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That's proof he is lying. Even the developer's of netbeans don't use netbeans.
Netbeans is great if what you want to do is develop applets and desktop applications in Java.
That's just not what 90% (educated guess) of Java developers are doing.
Not true. We use NetBeans almost exclusively (I am one of them).
void main() {
printf("Basic office suite\n");
As you can see, it was possible to program this office suite so quickly because I used libraries. Note: this is an alpha release and some features aren't finished yet.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main() {
printf("Basic office suite\n");
Thanks FSM for Free Software, otherwise I couldn't have fixed your bugs.
As you can see, it was possible to program this office suite so quickly because I used libraries. Note: this is an alpha release and some features aren't finished yet.
Can I join the developer team? Hopefully we can finish the program quicker, if we double the dev.-team.
You needed 3 minutes to write that code?
You needed 3 minutes to write that code?
He included the time it took him to pour a cup of coffee. Everyone knows that coders cant write without caffeine.... (grin)
Nice work,
but any Open Source license allowing "companies to change and redistribute the code internally without having to share the new code publicly, he said." Even the GPL is allowing companies to change and redistribute the code internally.
But maybe his definition of "internally" and "publicly" is different then mine?
No, its just usual to have even good developers licensing somtheing under a license without having read and understood these or other licenses.
The top misunderstanding is actually the one about the GPL mandatign you to publish the source code openly, which lies at the heart of the "Softwar as a service" problem.
To state that clearly: The only thing the GPL mandates is what you should give to the people to whom you give your software product. The GPL is designed for the freedom of the user (or customer), not the intellectual property protection of the programmer or as socialistic "software mus be open for everybody". If you distribute a product inside a company, the person you are distributing it to will have certain rights *as a part of the company*. However there is nothing wrong with a company rule which does not allow him to exercise these rights, like confidentiality agreements. Currently i am working for a company where the GPL is blacklisted due to that misunderstanding.
The GPL is designed for the freedom of the user (or customer), not the intellectual property protection of the programmer or as socialistic "software mus be open for everybody".
How do you figure that one? The GPL grants users a limited license to the programmer's copyrighted works. That most definitely is a form of intellectual property protection. As for the socialistic part, that's a rather loaded term; still, it seems like you haven't read much from Stallman or the FSF.
No the intellectual property (copyright) is protected by the usual copyright laws. Without these, the GPL would be be meaningless.
The GPL creates a well defined usage under which the programmer permits to use the code. It will remain under his copyright forever. There is no way that he will not be the creator of the specific parts of the code in the sense of the law (that would obviously apply to undocumented intentional backdoors placed in the code).
Regarding the "socialistic": i think the irony should ha
EA has been putting less than 30 days of work into its titles for years. At least, that's how they feel.
Claims to have built an office suite in 30 days, but it is only an alpha and not everything works. Well how much is not everything? It is just a bunch of nice splash screens?
In other words, an unemployed Java coder spent a month working on something to get him publicity and hopefully hired....
Yes, he did a very nice job of it. Why do coders have to be so jealous and dismissive of other people's knowledge/achievements?
I applaud the guy for taking sacrificing his time and energy on software that could have been a failure. By taking a risk, he's accomplished something impressive.
Why do coders have to be so jealous and dismissive of other people's knowledge/achievements?
Because the rest of us don't get mentioned on NetworkWorld.com or Slashdot for working 30 days to create incomplete alpha software to solve a problem that has been solved by multiple free (speech and/or beer) and commercial software packages that actually are complete and work well.
Come on. That's not true at all. We complain about Lotus Notes all of the time.
Because the rest of us don't get mentioned on NetworkWorld.com or Slashdot for working 30 days to create incomplete alpha software to solve a problem that has been solved by multiple free (speech and/or beer) and commercial software packages that actually are complete and work well.
But you'd like to get yourself mentioned on NetworkWorld.com or Slashdot? So
I had a project featured in PCWorld and NetworkWorld last month. While I'm not the parent, I think I understand his point and can speak from a better position.
Why all the hate? It looks like a brag on the part of the developer, intended only to impress people who don't know anything about development.
Considering the long list of bugs, missing features, and (lofty) promised utility, it's pretty obvious that this guy is a long way off from completing the project. He didn't write an office suite in 30 days, he started writing an office suite 30 days ago!
It doesn't look like Network World put the spin on the project. The arbitrary 30-day time frame was clearly a goal of the project -- not for extra challenge, but to make it appear more impressive. It's deceptive and dishonest.
As many Slashdot users know, it's not difficult to tell when a personal project is going to get some press. This looks like it was tailored specifically to get that kind of attention. That really bothers people.
So, we've got a not-that-impressive project from a less-than-respectable arrogant press-monger.
A lot of people here also think that they could do a *better* job given the same constraints. A cool project should make you go "how'd they manage that?" not "I could easily do better."
I don't know that "envy" is the right word for that so much as "injustice". After all, we've seen tons of cool personal projects on Slashdot that get little other than praise. If envy were driving the hate in this case, wouldn't we expect to see a similar reaction to other personal projects?
Not an exactly answer, but "If all goes well, Goubard aims to release a full version of the suite next year." He's only spent ~14% of the amount of time he thinks he'll need (and that could be an underestimate, of course). That suggests that there's quite a lot that doesn't work.
If you can get to 'alpha' stage in 30 days, how many years is that to a 1.0 release?
This dude is just trying to get himself attention and Slashdot is obliging. I mean for one, building an "office suite" is not necessarily impressive. All that office suite actually means is a program that does word processing, spreadsheets, maybe presentations. Well, there can be a great range in that. High end office suites, like Microsoft Office, do a whole lot of complex shit and do it well, and has a bunch of well built tools (like a spell checker and so on). However a crap office suite might do little more than you'd get out of Wordpad and SSS.
Then there's the fact that "alpha" has traditionally meant in software "feature incomplete, still under heavy development." These days given that beta often seems to mean that (it used to mean feature complete, working on bugs) alpha might mean "Well, it complies now and runs sometimes!"
It would not be very hard to set a rather low goal for what constitutes an "office suite," bash the basis of that out, and then call it an alpha. I can't try it, since I do not care to install Java on my system, but looking at the screen shots, it looks like he did precisely that. It looks exceedingly simple, largely using a bunch of the built in Java controls. That's fine and all, but I don't find that really that impressive for 30 days of work. Part of the point of managed languages like Java, C#, that kind of thing it to be able to bash together something basic pretty quick.
So ya, I'm voting that he's just publicity whoring. If he wants to call us back when 1.0 comes out, then I'll have a look. Maybe then it'll be something cool, but I kinda doubt it. Personally I'd stick to MS Office, Google Docs, Libre Office, or whatever your current preferred suite is.
He did make it to the front page of Slashdot, which is a pretty cool achievement unto itself. I've only made the front page for a meteor shower...
And I don't think it's "whoring", it's self promotion, and hugely successful, at least from the perspective of a developer (front page of Slashdot). Self promotion is how one gets ahead in the world, combined with development skills.
You created a meteor shower? Dude, that is totally impressive. Do it again!
He assembled components together in 30 days. He can't get from those components to a competitive product, he would need to rewrite each of those netbeans to bring the functionality up to the level of the competitors in order to actually make an Office Suite.
But as a way to show off Java as a development environment that's good.
But a Microsoft guy could do the same, dropping in a load of stock rich text edits and grid controls to product a very similar quickly.
But a Microsoft guy could do the same, dropping in a load of stock rich text edits and grid controls to product a very similar quickly.
But it wouldn't be multi-platform, which one of the selling points of the experiment. Microsoft has worked hard to make Windows-centric development easier, but only for MS platforms.
(My spailchekker tried to put "mulch-platform" instead of multi-platform, which may be more fitting for MS.)
"it took him only 30 days to build and launch a basic open source office" and "The suite was released as an alpha version" mean's he's got the 80 (visible) percent done that take 20 percent of the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle [wikipedia.org]
I wish people wouldn't get headlines with this sort of claim. It helps push the entire profession towards cutting corner in order to under bid each other, which does not speak well for the quality of future software.
Speak instead of prototyping. That's much closer to the truth.
Because end users won't give a damn about how much time did it take to build, or whether it's opensource. The only thing that matters to them is whether it's better than the existing ones.
Even the article noted it doesn't work, being alpha code.
This is too much like all those crummy half-baked Kxxxx apps that come with KDE, and they're a huge waste of download time and disk-space too.
So can we just stop wasting our time with all this and ignore it until and unless there are some in-depth reviews that come up positive *and* that give a good reason to choose whatever this is over existing software?
This sort of response reeks of retardation (the slow kind). Have you any idea the amount of wasted effort that would be generated if we all tried to create the crappiest office suite in the world, each our selves? I MIGHT have been behind the idea if it were to have been collaborative. There's a reason why we don't all rush out to re-invent the wheel: It's just retarding progress. Hell, Java has all the components, like a rich text editing widget + inline images, 2D Animations, spreadsheet, and more,
Software development times are extremely variable. It all depends on how much good quality reusable existing code and tools were found or known about beforehand.
How long it would take to write an Office Suite using no tools, environments, or libraries newer than what we had in 1984? No Linux, no Windows, no MacIntosh, just one of the many DOSes. Probably have to be C, Pascal, or some kind of BASIC, and that only if performance wasn't an issue. Otherwise, it would have to be assembler. C++ existed the
My 80x25 textmode Pascal programs had mouse support. The feature is even a termcap... I just inverted the FG/BG color of the texel to show where it was. Built a D&D character sheet creator / dice roller that was essentially a DB + form view. Used chr: 220, 222, 223 in CP437 to make "shadows" for buttons you clicked -- They would change to a brighter color when you "hovered" and shift 1 texel horizontally when pressed. Had to write textfield and textarea routines, as well as stat tracking. You co
Seriously, there's no support for basic formats like plain text or openoffice formats.
However there is support for the pseudo-standard MSO formats.
If I can't open any of the files on my PC, what's the motivation to use this?
First of all congratulations on the achievement. However it doesn't quite have a practical use. I mean office software in general is fairly useless, you type a document, you print it, maybe you export it to PDF, but that's just about it. It's a slightly smarter typewriter. Spreadsheet software seems interesting at first sight, until you realize that having more than a screen full of cells makes it harder than just writing a little program to solve your problem.
... The suite was released as an alpha version, which means that not everything works yet....
It it is not working yet, it has not been built.
I remember something very similar being done with VB controls in the 1990s. I bought a package at Books-A-Million that was just a wrapper around a full-functional spreadsheet control implemented as a VBX. I wish I could remember the name of it! I can see it on a sale table with a lot of other software. Those were the good old days.
If it "uses many popular open source Java libraries" it would be easy to put them together. I know there are classes that read and write Excel files and probably others. I guess t
it took him only 30 days to build... a very basic word processor
Lame. I could write an even more basic word processor in 30 minutes!
Seriously? When you start with NetBeans as your base platform, you've already got a word processor built in. You've already done most of the work, for the presentation and spreadsheet apps as well, controls built in for displaying database data.
Seriously, you're building word processor, spreadsheet, database and presentation apps on
Guess what I can do! In 20 minutes I can make a complete IDE. I'll just start off with NetBeans RCP! https://netbeans.org/features/platform/ [netbeans.org]
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.


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Building Online Communitiesby chromatic, coauthor of Running Weblogs with Slash
The Internet exists to improve communication. Communities can grow anywhere communication occurs.
Truisms or not, those statements have tremendous implications. Their adherents see a commercial Web site less as a brochure and more as an opportunity to communicate with customers. They consider those who run a television fan site not as copyright infringers but as a community of fans. They think in terms of conversations and relationships. Cultivate a community, and you'll attract eyeballs and ears willing to read and to listen to your message. Encourage discussion, and you'll attract people willing to share their own messages.
Before you can start focusing your community-building actions, you must understand the dynamics of online communities. Having participated in several, as an observer, a newbie, an author, an employee, and a developer, I've been surprised by the way people act and react. Writing the Slash book made me think about what goes on in a community. I've learned even more since then. I'm not a professionally-trained sociologist, nor is this formal research. I do find my conclusions accurate, though.
Exist For a Reason
You must know why your site exists. Otherwise, you cannot judge the effectiveness of any policy. Worse yet, how will visitors know if they want to join the community? What benefit does a user derive from participating? Why should anyone care? Without an underlying goal, it's extremely difficult to guide users in constructive ways. It would be like starting a company and forgetting that, at some point, you need paying customers.
Once you've found your goal, stick with it. It's fine -- and necessary -- to shift your focus to meet the needs of the community. Lacking a plan, though, you can only make guesses. Users will pursue their own goals if yours isn't plain.
Be positive. Be assertive. Be as simple as possible. Leave vagueness and doubletalk for corporate mission statements. Use a slogan if you must. use Perl; claims "All the Perl That's Practical to Extract and Report." Advogato, designed as a community resource and a trust metric research bed, is "the free software developer's advocate."
Users Draw Other Users
As the owner, leader, and/or community evangelist, it's your job to attract users. The standard promotional approaches (search engines, word of mouth, submitting links to other sites) apply. This is the easy part. Making sure the right people stick around is harder. In a healthy community, that's not your job.
As a group, your most active users will draw more users than you will. An active user group exudes a sense of community. This attracts people who enjoy the company of like-minded individuals and seek the social rewards of participating in a healthy peer group. People like to fit in, and it takes making several new relationships to produce this impression.
The traffic and membership logs of popular community Web sites reveal curious growth patterns. If Slashdot picks up a story posted at Perl Monks, thousands of spectators will visit for the first time. Several will register for accounts. Many will stick around, becoming valuable community members. Though referrals brought the new members to the site, the community made them return. The site goal may pique their curiosity, but an empty or a fractured community will drive off potential new members.
The community itself is not the only draw, in most cases, but it is a primary attractor.
Users Will Surprise You
Community members will continually surprise you, especially if you've never really analyzed an online community before. The issues and themes you find important may never really resonate with your users. They'll latch onto and chase down ideas you've never found important or even knew existed. They'll also tend to develop some strange characteristics. Not everyone will exhibit every behavior, but these are general trends in every community I've observed.
A Sense of Ownership
Regular users will develop a sense of community ownership. As a whole, their content contributions probably outweigh yours. This belief manifests itself in several ways. It can produce a high regard for the status quo, with some users expressing an almost moral outrage when facing community changes. These changes may be as minor as adding a new feature to the Web site or broadening the community's focus.
Another phenomenon is users taking on community responsibilities. Slashdot's moderation and meta-moderation systems use this to apply community standards to user-created content. Perl Monks and Everything 2 treat it slightly differently, with a community-led editorial focus. As each site has grown, relying on the site owners and maintainers would have been a bottleneck. Some communities even resolve disputes and mete out punishments judged by a group of community leaders. Moderators of mailing lists and newsgroups often use this approach.
The responsibilities may also be individually-perceived and not explicit. For example, the Perl Monks Statistical Page is a volunteer effort not directly connected to the main site -- a subcommunity of sorts. Community members saw a need and filled it themselves. Volunteers also collate helpful links for new Perl Monks, though a hand-picked group maintains a FAQ.
Besides letting community leaders and members perform administrative work (content production, content moderation, software development, content rating, the donation of hardware or bandwidth fees), don't forget that the community has a stake in its own future. Even if you pay for everything out of your pocket, your work is wasted without users.
A Shared History and Culture
You'll know you have a healthy community when users comment publicly that "this is the best site I've ever used," "I came here because of the goal, but stay around because of the people I've met," amd "No other place on the Internet is like this." Happy users tend to talk in terms reminiscent of Manifest Destiny and settlers in a little-p paradise. It occurs in almost every healthy, somewhat-social community. Strongly-technical communities, like software development mailing lists, tend not to exhibit this behavior.
A healthy community also develops a sense of history and in-jokes. The phrases "Thanks, applied" and "Rule one" mean something very specific to Perl 5 porters. Everything 2 afficionados understand the intrinsic humor of "Soy." Highly-ranked and respected Perl Monks regularly cite precedents when controversial topics reoccur.
These bits of culture tend to cross communities. It's online syncretism at its finest. Bring up "the September that never ended" at a LUG meeting, and chances are you'll find a longtime Usenetter. Community members identify each other elsewhere by these identity badges.
Encourage community archives. Provide a way to address individual bits of history (messages, chat logs, event histories) in finely-grained units. Some bits may not be worth remembering (Slashdot posts that sink to -1), but if you don't keep a history, someone else will. Perl Monks has a Google-accessible mirror. Everything 2 editors keep logs of their editorial changes. Everything on an Everything site has an easily-linked URL.
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I went to the Astros game last night. Saw a pretty good game all around, Oswalt against Santana. Oswalt didn't look like he usually does against the Reds. Santana looked sharp early on. The Mets had a 4-0 lead and the Astros came back with five runs late to win in extras, pretty entertaining all in all. I took a few photos.
Here's the view from my seat.
Roy O.
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More power is the last thing that the 562-hp Ferrari 458 Italia needs, but tuner shop Hennessey Performance is blurring the lines between "want" and "need" with their newest creation, the Ferrari 458 Italia Twin Turbo.
The Texas-based tuning shop will officially reveal the Ferrari 458 Italia HPE700 Twin Turbo upgrade at the Concorso Italiano in Monterey, California this weekend. The Hennessey upgrade takes the 458 Italia's 4.5-liter V-8 engine and adds two low-inertia turbochargers for a mind-boggling total power output of 738 hp and 532 lb-ft of torque, increases of 176 hp and 134 lb-ft over stock. Hennessey says these upgrades mean that the Ferrari 458 Italia Twin Turbo can get to 60 mph in 2.8 seconds and reach the quarter mile in 10.5 seconds at 137 mph.
Although the basic twin turbo upgrade package includes just the turbo kit, intercooler, and a reflash for the engine computer and seven-speed dual clutch transmission, Hennessey will also offer other optional upgrades like a carbon fiber front splitter and rear spoiler along, special 20 inch Hennessey wheels, and a KW suspension system with adjustable shocks. Chassis and braking upgrades are minimal due to the Ferrari's already capable factory setup.
All this extra power doesn't come cheap, however, with the HPE700 Twin Turbo upgrade coming in at $59,995 on top of the 458 Italia's already steep MSRP of $233,509. Look for the Hennessey Ferrari 458 Italia Twin Turbo to make its official debut in Monterey tomorrow, August 16, and check out photos of the car and an explosive acceleration video below.
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Week sixteen of the session is done, we have completed the official calendar but we have not adjourned. The activity level intensified this week as we finally were able to deal with the appropriations bills sent over from the Senate. There is much more to be done. We do not yet have resolution on any of the bills already sent to conference committee: education reform, budget appropriations bills, or property tax reform.
Liability Indemnity
for Farmers
Earlier this week the Republicans in the Iowa Senate attempted to attach an amendment to a Senate bill to re-instate our historic indemnity of liability for farm landowners that the Iowa Supreme Court took away in the Sallee vs. Stewart decision. The amendment was defeated on a strict party line vote, all 26 Senate Democrats voted against the amendment to protect Iowa's farm landowners. The House Republicans are still working on coming to resolution to protect our farm landowners, but time is running short and so are our options.
Sticking to Principles
Throughout my campaign I frequently expressed my support for the right to life for unborn children. The debate over the right to life of an unborn child is, in my view, the civil rights issue of our time. I am confident that the majority of my constituents support that position as well. Within that debate there has been an ongoing nationwide discussion over the use of taxpayer funds for abortions and taxpayer funds being distributed to organizations that provide abortions. Lately, a few states have been successful at finally preventing taxpayer funds from being distributed to organizations that provide abortion along with other family planning services.
Wednesday, May 1, the Iowa House debated and passed Senate File 446 as amended by the House. This is a bill that provides the funding for Iowa's Health and Human Services including distribution of federal Medicaid along with state funds. These appropriations are used for autism treatment, nursing home payments for the indigent elderly, state facilities such as the Iowa Veterans Home, Iowa Juvenile home, the Eldora Juvenile Detention center, and the many other appropriations dealing with Iowa's health care system. This bill also provides funds for family planning services for low income Iowans. The House Republicans inserted language into this bill that will make the necessary restrictions to accomplish the goal of keeping taxpayer funds out of the hands of abortion providers and being used for abortions.
It will not be easy to keep this language in the bill. This effort has been ongoing in the Iowa legislature for years, stymied by the impasse created by a legislature split between the two parties. Now that the House has passed the Health and Human Services appropriation bill it will end up in another joint conference committee. That committee will be charged with recommending a compromise bill that both chambers can accept, setting up for a showdown between the House and Senate on this and other issues.


text: I bought a flipout Pioneer head unit (touchscreen) from my friend for $100. He was selling his car so I wanted to get the hu from him before he sold it. But anywayz, it works and all, but it doesn't play cd's or dvd's...It is capable of, but obviously theres something wrong. So is there anyway I can get this fixed without it costing me a fortune? Or do something myself to get it to play dvd's?


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In the story of Oliver Queen, the character that plays the part of the hooded vigilante, Arrow (CW) life is full of duality and lies. Oliver Queen, played by Stephen Amell, is known for his money and good looks, but it is what lies underneath that is helping to clean up a city full of crime.
As a native of Starling City, citizens watched as Oliver Queen rose to notoriety as one of the richest and most lavish playboys in the city. With his billionaire father's money, Queen took full advantage of the life that money could buy and gave little thought to the consequences of his actions for himself and others.
As part of his lavish and carefree life, Oliver and his father took a trip on the family yacht. This trip ended in disaster as the yacht was torn apart in a violent storm, leading to the death of his girlfriend's sister. As he and his father floated through the ocean, under an unforgiving sun, with no food or water, Oliver's father reveals a notebook to his son. This notebook has the name of all current or past business partners that have benefited mutually with the Queens in illicit business deals. As his last request, Mr. Queen asks Oliver to survive and make it back to the city to make amends for the family. Oliver Queen spends the next five years on a deserted island but he eventually makes it back to the US to perform his father's last request.
In the process of spending five years on a deserted island, Oliver Queen begins to learn more about himself. It is an opportunity for him to think of the people he has wronged in his past and a time to plan for the amends he wants to make when he returns. One of the people at the top of his list is his ex-girlfriend, Laurel Lance. He feels guilty because he cheated on Laurel, played by Katie Cassidy, with her sister, who ultimately died in the ill-fated yachting trip. He feels responsible for the death of Laurel's sister and for cheating on her. On the island, Oliver goes through many trials, running for his life from mercenaries and finding a friend in one of the refugees. It was the opportunity he needed to learn different styles of fighting and disciplines that would help him when he made it back home. He was also taught the art of archery, which helped earn him the nickname given to him by the police- the Arrow.
Eventually, Oliver is aided in his escape from the island and he returns a changed and broken man. He first seeks reconciliation with his mother and sister and then his best friend. He never reveals his last conversation with his father to anyone but sets to work on keeping his word. His mission is to use the notebook given by his father as a guide to help right the wrongs that have been committed by the Queen family, as well as its business partners. He also wants to see Starling City restored to the place it once was, a place that was safe from the perils of the indifferent elite that used money as a weapon against the poor. Through the Arrow's efforts, things slowly begin to change for the occupants of Starling City. However, Laurel's father, Detective Quentin Lance, played by Paul Blackthorne, seems to completely loathe the Arrow. His mission in life is to take the Arrow down, no matter what it costs.
As the Arrow, Oliver Queen takes on the dark, seedy element that has moved into his city while he was stranded on the island. In finding out about the criminal element, he finds out about the past his family has, including his mother, who is even more cold and calculating than he ever thought possible. As he learns, he has to redefine what he thinks he knows about the people around him, even while he puts on a facade of his own.
The Arrow needs an accomplice to aid him in his mission. There is no one closer to Oliver Queen than his chauffeur, John Diggle, played by David Ramsey. Diggle gets roped into helping the Arrow out of concern for his well-being, saving his life on more than one occasion. As vigilantes, the duo takes on the criminals and faces the family secrets together, leaving Starling City a better place to live even while they evade the authorities bent on stopping them. Click here to check sign up for Charter Cable and see the next exciting episodes.


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2013 Senior design projects
Athens, OHIO (April 22, 2013) — Last week, Ohio University senior design teams from the Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ College of Engineering and Technology showed off their capstone course designs in the Academic & Research Center atrium living room and Stocker Center.
The capstone course tasks students with applying principles and concepts from prior core engineering classes in a major design experience. Over the course of the academic year, they work as part of a team on product conception, through testing, to delivery to a professional client in order to develop leadership and team-building skills while showcasing their technical abilities.
On Wednesday and Thursday, electrical engineering students presented projects including rain and temperature sensors for automobiles, a GPS patch antenna, and a weight scale that translates voltage to an accurate weight.
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Bryan Riley, leader of the electrical engineering capstone course, was on hand to congratulate the teams for their year of hard work.
"They should be proud," Riley said. "This year, there were nine projects with varying technical challenges and ranging across disciplines from software design to hardware device fabrication. Projects require the student to demonstrate self-learning of new concepts, use of state-of-the-art tools, teamwork, problem-solving, and also to satisfy planned milestones."
"SAVED" team members designed car temp sensors to automatically roll windows down in a vehicle that reaches a certain temperature, in order to decrease the risk of child and animal deaths in overheated cars.
"Our motivation is reducing child deaths," said Mark Dixon, who worked on the design with fellow team members John Boertlein, Kyle Hone, Faye Skeans and Tim Howell.
The "UFO: Unbelievably Fun Object" team, comprising David Parisi, Tyler Earl and Kyle Berry, who inherited their tri-rotor project hardware from previous years' teams, worked to improve the custom vertical take-off and landing of the hovercraft.
According to Berry, the team added a potentiometer and updated the software in order to control three degrees of freedom in flight.
"This year our main accomplishment was achieving three degrees of freedom, or rotating around the x, y and z axes," said Kyle Berry, noting the roll, pitch and yaw of the aircraft. As a result, the tri-rotor can now recover and level itself after a collision during flight. The team's research and design results will support future development and implementation of control software in quad-rotor craft, so they can operate with just three rotors in the event that one rotor fails.
Other teams included the robotic Bobcat, a vacuum chamber to study the effect of temperature and pressure on nanomaterials, improvements to aircraft systems for pilot awareness using three cameras and two ultrasonic sensors, and replacement lighting for Convocation Center using more efficient LED lights that require significantly less maintenance. Students plan to present the project to University officials for implementation.
Mechanical engineering seniors revealed their "Designing to Make a Difference" capstone projects Saturday.
Past teams have won four national awards since 2009, earning almost $50,000.
Several of this year's teams partnered with local business Jackie O's Brewery. One group fabricated a "Kegovator," a keg lift installed along a service stairwell to increase efficiency and reduce employee effort and injury when transporting kegs from the brew pub's basement storage area to the main serving floor.
"This is taking all the back out of it," said team member Bobby Baldino.
With fellow students Binbin Fan, Cody Kyser, Seth Morton and Christopher Nocar, the team built the machine with some welding help from Logan Welding for a cost of only about $530.
Other brewery-based projects included a lift and dump system to move grain from brewing vats to vehicles transporting the grain to farmers for animal feed, a fan-based grain dryer to dry used grain that can't be immediately used as animal feed to extend its shelf life and make it sellable, an automation system to move empty beer cans from a pallet onto the moving canning line conveyor, and a packaging system that automates the process of putting filled beer cans into six packs for shipping.
Jackie O's Owner Art Oestrike thinks there is no better way for students to learn. "Athens, Ohio, incubates college students. The more experiences they can get within the business community, the better and more rewarding their education becomes -- learning really begins when working with a real client," he said. "Working with a local organization, they're not only going to get that experience but have that connection."
Two other mechanical engineering groups worked to help local business SW Resources improve efficiency of tasks for its disabled employees.
Team EZ Squeeze created a pressurized air system for transferring thick polishing fluid from large bottles into 1-oz. sample-size bottles.
Meanwhile, the Bag-n-Tag team fabricated parts on a CNC machine using their computer-aided designs, for a stapling machine they developed to help employees accurately and securely staple product header cards to plastic bags while also sealing the contents. Team members Suyao Zhang, Ivan Bissett, Justin Hoye, Ryan Shaw and Daniel Zimmerman, agreed that the manufacturing process was a great learning experience because it helped them design more effectively.
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I sincerely apologize for doing this, (kind of hijacking the thread) but I'm dying of curiosity.What on earth is a Dirty Santa party? I have never heard of one. I've heard of a Secret Santa party, but not Dirty Santa. Again, my apologies for asking - but if someone would please enlighten me? thx
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I''d like to see all community sites do that.
I got an addon that tries to force SSL where available, and it's surprising so many sites that doesn't have SSL enabled at all.
Simple tools like FireSheep are an awesome way to force websites to up their game on the encryption front and improve their security.
I guess the addon you mention is EFF's "https-everywhere [eff.org]". Notice that the list of https sites the addon supports is growing pretty large. They will soon have to add the option "exclude these sites" rather than try and provide a massive list of included sites.
Yesterday my host provider (a big one) failed (again!) to renew the shared server host certificate so I couldn't access their Cpanel via HTTPS, so had to open a ticket.
That happened in 2008, 2009, 2010, and now, so I'm expecting the same situation by march 2012, 2013, etc...
BTW, they sell me a signed certificate for my domain. Alas, they don't track its expiration (nor me, of course!) so by some time in the year I'll have to open a ticket asking them to renew it (no big deal since I'm not doing e-business o
I got an addon that tries to force SSL where available, and it's surprising so many sites that doesn't have SSL enabled at all.
Well, SSL is not free in any sense. There's some amount of overhead simply in the encryption, of course. If you're running multiple sites from one machine (read: any shared hosting plan), you need a dedicated IP per SSL site* which costs extra. Then there's the cost of the certificate itself**, and the initial process of setting it up. And once you have the technical side of things configured, you still need to make sure that ALL resources on the page are coming in over https as well, which is easier said t
Back some years ago, there was talk about dedicated SSL hardware. What's the performance penalty for HTTPS anymore?
Say you're a small startup running your "the next Twitter" app on a Xen or OpenVZ VPS instance.
What's the hit for HTTPS?
Any thoughts on HTTPS only for the login page, or for all pages?
Any thoughts on HTTPS only for the login page, or for all pages?
You can just steal the session cookie after login, so just doing the login page is almost useless. It prevents the attacker from learning the password and re-entering the system, but a) he can change the password and b) there is no reason he wouldn't get the job done within one session.
True for the sessionjacking.
Thinking out loud: I'd think a way to prevent password changes would be to require you to enter the old password in order to change the password, like passwd does.
Any thoughts on HTTPS only for the login page, or for all pages?
You can just steal the session cookie after login, so just doing the login page is almost useless. It prevents the attacker from learning the password and re-entering the system, but a) he can change the password and b) there is no reason he wouldn't get the job done within one session.
And that's what FireSheep does. If it can't steal login credentials, it steals session cookies (which will be sent in the clear). Most sites already do the whole
All that is just polishing the turds. Or at least reinventing a mediocre replacement for a proper wheel.
Just use HTTPS for everything. One certificate per year is certainly cheaper than one person-day for IT staff trying to implement a workaround. Buy cert (or get a StartSSL free one), install cert, behold a safe website.
With governments, companies, data miners growing greedier every day, plaintext is going the way of the dodo. Only a few bearded Internet founders still believe in the good of mankind to sen
There's still a performance hit for SSL. Solutions for that include load balancers with dedicated hardware SSL support.
Back when Usenet providers starting offering full SSL transfers, I remember reading that one of the reasons they were charging more for it (at the time) was because SSL transfers saw a 400% increase in required CPU power on the back end.
Nowadays though, SSL seems to come by default in most offerings I've seen.
400%? That doesn't sound right. Maybe we've improved our algorithms significantly since then, but I tend to hear anywhere from "rounding error" (probably hardware support) to 30-40% increase.
Damn, I had mod points last week.. That serverfault link was very informative but what I expected.. If you have a large site you are really going to want to have SSL accelerated load balancers in front of your web servers... The load is substantial.
Any thoughts on HTTPS only for the login page, or for all pages?
All pages. When you log in to begin with, if the login page is HTTPS then your username and password are encrypted. This is good, because it means nobody else can snoop your password and log in as you later. You are then sent back a cookie. Later, when you want to prove that you are logged in, you just send the cookie along with the HTTP request. Of course, if all the other pages are not encrypted, then the cookie is sent in the clear, which al
Compaqt, because of HTTP of session hijacking works over unsecured wireless connections, it's important to use SSL beyond just the login. So even during the login process when the password is submitted, once a session is established, the session can be hijacked.
Pretty much the only real penalty for https is browser shittiness. If your identity isn't certified by a recognized CA, all the major browsers incorrectly treat your site, relative to http, as having a higher (rather than lower) risk of
As for the computations, it's 2011 so CPU is so close to "
> Encryption is free.
You're concentrating on the client aspects of SSL, not the server-side.
Take a low-ball estimate of "page size" at 300 kB; all elements of the page have to be encrypted.
Take a low-ball estimate of 10,000 SSL page requests per second per server.
Each server has to encrypt at 3 GB / second just to handle static page requests, let alone dynamic calls to DBs and CMS.
Back to the maths for you!
Wait a minute, 10k requests per second per server? Highly unlikely. Ever look at those "0.09 seconds" things you get on Google? They used to be all over the place, and I don't think I've ever seen one below 10ms, certainly never below 1ms. You're asking for 100 microseconds to process a page in. On a 3GHz processor, that's 30,000 cycles. If the page is 300kb, you have roughly 1/10th of a cycle to process each byte, which is flat impossible.
But, we know they process more than a byte at a time. A 64-bit machi
I wrote a long post and then realized it was tl;dr. So, I'd instead just like to point out certificates work on a network of trust. If you present a certificate that no one else trusts, why should I? The browser behavior is absolutely the right one. "This guy is presenting a certificate he signed himself. No one I trust trusts him. What should I do?"
Speaking as someone in exactly the situation you describe -- running our current site on a small single-core VPS, over HTTP we can serve ~400 static files per second, limited by bandwidth. Using HTTPS, we can serve 10 static files per second, limited by CPU speed. For dynamic pages, the limits are more like 50/sec (limited by CPU) and 5/sec (limited by CPU -- page load times go up a lot as the database and processing are competing with the encryption)
Current plan to deal with this, because we want to be HTTPS by default, is to offload static files to an HTTPS-enabled CDN, and have a front-end reverse proxy or several dedicated to SSL processing -- unless anyone has any better ideas?
Wow, a 10:1 ratio, much more than the 2:1 (with caching) using a simple ab test from the serverfault link.
Reading the responses above, I'm thinking that a happy medium is:
-HTTPS for login for free users. Has the risk of sessionjacking
-Ask for old password before changing password or major actions like "delete all"
-HTTPS by default or by option for paid users.
Maybe you could use a trick with the domain or path when setting the session cookie so that static files don't get it. Then serve static files over HTTP and only the actual pages over HTTPS.
[...] the software isn't wide spread enough to reliably host multiple SSL websites on a single IP with vhosts. [...]
I may be mistaken, but did not Apache introduce this feature in version 2? I have used SSL with name based vhosts quite heavily for years.
Additionally, you need one IP address per https website you want to host. This isn't an issue with IPv6 (Yay IPv6) or when using a webserver/client that can use Host headers before the SSL transaction (which all older browsers do NOT support). The main problem is that not everyone has a metric 'shitton' of IPv4 addresses and the software isn't wide spread enough to reliably host multiple SSL websites on a single IP with vhosts.
Browsers that don't support SNI:
In short, you're safe to use it these days unless you're hosting a legacy app on an internal business server or massive shopping site trying to catch every last Christmas shopper--in either case, IPs are probably the least of your worries.
argh, less-than signs. That should be:
There was other commentary on there, but it wasn't important.
Well that's news to me. I'd be surprised if any other than IE worked that way, as far as I know there's no mandatory system implementation of HTTP--I know you don't have full access to the IP stack, but that's as far as it goes (I think). Anyway, I'll have to test that out sometime when I have time (unless some enterprising slashdotter tests it out for us), but thanks for the info.
If you want dedicated SSL hardware, just set up a reverse proxy running on a Geode CPU. They can push 200Mbps of AES-128 despite being ancient. Newer Intel stuff has encryption-specific instructions built in so you might not even need a separate box.
Users are required to change this setting themselves, nothing default about it. It's simply an added option
Now Gmail, this is HTTPS by default..
also I read mobile.twitter.com will not even switch to HTTPS? wut.
Smarten up slashdot and editors
You're right -- It's not SET to default, but users can set the service to use HTTPS by default.The actual title of the article is "Twitter Enables Option for HTTPS by Default" - Though I agree that the
To be fair Gmail started off by giving this as an option, then transitioned to enabling it by default.
Baby steps my friend, baby steps. Allowing the option is actually a really good way to get a good test of the system, you can see exactly how many people enabled it, had difficulties, then disabled it. As long as that number is nearly zero, compared to the number that switched it on and left it, you have some data supporting the move to ssl by default.
I think this is the proper way of handling this.
i searched for "slashdot" in comments. only came up in the middle of the page. i guess geeks must suck at security
also, regarding slashdot and https - they probably lack the technical competency to set it up.
YEAH. hope to see https next week, thanks.
Twitter isn't carrying important personal data
Tell that to the people in Libya, China, North Korea (do they have internet?) and other places around the world where the government isn't so easy on people who oppose the regime.
North Korea (do they have internet?)
Most of them are lucky to have electricity, let alone internet.
I work with independent journalists in this and other at-risk countries, and consult with those seeking to protect activists. While you are perhaps right that the threat is, at heart, one of human rights, protecting those attempting to change or document that situation is also important. And lack of on-the-wire encryption also presents an almost constant temptation to even other countries supposedly better protected by the rule of law. The pervasive data-mining conducted by AT&T on behalf of the NSA is
Free speech without anonymity isn't free speech. It's an invitation for thugs.
A big problem I see with this is 1) Twitter isn't carrying important personal data, 2) in fact, quite the opposite, except for login credentials to sign in, and that's always been HTTPS anyway, 3) HTTPS does not cache. We should be encouraging sites to be more cachable and more ISPs to adopt proxies like Squid, not cripple their ability to reduce traffic leaving/entering the network.
HTTPS does cache pages at the browser, it is only middle tier browsers like squid that cannot cache the pages. Of course if you have an interactive site then these will disable caching anyway, you don't want everyone to see your session.
It is completely up to the site serving the resources. A quick look unsurprisingly shows twitter not being stupid about it and setting the correct headers to get the browser to cache resources served over HTTPS for as long as the browser can. Here are the response headers from getting their logo over HTTPS:
Date Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:52:00 GMT
Content-Length 1159
Content-Type image/png
Etag "c53472495d431cceef1c715732db12c9"
Expires Wed, 18 May 2033 03:33:20 GMT
Last-Modified Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:2
You can steal the session cookie from someone using twitter using an unsecured network (such as a public wifi) - and then spam the crap out of his feed, or change some settings or something.
I'm pretty sure the ability to spoof someone else's twitter to say whatever you want is considered - "Important Personal Data".
Login Credentials aren't needed if you're nicking the cookie - see also : "Firesheep" which is script-kiddie friendly.
You can steal the session cookie from someone using twitter using an unsecured network (such as a public wifi) - and then spam the crap out of his feed, or change some settings or something.
Boo hoo. It's Twitter. Who gives a shit? Until you can post more than 140 characters, unless you and your audience speak Korean, Japanese, Cherokee or some other language that uses ideograms or a syllabary instead of an alphabet, it's next to impossible to express a cogent thought on a level higher than "I'm hungry" on Twitter.
A short tweet like "We are attacking the Death Star tomorrow morning" is probably enough for the other side to set up a serious trap.
A large number of journalists and activists end up communicating with sources and each other using direct messaging on Twitter, so there is private information passing around. There's also the question of using login credentials to take over and fake messages. Also, there's the question of correlating Twitter identities with individuals (though I can think of a few strategies for attackers to do that even with https enabled).
> We should be encouraging sites to be more cachable and more ISPs to adopt proxies like Squid
You have, quite literally, no idea what you are talking about. The German university and research backbone DFN is staffed with incredibly bright minds and has been pushing technology on quite a few frontiers.
They gave up proxying in the 90ies.
* It's cheaper to just add more bandwidth
* In any network of non-trivial size, there are a lot of possible routes traffic can go and you need to account for this and ch
I don't like keeping track of what sites I can and can't use HTTPS on, so I installed HTTPS Everywhere [eff.org] on my browsers and get HTTPS access to a bunch of sites by default.
BTW, when do we get HTTPS access to
When someone hacks CmdrTaco's account and posts something embarrassing using his name. I mean embarrassing enough we can tell it wasn't him, of course.
This may be difficult, to be honest.
Slashdot has HTTPS access if you are a paying subscriber.
Seems a little disingenuous for slashdot to be posting this story when https is not available for all slashdot users. The danger is no less or different from the other sites being slammed. Pot, meet kettle.
From what I am understanding of the article its there to stop:
http://www.example..../ [www.example....]
[redirect to]
https://..../ [....]
Which could be grounds for a Man In The Middle Attack. It does not say anything about forcing people to use HTTPS, just that it will be done automatically instead of using a redirect. So it'll make sites which force HTTPS safer, but it won't force twitter to push https if you haven't asked for it.
From what I am understanding of the article its there to stop:
http://www.example..../ [www.example....] [redirect to] https://..../ [....]
Which could be grounds for a Man In The Middle Attack. It does not say anything about forcing people to use HTTPS, just that it will be done automatically instead of using a redirect. So it'll make sites which force HTTPS safer, but it won't force twitter to push https if you haven't asked for it.
There is a better explanation here [wikipedia.org]. Basically after the header is received the browser will convert any http: requests to https [slashdot.org]:, therefore bypassing any redirect. Whether this will force you to use https depends on whether Twitter will set this header on their https sites only or on both http and https. Even if they do set it only on the https site it will force you to use https if you visit the https URL even once.
Strict-Transport-Security headers must be sent via HTTPS responses only. Client implementations must not respect STS headers sent over non-HTTPS responses, or over HTTPS responses which are not using properly configured, trusted certificates.
So you can securely upload your private data for public dissemination?
More like so you can be sure that someone using the same connection at your coffee shop won't post something in your name by sniffing your cookies.
When will the "tweet this" button for websites be able to use SSL? Having this button in the footer of a site I worked on recently made it a bit of a hassle to create a page that's completely SSL.
Good point. Are browsers still putting out the notorious "not all elements on this page are SSL" errors they used to?
Well, I had to support IE8 with an SSL iframe because the client wanted some obscure payment processor that wouldn't break the continuity of the site's branding the way PayPal would.
So, if you have an iframe in SSL then you've got to jump through several hoops including adding something to mod_header and removing every single non-SSL element from the page. If you don't, then cookies get broken. Without cookies, I couldn't use the session variables that made everything work in the good browsers.
It's not a hu
Interesting. I'll bet you you had some kind of time convincing the client that hours billed for that research were worth it. ("If you're such a great developer, you should already know that")
Better than nothing, but I don't see any HTTP Strict-Transport-Security: header.
It's not HTTPS by default. It's giving users the option to use HTTPS.
HTTPS by default would be switching all users automatically, allowing them to opt out.
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AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a file and directory integrity checker. It creates a database from the regular expression rules that it finds from the config file. Once this database is initialized it can be used to verify the integrity of the files. Several message digest algorithms are used. All of the usual file attributes can also be checked for inconsistencies.
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Angel is a simple yet useful tool to monitor the services on your network. Technically speaking, it's a Perl program that runs every 'n' minutes (usually fired from your cron) and calls different perl subprograms (referred to as "plugins" from now on) to do the actual testing. It will then generate an HTML table containing the status of your network.
Angst is an active sniffer, based on libpcap and libnet. It dumps into a file the payload of all the TCP packets received on the specified ports. It implements two methods for active sniffing. Angst is able to monitor ARP requests, and after enabling IP forwarding on the local host, it sends ARP replies mapping all IPs to the local MAC address. Also, it can flood the local network with random MAC addresses (like macof), causing switches to send packets to all ports.
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A potential presidential candidate, a nationally known crusader for education reform and members of Michigan's business and political elite will be on hand this week for the Detroit Regional Chamber's policy conference on Mackinac Island.
More than 1,000 people regularly attend the annual conference, which this year runs from Wednesday through Friday. It features speeches and panel discussions about the economy, schools, health care and other issues as well as forums for politicians hoping to line up support and donations. Most sessions are held at the historic Grand Hotel, where lobbies, meeting rooms and the 660-foot front porch overlooking the sparkling Straits of Mackinac are abuzz with impromptu gatherings.
"It's just a good, concentrated opportunity for people to make their case, whether it's about a policy issue, a politician or whatever," said Ken Brock, an adviser to former U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer, who is expected to seek the Democratic nomination for governor next year and will make the rounds on the island.
Schauer might well cross paths with Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, who's had a high profile at the first two Mackinac conferences since his 2010 election and is all but certain to run for re-election. He is scheduled to deliver welcoming remarks Wednesday and a keynote speech Friday and participate in a panel on education reform in Detroit.
The 2016 presidential election is a long way off, but among Republicans often mentioned as possible contenders is Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor who is the son of one ex-president and brother of another. He will deliver the opening-day speech Wednesday, focusing on topics such as education and immigration reform. Carlos Gutierrez, former U.S. commerce secretary and former CEO of Kellogg Co., also will deliver a speech on immigration.
Closer to home, the focus will be on the race for mayor of Detroit. Incumbent Dave Bing announced this month he will not seek a second term in this year's election, making no secret of his unhappiness with Snyder's decision to appoint an emergency manager for the financially troubled city and the Republican-dominated Legislature's decision to authorize the move.
The Detroit Regional Chamber's political action committee is sponsoring a forum for mayoral candidates. Among those scheduled to take part are Mike Duggan, former CEO of the Detroit Medical Center; Democratic state Rep. Fred Durhal Jr., former state Rep. Lisa Howze, and Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon.
Among policy issues on the agenda is the longstanding debate over improving education. Michelle Rhee, one of the nation's most visible crusaders for reform, will deliver a speech at the conference. As chancellor of public schools in Washington, D.C., she clashed with unions and some parent groups over her proposals to close schools, abolish tenure and fire underperforming teachers.
Among several education panels will be one hosted by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, focusing on the need for better preschool and other early-childhood programs.
"If you make investments in the lives of kids from the very start ... you greatly increase the odds of developing a talented, globally competitive future work force," said Joanne Krell, spokeswoman for the foundation. "You've got to put this issue in front of people and this is a perfect place to do that."
A panel on issues facing the state Legislature will feature House Speaker Jase Bolger, House Minority Leader Tim Greimel, Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville and Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer.


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Why do commercial investment advisers always tell you that gold (& silver) and PM assets are all massively risky? Here's the one chart that explains why.
Viewing the chart above, a six-year old child could tell you that investing in physical gold and gold mining stocks (as indicated by the AMEX HUI gold bugs index) yielded returns from 2001 to 2012 far superior to the returns of the US S&P 500 Index over the same time period. In fact, the truth of this statement is so self-evident, that if this same child was asked what asset classes he should have been invested in over the past decade by viewing the above chart, the simplicity of that question might lead him to think that one is asking a trick question. So why is it that all the leading Wall Street investment firms stated during the visible onset of the global financial crisis in 2008 (versus the real onset of the global financial crisis quite a few years earlier) that gold was one of the riskiest assets in which one could possible invest? The simple answer, of course, is that if they were the ones involved in the scam to take gold and silver prices down back then, then certainly they would not tell you that the steep, rapid (but short-lived) drop in gold/silver prices was a massive buying opportunity. However, if a six-year old can see what is so obvious, then why should a man of Warren Buffet's prominence continue to slander gold and why does his right-hand man, Charlie Munger, make idiotic statements like"gold is a great thing to sew in your garments if you're a Jewish family in 1939" but not to own, instead of just stating the truth that "physical gold (and physical silver) was one of the best assets to build wealth since 2001"? And if a six-year old can look at the above chart and immediately know that he or she should have beeen invested in gold and gold assets, why, according to the World Gold Council, is still only 1%, or $146 billion of the $146 trillion investable global assets, invested in gold, and 9.1% invested in money markets, 48.7% in fixed income, 37.2% in equities and 4.0% in alternative investments? (though these most recent statistics are from the end of 2010, it is doubtful that these statistics have changed much in the past two years.)


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Hostelworld.com has reached a milestone in its history by announcing it has published its one millionth customer review!
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MDUSD expects to appoint superintendent, three vice principals on Wednesday
By Theresa Harrington
Tuesday, August 27th, 2013 at 9:09 pm in Education, Mt. Diablo school district.
The Mt. Diablo school board will likely appoint Nellie Meyer, deputy superintendent of the San Diego school district, as its new superintendent on Wednesday. In addition, the board expects to appoint three high school vice principals and to extend for three months the contract of Interim General Counsel Jayne Williams. If the board approves Meyer's contract, she will take the helm of the district Sept. 23.
A final Environmental Impact Report for proposed Ygnacio Valley High field improvements, expected to return to the board on Wednesday for approval, is not on the agenda.
Here is the agenda for Wednesday's meeting, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the district office board room at 1936 Carlotta Drive in Concord:
"1.0 Call to Order
1.1 President will call the meeting to order Info
2.0 Announcements
2.1 In closed session, the Board will consider the items listed on the closed session agenda. Info
3.0 Public Comment
3.1 The public may address the Board concerning items that are scheduled for discussion during closed session only. These presentations are limited to three minutes each, or a total of thirty minutes for all speakers or the three minute limit may be shortened. Speakers are not allowed to yield their time. Info
4.0 Adjourn to Closed Session at 6:00 p.m.
4.1 Negotiations – The Board may discuss negotiations or provide direction to its representatives regarding represented employees, pursuant to EERA (Govt. Code Section 3549.1) Agency negotiators: Julie Braun Martin and Deborah Cooksey. Agencies: MDEA, CSEA, Local One M&O, Local One CST, MDSPA, and Supervisory. Action
4.2 Conference with Labor Negotiators pursuant to Govt. Code Section 54957.6 Designated District representatives: President Cheryl Hansen, Interim General Counsel Jayne Williams; Unrepresented employee: District Superintendent Action
4.3 Public Employee Appointment pursuant to Govt. Code Section 54957 (b) (1): District Superintendent Action
5.0 Closed Session Agenda
6.0 Reconvene Open Session
6.1 Reconvene Open Session at 7:30 p.m. Info
7.0 Preliminary Business
7.1 Pledge of Allegiance and Roll Call Info
8.0 Report Out Action Taken in Closed Session
8.1 Report of Special Closed Session – August 21, 2013 Info
8.2 Negotiations Info
8.3 Conference with Labor Negotiators Info
8.4 Public Employee Appointment – District Superintendent Info
9.0 Consent Agenda Action
9.1 (Item #1) Items listed under Consent Agenda are considered routine and will be approved/adopted by a single motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items; however, any item may be removed from the consent agenda upon the request of any member of the Board and acted upon separately. Action
9.2 (Item #2) Recommended Action for Certificated Personnel Action
9.3 (Item #3) Request to increase Full Time Equivalent (FTE) for the 2013-2014 school year Action
9.4 (Item #4) Approval of Variable Term Waiver Request Action
9.5 (Item #5) Recommended Action for Classified Personnel Action
9.6 (Item #6) Classified Personnel: Request to Increase and Decrease Positions Action
9.7 (Item #7) Approve contract/purchase order with My Therapy Company for bilingual Speech and Language services at Meadow Homes Elementary for the 2013-14 School Year. Action
9.8 (Item #8) Renewal of Memorandum of Understanding between Seneca Center for Children & Families and Mt. Diablo Unified School District (MDUSD) Action
9.9 (Item #9) Approval of master contract between Mt. Diablo Unified School District (MDUSD) and Progressus Therapy Services to provide District-Wide Occupational/Physical Therapy Services for the 2013-2014 school year and 2012-2013 Extended School Year Program. Action
9.10 (Item #10) Increase purchase order with Non Public Agency Ed Support Services Action
9.11 (Item #11) Contract between Mt. Diablo Unified School District (MDUSD) and Maxim Healthcare Services, Non Public Agency (NPA) for the 2013-2014 school year. Action
9.12 (Item #12) Alignment of Updated Editions/Copy Write Years of Currently Adopted Instructional Materials Action
9.13 (Item #13) Approve submission of the Cleveland Foundation grant to expand technology labs at El Dorado Middle School. Action
9.14 (Item #14) Approval of contracts with Exploring New Horizons (ENH) for Pleasant Hill Elementary School and Hidden Valley Elementary School Outdoor Ed Programs Action
9.15 (Item #15) Approve Contract with Marin County Office of Education (COE) Outdoor School of Walker Creek Ranch for Walnut Acres Elementary School Action
10.0 Consent Items Pulled for Discussion
11.0 Recognitions
12.0 Public Comment
12.1 The public may address the Board regarding any item within the jurisdiction of the Board of Education of the Mt. Diablo Unified School District that is not on this agenda. These presentation are limited to three minutes each, or a total of thirty minutes for all speakers, or the three minute limit may be shortened. If there are multiple speakers on any one subject, the public comment period may be moved to the end of the meeting. Speakers are not allowed to yield their time. Info
13.0 Communications
13.1 District Organizations – At regular Board meetings, a single spokesperson of each recognized district organization may make a brief presentation following the Consent Agenda. Items are limited to those which are informational. Info
14.0 Superintendent's Report
15.0 Business/Action Items
15.1 Approve Contract for District Superintendent Action
15.2 Appointment of Vice Principal, High School Action
15.3 Appointment of Vice Principal, High School Action
15.4 Appointment of Vice Principal, High School Action
15.5 Legal services contract with Meyers Nave to provide specialized litigation services Action
15.6 Extension of Legal Services Contract with Latisha McCray, Contract Attorney Action
15.7 Three month extension of contract with Meyers Nave to provide Interim General Counsel services Action
15.8 Independent Contract with Document Tracking Services for the 2013-2014 school year Action
15.9 Renewal of Independent Service Contract with David H. Costa for Courier Service for Food Services and site pick-up to financial institution. Action
15.10 Solar Renewable Energy Credits/Certificates (REC's) Info
15.11 Mandated Costs Action
15.12 Meeting Extension Action
16.0 Future Agenda Items
17.0 Board Member Reports
17.1 Board reports Info
18.0 Closed Session
18.1 Items not completed during the first Closed Session will be carried over to this closed session. Action
19.0 Adjournment
19.1 Adjourn Meeting"
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|Violence Kills 91 Nationwide
|[An Nahar] Violence raged in Aleppo province, where seven children were killed in air strikes on the town of Safireh, the Observatory said, giving a toll of 91 people killed across Syria on Tuesday.
And in Damascus a member of parliament was seriously injured when a explosive device strapped to his car exploded, the Observatory said.
The bloodshed came as rebels captured a vital bridge across the Euphrates River in Deir Ezzor city, largely severing an army supply route to Hasakeh province further north.
The nearby regime security headquarters and a smaller bridge were also captured, prompting retaliatory air strikes on the critical crossings.
"These gains in Deir Ezzor are very important because this strategic city is the gateway to a region rich in oil and gas resources," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.
"If the rebels continue to progress and gain control of what is left of military-held positions... it will be the first major city to fall into the hands of the rebels," said Abdel Rahman.
On the eve of a donors' conference in Kuwait, charity organizations pledged $182 million (136 million euros) for Syrians displaced at home or who have fled abroad.
U.S. President Barack Obama announced an extra $155 million dollars to aid refugees fleeing what he said was "barbarism" propagated by the government of President Bashar Assad.
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2013: A two-year letterwinner and a captain, Driest will look to continue her improvement and placing in her senior season.
2012: In her third season, Driest ran in five races for the Generals ... placed 28th at the ODAC Preview in 28:32.00 (8/31) and 47th (27:14.32) at the ODAC Championship (10/27) ... took 17th at the W&L Invitational with a time of 23:32.00 (9/8).
2011: Ran in every race for the Generals in 2011 ... finished 23rd at the Hornet Cross Country Challenge to open the season (9/1) ... ran with a season-best time of 24:51.00 at the Don Cathcart Invitational (10/1).
2010: Competed in three meets during her rookie season ... ran a season-best time of 28:26 at the Dickinson Invitational (9/18) … placed 30th overall at the season-opening W&L Invitational (9/11).
High School: Lettered twice in cross country and track & field at North Mecklenburg … served as a team captain of the cross country team as a senior.


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By age 19, Frank Blaichman had seen most of his friends and family members die at the hands of the Nazis. Rather than hide, Blaichman led a platoon of Jewish resistance fighters in Poland.
Rather Die Fighting is Blaichman's vividly recollected true story of war and survival. "Skinny Frank" writes about escaping from the Germans, who were resettling Poland's Jews, and finding his way to a group of Jews hiding in a forest that he organized into a fighting unit. His story also includes acts of daring, like posing as policeman to obtain weapons and refusing to wear the Nazi-imposed Star of David.
In his performance, Pat Young balances the heart-wrenching subject matter of this story with a note of restraint.
"A gripping story of suffering, endurance, and the triumph—against massive odds—of the human spirit."
—Sir Martin Gilbert, from his Introduction
Frank Blaichman was 16 years old when the war broke out. In 1942, the killings began in Poland. With his family and friends decimated by the roundups, Blaichman decided that he would rather die fighting; he set off for the forest to find the underground bunkers of Jews who had already escaped. Together they formed a partisan force dedicated to fighting the Germans.
This is a harrowing, utterly moving memoir of a young Polish Jew who chose not to go quietly and defied the mighty German war machine during World War II.


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Terrible Games From A Terrible Year 54
1up is running an article written by the ever amusing SeanBaby, wherein he write about some of the worst games from the worst year in gaming. The year was 1984, and the U.S. videogaming industry was close to non-existence. What was released, then, left a lot to be desired. From the article: "Snacks N' Jackson - In this game, you play the part of a clown's head attached to a 4-foot tentacle neck. Your nose detaches itself from your face, and it's the rest of your clown face's job to keep it from bouncing through the window behind you. Also, you have to tentacle your head around to eat levitating breakfast foods. The strange name Snacks N' Jackson was a last-minute replacement of the original title, What Hitler Sees When He Closes His Eyes."


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After a bit of a period of malaise - they recently went 20 years between conference titles - Georgia has come back strong. Over the past four years they've won two SEC championships and have been ranked in the top ten each season. Under Mark Richt, they've again become a national power, and Kyle adds a number of other interesting reasons the matchup is attractive.
But Georgia's re-emergence as a national power might be the reason why this matchup won't take place. With Michigan's recent struggles early in the season on the road, I doubt Lloyd Carr or Bill Martin would welcome a visit to Athens, Georgia. I think Lloyd got his fill of intersectional battles in L.A., Seattle, and Eugene. Sure, Athens is home to plenty of great bands, but if Lloyd travels down to Athens, it'd be more likely to be for AthFest. Plus, we still are scheduled to
Plus, I truly believe playing against great teams brings out the best in your team. Look at some college basketball teams like - I hate to admit it - Sparty. They play a super-tough out of conference schedule so that they're ready for the NCAA tournament. I know basketball is different from football, where one loss can kill your title chances, but playing at Georgia would make playing at places like Madison, Iowa City, and Columbus a little easier.
Besides, it would make the early season interesting. I'm tired of barely caring in September except against Notre Dame. Most of the early games I watch out of duty, and it's especially frustrating when I'm wasting the last vestiges of nice weather in the Midwest so that I can watch the Wolverines douse Eastern by 50 points. Those games aren't fun, and they'll still be on the schedule anyway. I just don't want three of them. Give me two MAC teams, Notre Dame and, yes, Kyle, Georgia. That would be a schedule worthy of a champion.


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In my previous post I mentioned how to use end-of-iteration reflection meetings to determine what a team should focus on for improvement in the next iteration. In this post I want to briefly cover two different ways that a team can tackle those improvement actions.
In the first – and simplest – case, let's say a team needs to fix a problem with their automation framework that is causing some instability. So far, the team has just addressed the immediate symptoms in order to get the automation back up and running, but there's a sense within the team that the problem runs deeper and needs some focused effort. In this case, the team needs to set aside some dedicated time during the next iteration in order to solve this problem at its root so that it doesn't keep coming back time and time again, and continually costing the team. Some teams I've worked with have simply written a user story and put it on their backlog of user stories to ensure that the dedicated time actually occurs. In this case, the story goes to the very top of the backlog – the team addresses it at the outset of the next iteration (since it's now #1), fixes their automation problem, and only then starts working on the next story on their backlog. Whether you choose to write a user story or not is up to you – the KEY is that you set aside time to handle smaller issues.
The second case involves larger problems – problems that will take time to solve and that can be quite complex. A simple example of this may be that the automation framework that the team has been using for years may no longer be supported, and now the team has to move to a brand new automation framework. This undertaking isn't going to be able to be handled in a day or two – even with the whole team focused on helping. Since there's always pressure to get new features and functionality out the door as quickly as possible, the team most likely isn't going to be able to hit the "pause button" for four weeks while they switch over to the new framework. What we suggest here is a bit of a compromise: create a small team of automation folks and dedicate them 100% of the time to moving the current automation to the new automation framework. The remaining team members continue to focus on new feature work. The important thing with this suggestion is that you're getting your new automation framework implemented while still getting new feature work completed (albeit at a somewhat slower pace) – but you're doing so without having engineers multitask across different sets of responsibilities. This approach honors the lean principle of working on one thing at a time.
Just to recap – if your tackling a small improvement action, dedicate time. If it's a larger improvement action, dedicate a team.
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My company has its own crm/ticket management system. It was created in early 90's and its peace of crap...
It uses mySql database, there are no relations between the tables, indexes are scarce, the DB exceeds 12GB, holding who knows how much crap data...
Im the 'lucky' one trying to make heads and tails out of it, hopefully changing it into well designed relational database with yii based app on top.
Due to the fact that the nasty DB is still in use and can not be changed for time being, I'm forced to use two databases, chunky one in read-only mode, and clean one in rw mode.
I would like to ask you, as more experienced yii developers, what would be the best way for approaching the task of recreating the table structure in new DB, in yii way, using proper relations and proper indexes.
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Your support is stunning...
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Right. Do you know how little time I have?
I have time to moderate, not time to answer questions.
Is that clear?
So just put your attitude in a dark place, mate.
I have time to moderate, not time to answer questions.
Is that clear?
So just put your attitude in a dark place, mate.
"Less noise - more signal"
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It will be hard (read impossible) to offer advice on how to best restructure your database without seeing the current schema.
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Release Notes: This version add support for installing/moving to SD card in the Android version. Author displaying on the lock screen widget and media button processing were fixed.
Release Notes: This release adds the ability to send modules and share references to modules from http://zxtunes.com in the Android version. 'Open with' system menu integration and a standard lock screen widget were added. Media button processing and the main menu were reworked. Some reported bugs were fixed.
Release Notes: This release added support for SID format version 3. MSVS binaries were fixed to work on Windows XP. Redundant playlist update while scanning in zxtune-qt was fixed. The Android version received multiple cache-related fixes on zxtunes.com and HVSC online catalogs.
Release Notes: This release adds new functionality to zxtune-qt to auto-select the first newly added module into the playlist and stop playback if the playlist of the currently played module is cleared or closed. The Android version now supports navigation buttons in the notification area and I/O and browse operations progress. Sequenced playback was added in browser preview mode. A crash while selecting modules from the playlist was fixed.
Release Notes: This version fixed a crash in the Android versions when finishing the file playback queue. An initial German translation was added.
Release Notes: This release adds support for c64 SID files, fixes playback of some AS0/ASC, AY, TS, and YM5 files, makes the version for Android support the High Voltage SID Collection online catalog, and fixes crashes reported via the GooglePlay channel.
Release Notes: This release added online access to the ModLand module collection in the Android version. A crash caused by downloading files of unknown sizes was fixed along with browse progress cancelation on current directory change. SAA playback was fixed for some platforms. Detection of STIM (SlamTilt) tracks was improved.
Release Notes: This release adds support for more than 40 chiptune formats for different platforms using the libxmp library. There are also several fixes for the Android version: a fix for a crash and processing of invalid playlist modules, rewinding of finished modules, and changing the 'back' button behaviour on the file browser pane.
Release Notes: This release adds some changes in the version for android: playlist items reordering, disabling looped and shuffled playback of single playlist files, and adding plugins information in the About dialog. zxtune-qt now has human-readable data size in the playlist statistic and uses plain text instead of playlist items' type display. It also fixes a crash in DMM module parsing and skipping invalid files in LHA archives.
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#1 Today in History October 210-02-2012, 11:09 AM
Today in History
October 2
1263 At Largs, King Alexander III of Scotland repels an amphibious invasion by King Haakon IV of Norway.
1535 Having landed in Quebec a month ago, Jacques Cartier reaches a town, which he names Montreal.
1862 An Army under Union General Joseph Hooker arrives in Bridgeport, Alabama to support the Union forces at Chattanooga. Chattanooga's Lookout Mountain provides a dramatic setting for the Civil War's battle above the clouds.
1870 The papal states vote in favor of union with Italy. The capital is moved from Florence to Rome.
Morman leader Brigham Young, 70, is arrested for polygamy. He was later convicted, but the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the conviction.
1879 A dual alliance is formed between Austria and Germany, in which the two countries agree to come to the other's aid in the event of aggression.
1909 Orville Wright sets an altitude record, flying at 1,600 feet. This exceeded Hubert Latham's previous record of 508 feet.
1931 Aerial circus star Clyde Pangborn and playboy Hugh Herndon, Jr. set off to complete the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean from Misawa City, Japan.
1941 The German army launches Operation Typhoon, the drive towards Moscow.
1950 The comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schultz, makes its first appearance in newspapers.
1964 Scientists announce findings that smoking can cause cancer.
1967 Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, is sworn in. Marshall had previously been the solicitor general, the head of the legal staff of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and a leading American civil rights lawyer.
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1847 Paul von Hindenburg, German Field Marshall during World War I and second president of the Weimar Republic.
1869 Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi, political leader of India and pioneer of nonviolent activism.
1871 Cordell Hull, Secretary of State for President Franklin Roosevelt.
1879 Wallace Stevens, poet.
1890 Julius Henry 'Groucho' Marx, comedian, one of the five Marx brothers (the others being Chico, Harpo, Zeppo and Gummo).
1900 William A. 'Bud' Abbot, comedian, the straight man to Lou Costello.
1901 Roy Campbell, poet (The Flaming Terrapin).
1904 Graham Greene, novelist (The Power and The Glory, The Heart of the Matter).Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
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Letter: Reader lists ways to kill a small town
First, be sure to criticize others for how they do their jobs. Even though you've never done their job, you know that job better than they do.
Hang out with small- minded people. Work hard at denigrating others who are different, who don't think like you do, or are less fortunate than you are.
Spread rumors, even if you don't know if they are true. Be sure to embellish them as you pass them along.
Laugh at others misfortunes and mistakes. Glory in the fact that they are suffering and you're not.
Be sure to harbor a grudge. Nothing's better than getting even or making someone else's life as miserable as yours.
Be rude, be a bully. God knows we all make ourselves bigger when we make someone else feel small.
Be sure to go to church on Sunday. Not to listen to what the Pastor says. Instead go in order to assuage your guilt and to feel better than those who don't attend church.
Do not, in any way, try to see things from another's perspective. Your way is the only way.
Don't do any research and find out the truth before loudly complaining about something.
Make fun of people who work hard to make the town better for everyone. We all know they only want to make themselves look good.
Only invest your energy into creating problems. Don't attempt to be part of any solution where everyone benefits. It's much more effective to blame and punish someone in order to fix things.
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In all three games both teams battled extremely hard, with neither giving the other much room for error. The biggest lead in any game was in game one, with the Bobcats holding a five point lead. After that the biggest lead was no more than three points either way.
Lees-McRae's Lacie Smith was the kill leader with 20 kills and she also had 12 digs in the match. Trisha Reese and Lauren Dickover shared the assist duties, with Reese earning 20 assists and Dickover getting 18. Dani Usedom netted 13 digs for Lees-McRae as well in the match.
As for the Cobras, Megan Haupt had 13 kills, while Allie Bragg had 9 kills. Tara Nelson had 30 assists in the match as well for the Cobras.
Upcoming matches for the Cobras include a two game home stand starting Tuesday, October 17, against