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We had an ASP.NET site that was built on .NET 2.0. It had sharepoint integration and everything was working fine until the site got migrated to .NET 4.0. I know that sharepoint is built on 3.5 framework and hence it is failing now. Are there any workarounds or any latest developments to make sharepoint work on ASP.NET 4.0 site?
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If you have something that actually requires the .Net framework 4, create a separated application, and consume SharePoint with the remote API (client object model or web services). – Steve B Jul 10 '12 at 21:07
@SteveB: Did you mean to replace the current sharepoint code with client object model / webservice such that current site can be still at 4.0 version? – NewCoder Jul 10 '12 at 21:11
I mean that SharePoint can't run on .Net V4. So you can create a separate application that can query request data from SharePoint. But you have to be warned that this won't be as efficient as pure object model. – Steve B Jul 10 '12 at 21:12
@SteveB is right. In fact, the comments above probably should be an answer. :) Q: SharePoint with .NET 4.0? A: Nope. – Kit Menke Jul 10 '12 at 21:39
How were you exactly integrating ASP.NET application with SP? What resources were you consuming from SP? For example, were you reading documents from SP document libraries? – Hossein Aarabi Jul 11 '12 at 2:14
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You have probably read .NET Framework support in SharePoint 2010 ?
Basically, it stated that SharePoint can't run on .Net V4 (I guess it's because of the workflow engine, but it's only a supposition).
If you require something that works with V4, you have to create your own application. This application can then consume data in SharePOint using remote api (Client object model or web services).
Or you can wonder what in the .Net V4 that does not exists in the V3.5 is actually required, or can't be rewritten.
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MyCodeaspx.cs has about 4 or 5 lines of sharepoint code where it opens the sharepoint site, then list or document library and then I read content from list or document library. How can I replace these 4 or 5 lines of code with the methods you suggested. Thanks. – NewCoder Jul 11 '12 at 13:33
Read this – Steve B Jul 11 '12 at 13:34
I am still reading the link but wanted to know if I can use code like below in mycode.aspx.cs? using System; using System.Xml.Linq; using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client; class RetrieveListItems { static void Main() { ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext("intranet.contoso.com"); List oList = clientContext.Web.Lists.GetByTitle("Eric"); CamlQuery camlQuery = new CamlQuery(); camlQuery.ViewXml = @"<View/>"; ListItemCollection listItems = oList.GetItems(camlQuery); clientContext.Load( listItems, } } – NewCoder Jul 11 '12 at 13:48
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Comment: Re:Stills seems like it has to be an inside job (Score 1) 227
by JWSmythe (#46468223) Attached to: Hackers Allege Mt. Gox Still Controls "Stolen" Bitcoins
That was my immediate thought. Any decent system needs to ensure that it isn't running at a loss. To make that happen, they need an accounting system in place.
Rather than a loss, they managed a significant profit. The profit didn't go to the company.
I've seen lots of affiliate systems (sign up for a sight, the referring webmaster gets x%). In the adult industry, it's called shaving. The referring webmaster has a percentage of their sales (I've seen up to 25%), where it isn't recorded that they got the sale. Instead, it is credited to another account. The owner of the system doesn't always know. They see sales come in. They see payments go out. The shaved sales go to one of the developer's accounts (usually to a difficult to trace 3rd party).
If I were the developer, I'd have a friend in another country set up his affiliate account. The "lost" sales get paid out to him. He keeps a percentage, and pays me the rest. It can be very difficult to trace until there is a code audit. The audits don't usually come until the boss knows there's something funny going on. As long as the boss is getting a large profit, they have no reason to audit.
In the rest of the corporate world, it's skimming. Accountants can make it look like the missing funds are going to nondescript costs.
In both skimming and shaving, it becomes obvious when the person doing it gets too greedy. Like, it's difficult to justify that $1M/yr goes to miscellaneous custodian costs. And yes, I've seen exactly that, in a company that only made about $3M/yr profit. Sometimes it goes to consumable costs. It can be tricky to track if they're smart. When they get greedy, smart falls out of the equation.
Comment: Re:This is why we can't have nice tihngs... (Score 1) 227
by JWSmythe (#46468089) Attached to: Hackers Allege Mt. Gox Still Controls "Stolen" Bitcoins
You need to read up more on economics. Maybe swing by a local college and audit some economics courses.
No, most (all?) of the current in use today is backed by nothing. Well, nothing more than the idea that it's worth something.
I have a $20 bill in my pocket. It's not worth anything. There is a perceived value of it, so I can exchange that piece of paper for goods and services.
If it were backed by anything, there would be an obligation by the issuing party to exchange it for the commodity it was backed by. You can't go to the federal reserve and say "I want to exchange my $20 note for $20 worth of gold". Best case, you'd get a smile, pat on the head, and be sent on your way.
We effectively work with a bartering system. The perceived value of one service or object, for another. You can barter drugs, ammunition, or sex. That doesn't make any of them a currency, even though they'd each be good examples in your description. Actually, I think I like my examples better than the ugly paper in my pocket.
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Comment: Re:Re... or without a background check? (Score 1) 310
by JWSmythe (#46422145) Attached to: Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales
I guess I lucked out.
I worked for a background information company a while back. I did a broad search for my real name (i.e., not my Slashdot name), and found all the other "me"s out there. There are several right around my age. There were doctors, lawyers, and a pilot. One, approximately my age, didn't live very far way, so we could easily be mixed up.
I had some nefarious thoughts as I was looking at their full record. I had their DOB, SSN, address history, phone numbers. I could have easily become a doppelganger.
Damn. I just checked on Intelius.com for myself. I know how they pull some of their records, and they use the same resources as some employment verification companies. The real me on there, based on age, cities shows all the wrong employers, the wrong education, and an extra relative that I don't have. Great. Maybe I should go try to buy a gun, to see what new shit comes up. It's been a few years.
Maybe it's just time to change my name to a string of random letters, and live in a nice cabin in the woods. I hear the property Ted Kaczynski was living on is available now. He lived pretty quietly out there for a while.
by JWSmythe (#46417733) Attached to: RadioShack To Close 1,100 Stores
You can make a somewhat functional oscilloscope with a Windows PC that has a sound card, Zelscope (or other free software), a headphone plug, a few resisters, and some alligator clips. For the fairly primitive stuff I've needed, it's worked fine. For higher frequencies (i.e., not in the normal audio range), you'd have to look at something better, but there are perfectly functional USB devices that will do the job for cheap.
If you want the Porsche of O'scopes, you'd have to pay the premium prices. It all depends on what you're trying to measure.
Comment: Re:Radio Shacks in Silicon Valley (Score 1) 423
by JWSmythe (#46417713) Attached to: RadioShack To Close 1,100 Stores
You know, there are a lot of people who hate you.
I lived in LA, and had two Fry's within a few miles of my house. I was explicitly forbidden from shopping without a chaperone (i.e., my girlfriend), because I'd always buy extra stuff, and I'd be gone for hours. Fry's is my favorite toy store.
Now, where I live, the nearest Fry's is about 490 miles away. Any time I travel to a city with Fry's, I make a point of going, just because. I don't really *need* anything, but let me loose in there, and I'll find all kinds of things I didn't need before, but I can't live without now. I'm not in some remote hole, I'm in one of the top 20 markets in the US. Take that as you will. Nielsen television/radio markets. DMAs. OMB MSAs. Yet, we don't rank high enough to get a Fry's.
by JWSmythe (#46417665) Attached to: RadioShack To Close 1,100 Stores
Funny you mention a lot of stuff that I'm working on as a side project. I decomputerized the engine in one of my vehicles, because when I really got into it, the design was horrible from the electronic and physical standpoints. Who the hell blocks 50% of the airflow to half the cylinders with a chunk of plastic to hold the injector spider (ya, weird design). My neighbors thought I was nuts, because I just kept pulling out parts saying "Nope. Bad. What the fuck were they thinking? That's awful, gone."
There was an awful lot of "What the fuck were they thinking?"
As it turns out, with this particular design, the transmission doesn't understand that the vehicle is moving, so it goes into limp mode. It has 2nd and 3rd gear only in limp mode. So I'm recreating the transmission control computer. Who needs automatic, when you can have push button shifting? The aftermarket unit is something like $700. To replace the transmission with the older mechanical one costs something like $1,000.
So I have:
3 shift solenoids that are on or off depending on the gear it should be in
1 PWM controlled solenoid, to determine the TCC (a computer operated torque converter)
3 shifter position sensors (I believe, I'd have to check my notes) to say what the gearshift is in.
1 brake position sensor (on/off)
1 variable resistance throttle position sensor.
1 pulse sensor for the vehicle speed sensor.
All in all, a pretty simple setup. I'm giving two push buttons, to shift up or down, for the forward speeds. Automatic was horrible at picking gears anyways. But now I have to run 3 solenoids to pick the gear, and send the appropriate duty cycle PWM to the TCC, based on the TPS and gear.
Like 1st gear low TPS gets a low duty cycle or it would stall. Full throttle in any gear gets a pretty high duty cycle.
Reading around, I could only find one company with a fairly open box, but it's pricy, and you get to assemble everything yourself. Or you can spend a bunch of money on a purpose built box that you have no control over.
I had to get a oscilloscope, to make sure the PWM was what I intended to put out. I got creative there, and found some software to use with a sound card. It works pretty well. It's not perfect, but good enough for this purpose, since I know what it's suppose to generate. I wouldn't try to tune something I wasn't controlling the source on though. Honestly, it had been years since I had used an oscilloscope. I was very happy with my results, and even sang to it by clipping it onto a microphone (probes, alligator clips, same thing. {grin}). I sang a C3 at 129.20Hz, which should have been 130.81Hz. Not bad, considering I didn't listen to a reference tone first, especially since I can't sing for shit.
Now picture going into a Radio Shack and saying that's what you're trying to do. They glazed over after the first 10 seconds, and then just said "if you need help finding anything, just ask." I asked for a bigger box to put the parts into while I was shopping. :) I did send them on a quest to find LEDs for me. Just saying "find me red, yellow, green, and blue LEDs, all rated for the same voltage" caused them trouble. I wasn't *trying* to be difficult. I just wanted to be able to swap them without playing too much with different resistors. As I recall, they found them online, but they'd have to order them.
Just asking for some heatsinks for some of the components I grabbed turned out to be too much for one store. It's not like I had a *huge* box, it was just a few parts out of their bins. They had some at one store, and a different type at another store, but not enough for the project. I relegated myself to repurposing old CPU heatsinks that I have at home. They'll do fine.
Comment: Save the mythology for church (Score 2, Funny) 431
by JWSmythe (#46417561) Attached to: Jewish School Removes Evolution Questions From Exams
School children should be taught *facts*.
If it's a religious owned/operated school, save the mythology for the theology class. Be fair, make it a honest comparative religions class, so they can see how their stories compare with the rest.
For public schools, leave the mythology out entirely, except in the historical context.
Teaching kids the mythology encourages them to grow up to be adults that believe the mythology. They fail to grow up and learn in the real world there is a cause and effect relationship.
The last thing I need is someone coming into my office asking for help, and then praying to their deity to solve it. When I fix their problem, they'll thank their deity, who didn't have a thing to do with it.
I swear, if one more person prays for a fix, I'm going to stop working. Let the deity of their choice fix it, and I'll go helping other people.
Ya buddy, your deity works in mysterious ways, that's why you still can't log into your email, and your application server is still down. Keep praying, maybe it will miraculously recover. Ha.
Comment: Re... or without a background check? (Score 1) 310
by JWSmythe (#46417111) Attached to: Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales
I worry every time I have to go through a background check. It's not that I've done anything, or I intend to do anything. There's always a chance for human error.
I had an interaction with the police once. They got rather irate that I had a felony warrant. At least the officer asked for them to look at it carefully. It was my name, but my DOB was about 30 years off. That was years ago, and hasn't come up again, so I'm guessing the warrant was satisfied.
We're all just one clerical error away from failing a background check. About the time you're going through the background check, isn't the best time to try to get it fixed. Well, unless you're flying, then we're all one soundex match away from someone with a name or alias that sounds similar ours to get put on the no-fly list. Good luck getting off of that.
Comment: Legal interstate sales. (Score 1) 310
by JWSmythe (#46417063) Attached to: Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales
Well, at least in Florida, I (an individual firearms owner) can sell to another individual in person.
I was told by the operator of a gun store, that I *can* choose to ask FDLE to run a background check for the purpose of selling a firearm. They will only give a yes/no answer to if the buyer is ok to sell to.
I, as a private individual, *can* sell to anyone, in any state. It has to be shipped to a federally licensed firearms dealer who is willing to do the transfer (i.e., pretty much any gun store). Around here, the cost to do the transfer is about $25, paid by the buyer. For the sake of not having the weapon seized in transit, it has been recommended to me, to ask a local store to handle the outbound shipment. The receiving dealer is responsible for ensuring local laws are followed. For example, if you live in California, and I sell you an AR-15, but not in a California-legal configuration, they are obliged not to give it to you. Likewise, if you don't meet the legal requirements to own a firearm, they will refuse it. I haven't personally been involved in such a transaction, but it is my understanding that if the transaction cannot be completed (the weapon is not legal in that jurisdiction, or the owner cannot take possession of it), it will be returned to me.
If you sell me a firearm, I, as a CCW holder, can pick up the weapon at the receiving store immediately, but they still call FDLE to ensure there's nothing new on my record. If I didn't have a valid CCW, there may be a waiting period, depending on the type of weapon.
There are some things that are illegal in Florida, but not everywhere. I happened to stumble across a few while looking at alternative ammunition. The "dragon's breath" shotgun shells are illegal here. I just thought they were interesting, although I don't see them being very practical. Flechette shotgun shells are also illegal. In theory, I could go buy them in another state. I may also be able to mail order them. If I am caught possessing or using them, I may be in trouble.
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Working in the latest Unity3d 3.5 if it matters.
If I have a set of classes:
Class A extends MonoBehaviour
Class B extends Class A
Class C1 extends Class B
Class C2 extends Class B
And I have a GameObject that has C2 as a component. Will GetComponent.<A>() return the C2 component?
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Well, I haven't tried a three-level hierarchy but, for two, I can confirm that GetComponent works as you expect.
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I have a question about JPA/Hibernate performance.
We are building web application, one of the goals is to store questions and their answers. For both of these things we have class hierarchy, and @Inheritance(strategy = InheritanceType.TABLE_PER_CLASS).
The questions have references to their answers, every question is stored in some list.
I observed using firebug that when I am adding new question to the list and use entityManager.merge I need to wait about one second for response. I think that it is pretty long time to wait for a response for simple add request.
Is it because of the Inheritance strategy, or maybe I shouldn't use entityManager.merge and try to write my own query.
Maybe the performance is low because I am using sql lite database (sql lite is used just for testing, on production postgre will be used)?
Or this kind of performance is pretty standard for ORM solutions.
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I use sqlite a lot (sometimes even for production) and the performance is sometimes even better than for traditional client server connections.
Maybe you should debug you application and enable logging of the JPA provider you are using to see if in fact the inheritance model is to blame.
But, if you have done the inheritance correctly then I don't think that would be te issue. It would help if you paste the code for how you declare the classes.
I would also look at a profiler if this persists.
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I found out why I had so poor performance. I used ArrayList without indexed column, so every add or remove from the collection resulted in Hibernate deleting all from the table and reinserting it again with the new row. Now I am using Set to store my objects and everything is ok. – Andna Sep 9 '12 at 17:55
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I want to make the height of a layer dependent of the fact if the user is logged into Facebook or not. I've tried to see if a user is logged in to Facebook using their cookie but this didn't work.
height: <?php if($_COOKIE["c_user"]){echo "100px;";} else{ echo "50px;";} ?>
Most solutions I found were speaking about apps within Facebook but this is not what I'm searching for. My website just only needs a hight which is dependent the user is logged into Facebook or not...
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If you're talking about whether the user is logged into Facebook independent of Facebook login to your site, this is not possible. Otherwise, @ShaneCurran's answer should help. (Although he references the JS API, you can do something similar in PHP as well.) – Michael Mior Nov 3 '12 at 20:23
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Facebook's API has a function for this: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/FB.getLoginStatus/
It would return JSON containing a "status" paramater. If status is equal to "connected" it means they are logged in. If the status is "unknown" it means they aren't logged in.
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But that's only for an app... And I'm not making an app! – Julian Gommers Nov 3 '12 at 20:31
@JulianGommers Then you can't get this information. Imagine if any website could check if you were logged in to any other site, say your bank? – Michael Mior Nov 3 '12 at 20:50
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You can actually know if the user is logged-in to Facebook by using the FB.getLoginStatus() method of the JS SDK (but it would require an app, of course).
Even without asking the user to allow any app, Facebook would reveal if the user is actually logged-in to Facebook by returning not_authorized response to the above method.
<!doctype html>
<title>JS SDK Test</title>
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
appId : 'YOUR_APP_ID', // App ID from the App Dashboard
channelUrl : '//WWW.YOUR_DOMAIN.COM/channel.html', // Channel File for x-domain communication
xfbml : true // parse XFBML tags on this page?
FB.getLoginStatus(function(response) {
if( response.status == 'connected' || response.status == 'not_authorized' ) {
// user is logged-in to Facebook
// Load the SDK Asynchronously
(function(d, debug){
if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
ref.parentNode.insertBefore(js, ref);
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Could someone outline how to do step 2 below in Objective-C for iOS?
The crucial part is "image loads onto "create" scene, in front of background image, with editing tools".
1. Choose background image from camera or library and place in "Create" scene.
2. From "Create" scene pick an image from a modal list, image loads onto "Create" scene, in front of background image, with editing tools for "flip", "Copy", "Behind", "Done". Image will touch/pinch to move, size and rotate. Editing tools hide when touch "Done". Touch image to toggle editing tools.
3. Save created image to library.
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I feel comfortable with steps 1 and 3. Not sure where to begin with step 2; "image loads onto "create" scene, in front of background image, with editing tools". – code-blind Dec 9 '12 at 9:21
@user1889138 - Welcome to StackOverflow! You'll get the best answers from questions that include the code you've written so far, the results you're getting, and a detailed description of the results you're looking for. – ghoti Dec 10 '12 at 12:27
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I would load the background image into an image view and then have additional editable sub-views in front of it. Once you are done you renderLayerInContext of the entire view hierachy into a new image and save that.
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I have been looking for a simple answer to this for a ridiculously long time and it seems like this has to be so plainly obvious and simple because no one has an easy, idiot proof tutorial.
Anyway, all I want to do is to have a single 404.html static page that loads whenever ANY error is thrown. Ideally this should only happen in production and staging.
I feel like this should be the easiest thing to do... but I can't figure it out.
Any help is much appreciated.
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in your ApplicationController
unless ActionController::Base.consider_all_requests_local
rescue_from Exception, :with => :render_404
def render_404
render :template => 'error_pages/404', :layout => false, :status => :not_found
now set up error_pages/404.html and there you go
...or maybe I'm overcautious with Exception and you should rescue from RuntimeError instead.
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Thanks for the answer, I also wanted to add that there is an indepth writeup that I found on this topic perfectline.co.uk/blog/… – Schneems Jan 16 '10 at 18:34
Doesn't seem to work on Rails 3 – hoyhoy Feb 15 '11 at 21:57
it should work, though the documentation says you should use Rails.application.config.consider_all_requests_local instead of ActionController::Base.consider_all_requests_local. – Leonid Shevtsov Feb 16 '11 at 15:11
Any errors in your app will return 404 now, not 500 as is proper though... And routing errors won't be rescued see rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/… Looking though I guess that IS what he asked, though it really shouldn't be done :) I use an nginx rule to throw 404 for anything in /images that can't be found. – Kevin Apr 28 '11 at 14:43
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I believe that if you run in production mode, then 404.html in the public directory gets served whenever there are no routes for a URL.
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If you run in production mode, 404.html,500.html,422.html files in public directory gets served whenever there respective error occured, pages from above will be shown.
In rails 3.1
We can use like below: Rails 3.1 will automatically generate a response with the correct HTTP status code (in most cases, this is 200 OK). You can use the :status option to change this:
render :status => 500
render :status => :forbidden
Rails understands both numeric and symbolic status codes.
Fore more information see this page
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You won't get a 404 whenever any error is thrown because not all errors result in 404s. That's why you have 404, 422, and 500 pages in your public directory. I guess rails has deemed these to be the most common errors. Like Ben said, 404 will come up when it can't find something, 500 when the application throws an error. Between the two, you can cover a lot of your bases.
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I dislike the Html->link() method. I appreciate it, but it uglies up the code and I don't believe that something so basic should require a method. However, in my project, I find I must use it if I want to have proper URLs. I'll accept that, but I want to know that I have to before continuing making links in this (large) project.
I've attempted to find some ways to get the cakeURL in a view. Nothing worked out.
My goal is to go from this:
<?=$this->Html->link('quality view', array('controller' => 'quals', 'action' => 'show')); ?>
To this:
<a href="<?=URL.'quals/show'?>">
But I cannot write or find a way to get such a constant working if I change the page's URL. (even something such as visiting /quals/ and /quals will show different URLs)
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I also dislike the link method, I find it overkill for adding attributes like class, id and target="_blank" to my links.
I do this for links:
<a class="myclass" href="<?php echo $this->Html->url(array('controller'=>'my_controller','action'=>'my_action','plugin'=>false)); ?>">My Anchor Text</a>
So, I still use the HTML helper to get the URL, but the html element I code myself. I would recommend doing it that way, rather than hard-coding the URLs. This is the Cake way to do it, and it allows you to take full advantage of Cake's inbuilt routing functionality in routes.php, and create pretty routes without having to hard-code or remember them in more than one place.
It also makes it easier for others looking at your code in future - eg. does the hard-coded 'quals/show' link refer to the quals/show directory in your webroot? Or does it refer to the show action of the quals controller? (and it only gets more complex when you start working with plugins). If you use the html helper to create URL's, all that stuff is immediately clear.
If you want to make it look tidy, you could break it into two lines like this:
<a class="myclass" href="<?php echo $url; ?>" >My Anchor Text</a>
If you've got a large project, it's even more reason to use Cake's helpers for URLs. It may seem like a good idea now, but hard coding them will give you a big headache at some point in the future.
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As stated by Joshua, the advantage of HtmlHelper::link() is that Cake will automatically change all your links if you decide to add to routes.php. It may be cumbersome just to add attributes to your links, but know that it is a framework that is attempting to structure everything. If you really want to just use the vanilla <a> element, you can use the Cake global constant FULL_BASE_URL. So you would use <a href="<?php echo FULL_BASE_URL; ?>/quals/show">CLICK HERE</a>. – penguin egg Jan 31 '13 at 5:53
I'm confident in accepting this answer. url() is lighter and better for my needs. Your second example is perfect for what I want to do. The first is great too. Penguin, thanks. I think I'll stick with url() for now. As the project's grown in size, I find my ../ just isn't cutting it anymore, especially with fancy AJAX. :} Cheers. – Vael Victus Feb 1 '13 at 5:28
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There are actually very serious considerations for using HtmlHelper::link()!
When you're using the HtmlHelper for building links:
• You have one central plase to define all routes in the application. The URL structure will always be the same as the one defined in Config/routes.php. When you change something there all links in the site will automatically reflect these changes
• Reverse Routing
• Easy application maintenance
• SEO/Sitemapping
So if you use it you gain the abbility to change the structure of your application with minor changes, otherwise if you change one link you'd have to go through all the places it is used and change it manually.
As @joshua.paling said hardcoding the URLs is not a good idea since you'll have a lot of headaches with any change to the structure. Best is to use HtmlHelper's link() and/or url() methods.
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I am doing an assignment using MPI to implement Game of Life. I was wondering if I should use a block-row partitioning, a cyclic row partitioning or a block-checkerboard partitioning?
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What are the pros and cons between the types of partitioning? I tried to find references to the partitionings (which seems to tie in with parallell processing) but it was difficult to find such without going way over my head into it. :)
Try the one that fits your needs the most, since it is an assignment you should try the simplest one first and do the others when time allows.
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However you do it, don't forget to make your partitions bigger on each side with some overlap.
This will mean duplicating some data, but it also means each partition can compute independently. At the end of each tick your partitions can copy their overlap to their neighbors.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/26800 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
OK, this is going to be kind of a long shot, since it's a big system (which I don't claim to fully understand, yet), and the problem might not be with NHibernate itself, and I'm even having trouble reproducing it, but...
I've got a class with a <dynamic-component> section, and when I run a query on it (through my ASP.NET MVC app), it fails, but only sometimes. (Yeah, the worst kind!)
The exception I'm seeing is:
NHibernate.QueryException: could not resolve property:
Attributes.MyAttributeName of: MyClassName
at NHibernate.Persister.Entity.AbstractPropertyMapping.GetColumns(String propertyName)
at NHibernate.Persister.Entity.AbstractPropertyMapping.ToColumns(String alias, String propertyName)
at NHibernate.Persister.Entity.BasicEntityPropertyMapping.ToColumns(String alias, String propertyName)
at NHibernate.Persister.Entity.AbstractEntityPersister.ToColumns(String alias, String propertyName)
at NHibernate.Loader.Criteria.CriteriaQueryTranslator.GetColumns(String propertyName, ICriteria subcriteria)
at NHibernate.Loader.Criteria.CriteriaQueryTranslator.GetColumnsUsingProjection(ICriteria subcriteria, String propertyName)
at NHibernate.Criterion.CriterionUtil.GetColumnNamesUsingPropertyName(ICriteriaQuery criteriaQuery, ICriteria criteria, String propertyName, Object value, ICriterion critertion)
at NHibernate.Criterion.CriterionUtil.GetColumnNamesForSimpleExpression(String propertyName, IProjection projection, ICriteriaQuery criteriaQuery, ICriteria criteria, IDictionary`2 enabledFilters, ICriterion criterion, Object value)
at NHibernate.Criterion.SimpleExpression.ToSqlString(ICriteria criteria, ICriteriaQuery criteriaQuery, IDictionary`2 enabledFilters)
at NHibernate.Loader.Criteria.CriteriaQueryTranslator.GetWhereCondition(IDictionary`2 enabledFilters)
at NHibernate.Loader.Criteria.CriteriaJoinWalker..ctor(IOuterJoinLoadable persister, CriteriaQueryTranslator translator, ISessionFactoryImplementor factory, CriteriaImpl criteria, String rootEntityName, IDictionary`2 enabledFilters)
at NHibernate.Loader.Criteria.CriteriaLoader..ctor(IOuterJoinLoadable persister, ISessionFactoryImplementor factory, CriteriaImpl rootCriteria, String rootEntityName, IDictionary`2 enabledFilters)
at NHibernate.Impl.SessionImpl.List(CriteriaImpl criteria, IList results)
at NHibernate.Impl.CriteriaImpl.List(IList results)
at NHibernate.Impl.CriteriaImpl.UniqueResult[T]()
...my code below here...
Can anybody explain exactly what this QueryException means, i.e., so I can have an idea of what exactly it thinks is going wrong?
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NHibernate.QueryException: could not resolve property: Attributes.MyAttributeName of: MyClassName
I think, "MyAttributeName" property does not map with the field.
Can you provide more info ?
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Well, there is no "field" -- it's in the dynamic-component hashtable. But yeah, it looks like it's losing the mapping somewhere... – Ken Dec 16 '09 at 0:34
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It turns out my problem was just outside of NHibernate, and this was just the most direct symptom of the actual problem.
(I'd describe the real problem, but the details wouldn't really be that interesting or helpful to other people. Except to say that: caches are pretty useful, everybody, except when you make a mistake and they don't return the thing they should!)
I tried to close this question, but I just get the "A problem occurred during closing/reopening" popup, so just pretend it got closed.
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I developed a web page and now i am validating it with w3c HTML4.0... I got one error it says
Error Line 30, Column 57: there is no attribute "DATA-FLEXMENU"
href="about.php" class="mainlink" data-flexmenu="flexmenu1">About Us</a></div>
Any ways of getting rid of this error .... Any suggestion...
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If it is HTML4.0 compliant then it's HTML5.0 compliant, try using the HTML5.0 scheme. – Ben Apr 8 '10 at 5:00
@omfgroflmao ya i am using HTML4.0 – Oscar Apr 8 '10 at 5:01
As rahul said, "data attributes are present in HTML5", change the doctype and try to revalidate. – Ben Apr 8 '10 at 5:04
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data attributes are present in HTML5.
see HTML 5 data- Attributes
Either you can change the doctype to html5 or remove the data attribute.
You can specify HTML 5 doctype like
<!DOCTYPE html>
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As unhelpful as it will sound, either remove the attribute "data-flexmenu" from your markup, or accept a non-valid result.
The results are accurate, the A element in the DTD does not contain an attribute definition for the attribute data-flexmenu.
Alternatively you could define your own DTD and host it on a central server and reference that instead of the w3c one.
Or (as pointed out) use HTML5 DTD not HTML 4 DTD
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/26802 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
The following code is giving me the parsed date as "Wed Jan 13 00:00:00 EST 2010" instead of "Wed Jun 13 00:00:00 EST 2010". Any ideas much appreciated.
SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");
String str = "2010-06-13T00:00:00";
Date date = sf.parse(str);
System.out.println(" Date " + date.toString());
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Note that you have 'mm' twice, once for month and once for minutes. – ColinD Jun 16 '10 at 19:58
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MM means month. mm means minutes. See the documentation for SimpleDateFormat for more details of the supported date and time patterns.
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Thank you I figured that out. – manu Jun 16 '10 at 20:00
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@manu - "Figured it out"? Or read ColinD's comment? – duffymo Jun 17 '10 at 1:11
my first time to use this func and i was banging my head on this, I could not see why sometime it gets the data from db sometimes it wont. It gets the db when I pass "1974-01-04" but not on "1969-06-15" and it parses it as Jan 15 instead of June 15...thanks! – user742102 Aug 16 '12 at 12:23
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/26803 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I have a WPF ListView control containing a number of RadioButton controls using data binding. I'd like the first RadioButton in the group to be checked by default, preferably set in the XAML rather than programmatically, but haven't managed to achieve this.
My XAML for the control is:
<ListView ItemsSource="{Binding OptionsSortedByKey}" >
<DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type Logging:FilterOptionsRadioListViewModel}">
<RadioButton Content="{Binding Value}" />
The OptionsSortedByKey property is a SortedList.
I have done this clumsily by setting the IsChecked property of the RadioButton control in the Loaded event:
var button = sender as RadioButton;
if (button != null)
if (button.Content.ToString().ToUpperInvariant() == "ALL")
button.IsChecked = true;
I'd far prefer to do it via data binding in the XAML. Is there a simple way?
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You could:
<RadioButton IsChecked="{Binding RelativeSource={PreviousData}, Converter={StaticResource NullAsTrueConverter}}"/>
Where the converter returns true if the value is null.
That said, an MVVM-based approach would make this a snap. You'd just:
<RadioButton IsChecked="{Binding IsChecked}"/>
And then your primary view model would set IsChecked to true for the first child view model in the collection.
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Kent, that looks great. I'd been avoiding creating a child view model by using a SortedList as my collection. A better approach would be to create a child view model class with just the DictionaryEntry fields and the IsChecked property, would it? Easy enough to do, I was just trying to minimise work by using the collection class that seemed to meet all my needs. – Val M Jul 14 '10 at 15:52
@Val: yes, I tend to create VMs that wrap the data items - even if they're very simple. Whenever I put it off and attempted to get away with just using the data item, I always ended up regretting it... – Kent Boogaart Jul 14 '10 at 17:51
Kent, that is exactly what I have done now and have since found other properties that the child VM needs anyway so it's been great having the child VM already in place. I won't try and take short cuts again. Thanks for the help. – Val M Jul 15 '10 at 15:15
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/26804 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
Just wondering if there is an equivalent to Java's ArrayList in Objective-C?
Or something that can be used to store objects/data that does not have a set size.
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As others have pointed out, NSArray/NSMutableArray are what you're looking for.
Coming from the Java world, you may find that Cocoa's collection offerings feel quite paltry. In fact, the functionality is quite extensive. The NSArray, NSDictionary, and NSSet are, in fact, class clusters, meaning that the public API is an "abstract" class. When you initialize one of the collections, what you get back is, in fact, a concrete implementation tailored for the data you provide. These implementations can also change the concrete implementation at run time if the data changes (e.g. it grows in size). This is all possible due to Objective-C's much more dynamic run time than Java's static typing (and security) will allow. The class cluster strategy thus hides many of the implementations of, e.g. the java.util.List interface, behind a single API.
The Cocoa frameworks are somewhat limited in compound data structures (i.e. those built on top of "primitive" arrays, sets, and dictionaries). You may find that the excellent, open source CHDataStructures fills in many of the gaps.
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NSMutableArray. You can add objects to it as needed.
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perfect thanks! thanks! – Julio Jul 28 '10 at 15:10
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/26805 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
gcc source-file
I think it is dynamic but I'm not sure. Is it system dependent?
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It is technically system dependent, but on most systems you're likely to develop for, the answer is "dynamic".
A few systems (mostly very old, embedded, or otherwise specialized) do not support dynamic linking at all, but most developers are unlikely to care about those systems. On those systems, the linker will of course default to linking statically (unless whoever did the port screwed up :)).
Some systems also do not offer static versions of their standard libraries, so you can't statically link them.
On many systems (especially any typical Linux system), you probably have a utility called ldd. You can use ldd <file> to check if it's dynamically linked to the standard library (assuming you know for sure what the library is called, it's usually libc though).
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Most linkers prefer dynamic libraries to static when linking, but normally they have flags to explicitly specify the behaviour. It's definitely system dependent - check your linker documentation for details.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/26806 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I am building a prototype of a static analysis tool, for which I intend to use eclipse to do the heavy lifting. How can I check what annotations are applied on a method when I visit the declaration using the ASTVisitor. I am interested in only certain methods of the class under analysis, and I am thinking of marking them using annotations
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Try ASTView plugin (http://www.eclipse.org/jdt/ui/astview/index.php), this helps to visualize the AST of a source file and also helps to figure out which nodes to visit.
You would probably want to override the following in ASTVisitor
• visit(MarkerAnnotation annotation)
• visit(SingleMemberAnnotation annotation)
• visit(NormalAnnotation annotation)
Or you may visit only method declarations and get the annotations via MethodDeclaration.MODIFIERS2_PROPERTY.
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Thanks! But isn’t MethodDeclaration.MODIFIERS2_PROPERTY the same as node.modifiers()? – akuhn Nov 4 '12 at 14:41
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/26807 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
It may sounds stupid, but I install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (express edition).
I want to make a new query, but I don't find the window that make it. As I understood, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 gives me the option to use and write a schema.
Where can I find this option? Thanks
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You need Management Studio. – Igor Dec 10 '11 at 9:16
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It sounds like you only installed the database engine. You need to install Sql Server Management Studio to do that.
If you're using a licensed version then it should be a feature you can select when you install the instance.
If you're using Express then you can find it here:
When you install the express version though, be aware that the installation procedure should be followed as though you are creating a new instance of sql server. It's very unintuitive and most people naturally think they should be modifying an existing instance when installing management studio express... I personally wasted an hour trying to figure this out long ago.
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Thanks, Can you tell me how I know my server name in Sql Server Management Studio? – Adam Sh Dec 10 '11 at 9:26
If you didn't specifically provide one then it will either be "SqlExpress" if you are using the express version, or it will be an unnamed instance if you are using a licensed version. And you always prefix it with your computer name so it would either be ComputerName\SqlExpress or just ComputerName. Alternatively, you can just use a "." if you are specifying your local computer. So ".\SqlExpress" or just ".". – Brandon Moore Dec 10 '11 at 9:30
If you gave the instance a name then you will have to use that name. When you click 'Connect', and then 'Database Engine...', you can click the Server Name dropdown and then '<Browse for more...>' to list any instances it can find. However, I believe that will only work if the Sql Browser service is running which may not be enabled by default (if it's not then you can enable it in manually in the system services). – Brandon Moore Dec 10 '11 at 9:32
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What you are looking for is SQL Server Management Studio. You can use it to create databasese, tables, stored proces, run queries etc. You can find it here
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I have attachment id and from that I want to display its thumbnail in case of all type of attachments video,image,audio. So how can i get that? I want the 150X150 px image. wordpress already have this but i dont know how to retrive it. So can any one tell me this?
I used this but it is giving image of big size. can any one tell me which funciton of wordpress I should use so that i can directly get the image for all mime types?
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I don't really understand what you are asking, however...
According the the codex get_attachment_icon takes other parameters: "bool $fullsize Optional, default to false. Whether to have full size image" and "array $max_dims Optional. Dimensions of image."
did you try passing those in aswell?
get_attachment_icon($attachment_id, false, array(150, 150));
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/26809 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I wonder how is this possible in groovy to start an array from the n element.
Look at the snippet :
static void main(args){
if (args.length < 2){
println "Not enough parameters"
def tools = new BoTools(args[0])
def action = args[1]
As you see am doing here a dynamic method invocation. The first 2 arguments are taken as some config and method name , the others I would like to use as method paramerts. So how can I do something like this :
Edited : If not possilbe in native groovy Java syntax will do it :
def newArgs = Arrays.copyOfRange(args,2,args.length);
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That System.exit(1) is pointless. Java isn't C. – Esko Mar 18 '12 at 19:28
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To remove items from the beginning of the args you can use the drop() method. The original args list is not changed:
Other option, like you are trying is to access from N element:
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+1 for range notation. It is tidy and we already know we have >= 2 values. – David Mar 18 '12 at 20:40
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Originally Posted by heresincebeta View Post
Just wondering: can someone that knows (please, no irresponsible speculation) post some ballpark numbers for observed DPS for various hangar bays?
It'd be nice to be able to compare them to weapon DPS for people trying to choose a ship, etc. Thanks!
When I tested this, quite some time ago, it was against a single player character.
I performed tests with the player moving, and stationary but not attacking and not bothering to heal/buff themselves. (In other words a completely un-realistic situation)
I'll not bore you with the details, here are some really rough numbers on the two best performers:
1) Top DPS went to Peregrines (approx 1500 DPS) while the target was moving. When the target was stationary they performed about the same as Danubes. I suspect this is due to their AI forcing them to chase a moving target vs. constantly (and unnecessarily) flying around in circles vs. stationary targets.
2) 2nd DPS against a moving Target went to Danubes generally (approx 1k DPS). Some of the other shuttles were close, but due to their Hull points and Tractor beams I gave them second place. They actually did similar damage to peregrines vs. stationary targets because they don't zip around deliriously (and have beam arrays instead of cannons).
Some things to consider:
Danubes have a lot more hull and are a lot more survivable, as well as tractor beams - they also have a significantly longer CD.
Peregrines are a much faster re-cast (CD), and even when they die their warp core breaches can do a considerable amount of added damage over time on something like an STF.
The above DPS numbers are based on completely unrealistic tests, the DPS might be higher or lower and the numbers I generated were really just to see where the pets sit vs. each other.
So for STFs/PvE I would generally recommend the following:
1) Raw DPS = 2x Peregrine Hangars
2) Best Control & Resilience = 2x Danube Hangars
3) Combination of DPS and Control = 1 Peregrine & 1 Danube Hangar
For PvP...
For PvP pets are largely a joke for DPS.
They are annoying spam and most players hate them (really hate them) - and you might well become the primary target when using Danubes.
For PvP you might want to consider something, relatively, innocuous like the Shield Repair Shuttles.
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Database Architecture: The Storage Engine
SQL Server 2000
Cathan Cook
Microsoft Consulting Services
July 2001
Summary: This article provides insight into the inner workings of SQL Server architecture. It covers database engine enhancements, providing usage tips and pointers to more information. Understanding depth information about the SQL Server engines can help a Database Administrator (Database System Engineer) take greater advantage of SQL Server when designing, building or enhancing database systems. Although targeted at database professionals, this material may also be useful from an educational or marketing perspective. (21 printed pages)
Storage Engine Enhancements
Interacting with Data
Tables and Indexes
Logging and Recovery
Administrative Improvements
Data Storage Components
This article describes the new storage engine features in Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 and offers tips for using them, along with some insight into how the storage engine works. Developing a basic understanding of the inner workings of the storage engine can help you get the most out of SQL Server.
In a world that is focused on highly scalable applications, databases are now designed and implemented on short schedules, and remain in a constant state of evolution as development requirements change and production usage grows. Scalability, availability, and ease-of-use requirements demand a responsive and flexible data storage engine.
Different editions of SQL Server 2000 support a wide variety of systems, ranging in size from a tiny mobile system for a Pocket PC all the way up to a high availability multiple-terabyte transaction processing or decision support system running on clustered Windows® 2000 Datacenter Servers. All of these systems maintain the flexibility, security, and reliability mission-critical business systems demand.
You can deploy SQL Server 2000 applications for projects of varying purposes and sizes, as a result of intelligent, automated storage engine operations. A highly sophisticated architecture improves performance, availability, and scalability.
Reliability and concurrency are enhanced with new algorithms for physical file interaction. These algorithms eliminate the need to run database console commands (DBCCs) as part of regular maintenance. However, DBCC is still available, and the new DBCC CHECK commands can be run without inhibiting online processing.
The storage subsystem, which consists of the physical database files and their layout on disk, supports scaling from very small to very large databases. SQL Server can now support up to 64 GB of physical memory (RAM) and up to 32 processors.
Ease of use
Enhanced administration capabilities help the Database Administrator (DBA) to automate and centralize server management. This also allows easy maintenance of remote servers and applications without the necessity of having a DBA visit every site. Server configuration, managed by a sophisticated algorithm, is dynamically responsive to server usage patterns, freeing the DBA to concentrate on database management and optimization tasks.
Storage Engine Enhancements
The relational database server of SQL Server 2000 has two main parts: the relational engine and the storage engine. The two engines work independently, interacting with each other through native data access components such as OLE DB. The relational engine provides an interface into the storage engine, which is composed of services to interact with the underlying database storage components and features.
The primary responsibilities of the storage engine include:
• Providing features to improve ease of use for managing storage components
• Controlling concurrency, managing transactions, locking, and logging
• Managing the files and physical pages used to store data
• Recovering from system faults
The SQL Server 2000 storage engine offers new features that add conceptual simplicity and physical flexibility, while reducing the need for meticulous capacity planning and performance tuning. SQL Server 2000 reacts to its own environment and dynamically adapts to changes in database usage accurately and quickly. This breakthrough in technology has elevated the focus of database administration to the facilitation of data as a service. SQL Server 2000 DBAs can focus on designing a system that is responsive to data flow and usage, rather than spending time tuning individual parameters.
The changes in SQL Server 2000 are built on architectural enhancements introduced in SQL Server 7.0 to provide a foundation for ongoing improvement and innovation. A key goal for the storage engine team was to reduce the amount of time and effort spent tuning the server on a regular basis. Because most tuning parameter settings can be based on database usage, the engine now dynamically adjusts to situations in the database environment according to an adaptive algorithm. This automated flexibility has been implemented for tuning parameters that required constant adjustment and experimentation in earlier versions. You can still manually adjust tuning features, but SQL Server 2000 does more of the work for you. Only a small percentage of SQL Server customers should require any adjustment to the tuning parameters; this type of adjustment should only be performed with careful testing and under the supervision of fully qualified Database Administrators.
The following table summarizes the key enhancements made to the SQL Server 2000 storage engine. They are described in greater detail later in this article.
FeatureDescription and benefits
Application lock managerIf you need to control concurrent access to application-defined resources, such as forms, new stored procedures now allow you to lock these resources using the SQL Server application lock manager.
Database console commands (DBCCs)The DBCC CHECK commands can now run during online processing, without blocking updates. New enhancements allow verifying consistency of physical pages to detect hardware-induced errors. In SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition, DBCC now runs in parallel across multiple processors.
Database optionsAll database options can now be modified using ALTER DATABASE. This ability simplifies administration.
Differential backupsDifferential backups are quicker in SQL Server 2000, due to an enhancement that tracks database changes at the extent level.
Dynamic tuningUsing dynamic adaptive algorithms, the server automatically adjusts previously static configuration settings. Administrative control is still available to manage system-wide resources, but you will not usually need to use it. Manually set parameters adapt dynamically within their constrained boundaries.
In-row textIn tables that include a small, frequently used text column, smaller text values can be stored in the same page with the standard data row, rather than on a page of text values. In tables where this text data is accessed frequently, this feature can eliminate a large amount of disk I/O.
Index builds in parallelIn Enterprise Edition, index builds automatically make use of all processors configured for parallel processing, reducing the time it takes to build an index by as much as a factor of six on an eight-processor server. Index builds also take advantage of available resources in memory and tempdb.
Index read aheadIndex reads have been enhanced to increase performance on index scans.
Index reorganizationImprovements made to DBCC SHOWCONTIG provide more detailed information regarding index fragmentation. A new DBCC command, INDEXDEFRAG, reorganizes index pages online without disrupting database service or incurring any risk to database consistency or recovery.
Descending order key columns on indexesIndividual keys columns in an index can be specified as ascending or descending order.
KILL commandThis command now reports completion progress. If this command is waiting on another process, such as a rollback, you can view how much of the command has been executed. This command has been enhanced to allow you to stop Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) transactions, which are not associated with a specific session.
Large memory support Windows 2000 technology improves the performance of Enterprise Edition systems that use a large amount of memory. Using the AWE extensions of Windows 2000, SQL Server 2000 can support up to 64 GB of physical memory (RAM).
LockingThe lock manager has been enhanced to detect deadlocks across additional resources such as threads and memory. Concurrency improvements reduce deadlocks. This further enhances scalability in SQL Server 2000.
Logical log marksTransact-SQL commands can create a bookmark in the log to permit restoration of the database to the point in time indicated by the bookmark. This feature also synchronizes restoration of multiple databases used for the same application.
Optimized I/O read-aheadSQL Server 2000 issues multiple serial read-ahead reads at once for each file involved in the scan. The query optimizer uses serial, read-ahead I/O when scanning tables and indexes for improved performance.
Passwords on backupsBackup media and individual backup can be password-protected. This prevents an unauthorized user restoring a backup and gaining access to a database.
Recovery modelsUsing recovery models, you can select the level of logging in the database. This allows greater flexibility of transaction log management. The recovery model can be altered online to complement varying database use throughout the day.
Shared table scansIn Enterprise Edition, multiple scans of a table can now take advantage of other ongoing scans of that table, reducing physical I/O to the disk.
Shrinking the logThe command to shrink the log runs immediately in more situations. When the log cannot be shrunk immediately, SQL Server will provide constructive feedback on what must be done before continuing with or completing the shrink operation.
Snapshot backupsSupport for snapshot backups by third-party vendors has been enhanced. Snapshot backups take advantage of storage technologies to backup or restore an entire database in seconds. These backups can now be combined with a conventional transaction log and differential backups to provide complete protection for OLTP databases. This is especially beneficial for moderate to very large databases in which availability is extremely important.
Space-efficient empty tables and indexesNo disk pages are allocated for empty tables and indexes in SQL Server 2000. SQL Server 7.0 allocated as many as three pages for empty tables and indexes.
Top n sortThis new feature optimizes retrieval of top n values (for example, SELECT TOP 5 * FROM tablename).
XlockSQL Server 2000 provides this new Transact-SQL locking hint. It can be used to explicitly invoke an exclusive transaction-level page or table lock.
SQL Server 2000 has been enriched with features that allow more efficient data interaction and more administrative flexibility. The following sections give more details on these enhancements plus some tips on how to use them.
Interacting with Data
In SQL Server 2000, the storage engine has been enhanced to provide even more scalability and performance when interacting with the data. Understanding these enhancements can help you use SQL Server more effectively.
The exchange of data begins with a query, whether it originates from a user interface or from an automated task. The data request is passed into the relational engine, which interacts with the storage engine to get the data and pass it back to the user. From the perspective of the user, and even the DBA, the functioning of the storage and relational engines are indistinguishable.
Reading Data More Effectively
Data flows between the server and the user through a series of transactions. The application or user initiates the work, and the database passes it to the query processor for completion and then returns the end results. The query processor does the work by accepting, interpreting, and executing SQL statements.
For example, when a user session issues a SELECT statement, the following steps occur:
1. The relational engine compiles and optimizes the statement into an execution plan (which is a series of steps required to get the data). The relational engine then runs the execution plan. The execution steps involve accessing tables and indexes through the storage engine.
2. The relational engine interprets the execution plan, making calls into the storage engine to gather the necessary data.
3. The relational engine combines all the data returned by the storage engine into the final result set and then sends it back to the user.
A couple of improvements have been made to boost performance in this process. In SQL Server 2000, the relational engine relays qualifying query predicates to the storage engine so they can be applied earlier in the process, resulting in more efficient exchange between the storage and relational engine. This can provide a significant performance gain for qualifying queries.
Top n enhanced
Another improvement is in the way the storage engine handles selection of the top n records from a result set. In SQL Server 2000, a new top n engine analyzes the best path of operation for statements like this one:
SELECT top 5 * from orders order by date_ordered desc
For this example, if the whole table must be searched, the engine analyzes the data and tracks only the top n values in the cache. This is a tremendous performance boost for this type of SELECT statement, because only the values in the top n will be sorted, rather than the whole table.
Shared scans
In SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition, two or more queries can share ongoing table scans, which can improve performance in very large SQL Server 2000 databases. For example, when a query searches a very large table using an unordered scan, the pages flow through the cache to make room for the data flowing in. If another query were started, a second scan of the same table would incur disk I/O to retrieve those pages again. In an environment where there are frequent table scans, this can cause disk thrashing as both queries search the same data pages.
Figure 1. Shared scans efficiencies
An optimizing process reduces the amount of disk I/O produced by this type of data access pattern. The first unordered scan of a table will read the data from the disk; instead of having to read the disk again, subsequent unordered scans of the same table can build on the information already in memory. See Figure 1. During multiple simultaneous scans of the same table, this synchronization process may boost performance as much as eightfold. This improvement is even more noticeable in large decision support queries, where the total table size is much larger than the size of the cache.
Shared scans are a feature invoked by the storage engine to assist with queries that have no better available execution plan. The intent of this feature is to assist in frequent reads of very large tables. When the query processor determines that the best execution plan includes a table scan, this feature is invoked. However, while it is possible to use query or index tuning to force shared scans, no performance gain is achieved by forcing a table scan where a well-maintained index would do the job as well or better.
In order to maintain transactional consistency while many users are interacting with the data, the storage engine locks resources to manage dependencies on rows, pages, keys, key ranges, indexes, tables, and databases. By locking resources while they are being altered, the engine prevents more than one user from altering the same data at the same time. SQL Server locks are dynamically applied at various levels of granularity, in order to select the least restrictive lock required for the transaction.
In SQL Server 2000, concurrency improvements further reduce deadlocks and avoidable locking of resources. For example, the lock manager has been enhanced to be aware of other resources that might be in contention, such as threads and memory. This new ability can help a Database Administrator identify a wider variety of design or hardware limitations.
A new Transact-SQL interface into the lock manager has been introduced to support customized locking logic within programming code. Locks necessary for business logic can be initiated by invoking sp_getapplock within your Transact-SQL batch, which allows you to specify an application-defined resource to be locked (for example, a lock on an application resource like a form, instead of a lock on a data row), the mode of locking to use, the timeout value, and whether the scope of the lock should be the transaction or the session. After locks have been initiated with the new application lock manager, they participate in the normal lock management of SQL Server, just as if the storage engine had initiated them, so you do not have to worry that your application-initiated lock will remain open if the calling transaction is terminated.
The process by which locks are acquired in SQL Server 2000 takes into account whether or not all the data on the page is committed. For example, if you run a SELECT statement against a table whose data has not changed recently, such as a table in the pubs database, the process does not produce any locks because no active transactions have recently updated the table. The storage engine accomplishes this by comparing the log sequence number on the data page to the current active transactions. In databases where most of the data is older than the oldest active transaction, this can reduce locking significantly, enhancing performance.
While locks protect data during transactions, another process, latching, controls access to physical pages. Latches are very lightweight, short-term synchronization objects protecting actions that do not need to be locked for the life of a transaction. When the engine scans a page, it latches the page, reads the row, gives it back to the relational engine, and then unlatches the page again so another process can reach the same data. Through a process called lazy latching, the storage engine optimizes access to the data pages by releasing latches only when a page is also requested by another ongoing process. If no ongoing process requests the same data page, a single latch remains valid for the entire operation on that page.
For improving concurrency in your system, you should focus on the design of the database system and the code objects that touch it. SQL Server 2000 is designed to support multiple terabytes of data and virtually unlimited linear scalability. The role of the DBA is to manage the database life cycle, a cycle of design and optimization of all database components from code to data storage on disk, to ensure that the design continues to meet the service level agreement.
Tables and Indexes
Enhancements have also been made to the physical data structures, to allow more flexibility of design and maintenance.
As a table or index grows, SQL Server allocates new data pages in sets of eight; these are called extents. A row of data cannot cross pages, so it can hold only 8 KB of data, although associated text, ntext, or image columns can be stored on different pages. Tables that have clustered indexes are physically stored in key order on disk. Heaps are tables that do not have clustered indexes and are not sorted. The records are stored in the order in which they were inserted.
SQL Server 2000 supports indexed views, often called materialized views in other database products. When a clustered index is created on a view, the view ceases to be a derived object and becomes a base object stored in the database with the same structure as a table with a clustered index. An indexed view is useful for storing precalculated values, or the result of a complex join, in cases where the maintenance cost does not outweigh the performance gain. In SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition, the query processor automatically uses an indexed view whenever this would optimize a query plan. Indexed views can improve query speed on data that is rarely changed but is frequently part of a complex join or calculation query.
In-Row Text
In-row text allows you to store small text data in the primary page. For example, if you have a table that has a text column, but the text values are frequently small enough to fit on a normal page with the rest of the row, you can set a threshold on the text column. The threshold determines the size below which data is stored on the primary page rather than a separate text page. This results in much faster performance if the majority of the data will fit on the page, and only a small percentage of the data is actually large enough to justify the creation of a text page.
To determine when to use this new feature, balance the storage density or how many rows are stored on each data page versus the I/O improvement. For example, you have a text column for comments. In the table, you observe that 20 percent of the text values are large, but the other 80 percent are less than 100 bytes. This may seem like a logical candidate for the in-row text solution; however, you should only use in-row text if the data in that column is accessed frequently. If your users access this table frequently, but they do not look at the comments column unless they are doing special research, using in-row text might not be the best answer. The storage density is reduced because fewer rows per page are stored; and because the table contains more pages, table scan response times would be increased. Therefore, the best case for implementing in-row text is when you have a frequently accessed text column that also happens to have many values smaller than 8 K that could be stored in the row.
New Data Types
SQL Server 2000 introduces three new data types. bigint is an 8-byte integer type. sql_variant allows the storage of data values of different data types. The third data type, table, is useful for optimizing performance. Table variables make more efficient use of tempdb, and are faster than temporary tables. Like other variables, they are scoped to the batch in which they are declared. With functionality nearly identical to temporary tables, table variables perform faster than temporary tables or cursors and make better use of server resources. As a rule, always consider the best way to utilize the resources available on your servers when you create code to interact with a database.
Access to data is optimized through the use of indexes. Because indexing requirements are based on usage, incorrect indexing is one of the most common causes of slowness in a database. Standard index maintenance should include periodically verifying the current indexing schema and adjusting it to current system usage by dropping or adding indexes as appropriate.
Several new features in SQL Server 2000 make index maintenance more efficient and easier for administration. These enhancements decrease disk I/O, increasing the performance of index scans. This is especially useful where there is a secondary index available for a range scan.
Building indexes
When you build an index, the storage engine samples the rows and calculates the most efficient way to utilize server resources to build the index. Options allow you to control how indexes are built, so you can choose to control how system resources are allocated. You can use these options to balance resources in a process that is important to performance of the system as a whole, in accordance with your knowledge of the particular database system, so the index build will have the lowest possible impact on transaction processing.
Memorysp_configure (advanced)index create memorySpecifies the amount of memory used by any index build.
TempDBcreate indexsort_in_tempdbCauses disk space used for sorting during the index build to be allocated from tempdb. This can result in more I/O bandwidth if tempdb is on separate disks and can result in a more physically contiguous layout of index pages if the database is low on contiguous space.
CPUsp_configure (advanced)max degree of parallelismLimits number of processors (CPU) used in parallel operations (server-wide).
For more information about these options, see SQL Server 2000 Books Online.
Another scalability feature for large systems is the parallel index build, which is available in SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. This process is invoked automatically when you issue a single CREATE INDEX statement. The storage engine calculates the requirements for the data and then creates separate threads, each of which builds a section of the index.
Figure 2. Parallel index optimization
An index build can also make use of a shared table scan, further optimizing the process.
Defragmenting indexes
SQL Server 2000 supports online reorganization of indexes, a tremendous advancement from earlier versions. Online index reorganization has minimal impact on transaction throughput and can be stopped and restarted at any time without loss of work. The reorganization is accomplished in small increments and is fully recoverable.
As information is inserted, deleted, and updated in a table, the clustered and nonclustered index pages can eventually become fragmented, decreasing the efficiency of range queries against that data. Therefore, it can be beneficial to defragment your indexes periodically. You can use DBCC SHOWCONTIG, which has been improved in SQL Server 2000, to analyze and report fragmentation. For more information, see SQL Server 2000 Books Online.
If you determine that an index is fragmented, use DBCC INDEXDEFRAG to reorganize it. It reorders the pages in logical key order, compacting free space and moving rows within the established extents to conform to the fill factor setting. This enhances read performance by densely populating the pages so less of them must be read during a scan of the data. Running DBCC INDEXDEFRAG has far less impact on online performance than rebuilding the index does, provided the index has been regularly maintained and is not completely fragmented.
DBCC INDEXDEFRAG is one of a number of long-running online administrative operations that use small transactions internally. These small transactions maximize concurrency within the server, allow the operation to be stopped without loss of work, and are fully logged to prevent having to redo them in case of a failure.
Logging and Recovery
The transaction log is a stream of records that records changes to the database from the point the database was created until the current point in time. Every logged operation creates a log record. The log records generated by a transaction are written to disk when the transaction commits. In contrast, the data pages modified by the transaction are not immediately written to disk, but are retained in the SQL Server buffer cache and written to disk some time later. Delaying writes of the data to disk maximizes the efficiency of multiple accesses to the data pages and avoids disrupting scans. Forcing the log to disk on commit guarantees that no committed work is lost if the server goes down.
Recovery ensures that a database is transactionally consistent prior to bringing it online. If a database is transactionally consistent, all committed work is present and any uncommitted work has been undone. The log always defines the correct view of the database. Simply put, recovery is the process of making the data consistent with the transaction log at a given point in time.
Recovery is performed automatically when SQL Server starts, when a database is attached, or as the final step in restoring a database from backups. Recovery performed by SQL Server when it starts is called restartstartup recovery. Recovery from backups is normally due to disk failure. This type of recovery is called media recovery.
Restart recovery is automatic and always recovers to the most recent point in time. In the case of recovery from backups, the DBA may choose to recover to an earlier point in time. This is subject to restrictions. For more information, see SQL Server 2000 Books Online.
Startup recovery occurs automatically each time an instance of SQL Server is started and consists of rolling back any transactions that were incomplete when the instance was last shut down. In the case of recovery from backups, the DBA may choose to recover to an earlier point in time. This is subject to restrictions. For more information, see SQL Server 2000 Books Online. In both cases, recovery operates based on this target point in time.
Recovery consists of two phases:
1. Redo all changes until the target point in time is encountered in the transaction log.
2. Undo all work performed by transactions that were active at the point where redo stopped.
SQL Server uses checkpoints to speed restart recovery. A checkpoint forces all modified data pages currently in the buffer cache to disk. This creates a starting point for redo portion of recovery. Because checkpoints can be expensive, SQL Server automatically manages checkpoints to maximize performance while minimizing the time it takes to restart.
In SQL Server 2000, writes that complete successfully must be stored durably on disk. If you use write-caching disk storage, work with your storage vendor to ensure that the cache is fault-tolerant. Fault tolerance means that the cache is immune to power failures or operator actions. If your cache is not fault-tolerant, it should be disabled.
Logical Log Marks
In SQL Server 7.0, it was possible to recover to any specified point in time. In the case of hardware failure, the restore process was fairly straightforward. However, another threat to a database is the possibility that invalid data may be entered or that valid data may be destroyed by a user's action. In this case, you need to determine when the problem transaction began. In SQL Server 7.0, the only way to do this was to restore logs to a copy of the database until the problem recurred; then you could run your restore to the production image up to a point in time just prior to the discovered time of error.
In SQL Server 2000, you can mark transactions in the log. Later, if you need to restore, you can reference the mark that was used at the time of execution, rather than using wall-clock time. To do this, use a named BEGIN TRANSACTION statement and the WITH MARK [description] clause. The marks are stored in msdb. Recovery can include or stop right before a transaction that contains the mark. For example, if you have a process that runs in batch and changes many records, you can use this feature to ensure that if the process is run under the wrong circumstances, you can roll the data back to the point in time that the command was executed.
Mark names do not need to be unique. To indicate which transaction you need, specify a datetime value. The syntax for this is:
You can also use marks in a distributed transaction, known as distributed marks, to support recovery of multiple related databases to a transactionally consistent state. These related databases might reside on the same or different instances of SQL Server. You can set distributed marks across a set of databases periodically (for example, once every five minutes). If the transaction log of one of the databases is damaged, you must recover the set of databases to an earlier point in time. The distributed mark provides this point. Using distributed marks negates the worry of coordinating precise timing of backups for multiple related databases. For more information, see "Recovering to a Named Transaction" in SQL Server 2000 Books Online.
Shrinking the Transaction Log
Log shrink operations were not executed immediately in SQL Server 7.0. They were deferred until the transaction log was next backed up or truncated. This confused many SQL Server 7.0 customers. SQL Server 2000 shrinks the log as much as possible and then indicates if further shrinking will be possible after a log backup. In this case, run the shrink command again after the log backup has completed. For more information, see "Shrinking the Transaction Log" in SQL Server 2000 Books Online.
The size of the log will be based on your current recovery model and your application design. If you find that you need to shrink to log periodically, look beyond the symptom to the cause. You should further investigate what is causing the log to fill up, rather than focus on constant maintenance with the shrink command.
Recovery Models
Recovery models were added to SQL Server 2000 to facilitate data protection planning. They clarify tradeoffs between performance, log space requirements, and protection from media (disk) failure. There are three models: Simple Recovery, Full Recovery, and Bulk-Logged.
The choice of recovery model is based on database usage and availability requirements and helps determine appropriate backup and restore procedures. Recovery models only apply to media recovery, that is, recovery from backups. Restart recovery recovers all committed work. For more information, see "Selecting a Recovery Model" in SQL Server 2000 Books Online.
You can easily transition between recovery models. For example, on a very large database, you can use full or bulk logged, or both. You can use full during the day and bulk_logged at night, during a data load process that consists of bulk insert and rebuilding indexes. You can also switch to bulk logging while you run a data load and switch back to full mode, run a transaction log backup, and be able to restore to that point in time without having to run a full database backup. This feature allows you to do the bulk processing more efficiently; all you need to do is make a transaction log backup afterwards.
To change recovery models, use the following syntax:
For more information, see "Switching Recovery Models" in SQL Server 2000 Books Online.
Simple recovery model
The Simple Recovery model typically requires less log space, but it incurs the greatest potential work loss if data or log files are damaged. Only events needed for basic recovery are logged. Using the Simple Recovery Model, only full database and differential database backups are available. In the event of a failure, all committed work since the last backup must be redone. This model is the simplest to administer, but it is not a good choice for a mission-critical application where loss of committed work cannot be tolerated.
This model is similar to the truncate log on checkpoint option in SQL Server 7.0 and earlier versions.
Full recovery model
In the Full Recovery model, everything is logged. Full Recovery model provides complete protection against work loss from a damaged data file. If the transaction log is damaged, work committed since the most recent log backup is lost and must be redone manually.
Even when you use the Full Recovery model, it is important to use fault-tolerant disks for the transaction log to prevent data loss. The Full Recovery model also allows recovery to any specific point in time.
Bulk-logged recovery model
The Bulk-Logged Recovery model provides the highest performance for bulk operations. These operations also consume less log space than they do under the Full Recovery model. For example, the allocation of a new page is logged, but the data inserted onto the page is not. In SQL Server 2000, bulk operations consist of bulk load (BCP and BULK INSERT, including when they run within a DTS package), SELECT INTO, CREATE INDEX, WRITETEXT, and UPDATETEXT.
Compared with the Full Recovery model, the Bulk-Logged Recovery model minimizes logging for bulk operations. Keep in mind that in the event that recovery becomes necessary, if the log is damaged or if bulk operations have occurred since the most recent log backup, changes made in the database since the last log backup are lost.
This model does not support recovery to a specific point in time, but it will allow recovery to the end of a transaction log backup containing bulk changes. Transaction log backups made using the Bulk-Logged Recovery model contain the extents modified by bulk operations. This feature improves support for log shipping, because you no longer need to worry that a bulk operation will invalidate your backups. SQL Server maintains a bitmap to track the data extents modified, which optimizes the process by which SQL Server identifies changes.
Improved backup functionality
In addition to the introduction of recovery models to simplify data protection in general, SQL Server 2000 has improved manageability: snapshot technology, differential backups, and security have been enhanced.
• The transaction log backup chain is never broken. In SQL Server 7.0, certain operations, such as adding a file to a database, broke the log chain and required a subsequent full database backup.
• Backup operations do not conflict with applications or other administrative actions. For example, backups can occur concurrently with bulk operations such as create index and bulk load.
• Log and file backups can occur concurrently.
Unattended backup operations, regardless of system activity, are also well supported in SQL Server 2000.
SQL Server supports snapshot backup and restore technologies in conjunction with independent hardware and software vendors. Snapshot backups minimize or eliminate the use of server resources to accomplish the backup. This is especially beneficial for moderate to very large databases in which availability is extremely important. The primary benefits of this technology are:
• A backup can be created in a very short time, usually measured in seconds, with little or no impact on the server.
• A disk backup can be used to restore a database just as quickly.
• Another host can create a backup with no impact on the production system.
• A copy of a production database can be created instantly for reporting or testing.
Snapshot backups and restores are accomplished in cooperation with third-party hardware and/or software vendors who use features of SQL Server 2000 designed for this purpose. The backup technology creates an instantaneous copy of the data being backed up, usually by splitting a mirrored set of disks. At restore time, the original is immediately available. The underlying disks are synchronized in the background, resulting in almost instantaneous restores.
Differential database backups can be completed in a time that is proportional to the amount of data changed since the last full backup. The less your data has changed, the quicker the backup. SQL Server 2000 uses a bitmap to track data extents modified since the most recent database or file backup to enable them to be located efficiently. In addition, SQL Server 2000 supports file differential backups.
Backups still accumulate changes made to the database since the most recent full backup, functioning the same way in the event of recovery. They are significantly faster, however, because they only record the small amount of information that has changed, especially for very large databases that contain only a small amount of changed data.
For added security, you can implement password protection for your backup media and backup sets. This helps prevent unauthorized users from adding to your backups or restoring to your database.
Administrative Improvements
Several administrative features of the storage engine have been enhanced in SQL Server 2000.
Database Verification
The DBCCs provide a variety of administrative capabilities, including the CHECK commands for verifying database consistency.
Experience with SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000 has shown that database inconsistency is caused by hardware problems that may or may not be detected by the database engine or applications during normal operation. This is particularly applicable to data that is accessed infrequently. In response to this need, SQL Server 2000 introduces a checking mode, Physical_Only, which is designed to detect most hardware-caused problems. It is very fast, approximately disk scan speed, and is not resource intensive.
Due to fundamental architectural improvements in the SQL Server storage engine, which started with SQL Server 7.0, it is not necessary to run database verification as part of normal maintenance. However, Microsoft remains committed to database verification tools as an important part of managing mission critical data. Microsoft recommends that you:
• Run the Physical_Only check occasionally, depending on your confidence in underlying hardware, particularly the disk subsystems.
• Run a complete database check at critical times, such as a hardware or software upgrade, or whenever a problem is suspected regardless of cause.
Microsoft does not recommend running a complete check as part of regular maintenance.
SQL Server 2000 also includes important enhancements to database verification:
• By default, checking is fully online. Online checking has low impact on the transaction workload. This impact will vary depending on the system load, hardware configuration, and speed of tempdb. Microsoft has measured this impact at 15 to 20 percent with a medium OLTP workload (50 percent CPU). The TABLOCK option is provided to force the check to take shared table locks, which enables it to run faster but will prevent updates.
• Checking is done in parallel on symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) computers, limited by the maximum degree of parallelism you have set for the instance of SQL Server.
SQL Server 2000 check commands continue to support the repair functionality introduced in SQL Server 7.0. Offline repair can provide an alternative to a restore from backups in some situations.
Database State Control
SQL Server 2000 includes enhancements to the ALTER DATABASE statement that allow more control of database states through Transact-SQL. All database options can now be modified with greater control through the ALTER DATABASE command; sp_dboption and databaseproperty() will no longer be updated in future releases. The Transact-SQL commands sp_helpdb and DatabasePropertyEx() provide information about the state of your database.
The following table lists database state options.
Option typeAvailable settings
User accessSINGLE_USER
SQL Server also sets the following states in reaction to conditions within the database: restoring, recovering, and suspect. The database options can be set by using the SET clause of the ALTER DATABASE statement, the sp_dboption system stored procedure, or, in some cases, SQL Server Enterprise Manager.
When the database state is changed, the session making changes to the database state remains connected, while sessions inconsistent with the new state can be terminated and their transactions rolled back. Session termination options include the following:
• Terminate immediately
• Terminate after a specified time
• Allow the ongoing processes to complete normally
• Check for activity and disregard the state change if active user sessions are found
Here are two examples of the syntax:
alter database accting set read_only with rollback immediate
alter database accting set single_user with rollback after 60 seconds
For more information, see "Setting Database Options" in SQL Server 2000 Books Online.
System Process IDs and Units of Work
One additional administrative enhancement that helps when you need to stop a process is the KILL command. The KILL command has been enhanced with status feedback. So, if you want to learn the status of an outstanding KILL command, run the following:
If you try to stop a system process ID (SPID) that is being stopped by another KILL command, the system returns the same status information.
In SQL Server 2000, MS DTC transactions can exist without an associated connection or SPID. Therefore, a connection can be used for other processes while waiting for a transaction or unit of work to complete. When the MS DTC transaction manager sends a message that it has completed the task, you can either commit or roll back the transaction. This is referred to as a unit of work (UOW), which is the transaction identifier used by MS DTC for the transaction. A UOW does not have a SPID.
For more information, see SQL Server 2000 Books Online.
Dynamic Tuning
In SQL Server 2000, usage-based performance tuning is managed dynamically, without required or recommended manual adjustments. The static parameters have been eliminated, but administrative control has been retained for certain resources (for example, setting an upper limit on the amount of memory SQL Server can use). This method is far more accurate and responsive than a manually calculated system based on averages and estimates. This allows you to concentrate on the design aspects of database management. Traditional database systems require a great deal of manual management and tuning. For example, to tune the system in response to usage, the DBA would be required to monitor the system, recording a vast amount of statistics over time, in order to select a static setting that seems to provide the optimal advantage for the system. Then the DBA would re-evaluate the system to judge what effect the new setting has, and the tuning process would begin again.
SQL Server 2000 introduces a dynamic algorithm into the storage engine, which actively monitors usage of the server and adjusts the settings internally. Dynamic feedback and analysis in SQL Server 2000 keeps the setting within 10 percent of the absolute optimal value (see Figure 3), resulting in a better-tuned and highly adaptive system.
Figure 3. Adaptive algorithm tuning
Data Storage Components
SQL Server 2000 balances processing across all available CPUs in coordination with the Windows 2000 operating system. If you are running a dedicated instance of SQL Server, and no other applications produce a load on the same resources, leave the processor-related settings at their default to make full use of all the processors. SQL Server can take advantage of parallel processing across multiple processors for queries, index builds, DBCCs and other operations. For more information on parallelism, see "Degree of Parallelism" in SQL Server 2000 Books Online.
SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition can support up to four processors and 2 GB of physical memory (RAM). Enterprise Edition can scale upwards to new levels, to support up to 32 processors and 64 GB of physical memory (RAM).
The main source of memory for an instance of SQL Server is called its memory pool. Almost all data structures that use memory in an instance of SQL Server are allocated from the memory pool. Examples of objects allocated from the memory pool include the buffer cache, where recently read data pages are stored, and the procedure cache, which holds recent execution plans.
The assignments within the memory pool are highly dynamic. To optimize performance, SQL Server constantly adjusts the amounts of the memory pool assigned to the various areas. For example, when the number of stored execution plans is lower, the memory pool is adjusted to make optimal use of the resources by making more memory available for the data cache.
SQL Server 2000 is designed to use memory to minimize disk I/O as much as possible. To accomplish this, SQL Server uses the buffer cache to hold recently referenced data, in physical memory (RAM), where it can be reused. One potential way to reduce disk I/O and speed up your database system would be to add to the physical memory (RAM) available to SQL Server.
Normally, memory settings do not require any adjustment. However, they can be controlled in certain situations. For example, memory requires special attention where you are running multiple instances of SQL Server on the same server, especially if you use failover clustering. You also need to monitor memory usage if you are running applications in addition to SQL Server on the same server.
Figure 4: Memory usage with greater than 4GB RAM
SQL Server 2000 takes advantage of new capabilities in Windows 2000 to address physical memory (RAM) beyond 3GB. See Figure 4. SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition can use as much memory as Windows 2000 Advanced Server or Windows 2000 Datacenter Server allows.
For more information on large memory support in SQL Server 2000, see "Managing AWE Memory" in SQL Server 2000 Books Online.
Files, Filegroups, and Disks
SQL Server stores data and the log in disk files. In a basic installation, and as a default, data and log files are created in the default location specified in the server configuration. However, to maximize performance and manageability, you can apply a few basic principles:
• Spread data over as many disks, channels, and controllers as possible.
In general, the more disks (spindles) you have (regardless of their individual size) and the faster your access to them (controllers and channels), the faster the storage engine can read and write data. The larger your system usage becomes, the more important it is to separate the data files from log files by storing them on different sets of physical drives. Also, because the use of tempdb has changed, you should now store tempdb on a large set of disks, for example, with the data files or on a set of disks.
• Use filegroups to make your enterprise database more manageable.
Every database begins with one default filegroup. Because SQL Server 2000 can work effectively without additional filegroups, many systems will not need to add user-defined filegroups. However, as a system grows, the use of additional filegroups can provide more manageability, when implemented and maintained by a qualified DBA.
In SQL Server 2000, if you set a particular filegroup within a database to read-only, the data on that filegroup cannot be altered, but catalog information such as permissions can still be managed.
Note In SQL Server 2000, the number of asynchronous I/Os is now managed dynamically inside the database engine, and is not influenced by the number of files or filegroups used, as was the case in SQL Server 7.0.
When implementing or optimizing a database design, the Database Administrator (Database System Engineer) needs to consider the configuration of the database storage components, particularly the layout of physical and logical disks and the arrangement of the database files across disks.
For DBAs, increased flexibility and control over performance provides the freedom to focus their database technology skills and experience on managing the database code, design, and storage components as a unified approach to database system management. The SQL Server 2000 database engine provides general extensibility and flexibility for a wide variety of database implementations.
Suggested Reading
For information about operating a successful database system with professional people and processes, read about the Microsoft Certified Database Administrator program, and Microsoft Operations Framework.
SQL Server 2000 Books Online is included with SQL Server 2000. It is also available online at http://www.microsoft.com/sql/productdoc/
For more information about hardware and SQL Server, see SQL Server 2000 on Large Servers in SQL Server 2000 Books Online.
For more information about SQL Server architecture and the storage engine, see SQL Server 2000 Books Online, as well as Kalen Delaney's Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
For more information on capacity planning techniques, see the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Administrator's Companion.
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Lament for the Rohirrim
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
Sung by: Aragorn (on his way to Edoras with Legolas, Gimli and Gandalf)
Composer: "a forgotten poet long ago in Rohan"
About: Eorl the Young
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/26895 | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Rohe, with his 1935 Munchen Ant Farm and Municipal City Center.
Ludwig Mies "Vander" Rohe (German for Ludwig Evil Of The Brutality) (March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German (or possibly Austrian) fellow who reinvented architecture in the early-to-mid-20th century by creating buildings that looked like big glass cereal boxes.[1][2][3]
edit Origins
Rohe grew up in a small suburban town in the southwest of Germany (or possibly Denmark). His father, Emilio Rohe, is widely credited with inventing the elevator call button-- before him, people had to shout what floor they wanted very loud and hope that someone already inside the elevator would come down to get them. His mother, Mikembe Rohe, died in a tragic blimp accident when Ludwig was three. As a result, Rohe was raised believing that he was pooped out by a pterodactyl on the Rohe family's front lawn, as is the customary child's tale in Germany (or possibly Belgium).
Young Ludwig's attempt at a hand turkey.
Rohe was a highly specialized student in school; his math grades were excellent, but his art grades were less so. Because of this unfortunate lack of aesthetic sense, his fellow grade school classmates used to tease him mercilessly. "Ha ha!" they would jeer. "You can't even begin to comprehend the contrapposto method of figure sculpture perfected by the classical Greeks!" For this they gave Rohe the nickname "Vander" (meaning "one who vands")-- a nickname that was to stick with him for the rest of his life.
Shaken yet undaunted by his peers, Rohe pledged that he would, someday, become an extremely famous and well-respected designer, one who would fly around the world and play hockey with movie stars and sip ridiculously fruity drinks out of the ear canals of naked ladies. And so, Rohe, with his newfound drive and ambition, completed his high school and college years with the single goal of being the best dang designer and/or artist this world would ever see. Little did he know that the fame he craved... had a price.
edit A New Vision
After graduating with an associate's degree from the Royal Art and Design Insitute of Germany (or possibly Switzerland), Rohe immediately started work on dozens of high-end architectural projects. Not that anyone had actually asked him to design anything. He would just sketch something out on a yellow legal pad, then, late at night, find an empty lot and build it as quietly as possible. It was not uncommon in Rohe's neighborhood to wake to some neighbor's cries of "Who built this office park on my front lawn?!?" Eventually the local Homeowner's Association sent him a letter with some "constructive criticism": namely, that if Rohe didn't stop, the neighborhood was "gonna construct you a new asshole... comprende?". It was around this time that Rohe moved to America.
The Seagram building: Coincidence? You decide!
Rohe was delighted to find that, unlike everyone back home in Germany (or possibly Luxembourg), people in America had absolutely no semblance of taste whatsoever when it came to architecture, so naturally they embraced Rohe's soulless pared-down minimalist style. Rohe's first major commission, the Seagram building was seen as a triumph of engineering, despite the fact that it bore a striking resemblance to a box of Grape-Nuts. The edifice became world-famous, and soon orders poured into Rohe's office for approximately a million bajillion more buildings exactly like Seagram's to be built in cities around the world. Rohe would go on to design such important buildings as the Barcelona Exposition Pavilion, the Farnsworth and Tundengat Houses, and the New National Gallery of Berlin, but we're not going to talk about them here because we are getting bored of talking about architecture.[4]
edit Interesting Footnote to History!
The only person who didn't like Rohe's Seagram building was, ironically, Joseph E. Seagram himself, CEO of Seagram Beverages Ltd., who declared it "a pox upon this already-foul city's skyline. I should hope it explodes. Thbpppppppppt. Just like that." However, since Joseph E. Seagram was 117 years old and stone crazy drunk at the time, everybody just sort of ignored him.
edit Rohe's Legacy
Rohe went on to live the life of freaky hedonistic excess that has become synonymous with the word "architectural design" until the tragic day when he got shot in a duel with Lester "Les" Corbusier over whether or not buildings could be other colors than white, such as gray, black, and (edgy as it may sound) beige. His influence on modern design still lives today.[5]
edit The Inventions
It's little known, but Rohe came up with the original design for the office cubicle, in his effort to create "something like an office, but without the dignity." He was also a major adviser in the design of both the strip mall and the Scion xB.
edit The Sayings
Rohe was second to none in coming up with brilliant design proverbs, which he then licensed to be printed for a series of novelty T-shirts which were very popular at the time. Some of his more famous phrases include "God is in the details", "Less is more", and "It's all fun and games until someone loses a weiner." Recently the rights to the phrase "Less is more" was purchased by the Charmin Toilet Tissue Company for use in a TV commmercial jingle; at around the same time, Rohe was hitting about 20,000 rpm in his grave.
edit The Lawsuits
Rohe's most famous lawsuit involved suing film director Stanley Kubrick for using his designs for the "Monolith" in the epic motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey. The case all the way to the Supreme Court, but in the end chief justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ruled that Rohe was, indeed, the legal owner of the "Monolith" design, as well as the entire set design for The Shining and a good twenty minutes of A Clockwork Orange to boot. Kubrick was so distraught that he tried to sue David Bowie for making his parody song "Space Oddity" without Kubrick's permission, but the suit fell through at the district level.
edit Notes
1. Well, I'll bet you wouldn't have thought of it.
2. Well, maybe you would have, but he thought of it first.
3. Shut up.
4. Besides, let's be frank, who even gives a shit about the Farnsworth and Tundengat Houses?
5. In case you were wondering, it lives in a rather nice townhouse in Decatur, Georgia.
edit See also
For the religious among us who choose to believe lies, the so-called experts at Wikipedia have an article about Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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For creating a clickable image without using the external url method. The imagemap extension may be better for this, but doesn't support variables or magic words etc.
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15 November 2006
Microsoft Zune provides enough actual storage space for your own clone.
SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. introduced their "Zune" media player this week, and it is the greatest invention since the wheel and totally kicks iPod's sorry ass into the dirt because it is so totally awesome as to be nearly indescribable. What brilliance, what amazement - first Microsoft invented a games console that you could actually plug into your TV, and just when you thought human technology had reached its zenith, now they have invented a music player that fits in your pocket.
Imagine if you will, a light, handy electronic appliance that fits comfortably in your pickup, that allows you to store over 80,000 songs, a week's worth of high-definition television programming, and the entire DNA sequence of your first-born son, has 3 terabytes of computer memory, and houses an entire virtual world occupied by mind beings and colorful, telepathic animals. Powered wonderfully by a V8 gas engine.
In addition to whalloping iPod in every category, the Zune can actually communicate with space aliens and angels, improve your personality through Scientological engram reprogramming and purification, record images of your dead ancestors, and allow you to live forever. Don't forget, it also has built-in bluetooth.
According to Mike, the Zune is, "like the most absolutely totally mind-blowingly incredibly fuckingly explosively huge and tremendous thing in the entire fucking history of the universe that I think I just squirted in my pants!"
Zune, which means: "a fuck" in Hebrew, comes pre-loaded with every piece of software ever written, and includes headphones, a recharging port, a satellite uplink, an MRI machine, and a 4-inch diagonal high-definition 3-D viewscreen that allows you to see up to 3 years into the future. An optional accessory pack allows you to transmute base metals into gold, and instant message God. "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Zune," the Holy Father said this morning at the press launch.
Luckily, as a bonus for consumers, Zune is only compatible with other Microsoft products doing away with silly inconveniences such as the option to use any product not approved by Microsoft. And for the consumer that still feels they have too much choice? Don’t worry; the music you play on Zune will be wrapped up in some nasty DRM which will harvest your vital organs and ship them to Bill Gates if you attempt to reformat the music. Get it early to avoid disappointment!!
And the total cost for this miracle of modern technology is only about $259.95 or $25,995 or $25,990,454.99 something, but whatever, either way, it's like, nothing. Pocket change, really.
You need this thing or your life will simply be a pitiful sham, no more consequential than the decay of a lump of greasy cockroach shit in a sunless, fetid sewer. No, even worse than that. And yes, the Zune is available in poo brown, and creamy cum white.
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Unpoetia logo Poetry for people who hate poetry
I love the smell of gasoline,
It lets me pass into a dream,
I sail off, I leave this world
And giggles from my chest unfurl.
The smell drifts out, plentiful, from my car
And from the mower in the yard
And if I ever yearn for more,
It waits in cans along the floor.
You may think it strange, the things I do,
When I sniff my gasoline or glue
But I know this: when I sniff these things,
A gentle warmth to me they bring.
Which is something I need, every day.
A way to laugh, and dance, and play.
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PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Please have a seat. Well, I am thrilled to be here. I want to thank President Clinton for the kind, although protocol-busting, introduction. (Laughter.) And I want to thank him for inviting me back to join you at this year's meeting.
It was an extraordinary pleasure to be here at CGI last year. It's a pleasure to be back today not only because of my highest regard for President Clinton personally, not just because of my gratitude to him for putting up with long hours away from our Secretary of State -- (laughter) --
For the past five years, President Clinton has applied the full force of his energy and his influence -- and it is formidable -- to the work of this initiative. And with that passion and with that determination and that charm of his that makes it so darn hard to say no, he has marshaled $57 billion worth of commitments from folks like you -- (applause) -- and that's bringing hope and opportunity to more than 200 million people around the world. It's a remarkable record of achievement.
But I'm not just here today to sing President Clinton's praises, or to commend all of you for the terrific work that each of you have done -- although I am grateful for that. I am here to play an even more important role, and that is to introduce my better half: my extraordinary wife, and America's extraordinary First Lady, Michelle Obama. (Applause.)
Now, Bill Clinton understands where I'm coming from here. (Laughter.) He knows what it's like to be married to somebody who's smarter -- (laughter) -- somebody who's better looking -- (laughter) -- somebody who's just all around a little more impressive than you are. (Laughter and applause.) Right? It's -- this is not news to people. (Laughter.)
Since Michelle and I first started dating 22 years ago, pretty much everybody I know who's met her at some point comes up to me and says, you know, Barack, you're great and all, I like you, but your wife, now, she's really something. (Laughter.) And I, of course, agree. They're right. And I feel grateful that Michelle so far, at least, has not run for any offices I've been running for. (Laughter.) She would beat me thoroughly.
Fortunately for me, as much as she cares deeply about public service, she hasn't shown much interest in the political chatter. She doesn't think about who's winning or losing, what the polls say, or who gets the best headline in the papers. No matter what the issue, there's only one thing that she wants to know, and that's "who are we helping?" That's what she asks. "Who is this going to make a difference for? Whose life is this going to improve?"
She reminds me with her work to tackle childhood obesity so our kids can have healthy lives and the futures they deserve. She reminds me by throwing open the doors of our White House to young people from all different backgrounds, letting them know that we believe in their promise, letting them know that the White House is the people's house, and letting young people know that they're not that far away from all the power and prestige and decisions that are made -- that, in fact, this is something they can aspire to, they can be a part of, because we are a government of and by and for the people.
She reminds me with her work to be a voice for America's military families and veterans, using her platform as First Lady to make sure they get support and respect and the appreciation that they deserve.
And while I am tremendously proud of the First Lady that she's been for this country, at the end of the day I'm most grateful that she's been such a partner to me, and the best mother that I know.
Every moment that I spend with my daughters, I am thankful for all that she's done to make them who they are. Every day, I see her strength and her kindness and her character reflected in the two of them. And there is no greater gift -- and I know Bill feels the same way about when he looks at Chelsea, he sees this incredible force that a mother can bring.
To this day, I still don't know how I talked her into marrying me, but I know that I am the luckiest guy in the world that she did. So it is with that that I would like to introduce you to my first lady, America's First Lady, Michelle Obama. (Applause.)
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Interested in an online app that allows multiple users to edit, perhaps simultaneously, a flowchart or collection of flowcharts.
So far I've only found sites which allow you to share your flowcharts with others.
In this case free is required, and it's ok if the flowcharts are public. To some degree, I'd like to see a stackexchange or wiki like site, except the posts are community editable flowcharts.
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There are many sites for creating flowcharts, and many have collaborative features. E.g:
You can also look at the various mind-mapping tools. Google docs has nice collaborative features, and it has some ability for creating diagrams. If you really want a wiki, MediaWiki (the open-source script behind wikipedia) also has some sort of charting ability.
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Check out LucidChart. It let's you collaborate in real-time too.
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Eclipse for Beginners
Learn about Eclipse, the exciting open source development tool created by IBM, for building applications for the enterprise (Web, SOA, Desktop, etc.) using Java technology. This session will largely be a demonstration of the Eclipse platform where a desktop and web based application will be built and debugged.
Eclipse: Building Web Sites
Eclipse is a multipurpose tool, which among other things can be used to build multi-page, graphical, and interactive web sites. This session will focus on using Eclipse to build web sites and will demonstrate the various web site editors (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.) that are available in Eclipse.
Eclipse: Web Applications
Providing the right tools for building web applications is one of the things Eclipse does best. Using Java and Servlet Technology, we will build a dynamic web site in this session. You will also learn HTTP and HTML basics.
Eclipse: How do I access my Data?
Data drives dynamic websites! Eclipse has many tools, which can be used to help you connect to, transform, and use data from just about any data source. This session will demonstrate how to connect to a DB2 database use the Eclipse tools to work with the data. Additionally, a small web application will be built which uses the data.
Eclipse: Using XML
It would be hard to find many applications written in the past five years that didn’t utilize XML in some fashion. XML, or eXtensible Markup Language, and the many surrounding technologies are cornerstones in any web-based application. Eclipse has many tools for working with XML, which we will cover in this session. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/26929 | As I explained in "ISA Server's Caching Capabilities, Part 1," February 2004,, Instant Doc ID 41274, Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 is not only a firewall but also a service that accelerates Internet access by using an excellent caching functionality. The ISA Server cache stores frequently used URL objects (i.e., the content associated with URLs) in memory and in cache files on ISA Server's hard drive. Part 1 describes ISA Server's caching behavior and shows you how to configure cache routing rules and cache settings. In this article, I explain ISA Server's active caching feature, prepopulating the cache, advanced cache options, monitoring the cache, and scripts for working with the cache. ISA Server caches requests for both forward proxying (i.e., for internal clients requesting external URL objects) and reverse proxying (i.e., external clients requesting internal published URL objects), but this two-article series covers only ISA Server's forward-proxying capabilities.
Active Caching
ISA Server has an active caching feature. If you enable active caching, ISA Server determines the most frequently used URLs and retrieves them periodically from the Web server to make sure that the cache always has fresh versions of the files. You can use the Active Caching tab of the Cache Configuration Properties dialog box to configure active caching to retrieve files frequently, normally, or less frequently. To open the dialog box, open the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) ISA Management snap-in, right-click Cache Configuration under the ISA Server system you want to configure, select Properties, and go to the Active Caching tab. Note that frequent destinations don't always remain frequent and that if ISA Server uses a dial-up connection to the Internet, active caching will dial the modem.
The active caching mechanism is something of a black box. Microsoft doesn't document the algorithm that active caching uses to determine which files it caches and when it caches them. You can't specify which URLs should be actively cached (e.g., you can't create a destination set for actively cached URLs) or when. However, active caching happens when the CPU is least used, which is most likely at night when ISA Server is least used.
If you need to conserve bandwidth or if you're paying for bandwidth by the bits, use the less frequent option. Otherwise, I find it hard to suggest which option to choose because of the algorithm being unpublished. The best course is to try the different options and watch the bandwidth usage to ensure that it isn't wasted on needless caching.
Prepopulating the Cache
Instead of relying on active caching to keep the content of popular URL objects up-to-date, you can prepopulate the cache with frequently used URLs. To do so, you create a new scheduled job. In the ISA Management snap-in under the server you want to configure, go to Cache Configuration\Scheduled Content Download. Right-click Scheduled Content Download Jobs, and select New, Job to start the New Scheduled Content Download Job Wizard. After you specify a job name, the wizard prompts you for the time and date of the first job. The next screen asks you how often you want to run the job. The next screen lets you enter a URL and specify whether you want to follow links to other domains and whether you want ISA Server to cache dynamic content. The wizard's last screen, which Figure 1 shows, asks you about Time to Live (TTL) and link depth. As I mentioned in Part 1, the Web server's replies carry TTL information in the Expires header. You can override the Web server's TTL setting by selecting the first check box—Always override object's TTL—and specifying a new TTL in minutes. If you select the second check box—Override TTL if not defined—ISA Server will update objects in the cache according to the settings you specified on the HTTP tab of the Cache Configuration Properties dialog box—unless the Web server has sent caching headers, which take precedence. If you select the second check box and specify a new TTL in minutes, that time takes precedence over your settings on the HTTP tab.
ISA Server's content download feature works like a Web crawler: ISA Server sends a request to the specified URL and follows each link on the initial page unless you limit the link depth on the New Scheduled Content Download Job Wizard's last screen. You can also specify a limit for the number of objects (such as Web pages or images) to be cached.
Web Figure 1 (, InstantDoc ID 41570) shows how the cache looks after ISA Server has downloaded content from You can see the entire structure of the initial URL.
Advanced Configuration
Figure 2 shows advanced cache configuration options. By selecting the Do not cache objects larger than check box and specifying a number of kilobytes, you can ensure that if a user requests the URL of a large object, such as a large picture file, ISA Server won't cache it. Selecting the Cache objects that have an unspecified last modification time check box forces ISA Server to cache responses that don't have the Last-Modified header that I discussed in Part 1. Selecting the Cache objects even if they do not have an HTTP status code of 200 check box enables negative caching—that is, caching of responses that have a code of other than 200 OK. ISA Server with negative caching enabled will cache the following Web server replies:
• 203 Partial Content
• 300 Redirection
• 301 Permanent Move
• 410 Object is gone
By default, ISA Server doesn't cache the URLs of dynamic content (i.e., URLs that contain a question mark). When a Web server application generates dynamic content whose URL doesn't have a question mark, the application usually adds the Expires: 0 header to prevent caching. You can select the Cache dynamic content (objects with question marks in the URL) check box to override this behavior, but think twice about doing so. ISA Server will cache and display the results of any user's Web query, resulting in potentially expired data being presented to the user.
To enhance performance for users, ISA Server stores all objects in memory first (writing them to disk later) and looks for objects in memory first. Microsoft hasn't documented the algorithm ISA Server uses to determine when to move objects out of memory to disk. I can only speculate that objects used the most frequently stay in memory so that ISA Server can serve them faster. The Percentage of free memory to use for caching field controls how much memory ISA Server should use for caching. If you want to prevent ISA Server from caching large objects in memory, you can enter an upper limit in the Maximum size of URL cached in memory (bytes) field.
Two options control what happens when ISA Server can't reach the original server of expired URLs. If you select the Do not return the expired object (return an error page) option, ISA Server will return an error. If you select the Return the expired object only if expiration was option, you can control how long ISA Server will continue to return an old object. You set the time as a percentage of the original TTL value and set an upper limit in minutes.
Cache Monitoring
ISA Server provides more than 20 performance counters to help you capture performance data. To work with the most important ones, click Start on your ISA Server machine, open the Microsoft ISA Server program group, and select Microsoft ISA Server Performance Monitor to start the Windows Performance Monitor with its predefined workspace containing the key counters.
The Cache Hit Ratio (%) counter exposed by the ISA Server Web Proxy service shows the percentage of URL requests that ISA Server has been able to serve from the cache. Obviously, you want this number to be as high as possible. The Cache Running Hit Ratio (%) is the hit rate for the last 10,000 requests and therefore gives you a recent picture of ISA Server's cache performance.
To generate a report that shows this caching performance data, expand your ISA Server's Monitoring Configuration node in the ISA Management snap-in, right-click Report Jobs, and select New, Report Job. Click the Schedule tab and select the Immediately option to generate a report right away. The default name of the report is Report Job; you can type in another name if you like. You can also select a time period (e.g., a day, a month) for which to create a report.
To view the report, go to <ISA Server Name>\Monitoring\Reports\Traffic & Utilization in the ISA Management snap-in and double-click the report in the right pane. An instance of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) will open, and the report will appear in the browser. (ISA Server creates a report as a simple HTML file in the Temporary Internet Files folder, then starts IE to render the file.) The report contains a wealth of information, but we're interested only in the Cache Performance section. The report shows the performance data in two forms: in a table, as Web Figure 2 shows, and in a pie chart. The more efficiently the cache is used, the lower the percentage of Objects returned from the Internet. Objects returned from cache without verification shows the number and percentage of objects that were valid in the cache at the time of the report. The report also shows the number of objects returned after verification, meaning that ISA Server sent a request for the object to the Web server and the Web server responded that the object hadn't changed, so ISA Server returned the cached object. Note that this report shows cache activity for 1 day.
Maintenance with Scripts
The ISA Server CD-ROM contains scripts (in the sdk\samples\admin\scripts directory) that let you manage ISA Server programmatically and accomplish tasks (such as removing a URL from the cache) that you can't easily do by using the ISA Management snap-in. The scripts use ISA Server programmatic interfaces (so-called FPC objects) that you can access by using COM Automation from VBScript, Visual Basic (VB), Java, and other languages.
You can use the command
delete_url.vbs ISA-LEON
to run the delete_url.vbs script to delete a URL from the cache. (Note that the command is split across several lines to fit the format of this publication. You would enter it on one line.) The first parameter is an ISA Server array or server name; the second parameter is the URL to be deleted. If the script doesn't find the URL in the cache, the script returns the error The system cannot find the file specified.
The fetchurl.vbs script fetches a URL and stores it under a specific name for a specific amount of time. In the command
fetchurl.vbs http://www.
NewHtml.html 1
the first parameter specifies the URL to fetch, the second parameter is the name under which the URL should be stored in the ISA Server cache, and the third parameter is the TTL in minutes. In most cases, the URL and the name under which to store it will match, but you still must include all three parameters.
The cachesettings.vbs sample script displays cache settings for an ISA Server array or standalone server. Typing the command
results in a prompt for your array name, then yields the following output for my ISA-LEON machine:
Array name: ISA-LEON
Active caching is currently
Cache drives: E:
Cache drives present: 1
Total cache size: 100
The setcache.vbs script lets you interactively set HTTP caching options (which I covered in Part 1) and active caching options. If you're interested in learning more about ISA Server programmatic management, the ISA Server software development kit (SDK) documentation is the place to begin. For details about the FPC objects, go to "Objects" at
Remember that to use the caching facilities of ISA Server, you just need to install ISA Server in caching mode. This simple step will introduce the power of the ISA Server cache to an enterprise network of any size. |
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I am using wordpress Version 2.9.2 and XML Sitemap Generator 3.2.3
I have registered with Google Webmaster Tools.
But I get an error while notifying to Google and I really don't know what it means.
Heres a screenshot :
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And when I click on view result it show me the following message:
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Trying to ping: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fsearock.bplaced.net%2Fsitemap.xml.gz. The sections below should give you an idea whats going on.
Errors, Warnings, Notices:
WP_DEBUG was set to false somewhere before. You might not see all debug information until you remove this declaration!
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Result (HTML):
If I want to debug the error where can I find WP_DEBUG ? Can someone tell me what's wrong here.
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WP_DEBUG is a constant which you can define in wp-config.php to disable hiding of PHP errors and notices.
Add define('WP_DEBUG', true); to your config file to enable it.
Just remember to never leave it on for long on a live blog.
Since all pings fail this is likely not an issue with specific sitemap service, but with ping process itself. I think it might be HTTP requests failing for some reason, but there is no way to tell definitively from information you provided so far.
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+1 what additional details do you need ? Do you want the error message after setting WP_DEBUG to true? – Searock Nov 4 '10 at 17:54
@Searock yep, that would make sense for starters. Also if this is HTTP-related you can try Core Control plugin that has great functionality for testing and logging HTTP requests in WP. – Rarst Nov 4 '10 at 20:00
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Try to Check your .htacces, and reset to wordpress default .htaccess;
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/27050 | Edward Baca enlisted in the Army in November of 1956 with the 726th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion of the New Mexico Army National Guard. Upon graduation from Officers Candidate School in July 1962, he was assigned as a platoon leader of the 3631st Maintenance Company. Soon after, he volunteered for active duty and for overseas deployment to Vietnam. Baca was released from active duty in 1966 and returned to the New Mexico Army National Guard, where he assumed command of the 3631st. In 1977 Baca became the state military personnel officer and was assigned the state assistant, G-1. A short time later, he was appointed the adjutant general, New Mexico National Guard. Commanding both the Army and Air National Guard of New Mexico, Baca led the state guard to a position of national prominence as a vital component of the "total force."
Baca spearheaded a nationwide National Guard force modernization effort and directed the first fielding of the Chaparral and Hawk missile battalions in the Reserve. The National Guard Bureau designated New Mexico's award-winning drug demand reduction program as a pilot for all states and in October of 1994, Baca was promoted to lieutenant general and assigned as chief, National Guard Bureau, a position he held until his retirement in 1998. |
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I just saw this news: Gigabyte Unveils BRIX with Iris Pro 5200 Graphics TDP 65W, price ~$500. Iris Pro 5200 is not so much helpful in video playback, however.
A good selection. I suggest i3-4130 instead of i3-4130T. At idle and video playback, they consume the same power. i3-4130 is more powerful for CPU-intensive tasks (only when you will see the difference of TDP, 54W vs 35W).
They don't multiply ports (these are port multiplier). They just add more ports. OK, it depends on the definition of multiply.
"Fake RAID" does not sound a good term in that it's still a RAID = "redundant array" of IDs however it is implemented. Hardware RAID has a dedicated processor / memory for parity calculation. If the host (= CPU) does this, it is a fake hardware RAID (apart from a pure software RAID). Motherboard RAID and cheaper RAID cards belong to this. I looked at wiki and found a good term: Firmware/driver-based RAID
Graphics driver for Core i3-4130 and Pentium (Haswell) is available only from mb manufacturers' site. - (Intel Download Center) does not support Core i3-4130 / Pentium (Haswell). - (ASRock, ASUS, GIGABYTE websites) and (MSI website, this is the latest) support Core i3-4130 / Pentium (Haswell). Update - is available from Intel Download Center, that supports graphics in all IVB / Haswell processors.
I built (= just install memory and SSD [mSATA]) an older Ivy Bridge-based BRIX for a friend of mine. Tiny, yet powerful. Highly recommended. The model I cited (Haswell-based) is not available yet, but should be available not so far away.
Personally I prefer 8 to 7 a lot. However, you have to buy: - WMC pack for $10 (from MS store) if you want to use it - StartIsBack for $3 or Start8 for $5 if you want to bypass Modern UI and want to use Start button as with XP/Vista/7.
Prolimatech Samuel 17 should fit the mb without blocking the PCIe slot (you need a fan). But Geminii S524 is a better buy.
Yes. No need for extra hardware unless you want to send HD audio to AVR (8500 GT can't do that). If you build a new system, check a Pentium G3220 or A6-6400K (or higher) system. A new system will be a lot better in many points. XBMC is perhaps the quickest media center to set up.
A system like this, or GIGABYTE BRIX. Either one is a lot more powerful than your current system.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/27149 | Ezekiel 43 (New American Standard)
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13 "And these are the measurements of the 27altar by cubits (the 28cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth ): the nbase shall be a cubit and the width a cubit, and its border on its edge round about one span ; and this shall be the height of the obase of the altar. 14 "From the base on the ground to the lower 29ledge shall be two cubits and the width one cubit ; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits and the width pone cubit. 15 "The qaltar hearth shall be four cubits ; and from the raltar hearth shall extend upwards four 30horns. 16 "Now the saltar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, 31square in its four sides. 17 "The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides, the border around it shall be half a cubit and its base shall be a cubit round about ; and its 32steps shall t33face the east."
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18 And He said to me, "34Son of man, thus says the Lord uGOD, 'These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is built, to offer 35burnt offerings on it and to 36sprinkle blood on it. 19 'You shall give to the Levitical priests who are from the offspring of 37Zadok, who draw 38near to Me to minister to Me,' declares the Lord GOD, 'a 39young bull for a 40sin offering. 20 'You shall take some of its blood and put it on its four 41horns and on the four corners of the 42ledge and on the border round about ; thus you shall 43cleanse it and make atonement for it. 21 'You shall also take the bull for the sin offering, and it shall be 44burned in the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary. 22 'On the second day you shall offer a 45male goat without blemish for a sin offering, and they shall 46cleanse the altar as they cleansed it with the bull. 23 'When you have finished cleansing it, you shall present a 47young bull without blemish and a 48ram without blemish from the flock. 24 'You shall present them before the LORD, and the priests shall throw 49salt on them, and they shall offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD. 25 '50For seven days you shall prepare daily a goat for a sin offering ; also a young bull and a ram from the flock, without blemish, shall be prepared. 26 'For seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they vconsecrate it. 27 'When they have completed the days, it shall be that on the 51eighth day and onward, the priests shall woffer your burnt offerings on the altar, and your 52peace offerings ; and I will 53accept you,' declares the Lord GOD."
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The evidence for the composition of the core is all indirect because no means have yet been devised for directly sampling the deep interior of the Earth. The moment of inertia of the Earth indicates that there is a concentration of mass around the centre, and seismic data have shown that below the Wiechert–Gutenberg Discontinuity the density of the material is high, ranging upwards from...
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With a radius of almost 3,500 km (2,200 miles), Earth’s core is about the size of the entire planet Mars. About one-third of Earth’s mass is contained in the core, most of which is liquid iron alloyed with nickel and some lighter, cosmically abundant components (e.g., sulfur, oxygen, and, controversially, even hydrogen). Its liquid nature is revealed by the failure of shear-type seismic waves...
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Thermal heating in the core is the process that drives fluid motion. For many years it was thought that this heating was caused by radioactive elements dissolved in the liquid core. Recent work suggests that freezing of the liquid core is more important. Seismic studies have shown that the centre of the Earth is a solid sphere of iron with an approximate radius of 1,200 kilometres. This sphere...
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...ago. Heating of this initially cool unsorted conglomerate by the decay of radioactive elements and the conversion of kinetic and potential energy to heat resulted in the development of a liquid iron core and the gross internal zonation of Earth. It has been concluded that formation of Earth’s core took about 500 million years. It is likely that core formation resulted in the escape of an...
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/27266 | In our makeshift compact-car Olympics, our long-term 2013 Honda Civic has had a bumpy ride. It trounced the outgoing Toyota Corolla but was KIA by a Kia — the brand's redesigned 2014 Forte. It wasn't the fairest fight, given our particular Forte test car stickered for considerably more, but then again, so did our test Corolla, which lost big anyway. This time around, we pit the Honda against another redesign: the 2013 Nissan Sentra, a car that went on sale in October 2012. Sentra sales are up 18.7% through June, but the Civic still outsells it by more than a 2-1 ratio — an extension of sales history, where the Civic has thumped the Sentra for the past decade.
Sales popularity and strength of product often have little relation, though (see the Corolla review). We received an automatic-equipped Sentra SL, which had a few more features than our Civic LX — most notably dual-zone automatic climate control, alloy wheels and a navigation system. Still, its $21,370 sticker, including destination, came closer to the Civic's $19,755 than the optioned-out Forte EX or absurdly equipped Corolla S.
Cabin Quality: Sentra
JW: Kelsey makes some good points, but quality is partly about feel and not just how armrests physically feel. The cars have similarly uninspiring cloth upholstery. The Civic's instruments still impress. The Sentra's are illuminated but more conventional. I can't give either car the win here, so I guess Kelsey's conviction tips it in Nissan's favor, but not by much.
Noise: Sentra
KM: The Sentra is a quiet experience that soothes the morning commute, and that's something right up most commuters' alleys, I suspect.
JW: I agree on the noise levels. Occasionally the continuously variable automatic transmission causes the Sentra's engine to drone at seemingly inappropriate times, but it's better than previous generations. Overall, a quieter car.
Ride: Sentra
JW: If the Sentra rides clumsily, it's only a little, unlike the Corolla. Definitely softer than the Civic, and I welcome it.
Handling: Civic
KM: After beating the Forte and Corolla, the Civic chalks its third handling win here. Quicker steering and flatter cornering give the Honda a sense of nimbleness that's missing in the Nissan, whose reflexes seem a touch foggier. We called the redesigned 2012 Civic a bit soft — particularly on the Si front — and Honda responded with a reworked suspension across all models for 2013. Even on our Civic LX, it appears the changes helped.
JW: Another case of a car winning the battle because Kelsey feels strongly in one direction. I think they're both good, in different ways. The Sentra's steering isn't quite as precise as the Civic's, but I preferred its weight and how well it snaps back to center. Body roll wasn't too objectionable, and the Sentra has much better roadholding. The Civic's tires are a weak link.
Acceleration: Civic
KM: Proof again that outdated on paper can still shine on the road: The Civic's five-speed automatic — one gear shy of most competitors — is a trusty ally. It upshifts smoothly and downshifts without delay, making the most of the Civic's small four-cylinder. The Sentra's next-gen CVT, by contrast, shoots for efficiency most of the time. It calls up engine revs soon enough, but small engines demand responsive transmissions, and Honda beats Nissan to the punch here.
Braking: Civic
KM: Minus the rear disc brakes — an option on the Sentra that our test car lacked — the Nissan stops with squirrely body motions and spongy pedal feedback. The Civic also lacks rear discs below the EX, but pedal feedback is a little better. The Civic wins, but mediocrity reigns.
JW: I'm going to put more support behind the Civic. The Sentra's brakes felt wrong most of the time. Even with its rear drums, the Civic performs well in normal driving, and that's what you appreciate most.
Gas Mileage: Sentra
Seats and Roominess: Sentra
KM: The Sentra's front seats could adjust a bit farther rearward for tall drivers, but the backseat and trunk are where the Nissan wins. Backseat space is better, with uniform materials to boot. (The Civic's cabin quality degrades when you get to the rear doors.) Trunk space? No contest. The Sentra's 15.1 cubic feet includes a 60/40-split folding rear seat. The Civic LX has a modest 12.5 cubic feet and a single-piece folding backseat (the EX and EX-L get a 60/40-split backseat).
JW: Unlike most compacts, the Sentra's front seats rival the Civic's for bottom-cushion length and thigh support, and they don't have the excessive lumbar support that irks me in the Civic. The Sentra's center armrest is so far back that it's practically pointless, but that's not enough to hurt its competitiveness much (and Nissan says a sliding armrest will be standard in the 2014 Sentra SL and optional in the SV and SR). The Civic is no slouch, but the Sentra definitely has this one in the bag.
Multimedia: Civic
KM: The Sentra's optional navigation system has user-friendly smartphone cues: You can scroll the map by swiping your finger, for example, instead of pointing at an area to prompt movement. But the Civic's giant dummy dial — hit it once to adjust volume, again to tune the radio — succeeds in aesthetics and usability. Key information, from vehicle speed to radio stations, sits closer to eye level in the Honda, too. The Sentra may have more bells and whistles, but Honda's bells are easier to ring.
JW: Yep. Simplicity and clarity win out, and as I said earlier, I've become something of a gauge snob, and the Civic's give a high-quality impression.
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This is a quick example of how to query a YaCy peer for search results using C#.
YaCy is an Open Source peer to peer web search engine/crawler. It can be used to provide search functionality for local intranets and document stores, or it can contribute to a global P2P network to provide web crawling/indexing/search in a decentralized fashion.
Using the Code
The YacyServer class (below) is a simple class that keeps track of the URI of the YaCy peer you wish to use and details of your web proxy (if needed).
The URI passed to the constructor should be an active YaCy peer.
The main method used is Search, which has an override to just use the default maximum number of results. As you can see, it's just a web request, and the results are RSS.
The return result is an enumeration of SearchResult objects.
/// <summary>
/// Encapsulates a YaCy web server
/// </summary>
public class YacyServer
private Uri uri;
private IWebProxy proxy;
public YacyServer(Uri webServerUri) : this(null, webServerUri) { }
public YacyServer(IWebProxy proxy, Uri webServerUri)
uri = webServerUri;
this.proxy = proxy;
private int _max = 500;
public int MaxResultDefault
get { return _max; }
set { if (value != 0) _max = Math.Abs(value); }
public IEnumerable<SearchResult> Search(string search)
return Search(0, search);
public IEnumerable<SearchResult> Search(int maxResults, string search)
string request = uri.Scheme + "://" + uri.Host + ":" + uri.Port +
"/yacysearch.rss?query=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(search);
if(maxResults > 0)
request += "&maximumRecords=" + maxResults.ToString();
request += "&maximumRecords=" + _max.ToString();
request += "&resource=global";
// important, don't just search the local index
WebRequest wr = (WebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(request);
if (proxy != null)
wr.Proxy = proxy;
WebResponse resp = wr.GetResponse();
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
XmlNodeList results = doc.SelectNodes("/rss/channel/item");
foreach (XmlNode node in results)
result.Add(new SearchResult(node));
return (IEnumerable<SearchResult>)result;
Obviously, there are a number of things not shown: error handling, or making the web request asynchronous, for example.
The SearchResult class is just a wrapper:
/// <summary>
/// Encapsulates a YaCy search result
/// </summary>
public class SearchResult
private XmlNode data;
protected internal SearchResult(XmlNode data)
{ = data;
public string Title
get { return data["title"].InnerText; }
public string Link
get { return data["link"].InnerText; }
public string Description
get { return data["description"].InnerText; }
Using these classes in a Windows Form goes something like this:
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
// this is my yacy peer address,
// read how to set up your own yacy peer at
server = new YacyServer(new Uri(""));
private YacyServer server;
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
button1.Enabled = false;
IEnumerable<SearchResult> result = server.Search(textBox1.Text);
// The search result uses this interface
// so it can be further filtered using Linq
// eg:
// var x = from p in result where p.Title.Contains("Blog") select p;
dataGridView1.DataSource = result;
button1.Enabled = true;
Points of Interest
The Search function returns IEnumerable<T>, so the search results could be filtered further on the client using LINQ.
For further API documentation, click here.
YaCy has a large API and can search many types of content; if anyone wants to request further sample YaCy articles, I will do my best to oblige.
YaCy offers an Open Source, peer to peer search solution which can be used in many ways to improve your own website as well as the freedom of the internet (YaCy can't be censored as there is no central point of control).
The public peer network ('freeworld') is still growing, please get involved.
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"Rocketed to Earth from the exploding planet Krypton, baby Kal-El was adopted by a kindly couple named Jonathan and Martha Kent. Re-named Clark, he grew to adolescence in Smallville, learning to use wisely the amazing super-powers that would one day make him The World's Greatest Hero! These are the adventures of Superman when he was...Superboy!"
Launched in January of 1980, The New Adventures of Superboy (not to be confused with the companion comic for the UPN series starring first John Haymes Newton, then Gerard Christopher as Superboy/Clark Kent and Stacy Haiduk as Lana Lang) brought the Teen of Steel back from the 30th Century, where he was hanging out with the Legion of Super-Heroes and into his own short-lived title. While a revival was going on in the future, the past/present wasn't so kind, as John Byrne's Legends and Man of Steel erased Superboy from the DC Universe continuity. The teen of steel was retconned out of existence as Superman never had a career in Smallville as Superboy before arriving in Metropolis and The Daily Planet. It wasn't until Geoff Johns that the teen of steel returned in the diabolical form of Superboy/man Prime.
This series precedes the head-scratching UPN series The Adventures of Superboy (head-scratching in that the series was developed by the Salkinds; and after it had been firmly established that Superboy no longer existed in the DCU) that ran from 1988 - 1991; and Smallville, currently in its ninth season on the CW.
The New Adventures of Superboy ran for 54 issues from January 1980 to January 1984.
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09-11-2010, 10:06 AM
Okay, so I'm working on a Sebastian cosplay - but I can find very few useful things online to help me orz
Then I remembered that's basically why I have an account here - d'oh!
So, anyway, I need help :U
I thought I'd found a PERFECT wig: http://cgi.ebay.com/Kuroshitsuji-Black-Butler-Sebastian-Michaelis-wig-gift-/160478726907?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item255d470afb (if that link expires it can be found here: http://stores.ebay.com/Cos-Monde__W0QQ_sidZ981933590?_nkw=kuroshitsuji&submit=Search )
But it says it doesn't actually look like the pic... Does anybody know how much I'd need to style it? I'm not great at wig-styling, so I'd prefer minimum prep from me orz
As for the rest of the costume, I just have no clue. Does anybody know where I could find a tailcoat like Sebastian's? http://anicath.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/kuro20shitsuji.jpg
And the waistcoat, gloves, basically everything I need for this? XD;
Preferably online, since I live in England so can't get stuff at Walmart or whatever XD
09-12-2010, 12:46 PM
I had a tailcoat for my prom outfit, and I had to order it online from Japan and have it shipped. I found them through eBay and it was about $60 with shipping, which isn't too bad imho.
I've found that, for some reason, America doesn't really go for tail coats. [ it doesn't matter 'cause you're english anyways ;o ] Which sucks because they're so FLIPPIN' AWESOME!! :'D
I usually find my other pieces from Thrift stores. I found a perfect waist coat for Grell yesterday, actually, to replace the cloth one I had before. :'D YAY!!
I got my gloves from a magic shop near my house, so check and see if you guys have any near by. :o
09-12-2010, 02:24 PM
Ooh, a magic shops sounds like a great idea, actually! I'll defo check if I have any nearby. Thrift stores (or as we call them over here, charity shops) are a very good friend of mine when it comes to cosplay XD Never thought of eBay for a tailcoat, actually, Idk why I didn't think of it... Thanks ^^ Though I'm always worried about getting clothes off eBay in case they're too big and too complicated for me to take in with my basic sewing "skills" orz
09-28-2010, 09:32 AM
Good luck finding your sebastian stuff! I was originally going to keep my hair it's shoulder length, dye it black, and style it.... but i'm cosplaying as someone from Junjou Romantica and need my short hair :P still gonna dye it black though... But i'm getting my sebastian cosplay from this link:
And i'm probably getting the wig here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Black-Butler-SEBASTIAN-short-cosplay-wig-KuroshitsujI_W0QQitemZ280561736530QQcategoryZ15535 0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m263QQ_trkparmsZalg o%3DSIC%26its%3DI%252BC%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA% 252BFICS%252BUFI%252BDDSIC%26otn%3D10%26pmod%3D280 563885806%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D5364895811984336322# ht_6360wt_989
I'll be checking this forum often to see if I can benefit form anything else posted here :) This is just what I have in mind though, I haven't bought anything yet... Good luck fellow Sebas-chan!!
09-29-2010, 09:46 PM
Trust me on this hunn..I'm gonna be Sebastian Michaelis too this Halloween..without the contacts ><! Can't find anything for it right now.:lost: The Wig is like the easiest thing to get though! |
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Upstream Color: a cerebral conundrum. (erbp photo / April 17, 2013)
Upstream Color
Directed by Shane Carruth, at Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., Hartford, (860) 232-1006,
Shane Carruth wants to preach the gospel of the spirit pig and the mind-control worm to you, and damned if his new movie Upstream Color doesn't make you believe, for a few hours at least. Carruth is the DIY filmmaking wunderkind who wrote/directed/starred in Primer, the no-budget Sundance hit with a Byzantine time-travel plot that spawned a cult of fevered flow-charters trying to make sense of it. That film was pure left-brain sci-fi, where the pleasure was in parsing the patterns of a mathematically precise movie universe. Upstream Color, which Carruth also marketed and self-distributed in addition to his usual acting/writing/directing/composing duties, is much more of a right-brain beast.
Following in the tradition of sci-fi like Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey or more recent movies like The Fountain and Cloud Atlas, Upstream uses the genre to create a sometimes transcendent, sometimes goofy allegory for (arguably) nothing less than "life, the universe, and everything", as Douglas Adams might put it. Unlike Adams' work, Carruth's film feels deathly serious about it, which is a double-edged sword. Few things cry out for parody like an exploration of an orchid-grub-worm-pig theory of human existence executed with total solemnity, and yet much of the power of Upstream Color comes from the half-mad sincerity of the ideas radiating off the screen.
There's horror before the metaphysical yearnings come into play, though. In the film's first act, Kris (Amy Seimetz) finds herself under the control of a malicious scientist, who has created some kind of mind-control elixir from harvested worms and orchid dust. After some trial exercises — forcing her to copy out long passages from Henry David Thoreau's Walden, for example — he gets her to empty out her bank account and then vanishes. When Kris finally regains mental control, she awakes to the Cronenberg-style nightmare of foot-long worms wriggling under her skin. It takes the help of a mysterious pig farmer to get them out — he transfuses them out of her body into a pig.
Here's where things get weird(er) — the film shifts gears from relatively straightforward horror territory into something more like abstract metaphor. Two threads intertwine — the first follows a shell-shocked Kris as she falls in love with equally wounded soul Jeff (Carruth), who for some reason has a set of memories uncannily similar to Kris's own. The second involves the pig farmer — all of his pigs seem to have a kind of spiritual half-Being-John-Malkovich mind-window to formerly worm-possessed people, including Kris and Jeff, that he can access. The cycle soon starts to loop around, and it seems that the forces of attraction bringing these lovers together may be part of the grand scheme.
As the film progresses and Jeff and Kris discover their role in this circle of life and/or chain of exploitation, it becomes clear that Carruth is less interested in how much sense the literal details of the plot make (though there's a coherent enough bizarro-world logic to most of what happens) than in metaphorical considerations about what this all means. The continual references to Walden are one clue. One of Carruth's central ideas here is about how poisonous narratives and cycles of existence can be imposed on us by society (and/or evil worm scientists) and how these can only be effectively replaced through reconnection with nature and rediscovery of our natural (pig-like?) selves — sentiments at the heart of the transcendentalist philosophies of Thoreau and Emerson (though Carruth is the kind of inquisitive filmmaker who keeps doubling back and questioning the hypotheses he puts forth — pay attention to how the fate of the "antagonist" ultimately fits into this reading).
Not that those are the only interpretations to be found here (I've heard compelling readings for the movie as a parable of both drug addiction and the economic downturn). Carruth certainly doesn't tell you in the film — his aesthetic is radical in the way he provides almost nothing in the way of exposition and depends on you to intuit the essential facts from seemingly throwaway bits of dialogue or images and edits that seem to rhyme with each other (like the continuing match cuts between geometric patterns of the urban world and similar shapes in nature). There's an appealing free-associative feel to the way that plot fragments and images related to a guiding idea are strung together here — desaturated-color variations on a theme, set to the alternately ominous and beautiful ambient drones of Carruth's soundtrack.
It can also feel like the central love story works better as a cosmic conspiracy component than as an actual emotional underpinning for the film.
But Seimetz is terrific as our central traumatized searcher, managing to hold on to something recognizably human and moving even in this most abstract of universes. And as a cerebral conundrum to be worked over in your head, Color is first-rate stuff — a truly renewable source of late-night dorm-room conversation fuel. I'm assuming there will be some readers who are rolling their eyes at this whole enterprise, and I don't really blame them — I'm not sure that Carruth's truths of existence are profound enough to fully justify the work he requires from viewers to puzzle them out and the air of revelation everything is shrouded in. But it's undeniable that Carruth has built some kind of gorgeous and intricate cathedral to a mystical vision of the world here. It takes a little faith to really get swept up in that vision, but even if you don't ultimately end up subscribing to the church newsletter, it's hard not to admire the handiwork and the raw passion of the architect behind it all. |
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Bought an EX-Z40 from Ebay in early 2006. Seemed to be working fine for a while, then the battery seemed to go dead after very little use. It took less and less time to run down the battery after each recharge, until eventually it would not recharge at all - the light doesn't come on or anything. I have 2 charging docks and tested both, and nothing happened on either of them. I bought a new battery, but it still doesn't charge up at all.
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The Origins/Genealogy Project aims to collect all available demographic,
ethnographic, spatial information on the slave population to enable descendants
of slaves to reconstruct their family history. One of the most important set of
documents concerned in this process is the slave registration returns compiled
from 1815 by the Slave Registry. The sets found in the Mauritius National
Archive are not complete and therefore the Mauritius National Archive ordered
complete sets from the Public Record Office based in London. These are being
transcribed by 2nd year History students of the University of Mauritius.
It will some time before all databases are available to the public. In the
meantime, the Nelson Mandela Centre for African Culture’s Family History Unit
has decided to put at the disposal of Mauritians a database containing the names
of all slaves freed in 1835.
Who and How can this database help you in your family search?
1. Mauritians who believe they have slave ancestry and whose families have
not changed their names can consult this database to check if their
names appear.
Many names may be spelt in a different way from how you are used to seeing
it. You must use your imagination and think about how else it could have
been written and search for those names too. Think of what the name sounds
like when spoken.
A few examples:
If you cannot find the family name you are searching for, the slaves may have
either have
Passed away. Consult Civil status registers.
Freed from slavery. Consult manumission registers.
Marooned. Consult maroonage registers.
Married and changed names. Consult civil status or parish
Form part of the 15,000 slaves who do not yet appear in the
1835 database. Consult microfilm of 1835 found in National
2. If the slave was part of a large estate, you can continue your search and find
the name of the estate and the names of all other slaves living on the same
3. If the estate was a well established one, you will also be able to locate it on the
map. For the time being this map contains only the large estates.
If you wish to read about the experiences of others, please read Joyce Fortune’s
article in History Memory and Identity.
Other documents that you can consult include:
Civil status registers - Civil Status Office in Port Louis and branches
contain birth marriage, death and manumission certificates.
Parish registers – Diocese de Port Louis (private)
Manumission registers containing manumission certificates of thousands
of slaves. Mauritius National Archives
Maroonage registers - Mauritius National Archives
Database of cemeteries and genealogies comiled by the Societe de
l’Histoire (private)
Slave registration returns for 1815, 1823, 1826 and 1835 available at
Mauritius National Archives on microfilm.
Registers of White, Coloured and Slave population, KK series Mauritius
National Archives
Notarial documents in the slave had acquired land or other property.
These databases are also being compiled by NMCAC and should be available in
coming years.
The 1835 database was compiled through the support of the Mauritius Research
Council between 1996 and 1998. Funding was continued from 2006 by the
Ministry of Culture and is ongoing.
For any further information, please contact Mrs Colette Lechartier Head
Research and Documentation at
Although this database provides information for slaves on large estate there were
many slaves working w\on small estates or as domestics in households. For
these only the names of the owner and district can be given as no other record
has been found for them yet. Over the years it will be possible to link these
names with other returns and go further back in time.
Colette Lechartier, Head Research and Documentation, NMCAC & Vijaya
Teelock, Principal Investigator, Origins project
Assisted by the students of the University of Mauritius since 1987. |
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At last, self-interest is pushing ambitious politicians towards immigration reform
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Illegal immigrants are the worst of all criminals they steal the future of citizens in the country they invade.Because they work for so much less than citizens they crowd out the opportunity for the first step on the ladder. They lower wages for everyone even the semi elites. That consideration is being given to amnesty again is an admission of a failed society. Over the years our country has filled it's schools with foreigners who wind up filling formerly well paid jobs through corporate abuse of the h1b visa system. Is it any wonder why US citizens no longer study science and technology in the numbers they did when their fathers have been replaced by 1/2 cost foreigners? We should have outsourced our politicians instead of everything else.
Since persons from hispanic countries have violated US immigration laws en-masse for decades- entering and residing in the country without following due process of law AND while the US has had in place explicitly delineated annual 'immigration quotas' (limits) for these persons' countries of origin- the US should:
1) reduce the annual immigration quotas (numbers of immigrants/persons accepted) from ALL hispanic countries to zero for at least 25-years;
2) Publicly and openly communicate the above to leaders of hispanic countries and their citizenry- from Mexico south to Antarctica- using standard diplomatic protocols as well as mass media advertisements;
3) Proportionally raise the annual immigration quotas (numbers of persons accepted) from non-hispanic countries, IE: European, Asian, African, etc in order to compensate for reductions in numbers of accepted-immigrants from hispanic countries....
And, recognizing the egregious financial, economic and political costs of deporting current illegal hispanic residents, the US should:
4) immediately grant legalized-residency to all hispanic illegal residents/immigrants who are currently residing in the US....
Roderick V. Louis,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
It will be interesting to watch as many stridently defended political positions are summarily abandoned in the scramble to seize the high ground of non-crazy Republicanism.
"Fixing" immigration seems to consist of (1) legalizing the illegal migrants that are here, then (2) continuing to fail to enforce immigration laws, so that (3) the illegal migrants will simply be replaced. Lather, rinse, repeat. Net result - an unending stream of unskilled migrants who think nothing of committing fraud to get what they want.
Never will there be a "lack of exploitation" because everyone's in on the deal - Republicans are happy because Big Ag gets cheap, exploitable labor. Democrats are happy because they can, oh so compassionately, harvest millions of votes.
The rule of law is nowhere to be found. I find that very depressing.
Concordian in reply to Michael Kohler
I'm not antagonistic toward immigrants. I'm antagonist toward people who want to reward illegal migrants for breaking the law in an effort to cheat at elections. To say I'm antagonistic toward immigrants is to distort my position.
mtweng in reply to Michael Kohler
Really. I used to think there was no chance it would happen to me and most of my fellow workers but it did. The large corporation I used to work for has replaced thousands of employees with hib visa holders. If you are not in a job that cannot be outsourced or h1b'ed you may be next.
So Obama couldn't do immigration reform when his party controlled Congress because that would have required "broad bipartisan support"? Lack of broad bipartisan support didn't stop him on healthcare. It seems that he just didn't care and that you are being a typical media apologist for the man.
I, personally , agree with Julian Simon that people are the "ultimate resource."
Darwins Toothpick
Just a minute. Exporting cheap and plentiful shale gas would be a way for the USA to improve its huge debt and trade balance. However this is not compatible with obtaining ever more immigrants. Norway and Brunei, for example, became rich because their populations are so small that they could never use up their energy resources. I am very much aware that when The Economist promotes immigration they mean millions they want to add to the USA each year. I may not be an economic genius but I think I have a point here. Let’s hope the USA will use its new found wealth wisely and not squander it through excess population growth.
Wait... So you read the Economist, but you think it would be a good thing if the US had a resource-extraction economy, instead of one based on entrepreneurial business?
Also, you do realize that there are already over 300 million of us. If you want the US to be a small country, that ship sailed a long, long time ago.
The Republicans will be doing themselves a favor trying to reach the Latino voters. But do not expect quick results. There is a strong perception among Latinos and Black that most Republicans, especially the "Grass Roots", look at L's and B's as people that they despise, deep inside their hearts.
In other words - in general terms - these minorities think today that the only reason why the GOP are now addressing Immigration Reform and showing some good will to make concessions is just because they cannot ignore them and cannot afford to let Immigration Reform for the DEMs only.
Again, it will take time to change such feelings.
mtweng in reply to plutonian
Why do you think the entire south of the US turned Republican? Because the Democrats started supporting civil rights for blacks. Those welfare states dropped their yellow dog democrat ideology in a heartbeat.The republicans became the nazi party of the US. Why do you think they refused to work with a black president? They are all closet racists. They do let a few uncle toms like Colin Powell in the party to keep up appearances but in their actions they reveal their true nature.
Whether or not the cold math of demographics is driving Republican winds, or something more meaningful, such as compassion, or more rational, such as economic benefit, if the end result is a more open immigration policy, the US stands to gain tremendously. The natural advantage of being a magnate for human capital is senselessly being wasted by blind and inept nativist sentiment.
A. Andros
We are not going to expel Illegals. This isn't the Third Reich or Stalin's Russia. There aren't going to be any human cattle drives headed south.
So, what do we do? We can leave these millions of hard-working Illegals in limbo. That way they will undermine wages for native-born American by working off the books, dodge taxes and grow resentful.
We can provide them with a reasonable path to full citizenship. That way they will become "Americans" and be just as responsible as the Italians, Jews, Poles, Germans -- even the Irish -- who came before them.
We should not reward those who broke the law. It is wrong. But, we're going to have to do it -- and it won't be the first time the country did something that was wrong. We're still here.
Won't the Illegals vote Democratic if they become citizens? Hell, yes! Why on earth would they vote Republican? They're illegal -- they're not stupid.
They are just people. Some are jerks. Native-Born American are just people too. And some . . . well, you don't have to be told.
They should not have broken the law. I should not have gone bald. They broke the law. I'm still bald. Things are what they are. Time to move forward.
Concordian in reply to A. Andros
But why? Why do we have to do it?
That's it! That's why all the editorials I read on this topic are so incoherent. Everyone's afraid they might r-i-o-t.
Whites are afraid browns and blacks will riot. Then they can't fight back against thugs of color without looking r-a-c-i-s-t on TV. Which they sort of are, because that's why they moved to the suburbs. And why they need to buy guns. And why they insist you can't "blame the victim" even when poor choices lead to things like crumbling families that hurt black children. For liberals, rule of law takes second place, because appeasement is the order of the day. Appeasement borne of fear. Lower-class conservatives are afraid they'll wind up on the bottom of the social ladder if blacks improve their lives and make no effort to hide their hatred.
Blacks are afraid white cops are going to beat the crap out of them for no reason and throw them into the "just-us" system that imprisions way too many blacks. There also afraid they really are inferior, which fear has been shown to interfere with one's ability to take stanardized tests, which lowers their score on those tests, in a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Browns are afraid they're going to be deported and lose everything they've worked for. At the same time, they're afraid of humiliation and loss of self-esteem because they know deep down that immigrating illegally really is wrong.
Once, about 20 years ago, a church group I was in had a black Espiscopal priest come and talk about race relations. He said that eventually we were all going to have to stand up to our own fears. We're also going to have to treat each other right and squarely face our own faults. We have no choice, he said, because we all have to live with each other and we can't live in fear forever. Turns out he was right.
mtweng in reply to A. Andros
Who came legally and waited in line sometimes for years while the positions they could have had were filled by illegals.
Their is right and wrong and morality. You do not know the difference
when you take the side of criminals over law abiding immigrants you are complicit in their crime.
mtweng in reply to guest-ljwsloi
If there was any justice in the world you would be fired and replaced by an illegal. Amazing how little empathy you have for your fellow citizens and how much for criminals. Is your empathy reserved for just criminals or foreigners?
I have to wonder if the somewhat mythical "immigrant experience" of severed family connections and limited communication leading to assimalation is still meaningful in a world of cheap airfares, low cost phone service and multiple passports. Even more so, I wonder what national interest is served by granting priority to family members, rather than adhering to individual merit based decisions? The idea of the melting pot seems to have fallen out of favor, which I think is unfortunate. Pandemics do not like variety.
"Though the Democrats ran Congress for Mr Obama’s first two years, no broad immigration plan can pass without bipartisan backing."
Well that's certainly a bold assertion. Any proof of this? Or do you simply not want to acknowledge that Obama had enough trouble getting red state Democrats to bend to his wishes on health care, and deemed immigration not worth the fight? The man had a large House majority and 60 votes in the Senate. It just wasn't a priority. Stop making excuses, or if you must, at least make some attempt to argue the case, rather than making bald assertions.
Evil Overlord
America was built on immigrants, and we need to keep encouraging immigration, without inserting barriers like English proficiency (the US has no official language). At the same time, we should not reward those who broke our laws to get here - that will only discourage those who followed the rules.
More immigration. Less illegal immigration.
jouris - old account
A self-interested American immigration policy may not be the ultimate ideal. But the current policy, which runs directly counter to our self-interest, is nuts. The sooner we get to something sensible the better.
The path to U.S. citizenship should be for free for the best in any profession from science to sports to art and well educated professionals, anyone who has committed an act of bravery, anyone who wants to start a business, the best violinist in the world, the very best in any field. No matter their country of origin.
The next tier should be for anyone graduating from an American university with an advanced degree in fields this nation needs to grow and better itself. They should receive a green card upon graduation and full citizenship later if they want it. Same thing for anyone who wants to start a business in the U.S.
For the undocumented already here, who don't qualify under any of the above, why not have a 'race to a green card' like Arne Duncan's 'race to the top?' Why not use the green card as incentive for those already here to do extraordinary things in this country to receive a green card?
Why should U.S. citizenship - or green card status - suffer under the idea that seniority is in the best interest of the country? U.S. Citizenship has to be about the needs of the nation not those of politicians pandering for votes.
Damn Dirty Ape in reply to gogotennis
I would put under your initial list, graduates of foreign universities who meet our needs. In fact, the clause, who meet our needs, should be at the end of every sentence about immigration.
I'm partial to the DREAM act as well. My only hesitation is that it incentivizes people to smuggle their children into the country. I think an easy fix for that is to forever ban the parents from entering the country and to require the children to help deport their parents if they are still breaking the law and residing here illegally. Alien children whose parents had acquired citizenship would not be eligible unless the parents were willing to forfeit their citizenship and abide to the requirement that they never return.
Public Dude
There are broadly two types of illegal immigrants, if one were to call them as such. Those who get educated at American Universities or entrepreneurs who can offer benefits to America with their knowledge, who can be gainfully employed far above the minimum wage or run a business, who can pay taxes, buy homes, raise productive families etc.
Then there are the vast majority who are involved in low-paying jobs that Americans shun. They provide a valuable contribution through low wages that result in low prices at the supermarket and elsewhere for Americans. They pick vegetables and fruits, do yard and house work, build homes etc.
Why are the second category in the US? It's because even the low wages and poor living conditions here are better than they enjoyed back home. Lacking a good education or valuable skills, they do menial jobs.
Think what will happen if both groups were made legal residents. The educated or entrepreneurial group will go on to be productive members of society, contributing their knowledge for America's benefit.
The second group will demand minimum wage or more, social benefits, low income housing and food stamps. Worse, they will refuse to do hard manual labor in the hot sun and claim unemployment benefits. This will create a vacuum again for such workers, which was created in the first place since no legal American wanted to do such hard work. So, the “newly-legals” will become a burden on society, the vacuum will suck in more illegals and the cycle goes on.
If the number of illegals of the second variety has reduced of late, it’s only because the American economy does not need so many of them. Housing bust is a prime example. When the economy recovers, watch for more illegals to enter.
New Conservative in reply to Public Dude
Let me rephrase,
"The second group of illegal immigrants will cease to be serfs, and thus new serfs will have to be found from somewhere."
You really should be questioning why a society needs to have several million people doing back breaking labor for less than minimum wage with no social protections. Not that legalization would threaten to remove the human chum that is fed into that system.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/27445 | Finally, a use for electrocution besides your own, twisted interests. A company in Arizona has created a bandaging system which uses electrically activated wound-dressings to heal injuries. Dubbed the CMB Antimicrobial Wound Dressing with PROSIT (or CMBAWDWP as we like to call it), the bandage works by utilizing a single-layer polyester fabric which can carry a low-level electrical charge when wet. Over a short period of time, the charge can greatly reduce bacteria and infections in the treatment area. Also, it's fun at parties.
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Electric bandages: not your favorite new prog-rock band |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/27446 | Unfortunately, the most telling element of this Blu-ray news is that it didn't merit a mention during Sony's CES keynote, but a new BD-Live feature will be included on This is It. movieIQ Sync updates the original by allowing users to pull up additional movie info on a PC or iPhone synchronized with the movie -- we're guessing the recently released FBI files won't be included -- without it popping up on the television. The other new feature is the ability to create & share customized playlists of the songs featured in the flick. We've been waiting for an event that would change both the reality and perception of internet connected features on Blu-ray -- and there's still some hope -- but this probably isn't it.
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Roadie positions itself as the next generation of guitar tuners. Think of it like a modern String Master, a device that fits snugly over your instrument's tuning pegs and does the hard part for you. Paired with a companion smartphone app, Roadie listens your guitar's strings and turns its gears until the instrument is on key. We dropped by the team's table at Haxlr8r, and the process was dead easy, quickly tuning a demo guitar without breaking a string. In fact, it's designed not to -- by comparing a string's elasticity with its frequency, the device can actually warn you when your guitar's wires are about to break. Not a bad trick, particularly for guitarists (like this editor) that aren't completely sure when their instrument was last restrung. The device's Kickstarter page has already more than half of its $60,000 goal, and has a little over a month left to get the rest. Looking for a way to chip in (and to avoid guitar maintenance)? Check out the source link below; Roadie tuners start at $79.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/27448 | The Fabulist - Fashion subpage header - Premiere version
Fashionable Friends Katie Holmes and Victoria Beckham Coordinate Their Outfits
Victoria Beckham, Katie Holmes Tony Barson/
Katie Holmes and Victoria Beckham may be Hollywood stars who both have their own fashion lines, but when it comes to getting dressed for events, they'll get on the phone and talk clothes just like any regular girlfriends would do.
"We go to the same events, and we'll call each other and ask, "What color are you wearing?'" the newly 33-year-old actress dished in the December issue of Elle.
Katie also gushed, "I'm always interested in what [Victoria] is liking for the season."
And she's not the only fan of the former Spice Girl's Victoria Beckham Collection.
PHOTOS: Fashion Spotlight: Katie Holmes
Stylist to the stars Rachel Zoe said, "When we have Victoria's stuff in the studio, it's the first thing that Cameron Diaz tries on…any woman would feel sexy in her dresses."
Although Beckham's collection has seriously taken off—celebs Eva Longoria, Demi Moore, Kim Kardashian and Gwyneth Paltrow have all worn her designs, plus she won big at the British Fashion Awards last month—the stylish star and mother of four wasn't always so confident about her skills.
PHOTOS: Fashion Spotlight: Victoria Beckham
Her good friend and designer Marc Jacobs was apparently the last to know about her endeavor—because she didn't want to tell him.
"We went out to dinner one night, and [Jacobs] said, "I saw that you put out a collection,'" Posh confessed. "I felt embarrassed to tell Marc Jacobs that I—me, ex-Spice Girl, married to a footballer—was creating a fashion line."
After the success her lines have seen, we don't think Posh has anything to feel embarrassed about now!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/27504 | 06/12/09:163/365 final
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Sorry for reposting this. My iPhoto crashed while I was working with some sets that it had generated (and synced) with Flickr. It gave me a strange error message and shut down. Soon thereafter I noticed this, and one other, photo missing from my Flickr account. Since this shot made Explore and is part of my 365 project, I am reposting it. In fact, I seem to have lost all of my June 365 shots... the set is gone and the shots were deleted from my main account. Grrrrr!
Thankfully I was able to retrieve all but three of my June shots via my various backup methods... including Picink.com. Did I mention that I love Picnik.com? Well, I do.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/27506 | Light Fingered Piano Trail : White Night / Nuit Blanche Brighton
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American Pie by Don McLean is possibly the greatest song (in english) of the 20th Century, Drunk people struggle to recall the somewhat complex lyrics of a song essentially about everything, but they sure as hell remember the chorus...
Various street pianos and pianists appeared throughout the city. This one was sheltered under the India Gate entrance to Pavilion Gardens.
Part of a set / slideshow documenting in photographs and video the White Night / Nuit Blanche festival held in Brighton and Hove at the end of October 2010.
See also these related flickr galleries: White Night Brighton +Silhouettes +Light +Colours +People and from the sister festival in Picardie Nuit Blanche Amiens.
The set description contains additional related external links.
1. Dominic's pics 40 months ago | reply
India Gate entrance to Pavilion Gardens
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/27508 | Shut up and let me go
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Now oh so easily your over me
Gone is love
It's me that ought to be moving on
You're not adorable
I was something unignorable.
AMGray1986, Damien Franco, and 1 other people added this photo to their favorites.
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Hidden away the humming bird sits.
This is the smallest hummingbird known it is found in Cuba and is darn hard to shoot.
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1. Carnfield Web Design Ltd 46 months ago | reply
Seen that before, I dont like your innerglow or shadow though! or the & sign!
Change the font! :)
2. Dan Schonhaar 46 months ago | reply
The font is near identical to the one you used. =/
Of course this is just a 2 minute concept, nothing near finished.
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Regarding your answer:
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Congratulations on 5K!
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congrats on 5k! :D
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/27586 | #74 - applescryatnight (04/27/2013) [-]
first things first-
stop being ignorant ******** .
those two arent implants
its a disease in which they get grossly huge
it has to do with a gland going crazy or something
i forgot the name of it, i saw a post before.
and if you did a google search you would see an african lady with tits
that looked like she stole santa's sack of toys twice and shoved them up her shirt.
User avatar #92 to #74 - lexausaurusrex (04/28/2013) [-]
you are an idiot her name is beshine ... and she has the world record for biggest implants....
#102 to #92 - applescryatnight (04/28/2013) [-]
i replied to my first comment saying how i was wrong.
i did see a similar post about a year back
and i remembered something along the lines of
elephantiasis or something.
now after many, many google searches my browsing history is weird as ****
and i havent actually found anything. so i am sorry that i cant back up my claims,
though i do knowledge that i was initially incorrect
User avatar #103 to #102 - lexausaurusrex (04/28/2013) [-]
i did not read your second comment and i apologize for calling you an idiot on that. Here hoping your browsing history get weirder because the weirder the better :D
#87 to #74 - dviii (04/28/2013) [-]
#99 to #87 - applescryatnight (04/28/2013) [-]
#75 to #74 - applescryatnight (04/27/2013) [-]
ok, in all actuallity i was wrong,
but this totally exists
User avatar #77 to #75 - thedumbledore (04/27/2013) [-]
Mate, you can tell if they are real or not pretty easily. I know of the condition you speak of, I actually met a girl with natural KK breasts due to it- It looks NOTHING like this.
If there is no bra and they defy gravity, they are fakers.
#84 to #77 - grecobeco (04/28/2013) [-]
notice the flash reflection that is a thick spandex suit which would hold them up
User avatar #94 to #84 - thedumbledore (04/28/2013) [-]
The 'flesh reflection' is to do with skin being stretched from large implants. The blue thing (spandex or leather suit) would not hold up real breasts that large like that. They would spilling out at the sides a bit, and would not have that super 'round' look.
I know far too much about boobs.
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Why no love for the Resistance series?
#1HOTJaVaLaVaPosted 1/6/2013 5:41:33 PM
What a shame Insomniac is no longer doing anything with it......
"The eyes are the groin of the head."
-Dwight Schrute, from the TV show The Office
#2Crimson SkysPosted 1/6/2013 5:43:26 PM(edited)
I've played all of them and the Resistance series wasn't that great. The PSP game was decent though.
#3jrr18Posted 1/6/2013 5:44:12 PM
Don't worry they dont leave Ip's to milked by evil corparations that ruin the franchis forever. Oh wait they do.'s_Adventure
Victory over the 2013 zombie apocalypse through superior fire power!
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#4flame030191Posted 1/6/2013 5:44:27 PM
I have only played the demo for the first and third and couldn't get interested honestly. Killzone felt better and interested me more, so I went with it. I was not disappointed.
PSN ID: Troll_Face_Flame (formerly armyflame) X360 gamertag: ArmyFlame9
Sonic Adventure 2 = the last GOOD Sonic game.
#5NextGenISbetterPosted 1/6/2013 5:44:41 PM
generic Halo is generic
#6Shy420Posted 1/6/2013 5:47:31 PM
For me there was just nothing in the series that set it apart from others.
#7Thor61Posted 1/6/2013 5:48:32 PM
I liked the first. The 2nd one was boring and the 3rd was okay but the multiplayer was pretty standard and nothing really impressive.
#8hockeybub89Posted 1/6/2013 5:56:47 PM
If Resistance 1 or 3 included 2's co-op, we'd be talking about Resistance because that imaginary game would be GOTY. Sadly, each game seemed to be missing something. The first one was the closest to great status.
--- Bears Beets Battlestar Galactica
#9HOTJaVaLaVa(Topic Creator)Posted 1/6/2013 6:10:15 PM
Yes, but you guys have to consider that with CoD and Killzone as the only two serious FPS competitors on the PS3, Resistance was a great alternative to have.
"The eyes are the groin of the head."
-Dwight Schrute, from the TV show The Office
#10zUkUuPosted 1/6/2013 6:51:46 PM
Resistance 1 is actually my send favorite couch co-op shooter, after halo 1.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/27599 | Review by mf29
"I have yet to find one Dreamcast exclusive that sucks."
Jet Grind Radio was one the best Dreamcast exclusives. The game was like no other, and it made a mark in gaming history because of it's cell shading visuals, the unique music, and a combination of 3 genres. The majority of the game, you are basically skating around on what seems to be Jet Roller Skates. The main motive and goal in the game is graffiti. The game takes place in a Tokyo like town, where a group of skaters unite together to claim the cities as theirs. However, other gangs and clans are also spraying up turf to gain the crown as well, this is where most of the story comes through. Throughout the game a group of policeman and the army are always nearby to make sure that your graffiti antics do not see the light of day. Depending on how many times they fail to stop you, they take more drastic measures each time. For example, they will start off with gun shots, if these do no prevail, they start to advance in their arsenal. They even go to measures as extreme as getting Tanks and Helicopters to do the job. This can get annoying but can mostly be avoided by traveling to certain areas, which are basically classified as being policeman free.
I do not exactly know how many hours are put into this game, but if I were to make a guess, I would say somewhere around 8 hours at the most. Some missions do get repetitive, but there seems to be enough variation to keep the player interested. Throughout the game on a regular basis, new members will challenge you to a skate off, and if you win, they join your crew. Each new member that wants a challenge is of course more experienced in skating, and the missions to obtain these new members gets more arduous each go round. But of course it is worth it, because your team will need some diversity. Each member of your gang is good at certain things more or less than others. There are three categories of skill, I do not remember them 100% but I would say they were
1. Technique
2. Graffiti
3. Strength
I think the strength determines how many spray cans the character can hold. A person that can hold the most spray cans, is basically the wisest choice of a character. Stocking up on spray cans after each tag gets annoying, and you will want to hold as much as you can. Some graffiti spots are large, and they take anywhere from around 10-15 spray cans to complete. With a person who holds about 20, you will run out quickly. When spraying graffiti, a window pops up, and in that window lies a direction. They vary from clockwise, counterclockwise, and other strokes that can only be explained with a drawing. If you fail to push the analog in the correct way, you will waste your cans, and you will have to start it all over again. Mastering the spray technique is important, and this is where the Technique attribute comes in. People with high technique, do not have to do as much squiggly or confusing strokes. This makes it easier to spray graffiti. But if you master the strokes, it doesn't matter much either way.
There are some basic controls beside the spraying. There's jump, a and button to gain speed. To grind a rail, all that it takes is to just jump on the rail. The game lacks skating depth, because it is mostly based around graffiti and tagging. Gaining speed is also important, you might be trying to escape the cops, and grind a rail that is escalating upwards. The speed boost only lasts for a certain amount of time, and you will need to wait about 3-4 seconds to boost yourself again. The more tricks or rails you grind, the faster you will move naturally. This can be taken advantage of evidentially. You can also skate up half-pipes and do tricks as well. Some graffiti spots are very petite, and you can spray them by just pressing one button. These can be sprayed by moving, jumping, or even jumping off half-pipes. You can also spray individual policemen, to make them stop moving or chasing you. This comes in handy, and is basically the only way to attack one. But it also takes away some spray cans, which can be painful at times.
In JGR, almost no spot in the game is not assessable. With rails moving up and down, they can lead you to higher platforms and buildings. In some cases, you are supposed to do this, because sometimes graffiti spots are up here. Every time you spray, you are always spraying over someone else's graffiti. To complete every stage, you need to spray all of the graffiti spots before the time runs out. Some missions include spraying an entire graffiti team on their backs. If this is completed, you can gain street credit, and the other gangs will respect you. When doing tricks on rails, when you jump you will do a trick in mid-air, doing these over and over will help you can gain speed and as well as air. You can basically jump from rail to rail, it doesn't even matter how far away a rail is from another if your speed is up. Of course as you progress through the game, the missions get more difficult. Difficulty in this game comes in different shapes. Sometimes, there will be more graffiti spots to spray, or you will even have to travel to different areas within the stage, or the time limit will lower, which basically rushes you to complete faster.
The graphics seem to use the full potential of the Dreamcast. The cell shading looks great and look somewhat similar to Budokai 3. The effects such as the smoke, explosions, and sparks look up-to-par. The music is brilliant. The soundtrack is made up of different artists and groups. The basic genre of the soundtrack is, techno, funk, hip hop, and electronic. Some of these tracks are down right miraculous, and they mostly capture and match the atmosphere that the stages give off. Whether the stage takes place in a Japanese city at dark, or a cheery bright sunny day, each track correlates well to each area. Since the game is called Jet Grind Radio, throughout the game, each track sounds as if someone is turning the nob on a radio, you will hear basic radio static in between each track, which gives off the vibe as if someone is actually hosting a radio station. Of course there is actually a DJ in the game, and he actually narrates the storyline,and I guess he is the one that is changing the tracks on his radio station. The tracks will leave you humming afterwards, or might even have you browsing the internet the find the tracks.
There are some other features in the game that I am not quite sure of. I think that you can actually browse the internet, and download custom graffiti tags that you can use. Or you can create your own in the game, and save onto your VMU. Internet multilayer is unknown, I do not know this in particular. The bottom line is that, this game is unique, and brings a funky vibe to the Dreamcast. The game is most memorable for it's soundtrack though. Having a Dreamcast and not this game is a sin, and you should be ashamed for not having it in your possession. If haven't played this game before, download it, buy it, do anything you can to play it.
Game Release: Jet Grind Radio (US, 10/30/00)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/27600 | Review by Eltain
"Gotta Catch 'em All! ...Okay, maybe not."
I've been waiting for Pokemon SoulSilver for quite some time now and was quite excited to hear that they had remade the original Johto region (Pokemon Silver Version for the Gameboy Colour). There are many expanded areas that are really quite fun to look through, it was an enjoyable experience. Although there were certain areas that I can't fail to mention, which were quite a let down. I should also state that I am writing this review in more of a comparison to the original game rather than an entirely new review as it would be difficult to do considering that I grew up around the first games. However, someone completely new to Pokemon can understand this review.
[Gameplay ~ 9/10]
The gameplay is similar to any other Pokemon game, you walk through a large map progressively going from town to town from a birds eye view. You start off with one of three Pokemon and battle with it as it evolves and grows to like you. The battle sequences are now done by touching the bottom screen and selecting what you'd like to do (Like in Diamond, Pearl and Platinum), alternatively, you can use the D-Pad and A+B buttons like you did in the previous versions to select your moves. You progress through the game, passing through grass to find and capture wild Pokemon with special capsules called 'Poke Balls' to ultimately build a team consisting of your favourite Pokemon. There is not much else to do with gameplay other than riding a bike, pressing the B button to run and teaching your Pokemon special moves to move across water, move boulders or light up dark caves. It's very simple. There is also an added area where you can enter your Pokemon in the 'Pokeathlon' - a vicinity where your Pokemon compete in minigames based on their skill. The final new major feature is that the first Pokemon in your party now follows you around like Pikachu did in the original Yellow Version, fun!
[Graphics ~ 10/10]
The graphics are well improved from previous games and uses the same 3D Engine that D/P did. The thing that makes it so intriguing is to revisit Johto in these settings after all these years. It's really quite stunning to see how everything has blossomed from the 16-Bit screen when most of us were just 8 years old. If you're new to the series, then it may not seem like anything too special, and I suppose that only someone who woke up on Christmas morning in 2001 to find a Pokemon Gold Version packed in some wrapping can truly enjoy and appreciate what Game Freak has done. The battle scenes are very impressive to watch as Charizard scorches his foe with Flamethrower. I thought the graphics were brilliantly refined.
[Audio ~ 10/10]
The Audio was spectacular, as a Pokemon fan it was so great to hear the remastered versions of the melodies that once made me so energetic. The music ranges anywhere between the soft familiar sound of New Bark Town to the amazing theme of Lance when you know that you're about to be owned, all melodies are appropriate placed in the game according to its predecessor. There have been footsteps added in which change as you switch between ground surfaces. Not much else has changed with the Audio.
[Replayability ~ 8/10]
The whole 'Gotta Catch 'em All' thing kind of becomes an issue that you're trying to deal with rather than something that you're excited about after all these years. If you're new to Pokemon, replayability is fine for you, 10/10, go knock yourself out. But it's become repetitive. We have about 490 Pokemon to catch in SoulSilver now, something tells me that's not gonna happen. If you have the stamina then it is definitely something you should try. It's rewarding to connect online, and battle other people, and trade with your friends. Pokemon doesn't really end, it sort of becomes a device you carry around with you and relate to your friends with... like a 7 year old carrying Yu-Gi-Oh cards (except you're hardcore) after you finish the game. However, I found that after I beat the shallow story of this remake, there really wasn't much to do and it all just came to a stop. You're just left in the open expecting more to happen.
[Story ~ 6/10]
I'm gonna relate the story to the replayability. You start off as a character whom you can name, although according to the manga his name is Gold. You have a Rival (who again, according to the manga, his name is Silver) that you must compete against throughout the game. Professor Elm gives you a Pokedex and assigns you to the task of recording data of Pokemon from all around Johto. You must do this on your quest to become a Pokemon master, aiming to collect all 8 of the Gym Badges by defeating exceptionally strong opponents so you can enter into the Pokemon League and become the Champion. On your way, the evil Team Rocket are back from disbanding three years ago, and doing all sorts of bad things which you must stop for the ethics and morals of Pokemon. ... It's a nice, simple story. Except we've heard it for the last 12 years. -____-" Mario and Zelda can get away with it, but there's something that Pokemon really falls short of when they recycle their stories over and over again. Again, this will be very fun to you if you haven't played a previous game before, but there's not many people who haven't. I'm also giving the story a 6 because there was nothing to do after you entirely finish the game. Pokemon FireRed did a great job with the Sevii Islands, I had a lot of fun going through them and there were significant differences. However, SoulSilver is virtually exactly the same as G/S/C with its story. There's no new end-game content which was an extreme disappointment.
Apart from the mentioned flaws, SoulSilver was a great remake. However, it was nothing more than a remake, apart from some added people, next generation Pokemon and a Safari Zone/Pokeathlon. There's not much else that I can name which differs from the original. Nevertheless, it's worth your money to buy. I'd recommend it for all casual gamers and Pokemon fans, it is well worth your money.
P.S. The reason I didn't mention the Pokewalker is because it's a piece of junk, throw it out or give it to your 4 year old nephew.
Reviewer's Score: 8/10 | Originally Posted: 12/14/10
Game Release: Pokemon SoulSilver Version (AU, 03/25/10)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/27601 | Review by Knighthawk X
"Does it beat Budokai 3? No. But it sure as hell is the next best thing."
Well, we waited how long for this damn game? A long time. A VERY long time. But personally, I think it was worth it. Aside from the fact that it adds almost everything from Budokai 1, and all of the new stuff in Budokai 2, we get a bunch of exclusives that weren't in the PS2 version. Mind you, Budokai 3 DOES have most of it... but still. This is as good as it gets on the Gamecube (until the updated version of Budokai 3 comes out in a year's time, anyways).
Storyline/Single Player: 6.5/10
Ehh... not too bad, not too good. If you don't know already, Budokai 2 drops the gorgeous cutscene-style single player mode in Budokai 1, and replaces it with a boardgame-style mode called "Dragon World". You take on the role of Goku, and play through 9 stages/boards on your quest to defeat Frieza/Cell/Majin Buu. On each stage, you (usually) pick up to 2 allies that join Goku. From there on, you move your characters around the board/map, collecting power-ups (that temporarily increase your attack & defense power for the duration of the stage), searching for the Dragonballs, and defeating the bad guys. Oh sure, it SOUNDS like a barrel of fun, but it isn't. Each character has a maximum HP of 5. Everytime they lose a fight, they lose 1 HP. In that sense, DW can drag on for a looong time.
Anyways, you usually have an objective on each stage. Aside from that, you can search for the Dragonballs. How does that work? Well, on each stage, you'll find a Dragon Radar. Once you obtain it, the radar appears in the bottom-left part of the screen, and an arrow appears, pointing in the direction of the Dragonball. If you eventually plop a character onto the spot where the Dragonball is, you can press X (to search/dig up the area), and add one Dragonball to your collection. If you miss a Dragonball on any given stage, then two will appear on the next stage (unless you have only one left to go). Since there's 9 stages and 7 Dragonballs, it's fairly easy to collect them all.
The other thing about Dragon World - it's the only way to unlock all of the hidden characters (except for 4 of them). Defeating certain enemies with certain heroes can unlock a certain character. For example, if you defeat Nappa with Tien, you'll unlock Yamcha. Or if you defeat Cell with Adult Gohan (on the last stage), you'll unlock Teen Gohan (from the Android/Cell Saga). Of course, there are MANY more than just that to unlock (and some hero/villain combinations required to unlock a character are quite bizzare).
If you have all 7 Dragonballs by the time you finish DW, you'll be able to summon Shenron, and he'll grant you one wish (similar to Budokai 1). You can wish for things such as Breakthrough Capsules to Fusion Capsules, and some other suprises that I won't spoil.
All in all, DW can be fun at times, and with a few improvements, it could be fun all the time. But since you have to play through DW over 30 times to unlock all of the Breakthrough Capsules, you'll learn to hate it. With a burning passion.
Graphics: 9.5/10
Amazing. Just... amazing. The most immediate change from Budokai 1 are the graphics. While B1 boasted some fairly impressive visuals, B2 goes all out with sharp, clean Cel-Shaded images. Shadows and lightings effects are superb, and the FPS rate is perfectly steady. The only quarrel I have is with a FEW of the character models. From certain angles, certain characters look a bit garbled/cramped, but luckily, that's few and far between. Overall, the graphics are as close as you'll get to watching the anime itself.
Sound/Music: 7/10
Budokai 1 boasted incredible music while watching the cutscenes AND while fighting. Budokai 2 tones it down quite a bit, but luckily, the developers left some tracks from Budokai 1, and that's pretty much what saves it from having the Mute button turned on while playing. The cast of the American dub returned to provide some new dialogue, although a lot of it is recycled from Budokai 1 (which isn't REALLY a bad thing).
Gameplay: 9/10
Obviously, the defining feature of a game. And Budokai 2 pulls it off pretty damn well.
First of all, there's a hell of a lot of characters. Over 30, and that's not including Fusion characters (Vegito, Gotenks, ect.). As you should already know, each character has "Skill Capsules", which, when equipped, grant the user the said ability. These range from energy attacks (Kamehameha, Destructo Disc, Galick Gun, ect.), to physical moves (Super Dragon Fist, Nose Dive Crash, Zanku Fist, ect.), to Ultimate attacks (Super Spirit Bomb, Big Bang Attack, Super Kamehameha, ect.), to even support capsules (like Meditation, which lowers the amount of Ki you use, or Z-Sword, which raises your attack power). There's a lot of variety in the heaps of skill capsules available. Of course, you'll have to buy most of them from Bulma's Shop (with money you win from the World Tournament).
The fighting system is pretty standard. You have a Health Bar & Ki Gauge. You can raise your Ki to a maximum of 7 Gauges, and each ability usually takes a set amount of Ki to use (Kamehameha takes 1, Super Dragon Fist takes 3, Super Spirit Bomb takes 5, ect.). You also have the standard Punch, Kick, Block, and Ki buttons. You can string different combinations of buttons together to create combos, or enter the required combination of buttons to use an ability. A new feature added to B2 is powering up some abilities. When you use certain skills, you have to rotate both Control Sticks as fast as you can to increase the damage it inflicts. Some skills won't even be successful unless you roll the Control Sticks enough (such as Gotenks's Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack).
Aside from the actual fighting, there are quite a few modes of gameplay:
1.) Dragon World - The single player portion of the game, explained near the beginning of this review.
2.) Dueling - Pretty much a Vs. Mode, where you can fight a computer, or battle a friend.
3.) World Tournament - You can enter the World Tournament on three different difficulty levels to earn money, which allows you to buy capsules in Bulma's Shop. It's just a standard bracket-based tournament.
4.) Training - Here, you can either practice your fighting skills, or take on the role of Goten to learn the basics of the game
5.) Edit Skills - This is where you can outfit each character with skill capsules, and buy them from Bulma's Shop. You can also trade skills with a friend who has a Budokai 2 save on a memory card inserted into slot B.
6.) Options - Change the various settings within the game.
7.) (Secret Mode of Play!) - Once unlocked, you can play four different mini-games here, which can earn you skill capsules, and possibly four other suprises...
So the gameplay in Budokai 2 is excellent. If only we would have got an uprade or two from Budokai 3 (like the Teleportation, or Power Struggles), this would have been PERFECT.
Replayability: 7.5/10
I noticed that with Budokai 1, I got bored pretty quickly. Since B2 has a hell of a lot of new stuff, though, I'm finding that this'll last me much longer than B1 did. But I still stand by what I said about B1 (but a lot less than before); if you're looking for a fighting game where you'll still want to play it after two or three months, B2 won't satisfy you completely.
Buy or Rent? If you're not a Dragonball Z fan, I'd suggest renting it, as it may give you a bit of enjoyment (especially the big, flashy attacks). If you ARE a fan, however, go buy it. Now. I SAID NOW! Unless, of course, you have access to Budokai 3 for PS2.
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How do you change threads?
i've seen in some unlockables on gamefaqs you can change threads . where can u find these and how do you change into them?
A Face Like a Beast (10) Kill 15 enemies with a Metal Beast while wearing the "Zaulia Threads".
Beard Beard Action Beard! (10) Make out with Ophelia while wearing the "Mountain Man Threads".
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From: alsurag 4 years ago
You can change the Threads in the Motor Forge, but you must own the DLC Hammer of Infinte Fates to gain access to them.
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Following is an incomplete list of named fictional cities, A-Z:
Anywhere City (Grand Theft Auto)
Anywhere is divided into three sectors - Commercial District, Residential District and Industrial District.
Bay City (Starsky & Hutch)
A fictional California city, setting for most episodes of the 70's cop show.
City 17 (Half-Life)
A former city in an unknown Eastern European region. It was the Combines' main base of operation on Earth.
Daily City (Mirror's Edge)
Futuristic city with a clean and streamlined appearance.
Delfino Plaza (Super Mario Sunshine)
The largest city on Isle Delfino. The city seems to be based on Spanish architecture.
Grant City (Dead to Rights)
Tough cop Jack Slate and his K-9 partner Shadow patrol this fictional city.
Imperial City, The (The Elder Scrolls)
The capital city of the Cyrodilic Empire. The Imperial Palace can be found at the centre. Surrounding it are six districts, excluding the Waterfront District; the harbour district of the Imperial City.
Liberty City (Grand Theft Auto 3 and 4)
A fictional city largely based off of New York as of its latest appearance in GTA 4.
Marcuria (The Longest Journey)
The capital city of Ayrede, "the Unified Country". It is a sprawling city, filled with weird creatures and exotic products.
Neverwinter (D&D: Forgotten Realms)
City located on the Sword Coast of Faerûn, inhabited mostly by humans and half-elves. Neverwinter is divided into five districts.
Rapture (Bioshock)
An enormous underwater city at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. A Civil War seemingly destroyed most of its population.
Vice City (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Vice City Stories)
Rockstar's take on 1980s Miami.
Vivec (The Elder Scrolls)
Largest city in Vvardenfell. Divided into cantons and joined by bridges and gondolier conveyance. A hollowed-out moon hovers above the Temple Canton.
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Released in early 2009, Guitar Hero Arcade is an arcade version of the music game franchise. The game is built on a modified version of Guitar Hero III for the PC: in fact, all of its songs are either main set list or bonus songs from Guitar Hero III or downloadable content for it. Its displays and menus share the same art style and backgrounds, with the needed modifications for a coin-operated game. Some songs, perharps thought by the developers to be the most popular songs from Guitar Hero III, are labelled "premium" and require additional credits to play.
The arcade machine comes with two hard-wired guitars, significantly more sturdy that those of the home version of Guitar Hero III. To counter the threat of the guitars breaking, which would make the machine unusable, the guitars have metal frames inserted. This makes them noticeably heavier than any home guitar, and closer to a real guitar in weight.
While the game has a built-in operator menu that allows for lag calibration and volume setup, it is highly rare for arcade operators to actually utilise it. For this reason, Guitar Hero Arcade machines are often uncalibrated and suffer from as much as 80-100 milliseconds of lag. Asking an operator if you as a user may be allowed to access the operator menu to calibrate can be one solution if the lag is making it hard to play.
Song List
As in the game, master recordings are noted by "performed by", and cover re-recordings are noted by "as made famous by". WaveGroup were credited as covering songs for Guitar Hero III, and as all songs here re-occur from that game, they are also the source for all the covers in Guitar Hero Arcade.
Tier 1
In this tier, Slow Ride, Talk Dirty To Me, Hit Me With Your Best Shot as well as Rock And Roll All Night and Sabotage are from the main set list of Guitar Hero III. Yellow and Jukebox Hero are both downloadable content.
• Slow Ride, as made famous by Foghat
• Talk Dirty To Me, as made famous by Poison (re-recording with Brett Michaels)
• Hit Me With Your Best Shot, as made famous by Pat Benatar
• Rock And Roll All Night, as made famous by Kiss
• Sabotage, performed by Beastie Boys
• Yellow, performed by Coldplay
• Jukebox Hero, performed by Foreigner
Tier 2
Sunshine Of Your Love, Mississippi Queen, School's Out and Bulls on Parade are from the main set list of Guitar Hero III. Closer is a bonus song, and Hole in The Earth and Pretty Handsome Awkward are downloadable content.
• Sunshine Of Your Love, as made famous by Cream
• Mississippi Queen, as made famous by Mountain
• School's Out, as made famous by Alice Cooper
• Closer, performed by Lacuna Coil
• Bulls on Parade, performed by Rage Against The Machine
• Hole In The Earth, performed by Deftones
• Pretty Handsome Awkward, performed by The Used
Tier 3
Tier 3 introduces the first premium songs of the game: Barracuda, from Guitar Hero 3's main set list, and Avalancha, from its bonus set list. Of the rest, Paranoid and Lay Down are from the main set list, Helicopter is from the co-op main set list, and No More Sorrow is downloadable content.
• Barracuda, as made famous by Heart (Premium song)
• Helicopter, performed by Bloc Party
• Paranoid, as made famous by Black Sabbath
• Avalancha, performed by Heroes Del Silencio (Premium song)
• Lay Down, performed by Priestess
• No More Sorrow, performed by Linkin Park
Tier 4
The first tier without covered songs, from tier 4, all the songs except This Is A Call are from the main set list, the Foo Fighters song being downloadable content. In an anomaly, Paint It Black has a co-operative bass part that was not playable in Guitar Hero III: this seems to be a mistake, as all the notes in the track are identical to the guitar track's except the very intro, which is absent in the bass track.
• Paint It Black, performed by The Rolling Stones
• She Bangs the Drums, performed by The Stone Roses
• Anarchy in the U.K., performed by The Sex Pistols (re-recording with the band, specifically for Guitar Hero III)
• Reptilia, performed by The Strokes
• Cherub Rock, performed by The Smashing Pumpkins (Premium song)
• This Is A Call, performed by Foo Fighters
Tier 5
All of the fifth tier's songs are from Guitar Hero III's main set list, except The Arsonist by Thrice which is downloadable content.
• Rock You like A Hurricane, as made famous by Scorpions
• La Grange, as made famous by ZZ Top
• Black Magic Woman, as made famous by Santana (Premium song)
• Same Old Song And Dance, performed by Aerosmith (re-recording with the band, specifically for Guitar Hero III)
• Pride And Joy, as made famous by Stevie Ray Vaughan
• The Arsonist, performed by Thrice
Tier 6
From this tier, only Monsters and Holiday in Cambodia are from Guitar Hero III's main set list. In The Belly of a Shark is from the bonus set list, Cities on Flame... is from the co-op set list, and both Almost Easy and Peace of Mind are downloadable content.
• Cities On Flame With Rock & Roll, as made famous by Blue Öyster Cult
• Monsters, performed by Matchbook Romance
• Peace of Mind, performed by Boston (Premium song)
• In The Belly of a Shark, performed by Gallows
• Holiday in Cambodia, as made famous by The Dead Kennedys
• Almost Easy, performed by Avenged Sevenfold
Tier 7
The seventh tier includes Black Sunshine, Stricken, and Knights of Cydonia from the main set list, Don't Hold Back from the bonus set list, as well as Motorhead and Sleeping Giant from the downloadable library of Guitar Hero III. It is the tier with the most premium songs, having three.
• Black Sunshine, as made famous by White Zombie
• Don't Hold Back, performed by The Sleeping (Premium song)
• Stricken, performed by Disturbed
• Knights of Cydonia, performed by Muse (Premium song)
• Motorhead, performed by Motörhead
• Sleeping Giant, performed by Mastodon (Premium song)
Tier 8
The last tier is also arguably the hardest for guitar, including Surfing With The Alien and For The Love of God from the downloadable Guitar Virtuoso Track Pack, Cliffs of Dover from Guitar Hero III's main set list's last tier, as well as The Metal and Cult of Personality from other tiers and the bonus song Take This Life.
• The Metal, performed by Tenacious D
• Cult Of Personality, performed by Living Colour (Premium song)
• Cliffs Of Dover, performed by Eric Johnson
• Take This Life, performed by In Flames
• For The Love of God, performed by Steve Vai (Premium song)
• Surfing With The Alien, performed by Joe Satriani
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A UFO, or unidentified flying object, is technically any object or phenomenon observed in the sky that cannot be readily identified. In popular usage, it has come to refer mainly to flying objects or lights believed to be alien spacecraft by observers, especially those that fit the general description of a "flying saucer". Originally called "foo fighters" or "ghost rockets" when spotted by airmen in World War II, UFOs during the '50s, spurred on by the Roswell incident in 1947 and later amplified by Cold War tensions. UFO sightings have been interpreted by many as alien spaceships or secret military vehicles, while others see them as optical illusions, meteorological events, or simply misidentified aircraft and birds.
In video games "UFO" is somewhat of a misnomer, since they are most often depicted as full-on alien ships, sometimes even controlled by the player. Truer to life are UFOs that are hidden in games as easter eggs, their nature unexplained; Grand Theft Auto V is a recent example of this.
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I have a buddy I put a new motor in his 94. 350 TBI. The truck runs great but if he parks it for any length of time, like over night, the gas will drain out of the line and he has to turn it over a bunch to get gas back to the throttle body. Once it starts it will run fine sometimes with less performance for a few minutes untill it warms up.
My first thought was fuel pump but is there anything else that might cause the gas to seep out?
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ive heard of this before.i dont know what would cause it but try turning the key to the on position (but dont crank it)and let the fuel pump prime the line.wait a few seconds then try cranking it.i may be way off but wouldnt hurt to try?sombody else may be able to help you out a little more
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Fuel pressure regulator might be slowly losing the pressure. Try letting the pump prime the lines first before you try to start it. Good luck.
Mike - OREGON
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Chapter 47 : A Yankee in Yorkshire
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A Yankee in Yorkshire
Severus' first instinct was to snap at the thirteen-year-old to mind his mouth. But as he eyed the rumpled boy keenly, he smothered that first instinct. Perhaps the boy was under stress, almost certainly he missed his late father, so maybe being a smartass was his way of dealing with it. Not that that excused his comment, but . . . perhaps he'd been trying to be funny? Severus didn't have much of a sense of humor, not after the things the Marauders had done to him, but he also didn't want to get off on the wrong foot with his cousin.
He cleared his throat, recalling vaguely that The Addams Family was an old Muggle TV show with all of the classic monsters in it, like the wolfman, Frankenstein, a vampire, and witches. He raised an eyebrow and said, "Dante, my name is Severus Snape, and I have never starred in any TV show. As for wearing black, I figured it was appropriate to do so considering the circumstances. My condolences on your loss. Did you wish to visit your father's grave before we left?"
"No. Did that already," the boy said shortly. He stuck his hands deeper into his pockets. "I guess we'd better leave."
"We have about half an hour before our next flight," Severus answered. Then he added, "We can get something to eat and stretch our legs before then. Oh, and one more thing. In the future, you may address me as sir while we are at Hogwarts or Severus at home, but never without respect. Is that clear?"
Dante looked slightly alarmed. "It was just a joke."
"He's not the sort you do that with," Harry interrupted. "I'm Harry, your cousin too." By adoption, he thought, but didn't want to say that aloud yet. He went to shake Dante's hand.
"Dante. No relation to the author," Dante replied, shaking Harry's hand politely.
"I shall gather your things, Dante, while you and the Snapes have a snack," said Mr. Martin, relieved that things had gone over well.
"Sure, whatever," Dante answered, getting an uneasy feeling in his gut. So he said, "Did you know my father well, then? Because he never mentioned you at all." Not that his father would have. Sulla Prince kept secrets close to his chest and preferred to not acknowledge people he didn't like. Dante wondered if that were the case here.
"We shall be back soon." Severus told Mr. Martin. "Come, let us see what they have to eat."
"I'm starving," Harry said, following his father from the room.
"I'm not very hungry," Dante muttered and went with them.
Severus ignored that. Instead he answered the boy's previous question. "No, your father and I did not know each other well at all. He left for the States before I was born. My mother was disowned, you see, for marrying a Muggle, what you would call a Normal, and we had no contact with anyone on her side of the family until now. We are the last of the Prince line."
Dante sighed. "Great. What's the big deal about marrying a Normal? It's done here all the time."
"You don't have a Statute of Secrecy?"
"Well, sort of, but it's not forbidden or anything for a wizard to tell the person he or she marries about us. Most Normals don't even believe in magic unless you show them several times and as long as you don't act like a total nutcase, we can live right next to them and they'll never know. It's called blending. Don't you do that in Britain?"
Severus frowned at the boy's tone, which was slightly condescending. "We do things differently there. Most of our world is hidden from Muggles. Only a few us "hide in plain sight" and that because we grew up that way. Like I did and Harry."
"Oh. Seems sort of . . . backward."
"Whether it is or isn't, isn't your concern. While you live with me, you shall be expected to abide by our rules, including the Statute of Secrecy, which means no underage magic performed outside of school, unless it is in the presence of an adult wizard," Severus said in a low tone.
"What? I have to ask your permission everytime I cast something?" Dante hissed. "That's crazy! I'm not a baby."
"It is the law. And as long as you live under my roof, Mr. Prince, you will follow it."
Dante thought about saying to hell with that and bolting, but the fact was he had nowhere to go. All of his money was in the hands of this Severus Snape person until he came of age, according to his lawyers. He didn't have a dime to his name and nowhere to go now that the New York apartment and the ranch in Wyoming had been sold. "Fine!" he said shortly. Great, another one like Dad, with a rulebook up his ass! He thought rebelliously, then considered that no one could beat Sulla Prince when it came to rules. His own rules, that is. Sulla didn't give a damn about anyone else's.
"Mind the tone," Severus ordered. "I do not tolerate mouthy teenagers, as my son can tell you."
Dante glanced over at Harry. The kid was small for his age, but didn't seem scared of his father. Maybe he was one of those goody-two-shoes kids who never got in trouble, Dante thought with a half-sneer. Probably the worst he'd ever gotten was a scolding. Dante bit his lip and nodded his head quickly, not saying anything. He'd learned a long time ago to be silent, because silence turned away anger. Most times.
Severus found a snack bar where they sold hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza, chips, and some sandwiches. Harry got two slices of pizza and a soda, Severus a hamburger with onions and mushrooms and some chips. Dante would have refused, but the hot dog smelled so good, he ordered one and an iced tea. He figured he'd better eat now, airplane food was notorious for being terrible and he had a five hour flight or so to England.
They ate at one of the tables and then Severus took them back to the small room. Martin had gathered Dante's trunk and suitcases, including his backpack and had them piled in a corner, waiting for them to be picked up.
"I don't know what your solicitors told you, but in Britain magical children attend a school called Hogwarts until they are seventeen or eighteen. I am a professor at that school, I teach potions," Severus said calmly. "You are how old? Thirteen?"
"Just this past month," Dante answered.
"And how much magical training have you had?"
"My dad hired teachers for me when I was little. But the past three years, he trained me himself." Dante answered.
"I shall give you a test when we are home to determine your aptitude in certain subjects. Though you should start the term in September as a third year. Have you a wand?"
"A wand?" Dante repeated, puzzled. Then he recalled something one of his tutors said about wizards in Britain using wands for everything. "We only use them for focusing, or for spells that are really advanced."
"In Britain, we use them for most everything, especially when you are in school," Severus said. "I shall purchase one for you before you start school."
"But . . . I can do magic without it," Dante protested.
"But you will learn to do magic with it," Severus answered.
Dante said nothing, but scowled and threw himself into one of the lounges. What was this, the Dark Ages? Everyone knew that you only needed your will to use magic, not some outdated tool.
"So you can do magic without a wand?" Harry asked.
"Sure I can. Can't you?"
"No. Not yet. Except accidentally."
Dante turned away, looking out the window. He wasn't looking forward to this at all. It sounded so backwards, being forbidden to associate with Muggles and using wands to cast spells. What did people do over there, wear charms all the time so they weren't seen? Pretend their wand was a stick so ordinary people didn't notice? Dante had to be careful here too, but at least he could go out and mingle with other people and not worry about being thought of as some kook. He thought wistfully of the apartment they'd had here in the city. Sometimes he'd hated it, but at least he hadn't been trapped inside it day after day. Though the ranch in Wyoming had been better, because he could find places on it to be alone, to practice charms or brew and ride his horse, which he'd had to give away to a neighbor once Sulla had forced him to move to New York three years ago. Dante hadn't wanted to go then, anymore than he did now, but he had no say in the matter. One did not say no to Sulla Prince. Unless you wanted to get your ass kicked. Was it the same with his cousin Severus?
Harry sat down a little ways from the other boy and tried to make some conversation. If h was going to be spending the summer with Dante, he might as well try and get along with the other boy, though at the moment, the kid didn't strike him as very friendly. "Do you play Quidditch?"
Dante glanced at him. "No. Why?"
"You don't? Because almost everybody I know does at Hogwarts." Harry blurted.
"Well, I don't. And yeah, I know what it is. My father said it was a waste of time. He said flying was for transportation or for impressing some dumb country hicks, not for chasing a ball around."
"Oh. Do you have a broom? When we get home, we can go flying."
"Yes. Do you need to fly everywhere over there? Or can you walk? In the city you can walk all over. Or catch the subway or a bus."
"No, not everywhere. I just like flying a lot. Don't you?"
"It's okay," Dante shrugged. "A horse is better."
"You had a horse?"
"Yeah. Awhile ago."
"Do you still have it?"
"No," Dante said and turned away. The last thing he wanted was to discuss Flyaway with this kid. He didn't need any reminders of what he had lost after coming to New York.
"Did you always live here in New York?" asked Severus.
"No. I moved here three years ago. Before that I lived in Wyoming, on a ranch. That's where I had my horse. But then my father decided I'd be better off over here, so we moved." Dante said, thinking of how he had disliked it here at first. It wasn't until he'd met others like himself that he'd started to enjoy it. And now his life would change once again. Damn you, Dad! Damn you for dying and damn everything else you did too!
"Did you ever have a familiar?" Harry asked.
"No. I just had a horse. Do you?"
"I have Hedwig, my snowy owl. And my dad has a raven named Skullduggery."
Dante's eyes widened. "You have a raven? Ravens don't choose any but the best." He stared at Severus.
"He is one of the best," Harry said loyally, before Severus could say anything. "Even Ghost said so. He was my tutor, he came from here too. From a place called Windfar, and he had a raven named Shriek, only she was white. Do you know him?"
"Know him?" Dante gasped. "You had Ghost Walker for a teacher? That's like being taught by Merlin over here. How did you manage that? Was it expensive?"
"Uh . . ." Harry glanced at Severus.
"Ghost is a member of the Society of Ravens," Severus put in smoothly. "So he agreed to help Harry free of charge, as I am a member also."
"Hot damn!" Dante whistled. For once he was impressed.
Severus frowned. "You will refrain from using bad language in my presence, Dante. Or else you'll be scrubbing my dungeon."
Dante gaped at him. "Are you for real? I say that all the time."
"Not anymore. Unless you want to be acquainted with a scrub brush."
"Okay. Chill." Dante snorted. "Holy Merlin, it's not like I used the f-word."
"If you did, you would have a session with a bar of soap and some time scrubbing," Severus interjected firmly. He would not tolerate a child with a mouth like a sailor.
"What are you, the language police?" asked Dante insolently.
"Your new guardian. Would you like to begin washing the floor tomorrow?" Severus demanded, his eyes hard. He fixed the boy with his obsidian gaze.
Dante met his eyes for about a minute. Severus saw defiance and a bit of fear before the boy dropped his gaze. "No, sir."
"I thought not. We shall discuss other rules later on when we get home."
Dante just nodded, thinking rebelliously that it wasn't his home, just a place to stay. Until he came of age and was free to go where he liked. And say what he liked too.
He caught Harry's sudden warning look. Don't even go there, it seemed to say. Unfortunately, Dante had never been good at taking advice.
Harry and Severus slept for most of the plane ride home, despite the stiff airplane seats. Dante, in contrast, stayed awake for over half the trip. He couldn't sleep, all he could think about was how the plane was taking him further and further from his home and all that he had known. Granted, some of the stuff he knew wasn't good to know, but still it was familiar. Now he would be the proverbial stranger in a strange land, even if his ancestors had once come from here. It was not a comforting thought. The Prince name was a byword in the magical community of the States and everyone had known Dante's father. Some had loved him, some had hated him, but all had known who Sulla Prince was, and what he was capable of. There were times when Dante had hated his father's reputation, hated knowing he had to be worthy of being a Prince, but sometimes it had come in handy. He wondered if Severus knew what his father had been and done. Then again, why would he bother with Dante if that were the case?
The boy stared out the window at the low lying clouds. He wished that his father hadn't been so secretive about his relatives. But Sulla had often said that his life had begun soon after setting foot in America, and that was how he preferred it. Thus Dante knew nothing about his relatives and he wasn't sure he wanted to ask either. Asking questions brought trouble. And Dante already had enough of that.
He couldn't wait for this plane ride to be over. He felt exhausted.
Two hours later, Severus had to shake Dante awake to get off the plane. Once the boys were awake and paying attention, Severus led them to the Ministry and used their Floo Network to get home to his cottage in Yorkshire.
Severus levitated Dante's trunk and suitcases into the spare room he had set up for the boy and said, "This is where you'll be sleeping. If there is something you'd like to change about the room, let me know. Otherwise I'll leave you to get unpacked. We shall have supper in an hour or two."
Then he departed, leaving Dante alone to stare at the light blue walls and the thick dark blue carpet, with the double bed and cream colored duvet on it. There was a closet, desk, chair, and chest of drawers all done in creamy oak. Dante tossed his backpack on the bed and went to look out the window. He saw some trees and a long green strip of lawn.
It wasn't bad, though the ranch had been bigger. A bird alighted on a branch, a small brown sparrow or thrush. It reminded him of his housekeeper, an Oglala Sioux woman name Blue Sparrow. Sparrow had done more than just cook and keep house, he thought. She had been like a mother to him, or at least someone who cared enough to look after him. His father had been away on business and rarely home with his son. They had communicated mostly by letters delivered by Sulla's owl, Spartacus, a black great horned bird.
Dante scowled. Spartacus had never really liked him, the bird was ornery and had bitten him as a child for trying to pet him after a delivery. But Sparrow had hugged him and put medicine on the cut and since then Dante and Spartacus disliked each other. When he had written his father about the bite, all his father had said was leave the bird be, Dante. It's not a pet and you ought to know better. Spartacus had been sold along with a lot of other things from his father's estate, not that Dante would have kept the nasty thing anyway. Let someone else deal with him.
But now, gazing out on an unfamiliar landscape, Dante would have taken the curmudgeon bird over staying here. If he'd had the money, he would have disappeared into the alleys of New York after hopping a plane back there. How ironic, he thought, he was the son of a rich man and yet he didn't have a dollar or a Galleon to his name.
He threw himself on the bed and sought solace in sleep. Screw unpacking. He could do that later.
Harry knocked tentatively on the door to Dante's room. "Dante? It's Harry. My dad says it's time for supper. Hey, are you awake?" He turned the knob and went in when there was no response.
He saw the older boy sprawled across his bed, asleep. In sleep, Dante looked more vulnerable than he had when Harry had first seen him, sullen and sarcastic. Harry wondered if that were a front for Dante's true feelings. Was he scared or just mad about coming to live here? Harry knew he'd probably be both if it were him. He just hoped Dante tempered his attitude around Severus, for the last thing anyone needed this summer was a ticked off Severus.
Suddenly, Skullduggery flew into the room and landed on the bed beside Dante. "Rise and shine, little cowboy! Up an' at 'em!" Skull warbled, sounding like a bad cowboy from a B-rated movie.
Dante bolted upright, his hand sparking with greenish flames. "What in hell!" he cried, and then he saw the raven. Slowly he exhaled and lowered his hand, the green fire dying. "Bird, you nearly ended up fried chicken. Don't ever wake me like that again. And don't call me cowboy."
"What was that spell?" Harry asked. "If you'd hurt Skull, my father would kill you."
Dante sat up. "It's a defense spell to send any annoying little creatures away from me. And I'd never hurt a raven, they're sacred. Sparrow taught me that when I was a little kid. Do you think I'm stupid?" He tossed his hair out of his eyes.
"No, sorry we scared you. Who's Sparrow?"
"Blue Sparrow is—was—my cook and housekeeper growing up. But she returned to her own people when my father sold the ranch."
"Her people? Was she an Indian, like Ghost?"
"Oglala Sioux. Her white name was Marian. But she preferred Blue Sparrow." Dante yawned. He looked at Skull. "So you're Skullduggery, huh? Would you mind if I petted you? Or are you going to chomp my finger off?"
"Not unless you annoy me . . . cowboy," Skull replied impudently, and remained still when Dante's fingers stroked his chest.
"Don't call me that," Dante said automatically. "I was never a cowboy, even if I rode a Quarter horse. There were no cows on The Golden Prince. My father didn't like them. He said they were useless animals." Sulla had said a lot more than that, both about cattle and those who made their living from them. He had forbidden Dante to ever learn about being a cowboy, said it was a job for yokels and not for heirs to a great house and empire.
"Your father sounds like a stuck up ass," Skull remarked with his usual disdain for personal feelings.
"Skull!" Harry reproved. He looked guiltily at Dante. "Sorry, sometimes he just . . . says things."
"I've heard worse," Dante said. "Besides, he's right. My father was an arrogant ass. Sometimes." He swung his legs over the bed. "What's this school of yours like anyhow? What's it called again?"
"Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, if you want to be proper."
"Hogwarts? What a funny name."
"It got its name from a flower that grew all over there in the beginning," Skull put in.
"I never knew that," Harry said, shocked.
"Well, you never read Hogwarts a History either," the raven said smugly. "Tell Dante about the house system, Harry."
"House system?"
"There are four Houses that you can be Sorted into—Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff," Harry named them. "Each of the houses has their own sigil and crest and qualities. Like, my House, Gryffindor, has red and gold colors and a lion banner and we're known for bravery, for the most part. My dad's House is Slytherin, whose colors are silver and green and they have a snake banner and they're known for their ambition and cunning. My dad is Head of that House, that's a teacher who runs the House, he's sort of like a fill in parent . . ."
Harry went on to explain the other two Houses and then paused.
"How do you get into these Houses? Does someone pick you or do you have to pass a test or what?"
"No, you get Sorted."
"By the Sorting Hat. It's a magical hat that can talk and read your mind, well, sort of, and it tells you what House best suits you when you first come to school. Your House is sort of like a family, and you work with other members to gain points and win the House Cup—"
"Hold it! You mean some old hat is going to tell me where I belong?" Dante cried incredulously. "How long's that been going on?"
"Since the Founding. Centuries," answered Harry.
Dante crossed his arms. "Well, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard, Harry! We have stuff like fraternities and clubs, but no hat's gonna tell me what to do or where to go."
"But . . . but Dante . . . you have to be Sorted. Everyone at Hogwarts is."
"So? I don't like it. I hate being put in a box and told this is how you're going to be. I'm an American, we don't label people that way." Dante said angrily. Well, unless you were a member of a powerful organization, like the Hellfire Club or the White Knights. "I'll be damned if I'm going to let a hat tell me what to do."
"You don't understand. It's tradition . . ."
"And maybe it's time someone broke it," Dante snorted. "No hat controls my destiny. You should decide for yourself where you belong."
"You won't have a choice," Harry tried again. "The Sorting's not so bad, you'll see."
"Uh huh. And you'll see too. Me walking away. I told you, nobody forces me into a box." Dante's mouth firmed into a stubborn line. "If they want me to join one of those Houses, they'll let me choose. End of story." He hopped off the bed. "Coming? Or aren't you hungry?"
"I could eat a cow!" Skull squawked, and fluttered from the room.
Harry chuckled at the raven's wit, then sobered. If Severus ever knew about Dante's attitude . . . there would be trouble. He couldn't understand why something like the Sorting bothered the older boy so much. Unless Dante was just a contrary cuss after all. Maybe he could convince Dante to change his mind. Because not even cousins of professors were exempt from the Sorting Hat.
Harry hurried down the hall to the kitchen, licking his lips. Tonight Severus had made shepherd's pie, a favorite of Harry's, and he couldn't wait to taste it. He'd worry about Dante later.
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In 2008, Putnam released "Armageddon in Retrospect," a collection of previous unpublished works by legendary writer/curmudgeon/Indy native son Kurt Vonnegut.
In 2009, Delacorte published "Look at the Birdie," a collection of previously unpublished short fiction by Vonnegut.
This month, thanks to the good folks at Delacorte, we are also seeing "While Mortals Sleep," another collection of unpublished Vonnegut fiction.
And so it goes.
As a reader of just about everything that Vonnegut wanted to be published in his lifetime, I have mixed feelings about the Tupac-like influx of posthumous releases.
On the one hand, Vonnegut was great at what he did and I understand the desire of fans to see "new" work, of academics to want to see it all, and of publishers to make more money.
On the other hand, any of this work could have been published in the writer's lifetime--if he wanted it to be.
If the writer chose to keep these in a drawer, should we respect that? By putting the work between covers, we make it part of the canon. But, at some point, doesn't the release of such material water down the rest?
In Vonnegut terms: Are those pushing everything the man wrote into bookstores part of a karrass or a granfalloon?
Your thoughts?
• Of Course
Anything that Mark Vonnegut deems worthy of releasing is OK with me. Lou, if you don't want to read this material then send your review copy to me. I could save a little money that way.
• I concur
If Mark Vonnegut (a talented writer in his own right, check out "Eden Express") is approving these for publication, I trust his judgement.
• More is better
I think it's almost always a good idea to get unreleased writing, music, video, etc. out there for the public to experience. If Kurt did not want this stuff to be released after his death he could have easily prevented it by either legal means, a promise from his family, or just by simply destroying it. The fact that he apparently did none of the three (and was smart enough to know things like this would come out after his death) tells you he most likely didn't mind it being released at some point.
Just because someone didn't want something released while they were a working artist doesn't mean they always want it hidden away forever.
• posthumous publications
Franz Kafka would be a minor author with very little output, if his own wishes had been obeyed not to publish anything not already published in his lifetime.
• More and more and more Vonnegut
Thanks for covering Vonnegut. Vonnegut sometimes spent years and years editing one of his books before he was truly finished with it so it doesn't surprise me that unfinished stories continue to be found. We are fortunate that Vonnegut's great friend Don Farber, his children, and others are sharing these new stories with us. Cheers
• Yeah, but No
It's a valid point, but I agree 100% with points made here by IndyTodd and Sassafras. There is simply no way KV didn't consider the possibility of post-Kurt publishing. Bring it.
• Apparent Consensus
May I add that we wouldn't have The Aeneid had it been destroyed as Virgil instructed.
• Postumous Work
There's a whole list of notable work published with or without the express consent of the deceased. My two most notable: "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole and the complete writings of Emily Dickinson.
Perhaps our best example is J.D. Salinger. He died one year ago, and many people speculated (yearned) for unpublished manuscripts to appear.
Kurt Vonnegut was 84 when he left us, and he had every opportunity to express his wishes with his family and solicitor. Just like his work purposely published during his lifetime, we can judge the worth and significance of his posthumous work. By the way, I particularly found some of the war essays in "Armageddon in Retrospect" very moving and poignant.
• Canon?
"By putting the work between covers, we make it part of the canon." This need not be the case, and would be a poor reason for deciding to make them available or not. This work is just writing, and can lend insight into the mind of a great thinker. It would be sad not to make this available to regular folks, rather than some level of scholar. But readers may want to keep in mind the distinctions you make, for all authors.
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A group that promotes open source software filed a lawsuit against Cisco on Thursday, claiming that some of the networking vendor's routers violate the terms of open source licenses that govern the use of software embedded in the products.
In court papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the Free Software Foundation claims Cisco's Linksys routers violate parts of the GNU General Public License, version 2, and the GNU Lesser General Public License.
Both licenses place restrictions on the ways in which open source software can be commercially used and distributed. FSF notes that Cisco uses GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Binutils, as well as other open source utilities over which the group holds copyrights, in its Linksys brand routers.
Cisco acquired Linksys in 2003 for $500 million.
FSF claims Cisco violated the licenses by failing to provide end users of its products with access to the source code for open source software embedded within the products, as required by the GPL and LGPL.
Cisco distributed to the public copies of the FSF's programs "in object code form via its Web site without providing complete and corresponding source code within the meaning of the licenses," FSF claims in court papers.
In the lawsuit, FSF claims Cisco brushed off its complaints about the matter. "Discussions have now proven unfruitful and the parties are at an impasse," the FSF states.
The group is asking the court to enjoin Cisco from further distributing Linksys firmware that contains FSF copyrighted code. It's also asking for all profits that Cisco received "from its unlawful acts."
Cisco has yet to file a formal response to the charges. Open source developers have prevailed in similar, past cases.
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Late in the day the fogwrung itself out like a spongein glades of rain,sieving the half-invisiblecove with speartips;then, in a liftingof wisps and scarves, of smoke-ringsfrom about the islands, disclosingwhat had been waveringfishnet pliss? as a smoothnessof peau-de-soie or just-ironedpercale, … Continue reading
Sylvia (Clinton Scollard Poems)
Sylvia’s hair is like the night,Touched with glancing starry beams;Such a face as drifts thro’ dreams,This is Sylvia to the sight.And the touch of Sylvia’s handIs as light as milkweed down,When the meads are golden brown,And the autumn fills the … Continue reading
February: Thinking of Flowers (Jane Kenyon Poem)
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1 The golden-rod is yellow; 2 The corn is turning brown; 3 The trees in apple orchards 4 With fruit are bending down. 5 The gentian’s bluest fringes 6 Are curling in the sun; 7 In dusty pods the milkweed … Continue reading
Frost on the Fields (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Frost on the fields draped on the weeds the milkweed, the bramble the vines, the reeds casting shadows in the morning bringing on the thawing warming in the sunlight melting the gossamer dew October 21, 2010 on the drive from … Continue reading
Ragged Wool (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
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Shadows of Gossamer Down (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
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Eyes to See (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Would that we would each, all of us, especially me, would have eyes, clear eyes that would seek out, that would see your presence in the dance of the snowfall, the changing of the leaves from green to orange, yellow, … Continue reading
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Money: A Suicide Note (1984) is Martin Amis's fifth novel and the one in which he breaks through into a bolder, more sustained and more exuberant style. It can seen as a quintessential English novel, perhaps the quintessential English novel, of the earlier 1980s, a time of epochal cultural, social, political and economic change as financial regulations started to be lifted, elements of the economy began to boom and, in England, the post-war Welfare State consensus collapsed. Money is partly a realistic novel, catching the surfaces and styles of a period when the pace and texture of ‘reality' itself seemed to alter dramatically, and partly an intertextual, metafictional work, drawing attention to itself as a…
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((OOS, don't worry, I've seen every episode of Evangelion. But contrary to most people I find that anime not to be amazing))
The EVA thought he had finished with Cyborg Zassek but without this evil knowing it, the remains of Zassek had risen and also started to reform.
Unlike the EVA, Zassek did not need any exterior help by using metal as skeletal structure. His mechanical body parts were reformed from some sort of liquid metal that sprouted out of every dislocated parts and merged. As for the biological fragments that were in him, ludicrous Mitosis, cell division process, quickly restructered what was ripped apart. Cyborg Zassek was nor Biological nor Mechanical nor The Force, he was the fusion of those three elements. Circuits, Cells and Psionic Melding were one. There was no such thing as a central computer in him...
((OOS: Watch the episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion were that Bio/Mecha virus Angel invades Magi...))
Zassek was already reformed way before EVA could form his arm. He is surprised by his own power and as EVA turns and spots him it rushed and strikes Zassek that seemed to be cut in two. Then from behind the EVA something reaches for the jammed Entry Plug and starts pulling it away. EVA tries to figure out who is doing thisby turning his head and sees Zassek, again:
"Fool! The Zassek you thought you had cut in two was only a reflection of myself, my shadow. My evade speed being almost infinitly faster than the one of light my image still remained while I was already behind you..."
Zassek keeps on pulling the Entry Plug that is retained by the force while EVA desperatly tries to take him off his back. The Entry Plug slowly starts to budge but the resistance is so immense that Zassek's arms begin to rip apart.
((OOS: Watch Ghost in a Shell when Motoko Kusanagi, the Cyborg girl, tries to open the tank's vault.))
Smilie of the moment:
"I like milk."
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Set option to move deleted files to recycle folder
status = recycle returns the current state for recycling files you remove using the delete function. When status is off, the delete function permanently removes the files. When status is on, deleted files move to a different location. For details, see the Tips section.
oldState = recycle(state) sets the recycle option for MATLAB® to the specified state, either on or off. The previousStat value is the recycle state before running the statement.
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Old 02-26-2003, 08:31 PM #48
Kurt Schneller
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Location: South Africa
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Originally posted by thinair
My 2 cents.....
-I don't think that 1250hp M3 counts for this comparison (the only BMW parts in that car are like 75% of the engine.)
-All cars have their reliability issues, not just BMW's, Supra's have their issues too, as do Civics.
-Jon, you can't blame a car to not be reliable once it has been modified (aka. a lot more power output)
-there is nothing wrong with a fwd car doing 1/4 mile races (as much as I dislike fwd cars), just because it was started by the muscle car guys. Following that logic we should keep Cameros, Mustangs, Corvettes, etc off the road courses and out of auto-x events.
-Jon, a modded Civic is not the epitome of automobile engineering. I'll admit it can go fast in a straight line, and they can be made to handle (somewhat), but it doesn't mean it's best. You can also say that you can make a Civic do 13's or whatever cheaply, I'll bet you I can made an early 90's Mustang do 13's even cheaper. Don't bring Civics into an argument where they weren't even originally mentioned, you are not a spokesperson for modded Hondas.
-last one Jon, not everone cares about 1/4 as much as you.
Flame away....or MSN/ICQ away if it's really off topic.
I agree with much You said, and Jon their is a difference between MECHANICAL failure and wheels falling of. And regarding a 1250HP M3 doesn't count in a comparison like this: it's not like You get "Supra NOS" and "Civic NOS" also that M3 uses 2 T66 Turbos wich alot of other cars "siutable" for this comparison uses.
I'l make a better one later...
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