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A graph representation of core programs. A graph is a flat structure that can be viewed as a program with a global scope. For example, the Haskell program
main x = f 1 where f y = g 2 where g z = x + z
might be represented by the following flat graph:
graph = Graph { graphNodes = [ Node { nodeId = 0 , function = Input , input = Tup [] , inputType = Tup [] , outputType = intType } , Node { nodeId = 1 , function = Input , input = Tup [] , inputType = Tup [] , outputType = intType } , Node { nodeId = 2 , function = Input , input = Tup [] , inputType = Tup [] , outputType = intType } , Node { nodeId = 3 , function = Function "(+)" , input = Tup [One (Variable (0,[])), One (Variable (2,[]))] , inputType = intPairType , outputType = intType } , Node { nodeId = 4 , function = NoInline "f" (Interface 1 (One (Variable (5,[]))) intType intType) , input = One (Constant (IntData 1)) , inputType = intType , outputType = intType } , Node { nodeId = 5 , function = NoInline "g" (Interface 2 (One (Variable (3,[]))) intType intType) , input = One (Constant (IntData 2)) , inputType = intType , outputType = intType } ] , graphInterface = Interface { interfaceInput = 0 , interfaceOutput = One (Variable (4,[])) , interfaceInputType = intType , interfaceOutputType = intType } } where intType = result (typeOf :: Res [[[Int]]] (Tuple StorableType)) intPairType = result (typeOf :: Res (Int,Int) (Tuple StorableType))
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which corresponds to the following flat program
main v0 = v4 f v1 = v5 g v2 = v3 v3 = v0 + v2 v4 = f 1 v5 = g 2
There are a few assumptions on graphs:
- All nodes have unique identifiers.
- There are no cycles.
- The
inputTypetuples of each node should have the same shape.
- Each
interfaceInput(including the top-level one) refers to an
Inputnode not referred to by any other interface.
- All
Variablereferences are valid (i.e. refer only to those variables implicitly defined by each node).
- There should not be any cycles in the constraints introduced by
findLocalities. (XXX Is this even possible?)
- Sub-function interfaces should be "consistent" with the input/output type of the node. For example, the body of a while loop should have the same type as the whole loop.
In the original program,
g was defined locally to
f, and the addition was
done locally in
g. But in the flat program, this hierarchy (called
definition hierarchy) is not represented. The flat program is of course not
valid Haskell (
v0 and
v2 are used outside of their scopes). The function
makeHierarchical turns a flat graph into a hierarchical one that
corresponds to syntactically valid Haskell.
makeHierarchical requires some explanation. First a few definitions:
- Nodes that have associated interfaces (
Parallel) are said to contain sub-functions. These nodes are called super nodes. In the above program, the super node
v4contains the sub-function
f, and
v5contains the sub-function
- A definition
dis local to a definition
dis placed somewhere within the definition of
e(i.e. inside an arbitrarily deeply nested
- A definition
dis owned by a definition
dis placed immediately under the top-most
whereclause of
e. A definition may have at most one owner.
The definition hierarchy thus specifies ownership between the definitions in the program. There are two types of ownership:
- A super node is always the owner of its sub-functions.
- A sub-function may be the owner of some node definitions.
Assigning nodes to sub-functions in a useful way takes some work. It is done by first finding out for each node which sub-functions it must be local to. Each locality constraint gives an upper bound on where in the definition hierarchy the node may be placed. There is one principle for introducing a locality constraint:
- If node
vdepends on the input of sub-function
f, then
vmust be local to
The locality constraints for a graph can thus be found be tracing each
sub-function input in order to find the nodes that depend on it (see function
findLocalities). In the above program, we have the sub-functions
f and
g with the inputs
v1 and
v2 respectively. We can see immediately that
no node depends on
v1, so we get no locality constraints for
f. The only
node that depends on
v2 is
v3, so the program has a single locality
v3 is local to
g. Nodes without constraints are simply taken
to be local to
main. With this information, we can now rewrite the flat
program as
main v0 = v4 where v4 = f 1 where f v1 = v5 v5 = g 2 where g v2 = v3 where v3 = v0 + v2
which is syntactically valid Haskell. Note that this program is slightly
different from the original which defined
g locally to
f. However, in
general, we want definitions to be as "global" as possible in order to
maximize sharing. For example, we don't want to put definitions in the body
of a while loop unless they really depend on the loop state, because then
they will (probably, depending on implementation) be recomputed in every
iteration. Also note that in this program, it is not strictly necessary to
have the sub-functions owned by their super nodes --
f and
g could have
been owned by
main instead. However, this would cause clashes if two
sub-functions have the same name. Having sub-functions owned by their super
nodes is also a way of keeping related definitions together in the program.
There is one caveat with the above method. Consider the following flat program:
main v0 = v4 f v1 = v5 g v2 = v3 v3 = v1 + 2 v4 = f 0 v5 = g 1
Here, we get the locality constraint:
v3 is local to
f. However, to get a
valid definition hierarchy, we also need
v5 to be local to
f. This is
v5 is the owner of
g, and the output of
g is local to
f. So
when looking for dependencies, we should let each super node depend on its
sub-function output, except for the owner of the very sub-function that is
being traced (a function cannot be owned by itself).
- type NodeId = Int
- type Variable = (NodeId, [Int])
- data Source
- data Node = Node {
- data Interface = Interface {
- data Function
- data Graph = Graph {
- graphNodes :: [Node]
- graphInterface :: Interface
- data Hierarchy = Hierarchy [(Node, [Hierarchy])]
- data HierarchicalGraph = HierGraph {
- type SuperNode = NodeId
- data SubFunction = SubFunction {
- data Local = Local SubFunction NodeId
- sourceNodes :: Tuple Source -> [NodeId]
- fanout :: Graph -> Map NodeId [NodeId]
- nodeMap :: Graph -> NodeId -> Node
- subFunctions :: Graph -> [SubFunction]
- findLocalities :: Graph -> [Local]
- orderSuperNodes :: Graph -> Map NodeId [SubFunction] -> Map SuperNode Int
- minimalSubFun :: Map SuperNode Int -> [SubFunction] -> SubFunction
- sortNodes :: [Node] -> [Node]
- makeHierarchical :: Graph -> HierarchicalGraph
- class PrP a where
- listprint :: (a -> String) -> String -> [a] -> String
type Variable = (NodeId, [Int])Source
Variable represented by a node id and a tuple path. For example, in a definition (given in Haskell syntax)
((a,b),c) = f x
the variable
b would be represented as
(i,[0,1]) (where
i is the id of
f node).
The source of a value is either constant data or a variable.
A node in the program graph. The input is given as a
Source tuple. The
output is implicitly defined by the
nodeId and the
outputType. For
example, a node with id
i and output type
Tup [One ..., One ...]
has the implicit output
Tup [One (i,[0]), One (i,[1])]
The interface of a (sub-)graph. The input is conceptually a
Tuple Variable, but all these variables refer to the same
Input node, so
it is sufficient to track the node id (the tuple shape can be inferred from
Node functionality
Primary input
|Array StorableData
Constant array
|Function String
Primitive function
|NoInline String Interface
Non-inlined function
|IfThenElse Interface Interface
|While Interface Interface
|Parallel Interface
Parallel tiling
A graph is a list of unique nodes with an interface.
A definition hierarchy. A hierarchy consists of number of top-level nodes, each one associated with its sub-functions, represented as hierarchies. The nodes owned by a sub-function appear as the top-level nodes in the corresponding hierarchy.
data HierarchicalGraph Source
A graph with a hierarchical ordering of the nodes. If the hierarchy is
flattened it should result in a valid
data SubFunction Source
The branch is used to distinguish between different sub-functions of the
same super node. For example, the continue condition of a while-loop has
branch number 0, and the body has number 1 (see
sourceNodes :: Tuple Source -> [NodeId]Source
Returns the nodes in a source tuple.
fanout :: Graph -> Map NodeId [NodeId]Source
The fanout of each node in a graph. Nodes that are not in the map are assumed to have no fanout.
subFunctions :: Graph -> [SubFunction]Source
Lists all sub-functions in the graph.
findLocalities :: Graph -> [Local]Source
Lists all locality constraints of the graph.
orderSuperNodes :: Graph -> Map NodeId [SubFunction] -> Map SuperNode IntSource
Returns a total ordering between all super nodes in a graph, such that if
v is local to sub-function
f, then
v maps to a lower number than
the owner of
f. The converse is not necessarily true. The second argument
gives the locality constraints for each node in the graph (top-level nodes
may be left undefined).
minimalSubFun :: Map SuperNode Int -> [SubFunction] -> SubFunctionSource
Returns the minimal sub-function according to the given owner ordering.
makeHierarchical :: Graph -> HierarchicalGraphSource
Makes a hierarchical graph from a flat one. The node lists in the hierarchy are always sorted according to node id.


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Gail Saseen necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 60 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
Complete Marketing Systems, LLC - http://www.completemarketingsystems.com
We are a marketing and events; coaching and consulting company. We help people start and grow businesses by capitalizing on their existing knowledge and passions - turning that knowledge into information products and services, or workshops - seminars and events.
The 4 major areas of expertise in our business are: Designing and developing Information products and services, event planning and management, direct mail, and social media web design and management.
We are re-branding ourselves and developing a new website.
Our target audience is: existing business owners who want to leverage their time and knowledge by creating and integrating information products and services into their existing businesses.
And - New information start up businesses.
2 sides of our business - General business owners and the Gay-Lesbian Business Community
#1 Using the attached files as a general concept guide, design an umbrella style graphic for Complete Marketing Systems that can be used in the logo and also to illustrate all of the components of our business....
#2 Design The Information Marketing Umbrella. the purpose is to depict the major categories of the information business and also their sub components. I'm thinking that each panel of the umbrella should be clickable and link to a website page that talks about that specific area. We will be using the Information Marketing Umbrella as our signature Info-Marketing University when we teach those related subjects.
#3 Color must coordinate with our website colors
We will need the finished graphics to be usable on web sites and print materials
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Dueling Ajax – couple of articlesPosted: November 14, 2006 Filed under: publications, webdev 1 Comment
I've been a bit of the Ajax poster boy lately. Two pieces that I wrote for library audiences have just been published.
"Building an Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Application from Scratch." Computers in Libraries 26, no. 10 (November/December 2006).
"Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML): This Isn't the Web I'm Used To." Online 30, no. 6 (November/December 2006)
uri: http://www.infotoday.com/Online/nov06/Clark.shtml
Both articles fall into the "introductory" mode, although the CIL article walks you through a proof of concept Ajax page update script (mentioned in an earlier post…). I want to be clear: I'm not an Ajax evangelist. I find the suite of technologies that make Ajax go intriguing and the improvements that the Ajax framework can make to some library applications are worth learning about and applying. I tried to point out the good and the bad. Although, it is a four letter word…
I did want to mention a couple of books that were really helpful in getting me up to speed with the Ajax method.
Ajax in Action by Dave Crane, Eric Pascarello and Darren James
DHTML Utopia Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM by Stuart Langridge
(Click on the book covers if you are into book learnin' and want to browse the Amazon records.) Dig in and discover (or rediscover) some of the possibilities when you put Javascript to work in your apps.


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text: Velocet wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:11:03PM -0500, Patrick Geoffray's all... > >>Velocet wrote: >> >> >>>6.5us for Myrinet vs 32/33 pci being 8? Doesnt seem like the win that >>>it usually seems to be spec'd at. Are these #s accurate? ('out of the blue' >>>warning notwithstanding ;) >>> >>Euh, yes, I think they are: 6.5 us with a 64/66 PCI, 8 us with a 32/33 >>PCI (Lanai9 at 200 MHz). The main difference here is the PCI clock, the >>latency with a 64/33 MHz is between 7.5 and 8 us. >> > > with what size packets? 0-sized packets. > Wouldnt the latency reduce for a several hundred > byte packet just because the bus is that much wider? and twice the effect > for 66/64 pci? A 64 bits PCI is not always 2 times faster than a 32 bits one. It's true for medium and large transactions, but not for tiny packets where the number of cycles used for the arbitration and to reach the PCI device is the main parameter. In short, 64 bits is good to do burst, but 66 Mhz is what you want to just cross the PCI. > Is the cost of 64 gigabit cards vs 32 worth it for things > sensitive to latency? I would say there should not be any difference in cost between 64 bits and 32 bits cards these days. If we are talking about Gigabit Ethernet, there would be no latency difference for tiny packets, it's so small compared to the IP stack latency. Patrick ---------------------------------------------------------- | Patrick Geoffray, Ph.D. patrick at myri.com | Myricom, Inc. http://www.myri.com | Cell: 865-389-8852 685 Emory Valley Rd (B) | Phone: 865-425-0978 Oak Ridge, TN 37830 ----------------------------------------------------------


text: On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Donald Becker wrote: > Ahhh, your first flawed assumption. > > You believe that the OS needs to be statically provisioned to the nodes. > That is incorrect. Well, you also make the flawed assumption that the best technical solutions are always preferred. From my position I have seen many cases where political or administrative reasons have very much restricted the choice of technical solutions that could be used. Other reasons are related to the lack of flexibility from ISVs which provide applications in binary form only and make certain assumptions about the way the target cluster works. Yet another reason is the fact that a solution like Scyld's limits the whole cluster to running one distribution (please correct me if I'm wrong), while a solution with node "images" allows mixing Linux distributions at will. > The only times that it is asked to do something new (boot, accept a > new process) it's communicating with a fully installed, up-to-date > master node. It has, at least temporarily, complete access to a > reference install. I think that this is another assumption that holds true for the Scyld system, but there are situations where this is not true. Some years ago I have developed a rudimentary batch system for which the master node only contacted the first node allocated/desired for the job; this node was then responsible to contact the other nodes allocated/desired and start the rest of the job. This was very much modelled after the way the naive rsh/ssh based launchers for MPI jobs work: once mpirun is running, there is no connection to the master node, only between the node where mpirun is running and the rest of the nodes specified in the hosts file. I think that Torque also has a similar design (Mother Superior being in control of the job), but I haven't look closely at the details so I might be wrong. > If you design a cluster system that installs on a local disk, it's > very difficult to adapt it to diskless blades. If you design a > system that is as efficient without disks, it's trivial to > optionally mount disks for caching, temporary files or application > I/O. If you design a system that is flexible enough to allow you to use either diskless or diskfull installs, what do you have to loose ? The same node "image" can be used in several ways: - copied to the local disk and booted from there (where the copying could be done as a separate operation followed by a reboot or it can be done from initrd) - used over NFS-root - used as a ramdisk, provided that the node "image" is small enough Note: I have used "image" in this and previous e-mails to signify the collection of files that the node needs for booting; most likely this is not a FS image (like an ISO one), but it could also be one. Various documents call this a "virtual node FS", "chroot-ed FS", etc. -- Bogdan Costescu IWR, University of Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany Phone: +49 6221 54 8869/8240, Fax: +49 6221 54 8868/8850 E-mail: bogdan.costescu at iwr.uni-heidelberg.de


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by Carole Verona
If you had asked Germantown resident Kristin Haskins-Simms 10 years ago the odds of her eventually becoming a fashion designer, the answer would have been an emphatic "None!" At the time Kristin, now 42, was a successful graphic designer with a studio in center city and a client base that included small businesses and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. True, she enjoyed the world of fashion and was hooked on watching "Project Runway" on TV.
Her foray into the world of fashion began one day in 2006 when she decided to design a computer bag because she just couldn't find a fashionable one in stores that she really liked. She sketched it, did a 3-D mock-up, then left it alone. "I was scared to really dive in," she recalled.
Then she started making T-shirts, first for herself and later to sell at the Penn Relays and on the streets of Philadelphia. But they weren't ordinary T-shirts. They had a message. "My focus was to use fashion to educate about history," she said. One of her designs had a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. on it. Another had an inspirational message about Herb McKenley, who won a gold medal for Jamaica in the 1952 summer Olympics. "I got wonderful feedback from people, and I loved having a diverse group of customers, ranging from college-age kids to middle-aged women," she said.
Kristin then took the leftover T-shirt material, purchased fabric dye, started cutting out patterns and played around with her grandmother's sewing machine. "I thought I could re-purpose the T-shirts by making jackets. I figured it out as I went along, until I realized that I didn't know how to make sleeves! I got a pattern maker to help me, and I'm still using that pattern today to make some of my most popular pieces."
During the fall of 2009, Kristin presented her first collection at Philly Fashion Week. The name of her company at the time was Strangefruit, but it has since been changed to Krysi. Her specialty was repurposing old clothes. For example, she used fabric from a pair of old cargo pants to make a jacket, placing a pocket from the pants strategically on the back of the jacket. "People loved what I did," she said. "They said it was fresh and new; several people suggested that I try out for Project Runway. So on a whim, I did."
"Project Runway" is a reality show, created and hosted by famed model Heidi Klum, that airs on the Lifetime channel. The contestants compete with each other to create winning designs under tight deadlines and on limited budgets. Their creations are judged by leading fashion experts, and one or more designers are eliminated each week. The top three designers get to show their collections at New York Fashion Week, and the top winner receives other valuable prizes.
Kristin managed to submit her application for Project Runway the day before it was due, and was surprised to get a call back for a casting session. "I almost didn't go. It was scary," she admitted. "It takes time for me to conceptualize a collection … it doesn't happen overnight." She received advice from her cousin Kelvin Rice, who was also a fashion designer. He helped her learn how to put a collection together and taught her how to develop a storyline and a narrative.
Kristin appeared on season eight of Project Runway, which began on July 29, 2010, and, unfortunately, she was eliminated after the fourth episode. She can't divulge exactly what went on behind the scenes, but she did say that it was a stressful experience. "You're secluded from your family for five weeks. Some of the people you're with are likeable, and others are not. If I were younger, I think I would have adapted better, but I'm not blaming anybody else."
One of the things that Project Runway does really well is to help emerging designers define their fashion point of view and their target audience. Kristin refers to her point of view as "organic"; she designs for a woman's life experience. That means creating pieces that are, in her words, "fashionable yet functionable for career women and working mothers who want something they can wear from day to night and during more than one season. Clothing that is versatile and that looks chic, but can be squished up and thrown into a bag. Clothing that is easy to wear and easy to take with you when you travel."
While at "Project Runway," Kristin listened to her fellow designers and learned. Some were already in the business but only had the capability to produce samples of their designs. "They weren't set up to produce or manufacture in larger quantities. So what if they got orders?" Kristin wondered. "I realized there was a niche to be filled. I decided that I wanted to manufacture my own clothes. At that point, my clothing was being sold at Pileggi Boutique in center city and through my online store. I was working with a guy in New York who manufactured for me."
Kristin's business model, developed in part as a result of her experience on "Project Runway," is to be able to produce everything in-house. To that end, she purchased a historic building at 5330 Germantown Ave., which will house a showroom and space for design and manufacturing teams. Her goal, which she hopes to accomplish two years down the line, is to work with women who are ex-offenders, teaching them new skills, ranging from pattern-making and sewing to administrative.
In 2011, Kristin posted a video on "It Gets Better," an Internet-based project developed to provide hope for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other bullied teens by letting them know that it does get better. She did it because she experienced bullying when she was a kid. "I was 6 feet tall, taller than everybody else, and the kids called me 'Tree.' When my parents would drop me off at school, I would hunch over to make myself shorter so I wouldn't stand out. I didn't feel pretty, and I didn't feel accepted. It was just horrible."
Kristin's business values were greatly influenced by her parents as she was growing up in West Mt. Airy. Her mother, Yvonne Haskins, is a real estate attorney, community activist and former Executive Director of West Mt. Airy Neighbors. During the 1980s, she worked as Regional Director of the Pennsylvania Board of Parole, focusing on prisoner rehabilitation and the reduction of recidivism. Her father, Harold Haskins, was an administrator at the University of Pennsylvania for 38 years. And in the 1960s, he worked with gang members in North Philadelphia, helping them get their lives together. "My parents are all about education, giving back and empowering people. I have those values instilled in me," Kristin said.
Kristin attended Springside School from grades one through five, then transferred to and graduated from Germantown Friends School in 1989. She received a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, worked in New York in the financial services industry for a few years, then received a Master's Degree in Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. She has taught graphic design courses at the University of Connecticut, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia University, Rutgers University, Rowan University and Temple University's Tyler School of Art — "wherever they needed me," she said.
"I never studied fashion. Part of me wishes I did, and part of me is glad I didn't because I'm not restricted by the rules. That's why I think I've gotten as far as I have in fashion."
Kristin's husband, Harold Simms, sells software products for a commercial real estate firm. The couple has a 15-month-old son named Quincy.
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Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Jake Peavy is back after missing a turn in the rotation and looks to pitch his club past the New York Mets Wednesday in the conclusion of a two-game series from Citi Field.
Peavy last took the mound April 26 in a 5-4 win over Tampa Bay and missed his next scheduled start because of a back issue. The 2007 NL Cy Young Award winner tested his back a few days ago by throwing off a mound and said he is ready to roll Wednesday in New York.
"We're all on point to go Wednesday night," Peavy said. "I'm super excited about that, and can't thank our training staff enough. A few days ago, I didn't feel good at all."
The right-hander worked with a chiropractor and a massage therapist to get himself back on track and is 3-1 with a 3.38 earned run average in five starts this season. He allowed three runs in 6 2/3 innings against the Rays and will make his third road start Thursday.
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Parnell scooped up his third win (3-0) of the season with two K's in the top of the 10th. Pinch-hitter Mike Baxter helped Parnell to the victory by driving in Ike Davis for the game-winning run.
The Mets have now won three of four games since a six-game slide and will begin a four-game series at home versus Pittsburgh on Thursday.
Chicago starter Hector Santiago pitched well in the no-decision, as he fanned eight batters, walked two and scattered four hits in seven innings. Santiago's showing was overshadowed by Harvey's gem.
"He's as advertised. You hear about guys, especially when they're not in your league and you don't see them very much. But as far as what you see throughout the league, he has as dominating stuff as anyone we've seen," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said of Harvey.
Matt Lindstrom threw a scoreless eighth and Nate Jones was dealt the loss for allowing Baxter's run-scoring hit.
Alex Rios had the lone hit for the White Sox, who have dropped three of four and are scheduled to open a three-game series back home Friday versus the LA Angels of Anaheim.
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If you don't want to run the Tomcat daemon as root, create a new user/group tomcat (first make sure that the UID and GID you use are still available by checking the files /etc/passwd and /etc/group):
groupadd -g 220 tomcat useradd -u 220 -g tomcat -c "Tomcat" -r -d /usr/local/tomcat -s "/sbin/nologin" tomcat
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Extract the Tomcat distribution in a new directory:
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Change the ownership of the Tomcat directory and make it available as /usr/local/tomcat/:
chown -R tomcat:tomcat /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-xxx ln -s /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-xxx /usr/local/tomcat
Open up the firewall for web access to the Tomcat server by adding to the file /etc/sysconfig/iptables:
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Since (for some odd reason) some network managers allow outgoing web connections only to TCP port 80, there might be people around that cannot access your Tomcat (and MMBase) server through port 8080. Further below we will explain how to install a JK 2 mapping or a reverse proxy in Apache, so Tomcat and MMBase can be accessed through the Apache web server at port 80. Apart from the port issue, this has the advantage that you can use Apache to manage you SSL connections and use your existing Apache logs and statistics facilities for Tomcat and MMBase as well.
If you decide to use Apache as a front-end to your Tomcat and MMBase server, there's no need to open up port 8080 in your firewall.
To run Tomcat, set the $CATALINA_HOME environment variable:
and fire it up:
Now you can access Tomcat's home page through (replace <hostname> with your hostname):
which should give you the Tomcat welcome screen.
To shutdown again:
Since we want to automate the starting up and shutting down of the Tomcat server, we create a file /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat to do this for us:
#!/bin/sh # # Startup script for the Jakarta Tomcat Java Servlets and JSP server # # chkconfig: - 85 15 # description: Jakarta Tomcat Java Servlets and JSP server # processname: tomcat # pidfile: /var/run/tomcat.pid # config: # Source function library. . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions # Source networking configuration. . /etc/sysconfig/network # Check that networking is up. [ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0 # Set Tomcat environment. export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/j2sdk export CLASSPATH=.:/usr/local/j2sdk/lib/tools.jar:/usr/local/j2re/lib/rt.jar export CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat export CATALINA_OPTS="-server -Xms64m -Xmx512m -Dbuild.compiler.emacs=true" export PATH=/usr/local/j2sdk/bin:/usr/local/j2re/bin:$PATH [ -f /usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh ] || exit 0 [ -f /usr/local/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh ] || exit 0 export PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin # See how we were called. case "$1" in start) # Start daemon. echo -n "Starting Tomcat: " /usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh RETVAL=$? echo [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/tomcat ;; stop) # Stop daemons. echo -n "Shutting down Tomcat: " /usr/local/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh RETVAL=$? echo [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/tomcat ;; restart) $0 stop $0 start ;; condrestart) [ -e /var/lock/subsys/tomcat ] && $0 restart ;; status) status tomcat ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}" exit 1 esac exit 0
Set its ownership and access rights:
chown root:root /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat
And add this init script to chkconfig:
chkconfig --add tomcat chkconfig tomcat on
To install two (or even more) versions of Tomcat server on the same system, increase the port numbers of the second server (e.g. by 10), by editing the configuration file /usr/local/tomcat55/conf/server.xml:
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How to Bid Farewell to MicrosoftBy Larry Barrett | Posted 2002-03-18 Print
What happens when your safety net becomes your noose?
Brent Zempel wasn't sure when or how it happened.
But as CIO of Life Time Fitness, he had to untangle the $225-million-a-year health club and food retailer from the comfortable constriction of Microsoft's Web-based software, in favor of a more flexible technology that would evolve withrather than definehis company.
"Basically, we reached a critical point when Microsoft terminated support for what they held out as their platform for Web applications," Zempel said. "When that happened, it made us pause and really think about where we were going. It was clear that we'd become too tied to Microsoft."
Every aspect of the company's collection, ordering and scheduling processes were controlled through Microsoft's Internet Information Server running on the Windows NT operating system. Using Active Server Pages and the Visual Basic programming language, the company wasn't able to write specific applications it needed to service its accounts back in the Internet-crazed days of late 1999.
If a customer at one of its 26 locations across the country wanted to schedule a massage online, Life Time Fitness couldn't accommodate them because a "quick and dirty" solution created in Visual Basic didn't leave any room to allow for each and every service the company might want to offer its customers.
With customization difficult, there was no way Life Time could market a specific service to individual members who might prefer one masseuse to another or wanted to arrange for a personal trainer or even to do something as mundane as check a monthly statement.
As the company began to sell its products to health food stores and earthy eateries, the information technology department realized that Microsoft's Web applications weren't flexible enough to provide the day-to-day interaction Life Time needed to attract new customers and maintain the ones it already had.
Collecting monthly dues took several days to a week, stifling Life Time's cash flow and bringing on what Zempel called "accounting nightmares." Getting an up-to-the-minute snapshot of the company's financial health was out of the question. Executives couldn't get answerssay the number of members using a babysitting service in a given monthbecause the Web applications couldn't cull the right information from legacy databases.
And getting answers from Microsoft proved difficult. As Baseline went to press, the software company was even having difficulty identifying an account representative assigned to Life Time.
After years of running all the company's applications on a Unix server and Microsoft software, Life Time Fitness and its 4,000 employees had outgrown the standardization that originally had been the most alluring aspect of Microsoft's products, in Zempel's estimation.
"We had always been a Microsoft shop," Zempel said. "But it's a one-way street. We were told from on high what will and won't be supported and had to adjust our business accordingly. It's no way to run your business."
Along with building on the point-of-sale system employed at its health spas and vitamin outlets, Life Time Fitness wanted to communicate electronically with its growing stable of health-food cafes and restaurants and continue collecting monthly dues from thousands of clients each month, something that had become far too complicated and superficial using Windows.
It was time to break what Zempel felt was an unhealthy dependence on one vendor.
After window shopping and consulting with other retailers, Life Time Fitness switched to Sun Microsystems and its J2EE middleware to develop its business applications. The idea was to start from scratch on a more open architecture that could accommodate additional business units, personalized scheduling, targeted marketing plans and, most important, bill and collect dues from members in a timely fashion.
"We gave up our comfort zone of not having to think about our options with Microsoft," said Wesley Bertch, Life Time Fitness' director of software services. "With Microsoft, all these decisions are made for you. We were accustomed to not making decisions." Microsoft officials were unavailable to comment on Life Time Fitness or to identify the company's former sales representative.
Unlike most other CIOs, Zempel didn't bother to show his boss the return on investment that such a massive change would bring. He just did it and dealt with the ramifications later.
"I told my boss, the CFO, about four months into the transition and he almost killed me," he said. "I figured it was better to ask for forgiveness than permission. By that point, we were already seeing the benefits of this move but if it hadn't worked out, I would have lost my job. No question about it."
Now Life Time is able to access an up-to-the-second snapshot of all its customers, billing information and orders, but it can also develop the type of novelty software pieces it needs to cater its marketing endeavors.
The collection of monthly dues is now completed in a matter of hours rather than days, improving the company's cash flow and eliminating many of the complaints it used to hear from customers.
One of the first decisions Life Time made was to get all its members photographed and entered into a database that worked in every location around the country. A simple swipe of a 5" x 7" card identifies the member, shows his or her preferences, purchasing habits and pops up a picture of the member so the check-in process is reduced to mere seconds.
Escaping from Microsoft and adopting Java brought challenges. The technical staff had to be retrained to program and debug Java applications. Employees from the CEO down to the rookie sales associate had to be able to sit down at any counter at any health club location and know how to operate the sales desk.
Zempel said the only real cost of making this transition was the retraining of its internal IT staff and the use of outside consultants. He pegged the costs as somewhere between "$10,000 and $20,000." The additional hardware and software costs were a wash because he would have spent the same to install and maintain Microsoft's offerings.
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The World's Strongest Man
- Publisher: Digital Goldfish Ltd
- Genre: Simulation
- Released: 29 Mar, 2012
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DescriptionFor over 3 decades The World's Strongest Man has tested the limits of human strength, power and endurance. Do you have what it takes to go up against the toughest men on the planet and be crowned The World's Strongest Man?
Embark on a rags to riches style career as you attempt to transform yourself on a journey from hometown hero to strongest man on the planet. It's not going to be easy and will require balancing a gruelling strength and conditioning program along with a yearly events schedule.
Train your character and boost your stats to ensure you are up to the task of taking on the elite. Compete in real life events, featuring intuitive controls which will ensure that you're placed right in the heart of the action. Battle through pain and make a number of career decisions which could make or break you. Will you take your coaches advice, attend the latest promotional event and what's the best way to build your body to compete? It's time to find out as it's all here in The World's Strongest Man.


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Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Digital Agenda
Earlier this week it was reported that three European telecoms companies were about to put pressure on Google to start paying to use their networks. The rationale was that because Google services use up so much bandwidth it was only fair they help pay to maintain and upgrade the networks.
Everyone except the networks seem to disagree with such thinking as the telecoms companies make revenue from subscribers, not content providers. Such a stance has now been backed up by the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes.
In response to the threat of action against Google from Telefónica, France Telecom, and Deutsche Telekom, she said users have a right to choose what content they view online. She also said net neutrality meant no network could block, or limit the speed of commercial websites.
Representatives for the telecoms companies are gearing up to continue fighting such a view and have stated:
We need to explain that this will reduce incentives for us to invest in much-needed networks.
For now the EU and Ms. Kroes will not intervene, but will continue to watch the situation and step in if necessary.
Read more at FT.com
Matthew's Opinion
I am left speechless by the way in which these companies think about their market. They should not be focusing on how much bandwidth Google uses, but instead worry about ensuring they keep their customers happy through maintaining a solid network infrastructure.
The quote about reducing incentives is a classic example of how the networks have got their logic backwards. If they don't invest in their networks then customers will leave and revenue will be lost. Google, and content providers in general, do not come into that equation. Subscribers want to watch video online, they want to download pictures, they want to play games in a web browser, etc.
Content providers are just serving up what visitors want. Telecoms companies also need to provide what their subscribers want, which is enough bandwidth to enjoy online content in any form.


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What Causes the Phases of the Moon?
Students often have misconceptions about certain science concepts. They occur naturally and they do not happen because a student is not intelligent. The human brain tries to fit information in an easy to digest construct, even though it is not accurate. Misconceptions are very difficult to break. The best way for students to break their misconception is to articulate their understanding and then try confront a demo or new piece of information that contradicts that misconception.
In the video some teachers are asked the question, "What causes the phases of the moon?" They then are asked to demonstrate their thinking and to explain how it works. An explanation and demonstration of how the phases of the moon actually happen takes place in the last third of the video.


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I have here a problem of a bad network configuration.
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My problem is, if someone from 192.168.0.x tries to comunicate with 192.168.1.x or even 192.168.2.x, he can't, unless he add a route in command line, such, route add <ip> <mask> <ip>
this is for all the networks that need to comunicate to each other, how can i solve this?
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11 sorriest tech companies of 2012
Vendors apologize in 2012 for everything from Apple Maps to Cisco Connect Cloud to outage after outage and breach after breach
Please forgive us, tech users
2012 was yet another year filled with heartfelt and legally forced apologies from tech vendors, including the biggest names: Apple, Cisco, Microsoft and Google, among others. Company execs apologized in person, via press releases and via social media in an attempt to keep customers from fleeing -- or killing them on Twitter and Facebook. But don't worry, everyone will be perfect in 2013.
STORY: Most memorable tech industry apologies of 2012: From Apple to Google to Microsoft
Apple Maps
Amid all the excitement over iPhone 5 and its new iOS 6 software, Apple maddened customers by ditching Google Maps and swapping in an inferior Apple Maps app. CEO Tim Cook vowed to make up for this:
"At Apple, we strive to make world-class products that deliver the best experience possible to our customers. With the launch of our new Maps last week, we fell short on this commitment. We are extremely sorry for the frustration this has caused our customers and we are doing everything we can to make Maps better."
Cisco Connect Cloud
Not that there's anything wrong with Cisco Connect Cloud; users of the company's high-end Linksys router just didn't want it forced on them. And they feared Cisco was snooping on them. Cisco responded in July by making the service opt-in, and apologizing:
"We believe lack of clarity in our own terms of service has contributed to many of our customers' concerns, and we apologize for the confusion and inconvenience this has caused. Cisco Connect Cloud and Cisco Linksys routers do not monitor or store information about how our customers are using the Internet and we do not arbitrarily disconnect customers from the Internet. The Cisco Connect Cloud Service has never monitored customers' Internet usage, nor was it designed to do so ..."
BlueToad server hack
Digital publishing company BlueToad revealed in September that the unique identifiers of some 1 million Apple iOS devices that hackers leaked were swiped from its servers. CEO Paul DeHart's admission that his company was the hacking victim helped clear suspicion from the FBI, which the Antisec-affiliated hacking group claimed to have taken the UDIDs from. DeHart said in an interview with MSNBC that his company did change its code to comply with stricter Apple guidelines earlier this year, but that the hackers got access to information stored via older code.
Microsoft behavior
With all the challenges to its Office and Windows products, does Microsoft really need headaches like these, too? Among the issues Microsoft has apologized for in 2012: a coder slipping the term "big boobs" into software code connecting the Linux kernel to Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization product and a raunchy dance routine that preceded an Azure presentation in Norway.
On the less racy side, Microsoft also apologized to a blogger in March in the wake of a Windows Phone marketing promotion called "Smoked by Windows Phone" that proved unfair when store employees failed to recognize the blogger's Samsung Galaxy Nexus the winner of a $1,000 laptop prize.
GoDaddy outage
GoDaddy's internal investigation of a six-plus hour outage on Sept. 10 for website and domain service business and its 52 million customers concluded that it was caused by a "series of internal network events that corrupted router database tables," not a hacker attack, as was first suspected by many after a supposed Anonymous affiliate initially took credit. GoDaddy emphasized that while customers websites went dark, their personal data was not compromised.
CEO Scott Wagner issued an apology in which he wrote: "We take our business and our customers' businesses very seriously. We apologize to our customers for these events and thank them for their patience." GoDaddy also awarded customers one month of credits.
Google earnings snafu, Gmail outage
When you're a company as wide-ranging as Google, you're always good for at least a few high profile apologies during the year. Among the 2012 offerings: a hoarse-voiced CEO Larry Page apologizing during an analysts' call during October for the company's accidental release of its numbers too early ("I'm sorry for the scramble earlier today") and then in April and June, mea culpas issued for Gmail outages.
LinkedIn breach
LinkedIn, in June, confirmed reports that some of its users' passwords were compromised after reports surfaced that about 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords were compromised and posted online in a Russian hacker forum, in large part because LinkedIn was using a weak hashing algorithm. The business-oriented social network site quickly updated its security and ensured users who updated their passwords that they'd be in much better shape.
Here's what one LinkedIn VP blogged, in part: "We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused our members. We take the security of our members very seriously. If you haven't read it already it is worth checking out my earlier blog post today about updating your password and other account security best practices."
Sophos antivirus
Security firm Sophos apologized in September for wreaking havoc on its customers' networks after a bad update to its antivirus software caused false positives for certain malware to occur on Windows machines. Sophos was upfront about the issue: "We would like to apologize for all the disruption caused to our many customers worldwide. We recognize the issue is very serious, and are doing everything we can to resolve it." Sophos said in its critical advisory that it thinks the problem was caused by a release from SophosLab for use with its Live Protection system.
Amazon cloud crashes
People tend to notice when Amazon Web Service's cloud offerings collapse, not that they necessarily realize Amazon is involved. Rather, it's the companies whose websites depend on AWS (Netflix, Pinterest, Reddit, etc.) that get noticed, and often wind up apologizing to their customers. Both Amazon and its customers issued apologies in June/July and October/November as the result of two big AWS outages, the summer one triggered in large part by storm-fueled power outages and the most recent one caused by a hardware upgrade (and "latent memory bug" issue), plus an overaggressive traffic throttling policy.
Nokia Lumia 920 promo
The old not-so-hidden cameraman trick: As Network World's Colin Neagle wrote in September, "Nokia was caught red-handed in a lie, after tech bloggers spotted a cameraman capturing a video the company claimed was shot with its new, highly touted Lumia 920 smartphone. After apologizing, Nokia posted a real video shot with the smartphone, displaying the optical image stabilization (OIS) camera technology that was faked on the first try."
Tech bloggers spotted in the video a reflection of a cameraman with a professional camera actually taking the shot of a women on a bicycle.
The company said its main fault was failing to publish "a disclaimer stating this was a representation of OIS only."
Path social journal app
Path, a social networking app for iPhone and Android devices, apologized in February after it came to light that the company was grabbing iPhone contact info and sticking it on its own servers. CEO Dave Morin wrote in part:
"We made a mistake. Over the last couple of days users brought to light an issue concerning how we handle your personal information on Path, specifically the transmission and storage of your phone contacts. ... Through the feedback we've received from all of you, we now understand that the way we had designed our 'Add Friends' feature was wrong. We are deeply sorry if you were uncomfortable with how our application used your phone contacts."
Here's one more apology, courtesy of John Cleese, from the film "A Fish Called Wanda," showing tech CEOs really how to say you're sorry.


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2015 marks exactly 125 years since the death of Vincent van Gogh. The painter still inspires many artists today. In memory of his life and work, many European countries are paying tribute to Van Gogh with unique exhibitions and celebrations.
The Van Gogh Europe Foundation – consisting of 30 museums, heritage sites and various organizations in France, Belgium and the Netherlands – has put together a comprehensive Van Gogh programme. This will be the first time that international institutions will work together on such a large scale to preserve the legacy of an artist. The Van Gogh Museum, the Kröller-Müller Museum, Van Gogh Brabant and Mons 2015, European Capital of Culture, are all behind this special initiative.
Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum houses the largest collection of the artist's work. To celebrate 125 years of Van Gogh, from 25 September, the museum will host the exhibition Munch : Van Gogh. A frequently asked question in the museum is "Where is The Scream?". Many visitors are convinced that Munch's work is by Van Gogh.
This is the first time that these two artists are united under one roof, bringing together more than a hundred works of art, including many masterpieces. Munch : Van Gogh explores the similarities and differences in the works of the two artists. The exhibition also reveals the influence of Van Gogh on the development of Munch.
Vincent van Gogh and the province of Brabant have very close ties. The painter was born and raised in this region and created his masterpiece The Potato Eaters (1885) here. You can still visit several locations in Brabant that have played a crucial role in his work and life, from the house where he was born in Zundert to the school where he took his first drawing lessons.
The Noordbrabants Museum in Den Bosch exhibits much of Van Gogh's work. The Peasant Woman Digging (1885), from the museum's own collection, is accompanied by works on loan from the Van Gogh Museum, the Rijksmuseum and from a private collection. In addition to Self Portrait with Pipe (1886), the display will include works from his Brabant period, such as farm houses, portraits of peasants and still lifes. A painting of the rectory in Nuenen also reveals the house of Van Gogh's parents. The house also served as his studio for a while.
From 25 April, the Kröller-Müller Museum will present the exhibition Van Gogh & Co – Criss-crossing the collection. The work of Vincent van Gogh is compared to paintings by his contemporaries, such as Paul Signac, Bart van der Leck, Jan Toorop and Auguste Renoir. During his stay in Province, Van Gogh painted various nature motifs, including Cypresses with Two Female Figures (1889-1890). The slightly older Paul Cézanne painted a similar tableau in his La route vers l'étang (c. 1880).
The city of Mons is the 2015 European Capital of Culture – the perfect opportunity for this Belgian city to pay tribute to Vincent van Gogh. From 25 January – 17 May, the BAM (Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Museum of Fine Arts)) will launch celebrations with a major exhibition entitled Van Gogh in the Borinage: The Birth of an Artist. Here you can learn more about Van Gogh's time in the Borinage, a region in Wallonia, and its influence on his life and work.
Paris is also preparing a number of events and exhibitions to honour the painter. A special room has been set aside at the Fondation Custodia to display Van Gogh's work. The selection will include many impressive drawings and paintings, such as Worn Out, a drawing of a desperate character from his Parisian period, and Wheat, a colourful painting from his Arles period. There will also be walking tours to several important Van Gogh locations in the neighbourhood of Montmartre: including his brother Theo's house and the cafés where Van Gogh met with other artists.


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Websites aimed at bringing fine art to the (hopefully art-buying) masses are springing up all over these days. The most interesting of these startups is Art.sy, which cuts down on the intimidation factor by letting users discover new pieces in its cleverly designed virtual gallery. To do this, Art.sy has developed an algorithm and some 800 "genes" or tags that relate the 15,000 works currently viewable on the site to one another. So, for example, if you start by searching for Jean-Michel Basquiat, the famed graffiti artist turned neo-expressionist who died in 1988, the site will pull up a large triptych of his called Six Crimee, which is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. It's not for sale. But below the Basquiat painting, Art.sy displays work that is for sale by more recent artists who Basquiat inspired, including the British street artist Banksy and the lesser known graffiti and installation artist Miranda Donovan, whose three-dimensional pieces start at around $10,000. Art.sy is still in beta, but you can request an invitation to join. It can take weeks to get access, but it's worth the wait. The high-resolution images are fantastic, and it's a fun way to find new artists. But whether Art.sy's fledgling revenue model will work is another story — which you can read in this week's print magazine.
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Private equity firms Carlyle Group LP and KKR & Co LP have emerged as the lead contenders to take over Reynolds and Reynolds, a software company hoping to sell itself for $5 billion, three people familiar with the matter said.
Dayton, Ohio-based Reynolds, which provides business management software for auto dealers in North America and Europe, had hired technology-focused investment bank Qatalyst Partners to run a sale, people familiar with the matter told Reuters in October.
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The process has progressed and is now in its final stages, though no decision is expected before January, the sources said.
Reynolds may be sold to Carlyle or KKR for between $4 billion and $5 billion, less than the company had hoped, one of the people added.
The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the negotiations are confidential. Spokesmen for Reynolds, Carlyle and KKR declined to comment.
Reynolds sells software tools that allow car dealers to run their operations, including providing car dealer websites, digital advertising and marketing services, as well as data archiving.
Reynolds was founded in 1866 by Lucius Reynolds and his brother-in-law as a company that prints standardized business forms. It started to serve automotive retailers as major clients in the 1920s.
In October 2006, the company was acquired by Universal Computer Systems (UCS) for $2.8 billion. The merged company retained the Reynolds name and is currently headed by Chairman and Chief Executive Bob Brockman, who used to run UCS.
Brockman's $2.8 billion buyout was funded primarily by a group of investors that included Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, the private equity arm of Goldman Sachs Group Inc , and Vista Equity Partners.
(Reporting by Greg Roumeliotis and Soyoung Kim in New York; editing by John Wallace)