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Connecticut tied Tennessee's record for the most NCAA tournament championships in women's basketball Tuesday with a 93-60 win over Louisville that catapulted the Huskies to a familiar place atop their sport.
The balance of power in women's basketball, once a two-party system with Connecticut and Tennessee, had begun to shift recently. UConn entered the season having lost in the 2011 and 2012 national semifinals, Tennessee without coach Pat Summitt for the first time since 1974. Meanwhile, there were newly ascendant challengers like Baylor, which featured the 6-foot-8 tour de force Brittney Griner and came into the NCAA tournament ranked No. 1, and Notre Dame, the Big East Conference winner that had eked past UConn three times this season.
Even without a magnificent star or an eye-catching winning streak, as it had in years past, UConn finally got the best of Notre Dame in the national semifinals Sunday, and cutting down the nets Tuesday in New Orleans was nothing more than a formality. Now the national-championship trophy is headed back to Storrs, Conn., for the third time in five years.
Connecticut gobbled up Louisville—a No. 5 seed, the lowest in history to play for the women's championship—the way tourists rip through beignets.
The Cardinals hadn't been able to stick with UConn in a 72-58 loss on Jan. 15. This time around wasn't any better. The Huskies zapped the suspense out of the game and the juice out of Louisville's season with a 19-0 run in the first half that gave them the luxury of a double-digit cushion the rest of the night. The margin of victory was the largest in a women's national-title game, and UConn still has never lost in the NCAA final.
UConn freshman Breanna Stewart, the game's Most Outstanding Player, missed the first meeting between the two teams but hardly missed anything Tuesday, pouring in a team-high 23 points and grabbing nine rebounds. Louisville's leading scorer this season, Shoni Schimmel, went scoreless for the game's first 17 minutes and had just two points at halftime. She ended up with nine points, stopping her and Louisville's unexpected NCAA tournament run in the last game of the season.
UConn coach Geno Auriemma has dealt with bigger stars and built better teams than this one. Connecticut won 90 games in a row between April 2008 and December 2010, including two national championships, and produced some of the sport's legends, like Maya Moore and Diana Taurasi. Four of Auriemma's eight national titles capped undefeated seasons. His team this season, though, had four losses: one to Baylor and three to Notre Dame. "We were a team of good players," Auriemma said. "We became a great team." UConn got its revenge against Notre Dame in the Final Four, and Louisville took care of Baylor in the Sweet 16 in what was one of the wildest upsets in NCAA tournament history.
The latest UConn win also protected the significance of an older UConn win. With its men's team lording over the NCAA tournament, Louisville had a shot at the incredibly rare accomplishment of winning both basketball crowns in the same year. But the women's team couldn't complete the feat with a sleepless Rick Pitino, the men's basketball coach, behind its bench to watch. Only once has a Division-I school ever pulled off this double dose of glory: Connecticut in 2004.
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After setting a destination and start navigation and my journey, if a new incident occurs and slows/blocks the route, is Google Navigation able to update the route and find a faster alternative automatically before I get near?
As far as I know and based on my testings with the same concern, I came to the conclusion that it doesn't update the route based on traffic or any other reasons.
I even took an alternative route that I knew it was faster in rush hour conditions and the navigator was still trying to reroute me back to its original route, considering that faster due to speed limits.
Google doesn't do this automatically, but you can ask it to do it.
In traffic view, there is a button in the lower right hand corner (looks like 2 diverging arrows (one dashed) both leading to a destination pin).
In turn by turn view, press Menu then Routes and Alternatives, and the same alternate routes button will show up second from the right.
However, Google Navigation will often not show you a route that avoids the traffic. When that happens, start driving an alternate route and Google Navigation will eventually get the point, although you may have to listen to a lot of "turn around" alerts before it does.
According to this post on the official Google blog, Navigation should have this feature but like slybloty said I have never noticed any evidence of this happening
In the new Google Maps app we finally have this feature. From this post on the official Google blog:
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Gasconsult Ltd. has announced the award of a patent for its
new ZR-LNG liquefaction process. ZR-LNG has best-in-class
energy efficiency for mid-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG)
applications. Specific power consumption for the liquefaction
section will typically be in the range of 310 kWh/ton to 350
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business partnerships or the appointment of licensors in key
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ASTM recently published its latest version of the ASTM
D975-12 Standard Specification for Diesel Fuel Oils, which
includes an alternate distillation method, ASTM D7345. This
alternate method achieves significant response-time
improvements compared to the conventional ASTM D86 method. PAC,
a global provider of advanced analytical instruments for
laboratories and online process applications, developed the ISL
PMD 110 and ISL MicroDist instruments, both of which utilize
this alternative method.
The ISL PMD 110 (Fig. 1) is a laboratory
instrument that determines the complete distillation curve
within eight minutes, using data from one phase transition
(evaporation), thus eliminating the process of condensation.
The analysis is based on fundamental thermodynamic
dependencies. Immediately after test completion, distillation characteristics are
calculated from collected data with an ASTM D86/ISO
3405-compliant, detailed report.
This instrument is universal, reliable and applicable to any
petroleum product, without prior knowledge of its properties.
Since the ISL PMD 110 instrument is a portable unit requiring
no sample preparation, it is also a perfect solution for
terminals and mobile labs. It is able to compare the measured
distillation curve with up to 80
user-defined specifications and give an in-spec/off-spec
The ISL MicroDist instrument (Fig. 2)
utilizes the same technology in the process that the
ISL PMD 110 uses in the lab. The MicroDist is used for process
optimization and product certification, as well as control of
blending processes for various refining streams, including motor
gasoline, fuel oils, naphtha and diesel.
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Composite hose manufacturer Dantec has launched FIRESAFE, a
product it claims is the safest composite hose ever seen
on the US market. The hose (Fig. 3) is
made from a series of specially designed ceramic cloths and
heat-reflective films to counter the radiant heat effects of
fire. This allows vapor to burn off slowly as the increased
heat of the liquid inside the hose vaporizes and seeks to
Designed as a safeguard of flammable, hazardous and volatile
liquids, the FIRESAFE hose is built for use in environments where there is
increased risk of explosion. According to Dantec, the hose is
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Even at temperatures approaching 1,200°C, the hose will
protect its contents and not burn.
The FIRESAFE hose first gained prominence in Europe in 1994 when it began its
association with Formula One racing. During the German Grand
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flames when a refueling hose breached. Formula One contacted
Dantec and placed an order for the hose, which was delivered in
time for the next race. The company went on to supply the sport
for 15 years.
Dantec produces a range of composite hoses designed for the
loading, unloading and transfer of oil, gas and petrochemicals. The hoses are used
in ship-to-ship, ship-to-shore, ship-to-tank, plant-to-truck,
truck-to-tank, in-plant and railcar-transfer applications.
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SKF recently launched the SKF Machine Condition Indicator, a
low-cost vibration- and temperature-monitoring device designed
for rotating machinery with constant operating conditions. The
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assets that are not currently being monitored on a regular
The device can be used indoors or outdoors, in almost any
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pulp and paper; power; food and beverage; machine tools; and
heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC).
The indicator periodically makes two types of vibration
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overall machine health and to highlight potential problems
related to misalignment and imbalance. Enveloped acceleration
measurements are used to detect possible bearing
The indicator features built-in intelligence for evaluating
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its LEDs.
The device costs less than a standard industrial
accelerometer, which makes the indicator a good solution for
manufacturers seeking an economical way to ensure that their
semi-critical machine assets are kept up and running.
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Honeywells new SmartLine industrial pressure
transmitters (Fig. 4) enhance communication
abilities, improve operational efficiency and reduce lifecycle
costs for process manufacturers. In industrial process plants,
field devices that measure pressure, flow and level are used
throughout the manufacturing process to support safe and
efficient production. Large industrial complexes, such as those
for refining crude oil, can have
thousands of these devices to support their manufacturing
The SmartLine pressure transmitters make it easier to
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capable of showing process data in graphical formats and
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which are part of the transmitters Smart Connection
Suite, allow control room operators to send messages to the
display. This makes it easier and faster for field operators to
identify the correct transmitter and determine the required
maintenance tasks.
When integrated with Honeywells Experion Process
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maintenance mode, telling field operators if the control loop
is in a safe state to perform maintenance. Even installation is
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replacement of individual transmitter components instead of the
entire unit, even in hazardous locations. This design reduces
plant lifecycle costs by providing purchasing flexibility,
lowering inventory costs and reducing maintenance and repair work.
Other safety and efficiency features include enhanced
security alerts and wiring polarity insensitivity. Tamper
reporting alerts the control room and records any change in the
transmitters configuration, or writes a protection
setting to allow operations to investigate any unauthorized
access. Unlike most other transmitters, SmartLine transmitters
cannot be damaged by reversed wiring polarity and will function
correctly if connected as such. This protection is useful
during a plant startup, when time can be wasted locating and
repairing incorrectly wired devices.
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Tri-Mer Corp., a developer of advanced technologies for the
control of NOx, fine particulate and industrial
gases, has partnered with Enginuity Energy LLC, a renewable
energy company and holder of the patented Ecoremedy
gasification technology. The two firms have established a
research agreement for the testing of biomass fuels at
Enginuity Energys research and development lab in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The agreement gives Tri-Mer Corp. access to Enginuity
Energys Ecoremedy gasification technology, which economically
gasifies a wide range of extremely high-moisture and high-ash
content material. Enginuity Energy will have access to
Tri-Mers patented UltraCat catalyst filter system, which
removes NOx, acid gases, particulates and dioxins in
one system. The companies will conduct extensive air emissions testing on a wide range of
biomass fuels (Fig. 5).
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AS-Schneiders ISO FE Series monoflanges are fire-type
tested and certified to guarantee protection for the plant and
personnel in the event of a fire (Fig. 6).
AS-Schneiders monoflanges, VariAS blocks and K-Series
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Non-Metallic Seats. The type test is monitored and certified at
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The term fire-safe design is encountered often.
However, this term is no guarantee that the valve will offer
safe emergency operation in the event of a fire. Only if the
valve undergoes an appropriate type test can it be ensured that
the medium will be safely shut off in the event of fire.
ISO 10497 defines the requirements and the process for
evaluating the functionality of valves and fittings that are exposed
to fire. These requirements are identical to API 607 in terms
of content. In this test, the valve to be tested is exposed to
fire and to water under pressure for a period of 30 minutes.
There are strict specifications for the temperature of the
flames and of the valve body that are measured with the help of
thermocouples for the entire duration of the fire.
After being allowed to burn for a period of 30 minutes, the
burners are switched off, and within 10 minutes the valve is
force-cooled to below 100°C. The 30-minute burning period
corresponds to the maximum period required by the fire brigade
to extinguish the fire in a plant.
The leakage from the valve seat and the external leakage are
measured for the entire duration of the test. The leakages may
not exceed a specific limit value. The valve is then tested
again to ensure that it is operable.
To guarantee the external tightness, only graphite or
metallic seal rings are used for stem and body seals. Spring
washers ensure guaranteed internal tightness for outside screw
and yoke needle valves that compensate for the different length
expansion of the individual parts
and, therefore, prevent the valve tip from lifting off the
valve seat.
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conditions, a polymeric seat provides a bubble tight sealing.
In the event of fire, the secondary metal sealing will ensure
the tightness instead of the burned polymeric seat.
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This doesn't quite square with Robert Garis's account Villella's original peformances, published in Following Balanchine:
The Pacific Northwest Rubies at once showed what had been missing from Miami City Ballets recent New York performances of this dance: fun, repartee, naughtiness, even devilry. The Seattle audience, rightly, kept laughing out loud.
In the accompanying Martha Swope photo, 2 of his gang are running alongside Villella, looking at him, and grinning. As for Villella himself -- his eyes are almost closed. There is a kind of blissful grin on his face. This man doesn't have to charm or seduce anyone outside the scene -- he IS.
The high point, at which Villella circled the stage with his gang, crystallized the period-piece nostalgia and parody you sensed throughout the ballet -- it looked like a trick-cyclists' actd. But its loose carefree charm was fiercely charged by Villella's brilliant speed, and the spins as he left the stage were just this side of violence.
Villella himself, in his autobiography, says that Balanchine put Villella's own background into this role:
That is the image of the role that sticks in my mind. I recall a number of reactions: excitement, release, thunderous applause. I even can accept the image of what Arlene Croce called Villella's "elfin charm" in the role -- and Nancy Goldner's description of this section as a "merry chase." But an entire audience "laughing out loud"? That I don't remember. That's what Fancy Free is for.
The section after the pas de deux in which I dance with the boys chasing me was straight out of my street days in Queens. It was as if he had tapped into my memory. There was always a leader of the pack in those days, always a chain of kids behind him. The movement called for self-assured, cocky gestures. It was aggressive and reminded me of playing roller hockey. Home turf all the way.


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I use terminals a lot, and I frequently open and close them. The problem is that whenever I open a new terminal using ⌘+n it overlaps the current one, and I have to move it out of the way first. Is there a way to make them open side by side from top left to bottom right?
This behavior won't happen in OS X by default, but a whole bunch of 3rd party window-arranging apps ought to be able to help:
You could also check out iTerm 2. One of the nice features it has is the ability to split panes, each one of which shows a different session. You can slice vertically and horizontally and create any number of panes in any imaginable arrangement. It also offers a number of other improvements over Terminal.app.
Try using the tabs feature. When you're in a Terminal window, press Cmd+T and a new tab will open up alongside your current one, just like in Safari. You can even rename the tabs by double clicking the tab header, and assigning a title. Hope this helps.
There is not going to be a way to accomplish this out-of-the-box, you will have to have some sort of third party window management utility. There very well may be one that works automatically, but I haven't quite found one yet :).
My two recommendations (in this order only because I've used Divvy, not SizeUp) are:
Your use case would likely involve creating a global shortcut to define a 1/2 left and a 1/2 right cutout on the primary screen. You can then click the terminal you want, press this series of shortcut keys, et voíla, 1/2 width slots for your terminal windows.
Check them out, decide what you want, maybe do a little more research to see if something else exists.
I seem to recall seeing a question on this site regarding the Windows 7 feature of Window snapping. Drag a window to the top of the screen to maximize it, left to 1/2 left it, right to 1/2 right it, but again my term selection seems to be... inefficient. That and window shopping for price is always in your best interest.
Apart from the tools already mentioned above, there is BetterTouchTool, a very nice utility that allows custom finger tap gestures on a Magic Mouse or any multitouch trackpad. I have configured it to make windows snap to the left or right half of the screen by simply using a two-finger hold-and-tap gesture. Not as nice as a tiling window manager, but quick and easy nonetheless.


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I am asked for the volume of the region $x_1+\cdots+x_n\leq 1$ where $x_1,...,x_n\geq 0$. I am proposing that the volume $V(n)$, is given by
$$ V(n) = \int\limits_0^1\int\limits_0^{(1-x_1)}\cdots\int\limits_0^{(1-\cdots-x_{n-1})} \,dx_n\cdots\,dx_2\,dx_1 = \frac{1}{n!} \ . $$
I am trying to prove the formula by induction. The base case is easy, but I am having a problem showing that if $n=k$ holds, then $n=k+1$ holds. I cannot figure out how to apply the inductive hypothesis. Am I missing something obvious or is there an easier method?


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Terri had flown from England to help plan her cousin's wedding, but paying for a New York hotel room was like giving blood! She had an alternative: the new in-laws were offering lodging.
Of course, the Argeneaus were a certifiably odd bunch. There was the sometimes chipper, sometimes brooding Lucern—a "vampire romance" writer. There was the wacky stage actor, Vincent. She couldn't imagine Broadway casting a more ravenous singing-and-dancing Dracula. And then there was Bastien. Of this unique cast of characters, he seemed the tallest, darkest and hungriest—and his effect on Terri was decidedly delicious. Just looking into his eyes made her want to serve up her innocence on a silver platter. And she had a feeling the love feast was about to begin.
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STEUBENVILLE, Ohio - The service of the Presanctified Liturgy will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday ath the Holy Resurrection Serbian Orthodox Church located at 528 N. Fourth St.
"The Presanctified Liturgy is an ancient and beautiful service held only during the Great Fast preceding the feast of the Resurrection," explained the Rev. Rade Merick, Holy Resurrection pastor. "As the joy of the Eucharistic Liturgy is inappropriate during the weekdays of the Fast, but the faithful are in even greater need of being strengthened by Holy Communion, the Eucharist consecrated on Sunday is kept and distributed during a special vesperal liturgy on Wednesdays and Fridays throughout Lent.
"The service is deeply penitential, but filled with the assurance of Christ's love in giving Himself to us in Communion."
Merick and visiting clergy will serve, with responses by the church's choir. A lenten meal will follow. It is open to the public.
St. Nicholas holding dinner
WEIRTON - St. Nicholas Orthodox Church will hold a fish dinner from noon to 3 p.m. Thursday at the church located at 604 Colliers Way, across from the Weirton Medical Center.
The dinner includes pierogies, halushki and green beans. A drink is included with eat-in meals. Take-out also is available. The cost is $10.
For information, call (304) 723-9746.
Son of Legion hold fundraiser
WEIRTON - The Sons of the American Legion Post 10 will hold a spaghetti dinner fundraiser to benefit the post from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. April 21 at the post located at 3140 Pennsylvania Ave.
Dinner costs $7 for adults, $4 for children and free for children 5 and under. It includes homemade spaghetti, salad, dessert and coffee. Other beverages are available for purchase.
For information, call (304) 723-2732.
Dinner to benefit local man
FOLLANSBEE - A spaghetti dinner will be held April 30 at the Hooverson Heights Fire Department on May Road to benefit Rich Beatty of Follansbee, a kidney transplant patient.
The cost is $6 for the dinner, which will begin at 3 p.m. There also will be a 50-50 drawing.
For information, call Anthony "Butch" Rotellini at (304) 479-0225.
Young Marines holding boot camp
NEW MANCHESTER - The Tri-State Young Marines are accepting new recruits, and a week-long new recruit boot camp begins May 13 at Tomlinson Run State Park.
The youth education and service group accepts boys and girls aged 8 through high school in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania. It has promoted mental, moral and physical development in the Upper Ohio Valley for 16 years. The program focuses on character building and leadership and promotes a healthy, drug-free lifestyle. The Young Marines is the focal point for the U.S. Marine Corps' Youth Drug Demand Reduction efforts. To learn more about the Young Marines, visit the national website at www.youngmarines.com. For more information on the Tri-State Young Marines or to register call (304) 280-8898 or (740) 381-0838.
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WEIRTON - Three coaches and 12 children from the Weirton Heights Church of Christ competed in the Bible Bowl in Marion, Ohio.
The three teams include two teams for older children, which placed first and second in the competition, and a third team for younger children, which placed first in their age group and won the speed round.
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TEMPLE (December 11, 2012)—Temple veterinarian Terri Boedeker and her rescued Australian Shepherd Scarlett leave this week for Florida for the American Kennel Club Invitationals, a competition for the top five dogs of qualified breeds in the world.
Scarlett was ranked number six, but luckily for her, the owner of one of the top five Australian Shepherd dogs declined, and Scarlett and Boedeker jumped at the opportunity.
"It's an honor, and I feel honored by the dog," Boedeker said.
"We are a team, but she's a special little girl, and I'm very proud of her."
Boedeker rescued Scarlett six years ago, but had no intentions of keeping her.
"The person who had her didn't want to treat for parvo and didn't want to take her home, which really isn't advisable when they're sick any way, so he signed his rights over to me," Boedeker said.
"I planned to put her in rescue."
But between treating Scarlett for parvo, a dog disease with a high death rate, and seeing Scarlett with her other dogs, Boedeker said she couldn't let go.
"I came home one night and my husband had given her a nickname, and she actually came with the name Scarlett, and he was calling her sissy because she was going to be all the other dog's sister," Boedeker said.
"So when you give them a nickname, they're yours."
Boedeker said Scarlett has come a long way.
"When I first got her, she didn't want to play with anything, she had separation anxiety, and actually she still has a degree of separation anxiety," Boedeker said.
The once underdog is now vying for the title of top dog.


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"Calls for language learning to be made compulsory in primary schools have been made by over three quarters of local authority language advisors who took part in a survey by CILT, the National Centre for Languages."
Advisors, in responding to the survey, reported that over 80% of primary schools are offering language learning and that those schools want languages to have statutory status in the primary curriculum. However, they also expressed concern that this may not be possible due to uncertainty over funding past March 2011.
"There is an overwhelming demand for clear policy direction on languages to ensure that language teaching continues in primary schools. We have come a long way in the past five years but we need a long term commitment. The worry among local authority advisers is that without it the momentum will be lost", said Therese Comfort, Head of Primary Languages at CILT.
A good sign for primary languages is that there are Headteachers who will continue with languages no matter what as they recognise the value of language learning and all it entails to their pupils.


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I work in a smallish company (100-200 computers and a handful of servers) and I am trying to come up with a checklist of things to check at a regular basis, such as weekly, monthly, etc. We use Windows servers and Lotus notes. I currently have: check logs, check for users in AD and Notes that no longer work here, check admin rights and check for holes in the firewall. I have basic security knowledge so where else should I look to clean up security holes as well as check for signs of an unnoticed attack?
Check your backups! This is an often overlooked task, but backups are critical to your integrity and availability. The best way to recover from some compromises is to restore from backup. Use your backups to perform restores on actual computers. Less frequently use the backups to restore to the actual machines being backed-up. If you have offsite backups, test those periodically as well. The frequency of each backup test depends on your resources and your needs for recovery.
Don't forget to check logs for your printers, coppiers, and other network attached devices. If you use key cards for physical access, check those logs as well.
Its good to check, but you should also have a procedure that when a user no longer needs access (contract completed, no longer employed, etc) HR or the responsible department notifies you immediatly. The check should involve a comparison and synchronization with the HR database.
Also audit all changes made by users with administrative rights.
Also do traffic analysis and compare to a baseline.
Good practice to prevent exploitation of security vulnerabiltes is to stay up to date on the products you use.
SANS has a great blog http://www.sans.org/windows-security/
US-CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/alldocs.html
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report http://www.microsoft.com/security/sir/default.aspx
Microsoft Windows Server Security Forum http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserversecurity/threads
Lotus Security Handbook http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247017.html
A simple approach is to measure your system (computers, network, and devices) in a clean (secure) state. Do simple traffic monitoring and usage statistics, and then periodically and automatically measure the current system and compare to your baseline. A more proactive approach is to use Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and or Intrusion Prevention System (IPS).
CERT's Windows Intruder Detection checklist is a good start.
It points out in particular that logs, while possibly useful, are not reliable for detecting intrusion.
At a broad level, their checklist is


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I always know when there's a full moon, even before I see it all big and round and bright in the night sky.
I feel it.
I get squinty eyes as if I'm in the midst of a sand storm.
I do a lot of sighing. Heavy sighing.
I feel extra thick so I wear black pants.
I think it's hot when everyone else seems cold.
My hair goes flat.
My family feels a certain way about me - "frightened" is one word that comes to mind.
And just about e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g bugs me.
A freezer void of Moose Tracks ice cream.
Cupboard doors left open.
Mid-morning questions about what's for dinner.
Mid-afternoon questions about what's for dinner.
Dinner-time questions about what's for dinner.
And inquiries from Better Half who gingerly wonders aloud after the clock has struck 5 p.m., "Are we eating anything at all today or are we just getting something out?"
I sigh. Heavily.
Oh that other people's food intake should be my burden - not a good idea. Certainly not very filling either.
Under full moon conditions, it's enough to make me all snarly and snotty.
I give my family the famous line my mother always gave us when we were kids complaining about being hungry - big moon or little moon.
"Well, there's cheese and there's peanut butter!" she would say with a mixture of conviction and enthusiasm as if the combination of cheddar cheese and crunchy peanut butter constituted a Julia Child recipe for fine dining.
Then I feel bad, but it's too late.
Better Half has already figured out that it's that time of the month - Mr. Big Round Moon is b-a-c-k.
Or else it's attack No. 204 of the menopause thing. The symptoms do run parallel, but a glance to the sky confirms the real culprit in this particular case.
"I need to go for a ride," I lament in what is a lame attempt to make co-habitating peace with Better Half.
"Horse or broom?" he asks.
I'm not an easy person to live with, especially come full moon time, but those with whom I dwell under the same roof learn to adapt.
The full moon comes and goes. And the full moon feelings pass, like a kidney stone, I suppose.
When they do, things return to normal in the Kiaski household, and we savor once again the simple pleasures.
Ahhh, there's nothing like a little cheese and peanut butter by regular moonlight.
(Kiaski, a resident of Steubenville, is a staff columnist and features writer for the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times and community editor for the Herald-Star. She can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.)


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In SQL Server 2008 R2, what is the most efficient column type to store data enabling full text search?
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Which one performs better and why?
If, for example, at the moment all I need is text, but in the future it might change, will there be a performance hit if i use varbinary?


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Arts & Photography students will inevitably study Art History & Criticism Textbooks, and in doing so need to obtain Art History & Criticism Textbooks textbooks. But students of Art History & Criticism Textbooks often spend far too much money every semester purchasing Art History & Criticism Textbooks textbooks. Art History & Criticism Textbooks books can be very expensive when you buy new textbooks, while a rented textbook can be half the price or less. For example, a rental copy of either The Clatter of Clogs in the Early Morning, Acrylics (Collins Learn to Paint), or Gardens in Pastel (Collins Learn to Paint) can be 75% less than what you might pay in a college bookstore.
Textbook rentals are easy (and even cheaper than buying used textbooks! And there are a number of ways to find the rentals themselves. If you wanted to rent Gardens in Watercolour (Collins Learn to Paint), the best way would be to find the ISBN number (in this case, ISBN9780002165273) from your Art History & Criticism Textbooks class guide and search for it on BookRenter.com. Whether you're studying Criticism, Regional, or any other subject within Art History & Criticism Textbooks, renting textbooks is the way to go.
Since launching the first textbook rental site in 2006, BookRenter has never wavered from our mission to make education more affordable for all students. Every day, we focus on delivering students the best prices, the most flexible options, and the best service on earth. On March 13, 2012 BookRenter.com, Inc. formally changed its name to Rafter, Inc. We are still the same company and the same people, only our corporate name has changed.


text: Weirton firefighters said it's too early to say what caused this early morning fire today at 226 Pleasantview Drive. The flames were reported at 6:22 a.m. and took about a half-hour to extinguish. Capt. Bob Hinchee said the single-family residence was heavily damaged. The home was occupied, but one of the occupants was awakened by a noise and they were able to get out, he said. -- Linda Harris


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In most cities, there are recommendable gelato shops. Rome is in Italy, so I guess every gelato is very good, but are there some shops in Rome where gelato is even a bit better then elsewhere? :-)
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I would strongly suggest you to try Petrini
Another very famous one (which is part of a well known brand in Italy) is Grom


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The Bryant Seba arraignment has been continued and will not happen today. No date has been set for the arraignment but it should be set fairly quickly. Seba has been charged with two counts of first degree murder and one count of attempted first degree murder in the shooting deaths of Alexandria Duran and her unborn child plus the shooting of Brandon Wright on Wednesday July 24 in the 100 block of North Ninnescah. Seba is considered innocent until proven guilty and convicted in a court of law.
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A financial analyst who researches the effects of laws and regulations on investments in the health sector, John R. Graham is Director of Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute. Other appointments include Senior Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis, Adjunct Scholar of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, and member of the Board of Visitors of the Benjamin Rush Society of medical students and physicians.
Graham received his M.B.A. from the London Business School (England) and his B.A. (with Honors) in economics and commerce from the Royal Military College of Canada. He is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA Charterholder) and has completed all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program.
His research agenda includes:
- The effect of the 2010 federal health-reform law on returns to publicly listed firms in the health sector;
- Quality of health plans' earnings generated by different lines of business, e.g. commercial groups, Medicaid managed-care, and Medicare Advantage;
- Valuation of health plans' expansions into international markets;
- The effect of regulations sponsored by the Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Authority on investments by venture capital and private equity in pharmaceutical and medical-device enterprises;
- Effect of philanthropic investment in medical research on returns to commercial investment;
- Identifying and measuring factors (alternative betas) derived from government action that explain returns to firms in the health sector; and
- Expected contribution of investments in the health sector to traditional (long-only) and alternative portfolios under different legislative and regulatory scenarios.
He writes the monthly Health Policy Prescriptions series of analytical essays, and contributes to PRI's Capital Ideas columns on public policy. He has written for periodicals including the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, and writes almost daily for a number of blogs, which are aggregated at Free American Health Care. Readers can follow him on Twitter and Facebook.


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Locals have for centuries bred horses for racing and transportation. The famous Arabian horse has a bloodline that dates back thousands of years, and is one of the world's most sought-after breeds.
Camel racing is also a popular traditional sport. Traditionally the desert sport of Bedouins, camel racing is a major spectacle. In the past, races involved thousands of camels speeding across the open desert. Today, the rules have been modified for modern racetracks, and camel races are held every Monday during the winter at Riyadh Stadium.
Other traditional sports include hunting with hounds and falconry. The swift saluki hound, named for an ancient city in southern Arabia, is generally considered by historians to be the world's oldest domesticated dog. Falconry in the Kingdom today is limited and carefully regulated in order to protect the game fowl that is the falcon's traditional prey.


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Since 2000, the Southbury Historical Tree Restoration Committee has had approval of the town administration and the state Department of Transportation for Adopt-a-Spot plantings to enrich the entrances to our town. Three sites were planted in 2000, followed by eight additional aesthetic plantings of deciduous trees, shrubs, and perennial and annual flowers now gracing these sites.
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This problem comes up with me trying to make
svnserve (Subversion server) available on a server through SSH. I compiled SVN and installed it in
$HOME/bin. Local access to it (not through SSH) works fine.
Connections to
svn+ssh fail due to:
bash: svnserve: command not found
Debugging this, I've found that:
ssh user@server "which svnserve"
which: no svnserve in (/usr/bin:/bin)
This is strange, because I've updated the path to
$HOME/bin in my
.bashrc, and also added it in
~/.ssh/environment. However, it seems like the SSH doesn't read it. Although when I run:
ssh user@server "echo $PATH"
It does print my updated path!
What's going on here? How can I make SSH find my
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While tutoring a student recently, I have come across the situation of explain logarithms by first introducing functions of the form $$f(x)= a^x$$ where $a \ge 0,x\in \mathbb{R}$. My student then asked me a seemingly innocent question, what if $a < 0.$ I explained to her, that it suffices to consider the basic case $$g(x)= (-1)^x$$ however I told her that the answer to that is beyond the scope of the material. I did tell her the answer though, namely that $$g(x) = (-1)^x = (e^{i \pi})^x = e^{i x \pi} $$ which is the unit circle in the complex plane. Of course this opens up a new can of worms.
This got me to thinking, in the course of history the most probable chronological sequence was that functions of the form of $f(x)$ were considered before complex numbers were formalized. Then did mathematicians of the past simply state that functions with $a<0$ were simply undefined? Or was it the case that complex numbers were considered first?


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From Noisebridge
The Scanning Electron Microscope at Noisebridge.
- "TV Mini-SEM (R)" by ISI (International Scientific Instruments)
- lives in the "science ghetto" on the west end of the south wall at 2169.
- is tended by Mike Kan and the rest of the SEM mailing list
- If you release the vacuum without venting the pump hose, pump oil will flood the chamber and contaminate the entire mechanism, requiring 10 hours of cleanup.
- If you vent air into the column without powering down the filament, you'll probably destroy the filament ($100).
- If you
Startup procedures:
- get the power cord from Mike.
Todo list
- column liner needs to be replaced. Larry may be able to provide a clean liner. (2010-06-15)
- camera mounting stage and hood for slow-scan exposure. (2010-06-15)
- (long term) build digital capture stage to replace CRT mechanism (2010-06-15)
- build sputter coater for specimen preparation (2010-06-15)


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I'm planning to do home remodeling all by myself and now I'm preparing for all the necessary tools. When considering cordless hammer drill, I'm at a lost. I found that the cordless hammer drill was never a best seller in Europe. Its sales were very low. Is there any special reason for this? Is it because the European buildings' material speacial and hammer drill not fit for it? Please help
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European buildings are mostly masonry - brick, stone and concrete. To put even small holes in masonry you must have a hammer action on the drill. The hammering action takes a great deal of power to operate together with the action of rotation, so a cordless hammer-drill will be much weaker than a corded one, and for masonry it makes a big difference. Comparing a corded hammer-drill to a corded rotary hammer I own, the hammer-drill struggles putting even 4mm holes in concrete, while the rotary hammer makes short work of 10mm holes. I only shudder thinking the effort it would take to use a cordless hammer-drill.
That being said, I believe that for masonry work your best bet is a rotary hammer, preferably one with a chiseling function (where the rotation is disabled, leaving only the hammering action). Rotary hammers come with an SDS-Plus shank which also makes it much easier to replace bits and chisels. I myself use a Makita 2470:
Regarding cordless vs. corded, I'd say the corded wins out - it will be more powerful and weigh less than a comparative cordless one, not to mention it will be much cheaper. And I don't think you have much of a size saving as you have with cordless bit drivers. The thing to look for in the prospect is the drilling diameter in concrete - the more the merrier, even if you're not planning on drilling that big, as it will give you an indication of the power of the drill, making smaller holes easier. For example (selected models from Bosch), a cordless rotary hammer is rated to 18mm, while a corded rotary hammer is rated to 26mm. A cordless hammer-drill is rated to 13mm, while a corded hammer-drill is rated 20mm.


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I've imported several shapefiles which where exported from an Mapinfo .tab. Several tab files are imported resulting in 20+ layers. Afterwards I want to export it to geoJSON; but I'm reluctant for selecting each layer and exporting it.
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Bill Mitchell's 1962 Pontiac Grand Prix X-400 - To Woodward, With LoveWritten by on April 1, 2008 GM's Styling Chief, Bill Mitchell, Terrorized The Streets Of Detroit In His Blown Custom 1962 Pontiac Grand Prix X-400
From the 1950s through the late 1960s, top executives at Chrysler, Ford, and GM commissioned their respective design studios to create custom rides for their personal transportation. One of those executives was Bill Mitchell, who had come to power in 1958 as Vice President of General Motors Design Staff. Mitchell had replaced the legendary Harley Earl and was instrumental in the fresh new look of GM products throughout the 1960s.
Mitchell had liked the redesign of GM's fullsize models in 1961 and ordered the design staff to produce a 1962 Grand Prix convertible, dubbed the X-400, for him to drive when he wasn't tooling around in his Sting Ray. This wasn't the first Pontiac X-400; both a 1959 and 1960 version had been built based on the Bonneville. Since there was no convertible Grand Prix in the Pontiac product line, a blazing red Catalina ragtop was built specially for Mitchell, and then sent to design staff studios in the GM Tech Center to be converted into a Grand Prix and to add the finishing touches.
The X-400 sported a sparkling red interior and white convertible top, but it wasn't just a pretty face. It packed a solid punch under the hood. Mitchell loved speed and racing, and his Grand Prix was required to kick asphalt.
On the outside, the X-400 was mildly customized. The handsome Grand Prix front end and split grille theme was retained; however, the standard headlamps were replaced by rectangular, single-bulb Cibie Marchal headlamps. Swing-up, mesh grille stone guards covered the Cibies and a unique chrome ornament was mounted on the front centerline of the hood. Also on the hood were two functional grilles, one on each side, with the word "supercharged" boldly announced in chrome block letters.
On the flanks were brushed aluminum concave moldings, and dual exhausts exited through twin ports at the rear of the quarter-panels, just ahead of the back bumper. Pontiac's unique eight-lug aluminum wheels were mounted on whitewall tires. The fabric top stack was covered by a fiberglass top boot, and body-colored Talbot-style outside rearview mirrors graced each door.
The interior was also mildly customized with red carpeting, red leather thin-shell racing-style bucket seats, a padded console between the seats, and special brushed-aluminum door panels with red leather padded inserts. Facing the driver was a special wood-rimmed steering wheel with three spokes, and a special "Grand Prix X-400" insignia in the horn button. The upper and lower dash was padded and a bank of three gauges, canted towards the driver, replaced the radio. On the left was an 8,000-rpm tachometer with a 5,500 redline. In the middle was a Judson-style supercharger boost pressure and vacuum gauge, and the righthand gauge was a clock.
A specially-built console housed a glovebox and a removable "Trans Portable" AM radio. Below that was a Muncie shifter that stirred a Warner T-10 four-speed manual transmission. Next to the shifter was another lever that controlled the loudness of the exhaust. It was a pet project of Pontiac Chief Engineer John DeLorean, and would eventually be known as the "Tiger Button." (This would eventually evolve into the short-lived vacuum operated exhaust option on the 1970 GTO.)
Under the hood was the new Pontiac 405hp 421ci engine, specially modified by Mickey Thompson with some of the same tricks he was using in his Pontiac land speed attempt vehicles. The chrome-trimmed 421 was topped by a 4-71 GMC blower with four 1954 Corvette Carter sidedraft carburetors. The quartet of Carters was fed cold air through the open hood grilles. The "Positive Displacement" GMC huffer was set at 5.5 lbs boost and produced enough grunt to power the 4,700-lb X-400 down the quarter-mile to the tune of 14.92 seconds at 97.82 mph with Mickey Thompson at the wheel. That was just the kind of go-fast that made Bill Mitchell a very happy executive.
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Under the hood, there's plenty of chrome surrounding the new Pontiac 421. Sidedraft Carter carburetors fed the 4-71 GMC blower.Swing-up, chrome mesh stone guards protected the rectangular Cibie Marchal headlamps. Cibies were popular with customizers in the '60s, but were illegal on the street in all 50 states. Some things never change!The dual exhausts exited through twin ports located just ahead of the rear bumper. Note the concave, brushed-aluminum molding that ran from the mid door to the rear bumper wraparound.The unique aluminum "eight-lug" wheels featured an integral hub and drum arrangement that was manufactured by Kelsey Hayes specifically for Pontiac.The Mickey Thompson-built, blown 421 produced enough horsepower to push the X-400 down the quarter in 14.92 seconds with a trap speed of 97.82 mph.The thin-shell bucket seats were covered in red leather and the door panels featured brushed-aluminum panels trimmed with vertical red leather inserts. The carpeting, console, and dashpad were done in a matching shade of red.All of the exterior emblems and nameplates were removed except for the Grand Prix insignia located at the front of the side molding.A bank of three gauges replaced the radio's unusual location. Canted towards the driver, the gauge cluster featured an 8,000-rpm tach on the left, supercharger boost and vacuum gauges in the center, and clock on the right.
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Kneebockers: How does a young boy keep this name within his heart for over 50 years before he finally shares this with family and friends? On a fateful day in the spring of 1946, I'm sure that the good Lord gave me an opportunity to travel a new road in life.
My mom Laura was raising my older brother Bill, my younger brother Wes Jr., and I in Yonkers, N.Y., while my father, Wes Sr., was traveling during the war on important welding jobs.
Mom received a call from Dad and chatted for a few minutes. All of a sudden, an urge hit me to want to talk to my dad. Out of nowhere in our discussion came my request to go with Dad. I looked at Mom and she looked shocked. She and Dad talked further and said goodbyes. Mom, with tears in her eyes, gave me a hug and told me that she could pack a bag and Dad would pick me up later in the day.
Dad picked me up and told me that we were going west to Reno, Nev. Wow, what an adventure, traveling for five days in our 1939 Plymouth. A story within itself.
We lived in a motel on South Virginia Street for a year. Dad and I spent every weekend out on the Nevada desert prospecting for gold and silver. He taught me how to shoot a .22 caliber pistol and I packed it in a holster on our treks through the mountains close to Virginia City and Pyramid Lake. Going into old mines with some of their tools still sitting there were common in our adventures.
Many of those days we would not see another person. We slept in a pup tent and I really enjoyed, at age 10, Dad's breakfast prepared over a mesquite fire with campfire coffee, bacon and eggs, and country potatoes. The cold air and the presence of animals around us made this such a great adventure each day for this young boy from northern New York.
I remember one evening, just after Dad got a job as a welder in Sparks, Nev. Dad had not been paid yet but looked at me and said, "Let's go over to the cafe and get two bowls of chili." He did not look into his wallet, but dug into his right front pocket and showed me some change. With a big smile he said, "Well, Son, it looks like we have enough to get two bowls of chili." As I grew older I fully realized that my Dad was so positive even in tough times. It brings tears to my eyes as I think of our relationship.
It was September 1946, and Dad told me that tomorrow was the first day of school and that I needed to get my good clothes out and would have to walk the mile or so south on Virginia Street to the white, two-room schoolhouse. Dad could not take me as he had to go to work.
My only good clothes were short pants, shirt, suspenders, sweater, hat and Buster Brown leather shoes. These were my Sunday clothes from northern New York.
I walked down Virginia Street and noticed that there were fewer houses and stores on the street and there were more mesquite bushes and tumbleweeds. I heard the noise of the playground at the school and came to the white picket fence in front of the school. It looked like a great school.
As I rounded the corner, I looked up and the dozens of loud students playing in the schoolyard went silent. All eyes were on me and there was complete silence until a boy yelled out, "Look at the kneebockers!"
I thought, what are kneebockers? Obviously it was a reference to the Eastern attire I was wearing. All of a sudden the kids came running toward me and I wondered if they were going to beat me up. To my surprise, several yelled out, "What's your name?" "Where are you from?" and "Why are you dressed like that?"
I answered their questions quickly and asked where to go to enroll in school. I noticed that most of the kids wore jeans and Western-type shirts. I felt relieved that I seemed to be accepted.
I was introduced to a lady who greeted me and asked where my parents were. I told her my Dad had to work and I was supposed to enroll in school. She smiled and took some of my information and told me that Dad could come in later and sign the forms.
I was now "Kneebockers," a young boy of 10 enrolled in a two-room school in the fifth grade in Reno, "The biggest, little city in the world." I was Kneebockers only to those kids and to my father, who I shared the story with that night. After my year in Reno, Kneebockers, the name, disappeared for more than 50 years.
Over the years I shared many of my stories with friends and a common comment was, "You need to write a book."
I was so busy in life, teaching, coaching, guiding on the river, playing golf and broadcasting, that there was no time for writing a book. Finally, one day, six years ago, we were preparing for a trip to Kauai. My wife Missy said, "Chuck, take a tape recorder and a notepad with you. Get off your duff and start your book."
I must share in closing that Kneebockers walked back to our motel in Reno on the rail line of the Carson City-Virginia city railroad. I thought, wow, I'm Kneebockers, what a great school, great kids and what a great day. I told Dad my story and my only request to him was, "Dad, can I have a new pair of blue jeans for school?"
The next day I walked past the white picket fence looking like the rest of the kids, but I was still Kneebockers.
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St. Helena Cooking Club: Tailgate @ the Library!
Location:St. Helena Branch
Date & Time:Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - 6:00pm
For cooks of all ages. Join talented cooks in the community to explore local and world cuisine at a themed potluck. This month's theme is "Tailgate Party." Tackle, score, sport and rave about your favorite tailgate party recipe!


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Little Dragon in Esquire in the US
There are no guitars in Little Dragon's "Ritual Union." Driven instead by a snare drum and the fluttering of synthesized burps and bubbles, the song is what happens when a modern band builds something new out of the American soul tradition, embracing highlights instead of merely aping it (e.g., the overly polite and, oddly enough, also guitar-free, Motown-by-the-numbers "MoneyGrabber" from Fitz & the Tantrums). Or perhaps we're simply hearing an outsider's perspective on R&B: Little Dragon are Swedes led by a Swedish-Japanese-American frontwoman, Yukimi Nagano. Or maybe we're hearing bits and pieces of what they've learned working with high-profile, eccentric collaborators like Gorillaz, TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek, ?uestlove, and Raphael Saadiq. If somebody were to ask you what Little Dragon sounds like, your only reasonable answer would be Prince. (Despite the lack of guitars.)
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hwtestinit which I installed using
update-rc.d hwtestinit defaults
On the surface, as far as I can inspect, all seems fine , I mean, the following files, all exists, etc.
/etc/rc0.d/K20hwtestinit -> ../init.d/hwtestinit
/etc/rc1.d/K20hwtestinit -> ../init.d/hwtestinit
/etc/rc6.d/K20hwtestinit -> ../init.d/hwtestinit
/etc/rc2.d/S20hwtestinit -> ../init.d/hwtestinit
/etc/rc3.d/S20hwtestinit -> ../init.d/hwtestinit
/etc/rc4.d/S20hwtestinit -> ../init.d/hwtestinit
/etc/rc5.d/S20hwtestinit -> ../init.d/hwtestinit
When I run the script manually, all seems fine, that is, issuing the command
/etc/init.d/hwtestinit start
Yields to the desired results.However, system is not executing the on startup, and I have no idea why. I could not find any mention of it at logs files found under /var/log and wonder ins which other log file I should look at.
The script is dumped below
#! /bin/sh
case "$1" in
smarteventd -c /etc/sctest.ini
lcdaemon --lcdtest
smarteventd --stop
lcdaemon --stop
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/hwtestinit {start|stop}"
exit 1
exit 0


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