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CVS is an open source program, and all the information necessary to interface to it or change it is freely available. It is also a very popular system. The combination of these two factors means that a wide variety of programs and tools have been written for CVS.
The tools in this appendix range from a port of CVS to the Windows NT operating system, to a small tool to mail log messages automatically. Other programs include several different viewers to display the contents of the repository with an HTTP server and a useful program that implements access-control lists.
CVS Variants
The CVS license allows you to modify the CVS code and distribute the modified code. Several variants are provided by developers who have produced expansions of CVS for specific purposes.
CVS/MVS is a port of CVS for the MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) mainframe operating system, also known as OS/390 and zOS. CVS/MVS requires MVS with POSIX configured, and the HFS (Heirarchical File System).
CVS/MVS is a port of both the server and the command-line client.
CVS/MVS is available at http://cvsmvs.dccmn.com/.
CVSNT is an alternative CVS server for Windows NT and later, Unix, and Linux. It includes a command-line client as well as the server, and the client can be used with some of the integration tools described in Appendix A.
As well as running on Windows operating systems, CVSNT provides an additional access method, sspi, that authenticates using NT domain passwords. It also allows you to lock branches to specific developers and has a Windows-style installation script. However, CVSROOT scripts that rely on a Unix-like shell environment may not work under CVSNT.
CVSNT is available at http://www.cvsnt.org.
Meta-CVS is an expansion of CVS that adds versioning for directories, supports symbolic links and file metadata, automatically sets the keyword-expansion mode for certain file types (such as .png files) to binary, and improves the user interface for branching and merging. It also improves the way CVS handles file addition and removal conflicts and changes the way vendor branches are used.
Meta-CVS is a variation of the client code and operates from a standard CVS repository. It changes the data stored in the repository, so you can't have a team on the same project with a mixture of Meta-CVS and standard CVS users.
Meta-CVS is available from http://users.footprints.net/~kaz/mcvs.html.
Distribution Tools
Often, you may want to develop a CVS project and publish the files for display or download. You can publish the resulting files with a build script or a script in one of the CVSROOT files. Alternatively, you can use one of the tools in this section, all of which display CVS project files.
Some of the tools in this section display the repository; others export files from the repository for publication. Some retrieve the difference between the revision they have and the latest revision in the repository, then patch the revision they have and display the final files.
Chora provides the ability to view or download the files in a CVS repository using a web browser. It integrates with the other web tools available at http://www.horde.org. The CVS integration is stored in a single library, so you can customize the rest of the display.
In file mode, every revision of a file is displayed along with log messages and you also have the ability to display the differences between revisions. File mode also offers a color-coded branch view.
Chora is available from http://www.horde.org/chora/.
CVSup is a tool for distributing files across a network. It can be used with most file types and understands CVS project files. If desired, it can use zlib compression to reduce network load.
If CVSup is working from CVS files, it distributes the differences rather than the files as a whole, saving bandwidth and minimizing the network load. It also understands tags and distributes specific tagged versions if configured to do so.
CVSup is available from http://www.cvsup.org.
This tool publishes CVS files using FTP. It was developed for web sites that use CVS for content management, but for which the administrator of the server requires that updates be made using the FTP protocol.
CVSviaFTP does not start an FTP session automatically; it needs to be wrapped in a script that manages login and other specifics of your FTP site. However, it is useful when you are managing content across an FTP link.
CVSviaFTP is available from http://www.siber.org/cvs-via-ftp/.
CVSweb is one of several tools that allow a CVS repository to be accessed using a web browser. It allows only viewing or downloading, not the ability to change files.
CVSweb allows you to view a directory, an individual file, any revision of a file, the difference (as reported by the diff command) between the current and previous revisions, or an annotated view of a file.
There are two versions of CVSweb: one available from http://www.freebsd.org/projects/cvsweb.html, and another from http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~zeller/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/.
CVS Web Client
CVS Web Client is one of several tools that allow a CVS repository to be accessed using a web browser. It is a variation of CVSweb that allows a limited ability to edit the repository from the browser.
Unfortunately, CVS Web Client is no longer supported, and the documentation is sparse.
CVS Web Client is available from http://www.mrjc.com/twiki/bin/view/Cvswebclient/WebHome.
jCVS Servlet
jCVS Servlet allows a CVS repository to be accessed using a web browser. It displays the directory structure, file revisions, differences between revisions, and the content of files. The interface is configurable.
jCVS Servlet also provides a Java API, so it can be called from other Java programs.
jCVS Servlet is available from http://www.jcvs.org. It is a Java Servlet, requiring a web server that can run Java Servlets.
SandWeb is one of several tools that allow a CVS repository to be accessed using a web browser. It's intended to be independent of the version control system, but the alpha release works only with CVS.
SandWeb is more than a viewer; it provides the ability to add, delete, and edit text files, and it commits the changes automatically. In time, it may become an effective HTML client for CVS.
SandWeb is available from http://sandweb.sourceforge.net/.
ViewCVS started out as a modification of CVSweb, and it performs the same basic tasks. In addition, ViewCVS allows queries, supports virtual hosts, and has configurable page layouts.
ViewCVS requires Python, and the query support requires an SQL database.
ViewCVS is available from http://viewcvs.sourceforge.net/.
Logging Tools
CVS log messages often contain useful information for project managers, programmers, and other CVS users. There are many tools that manipulate log messages, including tools to create a change log automatically, mail log messages, and change the format of log messages. These tools are most useful if you and your development team enter meaningful log messages.
CHalogen is a change-log generator that relies on the CVS project files being tagged at each significant stage of the project. It generates a change log that displays the changes between tag points. The generated change log is in HTML format.
CHalogen can run as a CGIscript or from the command line.
CHalogen is available from http://www.softwarebee.de/products/chalogen/.
clmerge is a script that merges conflicts in a GNU-style change log. The change log is sent to the standard output, so the script output should usually be redirected to a file. This script is useful as a postprocessor to change log generation programs.
clmerge is available from the contrib directory in the CVS source code.
commit_prep and log_accum
These scripts are designed to work together. commit_prep ensures that the Id keyword is present in the file and checks the version number of the keyword. It prevents older revisions from being copied into the sandbox and replacing an existing revision. It also records information for log_accum .
log_accum consolidates the log messages from a single commit of multiple directories and mails the resulting consolidated log messages — including a consolidated list of which files were added, removed, and modified — to a specified address.
These scripts should be called from the scripting files in the CVSROOT directory.
commit_prep and log_accum are available from the contrib directory in the CVS source code.
cvs2cl.pl runs cvs log and converts the output to a GNU-style change log. Duplicate messages on the same date are merged. cvs2cl.pl runs from the command line and can be included in automated scripts. There are many configuration arguments, producing a variety of output formats.
cvs2cl.pl is available from http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/.
cvs2html converts the output from cvs log to a frame-based set of HTML pages. In addition to log information, the pages display color-coded diffs between revisions.
cvs2html is available from http://cvs.sslug.dk/cvs2html/.
cvs-exp is a cvs log postprocessor that creates a chronological log file across a project. It also displays a tree structure of the branches and tags in a more human-readable format than cvs log provides.
cvs-exp is available from http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/code/cvs-exp/.
This script mails the log information provided with a CVS commit to a specified address. It includes status information for each changed file, as well as the log message and information on which files were changed. The log script should be called from the loginfo file in the CVSROOT directory.
log is available from the contrib directory in the CVS source code.
mfpipe either mails log information to a specified address or pipes the mail information into a file. This script should be called from the loginfo file in the CVSROOT directory.
mfpipe is available from the contrib directory in the CVS source code.
rcs2log is a script that creates a GNU change log from the RCS project files in the CVS repository. It has a variety of formatting arguments and recurses through the local directories. It was originally written for RCS.
rcs2log is available from the contrib directory in the CVS source code.
Metadata Tools
The tools described in this section provide metadata about the CVS project files or use existing file metadata to provide additional functionality. Using these tools, you can search your log comments or your repository, see a graph showing the rate of file accesses over the past week, or find out who changed which files most recently.
CVS Monitor
CVS Monitor is a specialized CVS client that displays module and file information, graphic summaries of user activity within modules, change logs, file histories, and other information. It runs as a CGI script and presents its output in a web browser.
CVS Monitor is available from http://ali.as/devel/cvsmonitor/.
CVSPlot is a Perl script that plots statistics from a CVS project, such as the number of lines of data or the number of files in a module. It generates the results as a text file or as a .png graph that models the change over time.
CVSPlot is called from the command line and can be used in a script. It allows you to specify the period of time and the file types you are interested in. It requires Perl, and to plot graphically it also requires gnuplot.
CVSPlot is available from http://cvsstat.sourceforge.net/.
CVSSearch runs keyword searches on the comments stored as a result of file commits. Its output includes not only every comment that contains keywords you specify, but also filenames and links to the code that matches the comment.
Recent versions of CVSSearch allow you to search your code as well as your log comments. CVSSearch requires a web server and operates as CGI code.
CVSSearch is available from http://cvssearch.sourceforge.net/.
cvsstat and cvschk
These scripts display the status of project files. cvsstat shows which files have been modified locally, which files have been modified in the repository by other users, and which files are up-to-date. cvschk is a similar script for the local sandbox and does not search the repository.
cvsstat and cvschk are available from http://cvs.sslug.dk/cvs2html/.
If you want to use CVS with a project that is currently being stored in a version control system other than CVS, you need to convert the files from the other system to CVS. Fortunately, scripts to do just that are available on the Internet and in the CVS source distribution.
The rcs-to-cvs script checks RCS files in to CVS. It also checks in files that didn't previously have source control. It starts by checking whether the current directory's subdirectories exist in the repository; then it commits the files. Files that do not already exist in the repository are checked in as revision 1.1.
rcs-to-cvs is available from the contrib directory in the CVS source code.
rcs2sccs and sccs2rcs
These scripts convert between RCS and SCCS version control. Note that rcs2sccs supports only one level of branching. Both scripts retain as much of the file metadata as possible.
rcs2sccs and sccs2rcs are available from the contrib directory in the CVS source code.
VSS2CVS is a Perl script to synchronize Visual Source Safe and CVS repositories. It is intended to convert from one source control system to the other and may need modification if you want to try to use both systems simultaneously.
VSS2CVS runs on Windows machines and requires a Perl interpreter (such as ActivePerl) and two utilities that are available with Cygwin.
VSS2CVS is available from http://www.laine.org/cvs/vss2cvs/.
pvcs2rcs reads files from Merant PVCS version control and writes a copy of those files using RCS version control. It acts recursively and leaves the PVCS archive unchanged.
pvcs2rcs is available from the contrib directory in the CVS source code.
The tools described in this section are too unique to be categorized easily. However, they are very useful. They range from a tool to clear out old data from the history file, to a tool to mount the repository as a filesystem.
This script removes most of the old records from the history file in the CVSROOT directory in the repository. It keeps records of file modification, addition, and removal, keeps the last change to each tag, and removes everything else. This effectively compresses the history file by removing most of the outdated data.
cln_hist is available from the contrib directory in the CVS source code.
This script implements access-control lists within CVS. It must be the only script in the commitinfo file in the CVSROOT directory and should be set as DEFAULT so it is called by all files. The script permits access control based on the username, project directories, and branches within the projects.
cvs_acls is available from the contrib directory in the CVS source code.
CVSCheck provides status information for files in the current sandbox. Its output is more concise than the output of cvs status or cvs log, so it's a handy tool for checking status in large sandbox directories.
CVSCheck is available from the contrib directory in the CVS source code.
CVSFS is a tool for mounting a CVS repository as a filesystem. It works only with the pserver access method (as of CVS 1.1.9). By default, it displays the current (HEAD) revision of the trunk of any file. Its main use is reading a repository, and it can be useful as a build tool.
CVSFS is available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/cvsfs/.
CVS2vendor allows you to add a vendor branch to a project you created without using cvs import to make a vendor branch. It moves the project to a new repository directory, but it preserves tags and change records. The branch revision of each file on the vendor branch is given the same timestamp as revision 1.1 of that file.
CVS2vendor is available from the contrib directory in the CVS source code.
The descend script is obsolete for use with most CVS commands, but it may be useful in obscure situations. It permits you to descend through a directory tree recursively, running an arbitrary command at each point.
descend is available from the contrib directory in the CVS source code.
rcslock is described in Chapter 5. It enables you to lock files so that only the developer who holds the file lock can commit a file. This is especially useful when you have binary files or other files that cannot be merged.
rcslock is available from the contrib directory in the CVS source code.


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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
From our readers...
End of Another Era at Michigan
Lloyd's coaching career wasn't the only thing that came to an end this week...
Today is the day the stadium renovation preparations begin. I work
next door to the stadium and saw that Keech Street is being blocked
off and that part of the parking lot is permanently cordoned off for
material storage and worker parking.
Today is somewhat the first day of the next era at Michigan w/ Lloyd
announcing retirement and the renovations beginning. I was thinking
this would be the perfect topic for a post. If you'd like, I can try
and send useful pictures of the ongoing construction.
Please send the pix and keep us updated, Dave. I was initially opposed to the renovations but I think I've changed my mind and look forward to the new Big (Hopefully Louder) House.
(Picture HT: MDen)
Fair commerce, fair weather or worse?
One great thing about being a longtime season ticket holder is the sense of community that develops over the years with other lifelong Wolverines in your section. After awhile, they're not strangers, they're family. But not for MZone reader Bill...
First of all I would like to say that I thoroughly enjoy your site and have turned on many of my Michigan buddies and they also enjoy it. However I do have a question. Do you know who I might be able to get a hold of concerning season tickets? Not in order to procure tickets but to have them revoked. I have had the same seats for 40 years and in the last few years the "fans" to the right of me are never the same. It's always the opposition "fans" that are buying them on the internet for over face value. I began asking that specific question this year and the answer is always the same. I tired of sitting next to the opposition each and every game. That and the non-noise cheering sections are why Michigan seldom has a home field advantage. Hopefully you guys can point me in the right direction. If not then I will begin to query the Athletic Department. Once again, keep up the good work on MZONE.
I totally understand the frustration. I really do. If I want an evenly split crowd, I'll go watch a game in the sports book of a Vegas casino. But I'm not sure there is anything that can be done. If somebody rightfully purchases season tickets, unfortunately they can do pretty much what they want with them (as long as they're not breaking any scalping laws which are hard to/rarely enforced to begin with).
Next up, friend of the MZone and regular reader Beast in Bama sent us the following...
Being a fan of a Big 12 team, I don't get to participate in the unending Big 10 vs. SEC debate that rages seemingly every week here on the MZone. After all, the Big 12 is still the home of college football dreck such as Missouri, Kansas, Baylor and Iowa St., so I can't begin to back up any "top to bottom" claims of superiority against any other conference.
But as the crazy 2007 football season draws to a close, I will submit this for your consideration: no conference has had more YouTube moments, more bizarre twists, more raving lunatic behavior – in short, no conference has had a more entertaining 2007 season on and off the field than the Big 12. To wit:
1) Kansas and Missouri will play what amounts to a BCS elimination game on Nov. 24. What?
2) Bill Callahan singlehandedly destroyed one of the greatest programs in college football history. In one season! OK, so did Charlie Weis. But ND is an independent in football – we're talking cumulative conference effect here.
3) I could attempt to tell you what Dennis Franchione did, but that kind of insider information might wind up costing me $1,200, and I don't have that kind of spare change right now. He will be missed – everywhere but College Station.
4) Did I mention that Mike Gundy IS A MAN!!! HE'S 40!!! HE'S A FATHER OF CHILDREN!!!
5) Four different teams have scored 70 points or more this season. Nebraska gave up 76 to Kansas one week, and then scored 73 points of their own the following week vs. Kansas St.
6) The too-morbid-for-words Okie-Longhorn crotch ripping incident. I know the UM/OSU rivalry is heated, but I don't recall any reports of one man redecorating another man's family room over the Wolverines and Buckeyes.
7) Dan Hawkins would like to remind you that it's still DIVISION I FOOTBALL! IT'S THE BIG 12! If you don't agree with him, the intramural fields are that way, brother.
8) Mark Mangino in a velvet track suit. Need I say more?
The Big 12: we might not be the best conference in 2007, but I'll be damned if we're not the most entertaining.
Finally, besides M/OSU, what are the best rivalries in college football?
I was wondering what your take is on other college football rivalries across the nation. Specifically the one coming up between Auburn and Alabama. Be careful how you type Auburn vs. Alabama, because if you don't put Alabama in front of Auburn i.e. Alabama vs. Auburn, the mullet nation could explode.
You could take the safe route though and put Auburn vs. Saban, since it seems thats all the Alabama fans cheer for nowadays. Like the shirts they wear that says they are a member of "Sabanation" and the year is 200Saban.
Anyway, War Damn Eagle
Well, what do folks say?
29 comments:
- Dezzi said...
From the Michigan Ticket Office FAQ section:
"Scalping: Scalping (selling a ticket above face value) violates University policy and Michigan law. Attempting to sell or solicit the sale of a ticket(s) (even at face value) on campus without a permit also violates University policy. Therefore, a violation of these University policies or this Michigan law may result in your ineligibility to purchase season tickets in the future even if criminal charges are not filed against you. The Athletic Department reserves the right to cancel any existing season or single-game ticket orders and declare you ineligible to order future tickets if we receive sufficient evidence that a ticket assigned to you was sold or offered for resale for greater than the face value of the ticket."
I guess if you want to get rid of the people who are selling their season tickets for a profit, you'll need to hope they are selling them in an auction or something like that... then petition the Athletic Department to revoke them being able to purchase tickets.
The change in coach and the renovations seem to represent a "new era" of Michigan football... will it be the Renaissance? Only time will tell... just hope that the standards that have been set by Lloyd remain.
- November 21, 2007 3:23 AM
- Big Mac said...
Thanks Dezzi. If I'm not mistaken, and without looking at the back of one of my tickets, I believe that is stated on the tickets themselves. I plan on contacting the Athletic Department and see what can be done. Also I am going to start perusing Ebay, Stub Hub, etc.. to find these profiteers. These people are not Michigan Fans, they are only looking to make money.
- November 21, 2007 7:25 AM
- Dezzi said...
big mac
I'm with you... I can't afford to get season tickets, and also am on that 10 year waiting list, or whatever system they have for normal graduates... but I don't want to see people who are making money off the games because they can afford it.
If you give me the section and seat numbers... I'm willing to investigate right alongside you.
- November 21, 2007 8:36 AM
- Tom C said...
Don't count on the Victors Club or ticket dept to do a damn thing about it. I complained last year when I had to pay some a**hole in Ypsilanti 13 time face for OSU tickets last year on Stub Hub. What kind of M fan sells his tickets for the "Game of the Century?" As a Victors Club member and contributor I was on the same damn wait list as the "fan" in Ypsi who sold me his tickets. So instead of making a larger contribution to M this year I lined the pockets of another Victors Club member. Yes, I'm still bitter about that but, I also never recognize anyone in my section (except for the old guy I excoriated after "down in front" 30 seconds into the Oregon game this year - damn I wish I didn't have to look at him every week!) This is a really frustrating situation and I wish the Athletic Dept would do something about it! I know there are thousands of true fans out there who would love season tickets and would actually go to every game, but unfortunately there are too many out there looking to make money for themselves!
- November 21, 2007 9:53 AM
- Out of Conference said...
Nice post by BiB - and no arguments from me about the most entertaining conference.
I'm torn about laws against scalping tickets to sports and entertainment events. I can see both sides of the argument and understand the writer's angst about it all.
- November 21, 2007 9:59 AM
- Mikoyan said...
If scalping is illegal, how does Ticketmaster get away with it? Anyways, if I were to ever get season tickets at U-M, I can't imagine selling tickets to key games of the year. Geeze, if you can't handle going to 8 games a year, you shouldn't have tickets.
As for rivalries, I still stick by the Army-Navy game as the best.
- November 21, 2007 10:40 AM
- BARman said...
BiB--your #4 was coffee-on-the-monitor effective!...
- November 21, 2007 10:56 AM
- Stephen said...
At far as the best rivalry is concerned. Besides UM/OSU the best game by far is Army/Navy. the teams are not the best, the game may not be the greatest but find me a game that more people really care about, for heavens sake, you have the entire Army rooting for one team and the entire Navy and Marine Corps rooting for the other, plus all the veterans. When Army says if they go 1-11 and beat Navy it will have been a wining season they really mean it. The game also puts College Football into perspective. none of the players are going to the NFL, they are all real student athletes and perhaps most important, look what they face when they graduate, a job that is far more important then football. The last part that makes Army/Navy such a great game is the behavior of the fans. They have a saying opponents 1 day a year, comrades 364 days. I have never heard of any incidents like the crouch ripping one or even fans being treated badly by either team, and consider that a large percentage of fans on both sides have the training and ability to kill each other. Even the cheers say how civilized the game is, not Fuck Michigan or something similar but Go Navy beat Army or Go Army beat Navy. and with that just let me say: GO ARMY BEAT NAVY HOOAH!!!!
- November 21, 2007 11:28 AM
- Katie said...
I had student season tickets this year. For the Oregon Game I had to be in San Francisco. I GAVE my ticket to someone that was a true blue Michigan Fan. I would much rather know that someone is going to the game in my place and will be cheering for Michigan, than make an extra buck. Those season ticket holders who are making big money on their tickets should be ashamed of themselves, unless of course they are donating the proceeds to the program, which I highly doubt. (Even then, I can not imagine selling my OSU ticket to an OSU fan, unless of course it was Whets, Sru or Wings.....then maybe, if they promised to behave ;o)
- November 21, 2007 11:30 AM
- Katie said...
Oh and for rivalries what about the Longhorns and the Aggies? I have been hearing about the up coming game on Friday, that sounds like a pretty good Rivalry!
Hook 'Em! :o)
- November 21, 2007 11:31 AM
- Dezzi said...
I believe that each state has different laws of scalping... I recall the first time Michigan played USC and I lived out in Los Angeles. I got 6 tickets to the game and was only able to get 4 tickets to be used by friends.... I put the other two on EBay above face value (because CA allowed it) and was able to get enough money from some USC alumni to pay for my tickets and my friends... we lost, but I took it.
I think if the UM athletic department gets a lot of complaints about people constantly selling their season tickets above face value, they would have to do something. I can understand if you can't go to a game and you try to recoup the money... but if it is almost every game that the person is selling... something needs to be done.
- November 21, 2007 12:05 PM
- whetstonebuck said...
(Even then, I can not imagine selling my OSU ticket to an OSU fan, unless of course it was Whets, Sru or Wings.....then maybe, if they promised to behave ;o)
Katie, I'll promise you anything you want/need to hear. ;o)...Now, about those tickets.
- November 21, 2007 12:31 PM
- Dave said...
What is "War Damn Eagle"?
- November 21, 2007 12:35 PM
- whetstonebuck said...
Not an Auburn fan, eh?
- November 21, 2007 12:38 PM
- Dave said...
I admit to being a Big Ten guy with limited knowledge of/interest in Southern football and its rivalries.
So... yep.
- November 21, 2007 12:49 PM
- whetstonebuck said...
The Auburn version of...
West "BY GOD" Virginia.
Why they don't use "Tiger" I don't know. I asked an Auburn fan here and they didn't know the history either. A brief search on the internet would probably turn up the reason.
- November 21, 2007 12:54 PM
- Big Mac said...
First of all I plan on contacting the atletic department to determine if they are interested in pursuing this issue. I will not identify the section, row or seat until I find out if they are serious. If they are not serious then I plan on talking to the Ann Arbor News, the Free Press, etc... If we have enough people who are tired of "Michigan Fans??" selling their tickets to the opposition, then the Athletic Department will have to take action. I'll keep Yost apprised as to how things are going and what others might do to help. I want my stadium back!!!
- November 21, 2007 2:02 PM
- noah said...
'nuff said
- November 21, 2007 3:51 PM
- goat7ed said...
There's rivals and bitter rivals...I think Meechigan and that Ohio state school, and the southwest scrotum-slice fighters are about the biggest and most bitter rivalries.
From the first response to a request for admissions' information, "Thank you for submitting a Request for Information application to the
U.S. Naval Academy. It will be reviewed, and information will be sent to you shortly. Good luck, and Beat Army!" to every time you turn a corner in the dorm as a freshman, "Go Navy, sir", "Beat Army, sir" to the shout after the alma mater finishes at the conclusion of every football game, be it a disappointing loss to Ball St. or Delaware, or the fourth straight over the Zoomies, or the first win in 43 years over the domers, it is always, "Beat Army!"
Next week in Annapolis will be nuts in anticipation. All quizzes get "Beat Army" filled out for every answer. The mids know which profs are dickish enough to actually count the quizzes and they take the zero anyway. Spirit and energy build at an exponential rate in the confined campus until the students are finally released to attend the game.
For Lions' CEO Matt Millen's son, and 36 other seniors at Army, this will in all likelihood be their last football game ever. They've already selected their specialties for after graduation. They've never beaten Navy. I expect they will leave it all on the field before laying in on the line.
A few years back, a ship made up of Sailors who usually root for the college closest to their hometown, and of officers mostly from Big Ten schools watched the game not because of the "great" football, but because one of the Navy slotbacks was wearing their patch (and it was the only football on). The patch had a great day. Throughout the game, the number of folks around the tv's grew. Every time the patch was shown, folks were screaming. By the end, they were cheering for the team, regardless of their regular geographic and school allegiances. Navy's team is a really nice group of young men who are very aware that the name across the front of their shirt represents more than just a school. ND, the Poinsettia Bowl and leading the nation in rushing will only be consolation prizes instead of icing if they do not win.
Noah, for such a nautical name, you got it backwards. It's
Go Navy, Beat Army!
- November 21, 2007 4:00 PM
- god of the whoppers said...
as far as rivalies, i think many people overlook the bowling green-toledo game, which will be this friday (fuck you ESPN). I am not quite sure how long they have been playing (BG leads series 36-31-4), but i do know they had to stop in the 60's because of riots and i think someone was killed. given that the schools are 26 miles apart, and toledo is the proud owner of a nike ajax rocket that, if fired would land on the 50 yard line of bowling green's Doyt field. and both have produced some decent football coaches and players. as long as i have been going to UT, we've won, though i hope we don't become bowl eligible so i can spend the holidays with friends and family. as far as the MAC is concerned, it is THE rivalry game, but i am not sure of any others series that were put on hold because of riots, but my money is with this one
- November 21, 2007 4:13 PM
- Steve said...
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- November 21, 2007 4:58 PM
- Steve said...
I'm probably going to get in trouble for this, but alas, it's the net, so nothing that can bad can come out of this:
Long time reader of the MZone, I'm an Ohio State alum and grad student at Alabama and, at least from my 1.5+ years down here, it's clear to me that the Auburn-Alabama rivalry isn't serious, at least not from the Alabama viewpoint. Alabama fans easily obsess more about Tennessee than they do about Auburn. There are too many "houses divided" and the kind of subtle winks and nudges between the Alabama and Auburn fans (like Hey Jenny Slater's observations between Georgia and Tennessee fans when he contrasted that with the recent OSU/UM experience at the Big House) for it to be that heated. As a graduate instructor, I even asked my students if they had the option of losing to one school by 50 and beating the other by 50, who would they want to beat, and approximately 80 percent of the class went with beating the Volunteers at the expense of a loss to Auburn (of course, this method is far from scientific or replicable, but it is just my experiences). Asking such a question to a Buckeye regarding Michigan and Illinois (that silly turtle game), of course, will yield predictable results.
After The Ohio State University/Michigan rivalry there only really stands Army/Navy in terms of end-of-season rivalries. The hatred isn't there, per se, but Army/Navy stands for all that's right with college football when Nike's Nikeworld cookie-cutter uniforms, the BCS and corporate bowls permeate what's otherwise the greatest sport/pageantry in the world. It should probably be a federal law that everyone has to watch Army/Navy and at least root on one side, because everything about the matchup is just so cool.
- November 21, 2007 5:00 PM
- Mikoyan said...
I always try to catch parts of the Army-Navy game. I never served myself but I had lots of family that served in the Navy (both my Grandpas, my dad and a couple of my uncles. ONe of my great uncles was killed serving the Navy in WWII) so I root for Navy. For me it is the pure rivalry. Not overhyped like other rivalries and the players will leave the game on the field afterwards. And as others have pointed out, you have the entire Army rooting for Army and the entire Navy rooting for Navy. Not to mention the Navy has produced several astronauts (Space, bitches...space).
So at any rate...Go Navy!
- November 21, 2007 5:59 PM
- MGoBlue93 said...
Katie... since you mentioned UT and A&M, there's one down there which is pretty ugly. A&M and Texas Tech.
It's kind like Moo U. and Michigan. Michigan looks at MSU like another game because the real rivalry is with tOSU and Moo U. is put off by this fact.
Just think of Texas Tech as Moo U. Same insecurities and all.
And if one thinks tOSU fans are inbred, beer-swilling, wife-beating, mullet-wearing, sweaty-yellow t-shirt wearing Neanderthals, then you haven't seen Texas Tech yet.
A few years ago, Texas Tech upset A&M at home, the visiting Tech fans stormed the field, and tore down A&M's goal posts.
- November 21, 2007 7:42 PM
- MGoBlue93 said...
Air Force vet here... want to take in a game at West Point one of these years.
I'll second, third, and Nth, the opinions that aside from UM/tOSU, nothing beats a service academy rivalry.
I won't even begin to compare the AFA to Annapolis or West Point (due to a lack of history/tradition, fairly new institution, country club like accommodations, graduating spoiled brats instead of leaders) but the service games at the AFA are awesome.
The football is always top notch -- regardless of records. The bands are great, the drill and ceremony is a sight every patriotic American should experience at least once in their lives, and like UM/tOSU, there's a healthy hatred/respect which coexists between the schools.
I won't take sides as far as Go Army or Go Navy, but I won't miss a second of the game when a service academy comes out west nor any of the Army/Navy game when it's on TV.
- November 21, 2007 7:53 PM
- Rob said...
I doubt there's much you can do about the person who owns tickets to the seats near you unless you know who they are and can prove how they disposed of them. You'd have to know that they didn't give them away or sold them legally. Surprised that's a big problem at Michigan, though. At an LSU game, the teams with the largest followings might be able to beg, borrow, or steal 500-1000 tickets above their allotment. Never more than that.
As for "War Eagle", an Auburn grad once explained to me that it was a battle cry they say to each other. Auburn has an identity problem. They don't know if they're Tigers, War Eagles, or Plainsmen.
- November 22, 2007 11:27 AM
- UTfan said...
I have been reading the postings on The M Zone as to which rivalry in the country is the most intense. I think that most everyone's answer reflects where they grew up and/or where they went to college. For instance, I grew up in Houston and followed the old Southwest Conference faithfully. The only rivalries I knew first-hand were the old SWC ones – the most predominant ones being UT - A &M and UT – OU. I had no real clue about Ohio State and Michigan until I had family living in Michigan. Oh, I knew there was a conference called the Big Ten and I knew OSU and UM traditionally were good, but I really didn't know much more than that. So my answer as to the hottest rivalries is going to reflect my background. I can't honestly compare the current Big 12rivalries to UCLA-USC, Army-Navy or UM-OSU simply because I never experienced any of those other three on a first-hand basis.
The only thing I am sure of is that one of the bitterest rivalries in college football used to be UT-Arkansas. If you doubt that, I commend the book "Horns, Hogs and Nixon Coming" to you. That book is about the famous shootout played in December of 1969between UT and Arkansas for the national title. The game was played in Fayetteville, Arkansas and the author does a good job of relating exactly what the atmosphere was like there before, during, and after that game. My favorite quote in the book comes from UT assistant coach Mike Campbell who was asked in the week prior to the game what it was like to go to Fayetteville to play. He replied that it was very much like "parachuting into Russia." (These were the days of the Cold War.)
- November 22, 2007 2:51 PM
- Temp430 said...
Your photo of the sun setting over Michigan Stadium looks towards the southwest and Baton Rouge.
- November 26, 2007 8:35 AM
- John said...
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- December 02, 2007 12:19 AM

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The American Civil Liberties Union is concerned about Aaron Hernandez's accommodations in prison as the former New England Patriots tight end waits for his murder trial to start.
In a blog post on ACLU.org, the group expresses concern about the damage being done to Hernandez as he is placed in protective custody, also known as solitary confinement which the ACLU argues can do more damage than good. It cites international communities "that recognize solitary confinement as a form of torture."
"Regardless of what you think of Aaron Hernandez, it's important to take a minute and remember he has not yet been convicted in the eyes of the law, he is still innocent until proven guilty," ACLU.org wrote. "But, while awaiting trial, he has been locked alone in a small room with little or no human interaction for over 20 hours a day."
Hernandez could be waiting many months for his trial to begin. Some believe it could take a year. He was denied bail, and then denied again on appeal with the judge citing the strength of the prosecution's evidence and the risk of Hernandez fleeing. He was reportedly being kept away from the general prison population for his safety. The ACLU worries about him being kept in a cell the "size of a parking spot."
The ACLU discusses the "debilitating psychological effects" when a prisoner is extremely isolated. The group uses Hernandez's case to bring attention to the 80,000 cases of solitary confinement of prisoners, saying that it drastically diminishes the chances of rehabilitation. It says that some studies show prisoners released from extreme isolation have higher rates of repeating criminal behavior.
Hernandez hasn't had a ton of public support since he was arrested in connection with the killing of Odin Lloyd. Former teammate Deion Branch, rapper Snoop Lion and the ACLU pretty much comprise the list now. While his Patriots teammates go through the 2013 season, Hernandez will have plenty of time to think about his circumstances in less-than-ideal conditions. The ACLU is concerned about what long-term effect all that time by himself might have on Hernandez.


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Having unveiled Battlefield 3 with a cinematic trailer and a scant few details, developer DICE today issued the first in-game trailer for the game known to Shackers as 'JetProne64,' giving a teasingly pleasing look at the new engine, Frostbite 2, in action.
DICE also announced that pre-ordering BF3 will net you the 'Back to Karkand' "digital expansion pack" for free, which will contain re-imaginings of four classic Battlefield 2 maps plus BF2 weapons and vehicles, and more. One presumes it'll be sold separately after launch. While word of this bonus had leaked out, it was never confirmed.
Battlefield 3 is due out this fall for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, published by EA. Apparently, DICE is focusing on the PC edition first. Beta access has been promised to those who bought the Limited Edition of DICE and Danger Close's Medal of Honor.
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Norfolk Southern will install a cantilever at the Holland-Sylvania Road (509-457F) grade crossing in the city of Toledo, Lucas County.
RJ Corman Railroad-Western (RJC) will install mast-mounted flashing lights, cantilevered lights, one set of sidelights and roadway gates at the Market Street/State Route 29 (477-014C) grade crossing in the city of Celina, Mercer County. RJC will be responsible for completing construction of their upgrade by August 7, 2013. Funding for this upgrade will be provided by federal funds.
To increase public safety during the construction of the projects, PUCO will assist the local governments with the cost of improvements such as rumble strips, illumination, improved signage or other safety enhancements at the project location. Funding for the improvements will come from the State Grade Crossing Safety Fund and will not exceed $5,000.


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In 2011 Jewell introduced Obama at the White House conference on "America's Great Outdoor Initiative," noting that the $289 billion outdoor-recreation industry supports 6.5 million jobs....Jewell was also an engineer for Mobil Oil:
Jewell has pushed for land conservation in Washington state, where she lives, as well as nationally. She is a founding board member of the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust, which focuses on a stretch of land from Puget Sound across the Cascades, and helped lay out a plan for the National Park Service as a commissioner on the "National Parks Second Century Commission."...
National Park Conservation Association President Tom Kiernan, on whose board Jewell sits, noted that she focused on how to broaden the national park system's appeal as head of the "Connecting People and Parks Subcommittee" during its planning process. He described her overall approach as being "about connecting people and the out of doors, to the benefit of both."
"Her experience as a petroleum engineer and business leader will bring a unique perspective to an office that is key to our nation's energy portfolio," said [Tim Wigley, president of the Western Energy Alliance, which represents independent oil and gas producers in the West]. "We hope to see a better balance of productive development on non-park, non-wilderness public lands that enhances the wealth of America and creates jobs while protecting the environment."From what I'm reading at the link, this is a nice change from the usual career politician who cares about environmentalism.


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First things first. You should change the way you think about mirrors. Yes, they're functional. But if you don't think of them already as decorative objects that can work some major magic, then, well...start thinking of them that way. ;) You'll be shocked at how a few well-placed mirrors can make a small space seem larger and glam-up any room in a sophisticated way. Oh and we're not just talking about wall mirrors, guys. We're talking mirrored accessories and furniture too.
So first of all, lets start with mirrors in small spaces. If you've got a smaller room, or a wall that blocks off a space, you can really open it up and make it more visually appealing with a few mirrors.
For example, this wall in our family room.
This has always been one of my favorite rooms in our house. It's right off our entry way. You can see just how small the space is. So this room is dealing with a few things... its small size and the wall on the back (which is an exterior wall) so it makes the house look a bit enclosed.
To make the room look endless, I added this gorgeous mirrored console table (I scored for a MAJOR deal at the Ballard Designs outlet) and three mirrors (which I also scored for an even more MAJOR deal at the same place). These babies were $30 a piece. Usually, well over $200. Told ya. MAJOR deal.
Don't get me wrong, I realize that people know there is no more actual space there. I get that a mirror will not fool anyone to think there is more space beyond it. That isn't the point. It's the illusion it creates and how it makes you feel when you walk into a room with well-placed mirrors. Rather than an enclosed feeling, it just gives a feeling of more space.
The same can be done with mirrored furniture in a room. A few pieces of mirrored furniture can be mixed into any type of decor if done sparingly. For example, my sweet little much-loved jewelry armoire from Pier 1 that you all have seen in the background of my videos for the past 3 years.
This is my little filming room/2nd guest bedroom. It's the smallest bedroom in our house, so it needs all the help it can get in the space department. A full set of traditional furniture would definitely not work in here. So I mixed and matched. My fav pieces are my mirrored ones in here. This piece is the only mirrored piece you see when you first walk into the room (my mirrored vanity I film from is on the opposite wall). Anyway, this piece placed at an angle gives the corner some depth and doesn't enclose the space. It reflects the rest of the room in a really flattering way.
Another one of my fav mirrored pieces of furniture lives in our little lofty hallway area. It's not a huge area, but it's not as small as a typical hallway. So adding this piece of furniture is great because it provides some extra storage and pretty-ness without looking intrusive or overwhelming for the space. I also love the look of these as side tables in a bedroom. I ordered this one from Target years ago at a great price.
K, so you may have noticed the pretty little "sunburst" or "starburst" mirror above the bed in the little armoire photo. These can be so flattering above a bed. Over any focal point of a room, really. Whether it be a mantle, bed, etc... they're fab. Apparently, I have a bit of an obsession with these types of mirrors in our home. You're totally not going to believe me but I did NOT mean to have a version of these above every bed in our house. It just naturally happened when I was decorating. Promise.
Here it is again in that room (2nd guest bedroom)...
Oh, and the mirror is from Target.
and a grouped version in our larger guest bedroom (where guests actually sleep...haha...the "makeup" room above is rarely used for guests)...
These are from Ballard Designs (outlet)
Yeah, this one isn't over a bed, but it's still over the focal point of the room. In my newly redecorated office over my much-loved desk...
here for my Office Reveal post.
and my FAVORITE sunburst mirror of them all, in our master bedroom...
This one was a super lucky find from Kirklands years ago for $50. I've seen similar versions sold for 4 times the price!
You may also notice a few other mirrored pretties in this photo... The pretty "paned" mirrors leaning on our side tables. Seriously, these things weigh like 100 pounds each. When I bought them (another amazing $70 a piece find at the Ballard Outlet in Atlanta), I was hoping to hang them. But the weight scared me. So I placed a small strip of foamy non-skid drawer liners cut to the size of the mirror bases between the mirror and our side tables, so as not to damage them and so that they'd stay put. You can also anchor them in the wall with a wall hook and some picture wire to make sure they don't fall down, especially if you have pets or kiddos running around. Or just for your own safety, let's be honest.
Because I'm pretty sure these would squash me...
Anyway, these made our room look so much bigger! Our ceiling is vaulted in that room, so the wall that the bed is on is pretty short. These make the wall look so much taller and majorly open up the room. Again, it creates some depth for your eye when you walk into the room, since this is the first wall you see.
That's another big tip. In most of my rooms with mirrors on the walls, the mirrors are always on the wall you see when you first walk in. It keeps the room from feeling so enclosed. Not that you should always follow that tip. Placing them on awkward side walls (like I did with my peacock mirror) works great too. Just go with what is visually pleasing to you! After all, you're the one who has to look at it! :)
So speaking of "leaner" mirrors, I've used these in a few other places in our home.
this post. Yeah, I caved.
Oh and speaking of not spending a lot, I am LOVING this idea I found on Pinterest (via ApartmentTherapy)
Now for some tips on how I placed some of my fav mirrored accessories. A few of these well-placed beauties can change the look of a space completely.
My favorite, the mirrored tray.
This one holds some little apothecary jars full of treats in a corner of our kitchen. I love how it brought in a modern element to the kitchen and of course a little sparkle.
and finally, this tray I've had for ages from Target years ago. It's lived everywhere in our home at some point, but I LOVE it on the nightstand in our guest bedroom. It brightens up the little dark side table and mixes well with the dark antique furniture in that room to offset it a bit and give it a more glamorous feel.
I also love throwing in a mirrored picture frame here and there on a big bookshelf full of items. It gives it a little sparkle. This one is from Target.
and Finally, my little cute mirrored jewelry box and mirrored lamps on our dresser in our master bedroom.
Years back, I removed the mirror that came with the dresser because it was HUGE. I added a little gallery wall of Target frames full of black and white images of landscapes of places we've visited. Anyway, since this wall is mirror-free, I added some depth with the jewelry box and two matching mirrored lamps I've literally had since my early college days from Wal-Mart (lampshades are from Target).
Where are your fav places to find mirrors or mirrored accessories?


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Jammie Price, a tenured professor of sociology at Appalachian State University, was suspended last month after showing a documentary about pornography in her introductory sociology class. She's fighting the charges, saying the university is attempting to punish her for exercising her right to free speech in the classroom....It was an anti-porn documentary. But the students were not warned that these sequences were part of the movie. And there were other charges against Price.
Price said the film, which she checked out from the university library, was graphic at times but academically relevant to that week's topic of gender and sexuality. A Wheelock College professor who helped make the movie said it was "ludicrous" to discipline an instructor for showing the documentary, noting that interviews with gender studies scholars figure prominently in the film, which is critical of the porn industry but also includes brief explicit scenes of porn.
According to the disciplinary letter, she "'made disparaging, inaccurate remarks about student athletes,' strayed from her syllabus, forced her political views on students, said she didn't like working at the university and criticized the college for having an old white coal miner as its mascot."
Price, a tenured full professor, said she had originally planned a lecture for that day but decided to show the film instead after a student complained earlier in the week that Price was hostile toward athletes. That allegation, which was included in Price's disciplinary letter, centered on a classroom discussion about sexual assault accusations leveled against Appalachian State athletes and a resulting campus protest....It sounds as though the film was experienced by the students as a form of retaliation for the students' resisting what they felt was political indoctrination. But so what? Are students entitled to feel comfortable?
Price said she feared the athlete who complained would think her lecture on gender and sexuality was a form of retaliation, so instead she decided to screen the film.
But it's usually the left side of the faculty that pushes for university rules and policies that protect the students from free expression that makes them feel bad. It's an interesting turnabout when a faculty member is suddenly confronting the students with shocking, sexually demeaning images. What happens to all the usual worries about sexual harassment then? And what if the professor really does feel hostile to the students, hostile to them because of their political viewpoint — specifically on the subject of the sexual subordination of women?
Gail Dines, a professor of sociology and women's studies at Wheelock College, was a senior consultant for "The Price of Pleasure" and was interviewed in the film...Talking about.... Are images different?
While she said professors should warn students about the content of the film and tell them they can leave without any repercussions (something Price didn't do), she can't understand why Appalachian State is taking action against Price. "This is what education is," Dines said. "You expose them to the reality of the world they live in and you use that exposure to develop a critical scholarly discussion in class, which is exactly what she did."...
"Sometimes students are going to be uncomfortable," Price said. "The material they learn isn't always going to be rosy. They talk about racism, they talk about sexism. Nowhere does it say we're supposed to make them feel good all the time. Talking about pornography is one of those examples."
Let's flip the politics and try this hypothetical:
A law professor is conservative, and the students tip leftward. The subject has been abortion, and the students have manifested a staunch commitment to abortion rights and seem to reflexively reject any efforts to explore the rights or interests of the unborn entity. So the professor puts together the next day's Power Point slide show, beginning, in typical fashion, with case names and key quotes from cases. "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life."
Without warning, the next slide is a highly detailed picture of a delicate fetus sucking its thumb, with a quick click forward to the most gruesome dead-fetus photo the professor could find on the internet. The lecture continues, and the professor starts calling on students, requiring them to participate in Socratic dialogue — which counts for part of their grade. As individual students are speaking, trying to articulate the rationale in the abortion rights cases, the professor from time to time clicks back to a grisly or charming fetus photos.
The students go to the dean and complain. Questioned, the professor says: Students might like to feel comfortable, but this subject isn't rosy. Nowhere does it say we're supposed to make them feel good all the time. Talking about abortion is one of those examples.
Discuss. Be consistent!


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Coal mining company Genwal Resources has pleaded guilty to corporate criminal charges stemming from the 2007 Crandall Canyon mine collapse in Utah that left nine miners and rescuers dead.
Federal prosecutors say a plea agreement includes a provision that no criminal charges will be filed against any individuals in the case.
Federal and congressional investigators blamed the an initial mine collapse on "retreat mining," in which pillars of coal holding up the roof of the mine are dug out, causing collapse of the mine behind them.
Retreat mining was specifically forbidden by the federally-approved roof control plan for the mine. The two misdemeanor counts charged in the plea agreement include a willful violation of mandatory health and safety standards involving retreat mining four days before the initial August 7 mine collapse, which trapped and killed six miners.
But prosecutors say they were unable to demonstrate, given the evidence, a direct connection between the violation and the fatal mine collapse.
"We were unable to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the company's actions caused the mine collapse," said David Barlow, the U.S. Attorney for Utah.
The other charge involves the failure to report an earlier mine collapse in which no one was injured.
The plea agreement calls for $500,000 in fines and must still be approved by a federal judge.
Three rescuers were killed and six others injured in another mine collapse during a rescue effort that was eventually abandoned. The bodies of the six miners initially killed remain in the mine, which has been sealed.


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Jan. 16, 2013 Associated Pess
NEW YORK -- Federal authorities have charged 32 people, including a dozen alleged mobsters and associates, with using threats of violence and shakedowns to control garbage pickup routes in New York City's suburbs.
FBI agents arrested 30 of the defendants on Wednesday on racketeering conspiracy, extortion and other counts during morning raids around the city and its northern suburbs, as well as in New Jersey. Two more were expected to surrender later in the day.
An indictment identifies 12 of the defendants as either official members or associates of the Genovese, Gambino and Luchese organized crime families. The crime families have a long tradition of infiltrating and extorting trash collection companies at a cost partly borne by paying customers.
"In addition to the violence that often accompanies their schemes, the economic impact amounts to a mob tax on goods and services," George C. Venizelos, head of New York's FBI office, said in a statement.
Court papers allege the extortion ring controlled several trash hauling companies in Westchester, Rockland and Nassau counties in New York, and in Bergen and Passaic counties in New Jersey. The men extorted protection money from the companies and told them which routes they could use, the papers say.


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Boa Constructor is a cross-platform RAD GUI-building IDE. It offers visual frame creation and manipulation, an object inspector, a debugger, integrated help, and many views on the source, including inheritance hierarchies, object methods and properties, and HTML generated from documentation strings. It is written in Python and uses the wxPython toolkit which wraps wxWindows.
cgi_buffer is a group of libraries that may be used to improve performance of CGI scripts (and other content generation engines) in some circumstances by applying performance-enhancing HTTP mechanisms that are typically not supported by them. Currently, Perl, Python, and PHP4 are supported. The Python library may also be used as a wrapper around another CGI script.
GCache is a Python module that provides a generic cache class useful for speeding up any application where objects are referenced by keys. It uses object metadata to optimize hit-rates and freshness for fetches, and uses a "write-through" mechanism for writes and deletes. It can use "if-modified-since" fetches or rsync delta updates to refresh stale cached objects. GSource classes are provided for generating useful metadata from common sources (os.stat calls and MIME headers). A simple example urlCache is implemented that supports HTTP 1.1 (rfc2616) cache-control and expire headers to ensure freshness. Also included is an rfc2616 package useful for parsing HTTP 1.1 headers, and a PCache package implementing a persistant cache using a Python shelve.
getmail is intended as a simple, secure, and reliable replacement for fetchmail. It retrieves email (either all messages, or only unread messages) from one or more POP3, SPDS, or IMAP4 servers (with or without SSL) for one or more email accounts, and reliably delivers into qmail-style Maildirs, mboxrd files, or through external MDAs (command deliveries) specified on a per-account basis. getmail also has excellent support for domain (multidrop) mailboxes, including delivering messages to different users or destinations based on the envelope recipient address.
Libxml2 is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. The library code is portable (to Linux, Unix, Windows, embedded systems, etc.) and modular; most of the extensions can be compiled out. Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages, including the XML standard, Namespaces in XML, XML Base, Relax NG, RFC 2396, XPath, XPointer, HTML4, XInclude, SGML Catalogs, and XML Catalogs. In most cases, libxml tries to implement the specifications in a relatively strict way. To some extent, it provides support for the following specifications, but doesn't claim to implement them: DOM, FTP client, HTTP client, and SAX2. Support for W3C XML Schemas is in progress. It includes xmllint, a command line XML validator.
mxCrypto is an extension package that provides OO-style access to the cipher algorithms and hash functions included in OpenSSL/SSLeay, a very nifty cryptographic library originally written by Eric Young and now maintained by the OpenSSL team. Its main purpose is filling in the missing parts in Andrew Kuchling's pycrypt export package with high quality implementations. Due to the ITAR export restrictions on cryptographic software, Andrew's implementations are not legally downloadable from outside the US.
mxDateTime is a Python module designed to do complex date/time handling with Python. It includes new Python extensions objects for storing and working with date and time as well as date/time parsers, access to the NIST time services and many different conversion routines to other well-known date/time standards such as ISO, ARPA, COM dates, Unix ticks, JDN, MJD, TJD and others.
A live CD for creating a secure, isolated working environment.
A distance-vector routing protocol for IPv6 and IPv4.


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Litmus is an integrated testcase management and QA tool. It was designed to improve workflow, visibility, and turnaround time in the Mozilla QA process. Its goal is to allow users to enter software tests, run them, and view and manage the results. Along the way, users can expect to be able to do queries and reports and have access all the usual features they expect from a first-class Web application.
Atlassian Bonfire is an add-on for JIRA designed to help testers report bugs from within the Web application they are testing. Using a browser extension, testers can submit bugs with annotated screenshots. Both static and dynamic meta-data can be pre-populated using templates. Test sessions record all test activity and allow testers to link newly found issues to original bug or story. It supports Firefox, IE, Chrome, and Safari.
iExploder is like a fire hydrant full of bad HTML and CSS code to test the stability and security of Web browsers. It is available as a standalone Web server or CGI script. It continuously feeds browsers bad data in the hope that they will eventually crash. It is designed to run for hours, or even days until the browser crashes.
TAP4Pascal is an easy-to-use but powerful unit testing suite for Pascal (FreePascal, Turbo Pascal, et al.), conforming to the Test-Anything Protocol (TAP) specification, originally developed for testing Perl, and lightweight enough to work on any platform since it is entirely text-based. It comes with its own test harness for running and summarizing the results of multiple test sets. It aims to be straightforward and to make test building easy and quick for developers, and to help software work better for everyone.
StressItOut is a hardware stressing and testing program for GNU/Linux. Its main purpose is to strain the computer to ensure the hardware is in good state. There are several test modules: CPU load, memory test, 2D OpenGL painting, 3D OpenGL rendering, hard drives, optical drives, serial ports transmission, and parallel ports. Support for lm-sensors is in the works. This software, when ready for release, will mainly be aimed at the QA departments of hardware manufacturing companies, who need to ensure their newly produced machines perform correctly under heavy workloads, and that all their components work as expected.
TCRun is a tool written by software engineers in QA to help in writing, managing, and running automated test cases. The current version is written in C# for use on Windows, though other versions / platforms may be created later as necessary. It tries to make writing automated test cases as simple and painless as possible. It includes support for NUnit exceptions, logging (both test case specific and framwork/runtime), parameterized tests, test case resource files, and a validation framework. It can be used in mono, but is somewhat untested (it's actually built by mono, and it tests itself).
An Apache httpd module to expose delivery status notifications restfully
A MS Excel spreadsheet component for Android.


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Over at Action trip you can find a preview of DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil, offering hands-on singleplayer and multiplayer impressions. GameSpy also has a new preview, as do GameHelper and Telefragged. Meanwhile, on FileShack you can find a Resurrection of Evil trailer which shows about a minute and a half of gameplay footage and we have some screenshots right here.
Update: GameSpot and IGN have posted their previews, and GameSpot also has a video interview with id's Todd Hollenshead. GameZone has an article format Q&A with id Software's Matt Hooper.


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Minetest-Classic is a fork of Minetest-C55, an infinite-world block sandbox game and a game engine, inspired by InfiniMiner, Minecraft and the like. It aims to improve speed, fix bugs, and add features and functionality. The game includes over 400 blocks, craft items, and tools, in both functional and decorative types. Minetest-Classic has a focus on immersive gameplay where in-world mechanisms are preferred over special commands, such as using incinerators instead of a /pulverise command, or craft guides being implemented as part of the in-game book system, rather than as a special menu item. In addition to single player mode, online multi-player is also available.
Multi-Sandbox Lua Engine (MSLE) is a modified Lua interpreter which supports creation and maintenance of multiple "100% tight" sandboxes from within Lua. "100% tight" means that the amount of memory used by a sandbox (counting both code and data) is strictly limited, a feature Lua did not offer before.
uevalrun is a self-contained computation sandbox for Linux, using User-mode Linux for both compilation and execution of the program to be sandboxed. The program can be written in C, C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, or PHP. uevanrun enforces memory limits, timeouts, and output size limits in the sandbox. The primary use case for uevalrun is evaluation of solution programs submitted by contestants of programming contests: uevalrun compiles the solution, runs it with the test input, compares its output against the expected output, and writes a status report.
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[In his book To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine, May 2010.]
[At the Republican National Convention, August 1996]
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[Address to Cornerstone Church in Texas, March 2011]
You're spending all your fuckin' time with school
Daddy's boy got some brand new cash
Come on fucker!
It's from the heart
This is not an isolated or unusual incident. All over our country, this increasingly strong arm Gestapo-like organization is hunting down and stifling any and all Christian expression. And we deserve it - because we've let it happen. We didn't have to, but we did.
Just today, I read Proverbs 21:22 "The wise conquer the city of the strong and level the fortress in which they (the strong) trust."
From the fortress of the Democrat "strong," we heard a chant we thought was "change! change! change!" Now, as we listen closer, we're recognizing that it's "chains! chains! chains!"
If we the people are wise, we'll mobilize and level the fortress - while we can."
"... In contrast to the self-confidence and sunny demeanor that won over so many, Palin has become a sulking, suspicious diva. Quitting the governorship with 18 months left in her term only confirms that impression."
... as opposed to the imposition of torture (see: "waterboarding"), "unlawful combatant status," Guantanamo as a prison outside of U.S. law, invading & destroying Iraq...? Psst! Dick! You're talking about your old boss, not this new President!
"I am charged now with attacking the prime minister's guest. We Arabs are famous for being generous with guests. But Bush and his soldiers have been here for six years. Guests should knock on the door. Those who come sneaking in are not guests."
"I did not know what achievements [Bush] was talking about. I was seeing a million martyrs, seas of Iraqi blood, the desecration of mosques, the raping of Iraqi women and the humiliation Iraqis endure every day, every hour. Because I am a journalist, I know all about that."
"In that moment, I only saw Bush. I was feeling the blood of innocent people flow under my feet as he was smiling. I felt that he is the killer of my people, and I am one of those people. I became emotional because he's responsible for what is going on in Iraq, so I hit him with my shoe."
--Muntadar al-Zaidi, at his trial (which does not resume until March 12).
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"I always said, I would love to retire with one black bitch as our house pet . . ."
"Do you think Tim has any of that semen?"
--New York Times article on breeding champion poodles.
"[W]hen the [National] Archives goes to open Cheney's papers, they are going to find empty boxes."
--Stanley I. Kutler, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Law School
A judge rejected the claim by historians and nonprofits that the current administration may discard sensitive documents destined for the National Archives. Meanwhile, Dick Cheney attended Barack Obama's inauguration in a wheelchair because he pulled a back muscle lifting moving boxes. We're not the only ones wondering what was in those boxes that he absolutely had to carry them himself...and whether Cheney has friends who'd help him move for pizza and beers?? Cheney will now collect a pension worth $132,451 annually, courtesy of the taxpayers.
"I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best."
--George W. Bush, January 12, 2009.
From Slate.com.
We thought you may be interested in Slate's list of Top 25 Bushisms. Like these classic little morsels:
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."�Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000
"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness."�CNN online chat, Aug. 30, 2000
"They misunderestimated me."�Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country."�Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004
Only eight more days left for the Bush administration! Things aren't gonna be peachy keen just because he's gone, but we're allowing ourselves to do a little happy dance. Don't let the door smack you in the ass...if you can even manage to open it, George!
"If Paulson was still an employee of Goldman Sachs and he'd done this deal, he would have been fired."
--Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, on the Wall Street bailout.
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We joked that it was sad that "going to Columbus for a college football game comes with its own travel advisory like the State Department issues for places like the Congo, Burundi and East Timor."
Or at least we thought we were joking.
A number of readers alerted us to the email below which Michigan students received yesterday from university officials. It starts off telling folks about an alumni association pre-game tailgate in Columbus before the game. But the bulk of the letter detailing "safety precautions" for Michigan fans going to the game gives an indication of how bad things have been for Wolverine fans in Columbus in the past. Here's what we're talking about...
We know that it can be uncomfortable being in an opposing team's environment, especially when the stakes are so high. We would like to offer a few suggestions in order to help you stay safe and have a positive experience this weekend:
--Try carpooling to the game; if possible, drive a car with non- Michigan license plates.
--Keep your Michigan gear to a minimum, or wait until you are inside the stadium to display it.
--Stay with a group.
--Know and obey the laws regarding alcohol use.
--If you are of legal age to drink, use alcohol in moderation. Stay in the blue.
--Stay low-key; don't draw unnecessary attention to yourself.
--If verbally harrassed by opposing fans, don't take the bait.
--Avoid High Street in Columbus.
If at any time you feel unsafe, you should call 9-1-1 for assistance. U-M campus police also will be available in Columbus to support our fans. You may call them with non-emergency concerns at (734) 216-9159.
We look forward to a tremendous game on Saturday. Let's help the Wolverines win with spirit and class.
Go Blue!
Sue Eklund, Associate Vice President and Dean of Students
Steve Grafton, President, Alumni Association
Nicole Stallings, MSA President
Just that school officials thought it was prudent to send this to those travelling to Ohio this weekend is sad. And before OSU fans flood our comments section saying, "It's the same in Ann Arbor for Buckeye fans, blah, blah, blah," let me stop you by saying...
It's not.
And that doesn't mean ugly behavior by Michigan fans toward OSU fans doesn't happen. I'm sure it does and I'm even more certain Buck fans will leave some examples here today. But to say the violent, often vulgar, atmosphere toward opposing fans is the "same" in A2 as it is in Columbus is absurd. Look, there's crime in Des Moines and crime in Detroit. Yet to claim the levels are "equal" is ludicrous.
Thus, it is my sincere hope instead of simply saying, "It's the same there, too!," Buck fans will instead speak up and try to stop any abusive behavior they see on Saturday...especially if it's happening to me or Benny.
(Thanks to Sarah, David and all the others who sent us this tip)