Sure it is graphically nice but seeing graphics like that were very apparent in PC some years ago, so no there is no way NFS on Wii U is even comparable to higher end PC's or the games that are graphically truly intense, now is it comparable to NFS on PC sure but again you are comparing the same game.
Of course it's going to be close to or comparable when it's the same game. Like I said I am not really discrediting NFS Most wanted but I really don't find it to be that amazing graphically even on the Wii U it isn't anything I haven't already seen before is all I am saying..
No am I not trying to brag about PC either just saying.
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Bumpmapping + 383d ago
You're truly delusional lmao you also said......
GT6 was also 60fp 1080p you cant compare a racer to a open world game,theres way more going on its alot more complex.Wii U specs will NOT be able to run Watch dogs in 60fps trust me.Either get the PC or PS4 version if you want that type of performance.
paul1974 + 383d ago
just want to know when this is out! Christmas??? if so I will ask the wife to buy it for me on my lovely wii u :)
stuntman_mike + 383d ago
they could take the wheel menu on screen and put it on the gamepad, that would be one less thing cluttering the screen. a map screen of course.
you could have a more in depth database on people, for example when you hover the cursor over someone it only gives you certain info on them you could have a more fleshed out version on the gamepad.
all your hacking can be done on the gamepad, there's a few things they could do.
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lovegames718 + 383d ago
lol at Link trying to hype up wiiu and downplay ps4. Moron everyone already knows ps4 is a good amount more powerful then wiiu in every aspect. Ps4 version will without a doubt have the better offering between the wiiu and ps4 probably with higher res. Dream your little dreams lol
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At the Northern Hideout
(北アジトにて, Kita Ajito nite)
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Volume The Fruits of the Training…!!
Previous The Next Person!!
Chapter 349
Next Shocking News…!!
Arc Itachi Pursuit Arc
Anime Naruto Shippūden #117
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At the Northern Hideout (北アジトにて, Kita Ajito nite) is chapter 349 of the Naruto manga.
Karin warns Sasuke about Jūgo, but he is not concerned. Knowing little about Jūgo, Suigetsu asks what the problem is. Karin explains that Jūgo willingly became a prisoner of Orochimaru in order to find a cure for his murderous impulses. By experimenting on Jūgo, Orochimaru's Juinjutsu were created. With Orochimaru now gone, recipients of one of these cursed seals run rampant at the base where Jūgo is held. One escapes and finds Sasuke and the others approaching the base. He attacks them, but Sasuke quickly cuts him down.
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Lightning Release: Lightning Quake Flash
Kanji 雷遁・雷震閃
Rōmaji Raiton: Raishinsen
Literal English Lightning Release: Lightning Quake Flash
Games Lightning Style: Thunderbolt Flash
Game Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3
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Classification Ninjutsu
Class Offensive
Range Short-range
The user releases a current of purplish lightning from their hands forward, damaging and knocking away enemies. This technique is similar to Chidori Current as they both have the effect of shooting lightning currents at their opponent. Its range, unlike that of Chidori Current, is much smaller.
• After acquiring the scroll for this technique it can be set to almost every character, even if their chakra nature isn't lightning.
• The appearance of this technique is similar to how Kakuzu's Lightning Release: False Darkness appears in the game.
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The Naruto: Ninja Council series, known in Japan as Naruto: Saikyō Ninja Daikesshū (ＮＡＲＵＴＯ－ナルト- 最強忍者大結集), is a series of action games developed by Aspect and published by Tomy. Various instalments of the series have appeared on both Nintendo's Game Boy Advance and DS, the first two games in the series available for the former while the rest are available on the latter.
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Naruto Shippūden: Naruto vs. Sasuke Nintendo DS 4 July 2008 6 November 2010
Naruto Shippūden: Ninja Council 4 Nintendo DS 19 July 2007 2 June 2009
Naruto Shippūden: Shinobi Rumble Nintendo DS 22 April 2010 8 February 2011
Naruto: Ninja Council Game Boy Advance 1 May 2003 22 March 2006
Naruto: Ninja Council 2 Game Boy Advance 29 April 2004 10 October 2006
Naruto: Ninja Council 2 European Version Nintendo DS 21 April 2005 5 May 2005
Naruto: Ninja Council 3 Nintendo DS 27 April 2006 22 May 2007
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I've seen websites that screen programmers by their ability to write code. It's a service that you enter a programming question into and then send out a link. Job candidates program their solution to the question as they are timed and recorded. The person who posted the question can then playback a video of their candidate programming the script. This video allows them to see how quickly and neatly their job candidate can code.
Are these types of services worth it? What caveats and hangups are there to using such things to screen potential hires?
Joel Spolsky has shared his secret on how he hires his top coders. – Job May 22 '11 at 16:12
The previous version of this question was way off-topic; given that the top answer (by far) ignored that version, I've revised the question to ask about the value of these services, which is on-topic here. – user8 Nov 28 '11 at 15:29
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I found NvnTest as reliable screening service because it supports webcam which makes sure that test is taken by himself and not helped by others.
another worth themention is polytechnicsolutions.com even super technical bunch of guys you can understand and get you great results in no time at all. very easy to use and cutomer support is outstanding! – kacalapy Jan 24 at 20:57
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I know why you want this. For every hundred candidates you get, you receive 90 from people who can't code for beans. They probably have no idea what a compiler is.
Now consider their side. For every hundred companies those 10 real programmers apply for, they find that 90 of them fail to score a single point on the Joel Test. They want programmers to fix bugs in crappy legacy projects written in VB5.
If you fail to communicate that you're a good company to work for from the outset - suppose you use some sort of half-arsed web-based screening program, for example - those good candidates will go elsewhere.
Unless you are Apple, Google, Microsoft or something similar, it's up to you to prove to candidates that you are worth their time. Impersonal arbitrary barriers that say "I don't want to talk to you myself" aren't a way of attracting the best people.
Very well said Ant! I appreciate the feedback! – Robert Klubenspies May 22 '11 at 16:23
This should be a comment on the question, not an answer. – rjmunro Nov 28 '11 at 15:00
@rjmunro The original version of this question was way off-topic: this answer, by completely ignoring the question, is the only thing that was on-topic, so I've revised the question to ensure this is a direct answer to it. – user8 Nov 28 '11 at 15:31
@rjmunro: "Use a hammer" is the correct answer when someone asks for help putting nails in with their table saw. – Daenyth Nov 28 '11 at 15:31
@Daenyth: you made me lol :D – sparkleshy Nov 28 '11 at 18:41
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I need to call a servlet from an HTML file, but I can't get my servlet to work outside the Eclipse IDE. Something must be wrong with my paths, but I don't know what.
I'm using Tomcat 7.0.
This is my servlet class:
package myapp;
public class HelloServlet extends HttpServlet {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
Hello World!
I also have this web.xml file:
And my HTML file has a simple form like this:
Then, in my C:Program FilesApache Software FoundationTomcat 7.0webapps folder I created a "test" folder where I placed my index.html file and a WEB-INF folder with the web.xml file and a sub-folder called "classes", where I placed and HelloServlet.class.
I also set environment variables in my windows 7 system: CATALINA_HOME with value C:Program FilesApache Software FoundationTomcat 7.0 and CLASSPATH with value %CLASSPATH%;%CATALINA_HOME%commonlibservlet-api.jar;.
With all of this, I start tomcat, open index.html and click on the submit button. All I get is a "Firefox can't find the file at /C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 7.0/webapps/test/HelloServlet" error message.
What kind of newbie mistake am I making?
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I wait here, alone, and happy
Or should I say, at least quiet
Inflicting my pain on as few
as I can, love being what it is
A whispered lie in the darkness
Making me dream of oblivion,
Hope springing infernal, holding me
Here, in memories of you.
How can I say this to you, that I
Am afraid to be in love with you
As I am, a shell of a man
Broken like glass in the street
The unkindest cut of all I bring
A splinter in your minds eye
Blinded to the agony that comes
Bleeding into you, into you.
I turn away, passing beyond this
Forlorn, but better this way, I
Don't drag you down with me
Drowning in my own bitterness.
Closure comes only with darkness
Sunset wishes, twilight promise
There is an end to all of this
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I'm attempting to manage ESX 4.0 hosts that sit in front of the firewall that protects my vCenter 4.0 Server. The ESX hosts are public. After a minute or two the hosts drop out of the cluster and say "Not Responding". I've set the firewall to time out 'never' on the ports that I've assigned to it. The firewall is a Juniper SSG-550. I've got these ports opened:
53, 80, 389, 427, 443, 626, 902, 903, 905, 5988, 5989, 8080, 8443, 9000-9010, and 27000-27010
Can anyone offer a solution to why my hosts drop out of my cluster? If I put them on the private network behind the firewall they stay with no issue. I can't open console on the VMs then from a public connection.
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Not to question your setup, but it seems like a bad idea to put the hosts outside your firewall. If they get hacked, all your VMs are now owned by the hacker...
Rather, you should put the ESX Host on the private side of the firewall and then make a DMZ vSwitch within the ESX host. You should be able to do this easily by physically setting one of the NIC cards in your ESX Host outside the firewall and including ONLY that card in your DMZ vSwitch -or-
you can use VLANing, if you have an ethernet switch that supports it, and combine the DMZ network with other networks on your vSwitch and take advantage of existing NICs in your ESX Host(s).
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I need to configure SQL Server aliases on a public-facing production server. To do that, I need to install SQL Server Configuration Manager.
I was not able to find a standalone installer for that, so I am having to install SQL Server 2005 Client Components. This approach is not ideal as we don't want to have SSMS on an public-facing production server.
Is there a way to install SQL Server 2005 Configuration Manager without installing SQL Server Management Studio?
EDIT: Found a way. See my answer below.
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I've found a way to configure aliases that doesn't involve installing client tools on the production server.
Aliases can be setup using SQL Server Client Network Utility (cliconfg.exe) as described in this article: How to setup and use a SQL Server alias
This utility is part of a standard install since Windows 2000 Server and I can confirm that it worked for me on Windows 2008 Server R1 (64-bit).
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Yes, its true, you need client tools to access this console. Obviously if you don't have SSMS running locally, then you have another computer that has the client tools running that can access the database server.
You can either use the computer management console from the computer with SSMS to connect to your SQL Server box as described here or, there is a lesser known method to get access to this from within SSMS:
1. Register the server in the registered servers console
2. Right-click on registered server and click SQL Server Configuration Manager...
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The tool is actually a mmc snap-in called SQLServerManager.msc, although I don't think it's portable enough to simply copy to a box to run stand alone.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15310 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
Is there way in MySQL Workbench to connect to a database via HTTP Tunnel?
I've used HTTP tunnel for a while with Navicat and I would like to connect on same way to a remote databases with MySQL Workbench.
Thank you in advance
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Navicat probably uses a PHP script hosted on a web server to work via an HTTP tunnel, if it works like similar products. MySQL Workbench doesn't have that feature as far as I know. You'd have to tunnel via SSH as Steve Mayne suggests.
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There's no reason why you shouldn't be able to set up a tunnel to do this. Once you've established your connection, simply connect your MySQL Workbench to the local port that you've tunnelled to your remote server.
Obviously you'll need to be running to appropriate tunnel server on the remote-side to be able to accept your connection and establish the real TCP connection with the MySQL server.
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I have a Proliant 360 Hp server with Windows server 2003 R2. I can only access the server in safe mode.
The event viewer is completely filled up with this error:
The driver detected a controller error on Device\Harddisk3\DR3
I figured out which drive was affected. It is drive H that is a secondary non mirrored drive.
When I access anything on that drive I receive:
What should I do? Is this just a driver issue or a hard drive failure?
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I executed chkdsk H: /f and I was surprised to see this tool perform many fixes. Unfortunately I lost the output it produced :(. It fixed certain indexes, and many "orphaned files". After this the drive was accessible again. Now I am trying a restart in normal mode and I will update on this. – Durden81 Mar 20 '12 at 16:52
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The troubleshooting guide for windows server.
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Thank you for your answer. However in this case the issue was completely fixed by using chkdsk /f. – Durden81 Mar 20 '12 at 17:02
I think that's in that guide somewhere too :p – Lucas Kauffman Mar 20 '12 at 17:05
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After 10 days of running smoothly I can confirm that the issue was completely fixed by using chkdsk /f on the drive.
The troubleshooting guide didn't contain this, which instead is one of the first thing that should be done.
Now I added chkdsk to my maintanance plan of the server automatically running this command every few months on all drives:
@echo off
(echo n
echo y)|chkdsk {drive letter}: /f
(It would execute the chkdsk on a restart without forcing one)
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I'm running apache with mod_python, and I'm having trouble reading files from a specific directory. Previously the directory had 0777 permissions but I've decided to change it to 0770 (not quite happy with having other RW access).
So I changed the permissions of the directory and changed its group to "apache" since another user writes information into it (which is also a member of the "apache" group). I've also enabled the Set-group-ID bit since the main group of the user who writes isn't "apache".
When I look at the files I do see that all have the correct permissions and group, but when I try to load a page from the directory I get:
567 dirlist = os.listdir(logroot)
568 dirlist.sort(key=int,reverse=True)
569 for entry in dirlist[0:days]:
dirlist undefined, global os = , os.listdir = , logroot = '/path-to-dir/fix-dir-permissions/Logs/'
type 'exceptions.OSError': [Errno 13] Permission denied:'/path-to-dir/fix-dir-permissions/Logs/'
The Logs directory has the following permissions:
drwxrws--- 4 john apache 4096 Dec 27 15:59 Logs
What am I doing wrong?
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I've decided to change it to 0770 : You missed : drwxrws <- the s indicates 2770 instead of 0770. But it's not likely to be the cause of your problem – Eric DANNIELOU Dec 27 '12 at 14:54
@EricDANNIELOU, You are correct, I miss wrote 0777. In my code I set it using python's os.chmod function, and there I use S_ISGID flag so it works correctly. – Benjamin K. Dec 27 '12 at 15:04
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Check the permissions of all directories above the Logs/ directory, and also check the status of SELinux. Those are the two most common issues I've seen result in situations like this.
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The directory above don't have the apache group but this is intentional, it is not supposed to read from there. How is SELinux supposed to affect this? – Benjamin K. Dec 27 '12 at 15:01
The directory above still needs to be traversible by the apache user/group. That usually translates to ensuring you have all directories above the target (in this case the Logs/ directory) executable by other. SELinux, if in enforcing mode and the Logs directory not properly labeled as a web content directory, will prevent apache from reading that directory regardless of the file permissions. – John Dec 27 '12 at 15:03
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Another question about the fantastic Christophe Humbert Easy Tabs library: Can the library be included in a page layout for a publishing site rather than in a content editor web part? This way it's automagically included in all pages based on the page layout, rather than a CEWP that has to be dropped into each page from the gallery.
I spent yesterday trying to achieve this with no luck; I dropped a reference to the JS file at the end of the closing tag in the page layout. This is after all the sections that will contain web parts. The tabs showed but they didn't work correctly; only the Expand All and Print Preview worked. The rest had no content. I tried moving the JS reference to other parts of the page layout, but none worked.
Your help is appreciated. Thanks.
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The Easy Tabs script needs to know which Web Part zone the tabed interface should be applied to.
When you drop it in a CEWP, the code assumes that the tabs will be created in the current zone. It also assumes that it runs from within a Web Part (CEWP or other). Its first step is to crawl up the hierarchy to find the Web Part zone.
In order to make it work in a page layout, you would need to modify the code to explicitly point to the correct Web Part zone.
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Thanks, Christophe. It took me a day just to discover that it only worked as a CEWP; it uses its current context. I only need the web parts in a specific DIV to be shown in a tabbed UI. Your code works its way up the tree through the initial DO-WHILE loop using the variables declared right before it. It stops when it hits the outer container MSO_ContentTable. Beyond that, it's a mystery to me. – Alex C Sep 8 '11 at 14:58
Right. Instead of the do-while loop, you would need to directly point to the container. – Christophe Sep 8 '11 at 15:55
Got it!! Commented out the do-while loop and added this: p = document.getElementById('ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_ctl01__ControlWrapper_RichHtmlField'); The web parts I need to add to tabs are all inside the RichHtmlField, generated from the custom page layout. Took some trial-and-error to understand how your clever code worked. – Alex C Sep 11 '11 at 6:22
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15319 | Vogue’s Guide to Getting Great-Looking Legs
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After a winter hibernating under woolly tights, are your legs ready for spring's urban shorts? Lucky for you, there are zillions of new products tailor-made to repair splotchy sun damage, mask prominent veins, and add a flattering sheen or healthy touch of color-not to mention calf-and-thigh-centric fitness regimes sure to tighten and tone. Here, Vogue's guide to putting your best foot forward.
See the full list of products at Vogue.com
Elizabeth Arden Prevage Body Total Transforming Anti-Aging Moisturizer
A supercharged cream with high concentrations of the antioxidant idebenone to repair existing sun damage and help prevent future spots.
Jouer Luminizing Body Glow
This sheer gold highlighter provides a subtle dose of shimmer.
Benefit Bathina
A rose-gold balm that distracts the eye from discolorations like purple veins on pale skin.
Tarte Glam Gams
A bronzing stick for strategic shimmer application. Add a subtle highlight on shins to catch light to makes legs appear longer and leaner.
See also: Jennifer Lopez in Scorching Summer Swimsuits
Gillette Venus Olay razor
The smartest razor we've seen: Five blades plus Olay moisture-infused bars hydrate skin as you shave and help minimize irritation.
Dr. Dennis Gross Alpha Beta Glow Pad for Body with Active Vitamin D
An all-in-one exfoliating and anti-aging self-tanner wipe that also minimizes hair growth.
Jergens Natural Glow & Protect SPF 20
The best of both worlds: a gradual color-building daily moisturizer with SPF.
Diorskin Airflash Spray Foundation
Makeup artists swear by a spritz on the legs for more heavy-duty coverage that still feels lightweight.
Lancôme Flash Bronzer Tinted Self-Tanning Leg Gel
The gold standard in self-tanners works in just 30 minutes.
The Bar Method
With locations all over the U.S., classes-which include light weights, resistance bands, and its share of pliés-focus on low-impact, high-repetition movements borrowed from dance. barmethod.com
Ballet Beautiful
Ballet-inspired exercises designed to sculpt sleek dancer muscles. Take a live class online (private lessons at the New York studio in SoHo are also available) or stream the fifteen-minute Tendu Workout video from your computer, smartphone, or tablet to focus on inner thighs and the backs of legs. balletbeautiful.com
Physique 57
An isometric workout that uses your own body weight to build strength without bulk. For those who don't live near a studio (in New York or Beverly Hills), check out the 30-minute "Thighs and Seat Booster Workout" DVD. physique57.com/workout-dvds.html
Pop Physique
The ballet-meets-Pilates training, created by former professional dancer Jennifer Williams, seems to be taking over Los Angeles. Started in L.A.'s Silver Lake, Pop Physique now has ten locations across Southern California and a new San Francisco studio. popphysique.com
More from Vogue:
Kate Middleton's Best Looks from Her First Year as a Royal
Angelina Jolie Throughout the Years in Vogue
Vogue's Best Fashion Picks for Spring
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Lauren Weinstein writes "But there's a corollary to my "public is public" axiom that is much less frequently quoted. Even though attempts at Internet censorship will almost all fail in the end, governments and authorities have the capability to make groups' and individuals' lives extremely uncomfortable, painful, or even terminated — in the process of attempts at censorship, and equally important, by instilling fear to encourage self-censorship in the first place."
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msimm writes "I'm currently looking for a document management system for personal and research-related use. Having looked at Alfresco and KnowledgeTree along with a slew of similar open source document management systems they seem to have a common set of features including version control, archiving, document permission/ownership and search/indexing. What I'd like, in order to help me manage my own continually growing collection of pdf/doc/odf/rtf/txt files, would be something that allowed me to view and annotate documents (and possibly collaborate/share notes) without requiring me to download, edit and re-upload each document. Obviously there are plenty of capable document management systems out there, so I really suspect I've simply missed something and am hoping someone can point me to a better way to index, search, collaborate and keep and share notes on the ever increasing glut of useful information I seem to use and collect."
Man Sues Neighbor For Not Turning Off His Wi-Fi 428
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How To Judge Legal Risk When Making a Game Clone? 270
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ECMAScript Version 5 Approved 158
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systembug writes "After 10 years of waiting and some infighting, ECMAScript version 5 is finally out, approved by 19 of the 21 members of the ECMA Technical Committee 39. JSON is in; Intel and IBM dissented. IBM is obviously in disagreement with the decision against IEEE 754r, a floating point format for correct, but slow representation of decimal numbers, despite pleas by Yahoo's Douglas Crockford." (About 754r, Crockford says "It was rejected by ES4 and by ES3.1 — it was one of the few things that we could agree on. We all agreed that the IBM proposal should not go in.")
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NIK282000 writes "To cut down on accidents caused by drivers who aren't paying attention, in Ontario it is now a ticketable offense to text, email, or navigate with your GPS while driving. But it seems to me that they have thrown the baby out with the bathwater, because it is now also a $500 fine to change your radio station, change songs on your MP3 player, or even drink your morning coffee. It can also be enforced to the point where changing the climate controls on your dash can get you fined because it requires you to take your hands off the wheel. Though this was a good idea, it seems to have been taken a little too far."
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Comment: Open ended (Score 1) 160
by Edward Coffin (#28962445) Attached to: What's In an Educational Game?
I recommend that you read Brain Rot by Theodore Grey and Jerry Glynn. Among other things, it discusses this very topic. The summary I took away from it is you should make the game open-ended, giving full freedom to the player to go down the wrong paths, rather than being led down the right path.
Interesting snippets:
In a continuation of the above point, in a discussion of programs to teach geometry:
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Comment: Re:Hmmm... (Score 3, Interesting) 959
by ewhac (#46465301) Attached to: How Do You Backup 20TB of Data?
I had only hard of LTO tapes quite recently, and I did a very tiny bit of poking around. The latest generation is LTO-6, whose tapes can hold 2.5TB each (uncompressed). The tapes themselves are quite modestly priced -- an LTO-4 tape cartridge (800GB uncompressed) costs about $30 each.
The drives, however, are not cheap. New drives appear to start at around $1200. Used drives are all over the place -- I've seen some on eBay with an opening bid as low as $350. Also, all LTO drives appear to have either an LVD SCSI or a SAS interface, which means you'll also need a controller card. There appears to be no such thing as a SATA LTO drive.
Plus you get to re-live all the joys of selecting tape vendors, and placing bets on whose tapes are going to last for 20 years.
Comment: Re:Bullshit! (Score 1) 295
by ewhac (#46401781) Attached to: Google Won't Enable Chrome Video Acceleration Because of Linux GPU Bugs
Browser: Chrome 33.0.1750.146
GPU: Intel i965
OpenGL Version: 3.0 Mesa 9.1.7
Mind you, if I only turn on HW acceleration in the advanced settings panel, GMail runs sluggishly. If I also then enable your software rendering override, then GMail appears to run normally, but in both cases I still get the sluggish Jira pages. I've no idea what Jira's doing that would run so slowly.
Comment: Re:Stop Being Something Your Not (Score 1) 423
by ewhac (#46400203) Attached to: RadioShack To Close 1,100 Stores
Here ya go: http://www.electronicplus.com/
It's a family-owned and -operated business, with a single retail presence in San Rafael, CA. I used to have a part-time job there when I was in high school. That was (*gah!*) 30 years ago. They're still in business.
There was a Radio Shack in town, too, but you only went there for the pre-fab project kits and the free battery. (And the TRS-80 computers, if you were in to those.)
Electronics Plus's prices are nothing to write home about. But their selection is Z0MG!!1! Where did they find all this stuff?!? The only places you'll find an equally astonishing variety of things is HSC and Weird Stuff Warehouse (and maybe Fry's).
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by ewhac (#46314525) Attached to: Open Source Video Editor Pitivi Seeks Crowdfunding to Reach 1.0
Gratuitous plug for my YouTube "Let's Play" playlist.
All the videos I've compiled and uploaded to YouTube have been made using Kdenlive. I don't labor under the notion that it's perfect, but I found it much better and more accessible that anything else I tried.
Kdenlive's most annoying bug at the moment is that the sound in the final compiled video will sometimes drift, i.e. in an hour-long video, the sound will start off in sync with the video but, by the time you get to the end, it's as much as 1.5 seconds off. This drift does not appear when playing back in the editor timeline; only in the final compiled video. I have not been able to reliably reproduce this issue for the developers, nor do I have a notion of what triggers it. Once it appears in a project, it's there and you can't get rid of it. It's possible it's an issue with MLT (the library on which Kdenlive is built) but, again, I haven't isolated the issue.
Other than that, it's worked very well for me. Even on those occasions when it has crashed, it has never destroyed my work; just re-launch and pick up from where you left off.
If something better came along, I would jump to it without much thought. But I haven't found it yet. I'll give 'pitivi' another look, but it looks as if installing it into my generic Debian system will be a pain (v0.92 is only available in the 'experimental' repository).
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sandbagger writes "Dazzle painting was that zebra striping used during the Great War to make surface ships difficult to follow in the foggy North Atlantic. Similar cosmetic pattern breaking may be proving useful in confusing facial recognition. Adding moth-like cosmetic paint daubs to the cheeks appears to break at least some facial recognition software. What's your experience, and, theoretically at least, what are its uses. (If anyone at Fort Meade is reading this, this is just a purely theoretical exercise.)"
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Comment: Re:quite the news flash... (Score 1) 118
by ewhac (#46252107) Attached to: Music Industry Is Keeping Streaming Services Unprofitable
I was the CEO of a company that sold ringtones and MP3s a la carte for mobile devices. When you added up (1) the licenses paid to record labels, (2) the fees paid to mobile operators for payment processing, and (3) publishing royalties, it was something like 120% of the retail price for the content. So, umm, not a really scalable business model.
I find this fascinating, especially given that the prices charged for ringtones were pure usury. I wonder if you'd be willing to relate a more detailed story of what you were facing.
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+ - Australian police deploy 3D crime scene scanner-> 1
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+ - China's Jade Rabbit Fights to Come Back From the Dead
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+ - Comcast to Acquire Time Warner Cable for $45 Billion-> 1
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davidannis writes "
For consumers, this means an even larger company with a reputation for poor customer service aggressively lobbying against things like net neutrality."
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+ - Jed McCaleb's Exit from Ripple Labs: The Plot Thickens->
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An anonymous reader writes "Jed McCaleb, the creator of E-Donkey and the founder of one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges, Mt.Gox, dropped out of Ripple Labs (a company that he is also a co-founder) to 'spend his time looking into new things: man-made surf parks and artificial intelligence'. As was written in an article from Wired: http://www.wired.com/wiredente...
But a video recently uploaded in YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ2DCKLHaQs&t=461) says otherwise. In the video, he mentioned that he left the company due to 'disagreements with someone brought on to be CEO'.
So which is it really? Maybe we will hear Jed McCaleb's side of the story in full in the near future. But for now Jed is probably busy on a new 'secret bitcoin project' (http://alphatesters.secretbitcoinproject.com/)."
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+ - MPAA Head Chris Dodd: I'm Willing To Discuss Copyright Reform As Long As Nothing->
Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Chris Dodd, head of the MPAA, has decided that, 16 years after the Napsterpocalypse (which singlehandedly killed the recording and motion picture industries, both of which are now nothing but vague memories for pre-Gen Xers), it's time to meet the tech industry in the middle and start working together.
But, as is Dodd's way, "in the middle" means drawing a line inches away from the MPAA's position and "working together" means making heavy concessions to the incumbent industries."
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Comment: Re:60 or bust (Score 1) 599
by Soul-Burn666 (#42297479) Attached to: Why <em>The Hobbit's</em> 48fps Is a Good Thing
It's not 240hz input. I have recently bought a plasma TV with advertised "600hz". However, the TV accepts up to 60hz input. Where do these x10 frames come into play? In dejuddering. The panel interpolates frames so the motion is smoother.
It also helps with 3d content, faster switching between eyes.
Comment: Re:I was going to try something similar... (Score 1, Interesting) 378
by Soul-Burn666 (#39691511) Attached to: The Laws of Physics Trump Traffic Laws
A good friend of mine was pulled over by a cop who claimed he was speeding, driving over 100kph in a 50kph zone.
This was a *really* old and ran down car so the friend proposed that if the cop can reach 100kph in his car, he'll agree with the ticket.
After about 2 minutes of struggling to go over 30kph, with the cop swearing heavily at the car, he gave up on the ticket.
Comment: Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 394
by Soul-Burn666 (#39670811) Attached to: 1366x768 Monitors Top 1024x768 For the First Time
I honestly find it easier to scan 132 columns with my eyes rather than 80 columns with my eyes and fingers, having to scroll the text because not enough of it fits on the screen and losing my position.
For example, I prefer reading long log lines which fit without wrapping, one event per line, rather than taking up a few lines and having many less lines on the screen.
Comment: Re:Eh (Score 1) 461
by Soul-Burn666 (#39145663) Attached to: Comparing Today's Computers To 1995's
Today it manifests in the ability to optimize developer time.
A script I can today code in 30 minutes and run for 5 minutes is better than an application I had to write 15 years ago that took 4 hours to write, just to be able to run it under an hour of processing.
It allows to developers to focus on developing new features easily, and not wasting time optimizing a 5 second operation to 2 seconds.
Comment: Re:It still works. (Score 1) 879
by Soul-Burn666 (#38586036) Attached to: What's Keeping You On XP?
Because it's much more user-friendly than XP?
Start-menu search is a godsend, rendering the need for menus redundant and slow. It searches through the start menu, control panel (with a TON of synonymous definitions to make stuff easy to find), indexed locations (hardly use that but still).
Easy window tiling using the keyboard (winkey-left/right moves the window to the left/right half of the screen), winkey-up/down for maximize/minimize, the ability to drag a maximized window without restoring.
A more streamlined taskbar which allows you to move icons around and not waste space on "quick launch".
Instant preview on alt-tab both on the alt-tab popup and behind, making other windows transparent.
Instant preview on grouped tasks.
The Resource Monitor.
Volume per application.
Comment: Re:I don't believe it... well, OK, I do. (Score 1) 538
by Soul-Burn666 (#37391922) Attached to: Microsoft Reveals More Windows 8 Details
It's true that using only full-screen applications is bad when you want to cross-use them.
That's why the added the ability to tile two applications horizontally, which is what people usually do in these times.
I hope though, that they allow further tiling and not limiting it to 2 applications.
Comment: Re:However (Score 1) 951
by Soul-Burn666 (#37250784) Attached to: Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager
"Win7 removed the Quick Launch" What crack you are talking?
Win7 took the Mac approach you so love and combined the real-estate for applications you want to launch and applications which are already running. If you want a new instance of an application just right-click (or left-click-drag-up) the icon and run it.
IMHO, the Ribbon is categorized much better than in the previous Office versions.
Also, people usually want to apply several actions from the same category before moving to another. For that the Ribbon works great.
As for keyboard shortcuts, just hold or tap Alt and you see the shortcut overlayed. It's as simple as that.
As for the actual shortcuts being confusing, I agree.
Comment: Re:Paging Darth Vader (Score 1) 951
by Soul-Burn666 (#37250624) Attached to: Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager
This has already been done to a great extent using the search box in the Start menu.
Want to start some application? Just write its name.
Want to reach some obscure Control Panel applet? Just write something that has to do with it.
Adding such functionality to controls and menu options can be awesome :)
Ultimately, what you get is an assisted command line interface - quick and expressive.
Comment: Re:Another approach (Score 1) 196
by Soul-Burn666 (#36919642) Attached to: Single Photons Do Not Exceed the Speed of Light
No. You wouldn't *be* at both places at the same time.
The only thing that will happen is that for an outside observer, you would seem to be in both places at the same time, or even be at a closer position before being in the original position.
Just if a supersonic airplane was flying your way, you'd first hear the noise from its later position and only after that you'll here the noise from the previous location.
This *isn't* time travel, but rather just an illusion.
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Comment: Re:News for Nerds (Score 4, Interesting) 131
by ardmhacha (#45491471) Attached to: 22-Year-Old Norwegian Magnus Carlsen Is the New World Chess Champion
And editor Soulskill made some useful edits to my submission as well, adding links to the individual games and changing my "(+3 -0 =7)" results to a more understandable (to non chess players) "(3 wins, 0 losses, 7 draws)"
+ - 22 year old Norwegian Magnus Carlsen is the new World Chess Champion
Submitted by ardmhacha
ardmhacha writes "Magnus Carlsen was able to force a draw in the 10th game of the World Chess Chamionship to claim the title with a 6.5 — 3.5 win (+3 -0 =7) over Viswanathan Anand. http://chennai2013.fide.com/anand-carsen-game-1-live-analysis-video/
Carlsen became the youngest ever World No. 1 in 2010 but withdrew from the 2012 championship cycle and so has only now been able to add the World Champion title to his No 1 ranking.
He won three games and lost none, his first two victories came when he was able to convert small advantages in the end game into wins. The third (in game 9) came after an Anand blunder.
Comment: Complete nonsense (Score 5, Insightful) 497
by ardmhacha (#45090649) Attached to: Cost of Healthcare.gov: $634 Million — So Far
This figure is not just for building a website.
It is for all spending with CGI Federal over the time that they have been doing business with the Federal government, including payments from fiscal years before Obamacare was even passed.
The figure is now being regurgitated by various right wing websites without anything that even passes for thinking.
And also now slashdot, which is disappointing.
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Comment: Re:Java killer? (Score 2) 623
by cakoose (#35805292) Attached to: Red Hat Uncloaks 'Java Killer': the Ceylon Project
In a perfect world probably. But have you considered that there's a reason why primitive types are left as primitives even in C# (which had the opportunity to correct the mistakes Java made).
I'm not suggesting that primitive types be implemented using the mechanics of regular objects. I'm just saying that they could be made to appear to the programmer like regular objects. Combined with certain restrictions (e.g. no extending from primitives) and some compiler tricks, this can be made to work efficiently. The fact that Java's primitive types are all immutable makes this even easier -- immutable objects are very well-behaved.
And sure, your performance might suffer if you're not careful, but I don't think that's necessarily worse than having to force people to deal with the primitive/object difference even when they don't particularly care. It's kind of like the autoboxing situation today. If you're not careful you could end up with a bunch of unwanted boxing/unboxing operations. So when I need to be careful, I am. But when I just want to get something done, it's way easier to just let the autoboxing happen.
Comment: Re:Java killer? (Score 4, Insightful) 623
by cakoose (#35803446) Attached to: Red Hat Uncloaks 'Java Killer': the Ceylon Project
My favorite part about the post is that he points to C# as an example of a "good" language, as if C# and Java were not essentially the same language.
C# started out essentially the same as Java. But at this point it's way better.
• Function types and closures. This alone makes it way better.
• More efficient generics (no boxing/unboxing).
• Local variable type inference.
• Coming in C# 5.0: automatic CPS transformation (async/await).
Comment: Re:Java killer? (Score 5, Insightful) 623
by cakoose (#35803288) Attached to: Red Hat Uncloaks 'Java Killer': the Ceylon Project
Any experienced c++ programmer will tell you that "classes if necessary, but not necessarily classes" is the way to go. Class explosion is not pretty, and makes for over-complex stupid implementations.
When trying to design a new, clean, high-level programming language, I probably wouldn't pay much attention to C++ rules of thumb.
Making everything behave like an object can make things much cleaner. It all depends on how exactly this is done, but a lot of complexity in Java comes from the fact that primitive types behave differently. C# did a bit better, but there's still the value-vs-class distinction which can trip you up in subtle ways.
AT&T Wireless Data Still Growing At 1000% 137
Posted by samzenpus
from the big-and-bigger dept.
XBox (Games)
The Inside Story of Microsoft's 'Project Natal' 130
Posted by CmdrTaco
from the dance-for-your-joy dept.
Lanxon writes "Wired has published a lengthy behind-the-scenes feature documenting the inception, development and technological struggles of Microsoft's Project Natal, now known as Kinect. The feature is the result of conversations the magazine had with a number of key developers and researchers behind the project, and unprecedented access to Microsoft Research in a number of countries, over the course of three years."
Chemistry Tasks For the Computer Lab? 154
Posted by timothy
from the just-the-basics dept.
soupman55 writes "I teach Chemistry to students completing their last two years of high school. Basically it's a 'teach and test' course with a few experiments thrown in. I want to jazz up the course using computer and internet resources. For instance, I could set some tasks that require Excel spreadsheet calculations. Or I could set some web quests where students search for information online. One of the decisions to be made is: Do I use computer/internet tasks to help the students grasp the material that is already in the course, or do I help them become aware of ideas that are extensions to their course? Also, when I compare Chemistry classes with Accounting classes, it strikes me that unlike Accounting where learning to use software like Quick Books is an integral part of the course, that there is no particular software that a chemistry student must learn to use. Or is there? What in terms of chemistry and computers worked for you? Or what is there computer-wise that wasn't in your high school chemistry course but should have been?"
Comment: Re:Say goodbye for XML (Score 1) 272
by cakoose (#30531448) Attached to: Microsoft Ordered To Pay $290M, Stop Selling Word
I think you're wrong. From the coverage I've read, it's a method of processing and manipulating XML documents, and they designed an piece of XML editing software around it which they showed to Microsoft and Microsoft then stole the ideas from.
News coverage of technical things is so effing horrible. Most tech articles are written by people who don't understand programming but don't see why that should stop them from broadcasting their misinterpretation of technical information. You should just read the patent; most of it is very clearly-written.
It does not predate XML, and has nothing to do with XML-based standards.
Filed in 1994, it does predate XML. It doesn't predate SGML, though, and since core XML is essentially the same thing, it's probably safe. However, I it does affect XML-based standards -- specifically the ones that separate content from structure/presentation.
The Patent
It's a way to separate content from structure. So, for example, where and SGML document would store data like "<p>Hi <i>friend</i></p>", they store it as two separate pieces of data. The content piece would be "Hi friend", the structure piece would be "0:p, 3:i, 9:/i, 9:/p" (roughly). So now if you wanted to format that document differently, you could just use a different structure piece; the content piece doesn't change.
This exact technique obvious, so I don't think it should have been awarded a patent. But maybe what's obvious to us in 2009 may not have been obvious to the patent examiner in 1994 and, in any case, it doesn't look like any of the affected parties are going to try and argue obviousness. The important question is how generally will their technique be interpreted?
Taken narrowly, it's a way of putting XML-like tags in a separate file, mapping them back into the content using byte offsets. This is easy enough to work around. Taken broadly, it's a way of separating content from structure. So, any time you augment the content in one file by some kind of annotations in another, you're violating their patent. So HTML and CSS are problematic because the style information is in a separate file, even though the mapping is done using tag and class names and not using byte offsets.
I don't know much about patent litigation, so I don't know how much leeway they give plaintiffs. But I doubt Microsoft Word uses their exact technique; they probably do something similar to HTML+CSS or XSLT. So this victory could indicate that the courts are interpreting the technique broadly. Which sucks. Man, patents like this are killing the industry.
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Intel Shows 48-Core x86 Processor 366
Posted by timothy
from the soon-will-be-in-calculators dept.
Vigile writes "Intel unveiled a completely new processor design today the company is dubbing the 'Single-chip Cloud Computer' (but was previously codenamed Bangalore). Justin Rattner, the company's CTO, discussed the new product at a press event in Santa Clara and revealed some interesting information about the goals and design of the new CPU. While terascale processing has been discussed for some time, this new CPU is the first to integrate full IA x86 cores rather than simple floating point units. The 48 cores are set 2 to a 'tile' and each tile communicates with others via a 2D mesh network capable of 256 GB/s rather than a large cache structure. "
Comment: The BetaNews article is horrible (Score 1) 332
by cakoose (#24106331) Attached to: Google Open Sources Its Data Interchange Format
Man, the BetaNews article is horrible. Practically everything — except for the direct quotes from the Google blog post — is incorrect. I somehow expect more from someone who goes by "Scott M. Fulton, III".
Google's public documentation shows Protocol Buffers (which has yet to be formally abbreviated) is indeed conceptually different from XML, in that it's rooted more in procedural logic than structural declaration. In XML, there's a schema which defines the structures of tables and recordsets, which is separate from the document that relates the contents of records in that structure.
Nope, they're conceptually the same. The ".proto" files are like DTD or XSD. The actual document data is stored in a binary format (though there's also a text representation). The data manipulation API is similar what you get from Castor or JAX-B.
But here, in an unusual departure from the norm, the default values for these members are set to digits (for strings or literals) or values (for numerals) that define their place in a sequence -- where they fall within a record. Imagine if data were streamed onto recording tape, the way it used to be in the late 1960s and '70s. It's that streaming of the data sequence, without all the fenceposts, that differentiates XML from Protocol Buffers, by taking out all those markups that say when an entry or a record starts and stops.
The "= number" at the end of a field definition is not a "default value". It is a numeric tag that identifies that field. That said, "= number" is quite unintuitive syntax; maybe something like "@number" would have been less confusing.
Looking at some of the documentation, I don't think the aforementioned numbers directly index the field's location in the record. They lay down the present fields one after another, probably putting each field's tag number before the field data. This also allows them to avoid sending fields that use the default value. So they still need to specify how long each record is — either with "fenceposts" between records or a "length" specifier before each record.
Google Open Sources Its Data Interchange Format 332
Posted by kdawson
from the it's-fast-that's-why dept.
Gaining System-Level Access To Vista 412
Posted by kdawson
from the seems-too-simple-somehow dept.
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Comment: Re:Learned our lesson from the Wii (Score 1) 281
by ditoa (#42083431) Attached to: THQ Clarifies Claims of "Horrible, Slow" Wii U CPU
Comment: Re:Smart boxes not TVs (Score 1) 183
by ditoa (#38717128) Attached to: Ubuntu TV: Coming Soon To a Living Room Near You (Video)
I have a brand new Galaxy Nexus which I switched too just over a month ago from an iPhone 3GS. My biggest diappointment with Android is that the BBC iPlayer app is not available for the GN still! :( It doesn't even appear in the Android market as it is "incompatible". I can watch it view the iPlayer website (if I request the "full" site not the mobile version) but performance is not great and it eats thru the battery. It sucks as the GN has such a beautiful big screen. Yes the iPhone has newer apps (mostly games from my experience) that required an iPhone 4 or 4S due to graphical performance but I am yet to find a "general app" that does not work on my 3GS. The fragmentation on iOS is there but very minor however on Android it is pretty awful. Not to mention stock Android not coming with what I would consider to be "standard" features (such as a timer or notebook app, I was shocked to find I had to get third party apps for such things, especially when the phone comes with things like Google+, you would think Google would have been able to write a couple of simple apps that iOS had at v1).
Comment: C Primer Plus (Score 1) 799
by ditoa (#30565682) Attached to: How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program?
Buy him a copy of C Primer Plus (5th Ed) by Stephen Prata and work through it with him. In my opinion it is one of the best introduction to C books available, if not the best and very friendly to first time programmers. Another option is Java: A Beginner's Guide (4th Ed) by Herbert Schildt.
I too believe that learning the lower level things such as memory allocation is the best way to make yourself a better life long programmer so I would advise C over Java however I know a lot of people who only know Java (or C#) and do just fine however they knew next to nothing about what I consider to be "real" programming. Everything they do is drag and drop then writing some logic to handle an event and letting the runtime deal with the "nitty gritty" stuff.
Comment: Re:This is why they were prosecuted (Score 4, Insightful) 574
by ditoa (#28570651) Attached to: US Couple Gets Prison Time For Internet Obscenity
I saw some movies worse than that! This dude keeps kidnapping people and hooking them up to machines that they can't escape from. The only way to survive is to admit something about yourself and sacrifice part of yourself or do some kind of other horrible act like cut the key out of somebody elses stomach. The worst one for me was a reverse bear trap on somebodies head which ripped their head in half when the timer went off. Needless to say I don't think anybody actually ever survived any of it.
Oh yeah these movies were called Saw. And I saw it in the cinema. The realism and gore was extreme. If these people were put away for making similar movies and selling them on the net then how can Amazon and Play.com sell the Saw movies? Surely every horror movie should be illegal and the directors and distributors arrested?
Comment: Re:Google hates ? (Score 1) 640
by ditoa (#28562577) Attached to: Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs
While I understand Google's problems with Theora quality it is surprising for them to be against it (which is what I assume is their official position for Theora support in the video tag?). By the time HTML5 is all finished I am sure Theora will be good enough and if they are unsure that it will be why can't they help it along with a few $$ or directly helping with development for it?
Comment: Re:Why do the vendors have a say? (Score 3, Interesting) 640
by ditoa (#28562375) Attached to: Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs
I agree. Mozilla have supported Ogg Vorbis and Theora as of 3.5 and it works pretty good from the demos I have used. The W3C needs to ignore everyone and push forward with Ogg support in the spec. If hardware acceleration is a problem then work with companies to get it supported in hardware. I know it won't be easy but saying "ugh that is gonna be too hard, lets just drop it from the spec" is stupid, work with Nvidia and ATI and Intel, etc. to get h/w support for Ogg. I am not a specialist so I have no idea how hard it would be to get h/w support for Ogg up and running but I know that my iRiver H10 mp3 player had Ogg support back in 2003 or so, so I am sure it is possible without _too_ much work.
Comment: Why do the vendors have a say? (Score 5, Insightful) 640
by ditoa (#28562189) Attached to: Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs
Perhaps it is a stupid question but why do the vendors have a say what goes into the spec and what doesn't? Isn't it up to them to choose to implement the spec fully or not? FFS just make it Ogg Vorbis/Theora and if Apple doesn't want to support it then Safari can just not support that part of the spec. It isn't like any of the browser are 100% complient anyway.
Comment: Re:Oh for crying out loud (Score 1) 352
by ditoa (#28148877) Attached to: Microsoft Kills 3-App Limit For Windows 7 Starter Edition
I am getting fed up with all the BS about Windows 7 being posted on /. A few years ago the MS bashing was valid due to what they were actually doing however now people just posted a load of crap that they half read on some blog 6 weeks ago and can't remember 90% of it anyway so just make it up.
So thank you for posting that :)
Microsoft are trying to "do the right thing" by listening to customers but when they do everybody changes the topic from the good (the removal of the crappy 3 app limit) to limitations which are there because it is designed for a netbook (i.e why have DVD playback on a netbook when not one netbook has a DVD drive?!, also DVD playback isn't free, if you want DVD playback get VLC not that hard). Windows 7 is looking to be a pretty decent upgrade. I am still not that crazy about the taskbar in 7 but Homegroups are really nice and the other UI changes like desktop peek are great.
Anyway I just wanted to say thanks :) have a good weekend!
Is Flash Really On 99% of Net Devices? 383
Posted by Soulskill
from the self-proclaimed-ubiquity dept.
Barence writes "Adobe claims that its Flash platform reaches '99% of internet viewers,' but a closer look at those statistics suggests it's not exactly all-encompassing. Adobe puts Flash player penetration at 947 million users out of a total 956 million internet-connected devices, but the total number of PCs is based on a forecast made two years ago. What's more, the number of Flash users is based on a questionable internet survey of just 4,600 people — around 0.0005% of the suggested 956,000,000 total. Is it really possible that 99% penetration could have been reached? Including Linux users? Including users at work? Including brand-new systems?"
$2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill 658
Posted by Soulskill
from the down-the-tubes dept.
pdabbadabba points out a CNN report on changes to the planned economic stimulus bill (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 [PDF]) that will remove the $2 billion allocated to broadband development. The changes also eliminated smaller amounts allocated to NASA, the National Institute for Standards and Technology, and the National Science Foundation. $16 billion in school construction funding was removed, as well as another $3.5 billion for higher education construction. A variety of environmental projects were also cut or reduced (half of the $7 billion set aside for energy-efficient federal buildings, half of the $600 million for hybrid federal vehicles), and over $8 billion in health-related provisions are gone. The bill will likely go to vote in the Senate on Tuesday.
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Posted by samzenpus
from the read-all-about-it dept.
Role Playing (Games)
Blizzard Sued By South Carolina Inmate 239
Posted by CmdrTaco
Microsoft Joins the OpenID Foundation 142
Posted by CmdrTaco
from the embrace-and-extend dept.
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Comment: Re:Idiocracy in action (Score 2) 238
I agree with you up to a point. However, make no mistake that there is a significant difference between a car I don't have to drive and the modes of public transit you have cited. To wit, a car (driven by me or a computer) will take me directly from A to B. No walking, no changing lines, etc. Aside from the fact that most people are incredibly lazy (I'm including myself in that number) the difference in time and convenience is significant. Yes there are cities where that difference is quite small (NYC, London, amongst a few others) but these places are very much the exception and not the rule.
Comment: Re:a thought experiment....... (Score 1) 238
Absolutely correct. Investigations of aviation accidents involving autopilot errors, and the study of human factors more broadly, have shown that humans are really bad at passively monitoring while automated systems perform all tasks. This should come as no surprise, I suppose, as doing so is incredibly boring making it very difficult to maintain focus and extremely easy to become distracted.
Comment: Re:Evil. (Score 5, Interesting) 390
by yesteraeon (#29298883) Attached to: Google Patents Its Home Page
That this is a stupid patent and may, in fact, be prior art, doesn't mean Google's motivations are nefarious. Indeed, if you are correct that it is prior art, then all the more reason for Google to apply for this patent even if they have no intention of enforcing it. If Google could receive the patent despite prior art (or lack of originality), then another organization could possibly have done the same thing and then turned around and sued Google. If you had billions to lose and were working in a broken patent system, you would apply for some dumb patents too, just to cover your ass.
Comment: Re:What could possibly go wrong? (Score 1) 324
by yesteraeon (#28504571) Attached to: Canada Considering Online Voting In Elections
"Canadians hand count all votes before the nights end. We have preserved one of the cleanest examples of democratic election on the planet." Well said. And online voting would destroy this. Canada does it very well right now. You get a ballot. You put an 'X' next to the candidate you support. Real people count all the Xs. It's not very sexy, but it works, and if there's any suspicion of tomfoolery there's a paper trail to look at. We have a good electoral system not because we're inherently awesome as Canadians, but because our electoral system is based on good and sound ideas. Online voting is a (really cool but) bad idea.
Comment: Re:I don't understand it. (Score 1) 294
by yesteraeon (#27939885) Attached to: Breast Cancer Gene Lawsuit Argues Patents Invalid
You're right the patent is on the gene. Ok so they own BRCA1 and BRCA2. Fine so if we want to test for THEIR gene then we have to pay for the privilege. So let's make an analogy to a patent on a device. If I own the patent on a really useful device I have the exclusive right to sell it and reap the benefits of that ownership. But if that device injuries some of the users, well then I'm going to be liable. Well I say apply the same logic to the drug companies, sure we'll pay you for doing genetic tests, but if it shows my breast cancer is being fueled by a BRCA1 mutation, you're paying for my treatment!
Posted by Soulskill
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Comment: Re:How unfair... (Score 2, Informative) 366
by yesteraeon (#23441768) Attached to: Amputee Sprinter Wins Olympic Appeal to Compete
Two points:
1)I don't think we can give too much credence to what we think stupid/crazy people will do in response to a certain policy. Personally, I'd be fine if amputees have a shot at competing in the Olympics and the cost is a few whack jobs cutting off their legs. I'd rather not see anyone lose their legs. But better that than deny these tremendous athletes the chance to compete in the world's most prestigious sporting event (despite having the technology to allow them to do it!).
2)If losing your legs and having prostheses put in is such an advantage how come this guy is over a second slower than the standard to even qualify for the Olympics?
+ - I have 38 days until the RIAA files suit->
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vile209 writes "A thread on Something Awful about a user being threatened by the RIAA's lawyers. Something seems fishy though, the user claims he did not download the songs and has a solid alibi. This news story has made the front page of Digg.com and now has over 50 thousand views on the SA forums. Also Submitted because he is being sued for "Europe — The Final Countdown""
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I have a strange requirement.
I need to read the outlook emails from a local pc using php .
I will get user credentials.
so is there any way to do this ?
it need to work well in all major browsers.
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Not possible with PHP and a browser. – drew010 Apr 27 '12 at 4:43
@drew010 what about using some activex component ? – Red Apr 27 '12 at 4:44
Maybe, I'm not aware of any that you wouldn't have to make the user install, but then it would only function in IE. – drew010 Apr 27 '12 at 4:44
@drew010 Thank you. – Red Apr 27 '12 at 4:47
welcome, sorry it isn't doable. best you could do is have them provide credentials and you can connect to their pop or smtp server and dl messages. – drew010 Apr 27 '12 at 4:48
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up vote 3 down vote accepted
Not sure why you would want to try to get this from a LOCAL mail file on a 'single' pc, I would rather attack this from a POP3/IMAP route, it would THEN be a PHP based mail client, or whatever you need it for (fetching mail, filtering, checking, triggering an event, etc;).
But what you describe is just not feasible for anything, I can't see a client paying to have simple client mail accessed via PHP.
Here are some PHP / Email reading references:
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Thanks for the info ,i described the scenario with client,hope they will revert back.Thank you. – Red Apr 27 '12 at 6:20
sooo... you're going to wait for your client to decide if this is a good answer for StackOverflow? ;) – Jakub Apr 27 '12 at 11:49
Pardon me bro , i cannot accept your answer.Because the answer is irrelevant to the exact question.But it is useful :) – Red Apr 30 '12 at 7:16
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15382 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
We develop games for ios and need the most durable method to track in-app payments.
In Google Play we use google checkout API to export all transactions.
Is there a similar way to do it with IOS In-App payments?
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Upto my knowledge there is no backend server api that reveal In App Payments you should manually check them and save them in itunesconnect.apple.com
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15383 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I've got a multithreaded application that calls the same service 200,000+ times per day. Currently it instantiates a new ClientBase auto-generated proxy for each call.
What can I do to boost performance? Instantiate one client and share it? Should I investigate an async client, and if so, can that be shared?
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200000 calls per day is no big deal. Requesting a proxy for each call is quite inexpensive (WCF internally caches it). Are you sure the bottleneck is on client side? – UserControl Oct 19 '12 at 8:26
More Info: the calls are NOT one way. They pass some params and get data back. Also, Basic Authorization is injected into the request header. – dcrobbins Oct 19 '12 at 13:30
First of all you need to specify what exactly you want to achieve. Do you want to decrease the app response time? Allow more requests handled per same time frame? Minimize system resource usage? Is your app ASP.NET site, Silverlight app or Windows Forms? What do you mean by "boost performance"? – UserControl Oct 20 '12 at 0:07
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What is the nature of your service operations? One-way operations can be easily switched to async with minimum efforts. Especially using TPL (from Async methods family).
Also usually object instantiation is cheap. Just make sure that it doesn't have a heavy constructor. And minimize a number of members to make a type to be constructed as lightweight as possible. This is not a good point for optimization.
You need probably to optimize service calls, data types (de)serialized during them.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15384 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I'm very new to javascript, so this is confusing me. All of the settings charm tutorials only show how to put the controls into the settings charm, but none of them say how to find the information gotten in them. I tried to do one of these (like I do in the main program):
var muteToggle = document.GetElementById("Mute");
where "Mute" is the id in the separate html file. muteToggle just ends up being null all of the time. I tried putting it after
WinJS.UI.ProcessAll().then(function completed() {...
but that didn't work either. Everything else is the same as in this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh780611.aspx
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JavaScript is case sensitive, is it be an ID of "mute" instead? – Disco Banana Nov 29 '12 at 2:45
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Make sure you're doing it in the ready function of the js file that is referenced from your settings HTML. Try opening the JavaScript console or QuickWatch while broken at that line and also look at the DOM Explorer to see if you can find your toggle control. You should be able to access it though. Also, try element.getElementById instead of document.getElementById. Either should work actually, but as long as you're troubleshooting. Good luck.
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Your problem is that you are trying to get a reference to the HTML element from the code running during the app activation. Although that piece of code may define the HTML to be loaded for a settings pane, it does Not actually load the HTML into the DOM. You just simply can't get the instance from that location.
What you need to do is have the settings flyout have its own js file that implements IPageControlMembers. In particular, you need to implement the ready method. This method is called once all the HTML and controls are loaded for the page, including your toggle. The link has an example of how to do this.
Also see:
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15385 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
First of all, I found similar questions in SO but there is not any answer for them. So, the first part of the question is a little bit duplicated. I want to improve search results in Magento. Here is what I've done already:
1. Search with AND instead of OR when there are multiple words.
2. Ajax search starts searching from anywhere and not only from the beginning of the fields.
3. Trim the last s from the words to prevent empty results when searching with plurals.
4. I changed the search type from Like to Fulltext or Combine but the results were not better and even were worst, so I leave it as is. It's Like now, so there is no relevance ordering.
The last thing which I want to try is adding this to the search query:
SELECT ... other non-full-text-cols
MATCH (product_title) AGAINST ('lean body for her') AS rel1,
MATCH (content) AGAINST ('lean body for her') AS rel2
FROM table
WHERE MATCH (product_title,content) AGAINST ('lean body for her')
ORDER BY (rel1*1.5)+(rel2)
Here is my query but I'm not sure if it would work because I can't test it:
'rel1' => new Zend_Db_Expr('MATCH (name) AGAINST ("'.$queryText.'")'),
'rel2' => new Zend_Db_Expr('MATCH (short_description) AGAINST ("'.$queryText.'")')
->where('MATCH (name,short_description) AGAINST ("'.$queryText.'")')
The main idea is to add bonus weight to a result if the search query is found in the title of the product. The problem is that I don't know where to modify the query. I can't find where it is at all. $this->_productCollection is not the right object, I know it. I looked at all the Collection.php files, resource models, models and even the query log but no luck. There are just little 1 or 2 row parts in some files but not a full query. I'm new to Magento and still have problems with finding this type of stuff. So, where I have to place my additional stuff when I have to extend a query?
Community Edition Magento, version
Note: I know that some extension for improving search results will work much better than my solutions but for now I have to do it in that way. It would be a good experience for me, too.
So, I figured out how to add my custom fields for the ordering but it's
untruly I think. In class Mage_CatalogSearch_Model_Layer extends Mage_Catalog_Model_Layer's prepareProductCollection method I added two joins to the query and get the fields rel1 and rel2:
array('cpev' => 'catalog_product_entity_varchar'),
'cpev.entity_id = e.entity_id AND cpev.attribute_id = 96',
array('rel1' => new Zend_Db_Expr('2.01*(LENGTH(cpev.value) - LENGTH(REPLACE(LCASE(cpev.value), LCASE("'.$queryText.'"), ""))) / LENGTH("'.$queryText.'")'))
array('cpet' => 'catalog_product_entity_text'),
'cpet.entity_id = e.entity_id AND cpet.attribute_id = 506',
array('rel2' => new Zend_Db_Expr('(LENGTH(cpet.value) - LENGTH(REPLACE(LCASE(cpet.value), LCASE("'.$queryText.'"), ""))) / LENGTH("'.$queryText.'")'))
I have these fields now but as you can see I have hard coded stuff like attribute_id = 96 etc. which is not good at all and it will not work everytime - I checked these ids directly from the database tables. I wrote it like this because I haven't access to name and short_description fields but they are in the result. Don't know why. So, cpev.value is name field and cpet.value is the short_description field. Moreover I can't order the results by these fields. I tried $collection->addOrder('SUM(rel1+rel2)');, $collection->getSelect()->order(new Zend_Db_Expr('SUM(rel1+rel2)').' DESC');, some addAttributeToFilter stuff etc. but it's not working.
Edit 2: I accepted @james' answer but finally we bought an extension for improving the search results.
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Using Solr or ElasticSearch I believe it's a better approach to your issue. It's a better fit to cover plural/singular search, synonyms, spelling, relevance. – FlorinelChis Dec 19 '12 at 12:24
Thanks, @FlorinelChis. I checked different Magento extensions, too. But for now I want doing it in that way because I'm not very experienced for adding 3rd party stuff and the second thing is that I haven't much rights on the web shop. Could you help for modifying the original query, please? – enenen Dec 19 '12 at 12:37
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In Mage_CatalogSearch_Model_Resource_Fulltext check out prepareResult (line 310 in 1.7 CE) and look for the following:
$select->columns(array('relevance' => new Zend_Db_Expr(0)));
Magento sets all search result relevances as 0 (!); add the relevances you want (higher is better) here. You can create a custom query in Zend_Db_Expr() to generate higher relevances on attribute matches.
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The answer to your first question (1): To make an AND search instead of OR, you will need to rewrite the class
In the method
public function prepareResult($object, $queryText, $query)
you want to switch the part
Be sure to reindex the search index afterwards to have an effect.
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Here is what I've done already: was at the head of the list – Fiasco Labs Dec 19 '12 at 15:56
@mpaepper, I already done these. My problem is modifying the search query. – enenen Dec 19 '12 at 18:24
@enenen Sorry, I misread that in your question. – mpaepper Dec 19 '12 at 23:18
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15386 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I am using the Graph API and able to get users' email addresses successfully.
I am wondering if i can assume that i will ALWAYS get a user's email address back, or if i need to plan for some fringe scenario where the user's permissions are set or something and i will be unable to get the user's email address.
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always code defensively – Forty-Two Jan 7 '13 at 16:35
@Forty-Two defensive coding is great, but when the defensive solution requires a revised design that adds non-trivial development time across a few different platforms plus testing time "just in case," i'd like to weigh my options – jaminto Jan 8 '13 at 19:01
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As long as you ask for the email permission and that the user accept it, you'll always get the user email. However, you'll need to foresee the case where the user don't accept it.
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Also the case, when user have not shared his/her email with anyone. Rare but can happen, so code defensively as Forty-Two said. – Sahil Mittal Jan 7 '13 at 16:46
No. In that case, the API will still be able to retrieve the email. – Stéphane Bruckert Jan 7 '13 at 16:48
My bad. Of course it will. :) – Sahil Mittal Jan 7 '13 at 17:06
But still, some users have incurred the "blank" email issue but not sure why. Ref: github.com/mkdynamic/omniauth-facebook/issues/61 – Sahil Mittal Jan 7 '13 at 17:11
That's what i'm not clear on - if i request an access token like: graph.facebook.com/oauth/… the FB dialog says the app will get access to my basic info and email and i can either login or cancel. it's not like "online presence" where it's a permission the user can deny - it's all or nothing. where is the case where i would get an access token but no email? – jaminto Jan 8 '13 at 19:13
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I get this warning when running scrapy :
[scrapy] WARNING: Disabled HttpCacheMiddleware: Unable to find scrapy.cfg file to infer project data dir
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Where is your scrapy.cfg file? Are you running from the command line? If so, you should be running from the same directory as scrapy.cfg.
What does your project directory look like. It shoud look something like:
├── dirbot
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── items.py
│ ├── pipelines.py
│ ├── settings.py
│ └── spiders
│ ├── dmoz.py
│ └── __init__.py
├── README.rst
└── scrapy.cfg
If you are using cron, try not to (meaning don't) use the root user. You can add the PATH info right into the crontab: How to get CRON to call in the correct paths
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Project directory is the same as the one you described, the spider is called from a scheduler.php file in the same dir as scrapy.cfg – Vanddel Apr 2 '13 at 12:20
How are you calling scrapy? Popen()? who is calling scheduler.php? Apache? It sounds like the user does not have this directory in their Python path. – Steven Almeroth Apr 2 '13 at 12:45
a cron job calls scheduler.php which runs the spiders that should be running now. – Vanddel Apr 2 '13 at 12:47
What is the cron user? He does not have your directory in his Python path. – Steven Almeroth Apr 2 '13 at 12:51
The cron user is root, how do I add the directory to his python path? – Vanddel Apr 2 '13 at 12:56
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I am a Ruby newbie. I am designing a web application and plan to use Ruby for coding. This project is for learning purpose but I want to host it live to see how it works. I plan to use PostgreSQL as back-end.
I want to know how to host a Ruby website. Which hosting service providers provide support for it? And I also want to know whether I should start with PostgreSQL or MySQL.
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A good option for hosting Ruby web apps is Heroku. You can use the Rails, Ramaze, Sinatra, or Camping frameworks. For a small app it's free, but you can also purchase bigger hosting packages. Their system defaults to Postgres, but if you use MySQL or Sqlite on your development machine Heroku will automatically import it and convert to Postgres when you push to it. Pushing an app to Heroku is easy too, you just need to have a git repository and use a rubygem to push.
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If its a website, what framework are you using and what server do you plan to use with it.
A lot of Hosting services provide support of Ruby on Rails DreamHost, Rails Playground , Godaddy etc.
You can also go for VPS, Slicehost is great for that.
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Rails and Windows. – RKh Oct 30 '09 at 20:27
If you are seriously thinking about Rails and Ruby. Though it does work with windows but please as a conscious choice move to Linux. It will save you a lot of trouble. – Rishav Rastogi Oct 30 '09 at 20:52
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My suggestion: use a VPS
For a website hosted by a developer, I usually suggest a virtual private server. It's true that there are a number of hosting services that do have Ruby and RoR set up, for example: Engine Yard., and many others. However, these will have a commercial orientation and will be charging you for lots of things that a learning experience doesn't need.
Plus, what if you want to try Spring, or JRuby, or something else that's also non-LAMP? (Or, say you want LAMP+Ruby?) Now you might be even closer to enterprisey stuff with high prices for direct support, but on your VPS you can run whatever you want, you can have ssh access, you can run whatever versions you want, etc., etc..
Another thing to think about is Google App Engine. which is free in some cases. You can't run Active Record directly, as Bigtable is non-relational, but RoR is said to run.
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I'm trying to read buddy class metadata information for usage outside of the normal asp.net mvc 2 validation process. I thought it would be as simple as saying:
DataAnnotationsModelMetadataProvider metadataProvider = new DataAnnotationsModelMetadataProvider();
var metaData = metadataProvider.GetMetadataForType(() => new T(), typeof (T));
That works, but is returning me the entire types metadata information and not just what is in the buddy information. According to the MVC2 source ( It uses the buddy class support from DataAnnotations, ) it should support getting the buddy data information but I don't see the part in the code where it reflects into the Metadatatype() attribute.
Generally confused here. Did I miss an overload or something?
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I had the same problem. I have looked at literally 30 maybe 40 tutorials about why this Entity Framework "Database First" partial classes wasn't working. Then I found this post -- MVC 4 EF5 Database First set Default Values in Partial Class -- that gave the following suggestion:
belongs in the partial class generated by the EF, even though it will be erased if and when you change the model. So your EF-generated file should look like this:
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15390 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
A windows exe file has access to the command string which invoked it, including its path and filename. eg. C:\MyApp\MyApp.exe --help.
But this is not so for a dll invoked via LoadLibrary. Does anyone know of a way for a dll to find out what its path and filename is?
Specifically I'm interested in a Delphi solution, but I suspect that the answer would be pretty much the same for any language.
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I think you're looking for GetModuleFileName.
If you are working on a DLL and are interested in the filename of the
DLL rather than the filename of the application, then you can use this function:
function GetModuleName: string;
szFileName: array[0..MAX_PATH] of Char;
FillChar(szFileName, SizeOf(szFileName), #0);
GetModuleFileName(hInstance, szFileName, MAX_PATH);
Result := szFileName;
Untested though, been some time since I worked with Delphi :)
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SysUtils has GetModuleName - already since D7, I think. – TOndrej Jun 22 '09 at 5:38
As of Delphi XE, GetModuleName is defined in the System.pas unit – menjaraz Feb 7 '12 at 11:42
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I am working on an application that runs on multiple clients that talk to one main MySQL database. Additionally, we have a web application that uses the same MySQL database.
Due to latency issues, all clients will have to run their own local MySQL database which should be a copy of the main MySQL database. The web application remains to use the main MySQL database.
The clients only read from table A, and write to table B. The web application writes both to tables A and B.
How should I setup a replication scheme that ensures data consistency? It should be possible for clients to go offline for an extended period of time. Is this even possible using MySQL or am I better of having a look at something like CouchDB? CouchDB seems to support this explicitly according to the website:
it allows for users and servers to access and update the same shared data while disconnected and then bi-directionally replicate those changes later
(from: http://couchdb.apache.org/docs/overview.html)
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CouchDB has the semantics you need if it's feasible for you to move to away from MySQL.
You wouldn't even need to "two table" system. The document system has MVCC built in so you can update documents and resolve conflicts, etc. Replication is awesome and fully peer-to-peer and intended, by design, to support offline applications.
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The only problem I have with this solution is that I feel a relational database is a better fit for our data model. – Ton van den Heuvel Feb 25 '10 at 9:04
why do you feel that way? do you need to indexing on every key? is all of your data uniform in the column values (you never use null, ever)? – mikeal Mar 9 '10 at 18:11
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I'm getting this error when generating a new unit test under Visual Studio 2010 using the context menu (right-click the method name -> "Generate Unit Tests"):
Private Accessor for methodName is not found. Please rebuild the containing project or run the Publicize.exe manually.
The method is public (checked that by applying applying a filter to not show non-public methods in the "Generate Unit Tests" dialog.
Visual Studio creates some kind of .accessor file automatically. Do I need to do anything in it?
What else could be the problem?
EDIT (more info that might be relevant)
• I'm trying to test some classes inside a website project, although they don't do any webpage related stuff. They're just plain old C# classes.
• All my class names are available inside the unit test class as ClassName_Accessor. And that causes the compiler to complain about the method signature not being correct.
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I resolved my problem with this, I had disassociated the Test Reference folder during a botched merge with TFS.
The Test Reference folder lives in your test project and will contain a file named after the source namespace with ".accessor" appended to it. Since I had dissociated the folder from my project I didn't see that the file was still there, so I highlighted the test project and pressed the "Show All Files" button in Solution Explorer. When I finally found the file, I deleted it and re-generated the private accessor (right click in your class and choose "Generate Private Accessor").
So bottom line, if Test Reference exists but is disassociated from the Project you won't be able to regenerate the private accessor and Visual Studio will not tell you that there is a file naming/locking conflict.
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The "accessor" is a class that works like one of the classes involved in your test, but the test method has access to its private and protected methods and fields. In particular, accessor classes are used for testing private and protected methods.
It sounds like there is a problem with the accessor, so you might want to try erasing and re-creating it. Rebuild the project. Then, right mouse click on your code and near where it says "Create Unit Tests", there should be another option that says "Create Private Accessor".
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I've done that "Create Private Accessor" thing, and it doesn't change a thing. And I shouldn't need to do it because all the classes and methods are public. Also, please check my edits, I'm guessing the fact that I can only access classes names ClassName_Accessor might have something to do with the problem. – Farinha Jun 9 '10 at 18:43
That's odd. I'm afraid I may not be of service, then... I don't know how you could have a problem if you're not calling non-public methods in the test code. Does the test project get created at all, or does the error prevent it? – Daniel Allen Langdon Jun 9 '10 at 18:47
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Different databases have differences in SQL support & implementation. Sometimes there is a difference in SQL syntax, sometimes support for some SQL commands is missing, sometimes the database has a feature that other databases do not have.
What are considered to be good practices in writing SQL queries that are good for different databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL, SQLite) taking in account that the developer uses a framework (like CakePHP, Codeigniter, Zend etc.) that provides a database abstraction layer? What SQL syntax should the developer try to avoid?
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That's what ORMs are there for. – quantumSoup Aug 22 '10 at 0:02
Sometimes ORMs do not handle the query correctly. F.ex. FULL JOIN in MySQL, RIGHT JOIN in SQLite. I mean the syntax of the query is good but the database does not support that. – bancer Aug 23 '10 at 2:03
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Then you dig into using ORM, you'll find that for complex queries - it doesn't perform. It's hard enough for people to write SQL that performs well - I don't expect a DB abstraction layer fair any better. Most ORMs support native stored procedures... which defeats the purpose of using ORM.
ANSI SQL is striving to make SQL more portable amongst databases, but adoption varies from vendor to vendor. And ANSI syntax doesn't necessarily mean it performs as well as native syntax (IE: COALESCE vs native ISNULL/IFNULL/NVL/etc).
The reality is for getting the best performing database interaction, you need to write custom code for each vendor involved. Some would use this as a point to why the database should be nothing more than basic persistence because it's easier to maintain a central application. But this pales when you deal with high usage applications, who suffer because of multiple trips between the application and the database, poor data typing and table design. Frankly, it's a waste of a database...
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I completely agree. An abstraction layer will only ensure that your application runs equally slow on all DBMS – a_horse_with_no_name Aug 22 '10 at 21:05
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"Cautiously use ANSI SQL" is the most direct answer to your question.
However, keep in mind these words from Jeremy Zawodny, especially:
Good engineers try to select the best tools for the job and then do everything they can to take advantage of their tool's unique and most powerful features. In the database world, that means specific hints, indexing, data types, and even table structure decisions. If you truly limit yourself to the subset of features that is common across all major RDBMSes, you're doing yourself and your clients a huge disservice.
What people are really looking for with ORM is a non-relational data store that can be easily transformed into programming language data structures (e.g. Ruby objects). If you need this, you might want to examine one of the many "NoSQL" options out there (MongoDB, CouchDB are two of the more mature ones).
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In practice, you are probably better off to pick a particular DBMS and then freely use any proprietary features that strike your fancy. Of course this isn't always possible, like if you're trying to write a package to be sold to people whose DBMS choices you can't control (or you don't want to limit your market). – Jay Aug 22 '10 at 1:03
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You can use an ORM for example which will essentially abstract away the details from each database. Although you have to make sure your ORM supports all the databases needed.
Doctrine and Propel are good friends of php. Check either out.
If you cannot find an ORM that supports all your DB's then perhaps find one that covers most and extend php to handle the last. Although I doubt this will be the case.
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You are looking for Object-relational mapping (ORM).
You can go for famous Doctrine out there. Also have a look at:
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I thought ORM is implemented in those frameworks. – bancer Aug 22 '10 at 0:30
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As quantumSoup alluded to, just don't. If you take a look at each of the frameworks you listed, you'll notice that they all use ORM or some kind of database abstraction layer for inserting/extracting data. This allows you to write db-neutral code that works irrespective to the desired data source. The ORM then uses the correct data source "drivers" to convert your intentions into commands understood by each data source.
So the trick is 1.) defining a universal interface for your ORM or database abstraction layer; and then 2.) writing the appropriate drivers for the ORM. Then each time you want to use a new type of data source (including flat files or CSV), it's a simple matter of adding a new driver.
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Sometimes I can create queries with syntax that is not supported by currently used database. F.ex. FULL JOIN in MySQL. I was able to create the query that passed through DB abstraction layer and that was looking okay. But the current database did not support that syntax. – bancer Aug 22 '10 at 0:27
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I have a set of PowerShell scripts that include a "common" script, located in the same folder, like this:
# some-script.ps1
$scriptDir = Split-Path -Parent $myinvocation.mycommand.path
. "$scriptDir\script-utils.ps1"
This is fine if the script is called directly, e.g.
However, if the script is called with Invoke-Command, this does not work:
Invoke-Command -ComputerName server01 -FilePath "X:\some-script.ps1"
In this case, infact, $myinvocation.mycommand contains the contents of the script, and $myinvocation.mycommand.path is null.
How can I determine the script's directory in a way that works also when the script is invoked with Invoke-Command?
In the end, this is the solution I actually used:
Invoke-Command -ComputerName server01 `
{param($scriptArg); & X:\some-script.ps1 $scriptArg } `
-ArgumentList $something
This also allows passing parameters to the script.
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any solution with full source code about it ? – Kiquenet Jun 5 '12 at 8:54
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I don't believe you can, from within the invoked script. From get-help invoke-command:
-FilePath Runs the specified local script on one or more remote computers. Enter the path and file name of the script, or pipe a script path to Invoke-Command. The script must reside on the local computer or in a directory that the local computer can access. Use the ArgumentList parameter to specify the values of parameters in the script.
**When you use this parameter, Windows PowerShell converts the contents of the specified script file to a script
block, transmits the script block to the remote computer, and runs it on the remote computer.**
When you use invoke-command using the -filepath parameter, the script is read from the file on the local computer, converted to a script block, and that's what gets passed to the remote computer. The remote computer doesn't have any way of knowing if that script block was read from a file.
For the remote computer to know what that original file path was, you'll have to tell it. I think the easiest way to do that would be to write a function to do the invocation, and have it pass the filename to the invoked script as a parameter.
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alternatively rather than using filepath.. you could pass in a scriptblock, that dotsources the script from a UNC path that all machines have access to. However each machine will need to have the appropriate executionpolicy set so that they can run that script from the UNC path
let me be clear though, that i'm not saying to run the script from the UNC path as if that does the remoting, but still using invoke-command or start-job to run a scriptblock on a remote computer. It just happens that that scriptblock will run the script from a UNC path for convenience.
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This is a sample of my form. when the page loads the focus must be on 'fbox' but it dosent work and i don understand why. the form contains a niceditor but i dont think that is the problem
<body onload="document.form.fbox.focus();">
<form method='post' action='' name='form' >
Headline <input name='fbox' type='text' class='form' id='box' autocomplete='off' size='80'><br>
Your text</font><br><script type="text/javascript" src="nicEdit.js"></script><script type="text/javascript">bkLib.onDomLoaded(function() { nicEditors.allTextAreas() });</script>
<textarea name="description" style="width: 100%; height:200px;"></textarea></p>
<p><select name='catg' >
<option value='' selected >Select category</option>
<input type="submit" id='button' name="Submit" value="Submit" class="button"></form>
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It is working in chrome, BTW you do know you have to accept answers?? see stackoverflow.com/faq#howtoask – Trufa Apr 14 '11 at 14:51
Give document.forms[0].fbox.focus(); a try – used2could Apr 14 '11 at 14:51
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You've got two body tags. I suggest getting rid of one of them and seeing if that helps.
There's also a stray closing </font> tag in the middle of that code. Many people try to arrange their markup so that it's easy to read and to see the structure of the document. You might want to explore that practice.
Another possibility is that your "nicEdit" plugin is un-doing the ".focus()" call. Try taking that out and seeing if the focus works (as an experiment). If that's happening, then you can do your "focus()" call after the nicEdit code has finished:
bkLib.onDomLoaded(function() {
(That's an adaptation of the code in your existing <script> block.)
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yes the nic Editor is undoing it – user666605 Apr 14 '11 at 15:00
OK I've extended the answer. – Pointy Apr 14 '11 at 15:02
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You have two body elements. That won't work.
Scripts run top-to-bottom, so you're firing the "onload" before the rest of the page has rendered. It's likely the element you are trying to focus is not there when the event fires.
There are a number of ways to fix this. jQuery has a handy method that waits until the DOM is ready.
A simple way is simply to run your script from the bottom of the page in a script block.
<script type="text/javascript">
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I could be wrong, but isn't the "load" event fired only after the DOM is ready and all images (etc.) loaded? – Pointy Apr 14 '11 at 15:00
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Today I was returning a JSON String from Java to Objective-c. It outputted a null. To check for the Java null in objective-c I can use KCFNULL which is a typdef to some struct (as far as I can remember).
The question here is how to map Java's null to Objective-C's KCFNULL?
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you better to find where you read that! – sidyll Sep 14 '11 at 22:25
@Muhammad: I reformulated the question. Tell me if it fits what you're looking for. – James Poulson Sep 14 '11 at 22:38
I've found more than one post useful.. Although, I cannot find one that 100% answer me... so I cannot decide which one to choose – Muhammad Hewedy Sep 15 '11 at 13:01
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There is none.
null is null -- it is the only value of Object which represents "no object". This differs from C/C++ where NULL is a #define for (void*)0 (which generally means 0) or similar.
In addition, Java strings are not NUL-terminated (note NUL, the NULL character -- and not "NULL"!). Rather, they are stored with an explicit length like C++'s std::string. (NUL is 0 in ASCII and Unicode, thus (char)0 represents NUL.)
Happy coding.
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Well, I am agree with you.. but Today I was returning a json string from Java to Objective-c which contains null and to check for the java null in objective-c I used KCFNULL which is a typdef to something else, the question here how Objc represents the KCFULL??? – Muhammad Hewedy Sep 14 '11 at 22:18
@Muhammad See CFNull. Note that is a special object (not nil!) that represents "no value". .NET has a similar DbNull type which represents "no value" in a specific context. Consider updating the question with code that pertains to what is actually being done. Note that any mapping of null to CFNull (or nil or whatever it may be) is done in said language-binding layer. Perhaps you mean to have Objective-C load JSON's "null" as kCFNull? – user166390 Sep 14 '11 at 22:21
really confused! – Muhammad Hewedy Sep 14 '11 at 22:24
@Muhammad I am too! Consider updating the post with sample code showing the exact problem :) – user166390 Sep 14 '11 at 22:25
thanks I'll try... – Muhammad Hewedy Sep 14 '11 at 22:30
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The null value in Java has nothing to do with ASCII or any character set.
If you're trying to represent the ASCII null character in Java, it's '\u0000'
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Maybe he's talking about the C Null-character, \0? – FrustratedWithFormsDesigner Sep 14 '11 at 22:12
could be. i'll update. – Jason S Sep 14 '11 at 22:12
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Are you perhaps thinking of the null character "like\0this" in a string constant (which has nothing to do with the null keyword, just to prevent misunderstandings)?
That one is really zero, also known as U+0000 or (char)0, and identical to ASCII's NUL.
What you may be remembering is that the internal representation of string constants inside a .class file uses a "modified UTF-8" encoding which represents all ASCII characters as bytes with the ASCII value -- except the null character, which is represented as the two-byte combination 0xC0 0x80. That is, however an implementation detail, solely a matter between the bytecode compiler and the JVM, and it should not be visible to the programmer at all.
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So, can I consider 0xC0 0x80 is the null jvm-internal representation? – Muhammad Hewedy Sep 14 '11 at 22:22
@Muhammad, I'm don't really understand what you're doing, but probably it doesn't mean whatever you think it means. It is simply a feature of the file format, and for all intents and purposes has no significance at all for how a program behaves. In particular, it has absolutely nothing to do with JSON serialization. – Henning Makholm Sep 14 '11 at 22:25
really confused! can you point me where to start to understand this topic? – Muhammad Hewedy Sep 14 '11 at 22:27
It now sounds to me like your problem has nothing at all to do with Java (and nothing to do with ASCII either), but is purely a question of how your JSON parser on the Objective-C side represents JSON's "null" construct. – Henning Makholm Sep 14 '11 at 22:30
@Muhammad: Read this article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_bytecode. Henning Makholm is talking about the binary contents of a class file. In other words the bytecode that has been produced after compilation. – James Poulson Sep 14 '11 at 22:31
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Null is not an object in that represents the absence of the latter. It will print out as null in the console despite the lack of a toString method. However to get an ASCII value you'd need to cast it to char/Character first and the chances are that the compiler will refuse this. So the short answer is that there is no ASCII equivalent for null in Java.
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In Objective-C, we have "Nil", "nil, and "null". They are all zero, but their types differ. Nil is a Class pointer, nilis an object pointer, and null is a void *. There is also the NSNull class, which can represent a null value in collections like NSArray.
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I am trying to write a game using opengl, but I am having a lot of trouble with the new glkit classes and the default template from iOS.
- (void)viewDidLoad
[super viewDidLoad];
self.context = [[EAGLContext alloc] initWithAPI:kEAGLRenderingAPIOpenGLES2];
if (!self.context) {
NSLog(@"Failed to create ES context");
renderer = [RenderManager sharedManager];
tiles = [[TileSet alloc]init];
GLKView *view = (GLKView *)self.view;
view.context = self.context;
view.drawableDepthFormat = GLKViewDrawableDepthFormat24;
[self setupGL];
- (void)setupGL
int width = [[self view] bounds].size.width;
int height = [[self view] bounds].size.height;
[EAGLContext setCurrentContext:self.context];
self.effect = [[GLKBaseEffect alloc] init];
self.effect.light0.enabled = GL_TRUE;
self.effect.light0.diffuseColor = GLKVector4Make(0.4f, 0.4f, 0.4f, 1.0f);
//Configure Buffers
glGenFramebuffers(1, &framebuffer);
glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, framebuffer);
glGenRenderbuffers(2, &colourRenderBuffer);
glBindRenderbuffer(GL_RENDERBUFFER, colourRenderBuffer);
glRenderbufferStorage(GL_RENDERBUFFER, GL_RGBA8_OES, width, height);
glFramebufferRenderbuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, GL_RENDERBUFFER, colourRenderBuffer);
glGenRenderbuffers(3, &depthRenderBuffer);
glBindRenderbuffer(GL_RENDERBUFFER, depthRenderBuffer);
glRenderbufferStorage(GL_RENDERBUFFER, GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT16, width, height);
glFramebufferRenderbuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_DEPTH_ATTACHMENT, GL_RENDERBUFFER, depthRenderBuffer);
//Confirm everything happened awesomely
GLenum status = glCheckFramebufferStatus(GL_FRAMEBUFFER) ;
if(status != GL_FRAMEBUFFER_COMPLETE) {
NSLog(@"failed to make complete framebuffer object %x", status);
// Enable the OpenGL states we are going to be using when rendering
glClearColor(0.4f, 0.4f, 0.4f, 1.0f);
glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, framebuffer);
float iva[] = {
glVertexPointer(3, GL_FLOAT, sizeof(float) * 3, iva);
glDrawArrays(GL_POINTS, 0, 4);
With this the buffer clears(to a grey colour), but nothing from the vertex array renders. I have no idea what to do from here and due to the age of the technology there is not much information available on how to properly use glkit.
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I don't see anything in your setup code that loads your shaders - I presume you are doing this somewhere in your code?
In addition, in your setup code, you are creating your framebuffer. The GLKView does this for you - indeed you are telling the view to use a 24-bit depthbuffer in your viewDidLoad method:
GLKView *view = (GLKView *)self.view;
view.context = self.context;
view.drawableDepthFormat = GLKViewDrawableDepthFormat24;
So what your glkView:drawInRect: code above is doing is saying: "Bind my handmade framebuffer, and draw some stuff into it". The GLKView then automatically presents itself, but nothing has been drawn into it, you've only drawn into your handmade buffer. Unless you need additional framebuffer objects for tasks such as rendering to texture, then you don't need to concern yourself with framebuffer creation at all - let the GLKView do it automatically.
What you should be doing in your setupGL method (or anywhere you like in the setup) is creating your vertex array object(s) that remember the openGL state required to perform a draw. Then, in the glkView:drawInRect: method you should:
1. Clear using glClear().
2. Enable your program.
3. Bind the vertex array object (or, if you didn't use a VAO, enable the appropriate vertex attrib pointers).
4. Draw your data using glDrawArrays() or glDrawElements().
The GLKView automatically sets its context as current, and binds its framebuffer object before each draw cycle.
Perhaps try to think of GLKView more like a regular UIView. It handles most of the openGL code behind the scenes for you, leaving you to simply tell it what it needs to draw. It has its drawRect: code just like a regular UIView - with a regular UIView in drawRect: you just tell it what it should draw, for example using Core Graphics functions - you don't then tell it to present itself.
The GLKViewController is then best thought of as handling the mechanics of the rendering loop behind the scenes. You don't need to implement the timers, or even worry about pausing the animation on your application entering the background. You just need to override the update or glkViewControllerUpdate: method (depending on whether you're subclassing or delegating) to update the state of the openGL objects or view matrix.
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I made a post about the way to set up a basic project template using GLKit. You can find it here:
Steve Zissou's Programming Blog
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gret link, thanks. – orion elenzil May 6 '12 at 6:31
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I haven't used the GLKit yet, but it seems that you do not present your framebuffer after drawing into it. In an application using OpenGL ES 2 under iOs but without GLKit, I use to call the following code at the end of the rendering loop.
if(context) {
[EAGLContext setCurrentContext:context];
glBindRenderbuffer(GL_RENDERBUFFER, viewRenderbuffer);
[context presentRenderbuffer:GL_RENDERBUFFER];
As I said I haven't used GLKit yet so I hope this might be useful.
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I have seen and tried this before, but xcode refuses to compile. with the message. 'EAGLContext' for instance message does not declare a method with selector 'presentRenderbuffer:' – botptr Oct 18 '11 at 12:47
Importing QuartzCore fixed my build issue, but I am still not managing to draw anything. – botptr Oct 18 '11 at 19:20
In GLKit, the GLKView will automatically present itself and discard unneeded renderbuffers at the end of each rendering cycle. This is not the problem with the code. See my answer for details. – Stuart Oct 19 '11 at 1:20
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I think you forgot to call
[self.effect prepareToDraw];
just before
glDrawArrays(GL_POINTS, 0, 4);
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As GLKit mimics the OpenGL ES 1.1 rendering pipeline, you do not need to include the routines to define Shader. GLKit actually does this for you, if you wish to use basic pipeline like OpenGL ES1.1
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This is incorrect. You still need to provide shaders if working with OpenGL ES 2.0 (used for the default OpenGL ES template) and a GLKView. Some default effects are available, but you have to set them up in GLKit using GLKBaseEffect and the like. None of that is present in the above code. – Brad Larson Dec 13 '11 at 0:01
Yes you are right in some sense, we'll setup these parameters using GLKit's GLKBaseEffect. My point here is that "You do not have to involve yourself writing the shaders explicitly if you wish to use basic pipeline. – Sagar Ranglani Jan 2 '12 at 6:58
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I am having the exact same problem except with Crossfire. Running in Crossfire it almost looked like a 16 bit game. I had some serious flickering and tearing along with graphics glitches (pixelated auras around everyone, talking heads being completely white...). As soon as I disabled Crossfire everything looked like it should.
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I own a fairly decent but now antiquated Linksys WRT54Gv6 that I wish to upgrade with newer antennas for something of a specialized purpose. I wish to be able to extend my existing wireless network (broadcast on another, unrelated, AP) to this Linksys via Point to Point networking through DD-WRT. For this purpose I was looking into This High-Gain antenna. However, the Linksys AP has two antenna ports. Would I be able to connect to my preexisting network with the Linksys with ONE antenna replaced with the said high-gain antenna, and the other left "as-is" with its current OMNI antenna? If this did work, would I also be able to, on the same AP broadcast a network for client devices to connect to? (which of course would then be forwarded through to the host network)
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Apparently not - the antenna configuration is one OR the other - see http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/774970 for more info. (The device only has 1 radio ...)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15425 | Error message when you try to open a link that has an .xnk file name extension in Outlook 2007: “Cannot open file”
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In Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, you try to open a link to a Microsoft Exchange Server public folder shortcut that has an .xnk file name extension. When you do this, you may receive an error message that resembles one of the following error messages:
• Cannot open file
• The command line argument is not valid. Verify the switch you are using.
This behavior occurs because of increased security in Outlook 2007. By default, Outlook 2007 denies access to these files.
To work around this behavior, create a link association between the .xnk file name extension and Outlook 2007. To do this, follow these steps.
Important You should open or download only those .xnk files that are sent by a known source.
1. Click Start, click Run, type Explorer in the Open box, and then click OK.
2. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
3. In the Folder Options dialog box, click the File Types tab, and then click New.
4. In the Create New Extensions dialog box, type xnk in the File Extension box, and then click OK.
5. Click to select XNK under Registered file types, and then click Advanced.
6. In the Edit File Type dialog box, type XNK next to the icon, and then click New.
7. In the New Action dialog box, type OPEN for Action, and then type the following text under Application used to perform action:
"DriveLetter:\path\Outlook.exe" /x "%1"
Click OK two times.
Note By default, the path of the Outlook.exe file is as follows:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE12\Outlook.exe" /x "%1"
8. Click Close.
This behavior is by design.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/15428 | Letter: Neither Men, Goverments Are Angels
Those who promulgated the Bill of Rights did not do so as mere intellectual exercise, they did not do so as mere philosophy of government, and they did not do so merely because it seemed like a good idea. Rather, they were masters of humanities. They understood the nature of man. James Madison, Federalist No. 51, said, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.”
They knew that men inherently had brains with which to form thoughts and lungs, larynx, tongue, teeth and lips with which to express those thoughts, from the profound to the profane: hence, the First Amendment. Similarly, they knew that men, and all creatures, have an inherent right of self defense. They knew that men were inherently toolmakers, distinguishing men from most other creatures. They knew that among the tools men had made were weapons and the most powerful weapons of choice by individuals of their era were deemed “arms,” including firearms: hence, the Second Amendment. The individual right to keep and bear arms, that inherent right, was enshrined in the Second Amendment because, as Madison noted, experience has taught mankind the necessity of this auxiliary precaution for self defense against the base nature of men and government, who are not, have never been, and will never be angels.
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change port [{portx=porty|/d portx|/query}]
portx = porty : Maps COM port x to porty.
/d portx : Deletes the mapping for COM port x.
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• Most MS-DOS applications support only COM1 through COM4 serial ports. The change port command maps a serial port to a different port number, allowing applications that do not support high-numbered COM ports to access the serial port. For example, to map COM12 to COM1 for use by an MS-DOS-based application, type change port com12=com1. Remapping works only for the current session and is not retained if you log off from a session and then log on again.
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Updated: February 22, 2008
Applies To: Windows Server 2008
The COM+ registry stores COM+ application attributes, class attributes, and computer-level attributes. It guarantees consistency among these attributes and provides common operations on top of these attributes.
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An unexpected error was returned by the Message Queuing API indicated. Unable to retrieve the associated error message text. Message Queuing API return values are defined in Platform SDK file MQ.H.%1%0
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Updated: March 28, 2003
You must assign a name to every domain in your plan. Active Directory domains have two types of names: DNS names and NetBIOS names. In general, both names are visible to end users. The DNS names of Active Directory domains include two parts, a prefix and a suffix. When creating domain names, first determine the DNS prefix. This is the first label in the DNS name of the domain. The suffix is determined when you select the name of the forest root domain. To select the DNS prefix for the domain name:
1. For each Windows NT 4.0 MUD that you choose to upgrade in place, decide whether the current NetBIOS name of the domain will become its DNS prefix. Review prefix naming rules. If the name is appropriate to represent the region and satisfies the prefix naming rules, it is recommended that you retain the current NetBIOS name. In this case, the NetBIOS name of the domain is the same as the DNS prefix of the domain. Table 2.7 lists the prefix naming rules for DNS names.
Table 2.7 Rules for Selecting a Prefix for a Registered DNS Name
Rule Explanation
Select a prefix that is not likely to become outdated.
Avoid names such as a business line or operating system that might change in the future. Geographical names are recommended.
Select a prefix that includes Internet standard characters only.
A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and (-), but not entirely numeric.
Include 15 characters or less in the prefix.
If you choose a prefix length of 15 characters or less, then the NetBIOS name is the same as the prefix.
If the current NetBIOS name of the domain is inappropriate to represent the region or fails to satisfy the prefix naming rules, select a new prefix. In this case, the NetBIOS name of the domain is different from the DNS prefix of the domain.
2. For each new domain that you deploy, select a prefix that is appropriate for the region and that satisfies prefix naming rules. It is recommended that the NetBIOS name of the domain be the same as the DNS prefix.
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I am trying to include chapters in a document without page breaks and found the newclude package can do this using \include*, however, when I try to implement it, instead of inputing the file, I just get text.
I have something like this...
\input{Layout.tex} %Here I have some layout stuff for page numbering and such
\input{Macros.tex} %Here I have the \usepackage{newclude} command
The output is fine through the title page, but the Introduction has the chapter at the top with Introduction and the text is 1-Introduction. I'm not sure what I'm doing incorrectly with this file.
The above compiles fine using the normal \include command without the newclude package.
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why not simply use \input rather than a non standard include mechanism if you do not want to force page breaks, on the other hand in most classes \chapter forces a page break anyway so the forced break from include is not a problem. – David Carlisle Apr 25 '13 at 20:11
Related: When should I use \input vs. \include? – Werner Apr 25 '13 at 20:52
I forgot to mention, I am trying to do a bibliography after every chapter, including only the entries for that chapter, then a large bibliography at the end including everything. Using \input makes the entire bibliography appear at the end of every chapter. – user2318493 Apr 25 '13 at 22:25
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If the text "1-Introduction" is on a new page, then I think you have forgotten to load the package newclude. The original LaTeX definition does not know a star form of \include. Then
does the same as:
The star becomes the file name argument for \include, likely the file *.tex does not exist. This is written to the terminal/.log file:
No file *.tex.
\include calls its \clearpage and then the text "{1-Introduction}" is set. The curly braces are not used as argument and are executed as simple group (with no purpose/effect here).
The package newclude should be loaded:
to get its star form of \include.
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You were correct, somehow the "newclude" package wasn't getting loaded. But now I have a different problem. The page break is gone, but now the entire bibliography is at the end of every chapter (and without numbers), so I'm back where I started when using "\input" – user2318493 May 3 '13 at 18:27
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