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PRIVACY POLICY Last Updated: April 15, 2012 This is the Privacy Policy of RockHouse Live Media productions, Inc., and its related brands, including DiscLive Network (collectively "RHL", "we", "us"), which applies to this website (the "Website"). In conjunction with any applicable Terms and Conditions of Use, this policy sets out the basis on which any personal data you provide will be collected, processed and stored by us. Please read it carefully. By visiting this Website you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy which may be amended from time to time. If you use the Website after we have published such changes, you will be agreeing to be bound by those changes. If you do not agree to be bound by this policy at any time, you should not use the Website. Children You must be at least 13 years old to register with us. Please do not provide any of your details to us if you are under 13 years old. If you are between the ages of 13 and 16 please ensure that you have your parent's or guardian's consent to register and/or before you provide any personal data to the Website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal data. If we become aware that you are under 13 and are attempting to or have submitted personal data via the Website, or that you are between the ages of 13 and 16 and are attempting to or have submitted personal data via the Website without your parent/guardian's permission, we will not accept such information and we will take steps to remove such information from our records. This may involve us having to access and verify your age and other relevant details. Introduction This Privacy Policy explains the following: -What data we collect about you; -Analysis tools and our use of cookies on the Website and how you can reject these cookies; -How RHL stores data about you; -Passwords; -How RHL uses data about you; -When and how we communicate with you; -Whether we will disclose personal data about you to anyone else; -How you can opt-out from receiving communications from us; -How you can opt-out from our sharing personal data about you; -How long we may keep personal data about you; -How to contact us. What data we collect about you and why When you use the Website, there are different ways we and any service providers who assist us in managing the Website gather information about you. When you register with us, we ask for information such as your name, email address, postal address and contact details. We keep a record of this information and any other information relating to you that we may obtain from our suppliers or other third parties. This record will be stored and processed in the United Kingdom and other countries (see further below under "How we store data about you" and "How we use personal data about you"). All this is necessary for us to recognise you, provide you with the services or information you have requested from us and, where appropriate, to maintain your account with us. In addition to the uses described below, we may also use this information to improve our platform and prevent or detect abuses of our Website. You may also be required to provide personal data to order products or participate in one of our online forums or communities. You are under no obligation to provide such data. However, if you should choose to withhold requested information, we may not be able to provide you with certain services. We keep a record of any electronic correspondence you send us. This helps us to keep track of any problems or concerns you may have had with our Website or services. If retail opportunities are provided, when you place an order, we may collect a credit card number or other payment account number. This record will be stored and processed in the United Kingdom and other countries (see further below under "How we store data about you" and "How we use personal data about you"). Please note that sometimes on particular web pages on the Website we will require you to provide additional personal data. When we do this we will specify further on these web pages why we are collecting this data and how we will use it. Analysis Tools and our use of cookies We may use Google Analytics to analyse how visitors use our Website and to find ways of improving it. To do this, we use Web beacons, pixel tags, clear GIFs and cookies on the Website; these are text files that collect and log site user behaviour information including IP addresses (the number automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider) in an anonymous form. The information collected is transmitted to Google and used to compile statistical reports for us. The information concerned is not used to track or collect any information which may be used to identify a particular individual. All information is used and held anonymously. We may also use cookies and other technologies to optimise your experience on the Website. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your hard drive to store and sometimes track information about you. Cookies can be used to recognise users when they return and may help us to customise the Website for you based on your preferences. Cookies may also be used to identify the user's geographic location and enable us to restrict particular services to users in certain countries. Although they do identify a user's computer, cookies do not personally identify users and passwords and credit card information are not stored in cookies. We control how the data collected from our cookies and other technologies may and may not be used. If you do not want to help us to learn how to improve our Website, products, offers and marketing strategy, you can "opt-out" of our ability to analyse such data and disable cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. Please note that this might affect some functionality on the Website. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, please go to www.allaboutcookies.org Third-party advertisers on the Website may use cookies and other technologies in their advertisements for statistical purposes; we have no control over cookies placed by third parties. How we store data about you In order to communicate with you about local events, offers and opportunities and other news, the data that we collect from you may be transferred to, stored and processed by RHL or one of our service providers based in Europe, North America, South East Asia, Asia Pacific or Latin America. Such entities may be engaged in, among other things: preparing and sending newsletters to which you subscribe; the fulfilment of your orders; the processing of payment details; and the provision of support services. The laws of some countries may not provide the same levels of protection of personal data as your home country, particularly if you are resident in the EEA. By submitting data, you agree to the collection, transfer, storage and processing of data about you for the purposes described in this policy. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that data about you is treated securely in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and that all information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers or those of our service providers. Passwords Where we have given you (or you have chosen) a password to access the Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Please do not share the password with anyone. We will never contact you and ask for your password. How we use Personal Data about you All the information we collect via our Website, or through correspondence with you, is used to provide you with any information, products or services you have requested, to operate RHLÕs business and to improve the services and products that we offer you. We will use personal data about you for purposes such as: -managing the Website and access to it so that it is presented in the most effective way for you and your computer; -dealing with orders and accounts for the supply of our goods and services; -planning and managing RHLÕs business activities, including analysing users' preferences; -research; -providing you with information about the products and services we offer (subject to your preferences where possible); -providing you with information about specially selected third-party products and services (if you consent to receive such information on registration); -notifying you of any changes to our products and services. -providing you with password reminders or to notify you that a particular service has been suspended for maintenance; -processing and dealing with any complaints or enquiries made by you; As described above data may be shared within RHL. There are only a limited number of circumstances in which we may share with others some or all of the data about you that we hold; these are set out below. With local agents and other third parties who assist us in the services we provide to you by, for example, hosting sites or sending emails on our behalf, and with retail partners on the Website. In these instances, we provide them with only the information that they will need to perform their function. RHL requires these third parties to comply with RHLÕs instructions and requires them not to use any personal data for their own business purposes. In the event that our business assets are ever sold to, or purchased by, another company (our data records are part of our business). With our joint venture partners. Where you have expressed an interest in one or more particular artists and have consented to the sharing of information with any such artist(s), we may share personal data about you with such artists and their representatives. Such artists may use this information to contact you regarding products, programs, services and promotions that the artists believe may be of interest to you. We do not control, and are not responsible for, artists' use of personal data. If you decide that you no longer wish RHL to be able to share personal data with artists and their representatives, please see the section on opting-out below. If we are under a duty to disclose or share personal data about you in order to comply with any legal obligation, at the request of relevant regulatory or governmental authorities, pursuant to a subpoena or comparable binding request, or in order to enforce or apply any Terms and Conditions of Use applicable to this Website, or to protect the rights, property or safety of RHL, its customers, or others. We may make available services such as message boards, chat functionality and blogs, to which you are able to post information and materials. Please note that any information you disclose through such services or otherwise on the Website becomes public information, and may be available to visitors to the Website and to the general public. In addition, when you choose to make a posting on such services certain personal data will be available for other users to view. We urge you to exercise discretion and caution when deciding to disclose personal data about you, or any other information, on the Website. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USE BY ANY THIRD PARTY OF ANY PERSONAL DATA YOU VOLUNTARILY DISCLOSE THROUGH ANY SUCH SERVICES OR OTHERWISE ON THE WEBSITE.
-With your express consent. -So far as practicable we will seek to ensure that each disclosure will be subject to an obligation of confidentiality. -We may also share anonymised, aggregated data, such as access statistics, with third parties such as advertisers. This will not involve the identification of individuals. -When and how we communicate with you and how you can opt-out from receiving future communications or from our sharing personal data about you. We may use the information we collect to contact you by post, email and telephone (including automated calls, and by SMS text messages and other multimedia electronic messages such as picture messaging) so as to contact you: -in relation to the functioning of any services you have signed up for in order to ensure that we can deliver the services to you; -to provide you with further information; -in relation to any contribution you have made to the Website, e.g. on our message boards; -to invite you to participate in surveys about our services (participation is always voluntary); -for marketing purposes subject to any elections that you have made in this respect; -about a submission you have made to the Website, including any content you provide. We will not send you unsolicited premium rate SMS messages (which are SMS messages you pay to receive), although your service provider may impose a charge on messages that you receive. Please check with your service provider for details. You will be given the opportunity to opt-out of receiving such marketing information at the point when your details are collected. All promotional information from us will come with instructions on how to opt-out from receiving further information in the future. You can tell us not to contact you or share the information with a third party either at initial registration or later through updates. We may occasionally contact you about products and services we feel may be of interest to you. This contact will only come from us (or our agents) and only if you have indicated that you do not object to these offers. If you would prefer to no longer receive marketing-related messages from us, or if you would prefer that we not share personal data about you with any of our joint venture partners or artists, you may opt-out of receiving messages from us or from our future sharing of information about you by following the ÒunsubscribeÓ instructions in the latest such message you have received. We will endeavour to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable. Please keep in mind that if you opt-out of receiving promotional messages from this Website, we will continue to send you transactional messages and important account-related information regarding this Website or services offered through this Website. We also will continue to honour your requests regarding promotional communications from other RHL websites for which you have subscribed. Please note that if you opt-out as described above, we will not be able to remove personal data about you from the databases of joint venture partners or any artists with which we have already shared personal data about you (i.e., to which we have already provided personal data about you as of the date that we implement your opt-out request). If you wish to cease receiving marketing-related messages from such joint venture partners or any artists, please contact such joint venture partners or any artists directly or utilize any opt-out mechanisms set out in their respective privacy policies or marketing-related messages. Data over the Internet and other websites The Internet is a global network and, therefore, there are times when data about you travels globally and may not always be completely secure. If you provide us with data over the Internet, this will be at your own risk. By using the Website, you agree and authorise us to process data in this way. However, please be assured that we use commercially reasonable procedures and security features to prevent unauthorised access to data about you. Where the Website contains links to third party websites, please note that these have been included for convenience only. Neither RHL nor any of its affiliated companies, controls the content of any linked site and any personal data collected by such sites will be subject to the privacy policy of the third party operating that site. Please read any such third party's policy carefully before providing any personal data on such websites. We sometimes may offer content (e.g., competitions, sweepstakes, or promotions) sponsored by or co-branded with identified third parties. By virtue of these relationships, the third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that you voluntarily submit to participate in the Website activity. We are not responsible for and have no control over these third parties' use of this information. However, we will notify you at the time of requesting personally identifiable information if these third parties will obtain such information. We may use third parties to present or serve the advertisements that you may see on the Website. This Privacy Policy does not cover any use of data that a third party ad server may have collected from you. Offensive or inappropriate content If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to the Website, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on the Website, we may use the personal data we hold about you to stop such behaviour. Where we reasonably believe that you are or may be in breach of any applicable laws (for example, but without limitation, content you have posted may be defamatory), we may use the personal data we hold to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school email/Internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour. Legal disclaimer We are not responsible nor will be liable to you in any way for events beyond our direct control. Because of the complex and constantly changing nature of our technology and business, we cannot guarantee nor do we represent that our performance will be error free, and to the maximum extent permitted by law we will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages or other loss suffered by you and relating to the use or release of your personal data. How long we will hold personal data about you We will hold personal data about you on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with RHL, subject to any applicable laws and/or regulations. In the case that you wish to cancel your registration as a member of the Website once an account is deleted, people cannot use the personal data about you other than for administrative purposes, but it stays on the system for a period of one year for administration purposes before being deleted. Where you contribute to the Website, we will generally only keep your for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted. Further Information; How to contact us If you have questions about personal data relating to you, or our privacy policy, or wish to change or update data we hold about you, please contact us at support AT discliventwork DOT com.


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The TouchPad joins Dell Streak 5 in the tablet graveyard and weak sales for many offerings suggest others are bound to follow.
"The non-iPad tablets just won't sell at retail. That's the clear message from events over the past few days," said Mark Gerber, an analyst at Boston research and investment firm Detwiler Fenton.
Other tablets that have failed to click with consumers include Asustek Computer Eee Pad Transformer and the Xoom from Motorola Mobility, which Google Inc plans to buy.
Research in Motion's PlayBook received scathing reviews and sales have been slack, but it will probably survive since it is key to RIM's strategy.
"I do not expect RIM to be shutting down PlayBook sales any time soon or abandoning that platform, because RIM views it as its future," said Colin Gillis, an analyst at BGC Financial in New York.
Apple's rivals have not fared any better in designing software for tablets. Apple's iOS tablet software accounted for 61.3 percent of the tablet market in the second quarter, more than double the 30.1 percent share held by Google's Android, its nearest competitor. Microsoft held a paltry 4.6 percent share and RIM 3.3 percent, according to Strategy Analytics.
But the landscape could soon change. Google's move this week to buy Motorola Mobility, a hardware manufacturer, has also potentially raised the stakes against Apple as it will give the Internet leader devices to showcase its software — just as Apple does.
All eyes are now on Google's "Ice Cream Sandwich" system, which will unite the Android software used in tablets and smartphones. That is expected to encourage developers to flock to the platform and create better apps.
Microsoft could also pose a threat when it releases its tablet software, code-named Windows 8, but this probably won't be until the fall of 2012.
"The ecosystem built around Microsoft is the largest computing ecosystem out there, so this makes it the company most likely to get significant traction in the tablet marketplace," said BGC's Gillis.
Microsoft has said the software will run on a range of devices from traditional PCs to laptops and tablets, and incorporate mouse and keyboard commands.
Amazon.com, the maker of the popular Kindle e-reader, is also expected to announce plans to release a tablet this fall, providing a challenge to Apple.
The Amazon offering could be a "game-changer," Colin Sebastian, an analyst at Robert Baird & Co, said in a recent note. The tablet will likely feature Android's Honeycomb OS system, a 7-inch screen and priced under $300, he said.
Sebastian forecast sales of up to 3 million units in the first year and said they would eventually outsell other Android-enabled tablets from Motorola and Acer, and could potentially surpass Samsung's Galaxy Tab.
Amazon's as-yet unnamed tablet poses a significant threat to Apple because of the Kindle's popularity and the movie and music services the company sells. Analysts also expect Amazon to subsidize the tablet's price, which could also boost sales.
"Amazon is widely viewed as a wild card. It has the potential to be disruptive," said NPD analyst Ross Rubin.
The crowded market has not discouraged Sony Corp either. The consumer electronics giant is going full steam ahead with plans to release its first two tablets in the fall.
"We're going to see many competitors come and go," a Sony spokeswoman said.
"We're going to bring the best of all of the assets at our disposal to bear: hardware, content and network services."

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Last week, Jodi and I hosted Glendon Mellow (a.k.a The Flying Trilobite) and his lovely family for an all-too-brief night right before the end of their road trip through the Maritimes. I was more than willing to put them up just for a chance to reunite with Glendon and to meet Michelle, their adorable son, and their nephew Christian, but they saw fit to gift us with this great piece of shale art as a thank-you.
It was still wet in spots when he presented it to us. A personal gift like this means a hell of a lot to me. It will get a prominent place in our office, once it's re-done. (The office is kind of in shambles at the moment.)
Thank you, Glendon. You know you didn't have to.


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This collar is le chic! Featuring super sparkly crystals and soft faux leather material, this designer dog collar provides the perfect touch of bling! Perfect for holiday, special occasions, or something for hipster doggies to wear out on the town. Proudly made in the USA. This also comes in ultrasuede material, and assorted faux leather colors. Don't forget there is a matching leash!
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Create a $50,000 income roasting just one hour per day. Hidden within the second most traded commodity in the world is a virtually untapped business opportunity. Coffee Roasting Made Easy provides valuable insights from the pioneers of this new budding industry. Coffee micro roasting is today what micro brew beer was 25 years ago. Learn how to get in on the ground floor of this exciting new opportunity!


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Paige (Rachel McAdams) and Leo (Channing Tatum) are happily married newlyweds, but their idyllic life together suddenly shatters when a car accident leaves her in a coma. When Paige awakes, she has severe memory loss and doesn't know Leo. She also has a confusing relationship with her parents (Sam Neill, Jessica Lange) and still harbors feelings for a former fiance (Scott Speedman). Despite these difficult obstacles, Leo is determined to renew their bond and rebuild their marriage. Directed by Michael Sucsy.
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King James Bible (FAITH COMES BY HEARING) audio - Listen Gospel of Luke Chapter 6 mp3
1 And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands. 2 And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days? 3 And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him; 4 How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone? 5 And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. 6 And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered. 7 And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him. 8 But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth. 9 Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it? 10 And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other. 11 And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus. 12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. 13 And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles; 14 Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, 15 Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes, 16 And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor. 17 And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases; 18 And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed. 19 And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all. 20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. 21 Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh. 22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. 23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets. 24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation. 25 Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. 26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets. 27 But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, 28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. 29 And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also. 30 Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again. 31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. 32 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. 33 And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same. 34 And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again. 35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. 36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. 37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven: 38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. 39 And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? 40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master. 41 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 42 Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye. 43 For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 44 For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. 45A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. 46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? 47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: 48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. 49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great. |


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Setting up the x86 ISA model for a program run.
IMPORTANT: Note that if these books were built using any
other value of
First, obtain the x86 machine-code version of the program you want to execute on the model. Note that we support only ELF (created on Linux machines) and Mach-O binaries (created on Darwin/Apple machines).
Here is a sample popcount program in C that will be used for illustration throughout this section.
// FILENAME: popcount.c // From Sean Anderson's Bit Twiddling Hacks // See https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html #include<stdio.h> #include<stdlib.h> int popcount_32 (unsigned int v) { v = v - ((v>> 1)& 0x55555555); v = (v& 0x33333333) + ((v>> 2)& 0x33333333); v = ((v + (v>> 4)& 0xF0F0F0F) * 0x1010101)>> 24; return(v); } int main (int argc, char *argv[], char *env[]) { int v; printf ("\nEnter a 32-bit number: "); scanf ("%d",& v); v = v& 0xffffffff; printf ("\nPopcount of %d is: %d\n", v, popcount_32(v)); return 0; }
We can use the following command to obtain the x86 binary
corresponding to this program; we will call this binary
gcc popcount.c -o popcount.o
You can see the assembly and machine code corresponding to this
program using utilities like
On Linux machines:
objdump -d popcount.o
On Mac machines:
otool -tvj popcount.o
Note that the assembly and machine code can differ from machine to machine, program run to program run. All the concrete values of addresses, etc. used in this example can be different for you.
The following events describe the process of setting up the x86 ISA
model for the execution of
Include the top-level book (i.e., X86ISA/top.lisp) in a fresh ACL2 session.
(include-book "top" :ttags :all)
Alternatively, it can be faster to just include tools/execution/top.lisp.
(include-book "tools/execution/top" :ttags :all)
You should always be in the
(in-package "X86ISA")
(init-sys-view 0 x86)
Read and load
(binary-file-load "popcount.o" :elf t) ;; or :mach-o t
Use init-x86-state-64 to modify other components of the
x86 state, like the instruction pointer, registers, arguments in
memory, if necessary. This function only writes the specified values
into the x86 state while preserving any values previously written to
the x86 state. For example, the following form will not make
changes to any general-purpose registers except
(init-x86-state-64 ;; Status (MS and fault field) nil ;; Start Address --- set the RIP to this address #x100000f12 ;; Initial values of General-Purpose Registers '((#.*rdi* . #xff00ff00) (#.*rsp* . #.*2^45*)) ;; Control Registers: a value of nil will not nullify existing ;; values. nil ;; Model-Specific Registers: a value of nil will not nullify existing ;; values. nil ;; Segment Registers: a value of nil will not nullify existing values. nil ; visible portion nil nil nil ; hidden portion ;; Rflags Register 2 ;; Memory image: a value of nil will not nullify existing values. nil ;; x86 state x86)
Aside: Some other ways to initialize the x86 state are listed below. The list is not exhaustive.
The memory image argument of init-x86-state accepts
alists satisfying n64p-byte-alistp. This can be used to
provide a program binary in the form of a list of address-byte pairs
rather using
The function load-program-into-memory also accepts
programs that satisfy
Of course, wml08 (and its friends like write-bytes-to-memory) can also be used to write a program to the
memory. Initialization of other components of the x86 state can be
done by using the appropriate updater functions directly. For
All the mechanisms to initialize the x86 state aside, how do we
know what values to put in the x86 state? This is an important and
interesting question. Its answer depends on the program (or snippet
of a program) we intend to execute and requires the user to be
familiar with x86 assembly and calling conventions. For this popcount
example, suppose all we wanted to execute was the
... 100000f10: 89 c7 mov %eax,%edi 100000f12: e8 49 ff ff ff callq 100000e60<_popcount_32> 100000f17: 48 8d 3d 66 00 00 00 lea 0x66(%rip),%rdi ...
We set the start address to be the address of the instruction that
calls the
Before entering
... 0000000100000e60<_popcount_32> : 100000e60: 55 push %rbp 100000e61: 48 89 e5 mov %rsp,%rbp 100000e64: 89 7d fc mov %edi,-0x4(%rbp) ...
It should be emphasized that it is the user's responsibility to
ensure that the state is initialized "correctly", i.e., the program
does not overlap with the page tables, the stack pointer is
initialized so that the stack does not run out of memory nor does it
overwrite the program during execution (in our example,
Run the program using x86-run or x86-run-steps or x86-run-halt. To run one instruction only, use x86-fetch-decode-execute. You can also see Dynamic-instrumentation for details about dynamically debugging the program by inserting breakpoints and logging the x86 state into a file, etc.
(x86-run-halt #x100000f17 ;; halt-address 10000 ;; limit on number of steps to be run x86) ;; or ;; (x86-run-steps 10000 x86) ;; or ;; (x86-run 10000 x86)
How do know that the program ran to completion? After executing the above form, we can inspect the contents of the following fields:
(fault x86) (ms x86) (rip x86)
If the
Where did the number
This, again, is up to the user. Guessing the clock value is an
answer. In our example,
Inspect the output of the program. For this program, register
(rgfi *rax* x86) ;; Note that eax is the low 32 bits of rax.
For the value
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Lately I've been exploring Vice, not the awful habits (those come naturally), but the international print and online magazine by that name. This week I've clicked on pieces with such headlines as "A Muslim's Adventures in Pork," "Massachusetts Might Force a Women to Share Parental Rights with the Rapist Who Impregnated Her," and "You Can't Just Walk Around Masturbating in Public, Swedish People." The latter story was about a 65-year-old man who did the deed on a public beach in Sweden but was acquitted on grounds that he wasn't seeking to harass "any specific person."
But what really drew me into Vice was not a lascivious Swede, but an interview with Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of acclaimed novels including Housekeeping and Gilead, and one of the more clear-eyed observers of the human situation.
When I saw the headline, "A Teacher and Her Student … Marilynne Robinson on Staying Out of Trouble," my first thought was that she's a creative choice for a publication called Vice. Robinson has a fresh and thoughtful take on the theological sensibility of John Calvin, who had a searching eye for all manner of human frailty.
Asked if she had any notable vices, Robinson quickly mentioned "lassitude," apparently alluding to the second definition of that word—"a condition of indolent indifference." She recalled a comment by a scientist on why creatures sleep—"It keeps the organism out of trouble." She added, "So every once in a while I sit on the couch thinking, I'm keeping my organism out of trouble," suggesting another human foible, that of self-rationalization.
"I do get myself involved in things that require a tremendous amount of work. And of course, I'm always measuring what I do against what I set out to do," she continued. "My other vices—I cannot have macaroons in the house! I'm a pretty viceless creature, as these things are conventionally defined. On the other hand, one of the reasons I have taken [John] Calvin to my heart is that I can always find vices in the most unpromising places."
Asked what a vice is, Robinson gave a sort of classically Calvinist response, "I have no idea. Underachievement, I suppose. The idea being that you have a good thing to give and you deny it."
The Trouble with Seeing
The interviewer, Thessaly La Force (a former student of Robinson's at the Iowa Writers' Workshop), evinced no interest in the theological side of Robinson's ruminations. And the part of the conversation I'll remember for a while had to do not exactly with a vice, but with the decline of a virtue—simple respect for others and their degrees of goodness. Here's how she unpacks the problem:
I think that a lot of the energies of the 19th century, that could fairly be called democratic, have really ebbed away. That can alarm me. The tectonics are always very complex. But I think there are limits to how safe a progressive society can be when its conception of the individual seems to be shrinking and shrinking. It's very hard to respect the rights of someone you do not respect. I think that we have almost taught ourselves to have a cynical view of other people. So much of the scientism that I complain about is this reductionist notion that people are really very small and simple. That their motives, if you were truly aware of them, would not bring them any credit. That's so ugly. And so inimical to the best of everything we've tried to do as a civilization and so consistent with the worst of everything we've ever done as a civilization.
On the surface, the notion that human beings are deserving of cynicism might seem to be an instinctively Calvinist (read dour) view. But that's not how Robinson presents this misunderstood man of the Reformation. She has pointed out elsewhere that Calvinism starts with the idea that human beings are images of God, and every time we see another person, we're encountering this image. The complication is that humans don't have very good vision, in that regard.
Every act of seeing "tends to be enormously partial, just given the human situation," Robinson told my friend and collaborator Bob Abernethy a few years ago. We may see things in a person that bolster our cynicism without seeing much else. And so, in her hands, this Calvinist perspective, this awareness that we never see adequately or exhaustively, "sensitizes you to the profundity of the fact of any other life—that people can't be thought of dismissively." And yet, that's exactly how we are often made to think of the other, courtesy of this human situation. …read more


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Arguably permaculture is one of Australia's greatest intellectual exports, having helped people worldwide to design ecologically sustainable strategies for their homes, gardens, farms and communities. Permaculture Pioneers explores social and inner change for sustainability, charting a history of the first three decades of permaculture, through the personal stories of Australian permaculturists. From permaculture co-originator David Holmgren, to ABC Gardening Australia presenter Josh Byrne, the authors span the generations and the continent.
These stories represent the scope, depth and diversity of Australian permaculture. They explore some of the influences on those who have embraced it, record milestones and highlight recurring themes. The editors' contributions and afterword by social ecologist Professor Stuart B Hill frame the stories in terms of transformation of the inner landscape of our minds and hearts, as the critical starting point for the outer change that is needed.
For Australians and others around the world whose lives have been changed by permaculture, this book provides a context for articulating and celebrating their own stories and experiences. Even more, it invites each of us, permaculturists or not, to embrace our power in designing our world out of the best in ourselves, for the benefit of the whole earth community.
Like tough, resilient pioneer plants with their ability to grow in barren and hostile ground, social pioneers work courageously at the edges of accepted norms, bringing new ideas and opportunities. They build knowledge, experience and new perspectives – fertile soil for those who follow.
Online preview of – Permaculture Pioneers: stories from the new frontier
The Authors
Published June 2011
Melliodora Publishing
Paperback, 364 pages, B&W photographs throughout. 150mm (w) x 215mm (h).
Printed in Australia on PEFC endorsed paper.


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Friday, June 14th, 2013
Taking My Time
Jim Guthrie Takes his Time making it onto the 2013 Polaris Prize long list
Colin MedleyThe 2013 Polaris Prize long list was announced yesterday, and unlike past years where there were a number of obvious frontrunners for inclusion, whether because they were by the biggest artists or had the biggest buzz over the preceding twelve months, there actually didn't seem to be a lot of "gimmes" amongst the records eligible this year. Rather than the field having a few standouts and a lot of dark horses, it instead felt very wide and flat, which meant that guessing who'd be amongst the forty longlisted records was anyone's guess.
And now, even with the pool of candidates narrowed from every Canadian album released in the past year down to forty, it's difficult to speculate at who will survive onto the short list of ten albums when it's announced on July 16; the only thing that's certain is that this year's Polaris – the eighth – could be the most exciting one yet, at least if you're the sort of person who derives excitement from music awards-spotting. I'm going to refrain from any sort of guessing until at least then because truly I have no idea what the temperature of the jury at large is. But I can tell you what my ballot was, besides four-for-five at making the long list. And so I've got one more longlisted album to insert into my ballot before my Polaris duties for this year are done, and to be honest I have no idea what it's going to be. Guess I've got some more homework to do.
The Polaris Prize will be awarded at a gala at the Carlu in Toronto on September 23.
1) Evening Hymns / Spectral Dusk (Shuffling Feet)
My connection to this record is well-documented, but even without that personal angle, it's still a gorgeously written, performed, and recorded piece of folk-rock that succeeds at being both intensely personal, and yet universally relatable. I can usually say that from one Polaris to the next, that I don't really have a dog in the fight, but not this year. This is my dog.
MP3: Evening Hymns – "Arrows"
Video: Evening Hymns – "Family Tree"
2) Godspeed You! Black Emperor / 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (Constellation)
Despite being the act that least likely to even acknowledge being nominated, Godspeed's unexpected comeback record was maybe the closest thing to a sure thing I could think of. Besides the engaging narrative around the band's return to active duty and their sneak release of the album, there's the simple fact that the Godspeed formula still works amazingly well, particularly when they've got something to be angry about. Which they do.
Stream: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – "Mladic"
Jim Guthrie / Takes Time (Static Clang)
Another unexpected record but a wholly welcome one was Jim Guthrie's first proper singer-songwriter record in a decade, and one that affirmed his status as one of this country's greatest melodicists. While it seems like just a collection of pop songs, pretty much every song is a master class in arrangement and songwriting efficiency; Guthrie knows exactly how much to give and when and makes it look and sound effortless. Whether it shortlists or wins or not, the best prize would be not having to wait another ten years for its follow-up. The Huffington Post has an interview with Guthrie about the record.
Video: Jim Guthrie – "Bring On The Night"
Video: Jim Guthrie – "The Rest Is Yet To Come"
Rachel Zeffira / The Deserters (Paper Bag)
My one selection that didn't make the long list, and I'm not really surprised it didn't. While I think its classical-operatic-indie hybrid is as good as anything else on the list, and arguably more interesting, London-based Zeffira's distance from the Canadian scene at large and lack of wide promotion – one lightly-attended North American show to date – probably doomed it.
Video: Rachel Zeffira – "Here On In"
Video: Rachel Zeffira – "The Deserters"
Young Galaxy / Ultramarine (Paper Bag)
It may have been the last record to make my ballot, but the fact that it's here at all considering that for the longest time, I had no time for Young Galaxy, says a lot. I often bemoan the general lack of stylistic or artistic revolution amongst Canadian bands – more often it seems they prefer to continue refining what's been proven to work – but Young Galaxy have successfully reinvented themselves and that impresses me. The record's pretty damn good as well. They've just released a new, Bruckheimer-esque video from it.
Video: Young Galaxy – "New Summer"
Video: Young Galaxy – "Pretty Boy"
NOW meets the band formerly known as Always but now know as Alvvays; they show off their new official name tonight, June 14, at 10PM at The Silver Dollar.
Toro gets to know Toronto country-pop newcomers Beams. Their NXNE showcase is at 11PM tonight, June 14, at The Central.
Spin talks to Devon Welsh of Majical Cloudz. They play BLK BOX for NXNE on June 15 at midnight.
The National Post catches up with Gentleman Reg, who did his NXNE duties Wednesday night.
YOUNXT hada pre-NXNE interview with Olenka & The Autumn Lovers, who played a couple of shows yesterday.
aux.tv interviews No Joy, who played NXNE last night.
Exclaim talks to Katie Stelmanis of Austra, whose new record Olympia comes out June 18. They play The Phoenix on September 27.
Hooded Fang have released a new video from their latest, Gravez.
Video: Hooded Fang – "Bye Bye Land"


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When a Russian correspondent (Gayane Chichakyan from RT) asked the White House press secretary under what legal authority the US was bombing Syria, he at first pretended to not understand the question, then babbled incoherently, looking rather silly. You see, the US likes to fight wars (or rather, its military contractors like to fight wars, because that's how they make money, and they happen to own a big piece of the US government). But the US can't win any wars, and that makes its entire war effort rather silly (in a murderous sort of way).
By Dmitry Orlov
October 06, 2015 "Information Clearing House" – I couldn't help but notice that over the past few weeks the Empire has become extremely silly—so silly that I believe it deserves the title of the World's Silliest Empire. One could claim that it has been silly before, but recent developments seem to signal a quantum leap in its silliness level.
The first bit of extreme silliness surfaced when Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, the head of the United States Central Command, told a Senate panel that only a very small number of Syrian fighters trained by the United States remained in the fight—perhaps as few as five. The tab for training and equipping them was $500 million. That's $100 million per fighter, but that's OK, because it's all good as long as the military contractors are getting paid. Things got even sillier when it later turned out that even these few fighters got car-jacked by ISIS/al Qaeda in Syria (whatever they are currently calling themselves) and got their vehicles and weapons taken away from them.
General Austin's previous role as as Lt. General Casey in Tim Burton's film Mars Attacks! It was already a very silly role, but his current role is a definite career advancement, both in terms of rank and in terms of silliness level.
The next silly moment arrived at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, where Obama, who went on for 30 minutes instead of the allotted 15 (does Mr. Silly President know how to read a clock?) managed to use up all of this time and say absolutely nothing that made any sense to anyone.
But it was Putin's speech that laid out the Empire's silliness for all to see when he scolded the US for making a bloody mess of the Middle East with its ham-handed interventions. The oft-repeated quote is "Do you understand what you have done?" but that's not quite right. The Russian «Вы хоть понимаете теперь, чего вы натворили?» can be more accurately translated as "How can you even now fail to understand what a mess you have made?" Words matter: this is not how one talks to a superpower before an assembly of the world's leaders; this is how one scolds a stupid and wayward child. In the eyes of the whole world, this made the Empire look rather silly.
What happened next is that Russia announced the start of its bombing campaign against all manner of terrorists in Syria (and perhaps Iraq too; the Iraqi request is in Putin's in-box). What's notable about this bombing campaign is that it is entirely legal. The legitimate, elected government of Syria asked Russia for help; the campaign was approved by the Russian legislature. On the other hand, the bombing campaign that the US has been conducting in Syria is entirely illegal. There are exactly two ways to legally bomb the territory of another country: 1. an invitation from that country's government and 2. a UN Security Council resolution. The US has not obtained either of them.
Why is this important? Because the UN, with its Security Council, was instituted to prevent war, by making it difficult for nations to engage each other militarily without all sorts of international economic and political repercussions. After World War II it was thought that wars are rather nasty and that something should be done to prevent them. But the US feels that this is rather unnecessary. When a Russian correspondent (Gayane Chichakyan from RT) asked the White House press secretary under what legal authority the US was bombing Syria, he at first pretended to not understand the question, then babbled incoherently, looking rather silly. You see, the US likes to fight wars (or rather, its military contractors like to fight wars, because that's how they make money, and they happen to own a big piece of the US government). But the US can't win any wars, and that makes its entire war effort rather silly (in a murderous sort of way).
In spite of American recalcitrance, the UN does in fact prevent wars. Recently it prevented the US from mounting a "limited strike against the Assad regime in response to the brazen use of chemical weapons" (or so said Obama during his UN speech). This was helped by a deft bit of Russian diplomacy, in the course of which Syria voluntarily gave up its chemical weapons stockpiles. Undeterred by diplomacy, the US squeezed off a couple of cruise missiles in the general direction of Syria, but the Russians promptly shot them out of the sky, triggering a major rethink at the Pentagon and, of course, making the US look rather silly.
But once you make a fool of yourself, why stop? Indeed, Obama shows no intention of stopping. Just about the entire audience at the UN General Assembly knew that the Syrian government's chemical attack on its own people never happened. The chemicals were provided by the Saudis and were unwittingly used by the Syrian rebels on themselves. Lying, when everybody knows that you are lying, and knows that you know that you are lying: what could possibly be sillier?
Ok, how about continuously prattling on about "freedom and democracy"—in the Middle East, after throwing the whole region into chaos through their brain-dead interventions? The only voice of reason in the US seems to be that of Donald Trump, who recently declared that the Middle East was more stable under Saddam Hussein, Moammar Khaddafi and Bashar al Assad. Indeed it was. The fact that the only non-silly politician left in the US is Trump—that bloviating moneybag—sets a rather high bar for silliness for the country as a whole.
Prattling on about "freedom and democracy" in the Middle East is also silly because the entire region is tribal—has been tribal for a few thousand years, and will be tribal for a few thousand more. In each locale, some tribe is on top. If the idea is to carve it up into sovereign territorial units (none of which qualifies as a nation, because each one ends up being multinational) then each territorial unit ends up being ruled by some tribe while others grumble. Blunder in and exploit their grumbling to bring about "regime change"—and the whole place invariably burns down.
A case in point is Israel: it's got the top dog tribe—the Jews, and they can shoot or bomb anybody else with impunity. It is considered "democratic" because the Jews get to vote, which is very nice for the Jews. The Alawites in Syria get to vote too—and vote for Bashar al Assad—so why isn't that good enough? Because of American hypocrisy and double standards.
It's like that right down the line. Saudi Arabia is owned by one tribe—the House of Saud, and everybody else is disenfranchised. Iraq used to be run by the Sunnis from Saddam Hussein's tribe, but the Americans dislodged them, and now what remains of it is ruled by the Shia from the south of the country while the Sunnis ran off and joined ISIS. This can all seem like super-simple stuff, but not for the Americans, because it runs counter to their ideology, which dictates that the world must be remade in America's image. And so they keep trying to do this (or keep pretending to be trying, because results don't matter as long as their military contractors get paid) and don't seem to care one bit that this is making them look very silly.
And so the typical pattern has been this: the US bombs a country to smithereens, mounts a ground invasion, sets up a puppet regime and, promptly or not so promptly, pulls out. The puppet regime falls apart, and then you have either ungovernable chaos or some new, especially nasty form of dictatorship, or a little of each: a failed state, like Libya, and Yemen, and much of Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. It doesn't much matter that this is the result (as long as the military contractors are getting paid) because America's motto seems to be "Look Silly and Carry On." Wreck a country—and it's on to the next bombing campaign.
But this is where it all gets meta-silly: in Syria they can't even achieve that. The Americans have been bombing ISIS for a year now; meanwhile, ISIS has gotten stronger and occupied more territory. But they haven't gotten around to overthrowing Assad; instead, the ISIS boys have been busy prancing around the desert in black head rags and white basketball shoes taking selfies, blowing up archaeological sites, enslaving women and beheading anyone they don't like.
But now it appears that the Russians have achieved in five days of bombing what the Americans couldn't in a year and the ISIS boys are running away to Jordan; others want to go to Germany and ask for asylum. This has made the Americans upset, because, you see, the Russians were bombing "their" terrorists—the ones the Americans recruited, armed and trained… and then bombed? I know, silly—but true. The Russians will have none of that, because their approach is, if it looks like a terrorist and quacks like a terrorist, then it is a terrorist, so let's bomb it.
But it is understandable that this approach is unpopular with the Americans: here they were carefully pumping the place full of weapons and equipment, and bombing carefully around the edges so as not to blow up any of it, and the Russians just blunder in and blow it all up! The Saudis are absolutely livid, because it was they who paid for much of it. Plus the terrorists are their own Wahhabi-Takfiri brethren—the ones who like to declare various other Muslims that they don't happen to like to be infidels, in direct violation of their own Sharia law. Does that remind you of anyone? Anyone silly?
But it doesn't appear that the US can do anything to stop the Russians, or the Chinese who also want to get a piece of ISIS to stuff and mount, or the Iranians and the Hezbollah fighters who are ready to march in and mop up what remains of ISIS once the bombing missions destroy all the war materiel it has amassed. And so it's time for Americans to start an information war by accusing the Russians of causing civilian casualties.
Of course, being Americans, they have to prosecute this information war in the silliest way possible. First, you trot out your claims of civilian casualties before the Russians fly a single sortie. Oops! Then you stuff the social media with fake pictures of wounded children produced beforehand by performers in white helmets paid for by George Soros. And then, when asked for evidence, you refuse to provide any.
So far so good, but let's get even sillier. Immediately after screaming loudly about Russians causing civilian casualties, the Americans blow up a hospital in Afghanistan that was run by Medecins sans Frontières, in spite of being informed of its location both before and during the bombing. "Don't kill civilians… like this!" Could it get any sillier than that? Of course it can: the US can start blatantly, nakedly lying about the event: "There were Taleban fighters hiding in that hospital!"—no, there weren't; "The Afghans told us to bomb that hospital!"—no, they didn't. Bombing that hospital was an actual war crime—so says the UN. Are are the Russians now going to listen to criticism from war criminals? Don't be silly!
It's really hard to tell, but anything seems possible now. For example, the US no longer seems to have a foreign policy: the White House says one thing, the State Department another, the Pentagon a third, Samantha Power at the UN pursues a foreign policy of her own using Twitter, and Senator John McCain wants to arm Syrian rebels to shoot down Russian planes. (All five of them? John, don't be silly!) In response to all this confusion, America's political puppets in the European Union are starting to twitch uncontrollably and go off-script, because the nerve center in Washington is no longer sending them clear signals.
How is this all going to end? Well, since we are all just being silly, let me make a humble suggestion: the US should bomb everything inside the Beltway in Washington, plus a few counties in Virginia. That should significantly degrade the country's capability for being extremely silly. And if that doesn't work—so what? After all, it is clear that results don't matter. As long as the military contractors are getting paid, it's all good.
Dmitry Orlov is a Russian-American engineer and a writer on subjects related to "potential economic, ecological and political decline and collapse in the United States," something he has called "permanent crisis". http://cluborlov.blogspot.com


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Last fall I got a Samsung Galaxy S3 phone. I love the S3. It's an awesome piece of technology.
Sometime overnight a couple of evenings ago, it developed a hardware problem and the next day it would no longer boot. It was working perfectly when I went to bed, but when I woke up something had gone wrong.
So, I went by a Sprint store. The technician tried to do a hard reset, but no go. He ended up giving me a new white S3.
I ended up having a bit of a problem getting my Gmail contacts to synch to the new phone from Google's cloud. After a bit of research, I discovered there is an apparent bug in Google+. If you have Google+ friend synching enabled on your Android phone, it ends up preventing the Gmail contacts from synching to the phone.
The work-around to the problem is to turn off Google+ synching. Once I turned off Google+ data synching in the the phone settings, the Gmail contacts instantly started synching over. I've got quite a large contact list since the list was originally developed in Windows and has been synched over to a number of different phones as well as OS/X, so it took a while to synch over.
I don't need the Google+ contact list to synch over to the phone anyhow, so I will keep this Google+ app feature turned off. I had noticed even before this happened that contact updates didn't synch properly to or from the old phone, so it is likely that the bug in the Google+ synching has been around for a while and as of this writing is not resolved.
So, if you get a new Android phone and you are having trouble getting your Gmail contacts to synch over to the new device, make sure that Google+ synching is disabled then cloud synching of your contacts should begin working just like it's supposed to.


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Learn what to do when an unauthorized change is made to your Norton account
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Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management provides a centralized way to create, manage and share environments in your domain-joined Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 development shop.
Mickey explains the basics of workspaces in Team Foundation Version Control and how they can help you manage code changes.
Faced with reviewing large swaths of other people's code, Peter Vogel is left to ask: what does it really take to be good at debugging?
Your team won't achieve automated build nirvana overnight. Here's how to break down the process and adopt the changes in the Microsoft build system.
Mickey Gousset discusses test cases and test suites, and how they relate to test plans in Microsoft Test Manager 2010.
Inside TFS columnist Mickey Gousset delves into how to create a test case using Microsoft Test Manager 2010.
Test-first development is an approach to software development that focuses on results: Tell me the expected outcome, not the requirements.
Visual Studio 2010 brings testers and developers closer together and provides testers the tools they need to be able to do their job more effectively. We look at Test Plans in Microsoft Test Manager 2010 and discuss how they are used within the testing framework.
As Microsoft at Tech-Ed details ALM features of Visual Studio vNext, information about the core IDE remains hard to come by.
Jason Zander shows off new features that bring application stakeholders and IT operations into a tighter loop with developers.
Latest version of Gemini Agile project management platform for .NET development adds testing support.
Telerik this week updated a pair of products: The Telerik Test Studio automated test suite and Telerik TeamPulse team project management package.
Mickey Gousset walks through the improved Administration Console in Visual Studio TFS 2010.
Mickey Gousset introduces us to a new, free tool for visualizing work item information in Team Foundation Server 2010, providing state visualization, work item analysis and dependency analysis.
TeamPulse provides economical support for teams implementing the Agile methodology, but it doesn't integrate with Visual Studio.
How to associate unit tests with requirements in Visual Studio 2010.
In the second part of this two-part series, Mickey Gousset shows how TFS 2010 lets users create Excel reports, including pivot tables and charts, from a work item query. The report can then be published and shared with other users.
TFS 2010 uses SQL Server Reporting Services to provide reports, but because it uses data warehouse and analysis services to store reporting information, users can roll their own. We examine how to use Microsoft Excel to access the Team Foundation Server OLAP cube to create a report.
C# Corner columnist Patrick Steele says writing unit tests can be a time-consuming chore. He looks at some approaches that can make writing unit tests easier and more efficient for C# programmers.
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while I was diagnosing a SELinux avc denial today, I dug deeper into the kernel sysctl code to understand what I was seeing since it wasn't making any sense.
I stumbled over the following added bit in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c which seems very odd to me:
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@@ -501,6 +513,27 @@ static ssize_t proc_sys_call_handler(struct file *filp, void __user *buf,
if (!table->proc_handler)
goto out;
+#ifdef CONFIG_GRKERNSEC
+ error = -EPERM;
+ if (gr_handle_chroot_sysctl(op))
+ goto out;
+ dget(filp->f_path.dentry);
+ if (gr_handle_sysctl_mod(filp->f_path.dentry->d_parent->d_name.name, table->procname, op)) {
+ dput(filp->f_path.dentry);
+ goto out;
+ }
+ dput(filp->f_path.dentry);
+ if (!gr_acl_handle_open(filp->f_path.dentry, filp->f_path.mnt, op))
+ goto out;
+ if (write) {
+ if (current->nsproxy->net_ns != table->extra2) {
+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ goto out;
+ } else if (!ns_capable(current->nsproxy->net_ns->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN))
+ goto out;
+ }
The part that stands out is:
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if (write) {
if (current->nsproxy->net_ns != table->extra2) {
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
goto out;
} else if (!ns_capable(current->nsproxy->net_ns->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN))
goto out;
What is odd, this part of the code should actually not make any assumptions about what extra1 or extra2 are about since they are defined by the handlers themselves. And here it is apparently assumed that extra2 can contain the network namespace (net_ns is a pointer to a struct). Since proc_sys_call_handler is the main entry point for all calls and since I haven't been able to find any indication that any code is actually putting a pointer to net_ns in extra2, this, imho, effectively means all modifications require the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability, no matter what. This obviously cannot be what the author of this code intended since that could have been achieved with less code.
For my problem that means: A daemon (running as root w/o CAP_SYS_ADMIN but w/ CAP_NET_ADMIN) cannot change /proc/sys/net/core/xfrm_acq_expires even though it should.
Is this intended behavior? If yes, could someone point me to the right location where extra2 is set accordingly so that it makes sense in this context?
Thanks a lot in advance,


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Other sites started it, I'll try to finish it. Think twice before you read this post, we have a lot of spoilers here.
Most of this stuff will be announced at the Blizzcon anyway, if you didn't take the time to order the live stream you might want to consider doing it. We will probably see a lot of interesting things here.
Forums - The WoW Cataclysm General Discussions forum is now available.
Update - Another update from the Something Awful forums has been confirmed and is now integrated to the post. (The original quote was removed by the author's request on SA)
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is the next expansion for World of Warcraft. Dark and forgotten threats that have long stayed out of sight have finally arrived on our shores, unleashing a cataclysmic event upon Azeroth and now preparing more nefarius plans to take it back.
Level Cap
The level cap in the next expansion will be slightly lower than expected this time around; 85.
This suggests Blizzard wants more room for expansions before hitting the level 100 cap. With less leveling to do (along with the revamped leveling listed below likely to increase the speed and ease of leveling), leveling a new race remains appealing for new and existing players alike.
Leveling from 80-85 should be a much bigger deal, the idea is to make sure that gaining a level really means something and doesn't make you feel like you just have 4 more levels to go.
New Classes
Cataclysm doesn't introduce any new classes to the game. Instead, Blizzard have offered more race and classes combinations to players. The Some of these have alreadly been datamined from the 3.2.2 Test Realms. The An Injured Colleague quest and it's new Night Elf counter-part help to introduce the lore for these new race and class combinations, so we can probably expect to see more of these for some of the less traditional ones.
- Human Hunter
- Orc Mage
- Night Elf Mage
- Dwarf Mage
- Blood Elf Warrior
- Dwarf Shaman
- Undead Hunter
- Tauren Paladin
- Tauren Priest
- Gnome Priest
- Troll Druid
New Races
The events of the cataclysm has caused two new races to seek new allies. The Goblins for the Horde and the Worgen for the Alliance.
Deathwing once again sought the services of the goblins, as slaves. Unable to refuse such an offer, the goblins were enslaved by him. A large group have resisted however. With their previous homes devastated by the cataclysm, they escaping to an island off the coast of The Barrens. As they strive to recover, they come across an Orc captured on an Alliance ship and rescue him. The Orc turns out to be none other than Thrall himself, and in return offers the Goblins a place within the Horde. These events are carried out in a quest line, allowing players to experience first-hand the reasons behind the Goblins' shift from neutrality.
The cataclysm has cracked open the Greymane Wall, finally revealing what has happened to the kingdom of Gilneas and its citizens. With the Worgen curse taken hold, they have found a partial cure, allowing thme to retain their Human minds even when transformed. Venturing forth from Gilneas and seeking help from the Alliance, they have decided to join them, to combat the new threats of Cataclysm.
Gilneas will make extensive use of the phasing system (much like the Death Knight starting area), to show what happened while the kingdom was cut off from the rest of the world and lead up to present day.
Worgens will have two forms, a Worgen form and a Human form. Players will be able to customise the look of both forms.
New Content
Cataclysm will be the first expansion not to introduce a new continent, instead making use of previously unreleased zones and revamping existing ones.
Classic Azeroth Revamp
A cataclysmic event caused by Deathwing and Azshara will change the face of Azeroth as we know it. Most of the new content for Cataclysm will take the form of a revamped Azeroth, taking advantage of newer additions to WoW such as phasing and daily quests. Most of the quests and mobs in the classic zones will also be redesigned to make leveling less painful. With the revamp, a greater narritive and sense progression will be offered to players. Some zones and dungeons will change drastically to fit this, e.g.,
- The Barrens will be split into two separate zones of two different level bands.
- Azshara will become a low level (~10-20) zone.
- Some of the zones like the Thousand Needles will be flooded.
- Durotar is wrecked and apparently Orgrimmar could be destroyed. A new Orc city is rebuilt over the course of the expansion.
- Gnomeregan will be part of the expansion as well and gnomes might be able to reclaim their capital. (The last part is still unconfirmed)
- Wailing Caverns will be become a lush tropical area as a result of the druid's magic.
- The Blackrock Spire will erupt and a new version of Blackrock Mountains will be available, apparently Ragnaros will be back too.
In the aftermath of the cataclysm, and the new conflicts on the horizon relief efforts can be found in many zones and new open PvP areas similar to Lake Wintergrasp.
Flying in Azeroth
Part of the redesign of the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor is the introduction of flying to the two continents, allowing access to many new areas and quicker travelling across the large continents.
Classic Dungeon Revamp
Redesigning Onyxia's Lair in Patch 3.2.2 was just the first step. As most of the leveling will take place in revamped areas of Azeroth, so too will the dungeons, allowing players to use them to level from 80 to 85.
Unreleased Zones & Dungeons
With the addition of flying mounts to Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms and the redesign of many zones, most of the previously unreachable or incomplete zones will now be made available to players. This is where most of the new content from 80 to 85 will take place. Some of these are,
- Hyjal (present)
- Gilneas - The Worgen starting Zone.
- Uldum
It is unclear if the old Goblin locations such as Kezan and Undermine will be included in Cataclyms with the revelation of the goblins' plight, but several new islands have also been risen from the seas by the events of Cataclysm, some on the backs of giant sea turtles and whales, with the addition of several underwater zones.
[b]Characters and Events
Deathwing the Destroyer / Neltharion the Earth-Warder will play a major role in Cataclysm. Having been driven mad by Old God whisperings and turning against his own kind only to be fail in his attempts, Deathwing has sunk into the shadows. While the Horde and the Alliance were busy fighting back the Burning Legion only to then be beset with the Scourge, he has been lurking and moving things into place. After Lady Sinestra's failed attempts to create a Twilight Dragonflight, he again retreated to Grim Batol and succeeded where she failed. With his results seen in the Obsidian Sanctum, he has finally created the supreme Dragonflight he sought and plans to unleash it upon the world. But what of the Old Gods' sway over him?
Queen Azshara will also play a major part in Cataclysm. Unknown to many mortal races, long forgotten by others, and believe to be dead by her own kind, she has not been dormant in depths of the Maelstrom. Having those around her transformed by the Old Gods into Naga after her failure in the War of the Ancients, she has become far more powerful and a greater threat than she once was. Not content with just Nazjatar and the depths of the sea, Azshara seeks to reclaim power and reign once again. With the true plan behind Lady Vashj's support of Illidan remaining a mystery we do not know what hand Azshara has yet played. The big question remains, is she now serving her "saviors", the Old Gods?
The Cataclysm
I'm still not sure who is the true end boss of Cataclysm is, but the cataclysm appears to have been caused by attempts to incantation to summon extremely powerful beings using an ancient incantation by Deathwing and Azshara. They're both very powerful, but the cataclysm itself suggests something more powerful is behind it, perhaps their shared past of Old God influence?
The Guardian of Tirisfal
Malfurion Stormrage will be returning to Azeroth to aid in the creation of the new Guardian of Tirisfal - Thrall! Med'an's role in these events is currently unknown.
The New (New) Horde
Thrall will hand over the leadership of the Horde to Garrosh Hellscream, while he serves as a coordinator for both the Horde and Alliance forces in and effort to combat the new threat of the Naga and Black Dragonflight. Without Thrall to keep Garrosh in check, he declares open war on the Alliance. In the political upheaval Cairne Bloodhoof is implicated as a traitor to the Horde and murdered by Garrosh. Cairne's son Baine takes over as the new Tauren chieftan. This could explain why Baine was removed from the game in Patch 3.2.2, you can find more information about this in Ahmo Thunderhorn - replacement for Baine Bloodhoof?