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As a teenager, I was most of the above, a little bit brattier, a slightly better dancer, and thank God, the owner of proportionally sized teeth. At my mom's, I lived in a really cool single-wide trailer on a mountain (while my step-dad built a mountain lodge) and at my dad's I lived in the best neighborhood house ever built with my stepmom and new amazing baby sister. I was a good student, a decent friend, and the largest stake-holder of Ensure, as my mother made me drink an inordinate amount in hopes of putting some weight on my bird-like frame.
As an adult, I am a mixture of all of the above, 25 pounds heavier (yes!), the wife of a real-life musical rockstar, the sister to a small group of super-humans, a teacher, a student, an aspiring potter, an adoptive mother, the master of two amazing puppies, and living, loving, and having fun in Music City, Tennessee.
See. I wasn't kidding about the rabbit teeth.
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RHEL3-U5-re0428.0 x86_64
When opening network servers from the menu the default nautilus location is "smb:///". If you then just type in a server the proper sharename will show up (location bar displays "smb:///<server>). If you then click on the share you will see folders. But if you then click on the folders to see the files you get the error "Sorry, couldn't display all the contents of <foldername>". The problem is the extra "/" in the location bar. On the failure the address reads "smb:///<server>/<share>/<folder> (note the extra "/" after the smb). If yu remove the extra / everythig is fine.
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Steps to Reproduce:
1.click "network servers" and type a servername into the location bar after the displayed smb:///.
2.Click on the share, and folder.
3.See error
Actual Results: Error dialog
Expected Results: List of files should have been displayed *or* an error dialog after step 1.
Additional info:
This bug is filed against RHEL 3, which is in maintenance phase.
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Beyonce Challenge – Weeks 7 & 8
Learning choreography just never made it to the agenda these past weeks. What did? Finishing my Christmas shopping. Lunches and dinners with friends. Housecleaning. An epic sleepover with my nephew that included baking, two movies and laser tag. Celebrating the New Year and reflecting on the old. It was a jammed packed few weeks. Fun weeks that I wouldn't change.
I used to question if I was focusing on the right things. I would be at the movies having fun and feel guilty that I didn't finish cleaning the house. But I've come to learn a few things:
- Living with 5 cats, the house is always in need of cleaning somewhere
- The important things always have a way of getting done
- Asking for help is a skill. The more I do it, the better I get at it
- Having fun should be a priority
Now don't get me wrong, learning the Single Ladies choreography is a great deal of fun for me. That's why I chose this challenge. It just wasn't a priority for me these past few weeks. Now that the holidays are over, priorities need to shift. I know I need to build a schedule around my Beyonce Challenge so I will achieve the results I want.
I'll let you know how that goes next week.
Happy 2013! May we all achieve our SOUL Goals!


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About Us
Dancing Lizard Gardens is a family operated wholesale
nursery located in the foothills of the Western Oregon Coast Range. Established in 2008 by owners, Barbara and David Diamond, the nursery is proud to offer their one-of-a-kind garden products to local garden centers and on-line gift catalog companies.
We specialize in raising hardy succulents and pride ourselves in the production of high quality planters. Every customer should love their Dancing Lizard Garden product and that feeling starts here at the nursery. We require that all planters leaving our facilities are fully grown and healthy. To provide our customers with the best and freshest product possible, our drop shipping service ensures that our plants remain under the care of our expert staff until the moment they are shipped.
Our story
After a 23 year career in product development and project management in the RV industry, Barbara returned to her educational roots in horticulture. Beginning with her son's extensive Sempervivum and Sedum collection, she began raising hardy succulents and selling to local garden centers. Dancing Lizard Gardens soon set the bar for quality, variety and creativity.
In 2009, Dancing Lizard Gardens began drop-shipping gift items for a major catalog company. Since then, selling wholesale and drop-shipping has become the mainstay of our business.
Dancing Lizard Gardens offers a number of healthy and hardy plants delivered directly to customers. See what sets us apart from other wholesale nurseries, with our extensive variety of vibrant succulents.
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Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd
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"A parish in the Union and hundred of Ruthin, county of Denbigh, 2 miles (S) from Ruthin, on the road to Wrexham and Llangollen; containing 1254 inhabitants. This parish is situated on the banks of the river Clwyd, at the upper extremity of the spacious vale to which that stream gives its name; and abounds with interesting and beautifully varied scenery. ..... The substratum of the parish is limestone, of which great quantities are procured for building, and also for burning into lime: the quarries and limekilns afford employment to a considerable portion of the population." [A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833 & 1849, Samuel Lewis]
The ancient parish of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd comprised the townships of Eyarth, Garthgynan, Derwen-Llanerch, and Faenol.
|Jesus Chapel, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd
|St Cynfarch & St Mary, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd
|Seion Welsh Baptist Chapel, ??
|Ebeneser Welsh Independent Chapel, Graigfechan
|Capel-Y-Gloch, ??
|Plas Newydd Romano-British Temple Cropmark, Plasnewydd Roman Temple
You can also perform a more selective search for churches in the Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd area or see them printed on a map.
Church History
See Welsh Chapels and Churches for a photograph of Llanfair St Cynfarch and St Mary Church Ordnance Survey reference SJ 134555.
The church, which was mentioned in the Norwich Taxation of 1254, was founded by St. Cynfarch, and is dedicated to that Saint and St. Mary. It was restored in 1872, being re-opened on 8 August 1872.
The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of the church.
Church of St Cynfarch and St Mary - on CPAT
JESUS CHAPEL, LLANFAIR DYFFRYN CLWYD - on the People's Collection Wales site
Nonconformist Churches
"Welsh Church Commission - County of Denbigh - The Statistics of the Nonconformist Churches for 1905" lists the following nonconformist places of worship in the Civil parish of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd :
|Name of Chapel
|Number of "adherents"
|Calvinistic Methodists
|Graig Adwy Wynt
|Calvinistic Methodists
|Calvinistic Methodists
|Calvinistic Methodists
Church Records
Parish Registers
- The following Parish Registers have been deposited at the Denbighshire Record Office, Ruthin.
They may be viewed on microfilm at the Denbighshire and Flintshire Record Offices, and at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
These microfilms are not available elsewhere.
|1680 - 1979
|1691 - 1971
|1680 - 1962
- Clwyd FHS has published full transcriptions of the registers (complete with indexes) for the following years :
|1680 - 1812
|1691 - 1812
|1680 - 1812
Bishop's Transcripts
- Bishop's Transcripts for the years shown below have been deposited in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Around the year 1951, most of the Bishop's Transcripts which had been deposited at that time were microfilmed by the LDS; and the films are available on request at Family History Centres of the LDS.
The films may also be viewed at the Denbighshire and Flintshire Record Offices, and at the National Library of Wales.
In general, the Bishop's Transcripts are less complete than the parish registers.
|Deposited at the National Library of Wales
|Microfilmed copies
|1683 - 1864
|1813 - 1864
- There are no official I.G.I. entries for Ss. Cynfarch and Mary, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd.
Civil Registration
When Civil Registration was introduced (on 1 July 1837), the parish of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd was assigned to the No. 3 ("Llanelidan") sub-district of the Ruthin Registration District; which was co-extensive with the Ruthin poor law Union.
In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd are in the format :
- Years 1837 - 1851: Ruthin XXVII.nnn
- Years 1851 - 1930: Ruthin 11b.nnn
(GRO index references have no relevance at the local Superintendent Registrar's Office)
Description and Travel
The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
Ask for a calculation of the distance from Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd to another place.
Click here for a list of nearby places.
Historical Geography
You can see the administrative areas in which Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.
"North-East Wales Churches and Ancient Parish Boundaries" produced by Clwyd Record Office in 1994, published by Genuki with the permission of Flintshire Record Office and Denbighshire Archives
Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd parish, County of Denbigh - on the People's Collection Wales site
View a map of the boundaries of this town/parish.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ142533 (Lat/Lon: 53.070084, -3.282208), Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd which are provided by:
- This place shown on an OpenStreetMap map.
- Google Streetview
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- OpenStreetMap
- OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
- Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
- National Library of Scotland (Best site for old maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- Elgin Road Works
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- In 1831- the population was 1238.
- In 1901- the population was 909.
[Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]
- Archdeacon Thomas gives the area of the parish as 8528 acres.
[ The History of the Diocese of St. Asaph , 1908-1913, Ven. D.R. Thomas]


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text: September 10, 2012 | Leave a comment Have you ever written a journal? By that I mean writing down your thoughts and feelings, as opposed to a diary, where you record events. Of course, you can record events in a journal too, but its main purpose should be to put your inner world into words. I have written a journal on and off for the past few years and I usually find I feel most happy and calm when I regularly write in it. It's a form of self-therapy, a safe place where you can say whatever you want without being criticised by someone else. The journey of life is along a bumpy road. No matter whom you are, where you live, how much money you have, how many great friends you have, whether you're in love or enjoying being single…sooner or later things happen which disrupt your world. You get upset, angry, sad, frustrated, irritated, or just confused. This is life. Problems and challenges can make us better people, if we are able to not be totally ground down by them. Often our thoughts and feelings can be swirling round inside us, only half understood. By writing thoughts and feelings down, you clarify them as you put them into words. This means you get a better understanding of what is bothering you. You will be honest with yourself, because you are just writing it down for yourself. Daily journal writing is a great habit. In the past, I have often fallen into the bad habit of only writing in my journal when I have something negative to write about. However, it is also good to write in your journal when you are feeling happy, as this helps you get clarity on what uplifts you as well as what pushes you down. One good habit to get into is to read the previous day's journal entry, and then comment on it in today's journal entry. This lets you get more perspective on things, because sometimes even just 24 hours is long enough for you to calm down and feel differently about something. One day you might write something like "I felt upset today because…" but then the next day you might write "I'm not so upset now about what happened yesterday because today…" It's like having a best friend that always only has only your interests at heart, and that's important because you don't always know whether other people are always going to be there for you. By writing in your journal every day, you always have someone who is willing to listen. Best of all, it's free!


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- Autofocus
- Batteries
- Capturing the image
- Camera settings
- Care and maintenance
- Custom functions
- Depth-of-field
- Digital camera features
- Digital image file
- Digital image size and preview
- Exposure settings
- Firmware
- Flash
- Flash basics
- Speedlite compatibility
- Speedlite range
- Speedlite zoom
- Flash on camera
- Red-eye
- Dark backgrounds with flash
- Fill in flash
- Flash exposure lock and compensation
- Wireless flash
- Macroflash photography
- Bounce flash
- Flash synchronisation
- Stroboscopic flash
- Studio-style flash lighting with Speedlites
- Integrated Speedlite Transmitter
- Remote Release
- Focus points
- Image download
- Image compression
- Image information
- Image verification
- Internet
- Introduction to digital photography
- Lenses
- Construction
- Focal length
- All about apertures
- Lens speed
- Focusing and depth of field
- Black or white lenses
- Coloured rings
- Lens mount
- EF-S and field of view
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- Fluorite, aspherical and UD lenses
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- SubWavelength structure Coating
- Media cards
- Panoramic images
- Printers
- Remote photography
- Scanning & copying
- Storage and archiving
- The digital darkroom
- White balance
Capturing the image CCD and CMOS sensors
There are two types of sensor units that can be used in digital cameras.
CCD (charge-coupled device) and CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) units have one main feature in common. Both use an array of millions of tiny photo sensors. Each sensor creates an electrical current when exposed the light. The strength of the current is proportional to the brightness of the light. But the way in which this electrical data is captured and turned into an image file is very different.
One charge at a time
The tiny photo sensors create only a minute electrical current. This must be amplified before it is of any use in creating an image. Some CCDs have a single amplifier. This deals with the current from each sensor in turn. The amplifier is placed at one corner of the sensor where it reads and amplifies the charge from the nearest sensor in the first row. The charge in this sensor is then released, leaving it 'empty'. All the charges from each sensor in the first row now move along by one sensor, so that the amplifier can read and process the next charge. This continues until the amplifier has dealt in turn with the charges from each of the sensors in the first row.
At this point, all the sensors in the first row are 'empty' of charges. This allows all the charges from the sensors in the second row to move down to the first row. The second row is now empty, and is filled with the charged from the third row. In this way, all the charged drop down a row, leaving the top row empty.
The whole process then repeats itself, with the amplifier dealing with the charges that were originally in the second row.
You can guess the rest. The charges originally in the third row move to the first row, where they are fed one by one into the amplifier. This continues row by row, charge by charge, until the charge from the far end of the top row finally reaches the amplifier.
Of course, the word 'finally' is relative. The whole process takes place very quickly, often in a fraction of a second.
Each charge from the sensor array is 'tagged' by the amplifier unit before is passed on to the camera's microcomputer so that each piece of data can be reassembled in exactly the same sequence to produce the image.
Only five EOS digital cameras use a CCD image sensor, though four of these are not strictly Canon cameras. The EOS DCS3 (July 1995), DCS1 (December 1995), D2000 (March 1998) and D6000 (December 1998) were all produced in collaboration with Kodak. Canon provided the body, but the image sensor and electronics came from Kodak.
There is only one EOS digital camera that uses a CCD in which both body and electronics designed and built by Canon - the EOS-1D (September 2001) - and even here the CCD sensor is outsourced.
The CMOS advantage
The CMOS unit takes a different approach to processing the charges from the millions of photo sensors. Instead of one amplifier at the side of the array, each individual pixel has its own personal amplifier. This means that all the charges can be processed at the same time, clearing the sensors for the next exposure.
Canon has concentrated all its research and development on the CMOS unit, rather than the CCD. It not only designs and makes all its own CMOS units, but also designs and manufactures the equipment that makes the CMOS units. The first EOS digital camera with a Canon CMOS sensor was the D30 May 2000). All later EOS digital cameras, with the exception of the EOS-1D, also feature a Canon CMOS image sensor.
To the outside world, Canon's concentration on CMOS seemed a little perverse. In the late 1990s, images from CCDs were of significantly higher quality than those from CMOS units. There were two main reasons for this. CCDs are less prone to 'noise' - a grain-like pattern that appears in the image, especially at higher equivalent ISO speeds. Also, the light sensitivity of a CMOS unit was lower than that of a CCD. This required greater amplification of the signal - leading to more 'noise'.
But Canon recognised that CMOS units offered long-term benefits, and set about overcoming the disadvantages.
One advantage is that CMOS units need a lot less power to operate than CCDs. A digital camera makes many demands on a battery to operate autofocusing, autoexposure, shutter control and - in some cameras - built-in flash. Any technique that helps to reduce the drain on the battery is a good thing.
Also, CMOS units are much cheaper to manufacture than CCDs. This might seem strange considering each sensor needs its own amplifier, but all this is done with microelectronics directly on the sensor unit. The CCD needs a separate amplifier and other associated electronics that add to the cost of the already expensive unit.
The lower cost of CMOS units is important to Canon because it is selling its consumer range of digital camera to a mass market. The use of CMOS was influential in the marketing of the first sub-€1,500 digital SLR - the EOS 300D - in September 2003.
Overcoming the problems
CMOS sensors were known for their 'noise'. In simple terms, this is electrical activity that does not play any part in forming a true image of the subject. One cause of this noise is the individual amplifiers linked to each photo sensor. Inevitably, there are slight variations in output of the millions of amplifiers across the array, and this creates a noise pattern across the image.
Canon has overcome this with lateral thinking. Rather than trying to equalise the amplifiers, it has accepted that there will always be a noise pattern. So every time you take a picture, you actually make two exposures - one of the subject, and one with the shutter closed. This second exposure only captures the noise pattern. If the values of this pattern are subtracted from the first exposure, you obtain an image with little or no noise.
The second main problem with CMOS sensors is also related to the amplifiers, though in a different way. On a CCD, almost all the surface of the unit is occupied by photo sensors. On a CMOS unit, space is needed for amplifier circuitry, so less of the space is given over to the photo sensors. This means that some of the light reaching the unit hits areas between the sensors and is lost, reducing the overall sensitivity of the unit.
There are two solutions to this problem. First, the circuitry can be made smaller and the photo sensors bigger. But there is a limit to this reduction - and an escalation in manufacturing cost - so there will always be space between the sensors. To counteract this, millions of microlenses are used, one over each photo sensor. The microlens covers the photo sensor and the circuitry. Rays of light hitting the edge of the micro lens, which would normally be wasted, are now focused on the photo sensor. The effect is to increase the sensitivity of the sensor unit.
The result is that Canon CMOS sensor units can compete with, and even outperform, CCD sensor units. All current EOS professional digital cameras use CMOS sensor units, and reviews regularly comment on the lack of noise, even at high ISO settings.


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A Brand is Not a Logo
I have been invited to talk at this year's food blogger's conference in London in July. As excited as I am about the opportunity, I am also terrified of public speaking and thus wondering how I will actually present my thoughts in a comprehensive and meaningful manner to those wanting to hear about branding for bloggers… Preparation is everything, so I will use the next few weeks to go through salient points of my presentation to 'practice' in writing.
To introduce the subject, I'd like to clarify my understanding of the word BRANDING. Ever since the word entered the general marketing and design chatter more than a decede ago, I now often come across it as being misused to describe the brand identity of a business or organisation or be interchanged with the term LOGO.
A logo is a visual mark or identifier for a product or service.
An identity, or brand identity, combines the logo, the colours, the photography style, the tone of voice, the sound, smell and anything else sensory that represents the product and brand.
A brand however is more intangible, more touchy-feely, it's the gut feeling a person has about a product or service. It creates an emotion of what the company or product stands for and what it means to us if we associate ourselves with it.
"Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind" Walter Landor
I tried to visualise the key words foodie style… it's never perfect but I hope it helps to quickly grasp the concept.
So, in cup cake land, a logo may be a decorative identifier of the specific flavour. The colours, packaging and shape are all part of the brand identity. The brand will only come to life, however, once a customer has taken a bite. The flavour, texture and how it was digested are just as important if not more so than all the triggers that made someone buy and try this particular cake instead of another.
Where branding becomes really powerful though is when you also take into consideration the ambience in which the cake was selected and eaten, the interaction with the seller, the buying experience as a whole and of course the 'value for money' feedback that follows.
It really is an opportunity for businesses to make a difference by optimising their customers' brand experience and making sure they don't leave any bad tastes in their client's mouth.
Here is to branding sweetness… Bon appetite!


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As part of a new series, we are asking parents to write about the importance of play in their children's lives. We're proud to kick off this series with Daddy Bookins, a highly acclaimed dad blogger and children's book author. Take it away, Daddy B!
Pumpkin pies, warm apple cider, the crisp cool air along with piles of leaves in your yard – the telltale signs of fall.
Unfortunately, this excludes us desert dwellers who have been hibernating for the past five months. While the rest of you were enjoying the great outdoors, playing to your little hearts' desire… we have endured months of mind-numbing, blood-sucking, 110+ degree heat!
Welcome to the desert southwest!
The mercury is finally below the century mark, and sporadic signs of life are becoming more common than a northern spotted owl. You know what that means: It is time to let the onslaught of outdoor play begin!
I am a strong advocate of playing outdoors (shameless self-promotion – hence I wrote a children's book about it). Easily, it is the best learning experience for a child. Nothing comes close to running around in cool soft winter rye grass, playing with worms, and learning about the birds and the bees (not in the way you think!).
The fall months present a prime opportunity to learn about the great outdoors. Everything is able to breathe and grow – it becomes the respirator of life in the desert. To a child, this is a pure delight! Magical rocks are unearthed; newfound treasures are in vast abundance. Wispy and puffy white clouds skedaddle across a crisp blue sky, becoming the perfect chalkboard for a child's imagination to run wild. Uncovering the mysteries that lie beneath a garden, getting our hands dirty, planting an eclectic array of herbs, of course along with our standard desert succulent -- priceless!
This is the time to relinquish all fears generated from within. Bugs are cool. Dirt smells nice. And grass stains….well they come out in the wash, so parents, get over it. They are proof that your children were enjoying themselves.
I have been fortunate enough to experience the above excursions many times with my son, good and bad (trust me, there will be plenty of bad -- however the good is worth its weight in memories). It is important that he understands the environment he lives in and shares with others. He needs to feel a part of it, and not be cooped up inside some stucco plastered, air-conditioned, electronic, mesmerizing black hole of despair.
With that said, do as I learned to do with my son: Set the stage, sit back, watch with your eyes, listen with your ears….for once, just be silent as an adult and take in everything your child is doing. You will be amazed at the adventures that transpire, the bed-time discussions, and the timeless facial expressions that will forever be implanted in your memories.
You only get one chance. What are you waiting for? Get outdoors and get dirty!
Peas Out!
~Daddy Bookins
Daddy Bookins is proud to announce the first book of the Peas and Bananas series, Peas and Bananas Outside with Lil Boo, an illustrated children's book based on the creative events experienced through the eyes of Lil Boo. The events are based on exploring an array of outdoor adventures from the eyes of a toddler. Follow Lil Boo and his imaginary friend Onote from the letters A to Z in a fascinating rhyming adventure outside.
In October, proceeds from book sales go directly to St. Mary's Food Bank. Learn more about "An Empty Tummy is An Empty Mind" Food Drive at peasandbananas.com.


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#2383 Posted 14 October 2019 - 02:24 PM
Dear WG, can I suggest that you remove the annoying feature in the forum that adds quick replies to totally different posts to your previous post.
What is the purpose of it anyway? Short of paper?
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mpf1959, on 14 October 2019 - 02:24 PM, said:
Dear WG, can I suggest that you remove the annoying feature in the forum that adds quick replies to totally different posts to your previous post.
What is the purpose of it anyway? Short of paper?
Its in the forum code, just deal with it.
Just counter it or dont write posts at all.
The forum was here before you.
LOL look at your posts, you are just a forum noob so your opinion doesnt matter.
Crybaby, please tell the doctor where the forum touched you.
#2385 Posted 15 October 2019 - 11:29 AM
strv_varjager, on 15 October 2019 - 08:51 AM, said:
Its in the forum code, just deal with it.
Just counter it or dont write posts at all.
The forum was here before you.
LOL look at your posts, you are just a forum noob so your opinion doesnt matter.
Crybaby, please tell the doctor where the forum touched you.
piss off, i'll post what i want, who the [edited]do you think you are [edited]?
#2386 Posted 15 October 2019 - 02:13 PM
mpf1959, on 15 October 2019 - 11:29 AM, said:
piss off, i'll post what i want, who the [edited]do you think you are [edited]?
Actually i only used the most common responses i get when i say something constructive about artillery.
I dont stand for anything of that, i would never use such stupid "arguments".
#2387 Posted 15 October 2019 - 10:12 PM
RockyRoller, on 09 October 2019 - 09:42 AM, said:
Instead of a complaint, can we get a good player/teammate option for players we personally think have aided/supported you in a battle. Clan members & know Allies excluded to lower false mentions.
Then after every 50 separate nominations they get a Mentioned in Dispatches reward in their CV/Profile.
1) I like RockyRoller idea.
And here are some my sugestions:
2) Premium days that we buy/win - can be activiated as personal reserves? Somtimes they are not needed when they are won.
3) from level 6: heavy tanks not faster than mediums. Mediums not faster than lights, e.g. tier 8 stock medium tank faster than tier 10 heavy.
4) some new maps introduced, or some old maps returned (maybe with some modifications), like Swamp, South Coast, Hidden village (with larger playing area), Windstorm
5) something changed with blueprints. for now since blueprints introduction I didnt use them, for most nations I dont have enough national blueprints, I just have almost 300 universal bluprints.
6) team damage: no team damage in tier 1-4 games. No team demage in the first minute of the battle. But later possible team demage. Now there is no risk shoting near friendly player - completely unrealistic. And previously toxic players were shoting allies and were banned. Now they can disturb through the whole one battle.
7) dont nerf arty more or dont reduce the number of arties. I almost dont play arties, but I have the lowest chance of win with arties and wheel tanks. No need to nerf them if they stay in the game.
8) playing some level 7- 9 stock tanks without premium account is horrible for average player.(with premium account resarching improved guns, etc. takes me 3-4 times less time)
9) to be able to play replays without leaving a game. It takes time to leave the game and start it again. And on repleys is possible to see e.g. what we could do better in the battle.
10) if there will be some new modes, like battle royale - not so gray/dark graphics.
11) a little buff to stug IV, so new players who will win it, would have some nice tank. Now it is much worse than other tier 5 tanks.
12) if we can win / buy with credits some reword/premium tanks - it would be nice it would be not the same class and nation during one year, like T34Black in black market and now heavy american tank from Frontline. But anyway both rewards are good, just I will almost not play one of them.
And generally I liked most of last changes to the game. Now even last new premium tanks are not so overpowered.
#2388 Posted 16 October 2019 - 09:24 PM
Angel_Dust_, on 13 October 2019 - 03:52 PM, said:
This is an arcade game. If it was realistic, tankers would only be able to look through a slit in the turret, tanks would not be labelled red and green, you should not be able to see through bushes, etc and most tanks would be firing only a couple of shots per minute. They would also be moving perhaps half as fast as they do in the game. Similarly, the SPGs can see from above to an extent that is not exactly realistic. However, observers on the ground with binocs and a radio, trained to report target positions would be able to direct fire to fallen trees, knocked down fences, or anyrthing else that gave away the position of enemy units, even in reality. By the way, knocking down trees reveals your position to all kinds of tanks not just to SPGs, so it seems fair as the overhead view is the main view arty gets, that SPGs should also be alerted by falling trees.
Edited by Geoffrey_Ironfist, 16 October 2019 - 09:27 PM.
#2389 Posted 17 October 2019 - 10:32 AM
#2390 Posted 17 October 2019 - 01:10 PM
The ability to start a training map solo. So you can test your vehicles on them without having to partner up with more people.
Let it be open to up to 30, if they want to join in, but let a single player start it. We don't need a countdown, or a time cap, just access to the different maps.
Even better would be if you could test out vehicles you don't own on said maps, in order to find out what you want to research. Or buy.
Even better would be if you could throw in bots to shoot at.
#2391 Posted 17 October 2019 - 03:27 PM
TungstenHitman, on 17 October 2019 - 12:14 PM, said:
Hi guys,
(Also TL DR) So I've been trying out WG's other game, WoWs and there's a few PvE mode option there that I must say I really like having the option of playing. Sometimes if a PvP session isn't going well, raining losses or just a bit too tired and want to chill out instead but still want to play the game, it's great to have these PvE options that WoT doesn't and I think... I would like these options in WoT too. At least to try and see how it works out with tanks.
(A bit more about them)So, what are they? Well, both options are still team modes and you are still with real players but instead of fighting other players which often leads to campy negative and often infuriating battles much the same as WoT, you are fighting vs bots... actual bots and I can tell you, when you're looking to kick back and relax or grind some ships, it's really enjoyable actually, no pressure, no toxicity in chat and everyone there is just having a good time. So what's the difference of each mode.
Plays out exactly the same as random battles, pick your tank of choice, any tier etc and just go do battle on the same random battle maps to the same mission requirements as random battles only as mentioned, you're teamed with other players and fight against bots. What's the catch? Well, you only make about half the income xp, credits etc so you wouldn't be able to run all the higher spec consumables, repair kits etc and actually make credits you would in fact lose them. But not to worry, because the bots are not as challenging as the real people(can be!!) then you really don't need the fancy stuff anyway for this battle mode.
Now these are the really good fun non-PvP mode. Every week(I think) a new scenario will be added to the game and the old one removed. In this mode, as the name would suggest, there is a scenario in which you will always have to team up with other players(about 5 I think) and play out a scenario battle together vs bots. Only tier6 can play in this mode.
This is much more fun however and in WoWs the task is usually to act as an escort and protect a fleet of ships as they make their way from A to B and perhaps have to go to C and collect someone at D. It's really good fun, the battles are longer and the rewards are much better, more like what would be achieved in randoms but also the battles are graded on achievements and missions goals completed from 1-5. Each goal completed is rewarded and if you manage all 5, you get a free premium day. When you have completed all 5 goals, you can still play the mission over and over again. It's a really fun way to chill with some other players to either just have fun blowing stuff up, it's not too easy, not too hard while you can also use it to either grind a ship, a crew or even to grind credits with a premium ship.
Of course, random battles and ranked battles, other PvP modes are still there to be played if a player wants to kick it up a notch and fight PvP mode but it's just really nice to have this outlet. There's also a training room a player can select to play solo if you just want to practice using a certain ship and leading shots etc. Would you guys like to see a permanent option like this in WoT too? I think I'd play more if I could chill out with some game mode like this and it would certainly serve to help new players improve their game. Sorry for typos if any, probably lots.
Krazy_Kalle, on 17 October 2019 - 12:36 PM, said:
TLDR your main post.
Just take a look at WoT Console. They had kind of a PvE campaign and IMO it was fun and brought some variety.
As long as WG puts a little effort in there and provides some rewards, it will be fine.
Jethro_Grey, on 17 October 2019 - 01:07 PM, said:
I fully support this!
Being a WoWS main, i recently rediscovered OPS.
Not only is it a welcome Change of pace, the rewards there are making it worthwhile.
Granted, you can get the 'main' rewards only once, but the XP, free XP and commander XP is where it's at.
WoWS uses a similar system when it comes to boosting XP, free XP, crew XP, credits.
But unlike WoT boosters that can be bought with ingame/ currency, the boosters in WoWS are very rare and usually very hard and only via a grind to obtain. So, wasting them on bad random teams can be pretty painful as they last per game and not per time frame.
OPS changed that, in that it's basically a guaranteed win (if you play during the main hours) and with every game i get 15-25k XP and around the same amount of free and commander XP.
Something like this in WoT would be awesome.
I can still grind tanks, credits, crew XP without being a burden to the random team and having fun.
Make it happen WeeGee.
15JG52Brauer, on 17 October 2019 - 02:06 PM, said:
Jethro_Grey, on 17 October 2019 - 03:21 PM, said:
Well, the issue with historical battles in WoT is and always was, that one side has the strong tanks while other side gets screwed before the match even started.
OPS could solve that issue by having the strong side be the players and the 'weaker' side be the bots.
And like in WoWS, there could be a hard mode where people can platoon with 7 other players and play the weak side while the bots play the strong one.
It'd yield higher rewards, would allow Team play and add more replayability.
And it would allow for Scenarios/ OPS that wouldn't simply be possible in a PvP mode.
While i'm not an tank battle expert, i've heard of several battles that turned out to be Kobayashi Maru 'tests' for one side or the other.
And in such an OPS, it'd be the Players chance to 'Kirk' their way out of this one. ^^
So WeeGee, bring it.
This idea will add alot of fun to the game.
Pls make it happen WeeGee.
#2392 Posted 18 October 2019 - 06:16 AM
please add total and maximum and average
i spotting and assist
ii damage blocked / (armour use)
to service record and wtr
#2393 Posted 18 October 2019 - 06:05 PM
#2394 Posted 19 October 2019 - 11:38 AM
RockyRoller, on 09 October 2019 - 09:42 AM, said:
Instead of a complaint, can we get a good player/teammate option for players we personally think have aided/supported you in a battle. Clan members & know Allies excluded to lower false mentions.
Then after every 50 separate nominations they get a Mentioned in Dispatches reward in their CV/Profile.
This is one of the best ideas I have read since I started playing back in -12. WG, please do take this to heart and make something out of it. It would be very beneficial to the game, and to single players alike.
#2395 Posted 19 October 2019 - 03:20 PM
leggasiini, on 31 August 2017 - 09:01 AM, said:
Some branches could see a rework. I already covered Japanese HT line, and will cover it even further in future, but there are few others, such as:
- Swedish TDs (handicapped into one playstyle, so for some people completely unplayable, extremely unfun and frustating to play against for multiple reasons, etc etc)
- Swedish HTs (situnational and frustating to play, frustating to play against)
- British AT TDs (tier 6-9 kinda stink and tier 10 absolutely doesnt fit to the line)
- Japanese mediums (STB-1 is losing its charm and the line in general could use small boosts to it)
- Chinese MTs (121 already got buffed but tier 7-9 needs same treatment; Type T-34 and Type 58 are flat out shittier than their regular Russian counterparts)
They should have made the T-34/100 a tier 6/7 premium and Skoda T40 tier 7 at the main branch on Czech tree tbh
Also I am already afraid that Foch B probably needs to be changed
i completely agree. Especially about the possibilities for the Japanese Lines, not just TDs, but lights too, and more premiums. One of the biggest wealthiest gaming markets in the world. WG wows got it, but wot is losing out by ignoring this nation.
Dmitrij_Ch, on 14 October 2019 - 12:29 AM, said:
and btw fyi:
Africa region has 0. nada. zero. (continent, 52 countries, over a billion population - bigger than whole EU and Russia)
Our ping on EU is around 200m/s.
#2396 Posted 20 October 2019 - 04:26 PM
Is there a way to balance the maps to get rid of these funnels of doom and wide useless open areas in center of the maps but yet keep some form of organized gameplay?
I get that the maps force some form of organzied gameplay but it renders a big part of the map useless and its just a big dead open space, it also prevent any form of flanking the flank because the only way to flank a flank is to win the other flank. But even so the tanks have to push quite open areas without any real cover, that part i dont like.
Is it possible to fix that without making the gameplay the wild wild west and making some tank classes totally useless. Somehow im afraid mediums would be the only viable class. They got speed decent armor dpm and benefit most of maps that look like stonehenge.
#2397 Posted 21 October 2019 - 09:16 AM
#2398 Posted 22 October 2019 - 12:59 PM
#2399 Posted 22 October 2019 - 01:30 PM
I made this thread which I think is of importance for the future multinational tanks like Rudy:
TL;DR: Polish Rudy is using the Soviet base paint and you can't buy the Polish base paint for it. But you can buy the Soviet base paint for it, which is redundant. Also, some consumables are unavailable for it.
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GlassFish Vee(gri)zzly(v3): Unofficial benchmarks results
We are still working hard on GlassFish v3 and will soon release a new technology preview (JavaOne is coming :-)). What about its performance? As you may know, in v3 we have cleaned up the noise by using a modular approach (thanks Jerome!). In Quebecois (French peoples are probably using some English world to say the same ;-), we say "Faire le Grand Menage"
What about Grizzly-In-V3? In v3, the monster is now integrated using its framework module (no http pollution like in v2, just NIO:-)). So when v3 starts, part of its startup logic is done on top of Grizzly (using 184.108.40.206 runtime). Does it make a difference at startup and more important, at runtime? It make a huge one because now, with the modular nature of v3 there is no longer modules that add noise in Grizzly. So let's benchmark the static resources (.html) performance using Faban (see Scott's blog about it what is Faban) by using
java -classpath fabandriver.jar:fabancommon.jar -server
-Xmx1500m -Xms1500m com.sun.faban.driver.ab -c 2000 http://xxx:8080/index.html
This command runs 2000 separate clients (each in its own thread), each of which continually requests index.html with no think time. The common driver reports three pieces of information: the number of requests served per second, the average response time per request, and the 90th percentile for requests: 90% of requests were served with that particular response time or less. Let's focus on the number of operations per seconds for now by running the test against Grizzly Http 1.0.20, Grizzly Http 1.7.3, v2 and v3:
Grizzly_1.0 Grizzly_1.7 GlassFish_v2 GlassFish_v3
5739.025 5979.917 5432.300 5882.808
Hey hey v3 is almost as fast as Grizzly 1.7.3. Why? It really because v3 run on top of Grizzly directly, without any noise in between. Now let's compare the dynamic resource performance using a very simple Servlet
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response){
PrintWriter wrt = response.getWriter();
for (int i = 0; i < 1 ; i++) {
wrt.write("Hello world");
Yes, its a dummy Servlet!
Grizzly_1.7 GlassFish_v2 GlassFish_v3
3621.600 3256.775 2998.225
v3 is a little slower here……most probably because of the container's mapping algorithm. What is that? With v3, a tcp/udp port can handle any type of web applications (jruby, groovy, servlet, phobos, etc. (all build on top of Grizzly http :-)). So when a request comes in, v3 inspects and dispatch it to the proper container. That code introduces overhead and I suspect it is part of the regression. But a lot of changes has been made in v3, so I might be wrong…still, I consider the number very impressive as we have now a modular architecture which required a lot of changes.
But wait a minute. Grizzly 1.7 has a Servlet Container? Naaa not a real one. I'm just experimenting a tiny Servlet container, with great help from the Grizzly community. But forget Grizzly for now and look at the number 🙂 The goal for our v3 official release is set: We want to be better than Grizzly, which I'm sure we will :-). We need to improve the Grizzly extension in v3…in case you want to learn how to write such extension, just stop by us at JavaOne!
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Writing a Comet web application using GlassFish
This blog describes how to write Comet enabled web application using GlassFish's Comet Engine.
A couple of months ago, I've blogged about the technical details of the GlassFish's Comet support. Since then, I've got a lot of feedbacks on the blog and also privately. Surprisingly, a lot of peoples have started using the API and an asked for a blog describing a basic example. So here it comes … a basic Chat Servlet 🙂
First, to enable Comet Support in GlassFish, add the following in ${glassfish.home}/domains/domain1/config/domain.xml
<http-listener acceptor-threads="1" address="0.0.0.0"
blocking-enabled="false" default-virtual-server="server"
enabled="true" family="inet" id="http-listener-1" port="8080"
security-enabled="false" server-name="" xpowered-by="true">
<property name="cometSupport" value="true"/>
Next, add in you web.xml:
OK now the interesting parts. The first things to decide when writing a Comet enabled web app is the component that will get polled. For this example, I will use a Servlet. First, the Servlet needs to register to the CometEngine:
48 public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException {
49 super.init(config);
50 contextPath = config.getServletContext().getContextPath() + "/chat";
51 CometEngine cometEngine = CometEngine.getEngine();
52 CometContext context = cometEngine.register(contextPath);
53 context.setExpirationDelay(60 * 1000);
54 }
The important part to define first is the context path that will be considered for Comet processing (or polling). All requests that takes the form of http://:/context/chat will be considered for polling. The context.setExpirationDelay() will determine how long a request will be polled. For this example, I've set the expiration delay to 60 seconds. After 60 seconds, the polled connection will be closed.
Next, you need to define a Comet request Handler which will get invoked every time the CometContext is updated. For the Chat, the handler will be created after the user has entered its user name (by issuing http://…/login.jsp)
71 if ("login".equals(action)) {
72 String username = request.getParameter("username");
73 request.getSession(true).setAttribute("username", username);
75 if (firstServlet != -1){
76 cometContext.notify("User " + username
77 + " from " + request.getRemoteAddr()
78 + " is joinning the chat.",CometEvent.NOTIFY,
79 firstServlet);
80 }
82 response.sendRedirect("chat.jsp");
83 return;
84 } else if ("post".equals(action)){
85 String username = (String) request.getSession(true)
86 .getAttribute("username");
87 String message = request.getParameter("message");
88 cometContext.notify("[ " + username + " ] "
89 + message + "
");
90 response.sendRedirect("post.jsp");
91 return;
92 } else if ("openchat".equals(action)) {
93 response.setContentType("text/html");
94 CometRequestHandler handler = new CometRequestHandler();
95 handler.clientIP = request.getRemoteAddr();
96 handler.attach(response.getWriter());
97 cometContext.addCometHandler(handler);
98 String username = (String) request.getSession(true)
99 .getAttribute("username");
100 response.getWriter().println("
Welcome "
101 + username + "
");
102 return;
After the user has logged in, the browser will be redirected to the chat.jsp page, which will sent the action="openchat". The CometHandler (the class that will update the chat message box) implementation looks like:
134 public void onEvent(CometEvent event) throws IOException{
135 try{
137 if (firstServlet != -1 && this.hashCode() != firstServlet){
138 event.getCometContext().notify("User " + clientIP
139 + " is getting a new message.",CometEvent.NOTIFY,
140 firstServlet);
141 }
142 if ( event.getType() != CometEvent.READ ){
143 printWriter.println(event.attachment());
144 printWriter.flush();
145 }
146 } catch (Throwable t){
147 t.printStackTrace();
148 }
149 }
152 public void onInitialize(CometEvent event) throws IOException{
156 }
Every time the user will post a new message, the CometHandler.onEvent(…) will be invoked and the Chat message pushed back to the browser.
On the client side, the chat.jsp page looks like
26 <frameset>
27
28
29 </frameset>
You can download the application (which include the src) here.
Note that the application described here is really to give an example. I would never recommend the use of static variables like I did in the example.
Before I forgot, one interesting feature I've recently added (was requested on first blog on Grizzly's Comet) is the ability to update a single CometHandler (or a single polled request). When calling cometContext.addCometHandler(..), the returned value can be later re-used to push datas only to that cometHandler by doing:
cometContext.notify(String message, int type, String cometListenerID);
See the API for more info. For the Chat example, I've added a pop up window where a chat moderator receives all the chat messages, who is connected and from where:
138 event.getCometContext().notify("User " + clientIP
139 + " is getting a new message.",CometEvent.NOTIFY,
140 firstServlet);
That's it. Very simple, is it? No needs to spawn a thread anywhere on the Servlet side, no special Servlet operations, etc.
Once I've a chance, I will try to use AJAX and improve the client. Any help is appreciated on that side 🙂 As usual, thanks for all the feedbacks sent by emails!
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Extending GlassFish's WebContainer
The GlassFish WebContainer is based on the Tomcat Servlet implementation called Catalina. The Catalina architecture, introduced in Tomcat 4.x, was designed to easily allow developer to extends it. There is several interception point in Catalina that can be extended:
- Valve: A Valve is a request processing component associated with a particular virtual-server(host) or web-module (servlet). A series of Valves are generally associated with each other into a Pipeline. Developer will usually inject their valves in order to have access to the Catalina internal objects, and manipulate the request/response object before filters or servlets are invoked. As an example, the access logging mechanism in GlassFish is implemented as a Valve.
- ContainerListener: A listener for significant Container generated events. As an example, every time a WAR is deployed, a ContainerListener implementation will be notified for every new created Servlet, TagLib or Filter.
- InstanceListener: A listener for significant events related to a specific servlet instance. An implementation of this interface will get notified everytime a Servlet is about to be invoked or when some operations are made on the Servlet (like when calling its ServletContextListeners).
- LifecycleListener: A listener for significant events (including "virtual server start" and "web module stop") generated by a component that implements the Lifecycle interface. An implementation of this interface will get notified by mostly all internal objects when an it is started|stopped (like when a new virtual-server is created). As an example, we are using this interface internally to notify the other GlassFish's containers.
Virtual server supports the injection of Valve, ContainerListener and LifecycleListener. Web module supports the same as the virtual server with the addition of the InstanceListener.
Once you have your extension implemented, you need to install it in GlassFish. To install an extension:
For virtual-server
- Add your classes into a jar file (ex: glassfish-ext.jar)
- Place your jar under ${glassfish.home}/lib
- Edit ${glassfish.home}/domains/domain1/config/domain.xml, locate the virtual-server element, and add <property name="type" value="fully qualified class name"> where type can be valve_ or listener_, with a unique number allowing you to define more than one type.
Ex: <property name="valve_1″ value="org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve"/>
For web-module
- Same as for virtual-server, but under the web-module element of domain.xml. Except you can bundle your implementation under WEB-INF/lib or WEB-INF/classes (easier to deploy to several GlassFish installations)
Ex: <property name="listener_1″ value="org.glassfish.MyServletListener"/>
Very easy, is it :-). This is supported starting in GlassFish v2 build 17.
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Enabling CGI support in GlassFish
Wants to execute CGI in GlassFish? The GlassFish CGI support is disabled by default, and it is based on the Tomcat implementation. Two ways to enable it: only inside your web application or for all web applications deployed in GlassFish. I strongly recommend you enable it inside your application only for security reason, but if you control the applications deployed in GlassFish, then enabling it to all web applications might be simpler. For your web application, you will add the information in your WEB-INF/web.xml. To enable it globally, you will add it in $glassfish.home/domains/domain1/config/default-web.xml.
First, define the CGI Servlet:
                         <servlet> <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.CGIServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>debug</param-name> <param-value>0</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>cgiPathPrefix</param-name> <param-value>WEB-INF/cgi</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup> </servlet>
Then define the servlet mapping:
<servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/cgi-bin/*</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping>
If you added this info in default-web.xml, you gonna need to restart GlassFish. Then in you web application, creates a folder under
and drop you CGI under than folder, then deploy your application. You will be able to execute your CGI by doing:
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Enabling WebDav in GlassFish
It is very easy to enable WebDav in GlassFish, but you can't enable it the way you usualy do it using Tomcat. The reason is when you define, in defaul-web.xml, the WebDav servlet, you can't protect it because GlassFish lack of support for a default-sun-web.xml, where you usualy define your security constraints mapping. You certainly don't want to enable WebDav without protecting the functionality with a security constraint, because if not protected, then everybody will be able to make modification to your content.
First, enable the WebDav Servlet in your web-xml:
<servlet-name>webdav</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.WebdavServlet</servlet-class>
Then define the servlet mapping associated with your WebDav servlet:
You are now ready to use any WebDav client by doing connecting to:
As an example, I did using Office 2003:
File > Open > http://192.168.0.101:8080/glassfish-webday/webdav/index.html
and changed the index.html page. Next step is to protect the WebDav support because everybody can now make modifications to your content:
<web-resource-name>Login Resources</web-resource-name>
and then define, in your sun-web.xml:
Next, create you user and password.
asadmin create-file-user --user admin --host localhost --port 4848 --terse=true --groups Admin --authrealmname default admin
You are now ready to use WebDav with GlassFish
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Can a Grizzly run faster than a Coyote?
Un coyote court t-il plus vite qu'un grizzly? Or can an NIO based HTTP connector be as fast as a traditional IO HTTP Connector or a C HTTP Connector? The next couple of lines will compare Tomcat 5.5.16, both the Coyote HTTP11 and the Tomcat Native (version 1.1.2) connector (aka APR) with the GlassFish Grizzly NIO powered HTTP Connector. Grizzly is an NIO extension of the HTTP11 implementation.
But don't be fooled by the numbers I'm gonna publish. My goal here is to clarify the myth that NIO non-blocking sockets cannot be used along with the HTTP protocol. This blog is not against Tomcat, and I'm still part of the Tomcat community (although I'm not helping a lot those days, but very interested by Costin works on NIO). OK enough rant…..
First, if my numbers aren't matching your real life application, I will be interested to hear about it. If you like APR/OpenSSL functionalities and think they should be included in GlassFish, I will be more than happy to port them in GlassFish. But let waits for the numbers before saying yes 🙂
Oh…BTW some Grizzly numbers has already been published as part of the SJSAS PE 8.2 specJ2004 results. All results can be found here.
Passons maintenant aux choses serieuses….
Differences between Tomcat and GlassFish
First, in order to compare the two, let's explore the differences between the products. Since GlassFish is a J2EE Container, the bundled WebContainer has to support more extensions than Tomcat. Those extensions mainly consist of supporting EJB and the JavaTM Authorization Contract for Containers. Both extensions have an impact on performance because internaly, it means extra events notification needs to happen (In Catalina, in means LifecycleEvent).
A perfect integration will means no performance regressions when extensions are added, but unfortunaly having to support EJB is adding a small performance hit. Fortunalty, JavaTM Authorization Contract for Containers isn't impacting performance. Hence the best comparison would have been to compare JBoss and GlassFish, or Tomcat with Grizzly in front of it. But I'm too lazy to install JBoss….
Out-of-the-box difference
The main difference are:
+ GlassFish has Single Sign On enabled, Tomcat doesn't
+ GlassFish has Access Logging enabled, Tomcat doesn't
+ GlassFish starts using the java -client, Tomcat doesn't set any.
Let's turn off the differences in GlassFish, by adding, in domain.xml:
<property name="accessLoggingEnabled" value="false" />
<property name="sso-enabled" value="false" />
and starts both product using java -server. For all the benchmarks I'm using Mustang:
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-beta2-b75)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 1.6.0-beta2-b75, mixed mode)
Also, Grizzly has a different cache mechanism based on NIO, where Tomcat cache static file in memory using its naming implementation. Grizzly Cache is configured using:
<http-file-cache file-caching-enabled="true" file-transmission-enabled="false" globally-enabled="true" hash-init-size="0" max-age-in-seconds="600" max-files-count="1024" medium-file-size-limit-in-bytes="9537600" medium-file-space-in-bytes="90485760" small-file-size-limit-in-bytes="1048" small-file-space-in-bytes="1048576"/>
And I've turned off the onDemand mechanism:
to fully starts GlassFish.
Envoyons de l'avant nos gens, envoyons de l'avant!
ApacheBench (ab)
Let start with a well know stress tool called ab (google ApacheBench if you don't know it). I will use ab to compare performance of:
+ small, medium, and very large gif files (large & medium gives similar results)
+ basic Servlet
+ basic JSP (the default index.jsp page from Tomcat)
I'm gonna compare Tomcat HTTP11, Tomcat APR and GlassFish. I have tried to comes with the best configuration possible for Tomcat. I got the best number with:
<Connector useSendFile="true" sendfileSize="500" port="8080" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" pollerSize="500" maxThreads="500" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="250" enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="5000" connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" />
I'm putting more threads than the expected number of simultaneous connections (300) here so HTTP11 can be tested properly (since HTTP11 is one connection per thread). I've also try adding:
firstReadTimeout="0" pollTime="0"
but the result wasn't as good as with the default.
For Grizzly, I've used:
<http-listener id="http-listener-1" ... acceptor-thread="2" .../>
<request-processing header-buffer-length-in-bytes="4096" initial-thread-count="5" request-timeout-in-seconds="20" thread-count="10" thread-increment="10"/>
Yes, you read it it correctly. Tomcat needs 500 threads where Grizzly needs only 10. NIO non-blocking is facinating, is it?
The ab command I've used is:
% ab -q -n1000 -c300 -k http://perf-v4.sfbay.sun.com:8080/XXX
Ready to see numbers? Not yet, here is the machine setup:
OS : Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 2)
ARCH : x86
Type : x86
CPU : 2x3.2GHz
Memory : 4 GB
OS : RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4.0
ARCH : x86
ype : x86
CPU : 2x1.4GHz
Memory : 4GB
OK, now the numbers. For each test, I've run 50 times the ab command and took the means (for large static resource, I've ran between 10 and 13 because it takes time). The number aren't changing if I remove the ramp up time for every Connector, so I decided to not remove them.
Small static file (2k)
% ab -q -n1000 -c300 -k http://perf-v4.sfbay.sun.com:8080/tomcat.gif
Grizzly: 4104.32 APR: 4377.2 HTTP11: 4448.08
Here HTTP11 is doing a very good job, where Grizzly seems to be hunting and maybe servicing requests. Why? My next blog will explain a problem I'm seeing with MappedByteBuffer, small files and FileChannel.transferTo.
Medium static file (14k)
% ab -q -n1000 -c300 -k http://perf-v4.sfbay.sun.com:8080/grizzly2.gif
Grizzly: 746.27 APR: 749.63 HTTP11: 745.65
OK here Grizzly is better (thanks MappedByteBuffer).
Very large static file (954k)
% ab -q -n1000 -c300 -k http://perf-v4.sfbay.sun.com:8080/images.jar
Grizzly: 11.88 APR: 10.5 HTTP11 10.6.
Hum… here APR has connections errors (means 10) as well as HTTP11 (means 514) and keep-alive hasn't been honored for all connections. Grizzly is fine on that run.
Simple Servlet
% ab -q -n1000 -c300 -k http://perf-v4.sfbay.sun.com:8080/tomcat-test/ServletTest
Grizzly: 10929.93 APR: 10600.71 HTTP11: 10764.67
Interesting numbers…but can't say if it's the Connector or Catalina (Servlet Container). GlassFish Catalina is based on Tomcat 5.0.x (plus severals performance improvement)).
Simple JSP
% ab -q -n1000 -c300 -k http://perf-v4.sfbay.sun.com:8080/index.jsp
Grizzly: 1210.49 APR: 1201.09 HTTP11: 1191.57
The result here is amazing because Tomcat supports JSP 2.0, where GlassFish supports JSP 2.1. Kin-Man, Jacob and Jan (to name a few) doesn't seems to have introduced performance regressions :-).
One thing I don't like with ab is it doesn't measure the outliers, meaning some requests might takes 0.5 seconds, some 5 seconds. All requests are counted, whatever they took to be serviced. I would prefer a Connector that avoid outlier (or at least I don't want to be the outlier when I log on to my bank account!). Let see what the second benchmarks can tell:
Real world benchmark
The purpose of my second benchmark is to stress the server with a real world application that contains complex Servlet, JSP and Database transaction. I think ab is good indicator of performance but focus more on throughput than scalability. The next benchmark simulates an e-commerce site. Customers can browse through a large inventory of items, put those items into shopping carts, purchase them, open new accounts, get account status: all the basic things you'd expect. There is also an admin interface for updating prices, adding inventory, and so on. Each customer will execute a typical scenario at random; each hit on the website is counted as an operation.
The benchmark measures the maximum number of users that the website can handle assuming that 90% of the responses must come back within 2 seconds and that the average think time of the users is 8 seconds. The result are:
Grizzly: 2850 APR: 2110 HTTP11: 1610
Note: I have try APR with 10 threads, 1000 threads and the best results was obtainned using 500 threads.
Do your own conclusion 😉 My goal here was to demonstrate that NIO (using non blocking sockets) HTTP Connector are ready for prime time. I hope the myth is over….
Once I have a chance, I would like to compare Grizzly with Jetty (since Jetty has an NIO implementation). I just need to find someone who knows Jetty and can help me configuring it properly 🙂
Finally, during this exercise I've found a bug with the 2.4 kernel and the performance was really bad. Also, it is quite possible you run benchmarks where Tomcat perform better. I would be interested to learn about the way Tomcat was configured…..
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Running GlassFish with Apache httpd
Quick blog to update the way you can front GlassFish with Apache httpd. Starting with build 41, all Jakarta Commons classes has been renamed from org.apache.* to com.sun.org.apache.* . Since mod_jk uses some of those classes, you need to add a couple of Jakarta Commons packages to make it works. Let's do it steps by steps:
(1) First, install mod_jk
Next steps is to configure httpd.conf and worker.properties. For example, add in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
LoadModule jk_module /usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_jk.so
JkWorkersFile /etc/httpd/conf/worker.properties
# Where to put jk logs
JkLogFile /var/log/httpd/mod_jk.log
# Set the jk log level [debug/error/info]
JkLogLevel debug
# Select the log format
JkLogStampFormat "[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y] "
# JkOptions indicate to send SSL KEY SIZE,
JkOptions +ForwardKeySize +ForwardURICompat -ForwardDirectories
# JkRequestLogFormat set the request format
JkRequestLogFormat "%w %V %T"
# Send all jsp requests to GlassFish
JkMount /*.jsp worker1
# Send all glassfish-test requests to GlassFish
JkMount /glassfish-test/* worker1
The add in your /etc/httpd/conf/worker.properties
# Define 1 real worker using ajp13
# Set properties for worker1 (ajp13)
Start httpd.
(2) Copy, from a fresh Tomcat 5.5.16 installation
cp $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib/tomcat-ajp.jar
Next, copy commons-logging.jar and commons-modeler.jar from the Jakarta Commons site under to $GLASSFISH_HOME/lib/.
(3) Then enable mod_jk by adding:
$GLASSFISH_HOME/bin/asadmin create-jvm-options -Dcom.sun.enterprise.web.connector.enableJK=8009
Then start GlassFish. That's it!
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I am in the midst of a HUGE blogger's block right now. It isn't that I'm not having ideas, but most of them are about me rather than anything that is useful to anyone else -- like stuff about my own career path and stuff. Nothing that the world needs to know about...
In the meantime, check out Travis Bedard's posts about theatre education. He extends Tom and my own thoughts quite nicely. And while he says he disagrees with his "elders" (thanks for that one, Travis) about production, I actually think I (I won't speak for Tom) would agree that more production would be a good thing -- but that we faculty don't have to be behind it in order to give it legitimacy and prestige. There would be nothing that could make me happier than if I had auditions for my mainstage production and nobody showed up because they were all already committed to their own projects. Then I would know that we've really done something for the students. Then I could compete with them on a level playing field, which would mean I'd have to make sure my work was cool and exciting. So it would push me, too.
Anyway, check out "Hey. Teacher!" and "Hey, Teacher! -- Addendum."
I'm sure I''ll think of something sooner or later. In the meantime, check out the wiki the cast of Thousand Kites and I are starting to create about prison issues. And particularly click on the videos, which are really cool -- provided by Appalshop, who created the Thousand Kites Project.


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Janice from The Fitness Cheerleader has challenged healthy living/fitness bloggers to blog everyday during the month of August and she has even included a suggested list of blog posts. I have decided to take her challenge and today's post is from Janice's suggested list of topics. Thanks Janice for giving me the motivation to blog everyday in August, I hope I can keep up!!!
My 5 Favorite Workout Songs:
- You're The Best Around by Joe Esposito-I know that this song is so cliche but it just inspires me. Whenever I am running and this song comes on (I have it set play a few times in my play list) I become super motivated to push myself harder!!!!
- Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky) by Bill Conti-I know, I know another cliche song but again I just get so pumped and inspired every time this song comes on my iPod.
- Time Stand Still by Rush-This song reminds me to stop and take a look around at what I have in my life at this very moment. It reminds me to slow down and appreciate every moment.
- Drive By by Train-I just love the beat of this song and helps me to push through the tough parts of my workouts.
- Poker Face by Lady Gaga-This is another upbeat song that I love to include in my workout playlists. This song also reminds my of my grandfather because it came out around the time he passed away and as odd as it sounds it is comforting in a way.
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These are great!! Gotta love Rocky….I admit that Eye of the Tiger is on my playlist often!
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Lady Gaga is SO great to work out to! Running or otherwise. Always a good beat, very motivational!
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Eye of the Tiger, and We Re The Champions by Queen are my cliche songs. Thanks for joining the challenge!
I love Train's Drive! Such a great song to dance to, too. hehe. I also use Poker Face! xo


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Our Ministries
Boyle County Jail Services
The fourth Monday of each month we hold preaching services in our local county jail. Gospel tracts and booklets are given out at the close of the each service.
Northpoint Prison Services
The third Thursday of each month we hold preaching services in the chapel of Northpoint Prison located just ten minutes north of Danville, KY. Gospel tracts and Bible study material is handed out to the inmates at the close of each service.
The "Searching the Scriptures" Radio Broadcast
Each Sunday morning from 9:00 till 9:30 a.m. on local Hometown Radio AM 1230 WHIR, Pastor Alltop can be heard expounding the word of God. A variety of Bible topics are covered from week to week.
Faith Promise Missions Giving Program
Each November, we hold our annual faith promise missions conference. This meeting encourages individuals and families to pray and ask the Lord for guidance on what He would have them to give to the cause of world missions for the coming year. Every dollar that is given to the cause of missions goes directly to support our missionaries and their efforts around the world.
Monthly Nursing Home Services
On the first Thursday of each month we hold services at the Charleston Health Care Center in Danville. The folks there enjoy the hymn singing, the fellowship and Brother Alltop always preaches a simple message from the Bible. We often leave large print gospel literature for the guests there.
On the first and fourth Sunday of the month, we also hold services at the Danville Centre For Health and Rehabilitation. Hymn singing, preaching and some fellowship are the order of the day. Services here begin at 2:00 p.m.
Weekly Public Ministry in Danville and Harrodsburg
Each Saturday and Sunday we can be found proclaiming the gospel publicly in downtown Danville and neighboring Harrodsburg, KY. Our street ministry involves preaching, tract distribution, banners, and sandwich signs which reminds our community that there is a God in heaven who sent His only begotten Son to die for their sins. Only eternity will show the fruit and the benefits of this very Biblical and very New Testament ministry of presenting the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Door to Door Visitation
We still believe in visiting homes in our area to minister the word of God to the residents in the local community. House to house visitation is a great way to meet new people and witness for the Lord Jesus Christ.
Master Clubs
Every Wednesday Evening the children gather for our new Master Clubs Program! It is an exciting time of teaching, games, and activities. They are taught about the Christian life and encouraged to grow as a Christian!


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Hahaha shorts to the office?? That's strange. Right? As you already know, when temperature changes, the dress codes also change. Maxis give way to mini and pants give way to shorts. All o that is well and accepted on the weekends but during the weekday it can lead to questionable workwear choices that may not adhere to the office dress code ethics. Shorts, remain one of the most controversial options which brings us to the main question: Can people wear shorts to the office?
The issue about wearing shorts to the office solely depends on the firm or organization you're attached to and whether or not there are dress code policies. If you're in finance, maybe not but if you're in a more creative environment, your probably can.
Thedecision to wear shorts all boils down to three determining factors: an official dress code, work culture (creative versus conservative), and good judgment. "If you do wear shorts, choose ones with a nice fabric, of an appropriate length, and that can be paired with a dressy shirt and blazer.
To pull off shorts at the office without raising alarm or workplace scorn, here are some things to bear in mind before attempting to wear shorts to the office…
Wear shorts that are half way your thighs or knee length. Anything shorter than that shouldn't be used to the office. That means no booty shorts, no frayed denim cut-offs.
Go for shorts cut from an elevated cloth. Try chino or cotton or even light wool materials. I personally love tailored shorts with structure but are also lightweight.
For ladies, pleats down the front, a clean hem, or a high-waisted silhouette are great examples.
Go for neutrals. Classic colors like black, beige, navy and if you're daring white. The classic the color, the better. Black is always flattering especially when there are nice detailing.
For the ladies, tuck in a nice blouse and put a blazer on it. Shorts also work with stiletto heel, a menswear-inspired Oxford, and dressy sandals. Dress it up the same way you would with a pencil skirt. For the gents, you can stick to your shirt and tie or without the tie. You can also wear a tee shirt and blazer with nice oxfords or sneakers.
With that said, yes you can wear shorts to the office. Just follow the simple instructions and you're good to go!