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Teen- and tween-age listeners had plenty to squeal about this week as Demi Lovato and other Disney-spawned acts were widely represented on the Billboard album sales chart. Ms. Lovato, the 16-year-old Disney star, opened at No. 1 with her second album, "Here We Go Again," which sold 108,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan data cited by Billboard magazine. (The week's best-selling album was Michael Jackson's "Number Ones," which sold 154,000 copies but isn't tracked on the Billboard 200 chart.) Farther down that chart, Ms. Lovato's Disney colleague Miley Cyrus was No. 5 with the "Hannah Montana 3″ soundtrack (54,000 copies); the "Hannah Montana" movie soundtrack and the Jonas Brothers' "Lines, Vines and Trying Times" also placed in the Top 20. The Top 5 was rounded out by Daughtry's "Leave This Town" at No. 2; Maxwell's "BLACKsummers'night" at No. 3; and the 31st installment of the "Now That's What I Call Music" compilation at No. 4. Jordin Sparks, the "American Idol" winner, was No. 7 with her second album, "Battlefield."
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Daughtry's Second Album Outsells Michael JacksonBy Ben Sisario
Finally, someone has outsold Michael Jackson. After three weeks in which Mr. Jackson's albums have been more popular than anything new, Daughtry — the rock group led by Chris Daughtry, an "American Idol" alumnus — has scored a hit with its second album, "Leave This Town" (RCA). Released last week, it sold 269,000 copies in the United States, opening at No. 1 on this week's Billboard album chart. Maxwell's "BLACKsummers'night" (Columbia), which topped last week's chart, fell to No. 2 with 103,000 sales; "Hannah Montana 3" (Disney) is No. 3 with 73,000; and the compilation album "Now 31" is in fourth place with 69,000. The "The E.N.D." (Interscope) by the Black Eyed Peas holds at fifth, with 54,000, and the Dead Weather, Jack White's new band, opened at No. 6 with "Horehound" (Third Man).
Jackson albums are still selling, however. "Number Ones," by far the most popular release in the country since Mr. Jackson's death a month ago, notched another 192,000 sales last week, while "The Essential Michael Jackson" sold 125,000 and "Thriller" 114,000. Those sales numbers are better than any album this week except "Leave This Town," but Mr. Jackson's albums are too old to qualify for the Billboard 200, the standard album chart. Instead they register on Billboard's pop catalog chart, where the top 12 slots are all Jackson-related.
'BLACKsummers'night' Takes Maxwell to No. 1By Ben Sisario
The neo-soul singer Maxwell kept his fans waiting eight years for a new album, but they didn't forget him. "BLACKsummers'night" (Columbia), Maxwell's first CD since 2001, opens at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart, with 316,000 sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan, his best sales week ever. (Michael Jackson's collection "Number Ones" sold more, but it does not qualify for the chart.) Another new album, "Hannah Montana 3" (Disney), the third soundtrack to the hit television show, is No. 2 with 137,000 sales. Last week's top seller, the 31st edition of the pop compilation series "Now That's What I Call Music!," fell to No. 3 with 101,000 sales. All Time Low, a pop-punk band from Maryland, bows at No. 4 with its third release, "Nothing Personal" (Hopeless), which sold just less than 63,000 copies, barely more than the Black Eyed Peas' latest album, "The E.N.D." (Interscope), which holds at No. 5 in its fifth week out.
Also this week, Lady Gaga's album "The Fame" (Interscope) has dropped out of the Top 10 for the first time in almost five months. "The Fame" is No. 13 this week with 33,000 sales; since it was released last August, it has sold nearly 1.2 million copies.
Dave Matthews Is Billboard Chart's 'King'By Ben Sisario
Last week the Dave Matthews Band released its new album, "Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King" (RCA), with an extensive marketing push that included a live concert broadcast on Hulu.com and the Fuse cable channel. It paid off: "Big Whiskey" opened at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart by a wide margin, selling 424,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Eminem's "Relapse" (Interscope) fell to No. 2 after two weeks on top, with sales of 141,000. The rock band 311 is No. 3 with 60,000 sales of its new "Uplifter" (Volcano). Chickenfoot, a new rock supergroup featuring former members of Van Halen, is No. 4 with 52,000 sales of its self-titled debut, barely more than Green Day's "21st Century Breakdown" (Reprise). The soundtrack to "Hannah Montana: The Movie" (Disney) is No. 6 with 50,000, and the Long Island band Taking Back Sunday opens at No. 7 with 48,000 sales of its fourth album, "New Again" (Warner Brothers).
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Despite Collapse, 'Relapse' Still No. 1By Ben Sisario
Eminem's comeback record, "Relapse" (Interscope), lost 65 percent of its sales in its second week out but remains No. 1 on the Billboard album chart. "Relapse" sold 211,000 copies last week, bringing its total to 820,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan. (That may sound like a lot, but Eminem's last studio album, "Encore," sold almost twice as many in its first two weeks, in late 2004.) Also this week, Green Day's "21st Century Breakdown" (Reprise) holds at No. 2 with 76,000 in its third week at stores, and the soundtrack to "Hannah Montana: The Movie" (Disney) is in third place with 52,000. Marilyn Manson's "High End of Low" (Interscope) opens at No. 4 with 49,000 sales, and other new arrivals to the Top 10 include "La Revolución" (Machete) by Wisin & Yandel, a reggaetón duo from Puerto Rico, at No. 7 with 36,000 sales; and "Veckatimest" (Warp) by the Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear, at No. 8 with 33,000.
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The Morning FeedBy Dave Itzkoff
What we're reading on Tuesday morning.
- Bloomberg News takes a look at the tax returns of the New York City Opera for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, and finds that the company lost $11.3 million, at a time when it was still expecting its short-lived general director Gerard Mortier to bring it a new vitality. The numbers are sharp contrast to June 2007, when City Opera was running a surplus of $2.8 million.
- E! Online reports divergent fortunes for two of Disney's most visible young acts: the Disney Channel has announced that it has ordered a fourth season of the hit Miley Cyrus series "Hannah Montana," to begin production early next year. But the network is also moving "Jonas," its television show starring the Jonas Brothers, to Sunday nights from Saturday nights, where the series won't have to compete with the popular Nickelodeon show "iCarly."
- Ratings for Sunday's broadcast of the MTV Movie Awards, which featured a much buzzed-about stunt in which Sacha Baron Cohen seemed to accidentally land in the lap of Eminem, were the show's highest in five years, The Hollywood Reporter says. It's almost as if viewers knew to expect this in advance…
- Sony Music Entertainment has announced that it will make its entire back catalog available at the online music store eMusic starting in the late summer, according to Agence France-Presse. The roster of artists whose songs will be available for sale include Bruce Springsteen, The Clash, Billy Joel, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen and OutKast.
Green Day Grabs No. 1 SpotBy Ben Sisario
Green Day opened at No. 1 on the Billboard chart this week with "21st Century Breakdown" (Reprise), the band's first album in nearly five years. Despite heavy promotion, the album sold a relatively modest 215,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Because it was released last Friday it registered only three days of sales for the week that ended Sunday. (Albums are usually released on Tuesday.) Also this week, the soundtrack to "Hannah Montana: The Movie" (Disney) holds at No. 2 with 68,000; Cam'Ron's new "Crime Pays" (Asylum) is No. 3 with 43,000; Lady Gaga continues her run in the Top 10 with "The Fame" (Interscope), which rose two spots to No. 4 with 41,000 sales; Rascal Flatts's "Unstoppable" (Lyric Street) is in fifth place with 33,000.
Dylan Album Leaves Others Blowin' in the WindBy Ben Sisario
Updated | 6:15 p.m. Bob Dylan's winning streak on the Billboard chart continues this week: His new album, "Together Through Life" (Columbia), became his second in a row to open at No. 1, far ahead of competition from pop standbys like "Hannah Montana," Rascal Flatts and Rick Ross. "Together Through Life" sold 125,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan; three years ago "Modern Times" became Mr. Dylan's first album in 30 years to reach the top slot.
The soundtrack to "Hannah Montana: The Movie" (Disney) holds at No. 2 with 86,000 sales; Rascal Flatts's "Unstoppable" (Lyric Street) is No. 3 with 53,000; Rick Ross's "Deeper Than Rap" (Def Jam) fell three spots to No. 4, with 51,000; and Lady Gaga's "Fame" (Interscope) climbed two to No. 5, with 40,000. Down the chart, the band Heaven & Hell — essentially the reunited lineup of Black Sabbath from the early 1980s — opened at No. 8 with its new release, "The Devil You Know" (Rhino), selling 30,000.
But the biggest surprise this week is the No. 10 album, "Songs Around the World," a charity project by Playing for Change. Meant to promote global unity and peace through music, it collects ensemble versions of inspirational songs like "Stand by Me" and "A Change Is Gonna Come" by largely unknown musicians from around the world. Its videos have become a phenomenon on YouTube: "Stand by Me" has been viewed more than 10 million times, and a nonprofit organization created for the project says that some of the proceeds from the sales of the album and related merchandise will be used to build schools. Released by Hear Music and sold at Starbucks stores and elsewhere, the album sold 26,000 copies in the United States last week.
Watch "Stand By Me" as it is performed around the world for Playing for Change:
Simpsons Pop-Culture Reference Smackdown!By Dave Itzkoff
Which of the following highly specific pop-cultural references from Sunday's episode of "The Simpsons" was the most obscure and/or hilarious?
A parody of the Weezer song "Beverly Hills," celebrating the (previously unknown) Springfield neighborhood of Waverly Hills?
A random visit from Anton Chigurh, the hit man of "No Country for Old Men," voiced by Javier Bardem soundalike Maurice LaMarche?
A summit between Lisa and the fictional teen pop star Alaska Nebraska, voiced by Ellen Page of "Juno"?
(Don't even get us started on the throwaway references to Halo 3 and "Bye Bye Birdie.")
Ross's 'Deeper' Is Chart TopperBy Ben Sisario
The Miami rapper Rick Ross has the best-selling album in the country this week. "Deeper Than Rap" (Def Jam), his third solo release, reached No. 1 on the Billboard chart with 158,000 copies sold in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Other high-charting new records include Depeche Mode's "Sounds of the Universe" (EMI), which reached No. 3 with 80,000 sales; and "Asleep in the Bread Aisle" (Universal Motown) by the comic Pennsylvania rapper Asher Roth, which opened at No. 5 with 65,000. Last week's best-seller, the "Hannah Montana: The Movie" soundtrack (Disney), dropped to No. 2 with 104,000 sales, and Rascal Flatts's "Unstoppable" (Lyric Street) is No. 5 in its third week out, with 68,000.
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Nancie Carmichael met her husband, Bill at Southern California College and they married in 1966. In her early married years, Nancie worked side by side with her husband in pastoral ministry, and then in the writing and publishing realm. Nancie has been involved since 1979 in publishing magazines with her husband, Bill. Nancie is a former editor for Virtue Magazine where for several years she wrote articles, Bible studies, and the "Deeper Life"column for the magazine.
Nancie has written several books with her husband, Bill which include: Lord, Bless My Child (Tyndale, 1995); Lord, Bless This Marriage, (Tyndale, 1999.) Nancie has written several books which include: Your Life, God's Home (Crossway, 1998); Desperate for God: How He Meets Us When We Pray (Crossway, 1999); The Deeper Life, (Tyndale, 1999); Praying for Rain: Surrender & Triumph in Life's Desert Places, (Thomas Nelson, 2001) His Comforting Presence, (Harvest House, 2004); and Selah; Time to Stop, Think, and Step into Your Future, (Baker Books, 2004) .
Bill and Nancie are parents to five children: Jon, married to Brittni; Eric, married to Carly; Chris, married to Jami, Andy and Amy; and grandparents of Will, Kendsy and Cali. Nancie speaks at a variety of women's conferences and retreats throughout the United States and Canada.
For further information see the website: www.nanciecarmichael.com
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Pizza Marinara With Arugula & ParmesanAuthor: kel15 // Category: Authentic & Traditional Italian Recipes, Side Dishes/Snacks
Marinara pizza, that is just pizza dough topped with some good high quality tomatoes, and thinly sliced garlic without cheese, has usually been 1 of my preferred pizzas. I played about with this traditional Italian pizza by just adding fresh peppery arugula and shaved Parmesan cheese and genuinely loved both the flavor and texture. This is a superb pizza choice for people who adore pizza but are searching to make healthier eating selections, and also you really do not miss the absence of cheese. I adore this pizza drizzled having a small spicy olive oil prior to serving, but we do like to add just a little heat to our pizzas.
You are able to make your own pizza dough by selecting either my Tipo 00 Flour Pizza Dough recipe, my recipe for Fundamental Pizza Dough, or get premade dough fro your local bakery or grocery store.
two Balls Pizza Dough (About 8 Ounces) See Above Choices
2 Cups Quick Tomato Sauce
2 Cloves Garlic, Peeled And Finely Sliced
4 Tablespoons Olive Oil
4 Cups Fresh Washed And Dried Arugula
1/2 Cup Shaved Parmesan Cheese
Preheat oven to 500 degrees F. If using a pizza stone, let heat for a minimum of 20 minutes. On a lightly floured surface, roll out 1 from the dough balls into a 12 inch circle. Location the rolled dough onto a pizza peel or baking sheet lightly sprinkled with cornmeal. Spread one cup of the sauce across the leading with the pizza, leaving a one inch border all across the edge. Spread half the garlic cloves on leading from the sauce and drizzle together with the olive oil. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes, or till it's bubbly and brown. Top immediately together with the arugula and shaved Parmesan cheese and serve. Prepare the second pizza in the exact same manner.


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50 comments:
- Big Dude said...
Good info and great looking sandwich
- August 30, 2010 at 8:53 AM
- Leslie said...
my husbands FAVORITE!!! Looks like something that he gets from Dover Speedway ~ Yummo.
Happy Monday PaM
- August 30, 2010 at 9:12 AM
- "pup" said...
This is a staple!! Italian Sausage and Peppers- YUM!!!
- August 30, 2010 at 9:31 AM
- Sunshine said...
Ever since getting pregnant, I can't get enough Italian sausage. I could literally eat it at every meal. Thanks for reminding me of another great way to cook them up.
- August 30, 2010 at 9:32 AM
- Debbi Does Dinner Healthy said...
LOVE the onions and peppers on this!!! This is my kind of barbecue!!
- August 30, 2010 at 9:34 AM
- StephenC said...
I love Italian sausage and, while I don't grill, I make them on the stovetop grill from time to time. As my mother would have said, "You got my appetite wet" for a sausage and pepper sandwich.
- August 30, 2010 at 9:53 AM
- jose manuel said...
Que buenas salchichas, me encanta este plato. Saludos
- August 30, 2010 at 9:58 AM
- Michael Toa said...
just YUM! I always go for the hot one as well. And yes, the red pepper topping is a must! :)
Have a great day. Michael
- August 30, 2010 at 10:22 AM
- Dishesdone said...
They look so good! Sausage and peppers are a big favorite at my house!
- August 30, 2010 at 10:46 AM
- Sheila said...
Yummy!! I like to slice mine and add to pasta instead of putting the sausage on a roll. Personally, I think sausage and peppers is a good meal any way you eat it!!! Take care.
- August 30, 2010 at 10:52 AM
- Deb {Confessions of an Ugly Mom} said...
Thanks for Bill's Tip. We do love these, but we always burn them. And then the kids then refuse to eat them. The peppers look wonderful.
- August 30, 2010 at 10:59 AM
- Katerina said...
I love all the vegetables you used. This would be a hit recipe in my family.
- August 30, 2010 at 11:08 AM
- My Little Space said...
Oh I am drooling over this gorgeous looking sausage bun! Salivating already. Yummm..... Love the grilled veggies on that as well.
Regards, Kristy
- August 30, 2010 at 11:24 AM
- Sommer J said...
Mmmm one of my favorite ways to prepare italian sausage! Everything can go on the grill! I am so hungry from reading this now!
- August 30, 2010 at 11:30 AM
- TKW said...
It's official: my father wants to marry you. You make some of his favorite dishes!
- August 30, 2010 at 11:47 AM
- Clements Family said...
This is one of my favorite dinners! I am starving now!
- August 30, 2010 at 12:03 PM
- Cathy said...
I do love all those tasty peppers on a sandwich with a good spicy sausage.
- August 30, 2010 at 12:06 PM
- elra said...
This is perfect meal, love the combination Pam. It makes me drooling!
- August 30, 2010 at 12:12 PM
- Karen said...
Wow, this is my kind of sandwich. Why haven't I made these at home???
- August 30, 2010 at 12:30 PM
- Louanne said...
I love Italian sausage & peppers, in fact, plan to grill some on Labor Day!
- August 30, 2010 at 12:50 PM
- Emmalene said...
Oh this looks sooo good!
- August 30, 2010 at 12:55 PM
- Jennifurla said...
This would be perfect for the holiday weekend
- August 30, 2010 at 1:28 PM
- Nezzy said...
Now dang, if I don't have the pork chops thawed out and marinated 'cause I'm salivatin' all over the keyboard here. I could really sink my chompers into this sandwich. MMmmmm, there's always tomorrow!
God bless ya and have a marvelous Monday!!!
- August 30, 2010 at 2:37 PM
- Daisy said...
Hi Pam! I love Italian sausages. These might be some of the most mouth watering I've ever seen!
- August 30, 2010 at 3:06 PM
- Victoria said...
Hummm... I really love italian sausages!!! And, with all these colors, it's THE perfect match!
- August 30, 2010 at 4:36 PM
- Mari said...
Hola Pam,
This looks super delicious! Thanks for sharing the recipe.
- August 30, 2010 at 4:36 PM
- BusyB said...
Yes...I am going to make that tonight : ) thanks My lady! my husband will much appricate...if it turns out lol!!!
happy monday!
- August 30, 2010 at 4:36 PM
- Pam said...
Big Dude, thanks!
Leslie, great! It's yummy for sure!
pup, I hear ya!
Sunshine, funny with those cravings! My pregnant DIL is that way with fish tacos!
Debbi Does Dinner Healthy, yes! It works for me also!
StephenC, start cooking those sausages! What time's dinner?
jose manuel, gracias! Me gusta las salchichas!
Michael Toa, good with the heat!
Dishesdone, bet yours are good too!
Sheila, that sounds good to me with the pasta! About any way...
Deb {Confessions of an Ugly Mom}, try them this way, beats burnt! ;)
Katerina, thanks! The veggies are a must have!
My Little Space, thanks! Glad you like it Kristy. Love that spicy food!
Sommer J, right! It makes it easy!
TKW, lol. I'll be checking with my hubby about that and see what he has to say.
Clements Family, time to make some!
Cathy, the spicier, the better!
elra, glad you like it!
Karen, maybe it's time to try it!
Louanne, it's a perfect thing for Labor Day weekend. Too bad summer's about over.
Emmalene, thanks! It is!
Jennifurla, you're right! Have a good evening!
Nezzy, I like your attitude! What time is your pork chop dinner?
Daisy, thanks! Have a good evening!
Victoria, thanks! I love red peppers!
Mar, you're welcome and thanks for the visit!
BusyB, yours will be fine, I'm sure! Enjoy! Have a good evening!
- August 30, 2010 at 5:06 PM
- pegasuslegend said...
you cant get any better sandwich that this in my book I can eat this for breakfast wow!
- August 30, 2010 at 5:43 PM
- Mausi said...
Hi Pam, This looks really good! I love italian sausages with onion and peppers. I make this sometimes and my husband likes it also. I like eating this dish with some rice. It is good!
- August 30, 2010 at 6:30 PM
- Jacqueline said...
Happy week, Pam; kisses to your M/M babies!
- August 30, 2010 at 7:15 PM
- Gastronomy Gal said...
Thanks Pam- I do have problems not scorching sausages on the outside, I usually leave to the boyfriend to do it but will try on a much lower heat and not stabbing the sausages.
- August 30, 2010 at 7:33 PM
- Abbey said...
mmm...what's not to love?!
- August 30, 2010 at 7:37 PM
- Mags said...
Geez...and here I thought all along that I was doing the right thing by pre-boiling them in beer and water.
The kids are coming this weekend and I'm going to try the slow cooking method.
You're always so full of helpful information. That's why I love your blog!
- August 30, 2010 at 8:05 PM
- bellini valli said...
They serve up something similar at our local farmers market.And yes the peppers are essential:D
- August 30, 2010 at 8:21 PM
- Marguerite said...
Looks scrumptious! Thanks for the tips and for the great recipe!
- August 30, 2010 at 8:42 PM
- Jenn said...
The Italian in me is DROOLING over that right now. I haven't made sausage and peppers in a very long time. That plate looks so very appetizing...!!!
- August 30, 2010 at 8:57 PM
- scrambledhenfruit said...
You can't go wrong with sausage and peppers! That looks SO GOOD!
- August 30, 2010 at 9:07 PM
- Chef Dennis said...
now that is a classic sandwich, served the way sausage should be!
Wow, its been too many years since I had one of those!
- August 30, 2010 at 9:07 PM
- Deborah said...
Perfect for these last weeks of summer!!
- August 30, 2010 at 10:08 PM
- Monet said...
What a great post! I don't eat meat anymore, but this is awfully tempting...I don't think I would be able to pass it up!
- August 30, 2010 at 10:40 PM
- Jess @ Bakericious said...
i love sausage bun, looks so inviting!
- August 31, 2010 at 4:25 AM
- Pam said...
Thanks so much to all of you! Glad you liked it!
- August 31, 2010 at 7:18 AM
- Suldog said...
One of my absolute all-time favorite treats! If I am at a fair or carnival, and I smell the aroma, I must have one (or two, or three.) One of life's tremendously perfect combinations of ingredients.
- August 31, 2010 at 8:16 AM
- lucy said...
great looking!j love very much!!!!!it's favolous!
- August 31, 2010 at 8:18 AM
- Biren said...
Great looking hotdog with all those grilled vegetables!
- August 31, 2010 at 8:54 AM
- Chatty Crone said...
You are an Illinois gal - boy do I miss food like that here. Sandie
- August 31, 2010 at 9:56 PM
- Rita said...
This is often our Saturday night meal; raelly good stuff.
- September 1, 2010 at 10:14 AM
- Keri said...
Pam, why don't you enter this beautiful sandwich into my sandwich contest. You still have time to win.
Either way, it looks amazing.
- September 1, 2010 at 1:14 PM
- Chris said...
State fairs and carnivals always mean the smell of grilling sausages to me. I love those.
The soft peppers and onions and spicy sausages rock my taste buds.
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My opinions on this - and feel free to ignore if this has already been solved:
- The -brute script and -version script should be separate, and the -version should depend on -brute so it doesn't run
every time
- I tend to err on the side of more information rather than less - most scanners can give you the simple yes/no if a
service exists or is vulnerable, but NSE's real power is going the extra step and getting information from services.
- Typically on Nessus, we use the setting thorough_tests to decide whether to scan just the default port, or to scan
every un-identified port. I don't think scanning every unidentified udp port is possible or advisable, though..
On Tue, 3 May 2011 00:32:21 +0200 Gorjan Petrovski <mogi57 () gmail com> wrote:
I've been somewhat busy this weekend, and the result is a
backorifice-brute script that utilizes the brute library to guess
passwords against the BackOrifice service. The backorifice class
contains the basic functions for encryption and a try_password
function which sends an encrypted PING packet to the service and
checks whether the response is correct. This script is nearly
finished, since some things are still unclear to me:
The service itself can be configured to work on any port, and the only
way to verify that a BackOrifice service is running is to send an
encrypted PING packet using the correct password. What kind of a rule
should this script be initiated by?
Currently it's a shortport.port_or_service(31337, "BackOrifice",
"udp") , which obviously can't be run against any port. Nmap
recognizes a BackOrifice service only for an open|filtered 31337 port,
and the probe uses a PING packet encrypted with the default seed.
I liked Toni Ruottu's suggestion where the backorifice-brute script
updates the version info for the BackOrifice service, so then
backorifice-info can be automatically initiated once a password has
been found.
Should a brute script update version info?
Which socket timeout is best for this kind of script? (I put 3000 ms)
Why shouldn't I put 50 or 100 bruteforcing threads?
Should I post works-in-progress like this to nmap-dev, or only to my
The example script output looks like this:
31337/udp open|filtered BackOrifice
| backorifice-brute.nse:
| Accounts
| michael => Login correct
| Statistics
|_ Performed 10 guesses in 4 seconds, average tps: 2
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The Denver Nuggets shooting guard Jordan Hamilton has been earning the trust from head coach Brian Shaw of late. He is now playing around 17 minutes per game, and he is making the most of his minutes. Hamilton is averaging 8 points per game and is shooting .400 from the point land.
Jordan Hamilton has come a long way considering that he barely played his first two seasons. Now, he is becoming a major difference maker for the Nuggets off the bench, and is only going to get better. Coach Shaw seems to really like him and Hamilton could see his minutes to continue to grow as long as he keeps his solid play up. The Nuggets bench is one of the best in the NBA, and Jordan Hamilton is certainly a reason for that.


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I don't know how, but I wasn't aware of this so I just researched it a little bit.
I don't know how I feel about it but I think I'm hopeful that this acknowledges and maybe one day will bring justice to women(and men) who have been victim of these acts. I'm sad for the women who didn't have that justice, the ones who were pushed aside and made to feel as if their case wasn't legitimate.


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The Green Bay Packers have two wide receivers they need to extend this offseason in Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb, and you would think that an extension will be coming down the ropes soon for both players, given where we are in the offseason calendar. Nelson and Cobb are two of the best wide receivers in the business, as Nelson can do it all as an elite receiver in this league, while Cobb is an explosive weapon who fits the bill as a playmaker in space.
According to ESPN NFL Nation's Rob Demovsky, "it would likely behoove" both the Packers and Nelson to agree to a long-term deal "sooner rather than later", otherwise the Packers won't have as much time to work out an extension with Cobb. At this point, it's obvious that the Packers would like to lock up both players, and rookie receivers Davante Adams and Jared Abbrederis should only be viewed as new pieces- or even "insurance"- rather than replacements for two of the NFL's top weapons. The Packers know that they need an embarrassment of riches at the WR position to help the best quarterback in the game lead an offense that can be the best in the league again.
Nelson will make just $2.55 million in the final year of his deal, and he could push near double digits annually after emerging as a top ten receiver with 85 catches for over 1,300 yards last season. At 29, there's no doubt that he's in the prime of his career and should hit around those numbers again next year.
Datone Jones came in as the Packers replacement for Cullen Jenkins in the 2013 NFL Draft, as Ted Thompson drafted the UCLA product in the first round. He didn't make much of an impact, though, as he finished with just 11 tackles and 3.5 sacks. Still, 3.5 sacks isn't all bad, and Jones has the potential to do so much more for the Packers defensive line. With Clay Matthews returning to health and Julius Peppers in the fold, the Packers pass rush could be potent next season with a variety of pieces at OLB and DE (Mike Daniels was their best player on defense last year).
Jones is someone to watch for closely in 2014, because it seems like the Packers are high on his ability to make an impact as an interior pass rusher, which was seen as his best asset before the draft. Per Demovsky, while Jones doesn't appear to be ready to grasp an every-down role on defense, he has been working as an inside pass rusher. It looks like the Packers will try to optimize his snaps and get him rolling as a pass rusher in sub packages, which could prove to be a lucrative role for the second-year pro that will give him more sacks and, more importantly, push the pocket to help others like Peppers.


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Photos and Description of this 3 bedroom holiday apartment in Torremolinos
It has a setting that covers all needs like supermarkets, greengrocers, butchers, pharmacies, hairdressers, banks, ATMs, hardware, press, bakeries. At the same time, it offers walking areas, bars, cafes, etc.
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|Sat, 09-29-2012 - 8:05pm
Hi. I'm new to the board, or at least I haven't been on the board in a long time. I've been off and on since 2005 or 2006, previously under the name Dee. I can't remember any of my old log-in information so here I am, new name and new email; same old story.
We've paid off debt time and time again; but, this time I feel we need to get serious. DH is fast approaching retirement and work for me is never a guarantee. I get a contract (usually) every spring. Sometimes it's full-time, sometimes not.
I plan to at least do the monthly goals but also will try to do the weekly accountability. I really think that's what I need right now.
I am really looking forward to spending more time here!
|Sun, 09-30-2012 - 7:07am
These are all good questions and things I think about a lot. Most things that I come up with sound more like excuses, and I guess that's what they are. I never thought I was a big shopper or prone to the struggles of instant-gratification; but, I haven't been very good at planning ahead. I think this is much bigger than a financial issue. I need to get back to a simple life: meditation, yoga, reflection all come into play. I should buy a journal to keep track of my thoughts and plans and keep myself on track. If I can get a clear picture of where I want to be in one year, in five years, in ten years, then I think I can ask myself if what I'm doing supports where I want to be in a year.
I am working on my plan! Hope to post to the October goals later today .
|Mon, 10-01-2012 - 3:39pm
Welcome Back!!
I joined a year ago for much of what brings you back, my husband just turned 50, and we weren't anywhere near ready for retirment, and my job went away on me.
I learned so much here.
I'm looking forward to hearing more from you!
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Happy Birthday to Me, and How Distributed Cognition Enhances Relationships
It's 9am on my birthday, and already, 65 people have posted birthday wishes on my Facebook wall.
Several more have Skyped me.
Sure, it's just a simple act – some might argue it's only slightly more social than a poke, but I disagree. Frankly, I think this is really what the social web is all about: using distributed cognition to truly enhance relationships.
How so?
Ever heard of Dunbar's number? Basically, it's the theory that the size of our social network is limited by the size of our neocortex, and for human beings, the maximum number of "close" relationships we can theoretically have – the number of people whose names and faces you remember easily, who you can remember details about them, like what they do for a living, the last conversation you had with them, etc.
But what happens when our capacity for social relationships is no longer limited by our brain capacity?
Some people think that tools like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and even CRM or contact management systems have created an illusion of having more "real" friends than we actually do. I suppose, for some, that's true.
I look at it differently, though. I look at these tools as distributed cognition. Essentially, we're making our brains larger by using external tools to enhance our memory. I can "remember" hundreds of people's faces, because they're right there when I interact with them. I can call them by name – one of Dale Carnegie's most important tips for winning friends and influencing people. I can easily recall the last conversation I had with them with a couple of mouse clicks. I can see what they're up to and ask specific questions about it rather than wasting my time and theirs with small-talk questions like "So what are you up to these days?" LinkedIn already knows, so I already know.
Social media isn't just a way to have a bunch of trivial relationships; used properly, it's a way to treat more than 150 people that you truly care about like you treat those 150…like you would if you were smarter, or had better memory.
This isn't a new concept, by any means. It's the same principle behind The Mackay 66, a collection of 66 questions that uber-networker Harvey Mackay used to build the strong relationships that allowed him to build a phenomenally successful company in the face of much larger competitors. It includes information such as the client's college fraternity/sorority, children's interests and birthdates, their immediate and long-term business objectives, health conditions, etc. Before every call, Harvey would pull out the client's file so he could have that information at his fingertips. As he gleaned little bits of information during the course of the conversation, he would note it in their file.
As a result, his customers were constantly amazed at his apparently great memory, and the remarkable personal interest he took in them.
Cynics might say that it's just a brilliant ploy to manipulate people. Harvey will tell you that it's just the only way he could keep track of the information that helped him show how much he truly cared about people. And that's also good business.
So this is why you should wish your Facebook friends happy birthday. Congratulate your LinkedIn contacts on their promotion or new business venture. Comment on their blog about how adorable their new baby or puppy is. It's not being manipulative. It's not being trivial. It's acting like you want to act towards people you truly care about, and like you would on your own, if you were just smarter. Let social media make you socially smarter.
P.S. In the 30 minutes it's taken to write this post, 7 more people have posted to my Facebook wall and 4 more have Skyped me. What a great way to start the day!
I've thought about the birthday thing. I mean when I post Happy Birthday on someone's page along with everyone else, it doesn't seem so special. But then when my birthday came along and I saw the pages of posts, I was glad that each and everyone posted, that they were thinking of me, seeking ways to stay in touch. They that cared.
It didn't matter whether they thought of some cool birthday greeting or not, but that they took a moment out of their day to think of me. And you knew something, I decided those birthday wishes gave me a list of people who cared about me, better than one I could build myself, a list to go to when I need something, to use their services, products, advice, etc.
Thus I added checking for birthdays when I log into Facebook, and posting a short message on their page.
Happy birthday Scott!
I hope it's not to late for me to great you here! Happy Birthday! It's better late than never! And by the way, great post!
I hear it all the time how social media is a waste of time and you "don't really know those people". I suppose there are some people I don't know well, but I know people I would never have known without social media. The simple act of touching base with people on their birthdays or dropping a quick comment goes a long way in creating that relationship. Too many people are afraid to take that relationship to a new level and move it off-line. I believe that to be a big mistake. I've had phone conversations with multiple dozens of people I've met through social media. I've done business with several of them. The use of Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn to provide an extension of not only our memories, but increasing our network is a reality of today. Those that do not understand this will be left behind.


text: Books October 14, 2002 Issue Measure for Measure How the metric system conquered the world-almost. By David Owen Table of Contents Early on the morning of September 23, 1999, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory lost contact with a Dumpster-size probe called the Mars Climate Orbiter. According to a news-service report, the mission's increasingly anxious flight-operations manager "alternated between staring at his monitor, staring at flight plans and pulling at his wedding band." A few days later, investigators found the problem: the orbiter reported its thruster firings in newtons, the metric system's unit of force, while navigation software at ground control used pounds. The cumulative error was small—roughly a hundred miles on a journey of more than four hundred million miles—but it pushed the orbiter irretrievably close to the Martian surface, into which it probably crashed. The accident deeply embarrassed NASA, but metric-system advocates exulted. Here, finally, was proof that America's failure to abandon its version of the English system of weights and measures had become an unsustainable folly. Lorelle Young, the president of the U.S. Metric Association, blamed Congress, which she said had cut the space program's budget to the point where NASA couldn't afford a complete metric conversion. Luckily, people who hated the metric system were able to blame Congress, too, since the whole mess might never have occurred if our nation's legislators hadn't decided, with the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 and the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, to nudge America toward full metrication. The problem, in other words, could be attributed to either measurement system, since the disaster had required contributions from both. Like most unmetricated Americans, I suspect, I've usually sided with the pounds-and-ounces crowd in such disputes. I know that Olympic events are measured in metres, and that dietary fat and cocaine are both reckoned by the gram, but for a long time I vaguely assumed that the metric system was a bust. I also assumed that the metre was a modern invention, and that the world's interest in it must have crested in the early seventies, when I studied it in school. (The relevant chapter in our math book was called something like "Oh, No! The Metric System!") But the metric system is neither new nor a failure. It was invented more than two hundred years ago, and most nations now use it, at least officially. Proponents frequently claim that just three countries have failed to adopt it: the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar. In truth, though, we are the only significant holdout. And our intransigence is incomplete, as the items on our grocery shelves prove. If the metric system's linguistic equivalent had caught on to a comparable extent, most people in the world today would be speaking Esperanto. The metric system was as much a political creation as a scientific one; it was devised in France in the seventeen-nineties, a product of the same historical forces that gave us the guillotine. As Ken Alder relates in a new book called "The Measure of All Things" (Free Press; $27), French citizens of that era employed thousands of confusingly inconsistent measurement units. The length of an aune—the old French yard, used for measuring cloth—depended on which type of cloth was being measured, which town the cloth was being measured in, and whether the cloth was being sold wholesale or retail, among other factors. In many regions, a pound (livre) of bread weighed less than a pound (livre) of iron; the volume of a tankard of bière depended on the local interpretation of the pinte. Similar disparities existed throughout Europe, making commerce difficult and fraud irresistible. In 1790, the French National Assembly, which was feeling restive anyway, decided that the time had come to seek rationality not only for France but also, by enlightened example, for the rest of the world. Very quickly, the Paris Academy of Sciences created a system that closely resembled the one in use today. In one version or another, it included decimal-based divisions, a uniform series of Greek and Latin prefixes (kilo-, deci-, milli-), and a short list of basic units, of which the most basic was the metre. All that needed to be done—except for persuading people to use it—was to settle on the metre's length. Basing the metre on a measurement unit then current in Paris, an early idea, was dismissed as impractical. "For instance," Alder writes, "the Paris toise—which equalled, by definition, six times the length of the royal pied (foot)—was actually a bar of iron mortised into the wall at the foot of the staircase of the great Châtelet courthouse. Yet, as everyone knew, the original bar had become badly bent as the building settled and had been replaced in 1666." The great statesman Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand urged the Assembly to look instead to an unchanging standard, taken from nature. He suggested giving the metre the same length as that of a pendulum swinging at the rate of one beat per second. Serendipitously, that length is a little more than thirty-nine inches, or approximately an aune. This brilliantly simple idea was rapidly adopted. But there was a complication: the period of a pendulum is affected very slightly by its latitude, altitude, and proximity to certain topographical features, meaning that a single spot would have to be chosen as the world's reference point. Where? Talleyrand was drawn to the outskirts of Bordeaux; Thomas Jefferson, who had recently devised a system strikingly like the metric system in the hope of introducing it in the United States, felt the Monticello area was more favorably situated; the British preferred London. Partly because of such disagreements, the French abandoned the pendulum and turned to a competing proposal, which was to base the metre on a set fraction of the earth's circumference; they reasoned that the best way to make the earth's new measure truly universal was to derive it from the earth itself. Our planet's dimensions had been known with some precision for several centuries, and French scientists had no difficulty determining that if the distance between the equator and the North Pole was divided by ten million (an auspiciously round and decimal-friendly number) the result would be very close to an aune. Two esteemed astronomers, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre and Pierre-François-André Méchain, were enlisted to make the most accurate possible measurement of a significant portion of a quarter meridian, so that the full length could be extrapolated, then minutely partitioned. It was decided that the ideal longitudinal segment for this study was the one that transected Paris on its way between the northern and southern ends of France—a choice that later impeded international acceptance of the system but made glorious sense to Parisians at the time. According to the chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (who was soon to be guillotined for reasons unrelated to the metric system), calculating the exact length of this roughly seven-hundred-mile-long imaginary line was "the most important mission that any man has ever been charged with." Alder indirectly suggests that he agrees with Lavoisier; a great deal of "The Measure of All Things" consists of what sometimes seems to be an hour-by-hour recounting of the progress of the measurement parties, which were supposed to complete their work in a year but somehow took seven. (Alder had both the good and the bad fortune to gain access to a huge cache of primary documents; he has made thorough use of it.) Although there were moments of real drama—the astronomers' equipment made them look like spies at a time when authorities tended to behead first and ask questions later—the measuring is the least interesting part of the story. Alder makes much of the fact that Méchain's calculations contained a "secret error"—a slightly divergent latitude reading, which Méchain suspected but covered up. The mistake threw off other calculations, drove Méchain to the brink of suicide, and made the final, official metre short by something less than the thickness of a fingernail. But error of some kind was unavoidable, as scientists understood even at the time. The earth is an imperfect sphere, and the measurement methods available to these two eighteenth-century Frenchmen, though ingenious, were crude. (Two of the most important readings were made by repeatedly laying a quartet of two-toise platinum rulers end to end along two fairly straight, fairly flat roads.) After seven years of toil, the astronomers' carefully calculated metre turned out to be less "accurate" than the Academy's preliminary, back-of-the-envelope estimate—which the French, to the annoyance of many, had promoted in the interim as a provisional unit. Because the definition of any measure is ultimately arbitrary, Méchain's mistake did no harm to the metric system. (Today, the metre is defined as the distance light travels through a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. For Americans, that's roughly 39.37 inches.) Perversely, though, the time-consuming quest for precision almost certainly did harm. In 1790, the United States was ripe for conversion. The government was shopping for a uniform system of weights and measures, had a President (Washington) and a Secretary of State (Jefferson) who were favorably disposed to the metric idea, and had just departed from Old World convention by introducing decimal-based coinage. And in 1792, before word of the meridian project had reached America, a Senate committee actually recommended adopting Talleyrand's pendulum standard. Alder, for reasons he doesn't really explain, thinks that the United States eventually would have spurned the metre in any case. ("It is hard to imagine that anything could have saved Americans from two hundred years of fruitless debate," he writes. Then he blames Congress.) He may be right, but the French, by choosing a thoroughly parochial method of defining the metre's length, and then spending seven years chasing a chimera, destroyed any likelihood of American acceptance. The British and the Germans, equally peeved, rejected the metre as well. Then, remarkably, the French rejected it, too. The most thought-provoking parts of Alder's book are the (too brief) ones in which he explains why the metric system represented not just standardization but "a revolutionary rupture" in the fabric of French society and "a crucial stage in the education of modern Homo economicus." The old French units of measurement were inconsistent in part because they were meant to be variable. Two old land measures, the homme and the journée, for example, were based not on fixed dimensions but on the amount of labor a peasant could perform in a day. Their size could vary from plot to plot and worker to worker, and it was subject to negotiation. Cloaked within the new set of unvarying units was the end of a form of social organization that, whatever its defects, had sustained itself for centuries. A square kilometre, unlike a journée, was unchanging and impersonal, and the common people of France resisted the change for decades. The metric system didn't truly become the law of the land in France until 1840. In the beginning, the metre's inventors assumed that the system's charter adopters would be their fellow-revolutionaries in the United States; two centuries later, metric evangelists view our defiance as yet another example of our well-known scorn for playing by other people's rules. But the real explanation may simply be that what the metric system offered the French we were uniquely situated to acquire by other means. As Andro Linklater writes in another new book, "Measuring America" (Walker; $26), our European forebears, upon arriving on this continent, first felt a "sense of almost spiritual awe at the beauty of the country," quickly followed by a "sharp consideration of the profit it represented." In America, in other words, "modern Homo economicus" came into existence all by himself. Waves of settlers, after annihilating most of the continent's previous occupants, simply divvied up the real estate and overlaid it with a measured grid of straight lines and permanent boundaries. There were no fiefs or demesnes or benefices or escheats to impede the largest sustained landgrab in the history of the world. Widespread individual ownership of precisely defined parcels of land—one of the radical concepts lurking behind the metric system—was easy to grasp. Early Americans, like eighteenth-century French bakers, employed a full complement of inconsistent and confusing measurement units. But in the United States those units, without interference from feudal influences, eventually sorted themselves into a codified system, which continues to serve us well—the Mars Climate Orbiter notwithstanding. An inch in New York is exactly as long as an inch in Los Angeles, and our befuddlement about how other nations measure things has not prevented us from remaking the world in the image of our own motley culture. If fully adopting the metric system would have made the United States a more successful global economic force, as metric proponents often argue, then the rest of the world should probably be grateful that we didn't take it up. Paradoxically, some of the staunchest metric proselytizers—the sort who derisively refer to our current system as WOMBAT (Way of Measuring Badly in America Today)—are themselves partly responsible for the metre's failure, thus far, to conquer the United States. One of the metric system's greatest strengths has always been its graceful internal symmetry. The units line up in logical rows and columns: micrometre, millimetre, centimetre, decimetre, metre, kilometre, and so on. But this stark orderliness is also one of the system's weaknesses, to the extent that metricators have valued consistency irrespective of utility. From the start, utopian scientists in France imperilled the metre's survival by insisting on what Alder calls a "hyperrational system," from which all non-metric traces had been eliminated. For a brief period in the early seventeen-nineties, the French actually toyed with ten-day weeks, ten-hour clocks, and four-hundred-degree circles—unpopular measures that were eventually abandoned, to the benefit of the system. Today, similarly, there are otherwise reasonable people who fret that if the United States ever does adopt metric road signs for its highways, speed limits will be posted in kilometres per hour rather than in metres per second—in their view a tragedy, because metres and seconds are two of the seven "base units" of the metric system, while kilometres and hours are merely multiples of them and therefore less theoretically pure. Farther out on the radical fringe are those who remain annoyed that the second, which was invented by the Babylonians, is part of the metric system at all. They dream of a day when the world's clocks will tick the way those old French clocks did, with a hundred metric seconds to the metric minute, and a hundred metric minutes to the metric hour. The truth, though, is that the world's very non-metric system of measuring time is already everything the metric system has ever dreamed of being: it's universally used and universally understood, and it requires next to no translation from culture to culture. Changing the second's length might quell the frustration of theoretical zealots, but it would create global chaos. Train schedules, lawyers' fees, the pacing of sitcoms, and everything else would have to be recalculated and relearned. Metricating the passage of time would make the world less orderly, not more so. In fairness, throwing out the clock is a priority for just a lunatic few. But the same urge for consistency at any cost is often evident among wholly rational metric advocates, who seldom acknowledge that there could be situations in which coldly logical metric units work less well than quirkier alternatives. An example is carpentry. The units in which American building materials are measured are idiosyncratic in the extreme—they include gauges, penny sizes, nominal dimensions, and a host of other anachronistic absurdities—but the over-all system works well, in part because it arose organically from human activity instead of being imposed from above by theoreticians. The standard metric measuring tape was clearly not designed by anyone who regularly worked with wood: a millimetre is smaller than the tip of a builder's pencil and narrower than the blade of a saw, and the closely packed, uniform gradations on the tape are hard to make out at a glance except in bundles of five. In contrast, a customary American tape—with its easily distinguishable divisions of sixteenths, eighths, quarters, halves, inches, feet, and sixteen-inch framing intervals—is harmoniously suited to the way in which it is used. The American building industry will probably adopt the metric system someday, but American carpenters are not idiots or Luddites for continuing to use a system that works. In cases where using metric units has made life easier for either sellers or buyers—the lengths of extra-long cigarettes, the sizes of wine bottles, the displacements of automobile engines—Americans have usually gone metric without a fuss. In cases where it hasn't, they haven't. (I've noticed Celsius temperature readings on the clocks of banks for twenty or thirty years without acquiring more than the vaguest feel for metric hot and cold.) This is true even in countries where the metre is the official standard. In a British pub, beer is still measured in imperial pints rather than in some briskly efficient round number of millilitres, to the continuing exasperation of (mostly non-British) metric sticklers. But there's no reason that pub pints and cubic metres can't coexist. Nor is there any reason that Americans, once fully metricated, should feel compelled to stop measuring large expanses in football fields. The loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter wasn't caused by either pounds or kilograms; it was caused, as most big accidents are, by a compounding series of unnoticed errors. The most important error was a failure by engineers to pay sufficient attention to what they were doing—a type of mistake that will still be with us even if the world does go fully metric. In the meantime, the metric system would catch on a lot faster in the United States if its promoters were more flexible about deviations from tyrannical consistency. Just because the French invented the thing doesn't mean that the rest of us have to embrace their legendary preference for theory over practice. ♦ David Owen has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1991. 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