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CHI House Tour: Christy & John's Logan Square Bungalow
Name: Christy and John
Occupation: Public Health Project Manager and Publishing Sales Rep, respectively
Location: Logan Square
Type: Wood-frame bungalow, circa 1904
Size: 1500 sq ft
Years Lived In: 6.5 years
Christy and John are hard workers. They buy most of their furniture second-hand and then lovingly restore or reupholster it. They hold out for the right item, and each piece works perfectly in its space. Using local craftspeople and vintage furniture sellers, they've spent the past six years transforming their Logan Square bungalow into a home that fits all their needs.
When they bought the place, the first floor was in the process of being rehabbed. By the time they moved in, most of the first floor was finished, and they lived downstairs while they worked on the second floor. John hired his friend as a contractor. One big priority: use the dead hallway and stairwell spaces to hold the many books John has collected as a publishing rep for Random House. Their contractor installed built-ins in the stairwell and fashioned a storage unit from kitchen cabinets that runs the entire length of the second floor hallway and bedroom. To bring light into the dormer rooms, they installed skylights in the roof. The finished rehab is a functional and livable home with storage space to spare.
Christy and John's Survey:
Our Style: Mission meets mid-century meets garage sale
The Inspiration: Scarcity / re-use / form determines function
Favorite Element: Making use of dead spaces
Biggest Challenge: Making use of dead spaces
What Friends Say: Can I borrow a book?
Biggest Embarrassment: How the dog hair and scratched floors reveal what pushovers we are for our dog
Proudest DIY: Complete restoration of the front facade (took 5 months to complete); construction of sound-proof band practice space in the basement
Biggest Indulgence: Reupholstery and reconstruction of a German $10 yard-sale chair
Best Advice: Elective changes should be cash only; avoid loans and credit for all but the absolute necessities
Our Dream Source: Architectural Artifacts
Resources: Greenmaker, Craig's list, antique malls, Y-n-B home improvement
Thanks, Christy and John!
Living Room:
• Most of the artwork is by John and Christy's friends.
• The stamp art is by Michael Hernandez de Luna.
• Two pieces are from the Intuit Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art.
• The blue chairs are from a Kansas City yard sale.
• The Stickley rocker is from a neighbor's garage sale.
• The Joyeria painting was purchased from an art show at Lula Cafe.
• The Hank Williams portrait is by Jon Langford.
• The workstation is an antique woodworker's table.
• Christy and John had a marble insert cut for the worktable.
• The bar is an antique medicine cabinet from Edgewater Antique Mall.
Dining Room:
• Local upholsterer Kate Ronan did the chair and much of the home's upholstery.
• Christy buys upholstery fabric at fabricguru.com.
Hallway and Stairs:
• Their contractor is a friend of John's.
• They opened up the wall to the dining room and put in the wood posts.
• They also installed built-in book storage on the stairs.
• Their contractor custom-fit kitchen cabinets for book storage in the hallway.
• The painting in the hallway is by the home's previous owner.
Guest Room:
• Christy's best friend from graduate school made the quilt for her.
• They framed out the guest room closet and converted it into a hallway linen closet.
• Their contractor added the skylights on the second floor.
• John tiled the bathroom himself.
• The kitchen cabinet shelving continues into the bedroom.
• John and Christy store their laundry baskets in the cabinets.
• Christy made the cigar box artwork.
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gorgeous -- and so much character! I gotta get myself to a kansas city yard sale sometime soon.
Can I move in? :)
We will soon be in need of a contractor to tear down a few walls and potentially re-work a staircase. Could you share your contractor's name?
Also, I love the dining room and the bookshelves going up the stairs. This is not my exact taste to "live" with, but I love looking at it and you guys did a fantastic job. The entry is amazing. Is that an old deco fridge?
What great best advice!! And something I know I and many people I know could hear more often. It is hard sometimes not to spring for indulgences with my credit card but the things I have waited to buy add so much more because they were the one thing out of 15 that I wanted and my house is cluttered (besides the whole staying out of debt business!)
Wow! I really love this. The mixture of styles is creative and looks very natural. I can tell that a lot of thought and consideration went into the creation of this home, but it doesn't look staged or contrived. I am drooling over the built-ins, especially the bookcases on the stairs! Beautiful choice of artwork. I could go on and on... This place also looks much larger than 1500 square feet! I'd love to see the facade and the band practice space, too. Thanks for the extensive info on your sources.
i love all your chairs! especially the blues. and yes, the entryway is GREAT - love the globe and jukebox shape of the art deco piece (or whatever that is...is that the bar?) it's got alotta character!
Superb use of space and garage sales! Absolutely outstanding in proportions/ color / light and overall balance. Very unique style of quiet elegance and wit. There is the distinct flow from room to room , from one object to another. The place is grounded, thoughtful and breathable. Not an awkward moment, not a hint of precise calculation either, just lovely, graceful home. One of the most intelligent entrees i have seen at AT.
This is, hands down, the best house I've seen on AT. This is just perfect from start to finish!
I love the Shellac/Fugazi/The Ex poster.
L-o-v-e. Who's it by? I've been hunting for it on Gigposters :)
Love the built-in staircase bookcase!!!
And so lucky to have some stamp art by Michael Hernandez de Luna!!
it's a jay ryan poster:
(check the 2001 gallery)
sadly that print is sold out, but maybe you can find a copy on gigposters!
Where did you get the rug in the dining room? I've been looking for a rug with that particular blue in it, and it hasn't been an easy task.
I knew we were decorating soulmates the second I saw the Jon Langford painting. I LOVE your place, and everything in it!
love the azure chairs and the bar! Awesome!
Um, I aspire to have a place like yours when I get a home of my own. I think I am going to send the slideshow to my boyfriend to show him my dream!
Where did you get the sconce in the bedroom?
LOVE your blue chairs and the reupholstered chair in the dining room is gorgeous. And don't even get me started on your built-ins. Great home!
you have so many booooooooooooks!
I love saturated colours like your blue chairs, but always think of neutral for upholstered mid-century chairs. Your chairs have cured me of that - bring on the jewel tones.
Your dog and sock monkey are very lucky.
This is really a beautiful home. Most importantly it looks like a wonderful place to live. AND...Where did you get your bed???
Love those blue chairs!
stylishly cozy!
Completely gorgeous. It's absolutely inviting and inspiring. I am dying to know what color that light gray/blue paint behind the Stickley Rocker is!!
Wow I'm freakin' jealous.
I have that same blue chair! Only the "female" version though, thats exciting to see that you have both mom and dad chairs!
Overall an awesome house tour. I love the furniture and the work you've done to the house. Its so nice to a place like this with such a great resource list (Like Lisa said, no big box items, yay craigslist and thrift shops)!
NO WAY! I totally have that blue chair on the right! (or one that is nearly identical) 2 of them, actually. I got them from my grandmother. I can't afford to reupholster them right now - I nearly gave them to goodwill when I moved! I'm so glad I saved them - they look beautiful reupholstered in your home!! I'm so inspired now.
Here is what the original fabric looks like on my chairs:
It definitely has that same blue color in the pattern. My brother thinks they're so hideous he makes fun of them every time he visits.
This house is very lovely. Thank you for the inspiration.
ellentyler - that chair rocks! The current upholstery is awesome in a hideous sort of way. I think the blue upholstery on the chairs in the first picture may be original? My chair is the exact same bright royal blue, nubby fabric (that my cat looves to scratch) and is original to the chair. I would love to reupholster it though, probably in something that will inspire less scratching.
This has to be my favorite tour so far. I like the warmth of their house. I also like the style of the bookshelves.
@suziegoombs - hahaha, thanks. i'm glad someone thinks so. i have bipolar feelings about it. it was very difficult to live with at first, but its growing on me. you may be right about it not being the original fabric; it's very like my grandmother to put something crazy like that on a chair. regardless, i'm trying hard to 'make it work' in my amateurish sort of way, as i really don't have a choice about it. i've got a matching blue throw pillow and lap blanket on it to cover and tone down some of the busy-ness of the pattern.
i think the royal blue looks fabulous though. one day, one day.
Antique medicine cabinet bar and guest room quilt are fab!
absolutely wonderful home...
it is, as others have mentioned, beautifully balanced, elegant and graceful.
two details were extra special to me as i looked through the photos of your place:
the harry painting over the bookshelf in the living room (i love harry's work and am happy to have some of it in my own space), and the photo of David Schwartz on John's office wall. for those of us who were privileged to know and work with David (and to call him friend), he is sorely missed.
Another request for the name of your contractor, if he/she is looking for a fun rehab project.
Hi everybody,
Thanks for your incredibly flattering responses. Sorry it took us a while to respond, but we went out of town almost immediately after the house posted and we're just now catching our breath.
To respond to a few questions:
We can't recommend our contractors highly enough. You can reach Paul and Greg at email@example.com.
We also want to give props to Craig Luddington, who played a key role in our upholstery projects. He's just started his own business. Please check him out at http://craig.upholsters.us/.
The bed is Amish made, and we picked it up in a tiny little town in Ohio in the middle of winter, where it had been custom made for less than $600. It kills me to say it, but I can't remember the name of the place!! Hope a strategic internet search might help.
Finally, we really appreciated the moving comments about David Schwartz near the end of the comment list. We had the privilege of attending his memorial service, and it was a real tribute to someone who epitomized the importance of community, literature, and local/independent business.
Garage sale season is coming. Hope to see you there!
Christy and John
Thank you for the names. I'll definitely be contacting both the contractors and the upholsterer for bids on future projects. I'll tell them you recommended them.
i like the kitchen table. looks like it's a table top on top of a sewing table base.


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I refuse to watch any web series because let's be honest if it was really that good it would be on TV because that's where good things go. But someone must have been watching "Mortal Kombat: Legacy" because the series creator Kevin Tancharoen has let the world know he's working on a second season that will focus on the tournament itself rather than character story. I assume that means the first season focused on the character's story. I don't know. I already said I didn't watch it. The web is dumb.
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The National Weather Service says driving tomorrow morning might be impossible in some parts. The Highway Patrol is recommending no travel, and they say it's safer to be off the roads. But, if you have to be out take all the normal winter precautions.
Truck drivers describe high wind speeds as scary and dangerous. One driver told reporter Nicole Johnson, when winds start to pick up, he can tell even the difference between five and ten miles per hour, and any winds above 40 shouldn't be driven in.
Professional driver Chris Moore has lots of advice for fellow motorists. "You pull over, you stop. Just use common sense just like if you have a car," Moore says. "You worry about the people around you, because it's not so much you or the equipment, but it's people who have kids, your family, other people's family. Pull over, get off the roads. You stay and sit at a truck stop and you have a salad."
Trucker Harvey Seydel echoed those sentiments. "Just be careful," he said. "Think of your family!"
"It's no different than hard rain," Moore explains. "Same thing. Pull over, get off the roads. There's no reason to risk your life or anyone else's life for it!"
Regardless of what you are driving, these truckers speak from years of experience when they say winds are not something to take lightly.


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A truck driver accused of killing an Illinois Tollway worker and critically injuring a state trooper during a fiery crash near Aurora was ordered held on $150,000 bond Wednesday morning.
Renato V. Velasquez, 46, faces charges of operating a commercial motor vehicle while impaired or fatigued, making a false report of record and duty status, and driving beyond the 14- and 11-hour rules, all felonies, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
Velasquez's attorney said his client's blood-alcohol test indicated the trucker was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the crash.
However, DuPage County prosecutors alleged in court that Velasquez had been working for 37 straight hours prior to the crash.
"That's what's alleged. I don't know if that's true," said attorney Steve Goldman, who described Velasquez as a "loving father and a loving husband."
"He's devastated. He's devastated this happened," Goldman said of his client. "It was an unfortunate and tragic accident."
Vincent Petrella became the first Illinois Tollway employee since 2003 to be killed on the job in the crash that also critically injured Trooper Douglas J. Balder.
Balder, 38, was helping Petrella, 39, with a broken-down semitrailer truck about 9:45 p.m. Monday in the right-hand lane and shoulder, on the eastbound side of Interstate 88, according to authorities.
That's when a second semi crashed into them, said State Police spokeswoman Monique Bond. Balder was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, officials said. Petrella was pronounced dead at the scene.
A 13-year veteran of the tollway who began his career there as a toll collector in 2001, Petrella became an equipment operator laborer in 2005. Among his responsibilities was to work with State Police and other emergency personnel to deal with incidents on the highway, tollway spokeswoman Wendy Abrams said.
She said Petrella is the first tollway employee to be killed on the job since Paul Liotine, of West Chicago, was hit by a truck in September 2003 while replacing plastic reflectors.
Bond said the lights on Balder's squad car were activated Monday.
Petrella's sister, Maria, said she grew up with her brother on Taylor Street in Chicago's Little Italy neighborhood. That's where she said he got one of his first jobs putting tags on cars at a valet service. She said her brother moved to northwest suburban Wheeling about seven years ago and lived there with his wife and two children: a 7-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy.
Heidi Miller, Balder's former sister-in-law, said Balder and his wife "are amazing people" who kept in touch with her son for years.
Navy records show Balder served in Africa from October 2012 until June 2013.
"He's a remarkable man," Miller said.
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Northeast got the rematch at home it wanted with reigning 7A state champion Blanche Ely in the regional semifinals Tuesday and can thank one of the least-talked-about players on the roster.
Reserve forward Deandre Longham made two free throws with five seconds left as Northeast held off a furious fourth-quarter rally by McArthur to escape with a 55-53 victory in the Region 4-7A quarterfinals Thursday.
Northeast's matchup against Blanche Ely was secured after a desperation three-point attempt from Derric Jean, one of the heroes of the Mustangs' fourth-quarter comeback, fell out of bounds with 3.1 seconds left.
"We didn't expect a close game but our kids fought tough, we stayed around and do what we do," Hurricanes coach Gerald Gillion said. "We just have to keep moving on. Deandre hitting those two free throws was big time. We teach our kids as seniors you have to be ready to play."
Northeast 6-10 center Malik Price-Martin helped spoil the Mustangs' first home game in the regional quarterfinals with a team-high 19 points, 15 rebounds and five blocked shots.
Hunter Osceola added 12 points, including a three-pointer with 4:22 left that gave the Hurricanes a 50-41 lead.
But the Mustangs, showing the mettle that launched them on an improbable run to their first district title, stormed back with a 11-2 run sparked by Khalil Millwood, who finished with a game-high 23 points, Jean (11 points) and Richard Desvarieux.
During the spurt, Jean scored four points and had a steal, Desvarieux made a three-pointer from the left wing and then brought the Mustangs fans to their feet when he spun in a reverse layup to forge a 52-52 tie with 1:54 left. McArthur had a chance to go ahead after Price-Martin missed a pair of free throws with 32 seconds left but Majestic Tejada lost the ball with six seconds left, setting the stage for Longham's game-winning free throws.
NE (13-9): Price-Martin 19, Osceola 12, Longham 2, Mendez 5, Wiltshire 2, King 5, Simonson 6, Sanchious 5. McA (13-10): Millwood 23, Harris 2, Tejada 6, Jean 11, Ferguson 5, Desvarieux 6. Half: NE 25-22. Three-pointers: Price-Martin 1, Osceola 2, Mendez 1, Simonson 1. Desvarieux 1. Rebounds: Price-Martin 13.


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We have an outside lawn. Last year, when we moved in, it was in terrible condition. It was power seeded and watered. Now it is in good condition. In Northern Virginia we are blessed with enough rain water.
No chemicals. No electric mower. I do it with a non electric push mower. It takes me about 45 minutes.
Would like to make a part of this lawn a vegetable garden but the Association does not allow that. I am this year growing herbs and vegetables in pots on our balcony and patio. It is fun.
We are both retired and in the late, late seventy's. Keeps us moving.
Good luck everybody
Actually, now is a great time to consider replacing part or all of your lawn with beddings of plants that require less water, as weel as adding areas covered by mulch, decorative stones, etc.
Grass lawns consume huge amounts of water, and a "well-maintained" lawn is marketing code for the use of fertilizers and weed killers that eventually become runoff in your local waterways. It's a major reaon that lakes and canals experience more algal blooms each year and the fish are unsafe to eat.
A little effort today will mean a healthier Earth for generations to come.
I live in Texas and we under some tough draught times here. I decided to just let my lawn go last year because water was rationed here and the price was not one my pocket book could afford. I didn't mow, it burned up, but went to seed mind you. I figured I would lose my rose bushes and other plants in my yard. Well, our winter was so mild, the rain was sparse, but it seemed to come at exactly the times the plants needed it the most. I have 13 trees, figured would loose some of those, But they are all leafing out and the grass has come up and I have had to drag out the weed eater and Lawn mower. My plants have all went lush with leaves and blossoms. Now I do my best to stay away from chemicals on my lawn and plants. I have 9 dogs, all but 4 of them are rescues. Yes, I have trails in my yard since we got the big footed American Bulldog, but that's okay. The neighbors are always coming by and wanting starters, I tell them to go ahead get a cutting and how to start them and my statement is....stay away from the chemicals, let Mother Nature take care of them.
Amen deccles03 .. ..
Lawns are the least sustainable part of any landscape. Their maintenance consumes radical amounts of water, requires production and use of chemicals that leach into waterways, and cause significant contributions to the carbon footprint through operation of small engine powered mowers/trimmers/blowers. It is way past the time to invest in other alternatives - and synthetic lawns are not part of the solution! - - -
From a 'sage' landscape architect.
Instead of throwing your money away on this terrible investment, try converting large portions of your lawn into organic fruit and vegetable gardens. The average family will save between $2000 and $4000 a year on groceries (a nearly $5000 reversal in home expenses), you'll eat better, use fewer toxins and waste less water on the ground and it's something the whole famly can take pride in maintaining. Try getting that kind of ROI anywhere else around your home.


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cmd.exe for Linux zealots
[ Wednesday, 9 April 2008, Keyto ]
Rationalization (Latin: ratio) is a defense mechanism in which one explains unacceptable behaviors or feelings in a rational or logical manner, thus avoiding the true explanation of the behavior or feeling in question.
For instance: You wanted to buy a sports car, and your spouse wanted an estate. So you bought an estate, and now you are proving yourself that the estate is better.
My example : "You are have no skills in using the command line in Windows, so you are proving to yourself, that it is useless anyway".
My goal, Dear Reader, is not to prove anyone, that Windows' command-line features are identical to those of Linux. To be honest, this text does not aim to cover the Windows shell features, at all. It is not a goal, it is a measure. The goal is to present you with a few thoughts about "the human nature", as would Agatha Christie say.
There are examples in this text. If it is not annotated differently, the Linux commands are executed in a Debian system, using bash. The Windows system means MS Windows XP Professional SP2 working in a MS Windows 2003 Server R2 managed network.
Part one : the command line
There is an opinion, not really wide-spread, but very popular amongst Linux zealots, that Windows command-line cannot compete with Linux one, by no means.
According to many Penguin-badged systems users, the Windows' "black window" is only fit to execute basic, scarce and weak commands, is not fit for automation, and not fit at all for administering any remote system.
Look at any comments, even articles in any Open Source portal. It reads: "Linux' command line is almighty, Windows' is a loser".
Well, there is a problem: the Windows server administrators do not know about it. Thus, they create sophisticated scripts which they use to perform administrative tasks in their local networks. So, how is it, with the "black window" and the human nature?
First of all, most of computer users catch on a specific superstition, which says, that Windows XP is a descendant of a simple and poor DOS.
This is as true as the "truth" that a human (homo sapiens) is a straight-line descendant of a chimpanzee.
The NT OS line has little in common with the rough 16-bit creature known as Disk Operating System, alone or equipped the Windows [1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 95, 98, ME] graphical shells.
Same age systems, which are NT 3.5 and Windows 95, come from two different worlds. The only thing they have in common is the interface and the name. Well, the real Linux-user should not be shallow, shouldn't he?
Another superstition, worth mentioning, is that the average Linux administrator uses hundreds of sophisticated commands with thousands of options.
I think, that I won't find many opponents if I claim, that over eighty percent of administrative tasks are done using no more than twenty percent of available commands.
For the purpose of this article I have tried to estimate the number of commands that I use in Linux and Windows systems. Regarding Linux, I can list around 250 commands, in Windows – around 200. (The rest is waits to be discovered in the documentation.) In both cases, for everyday work it is enough for me to use no more than 50.
There comes but a problem. The operating systems' theory is a lot older than the personal computers, and both Windows and Linux creators knew it while working on their systems. The designers of both have not been reinventing the wheel – they knew in advance, what features they need to provide. The theory does not state, however, how these features should be implemented. One cannot compare both systems' commands one-to-one, I mean. Let's try it:
|Directory creation
|Finding a pattern in a file
|displaying a file
|sorting a file
|change directory
|cd (no parameters)
|show current directory
|Show/set time
|Print a line
|List directory contents
|Show tasks (processes)
|Kill task
|Turn off computer
Well, that was easy, sort of. Sort of, because – is findstr the same as grep or is Windows' echo functionally equal to Linux' echo? I don't think so, but let's go further.
|fsutil hardlink create
|Create a hardlink
|show system uptime
Yes, this is where it starts to get complicated. The first command features creating links. I drag your attention to the fact, that it is indeed possible to do in Windows.
In XP as shown above, there is no soft-link feature, which exists in UNIX-like systems, and is achieved using `ln -s`. It is just straight beyond the capability of the NTFS filesystem used in XP. The higher NTFS versions (Vista, Server >2003) do have this capability, though.
As shown, in Windows there is no command being a reflection of ln. We create links with a sub-command being a part of a bigger program.
The alleged reflection of uptime is a more sophisticated problem, and it shows perfectly, what I want to tell. Windows' systeminfo is a command returning information on system state. The general system state. It returns the uptime, name, domain where it is attached to, system version together with patching information, machine model, memory information, swap file location and a few more meaningful lines, too.
One cannot tell, however, that systeminfo is a reflection of Linux' commands of hostname, domainname, uname, free or uptime. Almost all of the 'reflections' give a bit more information than the systeminfo alone. In turn, it doesn't mean, that Windows has no capability of providing the extended info…
Side note: "Windows domain" is not the same as "internet domain", in case it is not obvious for someone. Windows' Domains is a measure of implementing the local network administration – treating a set of networked workstations as one, transparently, as one entity.
Question: What system is it?
Let's go back again to fsutil hardlink create. This command depicts in excellent way the Windows' style of grouping easy commands together. When the UNIX-like systems are built with one problem – one command paradigm in mind, Windows has it reversed – one sophisticated command is to ensure a total solution. fsutil itself accommodates 11 sub-commands, each of them having own options. So we have, for example:
|What for ?
|Linux command:
|fsutil file createnew
|new file
|fsutil quota modify
|disk space assign
|fsutil volume diskfree
|disk free space
|fsutil fsinfo drives
|available drives
|mount (no
|fsutil volume dismount
|unmounting the volume
By the way. It is noteworthy, that most of Linux users have absolutely no idea, that NTFS has a feature of mounting partitions, just like Linux' mount.
The NTFS partition doesn't have to have a letter assigned at all, please note, by the way, how systeminfo shows the active boot device: for example, '\Device\HarddiskVolume1'.
Similarly the system shows other partitions, which in Explorer's window are usually displayed as "C:", "D:", "E:" and so on, indeed. There is no obstacles, however, to connect the partition to the main filesystem and it will be displayed by Explorer as a part of system partition.
To connect NTFS volumes one needs to use the command like diskpart assign mount=path. The diskpart command is even more sophisticated than the aforementioned fsutil, more complicated and a non-familiar user might easily break his system with it, so we won't go on describing it to save your life.
Windows contains more of similar kind of "combos". One of them, largely known, is the net command. While fsutil had 11 sub-commands, net has 22 of them. This command must have been named so to distract the enemy, allegedly, because it can be used even if no network cable is connected to your computer. You can manage services with it ( net start, net stop, or net pause), manage users' accounts (net accounts, net user), synchronize the computers' clock (net time) and, of course, manage the remote access to individual machines ( for which you actually need a network cable (or another medium)).
For example, an executable, however a bit dangerous command of:
C:>net use B /user:administrator@B
will grant us practically full access to a remote machine named "B". It will show handy in the third part of this article.
The Windows' philosophy is so different, that sometimes one can get the info needed without invoking any commands at all. Examples ? In Linux we use the group of basename, dirname, pathchk commands. dirname is a command returning the sub-directory name when fed a full path. Handy when creating scripts. Under Windows one can extract the directory name alone, but in a bit different way. Let's assume we have a script named skrypt.cmd which takes a full path as a parameter:
@echo off
echo %1
echo %~p1
Which we execute as follows:
C:>skrypt.cmd "C:\Documents and Settings\Skryba\Pulpit\file.txt"
and it yields:
"c:\Documents and Settings\Skryba\Pulpit\file.txt"
\Documents and Settings\Skryba\Pulpit\
Note the
%~p1 part. The variables of scripts are named as follows: %1, %2, %3 and so on. The
~p in question is a modifier that enables extracting the directory name containing the file. Can we live without dirname command, then?
I think this is enough for now. My goal is not to copy the content of Windows help here. Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen. The standard publicly available help contains the description of a few hundred commands and sub-commands, which really do facilitate the management of file system, system services, users, security and all that one can call 'system administration'. You only need to read (which I know causes problems to some). Of course the commands are not the same as in Linux. I'm not pretending, that working with them is same level of effectiveness as in e.g. Debian, but that it is possible in general. And speaking about Debian…
Part two : Linux your Windows.
If the main topic of this article was the Windows console (which it isn't, to remind again), this part would not come at all. However, as this text is about users and their attitude to software, before we go on to the part, explaining the Windows way of working with networks, I allow myself to make a few observations.
Usually the remote management makes newbie admins sleepless. Common knowledge is, that Linux features ssh based access and one can perform all administrative tasks on a remote machine, by logging to it and using remote console.
Windows is commonly associated with the RDP protocol. Using the Connect to Remote Desktop program, using Remote Desktop Protocol, it is in fact possible to log in to a server or a client computer and go on administering. He, who tried the "art" of it, knows, that in practice we run into two problems at start. First of all, RDP is not always smooth, often it is a pain to work with it (if possible at all), second: how to restart a hundred of workstations (100) using this approach? (This is not an academic type of problem – similar things one needs to do, for example, for security reasons).
First of all however: the Linux way. Linux is a kernel. The kernel itself does not allow interactive work, not to mention remote. To be able to "type-in" the commands, one needs a shell, like bash, tcsh or zsh, which means just an appropriate program. Side note: cmd.exe which I talk around in this article, is not the only command interpreter in Windows. The much more powerful is e.g. MS PowerShell. I mention it to show that the choice is not only a feature of Linux. For the sake of this article, however, the standard programs are just enough.
Coming back from the side note – we've got the operating system, Linux with a shell. Is this enough? Of course, not. The basic program suite, like coreutils or the BusyBox program is essential. It will facilitate basic tasks. However, "there is no miracles". In this configuration there is no network (yet) available, so remote management is impossible. To manage a Linux system via remote access, one needs additionally the software featuring network access and a program allowing ssh connections. (Well, a telnet can do as well, it's a free world).
To summarize – the remote access is allowed by a special program, which is needed to be installed and configured. It is however worth pointing out, that an average Linux user can depict the process much more accurately, in portions, front-to-back and inside-out, but when it comes to Windows… This is the end. It is impossible, because WINDOWS has no feature like that. Hey, sorry, are the Slackware user complaining, that Patrick Volkerding in his legendary distribution does not include GNOME by default? Of course not. They know, that one needs to just get and install it, correct? Do the same users complain to Microsoft, that their system does not contain the sshd daemon? Yes, of course. This is a strange phenomenon. Because it is enough merely to install the appropriate program, to be able to work remotely with Windows similarly to how we work with Linux. There is even an open solution: OpenSSH, but who in hell cares…
cmd.exe running on Windows XP via Debian GNU/Linux terminal
To go come on track: this is no different situation to all the commands known to man, which one clearly knows, he needs to download, configure, even compile – for Linux, 'cause this is Free Software and it is our job to do it, nobody's else.
When it comes to Windows, however, it goes from bad to worse, because Bill didn't include vim, putty, md5sum or pine on the installation disk. Horrible.
Of course these, and many others, are available for Windows, but one needs to download them themselves; and I've got the impression, that for many people, downloading a trivial in action installer for Windows is not at all the same effort they make, for example, while downloading sources, configuring them, compiling, installing and configuring the program, for Linux. Because it cannot be.
Finishing this part, one remark on repositories. Yes, there are none for Windows. I wonder why. Regarding Debian, Fedora, openSUSE or Gentoo there was no miracle, just somebody organized this. It seems to have been a need, probably. In case of Windows there is a noteworthy situation: there is a few thousand Open Source programs for this system, but there is no repository. Now, come on, please, don't say it's impossible. Or, that there are some funds needed. It was possible to create all that software, was it? The application for administering the repository is just Yet Another Program, the rest is already done and waiting on the servers. And because the life hates the vacuum, such a program would be created for sure, which implies, that probably nobody simply needs it.
I know, that such a statement is rather uncomfortable for everyone here, but please, do try looking at it this way: to install a program, regardless if just double-clicking the program.msi icon, or using the apt-get install program command, one must know first what to install. Whenever we know "what", it is not a big problem to "just" do it. I have noticed, that most of the new Linux users have not much use of the fact, that gstreamer libraries are in the repository. The problem is, one must know, that gstreamer exists at all and is needed. Of course, it would be handy to have a program browser, like synaptic or yum (which is not these programs' main use, obviously). In, say, Ubuntu, we run synaptic, type in "internet browser", find Firefox, mark it, click Install and there we go. In Windows ? No repository, so, say we use Wikipedia for a prank. We open, type in "Internet browser", find Firefox, click the hyperlink to the homepage, download, install and … there we go. Is it so much different ? I suppose I know, you will say, it is…
I suppose, that repositories for Linux have not been created because they make the life simpler. I think, that they are rather natural a consequence to distribution partitioning. What, for example, is the gcc compiler for Linux? In reality, we have gcc optimized for Arch, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu or ZenWalk. If they were to be placed on the FSF site, then – on one hand – it would have to grow by many, many links to the packages for particular distributions, on the other hand – managing the website would become a nightmare. Imagine a few hundred maintainers of the particular distributions, sending emails to FSF webmaster, asking for anything (changing the package, refreshing the mirror, etc.) The maintainers would have to manage a few hundred, or a few thousand, pages of different projects, where one would have to put software packages for their distributions. The situation, where everybody just cares for themselves only, is just easier to manage, and as the Linux-ish package manager caring for the dependencies… Oh well, this is not really a big issue in Windows. (That does NOT mean, there is no problems at all).
And another thing : yes, the global system update, like apt-get update is handy, but at the moment most applications (not only for Windows) check the availability of updates for themselves – then on the other hand, there are distributions with no update manager, on the other other hand – if we install in Linux a program, that doesn't exist in the repository, the update manager won't be able to update it – then on the other other other hand, Windows A.D. 2008 updates itself and the MS Applications at one click. (This is what one calls 5-dimensional timespace.)
Let's go back to some more Windows commands.
Part three : Remote Windows
The way described earlier is not, what the engineers from Microsoft have designed. To rephrase, in Linux, working on "A" station, we log in through ssh (or telnet, it is (still) a free world) onto the "B" machine and type, e.g. ps. Windows has it totally different. First of all, for Microsoft systems,there is a special Windows Domain meaning. To cut a long story short : the domain is created by a group of computers managed by one of them, the domain controller. That machine manages users' accounts, the controller provides us credentials and so on. It is not better nor worse than what we know from Linux-like systems. It is different. Of course, the computers do not have to belong to a domain, but I myself cannot imagine advanced managing of a few hundred computers without this invention. Oh well, I do, but not with Windows. In Windows it's been designed that way.
So I sit in front of the aforementioned "A" box, featuring Windows. To display the list of tasks on "B" computer, also featuring Windows, I type in the following on the "A" computer:
C:> tasklist /s B /u administrator
Process name PID Session name Session no RAM used
==================== ====== ================ ======== ============
System Idle Process 0 0 16 KB
System 4 0 208 KB
smss.exe 456 0 56 KB
csrss.exe 504 0 3 912 KB
winlogon.exe 528 0 4 492 KB
services.exe 572 0 2 120 KB
lsass.exe 584 0 3 488 KB
svchost.exe 784 0 2 428 KB
svchost.exe 852 0 6 308 KB
svchost.exe 916 0 21 260 KB
Note two facts, please. First, as I mentioned, Windows treats the network a little bit different than Linux, which implies the change of the work principle – controlling one station, we have a potential to control all the others. Second: as in all systems, in Windows you need to have appropriate rights. One cannot just execute the above command, if he doesn't have the appropriate rights on the "B" computer, and many times – on the domain controller.
Similarly one is able to use many commands, e.g. taskkill, shutdown, systeminfo, or the simple dir, like that. So as one can see, there is life beyond RDP, and of course it is all described in the help system of Windows.
At the end of this article, I want to add and underline, that personally for me, in the comparison of GNU/Linux vs Windows, is won by GNU/Linux by a mile. Not because it introduces some new functionality, however. No. Many "details" decide. I have described a few of them last year, in articles titled Windows vs Linux : architecture comparison. Additionally, one could add there the GPL license, smaller TCO, or that I once had a chance to work on a Debian machine, which displayed 375 days, 10:55 as result of uptime, and the last Windows system, that could be that stable was NT4.0 Server, and the next versions only had it worse. Now having systeminfo display 28 days is a maximum. One could show more examples of Linux supremacy over Windows, but, however it is true, that "Linux console is more work-friendly", then the "The Windows console is unusable" claim is a total rationalization.
In the principle, the problem is not in the Windows nor in the Linux system, but in the users. The average Linux user does not care for Windows the same as for His-Beloved-System and constantly poses for defense. Why? The fact that users of any software, being accustomed to it, expect different applications (serving similar purpose) to do the same, the same way, might be some explanation. Following this trail, we (falsely) expect that the remote management of Windows to be exactly the same as on Linuxes. This however does not sanitize the rationalization…
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I wish that there was an AD equivalent built-in on the Linux distros…
I know Samba 4 is coming, and I hope it does provide with tools that enable remote windows and linux boxes administration ala Windows.
I love and use linux, but IMHO even with all of its shortcomings windows does two things much better:
1) Logical network grouping/administration of the workstations/servers (sorry ssh doesn't cut it, requires far too much manual intervention to properly manage the keys)
2) More stable environment (Ie: I do not have to upgrade the whole windows system just to get a new version of openoffice installed)
While cmd.exe is useful, it lacks many things. For e.g:
readline keybindings
command line substitution
robust redirection capabilities
advanced terminal capabilities
I have written a set of articles on how Linux power users can get by in the windows world:
Advanced Cygwin:
PuttyCyg – The authentic console for Cygwin
PowerShell is worthwhile for all kinds of automation on Windows, comes built-in with Windows Server 2008, and is easily installed on Windows XP SP2 or later.
Blog of Windows PowerShell team
I'd also like to mention a hidden gem, LogParser.
One baisc weakness of cmd.exe's syntax is the variable expansion is different in scripts than in the CLI (%% vs. %).
Not to mention backticks, decent redirection (2>/dev/null), and such.
The author manages to completely miss the point regarding package management. For example: what is the equivalent of 'apt-get upgrade'?
Maybe the Windows-Updates facility has been automated (and maybe not). But it does not update any thinrd-party product installed. Because without a repository the system does not know where to pull updates from.
Now do that on 100 workstations.
Anyone who has worked on both operating systems will release Sanders is talking out of his arse. You don't "upgrade the entire operating system to upgrade open office" nor any other program on it. Unless you are either using a very, very, very old version of Linux or are being paid to spread pure lies.
Second, Linux can use Windows domains quite easily and act as a domain controller itself. Please, if you are going to be a paid shill at least be honest and upfront.
A classic example of why cmd is unusable; of why it is a toy, and why I can't use it efficiently compared to bash, zsh, tcsh or ksh.
Volume in drive G has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 4786-4F2F
Directory of G:\music
[.] [..]
[{2005} Octavarium [FLAC]] [{2002} Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence [FLAC]]
0 File(s) 0 bytes
5 Dir(s) 694,267,904 bytes free
G:\music>dir *\*.flac
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
Now, compare and contrast to the equivalent in bash:
goten@r2d3:~/tmp15$ ls
{2002} Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence [FLAC] {2005} Octavarium [FLAC] misc
goten@r2d3:~/tmp15$ ls */*.flac
{2002} Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence [FLAC]/[°1] The Glass Prison.flac {2005} Octavarium [FLAC]/[03] These Walls.flac
{2002} Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence [FLAC]/[°2] Blind Faith.flac {2005} Octavarium [FLAC]/[04] I Walk Beside You.flac
{2002} Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence [FLAC]/[°3] Misunderstood.flac {2005} Octavarium [FLAC]/[05] Panic Attack.flac
{2002} Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence [FLAC]/[°4] The Great Debate.flac {2005} Octavarium [FLAC]/[06] Never Enough.flac
{2002} Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence [FLAC]/[°5] Disappear.flac {2005} Octavarium [FLAC]/[07] Sacrificed Sons.flac
{2005} Octavarium [FLAC]/[01] The Root of All Evil.flac {2005} Octavarium [FLAC]/[08] Octavarium.flac
{2005} Octavarium [FLAC]/[02] The Answer Lies Within.flac
Goten Xiao: Try the /S flag
from dir /?:
/S Displays files in specified directory and all subdirectories.
dir /s *.flac
dir /s /b *.flac
will keep it from showing file size, etc.
Those commands aren't *quite* the same; Goten's only shows .flac files one level down.
That said, it does lead into another "classic example" of how Bash can (only occasionally, but definitely occasionally) be harder to use: list all .flac files in *any* subdirectory of where you are now, not just one level down.
In cmd, it's easy; 'dir /s *.flac' as John said. In Bash… well, until recently, you have to use find. 'find . -name "*.flac"'. find is one of those utilities that is not exactly easy to learn to use… even for simple queries like that, for a while I was using 'find . | grep ".flac"'.
In other words, you had to completely change the program you're calling. ls can list files by pattern ('ls *.flac'), and ls can list a directory recursively ('ls -R'), but you can't combine the two tasks with ls itself. (Of course the reason is that it wasn't really ls that was listing files by pattern, it was the shell.)
A similar thing comes up with the following task: search through all .c files in a subdirectory of the current one for a particular string "foo". In Bash: 'find -name "*.c" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -H foo'. (You could also do the same thing with {}, but I never remember how to use that syntax.) There's a bunch of different gotchas in that. In addition to figuring out the general idea in the first place, if you leave off the -print0 and -0, file names with spaces will cause it to fail. If you leave off the -H, you'll see matching lines, but you'll have no idea what file they're in. In Windows, 'findstr /s REACHABLE *.c'. The only thing additional you have to do to make the search recursive is add /s.
(GNU grep contains the '–include' flag; paired with –recursive is the *right* way to do this search now. However, this is a relatively recent addition.)
You get used to this after a while — recursive queries take find — but for a newcomer, it can be hard for a while.
(Finally, Bash 4 introduced the ** feature which mostly obviates my immediate arguments above. 'ls **/*.flac' and 'grep foo **/*.c' now do what you want, as long as you don't overrun the command line length. (OTOH, this *is* sometimes a real problem.) However, this is a *very* recent addition to Bash, with Bash 4 being less than a year old. Zsh has had it for longer, but no one uses it for some reason despite it kicking the pants off of Bash.)
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So the score went from 3.82 to 3.59 to 3.89... Wow.
Too bad booms and busts don't work backwards in real life.
Okay, so it's 8 hours late. But if it took them a year to realize we were in a recession then by godDAMN, I'm the freakin' Flash when it comes to Flash!
Crappy puns aside, this here is a series of skits revolving around the world's top three favourite doomed car companies: GM, Ford, and Chrysler. Join them as they venture on a quest for bailouts, ???, and PROFIT!!!
Yes, the economy's gone down the toilet and Joe the Plumber can't fix either, but you don't need to be greatly depressed over the impending Greater Depression! Instead, have a laugh and enjoy this movie!
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Although I saw some good humor and satire in your video, it was drowned out by the memes and other internet phenomena.
It would have been much better if you had cut out all of the "firin' mah lazor" and everything else relating to that. :/
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Greatest motherfucking song ever, you get 5/5 just for including that.
Actually it was all pretty damn funny, I loved the explosion with "DEATH AND TAXES" written across it.
Hurrah for satire!!!!
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Chief Perry Gallow tells News 10 more witnesses have come forward, witnesses who are now saying they were never interviewed the first time around.Earlier this month Angelle was cleared of battery charges, but now the same investigating agency is re-opening the case. "(Re-opening the case) based on information, names of possible or potential witnesses he brought to us," says Gallow.Ahart accused Angelle of spraining her wrist during an altercation inside an Opelousas residence.An investigation by the police department followed, and Gallow says all of the witnesses on the victim's report were contacted."As far as I know, yes," says Gallow.Neighbor Douglas Collins says he saw the whole incident play out through the Ahart's open front door. He says, however, he was never contacted by the Opelousas Police Department even though he was listed on the victim's statement."After I found out everything and that they closed it, then I took it upon myself to go over there and make a statement," says Collins.Michael Ahart, Alexis Ahart's father, says he spoke with state police after the city police department cleared Angelle of the battery charges, he says they didn't see it as an open and shut case."They said that Opelousas Police Department requested to handle the investigation and they were going to let it transpire through Opelousas Police Department," says Ahart.Gallow says state police never launched an investigation."The investigation had never gone to the state police. I met with the state police and we discussed the information regarding the case," says Gallow.But City Marshal Paul Mouton says state police did conduct an investigation and cleared Angelle just like the police department."The state police did an investigation and found him clear he didn't break no office policies at all and as far as I'm concerned this investigation is over," says Mouton.
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Mauritian Creoles trace their origins to the plantation owners and slaves who were brought to work the sugar fields. Indo-Mauritians are descended from Indian immigrants who arrived in the 19th century to work as indentured laborers after slavery was abolished in 1835. Included in the Indo-Mauritian community are Muslims (about 15% of the population) from the Indian subcontinent. The Franco-Mauritian elite controls nearly all of the large sugar estates and is active in business and banking. As the Indian population became numerically dominant and the voting franchise was extended, political power shifted from the Franco-Mauritians and their Creole allies to the Hindus.
Elections in 1947 for the newly created Legislative Assembly marked Mauritius' first steps toward self-rule. An independence campaign gained momentum after 1961, when the British agreed to permit additional self-government and eventual independence. A coalition composed of the Mauritian Labor Party (MLP), the Muslim Committee of Action (CAM), and the Independent Forward Bloc (IFB)--a traditionalist Hindu party--won a majority in the 1967 Legislative Assembly election, despite opposition from Franco-Mauritian and Creole supporters of Gaetan Duval's Mauritian Social Democratic Party (PMSD). The contest was interpreted locally as a referendum on independence. Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, MLP leader and chief minister in the colonial government, became the first prime minister at independence, on March 12, 1968. This event was preceded by a period of communal strife, brought under control with assistance from British troops.
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The sugar industry comprises 20 estates, 17 mills, and 35,000 small planters. Production ranges between 600,000 and 650,000 tons per year. More than 90% is sold to Europe, the remainder to the United States. An increasing number of mills are investing in power plants fueled by coal and bagasse, the residue left from crushed sugarcane.
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Following are newly released NCI research funding opportunities:
Methods of Statistical Analysis of DNA Sequence Data for Studies Relating Variation to Disease
This funding opportunity will use the R01 award mechanism. For more information, see http://cri.nci.nih.gov/4abst.cfm?initiativeparfa_id=3740. Inquiries: Dr. Thomas Lehner - firstname.lastname@example.com.
Reducing Health Disparities among Minority and Underserved Children
This funding opportunity will use the R21 (PA-07-391) and R01 (PA-07-392) award mechanisms. For more information, see http://cri.nci.nih.gov/4abst.cfm?initiativeparfa_id=3741. Inquiries: Dr. Shobha Srinivasan - firstname.lastname@example.com.


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