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Definitions for oceanic whitetip shark
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word oceanic whitetip shark
Princeton's WordNet
whitetip shark, oceanic whitetip shark, white-tipped shark, Carcharinus longimanus(noun)
large deep-water shark with white-tipped dorsal fin; worldwide distribution; most dangerous shark
oceanic whitetip shark(Noun)
a large pelagic shark, taxonomic name Carcharhinus longimanus, characterized by the white tips on the fin, often prone to attack humans.
Oceanic whitetip shark
The oceanic whitetip shark is a large pelagic shark inhabiting tropical and warm temperate seas. Its stocky body is most notable for its long, white-tipped, rounded fins. This aggressive but slow-moving fish dominates feeding frenzies, and is a danger to shipwreck or air crash survivors. Recent studies show steeply declining populations because its large fins are highly valued as the chief ingredient of shark fin soup and, as with other shark species, the whitetip faces mounting fishing pressure throughout its range.
Translations for oceanic whitetip shark
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- camarí, tauró de mans llarguesCatalan, Valencian
- žralok dlouhoploutvýCzech
- Weißspitzen-Hochseehai, Hochsee-WeißflossenhaiGerman
- oceana blankmakula ŝarkoEsperanto
- tiburón oceánico, tiburón oceánico de puntas blancasSpanish
- valkopilkkahaiFinnish
- requin longimaneFrench
- siorc bán aigéanachIrish
- ヨゴレザメJapanese
- длиннокрылая акулаRussian
- vitfenad oceanhaj, årfenshajSwedish
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2015 PIT: Basketball Evaluation At Its Finest
By Wayne Otto
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PORTSMOUTH, VA - The epicenter of world wide basketball the second week of April annually is: A) New York, B) Barcelona, Spain, C) Rome, Italy, D) Portsmouth, VA?
If you guessed "D", you would be correct and know your basketball.
The 63rd edition of the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament, otherwise known as the PIT, runs from April 8-11 at Churchland High School in Portsmouth, VA, which borders the coastal city of Norfolk.
The tournament is a four day affair that features 64 of the best college seniors in the country playing three games each in a tournament format.
Remembering UNC Men's Basketball Coach Dean Smith
Editor's Note: This is a special remembrance of legendary University of North Carolina men's basketball coach Dean Smith, who passed away February 7 at the age of 83. Waddell, currently the senior associate athletic director at the University of Illinois and the former athletic director at Towson University, wrote about his personal relationship with Smith, formed over Waddell's lifetime.
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CHAMPAIGN, IL. — I believe I first met Dean Smith at a Ram's Club event when I was five. He autographed a little Tar Heel sticker and wrote… To a Future Tar Heel, Mike … Dean Smith.
The next year I was all decked out in a UNC hoops uniform, No. 12, after my favorite player, a point guard from Rocky Mount named Phil Ford. For the rest of my childhood up until April 1994, my greatest sports love was Carolina Basketball.
I went to Carolina Basketball School for seven years and loved every minute of it.
Our love affair with the program was family wide. This would not have happened without Coach Smith's creation of a model program. My Mom loved his 96% graduation rate and my Dad's affinity was from when he helped integrate Chapel Hill.
In a day and age of coaches who use foul language I never once heard the man utter a curse word. He had a sarcasm that would cut you to the core of your soul, but it was always in a way that made you think, he did not come right at you, so even in that sense he was teaching and challenging you.
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Pay Coaches for Grades, Not Final Fours
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(Reprinted by special permission from Bloomberg View. The original article can be accessed here.)
NEW YORK, NY. — At many American colleges and universities, the relationship between athletics and academics needs to be rebalanced.
Over the weekend, as fans were watching their March Madness brackets explode, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan again offered a modest but useful proposal toward that end: Align compensation for coaches and athletic directors with their teams' academic performance.
Coaches care about winning. That's their job. Yet they also share some responsibility for the education of their players, many of whom would never have made it past the admissions office but for the coach's decision to extend a scholarship offer.
College Hoopsters Vie for Professional Opportunities at the 2014 PIT
By Wayne Otto
College Basketball Columnist
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PORTSMOUTH, VA - In most areas of the country spring is getting ready bloom, the NCAA basketball tournament is in the books, the NBA Playoffs are upon us and Portsmouth is the epicenter of the basketball universe for the week.
That means the 62nd annual Portsmouth Invitational Tournament is here and has a huge congregation of NBA GM's, scouts, assistant coaches, European and Asian pro league personnel along with several hundred players agents and basketball scouting services.
The PIT is an annual rite of passage for 64 of the top college seniors in the country in their quest to get to the professional basketball ranks. Players such as John Stockton, Rick Barry, Dennis Rodman and others have showcased their talents over the years at the PIT.
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KATY, TX - In 1836, former soldier Sam Houston defeated original Texas colonizer Stephen F. Austin to become the first president of the Republic of Texas by a substantial margin. Austin was considered the father of Texas and Sam Houston was considered the top statesman from early Texas.
With the Southland Conference's automatic bid to the NCAA basketball tournament on the line in 2014, that championship became a battle of Texas of a different sort.
Their two namesake universities battled for the Southland Conference championship, in front of a boisterous and rowdy crowd, and the big prize that comes with it, the elusive bid to the NCAA tournament.
This time Sam Houston did not win but Stephen F. Austin's namesake university won the championship 68-49.
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As search marketing becomes more complex, organizations must stay ahead of change. Here are a few places to start.
One of the more theoretical panels on the SES schedule, "Search: Where to Next" provides a glimpse into the minds of a few experienced search marketers, and their ideas about what lies (or lurks) in the future. At SES Chicago, undoubtedly many presentations will touch on the recent "Google Instant" update, as well as the rising value of social media to marketers. Additionally, personalization continues to be an important topic, as more and more results pages are custom-tailored to searchers based on their previous history or geographic location, among other things.
When asking "where to next," panelists have the opportunity to present from a number of points-of-view. Search engines continue to make dramatic changes to their user interface and the technology determining the placement of paid, organic, and product or universal-style results. In a reactive and ongoing manner, agencies and in-house search marketers are tasked with updating their strategies to obtain the return on investment that search marketing has grown so famous for.
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Search engines live to provide a better, more charismatic user experience - with the goal of increased user satisfaction and subsequent evangelism. Google states this in its corporate philosophy, as its first of "Ten Thing We Know to be True," which is to "focus on the user and all else will follow." For an agency, this is a continued call for user-centric consideration in all design and development efforts. To meet Quality Score requirements, paid search cannot be stagnant. Using popular keyword phrases within taxonomies and navigation elements, and building more efficiently loading pages will lead to search engines delivering relevant content nearly instantly, and the page will load fast and be easily navigated once chosen.
Google's toolbar and domain registrar status certainly help the company determine the value of pages, videos, maps, and paid search ads that exist on search result pages. All content is valuable, but with the increase in broadband penetration, having a greater variety of content seems to lead to better performance holistically. The current search results for "how does XXX work" and "how to replace XXX" are proof that video is here to stay. The increased presence of images within commercially-focused paid, organic, and product listings results are testament that eye-tracking studies and conversion reports don't lie: we (humans) like pictures! Optimization of digital content assets, from maps to infographics to Webinars, will lead to an increasingly greater share of voice for a broader sample of search results.
Marketers Must Focus on Consistency and Cross-Campaign Synergies
Analytics platforms in 2010, when properly implemented, provide deeper insight into site performance and user behavior than ever before. Marketing firms will encounter a slow death if they fail to analyze trends and do not force disparate teams to work together. Marketers must be aware of behavior signals from users who interact with a brand site through multiple paths and are served other reminders along the way such as a display ad or e-mail; this will lead to a more segmented customer understanding.
Google Instant has yielded a lot of initial theories on how site traffic metrics and user behavior will change, but perhaps the biggest revelation so far has been the true power of "Search Suggest." For some marketers, the goal for now and the near future should be to dominate exposure for all terms that appear within drop downs at Google, Yahoo, and Bing. This means understanding what the suggestions are (and very importantly how many letters it takes for Google to "prefill" the search box), and then using SEO, local, or product tactics, and paid search together to dominate the increasingly limited real estate for lucrative search terms.
Search will continue to grow in complexity. Organizations will benefit by staying ahead of innovation and discovering and leveraging new tactics that improve user experience. Having all marketing and PR teams working together, including across multiple agency partners - let alone within the political internal bureaucracies most Fortune 500s have - will lead to increased ROI and customer satisfaction.
Meet Chris at SES Chicago, which takes place Oct. 18-22, 2010.
Chris Boggs serves as president of SEMPO Inc, a search marketing association. He is also the director of SEO for Rosetta, a privately held interactive agency. Chris has been working in interactive marketing since 2000, mostly with paid and organic search marketing. He is a regular speaker at SES and a writer for a number of online and offline publications. Follow him on Twitter at @boggles.
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How bats track their targets in cluttered scenes revealed
A study has provided a new insight into how bats focus on their targets such as bugs through the trees in the dark of night.
It was found that 'temporal binding hypotheses' had the explanation. The hypothesis proposed that people and animals focus on objects versus the background when a set of neurons in the brain attuned to features of an object all respond in synchrony.
Amid a neuroscience debate about how people and animals focus on distinct objects within cluttered scenes, some of the newest and best evidence comes from the way bats "see" with their ears. Because bats have an especially acute need to track prey through crowded scenes, albeit with echolocation rather than vision, they have evolved to become an ideal testbed for the hypothesis.
It was established that as bat flies it emits two spectra of sound frequencies, one high and one low, into a wide cone of space ahead of it. Within the spectra are harmonic pairs of high and low frequencies, for example 33 kilohertz and 66 kilohertz. These harmonic pairs reflect off of objects and back to the bat's ears, triggering a response from neurons in its brain. Objects that reflect these harmonic pairs in perfect synchrony are the ones that stand out clearly for the bat.
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Thoughts about setup and deployment issues, WiX, XNA, the .NET Framework and Visual Studio
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herein are my own and not those of my employer, Microsoft.
I ran across a relatively new blog that is being maintained by the release team for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. I used to work closely with most of them in my former role on the setup team and now I meet up and play basketball with some of them before work on Tuesdays and Thursdays when I can drag myself out of bed in time. Check it out at http://blogs.msdn.com/release_team, it gives interesting insights into some of the logistics behind shipping products at Microsoft.
In response to a post from Mike Hall about funny/sad/crazy UI messages (see his original post here), I want to submit a screenshot I took back in my early days working on Visual Studio setup. Back in the day, the product was not yet .NET'ized and it was still known as Visual Studio 7.0, and our setup team was working through a lot of bugs and new features. We had one particular problem where we were calculating the time remaining based on some information we received back from some Windows Installer API calls, and the info was ridiculously overestimating the time remaining. After I logged a bug on this, the development team and I decided to have a contest to see who could get a screenshot with the longest time remaining. I ended up winning with this screenshot. When you do the math it comes out to something a little more than 67 years. I know that Visual Studio setup takes a long time, but that is a little bit excessive......My favorite part of this screenshot is the additional 2 minutes that it lists because we all know that after waiting 67 years it is important to be accurate up to the minute.....
As a side note, back then Visual Studio was one of the first Windows Installer setups within Microsoft to try to implement an external UI handler, and in fact I think it is still one of the few to do so (not counting other setups produced by our same team like the new .NET Framework UI in version 2.0). We had a lot of growing pains while implementing that setup. It was always funny to me when I would send questions to the Windows Installer internal support email alias and they would answer by saying "I think the Visual Studio setup team is doing something like that" and then I would have to reply and tell them that I am on the Visual Studio setup team......
There is a known issue with the QFE we released in December 2003 to include the .NET Framework 1.1 for XP Embedded. It creates 2 shortcuts on the start menu that are in Japanese (which may show up as square boxes if you do not have the full set of Japanese fonts and settings included in your embedded image). This will be fixed in the upcoming XP Embedded SP2 release, but in the meantime you can work around this issue by doing the following prior to building your XP Embedded image:
If you have built your image but not yet had FBA run on it, you can go to the \Windows\Inf directory and locate the file netfxocm.inf and make the same change described above.
I posted this item a while back in the newsgroups but I wanted to put it in my blog also because I think it may have gotten a little buried amongst all the posts there. We have seen many reports of bugs related to calling into performance counter APIs on XP Embedded. These have shown up most commonly when using the System.Diagnostic.Process class in the .NET Framework but can also be seen when using certain native APIs. The underlying issue is a registry key that is incorrectly populated when creating an XP Embedded image. This issue will be fixed in the upcoming XP Embedded SP2 release, but I also wanted to provide a couple of workarounds that can be applied in the meantime.
If you have not yet built your XP Embedded runtime, you can do the following:
If you have already built your runtime, you can delete the registry key named HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib\009\ and then reboot your machine to fix this issue.
Hey all, thanks to your posted comments, I realized that the exclusion list I posted here originally was not in the correct syntax for the InCtrl5 tool to understand it.
There is not a way to exclude files in the InCtrl5 tool, so you will need to look at the exclusion list at http://www.winisp.net/astebner/bin/inctrl5_exclusion.txt and manually exclude them after running the tool for the setup you are trying to model.
For registry keys, I have created a new file in the correct format at http://www.winisp.net/astebner/bin/inctrl5_registry.txt. You can download this file, rename it to InCtrl5.ini, and copy it to \Program Files\InCtrl5 on the machine that you have installed InCtrl5. This will cause the tool to ignore this set of registry keys/values when analyzing a setup.
Hope this helps....
Hey all, I'm happy to report that we figured out the root cause of the really strange rollback behavior we saw in the .NET Framework setup (described in a post earlier this week) and I wanted to pass on what we found in case any of you hit this issue with a Windows Installer-based setup in the future. Here is a rough outline of the issue and the underlying problem:
The only thing we are not sure about is why the RBS file was orphaned in the registry and on the user's machine to begin with, so we'll have to keep digging into that if we get any additional repro machines and see if we can figure it out. We are going to look into making the next version of Windows Installer smarter about which RBS files it will run when it is removing backup files to try to help avoid this scenario in the future, but in the meantime if you encounter this behavior in any of your scenarios, start by taking a look at that registry value and see if there is any orphaned data that may be causing your setup to rollback.
Hope this helps......
I found this really cool article this morning about a project at Cornell University where they're building an unmanned aircraft with onboard embedded control systems that are running XP Embedded - check it out at http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx?id=685
My colleague, former manager and friend Michele Coady is currently an international test lead on the Visual Studio and .NET Framework localization team. She sent me a really interesting link today that I wanted to pass on for anyone who may be writing world-ready applications. Colors have different meanings and cultural implications depending on the audience, and it is very important to keep the connotations in mind when writing applications for worldwide audiences. Anyone writing worldwide applications should take a look at this article, and even if you're not, this is an interesting read - http://www.colorconnection.xerox.com/wwwco578/html/en/tips/international.html
I saw a very odd rollback behavior in the .NET Framework setup yesterday that I thought I should post in case anyone else runs into something similar. This was the 2nd time I saw it, but the first time in a scenario from a non-Microsoft internal machine. When it first happened I had written it off as a one-off caused by daily builds of the OS, the .NET Framework or something like that. But apparently it is possible to get the machine into this state through released products (possibly beta bits, but still valid in my opinion)
Essentially what happened was the .NET Framework setup proceeded all of the way through installation and then initiated a full rollback. I couldn't find any evidence in the verbose MSI log file that any kind of error had triggered the rollback, and the last section of the log told me that the return code was 0 and that the .NET Framework installation completed successfully. I had to use filemon and regmon (from http://www.sysinternals.com) to diagnose that there was a file in the folder c:\config.msi named *.rbs that was being executed, and then finally I traced it back to the following registry value on the machine:
I wasn't able to determine how that value got set, and searching for information about this registry hive in msi.chm and on the internet didn't yield any conclusive information. The closest I came to a possible explanation is in the section named Active (Incomplete) Installations at http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/techref/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windowsServ/2003/all/techref/en-us/msizap_remarks.asp
What I think may have happened is some other Windows Installer setup (more than likely the .NET Framework itself) got orphaned before it completed, and then this script was left behind in the registry and inadvertantly got launched by future installations. Normally when a Windows Installer setup gets orphaned and you try to run another MSI, it will say that an installation is currently in progress and is suspended and asks if you want to rollback before you continue with the new setup, but for whatever reason we didn't see that in these 2 instances. I'm still hoping to get a more thorough explanation from the Windows Installer team about what is really going on here, and I'll post my findings back here.....
Hey, I'm slowly but surely getting other folks on my team to create blogs. Neil Marlowe is a program manager who I work closely with - some of you may have met him and attended one of his talks at Embedded DevCon. His primary focus is the Embedded Enabling Features (EEFs) like me, plus he's got some expertise on embedded security and servicing scenarios. Take a look at his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/neilmarlowe/ if you have a chance, he's planning to post some good how-to documentation in the near future about using the ICF utility to protect embedded devices....
Hey all, as I promised a while back, I wanted to walk through some examples of how I approach reverse engineering a setup package to learn how it works, make any necessary changes, figure out command line switches, etc. I apologize for not posting anything in a while, I was spending some time with my family who was in town from Texas and then I managed to get sick right after they left. But I'm back now :-)
I'm going to start with a relatively straight-forward reverse engineering example - the .NET Framework 1.1 package. I chose this first because that setup is very simple - no setup data files, no configurable setup UI options, etc. Yet it is complicated enough to be interesting and it is a setup that a lot of people want to include in their setup packages and/or have had issues trying to install. I'm going to try to approach this from the perspective of someone who is familiar with different types of setup technologies in a broad sense, but who has not yet seen this particular setup before (I may get a little off track on this part because I'm so familiar with this setup from my previous work, but I'll try.....)
Step 1 - figure out what packaging technology is being used
When I download the .NET Framework 1.1 I see that it is a single EXE named dotnetfx.exe. When I double-click on it, setup asks me if I want to install and when I say Yes it proceeds to extract files to the %temp% folder on my machine. Then a EULA appears. When I go to %temp% after the EULA appears, I see a folder named ixp000.tmp. This tells me that the package in question is an IExpress self-extracting EXE. Since I know it is IExpress, I can now use some well-known IExpress command lines to extract the package to a folder of my choosing. I will run dotnetfx.exe /t:c:\aaron /c to create a folder named c:\aaron on my machine and unpack the .NET Framework files to this folder. The /t flag specifies the folder to extract to, and the /c flag specifies that I want to extract the files only and not run the setup after extraction.
Side note for setup developers - I found some IExpress docs on the web here, and you can also find iexpress.exe in %windir%\system32 on an XP Professional machine. It is a useful tool for packaging up multiple files into a single package but it is also a fairly old technology and has some limitations that may not make it practical to use, depending on your scenario.
Step 2 - figure out what setup/installation technology is being used
Now that I have extracted the files, I will go to the c:\aaron folder that I created above.
Step 3 - figure out the basics of how the setup works
After I look at all of this, I go ahead and step through the UI and install the .NET Framework 1.1, and then re-open the log file dotnetfx.log. I see that it lists the command line that is passed to the MSIInstallProduct function - and I know that this is an API call for an application to install a product using Windows Installer. Then I see a return code for that API call - fortunately it is 0 in this case to tell me that the .NET Framework 1.1 installed correctly. Then I see another call to StopDarwinService, so this install.exe application is stopping the Windows Installer service again after installation is complete - kind of strange.
Step 4 - figure out details about how the setup works
Now that I have a basic understanding of how the .NET Framework 1.1 setup works, I'm going to use my Windows Installer expertise to dig a little deeper. The first thing I will do is install Orca, then right-click on netfx.msi and choose Edit with Orca to view the contents of the MSI. There is a ton of data to wade through in an MSI and it is overwhelming at first, so I will only look at a few key things here:
There are many more things that we could look at in an MSI, but the above are good starting points. Often for other setups you will see items in tables that will lead you on trails through other tables. Most commonly, if there are launch conditions that depend on the existence of other applications, you will be led to the AppSearch table to figure out exactly what file or registry data the setup is looking for when deciding whether or not to block.
Step 5 - install with verbose logging and look at the MSI log file
Reading an MSI log file is more of an art than a science but can often be useful when reverse engineering a setup. For the .NET Framework 1.1, we know that because it is an MSI we can set the verbose logging flags before running setup - HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer, Debug (REG_DWORD = 7) and Logging (REG_SZ = voicewarmup!). These will give us a verbose log named msi*.log in %temp% where * is a randomly generated set of characters.
I also noticed when running install.exe /? it says that if you pass a /l flag it will generate netfx.log in %temp%. Since I also noticed that the log created by running install.exe was named dotnetfx.log and not netfx.log, I might be curious what the difference is and run install.exe /l from c:\aaron to see what it does. When I install this way I see that the resulting file %temp%\netfx.log is essentially the equivalent of a Windows Installer verbose log file without needing those registry keys to be set. So now I can take a look at netfx.log (or msi*.log if I choose) and view the step-by-step process of this setup.
With that, the process of reverse engineering the .NET Framework 1.1 setup is done for the common cases. There is of course more detail that may be needed depending on your scenarios, but much of that will require more in-depth analysis of the MSI tables and/or the verbose MSI log files. I will leave that for a later lesson.
Side note for the curious - the reason that the .NET Framework 1.1 setup stops the Windows Installer service is because Windows Installer uses pieces of the .NET Framework to install assemblies to the GAC (the MSIAssembly and MSIAssemblyName tables in the MSI) in Windows Installer 2.0 and higher. This creates a classic chicken-n-egg problem - Windows Installer is going to install the .NET Framework but Windows Installer needs the .NET Framework in order to do so. Because of that, Windows Installer has some special logic to bootstrap the part of the .NET Framework it needs to install assemblies, but since Windows Installer is run as a service, it could already be running from a previous setup and we want to stop the service to unload any older versions of the .NET Framework from memory so that the most recent version will be used.
I hope this post is at least a little bit useful to give some insight into how I approach the process of taking apart a setup and figuring out how it works. I will post more later with a more complicated example of a setup that uses information from data files, etc. Let me know via comments or emails if you have any questions about any of the above.....
Hey all,
My colleague Alaks Sevugan created a pretty comprehensive list of file and registry exclusions that can be used with the InCtrl5 tool to eliminate noise when trying to convert an application installer to an XP Embedded component. Click on the link below to download it and try it out....
A lot of you probably know this already, but I wanted to list these steps for the record. If you are debugging an application issue or just want to make a quick change to your image and redeploy it without needing to open Target Designer and rebuilding your image, you can do the following:
After following these steps, you can deploy your image and any registry changes you made will take effect in your embedded OS. Hope this helps.....
While searching for orca.msi earlier today to try to determine whether or not it is available outside of the Platform SDK, I stumbled upon a really cool list of MSI tips, tricks and tools. There is one tool in there that rates the complexity of an MSI, I'm going to have to run that against the Visual Studio MSI when I have some time tomorrow, I'm really curious to know what that will come back as. I would think it has to be more complex than the Office setup package :-)
As a side note - I've gotten a couple of mails from internal folks about posting orca.msi and I'm not quite sure if it is intended to be posted outside of the Platform SDK so I may have to take it down. I can't think of a reason why we wouldn't make such a critical MSI debugging tool harder to obtain than it needs to be so hopefully I can convince the right people that we should be making it available for direct download. But we'll see.....
Stephane Rodriguez posted an interesting comment that I hadn't thought of - it isn't the easiest thing in the world to download Orca. You have to go through the Platform SDK web-based installer tool and also install a bunch of pieces of the core SDK to get orca.msi which lets you install Orca. I have a copy of it that I downloaded and posted at http://cid-27e6a35d1a492af7.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Blog%5E_Tools/orca.zip for easier access. I hope this makes things easier for you as you debug your setup packages.
<update date="4/9/2010"> Fixed broken link to orca.zip. </update>
While I was on the Visual Studio and .NET Framework setup team, a colleague and I took a trip to visit 2 universities - MIT and USC - to validate the plans and designs we were working on to add support to our setup UI to generate transforms for Active Directory deployment for the Whidbey version. During this trip, I was struck by the level of MSI knowledge that the system administrators at both of these schools possess, and also by how willing they were to reverse engineer setups to do any/all of the following:
The universities that we visited and many others that I've talked to who are in charge of software deployment simply need to roll out standard OS images with specific applications, and too few app developers understand the implications of their setup development decisions on things like admin deployment.
Then, when I joined the Windows Embedded team, I found a common theme among embedded customers - they need to install drivers and applications onto their embedded images, but they do not ship components that can be used by Target Designer and the embedded tools. This leaves the following options
It really struck me to think about the similarities in the problem spaces between the 2 teams that I have worked on at Microsoft. It also got me thinking because I have been working with and studying setup technologies for the 5 years I've been working at Microsoft, and over that time I've learned to think the way a setup developer thinks so that I can take apart a setup and figure out what it does. However, despite all of this experience, I still haven't seen any 2 setups that behave in exactly the same way.
I have come up with some tricks that can be useful to take apart a setup and figure out what it does, debug issues, and reassemble it in new ways. I'll list out some of the MSI-specific tips and tricks I've seen and used, and then some more general ideas:
Reverse Engineering MSI-based Setups
Random Tricks for Packaging and Reverse Engineering
It seems like I have more tricks that I've used but I can't seem to remember them all right now. I'm getting tired tonight, but I think tomorrow I'll take Visual Studio and .NET Framework setup packages and walk through some of the inner workings and show how I use some of the above tricks.
I have no idea if anyone but me is really interested in the theories and technologies behind setup creation, but if you made it this far and have comments/suggestions/questions/etc please send me an email or post a comment. Thanks!
Hey all, it looks like the Visual Studio setup team has heard all of the feedback because they have posted manual installation instructions for the Express SKUs. Here is a compilation of all of the useful links:
Manual Install Instructions
Direct Download Links
If you are on a very slow connection or have a pay-by-the-megabyte connection or something like that, you can use this link to order CDs - http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/get/order/. You will only be charged the cost of manufacturing the CDs and shipping them to you.
The setup team would like to ask you to please try the downloader application before linking to the packages directly because this is a beta and they are looking for all of the feedback and bug reports they can get for this new feature. Please report any issues you find while installing or using the products at the product feedback site - http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback
If you download the packages, you can use the instructions I posted at http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2004/07/05/173639.aspx to create an installable layout and optionally burn it to a CD. These steps will give you the same layout of files as the CDs that you can order from the link above.
Let me know if you have any comments or questions, hope this helps....
A couple of folks who attended the session and/or the hands-on lab I presented at Embedded DevCon last week regarding remote debugging had specific questions about whether or not the strategies I presented would work on a minlogon image.
I followed the steps in Mike Hall's debugging tip sheet at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnembedded/html/embedded06072004.asp?frame=true using a minlogon image and found that native remote debugging worked fine for me on this configuration.
So I encourage those of you who are interested to try it out and send me email or post feedback here if you run into any issues or have any questions.
There is a new version of DUAScriptGen now available at http://www.winisp.net/scrat/DUAScriptGen/DUAScriptGen.zip
It contains the following fixes:
As always, please let Mike Hall and/or me know if you see any bugs or have any feature suggestions. Thanks!
Hey all, one of the feedback forms from the hands-on lab I presented about remote debugging indicated that you'd like to hear more information about how to use the Microsoft Loopback Adapter that I used to mimic a LAN connection within the local machine to connect the development OS to the virtual machine. Here are the steps I used to setup the loopback adapter. I am going to see about creating a more formal tip article for this and post it somewhere on MSDN's embedded site also. Please send me any feedback about whether or not this set of steps ends up working for you.....
Installing Microsoft Loopback Adapter
Now that you have installed the Microsoft Loopback Adapter, you need to configure an IP address for it.
Configuring Microsoft Loopback Adapter
Now you can disable your current LAN connection and enable your Microsoft Loopback Adapter connection by right-clicking on each connection in the Network Connections control panel and choosing Enable or Disable.
Earlier, I posted some random thoughts and notes that I took at the first XP Embedded Ask the Experts session at last week's DevCon (see the post at http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2004/06/30/170582.aspx). I also want to post some stuff that I wrote down from the 2nd Ask the Experts session (last Thursday at lunch). I'm sorry it has taken me this long to post this stuff.....I'm going to be working with my team in the next couple of weeks to come up with plans to address all the great feedback and ideas we heard last week at DevCon and I'm really excited to get moving on some of this stuff....
I'll keep everyone posted on progress in these areas as we make it.....thanks again to everyone who attended DevCon and provided us with your valuable input into what we're doing well and more importantly where we're not doing so well.....
I've seen numerous issues and comments related to using the customized download manager to control downloads of the Visual Studio Express SKUs and their prerequisites and optional addins such as SQL and MSDN. Here are a couple of options that you can use to directly download the packages and then run from your local machine to install the beta bits:
If you want, you can also assemble the equivalent of a CD layout on your local hard drive. To do this, use these steps:
If anyone tries this and hits any problems please email me or drop me a comment and I'll help wherever I can. Thanks!
<update date="11/16/2005"> Updated the URL to be http://go.microsoft.com instead of http://www.microsoft.com </update>
My former group (Visual Studio and .NET Framework) has signed off on the beta1 bits for the new 8.0/2.0 versions, codenamed Whidbey. One of the last big setup projects I worked on was the download logic for the Express SKUs - these are replacements for the "standard" versions of Visual Basic, C#, J#, C++, along with an additional SKU named Visual Web Developer (think of VID 6.0 with all the cool stuff that goes with ASP.NET and without all of the annoyances of VID).
The coolest thing of all is that you can use the downloader to get yourself a free copy of any of the 5 beta express SKUs and you don't even officially have to be a part of the Visual Studio beta program. Just go to the site at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/ and choose the version(s) you want, and off you go.
I'd be really curious to hear what you think about the experience of downloading and installing Visual Studio directly from the web, so if you try it, drop me a comment. If you're not a part of the Whidbey beta program and you have any bugs to report and/or suggestions for ways to make the experience better I will fill out a bug report for you so your voice will be heard by the Visual Studio team.....
It took me way too long to do this, but I've now got a link to Jon Fincher's blog on my site. He is a Program Manager that works on XP Embedded along with myself and others, he's been in the group for a very long time and has a ton of experience, tips and tricks to offer. Plus he's got a very good sense of humor so his posts are more fun to read than mine are!
He gave some really cool demos and presentations at Embedded DevCon about the new features that will be coming up when XP Embedded SP2 is released later this year. I encourage all of you to take a look at his blog when you have a chance.....
The second part of Mike Hall's "Going Virtual" article about using Virtual PC to setup an XP Embedded image and perform remote debugging using Visual Studio .NET 2003 has been posted on the Get Embedded site, take a look by clicking here.
For those of you who attended Embedded DevCon this past week in San Diego, some of this will look familiar - I helped Mike figure out some of the Visual Studio debugging details, especially the nuances needed to get things working on XP SP2 with the new firewall features, and I presented some of these techniques in my remote debugging talk on Thursday the 1st.
I'm going to work with Mike to publish a similar article describing how to configure machines for managed remote debugging using the techniques described in my debugging talk. The steps required for that are more involved but can prove to be very useful when readying your apps for an embedded device. So stay tuned for that.....


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Umpires Settlement Ends Sorry Chapter For Minors
Umpire strike settlement finds no winners, but it had one loser—the umpires.
Umpire strike settlement finds no winners, but it had one loser—the umpires.
Ryan Howard talks about how in hitting, less is often more, in an interview with Alan Schwarz.
Minor league umpires finally agree to a new labor deal and will be back to work by June 12.
After nearly 20 years of Eastern League success, the Harrisburg Senators need a new stadium.
There's a lot of collective thinking among baseball's scouting directors about the best in their position.
Prospect for prospect deals are rare, but they could help teams fill holes, and clear the paths for prospects to succeed.
Mark Teixeira dishes out advice on how players can prepare for draft day, dealing with scouts and choosing between going pro or going to college.
Jim Hendry talks about the Cubs struggles, Dusty Baker and the best scout in baseball.
Alan Schwarz talks with Tom Glavine and John Smoltz about their time together in Atlanta, their currrent roles and their future plans.
No matter what changes, Opening Day has the same appeal.
Jim Callis looks at whether a bad farm system will lead to trouble at the major league level in the future.
Rickie Weeks and Prince Fielder, the future, and now present, of Brewers baseball, sat down to talk about the team, their friendship and their time with Chet Lemon's Juice.
The Yankees-Red Sox rivalry continues to burn in the Northeast, and two teams in the New York-Penn League have been unlikely beneficiaries. It all started when the Lowell Spinners, a Red Sox affiliate in Massachusetts, offered to replace the uniforms of any youth team in the state named Yankees if the team would take the Spinners name.
We always like to look ahead at Baseball America. Our Major League Preview doesn't just focus on 2006, but also gazes three years into the future. In this space in 2002, I correctly predicted that the Astros would reach the 2005 World Series. Alas, I had them defeating the Mariners, who wound up winning just 63 games. I did forecast that the Braves, Padres and Yankees would capture division titles, though I also projected that the Athletics, Cubs and Twins would join them in the playoffs.
We rank baseball's farm systems from No. 1 to No. 30.
Diamondbacks fans finally are getting a taste of what most expansion teams endure. Arizona went 65-97 in its inaugural 1998 season before launching a four-year run that included 375 wins, three National League West titles and a dramatic World Series championship in 2001. But the Diamondbacks subsequently have felt the Devil Rays' pain, totaling just 212 victories the last three years.
Well, we've made it through another long, cold, lonely winter, and it's time to get out to the ballpark again. Though football has tried to co-opt the special preseason feeling of baseball in recent years, seeing a bunch of fat guys flop-sweating their way through August is not nearly the same thing as spring training.
Baseball America is all about prospects, but that doesn't mean we don't have a soft spot for the scrubs. And now we have a movie for the guys at the end of a roster: "The Benchwarmers," in theaters April 7, features an eccentric billionaire (Jon Lovitz) who backs a three-man team of adult misfits (Rob Schneider, Jon Heder and David Spade) to take on young bullies in a Little League tournament. It's typical Adam Sandler slapstick—"If you build it, nerds will come," Lovitz's character declares—about the 99 percent of us who sit and watch as the stars get to play. I sat down with Schneider and Lovitz to talk about the movie, their own Little League days, and Reggie Jackson destroying federal property.
One of fans' great misconceptions (and there are a few) with our organization Top 10 Prospects lists is that we are disparaging anyone who doesn't make the cut. You wouldn't believe some of the e-mails we get or some of the blog posts that our decisions inspire.
Amazing as it might seem, Baseball America didn't start rating the best prospects in baseball until its 10th year of existence. We had been ranking prospects by their minor league and their organization for years, and we broke them down by position during spring training.


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Thanx rwyoung for that article. I think I know how to begin now. Interesting to see that the seleniumtoner-dillution does seem to matter.
I'll start out with 1+9 and see how I like the coloration.
I'll add a rinse after the selenium before dropping in the hypo and see where that gets me. A long way I guess ;-)
Have to see where I can buy the tests in Holland and that book and we're good to go.
Ilford Washaid is an alternative for HypoClearing I assume.


text: Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS)What is toxic shock syndrome?Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) describes a cluster of symptoms that involve many systems of the body. The following bacteria commonly cause TSS:Staphylococcus aureusStreptococcus pyogenesTSS from Staphylococcus infections was identified in the late 1970s and early 1980s when highly absorbent tampons were widely used by menstruating women. Due to manufacturing changes in tampons, the incidence of tampon-induced TSS has declined.TSS from Streptococcus infections is most commonly seen in children and the elderly. Other populations at risk include individuals with diabetes, HIV, chronic lung disease, or heart disease.How is toxic shock syndrome transmitted?Staphylococcus infections. Staphylococcus aureus (or S. aureus) may normally exist on a person's body and does not cause infection. Because it is part of the body's normal bacteria, most individuals develop antibodies to prevent infection. S. aureus can be transmitted by direct contact with infected persons. Individuals who develop TSS usually have not developed antibodies against S. aureus. Therefore, it is not usually considered a contagious infection. S. aureus infections may also occur from another infection, such as pneumonia, sinusitis, osteomyelitis (infection in the bone), or skin wounds, such as a burn or surgical site. If any of these areas are infected, the bacteria can penetrate into the bloodstream.Streptococcus infections. Streptococcus pyogenes (or S. pyogenes) TSS may occur as a secondary infection. Most commonly, this is seen in individuals who have recently had chickenpox, bacterial cellulitis (infection of the skin and underlying tissue), or have suppressed immune systems.What are the symptoms of toxic shock syndrome?Symptoms of TSS involve many systems and may resemble other infections. While each person may experience symptoms differently, the following are the most common symptoms of Staphylococcal TSS, according to the CDC:Fever higher than 102 degrees Fahrenheit or 38.9 degrees CelsiusChillsMalaiseHeadacheFatigueRash that is red and flat and that covers most of the areas of the bodyShedding of the skin in large sheets, especially over the palms and soles, which is seen one to two weeks after the onset of symptoms.Low blood pressureVomitingDiarrheaMuscle painIncreased blood flow to the mouth, eyes, and vagina, making them appear redDecreased urine output and sediment in urineDecreased liver functionBruising due to low blood platelet countDisorientation and confusionThe following are the most common symptoms of Streptococcal TSS, according to the CDC:Dangerously low blood pressureShockDecreased kidney functionBleeding problemsBruising due to low blood platelet countRash that is red and flat and that covers most of the areas of the bodyLiver impairmentShedding of the skin in large sheets, especially over the palms and soles (this does not always occur)Difficulty breathingWhat are the possible causes of TSS?History of using super-absorbent tamponsSurgical woundsA local infection in the skin or deep tissueHistory of using the diaphragm or contraceptive spongeHistory of recent childbirth, miscarriage, or abortionHow is toxic shock syndrome diagnosed?Ruling out similar illnesses (such as Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, among others) is critical in diagnosing TSS. In addition, confirmation is made in children and adults who meet the CDC criteria for TSS. Other diagnostic tests may include:Blood cultures. Tests used to find and identify microorganisms.Blood tests. Tests to measure blood clotting and bleeding times, cell counts, electrolytes, and liver function, among others.Urine tests.Lumbar puncture. A procedure involving the insertion of a needle in between the vertebrae of the spine to draw spinal fluid and check for bacteria.What are the treatments for toxic shock syndrome?Specific treatment will be determined by your health care provider based on:Your age, health, and medical historyExtent of the diseaseYour tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapiesExpectations for the course of the diseaseYour opinion or preferenceTreatment for TSS may include:Administration of IV antibioticsAdministration of intravenous fluid to treat shock and prevent organ damageCardiac medications in patients with very low blood pressureDialysis may be required in persons who develop kidney failureAdministration of blood productsSupplemental oxygen or mechanical ventilation to assist with breathingDeep surgical cleaning of an infected woundHow is toxic shock syndrome prevented?Since reinfection is common, menstruating girls and women should avoid using tampons if they have had TSS.Prompt and thorough wound care is crucial in avoiding TSS.Minimal usage of vaginal foreign body items, such as diaphragms, tampons, and sponges can also help prevent TSS. Health Encyclopedia A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Search Health Library


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The Electronic Man has been created for the celebrations of the centennial of Marshall McLuhan's birth. In this occasion our wish is to give form to one of the most outstanding theories of this fundamental figure of our cultural history: the Electronic Man.
This application creates the possibility for people to unite into a connective form of life: a digital ubiquitous body.
Hundreds of people have been disseminating the QRCodes of this global performance all over the world.
When someone scans one of them using a smartphone they will be asked to contribute their emotional state.
These emotions are collected in realtime, thus creating an instantaneous map of the emotions all over the world: this is the body of the Electronic Man.
Whenever someone gives an emotion to the Electronic Man everyone's phone vibrates, thus creating a new sensibility, a new digital sense: the sense of emotion of the Electronic Man.
This application is your portal to joining the global performance: install it and your phone will vibrate whenever someone unites to the Electronic Man, or donates an emotion to him.
A chance to get closer to your fellow humans, exploring the possibilities in which technologies and networks can bring us closer together on a global scale, across cultures, nations and individualities.
Presented in Rome at the official celebrations of the Centennial of Marshall McLuhan, May 31st 2011, at Rome's University "La Sapienza".
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Marshall McLuhan, this project could not have existed without him :)
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I use this almost every dag, in my coffee, when i bake, candy, chocolate... really good!
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Very pleasant; a nice change of pace from plain stevia.
Good and cost effective
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Not artificial, maybe not quite as nice as Da Vinci but better for you.
How to pimp your morning coffee
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Very sweet, so don't use more than a few drops! Adds great taste to the coffee or smoothie.
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This may actually be TO sweet, but used in moderations, the taste is really good!


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The Department of Energy (DOE) announced Aug. 2 that a team of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis will receive $2 million to design a battery management system for lithium-ion batteries that will guarantee their longevity, safety and performance. This is a particularly challenging project because the electrochemical reactions inside the battery are not easily captured in mathematical form.
The project is one of 12 that won funding from the DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under the new AMPED program that focuses on innovations in battery management and storage to advance electric vehicle technologies and to help improve the efficiency and reliability of the electrical grid.
"This latest round of ARPA-E projects seek to address the remaining challenges in energy storage technologies, which could revolutionize the way Americans store and use energy in electric vehicles, the grid and beyond, while also potentially improving the access to energy for the U.S. military at forward operating bases in remote areas," says Secretary of Energy Steven Chu.
"These cutting-edge projects could transform our energy infrastructure, dramatically reduce our reliance on imported oil and increase American energy security," Chu says.
"This initiative is part of a broader effort to strengthen the university's expertise in energy-related technologies," says Pratim Biswas, PhD, chair of the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science.
"While this grant targets car batteries," he says, "the technology is also directly applicable to intermittent sources of energy such as solar that produce energy that may need to be buffered rather than plugged directly into electrical grid."
The department has also recently won a large grant in solar technology and plans to launch an effort called Solar Energy and Energy Storage, or SEES.
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Tissues derived from embryonic stem (ES) cells could help to pacify the immune system and so prevent recipients from rejecting them, the UK National Stem Cell Network Science Meeting will hear today (11 April). Speaking at the conference in Edinburgh, Dr Paul Fairchild from the University of Oxford will tell delegates that although tissues derived from ES cells succumb to rejection, they have an inherent immune-privilege which, if exploited, could have far reaching implications for the treatment of conditions such as diabetes, heart attacks and Parkinsons.
The exciting potential of ES cells for use in regenerative medicine may only be realised by better understanding of how to manage the bodys immune response to them. With funding from the Medical Research Council, Dr Fairchild and Dr Nathan Robertson are investigating whether tissues derived from ES cells will be rejected in the conventional manner or whether the recipients will not recognise them as foreign.
So far, their findings suggest that, while ES cells are fully susceptible to rejection, they do display some underlying immune privilege which, with better understanding, could be harnessed to promote the activity of regulatory T-cells to suppress activation of the immune system.
Dr Paul Fairchild, explains: Our work provides hope that the immune system may be persuaded to accept tissues derived from ES cells more readily than has been the case for tissues and organs from conventional sources. It appears that ES cell-derived tissues contribute to their own acceptance by creating an environment conducive to T cell regulation, which may one day be harnessed therapeutically.
The Oxford team generated a panel of ES cell lines from strains of mice that differed from recipients by increasing levels of genetic disparity and used them as a source of tissues for transplantation. Their results show that while minor differences between the two strains provoke prompt rejection i
|Contact: Matt Goode
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council


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Photos: How bites, sleep and sneezes caused silly Rangers injuries
Photo: Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer
Sammy Sosa, who bookended his illustrious career with the Rangers, was one of the more durable sluggers in the game during the late '90s and early '00s. But an injury he incurred in 2004 was nothing to... um... sneeze at. Just before the Cubs were about to take on the Brewers in Milwaukee, a pre-game sneeze triggered back spasms that were so severe, Swingin' Sammy sat out for more than a month. It turned out to be one of his least productive years in Chicago, and Sosa left the Cubs for Baltimore at the end of the season.
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