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February 28, 2012
Language(s): English only
Nineteenth session, Agenda Item 4, General Debate
A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status
SRI LANKA: Abductors threaten the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) is gravely concern about the abduction of Ramasamay Prabhakaran, 42, who was bundled into a white van by seven men armed with assault rifles and hand guns. This was two days before a fundamental rights case filed by him was to be taken up at the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. In a written statement to the thirteenth session of the Human Rights Council in February 20101, we already mentioned this phenomenon of abductions perpetrated by armed men in 'white vans'.
The ALRC has documented two other cases concerning persons who were also assassinated for pursuing redress before courts for violations of their fundamental rights, allegedly by the persons against whom they were pursuing their complaints, namely Gerald Perera and Sugath Nishantha Fernando.
The violation of the rights of torture victim Perera was recognized by the Supreme Court; however, he was killed a few days before he was to give evidence before the Negambo High Court in a case filed against several police officers who were attached to the Wattala police station, under the Convention against Torture (CAT) Act No. 22 of 1993.
In another case, torture victim Sugath Nishantha Fernando, who was pursuing a fundamental rights application relating to the torture of himself and his family by 11 police officers working in the Negambo area, was also assassinated, and even up to date no credible inquiry has been carried out into this murder. Recently, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) had expressed their views on the torture and assassination of Sugath Nishantha Fernando, and categorically stated that Sri Lanka has failed to provide redress for the violations of his rights. (Ref. Communication No: 1862/2009. Decided on the 17 October 2011-Ref. CCPR/3/103/D1862/2009).
The ALRC is of the opinion that the abduction of Prabhakaran is a direct affront to the Supreme Court. So were the murders of Gerald Perera and Sugath Nishantha Fernando, who were victims who resorted to the courts for protection and in the search for justice. This abduction threatens all persons who wish to come before the Supreme Court and other courts to place their grievances about the violations of their rights, to seek the intervention of the judiciary for their protection and for redress. Such killings have a chilling effect on the administration of justice in Sri Lanka.
It is the duty of the judiciary itself to protect those who come before them seeking protection and justice. If victims of violations desist from seeking justice due to the reprisals for doing so, the entire administration of justice relating to human rights will hardly be of any use. In the circumstances, it is not surprising that the number of applications filed before the Supreme Court on fundamental rights have declined.
The defeat of judicial intervention is always an objective of the executive that fails to protect the rights of the citizens. The objective of the executive is to defeat judicial interventions and attempt to reduce the judiciary to administrative functions. The attack on the juridical function has taken many forms, including far reaching constitutional changes, and the intimidation of witnesses is part of this strategy. The foundation of law is the recognition of the juridical. If the recognition of the juridical is displaced by the administrative, then the very foundation of the law is undermined.
The above statement may be explained by going into the meaning of "juridical" as compared to the administrative. Juridical is defined as follows: Black's Law Dictionary, which means relating to administration of justice, or office of a judge. Regular; done in conformity to the laws of the country and the practice which is there observed; on the other hand, Merriam-Webster defines it: of or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge: of or relating to law or jurisprudence: legal
By way of illustration, the meaning of juridical can be explained by comparing it to the term "medical". Doctors engage as medical professionals under their obligation to think and to make decisions relating to their work on the basis of medical science, theories, and practices. They will analyze a complaint of a patient by way of gathering information, and come to findings on the basis of medical knowledge.
In the same way, those who act within the judicial system are expected to gather information, analyze it and come to findings on the basis of legal notions, and the way the law is practiced.
As compared to this, what administrative means is the way of action of the executive. The considerations on which the executive makes their decisions and proceeds to action are based on considerations pertaining to the administrative field.
Thus, the way those who have obligations under the juridical and those who have obligations under the administrative think and act distinctly and separately. When those who are in the field of the juridical are compelled by circumstances or by other compulsions to think and act in a similar manner those who are dealing with the administrative, which means those who have obligations under the executive, then the judicial is replaced with the administrative.
Let us look into a few examples to illustrate this matter. The executive, dealing with the problem of crime, may find it more efficient to arrest and detain persons whom they perceive as creating obstacles to the manner in which the executive is trying to resolve problems. However, to those who have to act within the juridical, for example, judges, the mere considerations of what may be perceived as efficient is not the basic consideration in dealing with arrest and detention. The judges have to make their decisions on the arrest on the basis of juridical notions which involve the rights of the individuals and personal freedom. In terms of such judicial notions, arrest is permitted only in the process of investigations into a crime so as to bring the person before court, or by way of punishment after conviction. What the law understands as a crime would itself be defined and interpreted only in terms of juridical notions of what a crime is. The executive may want to define crime in terms of whatever it considers an obstacle to its actions. For example, the executive may consider a person leading demonstrations as a threat and may want to arrest and detain him. However, those who are to act within the parameters of the juridical recognize the juridical notions of the freedom to protest and the limits of that freedom is also defined in terms of juridical notions.
The executive may wish to modify the law so as to take away juridical notions and to replace them with administrative policies and considerations. If they succeed, that amounts to the displacement of the juridical and replacement with the administrative.
The independence of the judiciary can only be exercised where the sphere of the judicial is clearly understood, recognized and respected. If the juridical is displaced by the administrative, the very foundation of the independence of the judiciary is undermined to the extent of the undermining of the judicial. If the judges make decisions purely on the basis of administrative considerations, and not basing themselves on considerations based on the juridical, then their decisions too are of administrative nature, and not of juridical substance.
The transformation that has been happening in many countries, particularly in countries where the juridical notions have not been developed or where, after such development, has been displaced by the administrative, has external appearances of the judicial (such as having courts, and judges wearing the costumes of judicial officers, and even making "judgments" and orders), the functions that are being exercised are the functions of the executive, not those belonging to the juridical.
As a human rights organization committed to defending the independence of the judiciary and the rights of all citizens to find judicial redress for violations of human rights, we call upon the UN Human Rights Council to use its authority to protect the sphere of the juridical in Sri Lanka and not allow it to be submerged into the administrative.
1 ASIA: Council failing to address situations of widespread forced disappearances http://www.alrc.net/doc/mainfile.php/alrc_st2010/594


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I've opined in the past about how strongly I think the health care industry in the USA needs a does of information technology. One profession making impressive strides in this area is America's nurses.
On the one hand, we have NDNQI, the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI®). NDNQI is a repository for nursing-sensitive indicators collected at the nursing unit level. Since it began in the late 1990's, the program has added many hospitals as well as additional data points (that is, the quality indicators). Lots of useful resources and good reading can be found here.
In addition to NDNQI, we have some excellent work being done by the Veteran's Administration in their VANOD (VA Nursing Outcomes Database) project, which you can read about here. VANOD is also discussed in a nice presentation by the program manager here. You can download the PPT file directly here.
By tracking health care practices in aggregate and monitoring their outcomes, we can find direct correlation or, even better causation, for better health of patients when multiple practices can be used. For example, let's say there are a few competing standard practices around the routine for taking the temperature of patients in a hospital – some take temperatures manually in the morning, some take temperatures manually in the evening, and a luck few who can afford the equipment take temperatures automatically through a sensor on the patient. If the data in aggregate is able to show that the automated method yields a measurable improvement in outcomes, then that approach can justified against the expense because we know patients are doing better. The American Nurses Association (ANA) reports on such progress here.
Additional technologies of interest are being reported, such as this article at www.SmarterTechnology.com and this article at www.InformationWeek.com. In fact, in indication of the importance health care information technology, InformationWeek has a really good portal dedicated just to that at http://www.informationweek.com/healthcare/index.jhtml.
Congratulations to the ANA and to the VA for transforming data into actionable knowledge!

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MIPT physicists create device for imitating biological memory
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have created a device that acts like a synapse in the living brain, storing information and gradually forgetting it when not accessed for a long time. Known as a second-order memristor, the new device is based on hafnium oxide and offers prospects for designing analog neurocomputers imitating the way a biological brain learns. The findings are reported in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Neurocomputers, which enable artificial intelligence, emulate the way the brain works. It stores data in the form of synapses, a network of connections between the nerve cells, or neurons. Most neurocomputers have a conventional digital architecture and use mathematical models to invoke virtual neurons and synapses.
Alternatively, an actual on-chip electronic component could stand for each neuron and synapse in the network. This so-called analog approach has the potential to drastically speed up computations and reduce energy costs.
The core component of a hypothetical analog neurocomputer is the memristor. The word is a portmanteau of "memory" and "resistor," which pretty much sums up what it is: a memory cell acting as a resistor. Loosely speaking, a high resistance encodes a zero, and a low resistance encodes a one. This is analogous to how a synapse conducts a signal between two neurons (one), while the absence of a synapse results in no signal, a zero.
But there is a catch: In an actual brain, the active synapses tend to strengthen over time, while the opposite is true for inactive ones. This phenomenon known as synaptic plasticity is one of the foundations of natural learning and memory. It explains the biology of cramming for an exam and why our seldom accessed memories fade.
Proposed in 2015, the second-order memristor is an attempt to reproduce natural memory, complete with synaptic plasticity. The first mechanism for implementing this involves forming nanosized conductive bridges across the memristor. While initially decreasing resistance, they naturally decay with time, emulating forgetfulness.
"The problem with this solution is that the device tends to change its behavior over time and breaks down after prolonged operation," said the study's lead author Anastasia Chouprik from MIPT's Neurocomputing Systems Lab. "The mechanism we used to implement synaptic plasticity is more robust. In fact, after switching the state of the system 100 billion times, it was still operating normally, so my colleagues stopped the endurance test."
Instead of nanobridges, the MIPT team relied on hafnium oxide to imitate natural memory. This material is ferroelectric: Its internal bound charge distribution -- electric polarization -- changes in response to an external electric field. If the field is then removed, the material retains its acquired polarization, the way a ferromagnet remains magnetized.
The physicists implemented their second-order memristor as a ferroelectric tunnel junction -- two electrodes interlaid with a thin hafnium oxide film (fig. 1, right). The device can be switched between its low and high resistance states by means of electric pulses, which change the ferroelectric film's polarization and thus its resistance.
"The main challenge that we faced was figuring out the right ferroelectric layer thickness," Chouprik added. "Four nanometers proved to be ideal. Make it just one nanometer thinner, and the ferroelectric properties are gone, while a thicker film is too wide a barrier for the electrons to tunnel through. And it is only the tunneling current that we can modulate by switching polarization."
What gives hafnium oxide an edge over other ferroelectric materials, such as barium titanate, is that it is already used by current silicon technology. For example, Intel has been manufacturing microchips based on a hafnium compound since 2007. This makes introducing hafnium-based devices like the memristor reported in this story far easier and cheaper than those using a brand-new material.
In a feat of ingenuity, the researchers implemented "forgetfulness" by leveraging the defects at the interface between silicon and hafnium oxide. Those very imperfections used to be seen as a detriment to hafnium-based microprocessors, and engineers had to find a way around them by incorporating other elements into the compound. Instead, the MIPT team exploited the defects, which make memristor conductivity die down with time, just like natural memories.
Vitalii Mikheev, the first author of the paper, shared the team's future plans: "We are going to look into the interplay between the various mechanisms switching the resistance in our memristor. It turns out that the ferroelectric effect may not be the only one involved. To further improve the devices, we will need to distinguish between the mechanisms and learn to combine them."
According to the physicists, they will move on with the fundamental research on the properties of hafnium oxide to make the nonvolatile random access memory cells more reliable. The team is also investigating the possibility of transferring their devices onto a flexible substrate, for use in flexible electronics.
Last year, the researchers offered a detailed description of how applying an electric field to hafnium oxide films affects their polarization. It is this very process that enables reducing ferroelectric memristor resistance, which emulates synapse strengthening in a biological brain. The team also works on neuromorphic computing systems with a digital architecture.
Ferroelectric Second-Order Memristor
Vitalii Mikheev, Anastasia Chouprik, Yury Lebedinskii, Sergei Zarubin, Yury Matveyev, Ekaterina Kondratyuk, Maxim G. Kozodaev, Andrey M. Markeev, Andrei Zenkevich, Dmitrii Negrov
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)


text: Speeding up multi-architecture compilation by parallelizing your build 21 January 2018 morten I've lately been working on getting our automated builds complete faster. Faster builds means shorter times between commits and new fresh builds, gated check-ins can be evaluated faster etc etc. In my specific case, I need to build and link A LOT of native C++ code for both x86, x64 and ARM, and the full process takes over 1.5 hours on my speedy desktop, and over 2 hours on the build server!As part of this work, wanted the build server to only focus on the builds that were important for the product, but still have a solution that builds unit tests, test project etc for the devs to use day to day. Also because we build both AnyCPU .NET libraries and architecture-specific apps and native libraries, the build server would while building each architechture also build the AnyCPU builds over and over, and the build server also didn't really need to build the unit tests as part of the production build either.Now I could go about and create a separate build configuration, but I wanted to make sure the build configuration devs use day to day matches what the build server uses. So I opted for creating an "msbuild" file instead. This is essentially a little project file, that points to other projects to build. Here's a small example of such a file:<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003"> <Target Name="BuildMyProduct"> <MSBuild Projects="MyCoolApp\MyCoolClassLibrary.csproj" Properties="Platform=AnyCPU;Configuration=Release" Targets="Restore;Build" /> <MSBuild Projects="MyCoolApp\MyCoolApp.csproj" Targets="Restore" /> <MSBuild Projects="MyCoolApp\MyCoolApp.csproj" Properties="Platform=x86;Configuration=Release" Targets="Build" /> <MSBuild Projects="MyCoolApp\MyCoolApp.csproj" Properties="Platform=x64;Configuration=Release" Targets="Build" /> <MSBuild Projects="MyCoolApp\MyCoolApp.csproj" Properties="Platform=ARM;Configuration=Release" Targets="Build" /> </Target></Project>From a Visual Studio command prompt you can use msbuild to execute your 'BuildMyProduct' target: msbuild /t:BuildMyProductAnd the project will nuget restore and build first the class library, then build the app project 3 times for each architecture (with a single nuget restore before it). You can see from the output that things are built in the order specified, one after the other. Note how the same output for the app project essentially repeats 3 times:The thing is, several of the compilation process is single-threaded, but these days we all have 4, 8, 16 etc cores to play with. Why not put them all to good use and speed up the build? Especially linking a lot of native C++ static libraries are mostly single threaded and can easily take a very long time. Why not use a CPU for each architecture?We can accomplish this in msbuild by creating a group of projects with different properties, and use the "BuildInParallel" parameter. Here's what that same project would then look like:<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003"> <Target Name="BuildMyProduct"> <ItemGroup> <MyCoolAppProject Include="MyCoolApp\MyCoolApp.csproj" AdditionalProperties="Platform=x86" /> <MyCoolAppProject Include="MyCoolApp\MyCoolApp.csproj" AdditionalProperties="Platform=x64" /> <MyCoolAppProject Include="MyCoolApp\MyCoolApp.csproj" AdditionalProperties="Platform=ARM" /> </ItemGroup> <MSBuild Projects="MyCoolApp\MyCoolClassLibrary.csproj" Properties="Platform=AnyCPU;Configuration=Release" Targets="Restore;Build" /> <MSBuild Projects="MyCoolApp\MyCoolApp.csproj" Targets="Restore" /> <MSBuild Projects="@(MyCoolAppProject)" Properties="Configuration=Release" Targets="Build" BuildInParallel="True" /> </Target> </Project>In this case we'll add the /maxcpucount parameter to ensure msbuild uses all the available CPUs: msbuild /t:BuildMyProduct /maxcpucountBuild in parallel output below. Note hos the output is exactly the same, but now each architecture output more or less outputs in the same order and completes simultaneously. But much more importantly, notice the 40% reduction in build time! And this is for a completely blank UWP app template. This is no small reduction. And remember if you have lots of native code to link, you can see even bigger saves. In my specific case, I have A LOT of static libraries to link, which takes between 22 and 35mins to just link depending on architecture. The entire build takes about 90mins to complete. When building in parallel, that's "only" 38 minutes. This is HUGE for pushing out fresh setups to test, or enabling gated check-ins.Now for UWP you might want to create a single bundle for all architectures, and you can do that with a single command that'll build all architectures: <Target Name="BuildFullBundle"> <MSBuild Projects="MyCoolApp\MyCoolApp.csproj" Targets="Restore" /> <MSBuild Projects="MyCoolApp\MyCoolApp.csproj" Targets="Build" Properties="Configuration=Release;AppxBundle=Always;AppxBundlePlatforms=x86|x64|ARM" BuildInParallel="True" /> </Target> The interesting bit here is that msbuild doesn't actually parallelize this build (though it probably should) as clearly visible in the output, and you get the same "slow" build time.


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One of the major features of a Coppermine photo gallery is the fact that all page content can be displayed in different languages, with translations being contained in one file (located inside of the coppermine lang directory ). If you use Coppermine and feel that you would like to give something back to the community, why not start a translation of coppermine for your language?
These are the rules and guidelines for translation to help you get started.
There are already several languages supported by coppermine; as the number of language-files for coppermine grows, there may be translations available that were not included into the package you downloaded. Before you actually start to work on a translation, look here:
Anyone with a good grasp of a language can, but when a new version of coppermine is being prepped for released, the dev team will contact the translators of previous versions and ask them to translate for the new version, as well. These "original" translators are requested to advise the development team if they are willing and able to do the translation (before actual work on the translation starts). Languages previously assigned to those who respond that they're unable to do the "new" translation or those assigned to translators that fail to reply, over a prescribed time, will be placed on a list on "[Help wanted]: Translations for CPG1.5.x". Anyone who is interested and ready to help with the translation for these "orphaned" languages should reply to the thread and assign the translation to him/herself.
If you are fluent in a language that hasn't been translated yet and hasn't been assigned to anyone, please assign it to yourself.
Many languages have special alphabets other than the latin set, or have additional characters (like ä ß à á â ã å æ ç þ ð ø). Many of these special chars have what are called html equivalents (e.g. ä for ä), but you must not use these html equivalents of your special language characters when doing your translations, as unwanted side-effects may appear with the usage of JavaScript!
No matter what encoding you use to contribute your translation, the encoding with which your translation contribution will be added to the package will be utf-8. In other words: some coppermine developer will have to transform your proprietary encoding to utf-8 before it can be used, so if you can you should use utf-8 in the first place.
Coppermine adds a charset meta tag to the header of each ouput file to instruct the browser how to render special chars. You should add the name of the charset you're using for your translation at the very start of the language file, e.g.
$lang_charset = 'iso-8859-1';. You can find a list of charsets at http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset-lang.html. Whenever possible, you shouldn't choose platform-dependant charset (e.g. windows-1252), but cross-platform ones (e.g. iso-8859-1).
You'll have noticed that coppermine language files come in utf-8 encoding. You do not have to concern yourself with the creation of the utf-8 version if you have no idea how to accomplish this - the dev team will take care of that. However, your language file will finally go into the package as UTF-8 file. Subsequently, if you want to create a perfect language file, create it in utf-8 in the first place.
In fact you can use nearly any text editor you feel comfortable with that will allow you to save your text in the ANSI format - Windows Notepad (also known as "Editor" in Windows 2000/XP) will do just fine.
Of course, you're welcome to use a more powerfull editor and use (if you can) utf-8 as encoding.
To determine whether or not your favorite text editor can correctly handle the necessary encoding, start the translation by translating only a few lines (preferrably some that contain special chars from you language), save the translation file and close it. Then try to open it with a plain text editor on your system (e.g. Notepad) - if everything displays as expected, your editor should work fine.
Recommended Tools: to see what has changed between the language files of cpg1.4.x and cpg1.5.x, we recommend using a diff viewer that can highlight the differences in both files. Windows users should opt for the great, changes in file viewer WinMerge (available as freeware; 3 MB, localizations available as well): You can even edit the files with this tool (352 of 1152 lines have been added or changed). All new/changed lines have a comment at the end like this one: //cpg1.5.x.
If you need a powerfull, free editor for Windows, the dev team recommends using Notepad++.
For a full list of suggestions, please review "Tools recommended by the devs"
Up until version 1.2 of coppermine we only sent out the lines that had changed in the language files from previous versions to the translators. Although this seemed to be a very easy solution and approach, we soon discovered that this method had severe drawbacks:
For these reasons we now provide the translators with the most recent english language file along with all existing language files of previous versions as references. Additionally we provide this guide that you are currently reading, asking them (the translators: you in this particular case) to translate the file in its entirety. Of course, you can (and are even encouraged to) take a look at the language files from older versions and adopt (port) the contents that are already in the old version whenever they apply.
Here are the detailed steps for translating coppermine language files:
Translate the entire language file as described - you'll find your way around in no time, even if you're not a seasoned PHP coder.
As you may have already noticed, all translation strings are contained between a pair of single quotes or apostrophes - this is the proper method used in PHP. Therefore, if you want your translation to actually contain a single quote (apostrophe), you must "instruct" PHP that the apostrophe (single quote) contained in a text string is part of the string and not the end of the string. For this purpose, a backslash (\) is used to instruct PHP that the character immediately following it is a "string" character and not part of the PHP code, itself. This is called escaping a character in programing languages. PHP uses the backslash (\) to escape characters, that's why care must be taken to not do this:
$lang_errors['access_denied'] = 'You don't have permission to access this page.';
but, to do this, instead:
$lang_errors['access_denied'] = 'You don\'t have permission to access this page.';
Things are a bit more complicated if the output is to be used not only in plain HTML, but in JavaScript, as well. Single quotes that appear in the HTML output of the language file must also be escaped for use in any JavaScript routine with a backslash as well. That's why specific lines in the language file that will be used as JavaScript in Coppermine's output have been tagged with a comment at the end of the line, which reads: //js-alert. If you intend to have a single quote in the final output, you'll have to add 3 backslashes in front of the single quote, as in this example:
'no_change' => 'Vous n\\\'avez effectué aucun changement !', //js-alert
You'll also notice that in several places of the language file, there are text that contain a percent-sign (%), followed immediately by a letter. Those combinations must not be translated or separated - they are there intentionally and are used later as specifier arguments, or calls, for variable replacement and/or formating that needs to take place.
$lang_rate_pic['rating'] = '(Current rating : %s / %s with %s votes)';
What actually happens is that in the code (usually using the PHP command sprintf; refer to the type specifier specifications for details) there is a replacement, where the placeholder (usually %s) is being replaced with some content dynamically.
Maybe a translation for your language has already been done, but you're not happy with it: if there are bugs (spelling errors etc.), first check the download section to see if a fixed (updated) version has already been submitted. If not, report your finding(s) on the board along with your suggestion for a fix, like this:
in lang/yourlanguage.php search for
$lang_example['some_definition'] = 'bar foo';
and replace with
$lang_example['some_definition'] = 'foo bar',
Everybody who knows languages knows that there is no such thing as "one correct translation" - there are always differences in the way we to translate expressions, or whole sentences. Maybe you feel that an existing version of your language file doesn't suit your purpose; perhaps the translator had another audience/target group in mind, or you want a more formal translation (in many languages there are signifcant difference in grammar and expression between formal and casual speech or text).
Please do not flame (berate) the original translator on the board, but provide an alternative translation along with details on what you changed and for what target audience your version is intended.
Coppermine, like everything else online, is a work in progress. Your copy of the english.php (that should always be used as the base reference file for your translation) may already be outdated. That's why it is critical that you always refer to the Subversion-Repository Language Section to make sure that you have the most recent english language file (translator version) on hand before starting your translation (and maybe even the most updated version of this document, as well, as there may be many questions along the way that need to be addressed in this document after the initial release of this document). Remember: if an option/replacement string is not translated, it will not be visible in your language at all.
When preparing for a release, the dev team sets up a feature freeze to allow the translators to submit their translations, halting the coppermine development during that period. If you're willing to translate, do so as soon as possible and send your translation back immediately to ensure that the new version of coppermine can be released with your language file.
We understand that coming up with a full translation can be quite a difficult task to accomplish, so you might be tenpted to skip the hard work and go for a solution that may seem to be easier at first sight: you might want to use a language file that was created for a previous version of coppermine (e.g. cpg1.4.x) and built on that file (instead of doing as suggested in this section of the docs and starting your work based on the current version of lang/english.php).
Although the "lazy" method may seem to be attractive, you can't use it for various reasons. To mention only a few of them:
$lang_meta_album_names = array( 'random' => 'Random files', 'lastup' => 'Last additions', 'lastalb'=> 'Last updated albums', 'lastcom' => 'Last comments', 'topn' => 'Most viewed', 'toprated' => 'Top rated', 'lasthits' => 'Last viewed', 'search' => 'Search results', 'favpics'=> 'Favorite Files', //cpg1.4 );to
$lang_meta_album_names['random'] = 'Random files'; $lang_meta_album_names['lastup'] = 'Last additions'; $lang_meta_album_names['lastalb'] = 'Last updated albums'; $lang_meta_album_names['lastcom'] = 'Last comments'; $lang_meta_album_names['topn'] = 'Most viewed'; $lang_meta_album_names['toprated'] = 'Top rated'; $lang_meta_album_names['lasthits'] = 'Last viewed'; $lang_meta_album_names['search'] = 'Image search results'; $lang_meta_album_names['album_search'] = 'Album search results'; $lang_meta_album_names['category_search'] = 'Category search results'; $lang_meta_album_names['favpics'] = 'Favorite files'; $lang_meta_album_names['datebrowse'] = 'Browse by date'; //cpg1.5
This should make clear that you should not start editing a language file for cpg1.4.x and try to port that for cpg1.5.x - you'd have to perform edits for each and every line.
Instead, we recommend doing as suggested and using a copy of english.php from cpg1.5.x and use that as a base for your new translation. We recommend to open a copy of the outdated language file as well in your editor and just copy individual strings from the outdated language file to your fresh copy.
As suggested above, all contributions are welcome. While it already is a huge task to come up with a coppermine language file, it's even a greater task to come up with a full translation of the coppermine documentation. That's one of the reasons why the documentation that used to be one monolithic block (one huge HTML page) has been split up into separate files starting with cpg1.5.x.
For the benfit of your community, you're asked to translate part of the documentation (or maybe even all of it) as well. To accomplish this, do the same as suggested above: make sure that your translation doesn't already exist by checking the SVN repository and if there already is a discussion on the forums going on. If there is no such activity, go ahead and start your translation.


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Torsion springs are installed overhead directly to the metal bar installed above your garage door and function to carry the weight of the door, transferring it to the metal stabilizing bar to which it is attached. Attached to this bar is a spool of cable that acts along with the unwinding spring to pull open the garage door. Without torsion springs, opening your garage doors would be impossible. The length and diameter are directly related to spring size and determine the load this system can bear. Generally, one or two springs are sufficient for a residential garage door, but commercial doors require different grade springs and may need more than two. These springs are under pressure and should only be serviced by qualified professionals.
Extension Springs
Extension springs are an integral part of the garage door design and are installed on the door frame or pulley of your garage door system. These springs take the weight of your garage doors as they are opened and closed and act to protect you from the weight of the doors. These springs use counter balance to carry the weight, expanding as the door is lowered and contracting as it is raised. Because these springs are under extremely high pressure, they should only be serviced by a professional to avoid injury or loss of lire.
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I wrote my last review of CentOS almost 5 (five!) years ago, and that was CentOS 6 GNOME. That time I complained that the only version of CentOS available for the users was GNOME.
Since then I approached CentOS only once when I wanted to use it for my home file server. Unfortunately, I was out of luck as CentOS dropped support of processors without pae. That was the case for my laptop that time.
Has anything changed there? If you visit the download section of CentOS, you notice that first of all, there is version 7 of CentOS now; second, Live media is available in GNOME and KDE editions. That's a bit of progress. However, you need to dig further if you need a 32-bit version of CentOS 7. So, if you wanted to use a rock-solid, stable, and powerful operating system to rejuvenate your old computer and use it as a small family server, you need to be patient in your searches.
Apart from the Live version, there are Minimal, DVD and Everything ISOs. They can be used for direct installation of the operating system. I did not check any of these, because my choice was CentOS 7 Live KDE. You can download it directly from any of the mirrors or using torrent. The latest image is dated December 2015.
The ISO image of CentOS 7 Live KDE is just under 1.8 Gb. I downloaded it and "burnt" onto a USB stick using the dd command.
The USB stick is in the port of my laptop Toshiba Satellite L500-19X. Reboot. Choose to boot from USB. Let's go!
Booting up
There are two options on the first screen of CentOS 7 Live. You can either boot into the operating system directly, or go into the Troubleshooting that has some subsections.The boot process takes some time, but eventually you end up on the default welcome screen.
First impressions
If you expect to see a feature-rich desktop, CentOS 7 Live KDE will not meet your expectations. The default desktop is empty. It has a wallpaper in light-blue tones with CentOS 7 written in the bottom-right corner, and that is it. If you don't like the default wallpaper, there is a small choice of alternatives available right out of the box. Of course, you can use your own image too.There is a white-colour panel at the bottom of the screen that has a menu and activity changer buttons on the left and notification area on the right. The notification area features the usual suspects like clocks, network, clipboard, USB, volume, battery controls and some more. Nothing specific here. You can find similar options in many other distributions with KDE4. CentOS 7 uses KDE 4.14.8.
CentOS 7 KDE welcome screen |
CentOS 7 KDE resource usage |
CentOS issued a kernel crash error during the first minutes of my running it in the Live mode. This is not something you expect from an operating system of this level.
CentOS 7 kernel crash |
Yet another issue worth mentioning is the absence of window borders or shading. It means you cannot tell when one window ends and another starts.
CentOS 7 KDE - no window borders |
Network connection
CentOS 7 successfully recognised and configured the wireless card of my laptop, which is Realtek 8191SEvB. I only had to select my home network, type in the password and enjoy the rest.Network drive
CentOS 7 KDE comes with some features necessary for connecting the remote network drive.Dolphin file manager has the "Add Network Folder" option, which worked fine for my home file server. Unfortunately, that was not the automatic browsing of the network, but rather a manual typing in of the shared folder details.
Things are worse for local partitions. CentOS 7 comes without necessary NTFS tools. My laptop has some NTFS partitions, but I could not use them while running the Live session of CentOS 7. That is why I had issues with saving the screenshot images: I could not save them on my hard drive.
Keyboard layout
The default keyboard layout in CentOS 7 is English US.There are no issues with configuring multiple keyboard layouts in KDE4. That's why I could change the default English US layout to a combination of English UK and Russian using the guidance that I previously recorded for all my readers.
CentOS comes with a decent, but not vast set of applications. Some of them are KDE-specific and expected to be in the KDE distribution, others are the choice of developers.There are two browsers in the system: Konqueror and Firefox 38.3. Apart from them, Internet tools include SSH password manager, Desktop sharing utility, Akgregator RSS reader, Empathy messenger, KRDC remote connection tool and some more.
Graphical tools include some simple viewers and editors like Okular, Gwenview, KolourPaint and so on.
LibreOffice tools are the representatives of productivity tools. LibreOffice Draw is also included, but there are no Base or Math components.
K3B disk burning tool and Dragon Player are in the Multimedia section of the menu along with KMix sound mixer.
Of course, there are plenty of administrative and user-level utilities like KWrite, Ark, KCalc, Firewall and so on.
Unfortunately, I could not find a graphical tool for software installation in CentOS 7 KDE. That is why I decided to try the command line utility yum and install the NTFS package that was missing in the default disk image. NTFS package is not in the CentOS standard repository. But CentOS has plenty of "approved" third-party repositories. One of them has the necessary package. The command for the installation of NTFS utility is
sudo yum install epel-releaseAfter that, the NTFS partitions on my hard disk drive became browsable.
sudo yum install ntfs-3g
Unfortunately, CentOS 7 does not include necessary multimedia codecs to play MP3 files or videos. Flash player is not included either, which means you cannot watch videos on certain web sites including BBC iPlayer.However, YouTube videos played well in Firefox.
CentOS 7 KDE multimedia |
There are different tasks when building an operating system:- To make the OS user-friendly
- To make the system stable
- To make the system light on resources
- To make it portable, pocket-size
Some distributions manage to tick several checkboxes in that list. But CentOS did not tick any for me.
The issues with graphical interface and absence of graphical software management tools make me say that CentOS is not user-friendly.
I could say that the system is stable, if there was not a kernel crash at the very beginning.
Yes, the system it quick and responsive. But taking 580 Mb of memory just to boot is too much for me.
Of course, CentOS is not pocket-size, nobody wanted it to be portable.
Whom can I recommend CentOS to? Probably to people I mentioned in the very beginning of this article: students who want to dedicate their life to system administration. You need to learn how to search for the answers, how to do things manually. That is your profession. That is your bread. CentOS gives you a brilliant opportunity to learn all of that along with learning the system itself.
But CentOS is not for home users who want things done quickly and easily, I'm afraid.
Want to try it yourself? You can order your disk right now at BuyLinuxCDs.co.uk!
Video used on screenshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ScjucUV8v0


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The K7RA Solar Update
We saw rising solar activity over the past week, with average daily sunspot number increasing from 107.7 to 136.7. Average daily solar flux went from 125 for the previous seven days to 149.6 for the current period, July 31 through August 6. Thursday, August 7 saw the sunspot number increase to 158 with solar flux at 136.
Predicted solar flux is 130 on August 8, 125 on August 9-10, then 120, 110 and 105 on August 11-13, 100, 105 and 110 on August 14-16, 100 on August 17-19, 105 on August 20-21, 110 and 115 on August 22-23, 120 on August 24-26, 125 on August 27-28, 120 on August 29-30, a jump to 150 on August 31 through September 3, then a decline to 140, 135, 130 and 120 on September 4-7, and 115 on September 8-9. Flux then drops to a low of 100 on September 13-15, before rising again. We've seen no flux values below 100 in the outlook since the August 2 forecast.
Predicted planetary A index is 8 on August 8, 5 on August 9-21, 8 on August 22-23, 5 on August 24-27, 8 on August 28-29, 5 on August 30, 8 on August 31 through September 1, 5 on September 2, and 8 on September 3-4.
F.K. Janda, OK1HH, believes we should see quiet to unsettled geomagnetic conditions August 8, quiet to active August 9, quiet to unsettled August 10, mostly quiet August 11, quiet August 12-15, mostly quiet August 16, quiet again on August 17-18, mostly quiet August 19-21, quiet to unsettled August 22, active to disturbed August 23, quiet to unsettled August 24, mostly quiet August 25, quiet to active August 26-29, active to disturbed August 30, quiet to active August 31, quiet on September 1, mostly quiet September 2 and quiet to unsettled on September 3. OK1HH believes there could be increases in solar wind on August 10-12, more so on August 11.
Last week's bulletin reported computer network issues at Canada's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in British Columbia. They came back online catching up with some backlogged data, but now are off again. Elwood Downey, WB0OEW reports that the problem is due to a cyber attack. He sent us these links:
He also reports that updates will be posted here:
Check "Latest NRC Headlines."
No updates are posted since July 31.
I don't know what happened this week, but we received no propagation reports or queries from readers, but we did get an interesting question from Bruce Stewart, W8CPG, of West Virginia regarding that huge solar flare in 2012 that missed us by several days.
Bruce wrote: "How would the 2012 solar flare announced recently on network news have affected ham radio communications? I understand commercial power grids probably would have been disrupted, but if equipped with auxiliary power, would ham radio operations been disrupted/disabled?"
Bruce is talking about a major solar flare that was aimed squarely into Earth's orbit, but we were about a week away from being in position to receive the effects. If aimed squarely at Earth, I suspect the effect on HF propagation would be major, with at least several days of high absorption along with a wiped out ionosphere.
But a larger concern would be the effects on the power grid. With power transmission lines acting as huge antennas, large 500 kV or 765 kV transformers could overheat and fail, with the collapse of the electric grid having a domino effect. There aren't a lot of spares sitting around, and lead time on manufacturing new large transformers is at least ten months. But that assumes that you have an operating power grid to support building and transporting new equipment.
An interesting article written early in 2012 before the big flare talks about a study of just such a scenario: http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2012/February/pages/CatastrophicSolarFlareScenarioTouchesOffStormyDebate.aspx
Kappenman, mentioned in the article, wrote this report two years prior to that article, for Oak Ridge National Laboratory:
The acronym GIC mentioned frequently in that article stands for Geomagnetically Induced Currents. A web search on the term yields many interesting references.
Bonneville Power Administration released this report on their asset management strategy for their substations, which gives you an idea of some of the metrics involved:
Well, that is way off the subject of our bulletin, but it is interesting to think about the possible worst case effects of a major geomagnetic storm.
For more information concerning radio propagation, see the ARRL Technical Information Service at http://arrl.org/propagation-of-rf-signals. For an explanation of the numbers used in this bulletin, see http://arrl.org/the-sun-the-earth-the-ionosphere. An archive of past propagation bulletins is at http://arrl.org/w1aw-bulletins-archive-propagation. More good information and tutorials on propagation are at http://k9la.us/.
Monthly propagation charts between four USA regions and twelve overseas locations are at http://arrl.org/propagation.
Instructions for starting or ending email distribution of ARRL bulletins are at http://arrl.org/bulletins.
Sunspot numbers for July 31 through August 6 were 139, 165, 178, 152, 111, 93, and 119, with a mean of 136.7. 10.7 cm flux was 156.4, 168, 156, 152, 139, 139, and 137, with a mean of 149.6. Estimated planetary A indices were 5, 10, 11, 7, 12, 10, and 7, with a mean of 8.9. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 7, 14, 12, 7, 15, 12, and 7, with a mean of 10.6.


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- Isopropyl Alcohol 70% Technical Grade
- High evaporation, quick drying rate
- Effective for cleaning house holds
- 70% is known as rubbing alcohol
Not sure which % you need? - Check out our blog to gain an understanding!
Isopropyl Alcohol 70% is mainly known as rubbing alcohol. If you haven't heard of rubbing alcohol before you've probably walked passed it in the supermarket aisle known as Isocol. Rubbing alcohol can be used to clean make up, disinfect wounds, kill mealy bugs and many more uses.
Cleaning and disinfecting make up brushes we recommend using 70% Isopropyl Alcohol. You can use rubbing alcohol to clean make up brushes to kill the bacteria, which means less transfers of germs and you won't see breakouts as you won't be passing over germs as the rubbing alcohol will kill them.
Isopropyl Alcohol Uses - Household, Beauty, Industrial & Gardening Uses
Cleaning & House Hold Uses:
- Household cleaner and is great for cleaning kitchens, bathrooms, and other surface areas: Use 100% Isopropyl Alcohol Straight
- Cleans sticky grime and residue: Use 100% Isopropyl Alcohol Straight
- Perfect for cleaning computer screens, phones, iPad screen, and is non-streaking: Use 100% Isopropyl Alcohol Straight
- General window cleaner: Use 100% Isopropyl Alcohol Straight
- Removes ink: Use 100% Isopropyl Alcohol Straight
- Cleans glass: Use 100% Isopropyl Alcohol Straight
- Used to remove the old tobacco from inside the pipe: Use 100% Isopropyl Alcohol Straight
- Use on granite, wood floors and upholstery: 1/4 Isopropyl Alcohol, 3 drops dish detergent, 1 cup of water and a couple of essential oil.
- Clean venetian blinds: Use 100% Isopropyl Alcohol Straight
- Erase permanent markers: Use 100% Isopropyl Alcohol Straight
- Hand Sanitiser: 3/4 cup Isopropyl Alcohol and 1/4 aloe vera gel
- Stainless Steel Cleaner
Beauty Uses:
- Make up brush cleanser: Use 100% Isopropyl Alcohol Straight
- Fixes broken powder foundation make-up and eyeshadow: 3/4 cup Isopropyl Alcohol and 1/4 water
- Sanitise and clean make up brushes: Soak in 100% Isopropyl Alcohol and allow to air dry.
Industrial & DIY Uses:
- More efficient than alcohol wipes
- Used for ink painting
- Take paint off vinyl dolls: Use 100% Isopropyl Alcohol Straight
- Cleaning mealy bugs from succulents: 1/2 cup Isopropyl Alcohol and 1/2 water
- Cleans the residue built up on the 3D printer: Use 100% Isopropyl Alcohol Straight
- Perfect for Art applications - especially for watercolours and colour dye
- Prevent the windows from getting frost-free and dissolve the windshield frost: 3/4 cup Isopropyl Alcohol and 1/4 water
- Reed Diffusers: Splash of Isopropyl Alcohol, ¼ carrier oil, and 12 drops essential oils.
Gardening Uses:
- Kill mealy bugs: Use 70% Isopropyl Alcohol (more moisture = longer time to kill the bugs before it evaporates)
- Use as a disinfectant when removing ticks from dogs: Use 70% Isopropyl Alcohol
- Deters fruit flies: Use 100% Isopropyl Alcohol Straight
- Silk plant and flower cleaner: Use 100% Isopropyl Alcohol Straight
- Used in gardening to remove dead, diseased and rotting plants: Use 100% Isopropyl Alcohol Straight
- Growing Mushrooms: 70% is more effective at killing bacteria and unwanted fungas. 70% is better as it doesn't evaporate as quickly as 90% and above, meaning that it has time to enter the cell wall of the bacterium and kill it.
Differences in Percentages
90 - 100%
The higher percentages of Isopropyl Alcohol are used for cleaning purposes like disinfecting, window cleaning, stainless steel cleaner and when you need to kill bacteria, as well as many other uses. The higher the percentage like Isopropyl Alcohol 100% the greater the evaporation rate, and it is great as it dries faster. The high grades of Isopropyl Alcohol 100% are suitable for the majority uses and is commonly used by industrial users and cleaners.
Below 70%
A common percentage is Isopropyl Alcohol 70%, which is the grade recommended for rubbing alcohol when applying it to the skin. The lower grade of Isopropyl Alcohol 70% means that it is not as harsh to the skin, but it is still effective. Also, the lower grade is great for getting rid of the bugs off the plants and also disinfecting as the water content mixed with the alcohol fights against growing viruses and fungus.
So which one should you get?
No matter what the percentage, Isopropyl Alcohol 100%, Isopropyl Alcohol 99% or Isopropyl Alcohol 70% are beneficial product to have in the workshop and household. The many uses it has makes it a handy product to have around. Depending on your application will impact of the percentage.
- Keep out of reach of children.
- Keep away from sources of ignition - no smoking.
- Avoid contact with eyes.
- Take precautionary measures against static discharges.
- Keep container in a well-ventilated place.
- Eliminate all ignition sources. Remove leaking containers.
- Contain and absorb on suitable chemical material.
- Restrict access to area.
- Firefighters MUST wear full protective clothing and self-contained breathing apparatus.
- If Swallowed contact a doctor or poison information center immediately and show container or label.
- In case of contact with eyes rinse immediately with plenty of water and contact a doctor or poison information center.
- In case of contact with skin, wash contacted area with soap and water.
- If inhaled remove to fresh air.
- If not breathing, give artificial respiration.
- Prevent material entering sewers.
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Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,
That was built in such a logical way
It ran a hundred years to a day,
And then, of a sudden, it — ah, but stay,
I'll tell you what happened without delay,
Scaring the parson into fits,
Frightening people out of their wits, —
Have you ever heard of that, I say?
Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Georgius Secundus was then alive, —
Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
That was the year when Lisbon-town
Saw the earth open and gulp her down,
And Braddock's army was done so brown,
Left without a scalp to its crown.
It was on the terrible Earthquake-day
That the Deacon finished the one-hoss shay.
Now in building of chaises, I tell you what,
There is always somewhere a weakest spot, —
In hub, tire, felloe, in spring or thill,
In panel, or crossbar, or floor, or sill,
In screw, bolt, thoroughbrace, — lurking still,
Find it somewhere you must and will, —
Above or below, or within or without, —
And that's the reason, beyond a doubt,
A chaise breaks down, but does n't wear out.
But the Deacon swore (as Deacons do,
With an "I dew vum," or an "I tell yeou")
He would build one shay to beat the taown
'N' the keounty 'n' all the kentry raoun';
It should be so built that it could n' break daown:
"Fur," said the Deacon, "'t 's mighty plain
Thut the weakes' place mus' stan' the strain;
'N' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain,
Is only jest
T' make that place uz strong uz the rest."
So the Deacon inquired of the village folk
Where he could find the strongest oak,
That could n't be split nor bent nor broke, —
That was for spokes and floor and sills;
He sent for lancewood to make the thills;
The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees,
The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese,
But lasts like iron for things like these;
The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum," —
Last of its timber, — they could n't sell 'em,
Never an axe had seen their chips,
And the wedges flew from between their lips,
Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips;
Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw,
Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too,
Steel of the finest, bright and blue;
Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide;
Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide
Found in the pit when the tanner died.
That was the way he "put her through."
"There!" said the Deacon, "naow she'll dew!"
Do! I tell you, I rather guess
She was a wonder, and nothing less!
Colts grew horses, beards turned gray,
Deacon and deaconess dropped away,
Children and grandchildren — where were they?
But there stood the stout old one-hoss shay
As fresh as on Lisbon-earthquake-day!
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED; — it came and found
The Deacon's masterpiece strong and sound.
Eighteen hundred increased by ten; —
"Hahnsum kerridge" they called it then.
Eighteen hundred and twenty came; —
Running as usual; much the same.
Thirty and forty at last arrive,
And then come fifty, and FIFTY-FIVE.
Little of all we value here
Wakes on the morn of its hundreth year
Without both feeling and looking queer.
In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
(This is a moral that runs at large;
Take it. — You're welcome. — No extra charge.)
FIRST OF NOVEMBER, — the Earthquake-day, —
There are traces of age in the one-hoss shay,
A general flavor of mild decay,
But nothing local, as one may say.
There could n't be, — for the Deacon's art
Had made it so like in every part
That there was n't a chance for one to start.
For the wheels were just as strong as the thills,
And the floor was just as strong as the sills,
And the panels just as strong as the floor,
And the whipple-tree neither less nor more,
And the back crossbar as strong as the fore,
And spring and axle and hub encore.
And yet, as a whole, it is past a doubt
In another hour it will be worn out!
First of November, 'Fifty-five!
This morning the parson takes a drive.
Now, small boys, get out of the way!
Here comes the wonderful one-horse shay,
Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay.
"Huddup!" said the parson. — Off went they.
The parson was working his Sunday's text, —
Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed
At what the — Moses — was coming next.
All at once the horse stood still,
Close by the meet'n'-house on the hill.
First a shiver, and then a thrill,
Then something decidedly like a spill, —
And the parson was sitting upon a rock,
At half past nine by the meet'n-house clock, —
Just the hour of the Earthquake shock!
What do you think the parson found,
When he got up and stared around?
The poor old chaise in a heap or mound,
As if it had been to the mill and ground!
You see, of course, if you're not a dunce,
How it went to pieces all at once, —
All at once, and nothing first, —
Just as bubbles do when they burst.
End of the wonderful one-hoss shay.
Logic is logic. That's all I say.


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Designing your Halter, and any other extras.
Designing your Halter, and any other extras.
- Firstly, decide which colours you'd like; for the base halter, and the overlay/s.
To do this you can either;
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Noseband Overlays
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Microsoft launched a new program in India to encourage more girls to take up careers in technology, the Times of India reports. "India DigiGirlz" aims to drive high school girls towards science and engineering fields by giving them the opportunity to participate in workshops and connect with Microsoft's employees. Microsoft's DigiGirlz program was founded in 2000 to address the issue of girls and science in the United States.
"The students are aware of technology more than ever before. Almost 100% of them have Facebook accounts, but the idea is to make them think of technology as a career," Jacky Wright, Vice President of Microsoft IT, said. She added that the company is focusing on increasing awareness about the lack of girls in the technology field.
Girls make up less than 20% of students at the Indian Institute of Technology, and about 30% of employees in the IT Business Processing Outsourcing Sectors. Microsoft plans to expand the programs across India and Brazil, the company's two focus countries.
"These economies are growing and we need the program in these countries," said Wright. "Girls need to see role models. If they see it can be done, they will do it."


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Drag and Drop Question
Your company manages several Azure Web Sites that are running in an existing web- hosting plan named plan1.
You need to move one of the websites, named contoso, to a new web-hosting plan named plan2.
Which Azure PowerShell cmdlet should you use with each PowerShell command line?
To answer, drag the appropriate Azure PowerShell cmdlet to the correct location in the PowerShell code. Each PowerShell cmdlet may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
You administer an Azure Web Site named contosoweb that is used to sell various products.
Contosoweb experiences heavy traffic during weekends.
You need to analyze the response time of the product catalog page during peak times, from different locations.
What should you do?
A. Configure endpoint monitoring.
B. Add the Requests metric.
C. Turn on Failed Request Tracing.
D. Turn on Detailed Error Messages.
Answer: A
Endpoint monitoring configures web tests from geo-distributed locations that test response time and uptime of web URLs. The test performs an HTTP get operation on the web URL to determine the response time and uptime from each location. Each configured location runs a test every five minutes. After you configure endpoint monitoring, you can drill down into the individual endpoints to view details response time and uptime status over the monitoring interval from each of the test location
Hotspot Question
You manage an Azure Web Site for a consumer-product company.
The website runs in Standard mode on a single medium instance.
You expect increased traffic to the website due to an upcoming sale during a holiday weekend.
You need to ensure that the website performs optimally when user activity is at its highest.
Which option should you select? To answer, select the appropriate option in the answer area.
Note: The `small' instance is selected. This setting would be for the weekdays. Then you would select a larger instance for the `weekend' schedule setting to cover the increased activity.
Your company has a subscription to Azure.
You configure your contoso.com domain to use a private Certificate Authority.
You deploy a web site named MyApp by using the Shared (Preview) web hosting plan.
You need to ensure that clients are able to access the MyApp website by using https.
What should you do?
A. Back up the Site and import into a new website.
B. Use the internal Certificate Authority and ensure that clients download the certificate chain.
C. Add custom domain SSL support to your current web hosting plan.
D. Change the web hosting plan to Standard.
Answer: D
Enabling HTTPS for a custom domain is only available for the Standard web hosting plan mode of Azure websites.
Drag and Drop Question
You administer an Azure Web Site named contosoweb that uses a production database.
You deploy changes to contosoweb from a deployment slot named contosoweb-staging.
You discover issues in contosoweb that are affecting customer data.
You need to resolve the issues in contosoweb while ensuring minimum downtime for users.
You swap contosoweb to contosoweb-staging.
Which four steps should you perform next in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
Drag and Drop Question
You manage an Azure Web Site named salessite1.
You notice some performance issues with salessite1.
You create a new database for salessite1.
You need to update salessite1 with the following changes, in the order shown:
1. Display the list of current connection strings.
2. Create a new connection string named conn1 with a value of:
User ID=User@samplel;
Connec tion Timeout=30;.
3. Download the application logs for analysis.
Which three xplat-cli commands should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate commands from the list of commands to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
Hotspot Question
You manage an Azure Service Bus for your company.
You plan to enable access to the Azure Service Bus for an application named ContosoLOB.
You need to create a new shared access policy for subscriptions and queues that has the following requirements:
– Receives messages from a queue
– Deadletters a message
– Defers a message for later retrieval
– Enumerates subscriptions
– Gets subscription description
In the table below, identify the permission you need to assign to ensure that ContosoLOB is able to accomplish the above requirements. Make only one selection in each column.
Your network includes a legacy application named LegacyApp1.
The application only runs in the Microsoft .NET 3.5 Framework on Windows Server 2008.
You plan to deploy to Azure Cloud Services.
You need to ensure that LegacyApp1 will run correctly in the new environment.
What are two possible ways to achieve this goal? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
A. Upload a VHD with Windows Server 2008 installed.
B. Deploy LegacyApp1 to a cloud service instance configured with Guest OS Family 2.
C. Deploy LegacyApp1 to a cloud service instance configured with Guest OS Family 1.
D. Deploy LegacyApp1 to a cloud service instance configured with Guest OS Family 3.
Answer: BC
Guest OS Family 1 and Guest OS Family 2 supports .NET 3.5 and .Net 4.0. Guest OS Family 3 and Guest OS Family 4 supports .NET 4.0 and .Net 4.5.
Drag and Drop Question
You administer a cloud service named contosoapp that has a web role and worker role.
Contosoapp requires you to perform an in-place upgrade to the service.
You need to ensure that at least six worker role instances and eight web role instances are available when you apply upgrades to the service.
You also need to ensure that updates are completed for all instances by using the least amount of time.
Which value should you use with each configuration? To answer, drag the appropriate value to the correct configuration. Each value may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
* Scenario:
You need to ensure that at least six worker role instances and eight web role instances are available when you apply upgrades to the service.
* You can decide whether you want to update all of the roles in your service or a single role in the service. In either case, all instances of each role that is being upgraded and belong to the first upgrade domain are stopped, upgraded, and brought back online. Once they are back online, the instances in the second upgrade domain are stopped, upgraded, and brought back online.
You migrate a Windows Server .NET web application to Azure Cloud Services.
You need enable trace logging for the application.
Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
A. Update the service definition file.
B. Update the Azure diagnostics configuration.
C. Update the service configuration file.
D. Enable verbose monitoring.
E. Update the application web.config file.
Answer: AB
You can use Azure logging right out of the box–it's part of Azure SDK.
A: Azure Service Definition Schema (.csdef File) The service definition file defines the service model for an application. The file contains the definitions for the roles that are available to a cloud service, specifies the service endpoints, and establishes configuration settings for the service.
B: Take Control of Logging and Tracing in Microsoft Azure The Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Diagnostics namespace, which inherits from and extends standard System.Diagnostics classes, enables the use of System.Diagnostics as a logging framework in Azure environment.
Drag and Drop Question
You plan to deploy a cloud service named contosoapp. The service includes a web role named contosowebrole. The web role has an endpoint named restrictedEndpoint.
You need to allow access to restricted Endpoint only from your office machine using the IP address 18.104.22.168.
Which values should you use within the service configuration file? To answer, drag the appropriate value to the correct location in the service configuration file. Each value may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
You manage a cloud service that utilizes an Azure Service Bus queue.
You need to ensure that messages that are never consumed are retained.
What should you do?
A. Check the MOVE TO THE DEAD-LETTER SUBQUEUE option for Expired Messages in the Azure Portal.
B. From the Azure Management Portal, create a new queue and name it Dead-Letter.
C. Execute the Set-AzureServiceBus PowerShell cmdlet.
D. Execute the New-AzureSchedulerStorageQueueJob PowerShell cmdlet.
Answer: A
The EnableDeadLetteringOnMessageExpiration property allows to enable\disable the dead-lettering on message expiration.
You manage a web application published to Azure Cloud Services.
Your service level agreement (SLA) requires that you are notified in the event of poor performance from customer locations in the US, Asia, and Europe.
You need to configure the Azure Management Portal to notify you when the SLA performance targets are not met.
What should you do?
A. Create an alert rule to monitor web endpoints.
B. Create a Notification Hub alert with response time metrics.
C. Add an endpoint monitor and alert rule to the Notification Hub.
D. Configure the performance counter on the cloud service.
Answer: A
* An alert rule enables you to monitor an available metric within a supported Azure service. When the value of a specified metric violates the threshold assigned for a rule, the alert rule becomes active and registers an alert. When you create an alert rule, you can select options to send an email notification to the service administrator and co- administrators, or another administrator, when the rule becomes active, and when an alert condition is resolved.
* You can configure cloud service alert rules on:
Web endpoint status metrics
Monitoring metrics from the cloud service host operating system Performance counters collected from the cloud service guest virtual machine
You manage a cloud service that hosts a customer-facing application. The application allows users to upload images and create collages. The cloud service is running in two medium instances and utilizes Azure Queue storage for image processing.
The storage account is configured to be locally redundant.
The sales department plans to send a newsletter to potential clients. As a result, you expect a significant increase in global traffic.
You need to recommend a solution that meets the following requirements:
– Configure the cloud service to ensure the application is responsive to the traffic increase.
– Minimize hosting and administration costs.
What are two possible ways to achieve this goal? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
A. Configure the cloud service to run in two Large instances.
B. Configure the cloud service to auto-scale to three instances when processor utilization is above 80%.
C. Configure the storage account to be geo-redundant
D. Deploy a new cloud service in a separate data center.
Use Azure Traffic Manager to load balance traffic between the cloud services.
E. Configure the cloud service to auto-scale when the queue exceeds 1000 entries per machine.
Answer: BE
* An autoscaling solution reduces the amount of manual work involved in dynamically scaling an application. It can do this in two different ways: either preemptively by setting constraints on the number of role instances based on a timetable, or reactively by adjusting the number of role instances in response to some counter(s) or measurement(s) that you can collect from your application or from the Azure environment.
You manage a cloud service on two instances.
The service name is Service1 and the role name is ServiceRole1.
Service1 has performance issues during heavy traffic periods.
You need to increase the existing deployment of Service1 to three instances.
Which Power Shell cmdlet should you use?
A. PS C:\>Set-AzureService -ServiceName "Service1" -Label "ServiceRole1′ -Description "Instance count=3"
B. PS C:\>Set-AzureRole -ServiceName "Service1" -Slot "Production" -RoleName "ServiceRole1" -Count 3
C. PS C:\>Add-AzureWebRole -Name 'ServiceRole1″ -Instances 3
D. PS C:\> $instancecount = New-Object Hashtable$settings['INSTANCECOUNT=3]
PS C:\> Set-AzureWebsite -AppSettings $instancecount ServiceRole1
Answer: B
The Set-AzureRole cmdlet sets the number of instances of a specified role to run in an Azure deployment
This command sets the "MyTestRole3" role running in production on the "MySvc1" service to three instances.
Windows PowerShell
C:\PS>Set-AzureRole ServiceName "MySvc1" Slot "Production" RoleName
"MyTestRole3" Count 3
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